Hermoine Granger & Captain Planet
Happy Halloween!
Nina Dobrev and her beau Ian Somerhalder pose in their Halloween finest at the Ian Somerhalder Foundation’s Empoweresque event held at The Opera on Saturday (October 29) in Atlanta, GA.
The 22-year-old actress dressed as Hermoine Granger from the Harry Potter series - and sported cutouts of Harry Potter and Ron Weasley on both her shoulders! Ian, 32, bulked up in a Captain Planet getup for his foundation’s event to unite empowered women. Read More...
300 years ago scientist Daniel Fahrenheit invented a temperature measurement — donning his last name.
At the time, people knew it was either hot or cold, but, there was no official way to mark degrees.
Once Fahrenheit came up with the blueprint for the modern thermometer, using mercury — he needed a labeling system to distinguish between temperatures.
That’s when he came up with the Fahrenheit scale.
Fahrenheit joined the British Royal Society in the early 1700s, and the Fahrenheit scale quickly spread throughout the British empire. Read More...
CNN — Investigators have found the remains of a North Carolina woman reported missing last month, and a man who’d been found unresponsive in her vehicle has been arrested on a preliminary charge of murder, authorities said Thursday. The remains of Allisha Dene Watts, 39, have been found, and Charlotte-area police on Thursday arrested James Dunmore on suspicion of killing her, Montgomery County Sheriff Pete Herron told reporters on the grounds of a cemetery near the towns of Candor and Norman. Read More...