Take a look at the oddest pictures of the year.
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What is the oddest surveillance tech you've seen in China?
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Donald Trump is the oddest president America has ever elected.
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In perhaps the oddest video game mash-up since Marvel vs.
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It was absolutely the oddest thing, which nobody had prepared for.
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Mr. Trump's oddest capitulations to Iran are in Iraq and Syria.
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This gets at one of the oddest phenomena of modern life.
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The oddest thing about the Portal+ isn't the interface or design.
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And it demonstrated its cyberpower in the oddest of places — Hollywood.
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The oddest among them might just be Ice Breakers' new Glitter Gum.
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Valkyrie has one of the oddest, most disturbing origin stories in superherodom.
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It is a turning-point for one of the world's oddest industries.
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IT WAS one of the oddest experiments in the history of dentistry.
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The oddest is that scientists aren't quite sure where it comes from.
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It's truly one of the oddest — yet strangely soothing — instruments ever played.
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The oddest one to me had to do with my new wallpaper.
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Glassdoor has compiled its annual list of the oddest job interview questions.
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This year's Yoga Book might be the company's boldest/oddest experiment yet.
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Gran Turismo Sport represents the oddest and sharpest departure from the expected.
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The alliance contains some of the oddest rebels ever assembled in politics.
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The oddest policy proposal made by Mr. Callahan relates to philanthropy specifically.
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Just a year ago, they might have seemed the oddest of couples.
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Just some of the oddest s--t happened and I won it.
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But perhaps the oddest addition to the park's menu is the Texas snowball.
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Thus ended the most eventful and oddest 210 hours in recent Brazilian history.
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Every state is politically odd, but I find Oklahoma to be the oddest.
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The White House Turkey Pardon is surely one of the President's oddest duties.
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It was the oddest bit of circumstance in this case: a plague year.
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"It's been one of the oddest weeks of my life," she told me.
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What is the oddest way you have found a new voice-over artist?
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The ring is maybe the oddest product Amazon demoed at its event today.
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Besides, a cat and a dog are definitely not the oddest of animal friends.
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But one of the oddest evolutions has been the mutation of the conspiracy theory.
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The answer lies in some of the oddest and rarest volcanoes on the planet.
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The oddest, most adventurous "superhero" film of 2018 was probably Sorry To Bother You.
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Perhaps the oddest single day in Facebook's recent history came on January 20193, 2019.
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Then there's the strangest, oddest, WTF record-scratchiest one of all: Sadako vs. Kayako.
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Finally, here is a rundown of some of the oddest moments in baseball history.
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It has been the oddest of tournaments for Djokovic, the world's No. 2360 player.
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I went through the speech and picked out a handful of the oddest quotes.
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It ranks high on my personal list of the oddest places for wildlife sightings.
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And that might be the oddest thing about the New York Yankees of today.
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For just a moment, lose yourself in one of YouTube's oddest preoccupations: marble racing.
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One of the oddest ingredients is sunchokes, featuring prominently in a mock "apple pie" flavor.
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The oddest cameo in Avengers: Endgame isn't from Stan Lee or co-director Joe Russo.
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So far, five have been arrested for alleged involvement in the world's oddest bling ring.
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This points to one of the oddest paradoxes in this odd period in British politics.
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Perhaps the oddest aspect of this transformation is how little evidence exists of a payoff.
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I'm always so confused, and sometimes wind up brushing my teeth at the oddest hours.
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The Butina case has always been one of the oddest threads of the Russia investigation.
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Thursday's battle between Josh Gad and Kaley Cucoco may have been the oddest one yet.
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The oddest is a short film — a Little Rascals film from 1935 called Little Sinner.
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But the spectacle in the lower house on April 17th surely counts among the oddest.
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A Clinton-Trump contest would be one of the oddest clashes in modern political history.
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So, below, I've picked out the 37 oddest lines from the Giuliani sit-down. 1.
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Orchard, its newest perfume ($165 for 50 milliliters), is perhaps the oddest of the bunch.
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The oddest wrinkle to the story may originate far from Britain or the Middle East.
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And he was known for keeping a cool head even in the oddest of situations.
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" Sir Thomas Browne is described as crafting "the oddest, most alluring prose of his century.
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The oddest oversight here is the decision to stick with microUSB over the USB-C.
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In this oddest of campaign seasons, we have in fact four de facto political parties.
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Here's a look at the Top 5 oddest moments from SOTU responses in recent history.
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What's oddest about The Politician is that it has almost no interest in actual politics.
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"My marriage to Walter Gropius was the oddest I could imagine," Mahler reflected years later.
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Carter Page: One of the oddest subplots of the Russia scandal focuses on businessman Carter Page.
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It's still about Laura Palmer, the young woman whose murder sparked one of TV's oddest phenomena.
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Being a Beast is one of the oddest and most beautiful books I've read this summer.
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But perhaps the oddest inclusion is North and Saint West as creative consultants for the album.
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The oddest moment arose during a discussion as to whether Biden's plan would "automatically" cover people.
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In this bizarre tale, this may have been the oddest—and least believable—turn of all.
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When asked what the oddest thing about living in microgravity was, Kelly pointed to … his feet.
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As it turns out, big money still matters even in the oddest presidential election of our lifetimes.
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But this interpretation does not explain Mr Navarro's oddest views, like his opinion of the trade deficit.
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Chief of Staff Reince Priebus Trump and Priebus are perhaps the oddest couple in the White House.
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Now Gravel is the subject, if not exactly the author, of the 2020 presidential election's oddest campaign.
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What would you say is the oddest depiction of a solar eclipse you've ever seen in fiction?
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And since inspiration can come from the oddest places why should we be surprised when it does?
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One of the oddest renditions yet of this argument came last week during a CNN town hall.
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The oddest part of this odd season is that it is a reset rather than a rebuild.
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One of the oddest interactions I've ever experienced with a singer happened my first time hosting karaoke.
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What is oddest about gross toys is not how gross they are, but how fun they seem.
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In a night of strange developments, however, the oddest of all was perhaps the news from Alcanar.
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China and Davos have since become one of the oddest power couples in international economics and politics.
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Next to it is UCONN, which was subjected to the oddest clue of the day (I think).
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The studious lack of attention was the oddest part of an American delegation's 28 hours in Pyongyang.
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The Blue Jays have the fewest games—13—within the division and the oddest schedule among the contenders.
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Although more than 40 countries retain a monarch of some sort, Malaysia's system is probably the world's oddest.
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One of the oddest passages in Mr Trump's speech attempted to synthesise nationalism with respect for universal values.
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The simply titled Surface Headphones are perhaps the oddest addition to the line of laptop and desktop products.
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For many of us, the oddest of the federal bank holidays is a little bit of a mystery.
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The oddest thing about this analysis is that it misses the actual details of Houston's land-use policy.
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Rockies 5, Mets 4 DENVER — The Mets endured perhaps their oddest loss of a lost season on Thursday.
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Reuters editors have compiled their oddest pictures of the year collection for 2019, and they&aposre really strange.
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Perhaps the oddest example of this is that the narrator pronounces her struggle over when she nears 40.
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The studious lack of attention was the oddest part of the American delegation's 28 hours in North Korea.
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What is oddest about this is not its break from the past, but its timing in relation to Brexit.
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But last night, the oddest thing to hit the red carpet was worn by someone who wasn't even nominated.
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The oddest part came at the end, after everyone realized that Comey wasn't actually going to say anything substantive.
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Here are some of the oddest instances during Zuckerberg's testimony in Washington, DC. Before launching into his question, Sen.
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But what is maybe the oddest aspect of the event is the exchange between Senator John McCain and Kutcher.
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In the oddest easter egg, Howard Stern Show regular Benjy Bronk showed up as Network news anchor Howard Beale.
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I THINK I'M LOSING MY MIND: Gary Johnson had the oddest presidential candidate interview I think I've ever seen.
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Business Insider spoke to employees at Costco, Walmart, Target, and Home Depot about the oddest returns they've ever witnessed.
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One of the oddest subplots of the whole Trump-Russia saga has long been the tale of Carter Page.
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The British Foreign Office released a list of the oddest phone calls it received this year from Britons abroad.
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Perhaps oddest of all, Mel & Mia's company is all about selling makeup that doesn't hide a woman's natural beauty.
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Each year, Reuters editors compile a list of the oddest photos in their archive that were taken that year.
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This type of construction — known as an upstream tailings dam — is one of the oddest structures known to engineering.
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One of the oddest revelations about the Toastmasters' contest is that many of the best speakers say they are introverts.
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The oddest thing about these defenses of Durant is that they're at odds with his own reaction to the situation.
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In what some may see as the oddest location — Utah — a third-party presidential candidate may actually win the state.
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"But the oddest comment of the night came from the Orioles manager, Brandon Hyde, who referred to Wilkerson as "Dr.
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The oddest frontrunner in Tuesday's Democratic primaries might be 27-year Lehigh Valley prosecutor John Morganelli, running for GOP Rep.
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End of the season, Selina loses the presidency in the oddest way possible, although again it doesn't seem that odd.
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I was one of two students who would have a sandwich for lunch, and I would get the oddest looks.
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They were the oddest of political colleagues: a nonagenarian onetime autocrat and the former protégé he had jailed for sodomy.
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On these rare, cosmic occasions, you witness the oddest phenomenon in all of NYC: the MTA having its shit together.
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The Log Lady was one of the original series' oddest creations — a woman who received spiritual guidance from a log.
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The theory is not backed up by any historical evidence, and led to one of the oddest memes of the cycle.
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Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson are by far the oddest duo of 2o18, and really into PDA... like really into it.
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She foregrounds the oddest and minutest of details but lingers attentively, and with narrative feeling, as each man approaches his end.
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One of the oddest things about this film is how many of the oddities, especially the more lubricious ones, are true.
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Television's oddest pair returns for a second season of star-studded dinner parties, beginning with a birthday celebration for Snoop Dogg.
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Rio officials are draining the green Olympic diving pool, perhaps bringing an end to the biggest, oddest mystery of the games.
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But dig further down into the list and you'll find some odd things going on in this oddest of awards seasons.
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"And this will sound like the oddest analogy you've ever heard," he cautioned at the start of our interview in May.
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But Roberts's opinion in Trinity Lutheran also includes one of the oddest footnotes ever to appear in a Supreme Court opinion.
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The oddest sections are like low-key, low-glamour fantasies of Central Asia: What's going on in this weird little realm?
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In photos that range from silly to unsettling, looking at the US's oddest, most surprising, least sensible — and sometimes outright fake — laws.
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One of the oddest parts of the entire trip was that, as it set in, it felt strangely familiar, yet entirely alien.
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T-Mobile U.S. boss John Legere loves a good marketing gimmick and his latest one may be the oddest and most endearing.
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Sure, it sounds poetic, but it's also maybe one of the oddest ways to describe a rocket launch that I've ever heard.
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Guy Ritchie will direct the movie, teaming with Big Fish writer John August in probably the oddest match we can think of.
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So how I would start the story would usually come in the oddest of places... And then I'd shut off my phone.
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Then there was the application for new Qaeda recruits, which was perhaps the oddest find in the first set of declassified materials.
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This is done in several ways, but the oddest has to be the show's fascination with the memory of Barb (Shannon Purser).
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Then came the indictments and the trials and the verdicts and the oddest thing happened: Nearly anyone of importance was left untouched.
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For one of the club's dancers, Shannon, it's the oddest event she's seen in her ten years of working in the industry.
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Out of all the hardware announced so far at this morning's big Amazon event, the Echo Glow is perhaps the oddest entry.
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But perhaps the oddest and least appealing flavor was "Cajun squirrel," which was a finalist in a contest Walkers held in 2009.
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But perhaps the oddest, and least appealing, flavor was "Cajun squirrel," which was a finalist in a contest Walkers held in 2009.
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The oddest choice is how the series strains to include Mr. Kardashian's young children — notably "Kimmy" — who now live on reality-TV Olympus.
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But the ill-use of the pop star's unparalleled dance moves are not even anywhere close to the oddest thing about this video.
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" As with almost everything in this oddest of election years, the biggest question heading into this first debate is "What will Trump do?
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The oddest thing about the Essential Phone is the selfie camera cutout or "notch" that eats into the top part of the display.
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Of all the oddities of the market's 2016 downturn, one of the oddest is the decline in home-building stocks, like Toll Bros.
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I went through the speech and picked out the 29 oddest, cringiest lines -- no easy task given the sheer strangeness of Trump's speech.
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Mike Gravel: The 21950-year-old former senator, famed for reading the Pentagon Papers into the congressional record, ran 22020's oddest campaign.
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I loved the oddest one, small and square, tannish gold, with arches, a second-floor balcony, a red tiled roof, a fanciful chimney.
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Mike Gravel: The 2885-year-old former senator, famed for reading the Pentagon Papers into the congressional record, ran 22020's oddest campaign.
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Yet, fresh ideas that change industries can sometimes come from the oddest places, with even frivolous products occasionally creating fundamental advances in technology.
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We&aposve chosen a handful of the oddest new additions to show off the impressive imaginations of the Pokémon creators at Game Freak.
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But perhaps the oddest, and least appealing, flavor was "Cajun squirrel," which was a finalist in a contest that Walkers held in 2009.
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Mike Gravel: The 22020-year-old former senator, famed for reading the Pentagon Papers into the congressional record, ran 20163's oddest campaign.
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Mike Gravel: The 21-year-old former senator, famed for reading the Pentagon Papers into the congressional record, ran 2885's oddest campaign.
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One of the oddest legacies of the crisis is that governments accept this, and the risks it entails, rather than try for something better.
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Helen Oyeyemi writes some of the loveliest and oddest books I've ever read, filled with shivery, evocative sentences and fairy tale tropes turned slantwise.
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For all the odd twists in Campaign 2016, the idea that Ohio might not be a big battleground state has been among the oddest.
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The oddest thing about Westworld is that it's so much more than a TV show — it's a game built to be played along with.
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Mike Gravel: The 24-year-old former senator, famed for reading the Pentagon Papers into the congressional record, is running 2051's oddest campaign.
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No matter what happens between now and the roster-setting deadline, each player drafted has lived through one of baseball's oldest and oddest experiences.
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Smart displays like the Echo Show and Google Home Hub are the best new takes on the theme, and Facebook's Portal is the oddest.
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The oddest bedfellows to emerge from any public coming out are the two factions of the "why do we even care?" school of thought.
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The oddest thing about Trump's speech was its attempt to combine platitudes about the Boy Scouts with his usual red-meat rally applause lines.
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In the oddest of ways, he is transparent, so utterly direct that it is unsettling and even painful at times to those around him.
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In the end, the rare presence of officially sanctioned booze was not the oddest thing about the New York Philharmonic's concert on Friday night.
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The oddest part was a fine mist that felt as if it was dripping onto my head while the conditioner was on my hair.
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Before we go, I also want to mention that Gerri and Roman (Kieran Culkin) are the oddest couple I've seen on TV this year.
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When they weren't literally writing down how they would achieve their dream of pop stardom, they were working some of the oddest jobs imaginable.
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Richard Jefferson's dramatic turn as a long-shot pseudo-candidate for Finals MVP qualifies as one of the oddest developments in recent NBA history.
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Wiseau is the oddest of the oddballs, prone to overly dramatic "performances" in acting class, but his fearlessness ignites something in the otherwise-reserved Sestero.
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The last out of home category here is probably the oddest, in that it accounts for both the ad and its own infrastructure: Citi Bike.
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From jumbled anger to extremely blunt shut-downs, we've scoured Amazon for the oddest one-star reviews of classic British novels we could find. 221.
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There's something about IFA that has the tendency to bring out the oddest impulses in gadget design, and this year's event certainly fit the bill.
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But still, the oddest part about all this is why Kerr even answered that incredibly invasive question from her male interviewer in the first place.
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Perhaps the oddest part of the lengthy, detailed indictment of Paul Manafort is the nearly $25 million he evidently funneled through various antique rug shops.
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As Sebald delivered his syntactically complex sentences, grace and lightness and, oddest of all, humor were present, as clear as a slap in the face.
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Pursuits In a lifetime of offbeat travel experiences, searching for mating sage grouse in a snow squall may rank as one of my oddest pursuits.
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Scenes where the iconic power of its Disney characters are marshalled to lend gravitas and familiarity to the series' biggest battles and oddest plot twists.
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These days, what passes for policymaking in America manages to be simultaneously farcical and sinister, and the evil-clown aspects extend into the oddest places.
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"One of the oddest episodes I remember was an occasion in which Thomas was drinking a Coke in his office," Hill said in her opening statements.
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It had since amounted to one of the oddest political arrangements in the country — and one that had become increasingly untenable in the current political climate.
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One of the oddest things about the 2015 Oscars controversy is that there was so little reason for Zendaya to be there in the first place.
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They are familiar types (the possessive father or the heartsick young woman, for example) seen from the oddest angle and becoming something altogether fresh and new.
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" (The verb "disagree," the researchers note, does not appear even once.) But the oddest finding may be the sharp increase in an innocuous little word: "and.
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At day's end, reporters from different outlets and nations would share notes on the best and oddest of what they had observed all over the grounds.
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The Kola Superdeep Borehole was for 20 years the deepest hole in all the world, and it remains one of the oddest battles of the Cold War.
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Standing at 10 feet tall with long claws and a metallic body, the oddest thing about this cryptid might be her long skirt and spade-shaped collar.
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But you didn't need a fancy modem to play one of the year's oddest games: Apocalypse, a third-person shooter / platformer about Bruce Willis averting the apocalypse.
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It was also one of the oddest, as Dan Bilefsky, a correspondent for the New York Times, explains in his entertaining and detailed account of the caper.
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The oddest thing about "Glass"—the last and least of the trilogy, I'm afraid, foundering in a swamp of talk—is that it's practically a prison flick.
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The statues of the two close friends face each other in the downtown park, separated by about 100 yards, in Houston's oddest and longest-running staring contest.
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For a segment on Jimmy Kimmel Live, various celebrities — from Kristen Bell to Anna Faris — read out some of the oddest texts they've received from their moms.
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They looked happy in vacation photos Perhaps the oddest juxtaposition in this case is the cheerful family photos contrasted with the apparent horror of their home life.
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Despite the group receiving a total of 130 ideas— of which Ursache acknowledges his was the oddest— "Skyping with dead people"was accepted as a project worth pursuing.
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The restaurant, named Sketch, houses some of the world's oddest-shaped toilets — latrines that look like they belong in a sci-fi production, rather than an upscale restaurant.
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Fiction is filled with odd couples, but the twosome at the heart of this film may be the oddest: Ernest is a bear, and Celestine is a mouse.
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One of the oddest events of recent years: a parade in the Netherlands in which enthusiasts recreate the phantasmagorical paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, the 15th-century Dutch artist.
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"It is one of the oddest detective stories in Russian history in the last century," said Ksenia V. Luchenko, a freelance journalist with long experience covering Orthodox Church matters.
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This "peripheral," designed by the Lumines team for the Nintendo Indies showcase at the Game Developers Conference, is designed to show off one of the remaster's oddest new features.
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The super-encounterers loved to spend an afternoon hunting through, say, a Victorian journal on cattle breeding, in part, because they counted on finding treasures in the oddest places.
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A company using advanced technologies to grow and harvest mealworms (larval beetles) at scale is on track to become one of the venture capital industry's oddest billion-dollar investments.
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I happened to be working at the time, however, and when news of the deal broke, I remember it as being one of the oddest stories of my career.
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Perhaps the oddest connection between Flashback and cinema, though, is its underlying reason for being—the conversations that saw the project get the green light in the first place.
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At issue are four hard drives and 246 thumb drives, comprising years of backups of Mr. Hofeller's computer, that came to public attention only by the oddest of coincidences.
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More than that, Foxborough is the oddest place to bear witness to recurring N.F.L. history, simply because no one here can agree on how to spell the town's name.
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But one of the oddest post-mortem sightings by those who believe The King to still be walking the earth is an appearance in the 1990 holiday classic Home Alone.
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El Divo de Juárez was celebrated in a candid video montage honoring his legacy, but the oddest thing was that there were no renditions done of this late, great icon.
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This is the oddest way to communicate with Mueller is to leak a story to NBC News that you got some new information about the Russian meeting regarding President Trump.
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Waithe is pretty damn good with a group of kids appearing on the show too, even if they come up with the oddest ideas for a late night show monologue.
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Perhaps the oddest part of the whole lineup — Hasbro's first full-hair Chewbacca figure, which looks a little more Planet of the Apes than the Wookiee we know and love.
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"Greased Lightnin'" It's still unclear whether or not they actually sang "dragon wagon" as opposed to "pussy wagon," which would have been one of the oddest lyric changes in history.
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It is truly one of the oddest schools of thought I am familiar with in any discipline; it intrigues me from afar, like giant squid and 12-tone classical music.
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" -- via Twitter Actress Mara Wilson "Peter Fonda was one of the oddest people I've ever met, and honestly, I think he'd be thrilled to know I remembered him that way.
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Oddest of all, it was ringed, like a tree trunk — as if a chunk of chocolate had been dropped in the center and somehow made waves out to the edges.
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Probably the oddest theory that's been floated is that the coyotes have consumed one of the area's amanita mushrooms and are consequently under the effects of some kind of psychedelic trip.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads KINGSTON, New York — Walking on John Street in Kingston on a rainy Saturday night my eye was caught by the oddest storefront on the block.
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After the dust settled, questions abounded about the mystery buyer who picked up what was, hands-down, the oddest item on offer: a protective leather jockstrap Crowe wore in Cinderella Man.
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The oddest thing about this bigfoot erotica kerfluffle is that it has tended to obscure Cockburn's more serious charge, which is the allegation that Riggleman campaigned with white supremacist Isaac Smith.
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The oddest story came from Mario Rodríguez: One evening a few days after his release, Rodríguez missed a call from a fellow detainee who was still inside and needed a favor.
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The sound is beautiful and strange, yet perhaps the oddest thing about it is how a few notes sound familiar, as does the rhythm of a drum that softly joins in.
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As one of the oddest sex scenes in Game of Thrones history (and that's saying something), Daenerys and Jon's coupling in the Season 7 finale left us with a lot of questions.
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He was once one of the most vilified celebrities in all the land (with good reason), and yet he keeps managing to reinvent himself enough to pop up in the oddest places.
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With that in mind, here are our picks for the five oddest sleep behaviors found on Earth, from using one's own butt as a pillow, to resting up before a big moult.
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One of the oddest ways that an AI system can fail is by falling prey to an adversarial attack — a cleverly manipulated input that makes the system behave in an unexpected way.
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It's among the most remarkable statements I've ever read from any politician in any office ever -- and has to be a top five oddest statement ever made by a sitting US president.
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To prepare you for these chance encounters, we put together the oddest list of celebrities we could think of to guide you through the ins and outs of talking to someone famous.
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But the sword returns: it is reforged by Wotan's grandson, Siegfried, who finds it handy for dragon slaying, ring-winning and, oddest of all, loosening the armor of his bride-to-be.
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Of all the angry responses to President Trump's decision to sign bills supporting the Hong Kong protest movement, the oddest one of all is an online campaign to label America as racist.
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One of the oddest things I saw behind bars was the guards in HMP Parkhurst cancelling the prisoners' time on the yard because there was a cloud in the sky above it.
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This is the oddest oddball little story in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, almost an art film among the Avengers chaos, and it'll be fascinating to see what Benedict Cumberbatch brings to the role.
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John Bolton's appointment seemed to many as the oddest of any of these three hires, given how this uber-hawk's views appeared to clash with Trump's campaign rhetoric about staying out of wars.
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Karen Bowman is the writer's equivalent of a magpie, her beady eye alert for the oddest of details and the weirdest of facts in her brisk romp through a millennium of fashion's victims.
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Researchers analyzed two hundred and thirty-nine languages to create the Language Weirdness Index, anointing Chalcatongo Mixtec—a verb-initial tonal language spoken by six thousand people in Oaxaca—the world's oddest language.
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Throw some loonies at strippers: Alberta has one of the oddest little activities you can do at strip clubs, throw loonies at the dancer's private parts to try and win a poster or magnet.
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Perhaps the oddest revelation in the filings came from Mr. Faulkner, who declared his run for city comptroller this month and was endorsed on Monday by Mr. Massey during their appearance at City Hall.
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For 27 years, Greece and Macedonia have been bedeviled by one of the oddest disputes in international diplomacy — what the smaller, younger and landlocked country of 2.1 million should be called, at home and abroad.
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But a key piece of their framing buys into one of the oddest myths of the 2016 campaign — the entirely false legend of "Teflon Trump," who shrugs off problems that would sink a conventional candidate.
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While most candidates are prepared for typical interview interview questions about their greatest weakness or when they faced a difficult decision, being able to handle the oddest of inquiries can be what sets you apart.
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But there were simply too many journalists who, just like me, were chasing one of the oddest stories of their careers, and Yunko said many of them had mobbed the detention center the day before.
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If you were compiling a list of the world's 100 oddest objects — just the weirdest stuff that human civilization has excreted over the millennia — then you'd have to leave room somewhere for the Voynich manuscript.
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As part of a campaign to "reduce improper use of the 999 number over the Christmas period", London's Metropolitan Police have released extracts from 12 of the oddest 999 calls they received in 2016... 1.
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The onetime national security adviser's aborted sentencing in December was one of the month's oddest turns, as a furious judge encouraged Flynn to keep cooperating rather than face what appeared likely to be jail time.
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That track marks the world's newest and perhaps oddest international frontier — the elastic boundary between Georgian-controlled land and the Republic of South Ossetia, a self-proclaimed breakaway state financed, defended and controlled by Moscow.
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And despite their differences — on immigration, race relations and isolationism — Mr. Trump and Mr. Graham have become Washington's oddest odd couple, working together to repeal the Affordable Care Act, cut taxes and increase military spending.
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So we went through hundreds of photos from every list Reuters compiled over the past 10 years and created the ultimate list of what we think are the truly oddest photos taken in the 2010s.
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The fallout from the 21990 election has created many surreal moments for historians of American politics and parties, but surely one of the oddest has been the introduction of the term neoliberal into the popular discourse.
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Each state in America has its own unique way of celebrating the season, so we listed 50 of the oddest, brightest, sweetest and Santa-iest ways to get into the holiday spirit, one for each state.
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From Christopher Walken building a robot, to Rod Stewart as a Stormtrooper, to Natalie Portman hanging out with Ninja Turtles, Brandon Bird has built a career creating some of the oddest pop culture paintings ever seen.
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The FCC put out its draft proposal for reversing the 2015 net neutrality order today, and the oddest thing about it may be how little the commission has thought through what to do with basic internet protections.
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Nicole Richie is the latest celebrity to test her skills on Lip Sync Battle, and the fashion mogul has picked perhaps the oddest song to cover on the LL Cool J and Chrissy Teigen-hosted competition show.
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For more than 285 years, the site of 153 Broadway was occupied by the oddest structure among the cast-iron lofts of SoHo: a one-story, hexagonal, vaguely neo-Colonial bank set in a vest-pocket park.
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The latest and perhaps oddest example came this week, when an Alabama official invoked Christianity's Holy Family to defend Senate GOP candidate Roy Moore from accusations that he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl decades ago.
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It seems to me the oddest of asks: Surrender what you know to be a principled position because "moving on" and "moderation" are the instruments that polite society uses to browbeat the radical insisting on righteous restoration.
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All of Joker feels this way to an extent, but the clearest moments are the occasional sequences that have the camera floating close beside a silent, emotional Joaquin Phoenix, in the oddest of homages to Terrence Malick.
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That's because the droppings of the bird called a ptarmigan are considered a delicacy in certain parts of Greenland—a delicacy because, in a place of limited food resources, the oddest things can be regarded as haute cuisine.
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One of the oddest mysteries we've heard in a while has been solved after a group has uncovered why parts of novelty Garfield phones have been washing up on France's Brittany coast for the past 30-plus years.
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One of the oddest shows on this season's calendar stars the impish performance artist Poppy, a meta-meme concoction dreamed up by the Nashville actress and singer Moriah Pereira (who portrays her) and the visual artist Titanic Sinclair.
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A baby orca nearly beaches itself in what might be homage; the most charismatic people at a dinner party are shown up in their pettiness; and the smell of a summer meadow manifests in the oddest of places.
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Baby Hitler Carson also was on the receiving end of one of the oddest questions of the debate in November, when a satirical reporter asked him if he would travel back in time to abort baby Adolf Hitler.
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How else to explain a staggering, reality TV-style meltdown of short-lived Trump campaign adviser Sam Nunberg on Monday, played out in a batch of cable news interviews, marking the oddest twist of the Russia saga yet?
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But thanks to Thirioux's discoveries and the use of modern 3D laser surface scanning—an imaging technique that uses geometric points to capture an object's surface shape—scientists are one step closer to demystifying one of nature's oddest birds.
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One of the oddest moments of this year's Sundance VR track is when a man wearing a sober black-framed version of Spider Jerusalem's glasses hands me a VR headset and asks if I want to try something French.
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That theme was signaled in the episode's oddest, and I'd say least successful, idea: a grainy montage set to martial music that began with images of collectivist agricultural might before seguing to blighted fields and long lines outside stores.
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Bella (Jessica Brown Findlay, who played Sybil Crawley in "Downton Abbey") is, we're told in narration early on, "the oddest of oddballs," a woman with an obsessive-compulsive touch inside her small home but complete disregard for yard maintenance.
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That more or less sums up the band's feelings toward their oddest production: It was an experiment, even a fun one, but "this is something we don't necessarily care to do anymore," the guitarist and co-band leader said.
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These songs are the show's oddest stylistic flourishes: Where most series would be content to play the song on the soundtrack to evoke both a mood and a time in Richie's life when his life was simpler, "Vinyl" stages a performance.
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The Wat Buddha Thai Thavornvanaram, a Thai Buddhist temple tucked down a small side street, is among the oddest structures in the borough, its ornate, peaked, golden gables and doorframe grafted onto an otherwise utterly ordinary two-storey brick building.
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Epic Games has turned Fortnite into one of the oddest, most intriguing collective experiences in games, one that at times feels more of a piece with the lore-riddled storytelling of traditional MMOs than a constantly resetting third-person shooter.
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Along with the brochure, Incunabula listed other colorful books and publications, some seemingly untraceable and odd, other editions of otherwise accessible tracts on science, meditation, Sufi mysticism, and the occult, which seemed to substantiate some of the legend's oddest bits.
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Watch: In Bed with Alia Shawkat That fact offers insight into one of the oddest aspects of the film: The only thing about Duck Butter that reads as queer is the fact that it stars two women who are romantically involved.
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Of the many odd twists in the partisan noise around the impeachment, Mr. Trump's effort to divert attention from suspicions about the intrusion away from Russia — implicit in his July 25 telephone conversation with Mr. Zelensky — may be the oddest.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's Oval Office style dominated U.S. headlines in 2017, but readers were particularly perplexed by his use of the word "covfefe," in what turned out to be one of the oddest news stories of the year.
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It's finally back for a fourth season that will, God willing, follow Fielder through the doors of even more flagging businesses, where he will unleash some of the oddest ideas you've ever heard to help them try to turn things around.
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Through the iPad and a slight turn of my surrogate's head I see that nearly everyone within earshot has decamped to another part of the office, unwilling or unable to sit through what amounts to the world's oddest conference call.
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Over the past year, I've accumulated soccer jerseys, paintings and a handwritten poem about an Italian horse, but this key, a symbol of my membership in a Danish society with roots in World War II, has to be the oddest gift.
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"At the oddest times, when I'm putting on my shoes, when I'm taking a shower, when I'm going to pick up a robe, I think all those people that morning did the same thing and it was such an ordinary day," she said.
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Sarah's story this season, with all its fits and starts, is probably best represented via one of the season's oddest, but best, storytelling devices: Nacho, a tortoise purchased by the Pfefferman children who escapes into the house's walls and lives there for decades.
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In one of the oddest cases, a doctor lost his job for creating a meme that compared Mr. Erdogan to Gollum, the creature from "The Lord of the Rings," and a judge ordered expert testimony to determine whether Gollum was good or evil.
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And if you think it's all shtick, some wink-and-nod act by a couple who fights by day and snuggles by night, planning a payday after Mr. Trump leaves the scene, think again, say some people close to America's oddest political couple.
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It may be the oddest sequence of tracks to close an album in the history of music, but I may only think that because I live in a playlisted world of algorithms where songs bear some relationship to each other as they play out.
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The oddest part of all of this was the strange feeling that we could be lied to so easily, that with the snip of a few seconds of footage here and there, Delta could so significantly change the message of a well-crafted story.
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As we watch GOP strategists scramble to try to find a way around Donald Trump, tossing around the idea of running a third-party candidate, it is begging for comparisons to one of the oddest fights of all time: The Democratic Convention of 1924.
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For Westerners, one of the oddest features of Kathakali is how the ritualized artifice of the drama, with its scene changes hidden by a small curtain held up by two men, is informally surrounded by musicians who walk on and offstage during the action.
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Strange to say, that's not the oddest moment in "Made in China," an all-puppet musical that blends an unlikely romance between two lonely souls stranded in middle age with pointed commentary on the ties between America's voracious consumerism and human rights abuses in China.
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This meant I could contemplate one of the artist's oddest paintings, "Ma Mère Morte (My Mother Dead)," depicting, behind a foreground of medicine bottles on a tray, his mother on her deathbed, with the same cool delectation the artist might have felt painting it.
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HANOI, Vietnam — As President Trump settled into the dining room of a French-colonial hotel in Hanoi on Thursday morning, the conversation with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader with whom he had struck up the oddest of friendships, was already turning tense.
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"Slap that baby make him free," might be the oddest line ever written, but David Bowie's "Magic Dance," from the soundtrack to Jim Henson's 1986 dark fantasy film Labyrinth is really a traditional coming-of-age tale about a teenage girl taking ownership of her familial responsibilities.
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Travel and expense management firm Certify polled 430 business travelers for some of the oddest expenses they or a colleague had tried to push through this year — including not just the llama, but a $28,000 bottle-service tab, a blow-up doll and personalized bobblehead figurines.
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More on this... 27 oddest medical cases 10 deadly diseases that hopped across species 27 devastating infectious diseases These cysts typically grow in the liver or the lungs, but they can also appear in other parts of the body, including the bones and the central nervous system.
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The winner of The Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year — which scours the most random corners of the publishing world for weird, wacky or just plain confusing book titles and then puts a shortlist up for public vote — has been announced by The Bookseller.
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You will always be carrying the cavernous emotional baggage that comes with a complicated human existence—cargo pants recognize that, and rather than trying to make it a secret, or tuck it away, they boldly expose their oddest quality, while insisting that it has a purpose.
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Ron Cephas Jones manages to make something funny out of his small role as a cosmic jazz man, but Lillias White can't do much with one of the show's oddest contrivances, a flapper-style drug boss who seems to have stepped straight out of the Cotton Club.
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Search Google or YouTube for "weird Japan," and you'll find a goldmine of terrible content stereotyping Japan as the sum of its most bizarre media and traditions — a metric that would reflect poorly on any country — and treating the idiosyncrasies of its oddest subcultures as quirky national characteristics.
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" The most interesting thing he learned there, which he obviously incorporated into the novel, was also the oddest: "When your plane is going down and about to crash, if you write a farewell note and eat it, the liquids in your stomach can help the note survive the crash.
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"This matchup — two bombastic figures in their respective sports wed in the oddest of spectacles — certainly had the air of a carnival right from the start," Randy Archibold, the deputy sports editor, said of The Times's decision to send two writers and a photographer to cover the fight.
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Perhaps the oddest aspect of Italy's bizarre election campaign this year is that 1999 years on, despite a stream of sex scandals, more than 2161 trials on charges ranging from false accounting to bribing judges and a conviction for tax fraud, Mr Berlusconi remains an arbiter of his country's fortunes.
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"Stigmata" (2014) is the most recent and perhaps the oddest of the three: it is dominated by the figure of a woman, her back turned, her head thrown back, her fingers dug deeply into her hennaed locks as she stares skyward at the crucified Jesus hovering above her like a helicopter.
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Other, more upscale additions included a hot dog stand (largely a 7-Eleven staple, to nitpick), a meat counter with fancy, weirdly anthropomorphized sausages (on which perched the necessary black bodega cat), and, oddest of all, a shelf with paperbacks, records, and even cassette tapes (was this a bodega for hipsters?).
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One of the oddest things to watch during Bradley Cooper's press tour for this movie has been his continued insistence that in this version of A Star Is Born, unlike previous versions, the man is not jealous of the woman's success but rather protective of the purity of her soul and her music.
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One of the oddest features of the 20083 presidential race is that the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, emerged on the political scene this decade by repeatedly questioning whether President Barack Obama was born in America — and yet it seems Trump's embrace of this crackpot conspiracy theory has hardly been discussed during this campaign.
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On Medicine Of the many small humiliations heaped on a young oncologist in his final year of fellowship, perhaps this one carried the oddest bite: A 212-year-old black-and-white cat named Oscar was apparently better than most doctors at predicting when a terminally ill patient was about to die.
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They are all worth your time, and they all deserve a chance to be heard San Francisco's black metal iconoclasts Bosse-de-Nage remain one of the oddest entities in a scene long crowded with forward-thinkers and freaks—and, perhaps even more strangely, are about to release their most straight-forward recording to date.
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He looked leg weary and at the very end, perhaps oddest of all, he looked resigned to a major upset as he failed to hold his early fourth-set edge and then produced a last flurry of gaffes in the final tiebreaker to lose 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7), 7-63 (3).
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On Saturday night, before a crowd of more than 30,000 people, Mr. Simon explained that he wrote "Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War" — his "oddest song title," he said — after seeing a photograph with that caption in a book he happened to leaf through while rehearsing with Ms. Baez at her California home.
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And there is plenty of evidence that post-Neolithic inhabitants of the area were aware of, and made use of, the facilities at Knowth — one of the oddest remains is graffiti on the stones in the passages from between A.D. 700 and 750, when the area was resettled and the passages were used as living quarters.
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I saw the exhilarating promise of America in the oddest places — the friendly drag queen with her Long Island iced tea at Two Hearts, the local gay bar; the dollar classics night at the campus movie theater where I watched "Back to the Future"; my messy attempt at a tandoori marinade to jazz up a Thanksgiving turkey.
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They were soon joined by city councilmember Letitia James, who took office in 2003 following one of the oddest, ugliest moments in the city's long and twisted political history, when her predecessor James Davis was shot to death by a political rival inside the council chambers, James immediately set out to take on the Atlantic Yards battle as a personal priority.
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But it was also one of the oddest years of his life, marked by incidents that ranged from attending a mandatory weekend camp for employees where he and thousands of others were forced to sleep in tents, to deep "spiritual" discussions led by cofounder Miguel McKelvey, to an all-hands meeting where CEO Adam Neumann held his children on his lap.
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Around the corner from the Dorfman, the National's thrust-stage Olivier has opened a new play, "Common," which has in turn fed the oddest debate in the London theater world so far this year: Is D. C. Moore's often-incomprehensible historical epic better or worse than the writer-director Yael Farber's poorly reviewed "Salomé," with which "Common" is currently running in repertory?
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Led by turtlenecked vocalist McDermott, who also performs in noisey/no wave act The Sediment Club and solo as Mark Cone, the two have earned a reputation as one of the oddest and more interesting punk bands operating in the US. The story goes that McDermott's initial concept was that of a Jewish New Yorker stand-up comedian who's found himself fronting a punk outfit.
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In one of the oddest bipartisan couplings, Democratic President Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson Clinton85033 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Buckingham Palace: Any suggestion Prince Andrew was involved in Epstein scandal 'abhorrent' The magic of majority rule in elections MORE and Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia teamed to pass welfare reform in 1996, the most sweeping overhaul of safety net programs in decades.
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The oddest part of the performance wasn't that Adele stopped it to start over again (clearly she didn't want a repeat of last year, when equipment failure threw her off pitch), but that while she was turning Michael's grooving ode to carefree sex into a mannered torch song, behind her on the screen we saw endless shots of Michael dancing, wagging his butt, and grinning like crazy -- a serious form/content mismatch.
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Here are some of the oddest: Motorcycle crashes into security officer (don't miss the enterprising man in green who comes in on the left): Guy with fire extinguisher fails badly: Guy with bucket of water takes his shot (action starts around the minute mark): Man in black is foiled: Face plant: More face plantage: The torch relay, invented for the Nazi Olympics of 1936, has seldom been incident free in recent years.
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More NBA playoffs: Spurs' meaningless dunk in final seconds of playoff loss saved the day for many gamblers How LeBron James and Lance Stephenson formed one of the oddest and most entertaining rivalries in the NBA LeBron James goes 'full throttle' in the playoffs, and no one in the NBA knows how to handle it The 76ers could reap an unlikely benefit from Markelle Fultz's mysterious absence Stephen Curry's injury has suddenly changed the NBA playoffs and opened a window that once seemed inconceivable
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Take, for example, the noise-riddled "IV," which possesses such a creepy, funhouse mirror vibe that (if it wasn't the album's fourth track) would seem to have been titled after an intravenous drip of some questionable pharmaceutical or five rather than a Roman numeral, the amorphous two-part suite "Gold Candier," or the off-kilter, dysrhythmic balladry of "Ginger V." While there are plenty of hooky riffs, thunderous drumming, and 90s-styled familiarities throughout Dane On (such as the Jesus Lizard-invoking, bottom-heavy ooze of "Tampered With"), many of the album's best moments are arguably its oddest.
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