Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has made nearly $2 billion on its investment in Apple.

The conglomerate bought more in the third quarter just as the stock, with the rest of the tech sector, continued to hit new highs. 

Many of his other investments aren't doing too badly either, to say the least. 

The list below, via Bloomberg, is ranked in ascending order of the market value of Berkshire's positions at the end of the third quarter. It excludes Kraft Heinz, as this investment is accounted for with the equity method because Berkshire owns a significant controlling stake.

The list includes Berkshire's position changes disclosed in the most recent 13F regulatory filing.

Here it is: 

SEE ALSO: A $423 billion investor explains why tech stocks are defying a warning sign

Charter Communications

Ticker: CHTR

Sector: Services

Market Value: $3.085 billion

Market-value Change: -$96 million

Q3 Position Change: -954.10k shares

Source: Bloomberg 

Moody's

Ticker: MCO

Sector: Services

Market Value: $3.434 billion

Market-value Change: $432.5 million

Q3 Position Change: Unchanged

Source: Bloomberg 

US Bancorp

Ticker: USB

Sector: Financial

Market Value: $4.559 billion

Market-value Change: $142 million

Q3 Position Change: Unchanged

Source: Bloomberg 

• The Burlesquerade is an annual costumed gala on a yacht that brings together 1,200 of New York's techies, artists, and entrepreneurs for a wild night of partying.
• The Burning Man-esque party features a lineup of DJs, aerialists, burlesque dancers, and performance artists — as well as cacao ceremonies, sound healing, and more.
• It began as a the birthday party of Timothy Phillips, the co-founder of Lightning Society, a self-described "community of changemakers."

By 10:30 p.m.,  I was ready to collapse on the dance floor. Everyone else was heading to an afterparty at a far-off warehouse. That's the kind of party New York's Burlesquerade is.

Now in its 7th year, the annual costumed gala has grown from a birthday party in a tiny apartment to an extravaganza on a 30,000 square-foot "super yacht" featuring an eye-popping lineup of DJs, aerialists, burlesque dancers, and performance artists.

The Burning Man-esque party attracts 1,200 partygoers ranging from bigwigs at Goldman Sachs and Facebook to Brooklyn's DIY fashion designers and filmmakers. Timothy Phillips, the man whose birthday started it all, says he hopes the event is "inspiring."

"The idea is really just to set this expectation that everyone should be surrounded by people who inspire and motivate them all the time," Phillips told Business Insider.  "We try to create events that facilitate that."

Phillips recently invited me to attend this year's Burlesquerade. Here's what it was like.

At Phillips' insistence, I showed up at Pier 40 early so he could show me around the boat, the Hornblower Infinity. I was dressed in my costume gala finest, but in true New York form, no one batted an eye.

As I made my way through the security line, where guards studiously checked the videographers and volunteers' bags, Phillips spotted me.

He was dressed in a black glistening jacket that evoked a raven's feathers and was flying back and forth a bit like a mad bird, talking to security or the caterer or picking up a cellphone for a harried call to an unknown person. 

Phillips said that the Burlesquerade started because he had friends from so many different scenes that were often “intimidated by each other” or “stuck in their preconceptions about who the others were.”

By creating a massive party and forcing everyone to costume themselves, he thought he might be able to “break down those barriers.”

Phillips soon handed me off to Joe Che, his business partner and the man most often tasked with turning Phillips' high-flying ideas into, in Che's words, "practical realities."

Dressed in a kind of antique captain's jacket festooned with ornaments, Che gave me a tour around the boat so I knew where all the performances and activities would be. But as he warned me, there's too much to do for any one person to see everything.

Challenge accepted.

Che explained that he and Phillips formed Lightning Society three years ago to expand what they had created with the Burlesquerade and to find new ways to “bring people together for meaningful connections.”

So far, that has resulted in the current version of the Burlesquerade and a co-living space in Bushwick.

The co-living space, which houses 16 people ranging from a teacher to tech developer to an astrophysicist, hosts weekly programming, including yoga and dance classes and an ongoing speaker series.

They started boarding the boat early because the security line takes so long.

The event recruits more than 150 volunteers to put on the party, who do everything from set up to production and photography. Volunteering is a way for many who can’t afford the $75 ticket price to join the festivities. 

It takes Che, Phillips, and the team of volunteers seven hours to set up the boat.

Since it was created in 2009, Bitcoin has experienced significant highs and lows. Just this week, the cryptocurrency surpassed an $11,000 evaluation for the first time in history. 

Bitcoin is considered the preeminent cryptocurrency in the world, but there's still plenty of mystery surrounding its creation. Who came up with Bitcoin? Was it created by more than one person? And who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

Here's a rundown on the currency's strange beginnings:

In 2008, the first inklings of bitcoin begin to circulate the web.

In August 2008, the domain name bitcoin.org was quietly registered online. Two months later, a paper entitled 'Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System' was passed around a cryptography mailing list.

The paper is the first instance of the mysterious figure, Satoshi Nakamoto's appearance on the web, and permanently links the name "Satoshi Nakamoto" to the cryptocurrency. 

On January 3, 2009, 30,000 lines of code spell out the beginning of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin runs through an autonomous software program that is 'mined' by people seeking bitcoin in a lottery-based system. Over the course of the next 20 years, a total of 21 million coins will be released.

But Satoshi Nakamoto didn't work entirely alone.

Among Bitcoin's earliest enthusiasts was Hal Finney, a console game developer and an early member of the "cypherpunk movement" who discovered Nakamoto's proposal for Bitcoin through the cryptocurrency mailing list. 

In a blog post from 2013, Finney says he was fascinated by the idea of a decentralized online currency. When Nakamoto announced the software's release, Finney offered to mine the first coins — 10 original bitcoins from block 70, which Satoshi sent over as a test.

Of his interactions with Nakamoto, Finney says, "I thought I was dealing with a young man of Japanese ancestry who was very smart and sincere. I've had the good fortune to know many brilliant people over the course of my life, so I recognize the signs."

Finney has flatly denied any claims that he was the inventor of Bitcoin and has always maintained his involvement in the currency was only ever secondary. 

In 2014, Finney died of the neuro-degenerative disease ALS. In one of his final posts on a Bitcoin forum, he said Satoshi Nakamoto's true identity still remained a mystery to him. Finney says he was proud of his legacy involving Bitcoin, and that his cache of bitcoins were stored in an offline wallet, left as part of an inheritance to his family. 

"Hopefully, they'll be worth something to my heirs," he wrote.

As of today, one bitcoin is worth more than $10,000.  

Ingleside is miles off the beaten path for most San Franciscans.

It's a haul from any central location in the city, and it has a reputation as one of the tougher neighborhoods, which has helped the working-class area stay under the radar of tech workers and real-estate investors. In fact, you can still buy a home for under $1 million in Ingleside.

According to data from Paragon Real Estate Group, only 20% of homes sold in San Francisco since July 2016 went for under $1 million. Of those 593 sales, 83 have been in Ingleside.

Business Insider visited Ingleside to see what this last affordable enclave is like.

SEE ALSO: A couple bought one of the most exclusive streets in San Francisco for $90,000 — now the city is making them give it back

San Francisco's public transit system services Ingleside, but it is by no means a short trip. We hopped on Muni by our office in downtown and arrived a solid 40 minutes later.

Ingleside sits to the far south of the rest of the city, sandwiched between Balboa Park and San Francisco State University. Highway 280 brushes its western border.

Our first stop was the community garden at Brooks Park, where locals can grow produce and ornamental plants for personal use. It's known for panoramic views of the city.

After some serious huffing and puffing up one of Ingleside's (many) steep hills, we arrived. Two people were tending their plots, and the garden was beautifully well-maintained and quiet.

• The GOP's proposed tax reform bill will give a boost to the wealthiest in the country.
• Repealing the estate tax and the alternative minimum tax (AMT) are just two of the ways rich Americans could benefit. 
• Meanwhile, the typical American family will get a tax cut of $1,182. 
  

Since the House tax plan was first presented, Republican leaders have said that tax reform is for middle-income earners, highlighting the fact that a typical American family will get a tax cut of $1,182.

But the GOP's tax reform proposal also gives a few boosts to the wealthiest in the country, including the proposed repeals of the estate tax and the alternative minimum tax (AMT).

The House voted to pass their 429-page GOP tax plan, called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, in November. And early Saturday, the Senate passed their own version of tax reform legislation. Republican leaders are likely headed to a conference committee to combine the separate plans into a final tax reform bill.

Business Insider outlined seven different perks for the wealthy from the House Republicans' bill below.

SEE ALSO: If Trump's new tax plan passes and you make $500,000 a year, you're about to get screwed

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Higher-income taxpayers will get the largest tax cuts.

The House GOP's legislation would reduce taxes on average for all income groups in 2018 as well as ten years from now, but higher-income households would get the largest cuts — both in terms of dollar amounts and as a percentage of after-tax income, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

Taxpayers in the top 1% — defined as those making over $730,000 — would receive 20% of the total tax cut, the think tank found. They'd get an average cut of $37,000, which translates to about 2.4% of their after-tax income.

The estate tax, which benefits about 5,500 taxpayers a year, will be eliminated.

The House GOP plan would eliminate the estate tax, under which people who give money or assets such as real estate or stocks to their children or other heir when they die have to pay a 40% tax. Currently, the tax only applies to estates larger than $5.49 million, but the House plan would double that threshold to over $10 million. Then, the plan would phase out the tax completely after six years.

Trump has touted the repeal as a perk for farmers and small businesses owners. An analysis by The Washington Post, however, found that only 5,500 estates out of about 3 million will pay any estate tax in 2017. And within that 5,500, only about 80 are farms or small businesses.

The AMT, which increased Trump's leaked 2005 tax bill from $5.3 million to $36.5 million, will be repealed.

The alternative minimum tax (AMT), which was enacted in 1969 to "prevent taxpayers from escaping their fair share of tax liability through tax breaks," would be eliminated.

Most of the people affected by the AMT earn over $500,000, according to Tax Policy Center. It is more likely to affect those who are married, have large families, or live in high-tax states.

Trump's leaked tax bill from 2005 has been shown to have increased to $36.5 million from $5.3 million because of AMT.

• If you have a bucket list for your 20s, it should be personal to you.
• You don't necessarily have to include experiences like running a marathon or quitting your job.
• So if you haven't lived a life of adventure and become your happiest, most successful self by age 30, it's OK.

Everyone's got regrets — the countries they should have visited, the people they should have asked out, the boss they should have told off.

And if you listen to those regrets, it can make you feel like you've got do everything now — before it's too late and you're burdened with kids, or debt, or creaky knees.

Slow down. If you're drafting a bucket list for your 20s, it should be personal to you — not littered with experiences that other people wish they'd had. Below, find seven items you shouldn't feel obligated to include on that list, and why.

SEE ALSO: 17 things to start doing in your 20s so you don't live in regret in your 40s

Traveling the world

If you're planning to have kids, and/or pets, and/or a mortgage, then yes, it will be harder to book a last-minute flight to Australia when you're older.

But there's no point forcing yourself to create experiences that aren't meaningful to you. INSIDER's Kristin Salaky reported that, at 24, she's never been outside North America, partly because she's anxious about flying and partly because she prefers other kinds of closer-to-home excitement.

Travel is supposed to be fun — not a burden — so don't let that list of places you haven't yet been stress you out.

Networking with everyone in your industry

Workplace experts extol the virtues of networking — forging mutually beneficial professional relationships by showing up to events like conferences and happy hours.

Wharton psychologist Adam Grant shared a slightly different take in The New York Times: Instead of focusing on schmoozing, focus on working hard, and let those relationships form naturally. If you develop a reputation for being one of the most knowledgeable workers in your field, other people will necessarily be drawn to you.

Quitting your job

For most people, telling your manager you're leaving is a lot less exciting than it is in the movies. Even if you're incredibly frustrated at work, and long for the sound of the door slamming behind you for the last time, you might not be in the position to be able to leave. Since you're there anyway, consider seeing how you can tweak the job to suit you better.

Stanford professors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans recommend keeping a "Good Time Journal." The first part is an activity log, where you list your primary activities and how engaged and energized you were while doing them.

The second component is reflection, which involves reviewing your activity log and noticing any patterns or surprises. See if you can eliminate those tasks you don't enjoy — and maximize the amount of time you spend on the ones you love.

A new year is approaching, but before you start listing the ways you're going to dominate the next 12 months like the powerhouse you are, you need an accurate picture of what your career looks like right now.

Conduct a sort of job evaluation: Where are you positioned for growth, and where do you have your work cut out for you?

"Taking stock at year-end gives you an opportunity to [focus] and help you to adjust your approach to work," says Juliet Murphy, an executive career coach in Orange County, California.

To help with your career evaluation, ask yourself the following five questions as you look back over the past 12 months and ahead to the new year.

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1. What career goals did I accomplish?

No doubt you set some challenges for yourself last year—good job!—but the more important part was that you acted on them. Did you lead a project that gave you more visibility? Did you get the promotion you were hoping for? Or did you just kind of go through the motions of your job and not really progress anywhere?

Make a list of your accomplishments, whether it was something large like getting a pay raise or even as small as updating your resume. "When you see what you've done or half done, it gives you motivation," says Caroline Stokes, founder of Forward, an executive search and coaching firm in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Whatever you achieved, the important thing is that you made progress and weren't just spinning your wheels.

2. Did my skills get sharper?

A sure sign of professional growth is to compare the size of your skill set at the beginning and end of a year.

"Think about what you did this year to increase your expertise and learning in your position and industry," says Jessica Hernandez, president of Great Resumes Fast in Callahan, Florida. Whether you were able to practice leadership or master a new company process, you should be able to point out how you've improved.

Did you attend conferences, take classes or get online training, earn new certifications or keep up with industry trends? These are all things that can sharpen your skills.

If you're not sure where your skills have improved, ask your boss for some feedback, Murphy says. Your boss can tell you from an outside perspective where you've added new value.

3. What is one thing that happened at work this year that I would change if I could?

If there's nothing you'd change about the past year, you need to share your secret to career perfection with the rest of the world. But realistically, with the benefit of hindsight, there was certainly something—a mistake or missed opportunity—you wish you handled differently.

Acknowledging your mistakes or regrets is the first step to not repeating them. The next step is making small changes to avoid going down the same path, Stokes says. If you missed a chance at something, how can you set yourself up to take the next great opportunity that comes your way? And if you messed something up, you should now know how to avoid that mistake.

"Once you know what you would have changed last year," Hernandez says, "you now know what to focus on changing this coming year."

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has made nearly $2 billion on its investment in Apple.

The conglomerate bought more in the third quarter just as the stock, with the rest of the tech sector, continued to hit new highs. 

Many of his other investments aren't doing too badly either, to say the least. 

The list below, via Bloomberg, is ranked in ascending order of the market value of Berkshire's positions at the end of the third quarter. It excludes Kraft Heinz, as this investment is accounted for with the equity method because Berkshire owns a significant controlling stake.

The list includes Berkshire's position changes disclosed in the most recent 13F regulatory filing.

Here it is: 

SEE ALSO: A $423 billion investor explains why tech stocks are defying a warning sign

Charter Communications

Ticker: CHTR

Sector: Services

Market Value: $3.085 billion

Market-value Change: -$96 million

Q3 Position Change: -954.10k shares

Source: Bloomberg 

Moody's

Ticker: MCO

Sector: Services

Market Value: $3.434 billion

Market-value Change: $432.5 million

Q3 Position Change: Unchanged

Source: Bloomberg 

US Bancorp

Ticker: USB

Sector: Financial

Market Value: $4.559 billion

Market-value Change: $142 million

Q3 Position Change: Unchanged

Source: Bloomberg 

Who says offices have to be boring?

Not everyone toils the day away in a drab cubicle farm. There are some pretty incredible offices out there.

At Business Insider, we've gone on numerous virtual and in-person tours of amazing workspaces — including those of Facebook, Twitter, and Spotify.

Here's a glimpse of some of the coolest offices we've visited:

Jacquelyn Smith, Jessica Mai, Courtney Verrill, Emmie Martin, and Tanza Loudenback contributed reporting.

SEE ALSO: A look inside Kickstarter's Brooklyn office, where employees enjoy perks like a secret rooftop garden, coffee on tap, and plenty of dogs

DON'T MISS: A look inside Facebook's New York office, where employees of the $280 billion company enjoy virtual reality games and an in-house pastry chef

PayPal's busy office featured lots of comfy seating and bright murals.

Venmo's headquarters boasts one of the most unusual conference rooms we've ever seen — one with a wall of fake dollar bills. We were told that one of them was authentic, but we couldn't find it.

See the full PayPal and Venmo office tour »

Facebook's Manhattan office is filled with amazing artwork created by both resident artists and employees. These works give the space a creative vibe.

Britney Spears has worn many memorable outfits, from the all-denim get up to her green bikini/yellow snake combo. But Britney's wardrobe legacy hinges on one staple item: The turtleneck. 

And not just any turtleneck — Britney favors the short-sleeve variety. Sometimes she mixes in long-sleeve versions, or sleeveless turtlenecks, but the short-sleeved ones really stand out.

Scroll down for a look at the captivating history of Britney's turtleneck obsession.

It all began in 1999. Britney's music video for "Sometimes" prominently featured the singer in a white outfit, the star of which is a short-sleeved turtleneck.

By the time Britney hit us with "Oops!...I Did It Again" one year later, the white turtleneck had evolved. Specifically — it grew longer sleeves.

Then Britney began experimenting with the sleeveless version. This shiny green turtleneck was one of her outfits in the video for "Lucky."

I'm a serious car lover, but I also dig motorcycles. And this is the time of year that the two-wheelers pull into New York City in force.

Running through the weekend, the New York Motorcycle Show is at the Javits Center on Manhattan's West Side.

We took it all in last year and came back for more in 2017. There were a few trends. One as the notable absence of Ducati, on of the world's major bike brands. Another was the ongoing roll-out of stylish throwback bikes, typified by the expansion of Royal Enfield outside its home market on India and setting up shop in the US.

Check out all the cool sights:

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The 2017 show pulls into the Javits Center.

No weapons allowed!

Progressive's Flo gets her ride on.

Clemson University won their second national championship last season and have played in each of the last two College Football Playoff championship games.

This season, the Tigers were a favorite to make it back to the College Football Playoff and they will take the journey in their new $55 million football complex.

The school opened the facility earlier this year, and now we get a peak inside and outside what looks like a swanky playground for college students.

Here are some photos and videos of some of the swankiest features, via HOK.

Here is an aerial view of the new facilities.

The "Allen N. Reeves Football Complex" was designed by HOK, the architect firm responsible for many stadiums around the world.

According to Thad Turnipseed, Clemson's director of recruiting and external affairs, he visited 36 football facilities around the country and was told by coach Dabo Swinney to "take the best from each place."

Source: Clemson Tigers

If you believe that working at a small company means a small salary, think again.

This list of best-paying small companies from job-hunting site Comparably shows that good salaries can be had at smaller companies with less than 500 employees. Comparably dug through its database of over 3 million employee ratings on 30,000 US companies to come up with this list of the best-paying small companies, based on self-reported salaries. 

It then went another step and factored in how employees said they felt about their compensation: if they feel were satisfied with the pay for the job title and work expectations.  All of the companies on this list had a minimum of 10
employee reviews that rated their employers' on at least 100 factors.

All of these companies also rank in the top 15% or greater in compensation sentiment.

SEE ALSO: The 50 best-paying big companies, according to employees

No. 25: Opendoor

Company:
Opendoor

Average compensation:
$93,607

Headquarters: 
San Francisco

What it does: 
Opendoor is an online marketplace for real estate.

No. 24: TripActions

Company:
TripActions

Average compensation:
$94,166

Headquarters:
Menlo Park, California

What it does: 
TripActions offers corporate travel management software that encourages employees to save money for the company.

No. 23: Swift Navigation

Company:
Swift Navigation

Average compensation:
$104,532

Headquarters: 
San Francisco

What it does: 
Swift Navigation develops GPS software and hardware for drones, autonomous vehicles, and smart devices.

Using the new Kindle Oasis feels a little bit like stepping back in time. That might sound like a bad thing, but it's actually the opposite. The Oasis is a stylish, premium device that takes you back to simpler times, before apps and blue light kept us perpetually distracted and awake too late. 

The device costs $280 and is available to buy now on Amazon. 

I've been using the Oasis for a few weeks and comparing it to my other experiences using the Kindle app for iPhone and my practically ancient Kindle Fire from 2012. All of these options have their own strengths and weaknesses, but I wound up being pleasantly surprised by the Oasis. 

Here's what it's like:

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What most surprised me about the Oasis was its shape and size.

The Oasis has an aluminum body, which somehow manages two seemingly opposite feats: It makes the device feel high-end and expensive, but it also ensures that the Oasis is shockingly lightweight.

At 6.8 ounces, it's only slightly heavier than an iPhone X, which weighs 6.14 ounces. 

The Oasis also has a funny little hump on its back just like the first generation device, which is likely intended to make it easier to grip one-handed. This is a nice feature — and one that's pretty unique to the Oasis — but is rendered useless if you put a case on it. The case snaps on magnetically to the back of the device, sitting flush next to the hump and creating an even back. The hump is nifty, but if you like having a case on your electronics like I do, you'll probably forget it's there altogether. 

Besides the hump, the Oasis is super, super thin at 3.4 millimeters. 

It has a big, beautiful screen too.

The new Oasis gained an extra inch on its display, making it the largest Kindle display on the market at seven inches. 

Amazon says you'll be able to read 30% more before turning the page, but it doesn't really matter the exact amount. What really matters is the fact that the screen size straddles the line of being small enough to hold one-handed, but large enough that you don't feel like you're constantly turning the page. 

This is where testing the Oasis side by side with the iPhone app made the difference really clear. When reading on my iPhone, I feel like I'm swiping to the next page every few seconds, and it makes reading while I eat or drink a coffee nearly impossible. The Kindle's larger screen size was perfect for me, and was my favorite feature of the device. 

I'd choose reading on the Oasis over a digital display any time.

The screen also comes in handy at the end of a long day at work. Staring at a computer screen for hours on end means I don't want to look at another screen when I get home at night. Having the Kindle's E-Ink display meant my eyes — and brain — got a break. My Kindle Fire also has a digital display, so using the Oasis was a wonderful and much-needed change of pace. 

• Cyber Monday was the biggest online shopping day in US history, with Americans spending an estimated $6.6 billion. 
• But 100 years ago, locals of cities like New York would battle large crowds while shopping on busy streets. 
• Photos pulled from the Library of Congress' archives show what it was like to shop in New York in the early 1900s. A lot has changed since then. 

This year, online shopping surged during both Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

But in the not-so-distant past, shoppers were out in droves at brick-and-mortar stores, waiting in long lines and sometimes even getting caught in all-out brawls over limited-release items. 

While the term "Black Friday" wasn't officially coined until the 1960s, when Philadelphia police used it to refer to the day after Thanksgiving, hectic holiday shopping has been around for much longer than that.

Below, 17 photos show how those living in New York City between 1900 and 1915 shopped and stocked up for the holiday season. 

SEE ALSO: I went to a mall on Black Friday — and it confirmed the holiday isn't the shopping bonanza it once was

Sixth Avenue was a popular destination for Christmas shoppers.

These shoppers had on their Sunday best for the outing.

Rocking horses, drums, and baby dolls were sold as gifts for children.

Throughout military history, it was common for generals to only know of each other by reputation or by the deeds of their troops.

But when lines are drawn, ideologies change, and another war is fought for another reason, you may find yourself fighting against your former allies and those old interpersonal rivalries can get ugly fast. It takes a darker turn when both sides of that rivalry have an army ready to kill and die at their command.

Let’s take a look at some of history’s greatest rivalries between former brothers-in-arms.

SEE ALSO: These 17 photos show Finland's brutally cold World War II battle with the Soviet Union

4. George Washington and Benedict Arnold — Revolutionary War

One man would later be known as the “Father of America” while the other would become synonymous “traitor.” Both Washington and Arnold were heroes of the American Revolution early on and fought many battles together.

This was until Arnold switched allegiances back to the crown. His reasons for turning his back on America are still debated by historians, but the accepted reasons include money, disillusionment, and personal vendettas against the Continental Congress.

3. Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee — Siege of Veracruz

Both generals would earn historical prestige leading their respective armies against each other during the American Civil War, but they weren’t always enemies. In fact, at the beginning of the Civil War, Lee was offered command of the U.S. Army before resigning his commission. Eight days later, he accepted command of Confederate troops in Virginia.

Back in the Mexican-American War, however, both men fought side-by-side, as then-Lieutenant Colonel Lee led troops in Scott’s March on Mexico City with a young then-First Lieutenant Grant. Both Lee and Grant marched under the command of then-General Zachary Taylor. In fact, the Siege of Veracruz was full of names that would eventually become essential pieces of the Civil War, including future Generals Meade, “Stonewall” Jackson, and Longstreet.

2. Charles de Gaulle and Phillipe Petain — Battle of Verdun

Petain rose in rank to eventually become Marshal of France and, later, Prime Minister of the Nazi puppet state, Vichy France. He took strong and direct opposition to Charles de Gaulle’s revolutionary Free France. After the fall of the Nazi Regime, Petain was spared the gallows because of his actions as “The Lion of Verdun” and hero of France. France’s new leader, Charles de Gaulle, refused to execute the disgraced former-Marshal.

Petain’s military mind helped save France in WWI at the Battle of Verdun. One of the most heroic battles and early turning point of Verdun took place when the Germans were contained at Douaumont and surrounded by 90,000 men and 21,000 tons of ammunition. There stood de Gaulle, the then-Captain in the French 33rd Infantry Regiment, leading Petain’s charge. Charles de Gaulle was wounded and captured in that battle.

While NASA is mostly known for studying the outer reaches of our solar system, it's trained countless satellites on Earth, giving scientists a cornucopia of data about our changing planet.

But sometimes, science and art aren't so different. In November, NASA's Global Climate Change Group released the most stunning images taken by satellites and astronauts in space.

Many of these images are in false color, which scientists use to display images and features that aren't usually visible to the naked eye. 

Here are our selections of the best of the bunch: 

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No, this isn't a scene from a sci-fi movie — this spacesuit is empty. Dubbed SuitSat-1, this unneeded Russian space suit was filled with old clothes and launched to orbit the Earth in 2006.

This is the Mississippi River, pictured just south of Memphis, Tennessee in 2003. You can see the blocky shapes of towns and fields surrounding the river. Countless oxbow lakes — which are formed as the river changes course — can be seen in the image as well.

This is the Lena River in Russia, one of the largest river systems in the world. It's also an important breeding ground for many Siberian species.

The release of the latest full trailer for "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" in October made it look like Rey may be partnering up with Kylo Ren. The "Star Wars" villain extends his hand, seemingly to Rey, to show the young woman her place in the galaxy.

Many quickly dismissed the footage as a red herring to throw off audiences. But since then, other evidence has popped up on posters and theater displays making fans wonder whether or not Rey could be heading to the dark side.

We'll know soon enough when the movie comes to theaters. Until then, INSIDER went through the evidence that has fans thinking Rey may switch allegiances in "The Last Jedi."

1. An international poster has Rey front and center shrouded in red.

Mark Hamill tweeted it out to fuel the fan fire suggesting Rey could be turning to the dark side. It's also interesting that Luke is wielding a blue lightsaber while Rey doesn't hold any weapon.

2. Fans started questioning Rey's wardrobe on the IMAX poster.

Fans started questioning Rey's allegiance to the Resistance when they saw her shrouded in red on the IMAX poster for the movie. 

Why is she wearing the color associated with the dark side instead of the light?

3. We're more concerned about the unlit lightsaber that's in Rey's hand in the IMAX poster.

If Rey lit up that lightsaber, would it turn red or blue? 

If it was a blue lightsaber, wouldn't she have had it lit up in the poster? Instead, she's staring intently at it as if she's hesitating to do so.

Each year in television, one show stands out as the most critically acclaimed program of the year.

Since the turn of the century, the reviews aggregator Metacritic has compiled an annual list of the year's most well-received TV show seasons by assigning scores based on their composite critical reception.

We selected the top show from each year, starting with 2000. The resulting list includes repeated appearances from contemporary classics like "Breaking Bad,""The Wire," and "Mad Men" for their most notable seasons.

Check out the best TV show of every year since 2000, according to critics:

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2000: "The Sopranos" (Season 2)

Critic score: 97/100

User score: 9.3/10

What critics said: "It's difficult to single out any particular aspect of the show: It's just plain brilliant."— Variety

2001: "The Office: UK" (Season 1)

Critic score: 98/100

User score: 8.6/10

What critics said: "It takes a little while to get into it (episode two clinched it for me), but once you get used to the accents and dry humor, you're hooked."— The Chicago Sun-Times

2002: "The Office: UK" (Season 2)

Critic score: 93/100

User score: 8.9/10

What critics said: "The pleasure to be taken from 'Office' isn't merely that of laughter — it's the pleasure of watching a piece of entertainment so perfectly made and so delicately acted."— Entertainment Weekly

When complete, Google's new London headquarters will measure longer than the Shard — the tallest skyscraper in the United Kingdom — is tall. The Shard measures 1,016 feet tall. Google's London headquarters is similar in size, but flipped on its side at 1,100 feet long.

The building's architects — Bjarke Ingels Group and Heatherwick Studios — call it a "landscraper," meaning it gains most of its size by stretching horizontally rather than vertically.

Google's landscraper could be the first of its kind in the world. But futurist Amy Webbexpects landscrapers to become more mainstream over the next 20 years in the United States.

"Landscrapers will create entirely new city footprints that we just haven't seen yet in the US, and could make life easier and more realistic," said Webb, who identifies socioeconomic, geopolitical, and business trends based on quantitative data. 

Here's what we can expect from the landscrapers of the future.

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Four major trends point toward landscrapers, Webb said.

The first is a growing migration from America's densest centers, like New York City and San Francisco, to cities with more undeveloped land, like Austin, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona. Webb predicts that landscrapers will thrive in metros with more sprawl, since there will be more room to build them.

Source: The United States Census

"We will be freed to locate new economic centers and expand outward, not upward," she said. "There's no reason that other cities — in what most people would consider flyover states — now, in 2017, can't decide that, by 2030, we are going to become America's hub for X, which could be bio-tech, agriculture, genome editing, etc."