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News of the World

The News of the World was a weekly national " red top " tabloid newspaper published every Sunday in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the world's highest-selling English-language newspaper, and at closure still had one of the highest English-language circulations. [4] It was established as a broadsheet by John Browne Bell, who identified crime, sensation and vice as the themes that would sell most copies. [5] The Bells sold to Henry Lascelles Carr in 1891; in 1969, it was ...

Stranded with Dragons

Rinca [a] is a small island near Komodo and Flores island, East Nusa Tenggara , Indonesia , within the West Manggarai Regency . It is one of the three largest islands included in Komodo National Park . The island is famous for Komodo dragons , giant lizards that can measure up to 3 metres (9.8 ft) long. Rinca is also populated with many other species such as wild pigs , buffalos and many birds....

Jasper Maskelyne

Jasper Maskelyne (29 September 1902 – 15 March 1973) was a British stage magician in the 1930s and 1940s. He was one of an established family of stage magicians, the son of Nevil Maskelyne and a grandson of John Nevil Maskelyne . He is most remembered for his accounts of his work for the British military during the Second World War , in which he claimed to have created large-scale ruses, deception, and camouflage in an effort to defeat the Nazis . [1]...

Coin Operated Machines

A vending machine is an automated machine that dispenses items such as snacks , beverages , cigarettes , and lottery tickets to consumers after cash , a credit card , or other forms of payment are inserted into the machine or payment is otherwise made. [1] The first modern vending machines were developed in England in the early 1880s and dispensed postcards . Vending machines exist in many countries and, in more recent times, specialized vending machines that provide less common products compare...

The Making of Apocalypse Now

Production problems—among them bad weather, actors' poor health, and other issues—delayed the filming of Apocalypse Now , increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of its director, Francis Ford Coppola .

The Salt Path

The Salt Path is a 2018 memoir, nature, and travel book by Raynor Winn . It details the long-distance walk along the South West Coast Path , in South West England , by Winn and her husband, Moth, after they lost their home, and Moth was diagnosed with fatal corticobasal degeneration (CBD). It deals with the theme of homelessness and the nature of home in the face of the unpredictability of life. It was shortlisted for the 2018 Wainwright Prize and the Costa Book Awards , and won the 2019 RSL Chr...

Queen Nzinga of Angola

Nzinga or Njinga Ana de Sousa Mbande ( /nəˈzɪŋɡə/ ; c. 1583 – 17 December 1663) was a southwest African paramount ruler who ruled as a queen of the Ambundu Kingdoms of Ndongo (1624–1663) and Matamba (1631–1663), located in present-day northern Angola . [1] Born into the ruling family of Ndongo , her grandfather Ngola Kilombo Kia Kasenda was the king of Ndongo, succeeded by her father....

Looksmaxxing

Looksmaxxing is a 21st century Internet neologism referring to the process of maximizing one's own physical attractiveness . The term originated on male incel (meaning: "involuntarily celibate") [1] message boards in the 2010s. [2] [3] [4] Previously, the phrase's usage had been limited to obscure internet forums, but in the 2020s became popularized on TikTok by men. [3] Currently, the term refers to a specified view of male beauty, and is not frequently a term used by women in a non-satirical c...

Oceans 91

https://www.gq.com/story/91-year-old-bank-robber-jl-hunter-rountree

April Fools' Day

April Fools' Day or April Fool's Day (rarely called All Fools' Day [1] ) is an annual custom in many Western countries on the 1st of April consisting of practical jokes , hoaxes , and pranks. Jokesters often expose their actions by shouting "April Fool[s]!" at the recipient. Mass media can be involved with these pranks, which may be revealed as such the following day. The custom of setting aside a day for playing harmless pranks upon one's neighbor has been relatively common in the world histori...

The Placebo Effect

A placebo ( /pləˈsiːboʊ/ pluh-SEE-boh ) is a medicine or treatment intended to appear genuine to its recipient, but which has no pharmaceutical effect. [1] [2] Common placebos include inert tablets (like sugar pills), inert injections (like saline ), sham surgery , [3] and other procedures. [4]...

Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes ( /fɔːks/ ; 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), [a] also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He was born and educated in York ; his father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic. Fawkes converted to Catholicism and left for mainland Europe, where he fought for Catholic Spain in the Eighty Years' War against Protestant ...

Enshit*ification

Enshit*ification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is a process in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to both users and business customers to maximize short-term profits for shareholders ....

Sputnik

Sputnik 1 ( /ˈspʌtnɪk, ˈspʊtnɪk/ , Russian : Спутник-1, Satellite 1 ), often referred to as simply Sputnik, was the first artificial Earth satellite . It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program . It sent a radio signal back to Earth for three weeks before its three silver-zinc batteries became depleted. Aerodynamic drag caused it to fall back into the atmosphere on 4 January 1958....

Competitive Watersliding

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/maximum-speed/ Taken from this article from Outside Magazine.

Freedom House Ambulance Service & Bessie Coleman

Freedom House Ambulance Service was the first emergency medical service in the United States to be staffed by paramedics with medical training beyond basic first aid. [1] [2] Founded in 1967 to serve the predominantly Black Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , it was staffed entirely by African Americans. [3] [4] Freedom House Ambulance Service broke medical ground by training its personnel to previously unheard-of standards of emergency medical care for patients en route to hospitals. [3...

James Damore and the Google Memo

The Super Bowl

The Super Bowl is the annual league championship game of the National Football League (NFL) of the United States. It has served as the final game of every NFL season since 1966 , replacing the NFL Championship Game . Since 2022, the game has been played on the second Sunday in February. Prior Super Bowls were played on Sundays in early to mid-January from 1967 to 1978, late January from 1979 to 2003 [a] and the first Sunday of February from 2004 to 2021. Winning teams are awarded the Vince Lomba...

Unholy Spirits: The People who Have Sex with Ghosts

Taken from this article: From this article: https://www.vice.com/en/article/ghost-love-lust-spectrophilia/

Feral Children

A feral child (also called wild child) is a young individual who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, with little or no experience of human care, social behavior, or language. Such children lack the basics of primary and secondary socialization . [1] The term is used to refer to children who have suffered severe abuse or trauma before being abandoned or running away. They are sometimes the subjects of folklore and legends , often portrayed as having been raised by animals...

Failed Constitutional Amendments

Hundreds of proposed amendments to the United States Constitution are introduced during each session of the United States Congress . From 1789 through January 3, 2025, approximately 11,985 measures have been proposed to amend the United States Constitution. [1] Collectively, members of the House and Senate typically propose around 200 amendments during each two-year term of Congress . [2] Most, however, never get out of the Congressional committees in which they were proposed. Only a fraction of...

Captain Thomas Moore

Captain Sir Thomas Moore (30 April 1920 – 2 February 2021), more popularly known as Captain Tom, was a British Army officer and fundraiser . He made international headlines in April 2020 when he raised money for charity in the run-up to his 100th birthday during the COVID-19 pandemic . He served in India and the Burma campaign during the Second World War , and later became an instructor in armoured warfare . After the war, he worked as managing director of a concrete company and was an avid moto...

The Fir-Tree - by Hans Christian Andersen

"The Fir-Tree" ( Danish : Grantræet ) is a literary fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). The tale is about a fir tree so anxious to grow up, so anxious for greater things, that he cannot appreciate living in the moment. The tale was first published 21 December 1844 with " The Snow Queen ", in New Fairy Tales. First Volume. Second Collection , in Copenhagen, Denmark , by C.A. Reitzel. One scholar (Andersen biographer Jackie Wullschlager [ de ]) indicates t...

Canals on Mars

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries , it was erroneously believed that there were " canals " on the planet Mars . These were a network of long straight lines in the equatorial regions from 60° north to 60° south latitude on Mars, observed by astronomers using early telescopes without photography. They were first described by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli during the opposition of 1877, and attested to by later observers. Schiaparelli called these canali (" channels "), wh...

Great Feasts

The Field of the Cloth of Gold ( French : Camp du Drap d'Or , pronounced [kɑ̃ dy dʁa d‿ɔʁ] ) was a summit meeting between King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France from 7 to 24 June 1520. Held at Balinghem , between Ardres in France and Guînes in the English Pale of Calais , it was an opulent display of wealth by both kings. [1]...

Storm Chasers

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/chasing-tornadoes National Geographic article on Storm Chasing called Chasing Tornadoes.

Robert Maxwell

Ian Robert Maxwell (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch; 10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor and politician. [1] [2] Of Jewish descent , he escaped the Nazi occupation of his native Czechoslovakia and joined the Czechoslovak Army in exile during World War II . He was decorated after active service in the British Army . In subsequent years he worked in publishing, building up Pergamon Press to a major academic publisher. After six years as a Labour Mem...

Collar Bomb Heist

On August 28, 2003, pizza delivery man Brian Douglas Wells robbed a PNC Bank near his hometown of Erie , Pennsylvania , United States. Upon being apprehended by police, Wells died when an explosive collar locked to his neck detonated. The FBI investigation into his death uncovered a complex plot described as "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI". [1] https://www.wired.com/story/collar-bomb/...

Penis Theft

Koro is a culture-bound delusional disorder in which individuals have an overpowering belief that their sex organs are retracting and will disappear, despite the lack of any true longstanding changes to the genitals. [1] [2] Koro is also known as shrinking penis, and was listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ....

Balloon Fest 1986

Balloonfest '86 was a fundraising event in Cleveland , Ohio , United States, held on September 27, 1986, in which the local chapter of United Way set a world record by releasing almost 1.5 million balloons . [2] The event was intended to be a harmless publicity stunt . However, the released balloons drifted back over the city and Lake Erie and landed in the surrounding area, causing problems for traffic and a nearby airport. In consequence, the organizers faced lawsuits seeking millions of dolla...