A beer bottle is a bottle designed as a container for beer . Such designs vary greatly in size and shape, but the glass commonly is brown or green to reduce spoilage from light, especially ultraviolet . Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you’d like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here . Be sure to check our website for more details....
A toilet [n 1] is a piece of hardware used for the collection or disposal of human urine and feces . In other words: "Toilets are sanitation facilities at the user interface that allow the safe and convenient urination and defecation ". [1] Toilets can be with or without flushing water ( flush toilet or dry toilet ). They can be set up for a sitting posture or for a squatting posture ( squat toilet ). Flush toilets are usually connected to a sewer system in urban areas and to septic tanks in les...
My Immortal is a Harry Potter fan fiction serially published on FanFiction.Net between 2006 and 2007. Known for its incomprehensible narrative and constant digressions, the story centers on a 17-year-old female vampire called Ebony, a non-canonical character, and her relationships with the characters of the Harry Potter series, most notably her romantic relationship with Draco Malfoy . Ultimately, she is prompted by visions to travel back in time to try to defeat the main antagonist of the serie...
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931), more commonly known as Ida B. Wells , was an African-American investigative journalist, educator, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement . She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). [1] She arguably became the most famous black woman in America, during a life that was centered on combating prejudice and violence. [2] Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosni...
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒaːkomo dʒiˈrɔːlamo kazaˈnɔːva; - kasa-] ; 2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice . [1] [2] His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie ( Story of My Life ), is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. [3] Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you’d like to support the show on a per episode basis...
Le Pétomane ( /ləˈpɛtəmeɪn/ , French pronunciation: [ləpetɔˈman] ) was the stage name of the French flatulist (professional farter) and entertainer Joseph Pujol (June 1, 1857 – 1945). He was famous for his remarkable control of the abdominal muscles , which enabled him to seemingly fart at will. His stage name combines the French verb péter , "to fart" with the - mane , "- maniac " suffix, which translates to "fartomaniac". The profession is also referred to as " flatulist ", "farteur", or "fa...
The Entertainment Software Rating Board ( ESRB ) is an American self-regulatory organization that assigns age and content ratings to consumer video games . The ESRB was established in 1994 by the Entertainment Software Association (formerly the Interactive Digital Software Association), in response to criticism of controversial video games with excessively violent or sexual content ....
Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965 – June 17, 2012) was a construction worker turned writer and activist after surviving an act of police brutality by the Los Angeles Police Department . On March 3, 1991, King was violently beaten by LAPD officers during his arrest for fleeing and evading on California State Route 210 . A civilian, George Holliday, filmed the incident from his nearby balcony and sent the footage to local news station KTLA . The footage clearly showed King being beaten repeatedly, a...
Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933. During the nineteenth century, alcoholism , family violence, and saloon-based political corruption prompted prohibitionists , led by pietistic Protestants, to end the alcoholic beverage trade to cure the ill society and weaken the political opposition. One result was that many communities in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth...
Carrie Amelia Nation (forename sometimes spelled Carry ; [1] November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911) was an American woman who was a radical member of the temperance movement , which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition . She is remembered for attacking alcohol-serving establishments (most often taverns) with a hatchet . Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you’d like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here . Be sure to check o...
The Gregorian calendar is the most widely used civil calendar in the world. [1] [2] [Note 1] It is named after Pope Gregory XIII , who introduced it in October 1582. The calendar spaces leap years to make the average year 365.2425 days long, approximating the 365.2422 day tropical year that is determined by the Earth's revolution around the Sun. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you’d like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here ....
Sigmund Freud ( /frɔɪd/ FROYD ; [3] German: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfʁɔʏt] ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud ; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis , a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. [4] Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you’d like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here . Be sure to check our website for more details....
Stede Bonnet (1688 [1] – 10 December 1718) [2] [3] was an early eighteenth-century Barbadian pirate , sometimes called "The Gentleman Pirate" [4] because he was a moderately wealthy land-owner before turning to a life of crime. Bonnet was born into a wealthy English family on the island of Barbados , and inherited the family estate after his father's death in 1694. In 1709, he married Mary Allamby, and engaged in some level of militia service. Because of marital problems, and despite his lack of...
The 1960 Valdivia earthquake (Spanish: Terremoto de Valdivia ) or Great Chilean earthquake ( Gran terremoto de Chile ) of 22 May is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. Various studies have placed it at 9.4–9.6 on the moment magnitude scale . It occurred in the afternoon (19:11 GMT , 15:11 local time), and lasted approximately 10 minutes. The resulting tsunami affected southern Chile, Hawaii , Japan, the Philippines, eastern New Zealand, southeast Australia and the Aleutian Islands . Our ...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. Originally known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency ( ARPA ), the agency was created in February 1958 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik 1 in 1957. By collaborating with academic, industry, and government partners, DARPA formulates and executes research ...
Lake Peigneur (locally pronounced [pæ̃j̃æ̹ɾ]) is a saline [A] lake in the US state of Louisiana , 1.2 miles (1.9 km) north of Delcambre and 9.1 miles (14.6 km) west of New Iberia , near the northernmost tip of Vermilion Bay . With a maximum depth of 200 feet (61 m), it is the deepest lake in Louisiana. It was a 10-foot (3 m) deep freshwater body, popular with sportsmen, until an unusual man-made disaster on November 20, 1980 changed its structure and the surrounding land. [1] [2] Our theme song ...
Sex robots or sexbots are hypothetical anthropomorphic robot sex dolls . [1] As of 2018, although elaborately instrumented sex dolls have been created by a number of inventors, no fully functioning[ vague ]sex robots exist. There is controversy as to whether developing them would be morally justifiable. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you’d like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here . Be sure to check our website for more deta...
The Damascus Titan missile explosion (also known as the Damascus accident [1] ) was a 1980 U.S. Broken Arrow incident involving a Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). The incident occurred on September 18–19, 1980, at Missile Complex 374-7 in rural Arkansas when a U.S. Air Force LGM-25C Titan II ICBM loaded with a 9 megaton W-53 Nuclear Warhead had a liquid fuel explosion inside its silo [2] at a missile launch facility . Launch Complex 374-7 was located in Van Buren County farmla...
The United States Electoral College is a body of electors established by the United States Constitution , constituted every four years for the sole purpose of electing the president and vice president of the United States . The Electoral College consists of 538 electors, and an absolute majority of 270 electoral votes is required to win an election. Pursuant to Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 , the legislature of each state determines the manner by which its electors are chosen. Each state's num...
The Dyatlov Pass incident ( Russian : Ги́бель тургру́ппы Дя́тлова) refers to the unsolved deaths of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union (now Russia ) between 1 February and 2 February 1959. The experienced trekking group, who were all from the Ural Polytechnical Institute , had established a camp on the slopes of Kholat Syakhl in an area now named in honor of the group's leader, Igor Dyatlov. During the night, something caused them to tear their way out of their te...
Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915) was an enslaved African American who escaped to freedom and became a ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician. He freed himself, his crew and their families from slavery during the American Civil War by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, CSS Planter , in Charleston harbor, on May 13, 1862, and sailing it from Confederate-controlled waters to the U.S. blockade. His example and persuasion helped convince President Abraham Lincoln to accep...
David Vaughan Icke ( /aɪk/ ; born 29 April 1952) is an English writer and public speaker. A former footballer [1] and sports broadcaster, Icke has been known since the 1990s as a professional conspiracy theorist . [2] [3] He is the author of over 20 books and numerous DVDs, and has lectured in over 25 countries, speaking for up to 10 hours to audiences. [4] [5]...
Joshua Abraham Norton (February 4, 1818 [3] – January 8, 1880), known as Emperor Norton , was a citizen of San Francisco , California who proclaimed himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States" in 1859. He later assumed the secondary title of "Protector of Mexico". [4] Norton was born in England but spent most of his early life in South Africa....
The Nazino affair ( Russian : Назинская трагедия, translit. Nazinskaya Tragediya ) was the mass deportation of 6,000 people to Nazino Island in the Soviet Union in May 1933. The deportees, mostly political prisoners and petty criminals , were forcibly sent to the small, isolated island in Western Siberia , located 540 kilometers (340 mi) northwest of Tomsk , to construct a " special settlement ". They were abandoned with only flour for food, and little in the way of tools, clothing, or shelter, ...
Julie d'Aubigny (1670/1673–1707), better known as Mademoiselle Maupin or La Maupin , was a 17th-century swordswoman and opera singer. Her tumultuous career and flamboyant life were the subject of gossip and colourful stories in her own time, and inspired numerous portrayals afterwards. Théophile Gautier loosely based the title character, Madeleine de Maupin, of his novel Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835) on her....
The Luddites were a radical group of English textile workers and weavers in the 19th century who destroyed weaving machinery as a form of protest. The group was protesting the use of machinery in a "fraudulent and deceitful manner" to get around standard labour practices. [1] Luddites feared correctly that the time spent learning the skills of their craft would go to waste as machines would replace their role in the industry. [2] It is a misconception that the Luddites protested against the mach...
Sexology is the scientific study of human sexuality , including human sexual interests, behaviors and functions. [1] The term sexology does not generally refer to the non-scientific study of sexuality, such as political science or social criticism . [2] [3] Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you’d like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here . Be sure to check our website for more details....
Gloria Ramirez (January 11, 1963 – February 19, 1994) [1] was an American woman dubbed "the Toxic Lady" by the media when several hospital workers became ill after exposure to her body and blood. She had been admitted to the emergency department while suffering from late-stage cervical cancer . While treating Ramirez, several hospital workers fainted and others experienced symptoms such as shortness of breath and muscle spasms. Five workers required hospitalization, one of whom remained in an in...
Utsuro-bune (うつろ舟 'hollow ship' ), also Utsuro-fune, and Urobune , refers to an unknown object that allegedly washed ashore in 1803 in Hitachi province on the eastern coast of Japan .When defining Utsuro-bune, the bune part means "boat" while Utsuro means empty, or hollow. Accounts of the tale appear in three texts: Toen shōsetsu (1825), Hyōryū kishū (1835) and Ume-no-chiri (1844). Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you’d like to support the show on a per episode basis,...
The Everleigh Club was a high-class brothel which operated in Chicago, Illinois from February 1900 until October 1911. [1] It was owned and operated by Ada and Minna Everleigh . [1] Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you’d like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here . Be sure to check our website for more details....
