https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handshake A handshake is a globally widespread, brief greeting or parting tradition in which two people grasp one of each other's hands, and in most cases, it is accompanied by a brief up-and-down movement of the grasped hands. Customs surrounding handshakes are specific to cultures. Different cultures may be more or less likely to shake hands, or there may be different customs about how or when to shake hands. [1] [2] [3] https://www.youtube.com/live/R3skyySEOuE?si...
Sep 11, 2024•44 min
The 1967 NFL Championship Game was the 35th NFL championship , played on December 31 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin . [ 1 ] Because of the adverse conditions in which the game was played, the rivalry between the two teams, and the game's dramatic climax, it has been immortalized as the Ice Bowl and is considered one of the greatest games in NFL history. NFL 100 Greatest Games ranked this game as the 3rd greatest game of all time. It is still the coldest game ever played in NFL history....
Sep 04, 2024•43 min
Colton Harris Moore (born March 22, 1991) [10] is an American former fugitive . He was charged with the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars in property, including several small aircraft, boats, and multiple cars, all committed while still a teenager....
Aug 28, 2024•42 min
Jeanne Louise Calment (French: [ʒan lwiz kalmɑ̃] ⓘ ; 21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997) was a French supercentenarian and, with a documented lifespan of 122 years and 164 days, the oldest person ever whose age has been verified. [1] Her longevity attracted media attention and medical studies of her health and lifestyle. She is the only person verified to have reached the age of 120 and beyond. According to census records, Calment outlived both her daughter and grandson. [2] In January 1988, she w...
Aug 21, 2024•41 min
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane FRS ( /ˈhɔːldeɪn/ ; 5 November 1892 – 1 December 1964 [1] [2] ), nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", [3] was a British-Indian scientist who worked in physiology , genetics , evolutionary biology , and mathematics . With innovative use of statistics in biology , he was one of the founders of neo-Darwinism . Despite his lack of an academic degree in the field, [1] he taught biology at the University of Cambridge , the Royal Institution , and University College London . [4] Ren...
Aug 14, 2024•38 min
Sir Francis Drake ( c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580. This was the first English circumnavigation, and second circumnavigation overall. He is also known for participating in the early English slaving voyages of his cousin, Sir John Hawkins , and John Lovell . Having started as a simple seaman, in 1588 he was part of the fight against the Spanish Armada as a vice-admiral ....
Aug 07, 2024•36 min
The Conch Republic ( /ˈkɒŋk/ ) is a micronation declared as a sarcastic secession of the city of Key West, Florida , from the United States on April 23, 1982. It has been maintained as a tourism booster for the city. Since then, the term "Conch Republic" has been expanded to refer to "all of the Florida Keys , or, that geographic apportionment of land that falls within the legally defined boundaries of Monroe County, Florida , northward to 'Skeeter's Last Chance Saloon' in Florida City , Dade Co...
Jul 31, 2024•34 min
Anthony Comstock (March 7, 1844 – September 21, 1915) was an American anti-vice activist, United States Postal Inspector , and secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice (NYSSV), who was dedicated to upholding Christian morality . He opposed obscene literature, abortion , contraception , masturbation , gambling , prostitution , and patent medicine . The terms comstockery and comstockism refer to his extensive censorship campaign of materials that he considered obscene, includi...
Jul 24, 2024•34 min
The United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) made numerous unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro . There were also attempts by Cuban exiles , sometimes in cooperation with the CIA. The 1975 Church Committee claimed eight proven CIA assassination attempts between 1960 and 1965. In 1976, President Gerald Ford issued an Executive Order banning political assassinations. In 2006, Fabián Escalante, former chief of Cuba's intelligence, stated that there had been 634 ass...
Jul 17, 2024•46 min
Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. Jobs was also the founder of NeXT and chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar . He was a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with his early business partner and fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak ....
Jul 10, 2024•56 min
The Late Bronze Age collapse was a time of widespread societal collapse during the 12th century BC associated with environmental change , mass migration , and the destruction of cities . The collapse affected a large area of the Eastern Mediterranean ( North Africa and Southeast Europe ) and the Near East , in particular Egypt , eastern Libya , the Balkans , the Aegean , Anatolia , and, to a lesser degree, the Caucasus . It was sudden, violent, and culturally disruptive for many Bronze Age civil...
Jul 03, 2024•35 min
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_canceled_launch_vehicle_designs Even before the launch of Sputnik 1 , there were various types of launch vehicle designs . The launch vehicle designs described below are either canceled or never left the drawing board.
Jun 26, 2024•41 min
Counterfeiting of the currency of the United States is widely attempted. According to the United States Department of Treasury , an estimated $70 million in counterfeit bills are in circulation, or approximately 1 note in counterfeits for every 10,000 in genuine currency, with an upper bound of $200 million counterfeit, or 1 counterfeit per 4,000 genuine notes. [1] [2] However, these numbers are based on annual seizure rates on counterfeiting, and the actual stock of counterfeit money is uncerta...
Jun 19, 2024•45 min
This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.
Jun 12, 2024•34 min
Ark Encounter is a Christian theme park that opened in Williamstown, Kentucky , United States, in 2016. [2] [3] The centerpiece of the park is a large representation of Noah's Ark , based on the Genesis flood narrative contained in the Bible . It is 510 feet (155.4 m) long, 85 feet (25.9 m) wide, and 51 feet (15.5 m) high....
Jun 05, 2024•40 min
Mount Everest [3] is Earth's highest mountain above sea level , located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas . The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point . [4] Its elevation (snow height) of 8,848.86 m (29,031 ft 8+1⁄2 in) was most recently established in 2020 by the Chinese and Nepali authorities. [5] [6]...
May 29, 2024•43 min
Amelia Mary Earhart ( / ˈ ɛər h ɑːr t / AIR-hart ; born July 24, 1897; declared dead January 5, 1939) was an American aviation pioneer . On July 2, 1937, Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the world. During her life, she embraced celebrity culture and women's rights, and since her disappearance has become a cultural icon . [2] Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and she set many oth...
May 22, 2024•39 min
The Chicxulub crater ( IPA : [t͡ʃikʃuˈluɓ] ⓘ cheek-shoo-LOOB ) is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Its center is offshore, but the crater is named after the onshore community of Chicxulub Pueblo . [3] It was formed slightly over 66 million years ago when a large meteorite , about ten kilometers (six miles) in diameter, struck Earth. The crater is estimated to be 200 kilometers (120 miles) in diameter and 20 kilometers (12 miles) in depth. It is the second large...
May 15, 2024•35 min
Troy James Hurtubise (November 23, 1963 – June 17, 2018) was a Canadian inventor and conservationist , noted for self-testing his often bizarre creations. These inventions included various ray generators, firepaste (an ablative heatproofing material), the Ursus personal armour suit and the Trojan Ballistics Suit of Armor . Our sponsor: boxofawesome.com code: citation...
May 08, 2024•45 min
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May 01, 2024•34 min
Operation Eagle Claw was a failed operation by the United States Armed Forces ordered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter to attempt the rescue of 52 embassy staff held captive at the Embassy of the United States, Tehran on 24 April 1980. The operation, one of Delta Force 's first, [1] encountered many obstacles and failures and was subsequently aborted. Eight helicopters were sent to the first staging area called Desert One , but only five arrived in operational condition. [2] One had encountered hy...
Apr 24, 2024•35 min
The Battle of Red Cliffs , also known as the Battle of Chibi , was a decisive naval battle in the winter of AD 208–209 at the end of the Han dynasty , about twelve years prior to the beginning of the Three Kingdoms period in Chinese history . [4] The battle was fought between the allied forces of the southern warlords Sun Quan , Liu Bei , and Liu Qi against the numerically superior forces of the northern warlord Cao Cao . Liu Bei and Sun Quan frustrated Cao Cao's effort to conquer the land south...
Apr 17, 2024•41 min
Gamergate or GamerGate ( GG ) [1] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism , diversity, and progressivism in video game culture . [2] [3] [4] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015. [1] [5] [6] [7] Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry , most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu . [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]...
Apr 10, 2024•31 min
In legal history , an animal trial was the criminal trial of a non-human animal . Such trials are recorded as having taken place in Europe from the thirteenth century until the eighteenth. In modern times, it is considered in most criminal justice systems that non-human animals lack moral agency and so cannot be held culpable for an act....
Apr 03, 2024•42 min
At a minimum, a screw drive is a set of shaped cavities and protrusions on the screw head that allows torque to be applied to it. [1] [2] Usually, it also involves a mating tool , such as a screwdriver , that is used to turn it. Some of the less-common drives are classified as being "tamper-resistant"....
Apr 01, 2024•20 min
American Gladiators [3] is an American competition television program that aired weekly in syndication from September 1989 to May 1996. The series matched a cast of amateur athletes against each other, as well as against the show's own "gladiators", in contests of strength and agility. Following the success of American Gladiators , other countries began to produce their own versions of the show....
Mar 27, 2024•34 min
Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, Countess of Landsfeld [1] (17 February 1821 – 17 January 1861), better known by the stage name Lola Montez ( / m oʊ n ˈ t ɛ z / ), was an Irish dancer and actress who became famous as a Spanish dancer, courtesan , and mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria , who made her Gräfin von Landsfeld ( Countess of Landsfeld ). At the start of the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states , she was forced to flee. She proceeded to the United States via Austria, Switzerland, France and ...
Mar 20, 2024•30 min
The United East India Company ( Dutch : Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie [vərˈeːnɪɣdə oːstˈɪndisə kɔmpɑˈɲi] , abbreviated as VOC , Dutch: [veː.oːˈseː] ) and commonly known as the Dutch East India Company , was a chartered trading company and the first joint-stock company in the world. [2] [3] Established on 20 March 1602 [4] by the States General of the Netherlands amalgamating existing companies , it was granted a 21-year monopoly to carry out trade activities in Asia . [5] Shares in the compan...
Mar 13, 2024•39 min
Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune . Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican Party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant , who won by a landslide....
Mar 06, 2024•36 min
SeaWorld is an American theme park chain with headquarters in Orlando, Florida . It is a proprietor of marine mammal parks , oceanariums , animal theme parks , and rehabilitation centers owned by SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment (one park will be owned and operated by Miral under a license). The parks feature orcas , sea lion , and dolphin shows and zoological displays featuring various other marine animals....
Feb 28, 2024•34 min
