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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...

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 estimat...

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

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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 firs...

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 forc...

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 c...

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.

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".

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 t...

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 th...

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...

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...

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...

From 1948 to 1975, the  U.S. Army Chemical Corps  conducted  classified   human subject research  at the  Edgewood Arsenal  facility in  Maryland . The purpose was to evaluate the impact of low-dose  chemical warfare  agents on  military personnel  and to test  protective clothing ,  pharmaceuticals , and  vaccines . A small portion of these studies were directed at  psychochemical warfare and gro...

Alphonse Gabriel Capone  ( / k ə ˈ p oʊ n / ; [1]  January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nicknames " Scarface " and " Snorky ", was an American  gangster  and businessman who attained notoriety during the  Prohibition era  as the co-founder and boss of the  Chicago Outfit  from 1925 to 1931. His seven-year reign as a  crime boss ended when he went to prison at the age of 33.

A  transit of Venus  across the  Sun  takes place when the  planet   Venus  passes directly between the Sun and a  superior planet , becoming visible against (and hence obscuring a small portion of) the  solar disk . During a  transit , Venus can be seen from  Earth  as a small black dot moving across the face of the Sun. The duration of such transits is usually several hours (the transit of 2012...

Isabella of France  ( c.  1295 – 22 August 1358), sometimes described as the  She-Wolf of France  ( French :  Louve de France ), was  Queen of England  as the wife of King  Edward II , and  de facto   regent  of England from 1327 until 1330. She was the youngest surviving child and only surviving daughter of  Philip IV of France  and  Joan I of Navarre . Isabella was notable in her lifetime for he...

Celestial Seasonings founders Mo Siegel, Peggy Clute, Wyck Hay, and Lucinda Ziesing started gathering herbs and flowers in the mountains around Boulder and selling them to local health food stores in 1969. [2] [3]

Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator ( Koinē Greek : Κλεοπάτρα Θεά Φιλοπάτωρ [note 5] lit. Cleopatra "father-loving goddess"; [note 6] 70/69 BC – 10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. [note 7] A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty , she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter , a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander th...

Gaius Julius Caesar  ( / ˈ s iː z ər / ,  SEE-zər ;  Latin:   [ˈɡaːiʊs   ˈjuːliʊs   ˈkae̯sar] ; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a  Roman  general and statesman. A member of the  First Triumvirate , Caesar led the Roman armies in the  Gallic Wars  before defeating his political rival  Pompey  in  a civil war , and subsequently became  dictator  from 49 BC until  his assassination  in 44 BC. He...

The  Amish  ( / ˈ ɑː m ɪ ʃ / ;  Pennsylvania German :  Amisch ; German:  Amische ), formally the  Old Order Amish , are a group of traditionalist  Anabaptist   Christian   church fellowships  with  Swiss German  and  Alsatian  origins. [2]  They are closely related to  Mennonite  churches, a separate Anabaptist denomination. [3]  The Amish are known for  simple living ,  plain dress ,  Christian p...

Several stories including: In 1927, most of the industrial alcohol in the United States had been poisoned under the order of the government. [9] The government had created a blend that contended with the bootleggers' chemists.

The Great Gatsby  is a 1925  novel  by American writer  F. Scott Fitzgerald . Set in the  Jazz Age  on  Long Island , near New York City, the novel depicts  first-person  narrator  Nick Carraway 's interactions with mysterious millionaire  Jay Gatsby  and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover,  Daisy Buchanan .

The Terra Nova Expedition , officially the British Antarctic Expedition , was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. Led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott , the expedition had various scientific and geographical objectives. Scott wished to continue the scientific work that he had begun when leading the Discovery Expedition from 1901 to 1904, and wanted to be the first to...