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The  Large Hadron Collider  ( LHC ) is the world's largest and highest-energy  particle collider . [1] [2]  It was built by the  European Organization for Nuclear Research  (CERN) between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and hundreds of universities and laboratories across more than 100 countries. [3]  It lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference and as deep...

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Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aerospace engineer, businessman, filmmaker, investor, philanthropist, and pilot. [2] He was best known during his lifetime as one of the most influential and richest people in the world. He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an important figure in the aviation industry. Later in life, he became known f...

The  Museum of Failure [1]  is a museum that features a collection of failed products and services. The touring exhibition provides visitors with a learning experience about the critical role of  failure  in  innovation  and encourages organizations to become better at learning from failure. Samuel West's 2016 visit to the  Museum of Broken Relationships  in  Zagreb ,  Croatia , inspired the conce...

The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier  is a nonfiction book by April White. Published by  Hachette Book Group  in 2022,  The Divorce Colony  examines the role of  Sioux Falls, South Dakota  as a destination for divorce seekers through personal stories. Excerpts were published in  The Boston Globe , [1]   Smithsonian Magazine , [2]  and on ...

https://www.cracked.com/article_18894_6-real-historic-battles-decided-by-divine-intervention.html   and    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mons

Peter Daryl Evans  (born 29 August 1973 [ citation needed ] ) is an Australian chef, and former television presenter, who was a judge of the competitive cooking show  My Kitchen Rules . Evans has been heavily criticised for  spreading misinformation  about  vaccinations , promoting conservative political rhetoric, sharing conspiracy theories with followers and  pseudoscientific   dieting ideas  su...

An unusual unit of measurement is a unit of measurement that does not form part of a coherent system of measurement , especially because its exact quantity may not be well known or because it may be an inconvenient multiple or fraction of a base unit. Many of the unusual units of measurements listed here are colloquial measurements, units devised to compare a measurement to common and familiar obj...

Reality television  is a  genre  of  television programming  that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unfamiliar people rather than professional actors. Reality television emerged as a distinct genre in the early 1990s with shows such as  The Real World , then achieved prominence in the early 2000s with the success of the series  Survivor ,  Idols , and  Big Broth...

Joan Crawford  (born  Lucille Fay LeSueur ; March 23, 190? [Note 1]  –  May 10, 1977)  was an American actress. She started her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on  Broadway . Crawford was signed to a motion picture contract by  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer  in 1925. Initially frustrated by the size and quality of her parts, Crawford launched a publicity campaign and bui...

Paul Bunyan is a giant lumberjack and folk hero in American [2] and Canadian folklore . [3] His tall tales revolve around his superhuman labors, [4] [5] and he is customarily accompanied by Babe the Blue Ox , his pet and working animal. The character originated in the oral tradition of North American loggers, [2] [4] [5] and was later popularized by freelance writer William B. Laughead (1882–1958)...

Brigadier General   Francis Marion  ( c.  1732 – February 27, 1795), also known as the "Swamp Fox", was an American military officer, planter, and politician who served during the  French and Indian War  and the  Revolutionary War . During the  American Revolution , Marion supported the  Patriot cause  and enlisted in the  Continental Army , fighting against  British  forces in the  Southern theat...

Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin [a]  ( Russian :  Евге́ний Ви́кторович Приго́жин ,  IPA:  [jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ˈvʲiktərəvʲɪtɕ prʲɪˈɡoʐɨn] ; 1 June 1961 – 23 August 2023) was a  Russian  mercenary leader and  oligarch . [4]  He led the  Wagner Group  private military company and was a close confidant of Russian president  Vladimir Putin  until launching  a rebellion  in June 2023. [5]  Prigozhin was sometime...

HMS  Wager  was a square-rigged sixth-rate  Royal Navy  ship of 28 guns. She was built as an  East Indiaman  in about 1734 and made two voyages to India for the  East India Company  before the Royal Navy purchased her in 1739. She formed part of a squadron under Commodore  George Anson  and was wrecked on the south coast of  Chile  on 14 May 1741. The wreck of  Wager  became famous for the subsequ...

Rudolph William Louis Giuliani  ( / ˌ dʒ uː l i ˈ ɑː n i /   JOO-lee-AH-nee ,  Italian:  [dʒuˈljaːni] ; born May 28, 1944) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 107th  mayor of New York City  from 1994 to 2001. He previously served as the  United States Associate Attorney General  from 1981 to 1983 and the  United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York  from 1983 to...

Sir William Wallace  ( Scottish Gaelic :  Uilleam Uallas ,  pronounced  [ˈɯʎam ˈuəl̪ˠəs̪] ;  Norman French :  William le Waleys ; [2]   c.  1270 [3]  – 23 August 1305) was a Scottish  knight  who became one of the main leaders during the  First War of Scottish Independence . [4] Along with  Andrew Moray , Wallace defeated an English army at the  Battle of Stirling Bridge  in September 1297. He was...

The  1939–1940 New York World's Fair  was a  world's fair  held at  Flushing Meadows–Corona Park  in  Queens , New York, United States. It was the second-most expensive American world's fair of  all time , exceeded only by St. Louis's  Louisiana Purchase Exposition  of 1904. Many countries around the world participated in it, and over 44 million people attended its exhibits in two seasons. [2] It...

Nicholas Alahverdian  (born July 11, 1987), [4] [5]  also known as  Nicholas Rossi  and  Arthur Knight , among other aliases, [3]  is an American  sex offender  who  faked his own death  in 2020. 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.  

Joseph Smith Jr.  (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and the founder of  Mormonism  and the  Latter Day Saint movement . Publishing the  Book of Mormon  at the age of 24, Smith had attracted tens of thousands of followers by the time of his death fourteen years later. The religion he founded continues to the present day, with millions of global adherents and sever...

Virginia Hall Goillot   DSC ,  Croix de Guerre ,  MBE  (April 6, 1906 – July 8, 1982), code named  Marie  and  Diane,  was an  American  who worked with the  United Kingdom 's clandestine  Special Operations Executive  (SOE) and the  American   Office of Strategic Services  (OSS) in  France  during  World War II . The objective of SOE and OSS was to conduct  espionage ,  sabotage  and  reconnaissa...

Titan , previously called  Cyclops 2 , was a  submersible  that  imploded on 18 June 2023  while transporting tourists to visit the  wreckage of  Titanic . The submersible was created and operated by  OceanGate . It was the first privately-owned submersible with a claimed maximum depth of 4,000 m (13,000 ft), [2]  and the first completed crewed submersible with a hull constructed of titanium and c...

Marion Gordon  " Pat "  Robertson  (March 22, 1930 – June 8, 2023) was an American  media mogul ,  religious broadcaster , political commentator, presidential candidate, and  Southern Baptist  minister. Robertson advocated a  conservative Christian  ideology and was known for his involvement in  Republican Party  politics. He was associated with the  Charismatic movement  within Protestant  evange...

Olga  ( Old East Slavic :  Вольга ,  romanized:  Volĭga ; [a]   Old Norse :  Helga ;  Lith :  Alge ; Christian name:  Elena ; c. 890–925 – 969) was a  regent  of  Kievan Rus'  for her son  Sviatoslav  from 945 until 960. Following her baptism, Olga took the name  Elenа  ( Old East Slavic :  Ѡлена ,  romanized:  Olena ). [2]  She is known for her subjugation of the  Drevlians , a tribe that had kil...

Trigger Warning: This week's episode contains references to animal cruelty as well as a bunch of other stuff that's really gross. This week, Heath talks about scientists gone wild. 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  Mars rover  is a  motor vehicle  designed to travel on the surface of  Mars .  Rovers  have several advantages over stationary  landers : they examine more territory, they can be directed to interesting features, they can place themselves in sunny positions to weather winter months, and they can advance the knowledge of how to perform very remote  robotic  vehicle control. They serve a differen...