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Defenestration (from Neo-Latin de fenestrā [1] ) is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window . [2] The term was coined around the time of an incident in Prague Castle in the year 1618 which became the spark that started the Thirty Years' War . This was done in "good Bohemian style", referring to the defenestration which had occurred in Prague's New Town Hall almost 200 years earlie...

Moving Day  was a tradition in  New York City  dating back to  colonial  times and lasting until after  World War II . On February 1, sometimes known as "Rent Day", landlords would give notice to their tenants what the new rent would be after the end of the quarter, [ 1 ]  and the tenants would spend good-weather days in the early spring searching for new houses and the best deals. [ 2 ]  On  May...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens  (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name  Mark Twain , was an American writer,  humorist , and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", [ 1 ]  with  William Faulkner  calling him "the father of  American literature ". [ 2 ]  Twain's novels include  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer  (1876) and its sequel,  Adventure...

" The Juniper Tree " (also " The Almond Tree ";  Low German :  Von dem Machandelboom ) is a German  fairy tale  published in  Low German  by the  Brothers Grimm  in  Grimm's Fairy Tales  in 1812 (KHM 47). [ 1 ]  The story contains themes of  child abuse ,  murder ,  cannibalism  and  biblical symbolism and is one of the Brothers Grimm's darker and more mature fairy tales.

Optography  is the process of viewing or retrieving an  optogram , an image on the retina of the eye. A belief that the eye "recorded" the last image seen before death was widespread in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was a frequent plot device in fiction of the time, to the extent that police photographed the victims' eyes in several real-life murder investigations, in case the theory...

The  Charge of the Light Brigade  was a military action undertaken by British  light cavalry  against Russian forces during the  Battle of Balaclava  in the  Crimean War , resulting in many casualties to the cavalry. On 25 October 1854, the Light Brigade, led by  Lord Cardigan , mounted a frontal assault against a Russian artillery battery which was well-prepared with excellent fields of defensive...

The  Barkley Marathons  is an  ultramarathon   trail race  held each year in  Frozen Head State Park  in  Morgan County, Tennessee , United States. Described as "The Race That Eats Its Young", it is known for its extreme difficulty, purposefully difficult application process, and many strange traditions, having been completed only 26 times by 20 runners since 1995.

https://www.thebeliever.net/the-immortal-horizon/   The  Barkley Marathons  is an  ultramarathon   trail race  held each year in  Frozen Head State Park  in  Morgan County, Tennessee , United States. Described as "The Race That Eats Its Young", it is known for its extreme difficulty, purposefully difficult application process, and many strange traditions, having been completed only 26 times by 20...

Psychological warfare ( PSYWAR ), or the basic aspects of modern psychological operations ( PsyOp ), has been known by many other names or terms, including Military Information Support Operations ( MISO ), Psy Ops, political warfare , "Hearts and Minds", and propaganda . [1] [2] The term is used "to denote any action which is practiced mainly by psychological methods with the aim of evoking a plan...

Donkey Kong [a] is a video game series and media franchise created by the Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto for Nintendo . It follows the adventures of Donkey Kong , a large, powerful gorilla, and other members of the Kong family of apes. Donkey Kong games include the original arcade game trilogy by Nintendo R&D1 ; the Donkey Kong Country series by Rare and Retro Studios ; and the Mario vs....

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Fax (short for facsimile ), sometimes called telecopying or telefax (short for telefacsimile ), is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device. The original document is scanned with a fax machine (or a telecopier ), which processes the contents (text or images) as a single fixed graphic...

The Ruby Ridge standoff was the siege of a cabin occupied by the Weaver family in Boundary County, Idaho , in August 1992. On August 21, deputies of the United States Marshals Service (USMS) came to arrest Randy Weaver under a bench warrant for his failure to appear on federal firearms charges after he was given the wrong court date. [1] The charges stemmed from Weaver's sale of a sawed-off shotgu...

The Moon is Earth 's only natural satellite . It orbits Earth at an average distance of 384399 km (238,854 mi; about 30 times Earth's diameter ). The Moon's orbital period ( lunar month ) and rotation period ( lunar day ) are synchronized by Earth's gravitational pull at 29.5 Earth days, making the same side of the Moon always face Earth. The Moon's pull on Earth is the main driver of Earth's tide...

Barack Obama , the 44th president of the United States , was involved in multiple security incidents, including several assassination threats and plots, starting from when he became a presidential candidate in 2007. Secret Service protection for Obama began after he received a death threat in 2007, while serving as the junior United States senator from Illinois and running for president . This mar...

Frédéric Pierre Bourdin [1] (born 13 June 1974) [2] is a French serial impostor the press has nicknamed "The Chameleon". [3] He began his impersonations as a child and claims to have assumed at least 500 false identities; [4] three being teenage missing people . [3] [5]

Elmer J. McCurdy (January 1, 1880 – October 7, 1911) was an American outlaw who was killed in a shoot-out with police after robbing a train in Oklahoma in October 1911. Dubbed "The Bandit Who Wouldn't Give Up", his mummified body was first put on display at an Oklahoma funeral home and then became a fixture on the traveling carnival and sideshow circuit during the 1920s through the 1960s. After ch...

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker  (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut  " Champion " Barrow  (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934) were American outlaws  who traveled the Central United States  with their gang  during the Great Depression , committing a series of criminal acts such as bank robberies, kidnappings, and murders between 1932 and 1934. The couple were known for their bank robberies and...

The Cuban Missile Crisis , also known as the October Crisis  ( Spanish : Crisis de Octubre ) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis  ( Russian : Карибский кризис, romanized :  Karibskiy krizis ), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States  and the Soviet Union , when American deployments of nuclear missiles  in Italy  and Turkey  were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear...

The Office of Strategic Services  ( OSS ) was an intelligence agency  of the United States  during World War II . The OSS was formed as an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff  (JCS) [3]  to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for all branches of the United States Armed Forces . Other OSS functions included the use of propaganda, subversion , and post-war planning.

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Audie Leon Murphy  (20 June 1925 – 28 May 1971) [1]  was an American soldier, actor, and songwriter. He was widely celebrated as the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II , [4]  and has been described as the most highly decorated enlisted soldier in U.S. history. [5] [6]  He received every military combat award for valor available from the United States Army , as well as French an...

" The Little Mermaid " ( Danish : Den lille havfrue ), sometimes translated in English as " The Little Sea Maid ", [1]  is a fairy tale  written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen . Originally published in 1837 as part of a collection of fairy tales for children, the story follows the journey of a young mermaid princess who is willing to give up her life in the sea as a mermaid to gain a hum...

The  Battle of Cartagena de Indias  ( Spanish :  Sitio de Cartagena de Indias ,  lit.   'Siege of Cartagena de Indias') took place during the 1739 to 1748  War of Jenkins' Ear  between  Spain  and  Great Britain . The result of long-standing commercial tensions, the war was primarily fought in the  Caribbean ; the British tried to capture key Spanish ports in the region, including  Porto Bello  an...

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