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Carlos Henrique Raposo  (born 2 April 1963), commonly known as Carlos Kaiser , is a Brazilian con artist  and former footballer  who played as a striker .[ citation needed ] Although his abilities were far short of professional standard, he managed to sign for numerous teams during his decade-long career. He never actually played a regular game, the closest occurrence ending in a red card  whilst...

A patent  is a type of intellectual property  that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention  for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure  of the invention. [1]  In most countries, patent rights fall under private law  and the patent holder must sue someone infringing the patent  in order to enforce their rights...

For five years, a New York City man managed to live rent-free in a landmark Manhattan hotel by exploiting an obscure local housing law.

Richard Dawkins   FRS   FRSL  (born 26 March 1941) [ 3 ]  is a British  evolutionary biologist ,  zoologist ,  science communicator  and author. [ 4 ]  He is an  emeritus fellow  of  New College, Oxford , and was  Professor for Public Understanding of Science  in the  University of Oxford  from 1995 to 2008. His 1976 book  The Selfish Gene  popularised the  gene-centred view of evolution , as well...

A siege engine  is a weapon  used to destroy fortifications  such as defensive walls , castles , bunkers  and fortified gateways .   A fortification  (also called a fort , fortress , fastness , or stronghold ) is a military   construction  designed for the defense of territories in warfare , and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. The term is derived from Latin   fortis  ("stro...

The legend dates back to the Middle Ages . The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in multicoloured (" pied ") clothing, who was a rat catcher hired by the town to lure rats away [1]  with his magic pipe . When the citizens refused to pay for this service as promised, he retaliated by using his instrument's magical power on their children, leading them away as he had the rats. This versi...

Project 57  was an open-air nuclear test conducted by the United States at the  Nellis Air Force Range  in 1957, [ 1 ] [ 2 ]  following  Operation Redwing , and preceding  Operation Plumbbob . The test area, also known as  Area 13 , was a 10 miles (16 km) by 16 miles (26 km) block of land abutting the northeast boundary of the  Nevada National Security Site . [ 3 ]

Sun Wukong  ( Chinese : 孫悟空, Mandarin pronunciation: [swə́n ûkʰʊ́ŋ] ), also known as the Monkey King , is a literary and religious figure best known as one of the main characters in the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West . [1]  In the novel, Sun Wukong is a monkey born from a stone who acquires supernatural powers through Taoist  practices. After rebelling against heaven, he is impr...

Bollea v. Gawker  was a lawsuit filed in 2013 in the Circuit Court of the Sixth Judicial Circuit  in Pinellas County , Florida , delivering a verdict on March 18, 2016. In the suit, Terry Gene Bollea, known professionally as Hulk Hogan , sued Gawker Media , publisher of the Gawker  website, and several Gawker employees and Gawker-affiliated entities [2]  for posting portions of a sex tape  of Boll...

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 di...

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 rank...

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.

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 beyon...

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...

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 . Ha...

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 bound...

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...

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 assassi...

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-founde...

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...

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.

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 a...

This  list of unusual deaths  includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of  death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.

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.

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]