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The Stanford prison experiment ( SPE ) was an attempt to investigate the psychological effects of perceived power, focusing on the struggle between prisoners and prison guards . It was conducted at Stanford University on August 14–20, 1971, by a research group led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo using college students. [1] It was funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research [2] as an invest...

John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972), better known as J. Edgar Hoover , was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. He was appointed as the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation — the FBI's predecessor — in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972 at the age of 77. Ho...

Centralia is a borough and near- ghost town in Columbia County , Pennsylvania , United States . Its population has dwindled from more than 1,000 residents in 1980 to only 10 in 2010 [5] —a result of the coal mine fire which has been burning beneath the borough since 1962. Centralia, which is part of the Bloomsburg–Berwick metropolitan area , is the least-populated municipality in Pennsylvania. It...

Watergate was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972 and President Richard Nixon 's administration 's attempted cover-up of its involvement. When the conspiracy was discovered and investigated by the U.S. Congress , th...

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837 and was the founder of the Democratic Party . Before being elected to the presidency, Jackson served in Congress and gained fame as a general in the United States Army . As president, Jackson sought to advance the rights of the "common man"...

The Goiânia accident was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on September 13, 1987, at Goiânia , in the Brazilian state of Goiás , after an old radiotherapy source was stolen from an abandoned hospital site in the city. It was subsequently handled by many people, resulting in four deaths. About 112,000 people were examined for radioactive contamination and 249 were found to have sig...

Only four episodes in and we've worked "ass" in to the title twice.   The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria , heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg , occurred on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo when they were shot dead by Gavrilo Princip . Princip was one of a group of six assassins (five Serbs and one Bosniak ) coordinated by Danilo...

  Kim Jong-un  born 8 January 1984 or 5 July 1984) [3] is the Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly referred to as North Korea . Kim is the second child of Kim Jong-il (1941–2011) and his consort Ko Yong-hui . [6] Little is known for certain about Kim Jong-un. Before taking power, he had barely been seen in pu...

A near-death experience ( NDE ) is a personal experience associated with death or impending death . Such experiences may encompass a variety of sensations including detachment from the body, feelings of levitation, total serenity, security, warmth, the experience of absolute dissolution, and the presence of a light. [1] Neuroscience research suggests that an NDE is a subjective phenomenon resultin...

The Chernobyl disaster , also referred to as the Chernobyl accident , was a catastrophic nuclear accident . It occurred on 26 April 1986 in the No.4 light water graphite moderated reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat , in what was then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (USSR). During a late night safety test which simulated power-failure and i...

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