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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]

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...