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Horace Greeley  (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and  editor  of the  New-York Tribune . Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new  Liberal Republican Party  in the  1872 presidential election  against incumbent President  Ulysses S. Grant , who won...

SeaWorld  is an American  theme park  chain with headquarters in  Orlando, Florida . It is a proprietor of  marine mammal parks ,  oceanariums ,  animal theme parks , and rehabilitation centers owned by  SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment  (one park will be owned and operated by Miral under a license). The parks feature  orcas ,  sea lion , and  dolphin shows and zoological displays featuring various...

From 1948 to 1975, the  U.S. Army Chemical Corps  conducted  classified   human subject research  at the  Edgewood Arsenal  facility in  Maryland . The purpose was to evaluate the impact of low-dose  chemical warfare  agents on  military personnel  and to test  protective clothing ,  pharmaceuticals , and  vaccines . A small portion of these studies were directed at  psychochemical warfare and gro...

Alphonse Gabriel Capone  ( / k ə ˈ p oʊ n / ; [1]  January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nicknames " Scarface " and " Snorky ", was an American  gangster  and businessman who attained notoriety during the  Prohibition era  as the co-founder and boss of the  Chicago Outfit  from 1925 to 1931. His seven-year reign as a  crime boss ended when he went to prison at the age of 33.

A  transit of Venus  across the  Sun  takes place when the  planet   Venus  passes directly between the Sun and a  superior planet , becoming visible against (and hence obscuring a small portion of) the  solar disk . During a  transit , Venus can be seen from  Earth  as a small black dot moving across the face of the Sun. The duration of such transits is usually several hours (the transit of 2012...

Isabella of France  ( c.  1295 – 22 August 1358), sometimes described as the  She-Wolf of France  ( French :  Louve de France ), was  Queen of England  as the wife of King  Edward II , and  de facto   regent  of England from 1327 until 1330. She was the youngest surviving child and only surviving daughter of  Philip IV of France  and  Joan I of Navarre . Isabella was notable in her lifetime for he...

Celestial Seasonings founders Mo Siegel, Peggy Clute, Wyck Hay, and Lucinda Ziesing started gathering herbs and flowers in the mountains around Boulder and selling them to local health food stores in 1969. [2] [3]

Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator ( Koinē Greek : Κλεοπάτρα Θεά Φιλοπάτωρ [note 5] lit. Cleopatra "father-loving goddess"; [note 6] 70/69 BC – 10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. [note 7] A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty , she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter , a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander th...

Gaius Julius Caesar  ( / ˈ s iː z ər / ,  SEE-zər ;  Latin:   [ˈɡaːiʊs   ˈjuːliʊs   ˈkae̯sar] ; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a  Roman  general and statesman. A member of the  First Triumvirate , Caesar led the Roman armies in the  Gallic Wars  before defeating his political rival  Pompey  in  a civil war , and subsequently became  dictator  from 49 BC until  his assassination  in 44 BC. He...

The  Amish  ( / ˈ ɑː m ɪ ʃ / ;  Pennsylvania German :  Amisch ; German:  Amische ), formally the  Old Order Amish , are a group of traditionalist  Anabaptist   Christian   church fellowships  with  Swiss German  and  Alsatian  origins. [2]  They are closely related to  Mennonite  churches, a separate Anabaptist denomination. [3]  The Amish are known for  simple living ,  plain dress ,  Christian p...

Several stories including: In 1927, most of the industrial alcohol in the United States had been poisoned under the order of the government. [9] The government had created a blend that contended with the bootleggers' chemists.

The Great Gatsby  is a 1925  novel  by American writer  F. Scott Fitzgerald . Set in the  Jazz Age  on  Long Island , near New York City, the novel depicts  first-person  narrator  Nick Carraway 's interactions with mysterious millionaire  Jay Gatsby  and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover,  Daisy Buchanan .

The Terra Nova Expedition , officially the British Antarctic Expedition , was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. Led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott , the expedition had various scientific and geographical objectives. Scott wished to continue the scientific work that he had begun when leading the Discovery Expedition from 1901 to 1904, and wanted to be the first to...

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...