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A broadcast signal intrusion is the hijacking of broadcast signals of radio , television stations , cable television broadcast feeds or satellite signals without permission or licence . Hijacking incidents have involved local TV and radio stations as well as cable and national networks.

George Edward " Rube " Waddell (October 13, 1876 – April 1, 1914) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB). A left-hander , he played for 13 years, with the Louisville Colonels , Pittsburgh Pirates , and Chicago Orphans in the National League , as well as the Philadelphia Athletics and St. Louis Browns in the American League . Born in Bradford, Pennsylvania , and raised in Prospect,...

The 2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire , [1] officially known as the 2,500-year celebration of the Empire of Iran ( Persian : جشن‌های ۲۵۰۰ ساله شاهنشاهی ایران, romanized :  Jašn-hây-e 2500 sale' šâhanšâhi Irân ), was hosted by the Pahlavi dynasty in the Imperial State of Iran in October 1971. Concentrated at Persepolis , it consisted of an elaborate set of grand festivities that sought t...

Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero. We analyzed the conversation.   https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html

Mummia , mumia , or originally mummy referred to several different preparations in the history of medicine , from "mineral pitch " to "powdered human mummies ". It originated from Arabic mūmiyā "a type of resinous bitumen found in Western Asia and used curatively" in traditional Islamic medicine , which was translated as pissasphaltus (from "pitch" and "asphalt") in ancient Greek medicine . In med...

Vasa  (previously  Wasa ) ( Swedish pronunciation:   [²vɑːsa]   ⓘ ) is a Swedish  warship  built between 1626 and 1628. The ship sank after sailing roughly 1,300 m (1,400 yd) into her maiden voyage on 10 August 1628. She fell into obscurity after most of her valuable  bronze   cannons  were salvaged in the 17th century, until she was located again in the late 1950s in a busy shipping area in  Stoc...

The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a major environmental disaster that occurred in Alaska 's Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989. The spill occurred when Exxon Valdez , an oil supertanker owned by Exxon Shipping Company , bound for Long Beach , California, struck Prince William Sound 's Bligh Reef , 6 mi (9.7 km) west of Tatitlek, Alaska at 12:04 a.m. The tanker spilled more than 10 million US gall...

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Olestra (also known by its brand name Olean ) is a fat substitute food additive that adds no metabolizable calories to products. It has been used in the preparation of otherwise high-fat foods, thereby lowering or eliminating their fat content. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved olestra for use in the US as a replacement for fats and oils in prepackaged ready-to-eat snacks in 1996, [2...

Pluto ( minor-planet designation : 134340 Pluto ) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt , a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune . It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun . It is the largest known trans-Neptunian object by volume by a small margin, but is less massive than Eris . Like other Kuiper belt objects, Pluto is made primarily of ice and r...

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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...