June 2010
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May 2010
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List of sole survivors of airline accidents or... →
Theodore Edward Coneys →
“Denver Spiderman” was the name given to Theodore Edward Coneys (November 10, 1882–May 16, 1967), an American drifter who committed a murder in 1941 and subsequently occupied the attic of the victim’s home for nine months. Coneys remained in the vacant house with the occasional signs of his occupation written off as an apparition or local pranksters.
idontknowwhattowrite-rawr-deact asked: what's your theme? J'adore il.(:
“A group of BP executives were on board the platform celebrating the project’s...”
– Deepwater Horizon oil spill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via zachrose)
Walking Corpse Syndrome →
The Cotard delusion or Cotard’s syndrome or Walking Corpse Syndrome, also known as nihilistic or negation delusion, is a rare neuropsychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that they are dead (either figuratively or literally), do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs.
AIDS denialism →
AIDS denialism is the view held by a loosely connected group of persons and organizations who deny that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Some denialists reject the existence of HIV, while others accept that HIV exists but say that it is a harmless passenger virus and not the cause of AIDS.
Several scientists have been associated...
List of nursery rhymes →
Cincinnati subway →
The Cincinnati Subway is a set of unused tunnels and stations for a rapid transit system beneath the streets of Cincinnati, Ohio. It is recognized as the largest abandoned subway tunnel in the United States. Construction took place in the early twentieth century, but the project was not completed so it never hosted a paying customer.
Analysis paralysis →
..where the sheer quantity of analysis overwhelms the decision making process itself, thus preventing a decision.
(submitted by cuedisappointment)
Information Awareness Office →
The Information Awareness Office (IAO) was established by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in January 2002 to bring together several DARPA projects focused on applying surveillance and information technology to track and monitor “terrorists” and other asymmetric threats to national security, by achieving Total Information Awareness (TIA).
This would be achieved by...
List of castles in the United States →
Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome →
Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome (SORAS) is a term used to describe the practice of accelerating the age of a television character (usually a child or teenager) in conflict with the timeline of a series and/or the real-world progression of time.
Washington National Cathedral →
The Cathedral boasts what is probably the world’s only sculpture of Darth Vader on a religious building.
“Roy Bean, appointed as a judge in the state of Texas in the late 19th century,...”
– Chinaman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via dkeen)
Distinguishing blue from green in language →
The English language makes a distinction between blue and green, but some languages do not. Of these, quite a number, mostly in Africa, do not distinguish blue from black either, while there are a handful of languages that do not distinguish blue from black but have a separate term for green.
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Project Prevention →
Project Prevention (founded and formerly known as Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity [sic] or C.R.A.C.K.) is an American non-profit organization which pays drug addicts cash for volunteering to receive long-term birth control or sterilization. Since January 2006, Project Prevention offers $300 to each participant. As of February 8, 2010, Project Prevention had paid 3,242 addicts, with 1,226...
Diogenes syndrome →
Diogenes syndrome, also known as senile squalor syndrome, is a disorder characterized by extreme self-neglect, domestic squalor, social withdrawal, apathy, compulsive hoarding of rubbish, and lack of shame. The name derives from Diogenes of Sinope, an ancient Greek philosopher, a Cynic and an ultimate minimalist, who allegedly lived in a barrel.
Julia Tuttle Causeway sex offender colony →
The Julia Tuttle Causeway sex offender colony was an encampment of registered sex offenders who were living beneath the Julia Tuttle Causeway (JTC), a highway in Miami, Florida from 2006 to April 2010.
Miami-Dade County laws state that registered sex offenders are not allowed to live within 2,500 feet (760 m) of any location where children congregate, including schools, parks, or homeless...
Ravoux's slavemaker ant →
Ravoux’s slavemaker ant is a species of ant endemic to Europe.
The queen will fake death to entice ants from another colony to drag her back to their nest, where she awakens and kills the nest’s original queen. She will then cover herself in the dead queen’s pheromones, and will begin producing eggs. The slavemaker ants then overrun the colony and then find a new colony to take...
Male abortion →
Melanie McCulley, a South Carolina attorney, coined the term male abortion in 1998, suggesting that a father should be allowed to disclaim his obligations to an unborn child early in the pregnancy.
McCulley’s male abortion concept aims to equalize the legal status of unwed men and unwed women by giving the unwed man by law the ability to ‘abort’ his rights in and obligations to...
“In the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of...”
– Bertrand Russel (Dunning-Kruger effect)
Barmanou →
The barmanou (or barmanu) is said to be a bipedal primate living in the mountainous region of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Sightings have been reported by shepherds living in the mountains. The zoologist Jordi Magraner, a Spaniard living in France, researched the barmanu extensively. He was murdered in Pakistan in 2002.
The Barmanu is supposed to possess both human and apelike characteristics and...
List of ambiguous food titles →
List of countries by pornography industry revenue... →
Heil Honey I'm Home! →
Heil Honey I’m Home! is a controversial British television sitcom, produced in 1990, and was cancelled after one episode aired. The show centred on fictionalised versions of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, who live next door to a Jewish couple, Arny and Rosa Goldenstein. The show’s plot is centred on Hitler’s inability to get along with his neighbours.
Catullus 16 →
The poem, written by Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC – ca. 54 BC), was considered so explicit that a full English translation was not openly published until the late twentieth century.
I will sodomize and face-fuck you,
Cock-sucker Aurelius and catamite Furius,
You who think, because my verses
Are delicate, that I am a sissy.
“The female does not hunt during the roughly one-month period spent taking care...”
– Octopus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via zachrose)
List of Guantanano Bay detainees accused of... →
Because of its claimed use in terrorism, possession of a Casio watch, specifically a Casio F91W, was listed in Guantanamo Bay Combatant Status Review Tribunal reports and other government documents as a reason for these detainees’ continued detention.