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Olestra (also known by its brand name Olean) is a 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 (FDA) approved olestra for...

Pluto (: 134340 Pluto) is a in the , a ring of . It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the . It is the largest known by volume by a small margin, but is less massive than . Like other Kuiper belt objects,...

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Defenestration (from de fenestrā) is the act of throwing someone or something out of a . The term was coined around the time of an in in the year 1618 which became the spark that started the . This was done in "good Bohemian style", referring to...

Moving Day was a tradition in dating back to times and lasting until after . 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...

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, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884),[3] with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". He also wrote A Connecticut Ya...

"The Juniper Tree" (also "The Almond Tree"; : Von dem Machandelboom) is a German published in by the in in 1812 (KHM 47). The story contains themes of , , and and is...

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 was true. The concept has been repeatedly debunked as a forensic method.

The Charge of the Light Brigade was a military action undertaken by British against Russian forces during the in the , resulting in many casualties to the cavalry. On 25 October 1854, the Light Brigade, led...

The Barkley Marathons is an held each year in in , United States. Described as "The Race That Eats Its Young", it is known for its extreme difficulty, purposefully difficult application process, and many...

The Barkley Marathons is an held each year in in , United States. Described as "The Race That Eats Its Young", it is known for its extreme difficulty, purposefully difficult application process, and...

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 planned psychological reaction in other people". [3]

Donkey Kong is a series and created by the Japanese game designer for . It follows the adventures of , a large, powerful gorilla, and other members of the of apes. include the original trilogy by ; the Donkey Kong Country series by and ; and...

We had errors with our podcast service provider and they released another show on our feed. We are still fielding questions regarding people not having access to last weeks show so we are rereleasing it. If you missed last week's show becuase the podcast on that feed was wrong, here it is again. If you heard our podcast last week - this is nothing new. Sorry for the snafu. Fax (short for facsimile ), sometimes called telecopying or telefax (short for telefacsimile ), is the telephon...

Fax (short for facsimile), sometimes called telecopying or telefax (short for telefacsimile), is the transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device. The...

The Ruby Ridge standoff was the siege of a cabin occupied by the Weaver family in , in August 1992. On August 21, deputies of the (USMS) came to arrest under a for his failure to appear on federal firearms charges after he was given the wrong court...

The Moon is 's only . It Earth at of 384399 km (238,854 mi; about 30 times ). The Moon's orbital period () and rotation period () are by Earth's at 29.5 Earth days, making of the Moon always face Earth. The Moon's pull on Earth is the...

, the 44th , was involved in multiple security incidents, including several assassination threats and plots, starting from when he became a presidential candidate in 2007. protection for Obama began after he received a death threat in 2007, while...

Frédéric Pierre Bourdin (born 13 June 1974) is a French serial the press has nicknamed "The Chameleon". He began his impersonations as a child and claims to have assumed at least 500 false identities; three being teenage .

Elmer J. McCurdy (January 1, 1880 – October 7, 1911) was an American who was killed in a shoot-out with police after robbing a train in in October 1911. Dubbed "The Bandit Who Wouldn't Give Up", his body was first put on display at an Oklahoma...

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut "Champion" Barrow (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934) were American  who traveled the  with  during the , committing a series of...

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (: Карибский кризис, : Karibskiy krizis), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the...

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was an  of the  during . The OSS was formed as an agency of the  (JCS) to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for all branches of the . Other OSS functions included the use...

2 op-eds by Ross Douthat