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Project MKULTRA
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Project MKULTRA, or MK-ULTRA, was the code name for a covert CIA human experimentation program, run by the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence. This official U.S. government program began in the early 1950s, continued at least through the late 1960s, and used U.S. and Canadian citizens as its...
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USS Thresher
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The second USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the lead ship of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in the United States Navy. Her loss at sea during deep-diving tests in 1963 is often considered a watershed event in the implementation of the rigorous submarine safety program SUBSAFE. Read more...
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Battle of Arras
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The Battle of Arras was a British offensive during the First World War. From 9 April to 16 May 1917, British, Canadian, New Zealand, Newfoundland, and Australian troops attacked German defences near the French city of Arras on the Western F...
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Buddhas
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Afghanistan's Bamiyan Buddhas
The empty niches that once held Bamiyan's colossal Buddhas now gape in the rock face - a silent cry at the terrible destruction wrought on this fabled valley and its 1,500-year-old treasures, once the largest standing Buddha statues in the world.
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Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets
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K-278 Komsomolets was the only Project 685 Plavnik, nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Soviet Navy. The boat sankd ue to fire on 7 April, 1989, and is currently resting on the floor of the Barents Sea, one mile deep, with its nuclear reactor and two nuclear warheads still on board. Read more
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Gymnobelideus leadbeateri
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Leadbeater's Possum (Gymnobelideus leadbeateri) is an endangered possum restricted to small pockets of remaining old growth mountain ash forests in the central highlands of V...
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Staatliches Bauhaus
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Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933. Read more
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Three Mile Island Accident
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Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI) is a civilian nuclear power plant (NPP) located on Three Mile Island in the Susquehanna River, south of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It has two separate units, known as TMI-1 and TMI-2. The plant is widely known for having been the site of the most sig...
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HMS Scylla (F71)
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HMS Scylla (F71) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN). In 1992 HMS Scylla, with the Commanding Officer, Officers and Members of the Ships Company in attendance, was granted the Freedom of the City of Aberdeen. On the 27 March 20...
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Biological Weapons Convention
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The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (usually referred to as the Biological Weapons Convention, abbreviation: BWC, or Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, abbreviat...
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Emoia impar
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Another Vertebrate Species Reported Extinct from the Hawaiian Islands A species of lizard is now extinct from the Hawaiian Islands, making it the latest native vertebrate species to become extirpated from this tropical archipelago. The copper striped blue-tailed skink (Emoia impar) - a sleek l...
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Ugandan cult suicide
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The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God was a breakaway religious movement from the Roman Catholic Church founded by Credonia Mwerinde, Joseph Kibweteere and Bee Tait in Uganda. It was formed in the late 1980s after Mwerinde, a brewer of banana beer, and Kibweteere, a politi...
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Courrières mine disaster
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The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst mining accident, caused the death of 1,099 miners (including many children) in Northern France on 10 March 1906. Read more
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Astronaut Laurel Clark
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ABC News is reporting that someone stole Astronaut Laurel Clark's wedding ring after her body was recovered. The ring, which Clark wore on a chain around her neck while in orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, was still on her when she was found. According to a report ABC News received during their...
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Battle of Medina
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A retired petroleum geologist with a love of history said he's found the long-lost site of the deadliest battle ever fought on Texas soil. Though he's yet to convince scholars, Robert P. Marshall has intrigued some and flustered others with his 40-page report declaring that the Battle of Medina sit...
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