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Crazy Patents

A patentis a type of intellectual propertythat gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an inventionfor a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosureof the invention.[1]In most countries, patent rights fall under private lawand the patent holder must sue someone infringing the patentin order to enforce their rights.[2]

Mickey Barreto - An NYC Real Estate Loophole Story

For five years, a New York City man managed to live rent-free in a landmark Manhattan hotel by exploiting an obscure local housing law.

Richard Dawkins

Richard DawkinsFRSFRSL(born 26 March 1941)[3]is a Britishevolutionary biologist,zoologist,science communicatorand author.[4]He is anemeritus fellowofNew College, Oxford, and wasProfessor for Public Understanding of Sciencein theUniversity of Oxfordfrom 1995 to 2008. His 1976 bookThe Selfish Genepopularised thegene-centred view of evolution, as well as coining the termmeme. Dawkins has won several academic and writing awards.[5]

October Bonus: Inside the Dangerous, Secretive World of Extreme Fishing

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/extreme-fishing-montauk-wetsuiting-striped-bass/679574/

Siege Weapons and Fortifications

A siege engineis a weaponused to destroy fortificationssuch as defensive walls, castles, bunkersand fortified gateways.A fortification(also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is a militaryconstructiondesigned for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. The term is derived from Latinfortis("strong") and facere("to make").[1]

Pied Piper and the Children's Crusade

The legend dates back to the Middle Ages. The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in multicoloured ("pied") clothing, who was a rat catcher hired by the town to lure rats away[1]with his magic pipe. When the citizens refused to pay for this service as promised, he retaliated by using his instrument's magical power on their children, leading them away as he had the rats. This version of the story spread as folklore and has ap...

Project 57

Project 57was an open-air nuclear test conducted by the United States at the Nellis Air Force Rangein 1957,[1][2]following Operation Redwing, and preceding Operation Plumbbob. The test area, also known as Area13, was a 10 miles (16km) by 16 miles (26km) block of land abutting the northeast boundary of the Nevada National Security Site.[3]

Sun Wukong the Monkey King

Sun Wukong(Chinese: 孫悟空, Mandarin pronunciation: [swə́nûkʰʊ́ŋ]), also known as the Monkey King, is a literary and religious figure best known as one of the main characters in the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West.[1]In the novel, Sun Wukong is a monkey born from a stone who acquires supernatural powers through Taoistpractices. After rebelling against heaven, he is imprisoned under a mountain by the Buddha. Five hundred ...

Humanists for Harris Livestream - Audio Version

Here it is in case you missed it. If you want to read the chat you can go to Youtube and view it here: https://www.youtube.com/live/R3skyySEOuE?si=d01zRJyFvCnzarhjYou can still donate to add to the total if you missed it:https://secure.actblue.com/donate/humanists

Humanists for Harris Livestream Recording

Hulk Hogan, the Love Sponge, and Peter Thiel

Bollea v. Gawkerwas a lawsuit filed in 2013 in the Circuit Court of the Sixth Judicial Circuitin Pinellas County, Florida, delivering a verdict on March 18, 2016. In the suit, Terry Gene Bollea, known professionally as Hulk Hogan, sued Gawker Media, publisher of the Gawkerwebsite, and several Gawker employees and Gawker-affiliated entities[2]for posting portions of a sex tapeof Bollea with Heather Clem, at that time the wife of radio personality ...

Human Greetings and Congratulation Rituals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HandshakeA handshakeis a globally widespread, brief greetingor parting traditionin which two people grasp one of each other's hands, and in most cases, it is accompanied by a brief up-and-down movement of the grasped hands. Customs surrounding handshakes are specific to cultures. Different cultures may be more or less likely to shake hands, or there may be different customs about how or when to shake hands.[1][2]...

The Ice Bowl

The 1967 NFL Championship Gamewas the 35th NFL championship, played on December 31 at Lambeau Fieldin Green Bay, Wisconsin.[1][2]Because of the adverse conditions in which the game was played, the rivalry between the two teams, and the game's dramatic climax, it has been immortalized as the Ice Bowland is considered one of the greatest games in NFL history. NFL 100 Greatest Games ranked this game as the 3rd greatest game of all time. It is st...

Colton Harris Moore - The Barefoot Bandit

Colton Harris Moore(born March 22, 1991)[10]is an American former fugitive. He was charged with the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars in property, including several small aircraft, boats, and multiple cars, all committed while still a teenager.

Jeanne Calment

Jeanne Louise Calment(French: [ʒan lwiz kalmɑ̃]ⓘ; 21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997) was a French supercentenarianand, with a documented lifespan of 122 years and 164 days, the oldest person everwhose age has been verified.[1]Her longevityattracted media attention and medical studies of her health and lifestyle. She is the only person verified to have reached the age of 120 and beyond.According to census records, Calment outlived both her d...

JBS Haldane and the X-Craft

John Burdon Sanderson HaldaneFRS(/ˈhɔːldeɪn/; 5 November 1892– 1 December 1964[1][2]), nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS",[3]was a British-Indian scientist who worked in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics. With innovative use of statistics in biology, he was one of the founders of neo-Darwinism. Despite his lack of an academic degree in the field,[1]he taught biology at the University of Cambridge, the Royal ...

Sir Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake(c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorerand privateerbest known for his circumnavigation of the worldin a single expedition between 1577 and 1580. This was the first English circumnavigation, and second circumnavigation overall. He is also known for participating in the early English slaving voyagesof his cousin, Sir John Hawkins, and John Lovell. Having started as a simple seaman, in 1588 he was part of the fight ag...

The Conch Rebellion

The Conch Republic(/ˈkɒŋk/) is a micronationdeclared as a sarcastic secessionof the city of Key West, Florida, from the United States on April 23, 1982. It has been maintained as a tourism booster for the city. Since then, the term "Conch Republic" has been expanded to refer to "all of the Florida Keys, or, that geographic apportionment of land that falls within the legally defined boundaries of Monroe County, Florida, northward to...

Anthony Comstock

Anthony Comstock(March7, 1844 – September21, 1915) was an American anti-vice activist, United States Postal Inspector, and secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice(NYSSV), who was dedicated to upholding Christian morality. He opposed obsceneliterature, abortion, contraception, masturbation, gambling, prostitution, and patent medicine. The terms comstockeryand comstockismrefer to his extensive censorshipcampaign of materials...

Assassination attempts on Fidel Castro

The United States' Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) made numerous unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. There were also attempts by Cuban exiles, sometimes in cooperation with the CIA. The 1975 Church Committeeclaimed eight proven CIA assassination attempts between 1960 and 1965. In 1976, President Gerald Fordissued an Executive Order banning political assassinations. In 2006, Fabián Escalante, former chief of Cuba&...

Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs(February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc.Jobs was also the founder of NeXTand chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar. He was a pioneer of the personal computer revolutionof the 1970s and 1980s, along with his early business partner and fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Late Bronze Age Collapse

The Late Bronze Age collapsewas a time of widespread societal collapseduring the 12th century BC associated with environmental change, mass migration, and the destruction of cities. The collapse affected a large area of the Eastern Mediterranean(North Africaand Southeast Europe) and the Near East, in particular Egypt, eastern Libya, the Balkans, the Aegean, Anatolia, and, to a lesser degree, the Caucasus. It was sudden, violent, and culturally di...

Spaceships That Weren't

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_canceled_launch_vehicle_designsEven before the launch of Sputnik 1, there were various types of launch vehicle designs. The launch vehicle designs described below are either canceled or never left the drawing board.

Frank Bourassa - The Greatest Counterfeiter in the World

Counterfeitingof the currency of the United Statesis widely attempted. According to the United States Department of Treasury, an estimated $70 million in counterfeit bills are in circulation, or approximately 1 note in counterfeits for every 10,000 in genuine currency, with an upper bound of $200 million counterfeit, or 1 counterfeit per 4,000 genuine notes.[1][2]However, these numbers are based on annual seizure rates on counterfeiting, and the ...

Unusual Deaths 4

This list of unusual deathsincludes unique or extremely rare circumstances of deathrecorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.

The Ark Encounter

Ark Encounteris a Christiantheme parkthat opened in Williamstown, Kentucky, United States, in 2016.[2][3]The centerpiece of the park is a large representation of Noah's Ark, based on the Genesis flood narrativecontained in the Bible. It is 510 feet (155.4m) long, 85 feet (25.9m) wide, and 51 feet (15.5m) high.

First Expeditions to Mount Everest

Mount Everest[3]is Earth's highest mountainabove sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himalsub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal borderruns across its summit point.[4]Its elevation (snow height) of 8,848.86m (29,031ft 8+1⁄2in) was most recently established in 2020 by the Chinese and Nepali authorities.[5][6]

May Bonus: Ray Comfort, "Banana Man" Chapter 1-2

What do you do when the world’s most famous atheist mocks and insults you on international television, in universities, and throughout social media?You look to the Bible and see how Joseph was humiliated before the time came when God opened a big door of opportunity for him. You see how Moses was abased before God opened a big sea for him. You take comfort in the Scriptures—in the knowledge that those who trusted God were often the object of ...

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Mary Earhart(/ˈɛərhɑːrt/AIR-hart; born July 24, 1897; declared deadJanuary 5, 1939) was an American aviation pioneer. On July 2, 1937, Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the world. During her life, she embraced celebrity culture and women's rights, and since her disappearance has become a cultural icon.[2]Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo ac...

Chicxulub Impact

The Chicxulub crater(IPA: [t͡ʃikʃuˈluɓ]ⓘcheek-shoo-LOOB) is an impact craterburied underneath the Yucatán Peninsulain Mexico. Its center is offshore, but the crater is named after the onshore community of Chicxulub Pueblo.[3]It was formed slightly over 66 million years agowhen a large meteorite, about ten kilometers (six miles) in diameter, struck Earth. The crater is estimated to be 200 kilometers (120 miles) in diameter and 20 kilometer...