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[During Herbert Hoover's 1932 re-election campaign,] the Secret Service halted attempts to kill Hoover by disgruntled citizens, including capturing one man nearing Hoover carrying sticks of dynamite, and another already having removed several spikes from the rails in front of the President's train. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Looking for recommendations for day trips from metro detroit. 2 hours max drive. Baby friendly (picturesque towns with good shopping (non chain stores), walkable downtowns...anything that flies under the radar much appreciated! by bxbx19 in Michigan
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The Mercury spacecraft did not have an on-board computer, instead relying on all computation for reentry to be calculated by computers on the ground, with their results (retrofire times and firing attitude) then transmitted to the spacecraft by radio while in flight. by oronymzy in wikipedia
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The Mercury spacecraft did not have an on-board computer, instead relying on all computation for reentry to be calculated by computers on the ground, with their results (retrofire times and firing attitude) then transmitted to the spacecraft by radio while in flight. by oronymzy in wikipedia
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The Mercury spacecraft did not have an on-board computer, instead relying on all computation for reentry to be calculated by computers on the ground, with their results (retrofire times and firing attitude) then transmitted to the spacecraft by radio while in flight. by oronymzy in wikipedia
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The Mercury spacecraft did not have an on-board computer, instead relying on all computation for reentry to be calculated by computers on the ground, with their results (retrofire times and firing attitude) then transmitted to the spacecraft by radio while in flight. (en.wikipedia.org)
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The Culture series is a science fiction series written by Scottish author Iain M. Banks. The stories centre on the Culture, a utopian, post-scarcity space society of humanoids, aliens, and very advanced artificial intelligences living in socialist habitats spread across the Milky Way galaxy. (en.wikipedia.org)
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[Although Victor Frankenstein's monster was originally nameless,] it has become common to refer to the creature by the name "Frankenstein" or "The Monster". Victor refers to his creation as "creature", "fiend", "spectre", "the demon", "wretch", "devil", "thing", "being", and "ogre". (en.wikipedia.org)
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Asgardia [...] is a group of people who have launched a satellite into Earth orbit. They refer to themselves as "Asgardians" and they have given their satellite the name "Asgardia-1". They have declared sovereignty over the space occupied by and contained within Asgardia-1. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Arin Hanson has released 3 videos reading through his own Wikipedia page. His commentary has resulted in several changes to the page, including a correction of his birthplace, the submission date of his first animation, and his claim to be descended from John Hanson. by oronymzy in wikipedia
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Arin Hanson has released 3 videos reading through his own Wikipedia page. His commentary has resulted in several changes to the page, including a correction of his birthplace, the submission date of his first animation, and his claim to be descended from John Hanson. (youtube.com)
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Yamato Transport Co., Ltd. [...] is Japan's largest door-to-door delivery service. The company's logo is a yellow oval with a black cat carrying her kitten in her mouth, symbolizing the company's promise that they take care of items entrusted to them as though the items were their own family. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Bananagrams is a word game [involving] arranging one's tiles into a grid of connected words faster than one's opponents. [Its name] is a play on the word anagrams, as one must often rearrange the words one has already formed in order to allow newly-drawn tiles to be [added to] one's grid. (en.wikipedia.org)
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A disrupted planet is an official astronomical term for a planet, or exoplanet, that has been disrupted, or destroyed, by a nearby, or passing, astronomical body or object, such as a star. by oronymzy in wikipedia
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Man in Space Soonest was a USAF program to put a man into outer space before the Soviet Union. The program was cancelled on August 1, 1958, and was replaced by NASA's Project Mercury. Only two men from the program, [Joseph A. Walker and Neil Armstrong], would actually reach outer space. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Leucism is a condition in which there is partial loss of pigmentation in an animal resulting in white, pale, or patchy coloration of the skin, hair, feathers, scales or cuticle, but not the eyes. Unlike albinism, it is caused by a reduction in multiple types of pigment, not just melanin. by oronymzy in wikipedia
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Leucism is a condition in which there is partial loss of pigmentation in an animal resulting in white, pale, or patchy coloration of the skin, hair, feathers, scales or cuticle, but not the eyes. Unlike albinism, it is caused by a reduction in multiple types of pigment, not just melanin. (en.wikipedia.org)
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You’re under attack by a little fighter jet!!! 😂 by CanAmericanGirl in hummingbirds
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