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One of the shortest-lived states in history, it was independent for only seven hours (07:00 to 14:00 on 19 September 1967). Socotra: A Yemeni island that is geographically part of Africa, and is known as "the most alien-looking place on Earth" due to its strange flora. This includes the "dragon blood tree" and a tree which produces cucumbers.
The FBI's name for their undercover operation of investigation, and at times disruption, of influential groups and people in the inland United States during the Cold War. Some of the most famous individuals observed in this operation include: Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali, John Lennon, Charles Chaplin and Malcolm X .
A small statuette which is the only sculpture on the Moon. Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey. Five mice who circled the Moon 75 times on Apollo 17, among the last eight Earthlings to travel to the Moon. Upon returning to Earth, the four remaining living mice were soon murdered and dissected in the name of science.
Dewey Decimal. 031.02 22. LC Class. AG106 .S94 2004. Followed by. This Book ...of More Perfectly Useless Information. That Book ...of Perfectly Useless Information, commonly abbreviated as "That Book" (the title it was published under in Britain) is a book written by writer Mitchell Symons, and published in 2003.
Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles. Wikipedia articles that have existed and, judging by the title and contents, probably shouldn't have existed. Wikipedia:List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create. The title says it all, really. Wikipedia:Unusual articles.
A Rube Goldberg machine, named after American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is a chain reaction –type machine or contraption intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and (impractically) overly complicated way. Usually, these machines consist of a series of simple unrelated devices; the action of each triggers the initiation ...
Aristotelian physics – superseded by Newtonian physics. Ptolemy 's law of refraction, replaced by Snell's law. Luminiferous aether – failed to be detected by the sufficiently sensitive Michelson–Morley experiment, made obsolete by Einstein 's work. Caloric theory – Lavoisier 's successor to phlogiston, discredited by Rumford 's and ...
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