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Blue laws commonly ban certain business and recreational activities on Sundays, and impose restrictions on the retail sale of hard goods and consumables, particularly alcoholic beverages.

A ghost station is a closed or never opened train station through which revenue-service passenger trains (especially rapid transit trains) pass but at which they do not stop.

The wet-bulb temperature is the lowest temperature that can be reached by the evaporation of water under current ambient conditions. It combines humidity and temperature to better reflect heat stress on humans, as the body’s ability to cool itself through sweating is reduced at higher humidity.

On this date in 2004, Marvin Heemeyer used a bulldozer he modified himself to enact a rampage of revenge against the town of Granby, Colorado, for what he saw as extortionate requirements to improve a piece of property he had bought, followed by the approval of construction for a concrete plant adjacent to the property. The destruction ended with his death by suicide after the Killdozer began to break down.

Ebola-chan is an Internet meme depicting a moe anthropomorphization of the Ebola virus and was popularized on 4chan amid the Western African Ebola epidemic.

BTW, if you want to sound clever in fine company, always point out it is pronounced Bos, not Bosj. And his first name was Joen / Jeroen (oe is pronounced like the ou in you).

Cranberry glass or ‘Gold Ruby’ glass is a red glass made by adding gold salts or colloidal gold to molten glass.

In the early 1960s, a series of social psychology experiments were conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, who intended to measure the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience.

He said the D word!

Fortune corresponded with a number of prominent occultists in this period. One of these was Israel Regardie, whose book The Tree of Life was regarded by Fortune as “quite the best book on magic” that she had read. Regardie later publicly criticised her for misrepresenting his works in her reviews of them; she had claimed that his works bolstered her beliefs about the Masters, although Regardie insisted that he was sceptical about the existence of such entities.

The blunderbuss is a Seventeenth- to mid-Nineteenth-century muzzleloading firearm with a short, large caliber, smoothbore barrel. The blunderbuss is flared at the muzzle to aid the loading of shot, which usually consisted of a dozen or so projectiles between .25 in (6.4 mm) and .35 in (8.9 mm) caliber. The blunderbuss is considered to be an early predecessor of the modern shotgun.

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the first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV, concerned with “preserving the human person in the age of artificial intelligence”. It was published on 25 May 2026.[1][2] Leo XIV chose to present the encyclical personally at the Vatican,[3] unlike most other popes who delegated this task to cardinals. The presentation was attended by AI experts, including Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah.[3] The encyclical was the first to be published without an official Latin version. This followed a recent change to Vatican regulations permitting such documents to be drafted in other languages.[4]

One dreads to think what would happen upon contact between such an Anti-pope and a Pope

Urban planners and traffic engineers have many strategies for traffic calming, including narrowed roads and speed humps. Such measures are common in Australia and Europe (especially Northern Europe), but less so in North America, where the focus is often more on facilitating motorized traffic flow.

The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is an international organization established to facilitate the voices of unrepresented and marginalized nations and peoples worldwide. It was formed on 11 February 1991 at the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands. Its members consist of indigenous peoples, minorities, and unrecognized or occupied territories.

The world’s smallest park (Japanese: 世界一小さな公園, Hepburn: Sekai-ichi Chiisana Kōen) is a park located in Nagaizumi, Shizuoka, Japan. There is a wooden bench, a black stone plate with a carving of flowers, and some vegetation in a 0.24 m2 (2.6 sq ft) square area surrounded by bricks.

Got divorced at age 42, started doing community theater, and moved to Hollywood at age 53 to become an actress. She had 121 acting credits by the time of her death in 2012.

Since 2016–2019, aggregate monthly pageviews of Wikipedia’s “Vital Articles” are down −26% across eight major languages I sampled (en, es, fr, de, it, pt, ja, ar). The Vital Articles are an imperfect set, but they cover a much broader set of topics than my last sample set, and are widely replicated across wikis. (All of these wikis have at least 80% of the articles, making it more apples-to-apples.)

Fairy circles are circular patches of barren land, varying between 2 and 12 metres (7 and 39 ft) in diameter, often encircled by a stimulated growth of grass. They occur in the arid grasslands of the Namib desert in western parts of Southern Africa and in a part of the Pilbara in Western Australia.

#Petition: Editors willing to join in collective labor action

Bartitsu is an eclectic martial art and self-defence method originally developed in England in 1898–1902, combining elements of boxing, jujutsu, cane-fighting, and savate. In 1903, it was immortalised (mistakenly as “baritsu") by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories.[1] Dormant throughout most of the 20th century, Bartitsu has experienced a revival since 2002.

Deceptive user interface designs

The Melsonby Hoard is a hoard of Iron Age items found buried in a field near the village of Melsonby in North Yorkshire, England, by Peter Heads, an amateur metal-detectorist, in December 2021.

A dead man’s switch is a switch that is designed to be activated or deactivated if the human operator becomes incapacitated, such as through abandonment, drowsiness, loss of consciousness, death, or being bodily removed from control. Originally applied to switches on a vehicle or machine, it has since come to be used to describe other intangible uses, as in computer software.

It was mentioned in this article: https://medium.com/@breid.at/ultra-pure-quantum-crystals-from-an-abandoned-mine-in-a-mysterious-desert-93cc87d12314

Incentive with unintended results

Hit the corner!

“In 2023, 28% of adults scored at or below Level 1…Adults scoring below Level 1 can comprehend simple sentences and short paragraphs with minimal structure but will struggle with multi-step instructions or complex sentences, while those at Level 1 can locate explicitly cued information in short texts, lists, or simple digital pages with minimal distractions but will struggle with multi-page texts and complex prose…of the adults with low English literacy skills, 66% were born in the U.S.”

Symbol of medicine

A flammagenitus cloud, also known as a flammagenitus, pyrocumulus cloud, or fire cloud, is a dense cumuliform cloud associated with fire or volcanic eruptions.

“The Force” emits as a Wi-Fi signal from the helmet, which contains a Wi-Fi hotspot inside.