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Unfavorable Semicircle. Unfavorable Semicircle is a defunct 2015 YouTube channel that garnered attention due to the high volume and unusual nature of the published videos, usually featuring distorted audio and graphics. The channel was suspended in February 2016 shortly after the BBC reported on the channel. Over the years, many theories have ...
Duck test: A humorous abductive reasoning test based on the activities of a duck. English as She Is Spoke: A 19th century Portuguese-English phrasebook that became legendary for its overtly literal and inaccurate translations. Engrish: Attempts by East Asian people – especially the Japanese – to construct English words and phrases.
The Beulé Gate is a fortified gate leading to the Propylaia of the Acropolis of Athens, Greece.It was constructed largely of repurposed material taken from the 4th-century BCE Choragic Monument of Nikias and integrated into the Post-Herulian Wall, a late Roman fortification built around the Acropolis in the years following the city's sack by the Germanic Heruli people in 267 or early 268 CE.
Roku streaming devices are best known for playing content from Netflix, HBO Max, and Disney+, but there's so much more Roku owners may not even know about. If you dig through your app selection ...
The death of Aeschylus, killed by a turtle dropped onto his head by a falcon, illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini. This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.
It was first test marketed in 1963 under the name Patio Diet Cola, and was re-branded as Diet Pepsi when it officially launched in 1964. It is known as Pepsi Light in most international regions, and Pepsi Diet in the UK from the late-1990's until 2013. Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi. 1982. Pepsi without the Caffeine.
Horizontal pitch. Horizontal pitch (HP) is a unit of length defined by the Eurocard printed circuit board standard used to measure the horizontal width of rack mounted electronic equipment, similar to the rack unit (U) used to measure vertical heights of rack mounted equipment. One HP is 0.2 inches (1/5") or 5.08 millimetres wide.
Webdriver Torso is a YouTube automated performance testing account that became famous in 2014 for speculations about its (then unexplained) nature and jokes featured in some of its videos. Created by Google on March 7, 2013, [1] the channel began uploading videos on September 23 of the same year, consisting of simple slides accompanied by beeps ...
Alfred Matthew " Weird Al " Yankovic ( / ˈjæŋkəvɪk / YANG-kə-vik; [2] born October 23, 1959) is an American musician, comedian, and actor. He is best known for writing and performing comedy songs that often parody specific songs by contemporary musicians.
Survivors. 41. D. B. Cooper was an unidentified man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 aircraft, in United States airspace on November 24, 1971. During the flight from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington, the hijacker told a flight attendant he was armed with a bomb, demanded $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to ...