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FAread by Steinsky · recorded April 22, 2005 · 0:16:09 · 11.6 MB
Durdle Door natural arch
Dorset ( DOR-sit; archaically: Dorsetshire DOR-sit-sheer, -shər) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south-east, the English Channel to the south, and Devon to the west. The largest settlement is Bournemouth.
The county has an area of 2,653 km2 (1,024…
FAread by PopularOutcast · recorded August 18, 2017 · 0:15:42 · 11.0 MB
Sign language BASL
Black American Sign Language (BASL) or Black Sign Variation (BSV) is a dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) used most commonly by deaf Black Americans in the United States. The divergence from ASL was influenced largely by the segregation of schools in the American South. Like other schools at the time, schools for the deaf were segregated based upon race, creating two language communities among deaf signers…
Bread by Omaryak · recorded August 3, 2006 · 0:15:42 · 11.2 MB
Dapper with apps
Ubuntu ( uu-BUUN-too) is a Linux distribution based on Debian and composed primarily of free and open-source software. Developed by the British company Canonical and a community of contributors under a meritocratic governance model, Ubuntu is released in multiple official editions: Desktop, Server, and Core for IoT and robotic devices.
Ubuntu is published on a six-month release cycle, with long-term support (LTS)…
GAread by Peppage · recorded May 29, 2019 · 0:15:46 · 10.8 MB
Half-Life: Blue Shift is an expansion pack for the first-person shooter video game Half-Life (1998). It was developed by Gearbox Software and published by Sierra On-Line. Blue Shift was the second expansion for Half-Life, originally intended as part of a Dreamcast port of Half-Life. Although the Dreamcast port was cancelled, the Windows version was released as a standalone product on June 12, 2001.
As with Gearbox's…
Cread by Scott Burley · recorded May 22, 2006 · 0:16:02 · 11.3 MB
Justus D. Barnes, from The Great Train Robbery (1903 film)
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890. The genre is commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.
The frontier is depicted in…
Cread by Iceflow · recorded June 24, 2008 · 0:15:46 · 10.9 MB
The 1988 logo
S4C is a Welsh language free-to-air public broadcast television channel. Launched on 1 November 1982, it was the first television channel to be aimed specifically at a Welsh-speaking audience. S4C's headquarters are based in Carmarthen, at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David's creative and digital centre, Yr Egin. It also has regional offices in Caernarfon and Cardiff. As of 2024, S4C had an average of 118…
FAread by 0x0077BE · recorded November 29, 2014 · 0:16:02 · 11.6 MB
Seal of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Sega Enterprises Ltd. v. Accolade, Inc., 977 F.2d 1510 (9th Cir. 1992), is a case in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit applied American intellectual property law to the reverse engineering of computer software. Stemming from the publishing of several Sega Genesis games by video game publisher Accolade, which had disassembled Genesis software in order to publish games without being…
Cread by DivineMeaninglessness · recorded January 8, 2014 · 0:16:00 · 11.4 MB
Book map1
Mu is a lost continent introduced by Augustus Le Plongeon, who identified the "Land of Mu" with Atlantis. The name was subsequently identified with the hypothetical land of Lemuria by James Churchward, who asserted that it was located in the Pacific Ocean before its destruction. The place of Mu in both pseudoscience and fantasy fiction is discussed in detail in Lost Continents (1954, 1970) by L. Sprague de…
FAread by Stepleton · recorded February 3, 2010 · 0:15:59 · 11.6 MB
StisI
GRB 970508 was a gamma-ray burst (GRB) detected on May 8, 1997, at 21:42 UTC. It is historically important as the second GRB (after GRB 970228) with a detected afterglow at other wavelengths, the first to have a direct redshift measurement of the afterglow, and the first to be detected at radio wavelengths.
A gamma-ray burst is a highly luminous flash associated with an explosion in a distant galaxy and producing…
Startread by Filename99 · recorded August 5, 2026 · 0:05:51 · 4.0 MB
I.M. Meen is a 1995 fantasy educational game for DOS to teach grammar to children. It is named for its villain, Ignatius Mortimer Meen, a "diabolical librarian" who lures young readers into an enchanted labyrinth and imprisons them with monsters and magic.
The goal of the game is to escape the labyrinth and free other children. This is accomplished by "shooting spiders and similar monsters" and deciphering…
FAread by Hassocks5489 · recorded October 20, 2007 · 0:15:50 · 11.2 MB
Leek Town (blue shirts) in action against Marine in 2006
Leek Town Football Club is an English football club based in Leek, Staffordshire, playing in the Northern Premier League Premier Division, the seventh tier of English football. The team, nicknamed "The Blues", play their home games at Harrison Park.
The club was founded in 1946 and played in a variety of local leagues including the Staffordshire County League, Manchester League, Mid-Cheshire League and Cheshire…
GAread by Evan Duggan · recorded May 21, 2020 · 0:15:59 · 11.3 MB
CapeHenry
The Battle of Cape Henry was a naval battle in the American War of Independence which took place near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay on 16 March 1781 between a British squadron under Vice-admiral Mariot Arbuthnot and a French squadron under Admiral Charles René Dominique Sochet, Chevalier Destouches. Destouches, based in Newport, Rhode Island, had sailed for the Chesapeake as part of a joint operation with the…
FAread by Cardboard Moose · recorded 2025 · 0:15:50 · 11.7 MB
The Apollo Theatre in 2012
On the evening of March 31, 2023, a tornado struck the Apollo Theatre in Belvidere, Illinois, United States, which caused the ceiling to collapse during a sold-out concert, killing one person and injuring 48 more.
The show had begun despite predictions of imminent severe weather as part of a historic tornado outbreak. During the opening act, a half-hour storm break was instituted, during which the tornado struck the…
GAread by Bernstein2291 · recorded June 11, 2007 · 0:15:59 · 11.9 MB
The path of Hurricane Katrina.
Hurricane Katrina was a catastrophic tropical cyclone that had a long and complex meteorological history, spanning a month from August 8, to September 7, 2005. Katrina's origins can be traced to the mid-level remnants of Tropical Depression Ten, a tropical wave, and an upper tropospheric trough. The tropical depression emerged as a wave off West Africa on August 8, the second wave followed on August 11, while the…
Startread by yelocab · recorded July 23, 2010 · 0:15:51 · 10.9 MB
Stock car races in the NASCAR Cup Series were held annually at Dover Motor Speedway in Dover, Delaware since 1969 to 2025.
From 1971 through 2020, a second Cup race was held at Dover in the fall.
FAread by Nicholas Moreau · recorded January 1, 2016 · 0:15:56 · 11.1 MB
Diagram of the 1937 Fox vault fire
A major fire occurred in a 20th Century-Fox film-storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, United States, on July 9, 1937. Flammable nitrate film had previously contributed to several fires in film-industry laboratories, studios and vaults, although the precise causes were often unknown. In Little Ferry, gasses produced by decaying film, combined with high temperatures and inadequate ventilation, resulted in…
Bread by drkencarter · recorded December 16, 2006 · 0:15:55 · 10.9 MB
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM; latest edition: DSM-5-TR, published in March 2022) is a publication by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for the classification of mental disorders using a common language and standard criteria. It is an internationally accepted manual on the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders, though it may be used in conjunction with other…
Bread by Willmcw · recorded April 30, 2005 · 0:15:53 · 11.7 MB
This 1755 copper engraving shows the ruins of Lisbon in flames and a tsunami…
The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon earthquake, hit the Iberian Peninsula and Northwest Africa on the morning of Saturday, 1 November, Feast of All Saints, at around 09:40 local time. In combination with subsequent fires and a tsunami, the earthquake almost completely destroyed Lisbon and adjoining areas. Seismologists estimate the Lisbon earthquake had a magnitude of 7.7 or greater on the…
Startread by B.LEAGUER · recorded November 7, 2018 · 0:15:55 · 10.9 MB
4AD is a British record label owned by Beggars Group. It was founded in London under the name Axis Records by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent in November 1979 as an imprint of Beggars Banquet Records. The name was changed to 4AD in early 1980, shortly after the release of the label's first four singles. Later that year, Watts-Russell and Kent purchased the label from Beggars Banquet to become an independent record…
Cread by Daniel913 · recorded June 19, 2010 · 0:15:53 · 10.9 MB
"Monkey Gone to Heaven" is a song by the American alternative rock band Pixies. Recorded in November 1988 during the sessions for the band's 1989 album Doolittle, it was released as a single in March, and included as the seventh track on the album when it was released a month later in April. The song was written and sung by frontman Black Francis and was produced by Gil Norton. Referencing environmentalism and…
FAread by Bellito · recorded December 2, 2006 · 0:15:54 · 11.4 MB
Holkham Hall. Matthew Brettingham's first notable employment was here as Clerk…
Matthew Brettingham (1699 – 19 August 1769), sometimes called Matthew Brettingham the Elder, was an English architect who supervised the construction of Holkham Hall, and became one of the best-known architects of his generation, despite coming from modest origins. Much of his principal work has since been demolished, particularly his work in London, where he revolutionised the design of the grand townhouse. As a…
Bread by Blacktc · recorded April 22, 2019 · 0:03:40 · 2.5 MB
Self-handicapping is a cognitive strategy by which people avoid effort in the hopes of keeping potential failure from hurting self-esteem. It was first theorized by Edward E. Jones and Steven Berglas, according to whom self-handicaps are obstacles created, or claimed, by the individual in anticipation of failing performance.
Self-handicapping can be seen as a method of preserving self-esteem but it can also be used…
Bread by Blacktc · recorded April 22, 2019 · 0:09:02 · 6.2 MB
Self-handicapping is a cognitive strategy by which people avoid effort in the hopes of keeping potential failure from hurting self-esteem. It was first theorized by Edward E. Jones and Steven Berglas, according to whom self-handicaps are obstacles created, or claimed, by the individual in anticipation of failing performance.
Self-handicapping can be seen as a method of preserving self-esteem but it can also be used…
Bread by Blacktc · recorded April 22, 2019 · 0:01:38 · 1.1 MB
Self-handicapping is a cognitive strategy by which people avoid effort in the hopes of keeping potential failure from hurting self-esteem. It was first theorized by Edward E. Jones and Steven Berglas, according to whom self-handicaps are obstacles created, or claimed, by the individual in anticipation of failing performance.
Self-handicapping can be seen as a method of preserving self-esteem but it can also be used…
Bread by Blacktc · recorded April 22, 2019 · 0:06:19 · 4.3 MB
Self-handicapping is a cognitive strategy by which people avoid effort in the hopes of keeping potential failure from hurting self-esteem. It was first theorized by Edward E. Jones and Steven Berglas, according to whom self-handicaps are obstacles created, or claimed, by the individual in anticipation of failing performance.
Self-handicapping can be seen as a method of preserving self-esteem but it can also be used…
