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Bread by Timwi · recorded April 12, 2005 · 0:17:18 · 11.9 MB
The Milgram experiment was a series of social psychology experiments that were conducted in the early 1960s 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. Participants were led to believe that they were assisting in a fictitious experiment, in…
Cread by Clay2004 · recorded August 7, 2024 · 0:15:07 · 10.4 MB
Nickelodeon Animation Studio is an American animation studio owned by Paramount Skydance Corporation via CBS Studios. It has created original animated television programs for Nickelodeon, Nicktoons, and Nick Jr., such as SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora the Explorer, The Fairly OddParents, Rugrats, Blue's Clues, Hey Arnold!, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Rocko's Modern Life, Invader Zim, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy…
FAread by Xylactic · recorded June 7, 2024 · 0:17:17 · 12.0 MB
Newton's medals at the Australian War Memorial
William Ellis Newton, VC (8 June 1919 – 29 March 1943) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to a member of the British and Commonwealth armed forces. He was honoured for his actions as a bomber pilot in Papua New Guinea during March 1943 when, despite intense anti-aircraft fire, he pressed home a series of attacks on the…
FAread by Darrenhusted · recorded April 24, 2009 · 0:03:14 · 2.2 MB
The 1999 Over the Edge was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It was the second annual and final Over the Edge and took place on May 23, 1999, at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri. The first Over the Edge event was held under the In Your House series in May 1998, but following the discontinuation of the In Your House shows after February…
FAread by Darrenhusted · recorded April 24, 2009 · 0:02:06 · 1.4 MB
The 1999 Over the Edge was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It was the second annual and final Over the Edge and took place on May 23, 1999, at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri. The first Over the Edge event was held under the In Your House series in May 1998, but following the discontinuation of the In Your House shows after February…
FAread by Darrenhusted · recorded April 29, 2009 · 0:03:54 · 2.7 MB
The 1999 Over the Edge was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It was the second annual and final Over the Edge and took place on May 23, 1999, at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri. The first Over the Edge event was held under the In Your House series in May 1998, but following the discontinuation of the In Your House shows after February…
FAread by Darrenhusted · recorded April 29, 2009 · 0:05:54 · 4.1 MB
The 1999 Over the Edge was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It was the second annual and final Over the Edge and took place on May 23, 1999, at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri. The first Over the Edge event was held under the In Your House series in May 1998, but following the discontinuation of the In Your House shows after February…
Startread by Infusion478 · recorded September 22, 2026 · 0:10:15 · 7.0 MB
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a puzzle video game developed and published by Canadian studio Steel Crate Games. The game tasks a player with disarming procedurally generated bombs with the assistance of other players who are reading a manual containing instructions. It was designed around virtual reality support, with availability first on Android-driven Samsung Gear VR, with later ports to supported devices…
Cread by OctoSquigglez · recorded January 12, 2026 · 0:17:16 · 11.9 MB
Diane Morgan (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress, comedian and writer. She played the role of Philomena Cunk in the comedy series Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe (2013–2020) and the mockumentary series Cunk on Britain (2018), Cunk on Earth (2022) and Cunk on Life (2024). The role earned her nominations for two British Academy Television Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Morgan played Liz on the BBC Two…
Bread by Timwi · recorded March 13, 2005 · 0:15:08 · 10.4 MB
A split infinitive is a grammatical construction specific to English in which an adverb (or adverbial phrase) appears within an infinitive phrase. The classic example – notably up with which Vulcans simply put – is in the opening sequence of the Star Trek television series: "to boldly go where no man has gone before".
Split infinitives have long been deprecated as incorrect, or at least avoidable, despite their…
GAread by Steinsky · recorded April 21, 2005 · 0:17:10 · 11.8 MB
In biology, the word gene has two meanings. The Mendelian gene is a basic unit of heredity. The molecular gene is a sequence of nucleotides in DNA that is transcribed to produce RNA. There are two types of molecular genes: protein-coding genes and non-coding genes. During gene expression (the synthesis of RNA or protein from a gene), DNA is first copied into RNA. RNA can be directly functional or be the intermediate…
FAread by PopularOutcast · recorded September 23, 2018 · 0:15:09 · 10.4 MB
The golden swallow (Tachycineta euchrysea) is a swallow endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and was once native to Jamaica, but is now extirpated there. It is restricted to isolated montane forests that primarily consist of the Hispaniolan pine (Pinus occidentalis). This species is considered to be a vulnerable species by the International Union for…
Bread by MarkusDAurelius · recorded March 20, 2023 · 0:17:09 · 11.8 MB
The International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), more commonly known as the International Baccalaureate (IB), is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and founded in 1968. It offers four educational programmes: the IB Primary Years Programme for children aged 3 to 12, the IB Middle Years Programme for students aged 12 to 16, and the IB Diploma Programme and the IB Career-related Programme…
FAread by JohnAnkerBow · recorded July 30, 2019 · 0:15:09 · 10.4 MB
Lindow Man, also known as Lindow II and (in jest) as Pete Marsh, is the preserved bog body of a man discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss near Wilmslow in Cheshire, North West England. The remains were found on 1 August 1984 by commercial peat cutters. Lindow Man is not the only bog body to have been found in the moss; Lindow Woman was discovered the year before, and other body parts have also been recovered. The…
Bread by Authors of the article · recorded November 3, 2018 · 0:17:06 · 11.8 MB
Cory Efram Doctorow (; born 17 July 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organisation, using some of its licences for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity…
FAread by PopularOutcast · recorded May 26, 2008 · 0:17:05 · 11.7 MB
The Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) is a tern in the family Laridae. This bird has a circumpolar breeding distribution covering the Arctic and subarctic regions of Europe (as far south as Brittany), Asia, and North America (as far south as Massachusetts). The species is strongly migratory, seeing two summers each year as it migrates along a convoluted route from its northern breeding grounds to the Antarctic coast…
Cread by Icey · recorded August 1, 2006 · 0:15:09 · 10.4 MB
Monkey Island is a series of adventure style video games. The first four games were produced and published by LucasArts, earlier known as Lucasfilm Games. The fifth was developed by Telltale Games with LucasArts, while the sixth was developed by Terrible Toybox with Lucasfilm Games and Devolver Digital.
The games follow the adventures of the hapless Guybrush Threepwood as he struggles to become the most notorious…
Cread by gallen89 · recorded May 7, 2010 · 0:17:02 · 11.7 MB
Sid Meier's Civilization II is a turn-based strategy video game in the Civilization series, developed and published by MicroProse. It was released in 1996 for PCs, and later ported to the PlayStation by Activision.
Players build a civilization from a primitive tribe, competing with rival computer- or human (in some editions)-controlled civilizations. They manage cities and units in a quest to assure their…
FAread by ThisSoundsNice · recorded March 11, 2021 · 0:15:10 · 10.4 MB
Louis Thomas Spence, DFC & Bar (4 April 1917 – 9 September 1950) was a fighter pilot and squadron commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). During World War II, he flew with No. 3 Squadron, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC), and commanded No. 452 Squadron, receiving a Mention in Despatches. He led No. 77 Squadron in the opening months of the Korean War, and was awarded a bar to his DFC, the US…
Cread by DivineMeaninglessness · recorded December 3, 2015 · 0:17:01 · 11.7 MB
The Krampus (German: [ˈkʁampʊs]) is a horned anthropomorphic figure who, in the Central and Eastern Alpine folkloric tradition, is said to accompany Saint Nicholas on visits to children during the night of 5 December (Krampusnacht; "Krampus Night"), immediately before the Feast of St. Nicholas on 6 December. In this tradition, Saint Nicholas rewards well-behaved children with small gifts, while Krampus punishes…
FAread by The Voice of Hassocks · recorded June 3, 2008 · 0:17:00 · 11.7 MB
Dover Athletic Football Club is a semi-professional association football club based in the town of Dover, Kent, England. The club currently competes in the National League South, the sixth tier of the English football league system. The club was formed in 1983 after the dissolution of the town's previous club, Dover F.C., whose place in the Southern League was taken by the new club.
In the 1989–90 season Dover…
Startread by ThatGirlTayler · recorded March 19, 2017 · 0:15:11 · 10.4 MB
A garage sale is an informal event for the sale of used goods by private individuals, in which sellers are not required to obtain business licenses or collect sales tax (though, in some jurisdictions, a permit may be required).
Typically the goods in a garage sale are unwanted items from the household with its owners conducting the sale. The conditions of the goods vary, but they are typically usable. Some of these…
Bread by Tom Morris · recorded September 20, 2012 · 0:16:58 · 11.7 MB
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It launched on 30 September 1967 as a replacement for the BBC Home Service and broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House in London. Since 2019, the station controller has been Mohit Bakaya. He replaced Gwyneth Williams, who had been the station controller since 2010.
Radio 4 is…
Cread by 0101Abc · recorded October 6, 2022 · 0:15:11 · 10.4 MB
Damnatio memoriae (Classical Latin pronunciation: [damˈnaːti.oː mɛˈmɔri.ae̯]) is a modern Latin phrase meaning "condemnation of memory" or "damnation of memory", indicating that a person is to be excluded from official accounts, or remembered after death in a way contrary to what that person may have desired. There are and have been many routes to damnatio memoriae including the destruction of depictions, the…
