Thursday, June 28, 2007

 

Death Yell

A death yell is a euphemism for the following situation, which happens in fiction a lot and sometimes in real life. When someone dies and another person is so overcome by grief that he must shout into the air while crying extremely hard, it is known as a "death yell". Sometimes, what is shouted is the name of the deceased; otherwise, it could be some nonsense syllable such as "Aaaaaaaaargh!" Performing one is a way of letting deep emotions out, and could possibly be therapeutic for the performer. Sometimes, the performer is the person who is about to die. In the Star Trek canon, Klingons do perform a "death yell" when one of them dies. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Death Yell". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.

Monday, June 25, 2007

 

Psychedelics in popular culture

There exist many examples of Psychedelics in popular culture. The psychedelic experience has had a strong effect on many genres of popular music, and psychedelic drug references are common in movies, books, and in popular music.

DMT: The plot of the movie Blueberry (based on the comic Blueberry) touches Dimethyltryptamine practices of Native Americans.

LSD: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home has a scene where Admiral Kirk tells a woman in 1986 that Spock did a little too much LDS in the 60's. The woman rolls her eyes at him. This was a reference to LSD, not The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Beatles song "Tomorrow Never Knows" is a musical take on Timothy Leary's analogy between the LSD experience and the passage from death through to reincarnation described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Psychedelics in popular culture". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.


Friday, June 22, 2007

 

"Klaatu barada nikto"

The phrase "Klaatu barada nikto" originates from the 1951 Cold-War-era science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still. The phrase "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!" was used to stop Gort, the robot in the film, from destroying the Earth. There is no known translation for the phrase, although "Klaatu" is the name of the humanoid alien protagonist in the film, and "nikto" is Russian for "nobody / no one." This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Klaatu barada nikto". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.


Tuesday, June 19, 2007

 

Angela Beesley


Angela Beesley is a co-founder and vice president for community relations of Wikia. Involved in Wikipedia since 2003, Beesley was elected to the Board of Trustees of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation in 2004, and re-elected in 2005. During this time, she was active in editing content and setting policy, such as privacy policy, within the Foundation. Since February 21, 2006, she has been a member of the Communications Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation She also chairs the Foundation's Advisory Board. In October 2004, Beesley founded a for-profit Wiki hosting service with Jimmy Wales called Wikia. She sits on the advisory board of the media archive Ourmedia and is a co-author of the book Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Angela_Beesley". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.

Saturday, June 16, 2007

 

Obama Girl


Obama Girl refers to a character, played by Amber Lee Ettinger, depicted in the Internet viral video, "I've Got A Crush On Obama". The video features an attractive young woman seductively singing of her love for Junior Senator Barack Obama of Illinois. Obama is a candidate in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. Ettinger lip-synched the song for the video, and Leah Kaufmann (of "My Box in a Box" fame) provided the vocals. The original video. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Obama Girl". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

 

Mass Vision


A mass vision is a phenomenon in which a large group of people, usually in physical proximity to each other, all experience the same unexplained phenomena simultaneously. It is similar but not identical to the Folie à deux phenomenon.


Famous mass visions: List of UFO sightings; The Miracle of the Sun -where 70,000 pilgrims at Fatima in Portugal in 1917 saw the sun "tear itsef from the heavens and come crashing down upon the multitude".

Richard Dawkins' addresses mass visions, specifically The Miracle of the Sun, in "The God Delusion". Whilst it's unlikely that 70,000 would all have the same vision, he says it's even less likely that what they "saw" really happened (because none of the rest of the world noticed). He cites David Hume's miracle test: "No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." With this, he shrugs off the mass visions. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Mass Vision". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.


Saturday, June 09, 2007

 

Chessckers


Chessckers is an exciting strategy game requiring the penultimate wit and mental dexterity. As you may have guessed it is a mixture between the games of chess and checkers using the pieces and rules of both.

The rules of chessckers are simple as long as you understand both checkers and chess. Using a regulation chess/checker board, set up as shown above.Movement is very simple: all chess pieces move exactly as they would if one was playing chess.(i.e. Bishop diagonally, Rook up, down, left, or right, etc.) Also like in regulation, checker pieces move diagonally and, only if kinged, backwards diagonally. (To be kinged, a checker piece must move to the opposite side of the board.) You may not move your king into check. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Chessckers". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

 

Space Ice Cream


Freeze-dried ice cream, also known as astronaut ice cream or space ice cream is a brick of dehydrated ice cream that is always ready to eat, with no need for refrigeration. It was developed by Whirlpool Corporation under contract to NASA for the Apollo missions. Apollo 7 in 1968 was the only NASA mission on which space ice cream flew in outer space. According to a NASA food scientist, although it was developed on request, "It wasn't that popular." Skylab had a refrigerator that was used for real ice cream, and occasionally shuttle and International Space Station astronauts have enjoyed real ice cream. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Space Ice Cream". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.


Sunday, June 03, 2007

 

List of Iranian national heroes


This is a list of personalities (both historical and legendary) who are considered national heroes by many in Iran:

Cyrus the Great, Founder of the Persian Empire
Darius the Great, Persian Emperor
Babak Khorramdin, Leader of the Persian resistance against Arab invaders
Hassan-i Sabbah
Ferdowsi, Savior of the Persian language, poet of Shahnameh epic.
Bahram Chobin, One of the greatest Eran Spahbods (generalissimo)
Rostam-e Dastan, legendary warrior from the Shahnameh
Arash the Archer, legendary warrior from the Shahnameh
Jamshid, One of the greatest kings of mythical Persia according to Shahnameh's account.
Kaveh the Blacksmith, character from the Shahnameh
Mohammad Mosaddegh, Nationalised Iran's oil industry
Amir Kabir, Politician and minister to Naser -o- Din Shah of Qajar Dynasty.
Nader Shah, Military leader and Shah of Iran, rightfully dubbed as Napoleon of Persia.
Takhti, Great Persian wrestler.
Surena or Suren Pahlav, were among the prominent ruling clans during the Parthian Empire. Eran Spahbod Rostaham Suren Pahlav was a member of this house who managed to decisively defeat Roman Army under command of Crassus at the Battle of Carrhae.
Abbas Mirza, able crown prince of Qajar Dynasty who lead a number of albeit unfruitful military campaigns against Impersial Russia.
Abu Muslim Khorasani.
Bagher Khan
Shirin Ebadi, Nobel peace prize winner
Mirza Kuchak Khan, Activist
Mohammad Khiabani
Pourya-ye Vali
Sattar Khan
Shah Abbas the Great
Ya'qub bin Laith as-Saffar
Hossein Fatemi
Reza Shah, Founder of the Pahlavi Dynasty

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