Um Dafuq (Arabic: أم دافوق), also spelled Um Dafouk, Um Dafok, and Um Dafog, is a town located across the Central African Republic–Sudan border in South Darfur. The town holds economic and commercial importance.[2] It is the birthplace of Abdallahi ibn Muhammad.[1]

Today is the anniversary of, supposedly, the Greek prime minister Ioannis Metaxas refusing Benito Mussolini's ultimatum in 1940, bringing Greece into World War 2. It's a national holiday in Greece.

Metaxas himself was also a dictator.

A long-standing claim about candiru is their supposed propensity to insert themselves into human urethras or other orifices in an apparent attempt to parasitize; this alleged ability has been described in ethnological reports dating back to the 19th century.However, these accounts of human parasitism are often biased, arising from "imprecise, second- and third-hand accounts, misconceptions, and folk tales"; which lead to the spread of imprecise or dubious claims that may even be reported in scientific resources; there are no credible reports of candiru parasitizing human urethras.

You thought the ongoing City scandal was their first rodeo?

Soviet submarine S-363 was a Soviet Navy Whiskey-class submarine of the Baltic Fleet. It ran aground on 27 October 1981 on the south coast of Sweden, approximately 10 km (6.2 mi) from Karlskrona, one of the largest Swedish naval bases.

The captain initially claimed that simultaneous failures of navigational equipment had caused the boat to get lost although the boat had already somehow navigated through a treacherous series of rocks, straits, and islands to get so close to the naval base.[3]

he Soviet captain, after a guarantee of his immunity, was taken off the boat and interrogated in the presence of Soviet representatives.[4]

Although the presence of nuclear weapons on board S-363 was never officially confirmed by the Soviet authorities,[5] the vessel's political officer, Vasily Besedin, later confirmed that there were nuclear warheads on some of the torpedoes and that the crew had been ordered to destroy the boat, including the warheads, if Swedish forces tried to take control of the vessel.[6]

The submarine was stuck on the rock for nearly ten days. On 5 November, it was hauled off the rocks by Swedish tugs and escorted to international waters, where it was handed over to the Soviet fleet.[4]

Sold at auction four years ago for $12.4M USD- making it the most expensive photograph. Free if you download. Funny how that works.

Senkyoshigo (Japanese: 宣教師語, lit. 'missionary language') is a non-secret cant developed and spoken by Mormon missionaries serving at missions in Japan which synthesizes the native English of missionaries with aspects of Japanese. Although the grammatical framework of the cant is primarily rooted in English, it synthesizes English function words with a primarily Japanese lexicon with English pronunciations of words

Psychological operations (PSYOPs) are military operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their motives and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups, and large foreign powers. The purpose of United States psychological operations is to induce or reinforce behavior perceived to be favorable to U.S. objectives. They are an important part of the range of diplomatic, informational, military and economic activities available to the U.S. They can be utilized during both peacetime and conflict. At the strategic level, psychological operations include informational activities conducted by the U.S. government agencies outside of the military arena, though many utilize Department of Defense (DoD) assets. They are conducted across the range of military operations, including during peacetime, in a defined operational area to promote the effectiveness of the...

This author invented the word California.

Democrats for Nixon was a campaign to promote Democratic support for the then-incumbent Republican president Richard Nixon in the 1972 United States presidential election. The campaign was led by former Texas governor John Connally, a Democrat who was serving as United States secretary of the treasury at the time.