the act of throwing someone or something out of a window

relic of the foreskin of Jesus Christ

Mitchell Rupe, a former death row inmate once found too fat to hang, died at the Washington State Penitentiary on Tuesday following a long illness, a prison spokeswoman said. He was 51.

A German insurance company has admitted hosting a decadent sex party at a Budapest bathhouse to reward its best agents for their work. Details of the secretive event include color-coded prostitutes and a ban on photos.

Manam is a Kairiru–Manam language spoken mainly on the volcanic Manam Island, northeast of New Guinea.

The Maersk Alabama hijacking began on 8 April 2009, when four pirates in the Somali Basin seized the Danish/U.S. cargo ship Maersk Alabama at a distance of 240 nautical miles (440 km; 280 mi) southeast of Eyl, Somalia. The siege ended after a rescue effort…

defunct American industrial corporation (1922–2020)

Olive Garden often breaks the rules when it comes to Italian cooking, but there's one crime in particular the chain does that should make the chain serve time.

dog actor

anti-fascist resistance movement in Greece during World War II

Rhabdophis tigrinus is a venomous colubrid snake found in East and Southeast Asia. Many sources, though not ITIS, recognize one subspecies, Rhabdophis tigrinus formosanus of Taiwan. (Source: Wikipedia, '', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhabdophis_tigrinus…

Many of the factors affecting susceptibility to dental caries are likely influenced by genetics. In fact, genetics accounts for up to 65% of inter-individual variation in dental caries experience. Sex differences in dental caries experience has been widely…

American television personality, entrepreneur, and author (1936–2024)

Computerprogramm zur Wiederherstellung von "Stasi Schnipseln"

type of prison architecture imagined by the Bentham brothers

African-American abolitionist (1822–1913)

Ivan VI Antonovich (Russian: Иван VI Антонович; 23 August [O.S. 12 August] 1740 – 16 July [O.S. 5 July] 1764), also known as Ioann Antonovich, was Emperor of Russia from October 1740 until he was overthrown by his cousin Elizabeth Petrovna in December 1741.…

A cousin marriage is a marriage where the spouses are cousins (i.e. people with common grandparents or people who share other fairly recent ancestors). The practice was common in earlier times and continues to be common in some societies today, though in…

1996 film directed by Wes Craven