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| x Origin of life |
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Evolution |
In the natural sciences, abiogenesis, the question of the origin of life, is the study of how life on Earth might have emerged from non-life. Scientific consensus is that abiogenesis occurred sometime between 4.4 billion years ago, when water vapor...
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| x Spontaneous generation |
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Creationism |
Spontaneous generation or Equivocal generation is an obsolete theory regarding the origin of life from inanimate matter, which held that this process was a commonplace and everyday occurrence, as distinguished from univocal generation, or...
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| x Adaptation |
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Lamarckism |
Adaptation is the process whereby a population becomes better suited to its habitat. This process takes place over many generations, and is one of the basic phenomena of biology.
The significance of an adaptation can only be understood in relation...
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| x Transmutation of species |
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Lamarckism |
Transmutation of species was a term used by Jean Baptiste Lamarck in 1809 for his theory that described the altering of one species into another. It was one of the names commonly used for evolutionary ideas in the 19th century before Charles Darwin...
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| x Berwyn Mountain Incident |
The Berwyn Mountain Incident is the second most well known British "UFO crash", after the Rendlesham Forest Incident. It took place on 23 January 1974 on the Berwyn Mountains in Llandrillo, Merionethshire, North Wales. Scientific evidence indicates...
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| x Death mystery of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose |
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The alleged death of Subhas Chandra Bose, the supreme commander of Azad Hind Fauz and Free India Legion in a plane crash in Taiwan on August 18, 1945, has long been the subject of dispute. The third Indian commission that was appointed for enquiring...
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| x Death of Kurt Cobain |
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Kurt Cobain was found dead at his home in Seattle, Washington, United States on April 8, 1994. Cobain, the lead singer of the American grunge band Nirvana, had checked out of a drug rehab facility and been reported suicidal by his wife Courtney Love...
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| x Death of Zia-ul-Haq |
The President of Pakistan, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq died in a plane crash on 17 August 1988, about which several conspiracy theories exist.
On 17 August 1988, General Zia and five of his generals visited a test site to observe a demonstration of...
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| x Death of Marilyn Monroe |
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Marilyn Monroe was found dead in the bedroom of her Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, home by her live-in housekeeper Eunice Murray on August 5, 1962. She was 36 years old at the time of her death.
Her death was ruled to be "acute barbiturate...
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| x Death of Vince Foster |
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Deputy White House counsel Vince Foster was found dead in Fort Marcy Park off the George Washington Parkway in Virginia, outside Washington, D.C., on July 20, 1993. His death was ruled a suicide by multiple official investigations, but remains a...
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| x Mariana UFO incident |
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The Mariana UFO incident occurred in August 1950 in Great Falls, Montana. The event garnered national media attention, as the concept of UFOs and alien invasion was extremely popular amongst Americans at the time.
At 11:25 am on August 5 or August...
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| x Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
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The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died at 1:00 AM on 5 December 1791 at the age of 35, following a short illness.
Mozart had health problems throughout his life, suffering at times from smallpox, tonsillitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, typhoid fever,...
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| x 2008 submarine cable disruption |
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2008 submarine cable disruption refers to three separate incidents of major damage to submarine optical cables. The first incident caused damage involving up to five high-speed Internet submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea and...
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| x Waco Siege |
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The Waco Siege began on February 28, 1993 when the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) attempted to execute a search warrant at the Branch Davidian ranch at Mount Carmel, a property located nine miles (14 km) east-northeast...
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| x Sinking of the Titanic |
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Titanic alternative theories |
the sinking of the RMS Titanic details the events of the night of Sunday 14 April 1912, and into the early hours of the following day, which saw the loss of the ocean liner Titanic, one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history. At the...
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| x TWA Flight 800 |
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TWA Flight 800 alternative theories |
Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 800 was a scheduled international passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York City, NY to Leonardo da Vinci Airport (FCO) in Rome, Italy, via Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG) in Paris,...
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