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Ancient chariot emerges among remains of mysterious society that burned down its own buildings and then disappeared

An ancient bronze chariot recently discovered in Spain was used by a culture that mysteriously disappeared from the archaeological record.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist and team use Claude AI to solve decades-old math puzzle

A decade after uncovering a mysterious mathematical relationship in the physics of "jamming," Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi and collaborator Francesco Zamponi have finally cracked the case — not with a radical new theory, but with the help of the generative AI Claude.

ISBL-12 : College of Science and Engineering : Texas State University

ISBL-12 : College of Science and Engineering : Texas State University 19 captures 04 Jun 2012 - 14 Dec 2025 May JUN Jul 04 2011 2012 2013 success fail About this capture COLLECTED BY Organization: Alexa Crawls Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. Collection: Alexa Crawls Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. TIMESTAMPS The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20120604074802/http://www.cose.txstate.edu:80/isbl_12.html Web Tools Search for: Bobcat Mail Pay Tuition Catsweb Maps Library TRACS About Texas State Library Maps Round Rock Division of Academic Affairs College of Science and Engineering Dean's Message Mission & Vision Science Advisory Board Research Centers Biology Chemistry & Biochemistry Computer Science Engineering Technology Ingram School of Engineering Materials Science, Engineering, and Commercialization Program Mathematics Physics College Leadership Dean's Office Staff Department Chairs & Staff Faculty Directory Advising Center Staff Undergraduate Advising Center Graduate Advising Center College of Science and Engineering Scholarships Scholarships by Department Scholarships for Graduate Students Science and Engineering Student Organizations and Clubs Your gifts making a difference Making a gift online Texas State Development Office College of Science and Engineering Texas State University 601 University Drive San Marcos, TX 78666 Dr. Stephen B. Seidman, Dean Ph: 512. 245.2119 Email: cose@txstate.edu Discover the College! Research Centers Science Advisory Board Undergraduate Degree Programs Graduate Degree Programs Meet Our Students! College of Science and Engineering Conferences 2012 Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Conference 2012 ISBL-12 Conference Student Resources - Quick Links Scholarships How do I become a science teacher? Academic Calendar CatsWeb Career Services on Facebook Collaborative Learning Center Math Tutoring Lab Computer Science Tutoring Lab Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) WISE Home 2012 WISE Conference Women's Giving Circle Join the Conversation Share this page Texas State > College of Science and Engineering > ISBL-12 ISBL-12 12th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BALL LIGHTNING (ISBL-12) JUNE 13-15, 2012 TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY • SAN MARCOS, TEXAS - USA CANCELLATION OF CONFERENCE, REQUEST FOR FULL PAPERS Due to the small number of abstracts received from the Western Hemisphere, the Organizing Committee of ISBL-12 has reluctantly decided to cancel the conference meeting which was planned for San Marcos, Texas, June 13-15, 2012. All those who have paid registration fees will receive full refunds. However, all authors whose abstracts were accepted are encouraged to submit full papers for publication in the International Journal of Unconventional Electromagnetics and Plasmas (UEP) by the revised deadline of May 15, 2012. Instructions on how to submit a full paper will soon be emailed to all those whose abstracts were accepted. For more information please contact: Karl D. Stephan, Professor Ingram School of Engineering, Texas State University 601 University Drive, San Marcos, TX 78666 USA Phone: +001-512-245-3060 E-mail: kdstephan@txstate.edu Texas State University|San Marcos | 601 University Drive, San Marcos, Texas 78666 | 512.245.2111 Texas State University|San Marcos is a member of the Texas State University System.

Phantom Ship , The : Henry Passmore : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Also known as The Mystery of the Marie Celeste. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.

Remembering Zimbabwe

Twenty years ago, 62 pupils at Ariel School said they saw an alien spaceship. It

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Inside Edition - Has The Mystery of D.B. Cooper Been Solved?

Inside Edition - Has The Mystery of D.B. Cooper Been Solved? 25 captures 13 Jul 2011 - 19 Aug 2025 Feb MAR Apr 08 2011 2012 2013 success fail About this capture COLLECTED BY Organization: Internet Archive The Internet Archive discovers and captures web pages through many different web crawls. At any given time several distinct crawls are running, some for months, and some every day or longer. View the web archive through the Wayback Machine . Collection: Wikipedia Outlinks February 2012 Crawl of outlinks from wikipedia.org started February, 2012. These files are currently not publicly accessible. TIMESTAMPS The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20120308111652/http://www.insideedition.com/storyprint.aspx?SpecialReportID=2184 Print Has The Mystery of D.B. Cooper Been Solved? ORIGINAL AIRDATE: 10/6/2008 "The Last Lincolns: The Rise and Fall of a Great American Family" follows the lives of Abraham Lincoln's descendants. INSIDE EDITION Executive Producer and author Charles Lachman believes that he has discovered the identity of D.B. Cooper. This sketch shows roughly what D.B. Cooper looked like. Charles Lachman believes that Jack Coffelt (pictured) is the real man behind the D.B. Cooper myth. It's one of the great unsolved mysteries in American crime. The legend of D.B. Cooper, who hijacked a plane over the Pacific Northwest in 1971, jumping into the dark night sky with $200,000 in ransom, never to be seen again. Authorities have had several suspects but few clues to his true identity, until now. A new book reveals evidence that a man named Jack Coffelt could be D.B. Cooper. And in a strange twist, he has a connection to the family of Abraham Lincoln! It's all detailed in The Last Lincolns: The Rise and Fall of a Great American Family , written by INSIDE EDITION's Executive Producer, Charles Lachman. Lachman says, "I set out to do a story about whatever happened to the descendents of Abraham Lincoln, starting from the day of his assassination right up until the modern era and, much to my shock, D.B. Cooper suddenly reared his head." The book uncovers that the 16th President's descendents were plagued by scandal and personal tragedy. Enter Jack Coffelt, a boozing con man who spent nearly 20 years behind bars before cozying up to the great-grandson of Abraham Lincoln. Coffelt became a chauffeur and confidante of Abraham Lincoln's last descendant, great-grandson Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith. It was all in a bid to get his hands on the Lincoln fortune, and when that failed, Lachman says Coffelt hatched another plan...to hijack a plane heading from Portland to Seattle. Among the evidence uncovered in the book, Coffelt was in Portland the night the plane took off. And there's more. "He made certain admissions to his lawyer in Memphis that he was in fact D.B. Cooper. And then I was able to determine he went on a search for the bundle of missing cash in the years after D.B. Cooper jumped out of a plane," explains Lachman. And Coffelt suffered injuries consistent with a jump from a plane. "He did appear with a limp in the immediate period after D.B. Cooper and he did not have one before that," continues Lachman. Just last year, the FBI released never-before seen evidence from the D.B. Cooper investigation, including his boarding ticket for the flight and a mother-of-pearl tie clip which authorities say contains DNA that could finally point to his true identity. But as compelling a case as Lachman makes for Coffelt to be the infamous skyjacker, we may never have the answer. Coffelt died in 1975 and his remains were cremated, leaving behind no DNA to match. "In your gut, do you really believe Jack Coffelt is D.B. Cooper?" asks INSIDE EDITION's Paul Boyd. "In my gut, I believe he is," Lachman says. For more information on Charles Lachman's book The Last Lincolns: The Rise and Fall of a Great American Family , please visit: http://ww

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FBI working new lead in D.B. Cooper hijacking case

For the past year the FBI has been actively working a new lead in the unsolved case involving skyjacker D.B. Cooper. But the information concerns a new suspect who has been dead for more than a decade, an FBI spokesman told CNN on Monday.

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voynich 51 captures 28 Sep 2007 - 11 Dec 2025 Dec JAN Feb 26 2008 2009 2010 success fail About this capture COLLECTED BY Organization: Alexa Crawls Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. Collection: alexa_web_2009 this data is currently not publicly accessible. TIMESTAMPS The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20090126223023/http://hurontaria.baf.cz:80/CVM/b12.htm BACK TO DISCUSSIONS B12. THE NEW SIGNATURE OF HORCZICKY AND THE COMPARISON OF THEM ALL. Jan B. Hurych, January 2007) ' Signature No.2.: Since our discovery of official signature of Horczicky IN 2003 (No.1., see our section B10), the second one was discovered in Prague. It was Ren' Zandbergen who discovered it as an exlibris in one of the books owned by Horczicky. It was once the property of Clementinum, see http://www.voynich.nu/extra/img/sinapius1602a.jpg It does not however contain the word "Tepenec" as does the one in the VM, as well as the other two signature. Instead, it quotes the old name "Sinapi" . ' Signature No.3.: Quite recently, in January 2007, Petr Kazil copied another signature in the book in National Library of Prague, on recommendation by Rafal Prinke (it was known in 2000, by Rafal, but it was somehow overlooked until 2007. The photographs by Peter are at http://www.xs4all.nl/~kazil/testfiles/vu/ Our comment: The reaction to our first discovery (year 2003) was slightly negative. It happened to be on some official document signed by Horczicky when he was the heytman of Melnik castle, 1617) and it was objected that it was too "ceremonial" to be used for analysis of Horczicky's name in the VM. When the second signature was found, it was considered as "similar" to the one in the VM, without any further analysis. Now, when the third , non-ceremonial signature was found, one can see clearly it is by the same hand as the first signature. So we are now vindicated and to further prove the similarity of those two "signatures", i.e the first and the third, while the second is quite different. The following comparisons are given. Also, the comparison with "signature" in the VM is made. THE COMPARISON OF SIGNATURES. (Jan Hurych) Both first and third signatures are in Czech, i.e .the words "Jakub z Tepence", in first case are in nominative (the official signature), and slightly modified, in the third, as "Jakuba z Tepence" ( in genitive , since it is the exlibris, ownership), First we show the first signature, slightly magnified: The third signature can be seen by clicking on the link above, here we only compare some letters in the sections. First the letter "k". The picture on the left is the third signature, at the right is the first one. The agreement in shape and form is very good. Then follows the section "Tep", notice the similarity of peculiar letter "p" in both cases. The word in between "Jacobi" and "Tepenec" is in both cases the Czech letter "z" written in the same old fashion, looking like number "3". The meaning of "z" in Czech language is the same as in Latin "de". Even here is certain similarity. For comparison, the third picture is the same symbol from the VM, also in between words "Jacobi" and "Tepenec". It was guessed once it was really "de" or a Greek letter "delta", the shorthand for Latin "de". None of this can be seen here and it seems it is the same "z" ( meaning the sign in the space before capital "T"). Of course, we cannot be sure yet, the symbol is hardly visible. Before we carry on, some words about the second, that is the "Sinapi" signature. There is no doubt that "Sinapi" is former Horczicky's name (before he received his title), latinized. The word "inscriptus" added may or may not confirm it was written by him personally. However, the comparison with two other signatures is very difficu

Tracking the Legend of Bigfoot

Tracking the Legend of Bigfoot | Arizona State Museum Skip to main content Search search search Search menu Menu home Home close Close Search search Main Menu About chevron_right Visit chevron_right OnView+OnLine+OnDemand Events Shop Education Collections chevron_right Research chevron_right Join chevron_right Donate | | | Cultural Resources Management Services Main navigation About Submenu for About About Arizona State Museum Contact Us Personnel What We Do Mission, Vision, and Values ASM By The Numbers Employment Opportunities Visit Submenu for Visit Plan Your Visit Library and Archives Photography and Videography Policy Accessibility and Service Animals Explore the Campus and Beyond OnView+OnLine+OnDemand Events Shop Education Collections Submenu for Collections Overview Archaeology Ethnohistory Ethnology Library and Archives Photography Zooarchaeology Ancient Old World Collections Access to the Collections for Research Purposes Information For Those Seeking Appraisals and Object Identification Research Submenu for Research Overview ASM Archaeological Series Bioarchaeology Lab Conservation Laboratory Homol'ovi Research Program Legacies of Spanish Water Law Office of Ethnohistorical Research Point of Pines Collections Research Lab Pueblo Glaze-painted Ware Repatriation Office Zooarchaeology Laboratory Online Research Resources Join Submenu for Join Membership Friends of the ASM Collections Director Circles Donate Home Online Exhibit Return To Curator's Choice Main Menu Tracking The Legend of Bigfoot Tracking the Legend of Bigfoot Image Cast of Alleged Bigfoot Footprint Footprint found by Roger Patterson, Bluff Creek, northern California, 1967 Length: 18.0 in. (45.7 cm.), Width: 9.2 in. (23.3 cm.), Plaster cast made by John W. Olsen in 1979 at Arizona State Museum from a cast that was obtained from Grover Krantz (ASM Catalog No. 2011-470-1a) Image Text by Dr. John A. McClelland, retired Osteology Lab Manager and NAGPRA Coordinator, October 2011 Legends of wild humanoid creatures are as old as human history and span the globe. Names and other details vary, but common traits of these undocumented animals are bipedalism, gigantic size, hair-covered bodies, and a potential to cause harm. A Native American tradition in the Pacific Northwest tells of a giant hair-covered ogre named Tsonoqua who steals children and food. This is likely the origin of the Sasquatch or Bigfoot legend. Bigfoot was popularized in 1958, when news media picked up a story about Ray Wallace, a road contractor working in northern California, who made plaster casts of giant footprints that he found near his worksite. Hundreds of similar footprints and a few handprints have now been reported; some were clearly made by bears, some are fraudulent (one of Ray Wallace’s relatives later found carved wooden feet matching some of the footprint casts), and many others remain unexplained. This footprint cast is associated with the most celebrated Bigfoot sighting of modern times. In October 1967 Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin ventured into the woods in search of Bigfoot near where Wallace found his Bigfoot tracks. In Bluff Creek, they sighted a creature strolling through a clearing and they managed to film a short sequence from a reported distance of about 80 feet. The resulting movie is grainy and difficult to interpret, but clearly shows something unlike any animal known to inhabit the region. To some this is incontestable proof that Bigfoot lives among us, but to others it is merely a man or a woman in a gorilla suit. This handprint cast is a copy of the original made by Ivan Marx. Grover Krantz, a physical anthropologist who studied the anatomy of Bigfoot hand and foot impressions, found many details in this impression that he thought were too difficult to fake. Others were not convinced; the original museum catalogue card for this item has the note: “This ‘handprint’ is almost certainly NOT genuine!” Despite many eyewitness accounts

The Hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Continues

A Dutch firm will lead the search, the next phase of which is expected to start within a month and take up to a year

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Documents: Preliminary report on missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

The Malaysia Transport Ministry released a preliminary report to the public about the missing airliner. The report had been sent to the International Civil Aviation Organization, the U.N. body for global aviation.

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Times Publications | The Readers are Here 24 captures 06 Jan 2009 - 30 Dec 2025 Dec JAN Feb 06 2008 2009 2010 success fail About this capture COLLECTED BY Collection: Common Crawl Web crawl data from Common Crawl. TIMESTAMPS The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20090106024149/http://timespublications.com/nov06-feature1.asp Serving Scottsdale Northeast Phoenix Glendale Chandler Gilbert East Mesa This Month's Cover SITE FEATURES This month's top stories from the Valley's most popular newspaper - The Zany Press Renowned restaurant critics' suggested Valley eats. A closer look into the private workspaces of some of the Valley's high-profile personalities. OPEN DOOR POLICY Award-Winning Feature Writing Read The Times most recent Arizona Press Club award-winning stories, the most revered awards in Arizona journalism. Walking Tall Guilty Frozen Assets The Vanity Tax Addicted Youth Silicone Valley Fatal Lapse Shooting Stars Finding Love Again Auction Action Unidentified - John Dickerson Nearly ten years after the most widespread, documented UFO sighting in history, Valley astronomers and eyewitnesses are still speculating on just what flew over Phoenix that night. When Robert Brewer first saw brake lights and traffic stopped on the 51, the Scottsdale pastor and PhD assumed there had been an accident. 'They're all looking up. What's going on?' Brewer's friend asked as he pulled his car to the side of the road. To this day, Brewer doesn't believe in aliens or space ships, but he does know the silent, hovering lights he watched for about 20 minutes on March 13, 1997, were unlike anything he'd seen before or since. 'It was like the first time you walk to the edge of the Grand Canyon. I was literally breathless,' Brewer says. Along the shoulder of the 51, bystanders watched silently. Some were on their knees. Others raised their arms. From Prescott to Tucson, hundreds of Arizona residents stood in awe of the massive lights. The witness reports read the same: a V of huge, unblinking, hovering lights parading in silent unison across the night sky. Almost 10 years after the sighting, Valley astronomers, pilots and psychiatrists are still searching for an explanation to what was arguably the most documented UFO sighting ever, now dubbed the Phoenix Lights. Among those still affected are former UFO skeptics. Explanations vary from military tests to extraterrestrial visitors, but the eyewitnesses do agree on one thing: 'You had to be there to really understand.' This was not like anything from Earth.' 'I'VE SEEN FLARES BEFORE. THESE WEREN'T FLARES.' On a recent cool October evening, media personality and astronomer 'Dr. Sky' Steve Kates is hosting a black-tie audience under a starlit Gilbert sky. Kates is a regular on TV and radio programs discussing the astronomically unexplained. Kates doesn't believe in aliens. In the nine years since the Phoenix Lights sightings, he has hosted hundreds of discussions about the phenomena. Tonight, between live phone interviews with world-renowned astronomers and former astronauts, Kates says experimental government aircraft are responsible for the Phoenix Lights. 'I think it's a very major event that took place and a matter of national security,' he says. 'Two separate events took place the night of March 13, 1997.' Kates believes a very large, silent surveillance blimp flew over Arizona while diversionary flares hoped to distract any Hale-Bopp comet watchers from noticing, adding that one need only interview so many sane, educated eyewitnesses to conclude the Phoenix Lights were more than just flares. Among the sane, educated type described by Kates are Mark and Celia Chapman, neither of whom believe in little green men or messages from the stars. But when asked if they're familiar with the Phoenix Lights, the Honeywell engineer and healthcare consultant exuberantly recounts their 1997 sighting of the lights. 'We were sitting in the spa. There was nothing by the McDowell Mou

Abandoned Ship: The Mary Celeste

What really happened aboard the Mary Celeste? More than a century after her crew went missing, a scenario is emerging

Mary Celeste - Wikipedia

Mary Celeste - Wikipedia Jump to content Main menu Main menu move to sidebar hide Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Special pages Search Search Appearance Donate Create account Log in Personal tools Donate Create account Log in Contents move to sidebar hide (Top) 1 Early history Toggle Early history subsection 1.1 Ownership reassignment and name change 1.2 Captain Briggs and crew 2 Abandonment Toggle Abandonment subsection 2.1 New York 2.2 Derelict 3 Gibraltar salvage hearings 4 Proposed explanations Toggle Proposed explanations subsection 4.1 Foul play 4.2 Natural phenomena 4.3 Explosion 5 Retellings and false histories 6 Later career and final voyage 7 Legacy and commemorations 8 See also 9 Notes 10 References 11 Sources 12 External links Toggle the table of contents Mary Celeste 39 languages العربية Azərbaycanca Български বাংলা Català کوردی Čeština Deutsch Ελληνικά Español Eesti Euskara فارسی Suomi Français Nordfriisk Galego עברית Magyar Հայերեն Bahasa Indonesia Italiano 日本語 한국어 Македонски Nederlands Norsk bokmål Polski Português Русский Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Slovenčina Svenska ไทย Türkçe Українська Tiếng Việt 吴语 中文 Edit links Article Talk English Read Edit View history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions Read Edit View history General What links here Related changes Upload file Permanent link Page information Cite this page Get shortened URL Switch to legacy parser Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ship found abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872 This article is about the ship. For the fictional ship, see J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement . For the album, see Huron (English band) . For the soprano and actress, see Marie Celeste . An 1861 painting of Mary Celeste (named Amazon at the time) by an unknown artist History Canada Name Amazon Port of registry Parrsboro , Nova Scotia Builder Joshua Dewis, Spencers Island , Nova Scotia Launched May 18, 1861 Fate Ran aground Glace Bay , Nova Scotia, 1867, salvaged and given to American owners United States Name Amazon (1861–1868) Mary Celeste (1869–1885) Port of registry Principally New York or Boston Builder Rebuilt 1872, New York (yard not named) Fate Deliberately wrecked off the coast of Haiti, 1885 General characteristics Tonnage 198.42 gross tons as built 1861 282.28 gross tons after rebuild 1872 Length 99.3 ft (30.3 m) as built, 103 ft (31 m) after rebuild Beam 22.5 ft (6.9 m) as built, 25.7 ft (7.8 m) after rebuild Depth 11.7 ft (3.6 m) as built, 16.2 ft (4.9 m) after rebuild Decks 1, as built, 2 after rebuild Sail plan Brigantine Mary Celeste ( / s ə . ˈ l ɛ s t / , often erroneously referred to as Marie Celeste [ 1 ] ) was a Canadian-built, American-registered, merchant brigantine that was discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores on December 4, 1872. The Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia found her in a dishevelled but seaworthy condition under partial sail and with her lifeboat missing. The last entry in her log was dated 10 days earlier. She had left New York City for Genoa on November 7 and was still amply provisioned when found. Her cargo of alcohol was intact, and the captain's and crew's personal belongings were undisturbed. None of those who had been on board were ever seen or heard from again. Mary Celeste was built in Spencers Island , Nova Scotia, and launched under British registration as Amazon in 1861. She was transferred to American ownership and registration in 1868, when she acquired her new name. Thereafter, she sailed uneventfully until her 1872 voyage. At the salvage hearings in Gibraltar following her recovery, the court's officers considered various possibilities of foul play, including mutiny by Mary Celeste ' s crew, piracy by the Dei Gratia crew or others, and conspiracy to carry out insurance or salvage fraud. No convincing evidence supported these theories, but unresolved suspicions led to a relatively low salvage award. The inconclusive nature of the hearings fostered continued speculation as to what had happened to the ship's occupants, and the story has repeatedly been complicated by false detail and fantasy. Hypotheses that have been advanced include the effects on the crew of alcohol fumes rising from the cargo, submarine earthquakes , waterspouts , attack by a giant squid , and paranormal intervention. After the Gibraltar hearings, Mary Celeste continued in service under new owners. In 1885, her captain deliberately wrecked her off the coast of Haiti as part of an attempted insurance fraud . The story of her 1872 abandonment has been recounted and dramatized many times in documentaries, novels, plays, and films, and the name of the ship has become a byword for unexplained desertion. In 1884, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote " J. Habakuk Je

UVB-76 - Wikipedia

UVB-76 - Wikipedia Jump to content Main menu Main menu move to sidebar hide Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Special pages Search Search Appearance Donate Create account Log in Personal tools Donate Create account Log in Contents move to sidebar hide (Top) 1 Early detection 2 Name and callsigns 3 Voice messages Toggle Voice messages subsection 3.1 Monolith 3.2 Uzor 3.3 Komanda 4 Unusual transmissions 5 Location and function 6 2025 drone strike 7 Other callsigns 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External links Toggle the table of contents UVB-76 35 languages العربية Brezhoneg Čeština Dansk Deutsch Ελληνικά Español Euskara فارسی Suomi Français עברית Magyar Bahasa Indonesia Ido Italiano 日本語 한국어 Lombard Lietuvių Latviešu മലയാളം Norsk bokmål Polski Português Română Русский Sardu Svenska Тоҷикӣ ไทย Türkçe Українська Tiếng Việt 中文 Edit links Article Talk English Read Edit View history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions Read Edit View history General What links here Related changes Upload file Permanent link Page information Cite this page Get shortened URL Switch to legacy parser Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Soviet and Russian shortwave radio station This article may contain improper references to user-generated content . Please help improve it by removing references to unreliable sources , where they are used inappropriately , and replacing them with references to reliable sources. Content that is not properly verifiable may be challenged and removed. ( March 2025 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) "The Buzzer" redirects here. For other uses, see Buzzer (disambiguation) . UVB-76 A spectrogram of UVB-76, showing the suppressed lower sideband Soviet Union (1982–1991) Russia (1991–present) Frequency 4625 kHz shortwave Programming Language Russian Format Repeated buzzing sound Ownership Owner Russian Armed Forces Sister stations The Pip , The Squeaky Wheel History Former call signs УЗБ-76 (commonly mistaken to be УВБ-76), МДЖБ , ЖУОЗ , АНВФ Former frequencies 4625.5 kHz Links A short clip of UVB-76's transmission as recorded in Southern Finland, 860 km (530 mi) away from the station in 2002. file help UVB-76 ( Russian : УВБ-76 ; see § Name and callsigns for other callsigns ), also known by the nickname " the Buzzer ", is a shortwave radio station that broadcasts in upper sideband mode on the frequency of 4625 kHz (wavelength of 64.8 m). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It broadcasts a short, monotonous buzz tone ( listen ⓘ ), repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones per minute, 24 hours per day. [ 1 ] Sometimes, the buzzer signal is interrupted and a voice transmission in Russian takes place. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] While its true purpose has never been revealed, the transmission is not related to the Dead Hand system, despite being sometimes referred to as Doomsday Radio . [ 7 ] It has been interrupted and stopped many times yet no retaliatory response – nuclear weapons nor Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) – has been launched as a result. The best-supported theory is that it is part of a military command network for the Leningrad Military District of Russia. [ 8 ] Early detection [ edit ] The UVB-76 signal was first detected by shortwave radio listeners, with the earliest preserved recording from 1982 capturing its repetitive tone on the 4625 kHz frequency. [ 9 ] Prior to widespread online documentation, the transmission drew attention from radio hobbyists monitoring Soviet-era shortwave bands, though its origin and operators remained unidentified at the time. Name and callsigns [ edit ] UVB-76 – "the Buzzer", recorded on 10 August 2022 The station is commonly known as "the Buzzer" [ 10 ] in both English and Russian ( Russian: Жужжалка , romanized: Zhuzhzhalka ). From its first voice transmission in 1997 to 2010, the station identified itself as UZB-76 [ 11 ] [ 12 ] ( УЗБ-76 ). The callsign UVB-76 was never used by the station itself, but is rather a mistranscription of UZB-76. [ 2 ] However, the station is still often referred to by that name. In the following years of transmission, the main callsign of the station changed regularly. Main callsigns of UVB-76 ("the Buzzer") Callsign Timespan used UZB-76 ( УЗБ-76 ) 24 December 1997 – 7 September 2010 MDZhB ( МДЖБ ) 7 September 2010 – 28 December 2015 ZhUOZ ( ЖУОЗ ) 28 December 2015 – 1 March 2019 ANVF ( АНВФ ) 1 March 2019 – 30 December 2020 NZhTI ( НЖТИ ) 30 December 2020 – present In addition to these main callsigns, the Buzzer also uses other "side callsigns" which are being used less frequently than the main callsign. Whenever the main callsign changes, all previous side callsigns are also discarded. [ 1 ] The station transmits using AM with a suppressed lower sideband (USB mo

Flight 19

Flight 19

U.S. Navy historical article reviewing the disappearance of Flight 19 and the search narrative.

Amelia Earhart - Wikipedia

Amelia Earhart - Wikipedia Jump to content Main menu Main menu move to sidebar hide Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Special pages Search Search Appearance Donate Create account Log in Personal tools Donate Create account Log in Contents move to sidebar hide (Top) 1 Early life Toggle Early life subsection 1.1 Childhood 1.2 Education 1.3 Nursing career and illness 1.4 Early flying experiences 1.5 Financial problems and move to Massachusetts 2 Aviation career Toggle Aviation career subsection 2.1 First woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean in 1928 2.1.1 Planning and sponsorship 2.1.2 Selection of Amelia Earhart 2.1.3 Preparations and departure 2.1.4 Transatlantic flight 2.1.5 Landing and reception 2.1.6 Aftermath 2.2 American reception 2.3 Celebrity status 2.4 Promoting aviation 2.5 Competitive flying 2.6 Marriage to George Putnam 2.7 Transatlantic solo flight in 1932 2.8 Additional solo flights 2.9 Move from New York to California 3 World flight in 1937 Toggle World flight in 1937 subsection 3.1 Planning 3.2 Abandoned first attempt 3.3 Second attempt 3.4 Flight between Lae and Howland Island 3.5 Disappearance 3.6 Search efforts 4 Speculation on disappearance 5 Legacy Toggle Legacy subsection 5.1 Tributes and memorials 5.1.1 Tributary flights 5.1.2 Buildings and structures 5.1.3 Other 6 In popular culture Toggle In popular culture subsection 6.1 Novels, plays and poems 6.2 Film and television 6.3 Music 6.4 Other 7 Records and achievements Toggle Records and achievements subsection 7.1 Historic aviation firsts – women 7.2 Historic aviation firsts – overall 7.3 Speed and altitude records – women 7.4 Speed and altitude records – overall 7.5 Honors and formal recognition 8 Books by Earhart 9 See also 10 Notes 11 References Toggle References subsection 11.1 Works cited 12 Further reading 13 External links Toggle the table of contents Amelia Earhart 108 languages Afrikaans Aragonés العربية مصرى Asturianu Aymar aru Azərbaycanca تۆرکجه Basa Bali Bikol Central Беларуская Български Banjar বাংলা Brezhoneg Bosanski Буряад Català کوردی Corsu Čeština Чӑвашла Cymraeg Dansk Deutsch Kadazandusun Ελληνικά Esperanto Español Eesti Euskara فارسی Suomi Føroyskt Français Frysk Gaeilge Galego गोंयची कोंकणी / Gõychi Konknni Gaelg Hausa עברית हिन्दी Hrvatski Kreyòl ayisyen Magyar Հայերեն Jaku Iban Bahasa Indonesia Ido Íslenska Italiano 日本語 ქართული Қазақша 한국어 Kurdî Latina Lëtzebuergesch Lietuvių Latviešu Madhurâ Malagasy Македонски മലയാളം Монгол मराठी Bahasa Melayu မြန်မာဘာသာ Plattdüütsch Nederlands Norsk nynorsk Norsk bokmål Occitan ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Pangasinan Polski پنجابی Nawat پښتو Português Română Русский ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ Scots Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Simple English Slovenčina Slovenščina Shqip Српски / srpski Svenska Kiswahili தமிழ் ไทย Türkmençe Tagalog Türkçe Українська اردو Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча Vèneto Tiếng Việt Winaray 吴语 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gí 粵語 中文 Edit links Article Talk English Read View source View history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions Read View source View history General What links here Related changes Upload file Permanent link Page information Cite this page Get shortened URL Switch to legacy parser Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikiquote Wikisource Wikidata item Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American aviation pioneer (1897–1937) "Earhart" redirects here. For other uses, see Earhart (disambiguation) and Amelia Earhart (disambiguation) . {{Death date|1939|1|5|1897|07|24}}"},"occupation":{"wt":"{{flatlist|\n* Aviator\n* author\n}}"},"spouse":{"wt":"{{marriage|[[George P. Putnam]]|February 7, 1931}}"},"known_for":{"wt":"Many early aviation records, including first woman to [[transatlantic flight|fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean]]"},"signature":{"wt":"Amelia Earhart's signature.svg"},"signature_size":{"wt":"200px"},"website":{"wt":"{{Official URL}}"},"awards":{"wt":"{{ubl|[[Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)|Distinguished Flying Cross]]|[[Légion d'honneur]]|[[National Aviation Hall of Fame]]|[[National Women's Hall of Fame]]}}"}},"i":0}}]}'> Amelia Earhart Earhart beneath the nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra , March 1937 in Oakland, California , before departing on her final round-the-world attempt prior to her disappearance Born Amelia Mary Earhart ( 1897-07-24 ) July 24, 1897 Atchison, Kansas , U.S. Disappeared July 2, 1937 (1937-07-02) (aged 39) Pacific Ocean [ a ] Status Declared dead in absentia [ 1 ] ( 1939-01-05 ) January 5, 1939 Occupations Aviator author Known for Many early aviation records, including first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean Spouse George P. Putnam ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. February 7, 1931</span>"}]]}'>1931 ) ​ Awards Distinguished Flying Cross Légion d'honneur National Aviation Hall of Fame National Women's Hall of Fame Website www .amel

Flight 19 - Wikipedia

Flight 19 - Wikipedia Jump to content Main menu Main menu move to sidebar hide Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Special pages Search Search Appearance Donate Create account Log in Personal tools Donate Create account Log in Contents move to sidebar hide (Top) 1 Navigation training flight 2 PBM-5 (Bureau Number 59225) 3 Investigation 4 Avenger wreckage mistaken for Flight 19 and other searches 5 In fiction 6 Crews of Flight 19 and PBM-5 BuNo 59225 7 See also 8 References 9 External links Toggle the table of contents Flight 19 27 languages العربية Беларуская Български Deutsch Ελληνικά Español Eesti Euskara فارسی Suomi Français עברית Հայերեն Bahasa Indonesia Italiano Bahasa Melayu Nederlands Polski Português Русский Slovenščina Svenska Kiswahili ไทย Türkçe Українська Tiếng Việt Edit links Article Talk English Read Edit View history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions Read Edit View history General What links here Related changes Upload file Permanent link Page information Cite this page Get shortened URL Switch to legacy parser Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia US Navy training flight lost in 1945 "},"date":{"wt":"December 5, 1945"},"image":{"wt":"File:Grumman TBF-1 Avengers of VGS-29 in flight over Norfolk, Virginia (USA), on 1 September 1942 (80-G-427475).jpg\n<!-- | alt = -->"},"caption":{"wt":"A similar flight of five [[Grumman TBF Avenger|'Avenger' aircraft]]"},"summary":{"wt":"[[List of aerial disappearances|Disappearance]]"},"site":{"wt":"Atlantic Ocean\n<!-- | coordinates = -->\n<!-- | passengers = -->"},"crew":{"wt":"14"},"fatalities":{"wt":"14"},"missing":{"wt":"14"},"survivors":{"wt":"0"},"aircraft_type":{"wt":"[[Grumman TBF Avenger|GM-built TBM Avenger]]\n<!--| aircraft_name = -->"},"operator":{"wt":"[[United States Navy]]\n<!-- | tail_number = -->"},"origin":{"wt":" [[Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale|NAS Fort Lauderdale]]\n<!-- | stopover = -->\n<!-- | stopover0 = -->\n<!-- | last_stopover = -->"},"destination":{"wt":"[[Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale|NAS Fort Lauderdale]]"}},"i":0}}]}'> Disappearance of Flight 19 A similar flight of five 'Avenger' aircraft Occurrence Date December 5, 1945 Summary Disappearance Site Atlantic Ocean Aircraft Aircraft type GM-built TBM Avenger Operator United States Navy Flight origin NAS Fort Lauderdale Destination NAS Fort Lauderdale Crew 14 Fatalities 14 Missing 14 Survivors 0 Flight 19 was the designation of a group of five Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945, after losing contact during a United States Navy overwater navigation training flight from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale , Florida. All 14 naval aviators on the flight were lost, as were all 13 crew members of a Martin PBM Mariner that subsequently launched from Naval Air Station Banana River to search for Flight 19. A report by Navy investigators concluded that flight leader Lt. Charles C. Taylor mistook small islands offshore for the Florida Keys after his compasses stopped working, resulting in the flight heading over open sea and away from land. The report was later amended by the Navy to read "cause unknown" to avoid blaming Taylor for the loss of five aircraft and 14 men. The report attributed the loss of the PBM aircraft to an explosion in mid-air while searching for Flight 19. Navigation training flight [ edit ] Lieutenant Charles Carroll Taylor, USNR, flight leader of Flight 19 Flight 19 undertook a routine navigation and combat training exercise in TBM-type aircraft . [ 1 ] The assignment was called "Navigation problem No. 1", a combination of bombing and navigation that other flights had completed or were scheduled to undertake that day. [ 2 ] The flight leader, Lieutenant Charles Carroll Taylor, had about 2,500 flying hours, mostly in aircraft of this type, while his trainee pilots each had 300 total and 60 flight hours in the Avenger. [ 2 ] Taylor had completed a combat tour in the Pacific theater as a torpedo bomber pilot on the aircraft carrier USS Hancock and had recently arrived from NAS Miami where he had also been a VTB (torpedo-bombing plane) instructor. The student pilots had recently completed other training missions in the area where the flight was to take place. [ 2 ] They were U.S. Marine Captains Edward Joseph Powers and George William Stivers, U.S. Marine Second Lieutenant Forrest James Gerber and USN Ensign Joseph Tipton Bossi. The aircraft were three TBM-1Cs (BuNo 45714, 'FT3'; BuNo 46325, 'FT81'; BuNo 73209, 'FT117'), one TBM-1E (BuNo 46094, 'FT36'); and one TBM-3 (BuNo 23307, 'FT28'). Each aircraft was a version of the Grumman TBF Ave

The Lost Colony - Fort Raleigh National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)

National Park Service historical overview of the Roanoke Colony and the unresolved fate of its settlers.

Antikythera mechanism - Wikipedia

Antikythera mechanism - Wikipedia Jump to content Main menu Main menu move to sidebar hide Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Special pages Search Search Appearance Donate Create account Log in Personal tools Donate Create account Log in Contents move to sidebar hide (Top) 1 History Toggle History subsection 1.1 Discovery 1.2 Origin 2 Design 3 Mechanics Toggle Mechanics subsection 3.1 Operation 3.2 Faces 3.2.1 Front face 3.2.2 Rear face 3.3 Doors 3.4 Gearing 3.4.1 Known gear scheme 4 Reconstruction efforts Toggle Reconstruction efforts subsection 4.1 Proposed gear schemes 4.2 Accuracy 5 Similar devices in ancient literature Toggle Similar devices in ancient literature subsection 5.1 Roman world 5.2 Eastern Mediterranean and others 6 Popular culture and museum replicas 7 See also 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External links Toggle the table of contents Antikythera mechanism 70 languages Afrikaans Alemannisch Aragonés العربية Asturianu Azərbaycanca Bikol Central Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Беларуская Български বাংলা Bosanski Català Čeština Dansk Deutsch Ελληνικά Esperanto Español Eesti Euskara فارسی Suomi Français Galego Hausa עברית Hrvatski Magyar Հայերեն Bahasa Indonesia Igbo Ido Italiano 日本語 ქართული 한국어 Latina Lëtzebuergesch Lietuvių Latviešu മലയാളം ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ Bahasa Melayu Nederlands Norsk bokmål Polski Português Română Русский Sicilianu Scots Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски සිංහල Simple English Slovenčina Slovenščina Shqip Српски / srpski Svenska தமிழ் ไทย Türkmençe Tagalog Türkçe Українська اردو Tiếng Việt 吴语 中文 Edit links Article Talk English Read Edit View history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions Read Edit View history General What links here Related changes Upload file Permanent link Page information Cite this page Get shortened URL Switch to legacy parser Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ancient Greek analogue astronomical computer Antikythera mechanism The Antikythera mechanism (fragment A – front and rear); visible is the largest gear in the mechanism, about 13 cm (5 in) in diameter. Type Analogue computer Writing Ancient Greek Created 2nd century BC Period/culture Hellenistic Discovered 1901 Antikythera , Greece Present location National Archaeological Museum, Athens The Antikythera mechanism ( / ˌ æ n t ɪ k ɪ ˈ θ ɪər ə / AN -tik-ih- THEER -ə , US also / ˌ æ n t aɪ k ɪ ˈ -/ AN -ty-kih- ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is an ancient Greek hand-powered orrery (model of the Solar System ) built in the 2nd century BC and discovered in 1901. It is the oldest known example of an analogue computer . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It could be used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] It could also be used to track the four-year cycle of athletic games similar to an olympiad , the cycle of the ancient Olympic Games . [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The arte fact was among wreckage retrieved from a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera in 1901. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] In 1902, during a visit to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, it was noticed by Greek politician Spyridon Stais as containing a gear , [ 14 ] prompting the first study of the fragment by his cousin, Valerios Stais , the museum director. The device, housed in the remains of a wooden-framed case of (uncertain) overall size 34 cm × 18 cm × 9 cm (13.4 in × 7.1 in × 3.5 in) , [ 15 ] [ 16 ] was found as one lump, later separated into three main fragments which are now divided into 82 separate fragments after conservation efforts. Four of these fragments contain gears, while inscriptions are found on many others. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The largest gear is about 13 cm (5 in) in diameter and originally had 223 teeth. [ 17 ] All these fragments of the mechanism are kept at the National Archaeological Museum, along with reconstructions and replicas , [ 18 ] [ 19 ] to demonstrate how it may have looked and worked. [ 20 ] In 2005, a team from Cardiff University led by Mike Edmunds used computer X-ray tomography and high resolution scanning to image inside fragments of the crust-encased mechanism and read faint inscriptions that once covered the outer casing. [ 21 ] These scans suggest that the mechanism had 37 meshing bronze gears enabling it to follow the movements of the Moon and the Sun through the zodiac, to predict eclipses and to model the irregular orbit of the Moon , where the Moon's velocity is higher in its perigee than in its apogee . This motion was studied in the 2nd century BC by astronomer Hipparchus of Rhodes , and he may have been consulted in the machine's construction. [ 22 ] There is speculation that a portion of the mechanism is missing and it calculated the positions of the five classical planets . The inscriptions were further deciphered in 2016, revealing