gnostek1 / 5The Wow! signal represented as "6EQUJ5". The original printout with Ehman's handwritten exclamation is preserved by Ohio History Connection .
01The signal peaked at intensity 30 times above background noise at 1420 MHz — the hydrogen frequency.
02Big Ear was demolished in 1997; no other telescope was pointed at that sky position during the burst.
03A 2016 study proposed a pair of passing comets (266P/Christensen) as the source — most astronomers remain unconvinced.
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01York's Tama-Re compound in Eatonton, Georgia, included a full-scale pyramid, sphinx, and obelisk he built himself.
02Federal conviction in 2004 cited 117 counts of child molestation; victims ranged from age 4 to 14.
03York claimed he was an alien from the 'Illyuwn' galaxy sent to prepare Black Americans for ascension.
gnostek1 / 13Cosmic flux versus particle energy at the top of Earth's atmosphere
01The 'Oh-My-God particle' had energy 3×10^20 eV — 40 million times more than CERN's LHC can produce.
02Above ~5×10^19 eV, the GZK limit predicts particles should be shredded by CMB photons en route — yet it arrived.
03Its source remains unknown; no known astrophysical accelerator within 160 million light-years can explain it.
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01Abrell was 19 years old and had enlisted from Terre Haute, Indiana, when he died at Hangnyong, Korea.
02His Medal of Honor citation records that he acted 'with full knowledge of the consequences' — a bureaucratic phrase for a boy's deliberate death.
03Abrell is one of 145 Medal of Honor recipients from the Korean War, 94 of them awarded posthumously.
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01The last log entry, dated November 25, 1872, placed the ship near the Azores; she was found 400 miles off course.
02Captain Benjamin Briggs had brought his wife and two-year-old daughter aboard; all three vanished with the crew.
03Nine of the 1,701 alcohol barrels were found empty on inspection — the only anomaly in an otherwise untouched cargo.
gnostek1 / 4Memorial stone to the Ems dispatch in Bad Ems
01Bismarck edited the Ems Dispatch over dinner, then released it to newspapers the same evening.
02France declared war on Prussia within five days of the doctored text appearing in print.
03The resulting Franco-Prussian War ended with Germany's proclamation as a unified empire at Versailles.
gnostek1 / 3Side and top view of A-, B-, and Z-DNA conformations.
01Franklin died in 1958 at age 37 of ovarian cancer; Nobel rules bar posthumous awards, so she was never eligible.
02Watson admitted in his 1968 memoir that seeing Photo 51 was the moment the structure became clear to him.
03Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel with Watson and Crick; Franklin's name appears nowhere in the prize citation.
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01The Dacian haul of 165 tonnes of gold was the largest single treasure seizure in Roman history.
02Trajan celebrated the victory with 123 days of games involving 11,000 animals and 10,000 gladiators.
03Dacia's king Decebalus cut his own throat rather than be paraded through Rome in Trajan's triumph.
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01The Treasury Department ruled that U.S. lawyers required a special license to legally represent al-Awlaki in court.
02A federal judge dismissed his father's lawsuit to remove him from the kill list, citing lack of standing.
03The Justice Department's legal memo authorizing the killing was classified for three years after his death.