The economic theory that the success of state endeavours only comes after a few failures and false starts. Initially a derogatory criticism of the then Alliance government and its forays into the private sector, the eventual commercial success of the Britannia Arena saw the phrase's adoption by Prime Minister Kennedy having won his 2nd attempt at a General Election when the scandal hit Tories mistakenly called an early poll.
The name of a pub from Jeremy Knowles Rowling's novel The Hairy Potter, a semi-biographical story about his father and his attempts to adjust to the changing society of the industrializing 19th-century Britain, especially as regards the changing countryside and the loss of traditional jobs to the factories.
In early 2003 famed infomercial spokesman Billy Mays ran an infomercial discussing the pretexts for the upcoming invasion of Iraq, and why they were all false. His claims were so logical and factual that the Bush administration reacted with horror, as Mays clearly made the case that an invasion of Iraq would be unnecessary, and potentially a war crime. In order to keep up their plans, they made him release a statement that he had been “hacked” and replaced by a lookalike, thus starting one of the strangest stories of our time.
Jack Lewis's humorous account of the deciphering of Linear B script told in the style of classical heroic literature. Originally a private joke among the linguists and historians it was accidentally released to a journalist. Thereafter almost every linguistic book on Linear B would include a copy and an editor's essay on its inclusion.
An painting depicting a sacrifice of a Japanese Catholic Saint Motoko Kasunagi during the Christian rebelion in Japan, who threw himself forward and was fired upon by an entire regiment of Shogun's troops
A failed chicken restaurant founded by Afghan immigrant Abdul Akhtar in Bismarck North Dakota. Akhtar had named the restaurant after the towns namesake, Otto Von Bismarck, hoping to capitalize on the name and the lack of chicken restaurants in the region. However the restaurant closed after two years of operating, with Akhtar later moving on to Moorhead Minnesota where he became wealthy as a distributor of middle eastern foods to the Middle Eastern community of the upper Midwest.
After his retirement from public life in 1890, Otto von Bismarck devoted much of his time to his former hobby of cooking, including experimental cooking. Most of these were minor variations on known dishes, but one particular recipe, which he called global chicken, involved the combining of herbs and spices native to various German colonies with German rye flour to make a uniquely flavourful coating for deep fried chicken; Bismarck himself referred to it as “the only good thing to come out of colonialism,” and it’s become globally popular.
A composition album made by Lavrentiy Beria, made in 1924 and recorded in Sent-Frantsisko in the Zapadnyyic Republic.
“A croc won’t chase a hare” the Aussies say, quite correctly. No matter how many wild rabbits, or cane toads, or dingoes roam the Outback, Australias legendarily dangerous native fauna will do nothing about them. Not the taipans, or the box jellies, or the drop bears...
The Double Dragon is the famous final boss (with the infamously odd translation) to the arcade game Mortal Kombat, which was one of the seminal games in the genre from the early 1990s. Indeed, the game has since seen multiple ports to home consoles and PCs, five sequels, one prequal, and a well-received movie starring Jackie Chan in 1997; Double Dragon has appeared in all of them.
A game development company in Asgard, New Sweden (ATL Philadelphia) in 1992, known for its RPGs and Full-Motion Video. Among its staff is Manoj Shyamalan.
Dream of the Biblical prophet Joseph, describing the relative positions of Egypt, Israel, and Babylon. Israel was the mouse, Egypt the whale and Babylon the spider.
“I’m the biggest star. In America,” Elvis said one night after his 1968 comeback special. “But the Ruskies need rock and roll, too. Maybe we could all learn just who were pointing our nuclear missiles at...”.
A short film made by New Zealand conceptual artist and avant grade film maker John Lennon. The film is basically just a movie of Lennon getting his haircut by an old friend from Auckland who gives him a bad haircut. In the meantime the two men talk about current events in New Zealand and the world. The film the ends with Lennon looking in the mirror, frowning and then fades to black. Made in 1967 in Auckland, the film was Lennon’s first without a script.
The name applied to the POW camps run by the Union Army during the Civil War by several revisionist historical societies in the US Deep South, attempting to blacken the reputation of the Union, and the modern northern US in general. Though the prisoners were indeed put to work, the practice was common at the time throughout the world. The Northern camps were not significantly different than the Southern... or the British, French, et. al.
A strect of land near the southern border of the us state of new mexico and arizona. Named after the mysterious accident that always happened the most notorious one is the crash of a us border helicopter even though the helicopter is brand new and in mint condition another accident happened when a group of italian tourist was found beheaded in the valley with their belonging still there.
A June 21 1999 plane crash that killed nearly 75 people while flying over the Atlantic Ocean. Conspiracy theorists claimed this validated a prophecy of famed seer Nostradamus that talked about an object falling from the sky on June 21st 1999. The crash was instrumental in creating a low demand for flying in the 2000s and lead the Gore administration to work on making air travel safer.
Pronounced "Davee Oolawn" (referring to a specific kind of meadowland), and is a kind of fungus native to eastern America.
