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However, while "The Black Chamber" ceased operations following the withdrawal of funding, the publication of Yardley's book two years later and its resultant controversy in government circles caused the amendment of the Espionage Act of 1917 to prohibit the disclosure of foreign code or any communication transmitted through code.
Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American-Russian former NSA intelligence contractor and whistleblower [4] who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs.
The report aired in January 1989 and the report said "It's Barry Awful, It's Barry Hell" and the presenter at the end said "If you're off to Barry Island this summer, send us a postcard." They did! By the end of the summer of 1989, That's Life had received 8,000 postcards in praise of the camp, with only about 40 complaints. [ 6 ]
An offstage whistle audible to the audience in the middle of a performance might also be considered bad luck. Transcendental whistling ( chángxiào 長嘯) was an ancient Chinese Daoist technique of resounding breath yoga, and skillful whistlers supposedly could summon supernatural beings, wild animals, and weather phenomena.
The Timor Sea (blue) is a rich source of oil and natural gas. The Australia–Timor-Leste spying scandal began in 2004 when the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) clandestinely planted covert listening devices in a room adjacent to the Timor-Leste (East Timor) Prime Minister's Office at Dili, to obtain information in order to ensure Australia held the upper hand in negotiations with ...
In the 2004 Guinness World Records, Train Mountain is recognized as the “Longest Miniature Hobby Railroad”. [4] At the time Train Mountain was recognized by Guinness, it was reported to have 69,900 feet (13.24 mi; 21.3 km) of 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (190.5 mm) gauge mainline track and 133,250 feet (25.237 mi; 40.61 km) of total track including yards, sidings, spurs, and connector tracks.
Graffiti with a Nazi swastika and 14/88 on a wall in Elektrostal, Moscow, Russia Graffiti with 1488 and an obscure message on a wall in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Russia "The Fourteen Words" (also abbreviated 14 or 1488) is a reference to two slogans originated by the American domestic terrorist David Eden Lane, [1] [2] one of nine founding members of the defunct white supremacist terrorist ...
Dade County was established in 1837 and was named for Major Francis Langhorne Dade, who was killed in the Dade Massacre by Seminole Indians in December 1835. [4] [5] The first settlers of Dade County won the land in the Georgia Land Lotteries, held to encourage settlement after the Cherokee people were forced off the land.