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Image credits: anon #14. Carbon dioxide was blamed for the deaths of around 1700 people in Cameroon, west Africa, in 1986 when a massive release of gas occurred from Lake Nyos, a volcanic crater lake.
It is most famous for being the scene of the Battle of Utapau, marked by the duel where Obi-Wan Kenobi kills General Grievous. It is also known as the homeworld of the Grand Inquisitor of the Galactic Empire, an agent under the orders of Darth Vader. Despite its mostly desert surface, Utapau is the home world of the Utais, Pau'ans and Amanins.
Unethical human experimentation is human experimentation that violates the principles of medical ethics.Such practices have included denying patients the right to informed consent, using pseudoscientific frameworks such as race science, and torturing people under the guise of research.
Here are nine of some of the most significant archaeological discoveries in history that changed what humans know about our origins and culture through time. Pompeii and Herculaneum gave a glimpse ...
A set of props used in the production of the Saw films, which are notorious for depicting extreme graphic violence. Extreme cinema (or hardcore horror and extreme horror [1] [2]) is a subgenre used for films distinguished by its use of excessive sex and violence, and depiction of extreme acts such as mutilation and torture.
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April 22 – Trees have a theoretical maximum height of 130 m (426 ft) before gravity restricts their growth, according to a study published in Nature. [5]July 30 – Marine biologists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute announce in the journal Science the discovery of the genus Osedax, deep sea worms that feed on lipids in decaying whale carcasses.
March 25 – Enrico Fermi publishes his discovery of neutron activation of radioactive decay. [3] Sonoluminescence is discovered at the University of Cologne. Gregory Breit and John A. Wheeler describe the Breit–Wheeler process. Henri Coandă obtains his first patent, in France, on the Coandă effect.