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Senior prank. A senior prank, also known as muck-up day in Australia [1] and the United Kingdom, [2][3] is a type of organized prank by the senior class of a school, college, or university. They are often carried out at or near the end of the academic year and are part of school traditions. While most senior pranks are harmless, more severe ...
The New Media Writing Prize was established in 2010 by James Pope and Sue Luminati as part of the inaugural Poole Literary Festival. From 2011 until 2021 James Pope directed the competition and awards event at Bournemouth University. Lyle Skains is the current director. Support has come from internal funding, and a wide range of external ...
Julius Chambers Nellie Bly. The muckrakers would become known for their investigative journalism, evolving from the eras of "personal journalism"—a term historians Emery and Emery used in The Press and America (6th ed.) to describe the 19th century newspapers that were steered by strong leaders with an editorial voice (p. 173)—and yellow journalism.
Bret Harte. Bret Harte (/ hɑːrt / HART, born Francis Brett Hart, August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he also wrote poetry, plays, lectures ...
Amok syndrome. A pengamuk (lit. 'one who runs amok') in Batavia, Java, c. 1858–1861. A group of people pursue to catch or kill him. Amok syndrome is an aggressive dissociative behavioral pattern derived from Malay world, modern Indonesia and Malaysia, that led to the English phrase running amok. [1] The word derives from the Malay word amuk ...
Sapric. A sapric is a subtype of a histosol [ 1 ] where virtually all of the organic material has undergone sufficient decomposition to prevent the identification of plant parts. [ 2 ][ 3 ]Muck is a sapric soil that is naturally waterlogged or is artificially drained.
Muck Rack is a software database for journalists and public relation offices founded in 2009 by Gregory Galant and Lee Semel. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] It is free for journalists and subscription-based for public relation offices, and a news aggregator of works by registered journalist.
TinyMUCK or, more broadly, a MUCK, is a type of user-extendable online text-based role-playing game, designed for role playing and social interaction. [1]