The Paris Olympic games are facing an unprecedented threat with security experts warning that state-level hackers are aiming to seriously disrupt the global sporting event with cyber attacks and disinformation campaigns. Dr Jamie Collier, a threat expert at Mandiant, Google’s… Posted on July 12,...
It would be about $57,000 today. As the Titanic was leaving the port, the suction it caused actually snapped the ropes of a nearby docked ship, the S.S. New York. Tugboats had to race to the scene to prevent the New York from colliding with the Titanic. Some people felt this was...
After three expeditions and at the request of the family of some of the crew, the ship’s bronze bell was recovered on July 4, 1995. HMHS Britannic Belonging to the Olympic class of steamships, the White Star Line vessel, HMHS Britannic, was the most recent sister ship of the RMS Oly...
Part of a new “Olympic” class of liners, each ship would measure 882 feet in length and 92.5 feet at their broadest point, making them the largest of their time. In March 1909, work began in the massive Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, on the second of these three ...
Condoms also come in wrappers withquippy phrases like“On the field of love, play fair. Ask for consent.” Another phrase is “No need to be a gold medalist to wear it!” YouTube 3 Athletes Could Ship Food To The Olympic Village Before The Games ...
In 1920, Belgium became the sixth country in the world (out of 21 so far) to host the Olympic Games (in Antwerp). Belgium provided the uranium for the A-Bomb dropped by the Americans on Hiroshima. It came from the colony of Belgian Congo. The world-famous Club Med was started in...
Fun Facts About Hawaii Nickname:Aloha State Origin of name:Uncertain. The islands may have been named by Hawaii Loa, their traditional discoverer. Or they may have been named after Hawaii or Hawaiki, the traditional home of the Polynesians. ...
making it significantly larger than today’s professional hockey rinks (200 feet by 85 feet) and Olympic figure skating rinks (200 feet by 98 feet). Today, resurfacing a rink takes less than 15 minutes, but before 1950, the process could take up to an hour, resulting in a very long int...
The common assumption is that these names are Latinizations of their ancestor Brythonic names. Almost everyone agrees that this name derives from the Brittonic. Recent research, however, reveals that it may have a mammalian origin, “mother,” about a local river goddess. Insular Celtic ...
Lugh's wife. Although historically attested games were held from the 6th to the 12th century CE, it is claimed that the origins of the Tailteann Games go back to 632 BCE, or even as far as 1600 BCE (against 776 BCE for the ancient Greek Olympic Games). Modern revival of the games ha...