Information Awareness Office Total Information Awareness (TIA) was a program of the US Information Awareness Office. It was operated from February until May 2003, before being renamed as the Terrorism Information Awareness Program.[4][5] Based on the concept of predictive policing, TIA aimed to gather detailed information about individuals in order to anticipate and prevent crimes before they are committed.[6] As part of efforts to win the War on Terror, the program searched for all sorts of personal information in the hunt for terrorists around the globe.[7] According to Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), TIA was the "biggest surveillance program in the history of the United States".[8] The program was suspended in late 2003 by the United States Congress after media reports criticized the government for attempting to establish "Total Information Awareness" over all citizens.[9][10][11] History[edit] Early developments[edit] Congressional restrictions[edit] Mission[edit] 1. 2. 3. 4. Scope of surveillance[edit] Criticism[edit]
Vanishing hitchhiker The Vanishing Hitchhiker (or variations such as the ghostly hitchhiker, the disappearing hitchhiker, the phantom hitchhiker or simply the hitchhiker) story is an urban legend in which people traveling by vehicle meet with or are accompanied by a hitchhiker who subsequently vanishes without explanation, often from a moving vehicle. Vanishing hitchhikers have been reported for centuries and the story is found across the world, with many variants. The popularity and endurance of the legend has helped it spread into popular culture. Public knowledge of the term expanded greatly with the 1981 publication of Jan Harold Brunvand's book The Vanishing Hitchhiker, which helped launch public awareness of urban legends. Variations[edit] A common variation of the above involves the vanishing hitchhiker departing as would a normal passenger, having left some item in the car, or having borrowed a garment for protection against alleged cold (whether or not the weather conditions reflect this claim). A.
The Licked Hand The Licked Hand, known sometimes as The Doggy Lick,[1] is an urban legend popular among teenagers. Like many urban legends, it has several versions, most prominently a story told in Indiana.[2] Plot[edit] A young girl is home alone for the first time with only her dog for company. Other of the story variations feature a nearsighted old woman, the lack of a radio, the dog being skinned, or the dog's body being found in different areas of the house. Popular culture[edit] References[edit] Notes[edit] Sources[edit] Brunvand, Jan Harold. Further reading[edit] "Humans Can Lick Too" Scaryforkids.com Villisca, Iowa Villisca is a city in Montgomery County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,252 at the 2010 census. It is most notable for the unsolved axe murders that took place in the town during the summer of 1912. Geography[edit] Villisca is located at WikiMiniAtlas According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.90 square miles (4.92 km2), all of it land.[1] Demographics[edit] 2010 census[edit] There were 525 households of which 30.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.6% were married couples living together, 10.3% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.2% had a male householder with no wife present, and 37.0% were non-families. 31.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 16.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. 2000 census[edit] The median income for a household in the city was $26,694, and the median income for a family was $34,345. Villisca Axe Murders[edit] Josiah B. References[edit]
The Hermitage (Hamilton, Ontario) The Hermitage was a large residence situated in Ancaster, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada which now exists as ruins and is part of The Hermitage and Gatehouse Museum maintained by the Hamilton Conservation Authority. The location is a popular destination for hikers and people interested in the paranormal. The Hermitage was originally built in 1830 by the Reverend George Sheed. Otto Ives (1804-1835)[citation needed] [1] was the third land owner. The ladies of the household spoke only Greek, and it is said that Black fell in love with the sister or niece. Although this story has become legend in Ancaster, and although Otto Ives owned the Hermitage in the 1830s, there is little other information from the time to substantiate the legend of the coachman and the niece's love affair. In 1853, the Hermitage was purchased by George Gordon Browne Leith (1812-1887) and his wife Eleanor Ferrier (1814-1900). The Museum is affiliated with: CMA, CHIN, and Virtual Museum of Canada.
Wilhelm Reich Wilhelm Reich (/raɪx/; German: [ʀaɪç], 24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) was an Austrian psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of psychoanalysts after Sigmund Freud, and one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry. He was the author of several influential books, most notably Character Analysis (1933) and The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933).[2] His work on character contributed to the development of Anna Freud's The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936), and his idea of muscular armour – the expression of the personality in the way the body moves – shaped innovations such as body psychotherapy, Fritz Perls's Gestalt therapy, Alexander Lowen's bioenergetic analysis, and Arthur Janov's primal therapy. His writing influenced generations of intellectuals: during the 1968 student uprisings in Paris and Berlin, students scrawled his name on walls and threw copies of The Mass Psychology of Fascism at the police.[3] Early life[edit] Childhood[edit]
The Great Thunderstorm A contemporary woodcut of the storm The Great Thunderstorm of Widecombe-in-the-Moor in Dartmoor, Kingdom of England, took place on Sunday, 21 October 1638, when the church of St Pancras was apparently struck by ball lightning during a severe thunderstorm. An afternoon service was taking place at the time, and the building was packed with approximately 300 worshippers. Eyewitness accounts[edit] The tower of Widecombe church today Written accounts by eyewitnesses, apparently published within months of the catastrophe,[1] tell of a strange darkness, powerful thunder, and "a great ball of fire" ripping through a window and tearing part of the roof open. Some are said to have suffered burns to their bodies, but not their clothes. The village schoolmaster of the time, a gentleman called Roger Hill, and brother of the deceased "Master Hill", recorded the incident in a rhyming testament which is still displayed on boards (originals replaced in 1786) in the church. The legend[edit] See also[edit]
Orgone Orgone energy accumulator (with door closed) (with door open) Alternating layers of organic and non-organic materials inside the walls supposedly increase the orgone concentration inside the enclosure relative to the surrounding environment. Reich's theories held that deficits or constrictions in bodily orgone were at the root of many diseases—including cancer—much as deficits or constrictions in the libido could produce neuroses in Freudian theory. Reich founded the Orgone Institute ca. 1942[10] to pursue research into orgone energy after he immigrated to the US in 1939, and used it to publish literature and distribute material relating to the topic for more than a decade. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine lists orgone as a type of "putative energy".[12] There is no empirical support for the concept of orgone in medicine or the physical sciences,[6][dead link] and research into the concept ceased with the end[when?] History[edit] Evaluation[edit] William S.
Super Power Building The Church of Scientology announced in August 2013 that the building would be opened to the public on October 6, 2013 with a dedication ceremony that the church estimated would attract approximately 10,000 Scientologists.[3] However, a month later it emerged that the church had canceled the ceremony and postponed the opening of the building.[4] It was finally opened on November 17, 2013.[5] Purpose[edit] Hubbard wrote that "Super Power is the answer to a sick, a dying and dead society. With it, we literally revive the dead. Perceptics[edit] The Church of Scientology's in-house magazine Source has promoted the program as being aimed "to shift the creation of a new civilization into overdrive". Artist's rendering of training equipment to be used for delivering Super Power rundowns.[9] Design[edit] Fundraising[edit] The building was financed through a fundraising effort called the "Super Power Expansion Project." Project history[edit] Northwest corner view of the Super Power Building
Collective unconscious Collective unconscious is a term of analytical psychology, coined by Carl Jung. It is proposed to be a part of the unconscious mind, expressed in humanity and all life forms with nervous systems, and describes how the structure of the psyche autonomously organizes experience. Jung distinguished the collective unconscious from the personal unconscious, in that the personal unconscious is a personal reservoir of experience unique to each individual, while the collective unconscious collects and organizes those personal experiences in a similar way with each member of a particular species. Jung's definitions[edit] For Jung, “My thesis then, is as follows: in addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. See also[edit]
Manticore From New World Encyclopedia Manticore illustration from The History of Four-footed Beasts (1607), by Edward Topsell. Like many such beasts, there is dispute about the existence of the manticore. Etymology Originally, the term manticore came into the English language from the Latin mantichora, which was borrowed from the Greek mantikhoras. Description The manticore is said to be able to shoot its spines either in front or behind, curving its tail over its body to shoot forwards, or straightening it tail to shoot them backwards. The manticore is said to be able to leap in high and far bounds; it is an excellent hunter, and is said to have a special appetite for human flesh. Origin The manticore originated in Ancient Persian mythology and was brought to the Western mythology by Ctesias, a Greek physician at the Persian court, in the fifth century B.C.E.[4] The Romanized Greek Pausanias, in his Description of Greece, recalled strange animals he had seen at Rome and commented, A wild Bengal tiger