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Linguistic anthropological studies have shown that most human communities have four points of cardinal direction.The names given to these directions are usually derived from either locally-specific geographic features (e.g. "towards the hills", "towards the sea") or from celestial bodies (especially the sun) or from atmospheric features (winds, temperature). [1]
Kryptos is a sculpture by the American artist Jim Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters, the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia. [1] Since its dedication on November 3, 1990, there has been much speculation about the meaning of the four encrypted messages it bears.
Lunar corona A solar corona up Beinn Mhòr (South Uist). In meteorology, a corona (plural coronae) is an optical phenomenon produced by the diffraction of sunlight or moonlight (or, occasionally, bright starlight or planetlight) [1] by individual small water droplets and sometimes tiny ice crystals of a cloud or on a foggy glass surface.
It takes all the colors of the rainbow for us to see it that way. ... Light has to pass through a larger part of the atmosphere when the sun is lower on the horizon. Red, orange and yellow have ...
Operation Midnight Climax was an operation carried out by the CIA as a sub-project of Project MKUltra, the mind-control research program that began in the 1950s. It was initially established in 1954 by Sidney Gottlieb and placed under the direction of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in Boston, Massachusetts with the "Federal Narcotics Agent and CIA consultant" [1] George Hunter White under the ...
Operation Northwoods memorandum (13 March 1962) [1] General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, who was in charge as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation that originated within the US Department of Defense of the United States government in 1962.
The CIA has sent the White House an unclassified email listing all new hires that have been with the agency for two years or less in an effort to comply with an executive order to downsize the ...
The colors are usually pastel, but can be very vivid or mingled together, sometimes similar to mother-of-pearl. [7] When appearing near the Sun, the effect can be difficult to spot as it is drowned in the Sun's glare. This may be overcome by shielding the sunlight with one's hand or hiding it behind a tree or building.