Knowledge in a Nutshell
Daniel Pearl was working as the South Asia Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal, based in Mumbai, India. He was kidnapped when he went to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between British citizen Richard Reid and al-Qaeda. Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British national of Pakistani origin, was sentenced to death by hanging for...
The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a man-made global catastrophe. Maintained by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, it is a metaphor for threats to humanity from unchecked scientific and technical advances. The Clock has been adjusted 22 times since its inception in 1947, when it was set to \”seven minutes to Midnight\”.
Cloris Leachman was an American actress and comedian. She won eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations. In film, she appeared in Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show as the jaded wife of a closeted schoolteacher in the 1950s. Her other notable film and television credits include The Twilight Zone, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, WUSA, Yesterday, Spanglish, and...
The United States Department of Health & Human Services is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the U.S. federal government. Its motto is “Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America” HHS is administered by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, who is appointed by the President. The position is currently held by Norris Cochran, who was appointed as...
A single share of the stock represents fractional ownership of the corporation in proportion to the total number of shares. Not all stock is necessarily equal, as certain classes of stock may be issued for example without voting rights, with enhanced voting rights or with a certain priority to receive profits or liquidation proceeds.
Deportation is the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country. Deportations widely occurred in ancient history, and is well-recorded particularly in ancient Mesopotamia. Mass expulsion may also occur when members of an ethnic group are sent out of a state regardless of nationality. Collective expulsion, or expulsion en masse, is prohibited by several instruments...
GameStop traces its roots to Babbage’s, a Dallas, Texas-based software retailer founded in 1984. It launched its GameStop brand with 30 stores in 1999, located in strip malls located in Texas and New Jersey. In 1999, it was purchased by Barnes & Noble Booksellers for USD 215 million in a deal that included the purchase of 200 stores that were...
My Pillow, Inc. is a pillow manufacturing company based in Chaska, Minnesota, United States. The company was founded in 2009 by Mike Lindell, who invented and patented My Pillow, an open-cell, poly-foam pillow design. My Pillow has sold over 41 million pillows, due mostly to TV infomercials.
The Oval Office is the executive office of the president of the United States. It is located in the West Wing of the White House complex. There have been six different desks used in the two iterations of the Oval Office. The Resolute desk has spent the longest time in the office having been used by eight presidents.
Coon is the Australian trademark of a cheddar cheese. It is produced by the Warrnambool Cheese and Butter company, which is majority-owned by Canadian dairy company Saputo Inc. In October 1949, Kraft Foods Inc. registered the trademark ‘COON’ with the US Patent Office, claiming use since 1910. On 13 January 2021, the chair and CEO of Saputo announced that ‘Coon’...
