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1858 Bradford sweets poisoning
In 1858 a batch of sweets in Bradford, England, was accidentally adulterated with poisonous arsenic trioxide. About five pounds (two kilograms) of sweets were s…
2016 Irkutsk mass methanol poisoning
In December 2016, over 70 people died of methanol poisoning in the Russian city of Irkutsk. Caused by the consumption of adulterated surrogate alcohol, it was t…
Acetic acid
Acetic acid /əˈsiːtɪk/, systematically named ethanoic acid /ˌɛθəˈnoʊɪk/, is an acidic, colourless liquid and organic compound with the chemical formula CH3COOH …
Achelousaurus
AchelousaurusTemporal range: Late Cretaceous, 77–74.8 Ma
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Skull of holotype specimen MOR 485 (with reconstructed parts…
Alan Shepard
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut. In 1961, he became the second person and the first American to tra…
Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany
A Nazi-era anti-smoking ad titled "The chain-smoker" reading: "He does not devour it, it devours him" (from the anti-tobacco publication Reine Luft, 1941;23:90)…
Asylum confinement of Christopher Smart
Christopher Smart
The English poet Christopher Smart (1722–1771) was confined to mental asylums from May 1757 until January 1763. Smart was admitted to St Luke'…
Batman: Arkham Asylum
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Birth control movement in the United States
The birth control movement in the United States was a social reform campaign beginning in 1914 that aimed to increase the availability of contraception in the U…
Bog turtle
Bog turtleTemporal range: 5–0 Ma
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Middle Pleistocene – Recent
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Critically Endangered (IUCN …
Bupropion
Pharmaceutical compound
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Burke and Hare murders
The Burke and Hare murders were a series of sixteen murders committed over a period of about ten months in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland. They were undertaken by …
Buruli ulcer
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Chagas disease
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Cholangiocarcinoma
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Cock Lane ghost
A 19th-century illustration of Cock Lane. The haunting took place in the three-storey building on the right.
The Cock Lane ghost was a purported haunting that a…
Coeliac disease
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Crush (video game)
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Daspletosaurus
DaspletosaurusTemporal range: Late Cretaceous (Campanian), 77–74.4 Ma
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David Kelly (weapons expert)
David Christopher Kelly CMG (14 May 1944 – 17 July 2003) was a Welsh scientist and authority on biological warfare (BW). A former head of the Defence Micro…
Endometrial cancer
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Ernie Fletcher
Ernest Lee Fletcher (born November 12, 1952) is an American politician who was the 60th governor of Kentucky from 2003 to 2007. He previously served three conse…
Everywhere at the End of Time
Everywhere at the End of Time is the eleventh recording by English electronic musician James Leyland Kirby under the alias the Caretaker. Released between 2016 …
Female genital mutilation
Female genital mutilation (FGM) (also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision) is the cutting or remo…