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40°30′38″N 105°4′27″W. / 40.51056°N 105.07417°W / 40.51056; -105.07417. The Balloon Boy hoax occurred on October 15, 2009, when a homemade helium-filled gas balloon shaped to resemble a silver flying saucer was released into the atmosphere above Fort Collins, Colorado, by Richard and Mayumi Heene. They then claimed that ...
The Tour de Ski (TdS) is a cross-country skiing event held annually since the 2006–07 season in Central Europe, modeled on the Tour de France of cycling. The Tour de Ski is a Stage World Cup event in the FIS Cross-Country World Cup. Each Tour de Ski has consisted of six to nine stages, held during late December and early January in the Czech ...
Trivial Pursuit. Trivial Pursuit is a board game in which winning is determined by a player's ability to answer trivia and popular culture questions. Players move their pieces around a board, the squares they land on determining the subject of a question they are asked from a card (from six categories including "history" and "science and nature").
—Max Weber in Sociological Writings, 1904. The principle of methodological individualism, which holds that social scientists should seek to understand collectivities solely as the result of the actions of individual persons, can be traced to Weber. In the first chapter of Economy and Society, he argued that only individuals "can be treated as agents in a course of subjectively understandable ...
Captive Pursuit. " Captive Pursuit " is the sixth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The episode was written by executive producer Michael Piller and Jill Sherman Donner and was directed by Corey Allen . Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures on Deep ...
The report found that TDS, not Keller, bore "the bulk of fault for what occurred". After its litany of execution day blunders, TDS sought absolution by engaging in a "distorti[ng]" campaign of disinformation to "tr[y] th[e] case in the media," "causing a public uproar against Judge Keller, much of which was unwarranted."
The Downward Spiral is the second studio album by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on March 8, 1994, by Nothing Records in the United States and Island Records in Europe. It is a concept album detailing the self-destruction of a man from the beginning of his misanthropic "downward spiral" to his suicidal breaking point.
This is a list of Trivial Pursuit editions and their trivia categories. Master game sets and subsidiary card sets [1] [ edit ] Trivial Pursuit Master Game - Genus Edition (Original) (1981, Master Game)