Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Weird, True & Freaky (alternatively written as Weird, True and Freaky; Weird, True, and Freaky; or Weird, True, & Freaky) is a program that aired on Animal Planet in 2008 which focuses on unusual biology. Although some episodes center on unique animal behavior and traits, some focus on cryptids, animal-human relationships, experimental animals ...
Unusual Stories. Marvel Tales and Unusual Stories were two related American semi-professional science fiction magazines published in 1934 and 1935 by William L. Crawford. Crawford was a science fiction fan who believed that the pulp magazines of the time were too limited in what they would publish. In 1933, he distributed a flyer announcing ...
Will Durst's comical political observations, Strange But True, a compendium of weird news stories; Jim Hightower's The Hightower Lowdown. A satirical news section is titled "Faux News", and features articles that mimic real news stories, but are full of satirical twists. Most are original to the Humor Times, from a stable of authors. References
Engraving by Hendrik Hondius portraying three people affected by the plague. Work based on original drawing by Pieter Brueghel.. The dancing plague of 1518, or dance epidemic of 1518 (French: Épidémie dansante de 1518), was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (modern-day France), in the Holy Roman Empire from July 1518 to September 1518.
Topeka News: United States: 2008 The True North Times: Canada: 2014 The UnReal Times: India: 2011 Timesnewroman.ro Romania: 2009 Walking Eagle News: Canada: 2017 Waterford Whispers News: Ireland: 2009 Weekly World News: United States: 2009 World News Daily Report: Canada: 2013 Zaytung: Turkey: 2010
Man bites dog. The phrase man bites dog is a shortened version of an aphorism in journalism that describes how an unusual, infrequent event (such as a man biting a dog) is more likely to be reported as news than an ordinary, everyday occurrence with similar consequences, such as a dog biting a man. The phenomenon is also described in the ...
Litter boxes in schools hoax. Starting in 2021, a false rumor alleged that certain North American schools were providing litter boxes in bathrooms for students who "identify as cats", or who participate in the furry or otherkin subcultures. Various American conservative and right-wing politicians and media personalities promoted the hoax in ...