Unidentified

Author : Colin Dickey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525557579

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"Absolutely perfect for the current moment." --Buzzfeed America's favorite cultural historian and author of Ghostland takes a tour of the country's most persistent "unexplained" phenomena In a world where rational, scientific explanations are more available than ever, belief in the unprovable and irrational--in fringe--is on the rise: from Atlantis to aliens, from Flat Earth to the Loch Ness monster, the list goes on. It seems the more our maps of the known world get filled in, the more we crave mysterious locations full of strange creatures. Enter Colin Dickey, Cultural Historian and Tour Guide of the Weird. With the same curiosity and insight that made Ghostland a hit with readers and critics, Colin looks at what all fringe beliefs have in common, explaining that today's Illuminati is yesterday's Flat Earth: the attempt to find meaning in a world stripped of wonder. Dickey visits the wacky sites of America's wildest fringe beliefs--from the famed Mount Shasta where the ancient race (or extra-terrestrials, or possibly both, depending on who you ask) called Lemurians are said to roam, to the museum containing the last remaining "evidence" of the great Kentucky Meat Shower--investigating how these theories come about, why they take hold, and why as Americans we keep inventing and re-inventing them decade after decade. The Unidentified is Colin Dickey at his best: curious, wry, brilliant in his analysis, yet eminently readable.

Author : Rae Mariz
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062012784

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Fifteen-year-old Katey (aka Kid) goes to school in the Game—a mall converted into a “school” run by corporate sponsors. As the students play their way through the levels, they are also creatingproducts and being used for market research by the sponsors, who are watching them 24/7 on video cameras. Kid has a vague sense of unease but doesn’t question this existence until one day she witnesses a shocking anticorporateprank. She follows the clues to uncover the identities of the people behind it and discovers an anonymous group that callsitself the Unidentified. Intrigued by their countercultureideas and enigmatic leader, Kid is drawn into the group. But when the Unidentified’s pranks and even Kid’s own identity are co-opted by the sponsors, Kid decides to do something bigger—something that could change the Game forever. This funny, sharp, and thought-provoking novel heralds the arrival of a stunning new voice in teen fiction.

Author : Colin Dickey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101980217

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Ghostland by Colin Dickey Pdf

One of NPR’s Great Reads of 2016 “A lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting stories…absorbing…[and] intellectually intriguing.” —The New York Times Book Review From the author of The Unidentified, an intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history that takes readers on a road trip through some of the country’s most infamously haunted places—and deep into the dark side of our history. Colin Dickey is on the trail of America’s ghosts. Crammed into old houses and hotels, abandoned prisons and empty hospitals, the spirits that linger continue to capture our collective imagination, but why? His own fascination piqued by a house hunt in Los Angeles that revealed derelict foreclosures and “zombie homes,” Dickey embarks on a journey across the continental United States to decode and unpack the American history repressed in our most famous haunted places. Some have established reputations as “the most haunted mansion in America,” or “the most haunted prison”; others, like the haunted Indian burial grounds in West Virginia, evoke memories from the past our collective nation tries to forget. With boundless curiosity, Dickey conjures the dead by focusing on questions of the living—how do we, the living, deal with stories about ghosts, and how do we inhabit and move through spaces that have been deemed, for whatever reason, haunted? Paying attention not only to the true facts behind a ghost story, but also to the ways in which changes to those facts are made—and why those changes are made—Dickey paints a version of American history left out of the textbooks, one of things left undone, crimes left unsolved. Spellbinding, scary, and wickedly insightful, Ghostland discovers the past we’re most afraid to speak of aloud in the bright light of day is the same past that tends to linger in the ghost stories we whisper in the dark.

Author : Marzena Mulawka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317521952

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Postmortem Fingerprinting and Unidentified Human Remains by Marzena Mulawka Pdf

Fingerprint identification is the most efficient, rapid, and cost-effective forensic identification modality. Postmortem Fingerprinting and Unidentified Human Remains is a consolidated and thorough guide to the recovery, identification, and management of unidentified postmortem fingerprint records - topics from postmortem fingerprint processing to database submission and case management are discussed. Additionally, a postmortem processing workflow is described, which delineates various basic and advanced fingerprint recovery techniques used to acquire examination-quality records. Furthermore, Postmortem Fingerprinting and Unidentified Human Remains discusses the complexity of antemortem fingerprint databases and how to access each database for humanitarian purposes, bringing a modern value perspective to the topic.

Author : K.S. Cheng,Gustavo E. Romero
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402032145

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Multiwavelength Approach to Unidentified Gamma-Ray Sources by K.S. Cheng,Gustavo E. Romero Pdf

Nearly one half of the point-like gamma-ray sources detected by EGRET instrument of the late Compton satellite are still defeating our attempts at identifying them. To establish the origin and nature of these enigmatic sources has become a major problem of current high-energy astrophysics. The second workshop on Multiwavelength Approach to Unidentified Gamma-ray Sources intends to shed new and fresh light on the problem of the nature of these mysterious sources and the objects behind them. The proceedings contain 46 contributed papers in this subject, which cover theoretical models on gamma-ray sources as well as the best multiwavelength strategies for the identification of the promising candidates. The topics of this conference also include energetic phenomena ocurring both in galactic and extragalactic scenarios, phenomena that might lead to the appearance of what we have called high-energy unidentified sources. The book will be of interest for all active researchers in the high-energy astrophysics and related research areas as well as for scientists and graduate students interested in understanding the recent progress in this field.

Author : Silvia Pettem
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781439861707

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Cold Case Research Resources for Unidentified, Missing, and Cold Homicide Cases by Silvia Pettem Pdf

Cases in which all investigative leads appear to be exhausted are frustrating for both investigators and victims families. Cold cases can range from those only a few months old to others that go back for decades. Presenting profiles and actual case histories, Cold Case Research: Resources for Unidentified, Missing and Cold Homicide Cases illustrat

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Unidentified flying objects
ISBN : UIUC:30112119929799

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Unidentified Flying Objects by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services Pdf

Committee Serial No. 55. Considers sightings of unidentified flying objects, together with U.S. Air Force evaluations of the sightings as part of Project Blue Book.

Author : Alberto Carramiñana,Olaf Reimer,David J. Thompson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401010078

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The Nature of Unidentified Galactic High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources by Alberto Carramiñana,Olaf Reimer,David J. Thompson Pdf

The Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) instru ment on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory left as a legacy its Third Catalog of High Energy Gamma-Ray Sources, whose detections include a large number of blazars, some pulsars, the Large Magellanic Cloud and a solar flare. Most of the newly discovered objects - a majority of the catalog -are unidentified sources, with a clearly predominant Galactic population. Are all these radio-quiet pulsars, like Geminga, or is there a novel type of celestial object, awaiting identification? In spite of the limited angular resolution provided by EGRET and COMPTEL, there is still much to learn about unidentified ,-ray sources: correlation studies, multiwavelength observations and theoretical work can provide valuable clues, specially if these efforts are carried out in a coordinated manner. The aim of this workshop, held from October 9 to 11, 2000, at the Instituto N acional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica, at Tonantzintla, Mexico, was to gather experts on the subject, including observational as tronomers specialized in other regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, in an effort to address the question of the Nature of Galactic high-energy gamma-ray sources, both from the theoretical and observational perspec tive, and elaborate schemes for future identification studies which can make use of existing and forthcoming facilities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Missing persons
ISBN : OSU:32437122536200

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Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward J. Ruppelt
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : EAN:8596547388807

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The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt Pdf

The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects is a book by Edward J. Ruppelt which described the study of UFOs by United States Air Force from 1947 to 1955. Ruppelt was a United States Air Force officer best known for his involvement in Project Blue Book, a formal governmental study of unidentified flying objects. He is generally credited with coining the term "unidentified flying object." Because Ruppelt was the central axis of the government's investigation the book provides a unique insider look at how the government's efforts functioned.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Unidentified flying objects
ISBN : UCBK:C025740237

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U.S. Air Force Summary of Events and Information Concerning the Unidentified Flying Object Program by Anonim Pdf

Author : Martin K. Ettington
Publisher : Martin K. Ettington
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Unidentified Submerged Objects and Underwater Bases by Martin K. Ettington Pdf

There are many books on UFOs and Aliens but most are in the air or over the land. However, you might not be aware that there are also many UFO sightings underwater, or over water. There are even some strong claims of UFO and/or Alien bases underwater. Over 71% of the surface of the Earth is covered in water, much of which is in the Earth’s Oceans. So it makes sense that Aliens visiting Earth would hide in the water or even build bases there. Yes—there are reports from several places of possible Aliens bases beneath the waves. This would make a sensible place to hide if you have advanced technology which will allow you to hide underwater. Some of the suspected underwater bases are near Malibu-California, Gulf Breeze-Florida, and the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. There are probably a lot more submerged base locations we don’t know about all over the world. In this book I’ve provided as many Unidentified Submerged Object stories as I could research. I think you will find these stories to be very interesting.

Author : Wendy Maas,David Gerrold,Simon R. Green,Esther Friesner,Rob Dircks,Jody Lynn Nye,Laura Resnick,Gini Koch
Publisher : UFO Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Unidentified Funny Objects 8 by Wendy Maas,David Gerrold,Simon R. Green,Esther Friesner,Rob Dircks,Jody Lynn Nye,Laura Resnick,Gini Koch Pdf

SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HUMOR The Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices! * Superheroes mired in government bureaucracy. * Cat cat-burglars. * Grandmotherly golems. * Literal-minded self-driving cars. * Evil overlords retired in Florida. * Indifferent aliens.

Author : Brian Henderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1771315008

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Unidentified Poetic Object by Brian Henderson Pdf

Poems that highlight an excess, an emptiness, and a wilderness on the other side of use. In Unidentified Poetic Object, his twelfth collection of poetry, Brian Henderson strikes from language an "alphabet of lightning": an animacy and urgency in which every object is potent with actions, past and present; every action is alive with the potential of what it might move in the world. And since every object is more than we know in our eagerness to turn it to human use, Henderson wants us to dive into that unknown space. The world is composed of astonishing things, but we are obsessed by their use, their categorization, their systemization, their exploitation--a way of being in which every thing, every body, even the future, can be made available as raw resource. The words in these poems are perturbations or seductions rather than representational resources, are equivocal rather than instrumental; they seek to disrupt the order of the discursive, to trouble the elaborate plans humans have for managing and controlling the earth we abuse. Here words open to produce surprising ephemeral hybridities, things without theory or history or a notion of progress. They elide and interpenetrate, shout and are silent, and in those material interactions there emerges a resonant attention and a politic of tenderness. "Prismatic, at times apocalyptic, always sharp, Brian Henderson's poems range through physics, visual art, philosophy, history, and, of course, poetry, to probe the locales where worlds slip into other worlds. ...these rich riffs evoke deconstructed landscapes that expose the ruptures caused by settler colonialism. Laced with wit and a voracious mind, these poems are 'unsettling' in the best possible sense." --Jeanette Lynes

Author : Alice Clayton
Publisher : Gallery Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1476741220

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The Unidentified Redhead by Alice Clayton Pdf

The first in USA TODAY bestselling author Alice Clayton’s Redhead series is a playful and erotic romance between an aspiring actress and Hollywood’s hottest new leading man. WATCH OUT, HOLLYWOOD! Grace Sheridan is back. Ten years after discovering that looks and talent are a dime a dozen in Los Angeles, she’s wriggling into a pair of badass jeans and ready to show the film industry that there’s way more to her than just a head of gorgeous red curls. And Hollywood’s newest Brit super-hunk Jack Hamilton certainly sees a lot to like. Grace is trying to restrain herself from jumping a man who is nearly a decade her junior, but Jack is making it clear that he personally has zero problems with that idea. While Grace and Jack are still swapping innuendo-loaded quips and text sex though, the paparazzi have caught up with them, headlining the “unidentified redhead” who’s been photographed trysting at a restaurant with the heartthrob of the year. Now Grace is in stuck in a double bind. She’s head over heels in lust with Jack, but there’s her own career to think of as well. A sizzling romance with the newest “it” boy may garner her industry attention . . . but is it the kind of attention she’s always dreamed of?