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* Swiss nuclear physicists built a reactor in a cave so that if there was a meltdown, the mountain would keep the accident from venting radiation, as had happened in Chernobyl. The reactor did indeed suffer a meltdown, so the scientists sealed up the cave. |
* Swiss nuclear physicists built a reactor in a cave so that if there was a meltdown, the mountain would keep the accident from venting radiation, as had happened in Chernobyl. The reactor did indeed suffer a meltdown, so the scientists sealed up the cave. |
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* [[Adolf Hitler]] frequently altered his planned appearances and travel plans out of a sudden fear for possible attempts on his life. This allowed him to survive several dozens of carefully calculated assassination attempts, most of them perpetrated by ''his own officers.'' When you look at how meticulously these murders were planned, it's clear that only paranoia or dumb luck could have saved him so many times. |
* [[Adolf Hitler]] frequently altered his planned appearances and travel plans out of a sudden fear for possible attempts on his life. This allowed him to survive several dozens of carefully calculated assassination attempts, most of them perpetrated by ''his own officers.'' When you look at how meticulously these murders were planned, it's clear that only paranoia or dumb luck could have saved him so many times. |
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* [[Ernest Hemingway]] believed himself to be tailed by the FBI, a claim his friend dismissed as a delusion resulting from mental deterioration and depression. However, it was recently |
* [[Ernest Hemingway]] believed himself to be tailed by the FBI, a claim his friend dismissed as a delusion resulting from mental deterioration and depression. However, it was recently [http://vault.fbi.gov/Ernest%20Hemingway%20/Ernest%20Hemingway%20Part%201%20of%203/view revealed] that he really ''was'' ordered to be monitored for his activities in Cuba by J Edgar Hoover. |
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* Michael Drosnin using codes he claimed were hidden in the Bible predicted an assasination involving Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Then Rabin was assasinated. |
* Michael Drosnin using codes he claimed were hidden in the Bible predicted an assasination involving Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Then Rabin was assasinated. |
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* During late July/early August of 2011, many members of the Bethesda forums expressed a suspicion that the Lonesome Road DLC for [[Fallout New Vegas]] would be delayed, to the point that the senior producer, Jason Bergman, called people paranoid and said that Lonesome Road would come out in August. A week later, it was announced that Lonesome Road had been delayed and wouldn't come out in August. |
* During late July/early August of 2011, many members of the Bethesda forums expressed a suspicion that the Lonesome Road DLC for [[Fallout New Vegas]] would be delayed, to the point that the senior producer, Jason Bergman, called people paranoid and said that Lonesome Road would come out in August. A week later, it was announced that Lonesome Road had been delayed and wouldn't come out in August. |
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