Wiley, a publishing company that’s more than 200 years old, is shuttering 19 journals today, the wall Street Journal reports. Wiley has reportedly had to retract more than 11,300 papers recently ...

Outside of typical elevators, shown in an office building in Portland, Oregon This elevator to the Alexanderplatz U-Bahn station in Berlin is built with glass walls and doors, exposing the inner workings.. An elevator (North American English) or lift (British English) is a machine that vertically transports people or freight between levels.They are typically powered by electric motors that ...

The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), nicknamed the Star Wars program, was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the US from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons.The concept was announced in 1983, by President Ronald Reagan, a critic of the doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD), which he described as a "suicide pact". ...

The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or simply Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Michigan is one of the earliest American research universities and is a founding member of the Association of American Universities.In the fall of 2023, the university enrolled over ...

Name of person Image Date of death Details Constans II: 15 July 668: The Byzantine Emperor was assassinated with a bucket according to Theophilus of Edessa.: Ragnar Lodbrok: c. 865 The semi-legendary Viking leader whose exploits are narrated in the Ragnars saga loðbrókar, a thirteenth-century Icelandic saga, is said to have been captured by Ælla of Northumbria, who had him executed by ...