Background Hypnosis is a state of human consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness and an enhanced capacity to…
Background The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a…
Background This document represents the current policy of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) for the declassification of all 25-year-old and older…
Background According to Wikipedia: The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system. The vellum on which it is written has been carbon-dated to the…
Background The Top Officials Exercise (TOPOFF) is a congressionally mandated biennial cycle of seminars, planning events, and national exercises designed…
Background According to their website, the mission statement of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is: "Enforcing the controlled substances laws…
Background Many years after The Black Vault came into existence, and became known worldwide as an archive to download hundreds…
Background Section 3545 of the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) requires that each Federal agency conduct an annual independent…
Background Special thanks to Gunter's Space Page for this description of GeoLITE: GeoLITE (Geosynchronous Lightweight Technology Experiment) is an advanced,…
Background Kosmos 954 (Russian: Космос 954) was a reconnaissance satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1977. A malfunction prevented…