new baubles have been acquired
- 1996_shootdown_of_Brothers_to_the_Rescue_aircraft: - incident involving cuba
- Chevalière_d’Éon: - french diplomat, spy, and soldier who had some gender stuff going on
- Democratic_centralism: - members discuss and vote on policies & leaders but then decisions are binding on all members
- Diderot_effect: - occurs when obtaining an exceptional new possession leads to a spiral of consumption
- Endospore: - a bacterium’s stripped-down, dormant form which it can reduce itself to and regenerate from later
- Ishikawa_diagram: - a type of causal diagram which outlines potential causes of a specific event
- Know_Nothing: - usian nativist political movement from the 1840s through the 1850s
- Konstantin_Yuon: - soviet artist who painted yuon new planet 1921
- Kursk_submarine_disaster: - submarine disaster that left all dead & ~150m long sub on the ocean floor at ~108m depth
- Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri: - an iranian refugee who lived in terminal 1 at charles de gaulle airport for 18 years
- Nanook: - ‘master of bears’ in inuit
- Noosphere: - the new state of the biosphere which includes “humankind’s rational activities”
- Operation_Mongoose: - plans to destabilize cuba (including sabotaging crops) - some of which were carried out
- Pollyanna_principle: - the tendency for people to remember pleasant items more accurately than unpleasant ones
- Recuperation_(politics): - the cultural appropriation of any subversive symbols or ideas by mainstream culture
- Rosette_(botany): - a circular arrangement of leaves or of structures resembling leaves
- Structural_coloration: - the production of color via structured surfaces small enough to interfere with visible light
- Theodicy: - a proposed resolution to the problem of evil (arising from a both omnipotent and omnibenevolent god)
- Typhoon_Cobra: - a typhoon which struck the usian fleet during wwii
