Entities

American online magazine and media company

Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

Work · 1 episode

2016 book based on the website Atlas Obscura

Bad Elf

Product · 1 episode

Baghdad

Place · 1 episode

capital city of Iraq

Baltic Sea

Place · 1 episode

inland sea of the Atlantic Ocean basin

Beirut

Place · 1 episode

capital and largest city of Lebanon

Beit Shemesh

Place · 1 episode

city in Israel

Ben Asher

Person · 1 episode

Jewish Scribe who perfected the written language

Ben Naphtali

Person · 1 episode

10th-century rabbi

binary Golay code

Product · 1 episode

error-correcting code used in digital communications

BJPsych open

Work · 1 episode

journal

Black Sea

Place · 1 episode

sea between Europe and Asia

BlockWill

Product · 1 episode

digital estate planning and inheritance company based in Dubai

BMJ

Work · 1 episode

peer-reviewed medical journal

Boeing 737 MAX

Product · 1 episode

airliner family

Boeing 787 Dreamliner

Product · 1 episode

wide-body twin-engine jet airliner

Book of Numbers

Work · 1 episode

fourth book of Bible

Brunswick

Place · 1 episode

city in Glynn County, Georgia, United States

BSD licenses

Work · 1 episode

type of free software license, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software.

Buenos Aires

Place · 1 episode

capital and largest city of Argentina

bzip2

Product · 1 episode

compression software

Carol Rose

Person · 1 episode

American lawyer

Cenomanian

Event · 1 episode

first stage and age of the Upper Cretaceous series/Late Cretaceous epoch

Cisco

Organisation · 1 episode

American multinational technology company

Claude Shannon

Person · 1 episode

American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)

CNN

Organisation · 1 episode

American news channel

Codex Vaticanus

Work · 1 episode

Greek manuscript of the Septuagint

Columbia University

Organisation · 1 episode

private university in New York City, New York, US

compact disc

Product · 1 episode

digital optical disc data storage format

Dan Bahat

Person · 1 episode

Israeli archeologist

Danielle Poe

Person · 1 episode

Darvaza gas crater

Place · 1 episode

burning natural gas field in Turkmenistan

David Plotz

Person · 1 episode

American journalist

David R Pease

Person · 1 episode

researcher (ORCID 0000-0002-0472-1900)

dead man's switch

Product · 1 episode

switch that is designed to activate if the human operator becomes incapacitated

Deadswitch

Product · 1 episode

DeathNote

Product · 1 episode

Delhi

Place · 1 episode

megacity and union territory of India

Diet Coke

Product · 1 episode

brand of sugar-free cola

DIN ISO 9706

Work · 1 episode

distance measuring equipment

Product · 1 episode

radio navigation technology used in aviation

Domitius

Person · 1 episode

Dubai International Airport

Place · 1 episode

international airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dylan Thuras

writer

Eating Recovery Center

Organisation · 1 episode

Edison Research

Organisation · 1 episode

polling firm

El Ojo

Place · 1 episode

lake in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

ElevenLabs

Organisation · 1 episode

AI voice technology company specializing in Speech to Text and Text to Speech.

Elizabeth Wassenaar

Person · 1 episode

researcher

Ella Morton

Person · 1 episode

author of Atlas Obscura

En-Gedi Scroll

Work · 1 episode

hebrew parchment found in 1970 at Ein Gedi, Israel

ESP32-S3

Product · 1 episode

Tencilica and RISC-V based Espressif SoC

Estonian study

Work · 1 episode

Ethernet

Product · 1 episode

family of wired computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN)

Eurocontrol

Organisation · 1 episode

European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation

European Medicines Agency

Organisation · 1 episode

highest regulatory authority on medicines in the European Union

European Union Aviation Safety Agency

Organisation · 1 episode

European Union civil aviation authority

European Union Entry/Exit System

Product · 1 episode

Evelyn Attia

Person · 1 episode

researcher

Field Operations Academy

Organisation · 1 episode

Filesystem in Userspace

Product · 1 episode

software interface for Unix-like operating systems that lets non-privileged users create file systems without editing kernel code

Flight Management System

Product · 1 episode

component of a modern aircraft avionics

FliteDeck Pro

Product · 1 episode

FlySafe

Organisation · 1 episode

FS S2805S

Product · 1 episode

Galen Hope

Organisation · 1 episode

Garmin Group

Organisation · 1 episode

US hardware subsidiary of GPS devices

Gastro Obscura

Organisation · 1 episode

Gera

Place · 1 episode

average city and urban district in Thuringia, Germany

GitHub Arctic Code Vault

Event · 1 episode

Global Positioning System

Product · 1 episode

American satellite-based radio navigation service

GLP-1

peptide in Homo sapiens

Google Maps

Product · 1 episode

Google's web mapping service (launched 2005)

Gospel of John

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one of the four canonical gospels in the New Testament

Gulfstream G650

Product · 1 episode

executive transport aircraft

Hacker News

Product · 1 episode

social news website

Halo

Product · 1 episode

Halo Home

Halo Homes

Product · 1 episode

Hammarberg index

Product · 1 episode

Hamming code

Product · 1 episode

error-correcting code

Har Hotzvim

Place · 1 episode

Industrial park and mountain in Jerusalem.

Harry Joll

Person · 1 episode

born 1983

Harvard University

Organisation · 1 episode

private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Harvey Cushing Brain Collection

Organisation · 1 episode

Hebrew Bible

Work · 1 episode

ancient Hebrew sacred texts

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Organisation · 1 episode

Israeli university in Jerusalem

Herod the Great

king of Judea from 37/6 BCE to 4/1 BCE

History of the Peloponnesian War

Work · 1 episode

5th century BC history book by Thucydides

Homer

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reputed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

Organisation · 1 episode

American information technology company

I'm Alive

Product · 1 episode

IACR

Organisation · 1 episode

non-profit scientific organization whose purpose is to further research in cryptology and related fields

IBM

Organisation · 1 episode

American multinational technology company

IBM Diamondback

Product · 1 episode

IBM Spectrum Scale

Product · 1 episode

IBM Storage Archive Enterprise Edition

Product · 1 episode

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

Product · 1 episode

backup and recovery software

IBM TS1155

Product · 1 episode

ICAO Annex 14

Work · 1 episode

IEEE 802.1Q

Work · 1 episode

IEEE networking standard supporting VLANs

IEEE 802.1X

Work · 1 episode

IEEE standard for port-based network access control

If You Die

Product · 1 episode

inertial navigation system

Product · 1 episode

continuously computed dead reckoning

Inheritify

Product · 1 episode

instrument landing system

Product · 1 episode

ground-based visual aid for landing

International Air Transport Association

Organisation · 1 episode

international trade association for airlines

International Civil Aviation Organization

Organisation · 1 episode

specialized agency of the United Nations, coordinates the international civil aviation regulations and policy

iPhone

Product · 1 episode

line of smartphones developed and marketed by Apple Inc.

Iquitos

Place · 1 episode

city of Peru, capital of Loreto region

Iraq

Place · 1 episode

sovereign state in Western Asia

Ireland

Place · 1 episode

country in Northwestern Europe

Israel Antiquities Authority

Organisation · 1 episode

independent Israeli governmental authority

Jaclyn A Siegel

Person · 1 episode

researcher (ORCID 0000-0003-0620-2597)

JAMA

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peer-reviewed medical journal

JAMA Psychiatry

Work · 1 episode

medical journal

Jeppesen

Organisation · 1 episode

American company

Jerusalem

Place · 1 episode

city in the Middle East, holy to the three Abrahamic religions

Jol

Person · 1 episode

Josephus

Roman–Jewish historian and military leader (c. 37–c. 100)

Joshua Foer

American freelance journalist; memory champion (born 1982)

Journal of eating disorders

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journal

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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journal

Journal of Voice

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journal

Juniper MX-Series

Product · 1 episode

ethernet routers

Kethiv-Qere

Work · 1 episode

Killswitch

Product · 1 episode

kodokushi

Work · 1 episode

Japanese phenomenon of people dying alone

Kraut and Poe

Laecanianus

Person · 1 episode

encyclopedic article in Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE)

Larnaca

Place · 1 episode

city on the southern coast of Cyprus

LastSignal

Product · 1 episode

LaterWill

Product · 1 episode

Latimer's Landing

Place · 1 episode

Leen Ritmeyer

Person · 1 episode

Israeli archaeologist

Leningrad Codex

11th-century Hebrew Bible manuscript

Leviticus

Work · 1 episode

third book of the Bible

LibriVox

Organisation · 1 episode

public domain audiobook project

Linear Tape File System

file system that allows files stored on magnetic tape to be accessed in a similar fashion to those on disk or removable flash drives

Linear Tape-Open

magnetic tape data storage technology

logion

Product · 1 episode

saying of Jesus

London Gatwick Airport

Place · 1 episode

international airport in West Sussex, England

Louise Story

Person · 1 episode

investigative journalist

LTFS-LE

Product · 1 episode

LTO Consortium

Organisation · 1 episode

LTO-4

Product · 1 episode

LTO-5

Product · 1 episode

LTO-9

Product · 1 episode

macOS

Product · 1 episode

operating system for Apple computers

Martin Monperrus

Person · 1 episode

professor of software technology

Masorah

transmission of Jewish religious tradition or the tradition itself

Masoretes

Jewish scribe-scholars in 6th-10th centuries

Max Tani

Person · 1 episode

meleke limestone

Product · 1 episode

Memento Mori

Product · 1 episode

Michael Chernin

Person · 1 episode

Michael Cook

Person · 1 episode

British historian

Microsoft

Organisation · 1 episode

American multinational technology corporation

Microsoft Windows

Product · 1 episode

family of computer operating systems developed by Microsoft

Middle East

Place · 1 episode

geopolitical region encompassing Egypt and most of Western Asia, including Iran

Minimax

Product · 1 episode

Monte Nido

Organisation · 1 episode

MP3

Product · 1 episode

open standard lossy compression format for digital audio

MXF

Product · 1 episode

Object-based file format that wraps video, audio, and other bitstreams

National Association of Broadcasters

Organisation · 1 episode

United States media lobby group

National Police Agency of Japan

Organisation · 1 episode

Central coordinating agency of the Japanese police system

NaviGuard

Product · 1 episode

New Atlantic Ventures

Organisation · 1 episode

Newark

Place · 1 episode

city in Essex County, and largest city in New Jersey, United States

Nick Sunderhaus

Person · 1 episode

Obesity Reviews

Work · 1 episode

peer-reviewed scientific journal

Obscura Day

Event · 1 episode

Ofer Sion

Person · 1 episode

archaeologist

OllyDbg

Product · 1 episode

debug software

Ondřej Čertík

Person · 1 episode

Czech scientist and programmer

OpenPGP

Product · 1 episode

Encryption standard

OPSGROUP

Organisation · 1 episode

Optar

system for encoding data in a paper-printed code

OSI model

Work · 1 episode

model with 7 layers to describe communication systems

Ottoman Empire

Organisation · 1 episode

empire with the monarchs from the Ottoman dynasty (1299–1922)

Ozempic

pharmaceutical product used to treat diabetes

Ozempic face

Product · 1 episode

pampa

Place · 1 episode

South American fertile, treeless lowland

PaperBack

Paul Maas

Person · 1 episode

German classical philologist (1880–1964)

Peru

Place · 1 episode

sovereign state in South America

Phil Karn

Person · 1 episode

American engineer

Pilgrimage Road

Place · 1 episode

Piql (Norway)

Organisation · 1 episode

company in Drammen, Norway

PLOS One

Work · 1 episode

peer-reviewed open-access journal

PoINT

Organisation · 1 episode

PoINT Software & Systems

Organisation · 1 episode

Pontosense

Organisation · 1 episode

power over Ethernet

Product · 1 episode

system for delivering power along with data over an Ethernet cable

Princeton Center for Eating Disorders

Organisation · 1 episode

Psalm 119

psalm

QR code

Product · 1 episode

type of matrix barcode (trademarked name)

QStar

Organisation · 1 episode

Quantum Corporation

Organisation · 1 episode

American company

Queen Mary University of London

Organisation · 1 episode

public research university in London, United Kingdom; constituent college of the federal University of London

Qur’an

Work · 1 episode

foundational Islamic religious text

Ramat Shlomo

Place · 1 episode

Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem

Rebecca G Boswell

Person · 1 episode

researcher

Rebecka Peebles

Person · 1 episode

researcher

Reconstructing Ancient Literary Texts from Noisy Manuscripts

Work · 1 episode

Reed–Solomon code

Product · 1 episode

error-correcting codes

Rigveda

Work · 1 episode

most ancient Veda of the Hindus

Risk Management Compendium

Work · 1 episode

Ritmeyer

Person · 1 episode

Robert E. Kraut

Person · 1 episode

American social psychologist

Russian Compound in Jerusalem

Place · 1 episode

church building in Jerusalem, Israel

Ryanair

Organisation · 1 episode

low-cost airline of Ireland

Sanaa palimpsest

Work · 1 episode

Sedlec Ossuary

Place · 1 episode

church

Semafor

Organisation · 1 episode

American news website

semaglutide

Product · 1 episode

medication used to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity

Septuagint

Work · 1 episode

translation of the Hebrew Bible and other books into the Greek language

Serial ATA

Product · 1 episode

computer bus interface for storage devices

Shanaya Tipishca

Place · 1 episode

Peruvian river

Shmuel HaNavi Street

Place · 1 episode

major thoroughfare bordering the neighborhood

Silvie

Simon Emmanuel

Person · 1 episode

researcher

Simple Network Management Protocol

Work · 1 episode

series of computer network protocols for managing systems connected to a network

SkAI

Organisation · 1 episode

Society of Jesus

Organisation · 1 episode

male religious institute of the Roman Catholic Church

sofer

Organisation · 1 episode

non-priestly class in Judaism devoted to the study and exposition of the Law; known in the time of Jesus also by the name of lawyers, and addressed as Rabbis

South Africa

Place · 1 episode

country in southern Africa

Spanning Tree Protocol

Work · 1 episode

network protocol that builds a loop-free logical topology for Ethernet networks

Speech Prosody

Event · 1 episode

Speechify

Product · 1 episode

app to generate speech for people with reading difficulties

Spoken

Organisation · 1 episode

American band

Statilius Maximus

Person · 1 episode

Stevee Williams

Person · 1 episode

StorageWorks Ultrium 1840

Product · 1 episode

Suno

Product · 1 episode

AI music generator

Susan Dell

Person · 1 episode

American philanthropist

Svalbard

Place · 1 episode

Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean

Syracuse

Place · 1 episode

city in and county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States

Syracuse Hancock International Airport

Place · 1 episode

airport

Talmud

Work · 1 episode

central text of Rabbinic Judaism

tar

Product · 1 episode

computer file format that can combine multiple files into a single file called "tarball"

TCAM

Product · 1 episode

Tel Aviv

Place · 1 episode

city in Israel

Temple Mount

religious hilltop in the Old City of Jerusalem

The Arc of Deprecation

Work · 1 episode

The Catholic Encyclopedia

Work · 1 episode

English-language encyclopedia

The Great Sunsetting

Work · 1 episode

The New York Times

Organisation · 1 episode

American daily newspaper (founded 1851)

The Privacy Gap

Work · 1 episode

The Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society

Work · 1 episode

The Wall Street Journal

Work · 1 episode

American business-focused daily newspaper

The Walrus

Work · 1 episode

Canadian current affairs, fiction and poetry magazine

The Washington Post

Organisation · 1 episode

daily broadsheet newspaper in Washington, D.C.

The Western Wall Heritage Foundation

Organisation · 1 episode

organization in Jerusalem

Tiberias

Place · 1 episode

city in Galilee, Israel

Tiro

Person · 1 episode

Titanic

Product · 1 episode

British transatlantic passenger liner, launched and foundered in 1912

Torah

first five books of the Hebrew Bible

Tractate Kiddushin

Work · 1 episode

Tractate in Mishnah and Talmud

Transportation Security Administration

Organisation · 1 episode

United States federal government agency

Tulsa

Place · 1 episode

city in Oklahoma, United States and county seat of Tulsa County

Turkmenistan

Place · 1 episode

country in Central Asia

Turonian

Event · 1 episode

second stage and age of the Upper Cretaceous series/Late Cretaceous epoch

Twibright Optar

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Tyropoeon Valley

Place · 1 episode

former valley in Jerusalem

customs service of the United States since 2003

Ukrainian Navy

Organisation · 1 episode

navy of Ukraine and part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Umayyad Caliphate

Organisation · 1 episode

second Islamic caliphate (661–750 CE)

UNESCO

Organisation · 1 episode

specialised agency of the United Nations for education, sciences, and culture

United Airlines Flight 83

Event · 1 episode

United States Customs Service

Organisation · 1 episode

former customs service of the United States (1789-2003)

United States Department of Homeland Security

Organisation · 1 episode

United States federal executive department

United States Food and Drug Administration

Organisation · 1 episode

agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services

University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire

Organisation · 1 episode

public university in Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Uthman

Person · 1 episode

Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate from 644 to 656

Vedas

Work · 1 episode

ancient sacred scriptures revealed in Sanskrit to Richi sages and on which Brahmanism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism were based

VHF omnidirectional range

Product · 1 episode

Aviation navigation system

Villanova University

Organisation · 1 episode

Catholic university near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Vilnius

capital and largest city of Lithuania

Vít Čertík

Person · 1 episode

VocalImage benchmark

Work · 1 episode

Voyager program

Product · 1 episode

American scientific program consisting of the probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2

Warren Webster

Person · 1 episode

American businessman

Washington Dulles International Airport

Place · 1 episode

airport in Dulles, Virginia serving the Washington Metropolitan Area in the United States

Waterfall rail accident

Event · 1 episode

2003 train crash in New South Wales, Australia

Waterfall train disaster

Event · 1 episode

Wendy Oliver-Pyatt

Person · 1 episode

Western Stone

monolithic block of the Western Wall in Jerusalem

Western Wall

holy site of Judaism in Jerusalem

White House

Place · 1 episode

official residence and office of the President of the United States

Wikipedia

Organisation · 1 episode

free multilingual online encyclopedia

Within Health

Organisation · 1 episode

World Customs Organization