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While the iPhone was initially sold in the U.S. only on the AT&T network with a SIM lock in place, various hackers found methods to bypass that SIM lock. [117] More than a quarter of first-generation iPhones sold in the U.S. were not registered with AT&T. Apple speculated that they were likely shipped overseas and unlocked, a lucrative market ...
March 29 – Louis Gossett Jr., 87, stage and screen actor that voiced the Vortigaunts in Half-Life 2. [ 58 ] May 5 – Bernard Hill , 79, voice actor that voiced Sir Walter Beck in Fable III , and actor best known for portraying King Théoden in The Lord of the Rings sequel film adaptations of The Two Towers and The Return of the King .
The Titanic surfacing on a poster publicising the film Raise the Titanic.The scene depicted would not have been physically possible. In the mid-1960s, a hosiery worker from Baldock, England, named Douglas Woolley devised a plan to find the Titanic using a bathyscaphe and raise the wreck by inflating nylon balloons that would be attached to her hull. [9]
Titanic was 882 feet 9 inches (269.06 m) long with a maximum breadth of 92 feet 6 inches (28.19 m). The ship's total height, measured from the base of the keel to the top of the bridge, was 104 feet (32 m). [15] Titanic measured 46,329 GRT and 21,831 NRT [16] and with a draught of 34 feet 7 inches (10.54 m) and displaced 52,310 tonnes. [4]
Songbirds, parrots, and other species are popular as pets. Guano (bird excrement) is harvested for use as a fertiliser. Birds figure throughout human culture. About 120 to 130 species have become extinct due to human activity since the 17th century, and hundreds more before then. Human activity threatens about 1,200 bird species with extinction ...
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Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. [7] [8] He is of British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.[9] [10] His mother, Maye (née Haldeman), is a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in South Africa.
Nyan Cat. Nyan Cat is a YouTube video uploaded in April 2011, which became an Internet meme.The video merged a Japanese pop song with an animated cartoon cat with a Pop-Tart for a torso flying through space and leaving a rainbow trail behind.