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Type. False alarm. On the morning of January 13, 2018, an alert was accidentally issued via the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alert System over television, radio, and cellular networks in the U.S. state of Hawaii, instructing citizens to seek shelter due to an incoming ballistic missile. It concluded with "This is not a drill".
The modern 24-hour clock is the convention of timekeeping in which the day runs from midnight to midnight and is divided into 24 hours. This is indicated by the hours (and minutes) passed since midnight, from 00 (:00) to 23 (:59), with 24 (:00) as an option to indicate the end of the day. This system, as opposed to the 12-hour clock, is the ...
A striking clock is a clock that sounds the hours audibly on a bell, gong, or other audible device. In 12-hour striking, used most commonly in striking clocks today, the clock strikes once at 1:00 am, twice at 2:00 am, continuing in this way up to twelve times at 12:00 mid-day, then starts again, striking once at 1:00 pm, twice at 2:00 pm, and ...
The Open All Hours pilot was the first episode of Ronnie Barker's 1973 comedy anthology series, Seven of One. It was one of two episodes that the BBC developed into a series; the other, "Prisoner and Escort", became the BBC1 sitcom Porridge, which premiered in 1974. The first series of Open All Hours began on BBC2 in 1976.
The music video for LMFAO 's song " Party Rock Anthem " stood as the most-liked video on YouTube in 2012, with 1.56 million likes, until the video for Psy 's " Gangnam Style " surpassed it in September that year with more than 1.57 million likes. Following this accomplishment, "Gangnam Style" entered the Guinness World Records book as the most ...
SUSAN HAIGH. July 25, 2024 at 5:50 PM. NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — Veteran diplomat Martin S. Indyk, an author and leader at prominent U.S. think tanks who devoted years to finding a path toward peace ...
On July 14, 2022, YouTube made a special playlist and video celebrating the 317 music videos to have hit 1 billion views and joined the "Billion Views Club". [65] [66] On April 1, 2024, the communications app Discord incorporated a short trailer video into their in-app April Fools' Day prank regarding loot boxes. The video automatically looped ...
Digital clocks typically use the 50 or 60 hertz oscillation of AC power or a 32,768 hertz crystal oscillator as in a quartz clock to keep time. Most digital clocks display the hour of the day in 24-hour format; in the United States and a few other countries, a commonly used hour sequence option is 12-hour format (with some indication of AM or PM).