Top 10 Secretly Connected Topics
If you are looking for an article that examines a wide range of
topics and controversial subjects then this list is for you. The world
is full of people, ideas, laws, theories, and events that are secretly
connected in some way; events that show a causal relationship or common
factor. For a wide variety of reasons, some topics are not discussed by
international media organizations, federal governments, and business
populations. Here is a collection of ten topics that share a common
factor.
Nintendo is one of the largest consumer electronics companies in the world. In 1985, the company released the NES console, which helped set a standard for video game expansion. Nintendo’s most popular character is Mario. To date, Mario has appeared in over 200 video games and is probably the most famous personality in the history of video games. Mario games have sold more than 210 million units, making the franchise the best-selling in history. Mario has inspired television shows, film, comics, and a line of licensed merchandise. However, there are two films based on Mario that Nintendo doesn’t want you to know about.
In 1993, two pornographic parodies of the Super Mario franchise were filmed called Super Hornio Brothers and Super Hornio Brothers II. The movies were made at the same time as the Super Mario Bros. film. Each movie starred Buck Adams, T.T. Boy, Ron Jeremy, and Chelsea Lynx as the main characters. The series tells the story of computer programmer Squeegie Hornio (Ron Jeremy) and his brother Ornio Hornio (T.T. Boy) who are teleported into a computer game after a freak power overload and forced to battle King Pooper (Buck Adams). Pooper has kidnapped Princess Perlina (Chelsea Lynx).
Initially, Sin City Entertainment funded the project, but dropped out, leaving Buck Adams to seek the help of Midnight Video. Before the movies were released to the public, Nintendo decided to halt their distribution. Ron Jeremy’s official website notes that while he would love to make both films available alongside his massive library, Nintendo purchased the rights to stop the movies distribution indefinitely. The evidence that the Super Hornio Brothers films are real wasn’t confirmed until 2008. The movies are currently unavailable for viewing and considered by some to be the “holy grail” of parodies.
One of the most bizarre human disappearances of the 20th century is Tara Calico. On September 20, 1988, Tara left her home in Belen, New Mexico to go for a bike ride and never returned. After an extensive search, part of Tara’s Sony Walkman and a Boston cassette tape were discovered along her normal bike route. Several people saw Tara riding her bicycle, but nobody witnessed her presumed abduction. The disappearance of Tara Calico received extensive media coverage in the United States and was featured on Unsolved Mysteries, America’s Most Wanted, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and 48 Hours.
The case went cold until June 15, 1989, when a Polaroid photo of an unidentified young girl and boy, both bound and gagged, was found in the parking lot of a convenience store in Port St. Joe, Florida. After the photo was released, it was immediately theorized that the girl was Tara. Her mother came forward and said that the photo was indeed of her daughter because of what appeared to be a scar on the girl’s leg, similar to one Tara received in a car accident.
Scotland Yard analyzed the photo and concluded that the girl was Tara, but the Los Alamos National Laboratory and FBI tests were inconclusive. In the photo, the book next to the girl is the gothic horror novel “My Sweet Audrina” by V.C. Andrews, which was published in 1982. According to investigators, the picture was taken after May 1989 because the film used was not sold until that time. This means the picture was not taken until at least 8 months after the disappearance of Tara.
The boy inside the picture was initially thought to be Michael Henley, also of New Mexico, who disappeared in April 1988, but after Henley’s body was discovered in the Zuni Mountains where he was lost, the theory was dismissed. In the 1980s and ’90s there were several reported sightings of Tara, but her disappearance remains a mystery. Two other Polaroid photographs have surfaced over the years that might show Tara, but the pictures have not been released by the police.
Ignaz Semmelweis was a 19th century Hungarian physician that was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures. He has been described as the “savior of mothers” because in 1847 he postulated a theory that washing your hands in a hospital with chlorinated lime solutions would improve the high fatality rate of puerperal fever. Puerperal fever is a bacterial infection that can be contracted by women during childbirth or miscarriage. The infection can develop into puerperal sepsis, which is often fatal. The discovery eventually reduced childbed fever fatalities by 90%.
Despite the publication that washing your hands can greatly reduce puerperal fever, doctors did not wash their hands while working with pregnant women in hospitals until Louis Pasteur confirmed the germ theory, which stated that microorganisms are the cause of many diseases. The idea was highly controversial because people were convinced that diseases were caused by miasma. The miasma theory held that diseases such as cholera or the Black Death were caused by a noxious form of “bad air.” The word miasma means “pollution.”
Miasma was considered to be a poisonous vapor. It was said that the vapor was passed to people by way of contaminated water, foul air, and poor hygienic conditions. Miasma was identifiable by its foul smell, but the infection was not said to be passed between individuals. In the 1850s, miasma was used to explain the spread of cholera in London and Paris. Authorities told people that they needed to clean their bodies to prevent the disease, but in reality cholera was being spread through the water. The miasma theory was important to understanding the danger of poor sanitation, but it failed to recognize microbiology and germs.
In 1982, a man named Bob Lazar made his first appearance in the media when an article was published in the Los Alamos Monitor that described a project where he built a jet car with the help of a jet engine. In the article, Lazar is referred to as “a physicist at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility.” Seven years later, in November 1989, Bob Lazar conducted an interview with investigative reporter George Knapp. The interview was broadcast on a Las Vegas TV station and included claims by Lazar that he worked at a top secret facility named S-4, located near Groom Lake, Nevada, within Area 51.
According to Lazar, S-4 served as a hidden U.S. military location that was used to study the reverse engineering of extraterrestrial flying saucers. Lazar said that he saw nine separate flying discs and was given a briefing on the involvement between humans and extraterrestrial beings for the past 100,000 years. Lazar said that the beings originate from the Zeta Reticuli 1 & 2 star system and are therefore referred to as Zeta Reticulans, popularly called Greys. Bob Lazar claimed that S-4 contained nine aircraft hangars built into the side of a mountain, with doors constructed at an angle that matched the slope.
He described some specifics of the alien spaceships and provided details on their mode of propulsion. According to Lazar, atomic Element 115 served as a nuclear fuel for the aircraft. He said that the element (ununpentium) provided an energy source which produced anti-gravity effects under proton bombardment. As the strong nuclear force field of Element 115′s nucleus was amplified, the gravitational effect would distort the surrounding space-time continuum and shorten the travel time to a destination. The description given by Lazar was extremely scientific and seemed probable.
However, after the interview made headlines, Bob Lazar was called a fraud. Government officials denied the existence of Element 115 and said Lazar was lying. Lazar’s educational history was put into question and his fellow scientists claimed to have no memory of meeting him. On February 2, 2004, Russian scientists and American scientists announced that they had completed the synthesis of ununpentium (Element 115). The news was surprising and came fifteen years after Bob Lazar said ununpentium was responsible for the propulsion of alien aircraft.
In 2003, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency developed a ten year plan named Operation Endgame. The objective of the program is to detain and deport all removable aliens and “suspected terrorists” living in the United States by 2012. In order to accomplish this goal, the U.S. has passed a collection of laws that are aimed at getting rid of immigration. In 2007, the program Secure Communities was developed to identify criminal aliens, prioritize them on criminal activity, and remove them from the country.
The program identifies illegal immigrants with the help of modern technology, most notably biometric identification techniques, which rely on computer science. The Obama administration is a strong proponent of the Secure Communities program. From 2008 to 2011, the program arrested 140,396 criminal aliens and deported 72,445 of them. By 2013, Secure Communities is expected to be all over the United States with detention centers located in many cities.
On December 31, 2011, in the middle of the American holiday season, President Barack Obama signed an extremely important law named The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The Act authorized the spending of $662 billion “for the defense of the United States and its interests abroad.” The act underwent a number of revisions before being accepted. Most notably, the federal court blocked a section of the bill that allowed government officials to detain American citizens that are suspected of being terrorists. Instead, the bill allows for the indefinite detention of illegal aliens and foreign travelers deemed terrorists.
On April 23, 2010, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed law SB 1070, which made it a state misdemeanor for an illegal immigrant to be in Arizona without carrying registration documents. In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that most of the bill over-reached the state’s power into federal jurisdiction. The three provisions of the bill that were removed included the rule that legal immigrants needed to carry registration documents at all times, that state police were allowed to arrest any individual for suspicion of being an illegal immigrant, and that it was a crime for an illegal immigrant to search for a job in the state.
All Supreme Court Justices agreed to uphold the provision of the law that allows Arizona state police to investigate the immigration status of a person stopped if there is a reason to do so. Had the legislation passed, each individual state would have had the opportunity to hold vastly different immigration regulations. However, since the bill was deemed unconstitutional, current states, including Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Indiana, and Utah, will have to adjust their immigration laws to meet the new standards.
10. Super Hornio Brothers and Nintendo
Nintendo is one of the largest consumer electronics companies in the world. In 1985, the company released the NES console, which helped set a standard for video game expansion. Nintendo’s most popular character is Mario. To date, Mario has appeared in over 200 video games and is probably the most famous personality in the history of video games. Mario games have sold more than 210 million units, making the franchise the best-selling in history. Mario has inspired television shows, film, comics, and a line of licensed merchandise. However, there are two films based on Mario that Nintendo doesn’t want you to know about.
In 1993, two pornographic parodies of the Super Mario franchise were filmed called Super Hornio Brothers and Super Hornio Brothers II. The movies were made at the same time as the Super Mario Bros. film. Each movie starred Buck Adams, T.T. Boy, Ron Jeremy, and Chelsea Lynx as the main characters. The series tells the story of computer programmer Squeegie Hornio (Ron Jeremy) and his brother Ornio Hornio (T.T. Boy) who are teleported into a computer game after a freak power overload and forced to battle King Pooper (Buck Adams). Pooper has kidnapped Princess Perlina (Chelsea Lynx).
Initially, Sin City Entertainment funded the project, but dropped out, leaving Buck Adams to seek the help of Midnight Video. Before the movies were released to the public, Nintendo decided to halt their distribution. Ron Jeremy’s official website notes that while he would love to make both films available alongside his massive library, Nintendo purchased the rights to stop the movies distribution indefinitely. The evidence that the Super Hornio Brothers films are real wasn’t confirmed until 2008. The movies are currently unavailable for viewing and considered by some to be the “holy grail” of parodies.
9. Tara Calico and the Polaroid Photo
One of the most bizarre human disappearances of the 20th century is Tara Calico. On September 20, 1988, Tara left her home in Belen, New Mexico to go for a bike ride and never returned. After an extensive search, part of Tara’s Sony Walkman and a Boston cassette tape were discovered along her normal bike route. Several people saw Tara riding her bicycle, but nobody witnessed her presumed abduction. The disappearance of Tara Calico received extensive media coverage in the United States and was featured on Unsolved Mysteries, America’s Most Wanted, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and 48 Hours.
The case went cold until June 15, 1989, when a Polaroid photo of an unidentified young girl and boy, both bound and gagged, was found in the parking lot of a convenience store in Port St. Joe, Florida. After the photo was released, it was immediately theorized that the girl was Tara. Her mother came forward and said that the photo was indeed of her daughter because of what appeared to be a scar on the girl’s leg, similar to one Tara received in a car accident.
Scotland Yard analyzed the photo and concluded that the girl was Tara, but the Los Alamos National Laboratory and FBI tests were inconclusive. In the photo, the book next to the girl is the gothic horror novel “My Sweet Audrina” by V.C. Andrews, which was published in 1982. According to investigators, the picture was taken after May 1989 because the film used was not sold until that time. This means the picture was not taken until at least 8 months after the disappearance of Tara.
The boy inside the picture was initially thought to be Michael Henley, also of New Mexico, who disappeared in April 1988, but after Henley’s body was discovered in the Zuni Mountains where he was lost, the theory was dismissed. In the 1980s and ’90s there were several reported sightings of Tara, but her disappearance remains a mystery. Two other Polaroid photographs have surfaced over the years that might show Tara, but the pictures have not been released by the police.
8. Miasma Theory and Germs
Ignaz Semmelweis was a 19th century Hungarian physician that was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures. He has been described as the “savior of mothers” because in 1847 he postulated a theory that washing your hands in a hospital with chlorinated lime solutions would improve the high fatality rate of puerperal fever. Puerperal fever is a bacterial infection that can be contracted by women during childbirth or miscarriage. The infection can develop into puerperal sepsis, which is often fatal. The discovery eventually reduced childbed fever fatalities by 90%.
Despite the publication that washing your hands can greatly reduce puerperal fever, doctors did not wash their hands while working with pregnant women in hospitals until Louis Pasteur confirmed the germ theory, which stated that microorganisms are the cause of many diseases. The idea was highly controversial because people were convinced that diseases were caused by miasma. The miasma theory held that diseases such as cholera or the Black Death were caused by a noxious form of “bad air.” The word miasma means “pollution.”
Miasma was considered to be a poisonous vapor. It was said that the vapor was passed to people by way of contaminated water, foul air, and poor hygienic conditions. Miasma was identifiable by its foul smell, but the infection was not said to be passed between individuals. In the 1850s, miasma was used to explain the spread of cholera in London and Paris. Authorities told people that they needed to clean their bodies to prevent the disease, but in reality cholera was being spread through the water. The miasma theory was important to understanding the danger of poor sanitation, but it failed to recognize microbiology and germs.
7. Bob Lazar and Element 115
In 1982, a man named Bob Lazar made his first appearance in the media when an article was published in the Los Alamos Monitor that described a project where he built a jet car with the help of a jet engine. In the article, Lazar is referred to as “a physicist at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility.” Seven years later, in November 1989, Bob Lazar conducted an interview with investigative reporter George Knapp. The interview was broadcast on a Las Vegas TV station and included claims by Lazar that he worked at a top secret facility named S-4, located near Groom Lake, Nevada, within Area 51.
According to Lazar, S-4 served as a hidden U.S. military location that was used to study the reverse engineering of extraterrestrial flying saucers. Lazar said that he saw nine separate flying discs and was given a briefing on the involvement between humans and extraterrestrial beings for the past 100,000 years. Lazar said that the beings originate from the Zeta Reticuli 1 & 2 star system and are therefore referred to as Zeta Reticulans, popularly called Greys. Bob Lazar claimed that S-4 contained nine aircraft hangars built into the side of a mountain, with doors constructed at an angle that matched the slope.
He described some specifics of the alien spaceships and provided details on their mode of propulsion. According to Lazar, atomic Element 115 served as a nuclear fuel for the aircraft. He said that the element (ununpentium) provided an energy source which produced anti-gravity effects under proton bombardment. As the strong nuclear force field of Element 115′s nucleus was amplified, the gravitational effect would distort the surrounding space-time continuum and shorten the travel time to a destination. The description given by Lazar was extremely scientific and seemed probable.
However, after the interview made headlines, Bob Lazar was called a fraud. Government officials denied the existence of Element 115 and said Lazar was lying. Lazar’s educational history was put into question and his fellow scientists claimed to have no memory of meeting him. On February 2, 2004, Russian scientists and American scientists announced that they had completed the synthesis of ununpentium (Element 115). The news was surprising and came fifteen years after Bob Lazar said ununpentium was responsible for the propulsion of alien aircraft.
6. Operation Endgame and U.S. Immigration
In 2003, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency developed a ten year plan named Operation Endgame. The objective of the program is to detain and deport all removable aliens and “suspected terrorists” living in the United States by 2012. In order to accomplish this goal, the U.S. has passed a collection of laws that are aimed at getting rid of immigration. In 2007, the program Secure Communities was developed to identify criminal aliens, prioritize them on criminal activity, and remove them from the country.
The program identifies illegal immigrants with the help of modern technology, most notably biometric identification techniques, which rely on computer science. The Obama administration is a strong proponent of the Secure Communities program. From 2008 to 2011, the program arrested 140,396 criminal aliens and deported 72,445 of them. By 2013, Secure Communities is expected to be all over the United States with detention centers located in many cities.
On December 31, 2011, in the middle of the American holiday season, President Barack Obama signed an extremely important law named The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The Act authorized the spending of $662 billion “for the defense of the United States and its interests abroad.” The act underwent a number of revisions before being accepted. Most notably, the federal court blocked a section of the bill that allowed government officials to detain American citizens that are suspected of being terrorists. Instead, the bill allows for the indefinite detention of illegal aliens and foreign travelers deemed terrorists.
On April 23, 2010, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed law SB 1070, which made it a state misdemeanor for an illegal immigrant to be in Arizona without carrying registration documents. In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that most of the bill over-reached the state’s power into federal jurisdiction. The three provisions of the bill that were removed included the rule that legal immigrants needed to carry registration documents at all times, that state police were allowed to arrest any individual for suspicion of being an illegal immigrant, and that it was a crime for an illegal immigrant to search for a job in the state.
All Supreme Court Justices agreed to uphold the provision of the law that allows Arizona state police to investigate the immigration status of a person stopped if there is a reason to do so. Had the legislation passed, each individual state would have had the opportunity to hold vastly different immigration regulations. However, since the bill was deemed unconstitutional, current states, including Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Indiana, and Utah, will have to adjust their immigration laws to meet the new standards.
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