DIVX (Digital Video Express) is a discontinued digital video format. Created in part by Circuit City, it was an unsuccessful attempt to create an alternative to video rental

DIVX is a format variation on the DVD player in which a customer would buy a DIVX disc (similar to a DVD) for approximately $4.50 USD, which was watchable for up to 48 hours from its initial viewing. After this period, the disc could be viewed by paying a continuation fee to play it for two more days.

The status of the discs was monitored through an account over a phone line.[5] DIVX player owners had to set up an account with DIVX to which additional viewing fees could be charged. The player would call an account server over the phone line to charge for viewing fees similar to the way DirecTV and Dish Network satellite systems handle pay-per-view.

Almost immediately after the format's reveal, a movement on the Internet was initiated against DIVX, particularly in home theater forums by existing owners of the then-still nascent DVD format.[29]

The bows that were used during the rule of Genghis Khan were smaller than the modern Manchu-derived weapons used at most Naadam.

Mongol style bows were officially outlawed[2] in Mongolia after it was conquered by the Manchu dynasty.[3] Manchu soldiers entered gers and broke any Mongol bows that they found, and the Qing forced Mongols to use the Manchu bow in their archery.

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Omm Sety observed that, although modern village women could have free birth control, they did not want it. "If they miss one year without having a child, they go running around all over the place – even to the doctor! And if that doesn't work, they will try all sorts of other things." These included approaching a temple image of Isis at Abydos ("the Good Lady"), Hathor at Dendera, a statue of Senwosret III south of Abydos, a statue of Taweret in the Cairo museum and the pyramids at Giza.

Omm Sety's Living Egypt: Surviving folkways from Pharaonic Time, 2008

Um Dafuq (Arabic: أم دافوق), also spelled Um Dafouk, Um Dafok, and Um Dafog, is a town located across the Central African Republic–Sudan border in South Darfur. The town holds economic and commercial importance.[2] It is the birthplace of Abdallahi ibn Muhammad.[1]

Soviet submarine S-363 was a Soviet Navy Whiskey-class submarine of the Baltic Fleet. It ran aground on 27 October 1981 on the south coast of Sweden, approximately 10 km (6.2 mi) from Karlskrona, one of the largest Swedish naval bases.

The captain initially claimed that simultaneous failures of navigational equipment had caused the boat to get lost although the boat had already somehow navigated through a treacherous series of rocks, straits, and islands to get so close to the naval base.[3]

he Soviet captain, after a guarantee of his immunity, was taken off the boat and interrogated in the presence of Soviet representatives.[4]

Although the presence of nuclear weapons on board S-363 was never officially confirmed by the Soviet authorities,[5] the vessel's political officer, Vasily Besedin, later confirmed that there were nuclear warheads on some of the torpedoes and that the crew had been ordered to destroy the boat, including the warheads, if Swedish forces tried to take control of the vessel.[6]

The submarine was stuck on the rock for nearly ten days. On 5 November, it was hauled off the rocks by Swedish tugs and escorted to international waters, where it was handed over to the Soviet fleet.[4]