Unpopular Stocks Can Become Valuable New Friends: John Dorfman

Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) -- For about seven decades, academic studies have shown that unpopular stocks -- those whose price is low relative to the company’s earnings -- outperform stocks with higher price-to-earnings ratios.

Unpopular Stocks Can Become Valuable New Friends: John Dorfman

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Why Is "John Doe" Used as a Name for an Anonymous Person?

The use of "John Doe" as a name for anonymous or unidentified people dates to 13th century England, when the name was first used in legal documents to protect the identity of witnesses. The concept of a false alias in legal documents is actually quite old; the Romans, for example, had their own version of "John Doe" for use in legal proceedings. This name was probably originally chosen because...


Why Is "John Doe" Used as a Name for an Anonymous Person?

Why Is "John Doe" Used as a Name for an Anonymous Person?

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Did John Wilkes Booth get away?

On April 26, 1865, Sergeant Boston Corbett shot and killed John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin who was hiding out in the barn of a tobacco barn in Caroline County, Virginia. Or did he? Some historians have suggested that the man in the barn wasn't Booth, and that he lived for several more decades under assumed names before committing suicide. Now, Booth's descendants have authorized the exhumation of John Wilkes Booth's brother, Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth, to get a DNA sample and close the books on the case. The DNA will be compared with a sample from vertebrae of the man killed in the barn. The body itself is buried but bone samples are in the collection of the National Museum of Medicine and the (incredible) Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. From CNN:

“I just feel we have a right to know who’s buried there,’’ said Lois Trebisacci, 60, who told The Boston Globe she is Edwin Booth's great-great-great granddaughter.

In 1995, the family tried to exhume the body inside the family plot that contains the man shot in the barn, but a judge denied the request.

“The family was as much interested in disproving [the escape] theory as they were in proving it,’’ Mark Zaid, an attorney for Trebisacci, told the Globe...

A spokesman told The Inquirer that the National Museum of Health and Medicine was concerned about damage to the precious piece of history, just for the sake of trying to debunk a myth. But Jan Herman, chief historian for the Navy Medical Department and special assistant to the Navy surgeon general in Washington, said since only a small drill would be used, the sample wouldn't be damaged.

It's very much a case of weighing what's worth it.

"If it compares favorably, that's the end of the controversy," Herman told the Inquirer. "That was Booth in the barn, end of case.

"If it doesn't match, you change American history."

"Did Abraham Lincoln's assassin get away? DNA could end questions"

Did John Wilkes Booth get away?

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John Forge

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	*In the cutscene ''Monsters'', the back of Forge's head is clearly seen, yet his [[neural interface]] is not visible. This is considered a simple oversight on part of [[Blur Studios]], the company that animated the scene. This oversight has carried over to his action figure from [[McFarlane Toys]].		*In the cutscene ''Monsters'', the back of Forge's head is clearly seen, yet his [[neural interface]] is not visible. This is considered a simple oversight on part of [[Blur Studios]], the company that animated the scene. This oversight has carried over to his action figure from [[McFarlane Toys]].
	*Forge rides into battle on an upgraded [[M12G1 Light Anti-Armor Vehicle|Gauss Warthog]] with greater defense and attack power. If his Warthog is destroyed and he is revived, he attacks with an [[M90 Close Assault Weapon System|M90 shotgun]] with a special attack that causes him to slam-fire his shotgun until empty.		*Forge rides into battle on an upgraded [[M12G1 Light Anti-Armor Vehicle|Gauss Warthog]] with greater defense and attack power. If his Warthog is destroyed and he is revived, he attacks with an [[M90 Close Assault Weapon System|M90 shotgun]] with a special attack that causes him to slam-fire his shotgun until empty.
-	*Both John Forge and Jorge-052 died by sacrificing themselves to detonate Slipspace Drives. Further, their names are somewhat similar.	+	*Both John Forge and Jorge-052 died by sacrificing themselves to detonate Slipspace Drives. Further more, their names are somewhat linguistically similar.
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John Forge

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John K's new online store

If you're a fan of John Kricfalusi -- and who isn't -- you will love the T-shirts he is selling in his online store called Cartoon Thrills. You are sure to enjoy the jaunty music that begins playing as soon as the site loads as well. Who needs coffee when you have peppy sites like this available to provide you with the get up and go you need to make it through the day?

John K's new online store

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Obituary for John Dawkins, father of Richard Dawkins

We were saddened to learn this week that Richard Dawkins' father passed away. All of us at Boing Boing extend our condolences to the Dawkins family. From a remembrance by Richard Dawkins:

My father, (Clinton) John Dawkins, who has died peacefully of old age, packed an enormous amount into his 95 years.

He was born in Mandalay in 1915, the eldest of three talented brothers. John's boyhood hobby of pressing flowers, reinforced by a famous biology teacher (AG Lowndes of Marlborough) led him to read Botany at Oxford, and thence to study tropical agriculture at Cambridge and ICTA (Trinidad) in preparation for posting to Nyasaland as a junior agricultural officer. He and my mother, Jean Ladner, began their idyllic married life at various remote agricultural stations in Nyasaland before he was called up for wartime service in the King's African Rifles (KAR). He wangled permission to travel to Kenya in his own rattletrap car rather than with the regimental convoy, which enabled Jean to accompany him - illegally.

John's postwar work as an agricultural officer back in Nyasaland was interrupted when he received an unexpected legacy from a distant cousin. Over Norton Park had been owned by the Dawkins family since the 1720s. Cousin Hereward Dawkins, casting around the family tree for a male heir, could find none closer than my father, whom he had never met and who had never heard of him.

Obituary for John Dawkins, father of Richard Dawkins

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John Bolton demands obliteration of Wikileaks' electrons

John Bolton, former U.N. Ambassador and President of the Presidium of the Supreme Stacheviet, has an opinion on Wikileaks! It is quite a predictable one, but his editorial in The Guardian offers this deathless, Thiessenesque proposition:

John Bolton demands obliteration of Wikileaks' electrons

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John-117 in cryo

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	'''John-117 in cryo''' is an easter egg in ''[[Halo: Reach]]'''s campaign level [[The Pillar of Autumn (Halo: Reach level)|The Pillar of Autumn]].		'''John-117 in cryo''' is an easter egg in ''[[Halo: Reach]]'''s campaign level [[The Pillar of Autumn (Halo: Reach level)|The Pillar of Autumn]].
-	By holding the right analog stick to the right in the part of the cinematic where [[Jacob Keyes|Captain Keyes's]] [[Dropship 77-Troop Carrier|Pelican]] lands in a [[hangar bay]] in the ''[[UNSC Pillar of Autumn|Pillar of Autumn]]'', one can see John 117, lying in a [[cryo-chamber]] in the hangar.	+	By holding the right and left analog stick to the right in the part of the cinematic where [[Jacob Keyes|Captain Keyes's]] [[Dropship 77-Troop Carrier|Pelican]] lands in a [[hangar bay]] in the ''[[UNSC Pillar of Autumn|Pillar of Autumn]]'', one can see John 117, lying in a [[cryo-chamber]] in the hangar.
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John-117 in cryo

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