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44 unusual facts about anonymity


Abaúj County

According to Anonymus, during the reign of St. Stephen the Aba family (the family of Sámuel Aba who later became king) had properties in this area.

Agata della Pietà

She is known to have been the soloist in motets commissioned from Giovanni Porta and Andrea Bernasconi, in whose manuscripts she is mentioned by name; she is also mentioned in an anonymous verse tribute to musicians of the Pietà cori which dates to around 1740.

Alan G. Rogers

On March 31, 2008, an anonymous attempt was made to remove information relating to Rogers's sexual orientation from the present Wikipedia article.

Animal Liberation Press Office

Animal Liberation Press Offices relay anonymous communiques, photos and videos to the media about direct action undertaken by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), Animal Rights Militia (ARM), Animal Liberation Brigade, Justice Department, and other leaderless resistance within the animal liberation movement.

Anonymous Bulgarian Chronicle

Anonymous Bulgarian Chronicle is a term used for several anonymous chronicles written in Bulgaria during the Middle Ages.

Cyber-dissident

In regions where print and broadcast media are tightly controlled, anonymous online postings by cyber-dissidents may be the only source of information about the experiences, feelings, and opinions of ordinary citizens.

David Lat

In June 2004, Lat anonymously started the website Underneath Their Robes (UTR), a gossip blog about the federal judiciary, under the pseudonym Article III Groupie (also known as A3G).

Ghost publishing

The Ghost Publishers take the belief one step further and hold that works of literature are most powerful when they are anonymous.

Harry Palmer

Needing to name the previously-anonymous secret agent, the production team chose "Harry Palmer", because they wanted a dull, unglamorous name to distance him from Ian Fleming's James Bond, the stereotypical flamboyant, swashbuckling spy.

History of invertebrate paleozoology

The provocative Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844 to 1853) by then-anonymous Robert Chambers, Alfred Russel Wallace's joint essay (1858) with Charles Darwin, and Darwin's Origin of Species (1859 to 1872) popularized the evolutionary theories of natural selection.

Il paria

The father of Idamore, Zarete, has for a long time heard no news from his son, and now arrives incognito, searching.

Is acher in gaíth in-nocht...

Is acher in gaíth in-nocht... is an anonymous ninth-century poem in Old Irish.

Janet Webb

Born as Janet Patricia Webster in Liverpool, she was most famous for her appearances on BBC television's The Morecambe & Wise Show where was, anonymously, "the lady who comes on at the end".

Johanan bar Nappaha

Rabbi Yochanan's method in deciding halakha was to establish broad rules that apply in many cases; for example, he held that the halakha always follows a s'tam mishna (an undisputed anonymous mishna), and he had rules for which tanna ("Mishnah teacher") to follow in cases of dispute.

Kauai High School

National Honor Society is a select group of sophomores, juniors, and seniors that are chosen by an anonymous group of teachers.

Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes

Variously attributed to Shel Silverstein, Ogden Nash, or simply an unknown or anonymous author, it was most likely written by American poet Strickland Gillilan in the early 20th century.

Luxembourg Income Study

The LIS database contains anonymised demographic, income and expenditure information at three different levels of analysis (household, person and child).

Mad Dog II: The Lost Gold

The anonymous main character must track down the wanted outlaw himself, eliminating any and all gang members and hostiles along the way; from the introduction, one can conclude that he or she will be up against renegade Indians, banditos and "Mad Dog's sleazy crew".

Maidnappers

Meanwhile, the Sungcals have managed to raise the ransom money with help from an anonymous donor who left Php 688,000.00 in their mailbox, the exact amount they needed.

Mainz Anonymous

The Mainz Anonymous or The Narrative of the Old Persecutions is an account of the First Crusade of 1096 written soon thereafter by an anonymous Jewish author.

McMaster Faculty of Social Sciences

Meaning most members of the Crew remain anonymous to the general public, credited for their work only as a collective.

Mester de clerecía

Unlike Mester de Juglaría, Mester de Clerecía was written on paper, not anonymous, with regular metre (the cuaderna vía) and done by educated authors.

Missa Salisburgensis à 53 voci

The author of this work is anonymous; however, recent studies of the work suggest that it is almost certainly the work of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber.

Movieland

The ads say there are no forms to fill out, and no need to provide a credit card number or an e-mail address, making the trial appear anonymous.

Mr. Butts

Mr. Butts was also a pseudonym (inspired by the Doonesbury character) of a then-anonymous informant who in 1995 sent 4,000 pages of incriminating Brown & Williamson tobacco company documents to researcher Stanton Glantz.

Musica enchiriadis

Musica enchiriadis is an anonymous musical treatise of the 9th century.

Philip De Carteret, 8th of St Ouen

All this we glean from the anonymous Chronicler, who states that Le Boutillier was well fed and looked after, while de Carteret was badly used and half starved.

Protagonistas

The game format is pretty similar to Big Brother or Operación Triunfo (Star Academy) where a group of anonymous people compete in an isolated house to win a contract with a record company or the TV channel.

Robert Pollok

During this time, he anonymously published three poems: Helen of the Glen, The Persecuted Family, and Ralph Gemmell.

Roberta Langtry

Roberta Langtry (1916 – August 13, 2005), an anonymous philanthropist, was a modestly paid Toronto elementary school teacher and a multimillionaire.

SafeCatch

The method focuses attention in the guise of good customer service and allows bank tellers to rattle robbers, who generally try to remain anonymous and may not be expecting an overwhelmingly positive reaction to their robbery attempt, thereby possibly deterring them from going further with their plan.

St. James Infirmary Blues

"St. James Infirmary Blues" is an American folksong of anonymous origin, though sometimes credited to the songwriter Joe Primrose (a pseudonym for Irving Mills).

Synthetic data

The creation of synthetic data is an involved process of data anonymization; that is to say that synthetic data is a subset of anonymized data.

Talking statues of Rome

The talking statues of Rome (or the Congregation of Wits) provided an outlet for a form of anonymous political expression in Rome.

The Devouring

The story follows Reggie and her best friend Aaron, two horror buffs who discover an old, anonymous journal written by a woman believed to be crazy.

The Morning Post

Some have questioned this because the anonymous 1923 publication crediting Marsden as the translator in the pamphlet's preface occurred three years after Marsden's death on October 28, 1920.

The Phoenix Nest

The volume contains poems by certain anonymous writers who clearly belong to the old, rather than to the new, school of poets.

Thomas Blore

, with biographical notices of the Artists, Stamford, 1815 (anonymous).

Through a Naked Lens

Unfortunately, an article written by an anonymous author has revealed the relationship and exposed their romantic entanglement, threatening to end Navarro’s career.

Trobairitz

This adds to the difficulty of attribution, especially of anonymous writers.

TV Tome

The TV IV runs MediaWiki software, but has disabled anonymous editing and has licensed the content under the Creative Commons license (cc-by-2.5).

W Spann LLC

W Spann LLC was a phantom company created at the behest of an originally unknown person by Boston lawyer Cameron Casey on March 15, 2011, apparently for the sole purpose of anonymously donating one million dollars to Restore Our Future, a Super PAC supporting U.S. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Wikipedia defense

In SCO v. IBM, IBM benefited from an anonymous blogger with a shared interest and ability to do legal research.

Z Society

The organization's membership chooses to remain anonymous because of the belief that service, when provided anonymously, provides a unique philanthropic opportunity.


Babi Yar memorials

A number of films and television productions have also marked the tragic events at Babi Yar, and D. M. Thomas's novel The White Hotel uses the massacre's anonymity and violence as a counterpoint to the intimate and complex nature of the human psyche.

Bot herder

A bot herder usually uses a pseudonym to keep themselves anonymous, and may use proxy servers, shell accounts and bouncers to conceal their IP address thus maintaining anonymity.

Cady Noland

Cady Noland (born 1956 in Washington, DC.) is a postmodern conceptual sculptor and an internationally exhibited installation artist, whose work deals with the failed promise of the American Dream and the divide between fame and anonymity, among other themes.

Crowds

Crowds was designed by Michael K. Reiter and Aviel D. Rubin and defends against internal attackers and a corrupt receiver, but provides no anonymity against a global attacker or a local eavesdropper (see "Crowds: Anonymity For Web Transactions").

Diary of an Unborn Child

Diary of an Unborn Child is the title of an anonymously-written article which was published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in the May 22, 1980 issue of its Awake! magazine.

Doe v. 2themart.com Inc.

Although the court did not find suitable federal court authority on the issue of a third-party seeking through a civil subpoena to reveal the identities of anonymous Internet users, the court maintained that the anonymity of Internet speech is protected by the First Amendment.

Eduwonkette

"Eduwonkette" told an interviewer for The New York Sun that she preserves her anonymity because "Universities expect us to devote our time exclusively to research, and blogging is a hard sell in that environment," she said.

Exchangeable image file format

For example, a whistleblower, journalist or political dissident relying on the protection of anonymity to allow them to report malfeasance by a corporate entity, criminal, or government may therefore find their safety compromised by this default data collection.

Fritz Coumbe

Coumbe saved himself from baseball anonymity as one of the few players to appear in the major leagues' last triple-header, played on October 2, 1920 between the Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field.

Marabunta

It is a peer-to-peer platform for information exchange among nodes in an anonymous way based on several communication algorithms called "Order and Chaos" which can be found in massive social organizations such as ant colonies.

Melbourne–Voyager collision

On condition of anonymity, a doctor informed the first Royal Commission that he had been confidentially prescribing amphetamine sulphate to Captain Stevens prior to the collision.

Peter Andreas Heiberg

Heiberg also translated a publication by the French writer Jean-Charles Laveaux, which was highly critical towards the upper class, this was likely the reason why Heiberg chose to publish the translated version anonymously.

Scalable Urban Traffic Control

-- the following sentence might be too long and complex --> Surveillance of public places with CCTV networks has been criticized as enabling totalitarian forms of government by undermining people's ability to move about anonymously, as anticipated in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The Elusive Avengers

In a plot twist familiar to many Westerns such as For a Few Dollars More and the Japanese Yojimbo, Danka uses his anonymity to infiltrate the outlaws' gang and insinuate himself into Burnash's confidence, becoming his trusted right hand man.

What's Become of Waring

Waring, anticipating Thomas Pynchon in his insistence on privacy and anonymity, is soon confirmed dead.