Survivalism, the Glossary
Survivalism is a social movement of individuals or groups (called survivalists, doomsday preppers or preppers) who proactively prepare for emergencies, such as natural disasters, and other disasters causing disruption to social order (that is, civil disorder) caused by political or economic crises.[1]
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268 relations: ACP 131, Agricultural machinery, AK-47, Al J Venter, Alan Keyes, Alert state, Alone (TV series), American militia movement, Anarcho-primitivism, Anthrax, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, Apocalypticism, Applied improvisation, Austrian Association of Hiking, Sports and Society, Avalanche, Avian influenza, Back-to-the-land movement, Barter, Barton Biggs, Battlefield medicine, Bioterrorism, Blast shelter, Blog, Botulism, Brevity code, Bruce D. Clayton, Bulletin board system, Bunker, Business Insider, Castle, Catastrophic failure, CBRN defense, Cholera, Christianity, Civil defense, Civil disorder, Climate change, Cold War, Collective identity, Columbia Daily Tribune, Combatives, Compound (fortification), Concertina wire, Counterculture, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Cresson Kearny, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, Critical infrastructure, Dangerous goods, ... Expand index (218 more) »
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ACP 131
ACP-131 is the controlling publication for the listing of and It is published and revised from time to time by the Combined Communications Electronics Board (CCEB) countries: Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States.
Agricultural machinery
Agricultural machinery relates to the mechanical structures and devices used in farming or other agriculture.
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AK-47
The AK-47, officially known as the Avtomat Kalashnikova (also known as the Kalashnikov or just AK), is an assault rifle that is chambered for the 7.62×39mm cartridge.
Al J Venter
Al J. Venter (born Albertus Johannes Venter, 25 November 1938) is a South African war journalist, documentary filmmaker, and author of more than forty books who also served as an Africa and Middle East correspondent for Jane's International Defence Review.
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Alan Keyes
Alan Lee Keyes (born August 7, 1950) is an American politician, political scientist, and perennial candidate who served as the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1985 to 1987.
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Alert state
An alert state or state of alert is an indication of the state of readiness of the armed forces for military action or a state against natural disasters, terrorism or military attack.
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Alone (TV series)
Alone is an American survival competition series on History.
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American militia movement
American militia movement is a term used by law enforcement and security analysts to refer to a number of private organizations that include paramilitary or similar elements.
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Anarcho-primitivism
Anarcho-primitivism, also known as anti-civilization anarchism, is an anarchist critique of civilization that advocates a return to non-civilized ways of life through deindustrialization, abolition of the division of labor or specialization, abandonment of large-scale organization and all technology other than prehistoric technology and the dissolution of agriculture.
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Anthrax
Anthrax is an infection caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis.
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction in which the Earth's (or another planet's) civilization is collapsing or has collapsed.
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Apocalypticism
Apocalypticism is the religious belief that the end of the world is imminent, even within one's own lifetime.
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Applied improvisation
Applied improvisation is the application of improvisational theatrical methods in various non-theatrical fields, including consulting, training, and teaching.
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Austrian Association of Hiking, Sports and Society
The Austrian Association of Hiking, Sports and Society (abbreviated OeWSGV or ÖWSGV) was a name used to camouflage a secret paramilitary army in Austria which operated from 1951 to 1964.
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Avalanche
An avalanche is a rapid flow of snow down a slope, such as a hill or mountain.
Avian influenza
Avian influenza, also known as avian flu or bird flu, is a disease caused by the influenza A virus, which primarily affects birds but can sometimes affect mammals including humans.
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Back-to-the-land movement
A back-to-the-land movement is any of various agrarian movements across different historical periods. Survivalism and back-to-the-land movement are lifestyles and social movements.
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Barter
In trade, barter (derived from baretor) is a system of exchange in which participants in a transaction directly exchange goods or services for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money.
Barton Biggs
Barton Michael Biggs (November 26, 1932 – July 14, 2012) was a money manager whose attention to emerging markets marked him as one of the world's first and foremost global investment strategists, a position he held—after inventing it in 1985—at Morgan Stanley, where he worked as a partner for over 30 years.
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Battlefield medicine
Battlefield medicine, also called field surgery and later combat casualty care, is the treatment of wounded combatants and non-combatants in or near an area of combat.
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Bioterrorism
Bioterrorism is terrorism involving the intentional release or dissemination of biological agents.
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Blast shelter
A blast shelter is a place where people can go to protect themselves from blasts and explosions, like those from bombs, or in hazardous worksites, such as on oil and gas refineries or petrochemical facilities.
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Blog
A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts).
Botulism
Botulism is a rare and potentially fatal illness caused by a toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum.
Brevity code
Brevity codes are used in amateur radio, maritime, aviation and military communications.
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Bruce D. Clayton
Bruce D. Clayton is a noted forest fire and biological control ecologist as well as being the author of several books of interest within the survivalist movement.
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Bulletin board system
A bulletin board system (BBS), also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS), was a computer server running software that allowed users to connect to the system using a terminal program.
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Bunker
A bunker is a defensive military fortification designed to protect people and valued materials from falling bombs, artillery, or other attacks.
Business Insider
Business Insider (stylized in all caps, shortened to BI, known from 2021 to 2023 as Insider) is a New York City–based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007.
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Castle
A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders.
Catastrophic failure
A catastrophic failure is a sudden and total failure from which recovery is impossible.
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CBRN defense
Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense (CBRN defense) or Nuclear, biological, and chemical protection (NBC protection) is a class of protective measures taken in situations where chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (including terrorism) hazards may be present.
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Cholera
Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Civil defense
Civil defense or civil protection is an effort to protect the citizens of a state (generally non-combatants) from human-made and natural disasters.
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Civil disorder
Civil disorder, also known as civil disturbance, civil unrest, civil strife, or turmoil, are situations when law enforcement struggle to maintain public order or tranquility.
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Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Collective identity
Collective identity or group identity is a shared sense of belonging to a group.
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Columbia Daily Tribune
The Columbia Daily Tribune, commonly referred to as the Columbia Tribune or the Tribune, is one of two daily newspapers in Columbia, Missouri, the other being the Columbia Missourian.
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Combatives
Combatives is the term used to describe the hand-to-hand combat systems primarily used by members of the military, law enforcement, or other groups such as security personnel or correctional officers.
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Compound (fortification)
In military science, a compound is a type of fortification made up of walls or fences surrounding several buildings in the center of a large piece of land.
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Concertina wire
Concertina wire or Dannert wire is a type of barbed wire or razor wire that is formed in large coils which can be expanded like a concertina.
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Counterculture
A counterculture is a culture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural mores.
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COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
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Cresson Kearny
Cresson Henry Kearny (–) wrote several survival-related books based primarily on research performed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD), also known as subacute spongiform encephalopathy or neurocognitive disorder due to prion disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease.
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Critical infrastructure
Critical infrastructure, or critical national infrastructure (CNI) in the UK, describes infrastructure considered essential by governments for the functioning of a society and economy and deserving of special protection for national security.
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Dangerous goods
Dangerous goods (DG), are substances that when transported are a risk to health, safety, property or the environment.
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Daniel Quinn
Daniel Clarence Quinn (October 11, 1935 – February 17, 2018) was an American author (primarily, novelist and fabulist), cultural critic, and publisher of educational texts, best known for his novel Ishmael, which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991 and was published the following year.
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David Brin
Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is an American science fiction author.
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Dead drop
A dead drop or dead letter box is a method of espionage tradecraft used to pass items or information between two individuals (e.g., a case officer and an agent, or two agents) using a secret location.
Dean Ing
Dean Charles Ing (June 17, 1931 – July 21, 2020) was an American author, who usually wrote in the science fiction and techno-thriller genres.
Dengue fever
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease caused by dengue virus, prevalent in tropical and subtropical areas.
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Derrick Jensen
Derrick Jensen (born December 19, 1960) is an American ecophilosopher, writer, author, teacher and environmentalist in the anarcho-primitivist tradition, though he rejects the label "anarchist".
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Devaluation
In macroeconomics and modern monetary policy, a devaluation is an official lowering of the value of a country's currency within a fixed exchange-rate system, in which a monetary authority formally sets a lower exchange rate of the national currency in relation to a foreign reference currency or currency basket.
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Distant Thunder (1988 film)
Distant Thunder is a 1988 American drama film directed by Rick Rosenthal and starring John Lithgow and Ralph Macchio.
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Don Stephens
Don Stephens is a futurist, eco-home sustainable designer and author.
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Doomsday Castle
Doomsday Castle is a reality television series on National Geographic Channel, that was canceled in 2013, showing the lives of Brenton Bruns and his five children preparing for the end of the world, in a castle he has built near Pickens, South Carolina.
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Doomsday Preppers
Doomsday Preppers is an American reality television series that aired on the National Geographic Channel from 2012 to 2014.
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Duck and Cover (film)
Duck and Cover is a 1951 American civil defense animated and live action social guidance film that is often mischaracterized as propaganda.
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Duct tape
Duct tape (historically and still occasionally referred to as duck tape) is cloth- or scrim-backed pressure-sensitive tape, often coated with polyethylene.
Duplex (telecommunications)
A duplex communication system is a point-to-point system composed of two or more connected parties or devices that can communicate with one another in both directions.
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Ebola
Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by ebolaviruses.
Ecology
Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.
Economic collapse
Economic collapse, also called economic meltdown, is any of a broad range of bad economic conditions, ranging from a severe, prolonged depression with high bankruptcy rates and high unemployment (such as the Great Depression of the 1930s), to a breakdown in normal commerce caused by hyperinflation (such as in Weimar Germany in the 1920s), or even an economically caused sharp rise in the death rate and perhaps even a decline in population (such as in countries of the former USSR in the 1990s).
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Edward Yourdon
Edward Nash Yourdon (April 30, 1944 – January 20, 2016) was an American software engineer, computer consultant, author and lecturer, and software engineering methodology pioneer.
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El Paso County, Colorado
El Paso County is the most populous county located in the American state of Colorado.
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Electric generator
In electricity generation, a generator is a device that converts motion-based power (potential and kinetic energy) or fuel-based power (chemical energy) into electric power for use in an external circuit.
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Emergency medical services
Emergency medical services (EMS), also known as ambulance services or paramedic services, are emergency services that provide urgent pre-hospital treatment and stabilisation for serious illness and injuries and transport to definitive care.
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Environmental degradation
Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as quality of air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat destruction; the extinction of wildlife; and pollution.
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Environmental disaster
An environmental disaster or ecological disaster is defined as a catastrophic event regarding the natural environment that is due to human activity.
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Eschatology
Eschatology concerns expectations of the end of present age, human history, or the world itself.
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Escherichia coli
Escherichia coliWells, J. C. (2000) Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.
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Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism, also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the centrality of sharing the "good news" of Christianity, being "born again" in which an individual experiences personal conversion, as authoritatively guided by the Bible, God's revelation to humanity.
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Everyday carry
Everyday carry (EDC) or every-day carry is a collection of useful items that are consistently carried on person every day.
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Extreme sport
Action sports, adventure sports or extreme sports are activities perceived as involving a high degree of risk of injury or death. Survivalism and extreme sport are lifestyles.
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Fallout Protection
Fallout Protection: What To Know And Do About Nuclear Attack was an official United States federal government booklet released in December 1961 by the United States Department of Defense and the Office of Civil Defense.
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Fallout shelter
A fallout shelter is an enclosed space specially designated to protect occupants from radioactive debris or fallout resulting from a nuclear explosion.
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Famine
A famine is a widespread scarcity of food caused by several possible factors, including, but not limited to war, natural disasters, crop failure, widespread poverty, an economic catastrophe or government policies.
Federal Assault Weapons Ban
The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, popularly known as the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB or FAWB), was a subsection of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a United States federal law which included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms that were defined as assault weapons as well as certain ammunition magazines that were defined as large capacity.
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Federal Emergency Management Agency
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), initially created under President Jimmy Carter by Presidential Reorganization Plan No.
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Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States.
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Feeding Everyone No Matter What
Feeding Everyone No Matter What: Managing Food Security After Global Catastrophe is a 2014 book by David Denkenberger and Joshua M. Pearce and published by Elsevier under their Academic Press.
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Fiat money
Fiat money is a type of currency that is not backed by a precious metal, such as gold or silver, or backed by any other tangible asset or commodity.
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Fieldcraft
Fieldcraft comprises the techniques and methods involved in living, traveling, or making military or scientific observations in the field.
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Firearm
A firearm is any type of gun that uses an explosive charge and is designed to be readily carried and used by an individual.
First aid
First aid is the first and immediate assistance given to any person with either a minor or serious illness or injury, with care provided to preserve life, prevent the condition from worsening, or to promote recovery until medical services arrive.
Flood
A flood is an overflow of water (or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry.
Food storage
Food storage is a way of decreasing the variability of the food supply in the face of natural, inevitable variability.
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Fortified house
A fortified house or fortified mansion is a type of building which developed in Europe during the Middle Ages, generally with significant fortifications added.
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Fougasse (weapon)
A fougasse is an improvised mortar constructed by making a hollow in the ground or rock and filling it with explosives (originally, black powder) and projectiles.
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Front organization
A front organization is any entity set up by and controlled by another organization, such as intelligence agencies, organized crime groups, terrorist organizations, secret societies, banned organizations, religious or political groups, advocacy groups, or corporations.
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Fujian tulou
The Fujian tulou are Chinese rural dwellings unique to the Hakka in the mountainous areas in southeastern Fujian, China.
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Ganbaru
, also romanized as, is a ubiquitous Japanese word which roughly means to slog on tenaciously through tough times.
Gary North (economist)
Gary Kilgore North (February 11, 1942 – February 24, 2022) was an American writer, Austrian School economic historian, and leading figure in the Christian reconstructionist movement.
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Gerald Celente
Gerald Celente (born November 29, 1946) is an American trend forecaster,Alderman, Leslie,, money.cnn.com, 15 December 1997, retrieved 3 August 2009Hopkins, Steve, "", WeeklyBeat.net, 23 February 2009, retrieved 3 August 2009 publisher of the Trends Journal, business consultantNaughton, Keith, "", Newsweek, 17 January 2000, retrieved 3 August 2009 and author who makes predictions about the global financial markets and other important events.
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Global catastrophic risk
A global catastrophic risk or a doomsday scenario is a hypothetical event that could damage human well-being on a global scale, even endangering or destroying modern civilization.
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Global cooling
Global cooling was a conjecture, especially during the 1970s, of imminent cooling of the Earth culminating in a period of extensive glaciation, due to the cooling effects of aerosols or orbital forcing.
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Gold
Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.
Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.
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Great Recession
The Great Recession was a period of marked decline in economies around the world that occurred in the late 2000s.
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Great Tribulation
In Christian eschatology, the Great Tribulation (thlîpsis megálē) is a period mentioned by Jesus in the Olivet Discourse as a sign that would occur in the time of the end.
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Guerrilla warfare
Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians including recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism, raids, petty warfare or hit-and-run tactics in a rebellion, in a violent conflict, in a war or in a civil war to fight against regular military, police or rival insurgent forces.
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Gun cultures
Gun culture refers to the attitudes, feelings, values and behaviour of a society, or any social group, in which guns are used.
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Gun safety
Gun safety is the study and practice of managing risk when using, transporting, storing and disposing of firearms, airguns and ammunition in order to avoid injury, illness or death.
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Guns & Ammo
Guns & Ammo is a magazine dedicated to firearms, hunting, competitive shooting, reloading, and other shooting-related activities in the United States.
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Hand-to-hand combat
Hand-to-hand combat (sometimes abbreviated as HTH or H2H) is a physical confrontation between two or more persons at short range (grappling distance or within the physical reach of a handheld weapon) that does not involve the use of ranged weapons.
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Hard currency
In macroeconomics, hard currency, safe-haven currency, or strong currency is any globally traded currency that serves as a reliable and stable store of value.
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Harry Browne
Harry Edson Browne (June 17, 1933 – March 1, 2006) was an American writer, politician, and investment advisor.
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Helen Nearing
Helen Knothe Nearing (February 23, 1904 – September 17, 1995) was an American author, advocate of simple living and a lifelong vegetarian.
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HIV
The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of Lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans.
Home invasion
A home invasion, also called a hot prowl burglary, is a sub-type of burglary (or in some jurisdictions, a separately defined crime) in which an offender unlawfully enters into a building residence while the occupants are inside.
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Howard Ruff
Howard Joseph Ruff (December 27, 1930 – November 12, 2016) was a financial adviser and writer of the pro-hard money investing newsletter The Ruff Times.
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Human outpost
Human outposts; ByIris Fleischer, Olivia Haider, Morten W. Hansen, Robert Peckyno, Daniel Rosenberg and Robert E. Guinness; 30 September 2003; IAC Bremen, 2003 (29 Sept – 03 Oct 2003) and MoonMars Workshop (26-28 Sept 2003, Bremen).
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Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was a devastating and deadly Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $186.3 billion (2022 USD) in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area.
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Identity is the set of qualities, beliefs, personality traits, appearance, and/or expressions that characterize a person or a group.
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Impact winter
An impact winter is a hypothesized period of prolonged cold weather due to the impact of a large asteroid or comet on the Earth's surface.
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Improvised weapon
An improvised weapon is an object that was not designed to be used as a weapon but can be put to that use.
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Inflation
In economics, inflation is a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy.
Influenza A virus subtype H1N1
In virology, influenza A virus subtype H1N1 (A/H1N1) is a subtype of influenza A virus.
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Inland Northwest
The Inland Northwest, historically and alternatively known as the Inland Empire, is a region of the American Northwest centered on the Greater Spokane, Washington Area, encompassing all of Eastern Washington and North Idaho.
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James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler is an American writer, social critic, public speaker, and blogger.
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James Wesley Rawles
James Wesley, Rawles (born 1960) is an American author, former U.S. Army Intelligence officer, and survival retreat consultant.
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Jeff Cooper
John Dean "Jeff" Cooper (May 10, 1920 – September 25, 2006) was a United States Marine, the creator of the "modern technique" of handgun shooting, and an expert on the use and history of small arms.
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Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Eugene Pournelle (August 7, 1933 – September 8, 2017) was an American scientist in the area of operations research and human factors research, a science fiction writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers.
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Jerry Reed
Jerry Reed Hubbard (March 20, 1937 – September 1, 2008), known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American country singer, guitarist, composer, songwriter and actor who appeared in more than a dozen films.
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Jim Puplava
James Joseph Puplava (born 1950) is an investment analyst, financial planner and financial podcast host born in Gary, Indiana.
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Joel Skousen
Joel M. Skousen (born September 22, 1946) is an American author of books on survivalism and candidate in the 2024 United States presidential election for the Constitution Party.
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John Boyd (military strategist)
John Richard Boyd (January 23, 1927 – March 9, 1997) was a United States Air Force fighter pilot and Pentagon consultant during the second half of the 20th century.
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John Lithgow
John Arthur Lithgow (born, 1945) is an American actor.
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John Pugsley
John Allen Pugsley (January 5, 1934 – April 8, 2011) was an American voluntaryist libertarian political, economics commentator, lecturer, and best-selling author.
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Joseph Tainter
Joseph Anthony Tainter (born December 8, 1949) is an American anthropologist and historian.
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Karl Hess
Karl Hess (born Carl Hess III; May 25, 1923 – April 22, 1994) was an American speechwriter and author.
Kenneth W. Royce
Kenneth W. Royce is an American author who primarily writes under the pen-name of Boston T. Party.
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King County, Washington
King County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington.
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Kurt Saxon
Kurt Saxon (born Donald Eugene Sisco; March 6, 1932 – August 16, 2021) was an American writer, radio host, survivalist and the author of The Poor Man's James Bond, a series of books on improvised weapons and munitions.
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Lassa mammarenavirus
Lassa mammarenavirus (LASV) is an arenavirus that causes Lassa hemorrhagic fever, a type of viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF), in humans and other primates.
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Letter (paper size)
Letter (officially ANSI A) is a paper size standard defined in ANSI/ASME Y14.1 by the American National Standards Institute, commonly used as home or office stationery primarily in the United States, Canada, and the Philippines, and variably across Latin America.
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Lewis Dartnell
Lewis Ryan Dartnell (born 21 November 1980) is a British astrobiologist, presenter, and professor of science communication at the University of Westminster.
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Libertarianism
Libertarianism (from libertaire, itself from the lit) is a political philosophy that upholds liberty as a core value.
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List of survivalism topics
This is an outline of topics related to Survivalism.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Malthusianism
Malthusianism is the theory that population growth is potentially exponential, according to the Malthusian growth model, while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear, which eventually reduces living standards to the point of triggering a population decline.
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Man vs. Wild
Man vs.
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Man, Woman, Wild
Man, Woman, Wild was a cable television reality series which originally aired on the Discovery Channel from July 2010 to January 2012.
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Mantrap (access control)
A mantrap, security mantrap portal, airlock, sally port or access control vestibule is a physical security access control system comprising a small space with two sets of interlocking doors, such that the first set of doors must close before the second set opens.
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Marburg virus
Marburg virus (MARV) is a hemorrhagic fever virus of the Filoviridae family of viruses and a member of the species Marburg marburgvirus, genus Marburgvirus.
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Marian apparition
A Marian apparition is a reported supernatural appearance by Mary the mother of Jesus, or a series of related such appearances during a period of time.
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Martial arts
Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practiced for a number of reasons such as self-defence; military and law enforcement applications; competition; physical, mental, and spiritual development; entertainment; and the preservation of a nation's intangible cultural heritage.
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Martial law
Martial law is the replacement of civilian government by military rule and the suspension of civilian legal processes for military powers.
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Mel Tappan
Mel Tappan (1933 – 1980, born Melrose H. Tappan III) was the editor of the newsletter Personal Survival ("P.S.") Letter and the books Survival Guns and Tappan on Survival.
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Melee weapon
A melee weapon, hand weapon, close combat weapon or fist-load weapon is any handheld weapon used in hand-to-hand combat, i.e. for use within the direct physical reach of the weapon itself, essentially functioning as an additional (and more effective) extension of the user's limbs.
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Men Going Their Own Way
Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) is an anti-feminist, misogynistic, mostly online community advocating for men to separate themselves from women and society, which they believe has been corrupted by feminism.
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Michael Gross (actor)
Michael Edward Gross (born June 21, 1947) is an American television, film, and stage actor.
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Missouri Information Analysis Center
The Missouri Information Analysis Center, or MIAC is a "fusion center," combining resources from the federal Department of Homeland Security and other agencies, in particular local agencies.
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Mother Earth News
Mother Earth News is a bi-monthly American magazine that has a circulation of 500,520.
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Naked and Afraid
Naked and Afraid is an American reality series that airs on the Discovery Channel.
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Nancy Tappan
Nancy Tappan was the co-editor of the newsletter Personal Survival ("P.S.") Letter in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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National Geographic (American TV channel)
National Geographic (formerly National Geographic Channel; abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo or Nat Geo TV) is an American pay television network and flagship channel owned by the National Geographic Global Networks unit of Disney Entertainment and National Geographic Partners, a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (73%) and the National Geographic Society (27%), with the operational management handled by Disney Entertainment.
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Natural disaster
A natural disaster is the very harmful impact on a society or community after a natural hazard event.
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Natural gas
Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.
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Nitrile rubber
Nitrile rubber, also known as nitrile butadiene rubber, NBR, Buna-N, and acrylonitrile butadiene rubber, is a synthetic rubber derived from acrylonitrile (ACN) and butadiene.
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Nuclear arms race
The nuclear arms race was an arms race competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War.
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Nuclear power plant
A nuclear power plant (NPP) or atomic power station (APS) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor.
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Nuclear terrorism
Nuclear terrorism refers to any person or persons detonating a nuclear weapon as an act of terrorism (i.e., illegal or immoral use of violence for a political or religious cause).
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Nuclear War Survival Skills
Nuclear War Survival Skills or NWSS, by Cresson Kearny, is a civil defense manual.
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Nuclear warfare
Nuclear warfare, also known as atomic warfare, is a military conflict or prepared political strategy that deploys nuclear weaponry.
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Nuclear winter
Nuclear winter is a severe and prolonged global climatic cooling effect that is hypothesized to occur after widespread firestorms following a large-scale nuclear war.
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Observation post
An observation post (commonly abbreviated OP), temporary or fixed, is a position from which soldiers can watch enemy movements, to warn of approaching soldiers (such as in trench warfare), or to direct fire.
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Off-the-grid
Off-the-grid or off-grid is a characteristic of buildings and a lifestyle designed in an independent manner without reliance on one or more public utilities. Survivalism and off-the-grid are lifestyles.
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One Second After
One Second After is a 2009 novel by American writer William R. Forstchen.
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OODA loop
The OODA loop (observe, orient, decide, act) is a decision-making model developed by military strategist and United States Air Force Colonel John Boyd.
Operations security
Operations security (OPSEC) is a process that identifies critical information to determine whether friendly actions can be observed by enemy intelligence, determines if information obtained by adversaries could be interpreted to be useful to them, and then executes selected measures that eliminate or reduce adversary exploitation of friendly critical information.
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Orthohantavirus
Orthohantavirus is a genus of single-stranded, enveloped, negative-sense RNA viruses in the family Hantaviridae within the order Bunyavirales.
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Our Lady of Akita
Our Lady of Akita (秋田の聖母マリア) is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with the Marian apparitions reported in 1973 by Sister Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa in the remote area of Yuzawadai, an outskirt of Akita, Japan.
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Our Lady of Fátima
Our Lady of Fátima (Nossa Senhora de Fátima,; formally known as Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of Fátima) is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus, based on the Marian apparitions reported in 1917 by three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
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Paramedic
A paramedic is a healthcare professional trained in the medical model, whose main role has historically been to respond to emergency calls for medical help outside of a hospital.
Patriots (novel series)
The Patriots novel series is a five-novel series by survivalist novelist and former U.S. Army officer and blogger, James Wesley Rawles.
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Peak oil
Peak oil is the theorized point in time when the maximum rate of global oil production will occur, after which oil production will begin an irreversible decline.
Plague (disease)
Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
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Pollyanna
Pollyanna is a 1913 novel by American author Eleanor H. Porter, considered a classic of children's literature.
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that develops from experiencing a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on a person's life or well-being.
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Post-tribulation rapture
The post-tribulation rapture doctrine is the belief in a combined resurrection and rapture, or gathering of the saints, after the Great Tribulation.
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Power outage
A power outage (also called a powercut, a power out, a power failure, a power blackout, a power loss, or a blackout) is the loss of the electrical power network supply to an end user.
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Precious metals are rare, naturally occurring metallic chemical elements of high economic value.
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Preparedness
Preparedness is a set of actions that are taken as precautionary measures in the face of potential disasters.
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Presidency of Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton's tenure as the 42nd president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1993, and ended on January 20, 2001.
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Prophecy
In religion, a prophecy is a message that has been communicated to a person (typically called a prophet) by a supernatural entity.
Public health emergency of international concern
A public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) is a formal declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO) of "an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other States through the international spread of disease and to potentially require a coordinated international response", formulated when a situation arises that is "serious, sudden, unusual, or unexpected", which "carries implications for public health beyond the affected state's national border" and "may require immediate international action".
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Rabies
Rabies is a viral disease that causes encephalitis in humans and other mammals.
Ragnar Benson
Ragnar Benson is the pen name of a prolific survivalist author who specializes in preparedness topics, particularly survival retreats, hunting, trapping, austere medicine, false identification, explosives, firearms, and improvised weapons.
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Rapture
The Rapture is an eschatological position held by some Christians, particularly those of American evangelicalism, consisting of an end-time event when all dead Christian believers will be resurrected and, joined with Christians who are still alive, together will rise "in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air." The origin of the term extends from the First Epistle to the Thessalonians in the Bible, which uses the Greek word (ἁρπάζω), meaning "to snatch away" or "to seize".
Rattlesnake Ridge
Rattlesnake Ridge, known as daʔšədabš to the Snoqualmie people, is the ridge of Rattlesnake Mountain located south of North Bend, Washington, United States.
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Reba McEntire
Reba Nell McEntire (born March 28, 1955), or simply Reba, is an American country singer and actress.
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Reconnaissance
In military operations, military reconnaissance or scouting is the exploration of an area by military forces to obtain information about enemy forces, the terrain, and civil activities in the area of operations.
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Reginald Bretnor
Reginald Bretnor (born Alfred Reginald Kahn; July 30, 1911 – July 22, 1992) was an American science fiction author who flourished between the 1950s and 1980s.
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Retreat (survivalism)
In the survivalist subculture or movement, a retreat is a place of refuge.
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Richard Manning
Richard "Dick" Manning is an American environmental author and journalist who writes about music, neuroscience, and agriculture.
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Robin Williams
Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian.
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Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.
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Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
On December 14, 2012, a mass shooting occurred at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, United States.
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Sarin
Sarin (NATO designation GB) is an extremely toxic organophosphorus compound.
SARS
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by the virus SARS-CoV-1, the first identified strain of the SARS-related coronavirus.
Sébastien Le Prestre, Marquis of Vauban
Sébastien Le Prestre, seigneur de Vauban, later styling himself as the marquis de Vauban (baptised 15 May 163330 March 1707), commonly referred to as Vauban, was a French military engineer and Marshal of France who worked under Louis XIV.
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Scott Nearing
Scott Nearing (August 6, 1883 – August 24, 1983) was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, pacifist, vegetarian and advocate of simple living.
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Scout Motto
The Scout Motto of the Scout movement is, in English, "Be Prepared", with most international branches of the group using a close translation of that phrase.
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Self-defense
Self-defense (self-defence primarily in Commonwealth English) is a countermeasure that involves defending the health and well-being of oneself from harm.
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Self-sustainability
Self-sustainability and self-sufficiency are overlapping states of being in which a person, being, or system needs little or no help from, or interaction with others. Survivalism and self-sustainability are social movements.
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September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.
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Settler
A settler is a person who has immigrated to an area and established a permanent residence there.
Silver
Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.
A social movement is a loosely organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a social or political one. Survivalism and social movement are social movements.
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The term social order can be used in two senses: In the first sense, it refers to a particular system of social structures and institutions.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Standard operating procedure
A standard operating procedure (SOP) is a set of step-by-step instructions compiled by an organization to help workers carry out routine operations.
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Storm
A storm is any disturbed state of the natural environment or the atmosphere of an astronomical body.
Strategic reserve
A strategic reserve is the reserve of a commodity or items that is held back from normal use by governments, organisations, or businesses in pursuance of a particular strategy or to cope with unexpected events.
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Subprime mortgage crisis
The American subprime mortgage crisis was a multinational financial crisis that occurred between 2007 and 2010 that contributed to the 2007–2008 global financial crisis.
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Supervolcano
A supervolcano is a volcano that has had an eruption with a volcanic explosivity index (VEI) of 8, the largest recorded value on the index.
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Survival kit
A survival kit is a package of basic tools and supplies prepared as an aid to survival in an emergency.
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Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape
Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) is a training program, best known by its military acronym, that prepares U.S. military personnel, U.S. Department of Defense civilians, and private military contractors to survive and "return with honor" in survival scenarios.
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Survivorman
Survivorman is a Canadian-produced television program, broadcast in Canada on the Outdoor Life Network (OLN), and internationally on Discovery Channel and Science Channel.
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Swine influenza
Swine influenza is an infection caused by any of several types of swine influenza viruses.
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Ted Kaczynski
Theodore John Kaczynski (May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist.
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Ten Essentials
The Ten Essentials are survival items that hiking and Scouting organizations recommend for safe travel in the backcountry.
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Textfiles.com
textfiles.com is a website dedicated to preserving the digital documents that contain the history of the bulletin board system (BBS) world and various subcultures, and thus providing "a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) allowed them".
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The Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor (CSM), commonly known as The Monitor, is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles both in electronic format and a weekly print edition.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is the largest Latter Day Saint denomination, tracing its roots to its founding by Joseph Smith during the Second Great Awakening.
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The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch is a nonfiction reference work written by astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell.
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The New York Observer
The New York Observer was a weekly newspaper established in 1987.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The New York Times Best Seller list
The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States.
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The Postman
The Postman is a post-apocalyptic dystopian science fiction novel by David Brin.
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The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times is an American daily newspaper based in Seattle, Washington.
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The Survivors (1983 film)
The Survivors is a 1983 American comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie.
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The Swiss Family Robinson
The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson, "The Swiss Robinson") is a novel by the Swiss author Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family of immigrants whose ship en route to Port Jackson, Australia, goes off course and is shipwrecked in the East Indies.
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Threads (1984 film)
Threads is a 1984 British-Australian apocalyptic war drama television film jointly produced by the BBC, Nine Network and Western-World Television Inc.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Tongue-in-cheek
Tongue-in-cheek is an idiom that describes a humorous or sarcastic statement expressed in a serious manner.
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Tradecraft
Tradecraft, within the intelligence community, refers to the techniques, methods, and technologies used in modern espionage (spying) and generally as part of the activity of intelligence assessment.
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Tremors (1990 film)
Tremors is a 1990 American monster comedy horror film directed by Ron Underwood, produced by Brent Maddock and S. S. Wilson, written by Maddock, Wilson, and Underwood and starring Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, and Reba McEntire.
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Underground living
Underground living refers to living below the ground's surface, whether in natural or manmade caves or structures (earth shelters).
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Department of Homeland Security
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries.
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Usenet
Usenet, USENET, or, "in full", User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers.
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
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Volcanic winter
A volcanic winter is a reduction in global temperatures caused by droplets of sulfuric acid obscuring the Sun and raising Earth's albedo (increasing the reflection of solar radiation) after a large, sulfur-rich, particularly explosive volcanic eruption.
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VX (nerve agent)
VX is an extremely toxic synthetic chemical compound in the organophosphorus class, specifically, a thiophosphonate.
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Wall Street Crash of 1929
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, Crash of '29, or Black Tuesday, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929.
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Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau (born Walter John Matthow; October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an American screen and stage actor, known for his "hangdog face" and for playing world-weary characters.
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Wampum
Wampum is a traditional shell bead of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of Native Americans.
Warded lock
A warded lock (also called a ward lock) is a type of lock that uses a set of obstructions, or wards, to prevent the lock from opening unless the correct key is inserted.
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Water canister
A water container, water canister or water can is a medium-sized portable container for transport, storage and use of water.
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WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks is a non-profit media organisation and publisher of leaked documents.
Wildfire
A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation.
Wood
Wood is a structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.
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Year 2000 problem
The year 2000 problem, or simply Y2K, refers to potential computer errors related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates in and after the year 2000.
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Zeitgeist
In 18th- and 19th-century German philosophy, a Zeitgeist (capitalized in German) ("spirit of the age") is an invisible agent, force, or daemon dominating the characteristics of a given epoch in world history.
Zombie Squad
Zombie Squad is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community service and disaster preparedness organization that uses the metaphor of a "Zombie Apocalypse" for any natural or man-made disaster (hurricane, terrorism, earthquake, etc.). Zombie Squad was created by horror film fans who combined their shared interests of zombies and experience with disaster preparedness.
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1973 oil crisis
In October 1973, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) announced that it was implementing a total oil embargo against the countries who had supported Israel at any point during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which began after Egypt and Syria launched a large-scale surprise attack in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to recover the territories that they had lost to Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.
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2002 Bali bombings
A series of bombings occurred on 12 October 2002 in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali.
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2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 struck with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia.
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2004 Madrid train bombings
The 2004 Madrid train bombings (also known in Spain as 11M) were a series of coordinated, nearly simultaneous bombings against the Cercanías commuter train system of Madrid, Spain, on the morning of 11 March 2004—three days before Spain's general elections.
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2016 United States presidential election
The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016.
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7 July 2005 London bombings
The 7 July 2005 London bombings, also referred to as 7/7, were a series of four co-ordinated suicide attacks carried out by Islamist terrorists that targeted commuters travelling on London's public transport during the morning rush hour.
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See also
Lifestyles
- Alternative lifestyle
- Asceticism
- Athletics (physical culture)
- Back-to-the-land movement
- Black veganism
- Bohemianism
- Collecting
- Communes
- Cottagecore
- Cowboy culture
- Dandy
- Deschooling
- Extreme sport
- FIRE movement
- Fitness culture
- Gothic Western
- Groupie
- Groupies
- Head-carrying
- Hippie
- Hippie movement
- Homeschooling
- Hunting
- Intentional living
- Luddite
- Modern primitive
- Naturism
- Off-the-grid
- Orthopathy
- Playboy lifestyle
- Screen time
- Sedentary lifestyle
- Simple living
- Surf culture
- Survivalism
- Teetotalism
- Unschooling
- Vampire lifestyle
- Veganism
- YOLO (aphorism)
- Yuppie
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivalism
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