Project Chatter was instigated by the US Navy late in 1947. Intelligence rumours of Soviet success with truth drugs fuelled a desire not to be left behind in the race for supremacy. The project was geared to identifying agents both synthetic and natural that were effective during interrogation. The project was centred around, but not restricted to, the use of Anabasis aphylla (an alkaloid), scopolamine and mescaline. The project was halted in 1953, presumably due to limited progress and the success of other projects. The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Soviet redirects here. ... A truth drug (or truth serum) is a drug used for the purposes of obtaining accurate information from an unwilling subject, most often by a police, intelligence, or military organization on a prisoner. ... An alkaloid is a nitrogenous organic molecule that has a pharmacological effect on humans and other animals. ... Scopolamine, also known as hyoscine, is an alkaloid drug obtained from plants of the Solanaceae family (Nightshade), such as henbane or jimson weed (Datura stramonium). ... Mescaline or 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine is a psychedelic hallucinogenic drug and entheogen of the phenethylamine family. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...
Project Ben-Yehuda aims to make accessible the classics of Hebrew literature (poetry Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content.
The project is intended to be of use for both amateurs and scholars of literature.
It is inspired by Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg (PG) was launched by Michael Hart in 1971 in order to provide a library, on what would later become the Internet, of free electronic versions (sometimes called e-texts) of physically existing books.
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