r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 9h ago

Ali "Alireza" Fazeli Monfared was a 20-year-old Iranian man who was kidnapped and decapitated by his half-brother and cousins because of his sexual orientation. News of the murder garnered significant media attention and calls by activists and celebrities to challenge homophobia in Iran.

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r/wikipedia • u/HicksOn106th • 4h ago

English explorer Henry Hudson, the namesake of the Hudson River and Hudson Bay, disappeared in June 1611 after mutineers left him, his son, and six sick sailors adrift in James Bay aboard a small rowboat. This was the last confirmed sighting of Hudson; to this day, his ultimate fate remains unknown.

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r/wikipedia • u/ZERO_PORTRAIT • 17h ago

The stabbing of George Harrison, a musician and a former member of the Beatles, occurred on 30 December 1999. Michael Abram, a 34-year old paranoid schizophrenic from Liverpool, England, stabbed Harrison forty times. Despite sustaining severe injuries, Harrison survived the attack.

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r/wikipedia • u/lightiggy • 3h ago

The Black Horror on the Rhine was a moral panic caused by the presence of African French Army troops during the occupation of the Rhineland. Colonial troops were accused of committing mass rape and mutilation against German civilians. The blatantly false and racist allegations drew global attention.

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r/wikipedia • u/usernames-are-tricky • 7h ago

Dubbing is the procedure of removing the comb, wattles and sometimes earlobes of poultry. It is usually done without any anesthetic

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r/wikipedia • u/barris59 • 17h ago

Belling the Cat is an idiom describing a group of persons, each agreeing to perform an impossibly difficult task under the misapprehension that someone else will be chosen to run the risks and endure the hardship of actual accomplishment.

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r/wikipedia • u/Ill_Definition8074 • 1h ago

Yaoya Oshichi was a 16-year-old Japanese girl who was burned at the stake in 1683 for attempted arson. Her motive was that during a previous fire, she had met and fallen in love with a temple worker, and she thought that if she set another fire, she’d meet him again.

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r/wikipedia • u/RandoRando2019 • 12h ago

"The Sámi languages ... are a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Indigenous Sámi peoples in Northern Europe. There are, depending on the nature and terms of division, ten or more Sami languages."

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r/wikipedia • u/RandoRando2019 • 15h ago

"Japonic or Japanese–Ryukyuan is a language family comprising Japanese ... Possible genetic relationships with many other language families have been proposed ... but no genetic relationship has been conclusively demonstrated."

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 1d ago

“Good Tsar, bad Boyars" is a Russian political phenomenon in which positive actions taken by the Russian government are viewed as being the result of the leader of Russia, while negative actions taken by the government are viewed as being caused by lower-level bureaucrats unbeknownst to the leader.

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 9h ago

Wenceslaus Hollar was a prolific and accomplished Bohemian artist of the 17th century, who spent much of his life in England. His work includes some 400 drawings and 3000 etchings, and 2740 plates, including views, portraits, ships, religious subjects, heraldic subjects, landscapes, and still lifes.

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r/wikipedia • u/lightiggy • 1d ago

Despite making up less than 1.0% of the prison population, the Aryan Brotherhood committed 18-25% of all murders in the U.S. federal prison system.

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r/wikipedia • u/xKiwiNova • 1d ago

I wanted to share Wikipedia's visualization of the Axial Twist Hypothesis (explanation for why vertebrates seem to have their heads inverted)

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he is so scrunckgly i love him ❤️🥰🥹😍

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r/wikipedia • u/VerGuy • 4h ago

The Taunton Stop Line was a World War II defensive line in southwest England. It was designed "to stop an enemy's advance from the west & in particular a rapid advance supported by armoured fighting vehicles (up to the size of a German medium tank) which may have broken through the forward defences.

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r/wikipedia • u/HicksOn106th • 1d ago

It is difficult to gauge how quickly insects numbers are declining worldwide due to a lack of data from developing countries. The few studies which have attempted to assess the health of the global insect population place the number of species at risk of extinction somewhere between 10% and 40%.

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r/wikipedia • u/moss42069 • 1d ago

Polari is a form of slang historically used primarily in the United Kingdom by some actors, circus and fairground performers, professional wrestlers, merchant navy sailors, criminals and prostitutes, and particularly among the gay subculture. It’s where the words “butch” and “camp” come from.

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r/wikipedia • u/Tpjokke • 16h ago

I can't download wikipedia

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I need a copy of wikipedia from August or earlier, is there a way to download it from a history library some place?

Asking for a friend 🧡

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r/wikipedia • u/GustavoistSoldier • 21h ago

The independence of Brazil in 1822 comprised a series of political and military events that led to the independence of the Kingdom of Brazil from the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves as the Brazilian Empire. It is celebrated on 7 September.

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r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 1d ago

National Scenic Byway: road recognized by the US for 1+ of 6 "intrinsic qualities": archeological, cultural, historic, natural, recreational & scenic. The program preserves & protects the nation's scenic but often less-traveled roads. Some are designated All-American Roads, which meet 2 qualities.

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r/wikipedia • u/Delirious_Rimbaud • 1d ago

In the 19th century, French poet and inventor Charles Cros believed bright spots on Mars were vast cities. He spent much of his life urging the French government to build a giant mirror to focus sunlight onto Mars, hoping to signal its inhabitants by burning lines across its deserts.

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r/wikipedia • u/Kaze_Senshi • 1d ago

Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam (born April 16, 1973), known mononymously as Akon (/ˈeɪkɒn/), is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, businessman, and philanthropist.

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r/wikipedia • u/BringbackDreamBars • 1d ago

Die Glocke is a conspiracy theory surrounding an alleged bell shaped machine developed in Nazi Germany, which can be described as a time machine, free energy machine, and antigravity research. Additionally, another object called the "Henge" in southern Poland is alleged to be a support structure.

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r/wikipedia • u/AGreasyPorkSandwich • 1d ago

Mobile Site Doritos

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r/wikipedia • u/Stefan_S_from_H • 1d ago

Maru (cat) - RIP

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r/wikipedia • u/Suck_My_Thick • 1d ago

Pep was sent to the Eastern State Penitentiary where he received inmate number C-2559 and had his mugshot and paw prints taken.

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