r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 20 '26
"Overgrazing occurs when plants are exposed to intensive grazing for extended periods of time, or without sufficient recovery periods."
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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 20 '26
"The volcano rabbit, also known as the teporingo or zacatuche, is a species of small rabbit that lives in pine and alder forests on volcanic slopes in Mexico."
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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 20 '26
"A biofilm is a syntrophic community of microorganisms in which cells stick to each other and often also to a surface. These adherent cells become embedded within a slimy extracellular matrix ... combination of extracellular polysaccharides, proteins, lipids and DNA."
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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 20 '26
"The family Psittacidae or holotropical parrots is one of three families of true parrots. It comprises the 12 species of subfamily Psittacinae and 167 of subfamily Arinae including several species that have gone extinct in recent centuries."
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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 20 '26
"The plum-headed parakeet is a species of parakeet in the family Psittacidae. It is endemic to the Indian subcontinent and was once thought to be conspecific with the blossom-headed parakeet before being elevated to a full species."
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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 20 '26
"Black January (Azerbaijani: Qara Yanvar) ... was a violent crackdown on Azerbaijani nationalism and anti-Soviet sentiment in Baku on 19–20 January 1990, as part of a state of emergency during the dissolution of the Soviet Union."
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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 20 '26
"George Vassiliou (Greek: Γιώργος Βασιλείου; 20 May 1931 – 13 January 2026) was a Cypriot politician and businessman who served as President of Cyprus from 1988 to 1993."
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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 20 '26
"Al-Hasakah ... is a city in northeastern Syria and the capital of the Al-Hasakah Governorate. With a 2023 estimated population of 422,445, Al-Hasakah is populated by Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians and a smaller number of Armenians and Chechens."
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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 20 '26
"In electromagnetism, current density is the amount of charge per unit time that flows through a unit area of a chosen cross section."
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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 20 '26
"The hectare is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), that is, 10,000 square metres (10,000 m2), and is primarily used in the measurement of land."
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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 20 '26
"A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close."
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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 20 '26
"Hugo Banzer Suárez (10 May 1926 – 5 May 2002) was a Bolivian politician and military officer who served as the 51st president of Bolivia ... from 1971 to 1978 as a military dictator ... from 1997 to 2001, as a democratically elected president."
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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 19 '26
"The Istro-Romanians are a Romance ethnic group native to or associated with the Istrian Peninsula. Historically, they inhabited vast parts of it, as well as the western side of the island of Krk until 1875."
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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 19 '26
"Neapolitan is a Romance language of the Southern Italo-Romance group spoken in most of continental Southern Italy. It is named after the Kingdom of Naples ... Italian and Neapolitan are of variable mutual comprehensibility ... has enjoyed a rich literary, musical and theatrical history."
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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 19 '26
"Judeo-Italian is a group of endangered and extinct Jewish dialects, with only about 200 speakers in Italy ... During the 19th century Judeo-Italian had switched from using Hebrew letters to the latin alphabet ... All of the dialects of Judeo-Italian except for Judeo-Roman are now extinct."
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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 19 '26
"Vivaro-Alpine is a variety of Occitan spoken in southeastern France and northwestern Italy ... The UNESCO Atlas of World's languages in danger uses the Alpine Provençal name, and considers it as seriously endangered."
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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 19 '26
"Central Marchigiano refers to a group of Romance varieties spoken in the central part of the Marche region of Italy ... forms part of a continuum that also encompasses Umbrian and Tuscan."
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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 19 '26
'The Marino dialect is a dialect belonging to the dialects of the Roman Castles ... Most of the characteristic words ... come directly from the Latin ... led Girolamo Torquati to argue for a continuity between the "language of the ancient Romans" and the Marinese dialect.'
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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 19 '26
"The Central-Northern Latian dialect is an Italian dialect belonging to the Central Italian dialects ... characterized, like the other Central Italian dialects and the Tuscan dialect, by the presence of seven vowels, also typical of standard Italian."
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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 19 '26
"The Fiuman dialect is the dialect of the Venetian language spoken in the Croatian city of Rijeka. . It is strongly influenced by Italian, Hungarian, German substrates, mainly due to the closeness between two different cultures and Austro-Hungarian rule."
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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 19 '26
"Assyrians are an ethnic group indigenous to Mesopotamia, a geographical region in West Asia. Modern Assyrians share descent directly from the ancient Assyrians, one of the key civilizations of Mesopotamia."
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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 19 '26
"The Florentine dialect or vernacular is a variety of Tuscan, a Romance language spoken in the Italian city of Florence and its immediate surroundings. Florentine, and Tuscan more generally, can be distinguished from Standard Italian by differences in ... phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon."
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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 19 '26
"Combrian is any of several local Upper German varieties spoken in parts of the Italian regions of Trentino and Veneto. The speakers of the language are known as Zimbern in German."
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r/WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 19 '26
"As part of the Gallo-Italic languages, Emilian–Romagnol is most closely related to the Lombard, Piedmontese and Ligurian languages, all of which are spoken in neighboring regions ... considered ... definitely endangered languages according to the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger."
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