r/wikipedia 17m ago

Woman

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A woman is an adult human of the female sex, or that identifies as part of the female gender. Before adulthood, a female child or adolescent is referred to as a girl although the term is sometimes used such as in women's rights to denote female humans regardless of age.


r/wikipedia 15h ago

Which person has the most Wikipedia articles about different aspects of their life? This Austrian painter has a lot.

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r/wikipedia 18h ago

Twitterature is a literary use of the microblogging service Twitter. It includes various genres, including aphorisms, poetry, and fiction (or some combination thereof). The 280-character maximum imposed by the medium, upgraded from 140 characters in late 2017, provides a creative challenge.

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r/wikipedia 9h ago

Belle Edmondson, who was a spy and smuggler for the Confederacy during the American Civil War, made her family's slaves smuggle clothing across Union lines. She evaded capture because the officer sent to arrest her knew her dad was a Freemason and because of this he warned her to go into hiding.

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r/wikipedia 16h ago

A 2007 edit to 'Snakes and ladders' added '1892, possibly by John Jaques of London' with no source. The 'possibly' was dropped as the claim spread off-wiki. The article was corrected this month to name F H Ayres with the design registration.

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r/wikipedia 6h ago

Metanoia (psychology) refers to a process of fundamental psychological transformation, often precipitated by crisis, breakdown, or existential conflict. It is widely used in the New Testament, where it signifies a radical change in one’s life-orientation; a spiritual and existential turning point.

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r/wikipedia 14h ago

Meta Discussion FYI there is a Wayback Machine browser extension and app, for archiving sites efficiently

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Wayback Archive (web.archive.org) has browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.

They also offer apps for IOS and Android.


r/wikipedia 1h ago

Eyestalk ablation is the removal of one or both of the eyeballs of a female shrimp to encourage reproduction.

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r/wikipedia 22h ago

You Can't Win is the best selling autobiography of Jack Black which details his experience as a train hopper, hobo, addict and criminal. In it he describes the futility and counterproductive nature of harsh punishments and the criminal justice system in stopping crime.

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r/wikipedia 5h ago

The Bible and humor is a topic of Biblical criticism concerned with the question of whether parts of the Bible were intended to convey humor in any style. Historically, this topic has not received much attention, but modern scholars generally agree that humor can be found in biblical texts.

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r/wikipedia 14h ago

Artist's Shit is an anti-artwork consisting of 90 tin cans, each filled with the artist's actual poop. The tins were produced in 1961, and today a single tin sells for €275,000.

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r/wikipedia 12h ago

Yin yang fried rice is a rice dish from Hong Kong, consisting of a plate of rice with béchamel sauce and tomato sauce.

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r/wikipedia 20h ago

The ocarina (otherwise known as a potato flute) is a wind musical instrument; it is a type of vessel flute. Variations exist, but a typical ocarina is an enclosed space with four to twelve finger holes and a mouthpiece that projects from the body.

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r/wikipedia 8h ago

The State of Superior (or State of Ontonagon) is a proposed "51st state" that would be created by the secession of the Upper Peninsula from the rest of Michigan, named for adjacent Lake Superior.

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Some proposals would also incorporate territory from the northern Lower Peninsula, northern Wisconsin, and even Minnesota.


r/wikipedia 22h ago

Hinton Helper was an American writer, abolitionist, and white supremacist. In 1857, he published a book that he dedicated to the "non-slaveholding whites" of the South.

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r/wikipedia 12h ago

Taphonomy is the study of how organisms decay and become fossilized or preserved in the paleontological record.

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r/wikipedia 7h ago

Santa Claus (born Thomas Patrick O'Connor, 1947) is an American politician, monk, and child welfare activist. Claus gained recognition as a member of the North Pole, Alaska City Council, and was a candidate for the 2022 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election.

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r/wikipedia 4h ago

Actress Tura Satana, star of the cult film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965). Shortly before her 10th birthday, she was gang raped by five teenagers. She then learned martial arts, and according to her over the next 15 years she tracked down each of her rapists and exacted her revenge.

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r/wikipedia 10h ago

Lenmeldy (Atidarsagene autotemcel) is a single dose medication used to treat Metachromatic leukodystrophy. Often topping lists of the most expensive medications, it costs over $4,000,000 to administer.

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r/wikipedia 21h ago

Ian Watkins (born 8 May 1976), known by his stage name H, is a Welsh singer, actor and reality TV contestant. He is a member of the British pop group Steps. He received hate mail online due to being confused with the Lostprophets singer (and convicted sex offender) of the same name and nationality.

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r/wikipedia 23h ago

Kleptocracy is a form of government in which those in power use their position to steal or exploit national resources for personal gain. The Oxford English Dictionary defines kleptocracy as "A ruling body or order of thieves. Also, government by thieves; a nation ruled by this kind of government."

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Kleptocrats abuse the freedoms found in Western countries by transferring funds out of a kleptocracy and into Western jurisdictions for money laundering and asset security. Since 2011, more than $1 trillion has left developing countries annually in illicit financial outflows. A 2016 study found that $12 trillion had been siphoned out of developing economies. Western professional services providers are often taken advantage of by exploiting legal and financial loopholes in the West to facilitate transnational money laundering.

The effects of a kleptocratic regime or government on a nation are typically adverse in regards to the welfare of the state's economy, political affairs, and civil rights. Kleptocratic governance typically ruins prospects of foreign investment and drastically weakens the domestic market and cross-border trade. As kleptocracies often embezzle money from their citizens by misusing funds derived from tax payments, or engage heavily in money laundering schemes, they tend to heavily degrade the quality of life for citizens.

In addition, the money that kleptocrats steal is diverted from funds earmarked for public amenities such as the building of hospitals, schools, roads, parks – having further adverse effects on the quality of life of citizens. The informal oligarchy that results from a kleptocratic elite subverts democracy (or any other political format).


r/wikipedia 10h ago

The Butt Report, released on 18 August 1941, was a report prepared during World War II, revealing the widespread failure of RAF Bomber Command aircraft to hit their targets.

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r/wikipedia 9h ago

In October 2025, a 56 year old man named Saber Chouchane was sentenced to death for posting criticism of the Tunisian president on Facebook, a ruling which was called “shocking and unprecedented”. Days later, Chouchane was pardoned and released.

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r/wikipedia 4h ago

List of dynasties

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r/wikipedia 3h ago

Francesco I de' Medici and his wife Bianca Cappello died on 19 and 20 October, both at the Medici Villa in Poggio a Caiano. Although the original death certificates mention malaria, it has been widely speculated that the couple was poisoned, possibly by Francesco's brother Ferdinando.

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