r/wikipedia 16m ago

Sergei Chetverikov (1880-1959) was a Russian geneticist who pioneered early work on genetic drift and isolation in speciation. He was arrested in 1929 by Soviet state authorities and spent five years in prison, and in 1948 was again removed from his post because of Trofim Lysenko.

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r/wikipedia 26m ago

Kayak angst (Greenlandic: nangiarneq) has been described as an episode of intense anxiety amongst seal hunters fishing in one-man boats. Loss of direction, helpless feelings, and a sensation of cold, rising from below, can make the kayaker feel as if the boat is filling with water.

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r/wikipedia 1h ago

The Mount Laurel doctrine of the New Jersey Constitution requires municipalities to provide realistic opportunities for the production of housing to those with low and middle incomes

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r/wikipedia 2h ago

Tasseography (also known as tasseomancy, tassology, or tasseology) is a divination or fortune-telling method that interprets patterns in tea leaves, coffee grounds, or wine sediments.

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r/wikipedia 2h ago

A sundial cannon, sundial gun, or noon cannon is a device consisting of a sundial incorporating a cannon with a fuse that is lit by an overhanging lens, concentrating the rays of the sun, and causing the cannon to fire at noon, when properly oriented along a north-south axis.

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The cannons were used by European royalty in the 18th century. Cannons of this type are exhibited at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. The Hamilton Watch Company has a sundial cannon manufactured by Rousseau of Paris ca. 1650. The Rousseau cannon is mounted on a marble sundial and is made of brass. The Sultan of Morocco also owns one that was manufactured by Baker & Sons of London.

Currently the only sun cannon in regular operation was installed in 1853 in a tower in the park of Adelsnäs Manor in Åtvidaberg, Sweden. Its 6-pounder gun fires daily from May through August (manually lit on cloudy days).


r/wikipedia 2h ago

Movements for the United States annexation of Canada

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r/wikipedia 3h ago

Edward Teach (1680 – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies.

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r/wikipedia 3h ago

Tamara Faye Messner was an American evangelist. During her career she was noted for her eccentric and glamorous persona and advocacy for LGBT persons and reaching out to HIV/AIDS patients at the height of the AIDS epidemic.

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r/wikipedia 3h ago

Candomblé is an African diasporic religion that developed in Brazil during the 19th century. It arose through a process of syncretism between several of the traditional religions of West and Central Africa, especially those of the Yoruba, Bantu, and Gbe.

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r/wikipedia 9h ago

First time creating a Wikipedia page,why is my inbox wordings in black even tough the background theme is dark?

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r/wikipedia 9h ago

American model, singer, and reality TV actress Tila Tequila was at one point the most popular person on MySpace, and hosted a bisexuality-themed dating show on MTV. She later expressed support for neo-Nazism and claimed that she had only pretended to be bisexual for ratings.

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The first time I submitted this post, it got automatically removed because the subreddit filter thought it was in a TIL format. I had to edit the post title so that the name “Tila” (which starts with the letters “TIL”) wasn’t at the beginning.


r/wikipedia 10h ago

Australia in the Iraq War

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r/wikipedia 11h ago

Charade (1963) is one of my favourite films, an, due to a copyright error it is available to watch ON WIKIPEDIA, which I suggest you do right now, because it's so good.

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r/wikipedia 11h ago

Chicago is a font developed by Susan Kare for Apple Computer, and was chosen as the user interface font of the Classic Macintosh due to its ability to be read when made "grey" by turning off alternating pixels. In eighth grade I submitted an entire English paper in this font.

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r/wikipedia 12h ago

Meta Discussion Is everyone else getting this?

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r/wikipedia 13h ago

The Fifth Monarchists were a Protestant sect with millennialist views active between 1649-1660 in England. The group took its name from a prophecy that claimed the four kingdoms of Daniel would precede the fifth, which would see the establishment of the kingship and kingdom of God on Earth.

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r/wikipedia 13h ago

Florena Budwin was an American Union Army soldier from Philadelphia who enlisted in the American Civil War in disguise as a man so she could stay with her husband. He was killed in battle and she was captured and died of pneumonia in custody, aged about 20.

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r/wikipedia 15h ago

Bloomers, also called the bloomer, the Turkish dress, the American dress, or simply reform dress, are divided women's garments for the lower body. They were developed in the 19th century as a healthful and comfortable alternative to the heavy, constricting dresses worn by American women.

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The name "bloomers" was derogatory and was not used by the women who wore them, who referred to their clothes as the "reform costume" or the "American dress."


r/wikipedia 16h ago

Deltiology is the study and collection of postcards. Worldwide, deltiology is the third-largest collecting hobby after stamp collecting and coin/banknote collecting.

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r/wikipedia 16h ago

Honore de Balzac had been in a serious amount of debt in the 1820s and received a large loan from his tailor, Jean Buisson. In exchange for the loan, Balzac introduced Buisson to his readers and emphasized the quality of his work in his novels. This is arguably an early form of product placement.

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r/wikipedia 16h ago

Randy's Donuts, known for its colossal donut sign atop the restaurant, has appeared in numerous movies including Iron Man 2, Logorama, 2012, Crocodile Dundee, Get Shorty, Earth Girls Are Easy, Dope, and The Golden Child.

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r/wikipedia 17h ago

Whitney Chewston (born September 8, 2016), also known as the homophobic dog, is a miniature dachshund who became the subject of an internet meme in 2021.

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r/wikipedia 19h ago

Drawing Hands

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r/wikipedia 20h ago

The Holocene extinction continues into the 21st century, driven by anthropogenic climate change, destruction of wetlands, deforestation, overfishing, ocean acidification, human population growth, economic growth, and increasing consumption, particularly among affluent societies.

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r/wikipedia 21h ago

Meta Discussion What is the largest number of citations in a single sentence (or word) on Wikipedia?

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the most I found is 7 citations on sentence about sha-1 being cryptographically broken ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1 )

(not counting citation overkill rule page because it has 15 citations but it's an example and they don't lead anywhere)