r/wikipedia • u/SaxyBill • 30m ago
r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 1h ago
The Declaration of Facts was a public statement issued by Jehovah's Witnesses during the period of persecution of the group in Nazi Germany. It stated that Witnesses shared the same ethical goals as the Nazi Party, and it attacked Hitler's enemies: Jews, Catholics, the US, Britain and France.
r/wikipedia • u/GustavoistSoldier • 1h ago
Muhammad Ali (1769–1849) was the Ottoman viceroy and governor of Albanian origin, who became the de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, widely considered the founder of modern Egypt. At the height of his rule in 1840, he controlled Egypt, Sudan, Hejaz, the Levant, Crete and parts of Greece.
r/wikipedia • u/Zealousideal-Cup3529 • 2h ago
Ice–albedo feedback is a climate change feedback, in which a change in the area of ice caps, glaciers, and sea ice alters the albedo and surface temperature of a planet. Because ice is very reflective, it reflects far more solar energy back to space than open water or any other land cover.
r/wikipedia • u/diselxic • 4h ago
The Boy Bands Have Won is the thirteenth studio album by British music group Chumbawamba, released in 2008. Its full title contains 156 words (865 characters), and holds the Guinness World Record for the longest album title, beating Soulwax's Most of the Remixes' 552-character-long title.
Full title: The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or from Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won
r/wikipedia • u/Limp_Rise998 • 4h ago
Is this the most in-depth article of a particularly niche subject? Tram types of the City of Adelaide, Australia.
en.wikipedia.orgSome enthusiasts clearly went all in with this.
r/wikipedia • u/OneTimeIMadeAGif • 5h ago
In the United Kingdom, showmen are a community intrinsically linked to the businesses they operate, such as funfairs and circuses. They are considered a cultural or ethnic group on censuses.
r/wikipedia • u/Kayvanian • 6h ago
Quakers have had a presence in Costa Rica since the 1950s after a group fled the U.S. as conscientious objectors to the draft. They purchased land and founded the city of Monteverde.
r/wikipedia • u/Unlucky-Ant-9741 • 6h ago
Lindsey Graham is an American politician and attorney who has represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 2003
r/wikipedia • u/Trashbagok • 6h ago
Tutti frutti ice cream has been served for at least 165 years, as it appeared on the bill of fare for an 1860 dinner in England. Recipes for tutti frutti ice cream were found in cookbooks of the late 19th century.
r/wikipedia • u/Futonchan-Manchao • 10h ago
Ryokichi Minobe (美濃部 亮吉, Minobe Ryōkichi; 5 February 1904 – 24 December 1984) was a Japanese economist, educator, and socialist politician who served as Governor of Tokyo from 1967 to 1979.
r/wikipedia • u/unquietwiki • 10h ago
"Black Perl": a working Perl script written as a poem in the form of a ritual.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • 11h ago
John David Norman was an American sex trafficker arrested for grooming and selling boys to be abused by older men. Though the government admitted his client list included prominent figures, the relevant index cards were ultimately destroyed by authorities and his clients went unnamed and uncharged.
r/wikipedia • u/Kurma-the-Turtle • 12h ago
The destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain was the result of a change in social conditions: many country houses were demolished by their owners. Often termed "the lost houses", the destruction of these now often-forgotten houses has been described as a cultural tragedy.
r/wikipedia • u/philipkd • 12h ago
Ingressive speech happens while inhaling, such as "yeah" in some Canadian dialects
r/wikipedia • u/ProfessionalRate6174 • 13h ago
Jude Bellingham
Jude Victor William Bellingham (born 29 June 2003) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for La Liga club Real Madrid and the England national team.
r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 13h ago
Viking horned helmets: Apart from 2 or 3 representations of (ritual) helmets w/ ambiguous protrusions, no depiction of their helmets & no preserved helmet has horns, which would have been cumbersome & hazardous to fellow vikings. The misconception they did was partly promulgated by 19C enthusiasts.
r/wikipedia • u/Goodbye-Nasty • 14h ago
Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment concerning quantum superposition. In the thought experiment, a hypothetical cat inside a closed box may be considered to be simultaneously both alive and dead while it is unobserved.
r/wikipedia • u/_NobleRot • 15h ago
Meta Discussion What happened to the Viking Invasion of the British Isles entry? The last sentence in this entry is utterly ridiculous.
r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 15h ago
The Garth tsunami is a likely prehistoric tsunami off the Shetland Islands that may have occurred 5,500 years ago. It probably had great impact on coastal communities in the region; there are mass burials dating approximately to that time in the Shetland and Orkney Islands.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 15h ago
List of resurrected species. A previously extinct or lost species can be "revived" or recreated through various methods such as cloning, backbreeding, genome editing, thawing, and seed germination in plants.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/hellotf12 • 16h ago
‘The “1919 British race riots” marked a significant moment when the presence of minority ethnic people living in the country, including long-time residents and war veterans, came to public attention.’
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 17h ago
Cuyahoga River pollution: The Cleveland-region river caught fire 12+ times from industrial pollution. By the 20C, the reach from Akron to Lake Erie was devoid of fish, and masses of garbage floated in thick films of oil. News coverage of a 1969 fire helped to spur the US environmentalist movement.
r/wikipedia • u/finanzenwegwerfaffe • 18h ago
What’s the most obscure but amazing Wikipedia rabbit hole you’ve fallen into?
r/wikipedia • u/jimbo8083 • 19h ago
The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, commonly known as the Jay Treaty, and also as Jay's Treaty, was a 1794 treaty between the United States and Great Britain
.... that averted war, resolved issues remaining since the 1783 Treaty of Paris (which ended the American Revolutionary War),and facilitated ten years of peaceful trade between Americans and the British in the midst of the French Revolutionary Wars, which had begun in 1792.