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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #450 on: June 20, 2020, 12:11:48 AM »
This has the greatest header picture/caption for any given article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrequited_love
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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #453 on: July 13, 2020, 11:52:29 AM »
Good read if you're into nuclear apocalypse/end of civilization pr0n:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83

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Cheesy Mustache QB might make an appearance.

New warning: Don't get in a fight with someone who doesn't even need to bother to buy ink.

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #456 on: July 13, 2020, 06:58:23 PM »
This has the greatest header picture/caption for any given article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrequited_love

I really don’t think enough of you appreciate that the picture for Unrequited Love is an unopened box of chocolates & a Mylar balloon in a dumpster.
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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #459 on: October 28, 2020, 08:16:12 PM »
Hmm, I've never seen that show. Sorry for any spoilers though.

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #460 on: April 19, 2021, 11:31:10 AM »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Scott_(criminal)

Their investigation eventually led to Joe Flachs, an old friend of Scott's. Flachs told authorities that Scott had told him he had broken the levee so he could strand his wife, Suzie, on the Missouri side of the river. Suzie worked as a waitress at a truck stop in Taylor, Missouri.[3] As the story went, Scott wanted to be free to party, fish, and have an affair.[5] Investigators subsequently found other witnesses who said Scott boasted about breaking the levee at a party after the flood.[1] Based on this evidence, Scott was taken to Missouri for trial in November 1994.

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #461 on: April 19, 2021, 12:04:23 PM »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Scott_(criminal)

Their investigation eventually led to Joe Flachs, an old friend of Scott's. Flachs told authorities that Scott had told him he had broken the levee so he could strand his wife, Suzie, on the Missouri side of the river. Suzie worked as a waitress at a truck stop in Taylor, Missouri.[3] As the story went, Scott wanted to be free to party, fish, and have an affair.[5] Investigators subsequently found other witnesses who said Scott boasted about breaking the levee at a party after the flood.[1] Based on this evidence, Scott was taken to Missouri for trial in November 1994.

I remember this "Missouri thing"

@sonofdaxjones put this in your first-world Bama v Missurah dossier
If there was a gif of nicname thwarting the attempted-flag-taker and then gesturing him to suck it, followed by motioning for all of Hilton Shelter to boo him louder, it'd be better than that auburn gif.

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #462 on: April 19, 2021, 01:22:44 PM »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Scott_(criminal)

Their investigation eventually led to Joe Flachs, an old friend of Scott's. Flachs told authorities that Scott had told him he had broken the levee so he could strand his wife, Suzie, on the Missouri side of the river. Suzie worked as a waitress at a truck stop in Taylor, Missouri.[3] As the story went, Scott wanted to be free to party, fish, and have an affair.[5] Investigators subsequently found other witnesses who said Scott boasted about breaking the levee at a party after the flood.[1] Based on this evidence, Scott was taken to Missouri for trial in November 1994.

I remember this "Missouri thing"

@sonofdaxjones put this in your first-world Bama v Missurah dossier
that's pretty wild

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #463 on: April 22, 2021, 09:02:04 AM »
This is one of the most bizarre true crime / Kansas City things I've ever read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Artemus_Ogletree

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #464 on: April 26, 2021, 02:51:48 PM »

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #465 on: April 26, 2021, 04:56:28 PM »
The Bloody Benders farm is up for sale!

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/06/us/bloody-bender-house-trnd/index.html

Is it still? That article is from February of last year.

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #466 on: April 26, 2021, 06:40:15 PM »
Didn’t catch the date. Someone sent that to me because my mom is from that area


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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #467 on: February 15, 2022, 04:16:47 PM »
 Iowa State math professor wanted to blow up the moon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Abian
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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #468 on: February 17, 2022, 06:12:08 PM »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasubi

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Nasubi was challenged to stay alone, unclothed, in an apartment for Susunu! Denpa Sh?nen (January 1998 – March 2002), a Japanese reality-television show on Nippon Television, after winning a lottery for a "show business related job". He was challenged to enter mail-in sweepstakes until he won ¥1 million (about US$10,000) in total. He started with nothing (including no clothes), was cut off from outside communication and broadcasting, and had nothing to keep him company except the magazines he combed through for sweepstakes entry forms.

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #469 on: March 05, 2022, 02:34:53 PM »
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline

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"Gasoline" is an English word that denotes fuel for automobiles. The term is thought to have been influenced by the trademark "Cazeline" or "Gazeline", named after the surname of British publisher, coffee merchant, and social campaigner John Cassell. On 27 November 1862, Cassell placed an advertisement in The Times of London:

The Patent Cazeline Oil, safe, economical, and brilliant … possesses all the requisites which have so long been desired as a means of powerful artificial light.[10]

This is the earliest occurrence of the word to have been found. Cassell discovered that a shopkeeper in Dublin named Samuel Boyd was selling counterfeit cazeline and wrote to him to ask him to stop. Boyd did not reply and changed every ‘C’ into a ‘G’, thus coining the word "gazeline".[10] The Oxford English Dictionary dates its first recorded use to 1863 when it was spelled "gasolene". The term "gasoline" was first used in North America in 1864.[11]

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« Reply #470 on: March 12, 2022, 02:02:13 PM »
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_premature_obituaries

Geez. I'm only in the C's and there's so much here!

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William Baer, a New York University professor, was declared dead by his New York Times obituary in May 1942 as a hoax by his students.

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Bob Barker, former host of The Price is Right, has been the subject of many various false death reports.

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P. T. Barnum's premature obituary was published, unusually, not because of deception or error, but sympathy. When he took to his deathbed, Barnum expressed the wish that he might read what the papers would say about him.

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Carlos Camejo, a Venezuelan man declared dead in September 2007 after a traffic accident, revived during his autopsy. After making an incision in his face, examiners realized something was wrong when he started bleeding. "I woke up because the pain was unbearable", Camejo said.

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Graham Cardwell, a Lincolnshire dockmaster who disappeared in September 1998 and was assumed drowned. Eight months later he was discovered living in secret in the West Midlands. He claimed he had thought he was suffering from cancer (though had not sought medical attention) and wanted to spare his family the trauma of it.

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Feliberto Carrasco: this 81-year-old Chilean man woke up in his coffin at his own wake in January 2008. His family had found his body lying limp and cold, and assumed he must have died.

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Whitney Cerak: a student was thought to have died in April 2006 when a van from Taylor University collided with a tractor trailer, leaving five dead. Fourteen hundred people attended her funeral. Fellow student Laura Van Ryn was thought to have survived the accident, which left her in a coma and heavily bandaged. Suspicions were only aroused when during her gradual recovery in the hospital, Van Ryn started making strange comments and using names "wrongly"; her university roommate also reported that she did not appear to be Van Ryn. Weeks after the accident, when concerned hospital staff asked her her name, she wrote "Whitney Cerak", which was confirmed by dental records. The tragic mix-up appeared to have been caused by Cerak's and Van Ryn's somewhat similar appearance, and confusion at the crash scene.

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #472 on: September 06, 2022, 09:55:18 AM »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort

so dumb. if I was the boss and had to write these they'd just all say "bro/brodette, I am dead as crap. I obviously don't know what's going on now so just do what you think is best. go cats."

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"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"

https://blockstream.info/block/000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #474 on: May 26, 2023, 04:51:20 PM »
Well, that was even less fascinating than I expected, and my exceptions were low.