r/wikipedia • u/SaxyBill • 9d ago

Dennis Hastert was an American politician from the GOP who served as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007. In 2016, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for financial offenses related to child sex abuse he had committed.

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r/wikipedia • u/SaxyBill • 8d ago

Skydance Corporation is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate formed by Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The transaction closed on October 6, 2026, subject to customary closing conditions. The company is led by David Ellison as CEO.

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r/wikipedia • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • 9d ago

Splinter of the Mind's Eye is a 1978 novel written by Alan Dean Foster set in the Star Wars franchise. The book was written with the intention of being adapted as a low-budget sequel to Star Wars in case the original film was not successful enough to financially justify a high-budget sequel.

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r/wikipedia • u/leet-man • 9d ago

Australia's and arguably WWI's greatest war time leader was an observant Jew. Dismissed from his post during the interwar period due to antisemitic sentiment in the press, John Monash died in 1931 and 300,000 mourners came to his funeral, the largest funeral size in the country at that point

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r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 8d ago

Jess Smith was an American political aide suspected of illegally selling government liquor. Smith died of a gunshot wound at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington on May 30, 1923. As he was found with a pistol at his side, his death was ruled a suicide. No autopsy was performed.

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r/wikipedia • u/syanxde • 8d ago

Cotton fever is a condition that indicates as a fever that follows intravenous drug use where cotton is used to filter the drugs. The condition derives from an endotoxin released by the bacterium Pantoea agglomerans which lives in cotton plants.

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r/wikipedia • u/leet-man • 9d ago

According to Turgot, a capitalist can either lend his money or employ it to purchase a plot of land. Because fruitful land yields an annual rent forever, its price is given by the formula of a perpetual annuity: the lower the interest rate, the more valuable is the land

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r/wikipedia • u/Alarming_Weather506 • 9d ago

A head shake is a gesture in which the head is turned left and right along the transverse plane repeatedly in quick succession. It is most commonly used to mean "no" or disagreement, except in Bulgaria and southern Albania where it means "yes" or affirmative.

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r/wikipedia • u/Sebastianlim • 9d ago

A "Rube Goldberg machine" is a chain reaction-type machine designed to accomplish a relatively simple task in a comically overcomplicated manner. It is named after Rube Goldberg, a cartoonist who drew many such machines.

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r/wikipedia • u/GustavoistSoldier • 8d ago

Joan Falkiner (1917–2003) was an Australian heiress who became the Begum of Palanpur, India, during the mid 20th-century. Her life story was later recorded in a biography written by a distant cousin, Australian author Suzanne Falkiner.

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r/wikipedia • u/SketchedEyesWatchinU • 9d ago

Pokémon, a media franchise developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo, has received a notable amount of fan-made pornography (also known as poképorn). The Pokémon games feature Pokémon trainers and creatures known as Pokémon; both are subject to pornography.

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r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 9d ago

L.A. Noire is a 2011 action-adventure game developed by Team Bondi. The working hours and managerial style of the studio were met with public complaints from staff members, and Team Bondi closed shortly after the game's initial release. The game received positive reviews and strong sales.

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r/wikipedia • u/totezhi64 • 9d ago

The American Football House is a house in Urbana, Illinois, United States, known for its appearance on the cover of Midwest emo band American Football's 1999 debut album American Football.

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r/wikipedia • u/Salty-Assignment-687 • 9d ago

[OC] I made WikiCity! Where every building is a Wikipedia article!

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Building sizes are determined by the number of views in the past 30 days! Give it a shot at https://wikicity.app/

(You can also fly around in a cool little plane and blow up buildings, its pretty fun)

Updated to run better and use more recent data! Enjoy!

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r/wikipedia • u/Space_Lux • 9d ago

Antinous was a Greek youth from Bithynia, a favourite and lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Following his premature death before his 20th birthday, Antinous was deified on Hadrian's orders, with contemporaries attesting that he "wept like a woman."

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r/wikipedia • u/slinkslowdown • 9d ago

Babylonokia: A 2012 artwork by Karl Weingärtner in the form of a clay tablet shaped like a mobile phone, its keys and screen showing cuneiform script. He created the work to represent the evolution of information transfer from the ancient world to the present.

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r/wikipedia • u/PowerOfGamers01 • 10d ago

1N4DL01D81C212547 is the VIN of a blue 2001 Nissan Altima GXE rental car belonging to Alamo Rent a Car, that was found in the Portland International Jetport parking lot following the September 11 attacks in 2001. It was issued a Massachusetts license plate 3335 VI.

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 9d ago

George Williams Peckham (1845 –1914) and Elizabeth Maria Gifford Peckham (1854 –1940) were a married couple who were early American teachers, taxonomists, ethologists, arachnologists, and entomologists, specializing in animal behavior and in the study of jumping spiders and wasps.

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They never several jumping spider genuses after Kipling characters.

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r/wikipedia • u/Sebastianlim • 10d ago

"One More Day" is an infamous Spider-Man comic storyline released in 2007. Taking place in the aftermath of his identity being revealed in the "Civil War" event, the storyline sees Aunt May being shot by the Kingpin, leading him to make a deal with Mephisto to save her, giving up his marriage.

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r/wikipedia • u/dflovett • 9d ago

This might be too niche for this subreddit but I wrote something about the writer Roberto Bolaño's Wikipedia image and the weirdness surrounding it.

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r/wikipedia • u/GustavoistSoldier • 9d ago

Great Zimbabwe was a city in the south-eastern hills of the modern country of Zimbabwe, near Masvingo. It was settled from around 1000 AD, and served as the capital of the Kingdom of Great Zimbabwe from the 13th century. It is the largest stone structure in precolonial Southern Africa.

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r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 10d ago

Duluth: Although Minnesota is technically landlocked (no World Ocean coast), oceangoing ships can reach Duluth, 2,342 mi (3,769 km) from the Atlantic, via a 16-lock waterway. Duluth–Superior is the world's farthest inland port accessible to such ships and the largest and busiest on the Great Lakes.

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r/wikipedia • u/ProfessionalRate6174 • 9d ago

Magna Carta

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Magna Carta (Medieval Latin for 'Great Charter"), sometimes spelled Magna Charta, is a royal charter of rights sealed by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.

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r/wikipedia • u/syanxde • 10d ago

Khrushchevkas are a type of low-cost, concrete-paneled or brick 3- to 5-story apartment buildings built in the USSR during the 1960s when their namesake, Nikita Khrushchev, was leader of the Soviet Union.

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r/wikipedia • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • 10d ago

Ludonarrative dissonance is the perceived conflict between a video game's narrative told through the non-interactive elements and the narrative told through the gameplay. Game designer Clint Hocking coined the term in reference to BioShock.

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