Interesting Wikipedia articles?

[Silent1]

The Metropol Parasol in Seville is pretty interesting, it was built almost completely out of wood to cover a market from the mid-day sun/heat!

[Salgar]

Not sure if this has been before

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automotive_su...

[dudleybloke]

Salgar said:

Not sure if this has been before

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automotive_su...

good find!

[NitroNick]

World Sauna Championships: Kaukonen woke up from a coma two months after the event. His respiratory system was scorched, 70% of his skin was burnt and eventually his kidneys failed as well. Unbelievable!

[chunkymonkey71]

NitroNick said:

World Sauna Championships: Kaukonen woke up from a coma two months after the event. His respiratory system was scorched, 70% of his skin was burnt and eventually his kidneys failed as well. Unbelievable!

Please tell me he lost!

[Hugo a Gogo]

chunkymonkey71 said:

NitroNick said:

World Sauna Championships: Kaukonen woke up from a coma two months after the event. His respiratory system was scorched, 70% of his skin was burnt and eventually his kidneys failed as well. Unbelievable!

Please tell me he lost!

he did, couldn't walk out unaided, disqualified

[chunkymonkey71]

Hugo a Gogo said:

chunkymonkey71 said:

NitroNick said:

World Sauna Championships: Kaukonen woke up from a coma two months after the event. His respiratory system was scorched, 70% of his skin was burnt and eventually his kidneys failed as well. Unbelievable!

Please tell me he lost!

he did, couldn't walk out unaided, disqualified

[RumpleFugly]

As the search is down, not sure if it's been done yet but:

Louis Zamperini. An amazing life

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Zamperini

[funkyrobot]

The Spruce goose said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_death...

List of unusual deaths

warning will waste at least an hour of your time

207 BC: Chrysippus, a Greek stoic philosopher, is believed to have died of laughter after giving his donkey wine then seeing it attempt to eat figs

another one

'Uroko Onoja, a Nigerian polygamist businessman, died after being forced by five of his six wives to have sex with each of them. Onoja was caught having sex with his youngest wife by the remaining five, who were jealous of him paying her more attention. The remaining wives demanded that he also have sex with each of them, threatening him with knives and sticks. He had intercourse with four of them in succession, but stopped breathing before having sex with the fifth.[228]'

Edited by The Spruce goose on Sunday 18th November 21:05

2004: Francis "Franky" Brohm, 23, of Marietta, Georgia was leaning out of a car window and decapitated by a telephone pole support wire. The car's intoxicated driver, John Hutcherson, 21, drove nearly 12 miles (19 km) to his home with the headless body in the passenger seat, parked the car in his driveway, then went to bed. A neighbour saw the bloody corpse still in the car and notified police. Brohm's head was later discovered at the accident scene.[193]

20 crew and passengers died in a plane crash near Bandundu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, when a crocodile, being smuggled by one of the passengers in a sports bag, freed itself and panicked the passengers who all ran towards the flightdeck. The tiny Filair L-410 Turbolet unbalanced and crashed, despite the lack of any technical failure. One passenger and the crocodile survived.[220][221]

[MentalSarcasm]

Attempts to escape Colditz!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempts_to_escape_Of...

"When the German guards discovered the bed rope dangling from the window the following morning and entered the storeroom they found the empty box on which Bruce had inscribed Die Luft in Colditz gefällt mir nicht mehr. Auf Wiedersehen! — "The air in Colditz no longer agrees with me. See you later!"."

[Hyde]

RumpleFugly said:

As the search is down, not sure if it's been done yet but:

Louis Zamperini. An amazing life

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Zamperini

As you said, an amazing life.

95 and still active.
There are some recent interviews on youtube

[goldblum]

George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.

One of Dumas' three musketeers was based on this chap.. "glamorous,devious,adventurous."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Villiers,_1st_...

[retrobob]

Finger Ratio >

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digit_ratio

[BelperJim]

Garry Hoy - Stupid way to die - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Hoy

[Dusty964]

Not a wiki link- so apologies for that- but well worth a quick read-

One of the 'Heroes of Telemark', sadly no longer with us.


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/world/europe/bir...

[mattnunn]

retrobob said:

Finger Ratio >

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digit_ratio

So there is something in palm reading.

[RobbieKB]

I read a lot about photography and fairly recently a bloke did a series of portraits where he took shots of the subject in the same pose from ever so slightly different angles and then compiled them on Photoshop by using a different angle for every single part of the body visible in the shot. Although this only changes people slightly and they still look like people you conceive that could possibly exist, they are disgusting. This phenomena is called 'Uncanny valley' and is well known in robotics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

[Silent1]

RobbieKB said:

I read a lot about photography and fairly recently a bloke did a series of portraits where he took shots of the subject in the same pose from ever so slightly different angles and then compiled them on Photoshop by using a different angle for every single part of the body visible in the shot. Although this only changes people slightly and they still look like people you conceive that could possibly exist, they are disgusting. This phenomena is called 'Uncanny valley' and is well known in robotics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

I want to see the photo montage you're talking about

[RobbieKB]

Silent1 said:

RobbieKB said:

I read a lot about photography and fairly recently a bloke did a series of portraits where he took shots of the subject in the same pose from ever so slightly different angles and then compiled them on Photoshop by using a different angle for every single part of the body visible in the shot. Although this only changes people slightly and they still look like people you conceive that could possibly exist, they are disgusting. This phenomena is called 'Uncanny valley' and is well known in robotics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

I want to see the photo montage you're talking about

In all honesty, the photography side of it isn't overly strange - but it lead me to the phenomena.

https://www.americanphotomag.com/photo-gallery/201...

[sadako]

mattnunn said:

retrobob said:

Finger Ratio >

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digit_ratio

So there is something in palm reading.

I gather that is more based on lines on the palm, and being very vague about the results to provoke a reaction from the mark...

Anyway,