Interesting Wikipedia articles?

Interesting Wikipedia articles?

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gobuddygo

1,387 posts

187 months

Wednesday 17th October 2012
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bravonovember said:
Great Wiki, thanks for the post.

MissChief

7,153 posts

170 months

Thursday 18th October 2012
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retrobob said:
Interesting article >
i should have linked it.

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

mattnunn

14,041 posts

163 months

dmulally

6,216 posts

182 months

Thursday 18th October 2012
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Hi Guys,

Just a gentle nag to include a one liner.

Also, here is the local legend from the town I grew up in. Fishers Ghost.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_ghost


Beartato

634 posts

170 months

Friday 19th October 2012
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Kevin McElroy, an utter bd dealt with by mob rule which I generally don't approve of but was probably the right thing to do in this case.

Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

235 months

Friday 19th October 2012
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Beartato said:
Kevin McElroy, an utter bd dealt with by mob rule which I generally don't approve of but was probably the right thing to do in this case.
as I was reading that, I just knew it would be made into a movie featuring Brian Dennehy biggrin

shakotan

10,729 posts

198 months

Friday 19th October 2012
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_ca...

Have we had this one? It's amazing what seeming rational people will do when faced with taking instructions from a [supposed] person of authority!

retrobob

2,871 posts

191 months

ZOLLAR

19,908 posts

175 months

Saturday 20th October 2012
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shakotan said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_ca...

Have we had this one? It's amazing what seeming rational people will do when faced with taking instructions from a [supposed] person of authority!
WTF!

gog440

9,247 posts

192 months

Saturday 20th October 2012
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Urban Sports

11,321 posts

205 months

Saturday 20th October 2012
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BruceV8

3,325 posts

249 months

Saturday 20th October 2012
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philthy

4,689 posts

242 months

Saturday 20th October 2012
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Rotary Madness said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption

Very interesting, so you can sacrifice someone finding your beastiality porn so they dont ever find the really creepy stuff...
Yep, you no longer have the right to remain silent:

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

gog440

9,247 posts

192 months

retrobob

2,871 posts

191 months

Tuesday 23rd October 2012
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Found this and thought it was interesting >

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_AE2

Dibble

12,941 posts

242 months

Tuesday 23rd October 2012
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Rouleur

7,053 posts

191 months

Tuesday 23rd October 2012
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Longest recorded sniper kills

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

The record is held by a Brit (hurrah!) at 1.5 miles clap Just to prove it wasn't a fluke he repeated it.

Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Hathcock#Assas...

OldJohnnyYen

1,455 posts

151 months

Tuesday 23rd October 2012
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Rouleur said:
Longest recorded sniper kills

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

The record is held by a Brit (hurrah!) at 1.5 miles clap Just to prove it wasn't a fluke he repeated it.

Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Hathcock#Assas...
He did it with a 338 lapua too, most of the others are 50!

Urban Sports

11,321 posts

205 months

Tuesday 23rd October 2012
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