Interesting Wikipedia articles?

[Asterix]

I thought I knew a fair bit about WWII.

Never realised both the British and Russians invaded Iran.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Soviet_invasion...

[Turbodiesel1976]

'Operation Flavius' - back in the days when the United Kingdom killed terrorists instead of pandering to them

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

[The Don of Croy]

The 1966 Aberfan Disaster - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster

Just a few months after that win at the World Cup up pops this appalling tip slide. There's some interesting details - because the event was remote from t'pit there was not a legal reason to even report it to the factories inspector, and when it came to removing the other five pits the NCB took £150k from the survivors fund as a contribution.

The then Chairman of the NCB didn't attend the site for 48 hours - first he went ahead with his investiture as chancellor at Surrey University on the very day, then mislead the official enquiry some month's later.

[DeuxCentCinq]

The Don of Croy said:

The 1966 Aberfan Disaster - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster

Just a few months after that win at the World Cup up pops this appalling tip slide. There's some interesting details - because the event was remote from t'pit there was not a legal reason to even report it to the factories inspector, and when it came to removing the other five pits the NCB took £150k from the survivors fund as a contribution.

The then Chairman of the NCB didn't attend the site for 48 hours - first he went ahead with his investiture as chancellor at Surrey University on the very day, then mislead the official enquiry some month's later.

Bloody hell.

[glazbagun]

Brother D said:

Also always wanted to know what was in this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba there's a video of young guy walking round it with his phone - doesn't seem very, well respectful.

There's a character in Iain Banks' novel The Business who wants to make a movie out of the idea that the black meteorite is actually an alien escape pod.

[RobinBanks]

downthepub said:

Sounds like an interesting guy to be around :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary

He sounds a total, total .

[dudleybloke]

FredClogs said:

dudleybloke said:

The straw hat riot.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_Hat_Riot

fk me that's proper mental, and people complain about the youths of today.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_riots

Its a crazy world!

[Luke Warm]

Orders of magnitude.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(...

[ZOLLAR]

Black Knight Satellite

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

[SirBlade]

Turbodiesel1976 said:

'Operation Flavius' - back in the days when the United Kingdom killed freedom fighters instead of pandering to them

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

FTFU

[Luke Warm]

Phantom vibration syndrome

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

[Lefty]

SirBlade said:

Turbodiesel1976 said:

'Operation Flavius' - back in the days when the United Kingdom killed freedom fighters instead of pandering to them

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

FTFU

Que?

[dudleybloke]

Joe Darby, a Dudley bloke who could jump pretty well.

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Darby-180

[RickRolled]

The Russian famine of 1921

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_famine_of_192...

[Lugy]

Cracking thread this, it's passed most of my week!

I'm particularly interested in the cold war era so plenty here to keep me amused!

My (probably humble) addition; http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaz - I knew the Russians had Mir but didn't realise they had another 'lab'. I particularly like the fact it was equipped with a cannon!

[eldar]

368,000 people drowned in 2013.

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

[FredClogs]

I guess most PH people will have heard of the Schlumpf brothers but a mate of min just got back from the museum and says it's mind blowing...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cit%C3%A9_de_l'Automo...

[Asterix]

FredClogs said:

I guess most PH people will have heard of the Schlumpf brothers but a mate of min just got back from the museum and says it's mind blowing...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cit%C3%A9_de_l'Automo...

Wow! Tres Cool rodders.

[dorset_clive]

Turbodiesel1976 said:

'Operation Flavius' - back in the days when the United Kingdom killed terrorists instead of pandering to them

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

I was working out in Gib when that happened. I was staying at big hotel in the centre, and suddenly all hell broke loose! Police sirens from all over. Lots of troops running around the dock yard. It was only in the evening watching the news we found out what had happened.

[MrCarPark]

As part of the list of eponymous laws:

Betteridge's Law of Headlines