Interesting Wikipedia articles?

Interesting Wikipedia articles?

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Luke Warm

496 posts

145 months

Friday 28th August 2015
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dudleybloke

19,845 posts

187 months

Friday 28th August 2015
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Luke Warm said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies

Luke Warm

496 posts

145 months

Tuesday 1st September 2015
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAP-10A

A nuclear reactor orbiting 800 miles above the Earth.

Magog

2,652 posts

190 months

Tuesday 1st September 2015
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Luke Warm said:
Either the tinfoilhatters are correct, or the person who designed the logo had a healthy sense of humour.

Luke Warm

496 posts

145 months

Tuesday 1st September 2015
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FredClogs

14,041 posts

162 months

Wednesday 2nd September 2015
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Luke Warm said:
I think it's all about...

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

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

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

Those ancient folks knew a lot more than we give them credit for, there was a lot of psychedelics knocking about in those days too...

slybynight

391 posts

122 months

Friday 4th September 2015
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not on Wikipedia, but I heard this theory a little while ago that the concept of God might have come about from a supernova in our galaxy. Imagine you're a proto-human doing something naughty and the next day this appears in the sky
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=eye+nebula+image
you can bet you're ass that "do not covet thy neighbors bananas" is going to get passed on to your children for all eternity!

anonymous-user

55 months

Monday 7th September 2015
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9patch

2,857 posts

190 months

Tuesday 8th September 2015
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He served as the inspiration for Paul Hogan's character in the 1986 film "Crocodile" Dundee.


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

The Don of Croy

6,000 posts

160 months

Tuesday 8th September 2015
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Max_Torque said:
A proper Cold war mystery:



What_did_the_russians_do_to_lionel_crabb
Far be it for me to query 'pedia, but in the postwar stuff on Crabbe it says;
Crabb moved to a civilian job and used his diving skills to explore the wreck of a Spanish galleon and he located a suitable site for a discharge pipe for the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston.

Where was this discharge pipe going? Down the Thames? Bored from Berkshire to the south coast?

Steve_W

1,495 posts

178 months

Tuesday 8th September 2015
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The Don of Croy said:
Far be it for me to query 'pedia, but in the postwar stuff on Crabbe it says;
Crabb moved to a civilian job and used his diving skills to explore the wreck of a Spanish galleon and he located a suitable site for a discharge pipe for the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston.

Where was this discharge pipe going? Down the Thames? Bored from Berkshire to the south coast?
It runs from Aldermaston, near the Englefield estate, along near the A340, along the Sulham valley, between Purley and Panbourne and into the Thames. They've removed part of it though as it's been decommissioned for some time.

TheEnd

15,370 posts

189 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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" Some were locked in soundproof bedrooms fitted with gas lines that let him asphyxiate them at any time. Holmes would also lock his victims in a room where the walls were covered with iron plates and had blowtorches installed to incinerate them. One of the rooms on the second floor was called the "secret hanging chamber"; Where Holmes would take one of his victims and have them lynched. Other victims were locked in a huge soundproof bank vault near his office, where they were left to suffocate."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes

PanzerCommander

5,026 posts

219 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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TheEnd said:
" Some were locked in soundproof bedrooms fitted with gas lines that let him asphyxiate them at any time. Holmes would also lock his victims in a room where the walls were covered with iron plates and had blowtorches installed to incinerate them. One of the rooms on the second floor was called the "secret hanging chamber"; Where Holmes would take one of his victims and have them lynched. Other victims were locked in a huge soundproof bank vault near his office, where they were left to suffocate."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes
Horrific individual, there was a series on the history channel 'Haunted History' which actually had some interesting bits if you filter out the wooo, the first one I caught was about the Murder Castle.

Interstingly there is specualtion that he was Jack the Ripper as he was in London at the time of the killings, obviously it is circumstantial evidence.

downthepub

1,373 posts

207 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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dudleybloke

19,845 posts

187 months

Wednesday 9th September 2015
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Using nuclear weapons for civil engineering projects.

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

Sf_Manta

2,192 posts

192 months

Monday 14th September 2015
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World's biggest non nuclear explosions..

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


Fane

1,309 posts

201 months

Wednesday 16th September 2015
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I didn't have time to read them all, but the explosion in Nova Scotia sounds horrendous - 2,000 dead FFS.

TwistingMyMelon

6,385 posts

206 months

Wednesday 16th September 2015
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Fane said:
I didn't have time to read them all, but the explosion in Nova Scotia sounds horrendous - 2,000 dead FFS.
Just read the wiki page on it...blimey...terrifying

loafer123

15,445 posts

216 months

Wednesday 16th September 2015
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Crazy list.

I remember Buncefield...I heard it and one of my neighbours windows broke. So what? Well, I lived in Central London at the time!

I also went to Toulouse just after the AZF blast and ended up staying 100km away as all the hotels were full or damaged. My travel agent had booked me into a hotel in Toulouse, Texas, the numpty.

E24man

6,721 posts

180 months

Wednesday 16th September 2015
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Fane said:
I didn't have time to read them all, but the explosion in Nova Scotia sounds horrendous - 2,000 dead FFS.
No where near the worst loss of life by accident....

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

Although nature wins by an normous margin.....

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