Interesting Wikipedia articles?

Interesting Wikipedia articles?

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theironduke

6,995 posts

187 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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vtgts300kw said:
Gwagon111 said:
If you get a proper bout, it's st scary. You are well aware if what's going on, but you can't do anything. You think your making a sound, but your not. It's a very strange thing to experience.
I get it maybe once a month or so. It's sometimes "scarier" than usual. And I have the unusual feeling of mentally forcing my limbs to wake up, and can "feel" the sensation moving down my limbs, but if it doesn't happen fast enough, I FREAK out mentally and try scream.
I've had this too. Worst was when i was at Uni and woke up about 9 i guess but couldnt physically get up and out of bed till half 5. I went downstairs and my housemates assumed id gone home the previous day. Not nice.

AstonZagato

12,638 posts

209 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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Found in the unusual deaths article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism

Execution by being eaten alive by insects.
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SpeckledJim

31,608 posts

252 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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theironduke said:
vtgts300kw said:
Gwagon111 said:
If you get a proper bout, it's st scary. You are well aware if what's going on, but you can't do anything. You think your making a sound, but your not. It's a very strange thing to experience.
I get it maybe once a month or so. It's sometimes "scarier" than usual. And I have the unusual feeling of mentally forcing my limbs to wake up, and can "feel" the sensation moving down my limbs, but if it doesn't happen fast enough, I FREAK out mentally and try scream.
I've had this too. Worst was when i was at Uni and woke up about 9 i guess but couldnt physically get up and out of bed till half 5. I went downstairs and my housemates assumed id gone home the previous day. Not nice.
This has happened to a great many students. Don't worry about it.

Urban Sports

11,321 posts

202 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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AstonZagato said:
Found in the unusual deaths article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism

Execution by being eaten alive by insects.
vomit
Good God frown

NightRunner

12,230 posts

193 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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Rouleur said:
List of unusual deaths http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_death...

This is pretty grim:

1816: Gouverneur Morris, an American statesman, died after sticking a piece of whale bone through his urinary tract to relieve a blockage.
The PH way...


dudleybloke

19,688 posts

185 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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Urban Sports said:
AstonZagato said:
Found in the unusual deaths article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism

Execution by being eaten alive by insects.
vomit
Good God frown
"stop bugging me"
smile

Hoygo

725 posts

160 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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Slink said:
ive had something, i guess is a form of sleep paralysis, but i am paralysed in my dream and cannot move or do anything, but its not the whole dream me not being able to move, im having a strange dream, then i start getting really heavy, then fall over and cannot move, like i am so drunk i cant move or say anything. has happened a couple of times now, but not recently thank god. quite scary.
I don't often dream when i sleep,but when i dream once in a while they are all like this,a car is trying to run me over and suddenly my feet feel heavy and i move in slow-motion than the same scenario about some strange things chasing me.

Silent1

19,761 posts

234 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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NightRunner said:
Rouleur said:
List of unusual deaths http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_death...

This is pretty grim:

1816: Gouverneur Morris, an American statesman, died after sticking a piece of whale bone through his urinary tract to relieve a blockage.
The PH way...

No, this is the PH way:
Wikipedia said:
2008: Gerald Mellin, a U.K. businessman, committed suicide by tying one end of a rope around his neck and the other to a tree. He then got into his Aston Martin DB7 and drove down a main road in Swansea until the rope decapitated him.
Daily Soovy link

Rouleur

7,010 posts

188 months

vtgts300kw

597 posts

176 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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theironduke said:
I've had this too. Worst was when i was at Uni and woke up about 9 i guess but couldnt physically get up and out of bed till half 5. I went downstairs and my housemates assumed id gone home the previous day. Not nice.
It lasted over 6 hours????


SpeckledJim said:
This has happened to a great many students. Don't worry about it.

goldblum

10,272 posts

166 months

Monday 8th October 2012
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The execution of Hugh Despenser the younger, from a manuscript of Jean Froissart.

In Froissart's account of the execution, Despenser was then tied to a ladder, and —in full view of the crowd— had his genitals sliced off and burned (in his still-conscious sight) then his entrails slowly pulled out, and, finally, his heart cut out and thrown into the fire. Professor Clare Sponsler says that Froissart is the only source to describe castration, where all other contemporary accounts have Despenser quartered, hanged, and beheaded.[10]
Just before he died, it is recorded that he let out a "ghastly inhuman howl",[citation needed] much to the delight and merriment of the spectators.[citation needed] Finally, his corpse was beheaded, his body cut into four pieces, and his head mounted on the gates of London.[2] Mortimer and Isabella feasted with their chief supporters, as they watched the execution.[citation needed]

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

NitroNick

743 posts

209 months

Monday 8th October 2012
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The Winchester Mansion: the intention was that it would never be completed thus rendering the owner imortal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mansion

Truckosaurus

11,160 posts

283 months

Monday 8th October 2012
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NitroNick said:
The Winchester Mansion: the intention was that it would never be completed thus rendering the owner imortal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mansion
I've visited there, most amusing.

Craiglamuffin

358 posts

179 months

Monday 8th October 2012
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Late 19th century Spaniards need a path around a gorge so stick one onto the cliffs, very high up. Now falling to bits, it attracts extreme ramblers:

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

This you tube clip sort of helps illustrate it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmDhRvvs5Xw

ZesPak

24,416 posts

195 months

Monday 8th October 2012
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Craiglamuffin said:
Late 19th century Spaniards need a path around a gorge so stick one onto the cliffs, very high up. Now falling to bits, it attracts extreme ramblers:

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

This you tube clip sort of helps illustrate it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmDhRvvs5Xw
What, no streetview? hehe

mattnunn

14,041 posts

160 months

Monday 8th October 2012
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Not everyones cup of tea, but it fascinates me...

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

This is interesting too...

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

Edited by mattnunn on Monday 8th October 18:08

MocMocaMoc

1,524 posts

140 months

Monday 8th October 2012
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This man needs two homes. One for him, and a second for his balls.

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

I'm in awe of this man!

Dibble

12,923 posts

239 months

Monday 8th October 2012
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Hyper Realistic art:

Chuck Close

Paul Cadden

Richard Estes

Evan Penny

OK, the wiki on Paul Cadden ISN'T interesting as it's about one line long, but have a Google for some of his images (in fact all four are worth a Google). I saw some Chuck Close and Even Penny stuff last week, and it's mind blowing.

Matt..

3,582 posts

188 months

Monday 8th October 2012
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MocMocaMoc said:
This man needs two homes. One for him, and a second for his balls.

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

I'm in awe of this man!
Felix Baumgartner is trying to go higher tomorrow at ~1pm.

Beartato

634 posts

167 months

Monday 8th October 2012
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A few people have claimed to have found the ultimate PH way to go from that list of unusual deaths.

How about this. Ultimate PHer (unfortunately);

That Wikipedia list of unusual deaths said:
270 BC: Philitas of Cos, Greek intellectual, is said by Athenaeus to have studied arguments and erroneous word usage so intensely that he wasted away and starved to death. British classicist Alan Cameron speculates that Philitas died from a wasting disease which his contemporaries joked was caused by his pedantry.