Interesting Wikipedia articles?

[mrtwisty]

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paddock_...

[The Vambo]

mrtwisty said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paddock_...

What?

[MissChief]

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paddock_... perhaps?

[nammynake]

Cosmic Rays:

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

[Veeayt]

RobbieKB said:

I love this thread and it occurred to me that quite a famous phenomenon I came across via photography hadn't been posted (at least to my memory).

Hessdalen Lights

There are essentially flying and unexplained lights in Hessdalen, Norway. Not only have they been spotted by locals, but they've been photographed and observed quite extensively.

The article doesn't show a picture, so here's the most famous one:

Edited by RobbieKB on Thursday 16th October 17:15

I've seen something like that when I was a kid. And no, I don't believe in alien life on Earth

[eldar]

Topically, Hellish Nell.

Last person convicted and jailed under the Witchcraft Act of 1735. In 1944.

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

[glazbagun]

eldar said:

Topically, Hellish Nell.

Last person convicted and jailed under the Witchcraft Act of 1735. In 1944.

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

And Thomas Aikenhead, the last guy to be executed for Blasphemy in 1697:

"That ... the prisoner had repeatedly maintained, in conversation, that theology was a rhapsody of ill-invented nonsense, patched up partly of the moral doctrines of philosophers, and partly of poetical fictions and extravagant chimeras"

"That he said Moses was the better artist and the better politician; and he preferred Muhammad to Christ: That the Holy Scriptures were stuffed with such madness, nonsense, and contradictions, that he admired the stupidity of the world in being so long deluded by them: That he rejected the mystery of the Trinity as unworthy of refutation; and scoffed at the incarnation of Christ"

[MentalSarcasm]

Also along the witch line, one of the most famous witch trials in the UK is the Pendle Witch Trials;

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

Apparently Lancashire had a bit of a witch problem in the 1600s.

[eldar]

MentalSarcasm said:

Also along the witch line, one of the most famous witch trials in the UK is the Pendle Witch Trials;

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

Apparently Lancashire had a bit of a witch problem in the 1600s.

Still does, in 2014...

[simoid]

Veeayt said:

RobbieKB said:

I love this thread and it occurred to me that quite a famous phenomenon I came across via photography hadn't been posted (at least to my memory).

Hessdalen Lights

There are essentially flying and unexplained lights in Hessdalen, Norway. Not only have they been spotted by locals, but they've been photographed and observed quite extensively.

The article doesn't show a picture, so here's the most famous one:

Edited by RobbieKB on Thursday 16th October 17:15

I've seen something like that when I was a kid. And no, I don't believe in alien life on Earth

That's cool - is that a long exposure pic?

[glazbagun]

The golden age of Islam:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age

[furrywoolyhatuk]

glazbagun said:

The golden age of Islam:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age

Taken from the above link:

Freedom of Expression
Perhaps the most significant feature in the Fatimid era was that freedom which was given out to the people and liberty was given to the minds and reasons. Man may believe in whatever he likes provided that he may not infringe other rights. Fatimids reserved separate pulpits for different Islamic sects, where the scholars expressed their ideas in whatever the manner they liked. Fatimids gave patronage to scholars and invited them from every place, spending money on them and neglecting what they believed in, even though it was against the beliefs of the Fatimids.

At what point did these regions start going backwards? From the wiki article the caliphate was a culture/society to behold yet fast forward to current day and its lost.

[zygalski]

H.H. Holmes.
"Murder Castle" hotel serial killer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes

[PurpleTurtle]

Whilst Mrs PT was watching the 'Cilla' dramatisation on ITV the other week I happened across the Brian Epstein article, as he featureed heavily in that.

All I knew of him was that he managed The Beatles. Seems to have fitted a lot into his 32yrs:

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

[SpeckledJim]

furrywoolyhatuk said:

At what point did these regions start going backwards?

When science started to prove them wrong. You can't be reasonable and cooperative with a movement that shows you to be stupid. You have to rail against it, and fight reason with passion. Some people can be swayed by passion over reason, so you use the weapons remaining available to you.

Sadly, this strategy also leads to behaving like a nutcase.

Wafer anybody?

[RobbieKB]

simoid said:

That's cool - is that a long exposure pic?

Yes although I'm not sure of the exposure time.

Here's one I stumbled across today. Mummy Juanita or Lady of Ampato was a 15 year old girl sacrificed to Inca Gods over 500 years ago. Her body became frozen and naturally mummified leaving it in such good condition, scientists could tell what she had eaten before she died.

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

[MikeOxlong]

The Great Emu War

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

[AstonZagato]

Judas Goats - the bomber bit is interesting too

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

[Monkeythree]

The probable cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs.

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

[Paul671]

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

A timeline of the far future