Interesting Wikipedia articles?

[Lance Catamaran]

Dr John Money, one of the original proponents of gender being a social construct. To prove it, he took an eight month old who lost his penis to a botched circumcision and made him grow up as a girl, whilst making that person perform sexual acts with their twin brother. Unsurprisingly he committed suicide after a lifetime of bullying and depression.

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

[llewop]

Choppy Warburton - the originator, apparently, of performance enhancing drugs in cycling!

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


"Choppy has been firmly identified as the instigator of drug-taking in the sport [cycling] in the 19th century."

[VxDuncan]

"Cloud Gate" - a massive, expensive, heavy public art installation in Chicago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Gate

[AstonZagato]

VxDuncan said:

"Cloud Gate" - a massive, expensive, heavy public art installation in Chicago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Gate

Probably my favourite piece of modern art. It is stunning.

[mrtwisty]

While we're on the topic of modern art (sort of), here's a piece from the more WTF end of the spectrum:

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

[Colonial]

mrtwisty said:

While we're on the topic of modern art (sort of), here's a piece from the more WTF end of the spectrum:

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

I saw the failed flight of that at Newcastle (the Australian one).

Interesting...

[deltahotel]

Have we had Room 641a yet??

Room 641A is a telecommunication interception facility operated by AT&T for the U.S. National Security Agency

Get your tin foil hats ready;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

[Vaud]

deltahotel said:

Have we had Room 641a yet??

Room 641A is a telecommunication interception facility operated by AT&T for the U.S. National Security Agency

Get your tin foil hats ready;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

I raise you...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_...

[hifihigh]

Interesting article about the US Department of Energy and the problems it faces under the current administration.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department...

[lufbramatt]

Desperately sad story of Russian conjoined twins

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

[Blown2CV]

lufbramatt said:

Desperately sad story of Russian conjoined twins

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

that is very sad indeed.

[Usget]

VxDuncan said:

"Cloud Gate" - a massive, expensive, heavy public art installation in Chicago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Gate

That's in the film with the guy who keeps going back onto the same train journey and trying to find the bomb... can't remember the name.

[lufbramatt]

Usget said:

That's in the film with the guy who keeps going back onto the same train journey and trying to find the bomb... can't remember the name.

Source Code?

[Rostfritt]

lufbramatt said:

Desperately sad story of Russian conjoined twins

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

Oh god that is awful. I thought disturbing medical experiments on live babies stopped after WW2. The world never ceases to disgust me.

[anonymous-user]

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

''Having caused so much damage to military infrastructure, a bounty of 300,000 francs was placed upon his head. He was awarded the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre three times, and the Légion d'honneur.''

''Under his jumping smock, Macpherson was wearing full Cameron Highland battle dress, including a tartan kilt. [6]

"Just as I arrived I heard an excited young Frenchman saying to his boss, 'Chef, chef, there's a French officer and he's brought his wife!"''

[Usget]

The Spruce goose said:

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

''Having caused so much damage to military infrastructure, a bounty of 300,000 francs was placed upon his head. He was awarded the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre three times, and the Légion d'honneur.''

''Under his jumping smock, Macpherson was wearing full Cameron Highland battle dress, including a tartan kilt. [6]

"Just as I arrived I heard an excited young Frenchman saying to his boss, 'Chef, chef, there's a French officer and he's brought his wife!"''

Yes!! Excellent post. Thoroughly enjoyed reading that. Sounds like an autobiography well worth a purchase.

[anonymous-user]

Usget said:

Yes!! Excellent post. Thoroughly enjoyed reading that. Sounds like an autobiography well worth a purchase.

didn't spot the book might give that a go. a bought a couple of books

For Queen and Country: One Man's True Story of Blood and Violence in the SAS and.

Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich

both supposed to be good.

[uncinqsix]

hifihigh said:

Interesting article about the US Department of Energy and the problems it faces under the current administration.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department...

"Interesting" doesn't quite do it justice. One of the best news pieces I have read in a very long time.

[glazbagun]

This woman knew how to live:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_d%27Aubigny

Julie d'Aubigny (1670/1673–1707) was a 17th-century swordswoman and opera singer. She dressed like a man, sang, duelled, slept around, was sentenced to die by fire after she stole back a girl she fancied from a convent by stealing a dead nuns body and setting fire to the place, and much more besides.

I think she'd get a place at my table of historical figures I'd have a pint with.

wiki said:

Her Paris career was interrupted around 1695, when she kissed a young woman at a society ball and was challenged to duels by three different noblemen. She beat them all, but fell afoul of the king's law that forbade duels in Paris. She fled to Brussels to wait for calmer times. There, she was briefly the mistress of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria.

Edited by glazbagun on Sunday 13th August 19:28

[MissChief]

uncinqsix said:

hifihigh said:

Interesting article about the US Department of Energy and the problems it faces under the current administration.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department...

"Interesting" doesn't quite do it justice. One of the best news pieces I have read in a very long time.

Agreed. Very interesting and quite worrying.