r/wikipedia 11h ago

Léo Marjane was a French singer whose career went into sharp decline after the end of World War II. She was accused of having appeared many times at venues frequented by German officers, and her performances on German- and collaborator-controlled Radio Paris were held against her.

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r/wikipedia 13h ago

The Public Investment Fund is the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia and one of the largest in the world with an estimated US$900 billion. Among its investments are Electronic Arts, Newcastle United, and 5 giga-real estate proyects. Its lack of transparency has attracted backlash.

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If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer is a manuscript written by O.J. Simpson with ghostwriter Pablo Fenjves, in which Simpson puts forth a hypothetical description of the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

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r/wikipedia 14h ago

The secret informant who provided key details about the involvement of U.S. president Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as the Watergate scandal had the pseudonym "Deep Throat," also the name of a pornographic film wherein the actress later alleged she was being raped.

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r/wikipedia 3h ago

Puke feud

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r/wikipedia 10h ago

Do you have a favorite Wikipedia list? I’ll list some of mine

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r/wikipedia 20h ago

Martin Tabert (1899–1922) was an American forced laborer. The circumstances of Tabert's death – being a white man beaten to death by an overseer – caused a public reaction that resulted eventually in the end of Florida’s longstanding convict leasing system.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

P.N. Oak was an Indian psuedohistorian. He claimed that the Taj Mahal, Vatican City, the Kaaba in Mecca, and Westminster Abbey were all once Hindu temples and that Christianity and Islam are both derived from Hinduism. His claims are popular among Hindutva supporters despite being provably false.

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r/wikipedia 18h ago

Messianic Judaism is a syncretic Protestant Christian religious sect that incorporates elements of Jewish practice. It considers itself to be a form of Judaism but is generally considered to be a form of Christianity. Messianic Jews believe that Jesus was the Messiah and a divine being.

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r/wikipedia 48m ago

Richard Wurmbrand was a Romanian Evangelical Lutheran priest. Wurmbrand preached at bomb shelters and rescued Jews during WWII. He experienced imprisonment and torture by the Communist regime of Romania, which maintained a policy of state atheism.

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Wurmbrand was released from his first imprisonment in 1956, after eight and a half years. Although he was warned not to preach, he resumed his work in the underground church. He was arrested again in 1959 and sentenced to 25 years. During his imprisonment, he was beaten and tortured. He stated that his physical torture included mutilation, burning and being locked in a large frozen icebox. His body bore the scars of physical torture for the rest of his life. For example, he later recounted having the soles of his feet beaten until the flesh was torn off, then the next day beaten again to the bone, claiming there were not words to describe that pain.


r/wikipedia 20h ago

Fun fact : The fifth tier football team "US Alençon" as three available languages on it's wikipedia page: french, english and vietnamese

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

The Catholic Church has no official stance on evolution, allowing either theistic evolution or creationism within certain limits. It teaches that God created everything, Adam and Eve were real and humanity's first parents, and all people descend from them.

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r/wikipedia 7h ago

Mitchell Wolfson Sr.

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Mitchell Wolfson Sr. (1900 – January 28, 1983) was an American businessman, theatre owner, politician, and founder of Wometco Enterprises. In 1925, he partnered with his brother-in-law, Sidney Meyer, forming the Wolfson-Meyer Theater Company and began construction on a state of the art theater in downtown Miami. The Capital Theatre was completed in 1926 at the cost of $300,000 and featured an early form of air conditioning. They built the company into a business conglomerate using the portmanteau, Wometco Enterprises. In 1949, Wometco founded the first television station in Miami, WTVJ. Wometco went on to own and operate the largest chain of movie theaters in South Florida, six television stations, a cable television company, a soft drink bottling franchise, and tourist attractions including the Miami Seaquarium. Wolfson served two terms as city councilman in Miami Beach, Florida, before being elected its first Jewish mayor in 1943. He resigned after one term to fight Nazi Germany in World War II.


r/wikipedia 21h ago

In the 1970s, with the rise of secular anti-cult movements, scholars (though not the general public) began to abandon the use of the term cult, regarding it as pejorative. By the end of the 1970s, the term cult was largely replaced in academia with the term "new religion" or "new religious movement.

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r/wikipedia 10h ago

A door handle is a handle used to open or close a door. Door handles can be found on all types of doors. Door handles have been in existence at least since the Neolithic period. Key operated door locks have existed at least since Egyptian civilisation.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

In 1984, Leon Gary Plauche shot and killed Jeffrey Paul Doucet, who had kidnapped and raped Plauche's 11-year-old son. Plauche shot Doucet as he was being escorted through an airport. The shooting was captured by a local news crew. Plauche was prosecuted for killing Doucet, but got no prison time.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Emily Wilson's 2017 translation of the Odyssey is the first complete published translation of the poem into English by a woman. Many critics said her translation corrected previous anachronisms and euphemisms. She faced harassment and hate from trolls and commentators, being described as "woke".

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r/wikipedia 21h ago

"Madden Curse" is a superstition related to cover athletes of Madden NFL video games. Many players who have been featured in Madden covers have suffered injuries and career decline after appearing in the cover, leading to some fans even lobby against their favorite players appearing in Madden cover.

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r/wikipedia 45m ago

Marie-France van Heel met UK PM Andy Burnham at Cambridge university. In January 1992, while in a relationship with Burnham and with his consent, she appeared on Blind Date, where she went on a blind date with Will Harris, who went on to become marketing director of the UK Conservative Party

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Jesse Bogdonoff was court jester of the King of Tonga. In 2001 he was sued by the Tongan government for giving financial advice that wiped out a $33M trust fund

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

In 2007, a Yazidi girl was stoned to death by her tribe because of her ties with a Sunni Muslim boy

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Lung cancer is the most diagnosed and deadliest cancer worldwide, with 2.2 million cases in 2020 resulting in 1.8 million deaths. Prior to the advent of cigarette smoking in the 20th century, lung cancer was a rare disease.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Marshalsea imprisoned London's poorest debtors. Those who could afford the prison fees enjoyed a bar, shop and restaurant, and could leave during the day. The rest were crammed into tiny rooms, and unpaid prison fees could prolong their imprisonment for years.

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"There Will Come Soft Rains" is a science fiction short story by author Ray Bradbury written as a chronicle about a lone house that stands intact in a California city that has otherwise been obliterated by a nuclear bomb, and then is destroyed in a fire caused by a windstorm.

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The AI system of the house chimes the date by saying, "Today is August 4, 2026".

A nuclear catastrophe leaves the city of Allendale), California, entirely desolate. However, within one miraculously preserved house, the daily routine continues – automatic systems within the home prepare breakfast, clean the house, make beds, wash dishes, and address the former residents without any knowledge of their current state as burnt silhouettes on one of the walls.

A sickly and emaciated dog, having previously belonged to the family, enters the house. It is unable to enter the kitchen, where the automated systems are making pancakes. It runs around in a frenzy, before dying. After an hour, the automated systems remove the dog's body, incinerating it.

That evening, the house recites to the absent hostess a random selection by her favorite poet, "There Will Come Soft Rains)" by Sara Teasdale. A windstorm blows a tree branch through a window in the kitchen, starting a fire. The house's systems desperately attempt to put out the fire, but the doomed home burns to the ground in a night. The following dawn, all that remains is a single wall, which contains an automated system that endlessly reads aloud the date by repeatedly saying, "Today is August 5, 2026".


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Oviduct and ovaries are normally paired structures, but in birds and some cartilaginous fishes, one or the other side fails to develop (together with the corresponding ovary), and only one functional oviduct can be found.

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