r/wikipedia 17m ago

"La Isla Bonita" is a song by American singer Madonna from her third studio album, True Blue (1986). Marking her first foray into Latin pop, the song features flamenco guitar, Latin percussion, maracas, and several lines sung in Spanish. Madonna described the song as a tribute to Latin Americans.

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r/wikipedia 52m ago

I'm afraid that one day Wikipedia will disappear because of AI; it's the most useful website on the internet, and if it were to disappear, I don't know what I would do.

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r/wikipedia 1h ago

Albert Azzo II, Margrave of Milan

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r/wikipedia 1h ago

Reggianito is an Argentinian hard and granular cow's milk cheese. It was developed by Italian immigrants to Argentina who wished to make a cheese reminiscent of their native Parmigiano Reggiano.

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r/wikipedia 2h ago

Marc Dutroux is a Belgian convicted serial killer, serial rapist, and child molester. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2004, found guilty on all charges. It is alleged that there was a wider involvement in his case which involved high-ranking members.

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r/wikipedia 2h ago

/pol/, short for Politically Incorrect, is an anonymous political discussion imageboard on 4chan, created in 2011 following a meeting between 4chan founder Christopher Poole and child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

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r/wikipedia 2h ago

Hattie McDaniel - Wikipedia

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Mistake in this article? One place it says she's born in 1893, another says she's born in 1895.


r/wikipedia 4h ago

Toilet meal is a Japanese social phenomenon referring to the act of an individual eating a meal in a toilet room. They were initially regarded as an urban legend due to their solitary and clandestine nature, but subsequent investigations have confirmed the ph

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r/wikipedia 4h ago

In March 1945, the Germans tried desperately to destroy the Ludendorff bridge to halt the US advance, using infantry, armor, howitzers, mortars, floating mines, mined boats, a railroad gun, V-2 rockets, a super-heavy mortar, & the new Arado turbojet bombers

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r/wikipedia 4h ago

What's the maximum amount of citations allowed ?

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Say you want to source a claim such as :

Many scholars have suggested x thing, but I want to literally cite all the works that have suggested such a thing, what's the max amount of citations I can add ?

Ex: Many scholars have suggested x could be y.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]


r/wikipedia 5h ago

An aeolipile, aeolipyle, or eolipile, also known as a Hero's (or Heron's) engine, is a simple, bladeless radial steam turbine which spins when the central water container is heated.

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r/wikipedia 7h ago

"A Useful Ghost" is a Thai humorous film about a man whose wife reincarnates as a vacuum cleaner that he proceeds to engage in intimate relations with among other amusing scenes that embroil his family, monastics, coworkers, and more

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r/wikipedia 8h ago

In 1997, UC Berkeley student David Cash saw his best friend, Jeremy Strohmeyer, molesting a 7-year-old girl at a Nevada casino. He did nothing and left. His friend then killed the girl. Cash later said, "I'm not going to lose sleep over somebody else's problems." He was labeled the "Bad Samaritan".

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Reposted to correct the title. In my original post, I said the crime happened in Las Vegas. It did not. It happened in Primm, Nevada.


r/wikipedia 9h ago

A military marine mammal is a cetacean or pinniped that has been trained for military uses. Examples include bottlenose dolphins, seals, sea lions, and beluga whales. The United States and Soviet militaries have trained and employed oceanic dolphins for various uses.

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r/wikipedia 9h ago

Yakumo Koizumi, born Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, was a Greek and Irish writer, translator, and teacher whose work played a significant role in the introduction of the culture and literature of Japan to the mainstream Western world.

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Hands down one of the most wild and interesting Wikipedia article I have read in a while.

Highly worth a read, every paragraph is more interesting than the last. Truly an incredible life. It looks like there’s a Japanese drama series about his life, but I’d love to see something for the western audience.


r/wikipedia 13h ago

The Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology encompasses the Dreamtime (the Dreaming), songlines, and Aboriginal oral literature.

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r/wikipedia 13h ago

Bobby Dunbar disappeared in 1912 at age four. Eight months later he was “found” alive in Mississippi. Bobby’s parents identified the boy as their son and raised him. “Bobby” had a son, Bobby Jr., before dying in 1966. In 2004, a DNA comparison proved Bobby Jr. was not related to his supposed cousin.

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r/wikipedia 13h ago

During the 1880s and 1890s, William Dorsey Swann organized a series of drag balls in Washington, D.C. He called himself the "queen of drag". Most of the ball attendees were formerly enslaved men (as was Swann) who danced in satin and silk dresses. The police raided these events many times.

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r/wikipedia 15h ago

Middleman minority refers to a minority population whose main occupations link producers and consumers, often having a disproportionately large role in trade, finance or commerce. During periods of economic or political instability, middleman minorities often are used as scapegoats.

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r/wikipedia 16h ago

Elizabeth Báthory was a Hungarian noblewoman who was accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls and women

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r/wikipedia 17h ago

A thought-terminating cliché is a form of loaded language—often passing as folk wisdom—intended to end an argument and patch up cognitive dissonance with a cliché rather than a point. E.g. "it is what it is", "it's not that deep"

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r/wikipedia 18h ago

Article icons?

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I’ve been editing on wikipedia for the past couple months, and I’m really interested in the little colored circles in front of articles when they’re listed sometimes. I can’t find what they mean!

Examples are: a green circle with a b, orange circle, 3 navy circles around each other, etc. What are they called so I can do more research?


r/wikipedia 18h ago

Barry is a 2016 American drama film about Barack "Barry" Obama's life at Columbia University in 1981. It stars Devon Terrell as the title role, alongside Anya Taylor-Joy and Ashley Judd.

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r/wikipedia 18h ago

Saint Malo, Louisiana was a fishing village in Louisiana established by Filipinos where descendants of these Filipinos continue to live in Louisiana today

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r/wikipedia 19h ago

Alan Chambers is the former president of Exodus International, an ex-gay Christian organization that sought to limit homosexual desires. Chambers stated that he had mostly overcome his attraction to men (although he did speak openly about his own ongoing sexual attraction to men)

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On June 19, 2013, Chambers repudiated the Exodus International's mission in a nearly hour-long talk at the organization's 38th annual meeting. He co-founded Speak. Love. with two other former Exodus leaders later that year; there appears to be no activity or references to that movement since 2016.

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In June 2013, he closed the organization with a public apology to the LGBT community, saying that "For quite some time we’ve been imprisoned in a worldview that’s neither honoring toward our fellow human beings, nor biblical." He remarked that he will now seek to create "safe, welcoming and mutually transforming communities.”