r/wikipedia • u/GriffinFTW • 15h ago
r/wikipedia • u/GustavoistSoldier • 17h ago
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928–1979) was a Pakistani barrister, and statesman who served as the fourth president of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973, and as the ninth prime minister of Pakistan from 1973 until his overthrow in 1977. He was the founder and first chairman of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP).
r/wikipedia • u/syanxde • 23h ago
Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 was an international charter flight from Moscow, Russia to the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. All 141 people (11 crew members and 130 passengers, of whom three were children) aboard the plane were killed, making it the deadliest aviation accident in Norwegia.
r/wikipedia • u/GirlGrilGirl • 7h ago
Prisencolinensinainciusol is a song composed by the Italian singer Adriano Celentano, and performed by Celentano and his wife Claudia Mori. Both the name of the song and its lyrics are gibberish, but are intended to represent what American English sounds like to people who do not understand English
r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 11h ago
“Fifth line” is euphemism originating in the Soviet Union, which indicated that an individual belonged to a certain ethnic group, usually Jewish. In the Soviet Union, line number 5 for indicating ethnicity was on the Personal Record Sheet.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/SplendiferusFinch • 16h ago
The use of makeup and cosmetics by Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, has been a subject of media coverage since before his entry into electoral politics. He has been reported to apply his own makeup.
r/wikipedia • u/cookieintheinternet • 21h ago
Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. Most commonly, love refers to a feeling of strong attraction and emotional attachment. Spoiler
en.wikipedia.orgAn example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love for food.
r/wikipedia • u/MediocreDiamond7187 • 8h ago
Mike the Headless Chicken
Mike was a rooster who managed to survive for 18 months after being beheaded (fed by eyedropper). He finally died on 17 March 1947.
r/wikipedia • u/cc_forest • 6h ago
What’s suddenly so interesting about math and math equations?
It’s always fun to “check the temperature” of the English world by looking at the top reads of the day. But I can’t for the life of me figure out why it’s “mathematics” and “lists of equations”. Anyone have a hint?
(also RIP to RJ, breakfast king of Albuquerque 🥺)
r/wikipedia • u/MajesticBread9147 • 13h ago
Ruzi Nazar was an Uzbek nationalist who fought for the USSR, Nazi Germany, and later the CIA for the remainder of his career. His daughter Sylvia wrote the biography A Beautiful Mind about John Nash.
r/wikipedia • u/ForgingIron • 8h ago
The 4.2-kiloyear event was an aridification event (long-term drought) 4,200 years ago. It has been hypothesised to have caused the collapse of the Old Kingdom in Egypt, the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, and the Liangzhu culture in the lower Yangtze River area.
r/wikipedia • u/Affectionate_Neck_40 • 7h ago
We turned the Wiki Race into a free multiplayer site with custom settings
Hey everyone,
My friend and I used to play the Wikipedia game the old school way, picking two random articles and trying to count our own clicks manually. We got tired of keeping score by hand and looked for websites to play on, but we could not find a good free multiplayer option that let us control our own lobby settings.
We ended up making Clickipedia (https://clickipedia.io).
Instead of just racing to the finish, we wanted to focus on competition, exploration, and different styles of play. It is 100% free and has three modes:
- Daily: One shared route every day to see who can navigate it in the fewest clicks.
- Weekly: A much harder and longer challenge.
- Lobbies: Free multiplayer where you can set up custom rules and play with friends in real time.
It has been a blast discovering bizarre rabbit holes on the site. Check out today's route or grab a friend for a match and let us know what you think!
r/wikipedia • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • 9h ago
Gilles de Rais was a French nobleman who fought alongside Joan of Arc in the Hundred Years’ War. Later in life he became obsessed with the occult, and was eventually arrested, tried, and executed for the sexual assault and murder of numerous children.
r/wikipedia • u/xalxary2 • 16h ago
Shawl scrotum is a condition in which the scrotum surrounds the penis, resembling a 'shawl'.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/syanxde • 12h ago
Timber Sycamore was a covert program run by the CIA with the aim of removing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power. A significant portion of weapons ultimately ended up in the hands of extremist groups, most notably ISIS and the Al-Nusra Front.
r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 15h ago
Sergey Taboritsky was a Russian journalist, known for his nationalist, monarchist, and antisemitic positions. In 1942, Taboritsky became a member of the Nazi Party, and he directly collaborated with the Gestapo.
r/wikipedia • u/BowlerTraditional283 • 5h ago
I learned about the "glass cliff" today, which describes women and minorities being more likely to be appointed as CEOs in times of crisis
en.wikipedia.orgI've heard a lot about the glass ceiling, but not about this.
r/wikipedia • u/LethalNonLethals • 2h ago
Russell Raymond Veh was an American neo-Nazi political activist, writer, and publisher. He was known for his open homosexuality and leadership of a gay neo-Nazi group, the National Socialist League. By the 1990s, he was one of the largest distributors of white supremacist materials in the USA.
r/wikipedia • u/PeasantLich • 5h ago
Husein Miljković was a Bosnian WW2 military commander. He was a communist but became a Nazi collaborator in 1941. He defected to communist partisans after just few months, but then defected back to Axis side in 1943. He was murdered by anti-communists in 1944 for trying to join the communists again.
r/wikipedia • u/FarPlay5055 • 19h ago
False or misleading statements made by Donald Trump. During his first term there were approximately 30,573 false or misleading claims meaning there was an average of 21 false or misleading claims per day.
r/wikipedia • u/GirlGrilGirl • 12h ago
The Sabians, are a religious group mentioned three times in the Quran, where it is implied that they belonged to the 'People of the Book.' Their original identity, which seems to have been forgotten at an early date, has been called an "unsolved Quranic problem."
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/Sebastianlim • 22h ago
Titanic (1943) is a Nazi propaganda film about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. The film had a troubled production, with its original director being arrested and later found hanged. The film had only a limited release, as Goebbels feared a film about mass panic and death would worsen morale.
r/wikipedia • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • 5h ago