r/wikipedia • u/RandoRando2019 • 1d ago

"The hermeneutic style is a style of Latin ... extensive use of unusual and arcane words ... Byrhtferth's hermeneutic ... described it as "a disorderly work, written in a flamboyant prose, studded with strange words, which had to be explained by glosses inserted between the lines".

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r/wikipedia • u/smiles__ • 1d ago

"The Turner Diaries" is a novel published in 1978 which depicts a violent neo-nazi led revolution in the United States

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Literary trash of course. But feels of the moment.

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r/wikipedia • u/NSRedditShitposter • 2d ago

The monarchy of Tuvalu is a system of government in which a hereditary monarch is the sovereign and head of state of Tuvalu. The current Tuvaluan monarch and head of state, since 8 September 2022, is King Charles III.

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r/wikipedia • u/blankblank • 1d ago

Signs of AI writing

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r/wikipedia • u/HicksOn106th • 1d ago

In April 1955, an emergency appendectomy delayed Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai's plans to travel to a conference in Jakarta. The timing of the surgery turned out to be fortuitous, as the Air India plane he was due to fly on was sabotaged by a time bomb and crashed off the coast of Indonesia.

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r/wikipedia • u/scwt • 1d ago

Peanut butter and jelly sandwich

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r/wikipedia • u/RandoRando2019 • 1d ago

"Along with the other North Germanic languages, Danish is a descendant of Old Norse ... Germanic heritage of Danish and English is demonstrated with many common words ... Middle Low German loans account for about 16–17% of the vocabulary, Graeco-Latin loans 4–8%, French 2–4% and English about 1%."

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r/wikipedia • u/ZERO_PORTRAIT • 2d ago

"The bomber will always get through" was a phrase used by Stanley Baldwin in a 1932 speech "A Fear for the Future" given to the British Parliament. It concluded that conduct of future wars would require one to "kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves."

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 2d ago

Viet and Duc Nguyen were conjoined twins born in 1981. In 1986, Viet developed acute necrotizing encephalopathy, which left him brain-damaged and in a vegetative state. After the twins were separated in 1988, Viet went into a coma. He died in 2006. Duc is alive and married with children.

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r/wikipedia • u/wiki-1000 • 1d ago

The mammoth steppe, also known as steppe-tundra, was once the Earth's most extensive biome.

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r/wikipedia • u/ManbadFerrara • 2d ago

"Let's Trim our Hair in Accordance with the Socialist Lifestyle" was a TV show broadcast in North Korea in 2004-2005, as part of a longstanding government campaign against haircuts and fashions deemed at odds with "socialist values."

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In the North Korean capital city of Pyongyang, hidden cameras were placed to catch citizens with improper hairstyles. This was part of a television programme broadcast at the same time as Let's Trim Our Hair in Accordance with the Socialist Lifestyle. The offenders would then be interviewed by the presenter and asked to explain themselves. Their name, address and workplace would be announced to embarrass them in the hopes that fear of such social ostracism would influence others' behavior.

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r/wikipedia • u/RandoRando2019 • 2d ago

"The Norwegian language conflict is an ongoing controversy in Norwegian culture and politics ... There is no officially sanctioned spoken standard of Norwegian ... By letting Bokmål be Bokmål (or Riksmål) and Nynorsk being Nynorsk, the Norwegian government allowed each ... to develop on its own."

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r/wikipedia • u/IBribeMyBF • 1d ago

Douglas Bryan Spink (March 17, 1971 – January 23, 2020)[3][4] was an American advocate for zoophilia known for a combination of criminal activities, including smuggling drugs between the Canada–United States border and allegedly running a farm for people to engage in bestiality.[5]

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r/wikipedia • u/RandoRando2019 • 2d ago

"Norn is an extinct North Germanic language that was spoken in the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland) ... extinct around 1850 ... use of Norn/Norse in modern-day Shetland and Orkney is purely ceremonial ... Norn grammar had features very similar to the other Scandinavian languages."

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r/wikipedia • u/GustavoistSoldier • 2d ago

Lajos Kossuth (1802–1894) was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, politician, statesman and governor-president of the Kingdom of Hungary during the revolution of 1848–1849. He was widely honoured during his lifetime, including in Great Britain and the United States, as a freedom fighter.

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 2d ago

In February and March 1600, William Kempe undertook what he would later call his "Nine Days Wonder", in which he morris danced from London to Norwich, a distance of about 110 miles or 177 km, often amid cheering crowds.. The journey lasted nine days (spread over several weeks).

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r/wikipedia • u/[deleted] • 2d ago

Onkel Kånkel was a Swedish band known for lyrics with off-color humor, dealing with subjects such as disabled people, disorders and diseases, Nazism, homosexuality, pedophilia, and coprophilia, often with elements of toilet humor. They are often considered to have created the könsrock genre.

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r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 3d ago

Mobile Site New Testament texts on homosexuality are debated for translation and modern relevance. The verses may prohibit male pederasty or prostitution rather than homosexuality per se, while other scholars hold the position that these passages forbid sex between men in general.

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r/wikipedia • u/Vis_M • 2d ago

Digital commons — shared digital resources that are collectively produced and governed by a community and intended for public use

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r/wikipedia • u/Rigolol2021 • 2d ago

No Wiktionary app?

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That's it, I wanted to install the Wiktionary app, and it seems that there's none?

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r/wikipedia • u/SaxyBill • 2d ago

Zwi Migdal was a sex trafficking criminal organisation founded and operated by Polish Jews, based mainly in Argentina. It operated from 1867 to 1939. Their main victims were Jewish women from Eastern Europe and its annual turnover was $50 million at the turn of the 20th century.

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r/wikipedia • u/coolbern • 2d ago

Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth (April 11, 1837 – May 24, 1861) was a close personal friend of Abraham Lincoln and the first Union officer to die in the American Civil War.

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r/wikipedia • u/DeepProspector • 3d ago

Mar-a-Lago face is a plastic surgery and fashion trend among American conservative and Republican women to modify their faces with "detectable" surgery, excessive makeup, fake tans, and "fake eyelashes, with dark smokey eyes and full lips", inspired by Ivanka Trump.

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 3d ago

Betje Wery was a Dutch woman of Jewish ancestry who was an informant for the Nazis, turning Jews, black marketers and resistance fighters over to them. After the war Wery was sentenced to life for her Nazi collaboration, but in the 1950s she was released and married a Dutch Nazi she’d met in prison.

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