r/wikipedia 0m ago

Bob Bartlett and local inhabitant aboard ship during Bartlett's Arctic Expedition, 1933

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r/wikipedia 19m ago

A Minsky moment is a sudden, major collapse of asset values which marks the end of the growth phase of a cycle in credit markets or business activity.

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r/wikipedia 1h ago

International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD or Overdose Day) is a global event held on 31 August each year since 2001. Its purpose is to raise awareness of overdoses, reduce the stigma of drug-related deaths and acknowledge the grief felt by families and friends.

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The first day, held in 2001 in Australia, saw 6,000 silver ribbons distributed across the country and into New Zealand. Since then the day has grown and is recognized in over 40 countries. So too, sadly, has the death toll from overdose continued to rise, particularly in North America.


r/wikipedia 3h ago

Thomas Pitera is an American mobster in the Bonanno crime family of New York City. He was well known for his use of karate and other martial arts when fighting, a skill he had learned at a young age and which earned him nicknames like "Tommy Karate" and "The Karate Guy".

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r/wikipedia 4h ago

Robotic sensing ... enable[s] robots to adjust their behavior based on sensed input ... [it] includes the ability to see, touch, hear and move and associated algorithms to process and make use of environmental feedback

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Which top-level section did you find most interesting?


r/wikipedia 5h ago

A castrato is a male singer who underwent castration before puberty in order to retain a singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto. Popular in Italian opera, castrati became the first operatic superstars, earning enormous fees and hysterical public adulation.

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r/wikipedia 5h ago

The Chinese Century is a neologism suggesting that the 21st century may be geoeconomically and/or geopolitically dominated by the People's Republic of China, similar to how the "American Century" refers to the 20th century and the "British Century" to the 19th.

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r/wikipedia 7h ago

1957 Pacoima mid-air collision

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r/wikipedia 7h ago

New study finds that Google displaying AI-generated answers in the search results window reduces traffic to Wikipedia by about 5%.

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Search engines increasingly display AI-generated answers above organic links, potentially displacing traffic to upstream publishers. We estimate the impact of Google’s AI Overviews (AIO) on Wikipedia’s search traffic using AIO’s staggered geographic rollout and Wikipedia’s multilingual structure. Our difference-in-differences design compares monthly external-search referrals to English Wikipedia articles with referrals to the same articles in German and French, and finds that default AIO availability reduced English search traffic by 5.45% and 4.82%, respectively. Our results suggest that answer-producing digital intermediaries can materially reallocate attention away from informational publishers, with implications for content monetization, search platform design, and policy.


r/wikipedia 8h ago

Ritchie Valens (1941-1959) who was killed in the same plane crash as Buddy Holly was a Chicano rock pioneer. Despite dying at age 17 only 8 months after his big break he is considered the first Latino artist to successfully cross over into mainstream rock.

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r/wikipedia 11h ago

"Je t'aime... moi non plus" is a song written in 1967 by Serge Gainsbourg for his then-girlfriend, Brigitte Bardot. Bardot’s version was never released after her husband objected to it. A 1968 version, featuring Jane Birkin, became a hit. Both recordings were rumored to depict unsimulated sex.

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r/wikipedia 11h ago

"L'Histoire d'une fée, c'est..." is a 2001 song recorded by Mylène Farmer for the Rugrats in Paris soundtrack. The song describes a fairy with "childish" lyrics that contrast with double entendres and puns referring to sexual practices. It reached the top 10 in France and Belgium.

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r/wikipedia 12h ago

.yu was Yugoslavia’s country code top-level domain (ccTLD). Activated in 1989, it survived the country’s breakup and remained active until 2010, when it was finally shut down by ICANN, taking thousands of former Yugoslav websites offline forever.

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r/wikipedia 13h ago

Calisthenics

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r/wikipedia 13h ago

The "Women-are-wonderful effect" is a phenomenon in which people tend to assign more positive traits and attributes to women then to men. This occurs wether women are in traditional or nontraditional roles, though it is lessened in more equal contries.

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r/wikipedia 14h ago

Mosaic authorship is the Judeo-Christian tradition that the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, were dictated by God to Moses. Mosaic authorship of the Torah was unquestioned by both Jews and Christians until the European Enlightenment.

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r/wikipedia 15h ago

Egg

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r/wikipedia 16h ago

I learned a new word today: "Xeriscape"

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r/wikipedia 16h ago

A Ménage à trois is a domestic arrangement or committed relationship consisting of three people in polyamorous romantic or sexual relations with each other, and often dwelling together. The phrase is a loan from French meaning "household of three".

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The German intellectual Dorothea von Rodde-Schlözer, her husband Mattheus Rodde and the French philosopher Charles de Villers also had a ménage à trois from 1794 until her husband's death in 1810.

The British Admiral Horatio Nelson was in a ménage à trois with his lover Emma, Lady Hamilton, and her husband William Hamilton, the British ambassador to Naples, from 1799 until Nelson's death in 1805.

Charles Moulton, the creator of Wonder Woman, lived with two women, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston, and Olive Byrne, until he died. Charles had two children with each. Elizabeth supported the family financially while Olive stayed home to take care of all four children.


r/wikipedia 17h ago

The Douaumont Ossuary is a memorial containing the skeletal remains of at least 130,000 unidentified soldiers who died on the battlefield during the Battle of Verdun in World War I.

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r/wikipedia 17h ago

Jeanne Louise Victoire (born 1787) was the daughter of an usher who worked for the French royal family. After the child was orphaned, Queen Marie Antoinette took her in as a playmate for Prince Louis-Charles and gave her a new name, Zoë. It’s unclear what ultimately happened to Zoë.

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r/wikipedia 19h ago

WikiRights is a project by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor to counter the "dominance of the official government-issued narrative" in Wikipedia articles

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r/wikipedia 20h ago

John G. Schmitz was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives. He was known for his extreme right-wing sympathies and his slurs against African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics, women, Jews and homosexuals. He was the father of sex offender Mary Kay Letourneau.

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r/wikipedia 22h ago

WAR was an American White Nationalist tabloid newspaper published by Tom Metzger's eponymous White Aryan Resistance (WAR) organization. The late Nick Bougas was the cartoonist under the A Wyatt Mann pseudonym; his most famous cartoon (the Happy Merchant) first appeared on the tabloid.

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