r/wikipedia • u/ForgingIron • 44m ago

On 25 May 2003, a Boeing 727 airliner was stolen at Quatro de Fevereiro Airport in Luanda, Angola, prompting a worldwide search by law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the United States. No trace of the aircraft has ever been found.

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r/wikipedia • u/PeasantLich • 1h ago

The Terror is a 1963 film by Roger Corman. He was making movie The Raven, and had an idea of instantly doing another film starring Boris Karloff using same sets and crew. Most of The Terror was shot in just two days and without a finished script, but the film still took 9 months to finish.

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r/wikipedia • u/jfkk • 3h ago

People who were the sole survivor of an incident such as a military action, shipwreck, plane crash or massacre.

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r/wikipedia • u/Futonchan-Manchao • 5h ago

German Mexicans are Mexican citizens of German origin. Most documented ethnic Germans arrived in Mexico during the mid-to-late 19th century and were spurred by government policies of Porfirio Díaz.

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r/wikipedia • u/Futonchan-Manchao • 5h ago

The Eternal Jew is a 1940 German antisemitic Nazi propaganda film, presented as a documentary. The initial German title was Der ewige Jude, the German term for the character of the "Wandering Jew" in medieval folklore.

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r/wikipedia • u/dancingbananas25 • 6h ago

eBay stalking scandal

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r/wikipedia • u/Ecclesiasticus6_18 • 6h ago

The 2008 Kandhamal violence was the violence against Christians incited by Hindutva organisations in the Kandhamal district of Orissa, India, in August 2008 after the murder of Lakshmanananda Saraswati, a leader of the Vishva Hindu Parishad, a right-wing Hindutva group.

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r/wikipedia • u/epidemicsaints • 6h ago

MORGANNA the Kissing Bandit is famous for rushing onto baseball fields to kiss Major League Baseball players. She did this several times from 1969-1999. She was arrested nearly 20 times for trespassing, and was once beaten by security guards.

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r/wikipedia • u/nekoo89 • 6h ago

Meta Discussion Why do Basshunter and Corbin Bleu have Articles in so many languages?

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Basshunter has 217 and Corbin Bleu has 219. They may be famous, but not top 20/30 people to have ever lived famous.

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r/wikipedia • u/Senasayori • 7h ago

Haim Yavin (1932-2026) was an Israeli television anchor known as "Mr. Television" in Israel due to the long length of his career. Considered by the American press to be Israel's Walter Cronkite, a 2005 documentary he created received controversy for being against Israeli settlements in the West Bank

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r/wikipedia • u/slinkslowdown • 9h ago

The Vegetable Orchestra is an Austrian musical group who use instruments made entirely from fresh vegetables.

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r/wikipedia • u/silentparadox2 • 9h ago

Countries that Wikipedia considers Level 3 Vital

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r/wikipedia • u/LoudRevolution9163 • 10h ago

La Catedral was a personal prison overlooking Medellín, Colombia, built to specifications ordered by Medellín Cartel leader Pablo Escobar, under a 1991 agreement with the Colombian government that he would surrender and serve five years. He escaped in 1992 by an escape route he had built.

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r/wikipedia • u/thatslowercase • 11h ago

Meta Discussion Is this map made with a specific map maker/resource, and if so, which?

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r/wikipedia • u/RBZRBZRBZRBZ • 13h ago

BattleTech is a wargaming and military science fiction franchise. It has grown to include several board games, role playing games, video games, a collectible card game, a series of more than 100 novels, and an animated television series.

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 13h ago

Lauren Southern is a Canadian YouTuber, influencer and political activist who rose to prominence through alt-right political commentary. Some academics and journalists have described Southern as a white nationalist for her promotion of the Great Replacement and white genocide conspiracy theories.

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 13h ago

Tiger attacks are a form of human–wildlife conflict which have killed more humans than attacks by any of the other big cats, with the majority of these attacks occurring in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Southeast Asia. Includes a list of man-eaters.

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r/wikipedia • u/oscarrhxd • 14h ago

"On-the-spot guidance" is a term used in the North Korean mass media to describe appearances by the supreme leader, often at sites related to the military or to industry, at which the leader gives directives. It is a key aspect of North Korean propaganda and the personality cult of the Kim dynasty.

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r/wikipedia • u/ButterscotchFiend • 14h ago

Vozinha's Sea Slug

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r/wikipedia • u/VerGuy • 14h ago

People who had dust pneumonia often died. No official death rates were published for the Great Plains in the 1930s. In 1935, dozens of people died in Kansas from dust pneumonia. Red Cross volunteers made & distributed thousands of dust masks, but some people in affected areas refused to wear them.

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r/wikipedia • u/Responsible_Land_164 • 14h ago

CIA fake vaccination campaign in Pakistan: The CIA allegedly recruited physician Shakil Afridi to administer hepatitis B vaccines, and used the collected DNA to compare with the DNA of bin Laden's sister, who died in Boston in 2010.

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r/wikipedia • u/Future_Interest_3649 • 15h ago

The Yibir are a caste or minority clan of the Somali people. Their hereditary occupations have included amulet-making. Popular tradition holds they are descended from a sorcerer who refused to convert to Islam. Some have suggested a Jewish origin due to the similarity to the word “Hebrew”.

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r/wikipedia • u/Future_Interest_3649 • 15h ago

The Hash House Harriers: a worldwide “drinking club with a running problem” that originated among British expats in Malaysia. Chapters organize events called hashes, in which one member (the “hare”) leaves a trail for other members to follow, with a wide variety of symbols being used to mark it.

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r/wikipedia • u/SaxyBill • 16h ago

The biggest wave of German inmigrants to Argentina was between 1869 to 1914, in the midst of a influx of millions of European immigrants during this period. In contrast, only 12k German inmigrants came to Argentina between 1946 and 1952. About 4% to 7% of Argentinians have German ancestry overall.

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r/wikipedia • u/wil540_ • 16h ago

Wikimania - Wikipedia

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Wikimania is the Wikimedia communities' annual conference, organized by the community of contributors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Stream it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcFHu20jtgI

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