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Culture/Food and drink
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| 2025-01-13 13:04 | Alina Zagitova (Russian figure skater (born 2002)) | Alina Ilnazovna Zagitova (Russian: Алина Ильназовна Загитова, IPA: [ɐˈlʲinə zɐˈɡʲitəvə]; born 18 May 2002) is a Russian former competitive figure skater. She is the 2018 Olympic champion, the 2019 World champion, the 2018 European champion, 2017–18 Grand Prix Final champion, and the 2018 Russian national champion. | Riley1012 (talk) |
| 2025-01-19 19:58 | Rice polyculture (Growing rice with other crops) | Rice polyculture is the cultivation of rice and another crop simultaneously on the same land. The practice exploits the mutual benefit between rice and organisms such as fish and ducks: the rice supports pests which serve as food for the fish and ducks, while the animals' excrement serves as fertilizer for the rice. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2025-01-20 02:48 | Rockwood & Company (Former chocolate manufacturer in New York City) | Rockwood & Company was a New York City-based chocolatier which operated from 1886 until 1957. It coordinated the industry's first resale price contracts, operated the largest chocolate factory in New York, and was the second largest producer of chocolate in the United States, after the Hershey Company. | — Rhododendrites talk \\ |
Culture/Internet culture
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| 2024-11-03 03:32 | Deathloop (2021 action-adventure video game developed by Arkane Studios) | Deathloop is a 2021 first-person shooter immersive sim video game that was developed by Arkane Lyon and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game is set on an island named Blackreef. The player assumes control of Colt Vahn, an assassin who is stuck in a time loop he must destroy by killing eight targets known as Visionaries before midnight when the time loop resets, while being hunted by the island's residents and a Visionary named Julianna, who wants to protect the loop. | OceanHok (talk) |
| 2024-11-15 19:37 | Project Zero 2: Wii Edition (2012 video game) | Project Zero 2: Wii Edition, known in Japan as Zero ~Shinku no Chou~,[a] is a 2012 survival horror video game developed by Tecmo Koei Games and published by Nintendo for the Wii. The game is a remake of Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly (2003), following sisters Mio and Mayu Amakura as they are trapped in a ghost-filled village cursed by a failed ritual. | ProtoDrake (talk) |
| 2024-12-03 11:24 | Tom Clancy's The Division 2 (2019 video game) | Tom Clancy's The Division 2 is a 2019 action role-playing video game that was developed by Massive Entertainment and published by Ubisoft. The game, which is the sequel to Tom Clancy's The Division (2016), is set in a near-future Washington, D.C., in the aftermath of the release of a genetically engineered virus known as "Green Poison", and follows an agent of the Strategic Homeland Division as they try to rebuild the city. | OceanHok (talk) |
| 2024-12-09 15:31 | Dilaw (song) (2024 single by Maki) | "Dilaw" (lit. 'Yellow' in Tagalog) is a song written by Filipino singer Maki. It was released as a digital single on May 24, 2024, through Tarsier Records, and was produced by Nhiko Sabiniano. "Dilaw" is an indie alternative track that explores the themes of unconditional love. The song peaked at number one on Billboard's now defunct Philippines Songs chart, topping the chart in its final issue. | Royiswariii Talk! |
| 2024-12-20 20:33 | Introjection (Neon Genesis Evangelion episode) (Episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion) | is the nineteenth episode of the Japanese anime television series Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was created by Gainax. Hideaki Anno and Akio Satsukawa wrote the episode, which animator Masayuki directed. The series' protagonist is Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy whose father Gendo recruited him to the special military organization Nerv to pilot a gigantic, bio-mechanical mecha named Evangelion into combat with beings called Angels. | TeenAngels1234 (talk) |
| 2024-12-23 07:59 | Berzerk (video game) (1980 video game) | Berzerk is a video game designed by Alan McNeil and released for arcades in 1980 by Stern Electronics of Chicago. The game involves a Humanoid Intruder who has to escape maze-like rooms that are littered with robots that slowly move towards and shoot at the Humanoid. The player can shoot at the robots to try and escape the room. | Andrzejbanas (talk) |
| 2024-12-28 21:31 | Stars in the Sky (2022 single by Kid Cudi) | "Stars in the Sky" is a song by American musician Kid Cudi. It was created for the film Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) and was released as a single in both promotion for the film and its soundtrack on March 25, 2022. The song was written by Cudi himself alongside Lil Nas X and producers Splititupbenji, Take a Daytrip, and Dot da Genius. | ~ Tails Wx |
| 2025-01-07 16:02 | Fury 325 (Steel roller coaster at Carowinds) | Fury 325 is a steel roller coaster located at Carowinds amusement park in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. The giga coaster, manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard, opened to the public on March 28, 2015. It features 6,602 feet (2,012 m) of track and a maximum height of 325 feet (99 m), making it the fifth-tallest roller coaster in the world and the tallest overall that uses a traditional lift hill. | Therguy10 (talk) |
| 2025-01-08 03:28 | Chill guy (Meme artwork from 2023) | "Chill guy", also known as "My new character", is a digital artwork and internet meme first posted by artist Phillip Banks on Twitter on October 4, 2023. The artwork consists of an anthropomorphic dog wearing a grey sweater, blue jeans, and red sneakers, giving off a "chill" expression by smirking with his hands in his pockets. | Johnson524 |
| 2025-01-12 13:06 | F1 24 (2024 video game) | F1 24 is a racing video game developed by Codemasters and published by EA Sports. It is the seventeenth entry in the F1 series and holds the license for the 2024 Formula One and Formula 2 championships. The game was released on 31 May, or three days earlier for users who pre-ordered the Champions' Edition. | '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) |
| 2025-01-12 19:26 | American Privacy Rights Act (Data privacy law) | The American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) is a comprehensive data privacy law proposed in the United States. It would place limitations on the kinds of data companies can collect about their users, create processes for users to access or remove data about them, and allow users opt-out from having data sold by data brokers. | — Rhododendrites talk \\ |
| 2025-01-13 20:59 | Façade (video game) (2005 video game) | Façade is an artificial intelligence-based interactive story created in 2005 by Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern. Upon release, the game received attention from mainstream news publications for its innovative design, and prompted speculation about the potential use of artificial intelligence in video games. | ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) |
| 2025-01-14 01:44 | Prey (2017 video game) (2017 video game) | Prey is a 2017 first-person shooter immersive sim video game developed by Arkane Austin and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One on May 5, 2017. | Theta224(talk) |
| 2025-01-14 15:48 | Transfer Pak (Accessory for the Nintendo 64) | The Transfer Pak is a removable accessory for the Nintendo 64 controller that fits into its expansion port. When connected, it allows for the transfer of data between supported Nintendo 64 (N64) games and Game Boy or Game Boy Color (GBC) games inserted into its cartridge slot. By using the Transfer Pak, players can unlock additional content in compatible games; the Pokémon Stadium games, with which the Transfer Pak was initially bundled for sale, also feature the ability to emulate specific Game Boy Pokémon titles for play on the N64. | Cyberlink420 (talk) |
| 2025-01-15 11:23 | Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (2023 video game) | Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is a 2023 action-adventure game developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts. The game is the sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019), taking place five years after the events of the previous game and continuing the adventure of young Jedi Knight Cal Kestis (Cameron Monaghan), as he and his friends continue in their struggle to survive the tyranny of the Galactic Empire while racing against a corrupted High Republic Jedi to reach a shrouded planet ... | OceanHok (talk) |
| 2025-01-15 11:28 | Lost Sphear (2017 video game) | is a role-playing video game developed by Tokyo RPG Factory and published by parent company Square Enix for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Windows. It was released in Japan in 2017, and worldwide in 2018. Set in a world where the Moon is treated as a deity, the player takes on the role of Kanata, who is granted the power to prevent the world from vanishing. | ProtoDrake (talk) |
| 2025-01-21 16:50 | Anna's Archive (Search engine for shadow libraries) | Anna's Archive is an open source search engine for shadow libraries that was launched by the pseudonymous Anna shortly after law enforcement efforts to shut down Z-Library in 2022. The site aggregates records from several major shadow libraries, including Z-Library, Sci-Hub, and Library Genesis, as well as other sources. | BruschettaFan (talk) |
| 2025-01-22 23:24 | Pocket Monsters Stadium (1998 video game) | Pocket Monsters Stadium (known in Japan as ポケモンスタジアム, and also called Pocket Monster Stadium or Pokémon Stadium in English) is a 1998 Japan-exclusive strategy role-playing video game. Developed and published by Nintendo and released for the Nintendo 64. The gameplay is based upon the Pokémon battle formula previously introduced in the Game Boy games Pokémon Red and Green, though only 40 of the games' Pokémon are available to use in gameplay. | Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) |
| 2025-01-23 17:03 | Oatchi (Fictional character from Pikmin 4) | is character who first appeared in Nintendo's 2023 real-time strategy video game Pikmin 4 for the Nintendo Switch. Oatchi, a breed of creature dubbed "Space Dog", is a member of the Rescue Corps; a group of intergalactic individuals tasked with rescuing space adventurers who have become stranded. In Pikmin 4, the organisation are tasked with rescuing reoccurring series protagonist Captain Olimar after crash landing on planet PNF-404. | CaptainGalaxy |
| 2025-01-24 04:45 | Game board (Surface on which a board game is played) | A game board (or gameboard; sometimes, playing board or game map: 25 ) is the surface on which one plays a board game. | Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here |
| 2025-01-25 10:57 | Necromorph (Fictional undead creatures in the multimedia franchise Dead Space) | Necromorphs are a collective of undead creatures in the science fiction horror multimedia franchise Dead Space by Electronic Arts, introduced in the 2008 comic book series of the same name. Within the series, the Necromorphs are constructed from reanimated corpses and come in multiple forms of various shapes and sizes. | 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) |
| 2025-01-26 17:59 | Aperture Hand Lab (2019 video game) | Aperture Hand Lab is a 2019 virtual reality (VR) game developed by Cloudhead Games and published by Valve. Set in the Portal universe, the player controls a character that has to complete several tests involving hand and finger gestures while being guided by personality cores. The game's plot was written by Erik Wolpaw and Jay Pinkerton. | Vacant0 (talk • contribs) |
| 2025-01-30 20:31 | Burger King Pokémon container recall (1999–2000 toy recall effort) | As part of a promotion for Pokémon: The First Movie during 1999 and 2000, fast food retail chain Burger King held a promotion featuring various Pokémon-themed toys. The toys came packaged in containers based around Poké Balls. The containers, when pulled apart, were of a size where they would create a vacuum effect around the mouth and nose. | Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) |
| 2025-01-30 23:46 | Luis Sera (Fictional character) | is a character in the Resident Evil survival horror video game series created by the Japanese company Capcom. He was introduced as a supporting character in Resident Evil 4 (2005) and later appeared in its 2023 remake. He was a biologist who helped protagonist Leon S. Kennedy on his assignment to rescue the President's daughter Ashley Graham. | 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) |
| 2025-02-01 05:39 | Poop emoji (Emoji representing a pile of feces) | Pile of Poo (💩), also known informally as the poomoji (slang), poop emoji (American English), or poo emoji (British English), is an emoji resembling a coiled pile of feces, usually adorned with cartoon eyes and a large smile. Originating from Japan, it is used as an expression in various contexts. Some possible uses include: as a response of passive aggressive emotion; for comedic value; as commentary on what's bad; or as its literal meaning. | 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) |
| 2025-02-01 17:38 | Tala (Darkwatch) (Video game character) | Tala is a character introduced in the 2003 first person shooter game Darkwatch developed by High Moon Studios and published by Capcom. A Native American Shaman, Tala works with the group Darkwatch as a Regulator, helping to fend off the forces of the undead in the Wild West. She initially works with another Regulator, Cassidy, to help a cowboy outlaw named Jericho who was infected with vampirism. | Kung Fu Man (talk) |
Culture/Linguistics
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| 2024-12-27 16:13 | The Fox (Elton John album) (1981 studio album by Elton John) | The Fox is the fifteenth studio album by English musician Elton John. It was released on 20 May 1981, through Geffen Records in the US (John's first release for the label) and The Rocket Record Company in all other territories. The album was John's first to be produced by Chris Thomas, who would go on to produce many of John's albums throughout the 1980s and 1990s, as well as John and Clive Franks. | Elephantranges (talk) |
| 2025-01-22 19:42 | I Didn't Mean to Haunt You (2022 studio album by Quadeca) | I Didn't Mean to Haunt You is the third studio album by the American musician Quadeca, released on November 10, 2022, through DeadAir Records and AWAL. Following his second album From Me to You in 2021, Quadeca contacted Jesse Taconelli of DeadAir to release I Didn't Mean to Haunt You after coming up with its concept. | Locust member (talk) |
Culture/Literature
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| 2024-09-24 15:31 | W leju po bombie (Science fiction short story by Andrzej Sapkowski) | W leju po bombie (In the Bomb Crater) is a science fiction short story by Andrzej Sapkowski, published in 1993, belonging to the genres of military and political fiction, as well as so-called klerykal fiction and politpunk. In 1994, the story won the Janusz A. Zajdel Award. | Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here |
| 2024-10-01 06:09 | Jerzy Broszkiewicz (Polish prose writer, playwright, essayist and publicist) | Jerzy Broszkiewicz (June 6, 1922 – October 4, 1993) was a Polish prose writer, playwright, essayist and publicist. He is best known for his dramas as well as young adult literature; the latter usually took forms of historical or science fiction novels. | Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here |
| 2024-10-19 21:54 | Daredevil (Marvel Comics character) (Marvel Comics fictional character) | Daredevil is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Bill Everett, with some input from Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in Daredevil #1 (April 1964). | Wrangler1981 (talk) |
| 2024-11-13 21:34 | History of philosophical pessimism (History of a philosophical school) | Philosophical pessimism is a philosophical school that is critical of existence, emphasizing the inherent suffering and futility of life. This perspective can be traced back to various religious traditions and philosophical writings throughout history. | Alice793 (talk) |
| 2024-11-17 06:18 | Marvel Studios (American entertainment company) | Marvel Studios, LLC, formerly known as Marvel Films, is an American film and television production company. Marvel Studios is the creator of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), a media franchise and shared universe of films and television series produced by the studio, based on characters that appear in Marvel Comics publications. | Trailblazer101 (talk) |
| 2024-12-08 10:55 | Mabel Bagenal (Anglo-Irish noblewoman (c. 1571 – 1595)) | Mabel O'Neill, Countess of Tyrone (née Bagenal; c. 1571 – December 1595) was an Anglo-Irish noblewoman best known as the third wife of prominent Gaelic Irish lord Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. | SkywalkerEccleston (talk) |
| 2024-12-13 01:08 | Philosophical pessimism (Philosophy that life is not worth living) | Philosophical pessimism is a philosophical tradition which argues that life is not worth living and that non-existence is preferable to existence. Thinkers in this tradition emphasize that suffering outweighs pleasure, happiness is fleeting or unattainable, and existence itself does not hold inherent value or an intrinsic purpose. | Alice793 (talk) |
| 2024-12-13 07:44 | Ambivalence (Neon Genesis Evangelion episode) (Episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion) | is the eighteenth episode of the Japanese anime television series Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was created by Gainax. Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi wrote the episode, which the animator Tensai Okamura directed. The series' protagonist is Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy whose father Gendo recruited him to the special military organization Nerv to pilot a gigantic, bio-mechanical mecha named Evangelion into combat with beings called Angels. | TeenAngels1234 (talk) |
| 2024-12-20 20:33 | Introjection (Neon Genesis Evangelion episode) (Episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion) | is the nineteenth episode of the Japanese anime television series Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was created by Gainax. Hideaki Anno and Akio Satsukawa wrote the episode, which animator Masayuki directed. The series' protagonist is Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy whose father Gendo recruited him to the special military organization Nerv to pilot a gigantic, bio-mechanical mecha named Evangelion into combat with beings called Angels. | TeenAngels1234 (talk) |
| 2024-12-26 20:14 | Naruto (TV series) (Japanese anime television series) | Naruto is a Japanese anime television series based on Masashi Kishimoto's manga series of the same name. The story follows Naruto Uzumaki, a young ninja who seeks recognition from his peers and dreams of becoming the Hokage, the leader of his village. Just like the manga, the anime series is divided into two separate parts: the first series retains the original manga's title and is set in Naruto's pre-teen years. | 1989 (talk) |
| 2025-01-03 17:16 | The Voices of Morebath (2001 non-fiction book by Eamon Duffy) | The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village is a 2001 non-fiction history book by Eamon Duffy and published by Yale University Press about Morebath, England, during the English Reformation and Tudor period of the 16th century. Using the detailed churchwarden's accounts maintained by Sir Christopher Trychay, the vicar of Morebath's parish, Duffy recounts the religious and social implications of the Reformation in a small conservative [[Catholic Church|Ca ... | Pbritti (talk) |
| 2025-01-07 09:50 | Epic Pooh (1978 opinion article by Michael Moorcock) | "Epic Pooh" is a 1978 essay by the British science fiction writer Michael Moorcock, which reviews the field of epic fantasy, with a particular focus on epic fantasy written for children. In it Moorcock critiques J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings for its politically conservative assumptions and its escapism. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2025-01-07 09:57 | The Salt Path (2018 memoir by Raynor Winn) | The Salt Path is a 2018 memoir, nature, and travel book by Raynor Winn. It deals with the theme of homelessness and the true nature of home in the face of the unpredictability of life. It was shortlisted for the 2018 Wainwright Prize and the Costa Book Awards, and won the 2019 RSL Christopher Bland Prize. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2025-01-11 14:06 | Frieren (Japanese manga series) | is a Japanese manga series written by Kanehito Yamada and illustrated by Tsukasa Abe. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday since April 2020; its chapters have been collected in 13 tankōbon volumes as of April 2024. | KjjjKjjj (talk) |
| 2025-01-13 15:44 | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Japanese manga series by Hirohiko Araki) | is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. It was originally serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1987 to 2004, and was transferred to the monthly seinen manga magazine Ultra Jump in 2005. | OpalYosutebito (talk) |
| 2025-01-15 09:10 | The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien | The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien is a 2024 book of poetry of the English philologist, poet, and author J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Tolkien scholars, wife and husband Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond. Its three volumes contain some 900 versions of 195 poems, among them around 70 previously unpublished. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2025-01-15 19:45 | Westron (Language invented by J. R. R. Tolkien) | Westron, Adûni, or Sôval Phârë, is the constructed language that was supposedly the Common Speech used in J. R. R. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth in the Third Age, at the time of The Lord of the Rings. It supposedly developed from Adûnaic, the ancient language of Númenor. In practice in the novel, Westron is nearly always represented by modern English, in a process of pseudo-translation which also sees Rohirric represented by Old English. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2025-01-18 23:17 | Eva O'Hara (British actress) | Eva O'Hara is a British actress. O'Hara studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where she performed in various productions at the Bristol Old Vic. She also appeared in other stage productions and short films, and made her film debut as Rosalind in Stark Shakespeare in 2018. After graduating from the school in 2019, O'Hara was cast as Verity Hutchinson in the British soap opera Hollyoaks, with the character first appearing in January 2020. | DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) |
| 2025-01-19 20:07 | Luke Cage (Marvel Comics character) | Lucas "Luke" Cage, born Carl Lucas and also known as Power Man, is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Archie Goodwin, George Tuska, Roy Thomas, and John Romita Sr. in 1972, he was the first African–American superhero by Marvel Comics to be the main character in his own series. | Thebiguglyalien (talk) |
| 2025-01-21 12:53 | Anime and manga fandom in Poland | Anime and manga fandom has been developing in Poland since the 1990s, although certain elements could be observed in earlier decades. In the 1990s, significant influence on the popularity of anime came from broadcasts on television (Polonia 1 and Polsat) and articles describing the phenomenon of manga and anime published in video game magazines. | Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here |
| 2025-01-21 12:54 | The Ancient Trilogy (Trilogy by Karol Bunsch about Alexander the Great) | The Ancient Trilogy (Polish: Trylogia antyczna) is a trilogy by Karol Bunsch about Alexander the Great, consisting of the novels Olimpias (1955), Parmenion (1963), and Alexander (1968). | Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here |
| 2025-01-21 12:55 | Korzeniacy, czyli Jesień wsamrazków (Fantasy novel by Janina Wieczerska) | Korzeniacy, czyli Jesień wsamrazków (The Root People, or Autumn of the Little Gnomes) is a fantasy novel (modern fairy tale) for young readers by Janina Wieczerska, published in 1989. It has an eco-friendly theme and tells the adventures of gnomes in contemporary times. | Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here |
| 2025-01-21 19:10 | Weaving a Story 2: oral stage (Episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion) | is the twentieth episode of the Japanese anime television series Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was created by Gainax. Hideaki Anno wrote the episode and the animator Masahiko Otsuka directed it. The series' protagonist is Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy whose father Gendo recruited him to the special military organization Nerv to pilot a gigantic, bio-mechanical mecha named Evangelion into combat with beings called Angels. | TeenAngels1234 (talk) |
| 2025-01-24 16:34 | Ashling O'Shea (British actress) | Ashling O'Shea is a British-Irish actress. She initially completed a university degree in Theatre Studies with the intention of going into Theatre Therapy. O'Shea then trained and took acting classes whilst doing other jobs, and she began working with Little Fish Theatre, who gave her first acting role outside of university. | DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) |
| 2025-01-24 23:55 | Noriko Takaya (Fictional character from Gunbuster) | Noriko Takaya is a fictional character from the Gunbuster franchise, created by the Japanese animation studio Gainax. She is the franchise's most developed character and protagonist. In the anime series of the same name, Noriko is the daughter of deceased space captain Yuzo Takaya. When she was young, she wanted to follow her father. | Z. Patterson (talk) |
| 2025-01-25 23:03 | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall (American professor (1855–1952)) | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall FRGS (7 April 1855 – 21 May 1952) was an American professor of history and political science at Wellesley College. She made several journeys across Europe and Asia. The most significant of these was her 1911 voyage across China, her account of which, A Wayfarer in China: Impressions of a Trip Across West China and Mongolia, was published in 1913. | XabqEfdg (talk) |
| 2025-01-26 23:39 | Letters Written in France (Series of letters by Helen Maria Williams) | Letters Written in France (1790–1796) is a letter collection by English writer Helen Maria Williams. Williams published eight volumes of letters describing her firsthand experience of the French Revolution for British audiences. Williams witnessed the Fête de la Fédération, the executions of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and much of the Reign of Terror. | ~ L 🌸 (talk) |
| 2025-01-29 21:27 | Tolkien on Film (Scholarly book) | Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings is a 2004 collection of essays edited by Janet Brennan Croft on Peter Jackson's interpretation of The Lord of the Rings in his 2001–2003 film trilogy based on J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy book. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2025-01-31 16:01 | Tolkien, Race and Cultural History (Book of literary criticism by Dimitra Fimi) | Tolkien, Race, and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits is a 2008 book by Dimitra Fimi about J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings. Scholars largely welcomed the book, praising its accessibility and its skilful application of a biographical-historical method which sets the development of Tolkien's legendarium in the context of Tolkien's life and times. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2025-02-01 17:38 | Tala (Darkwatch) (Video game character) | Tala is a character introduced in the 2003 first person shooter game Darkwatch developed by High Moon Studios and published by Capcom. A Native American Shaman, Tala works with the group Darkwatch as a Regulator, helping to fend off the forces of the undead in the Wild West. She initially works with another Regulator, Cassidy, to help a cowboy outlaw named Jericho who was infected with vampirism. | Kung Fu Man (talk) |
| 2025-02-01 17:56 | The Whole World Is Watching (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) (4th episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) | "The Whole World Is Watching" is the fourth episode of the American television miniseries The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, based on Marvel Comics featuring the characters Sam Wilson / Falcon and Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier. It follows the pair as they continue to reluctantly work with Helmut Zemo to locate and stop the Flag Smashers. | Dcdiehardfan (talk) |
Culture/Biography
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| 2024-08-10 05:06 | Rico Krieger (German saboteur for Belarusian opposition) | Rico Krieger is a German citizen, most notable for his reported sabotage work inside Belarus for the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment, subsequent detainment, and release during the 2024 Russian prisoner exchange. | Johnson524 |
| 2024-08-10 11:07 | Maisi (Musical artist) | Maisie Harriet Brand Bourke, known professionally as Maisi, is a British musician and social media personality from south-east London. The daughter of Jo Brand, she co-founded Loud LDN, a collective of women and non-binary musicians, and has released several singles and supported Piri & Tommy on their Froge.tour. | Launchballer |
| 2024-08-25 01:16 | 2024 Men's T20 World Cup (Ninth edition of the Men's T20 World Cup) | The 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup was the ninth edition of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup. It was co-hosted by the West Indies and the United States from 1 to 29 June 2024; the tournament was hosted by the West Indies for the second time, and it was also the first major ICC tournament to feature matches played in the United States. | Vestrian24Bio (TALK) |
| 2024-08-25 16:21 | Keyshia Cole (American singer (born 1981)) | Keyshia Myeshia Cole (née Johnson; born October 15, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, television personality and actress. Dubbed by critics as the "Princess of Hip-Hop Soul", she is known for her soulful voice and heartfelt lyrics. Born and raised in Oakland, California, she began her career as a backing vocalist for MC Hammer before signing with A&M Records to release her debut studio album, The Way It Is (2005). | Finesse2Starz (talk) |
| 2024-09-05 08:52 | Marcus Klingberg (Israeli scientist and Soviet spy (1918–2015)) | Avraham Marek Klingberg (7 October 1918 – 30 November 2015), known as Marcus Klingberg (Hebrew: מרקוס קלינגברג), was a Polish-born, Israeli epidemiologist and the highest ranking Soviet spy ever uncovered in Israel. Klingberg made major contributions in the fields of infectious and noninfectious disease epidemiology and military medicine, but he is most widely known for passing intelligence to the Soviet Union regarding Israel's biological and chemical warfare capacities. | Goldsztajn (talk) |
| 2024-09-14 08:26 | Kasey Peters (American football player (born 1987)) | Kasey Peters (born May 20, 1987) is an American former professional football quarterback. He played college football at Saddleback, Santa Ana, Grand Valley State and Rocky Mountain. While at Rocky Mountain, he was the Frontier Conference Co-Offensive Player of the Year in both 2009 and 2010. Professionally, he was a member of the Tri-Cities Fever of the [[Indoor Football League ... | ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) |
| 2024-09-27 20:39 | The Hungry Five (Group of businessman related to the Green Bay Packers) | The Hungry Five are the Green Bay, Wisconsin-area businessmen who were instrumental in keeping the Green Bay Packers franchise in operation during its early years. They raised funds, incorporated the team as a non-profit corporation, sold stock and otherwise promoted the franchise. The Five were Andrew B. Turnbull, Curly Lambeau, Gerald Francis Clifford, Lee Joannes and W. Webber Kelly. | « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ |
| 2024-10-01 06:09 | Jerzy Broszkiewicz (Polish prose writer, playwright, essayist and publicist) | Jerzy Broszkiewicz (June 6, 1922 – October 4, 1993) was a Polish prose writer, playwright, essayist and publicist. He is best known for his dramas as well as young adult literature; the latter usually took forms of historical or science fiction novels. | Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here |
| 2024-10-07 12:46 | Delbert Cowsette (American football player and coach (born 1977)) | Delbert Ray Cowsette (born September 3, 1977) is an American former professional football defensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL) and Arena Football League (AFL). He is currently the defensive line coach for the Howard Bison. | ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) |
| 2024-10-14 02:22 | Jean Shepard (American country singer (1933–2016)) | Ollie Imogene "Jean" Shepard (November 21, 1933 – September 25, 2016), was an American country singer who was considered by many writers and authors to be one of the genre's first significant female artists. Her early successes during the 1950s decade were said to influence the future careers of Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette. | ChrisTofu11961 (talk) |
| 2024-10-18 08:12 | Muhammad Yunus (Chief Adviser of Bangladesh since 2024) | Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi economist, entrepreneur, politician, and civil society leader, who has been serving as Chief Adviser of the Interim Government of Bangladesh since 8 August 2024. Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. | Niasoh (talk) |
| 2024-10-18 14:08 | 1994 San Diego Chargers season (NFL team 35th season) | The 1994 San Diego Chargers season was the team's 35th, its 25th in the National Football League (NFL) and its 34th in San Diego. It featured a surprising run to Super Bowl XXIX, where the Chargers lost to the San Francisco 49ers. To date, this is the only Super Bowl appearance in franchise history. | Harper J. Cole (talk) |
| 2024-10-18 17:20 | Gustav Ammann (Swiss landscape architect (1885–1955)) | Gustav Ammann (9 July 1885 – 23 March 1955) was a Swiss landscape architect who worked in the modernist style and influenced garden architecture in Switzerland. He has worked on over 1,700 projects, including the namesake Gustav-Ammann-Park in Zürich. | Ajay Platinum (talk) |
| 2024-10-19 02:09 | Max Ernst Haefeli (Swiss architect and furniture designer (1901–1976)) | Max Ernst Haefeli (25 January 1901 – 17 June 1976) was a Swiss architect, furniture designer, and co-founder of the Haefeli Moser Steiger (HMS) architectural firm. He subscribed to the New Building architectural school of thought in Switzerland. | Ajay Platinum (talk) |
| 2024-10-22 20:23 | 2023 Macau Formula 4 Race | The 2023 Macau Formula 4 Race, formerly the 2023 Macau Asia Formula 4, was a Formula 4 (F4) motor race held on the Guia Circuit in Macau on 12 November 2023, as part of the 2023 Macau Grand Prix. It was the fourth F4 race in Macau, and it was an invitational, non-championship round of the 2023 Formula 4 South East Asia Championship. | EnthusiastWorld37 (talk) |
| 2024-10-25 01:25 | Cody Snyder (Canadian bull rider) | Cody Snyder (born 1962 or 1963) is a Canadian former professional rodeo cowboy who specialized in bull riding. He is currently a bull-riding event producer. In 1983, Snyder became the first Canadian to win the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) bull riding world championship. | Reidgreg (talk) |
| 2024-10-29 17:43 | Angela Alsobrooks (American politician and lawyer (born 1971)) | Angela Deneece Alsobrooks (born February 23, 1971) is an American lawyer and politician serving since 2025 as the junior United States senator from Maryland. A member of the Democratic Party, she served from 2018 to 2024 as county executive of Prince George's County, Maryland, and from 2010 to 2018 as the county's state's attorney. | Y2hyaXM (talk) |
| 2024-10-29 20:04 | Pinmonkey (American country music band) | Pinmonkey was an American country music band from Nashville, Tennessee. The band was formed in 2002 by Michael Reynolds (lead vocals, acoustic guitar), brothers Michael Jeffers (vocals, bass guitar) and Chad Jeffers (Dobro, lap steel guitar), and Rick Schell (drums, vocals). The band released two albums in 2002: Speak No Evil independently, and Pinmonkey via BNA Records. | Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) |
| 2024-10-31 15:47 | Aston Whiteside (American football player (born 1989)) | Aston Rashaud Whiteside (born May 19, 1989) is an American former professional football defensive end. He played college football for the Abilene Christian Wildcats, where he was a four-time first-team Lone Star Conference (LSC) South selection and a three-time LSC South Defensive Lineman of the Year. | ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) |
| 2024-10-31 16:03 | Halimah Yacob (President of Singapore from 2017 to 2023) | Halimah binti Yacob (born 23 August 1954) is a Singaporean politician and lawyer who held the office of the eighth president of Singapore from 2017 to 2023, making history as the first woman to serve in this role. | Pangalau (talk) |
| 2024-11-01 12:10 | Cameron Echols-Luper (American football player (born 1995)) | Cameron Damonte Echols-Luper (born Cameron Damonte Echols; April 9, 1995) is an American professional football wide receiver and return specialist for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He attended Auburn High School in Auburn, Alabama, where he was a quarterback and won six state titles in track and field. | ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) |
| 2024-11-01 23:09 | Charlie Gehringer (American baseball player (1903–1993)) | Charles Leonard Gehringer (May 11, 1903 – January 21, 1993), nicknamed "the Mechanical Man", was an American professional baseball second baseman. He played for the Detroit Tigers for 19 seasons from 1924 to 1942. He compiled a .320 career batting average with 2,839 hits and 1,427 runs batted in (RBIs). | Cbl62 (talk) |
| 2024-11-01 23:15 | Turkey Stearnes (American baseball player (1920–1940)) | Norman Thomas "Turkey" Stearnes (May 8, 1901 – September 4, 1979) was an American baseball center fielder. He played 18 years in the Negro leagues, including nine years with the Detroit Stars (1923–1931), six years with the Chicago American Giants (1932–1935, 1937–1938), and three years with the Kansas City Monarchs (1938–1940). | Cbl62 (talk) |
| 2024-11-04 01:04 | Amos Yee (Singaporean sex offender (born 1998)) | Amos Yee Pang Sang (born 31 October 1998) is a Singaporean convicted child sex offender and former blogger, former YouTuber, and former child actor. | OpalYosutebito (talk) |
| 2024-11-07 00:59 | Pablo Busch (German-born explorer, physician, and politician (1867–1950)) | Pablo Busch Wiesener (born Paul Busch;[α] 4 November 1867 – 3 May 1950) was a German-born explorer, physician, and politician. | Krisgabwoosh (talk) |
| 2024-11-08 19:49 | José Segundo Decoud (Paraguayan politician and judge) | José Segundo Decoud Domecq (14 May 1848 – 3 March 1909) was a Paraguayan politician, journalist, diplomat and military officer. He is often considered one of the foremost intellectuals of his generation, and was also one of the first liberals of the country. Decoud was one of the founders of the long-standing Colorado Party, having been its first vice-president and having written its founding instrument. | Coeusin (talk) |
| 2024-11-13 05:25 | Blackhawk (band) (American country music band) | Blackhawk (sometimes stylized as BlackHawk) is an American country music band founded in 1992 in Nashville, Tennessee. The band consists of founding members Henry Paul (lead vocals, guitar, mandolin) and Dave Robbins (keyboards, vocals). They are accompanied by a backing band consisting of Randy Threet (bass guitar, vocals), Jeff Aulich (guitar), Jimmy Dormire (guitar), and Mike Bailey (drums). | Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) |
| 2024-11-14 03:01 | Abbasqoli Khan Mo'tamed od-Dowleh Javanshir (First Minister of Justice of Iran) | Abbasqoli Khan Mo'tamed od-Dowleh Javanshir (Persian: عباسقلی معتمدالدوله جوانشیر; died 1861) was an Iranian official from the Javanshir tribe, who served as the first Minister of Justice of Iran from 1858 to 1861. | HistoryofIran (talk) |
| 2024-11-14 10:46 | Ted Williams (American baseball player (1918–2002)) | Theodore Samuel Williams (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002) was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, primarily as a left fielder, for the Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960; his career was interrupted by military service during World War II and the Korean War. | Omnis Scientia (talk) |
| 2024-11-14 17:23 | Patricia Bullrich (Argentine politician (born 1956)) | Patricia Bullrich (born 11 June 1956) is an Argentine professor and politician who was appointed Minister of Security in 2023 under president Javier Milei, having previously held the office under president Mauricio Macri from 2015 to 2019. She was the chairwoman of Republican Proposal, until 2024. | Cambalachero (talk) |
| 2024-11-15 17:07 | Thaddeus Coleman (American gridiron football player (born 1985)) | Thaddeus Coleman (born June 20, 1985) is an American former professional football offensive tackle who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and Arena Football League (AFL). He played college football at Mississippi Valley State, where he was a two-time first-team All-Southwestern Athletic Conference selection. | ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) |
| 2024-11-17 14:04 | Heinz Vietze (German politician (born 1947)) | Heinz Vietze (born 19 September 1947) is a former German politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) and its successors, the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and The Left. | Maxwhollymoralground (talk) |
| 2024-11-17 14:06 | Heinz Geggel (German journalist (1921–2000)) | Heinz Geggel (11 November 1921 – 15 November 2000) was a German Holocaust survivor, journalist and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED). | Maxwhollymoralground (talk) |
| 2024-11-18 02:25 | 2017–18 College Football Playoff (Postseason college football tournament) | The 2017–18 College Football Playoff was a single-elimination postseason tournament that determined the national champion of the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was the fourth edition of the College Football Playoff (CFP) and involved the top four teams in the country as ranked by the College Football Playoff poll playing in two semifinals, with the winners of each advancing to the national championship game. | PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) |
| 2024-11-20 15:32 | 2019 NFC Divisional playoff game (Seattle–Green Bay) (2019 American football postseason game) | The 2019 National Football Conference (NFC) Divisional playoff game was a National Football League (NFL) playoff game between the Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers on January 12, 2020. The Packers finished the 2019 season with a record of 13–3 under first-year head coach Matt LaFleur. Their record, after tiebreakers were calculated, was good enough for the 2nd seed of the playoffs and a first-round bye. | « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ |
| 2024-11-24 12:43 | Moira Deeming (Australian politician) | Moira Deeming is an Australian politician and member of the Victorian Liberal Party. She has been a member of the Victorian Legislative Council, the upper house of the Parliament of Victoria, for the Western Metropolitan Region of the, since November 2022. She previously sat as a councillor for the Melton City Council representing the Watts Ward. | TarnishedPathtalk |
| 2024-11-25 12:54 | Nicolaas van Wijk (Dutch linguist (1880–1941)) | Nicolaas van Wijk (4 October 1880 – 25 March 1941) was a Dutch linguist, literary scholar, and philanthropist. He is best known for his contributions to Slavistics, serving as the first chair of the Balto-Slavic languages at Leiden University from 1913 until his death. | ThaesOfereode (talk) |
| 2024-11-27 23:53 | Jakob Ingebrigtsen (Norwegian middle- and long-distance runner (born 2000)) | Jakob Ingebrigtsen (born 19 September 2000) is a Norwegian middle- and long-distance runner who is the current world record holder in the short track 1500 metres, the 2000 metres and the 3000 metres, and holds the world best time over the two mile distance. Ingebrigtsen is a two-time Olympic champion, winning gold medals in the 1500 m at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, setting a then Olympic and European record, and in the 5000 metres at the 2024 Paris Olympics. | KnowledgeIsPower9281 (talk) |
| 2024-11-28 18:44 | James M. Goodhue (19th century American journalist) | James Madison Goodhue (March 31, 1810 – August 27, 1852) was an American journalist, newspaper editor, and founder of the Minnesota Pioneer, Minnesota's first newspaper, which eventually merged with the Saint Paul Dispatch to become the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He is the namesake of Goodhue County. | ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs |
| 2024-12-05 18:59 | Bobby Brink (American ice hockey player (born 2001)) | Bobby Orr Brink (born July 8, 2001) is an American professional ice hockey right wing for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Flyers selected him in the second round, with the 34th overall pick, of the 2019 NHL entry draft. | — GhostRiver |
| 2024-12-07 10:42 | Kiki Wong (American musician (born 1989)) | Kristin "Kiki" Wong (born April 15, 1989) is an American musician known for being the touring guitarist of alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. In the 2010s she performed with artists such as Taylor Swift and Usher, and was a member of girl band Nylon Pink. She also played in She Demons, put together by Jerry Only of Misfits, and Vigil of War, a band started by DragonForce bassist Alicia Vigil. | Jonathan Deamer (talk) |
| 2024-12-08 10:55 | Mabel Bagenal (Anglo-Irish noblewoman (c. 1571 – 1595)) | Mabel O'Neill, Countess of Tyrone (née Bagenal; c. 1571 – December 1595) was an Anglo-Irish noblewoman best known as the third wife of prominent Gaelic Irish lord Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. | SkywalkerEccleston (talk) |
| 2024-12-09 15:37 | Frederick Warren Freer (American painter (1849–1908)) | Frederick Warren Freer (June 16, 1849 – March 7, 1908) was an American painter. The son of a physician, Freer studied art instead of medicine after going partially deaf when he was fourteen. After he graduated from high school in Chicago, Freer's family relocated to Munich, where Freer studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts under multiple well-known artists. | Kimikel (talk) |
| 2024-12-09 20:22 | Edemariam Tsega (Ethiopian physician and educator (1938–2018)) | Edemariam Tsega (Amharic: እደማርያም ፀጋ; 7 July 1938 – 1 January 2018) was an Ethiopian physician and educator credited with introducing the post-graduate program in internal medicine in Ethiopia. Born in Gondar, he was the son of Aleqa Tsega Teshale, a respected Ethiopian Orthodox Church scholar and chief priest of the Begemdir and Simien regions. | FuzzyMagma (talk) |
| 2024-12-09 20:32 | Godwin Obasi (Nigerian meteorologist (1933–2007)) | Godwin Olu Patrick Obasi (24 December 1933 – 3 March 2007) was a Nigerian meteorologist and the secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) from 1984 to 2003. He was the first secretariat employee to be named secretary-general and the first African to serve as the head of a UN agency. | FuzzyMagma (talk) |
| 2024-12-09 20:57 | Abdallah al-Fadil al-Mahdi (Sudanese politician (1890–1966)) | Abdallah al-Fadil al-Mahdi (Arabic: عبد الله الفاضل المهدي; 1890 – 18 May 1966) was a Sudanese statesman. Born in Omdurman, in the Mahdist State; Abdallah[note 1] hails from a lineage tied to the Funj sultanas. Following family tragedy, he was raised under the care of his maternal uncle. | FuzzyMagma (talk) |
| 2024-12-10 00:55 | Lizzie Esau (English musician (born 1999)) | Elizabeth Jane Esau (born November 1999) is an English musician who began gigging and releasing music in 2020, usually in the indie rock or alternative rock genres. The daughter of Tim Esau of the band IQ, she has opened for Baby Queen, Beabadoobee, the Amazons, Upsahl, and Swim School. Her releases include "Bitter Weather", which went viral on TikTok, a cover version of the Yardbirds's version of "I'm a Man" recorded for the soundtrack of My Lady Jane, and the EPs Perspectives, Deepest Blue, Spilling Out The Truth. | Launchballer |
| 2024-12-10 01:07 | Andrea Kimi Antonelli (Italian racing driver (born 2006)) | Andrea Kimi Antonelli (born 25 August 2006), also known as Kimi Antonelli, is an Italian racing driver, who is contracted to compete in Formula One for Mercedes. | MB2437 |
| 2024-12-10 08:56 | Henry O'Neill (soldier) (Irish soldier and nobleman) | Colonel Henry O'Neill (Spanish: Enrique O'Neill; c. 1586 – 25 August 1610) was an Irish-born soldier and nobleman who primarily served in Continental Europe. In 1600 he was relocated to Spain to strengthen relations between his father, the Earl of Tyrone, and the Spanish government. He served for many years in the Low Countries, before dying in Spain of illness aged 23. | SkywalkerEccleston (talk) |
| 2024-12-16 23:26 | Ed Policy (American football executive) | Edward Regis Policy (born October 6, 1970) is an American football executive who is the current chief operating officer (COO) and general counsel for the Green Bay Packers. Policy, whose father Carmen Policy was an American football executive for the San Francisco 49ers and Cleveland Browns, received his Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame and his Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School. | « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ |
| 2024-12-19 00:38 | Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle | The men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 1 to 2 August 2024 at Paris La Défense Arena. | It is a wonderful world (talk) |
| 2024-12-19 22:56 | Frank Lampard (English football player and manager (born 1978)) | Frank James Lampard OBE (born 20 June 1978) is an English professional football manager and former player who is the manager of EFL Championship club Coventry City. Widely regarded as one of Chelsea's greatest players ever and one of the greatest midfielders of his generation, Lampard has the record of the most goals by a midfielder in the Premier League and most goals from outside the box (41). | Chisperlear (talk) |
| 2024-12-20 21:57 | 2024 World Athletics Relays – Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay | The mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 World Athletics Relays took place in three rounds at the Thomas Robinson Stadium in Nassau, Bahamas, on 4 and 5 May 2024. It was the fourth time that this mixed-sex relay was contested at the World Athletics Relays. The event was also an Olympic qualification: fourteen teams qualified for the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. | Editør (talk) |
| 2024-12-22 05:32 | Darryl De Sousa (Commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department in 2018) | Darryl D. De Sousa (born 1964 or 1965) is an American former police officer who served as commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department from January to May 2018. Having served the BPD since 1988, he resigned as commissioner after he was indicted for three counts of tax evasion. After pleading guilty in December 2018, he was sentenced to 10 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution. | charlotte 👸🎄 |
| 2024-12-23 01:11 | Lingnan School (Chinese art movement) | The Lingnan School (traditional Chinese: 嶺南畫派; simplified Chinese: 岭南画派; pinyin: Lǐngnán huà pài) was an art movement active in the late Qing dynasty and Republic of China that sought to modernize Chinese painting through borrowing from other artistic traditions. The school's founders, Gao Jianfu, Gao Qifeng, and Chen Shuren, were initially influenced by the teachings of Ju Lian, including the "boneless" technique. | — Chris Woodrich (talk) |
| 2024-12-23 23:47 | 2003 Detroit Lions season (NFL team season) | The 2003 season was the Detroit Lions' 74th season in the National Football League (NFL), their 70th as the Detroit Lions, and their first under head coach Steve Mariucci. The team improved upon their 3–13 record from the previous season but missed the postseason for the fourth consecutive season, suffering a losing season and finishing last in their division for the third straight season. | Carhles (talk) |
| 2024-12-24 03:06 | William Plumer Jacobs (American minister (1842–1917)) | William Plumer Jacobs (March 15, 1842 – September 10, 1917) was an American Presbyterian minister who founded Thornwell Orphanage and what is now Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina. He was the pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Clinton for 47 years, from 1864 to 1911. | PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) |
| 2024-12-24 19:23 | Michael Mantenuto (American ice hockey player, actor and soldier) | Michael Mantenuto (May 13, 1981 – April 24, 2017) was an American college ice hockey player, film actor, and Army non-commissioned officer, best known for his performance as Olympic ice hockey star Jack O'Callahan in the 2004 Disney film Miracle. | BardFrame (talk) |
| 2024-12-27 07:53 | Typhoon Krathon (Pacific typhoon in 2024) | Typhoon Krathon, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Julian, was a powerful and erratic tropical cyclone which impacted Taiwan and the Philippines in late September and early October 2024. Krathon, which refers to the santol fruit, was the first storm to make landfall on Taiwan's densely populated western plains since Typhoon Thelma in 1977. | HurricaneEdgar |
| 2024-12-28 00:43 | Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly | The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 30 to 31 July 2024 in the Olympics Aquatics Centre at Paris La Défense Arena. | IAWW (talk) |
| 2024-12-28 07:26 | Cathal O'Connor Faly (Sixteenth-century Irish rebel) | Cathal O'Connor Faly (Irish: Cathal Ó Conchobhair Failghe; c. 1540 - October 1596) was an Irish rebel of noble ancestry. | SkywalkerEccleston (talk) |
| 2024-12-28 16:23 | Steven R. McQueen (American actor (born 1988)) | Steven Chadwick McQueen (born July 13, 1988), known professionally as Steven R. McQueen, is an American actor, best known for his role as Jeremy Gilbert in The CW fantasy supernatural drama The Vampire Diaries from 2009 to 2015 and in 2017, and its spin-off Legacies in 2018. He also starred as Jimmy Borrelli in the NBC dramas Chicago Fire from 2015 to 2016 and Chicago P.D. in 2016, part of the One Chicago franchise. | Aviator006 (talk) |
| 2024-12-29 15:38 | Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation (2021 Irish government investigation) | The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation (officially the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters) was a judicial commission of investigation, established in 2015 by the Irish government to investigate deaths and misconduct during the 20th century in mother and baby homes—institutions, most run by Catholic religious nuns, where unwed women were sent to deliver their babies. | BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! |
| 2024-12-29 15:48 | Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home (Irish maternity home and site of mass grave for children) | The Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home (also known as St Mary's Mother and Baby Home, or locally simply as The Home), which operated between 1925 and 1961 in the town of Tuam, County Galway, Ireland, was a maternity home for unmarried mothers and their children. The home was run by the Bon Secours Sisters, a religious order of Catholic nuns, that also operated the Grove Hospital in the town. | BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! |
| 2024-12-29 16:54 | Lebanon at the 1948 Summer Olympics (Sporting event delegation) | The West Asian nation of Lebanon competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, which was held from 29 July to 14 August 1948. This was the country's first appearance in the Summer Olympic Games. The Lebanese delegation was made up of eight male competitors: boxer Michel Ghaoui, shooters Khalil Hilmi and Salem Salam, and wrestlers Bechara Abou Rejalie, Charif Damage, Ibrahim Mahgoub, Abdallah Sidani, and Safi Taha. | Jordano53 |
| 2024-12-29 21:33 | Adrien Nunez (Musical artist) | Adrien Nunez (born May 14, 1999) is an American social media influencer, singer-songwriter, and former college basketball player. He was not highly regarded as a high school basketball player at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn but he excelled during a postgraduate year garnering many scholarship offers and earning accolades at St. Thomas More School in Oakdale, Connecticut. | TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) |
| 2024-12-30 19:08 | Lebanon at the 1948 Winter Olympics (Sporting event delegation) | The West Asian country of Lebanon competed in the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland, which was held from 30 January to 8 February 1948. This was Lebanon's first appearance in a Winter Olympic Games, as well as their first appearance in any Olympic Games. The delegation sent two male alpine skiers: Ibrahim Geagea and Munir Itani. | Jordano53 |
| 2024-12-30 23:40 | Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle | The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 27 July 2024 at Paris La Défense Arena. | IAWW (talk) |
| 2024-12-30 23:45 | Bruce Lehrmann (Australian former political staffer) | Bruce Lehrmann (born June 1995) is an Australian former political staffer, who is primarily known for his involvement in the 2021 Australian Parliament House sexual misconduct allegations. He grew up in Toowoomba and moved to Canberra for study in 2013 when he started working as a staffer. | TarnishedPathtalk |
| 2024-12-31 17:21 | Jackie Stamps (English footballer (1918–1991)) | John David Stamps (2 December 1918 – 19 November 1991) was an English footballer who played as a centre-forward, most notably for Derby County. He is best remembered as scoring two goals in the 1946 FA Cup Final for Derby County in a 4–1 win against Charlton Athletic. He started as an amateur with Silverwood Colliery before being signed by Mansfield Town but was released after making just one senior appearance. | Bungle (talk • contribs) |
| 2024-12-31 18:41 | Book of Wu (Lost history of Eastern Wu (c. 250)) | The Book of Wu or Wu shu (Chinese: 吳書) is a lost history of the state of Eastern Wu (229–280). It was compiled by the official historians of the Wu court under orders from the Wu emperors. Portions of the text survive only as quotations preserved in Pei Songzhi's Annotated Records of the Three Kingdoms. | Kzyx (talk) |
| 2025-01-01 13:48 | J. Edward Guinan (American community activist) | J. Edward Guinan (6 March 1936 – 26 December 2014) was a former stock trader who became a Paulist priest and founded Washington, D.C.'s Community for Creative Non-Violence in 1970. He engaged in public acts of nonviolent resistance such as extreme fasting and peaceful civil disobedience in response to homelessness, hunger, the Vietnam war, the Indochina wars, and Henry Kissinger's controversial legacy that brought national media attention. | Oh-Fortuna! (talk) |
| 2025-01-01 13:53 | Eileen Niedfield (American physician and Roman Catholic nun) | Eileen Rae Niedfield (1920–2007), in religious life Sr. Mary Frederic Niedfield, MMS, MD, FACS was a surgeon and general physician in India for nearly 40 years, two in Bhutan. Graduating in 1951, she was notable for being in the first cohort of Georgetown University Medical School alumni that included women. | Oh-Fortuna! (talk) |
| 2025-01-01 14:25 | Jade Cargill (American professional wrestler and fitness model (born 1992)) | Jade Nicole Cargill (born June 3, 1992) is an American professional wrestler. As of September 2023,[update] she is signed to WWE, where she performs on the SmackDown brand. She is a former WWE Women's Tag Team Champion with Bianca Belair in their record-tying second reign as a team. She is also known for her career in All Elite Wrestling (AEW) from 2020 to 2023, where she was the inaugural AEW TBS Champion; her single reign of 508 days is the longest for any AEW championship. | Mann Mann (talk) |
| 2025-01-01 22:37 | Chaim Kanievsky (Haredi rabbi and leader in Israel (1928–2022)) | Shemaryahu Yosef Chaim Kanievsky (Hebrew: שמריהו יוסף חיים קַניֶבסקִי; January 8, 1928 – March 18, 2022) was an Israeli Haredi rabbi and posek. He was a leading authority in Haredi Jewish society on legal and ethical practice. Known as the Gadol HaDor ("greatest of his generation") and the "Prince of Torah", much of his prominence came through Torah education and advice about Jewish law. | Yeshivish613 (talk) |
| 2025-01-03 09:09 | 1453 (Calendar year) | Year 1453 (MCDLIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1453rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 453rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd year of the 15th century, and the 4th year of the 1450s decade. | Generalissima (talk) (it/she) |
| 2025-01-03 23:51 | 2023 Formula One World Championship (74th season of Formula One) | The 2023 FIA Formula One World Championship was a motor racing championship for Formula One cars, the 74th running of the Formula One World Championship. It was recognised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the governing body of international motorsport, as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars. | SSSB (talk) |
| 2025-01-04 21:49 | Simon Olsson (Swedish footballer (born 1997)) | Simon Olsson (born 14 September 1997) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Allsvenskan club Elfsborg and the Sweden national team. | Lucfev (talk) |
| 2025-01-05 22:02 | Victor Jacob Koningsberger (Dutch botanist and academic (1895–1966)) | Victor Jacob Koningsberger (10 February 1895 – 28 February 1966) was a Dutch botanist and academic. Born in the Dutch East Indies, he completed his studies in Rotterdam and Utrecht, defending his doctoral dissertation – an exploration of the influence of light on plant growth – in 1922. | — Chris Woodrich (talk) |
| 2025-01-06 14:47 | Jianwen Emperor (Emperor of China from 1398 to 1402) | The Jianwen Emperor (5 December 1377 – ?), personal name Zhu Yunwen, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Huizong of Ming and by his posthumous name as the Emperor Hui of Ming, was the second emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1398 to 1402. Zhu Yunwen's father was Zhu Biao, the eldest son and crown prince of the Hongwu Emperor, the founder of the Ming dynasty. | Min968 (talk) |
| 2025-01-06 22:28 | John Roach (bishop) (20th-century American Catholic bishop (1921–2003)) | John Robert Roach (July 31, 1921 – July 11, 2003) was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis from 1975 to 1995. The first St. Paul archbishop to have been born in Minnesota, Roach had national prominence as deliverer of benediction at Jimmy Carter's inauguration in 1977 and head of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops from 1980 to 1983. | ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs |
| 2025-01-07 00:09 | David Einhorn (poet) (Jewish writer (1886–1973)) | David Einhorn (Yiddish: דוד אײנהאָרן, romanized: Dovid Eynhorn, 1886 – 2 March 1973) was a poet, journalist, and essayist. Born in the Russian Empire to a Jewish family, he became a poet at a young age and participated within the General Jewish Labour Bund. After helping to found a publishing house in Vilnius he was arrested for his connections to the Bund in 1912, and was exiled from Russia; he went to Bern, where he contributed to journals and periodicals. | Generalissima (talk) (it/she) |
| 2025-01-08 01:16 | Khyree Jackson (American football player (1999–2024)) | Khyree Anthony Jackson (August 11, 1999 – July 6, 2024) was an American football cornerback. He played college football for the Fort Scott CC Greyhounds, Alabama Crimson Tide, and the Oregon Ducks. The Minnesota Vikings selected him in the fourth round, with the 108th overall pick, of the 2024 NFL draft. | — GhostRiver |
| 2025-01-09 15:13 | Ashin Nandamālābhivaṁsa (Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk) | Ashin Nandamālābhivaṃsa (Burmese: အရှင်နန္ဒမာလာဘိဝံသ, , Thai: สมเด็จพระนนฺทมาลาภิวงฺส; born 22 March 1940, Htun Tin, ), also known as Rector Sayadaw (or Pamaukkhachoke Sayadaw, Burmese: ပါမောက္ခချုပ်ဆရာတော်, ), is a Burmese Buddhist scholar-monk and specialist in Abhidhamma. He is chief abbot of the monasteries of Mahā Subodhāyon and rector of Sitagu International Buddhist Academy. | Htanaungg (talk) |
| 2025-01-09 21:01 | Noah Cates (American ice hockey player (born 1999)) | Noah Allen Cates (born February 5, 1999) is an American professional ice hockey left wing for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Flyers selected Cates in the fifth round, with the 137th overall pick, of the 2017 NHL entry draft. Cates has also been a member of the United States men's national ice hockey team, serving as an alternate captain at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. | — GhostRiver |
| 2025-01-10 22:23 | Melvin Edwards (American sculptor (born 1937)) | Melvin "Mel" Edwards (born May 4, 1937) is an American abstract sculptor, printmaker, and arts educator. Edwards, an African-American artist, was raised in segregated communities in Texas and an integrated community in Ohio. He moved to California in 1955, beginning his professional art career while an undergraduate student. | 19h00s (talk) |
| 2025-01-11 00:15 | John Hunter Thomas (American botanist (1928–1999)) | John Hunter Thomas (March 26, 1928 – July 20, 1999) was an American botanist, professor of biological sciences at Stanford University, curator and director of the Dudley Herbarium, and joint curator at the California Academy of Sciences. He was known for his study of plants in the Sonoran Desert, the Santa Cruz Mountains, and the Alaska North Slope, and for his history of botanical exploration in Washington, Oregon, and California. | Viriditas (talk) |
| 2025-01-11 17:10 | Hussein Kamel Bahaeddin (Egyptian paediatric and politician (1932–2016)) | Hussein Kamel Bahaeddin (Arabic: حسين كامل بهاء الدين, 18 September 1932 – 29 July 2016) was an Egyptian professor of paediatrics and Minister of Education between 1991 and 2004. During his tenure as Minister of Education, Bahaeddin implemented crucial reforms, such as extending compulsory education, banning school corporal punishment, and increasing university entrance opportunities. | FuzzyMagma (talk) |
| 2025-01-11 17:19 | Sultan Kigab (Sudanese-Canadian swimmer (1955–2024)) | Abd El Magid Sultan Kigab (Arabic: عبدالمجيد سلطان كيجاب; 1955 – 17 October 2024), known as Sultan Kigab, was a Sudanese-Canadian marathon swimmer and presidential candidate. | FuzzyMagma (talk) |
| 2025-01-12 07:35 | Frank Schofield (Canadian veterinarian and Korean independence activist (1889–1970)) | Frank William Schofield (15 March 1889 – 16 April 1970) was a British-born Canadian veterinarian, missionary, and Korean independence activist. He is also known by his Korean name Seok Ho-pil (Korean: 석호필; Hanja: 石虎弼). | seefooddiet (talk) |
| 2025-01-12 19:44 | George Palaiologos (Late 11th/early 12th century Byzantine general) | George Palaiologos or Palaeologus (Greek: Γεώργιος Παλαιολόγος; fl. 1078–1110) was a Byzantine aristocrat and general. One of the earliest known members of the Palaiologos dynasty, he was a capable military commander who played a critical role in helping his brother-in-law Alexios I Komnenos seize the throne in 1081. | Constantine ✍ |
| 2025-01-13 02:21 | Jordan Eberle (Canadian ice hockey player (born 1990)) | Jordan Leslie Christopher Eberle (born May 15, 1990) is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger and captain of the Seattle Kraken of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the first round (22nd overall) in the 2008 NHL entry draft by the Edmonton Oilers and made his NHL debut with the Oilers in 2010. | HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) |
| 2025-01-14 20:53 | Fredrick Arthur Willius (American cardiologist) | Fredrick Arthur Willius (November 24, 1888 – October 19, 1972) was an American research cardiologist and medical historian who was the founding director of the Cardiology section at the Mayo Clinic. | Evansknight (talk) |
| 2025-01-15 03:16 | Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (Canadian ice hockey player (born 1993)) | Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (born April 12, 1993) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and alternate captain for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nicknamed "Nuge" and "RNH" by Oilers fans, Nugent-Hopkins was selected first overall by the Oilers in the 2011 NHL entry draft. | HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) |
| 2025-01-15 12:50 | Hugh O'Neill, 4th Baron Dungannon (Irish nobleman (c. 1585 – 1609)) | Hugh O'Neill, 4th Baron Dungannon (c. 1585 – 24 September 1609) was an Irish nobleman. He was the son and heir to Irish Gaelic lord Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, though he predeceased his father. | SkywalkerEccleston (talk) |
| 2025-01-15 14:01 | Niu Sale (American football player (born 1969)) | Niusumelie "Niu" Sale (born November 17, 1969) is an American former professional football player who played three seasons in the Arena Football League (AFL) with the Sacramento Attack/Miami Hooters and Massachusetts Marauders. He played college football at El Camino College and the University of Missouri. | ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) |
| 2025-01-16 21:12 | Babak Ganjei (English artist and illustrator (born 1978)) | Babak Ganjei (born 1978) is an English artist and illustrator based in London. He is known for his humorous and confessional text-based paintings. | Jonathan Deamer (talk) |
| 2025-01-16 22:28 | Josip Kušević (Croatian politician (1775–1846)) | Josip Kušević (also spelled Joseph Kussevich, 23 May 1775 – 5 July 1846) was a Croatian politician and lawyer. He was the prothonotary of the Croatian realm and a member of the Croatian Parliament and the Diet of Hungary. As a politician, he opposed introduction of Hungarian language in official use in Croatia. | Tomobe03 (talk) |
| 2025-01-17 19:54 | William Arthur Ganfield (American pastor, educator, and academic administrator) | William Arthur Ganfield (September 3, 1873 – October 18, 1940) was an American pastor, educator, and academic administrator who was president of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, from 1915 to 1921 and then of Carroll College (now called Carroll University) in Waukesha, Wisconsin, from 1921 until his retirement in 1939. | PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) |
| 2025-01-18 01:31 | Abraham Weintraub–Wikipedia controversy (2019 controversy) | The Abraham Weintraub–Wikipedia controversy refers to the events surrounding attempts by Brazil's Ministry of Education (MEC), under Minister Abraham Weintraub, to influence the content of his Portuguese Wikipedia page. Created shortly after Weintraub's appointment in April 2019, the article documented controversies about his career in detail. | Skyshiftertalk |
| 2025-01-18 10:05 | Dan Andersson (Swedish author and poet) | Dan Andersson (6 April 1888 in Ludvika – 16 September 1920 in Stockholm) was a Swedish author, poet, and composer. He sometimes used the pen name Black Jim. Although he is counted among the Swedish proletarian authors, his works are not limited to that genre. His poems are among the most popular in Swedish literature; they have been set to music by more composers than any other 20th century Swedish poet. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2025-01-18 10:30 | Paddleboard Yoga | Paddleboard Yoga, invented by 2009, is the practice of modern yoga as exercise, and sometimes specific transitions between postures, while stand up paddleboarding, usually with the board in calm water, such as a lake. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2025-01-18 10:50 | 2024 Men's T20 World Cup final (final match of 2024 T20WC) | The 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup final was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket match played at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados on 29 June 2024 to determine the winner of the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. It was played between South Africa and India. | Vestrian24Bio |
| 2025-01-19 00:10 | Charlie Suff (English actor and musician) | Charlie Suff is an English actor and musician. He was born and grew up in Brighton and later studied Performing Arts at East Sussex College. He then trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where he appeared in various theatre productions. He then performed in other plays, such as Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons in 2019. | DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) |
| 2025-01-19 00:15 | Wolfgang Junker (German politician (1929–1990)) | Wolfgang Junker (23 February 1929 – 9 April 1990) was a German construction manager, civil servant and politician of the Socialist Unity Party (SED). | Maxwhollymoralground (talk) |
| 2025-01-19 00:15 | Bruno Menzel (German politician (1932–1996)) | Bruno Menzel (25 February 1932 – 14 September 1996) was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). | Maxwhollymoralground (talk) |
| 2025-01-19 00:16 | Klaus Reichenbach (German politician (born 1945)) | Klaus Reichenbach (born 22 September 1945) is a German football official and former politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). | Maxwhollymoralground (talk) |
| 2025-01-19 00:16 | Hans-Joachim Hoffmann (German politician (1929–1994)) | Hans-Joachim "Jochen" Hoffmann (10 October 1929 – 19 July 1994) was a German politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED). | Maxwhollymoralground (talk) |
| 2025-01-19 00:32 | Adam Neely (American YouTuber and musician (born 1988)) | Adam Neely (born 1988) is an American bassist, YouTuber, and jazz musician based in New York City. His YouTube content includes Q&A videos, vlogs about performing music, and video essays about online music culture. As a musician, he performs with groups including the electro-jazz duo Sungazer (with drummer Shawn Crowder) and the instrumental band Aberdeen. | — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) |
| 2025-01-19 10:42 | 2016 Road to Le Mans | The 1st Road to Le Mans was an 55-minute automobile endurance event for 37 teams of one or two drivers racing Le Mans Prototype 3 (LMP3) and Group GT3 (GT3) cars. It was held on 18 June 2016 at the Circuit de la Sarthe near Le Mans, France, as a support race for the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans and the second round of the 2016 GT3 Le Mans Cup. | EnthusiastWorld37 (talk) |
| 2025-01-21 17:50 | John Laurens (American soldier and abolitionist (1754–1782)) | John Laurens (October 28, 1754 – August 27, 1782) was an American soldier and statesman from South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War, best known for his efforts to help recruit slaves to fight for their freedom as U.S. soldiers. | Ali Beary (talk) |
| 2025-01-22 16:56 | Hubert Conway Rees (British army officer (1882–1948)) | Hubert Conway Rees (26 March 1882 - 3 January 1948) was a British Army officer. The only son of a Church of England clergyman, Rees was born in Conway, Carnarvonshire. After an education at Charterhouse School in Surrey, Rees joined the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment in 1900 and served as a subaltern in the Second Boer War. | Dumelow (talk) |
| 2025-01-22 22:50 | Manfred Uschner (German politician (1937–2007)) | Manfred Uschner (16 May 1937 – 13 November 2007) was a German diplomat and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED). | Maxwhollymoralground (talk) |
| 2025-01-23 01:27 | Jeff Baena (American screenwriter and film director (1977–2025)) | Jeffrey Lance Baena (June 29, 1977 – January 3, 2025) was an American screenwriter and film director. Baena began his career as a screenwriter, co-writing the 2004 comedy film I Heart Huckabees and, around the same time, seeing his script for Life After Beth enter production before being shelved. Baena, as an independent filmmaker, then expanded to directing and filmed Life After Beth as his directorial debut, starring Aubrey Plaza and released in 2014. | Kingsif (talk) |
| 2025-01-24 11:57 | 2024 European Athletics Championships – Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay | The mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 European Athletics Championships took place in one round at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy, on 7 June 2024. It was the first time this mixed-sex relay event was contested at the European Athletics Championships. Relay teams of eight nations competed in the mandated order man–woman–man–woman. | Editør (talk) |
| 2025-01-24 23:38 | Eurovision Song Contest 1965 (International song competition) | The Eurovision Song Contest 1965 was the 10th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 20 March 1965 in the Sala di Concerto della RAI in Naples, Italy and presented by Renata Mauro. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI), the contest was held in Italy following the country's victory at the 1964 contest with the song "Non ho l'età" by Gigliola Cinquetti. | Sims2aholic8 (talk) |
| 2025-01-25 20:27 | Sicilian business | The "Sicilian business" is a historiographical term used to describe the failed attempt by Henry III of England to claim the Kingdom of Sicily for his son Edmund, who had been offered the throne by the papacy. Sicily, established in the twelfth century as a theoretical papal fief, had been ruled by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II from 1198 until his death in 1250; Pope Innocent IV now sought to install an agreeable sovereign to succeed his longtime adversary. | Unlimitedlead (talk) |
| 2025-01-26 06:50 | Louis Tomlinson (English singer and songwriter (born 1991)) | Louis William Tomlinson (born Louis Troy Austin; 24 December 1991) is an English singer and songwriter. He rose to fame as a member of the boy band One Direction. Tomlinson auditioned for British singing competition The X Factor as a solo artist in 2010, but was eliminated. However, he and four other rejected solo contestants would later be placed into a group which would become British-Irish band One Direction, one of the best-selling boy bands of all time. | jolielover♥talk |
| 2025-01-27 02:12 | Political activities of Elon Musk | Elon Musk, the chief executive of SpaceX and Tesla and the executive chairman of X, has engaged in numerous political activities in the United States and internationally, more recently supporting right-leaning or far-right candidates and parties. Notably, Musk has been moderately involved in the United States' 2024 presidential election, creating a political action committee in support of Donald Trump and pledging upwards of US$50 million to PACs aligned with his policies. | elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) |
| 2025-01-27 15:28 | Sir James Erskine, 3rd Baronet (British Army officer and art collector) | Lieutenant-General Sir James Erskine, 3rd Baronet (30 September 1772 – 3 March 1825) was a British Army officer who served through the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, briefly commanding a brigade during the Peninsular War. Joining the army in 1788, Erskine was promoted quickly and in 1794 became a lieutenant-colonel. | Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) |
| 2025-01-28 16:42 | Jorge Lanata (Argentine journalist and writer (1960–2024)) | Jorge Ernesto Lanata (12 September 1960 – 30 December 2024) was an Argentine journalist and author. He founded the newspaper Página 12 in 1987, and worked on several TV programs, newspapers, magazines and documentaries. He moved to the Clarín Group in 2012, and hosted Lanata sin filtro on Radio Mitre and Periodismo para todos on El Trece. | Cambalachero (talk) |
| 2025-01-29 05:17 | Devello Z. Sheffield (American missionary and educator (1841–1913)) | Devello Zelotes Sheffield (August 13, 1841 – July 1, 1913) was an American missionary and educator. After serving with the 7th New York Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War, he began a career in education before becoming a Presbyterian minister. Soon after, he was sent on a mission to Tongzhou, China. | Kimikel (talk) |
| 2025-01-29 19:51 | Compton Swap Meet (Swap meet in Compton, California) | The Compton Swap Meet (officially Compton Fashion Center) was an indoor swap meet that sold the music of early gangsta rap artists. Wan Joon Kim began selling records of the genre at his stall, Cycadelic Records, in the 1980s. He became known as the "godfather of gangsta rap". | — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) |
| 2025-01-30 02:23 | Brandon Saad (American ice hockey player (born 1992)) | Brandon Saad (born October 27, 1992) is an American professional ice hockey forward for the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL). | Spilia4 (talk) |
| 2025-01-30 13:23 | Hussain Nizam Shah III (12th Sultan of Ahmadnagar) | Hussain Nizam Shah III was the 12th Sultan of Ahmadnagar Sultanate under the regency of Fath Khan and Shahaji. It was during his reign the second phase of extinction of Ahmadnagar Sultanate began. He was imprisoned by Shah Jahan in the Gwalior Fort after Mahabat Khan's successful conquest of Dautlatabad. | Mr.Hanes  Talk
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| 2025-01-30 22:42 | Uwa (Ogiso) (25th Ogiso of Igodomigodo) | Uwa (reigned c. 1085 – c. 1095 AD) was the twenty-fifth Ogiso of the Kingdom of Igodomigodo, an early state that later became part of the Benin Empire. He was the son of Ogiso Odoligie and ruled during a period of political transformation shaped by earlier reforms. His reign saw the expansion of the Benin monarchy’s influence from the River Oroghodo in the east to the River Ohosu in the west. | Vanderwaalforces (talk) |
| 2025-01-31 13:57 | Jingnan campaign (1399–1402 civil war in the Ming dynasty) | The Jingnan campaign, or the campaign to clear away disorders, was a propagandistic term used by the victorious side to refer to the civil war that took place between 1399 and 1402 in the Ming dynasty. This conflict was between the Ming government, led by the second Ming emperor, the Jianwen Emperor, and his uncle, Zhu Di, Prince of Yan. | Min968 (talk) |
| 2025-01-31 14:54 | 1989 visit by Boris Yeltsin to the United States | In September 1989, Boris Yeltsin, a politician who had recently been elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, visited the United States. During the trip, he visited ten cities and made numerous speeches and public appearances. | JJonahJackalope (talk) |
| 2025-01-31 15:30 | 1862 Brooklyn riot | A riot occurred in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, United States, on August 4, 1862. It involved a group of White Americans, largely consisting of Irish Americans, targeting a group of about 20 African American workers at a tobacco factory on Sedgwick Street. Police were able to quell the rioting with only some minor injuries and property damage. | JJonahJackalope (talk) |
| 2025-01-31 16:03 | Statue of Franklin Pierce (Statue in Concord, New Hampshire) | Franklin Pierce is a monumental statue on the grounds of the New Hampshire State House in Concord, New Hampshire, United States. The monument, consisting of a bronze statue atop a granite pedestal, honors Franklin Pierce, the only person from New Hampshire to be the president of the United States, serving in the 1850s. | JJonahJackalope (talk) |
| 2025-01-31 16:09 | University of Southwestern Louisiana basketball scandal | In 1973, the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) was penalized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for rules violations concerning the university's basketball program. This followed an investigation in which the association discovered that the program had been fielding academically ineligible players and paying student athletes, in violation of the NCAA's rules. | JJonahJackalope (talk) |
Culture/Biography/Women
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| 2024-10-05 19:17 | Tessa Davidson (English snooker player) | Tessa Davidson (born 22 April 1969) is an English snooker player from Banbury, Oxfordshire. She competed on the women's tour from 1988 to 1995 and again from 1998 to 1999, during which time she won three UK Women's Championships and achieved a highest ranking of fourth in the women's rankings. She competed on the main professional tour during the 1992–93 snooker season. | BennyOnTheLoose (talk) |
| 2024-10-07 04:31 | Catherine Pugh (American politician (born 1950)) | Catherine Elizabeth Pugh (born March 10, 1950) is an American former politician who served as the 51st mayor of Baltimore, Maryland's largest city, from 2016 to 2019. She resigned from office amid a scandal that eventually led to criminal charges, three years in prison, and three years probation in 2020. | Micahmikhl (talk) |
| 2024-10-29 00:32 | Cady Noland (American artist (born 1956)) | Cady Noland (born 1956) is an American sculptor, printmaker, and installation artist who primarily works with found objects and appropriated images. Her work, often made with objects denoting danger, industry, and American patriotism, addresses notions of the failed promise of the American Dream, the divide between fame and anonymity, and violence in American society, among other themes. | 19h00s (talk) |
| 2024-10-30 16:09 | Charel Allen (American basketball player (born 1986)) | Charel Allen (born July 23, 1986) is an American former professional basketball guard and current coach. She played high school basketball at Monessen High School, where she was a two-time Pennsylvania Class A Player of the Year and finished her high school career as the fifth-leading scorer in state history. | ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) |
| 2024-11-16 02:11 | Roxanne Perez (American professional wrestler (born 2001)) | Carla Gonzalez (born November 5, 2001), better known by the ring name Roxanne Perez, is an American professional wrestler. She has been signed to WWE since March 2022[update], where she performs on the NXT brand. She is a former two-time NXT Women's Champion, and a former NXT Women's Tag Team Champion with Cora Jade. | Mann Mann (talk) |
| 2024-11-20 17:12 | 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres | The women's 400 metres at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships took place in three rounds at the Ataköy Athletics Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, on 3 and 4 March 2023. This was the 37th time the women's 400 metres was contested at the European Athletics Indoor Championships. Athletes could qualify by achieving the entry standard or by their World Athletics Ranking for the event. | Editør (talk) |
| 2024-12-18 20:23 | Marie-Thérèse Eyquem (French politician (1913–1978)) | Marie-Thérèse Eyquem (6 September 1913 – 8 August 1978) was a French feminist, politician, and author. Under the Vichy regime, she participated in the ban against multiple women's sports including association football. In the 1960s, she became more involved in politics and joined the French Socialist Party. | – dudhhr talkcontribssheher |
| 2024-12-20 16:53 | Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre butterfly | The women's 100 metre butterfly event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 27 to 28 July 2024 at the Olympic Aquatics Centre at Paris La Défense Arena. | IAWW (talk) |
| 2024-12-22 00:45 | Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre butterfly | The women's 200 metre butterfly event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 31 July to 1 August 2024 at the Olympic Aquatics Centre at Paris La Défense Arena. | IAWW (talk) |
| 2024-12-22 02:38 | Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic individual all-around (women's artistic individual all-around events at the Olympics) | The women's artistic individual all-around final at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held on 21 September at the Sydney SuperDome. The event was impacted by three separate scandals. The vault was set at the incorrect height for the first two rotations of the competition, causing several falls and injuries. | Riley1012 (talk) |
| 2025-01-08 17:47 | 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay | The women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships took place in one round in the Ataköy Athletics Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, on 5 March 2023. This was the twelfth time the women's 4 × 400 metres relay was contested at the European Athletics Indoor Championships. Six national teams qualified based on their outdoor results from 2022 or the team's cumulative individual 400 metres indoor results from 2023. | Editør (talk) |
| 2025-01-13 13:04 | Alina Zagitova (Russian figure skater (born 2002)) | Alina Ilnazovna Zagitova (Russian: Алина Ильназовна Загитова, IPA: [ɐˈlʲinə zɐˈɡʲitəvə]; born 18 May 2002) is a Russian former competitive figure skater. She is the 2018 Olympic champion, the 2019 World champion, the 2018 European champion, 2017–18 Grand Prix Final champion, and the 2018 Russian national champion. | Riley1012 (talk) |
| 2025-01-14 23:50 | Maria Einsmann (German woman who lived as a man for 12 years to obtain better jobs) | Maria Einsmann (née Mayer, 4 January 1885 – 4 March 1959) was a German factory worker who lived using the name of her husband Joseph Einsmann (nicknamed "Seppel") from 1919 until her identity was discovered in 1931. She and her friend Helene Müller lived together from 1919 until Einsmann died in 1959. | —Kusma (talk) |
| 2025-01-18 23:17 | Eva O'Hara (British actress) | Eva O'Hara is a British actress. O'Hara studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where she performed in various productions at the Bristol Old Vic. She also appeared in other stage productions and short films, and made her film debut as Rosalind in Stark Shakespeare in 2018. After graduating from the school in 2019, O'Hara was cast as Verity Hutchinson in the British soap opera Hollyoaks, with the character first appearing in January 2020. | DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) |
| 2025-01-19 00:16 | Ilse Stephan (German politician (1931–1984)) | Ilse Stephan (née Korth; 8 May 1931 – 25 June 1984) was a German interpreter and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED). | Maxwhollymoralground (talk) |
| 2025-01-21 00:45 | 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres | The women's 400 metres at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships took place in three rounds at the Commonwealth Arena in Glasgow, United Kingdom, on 1 and 2 March 2024. This was the nineteenth time that the women's 400 metres was contested at the World Athletics Indoor Championships. Twenty-four athletes from nineteen different nations competed in the event. | Editør (talk) |
| 2025-01-21 07:01 | Dolores Huerta (American labor leader (born 1930)) | Dolores Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is an American labor leader and feminist activist. After working for several years with the Community Service Organization (CSO), she founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with fellow activists Cesar Chavez and Gilbert Padilla, which eventually merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). | Spookyaki (talk) |
| 2025-01-21 12:55 | Korzeniacy, czyli Jesień wsamrazków (Fantasy novel by Janina Wieczerska) | Korzeniacy, czyli Jesień wsamrazków (The Root People, or Autumn of the Little Gnomes) is a fantasy novel (modern fairy tale) for young readers by Janina Wieczerska, published in 1989. It has an eco-friendly theme and tells the adventures of gnomes in contemporary times. | Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here |
| 2025-01-21 22:59 | 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay | The women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships took place in two rounds at the Commonwealth Arena in Glasgow, United Kingdom, on 3 March 2024. This was the seventeenth time the women's 4 × 400 metres relay was contested at the World Athletics Indoor Championships. There was no entry standard for the qualification. | Editør (talk) |
| 2025-01-23 22:26 | 2024 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay | The women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 European Athletics Championships took place in two rounds at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy, on 11 and 12 June 2024. It was the eighteenth time the women's 4 × 400 metres relay was contested at the European Athletics Championships. Relay teams of sixteen nations competed. | Editør (talk) |
| 2025-01-24 02:35 | Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (Grand Duchess of Russia) | Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia (born Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine; 1 November 1864 – 18 July 1918) was a German Hessian and Rhenish princess of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, and the wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, the fifth son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine. | Qubacubazamniauser (talk) |
| 2025-01-25 23:03 | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall (American professor (1855–1952)) | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall FRGS (7 April 1855 – 21 May 1952) was an American professor of history and political science at Wellesley College. She made several journeys across Europe and Asia. The most significant of these was her 1911 voyage across China, her account of which, A Wayfarer in China: Impressions of a Trip Across West China and Mongolia, was published in 1913. | XabqEfdg (talk) |
| 2025-01-28 07:02 | White Marc Bouwer dress of Angelina Jolie (White dress worn by Angelina Jolie) | American actress Angelina Jolie wore a white satin dress with a plunging neckline designed by Marc Bouwer on February 29, 2004, to the 76th Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre, where she presented the award for Best Art Direction. The dress garnered praise from fashion magazines and media publications, and has been placed on numerous lists for best Oscars or red carpet fashion. | jolielover♥talk |
| 2025-01-29 14:58 | Solfrid Koanda (Norwegian weightlifter (born 1998)) | Solfrid Eila Amena Koanda (born 13 November 1998) is a Norwegian weightlifter and former electrician who became the first female Norwegian weightlifter to become an Olympic champion, and the first Norwegian weightlifter to become World and European champion in the sport. Born in Oulu to a Finnish mother and an Ivorian father, she lived in Finland until moving to Norway at nine years old. | Arconning (talk) |
| 2025-02-01 20:32 | Hunter Schafer (American actress and model (born 1998)) | Hunter Schafer (born December 31, 1998) is an American actress and model. She first made headlines in 2016 with her activism against the North Carolina bill HB2. In 2017, she started modeling for many worldwide fashion brands. She made her acting debut as transgender high school student Jules Vaughn in the HBO teen drama television series Euphoria (2019–present). | DoctorWhoFan91 (talk) |
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| 2024-08-10 11:07 | Maisi (Musical artist) | Maisie Harriet Brand Bourke, known professionally as Maisi, is a British musician and social media personality from south-east London. The daughter of Jo Brand, she co-founded Loud LDN, a collective of women and non-binary musicians, and has released several singles and supported Piri & Tommy on their Froge.tour. | Launchballer |
| 2024-08-25 16:21 | Keyshia Cole (American singer (born 1981)) | Keyshia Myeshia Cole (née Johnson; born October 15, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, television personality and actress. Dubbed by critics as the "Princess of Hip-Hop Soul", she is known for her soulful voice and heartfelt lyrics. Born and raised in Oakland, California, she began her career as a backing vocalist for MC Hammer before signing with A&M Records to release her debut studio album, The Way It Is (2005). | Finesse2Starz (talk) |
| 2024-09-24 15:31 | W leju po bombie (Science fiction short story by Andrzej Sapkowski) | W leju po bombie (In the Bomb Crater) is a science fiction short story by Andrzej Sapkowski, published in 1993, belonging to the genres of military and political fiction, as well as so-called klerykal fiction and politpunk. In 1994, the story won the Janusz A. Zajdel Award. | Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here |
| 2024-09-28 20:09 | WSVN (TV station in Miami) | WSVN (channel 7) is a television station in Miami, Florida, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. Serving as the flagship station of locally based Sunbeam Television, it has studios on the 79th Street Causeway in North Bay Village and a transmitter in Miami Gardens, Florida. | Nathan Obral • he/him • t • c • |
| 2024-10-07 05:18 | Stray Kids (South Korean boy band) | Stray Kids (Korean: 스트레이 키즈; RR: Seuteurei Kijeu; often abbreviated to SKZ) is a South Korean boy band formed by JYP Entertainment. The band consists of eight members: Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Felix, Seungmin, and I.N. For undisclosed personal reasons, Woojin left the band in October 2019. | |
| 2024-10-12 12:01 | Naħseb Fik (2021 single by Aidan) | "Naħseb Fik" (transl. "I Think of You") is a song by Maltese singer Aidan released on 19 March 2021. It was his first song written in the Maltese language and was produced by Boban Apostolov. | Sahaib (talk) |
| 2024-10-25 21:53 | Murder of Wang Lianying (1920 murder in Shanghai, China) | Wang Lianying was a Chinese courtesan who was killed by Yan Ruisheng and his accomplices on 9 June 1920 outside of Shanghai in the Republic of China. Twenty-year-old Lianying had worked in Shanghai, known as the "Brothel of Asia", since 1916, gaining recognition as the "Prime Minister of Flower Country" during the 1917 courtesan election. | — Chris Woodrich (talk) |
| 2024-11-04 01:04 | Amos Yee (Singaporean sex offender (born 1998)) | Amos Yee Pang Sang (born 31 October 1998) is a Singaporean convicted child sex offender and former blogger, former YouTuber, and former child actor. | OpalYosutebito (talk) |
| 2024-11-11 12:15 | Ayesha Takia (Indian actress (born 1986)) | Ayesha Azmi (née Takia; born 10 April 1986), born and known professionally as Ayesha Takia is an Indian former actress and model who worked predominantly in Hindi films. Takia made her debut in 2004 with the action thriller Taarzan: The Wonder Car for which she won the Filmfare Best Debut Award and IIFA Award Star Debut of the Year Female. | 25 CENTS VICTORIOUS 🍁 |
| 2024-11-14 14:17 | Ukrainian Sheriffs (2015 Ukrainian documentary film by Roman Bondarchuk) | Ukrainian Sheriffs (Ukrainian: Українські шерифи, romanized: Ukrainski Sherify) is a 2015 Ukrainian documentary film directed by Roman Bondarchuk. The film begins as a portrait of a small town which tries to meet its own policing needs but shifts when the Russo-Ukrainian War begins, depicting the war's effects in microcosm. | Reidgreg (talk) |
| 2024-11-21 14:16 | Cyborgs (film) (2017 Ukrainian war film) | Cyborgs: Heroes Never Die (Ukrainian: Кiборги: Герої не вмирають; Romanized: Kiborhy: Heroyi ne vmyrayut) is a 2017 Ukrainian war drama film about the Cyborgs, the Ukrainian defenders in the Second Battle of Donetsk Airport during the war in Donbas. The film was written by Nataliya Vorozhbyt, directed by Akhtem Seitablayev and produced by Ivanna Diadiura. | Reidgreg (talk) |
| 2024-11-23 07:53 | Alan Walker (Norwegian DJ and record producer (born 1997)) | Alan Olav Walker (born 24 August 1997) is a Norwegian DJ and record producer. His songs "Faded", "Sing Me to Sleep", "Alone", "All Falls Down" (with Noah Cyrus and Digital Farm Animals) and "Darkside" (with Au/Ra and Tomine Harket) have each been multi-platinum-certified and reached number 1 on the VG-lista chart in Norway. | Meganenohito (talk) |
| 2024-12-04 21:53 | Tabu (actress) (Indian actress (born 1971)) | Tabassum Fatima Hashmi (born 4 November 1971), known professionally as Tabu, is an Indian actress who works primarily in Hindi films. Regarded as one of Hindi cinema's most accomplished actresses, she has also worked in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, English, Bengali and Marathi films. She has often played troubled women, from fictional to literary, in both mainstream and independent cinema. | 19Arham (talk) |
| 2024-12-05 20:18 | Life (Gen Hoshino song) (2023 single by Gen Hoshino) | is a song by Japanese singer-songwriter and musician Gen Hoshino. Used as the theme song for the 2022 Asian Games and 2023 World Athletics Championships on TBS Television, the song was written and produced by Hoshino, who co-arranged it with Mabanua. It was first released as a digital-exclusive single by Speedstar Records on August 14, 2023, and was later re-released as a CD single with "Why" on December 27, 2023. | IanTEB (talk) |
| 2024-12-09 15:31 | Dilaw (song) (2024 single by Maki) | "Dilaw" (lit. 'Yellow' in Tagalog) is a song written by Filipino singer Maki. It was released as a digital single on May 24, 2024, through Tarsier Records, and was produced by Nhiko Sabiniano. "Dilaw" is an indie alternative track that explores the themes of unconditional love. The song peaked at number one on Billboard's now defunct Philippines Songs chart, topping the chart in its final issue. | Royiswariii Talk! |
| 2024-12-09 15:49 | Deadmau5 (Canadian music producer and DJ (born 1981)) | Joel Thomas Zimmerman (born January 5, 1981), known professionally as deadmau5 (pronounced "dead-mouse"), is a Canadian electronic music producer and DJ. Zimmerman has received seven Grammy Award nominations for his songs. He mainly produces progressive house and electro house music, though he also produces and DJs other genres of electronic music, including techno under the alias Testpilot. | ~ GoatLordServant(Talk) |
| 2024-12-10 00:55 | Lizzie Esau (English musician (born 1999)) | Elizabeth Jane Esau (born November 1999) is an English musician who began gigging and releasing music in 2020, usually in the indie rock or alternative rock genres. The daughter of Tim Esau of the band IQ, she has opened for Baby Queen, Beabadoobee, the Amazons, Upsahl, and Swim School. Her releases include "Bitter Weather", which went viral on TikTok, a cover version of the Yardbirds's version of "I'm a Man" recorded for the soundtrack of My Lady Jane, and the EPs Perspectives, Deepest Blue, Spilling Out The Truth. | Launchballer |
| 2024-12-13 07:44 | Ambivalence (Neon Genesis Evangelion episode) (Episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion) | is the eighteenth episode of the Japanese anime television series Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was created by Gainax. Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi wrote the episode, which the animator Tensai Okamura directed. The series' protagonist is Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy whose father Gendo recruited him to the special military organization Nerv to pilot a gigantic, bio-mechanical mecha named Evangelion into combat with beings called Angels. | TeenAngels1234 (talk) |
| 2024-12-20 12:03 | Tilaluha (2018 single by SB19) | "Tilaluha" is the debut single by the Filipino boy band SB19. Geong Seong Han, Kim Kyeong Su, and Sejun (now Pablo) wrote the song, and Geong produced it with Han Tae Soo. It is a soulful ballad complete with drums and a string section, with lyrics that reference unrequited love and a breakup and express the want to escape from the sorrow the person has gone through. | – Relayed (t • c) |
| 2024-12-20 20:33 | Introjection (Neon Genesis Evangelion episode) (Episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion) | is the nineteenth episode of the Japanese anime television series Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was created by Gainax. Hideaki Anno and Akio Satsukawa wrote the episode, which animator Masayuki directed. The series' protagonist is Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy whose father Gendo recruited him to the special military organization Nerv to pilot a gigantic, bio-mechanical mecha named Evangelion into combat with beings called Angels. | TeenAngels1234 (talk) |
| 2024-12-28 21:31 | Stars in the Sky (2022 single by Kid Cudi) | "Stars in the Sky" is a song by American musician Kid Cudi. It was created for the film Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) and was released as a single in both promotion for the film and its soundtrack on March 25, 2022. The song was written by Cudi himself alongside Lil Nas X and producers Splititupbenji, Take a Daytrip, and Dot da Genius. | ~ Tails Wx |
| 2024-12-31 08:18 | WOI-DT (TV station in Ames, Iowa) | WOI-DT (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Ames, Iowa, United States, serving the Des Moines area as an affiliate of ABC. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside CW affiliate KCWI-TV (channel 23), also licensed to Ames. The two stations share studios on Westown Parkway in West Des Moines; WOI-DT's transmitter is located in Alleman, Iowa. | Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) |
| 2024-12-31 15:51 | Larries (Internet fandom) | Larries are shipping conspiracy theorists who believe that former One Direction bandmates Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson had or still have a long-term and secret romantic relationship.: 173–174 A fundamental part of this conspiracy theory is that the two, name blended as "Larry Stylinson", have been closeted by their management company, Modest Management, supposedly guided by homophobic corporate interests. | jolielover♥talk |
| 2025-01-01 14:25 | Jade Cargill (American professional wrestler and fitness model (born 1992)) | Jade Nicole Cargill (born June 3, 1992) is an American professional wrestler. As of September 2023,[update] she is signed to WWE, where she performs on the SmackDown brand. She is a former WWE Women's Tag Team Champion with Bianca Belair in their record-tying second reign as a team. She is also known for her career in All Elite Wrestling (AEW) from 2020 to 2023, where she was the inaugural AEW TBS Champion; her single reign of 508 days is the longest for any AEW championship. | Mann Mann (talk) |
| 2025-01-07 17:56 | Eurovision Song Contest 1961 (International song competition) | The Eurovision Song Contest 1961 was the 6th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 18 March 1961 in the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in Cannes, France. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF), and originally known as the Grand Prix Eurovision 1961 de la Chanson Européenne (English: Eurovision Song Contest Grand Prix 1961), the contest was held in France followi ... | Sims2aholic8 (talk) |
| 2025-01-08 03:28 | Chill guy (Meme artwork from 2023) | "Chill guy", also known as "My new character", is a digital artwork and internet meme first posted by artist Phillip Banks on Twitter on October 4, 2023. The artwork consists of an anthropomorphic dog wearing a grey sweater, blue jeans, and red sneakers, giving off a "chill" expression by smirking with his hands in his pockets. | Johnson524 |
| 2025-01-12 19:46 | Megatron (album) (2022 studio album by BabyTron) | Megatron is the second studio album by the American rapper BabyTron. It was released by The Hip Hop Lab and Empire Distribution on March 4, 2022. After releasing his debut album BIN Reaper 2 in 2021, BabyTron released the Trifecta mixtape with the rap group ShittyBoyz in February 2022. Megatron was produced by a variety of record producers, including longtime collaborator Helluva, and contains guest appearances from GTP Daidoe, DaBoii of SOB X RBE, and Glockboyz Teejaee. | Locust member (talk) |
| 2025-01-13 04:36 | People Watching (Conan Gray song) (2021 single by Conan Gray) | "People Watching" is a song by American singer-songwriter Conan Gray. It was released by Republic Records on July 15, 2021 as a single from Gray's second studio album Superache. The single was written by Gray, Julia Michaels, and Dan Nigro, the latter of whom also produced the song. Inspired by Gray's personal experiences during college, "People Watching" is an indie pop song that is about the similarly named activity of people-watching. | TheDoctorWho (talk) |
| 2025-01-16 21:26 | Fushigi (song) (2021 single by Gen Hoshino) | is a song by Japanese singer-songwriter and musician Gen Hoshino. Speedstar Records released it as a digital single on April 27, 2021, and later reissued it as a double A-sided CD with the song "Create" on June 23, 2021. Hoshino wrote "Fushigi" for the television drama series Why I Dress Up for Love . | IanTEB (talk) |
| 2025-01-18 01:31 | Abraham Weintraub–Wikipedia controversy (2019 controversy) | The Abraham Weintraub–Wikipedia controversy refers to the events surrounding attempts by Brazil's Ministry of Education (MEC), under Minister Abraham Weintraub, to influence the content of his Portuguese Wikipedia page. Created shortly after Weintraub's appointment in April 2019, the article documented controversies about his career in detail. | Skyshiftertalk |
| 2025-01-21 12:24 | Formation (song) (2016 single by Beyoncé) | "Formation" is a song by American singer and songwriter Beyoncé from her sixth studio album Lemonade (2016). Beyoncé wrote and produced the song with Mike Will Made It, with Swae Lee and Pluss as co-writers. The track was surprise released on February 6, 2016, through Parkwood Entertainment. It is a trap and bounce song in which Beyoncé celebrates her culture, identity and success as a black woman from the Southern United States. | Bgkc4444 (talk) |
| 2025-01-21 16:23 | Tamid Ohev Oti (2024 single by Yair Elitzur) | "Tamid Ohev Oti" (Hebrew: תמיד אוהב אותי, lit. '(The Lord) Always Loves Me'), also known as "Od Yoter Tov" (Hebrew: עוד יותר טוב, lit. 'Much better'), is a Hebrew song originally released by Yair Elitzur on 18 June 2024. It has become very popular in Israel and among Jews around the world and is considered one of the songs inspired by the Israel-Hamas war. | Yeshivish613 (talk) |
| 2025-01-21 19:10 | Weaving a Story 2: oral stage (Episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion) | is the twentieth episode of the Japanese anime television series Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was created by Gainax. Hideaki Anno wrote the episode and the animator Masahiko Otsuka directed it. The series' protagonist is Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy whose father Gendo recruited him to the special military organization Nerv to pilot a gigantic, bio-mechanical mecha named Evangelion into combat with beings called Angels. | TeenAngels1234 (talk) |
| 2025-01-23 01:27 | Jeff Baena (American screenwriter and film director (1977–2025)) | Jeffrey Lance Baena (June 29, 1977 – January 3, 2025) was an American screenwriter and film director. Baena began his career as a screenwriter, co-writing the 2004 comedy film I Heart Huckabees and, around the same time, seeing his script for Life After Beth enter production before being shelved. Baena, as an independent filmmaker, then expanded to directing and filmed Life After Beth as his directorial debut, starring Aubrey Plaza and released in 2014. | Kingsif (talk) |
| 2025-01-24 04:45 | Game board (Surface on which a board game is played) | A game board (or gameboard; sometimes, playing board or game map: 25 ) is the surface on which one plays a board game. | Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here |
| 2025-01-24 23:55 | Noriko Takaya (Fictional character from Gunbuster) | Noriko Takaya is a fictional character from the Gunbuster franchise, created by the Japanese animation studio Gainax. She is the franchise's most developed character and protagonist. In the anime series of the same name, Noriko is the daughter of deceased space captain Yuzo Takaya. When she was young, she wanted to follow her father. | Z. Patterson (talk) |
| 2025-01-26 06:50 | Louis Tomlinson (English singer and songwriter (born 1991)) | Louis William Tomlinson (born Louis Troy Austin; 24 December 1991) is an English singer and songwriter. He rose to fame as a member of the boy band One Direction. Tomlinson auditioned for British singing competition The X Factor as a solo artist in 2010, but was eliminated. However, he and four other rejected solo contestants would later be placed into a group which would become British-Irish band One Direction, one of the best-selling boy bands of all time. | jolielover♥talk |
| 2025-01-27 02:12 | Political activities of Elon Musk | Elon Musk, the chief executive of SpaceX and Tesla and the executive chairman of X, has engaged in numerous political activities in the United States and internationally, more recently supporting right-leaning or far-right candidates and parties. Notably, Musk has been moderately involved in the United States' 2024 presidential election, creating a political action committee in support of Donald Trump and pledging upwards of US$50 million to PACs aligned with his policies. | elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) |
| 2025-01-28 16:42 | Jorge Lanata (Argentine journalist and writer (1960–2024)) | Jorge Ernesto Lanata (12 September 1960 – 30 December 2024) was an Argentine journalist and author. He founded the newspaper Página 12 in 1987, and worked on several TV programs, newspapers, magazines and documentaries. He moved to the Clarín Group in 2012, and hosted Lanata sin filtro on Radio Mitre and Periodismo para todos on El Trece. | Cambalachero (talk) |
| 2025-02-01 03:43 | I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) (2024 song by Taylor Swift) | "I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift from her eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department (2024). Written and produced by Swift and Jack Antonoff, it is a Western, Americana, and country pop song with a sparse arrangement featuring twangy tremolo guitars backed by drum machine and keyboards. | Ippantekina (talk) |
| 2025-02-01 20:32 | Hunter Schafer (American actress and model (born 1998)) | Hunter Schafer (born December 31, 1998) is an American actress and model. She first made headlines in 2016 with her activism against the North Carolina bill HB2. In 2017, she started modeling for many worldwide fashion brands. She made her acting debut as transgender high school student Jules Vaughn in the HBO teen drama television series Euphoria (2019–present). | DoctorWhoFan91 (talk) |
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| 2024-11-13 21:34 | History of philosophical pessimism (History of a philosophical school) | Philosophical pessimism is a philosophical school that is critical of existence, emphasizing the inherent suffering and futility of life. This perspective can be traced back to various religious traditions and philosophical writings throughout history. | Alice793 (talk) |
| 2024-12-05 12:29 | Avi Yemini (Australian far-right provocateur and commentator) | Avraham Shalom Yemini (né Waks; born 17 October 1985) is an Australian-Israeli far-right provocateur and commentator. Since 2020 he has worked as the Australian correspondent for Rebel News, a Canadian far-right website. Yemini has been involved in numerous cases of litigation, initiated both by him and against him. | TarnishedPathtalk |
| 2024-12-13 01:08 | Philosophical pessimism (Philosophy that life is not worth living) | Philosophical pessimism is a philosophical tradition which argues that life is not worth living and that non-existence is preferable to existence. Thinkers in this tradition emphasize that suffering outweighs pleasure, happiness is fleeting or unattainable, and existence itself does not hold inherent value or an intrinsic purpose. | Alice793 (talk) |
| 2025-01-03 17:16 | The Voices of Morebath (2001 non-fiction book by Eamon Duffy) | The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village is a 2001 non-fiction history book by Eamon Duffy and published by Yale University Press about Morebath, England, during the English Reformation and Tudor period of the 16th century. Using the detailed churchwarden's accounts maintained by Sir Christopher Trychay, the vicar of Morebath's parish, Duffy recounts the religious and social implications of the Reformation in a small conservative [[Catholic Church|Ca ... | Pbritti (talk) |
| 2025-01-07 09:50 | Epic Pooh (1978 opinion article by Michael Moorcock) | "Epic Pooh" is a 1978 essay by the British science fiction writer Michael Moorcock, which reviews the field of epic fantasy, with a particular focus on epic fantasy written for children. In it Moorcock critiques J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings for its politically conservative assumptions and its escapism. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2025-01-07 09:57 | The Salt Path (2018 memoir by Raynor Winn) | The Salt Path is a 2018 memoir, nature, and travel book by Raynor Winn. It deals with the theme of homelessness and the true nature of home in the face of the unpredictability of life. It was shortlisted for the 2018 Wainwright Prize and the Costa Book Awards, and won the 2019 RSL Christopher Bland Prize. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2025-01-15 09:10 | The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien | The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien is a 2024 book of poetry of the English philologist, poet, and author J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Tolkien scholars, wife and husband Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond. Its three volumes contain some 900 versions of 195 poems, among them around 70 previously unpublished. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2025-01-21 12:54 | The Ancient Trilogy (Trilogy by Karol Bunsch about Alexander the Great) | The Ancient Trilogy (Polish: Trylogia antyczna) is a trilogy by Karol Bunsch about Alexander the Great, consisting of the novels Olimpias (1955), Parmenion (1963), and Alexander (1968). | Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here |
| 2025-01-21 12:55 | Korzeniacy, czyli Jesień wsamrazków (Fantasy novel by Janina Wieczerska) | Korzeniacy, czyli Jesień wsamrazków (The Root People, or Autumn of the Little Gnomes) is a fantasy novel (modern fairy tale) for young readers by Janina Wieczerska, published in 1989. It has an eco-friendly theme and tells the adventures of gnomes in contemporary times. | Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here |
| 2025-01-26 23:39 | Letters Written in France (Series of letters by Helen Maria Williams) | Letters Written in France (1790–1796) is a letter collection by English writer Helen Maria Williams. Williams published eight volumes of letters describing her firsthand experience of the French Revolution for British audiences. Williams witnessed the Fête de la Fédération, the executions of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and much of the Reign of Terror. | ~ L 🌸 (talk) |
| 2025-01-29 21:27 | Tolkien on Film (Scholarly book) | Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings is a 2004 collection of essays edited by Janet Brennan Croft on Peter Jackson's interpretation of The Lord of the Rings in his 2001–2003 film trilogy based on J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy book. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2025-01-31 16:01 | Tolkien, Race and Cultural History (Book of literary criticism by Dimitra Fimi) | Tolkien, Race, and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits is a 2008 book by Dimitra Fimi about J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings. Scholars largely welcomed the book, praising its accessibility and its skilful application of a biographical-historical method which sets the development of Tolkien's legendarium in the context of Tolkien's life and times. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
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| 2024-11-16 02:11 | Roxanne Perez (American professional wrestler (born 2001)) | Carla Gonzalez (born November 5, 2001), better known by the ring name Roxanne Perez, is an American professional wrestler. She has been signed to WWE since March 2022[update], where she performs on the NXT brand. She is a former two-time NXT Women's Champion, and a former NXT Women's Tag Team Champion with Cora Jade. | Mann Mann (talk) |
| 2025-01-07 16:02 | Fury 325 (Steel roller coaster at Carowinds) | Fury 325 is a steel roller coaster located at Carowinds amusement park in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. The giga coaster, manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard, opened to the public on March 28, 2015. It features 6,602 feet (2,012 m) of track and a maximum height of 325 feet (99 m), making it the fifth-tallest roller coaster in the world and the tallest overall that uses a traditional lift hill. | Therguy10 (talk) |
| 2025-01-18 16:52 | Darcy Grey (English actor) | Darcy Grey (born 5 June 1991) is an English actor. Grey was born in London but grew up in Spain and later trained at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute in Moscow. He starred in the short films A Warriors Afterlife (2014) and Certified Mail (2015), and he also appeared in the 2016 feature films Verräter and Glorious, as well as Snakebite Protection Chronicles in 2017. | DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) |
| 2025-01-18 23:17 | Eva O'Hara (British actress) | Eva O'Hara is a British actress. O'Hara studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where she performed in various productions at the Bristol Old Vic. She also appeared in other stage productions and short films, and made her film debut as Rosalind in Stark Shakespeare in 2018. After graduating from the school in 2019, O'Hara was cast as Verity Hutchinson in the British soap opera Hollyoaks, with the character first appearing in January 2020. | DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) |
| 2025-01-24 16:34 | Ashling O'Shea (British actress) | Ashling O'Shea is a British-Irish actress. She initially completed a university degree in Theatre Studies with the intention of going into Theatre Therapy. O'Shea then trained and took acting classes whilst doing other jobs, and she began working with Little Fish Theatre, who gave her first acting role outside of university. | DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) |
| 2025-01-30 20:31 | Burger King Pokémon container recall (1999–2000 toy recall effort) | As part of a promotion for Pokémon: The First Movie during 1999 and 2000, fast food retail chain Burger King held a promotion featuring various Pokémon-themed toys. The toys came packaged in containers based around Poké Balls. The containers, when pulled apart, were of a size where they would create a vacuum effect around the mouth and nose. | Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) |
| 2025-02-01 01:49 | Surro-Gate (7th episode of the 4th season of American Dad!) | "Surro-Gate" is the seventh episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series American Dad!. The 49th episode of the series overall, it originally aired on the Fox Network in the United States on December 2, 2007. The episode was written by Erik Durbin and directed by Tim Parsons. | Oddballeditor1997 (talk) |
Culture/Media/Films
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| 2024-09-24 15:31 | Jason Kwan (Hong Kong cinematographer and film director) | Jason Kwan Chi-yiu (Chinese: 關智耀; born 1964) is a Hong Kong filmmaker. Debuting as a cinematographer in the Hong Kong cinema with All About Love (2005), Kwan was known for his collaborations with director Pang Ho-cheung, which include Love in a Puff (2010), its sequel Love in the Buff, Vulgaria (both 2012), and Aberdeen (2014). | Prince of Erebor（The Book of Mazarbul） |
| 2024-10-12 07:28 | Death Race 2 (2010 action film directed by Roel Reiné) | Death Race 2 is a 2010 action film that was directed by Roel Reiné and written by Tony Giglio, who co-developed its story with Paul W. S. Anderson. The film is a co-production between South Africa and Germany, and is the prequel to Anderson's 2008 film Death Race—which itself is a prequel to 1975's Death Race 2000—and the second installment in the Death Race franchise. | Nineteen Ninety-Four guy (talk) |
| 2024-10-24 07:05 | The Hunt for Gollum (2009 British fantasy fan film by Chris Bouchard) | The Hunt for Gollum is a 2009 British fantasy fan film based on the appendices of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1954–55 book The Lord of the Rings. The film is set in Middle-earth, when the wizard Gandalf the Grey fears that Gollum may reveal information about the One Ring to Sauron. Gandalf sends the ranger Aragorn on a quest to find Gollum. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2024-11-15 19:13 | The Head Hunter (2018 film) (2018 American fantasy horror film) | The Head Hunter (originally titled The Head) is a 2018 American independent fantasy horror film directed by Jordan Downey, who also co-wrote, produced, and edited the film. It stars Norwegian actor Christopher Rygh as the title character, Cora Kaufman, and Aisha Ricketts. The film centers on the title character, who works as a bounty hunter for a local kingdom, all the while he awaits the eventual return of the creature responsible for the murder of his daughter. | Paleface Jack (talk) |
| 2024-11-17 06:18 | Marvel Studios (American entertainment company) | Marvel Studios, LLC, formerly known as Marvel Films, is an American film and television production company. Marvel Studios is the creator of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), a media franchise and shared universe of films and television series produced by the studio, based on characters that appear in Marvel Comics publications. | Trailblazer101 (talk) |
| 2024-11-18 19:22 | The Fabelmans (2022 film by Steven Spielberg) | The Fabelmans is a 2022 American coming-of-age drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg, who co-wrote the screenplay with Tony Kushner. Loosely based on Spielberg's adolescence and first years as a filmmaker, the semi-autobiographical plot is told through an original story of the fictional Sammy Fabelman, a young aspiring filmmaker who explores how the power of films can help him see the truth about his dysfunctional family and those around him. | HM2021 (talk) |
| 2024-12-07 22:37 | Two Stars in the Milky Way (1931 Taiwanese film) | Two Stars in the Milky Way (simplified Chinese: 银汉双星; traditional Chinese: 銀漢雙星; pinyin: Yínhàn Shuāngxīng), also translated Two Stars on the Silver Screen and known as An Actor and an Actress, is a 1931 film directed by Shi Dongshan for the United Photoplay Service (UPS). Based on the eponymous novel by Zhang Henshui, it stars Violet Wong as a country girl who, after being discovered by the Milky Way Film Company, rises to stardom through a Cantonese opera. | — Chris Woodrich (talk) |
| 2024-12-09 21:26 | Hundreds of Beavers (2022 film by Mike Cheslik) | Hundreds of Beavers is a 2022 American slapstick comedy film directed by Mike Cheslik and written by Cheslik and Ryland Tews. It was inspired by the slapstick comedy of 1920s and 1930s artists. The film stars Tews as an applejack maker in a conflict with beavers, trying to win the hand of a merchant's daughter. | Jon698 (talk) |
| 2024-12-18 21:42 | 42 (film) (2013 American biographical sports film) | 42 is a 2013 American biographical sports drama film produced by Howard Baldwin and distributed by Legendary Pictures. Written and directed by Brian Helgeland, 42 is based on baseball player Jackie Robinson, the first black athlete to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) during the modern era. The title of the film is a reference to Robinson's jersey number, which was universally retired across all MLB teams in 1997. | 𝚈𝚘𝚟𝚝 (𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔𝚟𝚝) |
| 2024-12-23 06:59 | High and Low (1963 film) (1963 Japanese film) | is a 1963 Japanese police procedural crime film directed and edited by Akira Kurosawa. It was written by Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Eijiro Hisaita, and Ryūzō Kikushima as a loose adaptation of the 1959 novel King's Ransom by Evan Hunter. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Yutaka Sada, and Tsutomu Yamazaki, it tells the story of Japanese businessman Kingo Gondo (Mifune) struggling for control of the major shoe company at which he is a board member. | Plifal (talk) |
| 2024-12-27 13:36 | Mingxing (Former Chinese film production company) | The Mingxing Film Company (Chinese: 明星影片公司; pinyin: Míngxīng Yǐngpiàn Gōngsī), also credited as the Star Motion Picture Production Company, was a production company active in the Republic of China between 1922 and 1937. Established by a consortium of creative professionals, including film director Zhang Shichuan, dramatist Zheng Zhengqiu, and critic Zhou Jianyun, Mingxing initially produced comedy films that drew little audience attention. | — Chris Woodrich (talk) |
| 2025-01-03 19:22 | Vincente Minnelli (American stage and film director (1903–1986)) | Vincente Minnelli (born Lester Anthony Minnelli; February 28, 1903 – July 25, 1986) was an American stage director and film director. For a career spanning over half a century, he is best known for his sophisticated innovation and artistry in musical films. As of 2024[update], six of his films have been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. | PrinceArchelaus (talk) |
| 2025-01-06 18:56 | Attack of the Robots (1966 film) | Attack of the Robots (Spanish: Cartas boca arriba, lit. 'Cards Face Up') is a 1966 spy film directed by Jesús Franco. The film stars Eddie Constantine as Al Pereira, a spy brought out of retirement to investigate a series of murders conducted by a robot-like army of people with black-framed glasses and strange darkened skin. | Andrzejbanas (talk) |
| 2025-01-12 01:42 | Starbuck (film) (2011 comedy film directed by Ken Scott) | Starbuck is a 2011 French Canadian comedy film directed by Ken Scott and co-written by Scott and Martin Petit. It was produced by André Rouleau for Caramel Film and was shot in Montreal. It stars Patrick Huard, Antoine Bertrand and Julie Le Breton. The story follows an irresponsible middle-aged man who unexpectedly faces fatherhood on two fronts: his girlfriend is pregnant, and dozens of adult children born as a result of his youthful sperm donations have filed a lawsuit to have his identity revealed. | Reidgreg (talk) |
| 2025-01-15 11:23 | Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (2023 video game) | Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is a 2023 action-adventure game developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts. The game is the sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019), taking place five years after the events of the previous game and continuing the adventure of young Jedi Knight Cal Kestis (Cameron Monaghan), as he and his friends continue in their struggle to survive the tyranny of the Galactic Empire while racing against a corrupted High Republic Jedi to reach a shrouded planet ... | OceanHok (talk) |
| 2025-01-18 07:51 | El Apóstol (1917 film) | El Apóstol (English: The Apostle) is a 1917 lost Argentine animated film using cutout animation. Italian-Argentine immigrants Quirino Cristiani and Federico Valle directed and produced, respectively. Historians consider it the world's first animated feature film. The film began production after the success of Cristiani and Valle's short film, La intervención a la provincia de Buenos Aires, and was produced either in less than ten months or in twelve months; accounts differ. | Lazman321 (talk) |
| 2025-01-22 13:41 | How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024 Thai film by Pat Boonnitipat) | How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, known in Thai as Lahn Mah, is a 2024 Thai comedy drama film directed by Pat Boonnitipat in his directorial debut and written by Pat and Thodsapon Thiptinnakorn. It stars Putthipong Assaratanakul and Usha Seamkhum in their debut feature film roles. In the film, M (Putthipong), a university dropout low on money volunteers to take care of his terminally ill grandmother (Usha) in the hope of pocketing an inheritance. | M48SKY (talk) |
| 2025-01-25 09:45 | May You Stay Forever Young (2021 Hong Kong drama film) | May You Stay Forever Young (Chinese: 少年) is a 2021 Hong Kong drama film directed by Rex Ren and Lam Sum, written and produced by Ren and Daniel Chan. The film, set in the background of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, was produced by Phone Made Good Film and stars an ensemble cast of nine. | Prince of Erebor（The Book of Mazarbul） |
| 2025-01-25 21:44 | Tkies-khaf (1924 movie) | Generalissima (talk) (it/she) | |
| 2025-01-29 01:44 | The Host (2006 film) (2006 film by Bong Joon-ho) | The Host is a 2006 monster film directed and co-written by Bong Joon-ho. It stars Song Kang-ho as vendor Park Gang-du whose daughter Hyun-seo (Go Ah-sung) is kidnapped by a creature dwelling around the Han River in Seoul. Byun Hee-bong, Park Hae-il, and Bae Doona appear in supporting roles as Gang-du's father, brother, and sister respectively. | Eiga-Kevin2 (talk) |
| 2025-02-01 14:32 | Dear Jinri (2023 South Korean documentary film) | Dear Jinri (Korean: 진리에게; RR: Jilliege; lit. To the truth) is a 2023 South Korean documentary film directed by Jung Yoon-suk. The film is built around the final interview of Choi Jin-ri, better known as K-pop star Sulli, and was filmed just prior to her death in 2019. The film premiered at the 28th Busan International Film Festival on October 7, 2023 and was released commercially by Netflix on November 13, serving as the second episode of Persona: Sulli. | RachelTensions (talk) |
Culture/Media/Music
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| 2024-09-13 05:02 | Tommy Villiers (Musical artist) | Thomas George Villiers is an English musician from Saffron Walden. After being introduced to dance music via his brother, he began producing drum and bass tracks and uploading them to SoundCloud. While at the Royal Northern College of Music, he joined See Thru Hands and cofounded Porij, with whom he released one and two EPs respectively. | Launchballer |
| 2024-10-14 02:22 | Jean Shepard (American country singer (1933–2016)) | Ollie Imogene "Jean" Shepard (November 21, 1933 – September 25, 2016), was an American country singer who was considered by many writers and authors to be one of the genre's first significant female artists. Her early successes during the 1950s decade were said to influence the future careers of Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette. | ChrisTofu11961 (talk) |
| 2024-10-16 13:08 | H.A.M. (2011 single by Jay-Z and Kanye West) | "H•A•M" (an acronym for "Hard As (a) Motherfucker") is a song by American rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West from the deluxe edition of their collaborative studio album, Watch the Throne (2011). The song features additional vocals from Aude Cardona and Jacob Lewis Smith. It was produced by Lex Luger and co-produced by West, with additional production from Mike Dean and the three of them served as co-writers with Jay-Z. | K. Peake |
| 2024-10-27 22:14 | Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit, BWV 115 (chorale cantate by Johann Sebastian Bach) | Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit (Make yourself ready, my spirit), BWV 115, in Leipzig for the 22nd Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 5 November 1724. It is based on the hymn of the same name by Johann Burchard Freystein (1695). | Gerda Arendt (talk) |
| 2024-10-29 00:38 | Kyu-Kurarin (2021 single by Iyowa) | "Kyu-Kurarin" (Japanese: きゅうくらりん; styled as Kyu-kurarin) is a song by Japanese Vocaloid producer Iyowa. The song was first released on YouTube and Nico Nico Douga on August 29, 2021, and released as a single on September 4, 2021. On December 22, it was included in the album Watashi no Heritage. | Nux-vomica 1007 (talk) |
| 2024-10-29 20:04 | Pinmonkey (American country music band) | Pinmonkey was an American country music band from Nashville, Tennessee. The band was formed in 2002 by Michael Reynolds (lead vocals, acoustic guitar), brothers Michael Jeffers (vocals, bass guitar) and Chad Jeffers (Dobro, lap steel guitar), and Rick Schell (drums, vocals). The band released two albums in 2002: Speak No Evil independently, and Pinmonkey via BNA Records. | Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) |
| 2024-10-31 22:37 | Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80 (Chorale cantata by J.S. Bach) | ("A Mighty Fortress Is Our God"), BWV 80 (also: BWV 80.3), is a chorale cantata for Reformation Day by Johann Sebastian Bach. He reworked it from one of his Weimar cantatas, Alles, was von Gott geboren, BWV 80a (also: BWV 80.1). The first Leipzig version of the church cantata, BWV 80b (also: BWV 80.2), may have been composed as early as 1723, some five months after Bach had moved to Leipzig. | Gerda Arendt (talk) |
| 2024-11-05 14:33 | Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott, BWV 139 (chorale cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach) | Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata ' (Fortunate the person who upon his God), BWV 139, in Leipzig for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 12 November 1724. It is based on the hymn of the same name in five stanzas by Johann Christoph Rube (1692), which is sung to the 1628 tune of Johann Hermann Schein's "Machs mit mir, Gott, nach deiner Güt". | Gerda Arendt (talk) |
| 2024-11-13 05:25 | Blackhawk (band) (American country music band) | Blackhawk (sometimes stylized as BlackHawk) is an American country music band founded in 1992 in Nashville, Tennessee. The band consists of founding members Henry Paul (lead vocals, guitar, mandolin) and Dave Robbins (keyboards, vocals). They are accompanied by a backing band consisting of Randy Threet (bass guitar, vocals), Jeff Aulich (guitar), Jimmy Dormire (guitar), and Mike Bailey (drums). | Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) |
| 2024-11-21 01:52 | Nebraska (album) (1982 studio album by Bruce Springsteen) | Nebraska is the sixth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released on September 30, 1982, by Columbia Records. Springsteen recorded the songs as solo demos using a four-track recorder in the bedroom of his home in Colts Neck, New Jersey, intending to rerecord them with the E Street Band, but decided to release them as they were after full-band renditions were deemed unsatisfactory. | – zmbro (talk) (cont) |
| 2024-12-01 03:32 | Let's Start Here (2023 studio album by Lil Yachty) | Let's Start Here is the fifth studio album by the American rapper Lil Yachty, released on January 27, 2023, through Motown and Quality Control Music. After receiving middling reviews towards his previous album Lil Boat 3 (2020), Lil Yachty was unhappy about where he was musically and wanted to be remembered and respected as an artist. | Locust member (talk) |
| 2024-12-04 16:15 | Conspiracy No. 5 (1997 studio album by Third Day) | Conspiracy No. 5 is the second major-label studio album by American Christian rock band Third Day, released on August 26, 1997, by Reunion Records and Silverstone Records. It was produced by Sam Taylor, who encouraged the band to experiment with different musical styles. The album's name came from the band's interest in conspiracy theories, and a dictionary definition defining "conspiracy" as people gathering together to accomplish a common goal. | Toa Nidhiki05 |
| 2024-12-05 21:58 | Niggas in Paris (2011 single by Jay-Z and Kanye West) | "Niggas in Paris" (censored as "Ni**as in Paris") is a song by American rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West from their collaborative studio album, Watch the Throne (2011). The song was produced by Hit-Boy with West and Mike Dean, while Anthony Kilhoffer contributed additional production. The producers served as co-writers with Jay-Z and Reverend W.A. | K. Peake |
| 2024-12-07 10:42 | Kiki Wong (American musician (born 1989)) | Kristin "Kiki" Wong (born April 15, 1989) is an American musician known for being the touring guitarist of alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. In the 2010s she performed with artists such as Taylor Swift and Usher, and was a member of girl band Nylon Pink. She also played in She Demons, put together by Jerry Only of Misfits, and Vigil of War, a band started by DragonForce bassist Alicia Vigil. | Jonathan Deamer (talk) |
| 2024-12-14 03:49 | Red Light (Bladee album) (2018 studio album by Bladee) | Red Light is the second studio album by the Swedish rapper Bladee. It was released by Year0001 on 11 May 2018. After receiving a positive review toward his debut album Eversince in 2016, Bladee released AvP, a collaborative album with Thaiboy Digital, later that year. During 2017, he released the mixtape Working on Dying, which was followed by the collaborative Drain Gang album D&G. | Locust member (talk) |
| 2024-12-16 21:11 | Her Majesty (song) (Hidden track on the album Abbey Road) | "Her Majesty" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, from their 1969 album Abbey Road. Written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney, it is a brief tongue-in-cheek music hall song. On the album, "Her Majesty" appears 14 seconds after the previous song "The End", but was not listed on the original sleeve. | BernaBotto (talk) |
| 2024-12-22 10:49 | Into the Light: The Solo Albums (2024 compilation album by Whitesnake) | Into the Light: The Solo Albums is a compilation album by the English hard rock band Whitesnake that was released via Rhino Records on 25 October 2024 and in Japan on 13 November the same year. The compilation includes tracks from the solo albums of David Coverdale, the band's founder and-singer-songwriter: White Snake (1977), Northwinds (1978) and Into the Light (2000). | HereIGoAgain (talk) |
| 2024-12-22 13:33 | Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62 (1724 composition by J. S. Bach) | Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Now come, Savior of the heathens), BWV 62, in Leipzig for the first Sunday in Advent and first performed it on 3 December 1724. It is based on Martin Luther's Advent hymn "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland", a paraphrase of the Latin hymn "Veni redemptor gentium". | Gerda Arendt (talk) |
| 2024-12-26 00:52 | The Silver Swan (madrigal) (1612 madrigal by Orlando Gibbons) | "The Silver Swan" is a madrigal by Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625) composed during the early Baroque period. Gibbons's best-known song and among the most admired English madrigals, it is scored for five voices—cantus, quintus, alto, tenor and bass. The piece opens his First Set of Madrigals and Motets of 5 parts, published in London by Thomas Snodham in 1612 with support from the composer's patron Christopher Hatton. | Aza24 (talk) |
| 2024-12-26 15:16 | Exeter (album) (2020 studio album by Bladee) | Exeter is the third studio album by the Swedish rapper Bladee. It was released by Year0001 on 8 April 2020. Recorded during a week period in Gotland, it is his first album to be significantly produced by Gud. It is an experimental pop album that also contains influences from cloud rap and pop music. Its lyrics are stripped down and minimal, and explore themes of optimism and adoration. | Locust member (talk) |
| 2024-12-27 08:54 | Ich freue mich in dir, BWV 133 (1724 church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach) | Ich freue mich in dir (I rejoice in You), BWV 133, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed the Christmas cantata in Leipzig in 1724 for the Third Day of Christmas and first performed it on 27 December 1724. | Gerda Arendt (talk) |
| 2024-12-27 16:13 | The Fox (Elton John album) (1981 studio album by Elton John) | The Fox is the fifteenth studio album by English musician Elton John. It was released on 20 May 1981, through Geffen Records in the US (John's first release for the label) and The Rocket Record Company in all other territories. The album was John's first to be produced by Chris Thomas, who would go on to produce many of John's albums throughout the 1980s and 1990s, as well as John and Clive Franks. | Elephantranges (talk) |
| 2024-12-31 20:54 | Das neugeborne Kindelein, BWV 122 (chorale cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach) | Das neugeborne Kindelein (The newborn little Child), BWV 122, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach composed the chorale cantata in six movements in Leipzig for the Sunday after Christmas and first performed it on 31 December 1724. It is based on a 1597 hymn of the same name by Cyriakus Schneegaß. | Gerda Arendt (talk) |
| 2025-01-01 13:48 | Igor (album) (2019 studio album by Tyler, the Creator) | Igor is the sixth studio album by the American rapper Tyler, the Creator. It was released on May 17, 2019, through Columbia Records. Produced solely by Tyler himself, the album features guest appearances from Playboi Carti, Lil Uzi Vert, Solange, Kanye West, and Jerrod Carmichael. Following the release of Tyler's previous album Flower Boy (2017), the album was primarily recorded in California, with recording sessions also being held in Lake Como, Italy, and Atlanta between 2017 and 2019. | 💽 LunaEclipse 💽 🌹 ⚧ (CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST) |
| 2025-01-05 02:53 | Teenagers (song) (2007 single by My Chemical Romance) | "Teenagers" is a song by the American rock band My Chemical Romance from their third studio album, The Black Parade (2006). An "anthemic" song which has been described as punk rock, glam rock, southern rock, and emo, "Teenagers" was inspired by frontman Gerard Way's fear of teenagers, with lyrics addressing apprehension towards teenagers and teenage gun crime. | Leafy46 (talk) |
| 2025-01-05 21:04 | Spiderr (2022 studio album by Bladee) | Spiderr is the sixth solo studio album by the Swedish rapper Bladee. It was released by Year0001 on 30 September 2022. Amidst touring North America and Europe with Drain Gang, Bladee released the collaborative album Crest with Ecco2K during March 2022, to critical praise. He then announced Spiderr on Instagram during September 2022, alongside the release of its lead single "Drain Story". | Locust member (talk) |
| 2025-01-06 13:35 | Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123 (Chorale cantata by JS Bach for Epiphany) | Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen (Dearest Immanuel, Lord of the Faithful), BWV 123, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for Epiphany and first performed it on 6 January 1725. It is based on the 1679 hymn of the same name by Ahasverus Fritsch which is focused on the contrast of the vanities of the world and the trust in support by Jesus. | Gerda Arendt (talk) |
| 2025-01-06 15:20 | Babe (Sugarland song) (2018 single by Sugarland featuring Taylor Swift) | "Babe" is a song by the American country music duo Sugarland featuring the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released by Big Machine Records on April 20, 2018, as the second single from Sugarland's sixth studio album, Bigger (2018). Written by Swift and Pat Monahan, "Babe" was intended for Swift's 2012 studio album Red but it did not make the final track list. | Ippantekina (talk) |
| 2025-01-07 22:27 | Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht, BWV 124 (Chorale cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach) | Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht (I will not let go of my Jesus), BWV 124, is a church cantata written by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for the first Sunday after the Epiphany and first performed it on 7 January 1725. | Gerda Arendt (talk) |
| 2025-01-13 19:38 | Grim Reaper of Love (1966 single by the Turtles) | "Grim Reaper of Love" is a single by the American rock band the Turtles, written by their lead guitarist Al Nichol and bassist Chuck Portz. By early 1966, the Turtles had achieved three folk rock singles on the Billboard Hot 100, all composed by outside singer-songwriters, to the dismay of the band's members. | VirreFriberg (talk) |
| 2025-01-15 20:17 | Ege Bamyasi (1972 album by Can) | Ege Bamyası (lit. "Aegean okra") is the third studio album by German krautrock band Can, released on 29 November 1972 by United Artists Records. The album contains the single "Spoon", which charted in the Top 10 in Germany after being used as the theme song to the German television mini-series Das Messer (1971). | LastJabberwocky (talk) |
| 2025-01-17 18:32 | El Alma al Aire (2000 album by Alejandro Sanz) | El Alma al Aire (transl. The Bared Soul) is the sixth studio album recorded by Spanish singer-songwriter Alejandro Sanz. It was released on 25 September 2000 by Warner Music Spain, following the success of Más (1997) and the artist's hiatus from music in 1999. It is a pop album that features ballads and uptempo numbers. | Erick (talk) |
| 2025-01-19 00:32 | Adam Neely (American YouTuber and musician (born 1988)) | Adam Neely (born 1988) is an American bassist, YouTuber, and jazz musician based in New York City. His YouTube content includes Q&A videos, vlogs about performing music, and video essays about online music culture. As a musician, he performs with groups including the electro-jazz duo Sungazer (with drummer Shawn Crowder) and the instrumental band Aberdeen. | — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) |
| 2025-01-20 00:34 | Best Friend's Brother (2011 single by Victorious cast) | "Best Friend's Brother" is a song performed by the Victorious cast featuring American singer Victoria Justice. The song was first released as the third single from the show's debut soundtrack album Victorious: Music from the Hit TV Show on May 20, 2011, through Columbia Records in association with Nickelodeon. | Shoot for the Stars (talk) |
| 2025-01-20 11:53 | Devoured by the Mouth of Hell (2024 studio album by Heriot) | Devoured by the Mouth of Hell is the debut studio album by British metalcore band Heriot, released on 25 September 2024. Heriot began working on the album in late 2022 and wrote an early version of it in March 2023. In November, following various festival performances throughout the year and three shows supporting Architects, they scrapped most of their material and began reworking it with Sylosis frontman Josh Middleton, whom helped the band with their performances, sonic experimentation, and songwriting. | Chchcheckit (talk) |
| 2025-01-21 01:59 | Boy (2hollis album) (2024 studio album by 2hollis) | Boy is the third studio album by the American musician 2hollis, self-released on June 7, 2024. It was promoted by two singles and his first headlining tour across Europe. The album gained 2hollis a larger Generation Z fanbase, and allowed him to open for Ken Carson from July to August 2024. 2hollis wrote and produced the entirety of the album and chose the title because of its coming of age feeling. | Locust member (talk) |
| 2025-01-21 21:08 | Didacts and Narpets (1975 part ii of "the fountain of lamneth" by Rush) | "Didacts and Narpets" is the second movement of Canadian rock band Rush's suite "The Fountain of Lamneth", the fifth and final track on Caress of Steel (1975). As with three other sections of the suite, the lyrics were written by drummer Neil Peart and the music composed by bassist and lead vocalist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson. | User:HumanxAnthro (BanjoxKazooie) |
| 2025-01-22 08:44 | Thugged Out Pissed Off (2015 mixtape by Lil B) | Thugged Out Pissed Off is a hip hop mixtape by American rapper Lil B. It was released on December 30, 2015, and has a runtime of nearly four hours. Unlike Lil B's previous releases, its production and subject matter are darker. The mixtape's lyrics, which were inspired by hardships Lil B faced throughout 2015, mainly center around themes of poverty and crime. | CarbonLollipop talk┊contribs |
| 2025-01-22 19:42 | I Didn't Mean to Haunt You (2022 studio album by Quadeca) | I Didn't Mean to Haunt You is the third studio album by the American musician Quadeca, released on November 10, 2022, through DeadAir Records and AWAL. Following his second album From Me to You in 2021, Quadeca contacted Jesse Taconelli of DeadAir to release I Didn't Mean to Haunt You after coming up with its concept. | Locust member (talk) |
| 2025-01-22 22:15 | After Midnight (Chappell Roan song) (2023 song by Chappell Roan) | "After Midnight" is a song by the American singer and songwriter Chappell Roan from her debut studio album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (2023). Island Records and Amusement Records released it as the album's third track on September 22, 2023. Roan wrote "After Midnight" with Casey Smith and the song's producer, Dan Nigro. | Medxvo (talk) |
| 2025-01-23 23:03 | Vampires Will Never Hurt You (2002 song by My Chemical Romance) | "Vampires Will Never Hurt You" is a song by the American rock band My Chemical Romance from their debut album, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love (2002). An emo song, the song's lyrics tell the story of a person transforming into a vampire, viewed as a metaphor for resisting daily forces of corruption. | Leafy46 (talk) |
| 2025-01-26 00:39 | Ska vi älska, så ska vi älska till Buddy Holly (1980 single by Gyllene Tider) | "Ska vi älska, så ska vi älska till Buddy Holly" ("If We're Making Love, We're Making Love to Buddy Holly") is a song by Swedish rock band Gyllene Tider, written by their vocalist Per Gessle and guitarist Mats "MP" Persson. Gessle composed the lyrics to the song in February 1979 during the 20th anniversary of Buddy Holly's death. | VirreFriberg (talk) |
| 2025-01-26 13:25 | Exai (2013 studio album by Autechre) | Exai is the eleventh studio album by British electronic music duo Autechre. It was released on 7 February 2013 through Warp Records, with physical versions arriving on 5 March 2013. Before the release of NTS Sessions 1–4, Exai was Autechre's longest album to date. Critics responded positively to the album, noting its complexity and its use of sounds from previous albums. | Rambley (talk) |
| 2025-01-26 20:46 | Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit, BWV 111 (1725 cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach) | Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit (What my God wants, may it always happen), BWV 111, is a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach for use in a Lutheran service. He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig in 1725 for the third Sunday after Epiphany and first performed it on 21 January 1725, as part of his chorale cantata cycle. | Gerda Arendt (talk) |
| 2025-01-26 22:47 | Christine McVie (album) (1984 studio album by Christine McVie) | Christine McVie is the eponymous second solo album by the English musician, singer, and songwriter Christine McVie, released on 27 January 1984, by Warner Bros. Records. It was McVie's first solo effort in over a decade, following her 1970 self-titled debut, which was released under her maiden name. The album features guest appearances by Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, Ray Cooper, and Fleetwood Mac bandmates Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood. | Dobbyelf62 (talk) |
| 2025-01-28 21:11 | Fievel Is Glauque (American-Belgian experimental jazz duo) | Fievel Is Glauque is a musical jazz-pop duo formed in 2018, composed of multi-instrumentalist Zach Phillips and singer Ma Clément, based in New York City and Brussels respectively. They are accompanied variously by other musicians such as Raphaël Desmarets, André Sacalxot, Eléonore Kenis, Gaspard Sicx and Anatole Damien. | Luiysia (talk) |
| 2025-01-29 22:24 | I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love (2002 studio album by My Chemical Romance) | I Brought You Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love is the debut studio album by American rock band My Chemical Romance, released on July 23, 2002 through Eyeball Records. It was produced by Geoff Rickly and recorded at the Nada Recording Studio in New Windsor, New York. The album was initially conceived in 2002 during the band's recording sessions for existing music that they had written prior, and was produced and recorded over the course of twelve days. | λ NegativeMP1 |
| 2025-01-30 01:04 | Headfirst for Halos (2004 single by My Chemical Romance) | "Headfirst for Halos" is a song by American rock band My Chemical Romance from their debut studio album, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love (2002). It was released as a single on April 5, 2004. A pop-punk and glam rock song, the song combines an upbeat "arena style" composition with lyrics about drug addiction and suicide. | λ NegativeMP1 |
| 2025-01-31 04:09 | Take a Hint (2012 promotional single by Victorious cast featuring Victoria Justice and Elizabeth Gillies) | "Take a Hint" is a song performed by the Victorious cast featuring American singers and actresses Victoria Justice and Elizabeth Gillies. It was first released as a promotional single on March 3, 2012, through Columbia Records and Nickelodeon. It was later added to the show's second soundtrack Victorious 2.0: More Music from the Hit TV Show on June 5, 2012. | Shoot for the Stars (talk) |
| 2025-01-31 04:09 | Make It in America (2012 single by Victorious cast featuring Victoria Justice) | "Make It in America" is a song performed by the Victorious cast featuring featuring American actress and singer Victoria Justice from the show's debut extended play, Victorious 2.0: More Music from the Hit TV Show. It was co-written by Justice and Martin Johnson. The track was released as the album's first and only single on May 15, 2012, through Columbia Records in association with Nickelodeon. | Shoot for the Stars (talk) |
| 2025-02-01 03:38 | The Hillbilly Thomists (Catholic bluegrass band) | The Hillbilly Thomists are an American bluegrass band comprising friars from the Province of St. Joseph of the Dominican Order. Formed at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., in 2014, the band played music locally as a form of street evangelization before releasing their self-titled first studio album in 2017. | Pbritti (talk) |
Culture/Media/Software
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| 2025-01-12 19:26 | American Privacy Rights Act (Data privacy law) | The American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) is a comprehensive data privacy law proposed in the United States. It would place limitations on the kinds of data companies can collect about their users, create processes for users to access or remove data about them, and allow users opt-out from having data sold by data brokers. | — Rhododendrites talk \\ |
| 2025-01-21 16:50 | Anna's Archive (Search engine for shadow libraries) | Anna's Archive is an open source search engine for shadow libraries that was launched by the pseudonymous Anna shortly after law enforcement efforts to shut down Z-Library in 2022. The site aggregates records from several major shadow libraries, including Z-Library, Sci-Hub, and Library Genesis, as well as other sources. | BruschettaFan (talk) |
| 2025-02-01 05:39 | Poop emoji (Emoji representing a pile of feces) | Pile of Poo (💩), also known informally as the poomoji (slang), poop emoji (American English), or poo emoji (British English), is an emoji resembling a coiled pile of feces, usually adorned with cartoon eyes and a large smile. Originating from Japan, it is used as an expression in various contexts. Some possible uses include: as a response of passive aggressive emotion; for comedic value; as commentary on what's bad; or as its literal meaning. | 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) |
Culture/Media/Television
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| 2024-09-07 16:54 | Regulations on children's television programming in the United States | The broadcast of educational children's programming by terrestrial television stations in the United States is mandated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), under regulations colloquially referred to as the Children's Television Act (CTA), the E/I rules, or the Kid Vid rules. Since 1997, all full-power and Class A low-power broadcast television stations have been required to broadcast at least three hours (or more if they operate digital subchannels) per-week ... | ViperSnake151 Talk |
| 2024-11-08 16:02 | Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 | Greece was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with the song "Zari" performed by Marina Satti. The Greek participating broadcaster Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) internally selected its entry for the contest, announcing Satti's selection on 24 October 2023 and the song's selection on 7 March 2024. | Grk1011 (talk) |
| 2024-11-16 02:11 | Roxanne Perez (American professional wrestler (born 2001)) | Carla Gonzalez (born November 5, 2001), better known by the ring name Roxanne Perez, is an American professional wrestler. She has been signed to WWE since March 2022[update], where she performs on the NXT brand. She is a former two-time NXT Women's Champion, and a former NXT Women's Tag Team Champion with Cora Jade. | Mann Mann (talk) |
| 2024-11-24 03:48 | KVLY-TV (TV station in Fargo, North Dakota) | KVLY-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Fargo, North Dakota, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Gray Media alongside KXJB-LD (channel 30), a low-power CBS and CW affiliate. The two stations share studios on 21st Avenue South in Fargo; KVLY-TV's transmitter is located near Blanchard. | Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) |
| 2024-12-15 04:06 | Slag Wars: The Next Destroyer (2020 reality television competition series) | Slag Wars: The Next Destroyer is a British reality television competition series that premiered online on 27 November 2020. The show features Rebecca More and Matthew Camp on their hunt to discover the next LGBTQ+ icon. The first series, broadcast in 2020 on Men.com and SlagWars.com, lasted four episodes and was co-presented by Sophie Anderson, with whom More had become famous as two halves of The Cock Destroyers. | Launchballer |
| 2024-12-15 04:09 | Have I Got News for You (American game show) (American television panel show) | Have I Got News for You (HIGNFY) is an American television panel show based on the British series of the same name. Piloted by Bravo, NBC, and TBS in 2005, 2009, and 2012, the show eventually premiered on September 14, 2024, on CNN and aired around the time of the 2024 United States elections. Two pairs captained by Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black answer news-based trivia questions on current events happening the week prior to an episode's broadcast. | Launchballer |
| 2024-12-23 18:13 | Eurovision Song Contest 1988 (International song competition) | The Eurovision Song Contest 1988 was the 33rd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 30 April 1988 in the RDS Simmonscourt Pavilion in Dublin, Ireland and presented by Pat Kenny and Michelle Rocca. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ), the contest was held in Ireland following the country's victory at the 1987 contest with the song "Hold Me Now" by Johnny Logan. | Sims2aholic8 (talk) |
| 2024-12-28 16:23 | Steven R. McQueen (American actor (born 1988)) | Steven Chadwick McQueen (born July 13, 1988), known professionally as Steven R. McQueen, is an American actor, best known for his role as Jeremy Gilbert in The CW fantasy supernatural drama The Vampire Diaries from 2009 to 2015 and in 2017, and its spin-off Legacies in 2018. He also starred as Jimmy Borrelli in the NBC dramas Chicago Fire from 2015 to 2016 and Chicago P.D. in 2016, part of the One Chicago franchise. | Aviator006 (talk) |
| 2024-12-31 08:17 | KQTV (TV station in St. Joseph, Missouri) | KQTV (channel 2) is a television station in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Heartland Media. The station's studios and transmitter are located on Faraon Street in eastern St. Joseph. | Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) |
| 2024-12-31 08:24 | WPGH-TV (TV station in Pittsburgh) | WPGH-TV (channel 53) is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside dual CW and MyNetworkTV affiliate WPNT (channel 22). The two stations share studios on Ivory Avenue in the city's Summer Hill neighborhood, where WPGH-TV's transmitter is also located. | Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) |
| 2025-01-05 16:36 | Timewasters (UK television comedy) | Timewasters is a British science-fiction comedy television programme, first broadcast on ITV2 in 2017 with a second series broadcast in 2019. It was created by Daniel Lawrence Taylor and written by Taylor and Barunka O'Shaughnessy. It was produced for ITV Studios by Kenton Allen and Matthew Justice of Big Talk Productions. | Reidgreg (talk) |
| 2025-01-12 17:27 | Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt (British TV sitcom (1974–1978)) | Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt is a British television sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television which originally aired on the ITV network from 1974 to 1978. Initially created by Roy Clarke from a concept by Bill Maynard, most of the series was written by Alan Plater. It starred Maynard as Selwyn Froggitt, a hapless but good-natured council labourer, handyman and working men's club secretary in the fictional Yorkshire town of Scarsdale. | Humbledaisy (talk) |
| 2025-01-13 17:06 | Eurovision Song Contest 1962 (International song competition) | The Eurovision Song Contest 1962 was the 7th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 18 March 1962 in the Grand Auditorium of the Villa Louvigny in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg and presented by Mireille Delannoy. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion (CLT), and originally known as the Grand Prix Eurovision 1962 de la Chanson Européenne ({{langx|en|Eurovision Song Contest Grand Prix 1 ... | Sims2aholic8 (talk) |
| 2025-01-17 04:33 | Doctor Who Live (Stage show based on the television series Doctor Who) | Doctor Who Live: The Monsters Are Coming! is an arena stage show based on the BBC TV programme Doctor Who. The show depicts a travelling showman named Vorgenson, portrayed by actor Nigel Planer, attempting to lure the Doctor to Vorgenson's travelling show by summoning monsters from throughout space and time using a device known as the Minimiser. | Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) |
| 2025-01-19 00:10 | Charlie Suff (English actor and musician) | Charlie Suff is an English actor and musician. He was born and grew up in Brighton and later studied Performing Arts at East Sussex College. He then trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where he appeared in various theatre productions. He then performed in other plays, such as Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons in 2019. | DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) |
| 2025-01-24 23:38 | Eurovision Song Contest 1965 (International song competition) | The Eurovision Song Contest 1965 was the 10th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 20 March 1965 in the Sala di Concerto della RAI in Naples, Italy and presented by Renata Mauro. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI), the contest was held in Italy following the country's victory at the 1964 contest with the song "Non ho l'età" by Gigliola Cinquetti. | Sims2aholic8 (talk) |
| 2025-02-01 01:49 | Surro-Gate (7th episode of the 4th season of American Dad!) | "Surro-Gate" is the seventh episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series American Dad!. The 49th episode of the series overall, it originally aired on the Fox Network in the United States on December 2, 2007. The episode was written by Erik Durbin and directed by Tim Parsons. | Oddballeditor1997 (talk) |
| 2025-02-01 11:16 | Adrift (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) (2nd episode of the 1st season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) | "Adrift" is the second episode of the first season of the American fantasy television series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The series is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's history of Middle-earth, primarily material from the appendices of the novel The Lord of the Rings (1954–55). Set thousands of years before the novel in Middle-earth's Second Age, the episode introduces the Dwarven kingdom of Khazad-dûm. | adamstom97 (talk) |
| 2025-02-01 17:56 | The Whole World Is Watching (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) (4th episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) | "The Whole World Is Watching" is the fourth episode of the American television miniseries The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, based on Marvel Comics featuring the characters Sam Wilson / Falcon and Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier. It follows the pair as they continue to reluctantly work with Helmut Zemo to locate and stop the Flag Smashers. | Dcdiehardfan (talk) |
Culture/Media/Video games
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| 2024-11-03 03:32 | Deathloop (2021 action-adventure video game developed by Arkane Studios) | Deathloop is a 2021 first-person shooter immersive sim video game that was developed by Arkane Lyon and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game is set on an island named Blackreef. The player assumes control of Colt Vahn, an assassin who is stuck in a time loop he must destroy by killing eight targets known as Visionaries before midnight when the time loop resets, while being hunted by the island's residents and a Visionary named Julianna, who wants to protect the loop. | OceanHok (talk) |
| 2024-11-15 19:37 | Project Zero 2: Wii Edition (2012 video game) | Project Zero 2: Wii Edition, known in Japan as Zero ~Shinku no Chou~,[b] is a 2012 survival horror video game developed by Tecmo Koei Games and published by Nintendo for the Wii. The game is a remake of Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly (2003), following sisters Mio and Mayu Amakura as they are trapped in a ghost-filled village cursed by a failed ritual. | ProtoDrake (talk) |
| 2024-12-03 11:24 | Tom Clancy's The Division 2 (2019 video game) | Tom Clancy's The Division 2 is a 2019 action role-playing video game that was developed by Massive Entertainment and published by Ubisoft. The game, which is the sequel to Tom Clancy's The Division (2016), is set in a near-future Washington, D.C., in the aftermath of the release of a genetically engineered virus known as "Green Poison", and follows an agent of the Strategic Homeland Division as they try to rebuild the city. | OceanHok (talk) |
| 2024-12-23 07:59 | Berzerk (video game) (1980 video game) | Berzerk is a video game designed by Alan McNeil and released for arcades in 1980 by Stern Electronics of Chicago. The game involves a Humanoid Intruder who has to escape maze-like rooms that are littered with robots that slowly move towards and shoot at the Humanoid. The player can shoot at the robots to try and escape the room. | Andrzejbanas (talk) |
| 2025-01-12 13:06 | F1 24 (2024 video game) | F1 24 is a racing video game developed by Codemasters and published by EA Sports. It is the seventeenth entry in the F1 series and holds the license for the 2024 Formula One and Formula 2 championships. The game was released on 31 May, or three days earlier for users who pre-ordered the Champions' Edition. | '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) |
| 2025-01-13 20:59 | Façade (video game) (2005 video game) | Façade is an artificial intelligence-based interactive story created in 2005 by Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern. Upon release, the game received attention from mainstream news publications for its innovative design, and prompted speculation about the potential use of artificial intelligence in video games. | ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) |
| 2025-01-14 01:44 | Prey (2017 video game) (2017 video game) | Prey is a 2017 first-person shooter immersive sim video game developed by Arkane Austin and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One on May 5, 2017. | Theta224(talk) |
| 2025-01-14 15:48 | Transfer Pak (Accessory for the Nintendo 64) | The Transfer Pak is a removable accessory for the Nintendo 64 controller that fits into its expansion port. When connected, it allows for the transfer of data between supported Nintendo 64 (N64) games and Game Boy or Game Boy Color (GBC) games inserted into its cartridge slot. By using the Transfer Pak, players can unlock additional content in compatible games; the Pokémon Stadium games, with which the Transfer Pak was initially bundled for sale, also feature the ability to emulate specific Game Boy Pokémon titles for play on the N64. | Cyberlink420 (talk) |
| 2025-01-15 11:23 | Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (2023 video game) | Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is a 2023 action-adventure game developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts. The game is the sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019), taking place five years after the events of the previous game and continuing the adventure of young Jedi Knight Cal Kestis (Cameron Monaghan), as he and his friends continue in their struggle to survive the tyranny of the Galactic Empire while racing against a corrupted High Republic Jedi to reach a shrouded planet ... | OceanHok (talk) |
| 2025-01-15 11:28 | Lost Sphear (2017 video game) | is a role-playing video game developed by Tokyo RPG Factory and published by parent company Square Enix for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Windows. It was released in Japan in 2017, and worldwide in 2018. Set in a world where the Moon is treated as a deity, the player takes on the role of Kanata, who is granted the power to prevent the world from vanishing. | ProtoDrake (talk) |
| 2025-01-22 23:24 | Pocket Monsters Stadium (1998 video game) | Pocket Monsters Stadium (known in Japan as ポケモンスタジアム, and also called Pocket Monster Stadium or Pokémon Stadium in English) is a 1998 Japan-exclusive strategy role-playing video game. Developed and published by Nintendo and released for the Nintendo 64. The gameplay is based upon the Pokémon battle formula previously introduced in the Game Boy games Pokémon Red and Green, though only 40 of the games' Pokémon are available to use in gameplay. | Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) |
| 2025-01-23 17:03 | Oatchi (Fictional character from Pikmin 4) | is character who first appeared in Nintendo's 2023 real-time strategy video game Pikmin 4 for the Nintendo Switch. Oatchi, a breed of creature dubbed "Space Dog", is a member of the Rescue Corps; a group of intergalactic individuals tasked with rescuing space adventurers who have become stranded. In Pikmin 4, the organisation are tasked with rescuing reoccurring series protagonist Captain Olimar after crash landing on planet PNF-404. | CaptainGalaxy |
| 2025-01-25 10:57 | Necromorph (Fictional undead creatures in the multimedia franchise Dead Space) | Necromorphs are a collective of undead creatures in the science fiction horror multimedia franchise Dead Space by Electronic Arts, introduced in the 2008 comic book series of the same name. Within the series, the Necromorphs are constructed from reanimated corpses and come in multiple forms of various shapes and sizes. | 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) |
| 2025-01-26 17:59 | Aperture Hand Lab (2019 video game) | Aperture Hand Lab is a 2019 virtual reality (VR) game developed by Cloudhead Games and published by Valve. Set in the Portal universe, the player controls a character that has to complete several tests involving hand and finger gestures while being guided by personality cores. The game's plot was written by Erik Wolpaw and Jay Pinkerton. | Vacant0 (talk • contribs) |
| 2025-01-30 23:46 | Luis Sera (Fictional character) | is a character in the Resident Evil survival horror video game series created by the Japanese company Capcom. He was introduced as a supporting character in Resident Evil 4 (2005) and later appeared in its 2023 remake. He was a biologist who helped protagonist Leon S. Kennedy on his assignment to rescue the President's daughter Ashley Graham. | 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) |
| 2025-02-01 17:38 | Tala (Darkwatch) (Video game character) | Tala is a character introduced in the 2003 first person shooter game Darkwatch developed by High Moon Studios and published by Capcom. A Native American Shaman, Tala works with the group Darkwatch as a Regulator, helping to fend off the forces of the undead in the Wild West. She initially works with another Regulator, Cassidy, to help a cowboy outlaw named Jericho who was infected with vampirism. | Kung Fu Man (talk) |
Culture/Performing arts
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| 2024-12-27 08:54 | Ich freue mich in dir, BWV 133 (1724 church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach) | Ich freue mich in dir (I rejoice in You), BWV 133, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed the Christmas cantata in Leipzig in 1724 for the Third Day of Christmas and first performed it on 27 December 1724. | Gerda Arendt (talk) |
| 2024-12-31 20:54 | Das neugeborne Kindelein, BWV 122 (chorale cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach) | Das neugeborne Kindelein (The newborn little Child), BWV 122, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach composed the chorale cantata in six movements in Leipzig for the Sunday after Christmas and first performed it on 31 December 1724. It is based on a 1597 hymn of the same name by Cyriakus Schneegaß. | Gerda Arendt (talk) |
Culture/Philosophy and religion
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| 2024-09-22 16:45 | Value theory (Systematic study of values) | Value theory is the interdisciplinary study of values. Also called axiology, it examines the nature, sources, and types of values. Primarily a branch of philosophy, it is an interdisciplinary field closely associated with social sciences like economics, sociology, anthropology, and psychology. | Phlsph7 (talk) |
| 2024-11-04 10:15 | Hedonism (Family of views prioritizing pleasure) | Hedonism is a family of philosophical views that prioritize pleasure. Psychological hedonism is the theory that the underlying motivation of all human behavior is to maximize pleasure and avoid pain. As a form of egoism, it suggests that people only help others if they expect a personal benefit. Axiological hedonism is the view that pleasure is the sole source of intrinsic value. | Phlsph7 (talk) |
| 2024-11-05 20:49 | St. George Utah Temple (Latter-day Saint Temple in St. George, Utah) | The St. George Utah Temple, formerly known as the St. George Temple, is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in St. George, Utah. Completed in 1877, it was the third temple constructed by the church and the first in Utah, following the westward migration of Mormon pioneers from Nauvoo, Illinois, after the death of church founder Joseph Smith. | Itsetsyoufree32 (talk) |
| 2024-11-13 21:34 | History of philosophical pessimism (History of a philosophical school) | Philosophical pessimism is a philosophical school that is critical of existence, emphasizing the inherent suffering and futility of life. This perspective can be traced back to various religious traditions and philosophical writings throughout history. | Alice793 (talk) |
| 2024-12-13 01:08 | Philosophical pessimism (Philosophy that life is not worth living) | Philosophical pessimism is a philosophical tradition which argues that life is not worth living and that non-existence is preferable to existence. Thinkers in this tradition emphasize that suffering outweighs pleasure, happiness is fleeting or unattainable, and existence itself does not hold inherent value or an intrinsic purpose. | Alice793 (talk) |
| 2024-12-24 08:15 | Kiddush levana (Jewish ritual of blessing God upon the appearance of the new moon) | Kiddush levana, also known as Birkat halevana, is a Jewish ritual and prayer service, generally observed on the first or second Saturday night of each Hebrew month. The service includes a blessing to God for the appearance of the new moon and further readings depending on custom. In most communities, ritual elements include the shalom aleikhem greeting and jumping toward the moon, with some also incorporating kabbalistic practices. | Dovidroth (talk) |
| 2025-01-01 22:37 | Chaim Kanievsky (Haredi rabbi and leader in Israel (1928–2022)) | Shemaryahu Yosef Chaim Kanievsky (Hebrew: שמריהו יוסף חיים קַניֶבסקִי; January 8, 1928 – March 18, 2022) was an Israeli Haredi rabbi and posek. He was a leading authority in Haredi Jewish society on legal and ethical practice. Known as the Gadol HaDor ("greatest of his generation") and the "Prince of Torah", much of his prominence came through Torah education and advice about Jewish law. | Yeshivish613 (talk) |
| 2025-01-03 17:16 | The Voices of Morebath (2001 non-fiction book by Eamon Duffy) | The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village is a 2001 non-fiction history book by Eamon Duffy and published by Yale University Press about Morebath, England, during the English Reformation and Tudor period of the 16th century. Using the detailed churchwarden's accounts maintained by Sir Christopher Trychay, the vicar of Morebath's parish, Duffy recounts the religious and social implications of the Reformation in a small conservative [[Catholic Church|Ca ... | Pbritti (talk) |
| 2025-01-06 22:28 | John Roach (bishop) (20th-century American Catholic bishop (1921–2003)) | John Robert Roach (July 31, 1921 – July 11, 2003) was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis from 1975 to 1995. The first St. Paul archbishop to have been born in Minnesota, Roach had national prominence as deliverer of benediction at Jimmy Carter's inauguration in 1977 and head of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops from 1980 to 1983. | ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs |
| 2025-01-07 00:09 | David Einhorn (poet) (Jewish writer (1886–1973)) | David Einhorn (Yiddish: דוד אײנהאָרן, romanized: Dovid Eynhorn, 1886 – 2 March 1973) was a poet, journalist, and essayist. Born in the Russian Empire to a Jewish family, he became a poet at a young age and participated within the General Jewish Labour Bund. After helping to found a publishing house in Vilnius he was arrested for his connections to the Bund in 1912, and was exiled from Russia; he went to Bern, where he contributed to journals and periodicals. | Generalissima (talk) (it/she) |
| 2025-01-09 15:13 | Ashin Nandamālābhivaṁsa (Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk) | Ashin Nandamālābhivaṃsa (Burmese: အရှင်နန္ဒမာလာဘိဝံသ, , Thai: สมเด็จพระนนฺทมาลาภิวงฺส; born 22 March 1940, Htun Tin, ), also known as Rector Sayadaw (or Pamaukkhachoke Sayadaw, Burmese: ပါမောက္ခချုပ်ဆရာတော်, ), is a Burmese Buddhist scholar-monk and specialist in Abhidhamma. He is chief abbot of the monasteries of Mahā Subodhāyon and rector of Sitagu International Buddhist Academy. | Htanaungg (talk) |
| 2025-01-14 19:04 | Middle judicatory (Religious administrative structure) | A middle judicatory is an administrative structure or organization found in religious denominations between the local congregation and the widest or highest national or international level. While the term originated in Presbyterianism, the term has been widely adopted by other Christian communions, including Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist, Roman Catholic and even some congregationalist churches. | Dclemens1971 (talk) |
| 2025-01-16 11:00 | First Jewish–Roman War (Rebellion against Roman rule (66–73 CE)) | The First Jewish–Roman War (66–74 CE), sometimes called the Great Jewish Revolt, the First Jewish Revolt, or the Jewish War, was the first of three major rebellions by the Jews against the Roman Empire. Fought in the province of Judaea, it resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem and other cities and towns, the displacement of its population, the appropriation of land, and the destruction of the Jewish Temple and polity. | Mariamnei (talk) |
| 2025-01-17 18:54 | Sivananda yoga (School of spiritual yoga) | Sivananda Yoga is a spiritual yoga system founded by Vishnudevananda; it includes the use of asanas (yoga postures) but is not limited to them as in systems of yoga as exercise. He named this system, as well as the international Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres organization responsible for propagating its teachings, after his guru, Sivananda with the mission 'to spread the teachings of yoga and the message of world peace' which has since been refined to 'practice and teach the anc ... | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2025-01-25 19:29 | Cobra pose (Reclining back-bending postures in hatha yoga and modern yoga) | Cobra Pose or Bhujangasana (Sanskrit: भुजंगासन; IAST: Bhujaṅgāsana) is a reclining back-bending asana in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise. It is also performed in a cycle of asanas in Surya Namaskar, Salute to the Sun, as an alternative to Urdhva Mukha Svanasana, Upward Dog Pose. The Yin Yoga form is Sphinx Pose. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
Culture/Sports
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| 2024-08-25 01:16 | 2024 Men's T20 World Cup (Ninth edition of the Men's T20 World Cup) | The 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup was the ninth edition of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup. It was co-hosted by the West Indies and the United States from 1 to 29 June 2024; the tournament was hosted by the West Indies for the second time, and it was also the first major ICC tournament to feature matches played in the United States. | Vestrian24Bio (TALK) |
| 2024-09-14 08:26 | Kasey Peters (American football player (born 1987)) | Kasey Peters (born May 20, 1987) is an American former professional football quarterback. He played college football at Saddleback, Santa Ana, Grand Valley State and Rocky Mountain. While at Rocky Mountain, he was the Frontier Conference Co-Offensive Player of the Year in both 2009 and 2010. Professionally, he was a member of the Tri-Cities Fever of the [[Indoor Football League ... | ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) |
| 2024-09-27 20:39 | The Hungry Five (Group of businessman related to the Green Bay Packers) | The Hungry Five are the Green Bay, Wisconsin-area businessmen who were instrumental in keeping the Green Bay Packers franchise in operation during its early years. They raised funds, incorporated the team as a non-profit corporation, sold stock and otherwise promoted the franchise. The Five were Andrew B. Turnbull, Curly Lambeau, Gerald Francis Clifford, Lee Joannes and W. Webber Kelly. | « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ |
| 2024-10-07 12:46 | Delbert Cowsette (American football player and coach (born 1977)) | Delbert Ray Cowsette (born September 3, 1977) is an American former professional football defensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL) and Arena Football League (AFL). He is currently the defensive line coach for the Howard Bison. | ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) |
| 2024-10-18 14:08 | 1994 San Diego Chargers season (NFL team 35th season) | The 1994 San Diego Chargers season was the team's 35th, its 25th in the National Football League (NFL) and its 34th in San Diego. It featured a surprising run to Super Bowl XXIX, where the Chargers lost to the San Francisco 49ers. To date, this is the only Super Bowl appearance in franchise history. | Harper J. Cole (talk) |
| 2024-10-22 20:23 | 2023 Macau Formula 4 Race | The 2023 Macau Formula 4 Race, formerly the 2023 Macau Asia Formula 4, was a Formula 4 (F4) motor race held on the Guia Circuit in Macau on 12 November 2023, as part of the 2023 Macau Grand Prix. It was the fourth F4 race in Macau, and it was an invitational, non-championship round of the 2023 Formula 4 South East Asia Championship. | EnthusiastWorld37 (talk) |
| 2024-10-25 01:25 | Cody Snyder (Canadian bull rider) | Cody Snyder (born 1962 or 1963) is a Canadian former professional rodeo cowboy who specialized in bull riding. He is currently a bull-riding event producer. In 1983, Snyder became the first Canadian to win the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) bull riding world championship. | Reidgreg (talk) |
| 2024-10-30 16:09 | Charel Allen (American basketball player (born 1986)) | Charel Allen (born July 23, 1986) is an American former professional basketball guard and current coach. She played high school basketball at Monessen High School, where she was a two-time Pennsylvania Class A Player of the Year and finished her high school career as the fifth-leading scorer in state history. | ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) |
| 2024-10-31 15:47 | Aston Whiteside (American football player (born 1989)) | Aston Rashaud Whiteside (born May 19, 1989) is an American former professional football defensive end. He played college football for the Abilene Christian Wildcats, where he was a four-time first-team Lone Star Conference (LSC) South selection and a three-time LSC South Defensive Lineman of the Year. | ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) |
| 2024-11-01 12:10 | Cameron Echols-Luper (American football player (born 1995)) | Cameron Damonte Echols-Luper (born Cameron Damonte Echols; April 9, 1995) is an American professional football wide receiver and return specialist for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He attended Auburn High School in Auburn, Alabama, where he was a quarterback and won six state titles in track and field. | ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) |
| 2024-11-01 23:09 | Charlie Gehringer (American baseball player (1903–1993)) | Charles Leonard Gehringer (May 11, 1903 – January 21, 1993), nicknamed "the Mechanical Man", was an American professional baseball second baseman. He played for the Detroit Tigers for 19 seasons from 1924 to 1942. He compiled a .320 career batting average with 2,839 hits and 1,427 runs batted in (RBIs). | Cbl62 (talk) |
| 2024-11-01 23:15 | Turkey Stearnes (American baseball player (1920–1940)) | Norman Thomas "Turkey" Stearnes (May 8, 1901 – September 4, 1979) was an American baseball center fielder. He played 18 years in the Negro leagues, including nine years with the Detroit Stars (1923–1931), six years with the Chicago American Giants (1932–1935, 1937–1938), and three years with the Kansas City Monarchs (1938–1940). | Cbl62 (talk) |
| 2024-11-14 10:46 | Ted Williams (American baseball player (1918–2002)) | Theodore Samuel Williams (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002) was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, primarily as a left fielder, for the Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960; his career was interrupted by military service during World War II and the Korean War. | Omnis Scientia (talk) |
| 2024-11-15 17:07 | Thaddeus Coleman (American gridiron football player (born 1985)) | Thaddeus Coleman (born June 20, 1985) is an American former professional football offensive tackle who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and Arena Football League (AFL). He played college football at Mississippi Valley State, where he was a two-time first-team All-Southwestern Athletic Conference selection. | ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) |
| 2024-11-18 02:25 | 2017–18 College Football Playoff (Postseason college football tournament) | The 2017–18 College Football Playoff was a single-elimination postseason tournament that determined the national champion of the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was the fourth edition of the College Football Playoff (CFP) and involved the top four teams in the country as ranked by the College Football Playoff poll playing in two semifinals, with the winners of each advancing to the national championship game. | PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) |
| 2024-11-20 15:32 | 2019 NFC Divisional playoff game (Seattle–Green Bay) (2019 American football postseason game) | The 2019 National Football Conference (NFC) Divisional playoff game was a National Football League (NFL) playoff game between the Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers on January 12, 2020. The Packers finished the 2019 season with a record of 13–3 under first-year head coach Matt LaFleur. Their record, after tiebreakers were calculated, was good enough for the 2nd seed of the playoffs and a first-round bye. | « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ |
| 2024-11-20 17:12 | 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres | The women's 400 metres at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships took place in three rounds at the Ataköy Athletics Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, on 3 and 4 March 2023. This was the 37th time the women's 400 metres was contested at the European Athletics Indoor Championships. Athletes could qualify by achieving the entry standard or by their World Athletics Ranking for the event. | Editør (talk) |
| 2024-11-21 12:40 | Adrar Stadium (Sports venue in Agadir, Morocco) | Adrar Stadium (Arabic: ملعب آدرار; Berber languages: ⴰⴱⴰⵔⴰⵣ ⵏ ⵓⴷⵔⴰⵔ (Adrar means mountain in Tamazight); French: Grand Stade d'Agadir), is a multi-use stadium in Agadir, in the Souss-Massa region in the country of Morocco, near the Atlas Mountains, in North Africa, and is used as a home venue by the local football team, Hassania Agadir. | Cltjames (talk) |
| 2024-11-24 09:23 | 2024 World Rally Championship (52nd running of the World Rally Championship) | The 2024 FIA World Rally Championship was a motorsport championship that was the 52nd occurrence of the World Rally Championship, an international rallying series organised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and WRC Promoter GmbH. Teams and crews competed for the World Rally Championships for Drivers, Co-drivers and Manufacturers. | Unnamelessness (talk) |
| 2024-11-27 23:53 | Jakob Ingebrigtsen (Norwegian middle- and long-distance runner (born 2000)) | Jakob Ingebrigtsen (born 19 September 2000) is a Norwegian middle- and long-distance runner who is the current world record holder in the short track 1500 metres, the 2000 metres and the 3000 metres, and holds the world best time over the two mile distance. Ingebrigtsen is a two-time Olympic champion, winning gold medals in the 1500 m at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, setting a then Olympic and European record, and in the 5000 metres at the 2024 Paris Olympics. | KnowledgeIsPower9281 (talk) |
| 2024-12-05 18:59 | Bobby Brink (American ice hockey player (born 2001)) | Bobby Orr Brink (born July 8, 2001) is an American professional ice hockey right wing for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Flyers selected him in the second round, with the 34th overall pick, of the 2019 NHL entry draft. | — GhostRiver |
| 2024-12-10 01:07 | Andrea Kimi Antonelli (Italian racing driver (born 2006)) | Andrea Kimi Antonelli (born 25 August 2006), also known as Kimi Antonelli, is an Italian racing driver, who is contracted to compete in Formula One for Mercedes. | MB2437 |
| 2024-12-19 00:38 | Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle | The men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 1 to 2 August 2024 at Paris La Défense Arena. | It is a wonderful world (talk) |
| 2024-12-19 22:56 | Frank Lampard (English football player and manager (born 1978)) | Frank James Lampard OBE (born 20 June 1978) is an English professional football manager and former player who is the manager of EFL Championship club Coventry City. Widely regarded as one of Chelsea's greatest players ever and one of the greatest midfielders of his generation, Lampard has the record of the most goals by a midfielder in the Premier League and most goals from outside the box (41). | Chisperlear (talk) |
| 2024-12-20 16:53 | Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre butterfly | The women's 100 metre butterfly event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 27 to 28 July 2024 at the Olympic Aquatics Centre at Paris La Défense Arena. | IAWW (talk) |
| 2024-12-20 21:57 | 2024 World Athletics Relays – Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay | The mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 World Athletics Relays took place in three rounds at the Thomas Robinson Stadium in Nassau, Bahamas, on 4 and 5 May 2024. It was the fourth time that this mixed-sex relay was contested at the World Athletics Relays. The event was also an Olympic qualification: fourteen teams qualified for the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. | Editør (talk) |
| 2024-12-22 00:45 | Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre butterfly | The women's 200 metre butterfly event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 31 July to 1 August 2024 at the Olympic Aquatics Centre at Paris La Défense Arena. | IAWW (talk) |
| 2024-12-22 02:38 | Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic individual all-around (women's artistic individual all-around events at the Olympics) | The women's artistic individual all-around final at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held on 21 September at the Sydney SuperDome. The event was impacted by three separate scandals. The vault was set at the incorrect height for the first two rotations of the competition, causing several falls and injuries. | Riley1012 (talk) |
| 2024-12-22 05:25 | McLaren MCL38 (2024 Formula One car) | The McLaren MCL38 is a Formula One car designed and constructed by McLaren under the direction of Rob Marshall to compete in the 2024 Formula One World Championship, in which it won the World Constructors' Championship. The car was driven by Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, in their sixth and second seasons with the team respectively. | 5225C (talk • contributions) |
| 2024-12-23 23:47 | 2003 Detroit Lions season (NFL team season) | The 2003 season was the Detroit Lions' 74th season in the National Football League (NFL), their 70th as the Detroit Lions, and their first under head coach Steve Mariucci. The team improved upon their 3–13 record from the previous season but missed the postseason for the fourth consecutive season, suffering a losing season and finishing last in their division for the third straight season. | Carhles (talk) |
| 2024-12-28 00:43 | Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly | The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 30 to 31 July 2024 in the Olympics Aquatics Centre at Paris La Défense Arena. | IAWW (talk) |
| 2024-12-29 16:54 | Lebanon at the 1948 Summer Olympics (Sporting event delegation) | The West Asian nation of Lebanon competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, which was held from 29 July to 14 August 1948. This was the country's first appearance in the Summer Olympic Games. The Lebanese delegation was made up of eight male competitors: boxer Michel Ghaoui, shooters Khalil Hilmi and Salem Salam, and wrestlers Bechara Abou Rejalie, Charif Damage, Ibrahim Mahgoub, Abdallah Sidani, and Safi Taha. | Jordano53 |
| 2024-12-30 19:08 | Lebanon at the 1948 Winter Olympics (Sporting event delegation) | The West Asian country of Lebanon competed in the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland, which was held from 30 January to 8 February 1948. This was Lebanon's first appearance in a Winter Olympic Games, as well as their first appearance in any Olympic Games. The delegation sent two male alpine skiers: Ibrahim Geagea and Munir Itani. | Jordano53 |
| 2024-12-30 23:40 | Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle | The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 27 July 2024 at Paris La Défense Arena. | IAWW (talk) |
| 2024-12-31 17:21 | Jackie Stamps (English footballer (1918–1991)) | John David Stamps (2 December 1918 – 19 November 1991) was an English footballer who played as a centre-forward, most notably for Derby County. He is best remembered as scoring two goals in the 1946 FA Cup Final for Derby County in a 4–1 win against Charlton Athletic. He started as an amateur with Silverwood Colliery before being signed by Mansfield Town but was released after making just one senior appearance. | Bungle (talk • contribs) |
| 2025-01-03 23:51 | 2023 Formula One World Championship (74th season of Formula One) | The 2023 FIA Formula One World Championship was a motor racing championship for Formula One cars, the 74th running of the Formula One World Championship. It was recognised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the governing body of international motorsport, as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars. | SSSB (talk) |
| 2025-01-04 21:49 | Simon Olsson (Swedish footballer (born 1997)) | Simon Olsson (born 14 September 1997) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Allsvenskan club Elfsborg and the Sweden national team. | Lucfev (talk) |
| 2025-01-05 13:26 | Men's T20 World Cup (Men's Twenty20 International Cricket World Cup) | The ICC Men's T20 World Cup, formerly the ICC World Twenty20, is a biennial T20I cricket tournament, organised by the International Cricket Council. It was held in every odd year from 2007 to 2009, and since 2010 has been held in every even year with the exception of 2018 and 2020. In 2018, the tournament was rebranded from World Twenty20 to Men's T20 World Cup. | Vestrian24Bio |
| 2025-01-08 01:16 | Khyree Jackson (American football player (1999–2024)) | Khyree Anthony Jackson (August 11, 1999 – July 6, 2024) was an American football cornerback. He played college football for the Fort Scott CC Greyhounds, Alabama Crimson Tide, and the Oregon Ducks. The Minnesota Vikings selected him in the fourth round, with the 108th overall pick, of the 2024 NFL draft. | — GhostRiver |
| 2025-01-08 17:47 | 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay | The women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships took place in one round in the Ataköy Athletics Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, on 5 March 2023. This was the twelfth time the women's 4 × 400 metres relay was contested at the European Athletics Indoor Championships. Six national teams qualified based on their outdoor results from 2022 or the team's cumulative individual 400 metres indoor results from 2023. | Editør (talk) |
| 2025-01-09 21:01 | Noah Cates (American ice hockey player (born 1999)) | Noah Allen Cates (born February 5, 1999) is an American professional ice hockey left wing for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Flyers selected Cates in the fifth round, with the 137th overall pick, of the 2017 NHL entry draft. Cates has also been a member of the United States men's national ice hockey team, serving as an alternate captain at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. | — GhostRiver |
| 2025-01-11 07:54 | 2018–19 College Football Playoff (Postseason college football tournament) | The 2018–19 College Football Playoff was a single-elimination postseason tournament that determined the national champion of the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was the fifth edition of the College Football Playoff (CFP) and involved the top four teams in the country as ranked by the College Football Playoff poll playing in two semifinals, with the winners of each advancing to the national championship game. | PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) |
| 2025-01-13 02:21 | Jordan Eberle (Canadian ice hockey player (born 1990)) | Jordan Leslie Christopher Eberle (born May 15, 1990) is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger and captain of the Seattle Kraken of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the first round (22nd overall) in the 2008 NHL entry draft by the Edmonton Oilers and made his NHL debut with the Oilers in 2010. | HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) |
| 2025-01-13 13:04 | Alina Zagitova (Russian figure skater (born 2002)) | Alina Ilnazovna Zagitova (Russian: Алина Ильназовна Загитова, IPA: [ɐˈlʲinə zɐˈɡʲitəvə]; born 18 May 2002) is a Russian former competitive figure skater. She is the 2018 Olympic champion, the 2019 World champion, the 2018 European champion, 2017–18 Grand Prix Final champion, and the 2018 Russian national champion. | Riley1012 (talk) |
| 2025-01-15 03:16 | Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (Canadian ice hockey player (born 1993)) | Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (born April 12, 1993) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and alternate captain for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nicknamed "Nuge" and "RNH" by Oilers fans, Nugent-Hopkins was selected first overall by the Oilers in the 2011 NHL entry draft. | HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) |
| 2025-01-15 14:01 | Niu Sale (American football player (born 1969)) | Niusumelie "Niu" Sale (born November 17, 1969) is an American former professional football player who played three seasons in the Arena Football League (AFL) with the Sacramento Attack/Miami Hooters and Massachusetts Marauders. He played college football at El Camino College and the University of Missouri. | ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) |
| 2025-01-18 10:50 | 2024 Men's T20 World Cup final (final match of 2024 T20WC) | The 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup final was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket match played at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados on 29 June 2024 to determine the winner of the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. It was played between South Africa and India. | Vestrian24Bio |
| 2025-01-19 10:42 | 2016 Road to Le Mans | The 1st Road to Le Mans was an 55-minute automobile endurance event for 37 teams of one or two drivers racing Le Mans Prototype 3 (LMP3) and Group GT3 (GT3) cars. It was held on 18 June 2016 at the Circuit de la Sarthe near Le Mans, France, as a support race for the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans and the second round of the 2016 GT3 Le Mans Cup. | EnthusiastWorld37 (talk) |
| 2025-01-21 00:45 | 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres | The women's 400 metres at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships took place in three rounds at the Commonwealth Arena in Glasgow, United Kingdom, on 1 and 2 March 2024. This was the nineteenth time that the women's 400 metres was contested at the World Athletics Indoor Championships. Twenty-four athletes from nineteen different nations competed in the event. | Editør (talk) |
| 2025-01-21 22:59 | 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay | The women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships took place in two rounds at the Commonwealth Arena in Glasgow, United Kingdom, on 3 March 2024. This was the seventeenth time the women's 4 × 400 metres relay was contested at the World Athletics Indoor Championships. There was no entry standard for the qualification. | Editør (talk) |
| 2025-01-23 22:26 | 2024 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay | The women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 European Athletics Championships took place in two rounds at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy, on 11 and 12 June 2024. It was the eighteenth time the women's 4 × 400 metres relay was contested at the European Athletics Championships. Relay teams of sixteen nations competed. | Editør (talk) |
| 2025-01-24 11:57 | 2024 European Athletics Championships – Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay | The mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 European Athletics Championships took place in one round at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy, on 7 June 2024. It was the first time this mixed-sex relay event was contested at the European Athletics Championships. Relay teams of eight nations competed in the mandated order man–woman–man–woman. | Editør (talk) |
| 2025-01-28 20:13 | Toshiyori (Japan Sumo Association executives) | A toshiyori (年寄), also known as an oyakata (親方), is a sumo elder exercising both coaching functions with active wrestlers and responsibilities within the Japan Sumo Association (JSA). All toshiyori are former wrestlers who reached a sufficiently high rank to be eligible to this status. | OtharLuin (talk) |
| 2025-01-29 14:58 | Solfrid Koanda (Norwegian weightlifter (born 1998)) | Solfrid Eila Amena Koanda (born 13 November 1998) is a Norwegian weightlifter and former electrician who became the first female Norwegian weightlifter to become an Olympic champion, and the first Norwegian weightlifter to become World and European champion in the sport. Born in Oulu to a Finnish mother and an Ivorian father, she lived in Finland until moving to Norway at nine years old. | Arconning (talk) |
| 2025-01-30 02:23 | Brandon Saad (American ice hockey player (born 1992)) | Brandon Saad (born October 27, 1992) is an American professional ice hockey forward for the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL). | Spilia4 (talk) |
| 2025-01-30 12:03 | Sikh–Wahhabi War (Conflict in South Asia from 1826 to 1831) | The Sikh–Wahhabi War was fought between the Sikh Empire under Maharaja Ranjit Singh and the Wahhabi movement led by Sayyid Ahmad Barelvi. The conflict arose from Sayyid Ahmad's attempts to establish an Islamic state in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent based on the Sharia law. | Indo-Greek |
| 2025-01-31 16:09 | University of Southwestern Louisiana basketball scandal | In 1973, the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) was penalized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for rules violations concerning the university's basketball program. This followed an investigation in which the association discovered that the program had been fielding academically ineligible players and paying student athletes, in violation of the NCAA's rules. | JJonahJackalope (talk) |
Culture/Visual arts
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| 2024-10-18 17:20 | Gustav Ammann (Swiss landscape architect (1885–1955)) | Gustav Ammann (9 July 1885 – 23 March 1955) was a Swiss landscape architect who worked in the modernist style and influenced garden architecture in Switzerland. He has worked on over 1,700 projects, including the namesake Gustav-Ammann-Park in Zürich. | Ajay Platinum (talk) |
| 2024-10-19 02:09 | Max Ernst Haefeli (Swiss architect and furniture designer (1901–1976)) | Max Ernst Haefeli (25 January 1901 – 17 June 1976) was a Swiss architect, furniture designer, and co-founder of the Haefeli Moser Steiger (HMS) architectural firm. He subscribed to the New Building architectural school of thought in Switzerland. | Ajay Platinum (talk) |
| 2024-10-29 00:32 | Cady Noland (American artist (born 1956)) | Cady Noland (born 1956) is an American sculptor, printmaker, and installation artist who primarily works with found objects and appropriated images. Her work, often made with objects denoting danger, industry, and American patriotism, addresses notions of the failed promise of the American Dream, the divide between fame and anonymity, and violence in American society, among other themes. | 19h00s (talk) |
| 2024-12-09 15:37 | Frederick Warren Freer (American painter (1849–1908)) | Frederick Warren Freer (June 16, 1849 – March 7, 1908) was an American painter. The son of a physician, Freer studied art instead of medicine after going partially deaf when he was fourteen. After he graduated from high school in Chicago, Freer's family relocated to Munich, where Freer studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts under multiple well-known artists. | Kimikel (talk) |
| 2024-12-16 06:51 | Statue of John Barry (Memorial in Washington, D.C., U.S.) | The statue of John Barry commemorates the "Father of the United States Navy", Commodore John Barry (1745-1806). Barry was an Irish-born sailor who joined the American colonists in fighting for independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. Barry became the first commission by the Second Continental Congress. | APK hi :-) (talk) |
| 2024-12-23 01:11 | Lingnan School (Chinese art movement) | The Lingnan School (traditional Chinese: 嶺南畫派; simplified Chinese: 岭南画派; pinyin: Lǐngnán huà pài) was an art movement active in the late Qing dynasty and Republic of China that sought to modernize Chinese painting through borrowing from other artistic traditions. The school's founders, Gao Jianfu, Gao Qifeng, and Chen Shuren, were initially influenced by the teachings of Ju Lian, including the "boneless" technique. | — Chris Woodrich (talk) |
| 2025-01-10 16:05 | Taliesin West (Studio and home in Scottsdale, Arizona) | Taliesin West is a studio and home developed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States. Named after Wright's Taliesin studio in Spring Green, Wisconsin, Taliesin West was Wright's winter home and studio from 1937 until his death in 1959. The complex is the headquarters of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, a nonprofit organization that hosts tours and events there. | Epicgenius (talk) |
| 2025-01-10 22:23 | Melvin Edwards (American sculptor (born 1937)) | Melvin "Mel" Edwards (born May 4, 1937) is an American abstract sculptor, printmaker, and arts educator. Edwards, an African-American artist, was raised in segregated communities in Texas and an integrated community in Ohio. He moved to California in 1955, beginning his professional art career while an undergraduate student. | 19h00s (talk) |
| 2025-01-11 00:02 | Sketches of the Life of the Great Priest (Print series by Utagawa Kuniyoshi) | (c. 1831) is a series of ten Japanese woodblock prints in ink and color on paper made by ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798–1861). It was published by Iseya Rihei in 1835–1836. The prints, which are in the large, horizontal, multi-colored woodblock format, tell the story of Nichiren (1222–1282), a Japanese Buddhist priest, philosopher and founder of Nichiren Buddhism. | Viriditas (talk) |
| 2025-01-16 15:05 | 555 Edgecombe Avenue (Residential building in Manhattan, New York) | 555 Edgecombe Avenue is an apartment building at the southwest corner of Edgecombe Avenue and 160th Street in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, New York. Built between 1914 and 1916, it was originally known as the Roger Morris Apartments after the retired British Army officer who built the nearby Morris–Jumel Mansion, and was designed by Schwartz & Gross, who specialized in apartment buildings. | Epicgenius (talk) |
Culture/Visual arts/Architecture
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| 2024-11-09 23:59 | Jugtown Historic District (Historic district in New Jersey, United States) | The Jugtown Historic District consists of a cluster of historic buildings surrounding the intersection of Harrison Street and Nassau Street in Princeton, New Jersey. The settlement dates to colonial times and is sometimes known as Queenston. In 1987, the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. | Lbal (talk) |
| 2024-12-20 18:37 | Price Tower (Building in Bartlesville, Oklahoma) | The Price Tower is a nineteen-story, 221-foot-high (67 m) tower at 510 South Dewey Avenue in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, United States. One of the few skyscrapers designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Price Tower is derived from a 1929 proposal for apartment buildings in New York City. Harold C. | Epicgenius (talk) |
| 2024-12-24 19:50 | Amtrak Susquehanna River Bridge (Bridge in Maryland, United States) | The Amtrak Susquehanna River Bridge is a deck truss bridge that carries the Amtrak Northeast Corridor line across the Susquehanna River between Havre de Grace and Perryville, Maryland. The 4,153.8-foot (1,266.1 m)-long two-track bridge has 17 fixed spans and one swing span across the river's navigation channel. | Pi.1415926535 (talk) |
| 2024-12-29 16:13 | Louis Abramson (American architect (1887–1985)) | Louis Allen Abramson (1887 – January 15, 1985) was an American architect who practiced mostly in New York City, specializing in hospitals, nursing homes, and restaurants. He is best known for designing the Daughters of Jacob Geriatric Center at 1201 Findlay Ave in the Bronx. | RoySmith (talk) |
| 2025-01-16 11:00 | First Jewish–Roman War (Rebellion against Roman rule (66–73 CE)) | The First Jewish–Roman War (66–74 CE), sometimes called the Great Jewish Revolt, the First Jewish Revolt, or the Jewish War, was the first of three major rebellions by the Jews against the Roman Empire. Fought in the province of Judaea, it resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem and other cities and towns, the displacement of its population, the appropriation of land, and the destruction of the Jewish Temple and polity. | Mariamnei (talk) |
| 2025-01-18 22:37 | Hollyhock House (House in Los Angeles, California) | Hollyhock House is a house museum at Barnsdall Art Park in the East Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. The house, designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the heiress Aline Barnsdall, is named for the hollyhocks used in its design. The main house, incorporating elements from multiple architectural styles, consists of three wings around a central courtyard. | Epicgenius (talk) |
| 2025-01-21 05:01 | Statue of John Witherspoon (Statue by William Couper in Washington, D.C., U.S.) | Doctor John Witherspoon is a bronze sculpture and granite pedestal which depicts John Witherspoon, a Presbyterian minister, member of Congress, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Born in Scotland, Witherspoon immigrated to the U.S. in the 1760s and later became president of the College of New Jersey (now known as Princeton University). | APK hi :-) (talk) |
| 2025-01-21 05:01 | John Paul Jones Memorial (Statue by Charles Henry Niehaus in Washington, D.C, U.S.) | The John Paul Jones Memorial, also known as Commodore John Paul Jones, is a monument in West Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. The memorial honors John Paul Jones, the United States' first naval war hero, and received the Congressional Gold Medal after the American Revolutionary War ended. Jones allegedly said "I have not yet begun to fight!" during the Battle of Flamborough Head. | APK hi :-) (talk) |
| 2025-01-24 05:21 | Grain Belt Brewery (Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota) | The Grain Belt Brewery, also known as the Minneapolis Brewing Company, is a former brewery building in Northeast, Minneapolis, located north of Broadway Street Northeast on the east bank of the Mississippi River. Originally the headquarters of the eponymous Minneapolis Brewing Company, the building ceased operating as a brewery in 1975. | ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs |
| 2025-01-27 22:28 | Robie House (House in Chicago, Illinois) | The Robie House (also the Frederick C. Robie House) is a historic house museum at 5757 South Woodlawn Avenue in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the Prairie style, it was completed in 1910 for the manufacturing executive Frederick Carlton Robie and his family. | Epicgenius (talk) |
| 2025-01-30 13:23 | Hussain Nizam Shah III (12th Sultan of Ahmadnagar) | Hussain Nizam Shah III was the 12th Sultan of Ahmadnagar Sultanate under the regency of Fath Khan and Shahaji. It was during his reign the second phase of extinction of Ahmadnagar Sultanate began. He was imprisoned by Shah Jahan in the Gwalior Fort after Mahabat Khan's successful conquest of Dautlatabad. | Mr.Hanes Talk
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Culture/Visual arts/Comics and Anime
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| 2024-10-19 21:54 | Daredevil (Marvel Comics character) (Marvel Comics fictional character) | Daredevil is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Bill Everett, with some input from Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in Daredevil #1 (April 1964). | Wrangler1981 (talk) |
| 2024-11-17 06:18 | Marvel Studios (American entertainment company) | Marvel Studios, LLC, formerly known as Marvel Films, is an American film and television production company. Marvel Studios is the creator of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), a media franchise and shared universe of films and television series produced by the studio, based on characters that appear in Marvel Comics publications. | Trailblazer101 (talk) |
| 2024-12-13 07:44 | Ambivalence (Neon Genesis Evangelion episode) (Episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion) | is the eighteenth episode of the Japanese anime television series Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was created by Gainax. Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi wrote the episode, which the animator Tensai Okamura directed. The series' protagonist is Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy whose father Gendo recruited him to the special military organization Nerv to pilot a gigantic, bio-mechanical mecha named Evangelion into combat with beings called Angels. | TeenAngels1234 (talk) |
| 2024-12-20 20:33 | Introjection (Neon Genesis Evangelion episode) (Episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion) | is the nineteenth episode of the Japanese anime television series Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was created by Gainax. Hideaki Anno and Akio Satsukawa wrote the episode, which animator Masayuki directed. The series' protagonist is Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy whose father Gendo recruited him to the special military organization Nerv to pilot a gigantic, bio-mechanical mecha named Evangelion into combat with beings called Angels. | TeenAngels1234 (talk) |
| 2024-12-26 20:14 | Naruto (TV series) (Japanese anime television series) | Naruto is a Japanese anime television series based on Masashi Kishimoto's manga series of the same name. The story follows Naruto Uzumaki, a young ninja who seeks recognition from his peers and dreams of becoming the Hokage, the leader of his village. Just like the manga, the anime series is divided into two separate parts: the first series retains the original manga's title and is set in Naruto's pre-teen years. | 1989 (talk) |
| 2025-01-11 14:06 | Frieren (Japanese manga series) | is a Japanese manga series written by Kanehito Yamada and illustrated by Tsukasa Abe. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday since April 2020; its chapters have been collected in 13 tankōbon volumes as of April 2024. | KjjjKjjj (talk) |
| 2025-01-13 15:44 | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Japanese manga series by Hirohiko Araki) | is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. It was originally serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1987 to 2004, and was transferred to the monthly seinen manga magazine Ultra Jump in 2005. | OpalYosutebito (talk) |
| 2025-01-19 20:07 | Luke Cage (Marvel Comics character) | Lucas "Luke" Cage, born Carl Lucas and also known as Power Man, is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Archie Goodwin, George Tuska, Roy Thomas, and John Romita Sr. in 1972, he was the first African–American superhero by Marvel Comics to be the main character in his own series. | Thebiguglyalien (talk) |
| 2025-01-21 12:53 | Anime and manga fandom in Poland | Anime and manga fandom has been developing in Poland since the 1990s, although certain elements could be observed in earlier decades. In the 1990s, significant influence on the popularity of anime came from broadcasts on television (Polonia 1 and Polsat) and articles describing the phenomenon of manga and anime published in video game magazines. | Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here |
| 2025-01-21 19:10 | Weaving a Story 2: oral stage (Episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion) | is the twentieth episode of the Japanese anime television series Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was created by Gainax. Hideaki Anno wrote the episode and the animator Masahiko Otsuka directed it. The series' protagonist is Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy whose father Gendo recruited him to the special military organization Nerv to pilot a gigantic, bio-mechanical mecha named Evangelion into combat with beings called Angels. | TeenAngels1234 (talk) |
| 2025-01-24 23:55 | Noriko Takaya (Fictional character from Gunbuster) | Noriko Takaya is a fictional character from the Gunbuster franchise, created by the Japanese animation studio Gainax. She is the franchise's most developed character and protagonist. In the anime series of the same name, Noriko is the daughter of deceased space captain Yuzo Takaya. When she was young, she wanted to follow her father. | Z. Patterson (talk) |
Culture/Visual arts/Fashion
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| 2025-01-28 07:02 | White Marc Bouwer dress of Angelina Jolie (White dress worn by Angelina Jolie) | American actress Angelina Jolie wore a white satin dress with a plunging neckline designed by Marc Bouwer on February 29, 2004, to the 76th Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre, where she presented the award for Best Art Direction. The dress garnered praise from fashion magazines and media publications, and has been placed on numerous lists for best Oscars or red carpet fashion. | jolielover♥talk |
Geography/Geographical
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| 2024-12-08 01:11 | Clayton Falls Creek (River in British Columbia, Canada) | Clayton Falls Creek is a creek in the Central Coast of British Columbia. It flows through a forested river valley into the North Bentinck Arm about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) east of the community of Bella Coola. The Clayton Falls Dam, a small concrete gravity dam, is located on the river. Although managed by BC Hydro, it is the only dam in British Columbia not integrated into the agency's integrated hydroelectric system. | Generalissima (talk) (it/she) |
| 2024-12-12 21:07 | Hawk Channel (Passage in Florida) | Hawk Channel is a shallow, elongated basin and navigable passage along the Atlantic coast of the Florida Keys. The channel makes up a smaller portion of the Florida Platform from Key West to the southernmost point of Key Biscayne and lies between the Keys and the Florida Reef Tract to the southeast. It connects the waters of the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean through tidal exchanges crossing from the Florida Bay to the Straits of Florida. | Bronson Fotiadis1 (talk) |
| 2025-01-07 17:42 | Pular (volcano) (Stratovolcano in the Antofagasta Region of northern Chile) | Pular is a volcanic massif in the Chilean Andes, north of Socompa volcano. It consists of the individual mountains Pajonales and Pular, which are among the highest mountains in the region and of great cultural importance to the neighbouring towns of Socaire and Peine. Pular and Pajonales have multiple volcanic craters and have produced lava domes. | Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) |
| 2025-01-19 20:53 | Daikoku Seamount (Submarine volcano in the Mariana Islands) | Daikoku Seamount (Japanese: 大黒海山) is a submarine volcano located in the Northern Mariana Islands, in the western Pacific Ocean. It is situated on the Mariana volcanic arc. The seamount rises over 2,500 m (8,202 ft) meters from the seafloor, with its summit about 323 m (1,060 ft) below sea level. | Reego41 |
| 2025-01-20 02:41 | Eve Cone (Cinder cone in British Columbia, Canada) | Eve Cone, sometimes referred to as Eve's Cone, is a cinder cone in Cassiar Land District of northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It has an elevation of 1,740 metres (5,710 feet) and is one of several volcanic cones in the Desolation Lava Field at the northern end of the Big Raven Plateau. The cone is southeast of the community of Telegraph Creek in Mount Edziza Provincial Park, which is one of the largest provincial parks in British Columbia. | Volcanoguy |
| 2025-01-30 01:54 | Typhoon Yutu (Pacific typhoon in 2018) | Typhoon Yutu, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Rosita, was an extremely powerful tropical cyclone that caused catastrophic destruction on the islands of Tinian and Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, and later impacted the Philippines. It is the strongest typhoon ever recorded to impact the Mariana Islands, and is tied as the second-strongest tropical cyclone to strike the United States and its unincorporated territories by both wind speed and barometric pressure. | —JCMLuis 💬 |
| 2025-02-01 20:24 | Ice Peak (Mountain in British Columbia, Canada) | Ice Peak is the prominent south peak of Mount Edziza in Cassiar Land District of northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It has an elevation of 2,500 metres (8,200 feet) and protrudes through Mount Edziza's ice cap, which is roughly 70 square kilometres (27 square miles) in area. The peak is a pyramid-shaped horn formed by glacial erosion and is completely flanked by steep-walled, active cirques. | Volcanoguy |
| 2025-02-01 20:24 | Big Raven Plateau (Plateau in British Columbia, Canada) | The Big Raven Plateau is an intermontane plateau in Cassiar Land District of northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It lies on the Tahltan Highland and is surrounded by several valleys, including those of Mess Creek, Kakiddi Creek, Chakima Creek, Walkout Creek and the Klastline River. The plateau is drained by many small streams that flow into these neighbouring valleys and, unlike the valleys, it is relatively barren of vegetation. | Volcanoguy |
| 2025-02-01 20:26 | Mess Creek Escarpment (Escarpment in British Columbia, Canada) | The Mess Creek Escarpment is a long, discontinuous cliff along Mess Creek in Cassiar Land District of northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It forms the east-central side of Mess Creek valley and consists of two segments separated about 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) by Walkout Creek valley. The northern segment extends about 8 kilometres (5.0 miles) southeast along the southwestern side of the Big Raven Plateau while the southern segment extends generally south along the northwestern, western and southwestern edges o ... | Volcanoguy |
Geography/Regions/Africa
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| 2024-12-09 20:22 | Edemariam Tsega (Ethiopian physician and educator (1938–2018)) | Edemariam Tsega (Amharic: እደማርያም ፀጋ; 7 July 1938 – 1 January 2018) was an Ethiopian physician and educator credited with introducing the post-graduate program in internal medicine in Ethiopia. Born in Gondar, he was the son of Aleqa Tsega Teshale, a respected Ethiopian Orthodox Church scholar and chief priest of the Begemdir and Simien regions. | FuzzyMagma (talk) |
| 2024-12-09 20:32 | Godwin Obasi (Nigerian meteorologist (1933–2007)) | Godwin Olu Patrick Obasi (24 December 1933 – 3 March 2007) was a Nigerian meteorologist and the secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) from 1984 to 2003. He was the first secretariat employee to be named secretary-general and the first African to serve as the head of a UN agency. | FuzzyMagma (talk) |
| 2024-12-30 16:44 | Jasper Abraham murder case (Trial in Kenya over a 1923 death) | In June 1923, British settler Jasper Abraham was tried for the murder of African labourer Kitosh in the Kenya Colony. Kitosh had died after a flogging administered by Abraham and his employees at a farm near the town of Molo, Kenya. The jury, which was all-European and composed of Abraham's acquaintances, found him guilty of a lesser charge of "grievous hurt" and he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. | Dumelow (talk) |
| 2025-01-11 17:10 | Hussein Kamel Bahaeddin (Egyptian paediatric and politician (1932–2016)) | Hussein Kamel Bahaeddin (Arabic: حسين كامل بهاء الدين, 18 September 1932 – 29 July 2016) was an Egyptian professor of paediatrics and Minister of Education between 1991 and 2004. During his tenure as Minister of Education, Bahaeddin implemented crucial reforms, such as extending compulsory education, banning school corporal punishment, and increasing university entrance opportunities. | FuzzyMagma (talk) |
| 2025-01-11 17:19 | Sultan Kigab (Sudanese-Canadian swimmer (1955–2024)) | Abd El Magid Sultan Kigab (Arabic: عبدالمجيد سلطان كيجاب; 1955 – 17 October 2024), known as Sultan Kigab, was a Sudanese-Canadian marathon swimmer and presidential candidate. | FuzzyMagma (talk) |
| 2025-01-14 17:52 | First Anglo–Ashanti War (1823-1831 war between United Kingdom and the Ashanti Empire) | The First Anglo–Ashanti War also known as the First Anglo–Asante War was an armed conflict between the Ashanti Empire led by Osei Bonsu against the United Kingdom led by Sir Charles McCarthy, Fante Confederacy, Denkyira tribes and Denmark led by Richter Aarestrup. It took place from December 1823 to 27 April 1831, when a peace treaty was signed at the Cape Coast Castle. | Setergh (talk) |
| 2025-01-29 18:31 | Abortion in Malawi | In Malawi, abortion is only legal to save the life of the mother. Abortion is a felony punishable by prison. Malawi's abortion law is one of the strictest in the world. | — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) |
| 2025-01-30 22:42 | Uwa (Ogiso) (25th Ogiso of Igodomigodo) | Uwa (reigned c. 1085 – c. 1095 AD) was the twenty-fifth Ogiso of the Kingdom of Igodomigodo, an early state that later became part of the Benin Empire. He was the son of Ogiso Odoligie and ruled during a period of political transformation shaped by earlier reforms. His reign saw the expansion of the Benin monarchy’s influence from the River Oroghodo in the east to the River Ohosu in the west. | Vanderwaalforces (talk) |
Geography/Regions/Africa/Northern Africa
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| 2024-11-21 12:40 | Adrar Stadium (Sports venue in Agadir, Morocco) | Adrar Stadium (Arabic: ملعب آدرار; Berber languages: ⴰⴱⴰⵔⴰⵣ ⵏ ⵓⴷⵔⴰⵔ (Adrar means mountain in Tamazight); French: Grand Stade d'Agadir), is a multi-use stadium in Agadir, in the Souss-Massa region in the country of Morocco, near the Atlas Mountains, in North Africa, and is used as a home venue by the local football team, Hassania Agadir. | Cltjames (talk) |
| 2024-11-24 12:43 | Moira Deeming (Australian politician) | Moira Deeming is an Australian politician and member of the Victorian Liberal Party. She has been a member of the Victorian Legislative Council, the upper house of the Parliament of Victoria, for the Western Metropolitan Region of the, since November 2022. She previously sat as a councillor for the Melton City Council representing the Watts Ward. | TarnishedPathtalk |
| 2024-12-09 20:57 | Abdallah al-Fadil al-Mahdi (Sudanese politician (1890–1966)) | Abdallah al-Fadil al-Mahdi (Arabic: عبد الله الفاضل المهدي; 1890 – 18 May 1966) was a Sudanese statesman. Born in Omdurman, in the Mahdist State; Abdallah[note 2] hails from a lineage tied to the Funj sultanas. Following family tragedy, he was raised under the care of his maternal uncle. | FuzzyMagma (talk) |
| 2025-01-26 22:47 | Christine McVie (album) (1984 studio album by Christine McVie) | Christine McVie is the eponymous second solo album by the English musician, singer, and songwriter Christine McVie, released on 27 January 1984, by Warner Bros. Records. It was McVie's first solo effort in over a decade, following her 1970 self-titled debut, which was released under her maiden name. The album features guest appearances by Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, Ray Cooper, and Fleetwood Mac bandmates Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood. | Dobbyelf62 (talk) |
Geography/Regions/Americas/Central America
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| 2024-11-06 20:33 | 2024 Salvadoran general election (Election in El Salvador) | General elections were held in El Salvador in February and March 2024. In the first round on 4 February, voters elected the president, vice president, and all 60 deputies of the Legislative Assembly. In the second round on 3 March, voters elected mayors and municipal councils for all 44 of the country's municipalities and all 20 of El Salvador's deputies to the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN). | PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 |
| 2024-12-12 21:07 | Hawk Channel (Passage in Florida) | Hawk Channel is a shallow, elongated basin and navigable passage along the Atlantic coast of the Florida Keys. The channel makes up a smaller portion of the Florida Platform from Key West to the southernmost point of Key Biscayne and lies between the Keys and the Florida Reef Tract to the southeast. It connects the waters of the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean through tidal exchanges crossing from the Florida Bay to the Straits of Florida. | Bronson Fotiadis1 (talk) |
| 2025-02-01 06:09 | 1894 Atlantic hurricane season (hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean) | The 1894 Atlantic hurricane season included four major hurricanes, one of the highest totals in the second half of the 19th century and behind only the previous year. Additionally, the season featured a total of seven tropical storms, five of which strengthened into a hurricane. However, in the absence of modern satellite and other remote-sensing technologies, only storms that affected populated land areas or encountered ships at sea were recorded, so the actual total could be higher. | 12george1 (talk) |
| 2025-02-01 19:23 | 1926 Nassau hurricane (Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 1926) | Tropical cyclones in the Atlantic basin were not formally named prior to World War II. Storms such as this one were denoted by their attributes, including coincidence with Catholic saints' feasts. A deadly hurricane in 1866 is separately known by the moniker Great Nassau.[2]|gro ... | CapeVerdeWave (talk) |
Geography/Regions/Americas/North America
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| 2024-07-27 20:17 | Interstate 85 in North Carolina (Section of Interstate Highway in North Carolina, United States) | Interstate 85 (I-85) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs 666.05 miles (1,071.90 km) from Montgomery, Alabama, to Petersburg, Virginia. In the U.S. state of North Carolina, I-85 crosses the entire state from southwest to northeast (though is signed north–south), at the South Carolina state line near Grover to the Virginia state line near Wise. | NoobThreePointOh (talk) |
| 2024-09-27 20:39 | The Hungry Five (Group of businessman related to the Green Bay Packers) | The Hungry Five are the Green Bay, Wisconsin-area businessmen who were instrumental in keeping the Green Bay Packers franchise in operation during its early years. They raised funds, incorporated the team as a non-profit corporation, sold stock and otherwise promoted the franchise. The Five were Andrew B. Turnbull, Curly Lambeau, Gerald Francis Clifford, Lee Joannes and W. Webber Kelly. | « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ |
| 2024-10-07 04:31 | Catherine Pugh (American politician (born 1950)) | Catherine Elizabeth Pugh (born March 10, 1950) is an American former politician who served as the 51st mayor of Baltimore, Maryland's largest city, from 2016 to 2019. She resigned from office amid a scandal that eventually led to criminal charges, three years in prison, and three years probation in 2020. | Micahmikhl (talk) |
| 2024-10-07 12:46 | Delbert Cowsette (American football player and coach (born 1977)) | Delbert Ray Cowsette (born September 3, 1977) is an American former professional football defensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL) and Arena Football League (AFL). He is currently the defensive line coach for the Howard Bison. | ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) |
| 2024-10-09 00:38 | Riverside Drive (Manhattan) (Avenue in Manhattan, New York) | Riverside Drive is a north–south avenue in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The road runs on the west side of Upper Manhattan, generally paralleling the Hudson River and Riverside Park between 72nd Street and the vicinity of the George Washington Bridge at 181st Street. North of 96th Street, Riverside Drive is a wide divided roadway. | Epicgenius (talk) |
| 2024-10-14 02:22 | Jean Shepard (American country singer (1933–2016)) | Ollie Imogene "Jean" Shepard (November 21, 1933 – September 25, 2016), was an American country singer who was considered by many writers and authors to be one of the genre's first significant female artists. Her early successes during the 1950s decade were said to influence the future careers of Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette. | ChrisTofu11961 (talk) |
| 2024-10-18 14:08 | 1994 San Diego Chargers season (NFL team 35th season) | The 1994 San Diego Chargers season was the team's 35th, its 25th in the National Football League (NFL) and its 34th in San Diego. It featured a surprising run to Super Bowl XXIX, where the Chargers lost to the San Francisco 49ers. To date, this is the only Super Bowl appearance in franchise history. | Harper J. Cole (talk) |
| 2024-10-25 01:25 | Cody Snyder (Canadian bull rider) | Cody Snyder (born 1962 or 1963) is a Canadian former professional rodeo cowboy who specialized in bull riding. He is currently a bull-riding event producer. In 1983, Snyder became the first Canadian to win the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) bull riding world championship. | Reidgreg (talk) |
| 2024-10-29 17:43 | Angela Alsobrooks (American politician and lawyer (born 1971)) | Angela Deneece Alsobrooks (born February 23, 1971) is an American lawyer and politician serving since 2025 as the junior United States senator from Maryland. A member of the Democratic Party, she served from 2018 to 2024 as county executive of Prince George's County, Maryland, and from 2010 to 2018 as the county's state's attorney. | Y2hyaXM (talk) |
| 2024-10-29 19:49 | Washington D.C. Temple (Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) | The Washington D.C. Temple (originally known as the Washington Temple, until 1999), is the 16th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Located in Kensington, Maryland, just north of Washington, D.C., and near the Capital Beltway, it was the church's first temple built east of the Mississippi River since the original Nauvoo Temple was completed in 1846. | Itsetsyoufree32 (talk) |
| 2024-10-30 16:09 | Charel Allen (American basketball player (born 1986)) | Charel Allen (born July 23, 1986) is an American former professional basketball guard and current coach. She played high school basketball at Monessen High School, where she was a two-time Pennsylvania Class A Player of the Year and finished her high school career as the fifth-leading scorer in state history. | ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) |
| 2024-11-01 12:10 | Cameron Echols-Luper (American football player (born 1995)) | Cameron Damonte Echols-Luper (born Cameron Damonte Echols; April 9, 1995) is an American professional football wide receiver and return specialist for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He attended Auburn High School in Auburn, Alabama, where he was a quarterback and won six state titles in track and field. | ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) |
| 2024-11-01 23:09 | Charlie Gehringer (American baseball player (1903–1993)) | Charles Leonard Gehringer (May 11, 1903 – January 21, 1993), nicknamed "the Mechanical Man", was an American professional baseball second baseman. He played for the Detroit Tigers for 19 seasons from 1924 to 1942. He compiled a .320 career batting average with 2,839 hits and 1,427 runs batted in (RBIs). | Cbl62 (talk) |
| 2024-11-01 23:15 | Turkey Stearnes (American baseball player (1920–1940)) | Norman Thomas "Turkey" Stearnes (May 8, 1901 – September 4, 1979) was an American baseball center fielder. He played 18 years in the Negro leagues, including nine years with the Detroit Stars (1923–1931), six years with the Chicago American Giants (1932–1935, 1937–1938), and three years with the Kansas City Monarchs (1938–1940). | Cbl62 (talk) |
| 2024-11-05 15:29 | Interstate 59 in Alabama (Interstate Highway in Alabama, United States) | Interstate 59 (I-59) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs 445.23 miles (716.53 km) from Slidell, Louisiana, to just outside of Wildwood, Georgia. In the U.S. state of Alabama, I-59 travels 241.36 miles (388.43 km) from the Mississippi state line near Cuba to the Georgia state line northeast of Hammondville. | NoobThreePointOh (talk) |
| 2024-11-09 23:59 | Jugtown Historic District (Historic district in New Jersey, United States) | The Jugtown Historic District consists of a cluster of historic buildings surrounding the intersection of Harrison Street and Nassau Street in Princeton, New Jersey. The settlement dates to colonial times and is sometimes known as Queenston. In 1987, the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. | Lbal (talk) |
| 2024-11-14 10:46 | Ted Williams (American baseball player (1918–2002)) | Theodore Samuel Williams (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002) was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, primarily as a left fielder, for the Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960; his career was interrupted by military service during World War II and the Korean War. | Omnis Scientia (talk) |
| 2024-11-15 17:07 | Thaddeus Coleman (American gridiron football player (born 1985)) | Thaddeus Coleman (born June 20, 1985) is an American former professional football offensive tackle who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and Arena Football League (AFL). He played college football at Mississippi Valley State, where he was a two-time first-team All-Southwestern Athletic Conference selection. | ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) |
| 2024-11-16 18:58 | Kings Theatre (Brooklyn) (Entertainment venue in New York City) | The Kings Theatre (formerly Loew's Kings Theatre) is a theater and live performance venue at 1027 Flatbush Avenue in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, New York. Designed by Rapp and Rapp as a movie palace, it opened on September 7, 1929, as one of five Loew's Wonder Theatres in the New York City area. | Epicgenius (talk) |
| 2024-11-17 08:56 | Worcester Consolidated Street Railway (Former streetcar network in Massachusetts, US) | The Worcester Consolidated Street Railway (WCSR) was a streetcar and later bus system in Worcester, Massachusetts, and surrounding areas of Central Massachusetts. Its earliest predecessor opened in 1863 and its final successor closed in 1978. The third-largest streetcar system in Massachusetts, it operated a dense network of urban lines in Worcester plus rural lines across Central Massachusetts. | Pi.1415926535 (talk) |
| 2024-11-18 02:25 | 2017–18 College Football Playoff (Postseason college football tournament) | The 2017–18 College Football Playoff was a single-elimination postseason tournament that determined the national champion of the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was the fourth edition of the College Football Playoff (CFP) and involved the top four teams in the country as ranked by the College Football Playoff poll playing in two semifinals, with the winners of each advancing to the national championship game. | PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) |
| 2024-11-20 15:32 | 2019 NFC Divisional playoff game (Seattle–Green Bay) (2019 American football postseason game) | The 2019 National Football Conference (NFC) Divisional playoff game was a National Football League (NFL) playoff game between the Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers on January 12, 2020. The Packers finished the 2019 season with a record of 13–3 under first-year head coach Matt LaFleur. Their record, after tiebreakers were calculated, was good enough for the 2nd seed of the playoffs and a first-round bye. | « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ |
| 2024-11-23 04:04 | Fontainebleau Las Vegas (Resort and casino in Nevada, US) | The Fontainebleau Las Vegas is a resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Fontainebleau Development and is a sister property to Fontainebleau Miami Beach, and sits on the 24.5-acre (9.9 ha) site previously occupied by the El Rancho Hotel and Casino and the Algiers Hotel. | Waddles 🗩 🖉 |
| 2024-11-24 03:48 | KVLY-TV (TV station in Fargo, North Dakota) | KVLY-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Fargo, North Dakota, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Gray Media alongside KXJB-LD (channel 30), a low-power CBS and CW affiliate. The two stations share studios on 21st Avenue South in Fargo; KVLY-TV's transmitter is located near Blanchard. | Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) |
| 2024-11-28 18:44 | James M. Goodhue (19th century American journalist) | James Madison Goodhue (March 31, 1810 – August 27, 1852) was an American journalist, newspaper editor, and founder of the Minnesota Pioneer, Minnesota's first newspaper, which eventually merged with the Saint Paul Dispatch to become the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He is the namesake of Goodhue County. | ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs |
| 2024-12-02 01:53 | 1991 Andover tornado (F5 tornado in 1991) | In the afternoon hours of April 26, 1991, a large and devastating tornado moved 46 miles (74 km) through areas southeast of Wichita, located in the state of Kansas. The tornado killed seventeen, injured over two hundred others, and left an estimated $300 million ($700,058,432 in 2024) of damage in its wake. | EF5 |
| 2024-12-02 01:56 | 1974 Tanner tornadoes (Pair of F5 tornadoes in 1974) | In the evening hours of April 3, 1974, a series of two large and destructive tornadoes would impact Tanner, located in the state of Alabama. Both of these tornadoes would receive an F5 rating on the Fujita scale, and were two out of seven F5-rated tornadoes to touch down as part of the 1974 Super Outbreak, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in United States history. | EF5 |
| 2024-12-08 01:11 | Clayton Falls Creek (River in British Columbia, Canada) | Clayton Falls Creek is a creek in the Central Coast of British Columbia. It flows through a forested river valley into the North Bentinck Arm about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) east of the community of Bella Coola. The Clayton Falls Dam, a small concrete gravity dam, is located on the river. Although managed by BC Hydro, it is the only dam in British Columbia not integrated into the agency's integrated hydroelectric system. | Generalissima (talk) (it/she) |
| 2024-12-09 14:49 | 2023 Robinson–Sullivan tornado (2023 EF3 tornado in the midwestern US) | In the evening hours of March 31, 2023, a large and intense tornado would strike several towns in Illinois and Indiana, killing six people and leaving a 40.86-mile (65.76 km) path of destruction in its wake. The tornado would devastate the communities of Robinson, Illinois, Gordon, Illinois and Sullivan, Indiana; three fatalites from the tornado would occur in Sullivan, where the tornado reached its peak intensity and inflicted damage to structures that would later receive a rating of EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita scale. | EF5 |
| 2024-12-09 15:37 | Frederick Warren Freer (American painter (1849–1908)) | Frederick Warren Freer (June 16, 1849 – March 7, 1908) was an American painter. The son of a physician, Freer studied art instead of medicine after going partially deaf when he was fourteen. After he graduated from high school in Chicago, Freer's family relocated to Munich, where Freer studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts under multiple well-known artists. | Kimikel (talk) |
| 2024-12-16 06:51 | Statue of John Barry (Memorial in Washington, D.C., U.S.) | The statue of John Barry commemorates the "Father of the United States Navy", Commodore John Barry (1745-1806). Barry was an Irish-born sailor who joined the American colonists in fighting for independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. Barry became the first commission by the Second Continental Congress. | APK hi :-) (talk) |
| 2024-12-16 23:26 | Ed Policy (American football executive) | Edward Regis Policy (born October 6, 1970) is an American football executive who is the current chief operating officer (COO) and general counsel for the Green Bay Packers. Policy, whose father Carmen Policy was an American football executive for the San Francisco 49ers and Cleveland Browns, received his Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame and his Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School. | « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ |
| 2024-12-17 21:17 | Indian Packing Company (Defunct US meat packing company) | The Indian Packing Company was an American canned meat company that operated between 1919 and 1921. It was founded in Delaware and had various facilities across the country, including Green Bay, Wisconsin. It was purchased by the Acme Packing Company, which shut down in 1943 due to supply shortages related to World War II. | « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ |
| 2024-12-20 18:37 | Price Tower (Building in Bartlesville, Oklahoma) | The Price Tower is a nineteen-story, 221-foot-high (67 m) tower at 510 South Dewey Avenue in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, United States. One of the few skyscrapers designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Price Tower is derived from a 1929 proposal for apartment buildings in New York City. Harold C. | Epicgenius (talk) |
| 2024-12-22 05:32 | Darryl De Sousa (Commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department in 2018) | Darryl D. De Sousa (born 1964 or 1965) is an American former police officer who served as commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department from January to May 2018. Having served the BPD since 1988, he resigned as commissioner after he was indicted for three counts of tax evasion. After pleading guilty in December 2018, he was sentenced to 10 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution. | charlotte 👸🎄 |
| 2024-12-23 23:47 | 2003 Detroit Lions season (NFL team season) | The 2003 season was the Detroit Lions' 74th season in the National Football League (NFL), their 70th as the Detroit Lions, and their first under head coach Steve Mariucci. The team improved upon their 3–13 record from the previous season but missed the postseason for the fourth consecutive season, suffering a losing season and finishing last in their division for the third straight season. | Carhles (talk) |
| 2024-12-24 03:06 | William Plumer Jacobs (American minister (1842–1917)) | William Plumer Jacobs (March 15, 1842 – September 10, 1917) was an American Presbyterian minister who founded Thornwell Orphanage and what is now Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina. He was the pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Clinton for 47 years, from 1864 to 1911. | PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) |
| 2024-12-24 19:23 | Michael Mantenuto (American ice hockey player, actor and soldier) | Michael Mantenuto (May 13, 1981 – April 24, 2017) was an American college ice hockey player, film actor, and Army non-commissioned officer, best known for his performance as Olympic ice hockey star Jack O'Callahan in the 2004 Disney film Miracle. | BardFrame (talk) |
| 2024-12-24 19:50 | Amtrak Susquehanna River Bridge (Bridge in Maryland, United States) | The Amtrak Susquehanna River Bridge is a deck truss bridge that carries the Amtrak Northeast Corridor line across the Susquehanna River between Havre de Grace and Perryville, Maryland. The 4,153.8-foot (1,266.1 m)-long two-track bridge has 17 fixed spans and one swing span across the river's navigation channel. | Pi.1415926535 (talk) |
| 2024-12-25 08:48 | Sound Transit (Regional transit for the Seattle area) | Sound Transit (ST), officially the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority, is a public transit agency serving the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington. It manages the Link light rail system in Seattle and Tacoma, regional Sounder commuter rail, and Sound Transit Express bus service. | SounderBruce |
| 2024-12-27 16:50 | Paradise Theater (Bronx) (Theater in the Bronx, New York) | The Paradise Theater (formerly the Loew's Paradise Theatre) is a theater at 2403 Grand Concourse in the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx in New York City, New York. Designed by John Eberson as a movie palace, it opened on September 7, 1929, as one of five Loew's Wonder Theatres in the New York City area. | Epicgenius (talk) |
| 2024-12-29 16:13 | Louis Abramson (American architect (1887–1985)) | Louis Allen Abramson (1887 – January 15, 1985) was an American architect who practiced mostly in New York City, specializing in hospitals, nursing homes, and restaurants. He is best known for designing the Daughters of Jacob Geriatric Center at 1201 Findlay Ave in the Bronx. | RoySmith (talk) |
| 2024-12-29 21:33 | Adrien Nunez (Musical artist) | Adrien Nunez (born May 14, 1999) is an American social media influencer, singer-songwriter, and former college basketball player. He was not highly regarded as a high school basketball player at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn but he excelled during a postgraduate year garnering many scholarship offers and earning accolades at St. Thomas More School in Oakdale, Connecticut. | TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) |
| 2024-12-31 08:17 | KQTV (TV station in St. Joseph, Missouri) | KQTV (channel 2) is a television station in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Heartland Media. The station's studios and transmitter are located on Faraon Street in eastern St. Joseph. | Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) |
| 2024-12-31 08:18 | WOI-DT (TV station in Ames, Iowa) | WOI-DT (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Ames, Iowa, United States, serving the Des Moines area as an affiliate of ABC. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside CW affiliate KCWI-TV (channel 23), also licensed to Ames. The two stations share studios on Westown Parkway in West Des Moines; WOI-DT's transmitter is located in Alleman, Iowa. | Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) |
| 2024-12-31 08:24 | WPGH-TV (TV station in Pittsburgh) | WPGH-TV (channel 53) is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside dual CW and MyNetworkTV affiliate WPNT (channel 22). The two stations share studios on Ivory Avenue in the city's Summer Hill neighborhood, where WPGH-TV's transmitter is also located. | Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) |
| 2025-01-01 13:48 | J. Edward Guinan (American community activist) | J. Edward Guinan (6 March 1936 – 26 December 2014) was a former stock trader who became a Paulist priest and founded Washington, D.C.'s Community for Creative Non-Violence in 1970. He engaged in public acts of nonviolent resistance such as extreme fasting and peaceful civil disobedience in response to homelessness, hunger, the Vietnam war, the Indochina wars, and Henry Kissinger's controversial legacy that brought national media attention. | Oh-Fortuna! (talk) |
| 2025-01-02 22:16 | First Cathedral of Saint Paul (Minnesota) (Catholic log chapel in Saint Paul (1841–1856 or 1864)) | The Chapel of Saint Paul, which later served as the first Cathedral of Saint Paul, was a log chapel built on the bluffs of the Mississippi River in 1841 by Lucien Galtier. It served as the first cathedral of the Catholic Diocese of Saint Paul from June 1851 to December 1851. It was also used as a school until it was eventually dismantled. | ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs |
| 2025-01-03 03:49 | Loew's Jersey Theatre (Theater in Jersey City, New Jersey) | The Loew's Jersey Theatre is a cinema and performance venue at 54 Journal Square in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States. Designed by Rapp and Rapp as a movie palace, it opened on September 28, 1929, as one of five Loew's Wonder Theatres in the New York City area. Owned by the government of Jersey City, the Loew's Jersey has been operated by Devils Arena Entertainment (DAE) since 2021. | Epicgenius (talk) |
| 2025-01-03 19:22 | Vincente Minnelli (American stage and film director (1903–1986)) | Vincente Minnelli (born Lester Anthony Minnelli; February 28, 1903 – July 25, 1986) was an American stage director and film director. For a career spanning over half a century, he is best known for his sophisticated innovation and artistry in musical films. As of 2024[update], six of his films have been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. | PrinceArchelaus (talk) |
| 2025-01-04 01:21 | 2021 Bowling Green tornadoes (2021 tornadoes in Kentucky) | In the early hours of December 11, 2021, two large and strong tornadoes would hit the city of Bowling Green, located in Warren County, Kentucky. The first tornado cut a swath of EF3 damage through city and directly killed sixteen people, while the second tornado produced EF2 damage but no injuries or fataliites. | EF5 |
| 2025-01-04 20:12 | Carlyle Hotel (Hotel in Manhattan, New York) | The Carlyle Hotel is a luxury apartment hotel on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1930, the Art Deco hotel was designed by Sylvan Bien and Harry M. Prince, with interiors by Dorothy Draper. It was named after the Scottish author Thomas Carlyle. The Carlyle has approximately 190 hotel rooms and suites, in addition to 60 cooperative residences. | Epicgenius (talk) |
| 2025-01-06 22:28 | John Roach (bishop) (20th-century American Catholic bishop (1921–2003)) | John Robert Roach (July 31, 1921 – July 11, 2003) was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis from 1975 to 1995. The first St. Paul archbishop to have been born in Minnesota, Roach had national prominence as deliverer of benediction at Jimmy Carter's inauguration in 1977 and head of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops from 1980 to 1983. | ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs |
| 2025-01-08 01:16 | Khyree Jackson (American football player (1999–2024)) | Khyree Anthony Jackson (August 11, 1999 – July 6, 2024) was an American football cornerback. He played college football for the Fort Scott CC Greyhounds, Alabama Crimson Tide, and the Oregon Ducks. The Minnesota Vikings selected him in the fourth round, with the 108th overall pick, of the 2024 NFL draft. | — GhostRiver |
| 2025-01-09 21:01 | Noah Cates (American ice hockey player (born 1999)) | Noah Allen Cates (born February 5, 1999) is an American professional ice hockey left wing for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Flyers selected Cates in the fifth round, with the 137th overall pick, of the 2017 NHL entry draft. Cates has also been a member of the United States men's national ice hockey team, serving as an alternate captain at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. | — GhostRiver |
| 2025-01-10 16:05 | Taliesin West (Studio and home in Scottsdale, Arizona) | Taliesin West is a studio and home developed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States. Named after Wright's Taliesin studio in Spring Green, Wisconsin, Taliesin West was Wright's winter home and studio from 1937 until his death in 1959. The complex is the headquarters of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, a nonprofit organization that hosts tours and events there. | Epicgenius (talk) |
| 2025-01-11 00:15 | John Hunter Thomas (American botanist (1928–1999)) | John Hunter Thomas (March 26, 1928 – July 20, 1999) was an American botanist, professor of biological sciences at Stanford University, curator and director of the Dudley Herbarium, and joint curator at the California Academy of Sciences. He was known for his study of plants in the Sonoran Desert, the Santa Cruz Mountains, and the Alaska North Slope, and for his history of botanical exploration in Washington, Oregon, and California. | Viriditas (talk) |
| 2025-01-11 07:54 | 2018–19 College Football Playoff (Postseason college football tournament) | The 2018–19 College Football Playoff was a single-elimination postseason tournament that determined the national champion of the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was the fifth edition of the College Football Playoff (CFP) and involved the top four teams in the country as ranked by the College Football Playoff poll playing in two semifinals, with the winners of each advancing to the national championship game. | PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) |
| 2025-01-12 17:24 | 2024 New York Proposal 1 (New York state constitutional amendment proposal extending rights protections) | New York Proposal 1 was a 2024 ballot proposal for a legislatively referred constitutional amendment to the New York Constitution called the Amendment to Protect Against Unequal Treatment, and informally known as the Equal Rights Amendment. It includes several rights in the New York State Constitution's Equal Protection Clause, with its chief purpose to preserve the right to abortion. | — Rhododendrites talk \\ |
| 2025-01-12 21:51 | 2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado (2011 natural disaster in the United States) | In the afternoon hours of April 27, 2011, a large, long-lived, and devastating EF5 tornado impacted several towns in rural northern Alabama before tearing through the northern suburbs of Huntsville. It was the deadliest tornado of the 2011 Super Outbreak, the largest tornado outbreak in United States history. | EF5 |
| 2025-01-15 14:01 | Niu Sale (American football player (born 1969)) | Niusumelie "Niu" Sale (born November 17, 1969) is an American former professional football player who played three seasons in the Arena Football League (AFL) with the Sacramento Attack/Miami Hooters and Massachusetts Marauders. He played college football at El Camino College and the University of Missouri. | ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) |
| 2025-01-16 15:05 | 555 Edgecombe Avenue (Residential building in Manhattan, New York) | 555 Edgecombe Avenue is an apartment building at the southwest corner of Edgecombe Avenue and 160th Street in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, New York. Built between 1914 and 1916, it was originally known as the Roger Morris Apartments after the retired British Army officer who built the nearby Morris–Jumel Mansion, and was designed by Schwartz & Gross, who specialized in apartment buildings. | Epicgenius (talk) |
| 2025-01-17 19:54 | William Arthur Ganfield (American pastor, educator, and academic administrator) | William Arthur Ganfield (September 3, 1873 – October 18, 1940) was an American pastor, educator, and academic administrator who was president of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, from 1915 to 1921 and then of Carroll College (now called Carroll University) in Waukesha, Wisconsin, from 1921 until his retirement in 1939. | PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) |
| 2025-01-18 22:37 | Hollyhock House (House in Los Angeles, California) | Hollyhock House is a house museum at Barnsdall Art Park in the East Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. The house, designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the heiress Aline Barnsdall, is named for the hollyhocks used in its design. The main house, incorporating elements from multiple architectural styles, consists of three wings around a central courtyard. | Epicgenius (talk) |
| 2025-01-20 02:48 | Rockwood & Company (Former chocolate manufacturer in New York City) | Rockwood & Company was a New York City-based chocolatier which operated from 1886 until 1957. It coordinated the industry's first resale price contracts, operated the largest chocolate factory in New York, and was the second largest producer of chocolate in the United States, after the Hershey Company. | — Rhododendrites talk \\ |
| 2025-01-21 05:01 | Statue of John Witherspoon (Statue by William Couper in Washington, D.C., U.S.) | Doctor John Witherspoon is a bronze sculpture and granite pedestal which depicts John Witherspoon, a Presbyterian minister, member of Congress, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Born in Scotland, Witherspoon immigrated to the U.S. in the 1760s and later became president of the College of New Jersey (now known as Princeton University). | APK hi :-) (talk) |
| 2025-01-21 05:01 | John Paul Jones Memorial (Statue by Charles Henry Niehaus in Washington, D.C, U.S.) | The John Paul Jones Memorial, also known as Commodore John Paul Jones, is a monument in West Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. The memorial honors John Paul Jones, the United States' first naval war hero, and received the Congressional Gold Medal after the American Revolutionary War ended. Jones allegedly said "I have not yet begun to fight!" during the Battle of Flamborough Head. | APK hi :-) (talk) |
| 2025-01-21 07:01 | Dolores Huerta (American labor leader (born 1930)) | Dolores Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is an American labor leader and feminist activist. After working for several years with the Community Service Organization (CSO), she founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with fellow activists Cesar Chavez and Gilbert Padilla, which eventually merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). | Spookyaki (talk) |
| 2025-01-21 22:32 | Johnson desk (Oval office desk) | The Johnson desk is a mahogany partners desk that was used by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office as his Oval Office desk. One of only six desks used by a president in the Oval Office, it was designed by Thomas D. Wadelton and built in 1909 by S. Karpen and Bros. in Chicago. The desk was built as part of 125 seven-piece office sets for senators' offices in the Russell Senate Office Building, and was used by Johnson during his terms as U.S. Senator, Vice President, and President. | Found5dollar (talk) |
| 2025-01-24 05:21 | Grain Belt Brewery (Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota) | The Grain Belt Brewery, also known as the Minneapolis Brewing Company, is a former brewery building in Northeast, Minneapolis, located north of Broadway Street Northeast on the east bank of the Mississippi River. Originally the headquarters of the eponymous Minneapolis Brewing Company, the building ceased operating as a brewery in 1975. | ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs |
| 2025-01-24 20:05 | Battle of Cloyd's Mountain (Battle of the American Civil War) | The Battle of Cloyd's Mountain occurred in Pulaski County, Virginia, on May 9, 1864, during the American Civil War. The fight has also been called the Battle of Cloyd's Farm. A Union Army division led by Brigadier General George Crook defeated a Confederate Army consisting of three regiments, one battalion, and Confederate Home Guard. | TwoScars (talk) |
| 2025-01-25 13:38 | 2014 Pilger, Nebraska, tornado family (Series of EF4 tornadoes in Northeast Nebraska) | On the afternoon and early evening of June 16, 2014, a powerful cyclical supercell struck northeast Nebraska, producing six violent tornadoes. The tornadoes impacted areas east of Norfolk, including the village of Pilger, which sustained major damage, as well as farmsteads near Stanton, Wisner, and Wakefield. | Hoguert (talk) |
| 2025-01-26 01:23 | 2024 United States drone sightings (aviation incidents in Northeastern United States, 2024–2025, starting or mainly in New Jersey) | The 2024 United States drone sightings, also known as the New Jersey drone sightings, were a series of reports between November and December 2024 involving large, unidentified drones observed at night across several regions of the United States. The phenomenon began in New Jersey, where numerous sightings were reported over multiple counties. | – Anne drew (talk · contribs) |
| 2025-01-27 22:28 | Robie House (House in Chicago, Illinois) | The Robie House (also the Frederick C. Robie House) is a historic house museum at 5757 South Woodlawn Avenue in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the Prairie style, it was completed in 1910 for the manufacturing executive Frederick Carlton Robie and his family. | Epicgenius (talk) |
| 2025-01-29 19:51 | Compton Swap Meet (Swap meet in Compton, California) | The Compton Swap Meet (officially Compton Fashion Center) was an indoor swap meet that sold the music of early gangsta rap artists. Wan Joon Kim began selling records of the genre at his stall, Cycadelic Records, in the 1980s. He became known as the "godfather of gangsta rap". | — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) |
| 2025-01-31 15:30 | 1862 Brooklyn riot | A riot occurred in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, United States, on August 4, 1862. It involved a group of White Americans, largely consisting of Irish Americans, targeting a group of about 20 African American workers at a tobacco factory on Sedgwick Street. Police were able to quell the rioting with only some minor injuries and property damage. | JJonahJackalope (talk) |
| 2025-01-31 16:03 | Statue of Franklin Pierce (Statue in Concord, New Hampshire) | Franklin Pierce is a monumental statue on the grounds of the New Hampshire State House in Concord, New Hampshire, United States. The monument, consisting of a bronze statue atop a granite pedestal, honors Franklin Pierce, the only person from New Hampshire to be the president of the United States, serving in the 1850s. | JJonahJackalope (talk) |
Geography/Regions/Americas/South America
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| 2024-11-07 00:59 | Pablo Busch (German-born explorer, physician, and politician (1867–1950)) | Pablo Busch Wiesener (born Paul Busch;[β] 4 November 1867 – 3 May 1950) was a German-born explorer, physician, and politician. | Krisgabwoosh (talk) |
| 2024-11-08 19:49 | José Segundo Decoud (Paraguayan politician and judge) | José Segundo Decoud Domecq (14 May 1848 – 3 March 1909) was a Paraguayan politician, journalist, diplomat and military officer. He is often considered one of the foremost intellectuals of his generation, and was also one of the first liberals of the country. Decoud was one of the founders of the long-standing Colorado Party, having been its first vice-president and having written its founding instrument. | Coeusin (talk) |
| 2024-11-14 17:23 | Patricia Bullrich (Argentine politician (born 1956)) | Patricia Bullrich (born 11 June 1956) is an Argentine professor and politician who was appointed Minister of Security in 2023 under president Javier Milei, having previously held the office under president Mauricio Macri from 2015 to 2019. She was the chairwoman of Republican Proposal, until 2024. | Cambalachero (talk) |
| 2025-01-07 17:42 | Pular (volcano) (Stratovolcano in the Antofagasta Region of northern Chile) | Pular is a volcanic massif in the Chilean Andes, north of Socompa volcano. It consists of the individual mountains Pajonales and Pular, which are among the highest mountains in the region and of great cultural importance to the neighbouring towns of Socaire and Peine. Pular and Pajonales have multiple volcanic craters and have produced lava domes. | Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) |
| 2025-01-18 07:03 | Communism in Brazil | Communism has existed in Brazil at least as early as the 1920s. The movement has given rise to various leftist factions and uprisings. It has been embodied in social movements and various political parties and in the intellectual works of various Marxist authors. Currently, there are six parties in Brazil that claim to be communist: the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) and its youth wing Union of Communist Youth (UJC), the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB) and [[Socialist Youth Union (Brazil)|its ... | ☢️SCR@TCH!NGH3@D (talk) |
| 2025-01-18 07:51 | El Apóstol (1917 film) | El Apóstol (English: The Apostle) is a 1917 lost Argentine animated film using cutout animation. Italian-Argentine immigrants Quirino Cristiani and Federico Valle directed and produced, respectively. Historians consider it the world's first animated feature film. The film began production after the success of Cristiani and Valle's short film, La intervención a la provincia de Buenos Aires, and was produced either in less than ten months or in twelve months; accounts differ. | Lazman321 (talk) |
| 2025-01-28 16:42 | Jorge Lanata (Argentine journalist and writer (1960–2024)) | Jorge Ernesto Lanata (12 September 1960 – 30 December 2024) was an Argentine journalist and author. He founded the newspaper Página 12 in 1987, and worked on several TV programs, newspapers, magazines and documentaries. He moved to the Clarín Group in 2012, and hosted Lanata sin filtro on Radio Mitre and Periodismo para todos on El Trece. | Cambalachero (talk) |
Geography/Regions/Asia
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| 2024-11-04 01:04 | Amos Yee (Singaporean sex offender (born 1998)) | Amos Yee Pang Sang (born 31 October 1998) is a Singaporean convicted child sex offender and former blogger, former YouTuber, and former child actor. | OpalYosutebito (talk) |
| 2024-12-09 15:31 | Dilaw (song) (2024 single by Maki) | "Dilaw" (lit. 'Yellow' in Tagalog) is a song written by Filipino singer Maki. It was released as a digital single on May 24, 2024, through Tarsier Records, and was produced by Nhiko Sabiniano. "Dilaw" is an indie alternative track that explores the themes of unconditional love. The song peaked at number one on Billboard's now defunct Philippines Songs chart, topping the chart in its final issue. | Royiswariii Talk! |
| 2024-12-20 12:03 | Tilaluha (2018 single by SB19) | "Tilaluha" is the debut single by the Filipino boy band SB19. Geong Seong Han, Kim Kyeong Su, and Sejun (now Pablo) wrote the song, and Geong produced it with Han Tae Soo. It is a soulful ballad complete with drums and a string section, with lyrics that reference unrequited love and a breakup and express the want to escape from the sorrow the person has gone through. | – Relayed (t • c) |
| 2024-12-24 08:15 | Kiddush levana (Jewish ritual of blessing God upon the appearance of the new moon) | Kiddush levana, also known as Birkat halevana, is a Jewish ritual and prayer service, generally observed on the first or second Saturday night of each Hebrew month. The service includes a blessing to God for the appearance of the new moon and further readings depending on custom. In most communities, ritual elements include the shalom aleikhem greeting and jumping toward the moon, with some also incorporating kabbalistic practices. | Dovidroth (talk) |
| 2024-12-30 19:08 | Lebanon at the 1948 Winter Olympics (Sporting event delegation) | The West Asian country of Lebanon competed in the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland, which was held from 30 January to 8 February 1948. This was Lebanon's first appearance in a Winter Olympic Games, as well as their first appearance in any Olympic Games. The delegation sent two male alpine skiers: Ibrahim Geagea and Munir Itani. | Jordano53 |
| 2025-01-19 19:58 | Rice polyculture (Growing rice with other crops) | Rice polyculture is the cultivation of rice and another crop simultaneously on the same land. The practice exploits the mutual benefit between rice and organisms such as fish and ducks: the rice supports pests which serve as food for the fish and ducks, while the animals' excrement serves as fertilizer for the rice. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2025-01-22 05:19 | Sengkang LRT line (Light rail line in Singapore) | The Sengkang LRT line (SKLRT) is a 10.7-kilometre (6.6 mi) elevated automated guideway transit line in Sengkang, Singapore. The driverless system consists of 14 stations on two loops, with Sengkang station connecting both loops and connecting the line to the North East MRT line. It is the second Light Rail Transit (LRT) line in Singapore, and the first LRT line operated by SBS Transit. | ZKang123 (talk) |
| 2025-01-25 21:44 | Tkies-khaf (1924 movie) | Generalissima (talk) (it/she) |
Geography/Regions/Asia/East Asia
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| 2024-09-24 15:31 | Jason Kwan (Hong Kong cinematographer and film director) | Jason Kwan Chi-yiu (Chinese: 關智耀; born 1964) is a Hong Kong filmmaker. Debuting as a cinematographer in the Hong Kong cinema with All About Love (2005), Kwan was known for his collaborations with director Pang Ho-cheung, which include Love in a Puff (2010), its sequel Love in the Buff, Vulgaria (both 2012), and Aberdeen (2014). | Prince of Erebor（The Book of Mazarbul） |
| 2024-10-07 05:18 | Stray Kids (South Korean boy band) | Stray Kids (Korean: 스트레이 키즈; RR: Seuteurei Kijeu; often abbreviated to SKZ) is a South Korean boy band formed by JYP Entertainment. The band consists of eight members: Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Felix, Seungmin, and I.N. For undisclosed personal reasons, Woojin left the band in October 2019. | |
| 2024-10-22 20:23 | 2023 Macau Formula 4 Race | The 2023 Macau Formula 4 Race, formerly the 2023 Macau Asia Formula 4, was a Formula 4 (F4) motor race held on the Guia Circuit in Macau on 12 November 2023, as part of the 2023 Macau Grand Prix. It was the fourth F4 race in Macau, and it was an invitational, non-championship round of the 2023 Formula 4 South East Asia Championship. | EnthusiastWorld37 (talk) |
| 2024-10-25 21:53 | Murder of Wang Lianying (1920 murder in Shanghai, China) | Wang Lianying was a Chinese courtesan who was killed by Yan Ruisheng and his accomplices on 9 June 1920 outside of Shanghai in the Republic of China. Twenty-year-old Lianying had worked in Shanghai, known as the "Brothel of Asia", since 1916, gaining recognition as the "Prime Minister of Flower Country" during the 1917 courtesan election. | — Chris Woodrich (talk) |
| 2024-12-01 09:10 | Typhoon Ampil (2024) (Pacific typhoon) | Typhoon Ampil was a powerful tropical cyclone that threatened Japan's Tokyo Metropolitan Area since Faxai in 2019 and brought torrential gusty winds to Alaska in early August 2024. The seventh named storm and third typhoon of the annual typhoon season. Ampil emerged from an atmospheric convection east of Kadena Air Base and was later classified as a tropical storm on August 12 and named Ampil by the Japan Meteorological Agency. | HurricaneEdgar |
| 2024-12-05 20:18 | Life (Gen Hoshino song) (2023 single by Gen Hoshino) | is a song by Japanese singer-songwriter and musician Gen Hoshino. Used as the theme song for the 2022 Asian Games and 2023 World Athletics Championships on TBS Television, the song was written and produced by Hoshino, who co-arranged it with Mabanua. It was first released as a digital-exclusive single by Speedstar Records on August 14, 2023, and was later re-released as a CD single with "Why" on December 27, 2023. | IanTEB (talk) |
| 2024-12-07 05:47 | Typhoon Shanshan (2024) (Pacific typhoon) | Typhoon Shanshan was a powerful tropical cyclone that moved through Japan in August 2024. The tenth named storm and fourth typhoon of the annual typhoon season, Shanshan was first noted near the Mariana Islands on August 20, with deep convection beginning to consolidate. The following day, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) upgraded it to a tropical storm and named it Shanshan. | HurricaneEdgar |
| 2024-12-07 22:37 | Two Stars in the Milky Way (1931 Taiwanese film) | Two Stars in the Milky Way (simplified Chinese: 银汉双星; traditional Chinese: 銀漢雙星; pinyin: Yínhàn Shuāngxīng), also translated Two Stars on the Silver Screen and known as An Actor and an Actress, is a 1931 film directed by Shi Dongshan for the United Photoplay Service (UPS). Based on the eponymous novel by Zhang Henshui, it stars Violet Wong as a country girl who, after being discovered by the Milky Way Film Company, rises to stardom through a Cantonese opera. | — Chris Woodrich (talk) |
| 2024-12-22 12:27 | Shang dynasty religious practitioners (Ancient Chinese polytheistic religion) | The Shang dynasty of China (c. 1600 - 1046 BCE), which adhered to a polytheistic religion centered around worshipping ancestors, structured itself into key religious roles with the king acting as head. As recorded on Shang oracle bones, royal adherents were grouped into specialist teams such as diviners, spirit mediums and those who conducted sacrifices. | Strongman13072007 (talk) |
| 2024-12-23 01:11 | Lingnan School (Chinese art movement) | The Lingnan School (traditional Chinese: 嶺南畫派; simplified Chinese: 岭南画派; pinyin: Lǐngnán huà pài) was an art movement active in the late Qing dynasty and Republic of China that sought to modernize Chinese painting through borrowing from other artistic traditions. The school's founders, Gao Jianfu, Gao Qifeng, and Chen Shuren, were initially influenced by the teachings of Ju Lian, including the "boneless" technique. | — Chris Woodrich (talk) |
| 2024-12-27 07:53 | Typhoon Krathon (Pacific typhoon in 2024) | Typhoon Krathon, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Julian, was a powerful and erratic tropical cyclone which impacted Taiwan and the Philippines in late September and early October 2024. Krathon, which refers to the santol fruit, was the first storm to make landfall on Taiwan's densely populated western plains since Typhoon Thelma in 1977. | HurricaneEdgar |
| 2024-12-27 13:36 | Mingxing (Former Chinese film production company) | The Mingxing Film Company (Chinese: 明星影片公司; pinyin: Míngxīng Yǐngpiàn Gōngsī), also credited as the Star Motion Picture Production Company, was a production company active in the Republic of China between 1922 and 1937. Established by a consortium of creative professionals, including film director Zhang Shichuan, dramatist Zheng Zhengqiu, and critic Zhou Jianyun, Mingxing initially produced comedy films that drew little audience attention. | — Chris Woodrich (talk) |
| 2024-12-31 18:41 | Book of Wu (Lost history of Eastern Wu (c. 250)) | The Book of Wu or Wu shu (Chinese: 吳書) is a lost history of the state of Eastern Wu (229–280). It was compiled by the official historians of the Wu court under orders from the Wu emperors. Portions of the text survive only as quotations preserved in Pei Songzhi's Annotated Records of the Three Kingdoms. | Kzyx (talk) |
| 2025-01-03 01:40 | Hometown Village (Sakhalin Korean enclave in South Korea) | Hometown Village (Korean: 고향마을; Hanja: 故鄕마을; RR: Gohyang Maeul; Russian: Кохян Маыль) is a community of eight apartment buildings and enclave of Sakhalin Koreans at 39 Yonghagongwon-ro, Sangnok-gu, Ansan, South Korea. It is the largest enclave of Sakhalin Koreans in the country. | seefooddiet (talk) |
| 2025-01-06 14:47 | Jianwen Emperor (Emperor of China from 1398 to 1402) | The Jianwen Emperor (5 December 1377 – ?), personal name Zhu Yunwen, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Huizong of Ming and by his posthumous name as the Emperor Hui of Ming, was the second emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1398 to 1402. Zhu Yunwen's father was Zhu Biao, the eldest son and crown prince of the Hongwu Emperor, the founder of the Ming dynasty. | Min968 (talk) |
| 2025-01-11 00:02 | Sketches of the Life of the Great Priest (Print series by Utagawa Kuniyoshi) | (c. 1831) is a series of ten Japanese woodblock prints in ink and color on paper made by ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798–1861). It was published by Iseya Rihei in 1835–1836. The prints, which are in the large, horizontal, multi-colored woodblock format, tell the story of Nichiren (1222–1282), a Japanese Buddhist priest, philosopher and founder of Nichiren Buddhism. | Viriditas (talk) |
| 2025-01-12 07:35 | Frank Schofield (Canadian veterinarian and Korean independence activist (1889–1970)) | Frank William Schofield (15 March 1889 – 16 April 1970) was a British-born Canadian veterinarian, missionary, and Korean independence activist. He is also known by his Korean name Seok Ho-pil (Korean: 석호필; Hanja: 石虎弼). | seefooddiet (talk) |
| 2025-01-13 09:15 | Emperor Yingzong of Ming (Emperor of China from 1435 to 1449 and from 1457 to 1464) | Emperor Yingzong of Ming (29 November 1427 – 23 February 1464), personal name Zhu Qizhen, was the sixth and eighth emperor of the Ming dynasty. He ruled as the Zhengtong Emperor from 1435 to 1449, and as the Tianshun Emperor from 1457 until his death in 1464. | Min968 (talk) |
| 2025-01-16 21:26 | Fushigi (song) (2021 single by Gen Hoshino) | is a song by Japanese singer-songwriter and musician Gen Hoshino. Speedstar Records released it as a digital single on April 27, 2021, and later reissued it as a double A-sided CD with the song "Create" on June 23, 2021. Hoshino wrote "Fushigi" for the television drama series Why I Dress Up for Love . | IanTEB (talk) |
| 2025-01-25 09:45 | May You Stay Forever Young (2021 Hong Kong drama film) | May You Stay Forever Young (Chinese: 少年) is a 2021 Hong Kong drama film directed by Rex Ren and Lam Sum, written and produced by Ren and Daniel Chan. The film, set in the background of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, was produced by Phone Made Good Film and stars an ensemble cast of nine. | Prince of Erebor（The Book of Mazarbul） |
| 2025-01-28 20:13 | Toshiyori (Japan Sumo Association executives) | A toshiyori (年寄), also known as an oyakata (親方), is a sumo elder exercising both coaching functions with active wrestlers and responsibilities within the Japan Sumo Association (JSA). All toshiyori are former wrestlers who reached a sufficiently high rank to be eligible to this status. | OtharLuin (talk) |
| 2025-01-29 01:44 | The Host (2006 film) (2006 film by Bong Joon-ho) | The Host is a 2006 monster film directed and co-written by Bong Joon-ho. It stars Song Kang-ho as vendor Park Gang-du whose daughter Hyun-seo (Go Ah-sung) is kidnapped by a creature dwelling around the Han River in Seoul. Byun Hee-bong, Park Hae-il, and Bae Doona appear in supporting roles as Gang-du's father, brother, and sister respectively. | Eiga-Kevin2 (talk) |
| 2025-01-31 09:40 | Letter to Yi Ŭngt'ae (1586 Korean letter from widow to husband) | In 1998, a 16th-century letter from a grieving pregnant widow to her deceased husband Yi Ŭngt'ae was discovered in Yi's tomb in Jeongsang-dong, Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. | seefooddiet (talk) |
| 2025-01-31 13:57 | Jingnan campaign (1399–1402 civil war in the Ming dynasty) | The Jingnan campaign, or the campaign to clear away disorders, was a propagandistic term used by the victorious side to refer to the civil war that took place between 1399 and 1402 in the Ming dynasty. This conflict was between the Ming government, led by the second Ming emperor, the Jianwen Emperor, and his uncle, Zhu Di, Prince of Yan. | Min968 (talk) |
| 2025-02-01 14:32 | Dear Jinri (2023 South Korean documentary film) | Dear Jinri (Korean: 진리에게; RR: Jilliege; lit. To the truth) is a 2023 South Korean documentary film directed by Jung Yoon-suk. The film is built around the final interview of Choi Jin-ri, better known as K-pop star Sulli, and was filmed just prior to her death in 2019. The film premiered at the 28th Busan International Film Festival on October 7, 2023 and was released commercially by Netflix on November 13, serving as the second episode of Persona: Sulli. | RachelTensions (talk) |
Geography/Regions/Asia/North Asia
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| 2025-01-16 02:55 | Siege of Khujand (1866 siege during the Russian conquest of Central Asia) | The siege of Khujand (17–24 May 1866) was part of an unapproved Russian military operation during the Russian conquest of Bukhara and Russo-Kokand War. The operation was led by Military Governor Dmitry Romanovsky and aimed to capture several settlements on the Russo-Bukharan border including Khujand. | CitrusHemlock |
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| 2024-08-12 09:43 | Andhra Pradesh (State in southern India) | Andhra Pradesh (ISO: Āndhra Pradēś, ; Urdu: Āndhrā Pradēś; code: AP) is a state on the east coast of southern India. It is the seventh-largest state and the tenth-most populous in the country. Telugu is the most widely spoken language in the state, as well as its primary official language while Urdu is the secondary official language. | Arjunaraoc (talk) |
| 2024-10-18 08:08 | Ziaur Rahman (President of Bangladesh from 1977 to 1981) | Ziaur Rahman BU HJ HOR (19 January 1936 – 30 May 1981) was a Bangladeshi military officer and politician who served as the sixth President of Bangladesh from 1977 until his assassination in 1981. One of the leading figures of country's independence war, he broadcast the Bangladeshi declaration of independence in March 1971 from Chittagong. | Niasoh (talk) |
| 2024-11-11 12:15 | Ayesha Takia (Indian actress (born 1986)) | Ayesha Azmi (née Takia; born 10 April 1986), born and known professionally as Ayesha Takia is an Indian former actress and model who worked predominantly in Hindi films. Takia made her debut in 2004 with the action thriller Taarzan: The Wonder Car for which she won the Filmfare Best Debut Award and IIFA Award Star Debut of the Year Female. | 25 CENTS VICTORIOUS 🍁 |
| 2024-12-04 21:53 | Tabu (actress) (Indian actress (born 1971)) | Tabassum Fatima Hashmi (born 4 November 1971), known professionally as Tabu, is an Indian actress who works primarily in Hindi films. Regarded as one of Hindi cinema's most accomplished actresses, she has also worked in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, English, Bengali and Marathi films. She has often played troubled women, from fictional to literary, in both mainstream and independent cinema. | 19Arham (talk) |
| 2025-01-19 04:55 | Siege of Golconda (1687 siege in India) | The Siege of Golconda (1687 CE) was an eight-month military siege of the Golconda Fort (in present-day Telangana, India). This siege was personally directed by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb against the Golconda Sultanate, ruled by king Abul Hasan Qutb Shah. It was the second Mughal siege of the fort, following an aborted attempt by Aurangzeb in 1656 as a prince of emperor Shah Jahan. | Gowhk8 (talk) |
| 2025-01-20 12:16 | Yoga tourism (Travel with the purpose of experiencing yoga) | Yoga tourism is travel with the specific purpose of experiencing some form of yoga, whether spiritual or postural. The former is a type of spiritual tourism; the latter is related both to spiritual and to wellness tourism. Yoga tourists often visit ashrams in India to study yoga or to be trained and certified as yoga teachers. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2025-01-30 12:03 | Sikh–Wahhabi War (Conflict in South Asia from 1826 to 1831) | The Sikh–Wahhabi War was fought between the Sikh Empire under Maharaja Ranjit Singh and the Wahhabi movement led by Sayyid Ahmad Barelvi. The conflict arose from Sayyid Ahmad's attempts to establish an Islamic state in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent based on the Sharia law. | Indo-Greek |
| 2025-01-30 13:23 | Hussain Nizam Shah III (12th Sultan of Ahmadnagar) | Hussain Nizam Shah III was the 12th Sultan of Ahmadnagar Sultanate under the regency of Fath Khan and Shahaji. It was during his reign the second phase of extinction of Ahmadnagar Sultanate began. He was imprisoned by Shah Jahan in the Gwalior Fort after Mahabat Khan's successful conquest of Dautlatabad. | Mr.Hanes Talk
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Geography/Regions/Asia/Southeast Asia
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| 2024-10-29 22:24 | Transport in Penang | As the core of Malaysia's second largest conurbation, Penang has a relatively developed transport infrastructure. The state is well-connected by land, air and sea. The Penang International Airport is Malaysia's third busiest by passenger traffic and the busiest by export volume, while the Port of Penang is the main transshipment hub of northern Malaysia. | LibStar (talk) |
| 2024-10-31 16:03 | Halimah Yacob (President of Singapore from 2017 to 2023) | Halimah binti Yacob (born 23 August 1954) is a Singaporean politician and lawyer who held the office of the eighth president of Singapore from 2017 to 2023, making history as the first woman to serve in this role. | Pangalau (talk) |
| 2024-11-20 05:04 | Bedok MRT station (Mass Rapid Transit station in Singapore) | Bedok MRT station is an elevated Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the East–West Line (EWL) in Bedok, Singapore. Operated by SMRT Trains, the station serves the Bedok area and its landmarks such as Bedok Bus Interchange and Bedok Mall. It is reportedly one of the busiest stations on the eastern portion of the EWL. | Imbluey2. Please ping me so that I get notified of your response |
| 2024-11-25 13:12 | Tropical Storm Prapiroon (2024) (Pacific tropical storm) | Severe Tropical Storm Prapiroon, known in the Philippines as Tropical Depression Butchoy was a compact tropical cyclone that made landfall in Hainan and Vietnam in July 2024. It was the fourth named storm of the annual typhoon season. Prapiroon was first identified as an area of persistent convection southeast of Manila, Philippines, on July 15. | HurricaneEdgar |
| 2024-12-12 10:36 | Jehovah's Witnesses in Singapore | The Bible Student movement from which Jehovah's Witnesses developed has been present in Singapore since 1912, although their right to practise and propagate their religion, as enshrined in Article 15 of the Constitution of Singapore, is not absolute. The Singapore Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses was deregistered as a society in 1972; many Witnesses have been imprisoned for refusing to be conscripted into the Singapore Armed Forces. | KINGofLETTUCE 👑 🥬 |
| 2024-12-23 03:16 | Bukit Brown Cemetery (Cemetery in Novena, Singapore) | Bukit Brown Cemetery, also known as the Bukit Brown Municipal Cemetery or the Bukit Brown Chinese Cemetery, is a cemetery located in Novena, in the Central Region of Singapore. The site of the cemetery was originally owned by George Henry Brown, a British merchant. Due to its hilly terrain, the site became known as Brown's Hill, which was translated locally into Malay as Bukit Brown. | Actuall7 (talk) |
| 2025-01-06 02:10 | Visayan pop (Music genre) | Visayan pop, better known as Vispop (not to be confused with the Scandinavian musical genre), is short for Visayan popular music. Despite its name, it usually refers to popular music in the Cebuano language; pop music sung in other Visayan languages is known by other terms. For instance, a separate pop music movement for Hiligaynon emerged in the late 2010s, called Ilonggo Pop. | Bloomagiliw (talk) |
| 2025-01-09 15:13 | Ashin Nandamālābhivaṁsa (Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk) | Ashin Nandamālābhivaṃsa (Burmese: အရှင်နန္ဒမာလာဘိဝံသ, , Thai: สมเด็จพระนนฺทมาลาภิวงฺส; born 22 March 1940, Htun Tin, ), also known as Rector Sayadaw (or Pamaukkhachoke Sayadaw, Burmese: ပါမောက္ခချုပ်ဆရာတော်, ), is a Burmese Buddhist scholar-monk and specialist in Abhidhamma. He is chief abbot of the monasteries of Mahā Subodhāyon and rector of Sitagu International Buddhist Academy. | Htanaungg (talk) |
| 2025-01-22 13:41 | How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024 Thai film by Pat Boonnitipat) | How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, known in Thai as Lahn Mah, is a 2024 Thai comedy drama film directed by Pat Boonnitipat in his directorial debut and written by Pat and Thodsapon Thiptinnakorn. It stars Putthipong Assaratanakul and Usha Seamkhum in their debut feature film roles. In the film, M (Putthipong), a university dropout low on money volunteers to take care of his terminally ill grandmother (Usha) in the hope of pocketing an inheritance. | M48SKY (talk) |
| 2025-01-26 07:25 | Simei MRT station (Mass Rapid Transit station in Singapore) | Simei MRT station (Chinese: 四美; pinyin: Sì měi, Tamil: ஸீமெய்) is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the East–West line in Tampines, Singapore. Operated by SMRT Trains, the station serves the eponymous Simei residential estate. Other nearby landmarks include Eastpoint Mall and Changkat Primary and Secondary School. | Icepinner (formerly Imbluey2). Please ping me so that I get notified of your response |
| 2025-01-31 02:39 | Lakeside MRT station (Mass Rapid Transit station in Singapore) | Lakeside MRT station (Chinese: 湖畔; pinyin: Hú pàn, Tamil: ஏரிக்கரை) is an elevated Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the East–West line in Jurong West, Singapore. Operated by SMRT Trains, the station serves the eponymous Jurong Lake and the Hong Kah and Taman Jurong residential estate. Other nearby landmarks include Yuan Ching Secondary School and the Jurong West Branch of the Housing and Development Board (HDB). | Icepinner (formerly Imbluey2). Please ping me so that I get notified of your response |
Geography/Regions/Asia/West Asia
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| 2024-09-05 08:52 | Marcus Klingberg (Israeli scientist and Soviet spy (1918–2015)) | Avraham Marek Klingberg (7 October 1918 – 30 November 2015), known as Marcus Klingberg (Hebrew: מרקוס קלינגברג), was a Polish-born, Israeli epidemiologist and the highest ranking Soviet spy ever uncovered in Israel. Klingberg made major contributions in the fields of infectious and noninfectious disease epidemiology and military medicine, but he is most widely known for passing intelligence to the Soviet Union regarding Israel's biological and chemical warfare capacities. | Goldsztajn (talk) |
| 2024-11-14 03:01 | Abbasqoli Khan Mo'tamed od-Dowleh Javanshir (First Minister of Justice of Iran) | Abbasqoli Khan Mo'tamed od-Dowleh Javanshir (Persian: عباسقلی معتمدالدوله جوانشیر; died 1861) was an Iranian official from the Javanshir tribe, who served as the first Minister of Justice of Iran from 1858 to 1861. | HistoryofIran (talk) |
| 2025-01-13 14:25 | Marriage in the United Arab Emirates | Marriage in the United Arab Emirates is governed by a combination of Islamic principles, local traditions, and legal regulations. Islamic marriages within the country are conducted according to Sharia law, where the groom and bride are both Muslims, or the bride is from 'Ahl Al-Kitaab', typically referring to Christianity or Judaism. | jolielover♥talk |
Geography/Regions/Europe
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| 2024-09-24 15:31 | W leju po bombie (Science fiction short story by Andrzej Sapkowski) | W leju po bombie (In the Bomb Crater) is a science fiction short story by Andrzej Sapkowski, published in 1993, belonging to the genres of military and political fiction, as well as so-called klerykal fiction and politpunk. In 1994, the story won the Janusz A. Zajdel Award. | Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here |
| 2024-09-24 15:31 | Jason Kwan (Hong Kong cinematographer and film director) | Jason Kwan Chi-yiu (Chinese: 關智耀; born 1964) is a Hong Kong filmmaker. Debuting as a cinematographer in the Hong Kong cinema with All About Love (2005), Kwan was known for his collaborations with director Pang Ho-cheung, which include Love in a Puff (2010), its sequel Love in the Buff, Vulgaria (both 2012), and Aberdeen (2014). | Prince of Erebor（The Book of Mazarbul） |
| 2024-09-28 17:59 | Nicolinas (Series of festivities celebrating Saint Nicholas that occur in Guimarães, Portugal) | The Nicolinas (Portuguese: Festas Nicolinas) are a series of festivities to honor Saint Nicholas that occur in the Portuguese city of Guimarães. Held between November 29 and December 7, they celebrate the old traditions and camaraderie of the inhabitants of Guimarães, predominantly among its students. | V.B.Speranza (talk) |
| 2024-11-04 01:04 | Amos Yee (Singaporean sex offender (born 1998)) | Amos Yee Pang Sang (born 31 October 1998) is a Singaporean convicted child sex offender and former blogger, former YouTuber, and former child actor. | OpalYosutebito (talk) |
| 2024-11-20 17:12 | 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres | The women's 400 metres at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships took place in three rounds at the Ataköy Athletics Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, on 3 and 4 March 2023. This was the 37th time the women's 400 metres was contested at the European Athletics Indoor Championships. Athletes could qualify by achieving the entry standard or by their World Athletics Ranking for the event. | Editør (talk) |
| 2024-11-27 23:53 | Jakob Ingebrigtsen (Norwegian middle- and long-distance runner (born 2000)) | Jakob Ingebrigtsen (born 19 September 2000) is a Norwegian middle- and long-distance runner who is the current world record holder in the short track 1500 metres, the 2000 metres and the 3000 metres, and holds the world best time over the two mile distance. Ingebrigtsen is a two-time Olympic champion, winning gold medals in the 1500 m at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, setting a then Olympic and European record, and in the 5000 metres at the 2024 Paris Olympics. | KnowledgeIsPower9281 (talk) |
| 2024-12-23 18:13 | Eurovision Song Contest 1988 (International song competition) | The Eurovision Song Contest 1988 was the 33rd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 30 April 1988 in the RDS Simmonscourt Pavilion in Dublin, Ireland and presented by Pat Kenny and Michelle Rocca. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ), the contest was held in Ireland following the country's victory at the 1987 contest with the song "Hold Me Now" by Johnny Logan. | Sims2aholic8 (talk) |
| 2024-12-28 00:43 | Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly | The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 30 to 31 July 2024 in the Olympics Aquatics Centre at Paris La Défense Arena. | IAWW (talk) |
| 2024-12-28 14:39 | SMS Bremse (1884) (German ironclad gunboat) | SMS Bremse was the second and final member of the Brummer class of armored gunboats built for the German Kaiserliche Marine in the 1880s. The ship was ordered to serve in Germany's coastal defense system alongside the Sachsen-class ironclads and Wespe-class gunboats. | Parsecboy (talk) |
| 2025-01-01 22:37 | Chaim Kanievsky (Haredi rabbi and leader in Israel (1928–2022)) | Shemaryahu Yosef Chaim Kanievsky (Hebrew: שמריהו יוסף חיים קַניֶבסקִי; January 8, 1928 – March 18, 2022) was an Israeli Haredi rabbi and posek. He was a leading authority in Haredi Jewish society on legal and ethical practice. Known as the Gadol HaDor ("greatest of his generation") and the "Prince of Torah", much of his prominence came through Torah education and advice about Jewish law. | Yeshivish613 (talk) |
| 2025-01-06 18:56 | Attack of the Robots (1966 film) | Attack of the Robots (Spanish: Cartas boca arriba, lit. 'Cards Face Up') is a 1966 spy film directed by Jesús Franco. The film stars Eddie Constantine as Al Pereira, a spy brought out of retirement to investigate a series of murders conducted by a robot-like army of people with black-framed glasses and strange darkened skin. | Andrzejbanas (talk) |
| 2025-01-07 00:09 | David Einhorn (poet) (Jewish writer (1886–1973)) | David Einhorn (Yiddish: דוד אײנהאָרן, romanized: Dovid Eynhorn, 1886 – 2 March 1973) was a poet, journalist, and essayist. Born in the Russian Empire to a Jewish family, he became a poet at a young age and participated within the General Jewish Labour Bund. After helping to found a publishing house in Vilnius he was arrested for his connections to the Bund in 1912, and was exiled from Russia; he went to Bern, where he contributed to journals and periodicals. | Generalissima (talk) (it/she) |
| 2025-01-08 17:47 | 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay | The women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships took place in one round in the Ataköy Athletics Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, on 5 March 2023. This was the twelfth time the women's 4 × 400 metres relay was contested at the European Athletics Indoor Championships. Six national teams qualified based on their outdoor results from 2022 or the team's cumulative individual 400 metres indoor results from 2023. | Editør (talk) |
| 2025-01-09 15:13 | Ashin Nandamālābhivaṁsa (Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk) | Ashin Nandamālābhivaṃsa (Burmese: အရှင်နန္ဒမာလာဘိဝံသ, , Thai: สมเด็จพระนนฺทมาลาภิวงฺส; born 22 March 1940, Htun Tin, ), also known as Rector Sayadaw (or Pamaukkhachoke Sayadaw, Burmese: ပါမောက္ခချုပ်ဆရာတော်, ), is a Burmese Buddhist scholar-monk and specialist in Abhidhamma. He is chief abbot of the monasteries of Mahā Subodhāyon and rector of Sitagu International Buddhist Academy. | Htanaungg (talk) |
| 2025-01-15 11:23 | Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (2023 video game) | Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is a 2023 action-adventure game developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts. The game is the sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019), taking place five years after the events of the previous game and continuing the adventure of young Jedi Knight Cal Kestis (Cameron Monaghan), as he and his friends continue in their struggle to survive the tyranny of the Galactic Empire while racing against a corrupted High Republic Jedi to reach a shrouded planet ... | OceanHok (talk) |
| 2025-01-16 02:55 | Siege of Khujand (1866 siege during the Russian conquest of Central Asia) | The siege of Khujand (17–24 May 1866) was part of an unapproved Russian military operation during the Russian conquest of Bukhara and Russo-Kokand War. The operation was led by Military Governor Dmitry Romanovsky and aimed to capture several settlements on the Russo-Bukharan border including Khujand. | CitrusHemlock |
| 2025-01-16 11:00 | First Jewish–Roman War (Rebellion against Roman rule (66–73 CE)) | The First Jewish–Roman War (66–74 CE), sometimes called the Great Jewish Revolt, the First Jewish Revolt, or the Jewish War, was the first of three major rebellions by the Jews against the Roman Empire. Fought in the province of Judaea, it resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem and other cities and towns, the displacement of its population, the appropriation of land, and the destruction of the Jewish Temple and polity. | Mariamnei (talk) |
| 2025-01-19 10:42 | 2016 Road to Le Mans | The 1st Road to Le Mans was an 55-minute automobile endurance event for 37 teams of one or two drivers racing Le Mans Prototype 3 (LMP3) and Group GT3 (GT3) cars. It was held on 18 June 2016 at the Circuit de la Sarthe near Le Mans, France, as a support race for the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans and the second round of the 2016 GT3 Le Mans Cup. | EnthusiastWorld37 (talk) |
| 2025-01-21 16:23 | Tamid Ohev Oti (2024 single by Yair Elitzur) | "Tamid Ohev Oti" (Hebrew: תמיד אוהב אותי, lit. '(The Lord) Always Loves Me'), also known as "Od Yoter Tov" (Hebrew: עוד יותר טוב, lit. 'Much better'), is a Hebrew song originally released by Yair Elitzur on 18 June 2024. It has become very popular in Israel and among Jews around the world and is considered one of the songs inspired by the Israel-Hamas war. | Yeshivish613 (talk) |
| 2025-01-23 22:26 | 2024 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay | The women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 European Athletics Championships took place in two rounds at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy, on 11 and 12 June 2024. It was the eighteenth time the women's 4 × 400 metres relay was contested at the European Athletics Championships. Relay teams of sixteen nations competed. | Editør (talk) |
| 2025-01-24 02:35 | Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (Grand Duchess of Russia) | Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia (born Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine; 1 November 1864 – 18 July 1918) was a German Hessian and Rhenish princess of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, and the wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, the fifth son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine. | Qubacubazamniauser (talk) |
| 2025-01-24 11:57 | 2024 European Athletics Championships – Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay | The mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 European Athletics Championships took place in one round at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy, on 7 June 2024. It was the first time this mixed-sex relay event was contested at the European Athletics Championships. Relay teams of eight nations competed in the mandated order man–woman–man–woman. | Editør (talk) |
| 2025-01-24 23:38 | Eurovision Song Contest 1965 (International song competition) | The Eurovision Song Contest 1965 was the 10th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 20 March 1965 in the Sala di Concerto della RAI in Naples, Italy and presented by Renata Mauro. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI), the contest was held in Italy following the country's victory at the 1964 contest with the song "Non ho l'età" by Gigliola Cinquetti. | Sims2aholic8 (talk) |
| 2025-01-25 09:45 | May You Stay Forever Young (2021 Hong Kong drama film) | May You Stay Forever Young (Chinese: 少年) is a 2021 Hong Kong drama film directed by Rex Ren and Lam Sum, written and produced by Ren and Daniel Chan. The film, set in the background of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, was produced by Phone Made Good Film and stars an ensemble cast of nine. | Prince of Erebor（The Book of Mazarbul） |
| 2025-01-25 20:27 | Sicilian business | The "Sicilian business" is a historiographical term used to describe the failed attempt by Henry III of England to claim the Kingdom of Sicily for his son Edmund, who had been offered the throne by the papacy. Sicily, established in the twelfth century as a theoretical papal fief, had been ruled by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II from 1198 until his death in 1250; Pope Innocent IV now sought to install an agreeable sovereign to succeed his longtime adversary. | Unlimitedlead (talk) |
| 2025-01-28 20:13 | Toshiyori (Japan Sumo Association executives) | A toshiyori (年寄), also known as an oyakata (親方), is a sumo elder exercising both coaching functions with active wrestlers and responsibilities within the Japan Sumo Association (JSA). All toshiyori are former wrestlers who reached a sufficiently high rank to be eligible to this status. | OtharLuin (talk) |
| 2025-01-29 01:44 | The Host (2006 film) (2006 film by Bong Joon-ho) | The Host is a 2006 monster film directed and co-written by Bong Joon-ho. It stars Song Kang-ho as vendor Park Gang-du whose daughter Hyun-seo (Go Ah-sung) is kidnapped by a creature dwelling around the Han River in Seoul. Byun Hee-bong, Park Hae-il, and Bae Doona appear in supporting roles as Gang-du's father, brother, and sister respectively. | Eiga-Kevin2 (talk) |
| 2025-01-29 14:58 | Solfrid Koanda (Norwegian weightlifter (born 1998)) | Solfrid Eila Amena Koanda (born 13 November 1998) is a Norwegian weightlifter and former electrician who became the first female Norwegian weightlifter to become an Olympic champion, and the first Norwegian weightlifter to become World and European champion in the sport. Born in Oulu to a Finnish mother and an Ivorian father, she lived in Finland until moving to Norway at nine years old. | Arconning (talk) |
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| 2024-08-10 05:06 | Rico Krieger (German saboteur for Belarusian opposition) | Rico Krieger is a German citizen, most notable for his reported sabotage work inside Belarus for the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment, subsequent detainment, and release during the 2024 Russian prisoner exchange. | Johnson524 |
| 2024-09-05 08:52 | Marcus Klingberg (Israeli scientist and Soviet spy (1918–2015)) | Avraham Marek Klingberg (7 October 1918 – 30 November 2015), known as Marcus Klingberg (Hebrew: מרקוס קלינגברג), was a Polish-born, Israeli epidemiologist and the highest ranking Soviet spy ever uncovered in Israel. Klingberg made major contributions in the fields of infectious and noninfectious disease epidemiology and military medicine, but he is most widely known for passing intelligence to the Soviet Union regarding Israel's biological and chemical warfare capacities. | Goldsztajn (talk) |
| 2024-10-01 06:09 | Jerzy Broszkiewicz (Polish prose writer, playwright, essayist and publicist) | Jerzy Broszkiewicz (June 6, 1922 – October 4, 1993) was a Polish prose writer, playwright, essayist and publicist. He is best known for his dramas as well as young adult literature; the latter usually took forms of historical or science fiction novels. | Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here |
| 2024-11-14 14:17 | Ukrainian Sheriffs (2015 Ukrainian documentary film by Roman Bondarchuk) | Ukrainian Sheriffs (Ukrainian: Українські шерифи, romanized: Ukrainski Sherify) is a 2015 Ukrainian documentary film directed by Roman Bondarchuk. The film begins as a portrait of a small town which tries to meet its own policing needs but shifts when the Russo-Ukrainian War begins, depicting the war's effects in microcosm. | Reidgreg (talk) |
| 2024-11-21 14:16 | Cyborgs (film) (2017 Ukrainian war film) | Cyborgs: Heroes Never Die (Ukrainian: Кiборги: Герої не вмирають; Romanized: Kiborhy: Heroyi ne vmyrayut) is a 2017 Ukrainian war drama film about the Cyborgs, the Ukrainian defenders in the Second Battle of Donetsk Airport during the war in Donbas. The film was written by Nataliya Vorozhbyt, directed by Akhtem Seitablayev and produced by Ivanna Diadiura. | Reidgreg (talk) |
| 2024-11-29 22:04 | Mały Brzostek (Town in Sandomierz Voivodeship, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland) | Mały Brzostek is a lost royal town located mainly on the area of today's Nawsie Brzosteckie village. It was adjacent to medieval Brzostek, which belonged to the Benedictine abbey in Tyniec. Mały Brzostek received town privileges on 1 March 1394 from Władysław II Jagiełło, and Stanisław of Saspolin became the first wójt. | Filipny (talk) |
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| 2024-10-05 19:17 | Tessa Davidson (English snooker player) | Tessa Davidson (born 22 April 1969) is an English snooker player from Banbury, Oxfordshire. She competed on the women's tour from 1988 to 1995 and again from 1998 to 1999, during which time she won three UK Women's Championships and achieved a highest ranking of fourth in the women's rankings. She competed on the main professional tour during the 1992–93 snooker season. | BennyOnTheLoose (talk) |
| 2024-10-28 22:30 | 2022 Shetland Islands Council election (Shetland Islands Council election) | Elections to Shetland Islands Council took place on 5 May 2022 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. As with other Scottish council elections, it was held using single transferable vote (STV) – a form of proportional representation – in which multiple candidates are elected in each ward and voters rank candidates in order of preference. | Stevie fae Scotland (talk) |
| 2024-11-09 21:03 | Liang Wenbo (Chinese former snooker player) | Liang Wenbo (Chinese: 梁文博; born 5 March 1987) is a Chinese former professional snooker player. During his playing career, he won one ranking title at the 2016 English Open, twice won the World Cup for China in 2011 and 2017 with teammate Ding Junhui, and was runner-up at the 2009 Shanghai Masters and the 2015 UK Championship. | Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) |
| 2024-11-17 16:48 | John Higgins (Scottish snooker player (born 1975)) | John Higgins MBE (born 18 May 1975) is a Scottish professional snooker player from Wishaw in North Lanarkshire. Since turning professional in 1992, he has won 31 ranking titles, placing him in third position on the all-time list of ranking event winners, behind Ronnie O'Sullivan (41) and Stephen Hendry (36). | Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) |
| 2024-11-21 00:24 | Mike Pilavachi (British evangelist and pastor (born 1958)) | Michael Pilavachi, MBE (born 1958) is a British charismatic evangelist, former Anglican priest and author. He is the co-founder and former leader of the Soul Survivor charity based in Watford, England. | It is a wonderful world (talk) |
| 2024-11-21 12:46 | Nannau Hall (Grade II* listed building in Gwynedd, Wales) | is a Georgian mansion and estate near the village of Llanfachreth, Gwynedd, North Wales, UK. The mansion was initially inhabited by the Welsh Nanney (Nannau) family, who were direct descendants of the Kings of Powys. For over 900 years, the Nannau estate was in possession of the same family. | Cltjames (talk) |
| 2024-12-08 10:55 | Mabel Bagenal (Anglo-Irish noblewoman (c. 1571 – 1595)) | Mabel O'Neill, Countess of Tyrone (née Bagenal; c. 1571 – December 1595) was an Anglo-Irish noblewoman best known as the third wife of prominent Gaelic Irish lord Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. | SkywalkerEccleston (talk) |
| 2024-12-10 08:56 | Henry O'Neill (soldier) (Irish soldier and nobleman) | Colonel Henry O'Neill (Spanish: Enrique O'Neill; c. 1586 – 25 August 1610) was an Irish-born soldier and nobleman who primarily served in Continental Europe. In 1600 he was relocated to Spain to strengthen relations between his father, the Earl of Tyrone, and the Spanish government. He served for many years in the Low Countries, before dying in Spain of illness aged 23. | SkywalkerEccleston (talk) |
| 2024-12-14 10:10 | 2024 UK Championship (November–December 2024 Snooker event, held in the UK) | The 2024 UK Championship (officially the 2024 Victorian Plumbing UK Championship) was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 23 November to 1 December 2024 at the York Barbican in York, England. The 48th edition of the UK Championship, it was the ninth ranking event of the 2024–25 season, following the 2024 International Championship and preceding the 2024 Snooker Shoot Out. | Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) |
| 2024-12-17 13:03 | Bersey Electric Cab (1896 British early electric vehicle) | The Bersey Electric Cab (also known as the London Electrical Cab) was an early electric-powered vehicle and the first electric taxi cab in London. Developed by Walter Bersey, the vehicles had a top speed of up to 12 mph (19 km/h) and could carry two passengers. An initial service of 12 cabs began on 19 August 1897 and a total of 77 were built, with a maximum of 75 in service at once. | Dumelow (talk) |
| 2024-12-28 07:26 | Cathal O'Connor Faly (Sixteenth-century Irish rebel) | Cathal O'Connor Faly (Irish: Cathal Ó Conchobhair Failghe; c. 1540 - October 1596) was an Irish rebel of noble ancestry. | SkywalkerEccleston (talk) |
| 2024-12-28 15:42 | Mark Wildman (English snooker player (1936–2024)) | Markham Wildman (25 January 1936 – 18 November 2024) was a billiards and snooker player and cue sports commentator from Peterborough. He won the World Professional Billiards Championship in 1984 and was runner up in 1980 and 1982. He made the first televised snooker century break in 1960, while still an amateur. | BennyOnTheLoose (talk) |
| 2024-12-29 15:38 | Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation (2021 Irish government investigation) | The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation (officially the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters) was a judicial commission of investigation, established in 2015 by the Irish government to investigate deaths and misconduct during the 20th century in mother and baby homes—institutions, most run by Catholic religious nuns, where unwed women were sent to deliver their babies. | BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! |
| 2024-12-29 15:48 | Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home (Irish maternity home and site of mass grave for children) | The Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home (also known as St Mary's Mother and Baby Home, or locally simply as The Home), which operated between 1925 and 1961 in the town of Tuam, County Galway, Ireland, was a maternity home for unmarried mothers and their children. The home was run by the Bon Secours Sisters, a religious order of Catholic nuns, that also operated the Grove Hospital in the town. | BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! |
| 2024-12-31 17:21 | Jackie Stamps (English footballer (1918–1991)) | John David Stamps (2 December 1918 – 19 November 1991) was an English footballer who played as a centre-forward, most notably for Derby County. He is best remembered as scoring two goals in the 1946 FA Cup Final for Derby County in a 4–1 win against Charlton Athletic. He started as an amateur with Silverwood Colliery before being signed by Mansfield Town but was released after making just one senior appearance. | Bungle (talk • contribs) |
| 2025-01-03 17:16 | The Voices of Morebath (2001 non-fiction book by Eamon Duffy) | The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village is a 2001 non-fiction history book by Eamon Duffy and published by Yale University Press about Morebath, England, during the English Reformation and Tudor period of the 16th century. Using the detailed churchwarden's accounts maintained by Sir Christopher Trychay, the vicar of Morebath's parish, Duffy recounts the religious and social implications of the Reformation in a small conservative [[Catholic Church|Ca ... | Pbritti (talk) |
| 2025-01-04 21:49 | Simon Olsson (Swedish footballer (born 1997)) | Simon Olsson (born 14 September 1997) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Allsvenskan club Elfsborg and the Sweden national team. | Lucfev (talk) |
| 2025-01-07 12:27 | Boris Yeltsin circling over Shannon diplomatic incident (Diplomatic incident) | On 30 September 1994, Boris Yeltsin, then President of the Russian Federation, was scheduled for an official state visit to Ireland but failed to get off his plane when it landed at Shannon Airport. The incident embarrassed the Irish government, in particular Taoiseach Albert Reynolds, who was left standing at the foot of the stairs to Yeltsin's plane, and raised questions about Yeltsin's health and fitness to serve. | AugusteBlanqui (talk) |
| 2025-01-11 11:37 | John Parrott (English snooker player) | John Stephen Parrott MBE (born 11 May 1964) is an English former professional snooker player who won the 1991 World Snooker Championship. He was a professional during the late 1980s and 1990s, and remained within the top 16 of the world rankings for 14 consecutive seasons. | Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) |
| 2025-01-15 12:50 | Hugh O'Neill, 4th Baron Dungannon (Irish nobleman (c. 1585 – 1609)) | Hugh O'Neill, 4th Baron Dungannon (c. 1585 – 24 September 1609) was an Irish nobleman. He was the son and heir to Irish Gaelic lord Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, though he predeceased his father. | SkywalkerEccleston (talk) |
| 2025-01-18 10:05 | Dan Andersson (Swedish author and poet) | Dan Andersson (6 April 1888 in Ludvika – 16 September 1920 in Stockholm) was a Swedish author, poet, and composer. He sometimes used the pen name Black Jim. Although he is counted among the Swedish proletarian authors, his works are not limited to that genre. His poems are among the most popular in Swedish literature; they have been set to music by more composers than any other 20th century Swedish poet. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2025-01-22 16:56 | Hubert Conway Rees (British army officer (1882–1948)) | Hubert Conway Rees (26 March 1882 - 3 January 1948) was a British Army officer. The only son of a Church of England clergyman, Rees was born in Conway, Carnarvonshire. After an education at Charterhouse School in Surrey, Rees joined the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment in 1900 and served as a subaltern in the Second Boer War. | Dumelow (talk) |
| 2025-01-24 19:53 | 1951 World Snooker Championship (Snooker tournament) | The 1951 World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament held from 30 October 1950 to 24 February 1951. John Barrie won the qualifying competition for three of the ten entrants at Burroughes Hall in London and joined the other seven players in the main draw. The quarter-finals and semi-finals were held at various venues in England and the final was held at the Tower Circus in Blackpool, England from 16 to 24 February 1951. | BennyOnTheLoose (talk) |
| 2025-01-26 12:48 | Accessibility of transport in London (Aspect of transport in London) | The accessibility of public transport services in Greater London is incomplete. Much of the rail network in London (including the London Underground and London Overground) was built before accessibility was a requirement. Unlike in the United States, Underground stations built in the 1960s and 1970s made no provision for the disabled, with wheelchair users banned from deep level Underground lines until 1993. | Turini2 (talk) |
| 2025-01-27 15:28 | Sir James Erskine, 3rd Baronet (British Army officer and art collector) | Lieutenant-General Sir James Erskine, 3rd Baronet (30 September 1772 – 3 March 1825) was a British Army officer who served through the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, briefly commanding a brigade during the Peninsular War. Joining the army in 1788, Erskine was promoted quickly and in 1794 became a lieutenant-colonel. | Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) |
| 2025-01-30 01:05 | Gary Owen (snooker player) (Welsh snooker player (1929–1995)) | Gary Owen, MBE (5 March 1929 – July 1995) was a Welsh, and later Australian, snooker player. Winning the 1963 English Amateur Championship qualified him to compete for England at the inaugural World Amateur Snooker Championship in Calcutta that year. He won all four of his matches in the round-robin competition and took the title. | BennyOnTheLoose (talk) |
| 2025-02-01 23:49 | Bernard Bennett (English snooker player (1931–2002)) | Bernard Bennett (31 August 1931 – 12 January 2002) was an English player of snooker and English billiards, whose professional career spanned from 1969 to 1995, during which he experienced limited success as a player. He owned the Castle Snooker Club in Southampton, which opened in 1970 and was one of the first modern snooker centres. | BennyOnTheLoose (talk) |
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| 2024-10-12 12:01 | Naħseb Fik (2021 single by Aidan) | "Naħseb Fik" (transl. "I Think of You") is a song by Maltese singer Aidan released on 19 March 2021. It was his first song written in the Maltese language and was produced by Boban Apostolov. | Sahaib (talk) |
| 2024-10-20 09:33 | Yugoslav krone (Currency of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes) | The Yugoslav krone ((crown) Serbo-Croatian: крyна / kruna; Slovene: krona) was a short-lived, provisional currency that was originally used in territories of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (KSCS, later renamed Yugoslavia), which had previously been part of Austria-Hungary. | Tomobe03 (talk) |
| 2024-11-06 13:01 | 2021 Albanian parliamentary election (parliamentary elections in Albania) | Parliamentary elections were held in Albania on 25 April 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic to elect the 140 members of the parliament. A total of 1,871 candidates, including 732 women, were registered, with ten political parties, two coalitions and three independent candidates contesting the election. The Socialist Party (PS), led by incumbent Prime Minister Edi Rama, opted for an independent par ... | Iaof2017 (talk) |
| 2024-11-08 16:02 | Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 | Greece was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with the song "Zari" performed by Marina Satti. The Greek participating broadcaster Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) internally selected its entry for the contest, announcing Satti's selection on 24 October 2023 and the song's selection on 7 March 2024. | Grk1011 (talk) |
| 2024-11-17 20:45 | 2022 EU-Western Balkans summit | The 2022 EU–Western Balkans summit was the fourth edition of the European Union–Western Balkans summit held on 6 December 2022 in Tirana, Albania. Hosted by the Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama, the summit brought together heads of state and government from the Western Balkan nations, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia, alongside other EU representatives. | Iaof2017 (talk) |
| 2024-12-10 01:07 | Andrea Kimi Antonelli (Italian racing driver (born 2006)) | Andrea Kimi Antonelli (born 25 August 2006), also known as Kimi Antonelli, is an Italian racing driver, who is contracted to compete in Formula One for Mercedes. | MB2437 |
| 2025-01-04 22:39 | Temporary National Representation (Interim parliament in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, 1919–1920) | The Temporary National Representation (Serbo-Croatian: Privremeno narodno predstavništvo), also the Interim National Legislation and the Interim National Parliament, was the first legislative body established in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. It was created by the decree of Prince Regent Alexander on 24 February 1919, and convened on 1 March. | Tomobe03 (talk) |
| 2025-01-12 19:44 | George Palaiologos (Late 11th/early 12th century Byzantine general) | George Palaiologos or Palaeologus (Greek: Γεώργιος Παλαιολόγος; fl. 1078–1110) was a Byzantine aristocrat and general. One of the earliest known members of the Palaiologos dynasty, he was a capable military commander who played a critical role in helping his brother-in-law Alexios I Komnenos seize the throne in 1081. | Constantine ✍ |
| 2025-01-16 22:28 | Josip Kušević (Croatian politician (1775–1846)) | Josip Kušević (also spelled Joseph Kussevich, 23 May 1775 – 5 July 1846) was a Croatian politician and lawyer. He was the prothonotary of the Croatian realm and a member of the Croatian Parliament and the Diet of Hungary. As a politician, he opposed introduction of Hungarian language in official use in Croatia. | Tomobe03 (talk) |
| 2025-01-29 00:48 | Jadranska straža (Non-governmental organisation in Yugoslavia, 1922–1941) | Jadranska straža (lit. 'Adriatic Guard' or 'Adriatic Sentinel') was a volunteer organisation founded in 1922 in Split, in the recently established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later renamed Yugoslavia). The organisation's stated objective was the promotion of Yugoslav military, economic, and cultural interests in the Adriatic Sea. | Tomobe03 (talk) |
| 2025-01-30 03:20 | Andreas Papandreou (Greek economist and politician (1919–1996)) | Andreas Georgiou Papandreou (Greek: Ανδρέας Γεωργίου Παπανδρέου, ; 5 February 1919 – 23 June 1996) was a Greek economist, politician, statesman and a dominant figure in Greek politics, known for founding the political party The Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), which he led from 1974 to 1996. | A.Cython (talk) |
| 2025-01-30 10:17 | Allied occupation of the eastern Adriatic (Occupation of the eastern Adriatic after World War I) | The occupation of the eastern Adriatic by the Allies of World War I was a military mission that followed the First World War and lasted from November 1918 to September 1921. Naval assets and troops of the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Italy, France, and the United States were deployed to parts of the territory of former Austria-Hungary, especially the region of Dalmatia, the city of Rijeka, and coastal areas of the Kingdom of Montenegro. | Tomobe03 (talk) |
Geography/Regions/Europe/Western Europe
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| 2024-10-18 17:20 | Gustav Ammann (Swiss landscape architect (1885–1955)) | Gustav Ammann (9 July 1885 – 23 March 1955) was a Swiss landscape architect who worked in the modernist style and influenced garden architecture in Switzerland. He has worked on over 1,700 projects, including the namesake Gustav-Ammann-Park in Zürich. | Ajay Platinum (talk) |
| 2024-10-19 02:09 | Max Ernst Haefeli (Swiss architect and furniture designer (1901–1976)) | Max Ernst Haefeli (25 January 1901 – 17 June 1976) was a Swiss architect, furniture designer, and co-founder of the Haefeli Moser Steiger (HMS) architectural firm. He subscribed to the New Building architectural school of thought in Switzerland. | Ajay Platinum (talk) |
| 2024-10-27 22:14 | Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit, BWV 115 (chorale cantate by Johann Sebastian Bach) | Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit (Make yourself ready, my spirit), BWV 115, in Leipzig for the 22nd Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 5 November 1724. It is based on the hymn of the same name by Johann Burchard Freystein (1695). | Gerda Arendt (talk) |
| 2024-10-31 22:37 | Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80 (Chorale cantata by J.S. Bach) | ("A Mighty Fortress Is Our God"), BWV 80 (also: BWV 80.3), is a chorale cantata for Reformation Day by Johann Sebastian Bach. He reworked it from one of his Weimar cantatas, Alles, was von Gott geboren, BWV 80a (also: BWV 80.1). The first Leipzig version of the church cantata, BWV 80b (also: BWV 80.2), may have been composed as early as 1723, some five months after Bach had moved to Leipzig. | Gerda Arendt (talk) |
| 2024-11-05 14:33 | Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott, BWV 139 (chorale cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach) | Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata ' (Fortunate the person who upon his God), BWV 139, in Leipzig for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 12 November 1724. It is based on the hymn of the same name in five stanzas by Johann Christoph Rube (1692), which is sung to the 1628 tune of Johann Hermann Schein's "Machs mit mir, Gott, nach deiner Güt". | Gerda Arendt (talk) |
| 2024-11-17 14:04 | Heinz Vietze (German politician (born 1947)) | Heinz Vietze (born 19 September 1947) is a former German politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) and its successors, the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and The Left. | Maxwhollymoralground (talk) |
| 2024-11-17 14:06 | Heinz Geggel (German journalist (1921–2000)) | Heinz Geggel (11 November 1921 – 15 November 2000) was a German Holocaust survivor, journalist and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED). | Maxwhollymoralground (talk) |
| 2024-11-25 12:54 | Nicolaas van Wijk (Dutch linguist (1880–1941)) | Nicolaas van Wijk (4 October 1880 – 25 March 1941) was a Dutch linguist, literary scholar, and philanthropist. He is best known for his contributions to Slavistics, serving as the first chair of the Balto-Slavic languages at Leiden University from 1913 until his death. | ThaesOfereode (talk) |
| 2024-12-01 11:27 | SMS Scorpion (1860) (Prussian gunboat) | SMS Scorpion was a steam gunboat of the Jäger class built for the Prussian Navy in the late 1850s and early 1860s. The ship was ordered as part of a program to strengthen Prussia's coastal defense forces, then oriented against neighboring Denmark. She was armed with a battery of three guns. | Parsecboy (talk) |
| 2024-12-18 20:23 | Marie-Thérèse Eyquem (French politician (1913–1978)) | Marie-Thérèse Eyquem (6 September 1913 – 8 August 1978) was a French feminist, politician, and author. Under the Vichy regime, she participated in the ban against multiple women's sports including association football. In the 1960s, she became more involved in politics and joined the French Socialist Party. | – dudhhr talkcontribssheher |
| 2024-12-22 13:33 | Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62 (1724 composition by J. S. Bach) | Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Now come, Savior of the heathens), BWV 62, in Leipzig for the first Sunday in Advent and first performed it on 3 December 1724. It is based on Martin Luther's Advent hymn "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland", a paraphrase of the Latin hymn "Veni redemptor gentium". | Gerda Arendt (talk) |
| 2024-12-27 08:54 | Ich freue mich in dir, BWV 133 (1724 church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach) | Ich freue mich in dir (I rejoice in You), BWV 133, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed the Christmas cantata in Leipzig in 1724 for the Third Day of Christmas and first performed it on 27 December 1724. | Gerda Arendt (talk) |
| 2024-12-31 20:54 | Das neugeborne Kindelein, BWV 122 (chorale cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach) | Das neugeborne Kindelein (The newborn little Child), BWV 122, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach composed the chorale cantata in six movements in Leipzig for the Sunday after Christmas and first performed it on 31 December 1724. It is based on a 1597 hymn of the same name by Cyriakus Schneegaß. | Gerda Arendt (talk) |
| 2025-01-05 08:14 | Miller Arnold case (1762–1780 German court case and cause célèbre) | The Miller Arnold case (German: Müller-Arnold-Fall) is a landmark 18th-century German court case and cause célèbre during the reign of Frederick II that raised issues relating to the concept of judicial independence. It is an example of the Kabinettsjustiz (transl. cabinet justice) of Frederick II, as he personally intervened in a case which had already been settled by the Prussian courts. | WatkynBassett (talk) |
| 2025-01-05 22:02 | Victor Jacob Koningsberger (Dutch botanist and academic (1895–1966)) | Victor Jacob Koningsberger (10 February 1895 – 28 February 1966) was a Dutch botanist and academic. Born in the Dutch East Indies, he completed his studies in Rotterdam and Utrecht, defending his doctoral dissertation – an exploration of the influence of light on plant growth – in 1922. | — Chris Woodrich (talk) |
| 2025-01-06 13:35 | Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123 (Chorale cantata by JS Bach for Epiphany) | Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen (Dearest Immanuel, Lord of the Faithful), BWV 123, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for Epiphany and first performed it on 6 January 1725. It is based on the 1679 hymn of the same name by Ahasverus Fritsch which is focused on the contrast of the vanities of the world and the trust in support by Jesus. | Gerda Arendt (talk) |
| 2025-01-07 17:56 | Eurovision Song Contest 1961 (International song competition) | The Eurovision Song Contest 1961 was the 6th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 18 March 1961 in the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in Cannes, France. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF), and originally known as the Grand Prix Eurovision 1961 de la Chanson Européenne (English: Eurovision Song Contest Grand Prix 1961), the contest was held in France followi ... | Sims2aholic8 (talk) |
| 2025-01-07 22:27 | Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht, BWV 124 (Chorale cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach) | Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht (I will not let go of my Jesus), BWV 124, is a church cantata written by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for the first Sunday after the Epiphany and first performed it on 7 January 1725. | Gerda Arendt (talk) |
| 2025-01-13 17:06 | Eurovision Song Contest 1962 (International song competition) | The Eurovision Song Contest 1962 was the 7th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 18 March 1962 in the Grand Auditorium of the Villa Louvigny in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg and presented by Mireille Delannoy. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion (CLT), and originally known as the Grand Prix Eurovision 1962 de la Chanson Européenne ({{langx|en|Eurovision Song Contest Grand Prix 1 ... | Sims2aholic8 (talk) |
| 2025-01-14 23:50 | Maria Einsmann (German woman who lived as a man for 12 years to obtain better jobs) | Maria Einsmann (née Mayer, 4 January 1885 – 4 March 1959) was a German factory worker who lived using the name of her husband Joseph Einsmann (nicknamed "Seppel") from 1919 until her identity was discovered in 1931. She and her friend Helene Müller lived together from 1919 until Einsmann died in 1959. | —Kusma (talk) |
| 2025-01-19 00:15 | Wolfgang Junker (German politician (1929–1990)) | Wolfgang Junker (23 February 1929 – 9 April 1990) was a German construction manager, civil servant and politician of the Socialist Unity Party (SED). | Maxwhollymoralground (talk) |
| 2025-01-19 00:15 | Bruno Menzel (German politician (1932–1996)) | Bruno Menzel (25 February 1932 – 14 September 1996) was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). | Maxwhollymoralground (talk) |
| 2025-01-19 00:16 | Klaus Reichenbach (German politician (born 1945)) | Klaus Reichenbach (born 22 September 1945) is a German football official and former politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). | Maxwhollymoralground (talk) |
| 2025-01-19 00:16 | Ilse Stephan (German politician (1931–1984)) | Ilse Stephan (née Korth; 8 May 1931 – 25 June 1984) was a German interpreter and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED). | Maxwhollymoralground (talk) |
| 2025-01-19 00:16 | Hans-Joachim Hoffmann (German politician (1929–1994)) | Hans-Joachim "Jochen" Hoffmann (10 October 1929 – 19 July 1994) was a German politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED). | Maxwhollymoralground (talk) |
| 2025-01-22 22:50 | Manfred Uschner (German politician (1937–2007)) | Manfred Uschner (16 May 1937 – 13 November 2007) was a German diplomat and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED). | Maxwhollymoralground (talk) |
| 2025-01-26 20:46 | Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit, BWV 111 (1725 cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach) | Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit (What my God wants, may it always happen), BWV 111, is a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach for use in a Lutheran service. He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig in 1725 for the third Sunday after Epiphany and first performed it on 21 January 1725, as part of his chorale cantata cycle. | Gerda Arendt (talk) |
| 2025-01-26 23:39 | Letters Written in France (Series of letters by Helen Maria Williams) | Letters Written in France (1790–1796) is a letter collection by English writer Helen Maria Williams. Williams published eight volumes of letters describing her firsthand experience of the French Revolution for British audiences. Williams witnessed the Fête de la Fédération, the executions of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and much of the Reign of Terror. | ~ L 🌸 (talk) |
Geography/Regions/Oceania
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| 2024-11-24 12:43 | Moira Deeming (Australian politician) | Moira Deeming is an Australian politician and member of the Victorian Liberal Party. She has been a member of the Victorian Legislative Council, the upper house of the Parliament of Victoria, for the Western Metropolitan Region of the, since November 2022. She previously sat as a councillor for the Melton City Council representing the Watts Ward. | TarnishedPathtalk |
| 2024-12-04 08:14 | New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 (New Zealand statute) | The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 (sometimes known by its acronym, NZBORA or simply BORA) is a statute of the Parliament of New Zealand part of New Zealand's uncodified constitution that sets out the rights and fundamental freedoms of anyone subject to New Zealand law as a bill of rights, and imposes a legal requirement on the attorney-general to provide a report to parliament whenever a bill is inconsistent with the Bill of Rights. | Carolina2k22 • (talk) • (edits) |
| 2024-12-05 12:29 | Avi Yemini (Australian far-right provocateur and commentator) | Avraham Shalom Yemini (né Waks; born 17 October 1985) is an Australian-Israeli far-right provocateur and commentator. Since 2020 he has worked as the Australian correspondent for Rebel News, a Canadian far-right website. Yemini has been involved in numerous cases of litigation, initiated both by him and against him. | TarnishedPathtalk |
| 2024-12-12 07:19 | Ellenbrook line (Railway line in Perth, Western Australia) | The Ellenbrook line, known as the Morley–Ellenbrook line during construction, is a suburban railway line and service in Perth, Western Australia, which is operated by the Public Transport Authority as part of the Transperth system. The line branches from the Midland line at Bayswater station and heads north-north-west to serve five stations along a 21.3-kilometre (13.2 mi) route to Ellenbrook. | Steelkamp (talk) |
| 2024-12-14 05:30 | Happy Feet (penguin) (Individual emperor penguin) | Happy Feet was an emperor penguin who in June 2011 arrived at Peka Peka Beach in the Kāpiti Coast District of New Zealand's North Island, which is one of the northernmost recorded locations in the world for an emperor penguin. After travelling about 3,200 kilometres (2,000 mi) to get there from Antarctica, he became the second emperor penguin to have been found in New Zealand, with the last being in 1967. | ―Panamitsu (talk) |
| 2024-12-22 07:45 | Whiteman Park railway station (Railway station in Perth, Western Australia) | Whiteman Park railway station is a suburban railway station on the Ellenbrook line in Perth, Western Australia. The station is located on the western side of Drumpellier Drive in Whiteman, and will serve the surrounding suburbs of Brabham, Dayton, Henley Brook and West Swan, as well as the nature reserve and tourism destination of Whiteman Park. | Steelkamp (talk) |
| 2024-12-22 07:58 | Ellenbrook railway station (Railway station in Perth, Western Australia) | Ellenbrook railway station is a suburban railway station in Ellenbrook, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. The station is the north-eastern terminus of the Ellenbrook line. | Steelkamp (talk) |
| 2024-12-26 12:46 | Canning Bridge railway station (Railway station in Perth, Western Australia) | Canning Bridge railway station is a suburban railway and bus station on the Mandurah line in Perth, Western Australia. Situated in the suburb of Como next to the Canning River, the station is located at the interchange between the Kwinana Freeway and Canning Highway. The train platforms are at ground level within the median strip of the freeway, while the bus stands are on the bridge carrying Canning Highway. | Steelkamp (talk) |
| 2024-12-30 23:45 | Bruce Lehrmann (Australian former political staffer) | Bruce Lehrmann (born June 1995) is an Australian former political staffer, who is primarily known for his involvement in the 2021 Australian Parliament House sexual misconduct allegations. He grew up in Toowoomba and moved to Canberra for study in 2013 when he started working as a staffer. | TarnishedPathtalk |
| 2025-01-01 09:56 | Bell railway station, Melbourne (Railway station in Melbourne, Australia) | Bell railway station is a commuter railway station located in the north-eastern suburb of Preston in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The station opened on 8 October 1889, with the former ground level station closed and demolished in May 2022 and the current elevated station provided in September 2022 by the Level Crossing Removal Project. | PEPSI697 💬 |
| 2025-01-23 08:52 | Preston railway station, Melbourne (Railway station in Melbourne, Australia) | Preston railway station is a commuter railway station located in the north-eastern suburb of Preston in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The station opened on 8 October 1889, with the former ground level station closed and demolished in May 2022 and the current elevated station provided in September 2022 by the Level Crossing Removal Project. | PEPSI697 💬 |
| 2025-01-31 22:25 | December 2010 Christchurch earthquake (Earthquake in New Zealand) | On 26 December 2010 a Mw4.7 earthquake occurred directly under the city centre of Christchurch, New Zealand, at a depth of between 4 and 5 kilometres (2.5 and 3.1 miles). It caused "significant damage" to Christchurch and was part of the earthquake sequence beginning with the September 2010 Canterbury earthquake, and followed by the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. | ―Panamitsu (talk) |
History and Society/Business and economics
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| 2025-01-20 02:48 | Rockwood & Company (Former chocolate manufacturer in New York City) | Rockwood & Company was a New York City-based chocolatier which operated from 1886 until 1957. It coordinated the industry's first resale price contracts, operated the largest chocolate factory in New York, and was the second largest producer of chocolate in the United States, after the Hershey Company. | — Rhododendrites talk \\ |
History and Society/Education
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| 2024-12-24 03:06 | William Plumer Jacobs (American minister (1842–1917)) | William Plumer Jacobs (March 15, 1842 – September 10, 1917) was an American Presbyterian minister who founded Thornwell Orphanage and what is now Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina. He was the pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Clinton for 47 years, from 1864 to 1911. | PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) |
| 2025-01-17 19:54 | William Arthur Ganfield (American pastor, educator, and academic administrator) | William Arthur Ganfield (September 3, 1873 – October 18, 1940) was an American pastor, educator, and academic administrator who was president of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, from 1915 to 1921 and then of Carroll College (now called Carroll University) in Waukesha, Wisconsin, from 1921 until his retirement in 1939. | PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) |
History and Society/History
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| 2024-10-07 04:31 | Catherine Pugh (American politician (born 1950)) | Catherine Elizabeth Pugh (born March 10, 1950) is an American former politician who served as the 51st mayor of Baltimore, Maryland's largest city, from 2016 to 2019. She resigned from office amid a scandal that eventually led to criminal charges, three years in prison, and three years probation in 2020. | Micahmikhl (talk) |
| 2024-12-08 10:55 | Mabel Bagenal (Anglo-Irish noblewoman (c. 1571 – 1595)) | Mabel O'Neill, Countess of Tyrone (née Bagenal; c. 1571 – December 1595) was an Anglo-Irish noblewoman best known as the third wife of prominent Gaelic Irish lord Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. | SkywalkerEccleston (talk) |
| 2024-12-20 12:03 | Tilaluha (2018 single by SB19) | "Tilaluha" is the debut single by the Filipino boy band SB19. Geong Seong Han, Kim Kyeong Su, and Sejun (now Pablo) wrote the song, and Geong produced it with Han Tae Soo. It is a soulful ballad complete with drums and a string section, with lyrics that reference unrequited love and a breakup and express the want to escape from the sorrow the person has gone through. | – Relayed (t • c) |
| 2024-12-24 08:15 | Kiddush levana (Jewish ritual of blessing God upon the appearance of the new moon) | Kiddush levana, also known as Birkat halevana, is a Jewish ritual and prayer service, generally observed on the first or second Saturday night of each Hebrew month. The service includes a blessing to God for the appearance of the new moon and further readings depending on custom. In most communities, ritual elements include the shalom aleikhem greeting and jumping toward the moon, with some also incorporating kabbalistic practices. | Dovidroth (talk) |
| 2024-12-29 15:48 | Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home (Irish maternity home and site of mass grave for children) | The Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home (also known as St Mary's Mother and Baby Home, or locally simply as The Home), which operated between 1925 and 1961 in the town of Tuam, County Galway, Ireland, was a maternity home for unmarried mothers and their children. The home was run by the Bon Secours Sisters, a religious order of Catholic nuns, that also operated the Grove Hospital in the town. | BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! |
| 2024-12-31 18:41 | Book of Wu (Lost history of Eastern Wu (c. 250)) | The Book of Wu or Wu shu (Chinese: 吳書) is a lost history of the state of Eastern Wu (229–280). It was compiled by the official historians of the Wu court under orders from the Wu emperors. Portions of the text survive only as quotations preserved in Pei Songzhi's Annotated Records of the Three Kingdoms. | Kzyx (talk) |
| 2025-01-03 09:09 | 1453 (Calendar year) | Year 1453 (MCDLIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1453rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 453rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd year of the 15th century, and the 4th year of the 1450s decade. | Generalissima (talk) (it/she) |
| 2025-01-12 19:44 | George Palaiologos (Late 11th/early 12th century Byzantine general) | George Palaiologos or Palaeologus (Greek: Γεώργιος Παλαιολόγος; fl. 1078–1110) was a Byzantine aristocrat and general. One of the earliest known members of the Palaiologos dynasty, he was a capable military commander who played a critical role in helping his brother-in-law Alexios I Komnenos seize the throne in 1081. | Constantine ✍ |
| 2025-01-16 11:00 | First Jewish–Roman War (Rebellion against Roman rule (66–73 CE)) | The First Jewish–Roman War (66–74 CE), sometimes called the Great Jewish Revolt, the First Jewish Revolt, or the Jewish War, was the first of three major rebellions by the Jews against the Roman Empire. Fought in the province of Judaea, it resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem and other cities and towns, the displacement of its population, the appropriation of land, and the destruction of the Jewish Temple and polity. | Mariamnei (talk) |
| 2025-01-21 07:01 | Dolores Huerta (American labor leader (born 1930)) | Dolores Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is an American labor leader and feminist activist. After working for several years with the Community Service Organization (CSO), she founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with fellow activists Cesar Chavez and Gilbert Padilla, which eventually merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). | Spookyaki (talk) |
| 2025-01-24 02:35 | Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (Grand Duchess of Russia) | Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia (born Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine; 1 November 1864 – 18 July 1918) was a German Hessian and Rhenish princess of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, and the wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, the fifth son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine. | Qubacubazamniauser (talk) |
| 2025-01-25 20:27 | Sicilian business | The "Sicilian business" is a historiographical term used to describe the failed attempt by Henry III of England to claim the Kingdom of Sicily for his son Edmund, who had been offered the throne by the papacy. Sicily, established in the twelfth century as a theoretical papal fief, had been ruled by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II from 1198 until his death in 1250; Pope Innocent IV now sought to install an agreeable sovereign to succeed his longtime adversary. | Unlimitedlead (talk) |
| 2025-01-25 23:03 | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall (American professor (1855–1952)) | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall FRGS (7 April 1855 – 21 May 1952) was an American professor of history and political science at Wellesley College. She made several journeys across Europe and Asia. The most significant of these was her 1911 voyage across China, her account of which, A Wayfarer in China: Impressions of a Trip Across West China and Mongolia, was published in 1913. | XabqEfdg (talk) |
| 2025-02-01 09:13 | History (Study of the past) | History is the systematic study of the past. As an academic discipline, it analyzes and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened, focusing primarily on the human past. Some theorists categorize history as a social science, while others see it as part of the humanities or consider it a hybrid discipline. | Phlsph7 (talk) |
History and Society/Military and warfare
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| 2024-09-05 08:52 | Marcus Klingberg (Israeli scientist and Soviet spy (1918–2015)) | Avraham Marek Klingberg (7 October 1918 – 30 November 2015), known as Marcus Klingberg (Hebrew: מרקוס קלינגברג), was a Polish-born, Israeli epidemiologist and the highest ranking Soviet spy ever uncovered in Israel. Klingberg made major contributions in the fields of infectious and noninfectious disease epidemiology and military medicine, but he is most widely known for passing intelligence to the Soviet Union regarding Israel's biological and chemical warfare capacities. | Goldsztajn (talk) |
| 2024-11-21 14:16 | Cyborgs (film) (2017 Ukrainian war film) | Cyborgs: Heroes Never Die (Ukrainian: Кiборги: Герої не вмирають; Romanized: Kiborhy: Heroyi ne vmyrayut) is a 2017 Ukrainian war drama film about the Cyborgs, the Ukrainian defenders in the Second Battle of Donetsk Airport during the war in Donbas. The film was written by Nataliya Vorozhbyt, directed by Akhtem Seitablayev and produced by Ivanna Diadiura. | Reidgreg (talk) |
| 2024-12-01 11:27 | SMS Scorpion (1860) (Prussian gunboat) | SMS Scorpion was a steam gunboat of the Jäger class built for the Prussian Navy in the late 1850s and early 1860s. The ship was ordered as part of a program to strengthen Prussia's coastal defense forces, then oriented against neighboring Denmark. She was armed with a battery of three guns. | Parsecboy (talk) |
| 2024-12-16 06:51 | Statue of John Barry (Memorial in Washington, D.C., U.S.) | The statue of John Barry commemorates the "Father of the United States Navy", Commodore John Barry (1745-1806). Barry was an Irish-born sailor who joined the American colonists in fighting for independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. Barry became the first commission by the Second Continental Congress. | APK hi :-) (talk) |
| 2024-12-21 20:11 | USS Gyatt (First Guided Missile Destroyer) | USS Gyatt (DD-712/DDG-1/DDG-712) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy operated between 1945 and 1968. The ship was named for Edward Earl Gyatt, a United States Marine Corps private and Marine Raider killed during the Battle of Guadalcanal. She was laid down in 1944, commissioned in 1945, and missed combat during the Second World War. | GGOTCC (talk) |
| 2024-12-28 14:39 | SMS Bremse (1884) (German ironclad gunboat) | SMS Bremse was the second and final member of the Brummer class of armored gunboats built for the German Kaiserliche Marine in the 1880s. The ship was ordered to serve in Germany's coastal defense system alongside the Sachsen-class ironclads and Wespe-class gunboats. | Parsecboy (talk) |
| 2025-01-03 09:09 | 1453 (Calendar year) | Year 1453 (MCDLIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1453rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 453rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd year of the 15th century, and the 4th year of the 1450s decade. | Generalissima (talk) (it/she) |
| 2025-01-12 19:44 | George Palaiologos (Late 11th/early 12th century Byzantine general) | George Palaiologos or Palaeologus (Greek: Γεώργιος Παλαιολόγος; fl. 1078–1110) was a Byzantine aristocrat and general. One of the earliest known members of the Palaiologos dynasty, he was a capable military commander who played a critical role in helping his brother-in-law Alexios I Komnenos seize the throne in 1081. | Constantine ✍ |
| 2025-01-14 17:52 | First Anglo–Ashanti War (1823-1831 war between United Kingdom and the Ashanti Empire) | The First Anglo–Ashanti War also known as the First Anglo–Asante War was an armed conflict between the Ashanti Empire led by Osei Bonsu against the United Kingdom led by Sir Charles McCarthy, Fante Confederacy, Denkyira tribes and Denmark led by Richter Aarestrup. It took place from December 1823 to 27 April 1831, when a peace treaty was signed at the Cape Coast Castle. | Setergh (talk) |
| 2025-01-16 02:55 | Siege of Khujand (1866 siege during the Russian conquest of Central Asia) | The siege of Khujand (17–24 May 1866) was part of an unapproved Russian military operation during the Russian conquest of Bukhara and Russo-Kokand War. The operation was led by Military Governor Dmitry Romanovsky and aimed to capture several settlements on the Russo-Bukharan border including Khujand. | CitrusHemlock |
| 2025-01-21 05:01 | John Paul Jones Memorial (Statue by Charles Henry Niehaus in Washington, D.C, U.S.) | The John Paul Jones Memorial, also known as Commodore John Paul Jones, is a monument in West Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. The memorial honors John Paul Jones, the United States' first naval war hero, and received the Congressional Gold Medal after the American Revolutionary War ended. Jones allegedly said "I have not yet begun to fight!" during the Battle of Flamborough Head. | APK hi :-) (talk) |
| 2025-01-21 17:50 | John Laurens (American soldier and abolitionist (1754–1782)) | John Laurens (October 28, 1754 – August 27, 1782) was an American soldier and statesman from South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War, best known for his efforts to help recruit slaves to fight for their freedom as U.S. soldiers. | Ali Beary (talk) |
| 2025-01-22 16:56 | Hubert Conway Rees (British army officer (1882–1948)) | Hubert Conway Rees (26 March 1882 - 3 January 1948) was a British Army officer. The only son of a Church of England clergyman, Rees was born in Conway, Carnarvonshire. After an education at Charterhouse School in Surrey, Rees joined the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment in 1900 and served as a subaltern in the Second Boer War. | Dumelow (talk) |
| 2025-01-24 20:05 | Battle of Cloyd's Mountain (Battle of the American Civil War) | The Battle of Cloyd's Mountain occurred in Pulaski County, Virginia, on May 9, 1864, during the American Civil War. The fight has also been called the Battle of Cloyd's Farm. A Union Army division led by Brigadier General George Crook defeated a Confederate Army consisting of three regiments, one battalion, and Confederate Home Guard. | TwoScars (talk) |
| 2025-01-27 15:28 | Sir James Erskine, 3rd Baronet (British Army officer and art collector) | Lieutenant-General Sir James Erskine, 3rd Baronet (30 September 1772 – 3 March 1825) was a British Army officer who served through the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, briefly commanding a brigade during the Peninsular War. Joining the army in 1788, Erskine was promoted quickly and in 1794 became a lieutenant-colonel. | Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) |
| 2025-01-30 10:17 | Allied occupation of the eastern Adriatic (Occupation of the eastern Adriatic after World War I) | The occupation of the eastern Adriatic by the Allies of World War I was a military mission that followed the First World War and lasted from November 1918 to September 1921. Naval assets and troops of the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Italy, France, and the United States were deployed to parts of the territory of former Austria-Hungary, especially the region of Dalmatia, the city of Rijeka, and coastal areas of the Kingdom of Montenegro. | Tomobe03 (talk) |
| 2025-01-30 13:23 | Hussain Nizam Shah III (12th Sultan of Ahmadnagar) | Hussain Nizam Shah III was the 12th Sultan of Ahmadnagar Sultanate under the regency of Fath Khan and Shahaji. It was during his reign the second phase of extinction of Ahmadnagar Sultanate began. He was imprisoned by Shah Jahan in the Gwalior Fort after Mahabat Khan's successful conquest of Dautlatabad. | Mr.Hanes Talk
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History and Society/Politics and government
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| 2024-10-28 22:30 | 2022 Shetland Islands Council election (Shetland Islands Council election) | Elections to Shetland Islands Council took place on 5 May 2022 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. As with other Scottish council elections, it was held using single transferable vote (STV) – a form of proportional representation – in which multiple candidates are elected in each ward and voters rank candidates in order of preference. | Stevie fae Scotland (talk) |
| 2024-10-29 17:43 | Angela Alsobrooks (American politician and lawyer (born 1971)) | Angela Deneece Alsobrooks (born February 23, 1971) is an American lawyer and politician serving since 2025 as the junior United States senator from Maryland. A member of the Democratic Party, she served from 2018 to 2024 as county executive of Prince George's County, Maryland, and from 2010 to 2018 as the county's state's attorney. | Y2hyaXM (talk) |
| 2024-10-31 16:03 | Halimah Yacob (President of Singapore from 2017 to 2023) | Halimah binti Yacob (born 23 August 1954) is a Singaporean politician and lawyer who held the office of the eighth president of Singapore from 2017 to 2023, making history as the first woman to serve in this role. | Pangalau (talk) |
| 2024-11-06 13:01 | 2021 Albanian parliamentary election (parliamentary elections in Albania) | Parliamentary elections were held in Albania on 25 April 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic to elect the 140 members of the parliament. A total of 1,871 candidates, including 732 women, were registered, with ten political parties, two coalitions and three independent candidates contesting the election. The Socialist Party (PS), led by incumbent Prime Minister Edi Rama, opted for an independent par ... | Iaof2017 (talk) |
| 2024-11-06 20:33 | 2024 Salvadoran general election (Election in El Salvador) | General elections were held in El Salvador in February and March 2024. In the first round on 4 February, voters elected the president, vice president, and all 60 deputies of the Legislative Assembly. In the second round on 3 March, voters elected mayors and municipal councils for all 44 of the country's municipalities and all 20 of El Salvador's deputies to the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN). | PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 |
| 2024-11-24 12:43 | Moira Deeming (Australian politician) | Moira Deeming is an Australian politician and member of the Victorian Liberal Party. She has been a member of the Victorian Legislative Council, the upper house of the Parliament of Victoria, for the Western Metropolitan Region of the, since November 2022. She previously sat as a councillor for the Melton City Council representing the Watts Ward. | TarnishedPathtalk |
| 2024-12-04 08:14 | New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 (New Zealand statute) | The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 (sometimes known by its acronym, NZBORA or simply BORA) is a statute of the Parliament of New Zealand part of New Zealand's uncodified constitution that sets out the rights and fundamental freedoms of anyone subject to New Zealand law as a bill of rights, and imposes a legal requirement on the attorney-general to provide a report to parliament whenever a bill is inconsistent with the Bill of Rights. | Carolina2k22 • (talk) • (edits) |
| 2024-12-05 12:29 | Avi Yemini (Australian far-right provocateur and commentator) | Avraham Shalom Yemini (né Waks; born 17 October 1985) is an Australian-Israeli far-right provocateur and commentator. Since 2020 he has worked as the Australian correspondent for Rebel News, a Canadian far-right website. Yemini has been involved in numerous cases of litigation, initiated both by him and against him. | TarnishedPathtalk |
| 2024-12-12 07:19 | Ellenbrook line (Railway line in Perth, Western Australia) | The Ellenbrook line, known as the Morley–Ellenbrook line during construction, is a suburban railway line and service in Perth, Western Australia, which is operated by the Public Transport Authority as part of the Transperth system. The line branches from the Midland line at Bayswater station and heads north-north-west to serve five stations along a 21.3-kilometre (13.2 mi) route to Ellenbrook. | Steelkamp (talk) |
| 2024-12-22 05:32 | Darryl De Sousa (Commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department in 2018) | Darryl D. De Sousa (born 1964 or 1965) is an American former police officer who served as commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department from January to May 2018. Having served the BPD since 1988, he resigned as commissioner after he was indicted for three counts of tax evasion. After pleading guilty in December 2018, he was sentenced to 10 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution. | charlotte 👸🎄 |
| 2024-12-22 07:26 | Alkimos railway station (Railway station in Alkimos, Western Australia) | Alkimos railway station is a suburban rail station in Alkimos, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Situated on Transperth's Yanchep line, the station consists of two side platforms within a cutting below a ground-level concourse, with a bus interchange for feeder bus services. | Steelkamp (talk) |
| 2024-12-22 07:26 | Eglinton railway station, Perth (Railway station in Eglinton, Western Australia) | Eglinton railway station is a suburban rail station in Eglinton, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Situated on Transperth's Yanchep line, the station consists of two side platforms within a cutting below a ground-level concourse, with a bus interchange for feeder bus services. | Steelkamp (talk) |
| 2024-12-22 07:45 | Whiteman Park railway station (Railway station in Perth, Western Australia) | Whiteman Park railway station is a suburban railway station on the Ellenbrook line in Perth, Western Australia. The station is located on the western side of Drumpellier Drive in Whiteman, and will serve the surrounding suburbs of Brabham, Dayton, Henley Brook and West Swan, as well as the nature reserve and tourism destination of Whiteman Park. | Steelkamp (talk) |
| 2024-12-22 07:58 | Ellenbrook railway station (Railway station in Perth, Western Australia) | Ellenbrook railway station is a suburban railway station in Ellenbrook, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. The station is the north-eastern terminus of the Ellenbrook line. | Steelkamp (talk) |
| 2024-12-26 12:46 | Canning Bridge railway station (Railway station in Perth, Western Australia) | Canning Bridge railway station is a suburban railway and bus station on the Mandurah line in Perth, Western Australia. Situated in the suburb of Como next to the Canning River, the station is located at the interchange between the Kwinana Freeway and Canning Highway. The train platforms are at ground level within the median strip of the freeway, while the bus stands are on the bridge carrying Canning Highway. | Steelkamp (talk) |
| 2024-12-30 23:45 | Bruce Lehrmann (Australian former political staffer) | Bruce Lehrmann (born June 1995) is an Australian former political staffer, who is primarily known for his involvement in the 2021 Australian Parliament House sexual misconduct allegations. He grew up in Toowoomba and moved to Canberra for study in 2013 when he started working as a staffer. | TarnishedPathtalk |
| 2025-01-01 09:56 | Bell railway station, Melbourne (Railway station in Melbourne, Australia) | Bell railway station is a commuter railway station located in the north-eastern suburb of Preston in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The station opened on 8 October 1889, with the former ground level station closed and demolished in May 2022 and the current elevated station provided in September 2022 by the Level Crossing Removal Project. | PEPSI697 💬 |
| 2025-01-04 22:39 | Temporary National Representation (Interim parliament in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, 1919–1920) | The Temporary National Representation (Serbo-Croatian: Privremeno narodno predstavništvo), also the Interim National Legislation and the Interim National Parliament, was the first legislative body established in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. It was created by the decree of Prince Regent Alexander on 24 February 1919, and convened on 1 March. | Tomobe03 (talk) |
| 2025-01-07 12:27 | Boris Yeltsin circling over Shannon diplomatic incident (Diplomatic incident) | On 30 September 1994, Boris Yeltsin, then President of the Russian Federation, was scheduled for an official state visit to Ireland but failed to get off his plane when it landed at Shannon Airport. The incident embarrassed the Irish government, in particular Taoiseach Albert Reynolds, who was left standing at the foot of the stairs to Yeltsin's plane, and raised questions about Yeltsin's health and fitness to serve. | AugusteBlanqui (talk) |
| 2025-01-12 17:08 | Operation Destabilise (International investigation) | Operation Destabilise was an international investigation led by the National Crime Agency which, over the course of three years, uncovered a money laundering ring with ties to criminal organisations in the UK, drug cartels in South America, the Kinahan Organised Crime Group, Russian espionage efforts and sanction avoidance. | CommissarDoggoTalk? |
| 2025-01-12 17:24 | 2024 New York Proposal 1 (New York state constitutional amendment proposal extending rights protections) | New York Proposal 1 was a 2024 ballot proposal for a legislatively referred constitutional amendment to the New York Constitution called the Amendment to Protect Against Unequal Treatment, and informally known as the Equal Rights Amendment. It includes several rights in the New York State Constitution's Equal Protection Clause, with its chief purpose to preserve the right to abortion. | — Rhododendrites talk \\ |
| 2025-01-16 22:28 | Josip Kušević (Croatian politician (1775–1846)) | Josip Kušević (also spelled Joseph Kussevich, 23 May 1775 – 5 July 1846) was a Croatian politician and lawyer. He was the prothonotary of the Croatian realm and a member of the Croatian Parliament and the Diet of Hungary. As a politician, he opposed introduction of Hungarian language in official use in Croatia. | Tomobe03 (talk) |
| 2025-01-22 22:50 | Manfred Uschner (German politician (1937–2007)) | Manfred Uschner (16 May 1937 – 13 November 2007) was a German diplomat and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED). | Maxwhollymoralground (talk) |
| 2025-01-23 08:52 | Preston railway station, Melbourne (Railway station in Melbourne, Australia) | Preston railway station is a commuter railway station located in the north-eastern suburb of Preston in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The station opened on 8 October 1889, with the former ground level station closed and demolished in May 2022 and the current elevated station provided in September 2022 by the Level Crossing Removal Project. | PEPSI697 💬 |
| 2025-01-27 02:12 | Political activities of Elon Musk | Elon Musk, the chief executive of SpaceX and Tesla and the executive chairman of X, has engaged in numerous political activities in the United States and internationally, more recently supporting right-leaning or far-right candidates and parties. Notably, Musk has been moderately involved in the United States' 2024 presidential election, creating a political action committee in support of Donald Trump and pledging upwards of US$50 million to PACs aligned with his policies. | elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) |
| 2025-01-30 03:20 | Andreas Papandreou (Greek economist and politician (1919–1996)) | Andreas Georgiou Papandreou (Greek: Ανδρέας Γεωργίου Παπανδρέου, ; 5 February 1919 – 23 June 1996) was a Greek economist, politician, statesman and a dominant figure in Greek politics, known for founding the political party The Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), which he led from 1974 to 1996. | A.Cython (talk) |
History and Society/Society
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| 2024-08-10 05:06 | Rico Krieger (German saboteur for Belarusian opposition) | Rico Krieger is a German citizen, most notable for his reported sabotage work inside Belarus for the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment, subsequent detainment, and release during the 2024 Russian prisoner exchange. | Johnson524 |
| 2024-09-05 08:52 | Marcus Klingberg (Israeli scientist and Soviet spy (1918–2015)) | Avraham Marek Klingberg (7 October 1918 – 30 November 2015), known as Marcus Klingberg (Hebrew: מרקוס קלינגברג), was a Polish-born, Israeli epidemiologist and the highest ranking Soviet spy ever uncovered in Israel. Klingberg made major contributions in the fields of infectious and noninfectious disease epidemiology and military medicine, but he is most widely known for passing intelligence to the Soviet Union regarding Israel's biological and chemical warfare capacities. | Goldsztajn (talk) |
| 2024-10-31 21:50 | Section 28 (Former British anti-homosexuality law) | Section 28 refers to a part of the Local Government Act 1988, which stated that local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales "shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality" or "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship". | Itssymbiotic (talk) |
| 2025-01-16 02:55 | Siege of Khujand (1866 siege during the Russian conquest of Central Asia) | The siege of Khujand (17–24 May 1866) was part of an unapproved Russian military operation during the Russian conquest of Bukhara and Russo-Kokand War. The operation was led by Military Governor Dmitry Romanovsky and aimed to capture several settlements on the Russo-Bukharan border including Khujand. | CitrusHemlock |
| 2025-01-29 14:58 | Solfrid Koanda (Norwegian weightlifter (born 1998)) | Solfrid Eila Amena Koanda (born 13 November 1998) is a Norwegian weightlifter and former electrician who became the first female Norwegian weightlifter to become an Olympic champion, and the first Norwegian weightlifter to become World and European champion in the sport. Born in Oulu to a Finnish mother and an Ivorian father, she lived in Finland until moving to Norway at nine years old. | Arconning (talk) |
| 2025-02-01 20:32 | Hunter Schafer (American actress and model (born 1998)) | Hunter Schafer (born December 31, 1998) is an American actress and model. She first made headlines in 2016 with her activism against the North Carolina bill HB2. In 2017, she started modeling for many worldwide fashion brands. She made her acting debut as transgender high school student Jules Vaughn in the HBO teen drama television series Euphoria (2019–present). | DoctorWhoFan91 (talk) |
History and Society/Transportation
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| 2024-10-29 22:24 | Transport in Penang | As the core of Malaysia's second largest conurbation, Penang has a relatively developed transport infrastructure. The state is well-connected by land, air and sea. The Penang International Airport is Malaysia's third busiest by passenger traffic and the busiest by export volume, while the Port of Penang is the main transshipment hub of northern Malaysia. | LibStar (talk) |
| 2024-11-20 05:04 | Bedok MRT station (Mass Rapid Transit station in Singapore) | Bedok MRT station is an elevated Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the East–West Line (EWL) in Bedok, Singapore. Operated by SMRT Trains, the station serves the Bedok area and its landmarks such as Bedok Bus Interchange and Bedok Mall. It is reportedly one of the busiest stations on the eastern portion of the EWL. | Imbluey2. Please ping me so that I get notified of your response |
| 2024-12-01 11:27 | SMS Scorpion (1860) (Prussian gunboat) | SMS Scorpion was a steam gunboat of the Jäger class built for the Prussian Navy in the late 1850s and early 1860s. The ship was ordered as part of a program to strengthen Prussia's coastal defense forces, then oriented against neighboring Denmark. She was armed with a battery of three guns. | Parsecboy (talk) |
| 2024-12-15 19:06 | Southern Railway 4501 (Preserved American Ms class 2-8-2 steam locomotive) | Southern Railway 4501 is a preserved Ms class 2-8-2 "Mikado" type steam locomotive. Built in October 1911 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, No. 4501 was the first of its wheel arrangement type for the Southern Railway (SOU). In July 1948, the locomotive was retired from revenue service in favor of dieselization and was subsequently sold to the shortline Kentucky and Tennessee Railway (K&T) in Stearns, Kentucky, to haul coal trains. | Someone who likes train writing (talk) |
| 2024-12-17 13:03 | Bersey Electric Cab (1896 British early electric vehicle) | The Bersey Electric Cab (also known as the London Electrical Cab) was an early electric-powered vehicle and the first electric taxi cab in London. Developed by Walter Bersey, the vehicles had a top speed of up to 12 mph (19 km/h) and could carry two passengers. An initial service of 12 cabs began on 19 August 1897 and a total of 77 were built, with a maximum of 75 in service at once. | Dumelow (talk) |
| 2024-12-21 20:11 | USS Gyatt (First Guided Missile Destroyer) | USS Gyatt (DD-712/DDG-1/DDG-712) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy operated between 1945 and 1968. The ship was named for Edward Earl Gyatt, a United States Marine Corps private and Marine Raider killed during the Battle of Guadalcanal. She was laid down in 1944, commissioned in 1945, and missed combat during the Second World War. | GGOTCC (talk) |
| 2024-12-22 07:26 | Alkimos railway station (Railway station in Alkimos, Western Australia) | Alkimos railway station is a suburban rail station in Alkimos, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Situated on Transperth's Yanchep line, the station consists of two side platforms within a cutting below a ground-level concourse, with a bus interchange for feeder bus services. | Steelkamp (talk) |
| 2024-12-22 07:26 | Eglinton railway station, Perth (Railway station in Eglinton, Western Australia) | Eglinton railway station is a suburban rail station in Eglinton, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Situated on Transperth's Yanchep line, the station consists of two side platforms within a cutting below a ground-level concourse, with a bus interchange for feeder bus services. | Steelkamp (talk) |
| 2024-12-24 19:50 | Amtrak Susquehanna River Bridge (Bridge in Maryland, United States) | The Amtrak Susquehanna River Bridge is a deck truss bridge that carries the Amtrak Northeast Corridor line across the Susquehanna River between Havre de Grace and Perryville, Maryland. The 4,153.8-foot (1,266.1 m)-long two-track bridge has 17 fixed spans and one swing span across the river's navigation channel. | Pi.1415926535 (talk) |
| 2024-12-25 08:48 | Sound Transit (Regional transit for the Seattle area) | Sound Transit (ST), officially the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority, is a public transit agency serving the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington. It manages the Link light rail system in Seattle and Tacoma, regional Sounder commuter rail, and Sound Transit Express bus service. | SounderBruce |
| 2024-12-26 12:46 | Canning Bridge railway station (Railway station in Perth, Western Australia) | Canning Bridge railway station is a suburban railway and bus station on the Mandurah line in Perth, Western Australia. Situated in the suburb of Como next to the Canning River, the station is located at the interchange between the Kwinana Freeway and Canning Highway. The train platforms are at ground level within the median strip of the freeway, while the bus stands are on the bridge carrying Canning Highway. | Steelkamp (talk) |
| 2024-12-28 14:39 | SMS Bremse (1884) (German ironclad gunboat) | SMS Bremse was the second and final member of the Brummer class of armored gunboats built for the German Kaiserliche Marine in the 1880s. The ship was ordered to serve in Germany's coastal defense system alongside the Sachsen-class ironclads and Wespe-class gunboats. | Parsecboy (talk) |
| 2025-01-01 09:56 | Bell railway station, Melbourne (Railway station in Melbourne, Australia) | Bell railway station is a commuter railway station located in the north-eastern suburb of Preston in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The station opened on 8 October 1889, with the former ground level station closed and demolished in May 2022 and the current elevated station provided in September 2022 by the Level Crossing Removal Project. | PEPSI697 💬 |
| 2025-01-22 05:19 | Sengkang LRT line (Light rail line in Singapore) | The Sengkang LRT line (SKLRT) is a 10.7-kilometre (6.6 mi) elevated automated guideway transit line in Sengkang, Singapore. The driverless system consists of 14 stations on two loops, with Sengkang station connecting both loops and connecting the line to the North East MRT line. It is the second Light Rail Transit (LRT) line in Singapore, and the first LRT line operated by SBS Transit. | ZKang123 (talk) |
| 2025-01-23 08:52 | Preston railway station, Melbourne (Railway station in Melbourne, Australia) | Preston railway station is a commuter railway station located in the north-eastern suburb of Preston in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The station opened on 8 October 1889, with the former ground level station closed and demolished in May 2022 and the current elevated station provided in September 2022 by the Level Crossing Removal Project. | PEPSI697 💬 |
| 2025-01-26 07:25 | Simei MRT station (Mass Rapid Transit station in Singapore) | Simei MRT station (Chinese: 四美; pinyin: Sì měi, Tamil: ஸீமெய்) is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the East–West line in Tampines, Singapore. Operated by SMRT Trains, the station serves the eponymous Simei residential estate. Other nearby landmarks include Eastpoint Mall and Changkat Primary and Secondary School. | Icepinner (formerly Imbluey2). Please ping me so that I get notified of your response |
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| 2024-09-01 23:03 | Parabolic subgroup of a reflection group (Mathematical group) | In the mathematical theory of reflection groups, the parabolic subgroups are a special kind of subgroup. The precise definition of which subgroups are parabolic depends on context—for example, whether one is discussing general Coxeter groups or complex reflection groups—but in all cases the collection of parabolic subgroups exhibits important good behaviors. | JBL (talk) |
| 2024-09-22 16:45 | Value theory (Systematic study of values) | Value theory is the interdisciplinary study of values. Also called axiology, it examines the nature, sources, and types of values. Primarily a branch of philosophy, it is an interdisciplinary field closely associated with social sciences like economics, sociology, anthropology, and psychology. | Phlsph7 (talk) |
| 2024-10-24 06:08 | Hurricane Wilma (Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2005) | Hurricane Wilma was the most intense tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin and the second-most intense tropical cyclone in the Western Hemisphere, both based on barometric pressure, after Hurricane Patricia in 2015. Wilma's rapid intensification led to a 24-hour pressure drop of 97 mbar (2.9 inHg), setting a new basin record. | 12george1 (talk) |
| 2024-10-26 07:30 | Human uses of living things (Topic in human life and history) | Human uses of living things, including animals, plants, fungi, and microbes, take many forms, both practical, such as the production of food and clothing, and symbolic, as in art, mythology, and religion. Social sciences including archaeology, anthropology and ethnography are starting to take a multispecies view of human interactions with nature, in which living things are not just resources to be exploited, practically or symbolically, but are involved as participants. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2024-11-04 10:15 | Hedonism (Family of views prioritizing pleasure) | Hedonism is a family of philosophical views that prioritize pleasure. Psychological hedonism is the theory that the underlying motivation of all human behavior is to maximize pleasure and avoid pain. As a form of egoism, it suggests that people only help others if they expect a personal benefit. Axiological hedonism is the view that pleasure is the sole source of intrinsic value. | Phlsph7 (talk) |
| 2024-11-25 13:12 | Tropical Storm Prapiroon (2024) (Pacific tropical storm) | Severe Tropical Storm Prapiroon, known in the Philippines as Tropical Depression Butchoy was a compact tropical cyclone that made landfall in Hainan and Vietnam in July 2024. It was the fourth named storm of the annual typhoon season. Prapiroon was first identified as an area of persistent convection southeast of Manila, Philippines, on July 15. | HurricaneEdgar |
| 2024-12-01 09:10 | Typhoon Ampil (2024) (Pacific typhoon) | Typhoon Ampil was a powerful tropical cyclone that threatened Japan's Tokyo Metropolitan Area since Faxai in 2019 and brought torrential gusty winds to Alaska in early August 2024. The seventh named storm and third typhoon of the annual typhoon season. Ampil emerged from an atmospheric convection east of Kadena Air Base and was later classified as a tropical storm on August 12 and named Ampil by the Japan Meteorological Agency. | HurricaneEdgar |
| 2024-12-07 05:47 | Typhoon Shanshan (2024) (Pacific typhoon) | Typhoon Shanshan was a powerful tropical cyclone that moved through Japan in August 2024. The tenth named storm and fourth typhoon of the annual typhoon season, Shanshan was first noted near the Mariana Islands on August 20, with deep convection beginning to consolidate. The following day, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) upgraded it to a tropical storm and named it Shanshan. | HurricaneEdgar |
| 2024-12-09 20:22 | Edemariam Tsega (Ethiopian physician and educator (1938–2018)) | Edemariam Tsega (Amharic: እደማርያም ፀጋ; 7 July 1938 – 1 January 2018) was an Ethiopian physician and educator credited with introducing the post-graduate program in internal medicine in Ethiopia. Born in Gondar, he was the son of Aleqa Tsega Teshale, a respected Ethiopian Orthodox Church scholar and chief priest of the Begemdir and Simien regions. | FuzzyMagma (talk) |
| 2024-12-14 05:30 | Happy Feet (penguin) (Individual emperor penguin) | Happy Feet was an emperor penguin who in June 2011 arrived at Peka Peka Beach in the Kāpiti Coast District of New Zealand's North Island, which is one of the northernmost recorded locations in the world for an emperor penguin. After travelling about 3,200 kilometres (2,000 mi) to get there from Antarctica, he became the second emperor penguin to have been found in New Zealand, with the last being in 1967. | ―Panamitsu (talk) |
| 2024-12-27 07:53 | Typhoon Krathon (Pacific typhoon in 2024) | Typhoon Krathon, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Julian, was a powerful and erratic tropical cyclone which impacted Taiwan and the Philippines in late September and early October 2024. Krathon, which refers to the santol fruit, was the first storm to make landfall on Taiwan's densely populated western plains since Typhoon Thelma in 1977. | HurricaneEdgar |
| 2025-01-18 01:31 | Abraham Weintraub–Wikipedia controversy (2019 controversy) | The Abraham Weintraub–Wikipedia controversy refers to the events surrounding attempts by Brazil's Ministry of Education (MEC), under Minister Abraham Weintraub, to influence the content of his Portuguese Wikipedia page. Created shortly after Weintraub's appointment in April 2019, the article documented controversies about his career in detail. | Skyshiftertalk |
| 2025-01-19 19:58 | Rice polyculture (Growing rice with other crops) | Rice polyculture is the cultivation of rice and another crop simultaneously on the same land. The practice exploits the mutual benefit between rice and organisms such as fish and ducks: the rice supports pests which serve as food for the fish and ducks, while the animals' excrement serves as fertilizer for the rice. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2025-01-21 22:32 | Johnson desk (Oval office desk) | The Johnson desk is a mahogany partners desk that was used by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office as his Oval Office desk. One of only six desks used by a president in the Oval Office, it was designed by Thomas D. Wadelton and built in 1909 by S. Karpen and Bros. in Chicago. The desk was built as part of 125 seven-piece office sets for senators' offices in the Russell Senate Office Building, and was used by Johnson during his terms as U.S. Senator, Vice President, and President. | Found5dollar (talk) |
| 2025-01-22 05:19 | Sengkang LRT line (Light rail line in Singapore) | The Sengkang LRT line (SKLRT) is a 10.7-kilometre (6.6 mi) elevated automated guideway transit line in Sengkang, Singapore. The driverless system consists of 14 stations on two loops, with Sengkang station connecting both loops and connecting the line to the North East MRT line. It is the second Light Rail Transit (LRT) line in Singapore, and the first LRT line operated by SBS Transit. | ZKang123 (talk) |
| 2025-01-23 13:09 | Well-being (Measure of how well someone's life is going) | Well-being is what is ultimately good for a person. Also called welfare and quality of life, it is a measure of how well life is going for someone. It is a central goal of many individual and societal endeavors. | Phlsph7 (talk) |
| 2025-01-26 01:23 | 2024 United States drone sightings (aviation incidents in Northeastern United States, 2024–2025, starting or mainly in New Jersey) | The 2024 United States drone sightings, also known as the New Jersey drone sightings, were a series of reports between November and December 2024 involving large, unidentified drones observed at night across several regions of the United States. The phenomenon began in New Jersey, where numerous sightings were reported over multiple counties. | – Anne drew (talk · contribs) |
| 2025-01-27 00:41 | Plutonium Finishing Plant (Former industrial facility in Washington, US) | The Plutonium Finishing Plant, also known as "Z Plant", was part of the Hanford Site plutonium production complex in Washington state. During World War II, Hanford produced plutonium nitrate (Pu(NO3)2), which shipped to the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory, where it was turned into metallic plutonium and made into pits for nuclear weapons. | Hawkeye7 (discuss) |
| 2025-01-27 02:12 | Political activities of Elon Musk | Elon Musk, the chief executive of SpaceX and Tesla and the executive chairman of X, has engaged in numerous political activities in the United States and internationally, more recently supporting right-leaning or far-right candidates and parties. Notably, Musk has been moderately involved in the United States' 2024 presidential election, creating a political action committee in support of Donald Trump and pledging upwards of US$50 million to PACs aligned with his policies. | elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) |
| 2025-01-28 07:05 | Abortion in the United Arab Emirates | Abortion in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is only legal in five instances: if the pregnancy is the result of rape; if the pregnancy is a result of incest; at the request of the couple after the approval of a regulatory committee; if the continuation of the pregnancy puts the woman's life in danger; if the foetus is deformed. | jolielover♥talk |
| 2025-01-31 00:25 | Childhood nudity (Scientific and cultural information about nudity of human children) | In contemporary societies, the appropriateness of childhood nudity in various social situations is controversial, with many differences in behavior worldwide. Depending upon conceptions of childhood innocence and sexuality in general, societies may regard social nudity before puberty as normal, as acceptable in particular situations such as same-sex groups, or unacceptable. | WriterArtistDC (talk) |
| 2025-01-31 22:25 | December 2010 Christchurch earthquake (Earthquake in New Zealand) | On 26 December 2010 a Mw4.7 earthquake occurred directly under the city centre of Christchurch, New Zealand, at a depth of between 4 and 5 kilometres (2.5 and 3.1 miles). It caused "significant damage" to Christchurch and was part of the earthquake sequence beginning with the September 2010 Canterbury earthquake, and followed by the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. | ―Panamitsu (talk) |
| 2025-02-01 05:39 | Poop emoji (Emoji representing a pile of feces) | Pile of Poo (💩), also known informally as the poomoji (slang), poop emoji (American English), or poo emoji (British English), is an emoji resembling a coiled pile of feces, usually adorned with cartoon eyes and a large smile. Originating from Japan, it is used as an expression in various contexts. Some possible uses include: as a response of passive aggressive emotion; for comedic value; as commentary on what's bad; or as its literal meaning. | 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) |
| 2025-02-01 19:23 | 1926 Nassau hurricane (Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 1926) | Tropical cyclones in the Atlantic basin were not formally named prior to World War II. Storms such as this one were denoted by their attributes, including coincidence with Catholic saints' feasts. A deadly hurricane in 1866 is separately known by the moniker Great Nassau.[2]|gro ... | CapeVerdeWave (talk) |
STEM/Biology
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| 2024-09-08 15:13 | Robiatherium (Extinct genus of endemic Palaeogene European artiodactyls) | Robiatherium is an extinct genus of Palaeogene artiodactyls containing one species R. cournovense. The genus name derives from the locality of Robiac in France where some of its fossil were described plus the Greek θήρ/therium meaning "beast" or "wild animal". It was known only from the middle Eocene and, like other anoplotheriids, was endemic to Western Europe. | PrimalMustelid (talk) |
| 2024-12-16 13:52 | Cephalization (Evolutionary trend) | Cephalization is an evolutionary trend in animals that, over many generations, the special sense organs and nerve ganglia become concentrated towards the front of the body where the mouth is located, often producing an enlarged head. This is associated with the animal's movement direction and bilateral symmetry. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2024-12-20 13:54 | Prokaryote (Unicellular organism lacking a membrane-bound nucleus) | A prokaryote (less commonly spelled procaryote) is a single-celled organism whose cell lacks a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles. The word prokaryote comes from the Ancient Greek πρό (pró), meaning 'before', and κάρυον (káruon), meaning 'nut' or 'kernel'. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2024-12-23 21:23 | CYP4F2 (Enzyme protein in the species Homo sapiens) | Cytochrome P450 4F2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CYP4F2 gene. This protein is an enzyme, a type of protein that catalyzes (helps speed up) chemical reactions inside cells. This specific enzyme is part of the superfamily of cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes, and the encoding gene is part of a cluster of cytochrome P450 genes located on chromosome 19. | Maxim Masiutin (talk) |
| 2025-01-06 09:06 | Bean (Seed of one of several genera of the plant family Fabaceae) | A bean is the seed of any plant in the legume family (Fabaceae) used as a vegetable for human consumption or animal feed. The seeds are often preserved through drying, but fresh beans are also sold. Most beans are traditionally soaked and boiled, but they can be cooked in many different ways, including frying and baking, and are used in many traditional dishes throughout the world. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2025-01-11 00:15 | John Hunter Thomas (American botanist (1928–1999)) | John Hunter Thomas (March 26, 1928 – July 20, 1999) was an American botanist, professor of biological sciences at Stanford University, curator and director of the Dudley Herbarium, and joint curator at the California Academy of Sciences. He was known for his study of plants in the Sonoran Desert, the Santa Cruz Mountains, and the Alaska North Slope, and for his history of botanical exploration in Washington, Oregon, and California. | Viriditas (talk) |
| 2025-01-25 01:54 | Intraproboscis (Genus of parasitic worms) | Intraproboscis is a monotypic genus of acanthocephalans (thorny-headed or spiny-headed parasitic worms) that infest African black-bellied pangolin in the Central African Republic. This genus resembles species in the genus Mediorhynchus but is characterized by infesting a mammal instead of birds, having a simple proboscis receptacle that is completely suspended within the proboscis, the passage of the retractor muscles through the receptacle into the body cavity posteriorly, absence of a ... | Mattximus (talk) |
| 2025-01-30 20:01 | Einkorn (Primitive wheat) | Einkorn wheat (from German Einkorn, literally "single grain") is either a wild species of wheat (Triticum) or its domesticated form. The wild form is T. boeoticum (syn. T. m. subsp. boeoticum), and the domesticated form is T. monococcum (syn. T. m. subsp. monococcum). Einkorn is a diploid species (2n = 14 chromosomes) of hulled wheat, with tough glumes (husks) that tightly enclose the grains. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2025-02-01 18:45 | Hypotrachyna catawbiensis (Species of lichen) | Hypotrachyna catawbiensis is a species of foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. First described in 1941, it forms pale ivory to greenish leaf-like growths that attach loosely to tree bark or rocks. The lichen has narrow, forking lobes that often curl inward, and produces powdery structures called soredia for asexual reproduction. | Esculenta (talk) |
STEM/Chemistry
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| 2024-12-23 21:23 | CYP4F2 (Enzyme protein in the species Homo sapiens) | Cytochrome P450 4F2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CYP4F2 gene. This protein is an enzyme, a type of protein that catalyzes (helps speed up) chemical reactions inside cells. This specific enzyme is part of the superfamily of cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes, and the encoding gene is part of a cluster of cytochrome P450 genes located on chromosome 19. | Maxim Masiutin (talk) |
| 2024-12-23 21:24 | Ketotifen (Antihistamine medication) | Ketotifen is an antihistamine medication and a mast cell stabilizer used to treat allergic conditions such as conjunctivitis, asthma, and urticaria (hives). Ketotifen is available in ophthalmic (eye drops or drug-eluting contact lenses) and oral (tablets or syrup) forms: the ophthalmic form relieves eye itchiness and irritation associated with seasonal allergies, while the oral form helps prevent systemic conditions such as asthma attacks and allergic reactions. | Maxim Masiutin (talk) |
STEM/Computing
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| 2024-10-30 16:09 | Charel Allen (American basketball player (born 1986)) | Charel Allen (born July 23, 1986) is an American former professional basketball guard and current coach. She played high school basketball at Monessen High School, where she was a two-time Pennsylvania Class A Player of the Year and finished her high school career as the fifth-leading scorer in state history. | ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) |
| 2024-12-04 07:26 | Yao's principle (Equivalence of average-case and expected complexity) | In computational complexity theory, Yao's principle (also called Yao's minimax principle or Yao's lemma) relates the performance of randomized algorithms to deterministic (non-random) algorithms. It states that, for certain classes of algorithms, and certain measures of the performance of the algorithms, the following two quantities are equal: | —David Eppstein (talk) |
STEM/Earth and environment
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| 2024-09-08 15:13 | Robiatherium (Extinct genus of endemic Palaeogene European artiodactyls) | Robiatherium is an extinct genus of Palaeogene artiodactyls containing one species R. cournovense. The genus name derives from the locality of Robiac in France where some of its fossil were described plus the Greek θήρ/therium meaning "beast" or "wild animal". It was known only from the middle Eocene and, like other anoplotheriids, was endemic to Western Europe. | PrimalMustelid (talk) |
| 2024-12-02 01:53 | 1991 Andover tornado (F5 tornado in 1991) | In the afternoon hours of April 26, 1991, a large and devastating tornado moved 46 miles (74 km) through areas southeast of Wichita, located in the state of Kansas. The tornado killed seventeen, injured over two hundred others, and left an estimated $300 million ($700,058,432 in 2024) of damage in its wake. | EF5 |
| 2024-12-02 01:56 | 1974 Tanner tornadoes (Pair of F5 tornadoes in 1974) | In the evening hours of April 3, 1974, a series of two large and destructive tornadoes would impact Tanner, located in the state of Alabama. Both of these tornadoes would receive an F5 rating on the Fujita scale, and were two out of seven F5-rated tornadoes to touch down as part of the 1974 Super Outbreak, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in United States history. | EF5 |
| 2024-12-09 14:49 | 2023 Robinson–Sullivan tornado (2023 EF3 tornado in the midwestern US) | In the evening hours of March 31, 2023, a large and intense tornado would strike several towns in Illinois and Indiana, killing six people and leaving a 40.86-mile (65.76 km) path of destruction in its wake. The tornado would devastate the communities of Robinson, Illinois, Gordon, Illinois and Sullivan, Indiana; three fatalites from the tornado would occur in Sullivan, where the tornado reached its peak intensity and inflicted damage to structures that would later receive a rating of EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita scale. | EF5 |
| 2024-12-18 06:26 | 1877 Atlantic hurricane season (hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean) | The 1877 Atlantic hurricane season featured one of the most devastating tropical cyclones to impact the Dutch Caribbean constituent country of Curaçao. Eight tropical storms are known to have developed, three of which strengthened into hurricanes, while one of those intensified into a major hurricane. | 12george1 (talk) |
| 2024-12-27 05:46 | 1881 Atlantic hurricane season (hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean) | The 1881 Atlantic hurricane season featured a tropical cyclone that remains one of the deadliest in the history of the United States. Seven tropical storms are known to have developed, four of which strengthened into hurricanes, though none of those intensified into a major hurricane. However, in the absence of modern satellite and other remote-sensing technologies, only storms that affected populated land areas or encountered ships at sea were recorded, so the actual total could be higher. | 12george1 (talk) |
| 2025-01-04 01:21 | 2021 Bowling Green tornadoes (2021 tornadoes in Kentucky) | In the early hours of December 11, 2021, two large and strong tornadoes would hit the city of Bowling Green, located in Warren County, Kentucky. The first tornado cut a swath of EF3 damage through city and directly killed sixteen people, while the second tornado produced EF2 damage but no injuries or fataliites. | EF5 |
| 2025-01-07 17:42 | Pular (volcano) (Stratovolcano in the Antofagasta Region of northern Chile) | Pular is a volcanic massif in the Chilean Andes, north of Socompa volcano. It consists of the individual mountains Pajonales and Pular, which are among the highest mountains in the region and of great cultural importance to the neighbouring towns of Socaire and Peine. Pular and Pajonales have multiple volcanic craters and have produced lava domes. | Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) |
| 2025-01-12 21:51 | 2011 Hackleburg–Phil Campbell tornado (2011 natural disaster in the United States) | In the afternoon hours of April 27, 2011, a large, long-lived, and devastating EF5 tornado impacted several towns in rural northern Alabama before tearing through the northern suburbs of Huntsville. It was the deadliest tornado of the 2011 Super Outbreak, the largest tornado outbreak in United States history. | EF5 |
| 2025-01-19 20:53 | Daikoku Seamount (Submarine volcano in the Mariana Islands) | Daikoku Seamount (Japanese: 大黒海山) is a submarine volcano located in the Northern Mariana Islands, in the western Pacific Ocean. It is situated on the Mariana volcanic arc. The seamount rises over 2,500 m (8,202 ft) meters from the seafloor, with its summit about 323 m (1,060 ft) below sea level. | Reego41 |
| 2025-01-20 02:41 | Eve Cone (Cinder cone in British Columbia, Canada) | Eve Cone, sometimes referred to as Eve's Cone, is a cinder cone in Cassiar Land District of northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It has an elevation of 1,740 metres (5,710 feet) and is one of several volcanic cones in the Desolation Lava Field at the northern end of the Big Raven Plateau. The cone is southeast of the community of Telegraph Creek in Mount Edziza Provincial Park, which is one of the largest provincial parks in British Columbia. | Volcanoguy |
| 2025-01-25 13:38 | 2014 Pilger, Nebraska, tornado family (Series of EF4 tornadoes in Northeast Nebraska) | On the afternoon and early evening of June 16, 2014, a powerful cyclical supercell struck northeast Nebraska, producing six violent tornadoes. The tornadoes impacted areas east of Norfolk, including the village of Pilger, which sustained major damage, as well as farmsteads near Stanton, Wisner, and Wakefield. | Hoguert (talk) |
| 2025-01-30 01:54 | Typhoon Yutu (Pacific typhoon in 2018) | Typhoon Yutu, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Rosita, was an extremely powerful tropical cyclone that caused catastrophic destruction on the islands of Tinian and Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, and later impacted the Philippines. It is the strongest typhoon ever recorded to impact the Mariana Islands, and is tied as the second-strongest tropical cyclone to strike the United States and its unincorporated territories by both wind speed and barometric pressure. | —JCMLuis 💬 |
| 2025-01-30 02:53 | 1892 Atlantic hurricane season (hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean) | The 1892 Atlantic hurricane season included the last tropical cyclone on record to pass through the Cabo Verde Islands at hurricane intensity until 2015. A total of nine tropical storms developed, five of which strengthened into a hurricane, though none of them became a major hurricane. However, in the absence of modern satellite and other remote-sensing technologies, only storms that affected populated land areas or encountered ships at sea were recorded, so the actual total could be higher. | 12george1 (talk) |
| 2025-01-30 03:48 | 1891 Atlantic hurricane season (hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean) | The 1891 Atlantic hurricane season featured the most devastating tropical cyclone to impact the French overseas territory of Martinique since the early 19th century. Overall, ten tropical storms formed, seven of which became hurricanes. Of those, one became a major hurricane. However, in the absence of modern satellite and other remote-sensing technologies, only storms that affected populated land areas or encountered ships at sea were recorded, so the actual total could be higher. | 12george1 (talk) |
| 2025-01-30 05:21 | 1874 Atlantic hurricane season (hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean) | The 1874 Atlantic hurricane season featured the first hurricane to be recorded on a weather map by the United States Signal Service (the present-day National Weather Service). It was a relatively inactive season, in which seven tropical cyclones developed. Four storms intensified into hurricanes, but none attained major hurricane status. | 12george1 (talk) |
| 2025-02-01 06:09 | 1894 Atlantic hurricane season (hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean) | The 1894 Atlantic hurricane season included four major hurricanes, one of the highest totals in the second half of the 19th century and behind only the previous year. Additionally, the season featured a total of seven tropical storms, five of which strengthened into a hurricane. However, in the absence of modern satellite and other remote-sensing technologies, only storms that affected populated land areas or encountered ships at sea were recorded, so the actual total could be higher. | 12george1 (talk) |
| 2025-02-01 20:24 | Ice Peak (Mountain in British Columbia, Canada) | Ice Peak is the prominent south peak of Mount Edziza in Cassiar Land District of northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It has an elevation of 2,500 metres (8,200 feet) and protrudes through Mount Edziza's ice cap, which is roughly 70 square kilometres (27 square miles) in area. The peak is a pyramid-shaped horn formed by glacial erosion and is completely flanked by steep-walled, active cirques. | Volcanoguy |
| 2025-02-01 20:24 | Big Raven Plateau (Plateau in British Columbia, Canada) | The Big Raven Plateau is an intermontane plateau in Cassiar Land District of northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It lies on the Tahltan Highland and is surrounded by several valleys, including those of Mess Creek, Kakiddi Creek, Chakima Creek, Walkout Creek and the Klastline River. The plateau is drained by many small streams that flow into these neighbouring valleys and, unlike the valleys, it is relatively barren of vegetation. | Volcanoguy |
| 2025-02-01 20:26 | Mess Creek Escarpment (Escarpment in British Columbia, Canada) | The Mess Creek Escarpment is a long, discontinuous cliff along Mess Creek in Cassiar Land District of northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It forms the east-central side of Mess Creek valley and consists of two segments separated about 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) by Walkout Creek valley. The northern segment extends about 8 kilometres (5.0 miles) southeast along the southwestern side of the Big Raven Plateau while the southern segment extends generally south along the northwestern, western and southwestern edges o ... | Volcanoguy |
STEM/Engineering
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| 2024-12-17 13:03 | Bersey Electric Cab (1896 British early electric vehicle) | The Bersey Electric Cab (also known as the London Electrical Cab) was an early electric-powered vehicle and the first electric taxi cab in London. Developed by Walter Bersey, the vehicles had a top speed of up to 12 mph (19 km/h) and could carry two passengers. An initial service of 12 cabs began on 19 August 1897 and a total of 77 were built, with a maximum of 75 in service at once. | Dumelow (talk) |
STEM/Libraries & Information
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| 2025-01-21 16:50 | Anna's Archive (Search engine for shadow libraries) | Anna's Archive is an open source search engine for shadow libraries that was launched by the pseudonymous Anna shortly after law enforcement efforts to shut down Z-Library in 2022. The site aggregates records from several major shadow libraries, including Z-Library, Sci-Hub, and Library Genesis, as well as other sources. | BruschettaFan (talk) |
STEM/Mathematics
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| 2024-12-04 07:26 | Yao's principle (Equivalence of average-case and expected complexity) | In computational complexity theory, Yao's principle (also called Yao's minimax principle or Yao's lemma) relates the performance of randomized algorithms to deterministic (non-random) algorithms. It states that, for certain classes of algorithms, and certain measures of the performance of the algorithms, the following two quantities are equal: | —David Eppstein (talk) |
| 2025-01-14 07:53 | Matroid parity problem (Largest independent set of paired elements) | In combinatorial optimization, the matroid parity problem is a problem of finding the largest independent set of paired elements in a matroid. The problem was formulated by Lawler (1976) as a common generalization of graph matching and matroid intersection. It is also known as polymatroid matching, or the matchoid problem. | —David Eppstein (talk) |
STEM/Medicine & Health
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| 2024-10-17 17:22 | Kawa model (Conceptual model in occupational therapy) | The Kawa model (kawa (かわ)), named after the Japanese word for river, is a culturally responsive conceptual framework used in occupational therapy to understand and guide the therapeutic process. Developed by Japanese occupational therapists (OTs), the model draws upon the metaphor of a river to describe human occupation, which according to OTs refers to individuals' daily activities that make life meaningful. | Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) |
| 2024-12-09 04:07 | Recategorization (Phenomenon in social psychology) | In social psychology, recategorization is a change in the conceptual representation of a group or groups. When deliberate, recategorization is often encouraged in order to mitigate bias by making salient a common ingroup identity that encompasses the group identities of the preexisting categorization. | Paradox38 (talk) |
| 2024-12-10 21:44 | Bite registration (Technique in dentistry) | Bite registration is a technique carried out in dental procedures, where an impression is taken of the teeth while biting together, to capture the way they meet together in a bite. This process is crucial for creating dental restorations, such as crowns, bridges, and dentures, as well as for diagnosing and treating bite-related issues like temporomandibular joint disorders (TMD). | Candle1 (talk) |
| 2024-12-23 21:23 | CYP4F2 (Enzyme protein in the species Homo sapiens) | Cytochrome P450 4F2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CYP4F2 gene. This protein is an enzyme, a type of protein that catalyzes (helps speed up) chemical reactions inside cells. This specific enzyme is part of the superfamily of cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes, and the encoding gene is part of a cluster of cytochrome P450 genes located on chromosome 19. | Maxim Masiutin (talk) |
| 2024-12-23 21:24 | Ketotifen (Antihistamine medication) | Ketotifen is an antihistamine medication and a mast cell stabilizer used to treat allergic conditions such as conjunctivitis, asthma, and urticaria (hives). Ketotifen is available in ophthalmic (eye drops or drug-eluting contact lenses) and oral (tablets or syrup) forms: the ophthalmic form relieves eye itchiness and irritation associated with seasonal allergies, while the oral form helps prevent systemic conditions such as asthma attacks and allergic reactions. | Maxim Masiutin (talk) |
| 2024-12-23 21:24 | Modafinil (Eugeroic medication) | Modafinil, sold under the brand name Provigil among others, is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant and eugeroic (wakefulness promoter) medication used primarily to treat narcolepsy, a sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness and sudden sleep attacks. Modafinil is also approved for stimulating wakefulness in people with sleep apnea and shift work sleep disorder. | Maxim Masiutin (talk) |
| 2024-12-23 21:26 | Drug-eluting stent (Medical implant) | A drug-eluting stent (DES) is a tube made of a mesh-like material used to treat narrowed arteries in medical procedures both mechanically (by providing a supporting scaffold inside the artery) and pharmacologically (by slowly releasing a pharmaceutical compound). A DES is inserted into a narrowed artery using a delivery catheter usually inserted through a larger artery in the groin or wrist. | Maxim Masiutin (talk) |
| 2025-01-01 13:53 | Eileen Niedfield (American physician and Roman Catholic nun) | Eileen Rae Niedfield (1920–2007), in religious life Sr. Mary Frederic Niedfield, MMS, MD, FACS was a surgeon and general physician in India for nearly 40 years, two in Bhutan. Graduating in 1951, she was notable for being in the first cohort of Georgetown University Medical School alumni that included women. | Oh-Fortuna! (talk) |
| 2025-01-14 20:53 | Fredrick Arthur Willius (American cardiologist) | Fredrick Arthur Willius (November 24, 1888 – October 19, 1972) was an American research cardiologist and medical historian who was the founding director of the Cardiology section at the Mayo Clinic. | Evansknight (talk) |
| 2025-01-17 16:15 | Yoga brick (Block used as yoga prop) | A yoga brick or yoga block is a smooth block of wood or of firm but comfortable material, such as hard foam rubber or cork, used as a prop in yoga as exercise. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2025-01-17 18:54 | Sivananda yoga (School of spiritual yoga) | Sivananda Yoga is a spiritual yoga system founded by Vishnudevananda; it includes the use of asanas (yoga postures) but is not limited to them as in systems of yoga as exercise. He named this system, as well as the international Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres organization responsible for propagating its teachings, after his guru, Sivananda with the mission 'to spread the teachings of yoga and the message of world peace' which has since been refined to 'practice and teach the anc ... | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
| 2025-01-18 10:30 | Paddleboard Yoga | Paddleboard Yoga, invented by 2009, is the practice of modern yoga as exercise, and sometimes specific transitions between postures, while stand up paddleboarding, usually with the board in calm water, such as a lake. | Chiswick Chap (talk) |
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| 2025-01-17 16:34 | Extended Wulff constructions (Shapes for crystals with interfaces and twins) | Extended Wulff constructions refers to a number of different ways to model the structure of nanoparticles as well as larger mineral crystals, and as such can be used to understand both the shape of certain gemstones or crystals with twins.as well as in other areas such as how nanoparticles play a role in the commercial production of chemicals using heterogeneous catalysts. | Ldm1954 (talk) |
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| 2024-11-07 12:33 | Bullet hit squib (Device for simulating a gunshot wound) | A bullet hit squib or a blood squib is a practical, pyrotechnic special effect device mainly used to simulate the appearance of a person being shot and wounded in the film industry, stage performances and even in first responder moulage training. This is achieved by remotely detonating a small explosive hidden in the actor's clothing, bursting a fake blood packet and blowing open a pre-scored hole to create an aesthetic that filmmakers and audiences alike have become accustomed to associating with a gunshot wound. | Adenosine Triphosphate (talk) |
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| 2024-11-20 19:43 | Talladega Superspeedway (Motorsport track in the United States) | Talladega Superspeedway (formerly named Alabama International Motor Speedway from 1969 to 1989) is a 2.66-mile (4.28 km) tri-oval superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama. The track has hosted a variety of racing events since its inaugural season of racing in 1969; primarily races sanctioned by NASCAR. | Cheers! Nascar9919 (he/him • t • c) |
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| 2025-01-08 02:26 | Lyons Pool Recreation Center (Park facility in Staten Island, New York) | The Lyons Pool Recreation Center (also known as the Joseph H. Lyons Pool and Tompkinsville Pool) is a 3.2-acre (1.3 ha) public swimming pool complex in the Tompkinsville neighborhood of Staten Island in New York City. The complex is situated on the island's North Shore, next to New York Harbor, and consists of a general swimming pool and two smaller pools for diving and wading. | Epicgenius (talk) |
| 2025-01-13 16:43 | Valencia Theatre (Theater in Queens, New York) | The Valencia Theatre (formerly the Loew's Valencia Theatre) is a church building at 165-11 Jamaica Avenue in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens in New York City, New York. Designed by John Eberson as a movie palace, it opened on January 11, 1929, as one of five Loew's Wonder Theatres in the New York City area. | Epicgenius (talk) |
| 2025-01-25 12:42 | Sugar propaganda in the Second Polish Republic (1925—1932) | Sugar propaganda in the Second Polish Republic (1925—1932) – a campaign conducted between 1925 and 1932 by the Komisja Propagandy Konsumpcji Cukru (KRKC) and the Biuro Propagandy Konsumpcji Cukru (BKPC) to increase sugar consumption in Poland. Activities focused on promoting sugar as a source of energy and an essential component of the diet, especially among women, peasants and the intelligentsia. | Ryś928 (talk) |
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- ^ a b Brockmann 2017, pp. 22, 29.
- ^ a b Neely 2019, p. 260.
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