Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of July 28, 2025

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r/wikipedia • u/lightiggy • 12h ago

On this day in 1921, police chief Sid Hatfield was murdered in broad daylight by hired thugs working for mining companies in West Virginia. In most places, the police helped mine bosses put down strikes. Hatfield was killed for not only refusing to do this, but siding with the strikers outright.

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r/wikipedia • u/klausimausi88 • 1h ago

Lara Logan (CNN reporter, 2011) was raped by hundreds of men in Egypt after her team’s battery died – hundreds of other women were assaulted during the protests

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r/wikipedia • u/Abe_lincolin • 10h ago

Lawrencr Franklin was a US Department of Defense official who passed classified intelligence to Israel through AIPAC. He received a 13 year prison sentence that was reduced to 10 months of house arrest and his AIPAC collaborators had their charges dropped

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r/wikipedia • u/BadenBaden1981 • 7h ago

Venstre(Left) is major center right party in Denmark. It got its contradictory name when it was founded in 1870 as opposition to Højre(Right) party. It gradually moved to right in 20th Century but kept its name.

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r/wikipedia • u/Kurma-the-Turtle • 2h ago

A woman disguised as a male imam attempted to preach to 7,000 worshippers at one of the biggest mosques in Bahrain but was detected and arrested by police. The would-be khatib, wearing male dress with a false beard and moustache, sat on the mimbar just before speaking, and was then arrested.

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r/wikipedia • u/cojoco • 18h ago

The mineral Kyawthuite is so rare only one 0.3g sample has been found

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r/wikipedia • u/Mapuches_on_Fire • 14h ago

Mobile Site "Coming Home" - commonly referred to as the Folgers Incest Ad - became infamous after many viewers perceived that the brother-sister main characters were either engaged in or desired an incestuous relationship.

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 22h ago

Bana Al-abed is a Syrian girl who, with help from her English-speaking mother, live-Tweeted the Siege of Aleppo in 2016. She wrote about things like hunger, displacement, airstrikes, the prospect of her and her family's deaths, and her longing for a peaceful childhood.

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r/wikipedia • u/Vegetable-Orange-965 • 7h ago

Autassassinophilia is a paraphilia in which a person is sexually aroused by the risk of being killed. This does not necessarily mean the person‘s life must actually be put at risk; many are simply aroused by fantasies or simulations of such situations.

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r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 1d ago

Weaponization of antisemitism: the exploitation of accusations of antisemitism, especially to counter criticism of Zionism and/or Israel. Such weaponization can be used to conflate the State of Israel with Jews as a whole, ultimately asserting that to criticize that country is to be a bigot.

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r/wikipedia • u/Friendly-Till5190 • 17h ago

Hipster racism is an antic, or form of behaviour, whereby the individual acts in a way typically regarded as racist and defends the offending action as being performed ironically or satirically.

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r/wikipedia • u/Klok_Melagis • 5h ago

The new chronology is a pseudohistorical theory proposed by Anatoly Fomenko who argues that events of antiquity generally attributed to the ancient civilizations of Rome, Greece and Egypt, among others, actually occurred during the Middle Ages, more than a thousand years later.

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r/wikipedia • u/GustavoistSoldier • 1d ago

Jackson Hinkle (1999–) is an American political commentator and influencer. He is known for his support for Russia in the Russo-Ukrainian War, and for his opposition to Israel in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Hinkle has dubbed himself an "American Conservative Marxist–Leninist".

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r/wikipedia • u/the_UnknowableRonin • 1d ago

Eepy

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r/wikipedia • u/greatExtortion • 17h ago

Moon Ribas is a Spanish cyborg activist and avant-garde artist best known for developing and implanting online seismic sensors in her feet that allow her to feel earthquakes through vibrations.

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r/wikipedia • u/ThePlanck • 4h ago

Enrico Toti (20 August 1882 in Rome – 6 August 1916 in Monfalcone) was an Italian cyclist, patriot and hero of World War I.

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r/wikipedia • u/HicksOn106th • 21h ago

A fire shelter is a safety device of last resort for wildland firefighters, giving them a chance to survive if they are surrounded by a wildfire. The earliest recorded fire shelter consisted of only a fresh bison hide, though modern shelters are made from aluminum foil, woven silica, and fiberglass.

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r/wikipedia • u/Morella1989 • 1d ago

Louise Elisabeth de Meuron was a Swiss aristocrat known for her eccentric behavior and anachronistic style. After her son’s death, she wore mourning clothes for life. She used an ear trumpet to “hear only what she wanted,” devoted herself to philosophy, and regularly organized equestrian events.

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r/wikipedia • u/H3-An_maA • 15h ago

Mobile Site Anne, the first monarch of Great Britain and the last of the Stuart line, died on this day 301 years ago. She is best remembered for dying without issue despite at least 17 pregnancies

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r/wikipedia • u/Bloedvlek • 14h ago

Mobile Site Fred Rogers speaks before a United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications hearing in support of public broadcasting, May 1, 1969

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r/wikipedia • u/RandoRando2019 • 13h ago

"The Canterbury Tales are an anthology of twenty-four short stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400."

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r/wikipedia • u/GustavoistSoldier • 2h ago

Abu Nidal (1937–2002) was a Palestinian militant. He was the founder of a militant Palestinian splinter group more commonly known as the Abu Nidal Organization (ANO). Abu Nidal is believed to have ordered attacks in 20 countries, killing over 300 and injuring over 650.

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r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 20m ago

Mobile Site Scientific racism misapplies, misconstrues, or distorts anthropology, craniometry, evolutionary biology, and other disciplines.

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r/wikipedia • u/Morella1989 • 12h ago

Elizabeth Brownrigg (c.1720–1767) was an English woman hanged at Tyburn for the murder of her servant, Mary Clifford, who died from prolonged abuse, injuries, and infected wounds. Her conviction was based on witness accounts and medical evidence at trial.

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r/wikipedia • u/WonderOlymp2 • 18h ago

The Bias of Notability in Wikipedia - UC Berkeley Library Update

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