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Interesting wikipedia articles for hours and hours of entertainment. Please post more. I stole the idea from a different forum and these are some of the links people posted. Many of them are must reads.


Giacomo Casanova
"Casanova had dug up a freshly buried corpse in order to play a practical joke on an enemy and exact revenge—but the victim went into a paralysis, never to recover."

Dona Paz
Ferry collision leaves thousands dead.

Dyatlov Pass Incident
Really interesting imo.

Project Stargate
"The Stargate Project[1] was the umbrella code name of one of several sub-projects established by the U.S. Federal Government to investigate the reality, and potential military and domestic applications, of psychic phenomena, particularly "remote viewing": the purported ability to psychically "see" events, sites, or information from a great distance.[2] These projects were active from the 1970s through 1995, and followed up early psychic research done at The Stanford Research Institute (SRI), The American Society for Psychical Research, and other psychical research labs."

Nazi Bell
"The Bell is said to be an experiment carried out by Third Reich scientists working for the SS in a German facility known as Der Riese ("The Giant")[3] near the Wenceslaus mine. The mine is located 50 kilometers away from Breslau a little north of the village of Ludwikowice Kłodzkie (formerly known as Ludwigsdorf) close to the Czech border. Cook and Witkowski visited the site for the UK Channel 4 documentary UFOs: the Hidden Evidence (aka An Alien History of Planet Earth).

The device is described as metallic, approximately 9 feet wide and 12 to 15 feet high with a shape similar to a bell. It contained two counter-rotating cylinders filled with a substance similar to Mercury that glowed violet when activated, known only as Xerum 525[4] it has been speculated to be Red mercury.[5] When active, The Bell would emit strong radiation, which led to the death of several scientists[6] and various plant and animal test subjects.[4] "

Tesla
Is the man.

Voynich Manuscript
Weird coded book.

List of unusual deaths
unusual is the right word.

White Death
Finnish sharpshooter

Petrov
We owe this guy a big tyvm.

Extinct Tree brought back
If it's female, it can revive the species. If it's male, no dice. Run good one time!

Flying Spaghetti Monster
♥ Religion.
"The central belief is that an invisible and undetectable Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe. Pirates are revered as the original Pastafarians, and Pastafarians facetiously assert that a steady decline in the number of pirates has resulted in a significant rise in global temperature. Pastafarians celebrate every Friday as a holy day; this is the holiest of Pastafarian holidays, which include Ramendan, Pastaover, and a vaguely defined holiday named "Holiday"."

LOL.

Sparrow campaign
Plan to make sparrows go away. Obv lol results.

Sokushinbutsu
Mummification process while still alive.

Belgian UFOs
The truth is out there.

Tollund Man
"A body is found in a bog in Denmark. The police first think it's a recent murder victim, but after a closer examination the body is found to be 2400 years old. The face is so well preserved because of the conditions in the bog, that you can still see what he looked like. "

Lead Masks Case
Bizarre story.... "The bodies were next to each other, slightly covered by grass. They were wearing suits, lead masks and impermeable coats. There was no sign of violence to the bodies or to the surrounding area. Next to the bodies, the police found an empty bottle of water and a packet containing two towels. They were masks typically used for protection from radiation, and it is these masks that have given the case its name. Police found a small notebook stating: "16:30 estar no local determinado. 18:30 ingerir cápsulas, após efeito proteger metais aguardar sinal máscara" (16:30 be at the agreed place. 18:30 swallow capsules, after effect protect metals wait for the mask sign). "

Acoustic Kitty
"Acoustic Kitty was a CIA project launched by the Directorate of Science & Technology in the 1960s attempting to use cats in spy missions. "
Spoiler: Hilarious failure

Megalodon
Big shark imo

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Emerald Cockroach Wasp
Figures out how to control cockroaches and lays their eggs in them.

List of wealthiest people ever

Tsar Bomba
"The Tsar Bomba is the single most physically powerful device ever utilized by humanity. Its size and weight excluded a successful delivery in case of a real war. "

Vasiliy Arkhipov
Another Russian who saved the world for us.

Glass delusion
"The glass delusion was an external manifestation of a psychiatric disorder recorded in Europe in the late Middle Ages (15th to 17th centuries). People feared that they were made of glass "and therefore likely to shatter into pieces". One famous early sufferer was King Charles VI of France who refused to allow people to touch him, and wore reinforced clothing to protect himself from accidental "shattering"."

The Door to Hell

Unit 731
Sick tests on humans in Japan.
"a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese personnel. "

List of famous trees
Actually really interesting imo.

Valentich disappearance
"The Valentich disappearance is a mysterious event that occurred on 21 October 1978, in which 20-year-old Frederick Valentich disappeared in unexplained circumstances while piloting a Cessna 182L light aircraft over Bass Strait to King Island, Australia.
During a 125-mile (201 km) "training flight", Valentich contacted Melbourne air traffic control, saying he "was being buzzed by a UFO with four bright lights about 1,000 feet (300 m) above him." More reports from Valentich followed; he later noted that his plane's engine was running roughly, and his last message was "It is not an aircraft." "

Travis Walton
Very strange and interesting alien abduction story.

Jack Churchill
"Churchill gave the signal to attack by cutting down the enemy Feldwebel (sergeant) with his barbed arrows, becoming the only known British soldier to have felled an enemy with a longbow in the course of the war."

This is so much win. This dude was Rambo in WWII.

"He resumed his commission after Poland was invaded, and volunteered for the Commandos after fighting at Dunkirk. Churchill was not sure what Commando Duty entailed, but he signed up because it sounded dangerous."

Audie Murphy
Another BA WW2 soldier

Most remote tree in the world
And then someone hit it with a car...lol?

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

Feel free to add more.

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I will ♥ this thread

[Al_U_Card]

Figuring out ways for the boss to have a fatal "accident".

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Al_U_Card, on Mar 22 2010, 02:11 PM, said:

Figuring out ways for the boss to have a fatal "accident".

killing time at work.

i think you're doing it wrong.

[Al_U_Card]

jjbrr, on Mar 22 2010, 02:22 PM, said:

Al_U_Card, on Mar 22 2010, 02:11 PM, said:

Figuring out ways for the boss to have a fatal "accident".

killing time at work.

i think you're doing it wrong.

Isn't waiting for retirement considered "killing time"?

(I didn't take it in the sense of time for killing someone, I am just unhappy with my boss....lol)

[jjbrr]

I suppose it is. Anyway, there's a list of unusual deaths. Maybe you could find a suggestion for an accident there.

[Al_U_Card]

There is always murder at the bridge table....but, too many witnesses.

[onoway]

speaking of unusual deaths... this one gave me the shivers
http://www.youtube.c...uKjBIBBAL8&NR=1

[babalu1997]

a great way to kill time at work, and look good at the same time

is to clean your desk or reorganize files

that is what i do when i want to loaf

organization is a form of procrastination

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Bump for wiki

String Theory

Rothschilds

Worst movies ever

ADX

Hubble

Korean Airlines Flight 007

Eddie Chapman
Real life James Bond

Battle of Karánsebes
Sort of LOL

Bélmez Faces

Annaliese Michel

Number Station

Chase Vault

Incorruptibility

[JoAnneM]

Did anyone watch "The Hills Have Thighs" on HBO recently? HBO accidentally? screened a soft porn movie of the same name instead of the film it had contracted to play, which was about Appalachia. There are lawsuits.

Sorry for off-topic

[jjbrr]

Sorry; two more related articles that I enjoyed a lot.

Mary Celeste

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The Mary Celeste (often incorrectly referred to as Marie Celeste) was a brigantine merchant ship notably discovered in December 1872 in the Atlantic Ocean unmanned and apparently abandoned, despite the fact that the weather was fine and her crew had been experienced and able seamen. The Mary Celeste was in seaworthy condition and still under sail heading towards the Strait of Gibraltar. She had been at sea for a month and had over six months' worth of food and water on board. Her cargo was virtually untouched and the personal belongings of passengers and crew were still in place, including valuables. The crew was never seen or heard from again. Their disappearance is often cited as the greatest maritime mystery of all time. 

Baychimo

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The Baychimo was a steel 1,322 ton cargo steamer built in 1914 in Sweden and owned by the Hudson's Bay Company, used to trade pelts for provisions in Inuit settlements along the Victoria Island coast of the Northwest Territories of Canada. It became a notable ghost ship along the Alaska coast.

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JoAnneM, on Mar 29 2010, 11:21 AM, said:

Did anyone watch "The Hills Have Thighs" on HBO recently?

no but i wish i had

[gwnn]

I don't think these have been discussed here yet?

Secretary problem

and

St Petersburg Paradox

[G_R__E_G]

Oak Island

This has always been an interesting story to me.

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G_R__E_G, on Mar 30 2010, 11:01 AM, said:

Oak Island

This has always been an interesting story to me.

Interesting. I speculate there's nothing down there

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Steven Jay Russel

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In 1996, while in Harris County Jail (Texas), Russell impersonated a judge and ordered his own bond decreased from $900,000 to $45,000, which he immediately posted. He was arrested 10 days later in Florida and was sent back to Texas. That same year he started taking art classes provided by the prison. Each time he attended a session, he snatched a green Magic Marker and hid it under his bed. Eventually, he had enough markers to dye his white prison uniform green. Since all the medical professionals in the prison wore green uniforms, Russell simply walked out of the prison disguised as a "doctor."

While in prison, Russell began to plot his most daring escape. At the prison library, Russell began reading up on the HIV virus and AIDS. He began taking laxatives to make it seem as if he had the symptoms of AIDS. Russell used a prison typewriter to forge a medical document stating that he suffered from the disease, and used it to convince doctors of his "condition" on February 24. He fooled the prison doctor into believing that a 'special needs parole' to a Houston hospital had been authorized on March 13. While outside and free again, Russell posed as a doctor and informed the prison that Russell had died from AIDS.[2]

On March 20, 1998, Russell posed as a Virginia millionaire and tried to take a $75,000 loan from NationsBank in Dallas. When bank officials got suspicious and alerted the police, Russell feigned a heart attack and was transported to a hospital. The FBI placed him under guard, but Russell managed to impersonate an FBI agent on his cellular phone and convinced officers guarding him to leave. He walked out of the hospital and the hunt for Russell began all over again.[2]

Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky

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was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in colour photography of early 20th-century Russia

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http://en.wikipedia....sperado_(chess)
♥ the eternal rook

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