Interesting Wikipedia articles for killing time and expanding your mind!!
Help me start my first non-poker thread.
Post interesting random Wikipedia entries about something people have never heard of or thought about much that is interesting.
Post some kind of teaser explaining why each of these articles is interesting
If this is retarded oh well. If its been done, kill it. If not, help me waste time.
I'll start:
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
"was a Philippine-registered passenger ferry that sank after colliding with the MT Vector on December 20, 1987. With a death toll of at least 4,375 people"
Coconut Crab
"is the largest land-living arthropod in the world, and is probably at the upper limit of how big terrestrial animals with exoskeletons can become in today's atmosphere"
The Enhanced Games is meant to be the first event of its kind to support performance enhancing drugs and not follow the rules of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).[5] Performance enhancing drugs will not be mandatory for participants.[6][7] Such an event has been discussed hypothetically for many years, but never been realised.[8][9][10] Prosthetic limbs and shoe technology will be allowed.[4]
I think that Wiki needs more AI assist
A bit surprised wikipedia slow ponying recent +ev fusion power experiment which has been peer reviewed and replicated.
it's wholly inconsequential stuff, not like a new continent but just placing a town in the middle of the desert or adding an extra 10' x 10' island in an archipelago
It's usually misspelling names like Fallaron Islands instead of the correct Farallon Islands.
And its effectiveness in copyright protection is dubious at best.
Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln
Movie really needs to be made on this guy. He really did it all!
Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln (Hungarian: Trebitsch-Lincoln Ignác, German: Ignaz Thimoteus Trebitzsch; 4 April 1879 – 6 October 1943) was a Hungarian-born adventurer and convicted con artist. Of Jewish descent, he spent parts of his life as a Protestant missionary, Anglican priest, British Member of Parliament for Darlington, German right-wing politician and spy, Nazi collaborator, Buddhist abbot in China, and self-proclaimed Dalai Lama.
The Toledo War. Michigan and Ohio fight over a strip of territory in ludin what is now Toledo, Ohio. No truth to the rumor that this is because Ohio lost
Ignaz was a fascinating read, BTW. I was expecting the MP part to be a scam, but no, it was completely legit.
excellent contribution
Honestly if you couldn't score on either goal, especially when they can't have a goalie at one of them, I dont know what to tell you.
Although I guess you could keep using your hands, and the result isn't a penalty kick but instead a free kick? But are you allowed to just kick that into your net after they use hands?
My brain is breaking, I used to ref soccer as a kid, but its been 30 years.
A very interesting article, but at no point does it explain why an overtime goal would be worth 2 goals. It links to the "golden goal" article, but this doesn't seem to mention an OT goal ever being worth 2 goals. What would be the rationale behind this rule?
I remember Major League baseball used to have a rule that almost like the opposite of this: a team was not allowed to win in a walk-off by more than one run. So if you hit a grand-slam home run when the game was tied in the bottom of 9th inning, only the runner on 3rd base was allowed to score, and you'd only be credited with a single.
I remember Major League baseball used to have a rule that almost like the opposite of this: a team was not allowed to win in a walk-off by more than one run. So if you hit a grand-slam home run when the game was tied in the bottom of 9th inning, only the runner on 3rd base was allowed to score, and you'd only be credited with a single.
Are you sure about this? Big baseball fan here and I have never heard of this. Seems like it would have come up when discussing home run records and RBI records. When did they have this rule?
Yeah, I hadn't heard that before either.
I remember when I was like 6-8 my Dad asked me a riddle how a team hit a grand slam but only scored one run and it wasn't because of this rule but because a runner passed another on the basepath so only the first run scored.
Yeah, I hadn't heard that before either.
I remember when I was like 6-8 my Dad asked me a riddle how a team hit a grand slam but only scored one run and it wasn't because of this rule but because a runner passed another on the basepath so only the first run scored.
Ya. I'm 99.476% sure this rule never existed. I am 0.524% not sure.
I remember watching a Reds Pirates game way back when (skinny Bonds) and Bonds hit a home run - it may have been a grand slam - and he passed someone on the bases. I guess the dude on first wasn't sure it was going to be a home run so he held up and Bonds passed him not realizing it. Bonds was called out and runs were removed.
what that pope is referencing is a real thing, iirc the home run hitting team was so busy celebrating they never fully circled the bases and thus it technically became a run scoring single
An over the fence home run always counts - unless the runners screw up as noted. What you don't get is 3 RBI on a bases loaded double. Only the winning run counts and you only get a single.
An over the fence home run always counts - unless the runners screw up as noted. What you don't get is 3 RBI on a bases loaded double. Only the winning run counts and you only get a single.
This is the correct answer. A home run is a home run no matter how many men are on base so if the score is 4-4 in the bottom of the ninth and the batter hits a grand slam then the final is 8-4. In the same situation and the batter gets a hit and not a home run, the game is over after the first run crosses the plate (why would the defense keep playing if the winning run crosses the plate) and the batter is credited with a single.
That being said, for example, there is a guy only on first base, the batter hits the ball in the gap, and the runner scores. The official scorer can, and probably will, credit the batter with a double.
I believe a ground rule double works the same way as an HR in a GW situation. Bottom of the 9th, tie game, bases loaded, a ground rule double would score 2 runs (unless there is a baserunning blunder). I vaguely remember a buddy of mine losing either a run line bet or a total when this happened. We called him Mush.
I just looked it up and on a ground rule double in the above situation it seems like in MLB only 1 run would score but in NCAA 2 runs would score. Unless my buddy was betting on college baseball he was embellishing his losing credentials (which were already top of the line).
Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart,[1] VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO (/də ˈwaɪ.ərt/;[2] 5 May 1880 – 5 June 1963) was a British Army officer.
He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" in various Commonwealth countries.[3] He served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War. He was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; was blinded in his left eye; survived two plane crashes; tunnelled out of a prisoner-of-war camp; and tore off his own fingers when a doctor declined to amputate them.
Describing his experiences in the First World War, he wrote, "Frankly, I had enjoyed the war."[4]
"It's only a scratch"
If I'd been marooned for a year, not sure I'd get back home and immediately say "time to get a job on a lobster boat."
I lived in Tonga for a few years, but not as a castaway.
Lots and lots of gorgeous, deserted islands, but I guess they become a lot less nice if you're stuck on one...
