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r/wikipedia • u/SplendiferusFinch • 1h ago
Poon Lim was a Chinese seafarer. In 1942–43, he survived a record 133 days alone on a life raft in the South Atlantic. Poon was Second Mess Steward on SS Benlomond, a British cargo ship that the German submarine U-172 sank on 23 November 1942. He survived on an eight-foot wooden raft with supplies.
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r/wikipedia • u/Not_Original5756 • 2h ago
The Great Tenmei famine affected Japan during the Edo period. It was the deadliest famine in early modern Japan, killing 900,000-920,000 people. It began in 1782 and lasted until 1788. It was named after the Tenmei era (1781–1789) during the reign of Emperor Kōkaku. NSFW
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/slinkslowdown • 2h ago
Epileptogenesis is the gradual process through which a non-epileptic brain undergoes pathological changes that lead to the development of epilepsy. It involves the transformation of neuronal networks following an initial insult, such as trauma, infection, or prolonged seizures.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/slinkslowdown • 2h ago
Fenno's Paradox: People generally disapprove of the United States Congress as a whole but often support the congressmen from their own congressional districts.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/BlackYellowSnake • 5h ago
Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (1690-1718), was the eldest son and heir of Peter the Great. He was tortured to death by his father after returning from fleeing Russia.
r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 6h ago
Alan Seeger (22 June 1888 – 4 July 1916) was an American war poet who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme, serving in the French Foreign Legion. He is lauded for the poem "I Have a Rendezvous with Death", a favorite of President John F. Kennedy.
r/wikipedia • u/disless • 7h ago
A skyquake is a phenomenon where a loud sound is reported to originate from the sky. Those who experience skyquakes typically do not have a clear explanation for what caused them.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/syanxde • 8h ago
Aung San Suu Kyi has played a vital role in Myanmar's transition from military junta to partial democracy in the 2010s. She has been widely described as the de facto leader of Myanmar from 2016 to 2021. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.
In 2017, critics called for Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Prize to be revoked, citing her silence over the genocide of Rohingya people in Myanmar. Some activists criticised Aung San Suu Kyi for her silence on the 2012 Rakhine State riots (later repeated during the 2015 Rohingya refugee crisis), and her indifference to the plight of the Rohingya, Myanmar's persecuted Muslim minority. In 2012, she told reporters she did not know if the Rohingya could be regarded as Burmese citizens. In a 2013 interview with the BBC's Mishal Husain, Aung San Suu Kyi did not condemn violence against the Rohingya and denied that Muslims in Myanmar have been subject to ethnic cleansing, insisting that the tensions were due to a "climate of fear" caused by "a worldwide perception that global Muslim power is 'very great'". She did condemn "hate of any kind" in the interview. According to Peter Popham, in the aftermath of the interview, she expressed anger at being interviewed by a Muslim. Husain had challenged Aung San Suu Kyi that almost all of the impact of violence was against the Rohingya, in response to Aung San Suu Kyi's claim that violence was happening on both sides, and Peter Popham described her position on the issue as one of purposeful ambiguity for political gain.
On 10 June 2021, Aung San Suu Kyi was charged with corruption, the most serious charge brought against her, which carries a maximum penalty of 15 years' imprisonment. Aung San Suu Kyi's lawyers say the charges are made to keep her out of the public eye. On 14 June, the trial against Aung San Suu Kyi began. Any conviction would prevent her from running for office again.
On 27 April 2022, Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to five years in jail on corruption charges. On 22 June 2022, junta authorities ordered that all further legal proceedings against Suu Kyi will take place in prison venues, instead of a courtroom. No explanation of the decision was given.
r/wikipedia • u/HallowedAndHarrowed • 9h ago
Spanish Republican General Vicente Rojo was regarded as so effective, that many of his Nationalist enemies thought that only wider Soviet incompetence stopped him from winning the Spanish Civil War.
r/wikipedia • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • 11h ago
James Buchanan was the 15th president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861. Some scholars have surmised that he was a homosexual, citing his extremely close relationship with fellow politician William R. King.
r/wikipedia • u/InvisibleEar • 11h ago
Momotaro: Sacred Sailors is the first Japanese feature-length animated film. It was directed by Mitsuyo Seo, who was ordered to make a propaganda film for World War II by the Japanese Naval Ministry.
r/wikipedia • u/Ok-Goose6242 • 12h ago
According to a 2007 estimate by scholar De R. G. Crocombe, between 100,000 and 800,000 Papuans have been killed since Indonesia's occupation began. State violence has targeted women in particular. Studies found that 4 in 10 Papuan women reported suffering state abuse.
r/wikipedia • u/NicolasCageFan492 • 12h ago
Election law and voting rights under the second Trump administration
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/mlee117379 • 12h ago
Leap seconds or intercalary seconds were one-second adjustments occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) between 1972 and 2016, to accommodate the difference between International Atomic Time (TAI) and observed solar time (UT1).
r/wikipedia • u/_masterofdisaster • 13h ago
Michèle Mouton is a French former rally driver who competed in the WRC at the height of its infamous Group B era. With a career that included 4 victories and a championship finish of 2nd in 1982, publications such as Autosport have deemed her “motorsport's most successful ever female driver”.
r/wikipedia • u/TGC_0 • 13h ago
1 is a number, numeral, and grapheme. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sports, where it commonly denotes the first, leading, or top thing in a group
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/MajesticBread9147 • 13h ago
James Pike was an American Episcopal Bishop, lawyer, alleged heretic and writer who was one of the first religious figures to appear regularly on television. Notable for outspoken views on things such as abortion, the virginity of Mary, ordination of women, LGBTQ rights, and desegregation.
r/wikipedia • u/Delicious-Bunch-6992 • 13h ago
The UN child sexual abuse scandal in haiti was a series of sexual abuses that took place from 2004 to 2007, in which at least 134 Sri Lankan soldiers were accused of sexually abusing 9 Haitian children, with some being as young as 7 years old.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 13h ago
China shock: impact of rising Chinese exports on US and European manufacturing employment in the US & Europe after China's 2001 WTO accession. China may presently be experiencing its own shock, as firms increasingly automate or shift their manufacturing to countries with cheaper labor.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/DetectiveTrickyCad • 14h ago
LifeTimes is a jazz fusion album by Diana Hubbard featuring notable musicians Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke. The daughter of L. Ron Hubbard, as of 2001 Diana maintained a leadership position within Scientology.
r/wikipedia • u/acousticentropy • 14h ago
Swastika is an unincorporated community and hamlet in the town of Black Brook, Clinton County, New York, United States. The community is 19 miles southwest of Plattsburgh. The area is not very populated and appears as a wide spot on the road with a few buildings.
en.wikipedia.orgThe name dates back to at least 1913, when a post office called Swastika, NY operated from 1913 until 1958.[3][4] Edward Duprey, the town's last postmaster, told the Plattsburgh Press-Republican that the community was previously known as Goodrich Mills. "The government sent a list of names," he explained of Swastika's origin. "It had nothing to do with the community. It was just a name for the post office", he added.[5]
In September 2020, the town's councilors unanimously voted to keep the name Swastika after a New York City resident asked the town's council to consider another name. Black Brook, New York Supervisor Jon Douglass stated the town "was named by the town’s original settlers in the 1800s and is based on the Sanskrit word meaning well-being”.[6][7] He noted "the four-sided geometric character that represents the Swastika has been used for thousands of years in Indian religions and seen as a symbol of good luck", despite the word's modern associations.[8] The request to change the name had been previously brought up during meetings, including once right after WWII.[4]
r/wikipedia • u/mawcopolow • 14h ago
ChatGPT didn't kill Wikipedia. It took the homework.
I pulled 11 years of pageviews for 50 French curriculum articles against a pop-culture control, labeled with the real school calendars. Site-wide decline predates ChatGPT; the homework pages broke in 2022-2023. Dataset linked at the end.
r/wikipedia • u/syanxde • 15h ago
A cat café is a theme café, whose attractions are cats that can be watched and played with. Patrons pay a cover fee, generally hourly, and thus cat cafés can be seen as a form of supervised indoor pet rental.
The world's first cat café, "Cat Flower Garden" opened in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1998 and eventually became a global tourist destination. The concept spread to Japan, where the first one named "Neko no Jikan" (lit. "Cat's Time") was opened in Osaka in 2004. Due to Japan's land size and population, many residents live in small apartments or condominiums which do not allow pets, making cat cafés a very popular destination for young workers looking for the companionship and comfort offered. Tokyo's first cat café, named "Neko no Mise" (Cat's Store), opened in 2005. After this, the popularity of cat cafés boomed in Japan. As of 2026, Japan’s cat cafes number over 300.
Cat cafés originally opened in Asia: Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, and mainland China. However, since the 2010s, cat cafes gained in popularity in many countries worldwide, for example in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and United States.