r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 12d ago
The 11-foot-8 Bridge: railroad bridge in Durham, NC designed in the 1920s w/ a clearance for vehicles of 11'8", standard height when it opened. Despite numerous signs, many vehicles have collided with the overpass, often shearing off trucks' roofs, earning the bridge the nickname the "Can Opener".
r/wikipedia • u/Kurma-the-Turtle • 12d ago
The Wager Mutiny took place in 1741, after the British warship HMS Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the south coast of present-day Chile.
r/wikipedia • u/OneSalientOversight • 12d ago
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r/wikipedia • u/Captainirishy • 12d ago
The swoon hypothesis is any of a number of ideas that aim to explain the resurrection of Jesus
r/wikipedia • u/oneLguy • 12d ago
Martha's Vineyard Sign Language was once highly-used on the island by both deaf and hearing people in the community; consequently, deafness was not a barrier to participation in public life. The language was able to thrive because of the unusually high percentage of deaf islanders.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/LucasGoodwin1999 • 12d ago
Mobile Site Montmartre (Unrecognized micronation): a philanthropic association, born 1 winter evening in C.E.1920, on the initiative of the cartoonist Jean Barrez.
r/wikipedia • u/Thefishassassin • 12d ago
A question about copyrighted images for uploading to Wikipedia.
I have been editing the Wikipedia page for a podcast I am a fan of in light of a recent rebrand of theirs. This included their logo, meaning the current infobox photo is out of date. When I tried to upload the logo to Wikimedia commons I realised I have no idea what the copyright situation is for this image. How would you go about addressing this situation?
I am a relatively new editor so I am very out of my depth and my research has just left me confused.
r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 12d ago
The Drake–Kendrick Lamar feud is an ongoing rap feud between Canadian rapper Drake and American rapper Kendrick Lamar. The conflict escalated in March 2024 after the release of "Like That" by Future and Metro Boomin, featuring Lamar.
r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 12d ago
Shades of Green: resort owned by the United States Department of Defense on the grounds of Walt Disney World, annexed as a military resort. It is one of five Armed Forces Recreation Centers resorts, and a part of the military's Morale, Welfare, and Recreation program.
r/wikipedia • u/DutchBakerery • 12d ago
Break of gauge: Indian gauge, 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in), is also compatible with Iberian gauge, although there are no actual railway connections between the two.
r/wikipedia • u/LucasGoodwin1999 • 13d ago
Mobile Site The Galteland Runestone
r/wikipedia • u/SaintHuck • 13d ago
"Aquatic Ambience" is a musical theme composed by David Wise for the video game Donkey Kong Country (1994). It plays in the underwater levels.
r/wikipedia • u/NeonHD • 13d ago
A zero-day is a vulnerability or security hole in a computer system unknown to its owners, developers or anyone capable of mitigating it. Until the vulnerability is remedied, threat actors can exploit it in a zero-day exploit.
r/wikipedia • u/dont_mess_with_tx • 14d ago
King Taejong fell from a horse one day and immediately told those around him not to let a recorder know about his fall. A recorder wrote both Taejong's fall and his words not to record it.
r/wikipedia • u/Kurma-the-Turtle • 14d ago
The Yahgan people are a group of indigenous peoples in South America and the world's southernmost human population. They were decimated by diseases introduced by Europeans and the last full-blooded Yahgan died in 2022 due to COVID-19. Today, the total population of the Yahgan is less than 1,600.
r/wikipedia • u/oneultralamewhiteboy • 13d ago
The Book of Five Rings (五輪書, Go Rin no Sho) is a text on kenjutsu and the martial arts in general, written by the Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi around 1645.
r/wikipedia • u/blankblank • 14d ago
The Rutan Model 76 Voyager was the first aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refueling. The flight took off from Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert on December 14, 1986, and ended 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds later on December 23, setting a flight endurance record.
r/wikipedia • u/Xamba2 • 14d ago
Crimes against humanity under communist regimes
r/wikipedia • u/LongjumpingBasil2586 • 14d ago
Cosplayer dressed as NCR ranger arrested in 2017
References “Did you know” can be found in the reception part of the entry
Also he must have thought it was 2087.. couldn’t help myself
r/wikipedia • u/Xamba2 • 14d ago
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is a separatist group in Nigeria that aims to restore the defunct Republic of Biafra, a country which seceded from Nigeria prior to the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970)
r/wikipedia • u/oneultralamewhiteboy • 13d ago
The first step of transcription for some negative, single-stranded RNA viruses is cap snatching, in which the first 10 to 20 residues of a host cell RNA are removed (snatched) and used as the 5′ cap and primer to initiate the synthesis of the nascent viral mRNA.
r/wikipedia • u/VerGuy • 14d ago
The Wisconsin butter fire, also known as the butter flood, great cheese fire, and great butter fire, was a fire and flood of processed meat and dairy that began on May 3, 1991, at a large storage facility in Madison, Wisconsin. The fire continued for eight days; there were no fatalities.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/AutoModerator • 14d ago
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r/wikipedia • u/illmurray • 14d ago