Interesting Wikipedia Links

[madviking]

Post links to awesome Wikipedia articles of stuff that's interesting and not well heard of.

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My first link is for an American bomber, that crash-landed in the Libyan desert, whose crew journeyed north thinking they were near the Mediterranean Sea. All of them died within a few days of dehydration and were not found for fifteen years.

 

[shadowplay]

I don't know how well known this condition is:

The Jerusalem syndrome is a group of mental phenomena involving the presence of either religiously themed obsessive ideas, delusions or other psychosis-like experiences that are triggered by a visit to the city of Jerusalem. It is not endemic to one single religion or denomination but has affected Jews, Christians and Muslims of many different backgrounds.

The best known, although not the most prevalent, manifestation of the Jerusalem syndrome is the phenomenon whereby a person who seems previously balanced and devoid of any signs of psychopathology becomes psychotic after arriving in Jerusalem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_syndrome

 

[Quackers]

Scary, scary stuff!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

 

[Veles]

Reims Gospel, on which French monarchs (among them Louis XIV the Sun King) took their oath at the coronations, was considered to be written in some ancient forgotten language. When Tsar Peter I was visiting Paris in 1717 during his Great Embassy, he, to the amazement of the French court, was able to read it perfectly fine. Turned out it was an old Cyrilic/Glagolitic manuscript, written in Slavic language It was speculated that it was brought to France in XIth century by Anna of Kiev, which married Henry I of France. Said Anna also introduced the name Philip to the Western monarchs. This name belonged to the Eastern rite and wasn't used in Western world prior to her appearance. It became very popular later.

 

[emzie]

The fact that this is an entire category on wikipedia scares me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airline_flights_that_required_gliding

 

[Ayn Rand]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CivFanatics

 

[Pangur Bán]

How about a Roman colony of Anglo-Saxons in Russia ... the original "New England"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_(medieval)

 

[Veles]

How about a Roman colony of Anglo-Saxons in Russia ... the original "New England"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_(medieval)

EDIT: nvm. Turned out less sensational than it initially sounded. Still interesting.

 

[Whomp]

Since we are just starting the solar weather season I thought you might like to read about the big one. The Carrington Event of 1859

 

[ParadigmShifter]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach–Tarski_paradox

2 into one in reverse, does go.

 

[Save_Ferris]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CivFanatics

This page is too short! We must add a ranking of users with the most posts and the Poland joke!

 

[Kozmos]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

Sometimes that has intrigued me for a long time and still does.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

I don't know how well known this condition is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_syndrome

Space aliens. It's gotta be space aliens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

Sometimes that has intrigued me for a long time and still does.

Again. Space aliens.

 

[Leoreth]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

Sometimes that has intrigued me for a long time and still does.

Wow, that's really intriguing.

 

[IdiotsOpposite]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Carl_Friedrich_Gauss

It is what it says, a list of things named after famous mathematician Carl Gauss. The list is looooooooong.

 

[madviking]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Carl_Friedrich_Gauss

It is what it says, a list of things named after famous mathematician Carl Gauss. The list is looooooooong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Leonhard_Euler

+1

 

[IdiotsOpposite]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Leonhard_Euler

+1

lol, good one.

And yet people still talk about how they used "Euler's formula" or "Euler's equation" to solve a problem, how funny.

 

[GamezRule]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can_Has_Cheezburger?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I found this one day when looking up something on a punctuation mark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang

Theres also this pointy finger thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_(typography)

 

[Theige]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor

Great thread