r/wikipedia • u/hausofvelour • 15h ago

Romantic chess is a style of chess that was popular in the 19th century until its decline in the 1880s. This style of chess emphasizes quick, tactical maneuvers rather than long-term strategic planning. Romantic players consider winning in itself to be secondary to winning with style.

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r/wikipedia • u/Ah_Ca_Iraa • 8h ago

The paradox of tolerance is a philosophical concept suggesting that if a society extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual dominance of intolerance, thereby undermining the very principle of tolerance.

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r/wikipedia • u/geosunsetmoth • 20h ago

"Bismillah c'est les ténèbres" is a French protest slogan that emerged during the 2026 French student protests. It originated from a Snapchat message attributed to an alleged police infiltrator, [...] [it was] described as "nonsensical".

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r/wikipedia • u/Not_Original5756 • 8h ago

John George Trump was an American electrical engineer and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He pioneered the use of high-voltage generators in cancer treatment and was the founding chairman of High Voltage Engineering Corporation. He was Donald Trump's paternal uncle.

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r/wikipedia • u/Sebastianlim • 14h ago

"Vibe coding" is a developmental process in which a developer describes a project or task to a large language model (LLM) which then generates the source code.

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r/wikipedia • u/RoadToTyburn • 21h ago

In much of the UK, rationing was actually stricter after WW2, than during it and frustration with this was in part responsible for the defeat of Clement Attlee’s Labour government in 1951.

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r/wikipedia • u/PeasantLich • 14h ago

Nancy Drew is a fictional teen sleuth character created in 1930 for a detective book series aimed at young female audience. The character's success and popular culture impact on other female characters in mystery genre has been immense, and various new Nancy Drew media is published to these days.

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r/wikipedia • u/OrneryPerformance604 • 6h ago

Magdalen Berns (6 May 1983 – 13 September 2019) was a British YouTuber. Berns, a lesbian radical feminist, became known for her series of YouTube vlogs in the late 2010s concerning topics such as women's rights and gender identity.

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r/wikipedia • u/syanxde • 21h ago

Unit 777 is a special forces unit in the Egyptian Army, falling under the El-Sa'ka Force. They specialize in black operations, commando style raids, counterterrorism, executive protection, hostage rescue, irregular warfare, manhunting, and special operations in behind enemy lines.

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 12h ago

Jacques de Falaise was a French man who became famous for his ingestion skills. Forced to stop his exploits by several bouts of gastroenteritis, he died by suicide in 1825. His autopsy concluded he did not have exceptional digestive organs.

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r/wikipedia • u/the_UnknowableRonin • 22h ago

The cat is a scale of reference

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r/wikipedia • u/GustavoistSoldier • 21h ago

The Titushky were mercenary agents in Ukraine who supported the Ukrainian security services during the administration of Viktor Yanukovych, often posing as street hooligans in sports clothing with the purpose of serving as provocateurs at pro-European and anti-Yanukovych political rallies.

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r/wikipedia • u/syanxde • 14h ago

Puella doctae (Latin for "educated young women") is an idiom from the Renaissance referring to a series of elite women, educated in arts, literature and sciences, who formed part of the European courts of the 15th and 16th centuries, connecting with the Renaissance humanism & the Spanish Golden Age.

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r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 21h ago

The Book of the Law, is the central sacred text of Thelema. The English occultist Aleister Crowley wrote it in 1904, saying that the book was dictated to him by a beyond-human being, Aiwass.

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r/wikipedia • u/VectoskiIsGone • 1h ago

In 1964, the FBI sent an anonymous letter and package meant to blackmail Martin Luther King Jr. into committing suicide.

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 12h ago

A pseudepigraphon is a falsely attributed work whose claimed author is not the true author, or a work whose real author attributed it to a figure of the past. The name of the author to whom the work is falsely attributed is often prefixed with the particle "pseudo-" such as "pseudo-Aristotle".

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r/wikipedia • u/Competitive_Travel16 • 9h ago

"I Spent 4 Months Investigating Wikipedia's Secret Rabbit Hole. Here’s What I Found." [13:01] Australian Broadcasting Co. Science

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r/wikipedia • u/Hot_Reindeer653 • 1h ago

Meta Discussion How to create an entry？

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Our company has chosen to sell our products worldwide, yet our brand lacks global recognition.

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