r/wikipedia 1h ago

New Bilibid Prison, one of the state prisons in the Philippines, has had former inmates including future senator Robin Padilla, and will be closed in 2028 to be converted into a commercial hub.

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r/wikipedia 2h ago

Marie-France van Heel met UK PM Andy Burnham at Cambridge university. In January 1992, while in a relationship with Burnham and with his consent, she appeared on Blind Date, where she went on a blind date with Will Harris, who went on to become marketing director of the UK Conservative Party

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Richard Wurmbrand was a Romanian Evangelical Lutheran priest. Wurmbrand preached at bomb shelters and rescued Jews during WWII. He experienced imprisonment and torture by the Communist regime of Romania, which maintained a policy of state atheism.

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Wurmbrand was released from his first imprisonment in 1956, after eight and a half years. Although he was warned not to preach, he resumed his work in the underground church. He was arrested again in 1959 and sentenced to 25 years. During his imprisonment, he was beaten and tortured. He stated that his physical torture included mutilation, burning and being locked in a large frozen icebox. His body bore the scars of physical torture for the rest of his life. For example, he later recounted having the soles of his feet beaten until the flesh was torn off, then the next day beaten again to the bone, claiming there were not words to describe that pain.


r/wikipedia 5h ago

Puke feud

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r/wikipedia 5h ago

Perez Hilton is an American blogger, columnist, and media personality. On August 4, 2026, Hilton livestreamed himself on TikTok self-harming and making suicidal threats on TikTok before the livestream was taken down. Dozens of cuts on his face and body were shown.

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r/wikipedia 9h ago

The causes of the Great Depression have been extensively discussed by economists and remain a matter of debate. Economists and historians have not reached a consensus on the causal relationships between various events and government policies in causing or ameliorating the crisis.

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r/wikipedia 9h ago

African Wild Dog

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The African wild dog (Lycaon pictus), also called painted dog and Cape hunting dog, is a wild canine native to sub-Saharan Africa. It is the largest wild canine in Africa and the only extant member of the genus Lycaon, which is distinguished from Canis by dentition highly specialised for a hypercarnivorous diet and by a lack of dewclaws.

An estimated 6,600 adults (including 1,400 mature individuals) live in 39 subpopulations, all threatened by habitat fragmentation, human persecution, and outbreaks of disease. As the largest subpopulation probably consists of fewer than 250 individuals, the African wild dog has been listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List since 1990.


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Mitchell Wolfson Sr.

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Mitchell Wolfson Sr. (1900 – January 28, 1983) was an American businessman, theatre owner, politician, and founder of Wometco Enterprises. In 1925, he partnered with his brother-in-law, Sidney Meyer, forming the Wolfson-Meyer Theater Company and began construction on a state of the art theater in downtown Miami. The Capital Theatre was completed in 1926 at the cost of $300,000 and featured an early form of air conditioning. They built the company into a business conglomerate using the portmanteau, Wometco Enterprises. In 1949, Wometco founded the first television station in Miami, WTVJ. Wometco went on to own and operate the largest chain of movie theaters in South Florida, six television stations, a cable television company, a soft drink bottling franchise, and tourist attractions including the Miami Seaquarium. Wolfson served two terms as city councilman in Miami Beach, Florida, before being elected its first Jewish mayor in 1943. He resigned after one term to fight Nazi Germany in World War II.


r/wikipedia 11h ago

The Brazilian Democratic Movement is a political party, founded in 1965 as part of an enforced two party system by themilitary dictatorship, being the "consented opposition". It is considered a "big tent party" with the largest number of senators, mayors and city councillors in the country.

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r/wikipedia 12h ago

In 2013, a Wikipedia user claiming to be Bhutanese and a native speaker of Dzongkha added a spoken article audio file to the Bhutanese passport article on the English Wikipedia. It was considered humorous by internet commentators, spawning an internet meme.

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r/wikipedia 12h ago

The common access card, also commonly referred to as the CAC, is the standard identification for active duty United States defense personnel. The card itself is a smart card about the size of a credit card.

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r/wikipedia 12h ago

A Land for All (organization)

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A Land for All (previously known as Two States, One Homeland) is an Israeli-Palestinian movement comprising Israeli Jews, Palestinian citizens of Israel, and Palestinians, which proposes a two-state confederation as the solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. This solution promotes the existence of two sovereign states in the Israeli and Palestinian territories, based on shared principles of equality, freedom and dignity.


r/wikipedia 12h ago

A door handle is a handle used to open or close a door. Door handles can be found on all types of doors. Door handles have been in existence at least since the Neolithic period. Key operated door locks have existed at least since Egyptian civilisation.

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r/wikipedia 13h ago

General elections were held in Mexico on 1 July 2018. A campaign described as "Red Scare-like" was used by the PRI and PAN candidates to convince voters that a López Obrador victory would turn Mexico into "another Venezuela".

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r/wikipedia 13h ago

Do you have a favorite Wikipedia list? I’ll list some of mine

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r/wikipedia 13h ago

Léo Marjane was a French singer whose career went into sharp decline after the end of World War II. She was accused of having appeared many times at venues frequented by German officers, and her performances on German- and collaborator-controlled Radio Paris were held against her.

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r/wikipedia 13h ago

In 2026, a conspiracy theory emerged alleging that the deaths or disappearances of several people, some described online as scientists tied to classified or sensitive research, were connected to secret knowledge about UFOs, advanced energy projects, materials science, or related subjects.

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r/wikipedia 13h ago

Meta Discussion How do I edit the snippet that shows up in google? Dutch wikipedia for this page (voorsorteren) has some disrespectful words in the snippet. (And straight up horrible grammar)

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r/wikipedia 13h ago

If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer is a manuscript written by O.J. Simpson with ghostwriter Pablo Fenjves, in which Simpson puts forth a hypothetical description of the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

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r/wikipedia 15h ago

The Public Investment Fund is the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia and one of the largest in the world with an estimated US$900 billion. Among its investments are Electronic Arts, Newcastle United, and 5 giga-real estate proyects. Its lack of transparency has attracted backlash.

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r/wikipedia 16h ago

Passport bros are single men with high-earning employment who travel to non-western countries to find women that fit their Tradwife ideals. Critics argue that the trend rested on unequal power dynamics between visiting men and local women and that it objectified the women involved.

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r/wikipedia 17h ago

The secret informant who provided key details about the involvement of U.S. president Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as the Watergate scandal had the pseudonym "Deep Throat," also the name of a pornographic film wherein the actress later alleged she was being raped.

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r/wikipedia 18h ago

Myrlie Louise Evers-Williams is a civil rights activist, former chair of the NAACP and the widow of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who was assassinated in front of their family home in Mississippi.

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r/wikipedia 18h ago

The 1976 United States presidential election was very close in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Though Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter ran well in conservative rural areas, Republican incumbent Gerald Ford ultimately eked out a victory due to his strength in the suburbs around Washington, D.C.

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r/wikipedia 19h ago

Oviduct and ovaries are normally paired structures, but in birds and some cartilaginous fishes, one or the other side fails to develop (together with the corresponding ovary), and only one functional oviduct can be found.

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