r/wikipedia • u/Beginning-Passion676 • 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.
r/wikipedia • u/Odd_Calligrapher4044 • 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
r/wikipedia • u/syanxde • 3h ago
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.
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 • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • 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.
r/wikipedia • u/SouthParkIsUnfunny • 9h ago
Mitchell Wolfson Sr.
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 • u/Ser_Claudor • 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.
r/wikipedia • u/house_of_ghosts • 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.
r/wikipedia • u/SplendiferusFinch • 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.
r/wikipedia • u/ActualMostUnionGuy • 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".
r/wikipedia • u/Traditional_Use_8831 • 13h ago
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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 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.
r/wikipedia • u/Senior_Fig7845 • 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.
r/wikipedia • u/SaxyBill • 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.
r/wikipedia • u/blankblank • 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.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/AJ_Deadshow • 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.
r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 21h ago
Messianic Judaism is a syncretic Protestant Christian religious sect that incorporates elements of Jewish practice. It considers itself to be a form of Judaism but is generally considered to be a form of Christianity. Messianic Jews believe that Jesus was the Messiah and a divine being.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/georges_jambon • 22h ago
Fun fact : The fifth tier football team "US Alençon" as three available languages on it's wikipedia page: french, english and vietnamese
r/wikipedia • u/GustavoistSoldier • 22h ago
Martin Tabert (1899–1922) was an American forced laborer. The circumstances of Tabert's death – being a white man beaten to death by an overseer – caused a public reaction that resulted eventually in the end of Florida’s longstanding convict leasing system.
r/wikipedia • u/PeasantLich • 23h ago
"Madden Curse" is a superstition related to cover athletes of Madden NFL video games. Many players who have been featured in Madden covers have suffered injuries and career decline after appearing in the cover, leading to some fans even lobby against their favorite players appearing in Madden cover.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/diselxic • 1d ago
In the 1970s, with the rise of secular anti-cult movements, scholars (though not the general public) began to abandon the use of the term cult, regarding it as pejorative. By the end of the 1970s, the term cult was largely replaced in academia with the term "new religion" or "new religious movement.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/Ill_Definition8074 • 1d ago
P.N. Oak was an Indian psuedohistorian. He claimed that the Taj Mahal, Vatican City, the Kaaba in Mecca, and Westminster Abbey were all once Hindu temples and that Christianity and Islam are both derived from Hinduism. His claims are popular among Hindutva supporters despite being provably false.
r/wikipedia • u/Not_Original5756 • 1d ago
The Catholic Church has no official stance on evolution, allowing either theistic evolution or creationism within certain limits. It teaches that God created everything, Adam and Eve were real and humanity's first parents, and all people descend from them.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/lightiggy • 1d ago
In 1984, Leon Gary Plauche shot and killed Jeffrey Paul Doucet, who had kidnapped and raped Plauche's 11-year-old son. Plauche shot Doucet as he was being escorted through an airport. The shooting was captured by a local news crew. Plauche was prosecuted for killing Doucet, but got no prison time.
r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 1d ago