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unusual wikipedia subjects 2 years, 2 months ago #120321

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Wikipedia has pages on many thousands of subjcts. Some of them are quite unusual.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Olav

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong_Lives

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_glass_trade
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Re:unusual wikipedia subjects 2 years, 2 months ago #120336

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Thanks Harpo, I needed that. I was about to review some w**k files when I opened this thread.

At this point I may spend the rest of the afternoon on Wiki!
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Re:unusual wikipedia subjects 2 years, 2 months ago #120337

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I love Wikis - some people say they're inaccurate, or no substitute for a 'real' encyclopedia, but I think I prefer them because they cover so much ground.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cakes
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Re:unusual wikipedia subjects 2 years, 2 months ago #120346

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_creatures
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comte_de_St._Germain
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Re:unusual wikipedia subjects 2 years, 2 months ago #120380

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_phobias

Where is Anatadaephobia (fear of ducks). Wikipedia is fairly accurate, but crap compared to primary sources. A whole generation of students using Wikipedia to answer their homework questions... eek.
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Re:unusual wikipedia subjects 2 years, 2 months ago #120398

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longtail wrote:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_phobias
A whole generation of students using Wikipedia to answer their homework questions... eek.


Kids have it easy these days. In my day, we had to make the effort to go to the library and find the correct book and wade through pages of unrelated stuff before we found the information we needed. And then write it up into something that made sense.
Now they just have to go online, type their question into google or wikipedia or whatever and hey presto! homework done for them.

And they say education isn't being dumbed down.
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Re:unusual wikipedia subjects 2 years, 2 months ago #120487

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snakebrain wrote:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comte_de_St._Germain

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Re:unusual wikipedia subjects 2 years, 1 month ago #120503

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asylum
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Re:unusual wikipedia subjects 2 years, 1 month ago #120508

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Lunaphobia wasn't in the list. What about phobias about cancer, white paper and splinters?
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Re:unusual wikipedia subjects 2 years, 1 month ago #120510

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Bear wrote:
longtail wrote:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_phobias
A whole generation of students using Wikipedia to answer their homework questions... eek.


Kids have it easy these days. In my day, we had to make the effort to go to the library and find the correct book and wade through pages of unrelated stuff before we found the information we needed. And then write it up into something that made sense.
Now they just have to go online, type their question into google or wikipedia or whatever and hey presto! homework done for them.

And they say education isn't being dumbed down.


Phah!!!! You had it easy Bear!

In my day we had to invent the printing press, print our own books then wade through what we'd just printed, run round our gardens to catch a goose so we could pluck it and make our own quill pens followed by slaughering a calf, skinning, cleaning and bleaching the skin to make our own vellum so we had something to write on!

Kids today!!!
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