Stories we should know

[Keller]

A repository for wikipedia entries that people should read.

I'll start it off.

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

[NocturnalRob]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck_Off_(art_exhibition)

[4a6c1]

Awesome. Reminded me of another weird thing that happened last year. Remember that weird twister/black hole looking thing that was caught on camera by news crews and city people all over some European country last year? Yeah that. I tried to google it but I got some crazy sites.

Found it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Norwegian_spiral_anomaly

[Ryvicke]

A repository for wikipedia entries that people should read.

I'll start it off.

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

Awesome

[Androidpk]

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

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Antikythera mechanism and baghdad batteries.

[WRoss]

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

What isn't mentioned is that the skull demonstrated over 360 DNA sequences that have not been found in any primate species or human species. Very likely they are traits that were weeded out over the past 1000 years and very specific to the region, but none the less, very mysterious.

[EasternBrand]

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

Because nothing says dedication like ritual self-mummification.

[m444w]

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

Ancient tribe that knew there was a binary star system for thousands of years before we actually were able to detect it, and were told such by their "gods"

[Keller]

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

Because nothing says dedication like ritual self-mummification.

That is awesome.

[ELO]

Creepy...

http://indianlakeproject.blogspot.com/

[Cephalopod]

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

And relevant:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/the_problem_with_wikipedia.png (http://xkcd.com/214/)

[Seizer]

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

I enjoy history, so here is my pick.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives

[WRoss]

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

The other Holocaust. Ottomans were brutal. If you chunk in the Greeks and Assyrians, they were just as bad as the Germans and Russians. It also interesting to note that the Kurds partook in the killings during this genocide.

[Stanley Burrell]

http://www.chem.ucsb.edu/~kalju/chem110L/public/tutorial/images/WatsonCrick.jpg

Crick told a fellow scientist that he often used small doses of LSD then an experimental drug used in psychotherapy to boost his powers of thought. He said it was LSD, not the Eagle's warm beer, that helped him to unravel the structure of DNA. The biological secret of life's discovery won him the Nobel Prize.

[magiceatsyou]

Creepy...

http://indianlakeproject.blogspot.com/

That's crazy, though confusing how he posts everything. Didn't fully finish it yet. From what it seems like... Seeing as he "stopped posting pictures" of whatever he found, I'm guessing we are never going to know. What a shame.

[4a6c1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania city that has been on fire since 1962

[Rucca]

When Excedrin just isn't enough.

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

[Latrinsorm]

Some good stuff so far.

Where did the planets' names come from?

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/astronomy/q0171.shtml

That's right, Uranus (father of Saturn as Saturn is the father of Jupiter) was named due to a completely mistaken etymology. Whoopsy daisy!

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What did the Greeks call the planets before they got knowledge from the Sumerians, though?

http://www.theoi.com/Titan/AstraPlaneta.html

The redness of what we call Mars was originally defined by the Greeks as not bloody war but the inflammation of sexy passion. Oh, those Greeks! What would our image of Martians be like if that had taken hold rather than the Sumerian Great Bull of Heaven? I reckon more Dejah Thoris, less little green men with lasers.

Who was the guy who decided to go with war over passion? Some nerd with an astrolabe decided to, and that influence is felt today by billions of people. Isn't that staggering?

[Bregus]

Great American streetcar scandal;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_streetcar_scandal

Voynich manuscript;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

Wikimedia Commons has a complete photo-series of all the surviving Voynich manuscript pages in numerical order;
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

[WRoss]

Creepy...

http://indianlakeproject.blogspot.com/

Looking over the site is pretty interesting. The thing I noticed right away is that the pictures of the three children looked shopped. The detail (look at their hair; you can see strands) seems too advanced for 1950. None-the-less, that is very cool. Very creepy.

[Hulkein]

Thumbs up for some interesting reading in this thread.

[4a6c1]

Hulkeins story in the last 5 months. That's a story we should know!

[Hulkein]

Hulkeins story in the last 5 months. That's a story we should know!

Good thing there is "formerly known as" information in your profile or I'd have no idea who you are, Jihnas :)

Nothing crazy, just work and family/friends stuff. I don't know why but sometimes I just forget to come here and lurk or post for months at a time. Glad to see so many people are still here though.

[Bobmuhthol]

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

[4a6c1]

Good thing there is "formerly known as" information in your profile or I'd have no idea who you are, Jihnas :)
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I like that you say this every 6 months or so. It makes me feel special.

[Hulkein]

I like that you say this every 6 months or so. It makes me feel special.

Proof or it didn't happen.

[Rucca]

When a good Geisha goes bad.

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

[Cephalopod]

Korean Fan Death: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

[Some Rogue]

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

Hmmm, double standard much?

[WRoss]

So, I need to go about updating wikipedia about the Great Chicago Fire and Peshtigo, Wisconsin fire. But basically, scientists have proven that it wasn't Mrs O'Leary's cow that kicked over the lantern, but instead a string of meteors hit Wisconson, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan that night. Over 12 fires happened throughout the Midwest, all starting at the same time.

[Seizer]

Thread necro.

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

[Seizer]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash

[JackWhisper]

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

Nothing more that needs to be said. This is heartwarming.

[Tgo01]

Thread necro.

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

How does one keep cut up body parts in a garbage bag in an apartment and no one else in the complex smells the odor?

[Wesley]

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

[Seizer]

How does one keep cut up body parts in a garbage bag in an apartment and no one else in the complex smells the odor?
If I remember the whole story, the neighbors did complain. I think he ended up backing up the sewage line so badly, he went out into the sewer pipe to try and unclog it. Thus he was caught while trying to do this.

[Wrathbringer]

That one time Bob stalked GR for awhile and threats were alleged.

[Velfi]

Roy Benavidez (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Benavidez)

[Methais]

A repository for wikipedia entries that people should read.

I'll start it off.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Sauna_Championships#2010_incident

[Wrathbringer]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He-gassen

[JackWhisper]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He-gassen

You're an idiot.

[Wrathbringer]

You're an idiot.

Says some annoying retarded person without the intelligence to realize how annoying and retarded they are. At least I'm doing this stuff on purpose.

[Warriorbird]

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/27/the-man-who-broke-the-music-business

[Velfi]

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/27/the-man-who-broke-the-music-business

Interesting read, danke.

[Seizer]

https://www.biography.com/people/roy-bates-21241585
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Roy_Bates

[Steve]

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

Ancient tribe that knew there was a binary star system for thousands of years before we actually were able to detect it, and were told such by their "gods"

I'm 6 years late in responding, but a quick search shows that m444w still posts. Sad as the death of fantastical tales are, Griaule's work with the Dogon has been largely discredited since the early 1990s. Most of his findings were unable to be replicated over several studies. No other Dogon creation myth has since been known to exist, and it's not a widely (or at all) believed part of their ethnography.

Also, Hi. I'm Steve.

[Tisket]

lol @ Steve

[Steve]

http://i.imgur.com/qYZd9hq.jpg

[Gelston]

http://i.imgur.com/qYZd9hq.jpg

Aliens.

[Seizer]

http://www.bbc.com/news/stories-42951788

[Methais]

http://www.bbc.com/news/stories-42951788

That’s pretty fucked.

[Seizer]

Wargame That Could Have Ended the World (http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181108-the-wargame-that-could-have-ended-the-world)
http://www.zaalabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/WOPR-SideView.jpg