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In times of slight boredom and insomnia, one of my favourite things to do is read Wikipedia about subjects that interest me.

Though might be a neat idea to have a thread of interesting articles from Wikipedia for General enlightenment / time wasting.

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

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

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

Don't know why they are all Australian related but hey just took the first few that sprang to mind.

Great thread. I love Wiki- my web browser is usually littered with tab after tab of useless info

Yeah, seems a good idea.

I assume I'm the only person that never knew about this, but found out about this through trawling wiki :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brink%27s-MAT_robbery

I remember the Kenneth Noye road rage incident but had no idea of the links behind it.

Exactly the kind of stuff I love about wiki!

It is incredible the number of people that have got murdered either directly or indirectly because of this job. 

Thank you for starting this thread. One of my favourite train journey hobbies.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Holmes

I quite like this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

Cf: making the world more intelligent.

This is where I keep watch for the ninth drop. It's due any minute and, if you are logged in when it falls, you will be recorded as the first person ever to see it drop.

http://www.theninthwatch.com/feed/

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

Wiki has become more & more up to date, too.

This page gives the details about a dreadful aeroplane crash that many of you may not even heard about yet, because it only happened yesterday. And yet it is on Wiki already.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370

How do you mean? I thought the only death was the police officer who entered his premises?

Noye killed Stephen Cameron in a road rage incident, which is why he is locked up now.

No, that was just the incident in Noye's garden, when he killed the Police Officer.

He was (I assume)  referring to the Brinks-Mat heist, various crime literature suggests that 5 or 6 of those involved subsequently met with untimely deaths.

Yeah the police officer was looking for gold and evidence in his garden. I'm really fascinated by crime and was just intrigued about who else was killed, how and why.

Go to any good bookshop & visit the "True Crime" section, there is some great reading there.

I'm given to understand you can even buy books online these days, too.

I love this thread.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_(pronoun)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26082750

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

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

Brilliant thread....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sethi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sethi)

(http://jfbradu.free.fr/egypte/LE%20PHARAON/SETHI%20Ier/tombe-sethi1-a.jpg)

The most obvious and high profile killing (can we call it a murder now given what Noye has subsequently done?) was on PC John Fordham in Kenneth Noyes garden as he was investigating him for laundering the gold but the police have linked a bunch of other murders to the gold and, in particular people that were laundering the proceeds.  Off the top of my head I think the murders of Solly Nahome who had helped melt some of the gold down was shot dead in Hatton Garden, George Francis and Brian Perry were both killed after being suspected of laundering some of the money and knowing where some of the gold was and I think the general belief is that Charlie Wilsons (the great train robber) murder was related to his involvement in laundering the proceeds.  There is a book by Wensley Clarkson on the fallout but I haven't read it as I find his books to be pretty dry but he is well connected in those kind of circles I believe and has certainly written more on London gangsters than anyone else.

Ha my old man always talks about this, loving some of the old clips of world cups on the bbc sport website.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper   

Saw a documentary about this a few years back, love an unsolved crime!

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

I read up on Colin Gunn recently (being from Nottingham, it really interested me). Found it fascinating.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1559304/Gangland-boss-Colin-Gunn-jailed-for-life.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZLh2_OgNuw < Part 1

JK - there is a good book which is broadly about Gunn and also others in Nottingham.  If it is an area of interest you might enjoy it.  It is certainly very readable.

Should have added I think it is called Hoods.

Correct.


http://www.nottinghampost.com/Brothers-arms-seen-doing-police-s-job-estate/story-12262853-detail/story.html


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hoods-Milo-Books-Carl-Fellstrom/dp/1903854946

Two games you can play on Wikipedia:

1. N clicks to Hitler.

Hit a random page and choose the best N links to get from there to Hitler. N = 3 is a good standard of clicking.

2. I'll let Rives describe it.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L6l-FiV4xo

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

One of the biggest natural disasters in the UK, killing an estimated 30000 people.

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

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

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

Series 14. Boom!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Kendall_(poker_player)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_2006

Probably should have posted this earlier:

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



And a very short one some might well enjoy:

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

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/19/high-stakes-pl-nl/whats-good-win-rate-playing-live-10-20-nl-394497/index11.html

Did you mean to post that here?

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


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

No, wrong one completely sigh. It was meant to be this one

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/herman-cain-and-the-hubris-of-experts/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Still not a Wikipedia article.

It's like getting to showdown and declaring you have a pair of cherries.

At least that one is interesting though. I don't trust wikipedia, anyone can edit it you know!  ;)

cherries win nhnh lol

If you're interested in this topic in general I can give you loads of links (some of which are Wikipedia articles ;)) and books to read when I'm not on phone.

I'm a bit of a nerd for this psychology/behavioural economics stuff particularly about heuristics and biases and judgement under uncertainty ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coand%C4%83_effect