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DarthMetaKnight
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23 Jul 2017, 12:14 am

In this thread, we click the Random article button on Wikipedia and post whatever comes up.

Oh random number god! What shall I learn about today?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joabe_Batista_Pereira

Today I shall learn about Brazilian footballers! The almighty random number god wills it!


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23 Jul 2017, 6:45 am

I've done this often enough. :mrgreen:

*click*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongues_of_the_Moon
Tongues of the Moon, a science fiction novel from the 1960s.

Cool.


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23 Jul 2017, 6:48 am

''Arrondissements of the Corse-du-Sud department''

Random as 8O lol



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23 Jul 2017, 6:52 am

Bagh Tak, a village in Iran. Fits my geography obsession.

Wow, then I got Dream Rovers, a band from Iran. I see an Iranian theme developing.



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23 Jul 2017, 1:57 pm

I got... Farrville, a town in Grant County, Indiana. Funny, because that's the county my great- grandma lives in. 8O



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24 Jul 2017, 1:35 am

Lillikoi wrote:
I got... Farrville, a town in Grant County, Indiana. Funny, because that's the county my great- grandma lives in. 8O


The almighty Random Number God is trying to tell you something.


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24 Jul 2017, 1:42 am

Campus Confidential


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Campus Confidential is a television comedy film starring Christy Carlson Romano and Keri Lynn Pratt, and directed by Melanie Mayron.

The film was written by David Kukoff and Matt Roshkow, and co-produced by Firm Films. It premiered August 21, 2005 on ABC Family. The film also stars Teddy Dunn and Nicole Paggi.



alright.

NEW GAME:

start at any random wiki article, and try to get to the Hitler article using the least number of internal links.

Start: Do You Wanna Touch Me (album)
>France
>Nazi Germany
>Hitler

TAKE TWO:

Start: Girls on Top (song)
>UK Singles Chart
>United Kingdom
>WWII
>Hitler


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24 Jul 2017, 10:18 pm

I kept clicking the Random Article button and traveled to Serbia, Russia and Spain. Nothing related to tennis, though.



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25 Jul 2017, 12:06 am

Józef Krzymiński

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Józef Krzymiński (1 March 1858, Kaleje - 20 October 1940) was a Polish physician, social and political activist, and a member of parliament. In March 1940, he was arrested by the Nazi occupation authorities and died in a concentration camp close to Inowrocław on 20 October 1940.


(that's the whole article)


what a shame. :|


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25 Jul 2017, 1:26 am

I got Rail Transport in Nicaragua.

The first line being:
"As of 2012, there is no rail transport in Nicaragua. All traffic has been suspended since September 2001, ending several decades of a steady decline."

After that, there's a drop-down menu that says "History," but it just redirect to another article called "History of rail transport in Nicaragua."

What a sad article. :lol:



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25 Jul 2017, 1:33 am

Cornwall-Lebanon School District

The first sentence of which is:

"The Cornwall-Lebanon School District is a public school district covering the Boroughs of Cornwall and Mount Gretna and North Cornwall Township, North Lebanon Township, South Lebanon Township, West Cornwall Township and West Lebanon Township in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania."

So basically a school district in Pennsylvania. What a long first sentence.


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25 Jul 2017, 1:35 am

^^ that's.......really melancholy. :lol:

Siddharth (2013 film)

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Siddharth is a 2013 Indian-Canadian drama film directed by Richie Mehta. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.


aight.


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25 Jul 2017, 5:52 am

Antonios Miaoulis

He was a Greek politician and a revolutionary leader during the Greek War of Independence.


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25 Jul 2017, 7:18 pm

"Vitisin A is a resveratrol tetramer found in plants of the genus Vitis. It is a complex of two resveratrol dimers, (+)-epsilon-viniferin and ampelopsin B.

It shows an opposite effect to hopeaphenol on apoptosis of myocytes isolated from adult rat heart."

Fascinating. If only I knew what any of that meant.

Oh, and I did the Hitler thing for that article: Vitisin A - Tetramer - Organic chemistry - Friedrich Wohler - Eschersheim - Germany - Hitler.



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26 Jul 2017, 12:36 am

Jornal de Angola

An Angolan newspaper, and until 2005 the only daily one apparently.

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26 Jul 2017, 5:11 am

Italian soda

An Italian soda is a soft drink made from carbonated water and simple syrup, usually flavored.

I didn't know that.


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