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Post Post #0 (ISO) » Thu Oct 29, 2015 1:00 pm

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Post Post #1 (ISO) » Thu Oct 29, 2015 1:02 pm

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Post Post #2 (ISO) » Thu Oct 29, 2015 1:03 pm

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Maybe I can find a Wikipedia article about how much I love Wikipedia. If you never see me again I'm still browsing.
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Post Post #4 (ISO) » Thu Oct 29, 2015 1:06 pm

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

John Harvey Kellogg is best known for the invention of the famous breakfast cereal, Corn Flakes, in 1878. Originally, he called this cereal Granula, which he later changed to Granola in 1881. However, due to patent rights, he had to once again change the name to Corn Flakes.[16] These Corn Flakes were invented as part of his health regimen to prevent masturbation. His belief was that bland foods, such as these, would decrease or prevent excitement and arousal.[17]
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Post Post #5 (ISO) » Thu Oct 29, 2015 1:07 pm

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"In December 1997, the Clinton administration sent Dan Parisi a cease and desist letter stating, "... we do not challenge your right to pursue it or to exercise your First Amendment rights, but we do challenge your right to use the White House, the President, and the First Lady as a marketing device. For adult internet users, that device is, at the least, part of a deceptive scheme. For younger Internet users, it has more disturbing consequences."[6] The letter had no effect and the site stayed up."
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"In 2004 Dan Parisi decided to sell the domain, mainly because of his son who would be in kindergarten the next year. At this point he was making US$1 million annually from the site alone."


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Post Post #7 (ISO) » Thu Oct 29, 2015 1:12 pm

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Post Post #9 (ISO) » Thu Oct 29, 2015 3:39 pm

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Post Post #10 (ISO) » Sun Nov 01, 2015 11:26 am

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Post Post #11 (ISO) » Sun Nov 01, 2015 11:30 am

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Phosphorus was the 13th element to be discovered. For this reason, and also due to its use in explosives, poisons and nerve agents, it is sometimes referred to as "the Devil's element".[45] It was the first element to be discovered that was not known since ancient times.[46] The discovery of phosphorus is credited to the German alchemist Hennig Brand in 1669, although other chemists might have discovered phosphorus around the same time.[47] Brand experimented with urine, which contains considerable quantities of dissolved phosphates from normal metabolism.[14] Working in Hamburg, Brand attempted to create the fabled philosopher's stone through the distillation of some salts by evaporating urine, and in the process produced a white material that glowed in the dark and burned brilliantly. It was named phosphorus mirabilis ("miraculous bearer of light").[48] His process originally involved letting urine stand for days until it gave off a terrible smell. Then he boiled it down to a paste, heated this paste to a high temperature, and led the vapours through water, where he hoped they would condense to gold. Instead, he obtained a white, waxy substance that glowed in the dark. Brand had discovered phosphorus. We now know that Brand produced ammonium sodium hydrogen phosphate, (NH
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4. While the quantities were essentially correct (it took about 1,100 litres [290 US gal] of urine to make about 60 g of phosphorus), it was unnecessary to allow the urine to rot. Later scientists discovered that fresh urine yielded the same amount of phosphorus.
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Post Post #12 (ISO) » Sun Nov 01, 2015 11:43 am

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If you had just told me phosphorus was the thirteenth element to be discovered I would have forgotten it before long. But now I'll probably remember it for the rest of my life.
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Post Post #13 (ISO) » Sun Nov 01, 2015 1:16 pm

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_v ... _reception

but I always feel like

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

is fun to check in on from time to time
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Post Post #15 (ISO) » Mon Nov 02, 2015 2:20 am

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Post Post #16 (ISO) » Mon Nov 02, 2015 7:51 am

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Post Post #17 (ISO) » Mon Nov 02, 2015 7:53 am

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They even offered £200 to whoever could devise a cheaper meal.[2][4][5] Due to an overabundance of submissions the offer was closed 7 days later, and the £200 given to a randomly selected entrant.[3]
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Post Post #19 (ISO) » Mon Nov 02, 2015 8:00 am

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Post Post #20 (ISO) » Mon Nov 02, 2015 10:41 am

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I was about to post the page for Human, but there's a pic on it that might be considered NSFW.
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Post Post #21 (ISO) » Mon Nov 02, 2015 1:30 pm

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I did a lot of work on Wikipedia over the summer. Wrote like 40 articles, got 25 or so of them on the main page, and did a whole lot of bot work. It was actually pretty fun.
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Post Post #22 (ISO) » Mon Nov 02, 2015 1:43 pm

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do you consider yourself an expert at the articles you wrote, or did you just research them from scratch?
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