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What is the best way to download wikipedia to my phone for a long flight?
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Maple leaf cream cookies are Canadian sandwich cookies. The cream filling is maple-flavoured, and may contain real maple syrup. The cookies are shaped like a maple leaf, a national symbol of Canada.
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Wiki devs have ever thought of making a dark mode?
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The umbra, penumbra and antumbra are three distinct parts of a shadow, created by any light source after impinging on an opaque object. Assuming no diffraction, for a collimated beam (such as a point source) of light, only the umbra is cast.
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The Cold War listed in ‘List of Wars Involving Russia’ removed
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The dark forest hypothesis is the conjecture that many alien civilizations exist throughout the universe, but they are both silent and hostile, maintaining their undetectability by humanity for fear of being destroyed by another hostile and undetected civilization.
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The liberum veto was a parliamentary device in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It allowed any member of the Sejm to force an end to the current session and to nullify any legislation that had already been passed. Many historians hold that it was a major cause of the decline of the Commonwealth.
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About 99% of the mass of the human body is made up of six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus.
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A useful idiot is a person perceived as propagandizing for a cause—particularly a bad cause originating from a devious, ruthless source—without fully comprehending the cause's goals, and who is cynically being used by the cause's leaders.
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"The great god Pan is dead" refers to an incident during the reign of Tiberius (AD 14–37) when a Greek sailor, bound for the island of Paxi, heard a disembodied voice at sea proclaim the news. Pan is the only Greek god whose death is accounted for in the historical record.
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False balance, aka bothsidesism: In journalism, an issue is presented as being more balanced between viewpoints than evidence supports, giving false ideas an illusion of respectability. Examples include "both sides" of the cause of climate change, vaccine safety, and evolution vs intelligent design.
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Can we just take a second to appreciate how unbiased, objective, non-opinionated, and worldwide the Wikipedia "In the News" section is?
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A list of all languages' Wikipedias ordered by number of articles
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Enshittification, also known as platform decay, describes a pattern of decreasing quality of online platforms that act as two-sided markets. It can be seen as a form of rent-seeking (manipulating economic conditions to increase one's wealth without creating new value for society).
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Why is everyone's photo on Wikipedia a picture of them at San Diego Comic Con?
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My account got banned for something i didn't do. Any advice on how to get it unbanned??
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland
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The Sycamore Gap Tree stood next to Hadrian's Wall near Crag Lough in Northumberland, England. It was located in a dramatic dip in the landscape and was a popular photographic subject. The tree was found to have been felled under suspicious circumstances on 28 September 2023.
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"Fukuppy" has been cited as an example of the risks associated with "wasei-eigo", or Japanese-language expressions based on English words that do not exist in standard English.
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Arabic Wikipedia's article on the latest Gaza conflict omits almost any mention of Israeli civilians involved in any way. You get the impression it was all fighting IDF soldiers.
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"Rhineland Bastard" was a derogatory term used in Nazi Germany to describe Afro-Germans, believed fathered by French Army personnel of African descent who were stationed in the Rhineland during its occupation by France after World War I. Most were forcefully sterilised under Nazi Race Laws
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Era of Good Feelings: period in US history that reflected a sense of national purpose and a desire for unity after the War of 1812 and the collapse of the Federalist Party. President Monroe, a Democratic-Republican, strove to downplay partisanship, seeking to eliminate political parties altogether.
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Mizrahi Jews are descended from Jews in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. The vast majority of them left the Muslim-majority countries during the Arab–Israeli conflict. As of 2005, 61% of Israeli Jews were of full or partial Mizrahi ancestry.
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The Great Male Renunciation is the historical phenomenon at the end of the 18th century in which Western men stopped using bright colours, elaborate shapes and variety in their dress, which were left to women's clothing.
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