# A stroll through Wikipedia **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [March 7, 2019, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stroll-through-wikipedia/830660 "2019-03-07T00:17:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stroll-through-wikipedia/830660/281 "2019-11-05T18:09:40Z")
> **[Candlepower](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlepower)** > > Candlepower (abbreviated as cp or CP) is a unit of measurement for luminous intensity. It expresses levels of light intensity relative to the light emitted by a candle of specific size and constituents. The historical candlepower is equal to 0.981 candelas. In modern usage, candlepower is sometimes used as a synonym for candela. > The term candlepower was originally defined in the United Kingdom, by the Metropolitan Gas Act 1860, as the light produced by a pure spermaceti candle that weighs .mw-pa... > **[Photoflash bomb](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoflash_bomb)** > > A photoflash bomb, or flash bomb, is explosive ordnance dropped by aircraft, usually military surveillance aircraft, designed to detonate above ground to create an extremely bright flash of light. These bombs, which are capable of producing light at an intensity of up to hundreds of millions of candlepower, assist surveillance aircraft in taking nighttime aerial photos without the need to fly low to the ground which would make them vulnerable to possible enemy detection. Due to the advent There... > **[St. Pete Beach, Florida](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Pete_Beach,_Florida)** > > St. Pete Beach (formerly called St. Petersburg Beach) is a coastal city in Pinellas County, Florida. Known as a tourist destination, St. Pete Beach was formed from the towns of Pass-a-Grille, Belle Vista, St. Petersburg Beach and unincorporated Pinellas County.The population was 9,346 at the 2010 census. > St. Pete Beach's downtown is centered on Corey Avenue. This district contains bars, restaurants and shopping and retail outlets. The Pass-a-Grille Historic District and the historic Don CeSar be... ---
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[St. Pete Beach, Florida](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Pete_Beach,_Florida) [Gulf of Mecico](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico) [Permian-Triassic extinction event](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extinction_event) ---
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> **[Permian–Triassic extinction event](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extinction_event)** > > The Permian–Triassic (P–T, P–Tr) extinction event, also known as the End-Permian extinction event and colloquially as the Great Dying, forms the boundary between the Permian and Triassic geologic periods, and with them the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras respectively, approximately 251.9 million years ago. It is the Earth's most severe known extinction event, with the extinction of 57% of biological families, 83% of genera, 81% of marine species and 70% of terrest There is evidence for one to three d... > **[Ostracod](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracod)** > > Ostracods, or ostracodes, are a class of the Crustacea (class Ostracoda), sometimes known as seed shrimp. Some 70,000 species (only 13,000 of which are extant) have been identified, grouped into several orders. They are small crustaceans, typically around 1 mm (0.039 in) in size, but varying from 0.2 to 30 mm (0.008 to 1.181 in) in the case of Gigantocypris. Their bodies are flattened from side to side and protected by a bivalve-like, chitinous or calcareous valve or "shell". The hinge of the > **[Crustacean larva | Nauplius](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean_larva#Nauplius)** > > The genus name Nauplius was published posthumously by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1785 for animals now known to be the larvae of copepods. The nauplius stage (plural: nauplii) is characterised by consisting of only three head segments, which are covered by a single carapace. The posterior body, when present, is unsegmented. Each head segment has a pair of appendages; the antennules, antennae, and mandibles. This larval stage has various lifestyles; some are benthic while others are swimmers, some ar... ---
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[Nauplius](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean_larva#Nauplius) [Copepod](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copepod) [Marine snow](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_snow) ---
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[Marine snow](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_snow) [Fungus](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus) [Ergotism](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergotism) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stroll-through-wikipedia/830660/286 "2019-11-13T01:28:17Z")
[Ergotism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergotism) [Salem witch trials](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials) [Cotton Mather](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Mather) ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stroll-through-wikipedia/830660/287 "2019-11-13T03:02:42Z")
> **[Cotton Mather](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Mather)** > > Cotton Mather FRS (/ˈmæðər/; February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728) was a New England Puritan clergyman and writer. Educated at Harvard College, in 1685 he joined his father Increase as minister of the Congregationalist Old North Meeting House of Boston, where he continued to preach for the rest of his life. > A major intellectual and public figure in English-speaking colonial America, Cotton Mather helped lead the successful revolt of 1689 against Sir Edmund Andros, the governor imposed on New... > **[Inoculation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inoculation)** > > Inoculation is the act of implanting a pathogen or other microbe or virus into a person or other organism. It is a method of artificially inducing immunity against various infectious diseases. The term "inoculation" is also used more generally to refer to intentionally depositing microbes into any growth medium, as into a Petri dish used to culture the microbe, or into food ingredients for making cultured foods such as yoghurt and fermented beverages such as beer and wine. This article is primari... > **[Louis Pasteur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur)** > > Louis Pasteur ForMemRS (/ˈluːi pæˈstɜːr/, French: \[lwi pastœʁ\]; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was named after him. His research in chemistry led to remarkable breakthroughs in the understanding of the causes and preventions of diseases, which laid down the foundations of hygiene, public health and much of modern medicine. ... ---
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> **[Louis Pasteur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur)** > > Louis Pasteur ForMemRS (/ˈluːi pæˈstɜːr/, French: \[lwi pastœʁ\]; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was named after him. His research in chemistry led to remarkable breakthroughs in the understanding of the causes and preventions of diseases, which laid down the foundations of hygiene, public health and much of modern medicine. ... > **[École normale supérieure (Paris)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_normale_sup%C3%A9rieure_(Paris))** > > The École normale supérieure - PSL (French pronunciation: ​\[ekɔl nɔʁmal sypeʁjœʁ\]; also known as ENS, Normale sup', Ulm or ENS Paris) is a grande école university in Paris, France. It is one of the constituent members of Paris Sciences et Lettres University (PSL). > Originally conceived during the French Revolution, the school was founded in 1794 to provide homogeneous training of high-school teachers in France but it later closed. The school was subsequently reestablished by Napoleon I as pensi... > **[French Third Republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Third_Republic)** > > The French Third Republic (French: Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940, after the Fall of France during World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government. > The early days of the Third Republic were dominated by political disruptions caused by the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, which the Republic co... ---
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[French Third Republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Third_Republic) [Panama scandals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_scandals) [The Story of the Lost Special](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_the_Lost_Special) ---
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> **[The Story of the Lost Special](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_the_Lost_Special)** > > "The Story of the Lost Special", sometimes abbreviated to "The Lost Special", is a mystery short story by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in The Strand Magazine in August 1898. A minor character in the story is possibly implied to be Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes, though his name is not used and this character does not provide the mystery's solution. The story's narrative mode is third person, subjective, though the narrator is not identified. > This story concerns the baffling disappearanc... > **[Arthur Conan Doyle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle)** > > Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction. > Doyle was a prolific writer; other than Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about... > **[Piltdown Man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man)** > > The Piltdown Man was a paleoanthropological fraud in which bone fragments were presented as the fossilised remains of a previously unknown early human. Although there were doubts about its authenticity virtually from the beginning, the remains were still broadly accepted for many years, and the falsity of the hoax was only definitively demonstrated in 1953. An extensive scientific review in 2016 established that amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson was responsible for the fraudulent evidence. ---
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[Piltdown Man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man) [Creationism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creationism) [Pseudoscience](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience) ---
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> **[Pseudoscience](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience)** > > Reportedly haunted locations: > Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method.\[Note 1\] Pseudoscience is often characterized by contradictory, exaggerated or unfalsifiable claims; reliance on confirmation bias rather than rigorous attempts at refutation; lack of openness to evaluation by other experts; absence of systematic practices when developing hypotheses; and continued adherence long ... > **[Sublimation (psychology)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(psychology))** > > In psychology, sublimation is a mature type of defense mechanism, in which socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are transformed into socially acceptable actions or behavior, possibly resulting in a long-term conversion of the initial impulse. > Sigmund Freud believed that sublimation was a sign of maturity and civilization, allowing people to function normally in culturally acceptable ways. He defined sublimation as the process of deflecting sexual instincts into acts of higher social v... > **[Magick (Book 4)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magick_(Thelema))** > > Magick, Liber ABA, Book 4 is widely considered to be the magnum opus of 20th-century occultist Aleister Crowley, the founder of Thelema. It is a lengthy treatise on magick, his system of Western occult practice, synthesised from many sources, including Eastern Yoga, Hermeticism, medieval grimoires, contemporary magical theories from writers like Eliphas Levi and Helena Blavatsky, and his own original contributions. It consists of four parts: Mysticism, Magick (Elementary Theory), Magick in The... ---
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[Magick (Thelema)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magick_(Thelema)) [Wand](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wand) [Hardware store](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_store) ---
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> **[Hardware store](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_store)** > > Hardware stores (in a number of countries, "shops"), sometimes known as DIY stores, sell household hardware for home improvement including: fasteners, building materials, hand tools, power tools, keys, locks, hinges, chains, plumbing supplies, electrical supplies, cleaning products, housewares, tools, utensils, paint, and lawn and garden products directly to consumers for use at home or for business. Many hardware stores have specialty departments unique to its region or its owner's interests. T... > **[Canadian Tire](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tire)** > > Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited is a Canadian retail company which operates in the automotive, hardware, sports, leisure and housewares sectors. Its Canadian operations include: Canadian Tire (including Canadian Tire Petroleum gas stations and financial services subsidiary Canadian Tire Bank), Mark's, FGL Sports (including Sport Chek and Sports Experts), PartSource, and the Canadian operations of Party City. Canadian Tire acquired the Norwegian clothing and textile company Helly Hansen from... > **[Trade name](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_name)** > > A trade name, trading name, or business name, is a pseudonym used by companies that do not operate under their registered company name. The term for this type of alternative name is a "fictitious" business name. Registering the fictitious name with a relevant government body is often required. > In a number of countries, the phrase "trading as" (abbreviated to t/a) is used to designate a trade name. In the United States, the phrase "doing business as" (abbreviated to DBA, dba, d.b.a., or d/b/a) is... ---
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[Trade name](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_name) [Singapore](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore) [Jurong Bird Park](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurong_Bird_Park) ---
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[Jurong Bird Park](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurong_Bird_Park) [Thunderstorm](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderstorm) [Antimatter](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter) ---
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[Antimatter](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter) [Unsolved problems in physics](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_physics) [Bose-Einstein Condensate](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_condensate) ---
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[Bose-Einstein Condensate](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_condensate) [Leiden University](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiden_University) [Hugo Grotius](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Grotius) ---
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[Hugo Grotius](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Grotius) [Leiden](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiden) [Buurtpoes Bledder](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buurtpoes_Bledder) ---
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