-
Ted Mack
Goddammit. Of all the entries in wikipedia, the Random Article button just has to give me Ted Mack , former mayor of, and member for North Sydney ( Read more... ) -
University Avenue (Minneapolis)
University Avenue is a street in Minneapolis. It's near the university. Actually it used to run from one university to another, but they constructed tram yards in the middle at some point and blocked it.
Major sights include a broadcasting tower and a water tower.
Man, Minneapolis sounds boring. -
Mouthbrooding
What a great word. Mouthbrooding . It's the act of putting your children in your mouth in order to protect them. (NB. If you eat them it doesn't count ( Read more... ) -
Pattupattu
Now here's the kind of obscure crap that I never would have read without the help of the Random Article button. Pattupattu is one of the oldest surviving examples of Tamil poetry. Most of it is just an excuse to brag about how great Tamil country is, which is kindof a waste of time, since nobody outside Tamil country knows how to read Tamil ( Read more... ) -
We're gonna need a bigger boat
Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 . Sure, I'd heard about how John F Kennedy spent the war tooling around the Pacific in this particular patrol boat. What I didn't know was that he managed to get rammed by a Japanese destroyer, cutting it in half and killing two of his men. Nor that several folks, such as General Douglas Macarthur, thought that getting ( Read more... ) -
Gordon-Keeble
Woot, Gordon-Keeble . I'd never heard of these guys, but they sound pretty cool ( Read more... ) -
Narasimjarajapura!
Narasimjarajapura. It's a town in India, with a population of 7441 people, or approximately three for each syllable.
I mean, it's not that hard, Na-Ra-Sim-Ja-Ra-Ja-Pu-Ra. Narasimharajapura. -
Mooney
Ah, the Mooney aircraft company. Finally, something I've actually heard of. I know they make really cool planes. It was founded in 1929, then went bankrupt in 1930, before being re-founded in 1946. Which is why there were no cool Mooney planes in World War 2.
It also went bankrupt in 1969 and 2001.
Mental note: don't buy Mooney shares. -
Dahm!
Dahm is some kind of Zoroastrian prayer. The article is kinda vague on the details. Maybe it's one of those concepts which doesn't translate very well into English. Or maybe it's just not a very well written article. Or maybe it's late and I should go to bed ( Read more... )