The Wikipedia Game

Subject: The Wikipedia Game Sat Jul 04 2009, 08:23

So this is an interesting and fun game......maybe Laughing

basically each time your online, go to Wikipedia, click on "random article" on the left hand side of the page and post here the opening paragraph from the article that comes up.

This is what I got today

Cloquet (pronounced /kloʊˈkeɪ/) is a city in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States, located at the junction of Interstate 35 and Minnesota State Highway 33. A portion of the city lies within the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation and also serves as one of three administrative centers for the Indian Reservation. The population was 11,201 at the 2000 census.
Cloquet is located on the St. Louis River.

Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Sat Jul 04 2009, 12:50

Irene is a 1940 musical film about a shopgirl, played by Anna Neagle, who attracts two wealthy admirers. It is a remake of the 1926 silent film starring Colleen Moore, which is in turn based on the hit 1919 musical play by James Montgomery.

While most of the film is in black and white, one sequence was filmed in Technicolor.

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Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Sat Jul 04 2009, 13:07

haha we're going to learn alot in this game about random stuff lol

Australia House in Ottawa, Canada is the residence of the Australian High Commissioner Sandy Hill
neighbourhood of Ottawa, near to a number of other embassies and
residences. The house was built in 1910 by William Davis, and is
believed to have been designed by John W.H. Watts.
Davis died under inauspicious circumstances in 1916 and it lay vacant
for several years before being purchased by Colonel Cameron Macpherson
Edwards, who had earlier lived at 24 Sussex Drive. The Edwards left in 1937 and rented the house to Germany to house the Consul General Dr. Erich Windels, who was be friendly with Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, who lived nearby. Windels was expelled from Canada upon the declaration of war in September 1939. to Canada.

Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Sat Jul 04 2009, 23:50

New Music America was an American festival of experimental or Downtown new music.

The festival began at The Kitchen in New York City in 1979. In this first year, the festival was actually called New Music New York.[1]

In 1980, the festival was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota and was called New Music America. From 1980 to 1990, the festival was held in a different U.S. (or Canadian) city each year:

* 1980 - Minneapolis
* 1981 - San Francisco
* 1982 - Chicago
* 1983 - Washington D.C.
* 1984 - Hartford
* 1985 - Los Angeles
* 1986 - Houston
* 1987 - Philadelphia
* 1988 - Miami
* 1989 - Brooklyn
* 1990 - Montreal

A loose-knit group called the "New Music Alliance" oversaw the administration of the festival, but it was sponsored by different institutions and directed by different people in each city. In 1992, the festival was revived as a group of radio-broadcast concerts across the United States, and was called New Music Across America.

Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Sun Jul 05 2009, 02:02

Maxcanú is a municipality (municipio) in the western/southwestern section of Mexican state of Yucatán. Its seat is the town of Maxcanú. The municipality covers an area of approximately 1,321 km² and has a total population of over 18,800 inhabitants.

Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Tue Oct 06 2009, 13:26

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is the sixth feature film in the Star Trek science fiction franchise. It was released in 1991 by Paramount Pictures, and is the last of the Star Trek films to include the entire core cast of the 1960s Star Trek television series. After an ecological disaster leads to two longstanding enemies—the Federation and the Klingon Empire—brokering a tenuous truce, the crew of the USS Enterprise-A must prevent war from breaking out on the eve of universal peace. Faced with producing a new film in time for Star Trek's 25th anniversary, Denny Martin Flinn and Nicholas Meyer, the director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, wrote a script based on a suggestion from Leonard Nimoy about what would happen if "the wall came down in space", touching on the contemporary topic of the Cold War. Principal photography took place between April 1991 and September 1991. The production budget was smaller than anticipated due to the critical and commercial failure of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Due to a lack of sound stage space on the Paramount Pictures lots, many scenes were filmed around Hollywood. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry died shortly before the movie's premiere. The Undiscovered Country garnered positive reviews, with publications praising the lighthearted acting and tongue-in-cheek references. The film performed strongly at the box office, and earned two Academy Award nominations, for Best Makeup and Best Sound Effects.

Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Tue Oct 06 2009, 15:32

^ Good movie The Wikipedia Game Icon_wink

Pseudagoma is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.

Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Thu Oct 08 2009, 13:49

Notable residents
Kris Allen, Maya Angelou, Daisy Bates, Lou Brock, Frank Broyles, Dee Brown, Paul "Bear" Bryant, Glen Campbell, Hattie Caraway, Johnny Cash, Wesley Clark, Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, "Dizzy" Dean, Bill Dickey, Beth Ditto, Orval Faubus, James W. Fulbright, John Grisham, Levon Helm, Mike Huckabee, Johnnie Bryan Hunt, Torii Hunter, Joe Jackson, Keith Jackson (tight end), Travis Jackson, Joe Johnson, John H. Johnson, Scott Joplin, George Kell, Amy Lee, Cliff Lee, Sonny Liston, Douglas MacArthur, Mark Martin, John L. McClellan, James S. McDonnell, Wilbur Mills, Ben Moody, Albert Pike, Scottie Pippen, Charles Portis, Dick Powell, Brooks Robinson, Winthrop Rockefeller, Shaffer Smith, Mary Steenburgen, Edward Durell Stone, Billy Bob Thornton, Don Tyson, Arky Vaughan, Sam Walton, Archibald Yell, Duggar family, Jermain Taylor, Jerry Jones, Barry Switzer

Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Sat Oct 10 2009, 05:54

Apolônio de Carvalho (born in Corumbá on February 9, 1912; died Rio de Janeiro, September 23, 2005) was a Brazilian socialist important in the history of the Workers' Party (Brazil). He was praised by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Sat Oct 10 2009, 20:41

Janet Jackson (born 1966) is an American recording artist and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana, and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, California, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians. She first performed on stage with her family beginning at the age of seven, and later started her career as an actress with the variety television series The Jacksons in 1976. She went on to star in other television shows throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, including Good Times and Diff'rent Strokes. At age sixteen in 1982, Jackson signed a recording contract with A&M, releasing her self-titled debut album the same year. She faced criticism for her limited vocal range, and for being yet another member of the Jackson family to become a recording artist. Beginning with her third studio album Control (1986), Jackson began a long-term collaboration with record producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Her music with Jam and Lewis incorporated contemporary R&B with elements of rap music, sample loop, triplet swing and industrial beats, which led to crossover appeal in popular music. By the end of the decade, Jackson was named the second most successful recording artist of the 1990s. Jackson is ranked by Billboard magazine as one of the top ten best-selling music artists in the history of contemporary music, having sold over 100 million albums worldwide.

Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Sun Oct 11 2009, 07:10

JLG/JLG - Self-Portrait in December (French: JLG/JLG - autoportrait de décembre) is a 1995 documentary film directed by Jean-Luc Godard.

Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Mon Oct 19 2009, 11:28

James Bowie (1796–1836) was a 19th-century American pioneer and soldier who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution, culminating in his death at the Battle of the Alamo. Countless stories of him as a fighter and frontiersman, both real and fictitious, have made him a legendary figure in Texas history. Born in Kentucky, Bowie spent most of his life in Louisiana, where he was raised and later worked as a land speculator. His rise to fame began in 1827 on reports of the Sandbar Fight. What began as a duel between two other men deteriorated into a melee in which Bowie, having been shot and stabbed, killed the sheriff of Rapides Parish with a large knife. This and other stories of Bowie's prowess with the knife led to the widespread popularity of the Bowie knife. Bowie's reputation was cemented by his role in the Texas Revolution. After moving to Texas in 1830, Bowie became a Mexican citizen and married the daughter of the vice governor of the province. His fame in Texas grew following his failed expedition to find the lost San Saba mine, where his small party repelled an attack by a large Indian raiding party. At the outbreak of the Texas Revolution, Bowie joined the Texas militia, leading forces at the Battle of Concepcion and the Grass Fight. In January 1836, he arrived at the Alamo, where he commanded the volunteer forces until an illness left him bedridden. Bowie died with the other Alamo defenders on March 6. Despite conflicting accounts of the manner of his death, the "most popular, and probably the most accurate" accounts maintain that he died in his bed after emptying his pistols into several Mexican soldiers.

Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Mon Oct 19 2009, 18:41

GPCA may refer to:

Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association:
A non-profit association serving all of its members with a variety of
data, technical assistance and resources required by the petrochemicals and chemicals industry.
Green Party of California: The California affiliate of the Green Party of the United States.

Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Mon Oct 19 2009, 22:08

Synthetic diamond is diamond produced in a technological process, as opposed to natural diamond which is created in geological processes. Numerous claims of diamond synthesis were documented between 1879 and 1928; every attempt has been carefully analyzed and none has been confirmed. In the 1940s, systematic research began in the United States, Sweden and the Soviet Union to grow diamond using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and high-pressure high-temperature synthesis (HPHT) processes. The first reproducible synthesis was reported around 1953. Those two processes still dominate the production of synthetic diamond. The properties of synthetic diamond depend on the details of the manufacturing processes, and can be inferior or superior to those of natural diamond; the hardness, thermal conductivity and electron mobility are superior in some synthetic diamonds. Consequently, synthetic diamond is widely used in abrasives, cutting and polishing tools and in heat sinks. Electronic applications of synthetic diamond are being developed, including high-power switches at power stations, high-frequency field-effect transistors and light-emitting diodes. Both CVD and HPHT diamonds can be cut into gems and various colors can be produced: clear white, yellow, brown, blue, green and orange.

Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Fri Dec 25 2009, 16:31

Trimline telephone

"Trimline" redirects here. For the clear line on the side of a valley formed by a glacier, see Trim line.

A 220 Trimline rotary desk phone, showing the innovative dial with moving thumbstop

The Western Electric Trimline telephone is a variety of telephone set designed by Donald Genaro of Henry Dreyfuss Associates for the Bell System (AT&T). It was built by the Bell System's manufacturing arm, Western Electric. The idea behind the Trimline telephone was to create an alternative telephone set design that was stylish and easier to use than a traditional telephone. This was accomplished by moving the dial from the telephone's base to the inside of the handset, between the earpiece and mouthpiece. The user could then dial a call without having to return to the base. The same concept is now used by all cellular telephone and cordless telephone models. To miniaturize the rotary dial enough to fit in the Trimline handset, an unusual moving fingerstop was used. The Trimline was also one of the first phones to use the predecessor of the now-ubiquitous RJ11 modular phone plug and jack.

First introduced in 1965, the Trimline included a lighted dial and was encased in a sleek, curved plastic housing that took up little space compared to earlier U.S. models. Unfortunately, the glass-smooth and shallowly-curved plastic handset proved difficult to retain between cheek and shoulder for hands-free communication without slipping, and this problem was never corrected over the life of the phone. The first Trimline models used incandescent dial lights powered by a power transformer plugged into a standard 120VAC outlet. The bulky transformer and the need for a conveniently-placed 120-volt outlet was criticized by many consumers, and Western Electric subsequently redesigned the Trimline to use a green LED backlit dial powered by current from the phone line. Always eager to re-use its older stocks of turned-in phones, AT&T later repainted and resold early-model pre-divestiture Trimlines without a transformer as 'non-lighted' models.
The Trimline was made in both rotary dial and Touch-Tone versions. Rotary dial Trimline production began in late 1965 and Touch Tone dials were added the following year in mid 1966. The Trimline was the first U.S. phone to achieve some design recognition in Europe, where it was referred to as the 'Manhattan' model. Today, similarly designed models are sold by many companies. AT&T retained the Trimline name for the later 'Trimline III', a more compact successor featuring squared corners and straight lines.
Early Touch Tone Trimline with round buttons and clear plastic backplate and round non-modular handset cord

Today, AT&T produces the following Trimline models:

205
210 - based upon original design
265

Now AT&T are gonna kill me. The Wikipedia Game 564136

Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Sat Dec 26 2009, 16:09

The Rolls-Royce R was a British aero engine designed and built specifically for air racing purposes by Rolls-Royce Limited. Developed from the Rolls-Royce Buzzard, it was a 37-litre (2,240 cu in) capacity, supercharged V-12 capable of producing just under 2,800 horsepower (2,090 kW), and weighed 1,640 pounds (770 kg). Factory testing initially revealed mechanical failures that were reduced by the use of redesigned components, greatly improving reliability. The R was highly successful during its use in the Schneider Trophy seaplane competitions held in England in 1929 and 1931. Shortly after the 1931 competition, an R engine using a special fuel blend powered the winning Supermarine S.6B aircraft to a new airspeed record of over 400 miles per hour (640 km/h). Continuing through the 1930s, both new and used R engines were used to achieve various land and water speed records by such racing personalities as Sir Henry Segrave, Sir Malcolm Campbell, and his son Donald; the last record was set in 1939. Nineteen R engines were assembled in a limited production run between 1929 and 1931. The experience gained by Rolls-Royce and Supermarine designers was invaluable in the subsequent development of the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine and the Spitfire

Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Sun Jan 17 2010, 11:30

Operation Silver Fox (German: Silberfuchs) was a joint German–Finnish military operation plan during World War II, though it was mainly operated and engaged by Germans. Its main goal was the capture of the key Soviet port at Murmansk through attacks from Finnish and Norwegian territory. The operation was unsuccessful and Murmansk continued to operate throughout the war.
The operational border between Finnish and German forces was located southeast from Lake Oulujärvi to the border, and then straight to the east. The Finnish 14th Division controlled the southern part of the border, while the northern part was in the responsibility of AOK Norwegen. The Finnish III Corps was southernmost, German XXXVI Corps next and German Mountain Corps northernmost at Petsamo.

Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Sun Jan 17 2010, 23:50

Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins is a 2008 television film created by Discovery Films and Oxford Scientific Films as a prequel to the Animal Planet series Meerkat Manor. A scripted documentary narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, the film details the life of a meerkat named Flower from birth to her becoming the leader of a meerkat group called the Whiskers. The film is based on the research notes of the Kalahari Meerkat Project and primarily uses wild meerkat "actors" to represent those in the story. Shot over two years at the Kuruman River Reserve in Northern Cape, South Africa, the film employed a much larger crew than the series. Some scenes were shot at a wildlife park in the United Kingdom, while others were created using camera tricks and trained film animals. The 75-minute film premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival before its television premiere on Animal Planet on May 25, 2008. While it was praised for its cinematography, for maintaining the depth of coverage of the television series, and for its accessibility to newcomers to the series, it was criticized for not offering anything new to fans. The Kalahari Meerkat Project noted that the film was not completely accurate but praised it overall, though one reviewer found the "fictionalization" regrettable. Several reviewers praised Goldberg's narration, but the script was cited as being too simplistic for adult viewers.

Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Mon Jan 18 2010, 15:59

Leonard Blussé (born July 23, 1946 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch historian concerned with the field of Asian-European relations.^[1] Blussé has a prolific written output in his field, having authored, co-authored or edited over twenty books since the year 2000.^[2]

Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Mon Jan 18 2010, 21:00

Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins is a 2008 television film created by Discovery Films and Oxford Scientific Films as a prequel to the Animal Planet series Meerkat Manor. A scripted documentary narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, the film details the life of a meerkat named Flower from birth to her becoming the leader of a meerkat group called the Whiskers. The film is based on the research notes of the Kalahari Meerkat Project and primarily uses wild meerkat "actors" to represent those in the story. Shot over two years at the Kuruman River Reserve in Northern Cape, South Africa, the film employed a much larger crew than the series. Some scenes were shot at a wildlife park in the United Kingdom, while others were created using camera tricks and trained film animals. The 75-minute film premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival before its television premiere on Animal Planet on May 25, 2008. While it was praised for its cinematography, for maintaining the depth of coverage of the television series, and for its accessibility to newcomers to the series, it was criticized for not offering anything new to fans. The Kalahari Meerkat Project noted that the film was not completely accurate but praised it overall, though one reviewer found the "fictionalization" regrettable. Several reviewers praised Goldberg's narration, but the script was cited as being too simplistic for adult viewers.

Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Tue Jan 19 2010, 19:54

Amherst Central Business District is a historic district at 1-79 Main Street, 13-31 North Pleasant Street, 1-79 South Pleasant Street, 1-18 Boltwood Avenue in Amherst, Massachusetts.
The district was founded in 1838 and added to the National Historic Register in 1991.

Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Wed Jan 20 2010, 11:16

Raptor Red is a 1995 novel by paleontologist Robert T. Bakker (pictured). The book is a third-person account of dinosaurs during the Cretaceous Period, told from the point of view of Raptor Red, a female Utahraptor. Raptor Red features many of Bakker's theories regarding dinosaurs' social habits, intelligence, and the world in which they lived. The book follows a year in Raptor Red's life as she loses her mate, finds her family, and struggles to survive in a hostile environment. Bakker drew inspiration from Ernest Thompson Seton's works that look at life through the eyes of predators, and said that he found it "fun" to write from a top predator's perspective. Bakker based his portrayals of dinosaurs and other prehistoric wildlife on fossil evidence, as well as studies of modern animals. When released, Raptor Red was generally praised: Bakker's anthropomorphism was seen as a unique and positive aspect of the book, and his writing described as folksy and heartfelt. Criticisms of the novel included a perceived lack of characterization and average writing. Some scientists, such as paleontologist David B. Norman, took issue with the scientific theories portrayed in the novel, fearing that the public would accept them as fact, while Discovery Channel host Jay Ingram defended Bakker's creative decisions in an editorial.

Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Sat Jan 23 2010, 17:59

Tier (German for Animal) is the third track on the album Sehnsucht by Rammstein. It explores themes of rape and child abuse.
In the song it sings about a father raping his daughter, then the wife killing him because she had been raped by her father.

Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Sun Jan 24 2010, 22:41

Attachment theory is a psychological, evolutionary and ethological theory concerning relationships between humans. The most important tenet of attachment theory is that a young child needs to develop a relationship with at least one primary caregiver for social and emotional development to occur normally. The theory was formulated by psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby. Within attachment theory, infant behaviour associated with attachment is primarily the seeking of proximity to an attachment figure in stressful situations. Attachment figures arise as infants become attached to adults, usually but not necessarily parents, who are sensitive and responsive in social interactions with them, and who remain as consistent caregivers for some months during the period from about six months to two years of age. During the latter part of this period, children begin to use attachment figures (familiar people) as a secure base to explore from and return to. Parental responses lead to the development of patterns of attachment; these, in turn, lead to internal working models which will guide the individual's feelings, thoughts and expectations in later relationships. Separation anxiety or grief following the loss of an attachment figure is considered to be a normal and adaptive response for an attached infant. These behaviours may have evolved because they increase the probability of survival of the child

Subject: Re: The Wikipedia Game Mon Jan 25 2010, 03:23

Reverse engineering (RE) is the process of discovering the technological principles of a device, object or system through analysis of its structure, function and operation. It often involves taking something (e.g., a mechanical device, electronic component, or software
program) apart and analyzing its workings in detail to be used in
maintenance, or to try to make a new device or program that does the
same thing without utilizing any physical part of the original.
Reverse engineering has its origins in the analysis of hardware for commercial or military advantage ^[1].
The purpose is to deduce design decisions from end products with little
or no additional knowledge about the procedures involved in the
original production. The same techniques are currently being researched
for application to legacy software systems, not for industrial or
defense ends, but rather to replace incorrect, incomplete, or otherwise
unavailable documentation^[2].