Wikipedia:Dugnadskontor/Finne og sjekke kuriosa
Finne og sjekke kuriosa[rediger kilde]
Lagt inn av: Stigmj 24. apr 2010 kl. 16:05 (CEST)
Denne dugnaden går ut på å finne «rare fakta» og kuriosa som kan legges inn i artikler om forskjellige emner. Dette kan deretter brukes på «visste du at»-boksen på forsiden.
Her er en kjapp engelsk liste over interessante ting som bør innlemmes på ett eller annet vis dersom det ikke er det allerede (og vi bør ha referanser på denne informasjonen):
1. The second Longest geographical name that is accepted in the world is Taumatawhakatangihangak oauauotamateaturipukaka pikimaungahoronukupokaiwhe nua kitanatahu (85 letters) which is a hill in New Zealand – it is a maori phrase which translates to “place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as land-eater, played his flute to his loved one”. It was the longest until recently (though the Guinness Book of Records still regards it as the longest); it has most likely now been supplanted by Krung thep maha nakorn amorn ratana kosinmahintar ayutthay amaha dilok phop noppa ratrajathani burirom udom rajaniwesmahasat harn amorn phimarn avatarn sathit sakkattiya visanukamprasit in Thailand (163 letters).
2. Lesotho, Vatican City, and San Marino are the only countries completely surrounded by one other country. Lesotho is completely surrounded by South Africa, and Vatican City, and San Marino are both completely surrounded by Italy.
3. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll llantysiliogogogoch is the longest village name in the world (and third longest geographical name). it is located in Wales, and yes there are four l’s in a row!
4. The Shortest place name is Å it is located in both Sweden and Norway. In Scandinavian languages, ‘Å’ means “river”. The image above is one of the newly replaces road signs for the area – they are frequently stolen for their novelty value.
5. The Vatican city is the smallest country in the world at only .2 square miles. That is smaller than the average city! The largest country is (surprise surprise) Russia.
6. The largest city in the world – based on surface area, is Hulun Buir, Inner Mongolia which is 263,953 km squared.
7. The hottest temperature recorded on earth is El Azizia Libya at 136 F, the coldest was -134 degrees fahrenheit in Vostok Antarctica. The hottest average temp is in western Australia, it is 96 degrees year round on average.
8. San Marino claims to be the world’s oldest constitutional republic – it was founded in 301 by a Christian stonemason fleeing persecution under Emperor Diocletian. Its constitution of 1600 is the oldest written constitution in the world. San Marino is pictured above.
9. Though Mt. Everest is the highest altitude in terms of sea level on the planet, Mount Chimborazo is the closest to the moon. The Marianas Trench is the lowest place on earth.
10. Alaska is the most Northern, Eastern, AND Western state in all of America. It is the only state that enters the “Eastern Hemisphere” making it also the most eastern lying and western lying state.
11. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is the Longest mountain chain on earth (at 40 thousand kilometers). It is located along the middle of the Atlantic. Iceland is the only part of this chain that is above water. The Andes form the longest exposed mountain range at 7,000 kilometers.
12. Mount Circeo on Cape Circaeum on the western coast of Italy was once called Aeaea (5 vowels in a row with no consonants). It was believed in mythology to be the home of the witch Circe. Two other vowel-only geographic locations are the town of Aiea in Hawaii, and Eiao – one of the Marquise Islands.
13. Glaciers store between 70% and 80% of all the freshwater on the planet. 99% of those glaciers are in the Arctic and Antarctic.
14. In 1811 and 1812, three earthquakes measuring around 8 on the richter scale, caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards. These earthquakes also created Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee.
15. The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the Kola Superdeep Borehole, in Russia. It reached a depth of 12,261 meters (about 40,226 feet or 7.62 miles). It was drilled for scientific research and gave up some unexpected discoveries, one of which was a huge deposit of hydrogen – so massive that the mud coming from the hole was “boiling” with it. The borehole is pictured above.
- Wikipedia:Dugnadskontor/Finne og sjekke kuriosa/Liste over verdens lengste stedsnavn - Denne bør gjennomgås og oversettes.
1. Before the Boston Tea Party, the British actually lowered tea taxes, not raised them.
2. England’s King George I was actually German.
3. Abel Tasman “discovered” Tasmania, New Zealand and Fiji, on his first voyage, but managed to completely miss mainland Australia!
4. Ethnic Irishman Bernardo O’Higgins was the first president of the Republic of Chile.
5. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same day – the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
6. When the American Civil War started, Confederate Robert E. Lee owned no slaves. Union general U.S. Grant did.
7. Kaiser Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II and George V were all grandchildren of Queen Victoria.
8. Karl Marx was once a correspondent for the New York Daily Tribune.
9. Josef Stalin once studied to be a priest.
10. Henry Kissinger and Yassir Arafat won the Nobel Peace Prize. Gandhi never did.
11. The Constitution of the Confederate States of America banned the slave trade.
12. The Finnish capital of Helsinki was founded by a Swedish king in 1550.
13. The “D” in D-Day stands for “Day” – “Day-Day”
14. There was a New Australia in Paraguay in the 1890s.
15. A New Orleans man hired a pirate to rescue Napoleon from his prison on St. Helena.
16. Like Dracula (Vlad Tepes), there really was a King Macbeth. He ruled Scotland from 1040 to 1057.
17. In 1839, the U.S. and Canada fought the bloodless “War of Pork and Beans”.
18. Despite the reputation, Mussolini never made the trains run on time.
19. The world powers officially outlawed war under the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact.
20. Ancient Egypt produced at least six types of beer. [See them drinking their lovely beer in the picture above.]
1. Charles Darwin married his first cousin.
2. John F. Kennedy, Anthony Burgess, Aldous Huxley, and C.S. Lewis all died on the same day.
3. Officially, the longest war in history was between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly, which lasted from 1651 to 1986. There were no casualties.
4. Gay marriage was legally recognized in Rome, and Nero himself married at least two gay couples.
5. Adolf Hitler’s nephew, William Hitler, immigrated to the United States in 1939 and fought against his uncle.
6. Thomas Paine was elected to the first post-revolution French parliament, despite not speaking a word of the language.
7. William Howard Taft is the only US President to come third in his campaign for re-election, losing to eventual winner Woodrow Wilson and fellow Republican Theodore Roosevelt.
8. Technically, Henry VIII had only two wives. Four of his marriages were annulled.
9. King Richard II invented the handkerchief.
10. The Parliament of Iceland is the oldest still acting parliament in the world. It was established in 930.
11. The people who founded the Futurism art movement also founded the first Italian Fascist party in 1918.
12. Albert Einstein was offered the role of Israel’s second President in 1952, but declined.
13. New Zealand was the first country to enfranchise women. It gave them the vote in 1895.
14. The 27th amendment to the US constitution took 202 years to ratify, having been proposed in 1789 and finally ratified in 1992.
15. Until April 2008, the island of Sark remained the last feudal state in Europe.
16. Tomatoes were considered poisonous for many years in Europe and they were grown for ornamental reasons only. In fact, the leaves and stems of tomatoes are poisonous (but they can be used in moderation for food flavoring).
17. Soon after building started in 1173, the foundation of the Pisa tower settled unevenly. Construction was stopped, and was continued only a 100 years later. Therefore, the leaning tower was never straight.
18. Ancient Egyptians used slabs of stones as pillows.
19. People have been wearing glasses for about 700 years.
20. King Charles the Second often rubbed dust from the mummies of pharaohs so he could “absorb their ancient greatness.
1. In 1752, there were only 354 days in Great Britain and its colonies. This was because Britain adopted the Gregorian Calendar in place of the Julian calendar. The lost days were September 3 – September 13 inclusive.
2. The Hundred Years’ War (a war to determine who the rightful King of France would be) was actually 116 years long. It was during this war that Saint Joan rose up in France to lead her army to victory.
3. From the year 1309 to 1377, the Roman Catholic Papacy was not based in Rome – it was based in Avignon, France. This was primarily over a dispute with the Holy Roman Empire. In 1378, Pope Gregory XI (pictured above) returned the seat of the Pope to Rome.
4. Arabic numerals (the ones used in English) were not invented by the Arabs at all – they were actually invented by Indian mathematicians. They were modified and transferred to North African Arab mathematicians and transmitted to Europe in the Middle Ages.
5. After the U.S Civil War, about 33% – 50% of all U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit.
6. In 1938, Time Magazine declared Adolf Hitler “Man of the Year”. In the same year he took full and absolute command over the German military, stated that he intended to crush Czechoslovakia, took greater control over Austria by threatening to invade, and expelled 12,000 Jews from Germany.
7. In 1685, playing cards were used as currency in New France (the French territories of North America) because of a coin shortage.
8. In 1892, Italy raised the minimum age for marriage for girls – to 12.
9. The first contraceptives were used in Ancient Egypt. Egyptian women would use vaginal suppositories made of acidic substances and lubricated with honey or oil. (An early form of English contraception is pictured above.)
10. The shortest war on record was fought between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 45 minutes.
11. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
12. “In God We Trust” was not officially the motto of the United States of America until 1956. The Congressional Record of that year reads: “At the present time the United States has no national motto. The committee deems it most appropriate that ‘In God we trust’ be so designated as U.S. national motto.”
13. John Aubrey, the diarist, tells a story about the Earl of Oxford. When the Earl made a low obeisance to the Queen, he happened to let go a fart, at which he was so ashamed that he left the country for 7 years. At his return the Queen welcomed him and said, “My lord, I had forgot the fart”! [Source]
14. Despite the terrible nature of and damage caused by the 1666 Great Fire of London, only 8 people were killed. This is despite the fire destroying at least 13,500 houses.
15. In 74 AD, Emperor Vespasian (pictured above) had run out of money due to a civil war. In order to raise funds, he created the world’s first public pay toilets. When his son Titus criticized him for it, Vespasian pointed out that money (even earnt through urine) did not smell. This gave rise to the common saying “Pecunia non olet” – “money does not smell”.
16. The Bank of America was originally called the Bank of Italy. It was created in 1904 by Amadeo Giannini to cater to immigrants from Italy. After merging in the 1920s with the “Bank of America, Los Angeles”, it officially became “Bank of America”.
17. In the First Liberian War in the 1990s, General Joshua Milton Blahyi (also known as General Butt Naked) would lead his troops naked except for shoes and a gun – he did this at the suggestion of the devil, who Blahyi claims telephoned him at age 11. He believed it would protect him from the bullets (and apparently it did – as he is still alive, though he is now a religious preacher). General Butt Naked is pictured above.
18. At the start of World War I, the US Airforce (then a component of the US army) had only 18 pilots and 5 – 12 airplanes.
19. Contrary to popular belief and legend, Daniel Boone not only did not wear a coonskin cap, he detested them. Instead, Boone wore a felt cap.
20. In 1838, General Antonio López de Santa Anna (President of Mexico) had his leg amputated after his ankle was destroyed by canon-fire. He ordered a full military burial for it.
Andre kuriosa[rediger kilde]
- Hermetikkboksen ble oppfunnet i 1810, men boksåpneren ble ikke funnet opp før i 1858. (årstallene bør dobbelsjekkes)
- Årdal kommune strekker seg - vertikalt - fra Sognefjorden (0 moh.) til Store Skagastølstind (2405 moh.)
- Mange ting herfra
- Mange ting herfra
- ...og herfra
Diskusjon[rediger kilde]
@Orland, Mollerup, Aldebaran, Telaneo: Pinger noen som kanskje er interesserte i å følge opp denne dugnaden, basert på aktivitet på {{Nye}}. Eller så kan vi bare fjerne den. Stigmj (diskusjon) 8. mar. 2016 kl. 13:16 (CET)
- Nå har jeg ikke fulgt helt med i timen, men er det sånn at det nå er enighet om at {{Nye}} også kan brukes til å hente fram kuriosa fra gamle artikler? Mvh --Mollerup (diskusjon) 8. mar. 2016 kl. 14:07 (CET)
- Jeg mener at det må være åpning for å kunne lede leserene inn i dypet med interessante kuriosa ja.. har det vært motstand på dette før? Det står vitterlig "Visste du at" i boksen og det bør være åpning for å endre slik at det ikke står "nyeste artiklene våre" lenger der. Alternativt lager vi en ny mal/boks som da kan erstatte {{nye}} når vi er "ferdige".. Stigmj (diskusjon) 8. mar. 2016 kl. 14:25 (CET)
- Be bold høres ut som riktige fremgangsmåte her, ja :-) Mvh --Mollerup (diskusjon) 8. mar. 2016 kl. 14:42 (CET)
- Nye-boksen har en intensjon om å vise fram eksempler på nyskrevne artikler. Det kan diskuteres hvor viktig den er for leserne våre, men de tilbakemeldingene jeg får, tyder på at det kan føles viktig for skriverne våre at deres artikler blir sett og løftet fram. Pr i dag er nye-boksen et av de få verktøyene vi har for slikt. Vi kunne gjerne hatt flere.
- Ellers: Min mening er at Wikipedia bør ha mindre fokus på kuriosa, ikke mer fokus. Det gjelder både generelt og i forhold til nye-boksen. Mvh --M O Haugen (diskusjon) 9. mar. 2016 kl. 14:03 (CET)
- Be bold høres ut som riktige fremgangsmåte her, ja :-) Mvh --Mollerup (diskusjon) 8. mar. 2016 kl. 14:42 (CET)
- Jeg mener at det må være åpning for å kunne lede leserene inn i dypet med interessante kuriosa ja.. har det vært motstand på dette før? Det står vitterlig "Visste du at" i boksen og det bør være åpning for å endre slik at det ikke står "nyeste artiklene våre" lenger der. Alternativt lager vi en ny mal/boks som da kan erstatte {{nye}} når vi er "ferdige".. Stigmj (diskusjon) 8. mar. 2016 kl. 14:25 (CET)
- TL;DRen her er legg til all infoen over i artikler, ha referanser på alt, for så at det skal legges inn et slags {{Nye}}-arkiv? Så kan vi legge til kuriosa i det arkivet? Kan gjerne legge til noe av dette i noen artikler jeg null problemo.--Telaneo (Diskusjonsside) 8. mar. 2016 kl. 16:22 (CET)
- Jupp, noe slikt ja. Stigmj (diskusjon) 8. mar. 2016 kl. 16:53 (CET)