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The Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) is an expansive area of the northern Great Plains that contains thousands of shallow wetlands known as potholes.

Mark Klein (1945 or 1946 – March 8, 2025) was an American AT&T technician and whistleblower who revealed details of the company's cooperation with the United States National Security Agency in installing network hardware at a site known as Room 641A to monitor, capture and process American telecommunications

Common usage--abetted by Merriam-Webster--notwithstanding, "centi-" is the System International (essentially the US Metric System) prefix for "divided by 100", and has been for at least 6 decades, and hence is incorrectly used here; "centibillionare" actually means "has 1/100 of $1B". The correct term is "hectobillionaire".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9835

In 1897, the Indiana legislature nearly passed a bill, known as the Indiana Pi Bill, that would have declared pi to be 3.2.

As opposed to "interactivity". I saw this in a post from [email protected]: https://programming.dev/post/26779367/15573661

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peekskill_riots

Crab mentality describes the mindset of people who try to prevent others from gaining a favorable position, even if attaining such position would not directly impact those trying to stop them.

Accusation in a mirror (AiM) is a technique often used in the context of hate speech incitement, where one falsely attributes one's own motives and/or intentions to one's adversaries.

These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:

Like the telharmonium, this is one of those inventions that could only have existed for a brief period of time.

The building has a dark interior, and the walls are covered with a large number of holes to allow wind to pass through and assist in the drying process through evaporation.

After Coltrane's death, a congregation called the Yardbird Temple in San Francisco began worshipping him as God incarnate.

I like this one ⸮, I'll try to use it, it's more elegant than /s.

Avro Canada was a Canadian aircraft manufacturing company. It was founded in 1945 as an aircraft plant and within 13 years became the third-largest company in Canada, one of the largest 100 companies in the world, and directly employing over 50,000.https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Aerospace_manufacturer" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">aircraft manufacturing company. It was founded in 1945 as an aircraft plant and within 13 years became the third-largest company in Canada, one of the largest 100 companies in the world, and directly employing over 50,000.CF-105 Arrow, but through growth and acquisition, it rapidly became a major, integrated company that had diverse holdings.

Interac is a Canadian interbank network that links financial institutions and other enterprises for the purpose of exchanging electronic financial transactions. Interac serves as the Canadian debit card system and the predominant funds transfer network via its e-Transfer service. There are over 59,000 automated teller machines that can be accessed through the Interac network in Canada, and over 450,000 merchant locations accepting Interac debit payments.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist

Keichousaurus, like all sauropterygians, was highly adapted to the aquatic environment. Most specimens had small body, males sexually mature with 12.6 centimetres (5.0 in) snout-vent length (SVL), and in females by 12.2 centimetres (4.8 in) SVL.

A controversy surrounding the AACS processing key arose in April 2007 when the Motion Picture Association of America and the Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator, LLC (AACS LA) began issuing cease and desist letters[7] to websites publishing a 128-bit (16-byte) number, represented in hexadecimal as 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0[8][9] (commonly referred to as 09 F9),[10][11] a cryptographic key for HD DVDs and Blu-ray Discs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation

Mord verjährt nicht – dieses Prinzip hat sich in der Bundesrepublik erst spät durchgesetzt. Viele Verbrechen aus der NS-Zeit drohten ungesühnt zu bleiben. Ein Meilenstein war in diesem Zusammenhang die Bundestagsdebatte vom 10. März 1965.

Seit dem 9. März 1880 galt im Deutschen Reich: Lehrerinnen sollen entlassen werden, sobald sie heiraten.

The campaign was instigated by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), and was a part of their wider campaign for women's suffrage. The campaign, led by key WSPU figures such as Emmeline Pankhurst, targeted infrastructure, government, churches and the general public, and saw the use of improvised explosive devices, arson, letter bombs, assassination attempts and other forms of direct action and violence.

Neat quote saw when reading. Admitting you're wrong in a genuine way is something you see rarely these days.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy

Little is known for certain about her life; her tumultuous career and flamboyant lifestyle were the subject of gossip, rumour, and colourful stories in her own time, and inspired numerous fictional and semi-fictional portrayals afterwards.

The Republican Party of Alberta is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. The party launched in 2022, and was originally known as the Buffalo Party of Alberta, until 2025.

Legendary dog venerated as a folk saint

In peacetime, military vessels are limited in number, tonnage and weaponry, with specific provisions governing their mode of entry and duration of stay. If they want to pass through the Strait, warships must provide advance notification to the Turkish authorities, which, in turn, must inform the parties to the convention.

Public broadcasters have the editorial independence to serve the public interest above that of the ruling party.

Magnus Hirschfeld (14 May 1868 – 14 May 1935) was a German physician, sexologist and LGBTQ advocate, whose citizenship was later revoked by the Nazi government.[1] Hirschfeld was educated in philosophy, philology and medicine. An outspoken advocate for sexual minorities, Hirschfeld founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee and World League for Sexual Reform. He based his practice in Berlin-Charlottenburg during the Weimar period. Performance Studies and Rhetoric Professor Dustin Goltz characterized the committee as having carried out "the first advocacy for homosexual and transgender rights".[2]

The island is a protected area of India. It is home to the Sentinelese, an indigenous tribe in voluntary isolation who have defended, often by force, their protected isolation from the outside world.

A precursor to the modern integrated circuit. I learned about this because I own a calculator from 1975 that runs on this technology (and has a cool red LED display). It takes so much power it needs a 9 volt battery.

Stagflation is the combination of high inflation, stagnant economic growth, and elevated unemployment. The term stagflation, a blend of "stagnation" and "inflation," was popularized by British politician Iain Macleod in the 1960s

Heute vor 70 Jahren stellten die Bayerischen Motorenwerke die BMW Isetta vor.

In naval architecture, a poop deck is a deck that forms the roof of a cabin built in the rear, or "aft", part of the superstructure of a ship

In human–computer interaction, WIMP stands for "windows, icons, menus, pointer", denoting a style of interaction using these elements of the user interface. Other expansions are sometimes used, such as substituting "mouse" and "mice" for menus, or "pull-down menu" and "pointing" for pointer.

Ich denke nicht, dass ein Bild eines Naziaufmarsches gegen eine solche Ausstellung die beste Wahl für das Titelbild dieses Wikipedia-Artikels ist.

Although many of the largest restaurant chains in Canada are US-based (McDonald's and Yum! Brands among others), some Canadian-based (owned and operated from Canada) restaurant chains are growing and have expanded into other markets, especially into the US.

However, based on the latest estimates of passenger numbers and those known to be saved, the sinking of Wilhelm Gustloff remains by far the largest loss of life in maritime history resulting from the sinking of a single vessel.

John Hiromu Kitagawa ( October 23, 1931 – July 9, 2019) was a Japanese rapist, business magnate, promoter and record producer. He was best known as the founder of Johnny & Associates, a talent agency for numerous popular boy bands in Japan.

The Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA) is a United Kingdom organisation that uses hunt sabotage as a means of direct action to stop fox hunting.

Repost from eight months ago, because it's happening again.

Puquios (from Quechua pukyu meaning source, spring, or water well) are ancient systems of subterranean aqueducts which allow water to be transported over long distances in hot dry climates without loss of much of the water to evaporation. Puquios are found in the coastal deserts of southern Peru, especially in the Nazca region, and northern Chile. Forty-three puquios in the Nazca region were still in use in the early 21st century and relied upon to bring fresh water for irrigation and domestic use into desert settlements.

Urban prairie (or urban grassland) is vacant urban land that has reverted to green space.