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Techniques for working with clay have been known since the Bronze Age; the potter's wheel is a very ancient invention. The ancient Greeks did not add any innovations to these processes[citation needed].
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bimimetic 1. Misspelling of biomimetic.
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overmind2000 posted:bimimetic they should put this on all entries except biomimetic
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I think the coolest thing I learned about tanks is that the Danish called U.S. tanks "Crawling Dragons". 
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Schadenboner posted:I think the coolest thing I learned about tanks is that the Danish called U.S. tanks "Crawling Dragons". that was finnish (iirc jerry posted it anyway) in danish they'd be larvae-feet or belt-vehicles which admittedly isnt as cool
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Carthag Tuek posted:that was finnish (iirc jerry posted it anyway) Iceland too, maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_purism_in_Icelandic#Creation_of_new_words
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lol it was even itt:Ornamental Dingbat posted:I remember my grandmother talking about seeing American tanks during the war and referring to them as skriðdreki (crawling dragons). sorry dingbat, as a scandinavian it is my wont to assign weird neologisms to the finns. i should know better, and i hereby acknowledge that icelanders also have them.
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Shoudl still call them landship imho. Tank is a dumb name. Just look at this etymological origin: quote:In military use, "armored, gun-mounted vehicle moving on continuous articulated tracks," the word originated late 1915. In "Tanks in the Great War" [1920], Brevet Col. J.F.C. Fuller quotes a memorandum of the Committee of Imperial Defence dated Dec. 24, 1915, recommending the proposed "caterpillar machine-gun destroyer" machines be entrusted to an organization "which, for secrecy, shall be called the 'Tank Supply Committee,' ..." In a footnote, Fuller writes, "This is the first appearance of the word 'tank' in the history of the machine." He writes that "cistern" and "reservoir" also were put forth as possible cover names, "all of which were applicable to the steel-like structure of the machines in the early stages of manufacture. Because it was less clumsy and monosyllabic, the name 'tank' was decided on." They were first used in action at Pozieres ridge, on the Western Front, Sept. 15, 1916, and the name was quickly picked up by the soldiers. Tank-trap attested from 1920. Dumb. as. hell. 
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The Little Death posted:Shoudl still call them landship imho. Tank is a dumb name. yeah a code name is pointless if you start using it to openly describe the thing.
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In addition, the company has billed her as having the "longest undefeated streak in WWE history" at 914 days, though other wrestlers in the male division have had similar or longer win streaks. (This new billing also flew in the face of their claim in 1987 that Andre the Giant had been undefeated for fifteen years, prior to Wrestlemania III, creating a continuity error.)
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Manwich's slogan is, "A sandwich is a sandwich, but a Manwich is a meal."[2]
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The first day of shooting included filming on location at a supermarket, the second day in a hospital and the third in a cemetery.[66] One of the props on the first day, a stuffed deer mounted on wheels, broke loose and caused a minor car accident
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FMguru posted:The first day of shooting included filming on location at a supermarket, the second day in a hospital and the third in a cemetery.[66] One of the props on the first day, a stuffed deer mounted on wheels, broke loose and caused a minor car accident 
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I'm not buying in until it has a capability of at least 10 computes
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not worthless https://twitter.com/jlendino/status/1297642432973086720
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In the mathematical theory of knots, the unknot, or trivial knot, is the least knotted of all knots.
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The really good thing about Wikipedia is that there is an article related to an area of personal interest that I know has a straight up lie in it but correcting it would be original research
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Continuity RCP posted:The really good thing about Wikipedia is that there is an article related to an area of personal interest that I know has a straight up lie in it but correcting it would be original research IIRC what you do here is post a blog somewhere else on the web with the correct take and cite it when editing in the correction
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or just change it, if it's niche enough nobody will notice or care. one of the demonstrated shortcomings of wikipedia is that it reflects what "everybody knows" but not necessarily what's factual.
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Midjack posted:or just change it, if it's niche enough nobody will notice or care. It's about a British public figure There's a citation to a newspaper article that just doesn't say the thing it's supposed to Edit: not royalty or anything, an advisor to the PM. There's a claim she was a member of a Trotskyite group in the 90s that's become "common knowledge" but the group basically didn't exist when she was supposed to be a member. It's a dumb thing that bugs me ContinuityNewTimes fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Aug 24, 2020 |
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If the citation doesn't support the statement, delete the statement and put a note to that effect on the edit log. The Wikipedia spergs love that poo poo
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Continuity RCP posted:It's about a British public figure enjoy the slapfight in the talk page i guess.
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if its cited there but without supporting material, you could remove it since thats not true or if im reading you incorrectly and the article it cited is wrong, you could find a starting date for the group and use that to remove the citation
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:In the mathematical theory of knots, the unknot, or trivial knot, is the least knotted of all knots. you missed the best part: quote:Common name Circle
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lol yeah i thought about including the picture
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my favorite thing lately was finding a see also: to temple OS referenced from the hypothetical third temple in Jerusalem page former yosposter terry davis would no doubt be flattered 
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219 is a happy number.[1]
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Midjack posted:enjoy the slapfight in the talk page i guess. It's happening. The lesson is to never get involved in Wikipedia.
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Okay, this is a whole other level of crazy. I’ve discovered that almost every single article on the Scots version of Wikipedia is written by the same person - an American teenager who can’t speak Scots - Reddit
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that’s a lomarf
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Carbon dioxide posted:Okay, this is a whole other level of crazy. please pretend I bothered to make  but  (I also didn’t bother to check if it already exists)
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Carbon dioxide posted:Okay, this is a whole other level of crazy.
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quote:apart from Wikipedia I'm a brony and an intp O_O
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_stance im the list of boxers
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After this meeting, Brodie, whose polio vaccine was at least partially effective and reasonably safe, and who developed several ground-breaking ideas about vaccination whose validity was confirmed two decades later with the development of the Salk vaccine, was immediately fired and had trouble finding employment again. Brodie died three and a half years later.[57] Kolmer, an established researcher whose vaccine was unsafe and probably ineffective, kept his job, was given a second appointment as professor of medicine at the Temple University School of Dentistry the next year, continued to publish research papers, and received multiple awards throughout his academic career.[57][58]
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Hacienda de Lolol Hacienda Lolol is located 75 kilometres (47 mi) from San Fernando, and 25 kilometres (16 mi) from Santa Cruz, through the I-72 route. The hacienda compresses lands used for agriculture and animal husbandry, an agricultural y Ganado, a reservoir of ten kilometers where mackerel fishing is common, known as the "Tranque de Lolol", and a four feet high monument near the dam erected to Saint Isidore the Laborer. Dedicated to tourism, tourists to Hacienda Lolol may visit the place riding horses, and visit Casas patronales with lunches of typical Chilean food, accompanied by wines of the Colchagua Valley.
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