This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

it's on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_center_of_the_contiguous_United_States

also - wikipedians think of everything

Geographic center of the contiguous United States
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that plaque is on a wall rather than on the ground - there is an unseen hand holding that plush duck

Also from that page: "In 1918, the Coast and Geodetic Survey found this location by balancing on a point a cardboard cutout shaped like the U.S." Science!

love the word "geodetic"

always nice to see when a section called

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Keisel#.22Da_Beard.22

is nearly as lengthy as something like

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon#Legacy_outside_France

The Comanche could ride faster and farther than almost anyone.[citation needed] They could do tricks on horseback that no one else could do.[citation needed] They would slide to the back or the side of the horse.[citation needed] The Spanish tried to move into Comanche territory but they could not defeat the Comanche.[citation needed] The Comanche attacked settlers, stole horses, cattle, women and children.[citation needed] They were not peaceful neighbors. Early Texans defeated the Comanche by tricking them with a white flag.[citation needed] The Comanche were forced to live on reservations[citation needed]

In popular culture

The main character of Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo has a large afro and fights the Hair Hunt Troop.

The American anime Perfect Hair Forever featured big hair as a central plot point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_hair

Critics such as Matthew Arnold endeavoured to rewrite Shelley's legacy to make him seem a lyricist and a dilettante who had no serious intellectual position and whose longer poems were not worth study. Matthew Arnold famously described Shelley as a "beautiful and ineffectual angel". This position contrasted strongly with the judgement of the previous generation who knew Shelley as a sceptic and radical. Meow

A video was made to help promote the single. It featured clips of the band playing the song live on a large, well-lit stage, interspersed with shots of a young blonde woman. Portrayed by Playboy playmate Eloise Broady, the model is visibly distressed over relationship troubles with Stanley. She vents her frustrations by throwing a wine bottle at a picture of the two of them, and sets Stanley's car on fire after dousing it with gasoline.

Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade is a documentary film directed by Lincoln Ruchti about the golden age of video arcade games. The film premiered January 22, 2007 at the Sundance Film Festival and has also been shown at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival, as well as other film festivals. Netflix and Amazon Instant Video recently added the film to its instant movies selection. Until they took it off Netflix like a bunch of bastards.

Yesterday I was pleased to learn about the Nunavut coat of arms:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Nunavut

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cd/Coat_of_Arms_of_Nunavut.png

i had not even heard of nunavut until a week ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_O%27Carroll

For a long time he had a ponytail until it was removed by Leeds United and Ireland footballer Gary Kelly with a pen-knife

The cotton swab was invented in the 1920s by Leo Gerstenzang[1] after he attached wads of cotton to toothpicks.[2] His product, which he named "Baby Gays", went on to become the most widely sold brand name, "Q-tips", with the Q standing for "quality".

baby gays

His personal impact, however, was twofold: his image as a warm, gentle, kind man captivated the world. This image was immediately formed when he was presented to the crowd in St. Peter's Square following his election. The warmth of his presence made him a much-loved figure before he even spoke a word. The media in particular fell under his spell. He was a skilled orator. Whereas Pope Paul VI spoke as if delivering a doctoral thesis, John Paul I produced warmth, laughter, a 'feel-good factor,' and plenty of media-friendly sound bites. [citation needed]

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Joel Schumacher

The common feelings of insecurity of peers fearing that their friends may not like the same music that they like is a large contributing factor to the decline of carrying a boombox[citation needed]

OTM

*nods sagely*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunplay_(rapper)

Personal life

He has one son and a wife but then the marriage deteriorated.[2]

Contemporaries paint a portrait of an isolated person (he never married and had few intimate friends) with grandiose manners, prone to public outbursts of tears, and a fierce temper that sometimes degenerated into fist-fights. He had unusual phobias —including a fear of electricity. As he grew older, his eccentricities intensified, he became increasingly incoherent, and by 1895 he was declared insane. One of his more notable eccentricities was the founding of a hot food delivery company to prospectors in the Klondike Gold Fields. The difficult logistics of this service scared away investors and ultimately provided its downfall.

Morrissey?

From the entry for Golden Earring:

"When the Lady Smiles" became an international hit in 1984, reaching No. 3 in Canada and becoming the band's fifth number one hit in their native country, but received a disappointing reaction in the United States. The reason for this lack of success was that the music video of the song was banned from MTV, because of nudity and a scene portraying the rape of a nun

I doubt this is comprehensive, but:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_with_fraudulent_diplomas

it is lists like that that will make a boy fall in love with wikipedia all over again

He is best known for writing Kids, and for directing Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy and Mister Lonely. He's also known for allegedly going through Meryl Streep's purse while backstage on the David Letterman show.

He also joined the Ontario biker gang, The New Hegelians, which were "encouraged" to quit the road by the Toronto Hells Angels chapter in the early 1990s.[citation needed]

Ant proposed to her whilst on holiday in Dubai on 26 April 2005 which his parents let him do.

Balk lives in Hollywood, California, and has an apartment in New York City. Outside her career, her interests include writing poetry and fiction, playing guitar and violin, singing, and dancing. She also creates and sells candles, including a line produced with wax from Neil Gaiman's bees.

(in the entry for author Richard Grayson)

Crime-fighting Career

Shortly after his brief tenure at Arizona State, Richard began work in a juvenile services system. He got beaten up by a number of the inmates, and he was later transfered to a Catholic orphanage. Bruce Wayne rescued Richard by hiring him as his butler. Frustrated by the lack of activism from his new guardian and the mystery still surrounding Mark Twain's killer, Richard sneaked out of Wayne Manor one evening to solve the crime on his own - only to stumble into Batman, who was also investigating the murder. When Richard returned to the circus, he was confronted by Alan Gribben's business associate, Eddie Skeevers, who nearly killed Grayson, but Richard was saved thanks to Batman's intervention. After waking up in the Batcave, he is shocked to learn that Bruce is really the Batman. They succeed in revealing Gribben's complicity, but he supposedly dies of a heart attack before his arrest. Seeing a reflection of himself in Richard; that he could temper compassion with a thirst for justice, Batman made the young man the offer of a lifetime; the chance to become his crime-fighting partner. Richard chose the name Robin, and his training began. Richard's first mission alongside the Dark Knight involved battling The Hangman in Gotham's sewers, and then Two-Face and the rest of Batman's Rogues Gallery at the Batcave. They swore an oath late that night that they would fight together against crime and corruption, never swerving from the path of righteousness. Batman had realized for the first time that he did not have to be alone in his crusade.

He gave up crime-fighting in 2003 to continue his writing career.

(As Amon Düül was not a metal band—they created a highly eclectic world of music which is nowadays sorted into the genres of progressive rock/krautrock—this "unnecessary" umlaut cannot be considered as 'metal umlaut', if one insists on the literal meaning of the latter expression.)

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Oreo C. Collins (born circa 2007) is a tuxedo cat who gained notoriety when she received a diploma from Jefferson High School Online in 2009, although her age was misrepresented in order to qualify

The name was originally spelt “misery:lab” – but King chose to remove the colon in order to make it easier to find in Internet search engines. The name can be seen as both a serious comment on animal experimentation, and a self-deprecating comment on himself and his musical output.

Frances Dean Smith was born Frances Elizabeth Dean, in San Rafael, California, on March 19, 1922. During her childhood her family moved to the East Coast, where she grew up.[1]

She married Wray Smith while living on the East Coast and had four daughters. They were eventually divorced and she returned to California in 1963.[1]

She was closely associated with the Southern California poetry community. She is also noted for her relationship with poet Charles Bukowski, with whom she had her fifth daughter and his only child, Marina Louise Bukowski.[1] Charles Bukowski wrote a poem about Frances which has been used as a eulogy, "One for Old Snaggle-Tooth" (1977).[2]

She died from complications of a hip fracture in Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, California, early on June 2, 2009.[1]

She also had a beard.[3]

In 1997 the band released One More Megabyte, which features references to computers, mainly in the lyrics of its title track

The Sugarcubes formed on June 8, 1986, with vocalist Björk, Björk's then-husband Þór (Thor) Eldon on guitar, and Bragi Olafsson on bass. (That same day Björk gave birth to her and Þór Eldon's son, Sindri Eldon.[1])

At (Doug Hopkins') memorial service, bandmate Robin Wilson recalls, a woman approached his former band (Gin Blossoms) members with a message from Hopkins upon his death: he was the one who had poured sugar in the gas tank of their tour van in 1992.

Sai Moon-Kin (Elvis Tsui Kam Kong) is a rich man who idolizes Lawrence Ng's character in the original Sex and Zen, and works hard to please as many women as he possibly can. When marrying off his retarded son, he finds his son's new wife (Shu Qi) pretty hot, so he takes her for his own, not knowing that she is the evil Mirage Woman, who knows "sucking" magic that's pretty nasty. Tsui's daughter (Loletta Lee), who dresses like a man and wears chastity belt for the main part of the film, and the righteous Iron Man (Ben Ng) try to stop Mirage Woman before it's too late, which means that she'll have free rein to "suck" anyone she wishes.

This article is about the criminal occupation. For other uses, see Hitman (disambiguation).
"Hit women" redirects here. For violent acts that are committed against women, see Hitting women.

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Darren Ward (footballer born 1978)
2 Personal life :

Darren has his own blog which he posts regularly on a variety of topics. Being a professional football player many of the posts on health and fitness topics as they are key to his profession.

His blog http://darrenwardsblog.blogspot.co.uk/ provides an insight into how he goes about ensuring that his at his peak in order to play at high level of football. Darren has had a long and expansive career to date, this is a direct result of the information that he published on his blog.

It is evident from his posts that Darren has a keen interest in health, diet and fitness. As a football player it would be expected to be interested in looking after the body but Darren is passionate about all areas of health and well being.

The blog displays his depth of knowledge in nutrition, healthy state of mind, general well being and power foods.

Darren has aspirations after his football career to build up his business portfolio, specially working in financial services, setting up New Incentive FC alongside Finsbury.

He aims to help sports professionals by providing them with specifically tailored financial advice. Through his career Darren has had experience with looking finances that impartial advice was not available for him or his fellow professionals to access. Darren wants to be able to give assistance to young sports professionals setting out on their career, ensuring that they are equipped with the knowledge to look after and utilise their personal finances to its greatest potential.

Darren is the brother of Norwich City's ex-West Ham United defender Elliott Ward. He turned down the opportunity of joining West Ham and the Premiership before opting for Palace, claiming he didn't want to keep his brother out of the team.[8]

As of February 2011, he runs a cattery in Hertfordshire.[9]

Strawberry Alarm Clock band members:

Current

• Gene Gunnels – drums, percussion, vocals (1967, 1969–1971, 1982–1983, 2001, 2003, 2007–present)
• Mark Weitz – keyboard, vocals (1967–1969, 1982–1983, 2006–present)
• Randy Seol – drums, vibes, percussion, vocals (1967–1968, 1974–1975, 1983–1984, 2001, 2003, 2006–present)
• George Bunnell – bass, rhythm guitars, vocals (1967–1968, 1974–1975, 1982–2001, 2003, 2006–present)
• Howie Anderson – lead guitar, vocals (1986–2001, 2006–present)
• Steve Bartek - guitars, flute (1967–1968, 1974–1975, 1983, 2003, 2006–present)

• Lee Freeman - rhythm guitars, harmonica, vocals (1967–1971, 1982–2001, 2003, 2007–2008; died 2010)
• Ed King - lead guitars, bass, vocals (1967–1971, 2007)
• Gary Lovetro - bass (1967)
• Marty Katin - drums, percussion (1968–1969)
• Jim Pitman - guitars, vocals (1968–1969)
• Paul Marshall - guitars, vocals (1969–1971, 2003, 2007)
• Leo Gaffney - vocals (1983)
• Doug Freeman - vocals (1983)
• James Harrah - guitars (1983–1984)
• Peter Wasner - keyboards (1983)
• Clay Bernard - keyboards (1983–1984, 1986–1989)
• Bob Caloca - vocals (1983)
• Bruce Hubbard - percussion (1984–2001)
• Jon Walmsley - guitars, keyboards, vocals (1984–1986)

• Lee Baber

haha

suck it lee baber

Lee Baber you were never in Strawberry Alarm Clock and stop pretending you were!

Graham Brodie is currently away in Thailand mixing a gramophone record about the early poetry of Gary Glitter.

Skeptics note that the bill in question also mentions "extraterrestrial weapons" and "environmental, climate, or tectonic weapons."[25] The bill received an unfavorable evaluation from the United States Department of Defense and died in committee,[26] with no mention of chemtrails appearing in the text of any of the three subsequent failed attempts by Kucinich to enact a Space Preservation Act.

In his later life, Gernreich devoted himself to gourmet soups.[23] He is credited with a recipe for red-pepper soup, a cold soup served in red-pepper cases and garnished with caviar and lemon.[24]