This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

caption for image in the "easter customs" article:

Ritual whipping of girls in Moravia (1910).

from Black Rob - "Life Story" article:

Life Story attempts to showcase Black Rob's struggle through hard beats and well constructed rhymes.

alternate reading of this evoked the image of Dave Chappelle in "Turn My Headphones Up"

Snoopy
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Not to be confused with Snuppy.

A few days before his death, Hasegawa had lunch with friend and American artist, John C. Goss. Jovial and witty as usual, he showed Goss photos of his latest paintings - a series depicting nude, Hindu-inspired male deities. These works would come to be exhibited at a memorial exhibition, along with a final series of starkly disembodied and erect phalluses unlike anything else Hasegawa ever created. Hasegawa's brother had cleaned out the artist's apartment and thrown out all of his works, unaware of their value, but rescued them after receiving a letter posted from Bangkok by Hasegawa asking that his works be sold at the Naruyama Gallery following his death. According to Toshie Urabe, who spoke with Hasegawa's brother, the only clues left at the scene of his death were a small piece of rope (he had asphixiated himself using rope tied around a door knob) and a small stone on which he had painted a portrait of Yukio Mishima (Hasegawa's death preceded the anniversary of Mishima's own suicide).

Sandy Richardson was injured in a car accident in 1972 and need to use a wheelchair, the first paraplegic regular character in British soap opera; by coincidence actor Roger Tonge himself later ended up in a wheelchair.

unusually for a glove puppet, Sweep wore wellingtons

probably well-known to ABBA fans, but

"King Kong Song" (originally "Mr. Sex")

Their acquisition of Orkin Exterminating Company in 1964 is among the first significant leveraged buyout transactions. In the following years, the three Bear Stearns bankers would complete a series of buyouts including Stern Metals (1965), Incom (a division of Rockwood International, 1971), Cobblers Industries (1971) and Boren Clay (1973) as well as Thompson Wire, Eagle Motors and Barrows through their investment in Stern Metals. Although they had a number of highly successful investments, the $27 million investment in Cobblers ended in bankruptcy.]

Marshall was remarried to a woman named Sarah

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Marshall#Personal_life

Didn't feel up to creating a "The pathos of imdb bios" thread, so ...

Pamela Wiggins is an actress, known for Microsoft Windows 95 Video Guide (1995), Hack (2002) and Law & Order (1990).

:/

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Edd the Duck is also a great fan of Kylie Minogue who popped in to visit him in the Broom Cupboard. It was during this appearance that she infamously became the first known Antipodean to swear live on British television, although many have followed since.[2]

Shooting was complicated by an early New York spring, which interfered with the bleak winter atmosphere that prevails throughout the film,[21] and by the difficulty of filming several cats, who, unlike dogs, ignore the desires of filmmakers. On the advice of an animal trainer, the Coens put out a casting call for an orange tabby cat, which is sufficiently common that several cats would be available to play one part. Individual cats were then selected for each scene based on what they were predisposed to do on their own.

Other achievements outside the realm of television include recognition by the State of California as Citizen Hero of the Year in 2001, and the equally notable accomplishment of out-eating wrestler King Kong Bundy in a cheesesteak sandwich-eating contest at Dominick's Kitchen while Bundy was guest starring on Married... with Children.

Less unusual and more "unusually over-detailled".

Music video[edit]
The video is set on a rainy afternoon in a park. Valerie Simpson exits a taxi in a park on a cloudy day, and escapes from a sudden downpour underneath a bridge. As she sings the opening of the song a cappella, she's joined by Nick Ashford, who joins in. As the video progresses, they're joined by others, including a cyclist in yellow spandex (who misses a great party), a gang of hoodlums who just want to sing, and several bongo players who are also trying to escape the downpour.[3]

including a cyclist in yellow spandex (who misses a great party)

[Tony Orlando's] one unfulfilled ambition, according to close sources, is to one day play the Elsinore Theatre in Salem, Oregon.

(& yes, I looked him up because of that Yo La Tengo song)

From 2001 to 2006, Kiss offered for sale a custom-made coffin emblazoned with imagery of the band for $4500. On the Howard Stern radio show, Gene Simmons said of the casket, "This is the ultimate Kiss collectible. I love livin’, but this makes the alternative look pretty damn good."[8] The coffin is frequently cited as a prime example of just how extreme the band's quest for merchandising can be. Notable people to be buried in a Kiss Kasket include Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell.

Eef, an American English slang term used informally by students of middle-school age to describe almost anything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nN5CnshorY&feature=kp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nN5CnshorY&feature=kp

Martin Brett runs Brett Dempsey Music Productions in London and joined I, Ludicrous on bass guitar in 2008. In 2011, he released his first solo single "Lover's Lane" under his original punk name Brett Martini. He also trained to become a facial hair specialist for film, theatre, and television in 2010.

The competition had an interesting way of voting. Because lot of citizens did not have phones, viewers would turn on lights if they liked the song or turned them off if they didn’t like the song. According to load experienced on the electrical network, points were granted accordingly to each contestant.[1]

Their single "Holiday Rap" became an international success, occupying number one on the single charts in 34 countries and reaching the Top 10 in twelve further countries. It was named by MuchMusic as the worst video of 1987. It is a one Hit Wonder...

original punk name Brett Martini.

So, swap yr names around and add an i onto the end?

Part of a series on
Allah

While retaining much of Hill’s footage, she changed the plot from a story about a deranged, murderous artist to a story about a deranged, murderous artist who is also a vampire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_(publishing)

http://i.imgur.com/odbGxqv.jpg

I realise that it'll be changed soon but appreciate the fact that anyone searching for the definition of an article, as opposed to an essay, today will be directed to a picture and bio of this guy.

also on the Talk page: Adnan LIaqat live in Safdarabad. He is 15 year old. he study in Govt High School Safdarabad. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.177.220.205 (talk) 06:38, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

always chuffed to pick up new Qawwali tips tbh

During a 2008 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day parade in Jacksonville, Florida, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney admired a baby decked in dress attire with gold jewelry and said, "Oh, you've got some bling-bling here."[3]

that is a very usual detail for Mitt Romney!

Donkey Burger (Chinese: 驴肉火烧; pinyin: lǘròu huǒshāo) is a kind of sandwich commonly eaten in Baoding, Hebei Province, China, where it is considered a local specialty,[1] as well as in other places in China. Chopped or shredded donkey meat is placed within a huǒshāo or shao bing, a roasted, semi-flaky bread pocket, and eaten as a snack or as part of a meal. The meat is often served cold, often with green pepper or cilantro leaves, in a warm huoshao. It is not a proper burger.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bohead.jpg

Dude is so evil it even comes shining through in a statue of him made by his own company!

That's my Facebook profile pic every November.

Just think, his employees have to take their smoke breaks under that thing.

Categories: Catalan physicians | Catalan psychiatrists | Psychiatrist stubs

On 12 November 2009, a home video was released to Wikileaks showing Vajiralongkorn and a topless Princess Srirasm celebrating the birthday of the Prince's poodle dog, Air Chief Marshal Foo Foo.

In late 1996, she used mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to help revive an 81-year-old woman, Alice Olson, who collapsed at a bar in Portland, Oregon, while playing video poker.[46]

The movie received mixed reviews from critics, and was criticised in the United States for its lack of depth and excessive use of nuns for humour. Nuns on the Run currently holds a 47% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

read that as "lack of excessive use of nuns for humour"

There has been discussion stating that the first year "Sea-Wees" had heads from a different mold than later dolls. This is untrue. The heads do not vary. It's the placement of features and the shape of the mouth that varies. The eyes were meant to be registered in the middle of the head sculpture and rest on the top of the cheek bones. During the second and third year, the dolls eyes were printed in a higher position on the face—sometimes so (unaturally high they are actually in the forehead!) and even some of the later series like Icy Gals and Bubble Ballet, the eyes were printed up -- This gives the face a longer look. When the eyes are printed where they should be towards the center of the face, the faces appear to be rounder. This was simply sloppy factory work that went unchecked. You can often find Sea-Wees (with one eye up a lot higher than the other—or the mouth printed off balance—be picky) when collecting and ask to see good pics from the seller before you buy or bid on a doll.

i have a new favorite:

The perhaps fictional paper presents this analytic paradigm as an extension of previously known concepts. Since it was not an academic publication, it did not claim novelty, even though the approach introduced was new and novel. An excerpt from the fictional paper reads:

The 1972 paper is ignored, because there is not any evidence that it was actually published and may be a fictional creation.

The killer of the film is motivated by sexual frustration.[1] The character is intentionally portrayed as a "creep", as often called in the film. The intend was to portray the characters in a way that the audience will feel no empathy for him. The type of villain an audience wants to see go down.[1]

The film features both violence, and "gratuitous nudity". It combines the two by having victims killed while naked or partially undressed.[1]

From the article on the 14th century poet Hafez, a section titled "Bibliomancy"

Many Iranians use Divan of Hafez for fortune telling. Iranian families usually have a Divan of Hafez in their house and when they get together during Nowruz or Yaldā open the Divan randomly and read the poem of that page. They believe that the poem on that page actually matches what happens to them in the future.[22]

Hedren was also instrumental in the development of Vietnamese-American nail salons in the United States.[1]

What???

Annona crassiflora, commonly known as the Marolo or Araticum do cerrado, is a flowering plant in the Annonaceae family. The flowers of a marolo look like jellyfishes wearing hats.