I want to learn...

[_streethop101]

Someone give me a quick little subject to Wiki over...just something interesting or someone interesting. I read up on a bunch of controversial historical figures, Stonewall Jackson, Benedict Arnold, Gehngis Kahn, etc. and just...BORED.

Any suggestions?

No book suggestions, please...I'm in the middle of one book and I'm afraid if I read two at once I'll get mixed up and think the lawyer I'm reading about is stranded in the Andes with the football team...

 

[ill-matic]

israel and palestinian conflict

 

[Bobby Sands]

Chernobyl disaster

 

[Glockmatic]

World War 2. Follow the links of the events that interest you and you'll get a SHIT LOAD of interesting stuff. Almost every battle in the war has a page and the tactics and technology involved. I was bored at work the other day and just read up on it for 8 hours, I found out stuff that I didn't know before.

Edit: I just realized that your post said "quick little subject". My bad

 

[Bobby Sands]

^^were those battles that took place in Finland between the Finns and the Soviets part of WWII? they are worth reading up on.

 

[Glockmatic]

Yes it is. I read up on a Finnish sniper that has the highest kills in any major war named Simo Hayha who didn't use a scoped rifle. The Soviets feared him so much they called for artillery bombardments on areas they thought he was in. Artillery support just for ONE man.

Simo Häyhä - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Simo Häyhä (December 17, 1905 – April 1, 2002), nicknamed "White Death" (Russian: Белая Смерть, Belaya Smert; Finnish: Valkoinen kuolema; Swedish: den Vita Döden) by the Soviet army, was a Finnish soldier. Using a standard iron-sighted, bolt action rifle in the Winter War, he had the highest recorded number of kills as a sniper in any major war.

 

[masta247]

Java programming. It'll take some years :idea:

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

I've done Java programming. Fuck that. I'd rather die.

 

[roaches]

Damn Interesting

 

[vg4030]

Check my last name.. Theres a page about my family

 

[Bobby Sands]

Yes it is. I read up on a Finnish sniper that has the highest kills in any major war named Simo Hayha who didn't use a scoped rifle. The Soviets feared him so much they called for artillery bombardments on areas they thought he was in. Artillery support just for ONE man.

Simo Häyhä - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There was one battle where a small army of Finns defeated a huge amount of Soviets. They waited across a frozen lake for the Soviets. The Soviets charged across the frozen lake after them while the Finns waited and broke the ice with grenades. Most of the soviets drowned and froze in the water.

 

[Bender]

try this if your bored: BREWER'S DICTIONARY OF PHRASE & FABLE

its an internet archive of the Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, it lists every phrase, saying, fable and so forth and their meaning, origin, description etc. its a valuble reference book (like wikipedia is valuble reference site), every writer/author has this book on their bookshelf, there is plenty to learn from it and reading it would improve your use of english to no end

 

[kastro]

wiki up tupac

 

[_streethop101]

^^^ Already did that.