This is your LIIINKZ.com roundup #2 from Wide Web Zine, containing 10 interesting random Wikipedia articles picked by David Thrift, your blog host, and content curator at Wide Web Zine. I am providing you with article titles, an excerpt of the article so that you can judge for yourself your own level of interest, my own personal comments on articles if I have any, and the links you need should you wish to read the full articles on the Wikipedia website.
NOTE: This blog series is United States and general content focused. Any location specific articles for within the United States is included in the first 10 articles. Any foreign location specific, foreign related, or people from foreign countries as I encounter them on Wikipedia during my roundup and curation of the first 10 articles are included as extra content. I do not (on purpose) curate articles pertaining to present-day living political figures. Some deceased persons associated with politics at some point in their life may be listed based on historical interest, or their associations outside of politics. I try as much as possible to avoid curating any religious content at all. Please enjoy your reading.
001. Lactuca serriola - Lactuca serriola, also called prickly lettuce, milk thistle (not to be confused with Silybum marianum, also called milk thistle), compass plant, and scarole, is an annual or biennial plant in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae. It has a slightly fetid odor and is commonly considered a weed of orchards, roadsides and field crops. It is the closest wild relative of cultivated lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.). - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactuca_serriola
002. Alicia pretiosa - Alicia pretiosa is a species of sea anemone in the family Aliciidae and can be found in the Red Sea and South Pacific Ocean. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_pretiosa
003. Virginia Housing Development Authority - The Virginia Housing Development Authority (VHDA) is a self-supporting, not-for-profit organization created by the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1972, to help Virginians attain quality affordable housing. Mortgages are funded by bonds issued by VHDA, not by taxpayer dollars, and are available for homebuyers and developers of quality rental housing. The group teaches free homeownership classes, and helps people with disabilities and the elderly make their homes more livable. VHDA works with lenders, developers, local governments, community service organizations. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Housing_Development_Authority
004. Lake Fausse Pointe State Park - Lake Fausse Pointe State Park is located in Iberia Parish, Louisiana and St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, USA. It is located about 18 miles (29 km) east of St. Martinville adjacent to the Atchafalaya Basin. The park is 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) in size and was once the home of the Chitimacha Indians. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Fausse_Pointe_State_Park
005. Janel Leppin - Janel Leppin (born 1981) is an American singer, jazz cellist and multi-instrumentalist. She has performed at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and at many international festivals worldwide including the High Zero Festival, the Swedish Women in Jazz Festival, DC Jazz Festival and Washington Women in Jazz Festival. She has acted as curator for works shown at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the ISSUE Project Room. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janel_Leppin
006. Miles Myers - Miles Myers (1931–2015) was the leader of the Bay Area Writing Project and former Executive Director of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and director of the National Writing Project (NWP) in its early years. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Myers
007. Willie Cole - Willie Cole (born 1955 in Somerville, New Jersey) is a contemporary American sculptor, printer, and conceptual and visual artist. His work uses contexts of postmodern eclecticism, and combines references and appropriation from African and African-American imagery. He also has used Dada’s readymades and Surrealism’s transformed objects, as well as icons of American pop culture or African and Asian masks. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Cole
008. New York State Route 235 - New York State Route 235 (NY 235) is a north–south state highway in the Southern Tier of New York in the United States. Most of the route is in Chenango County; however, the southernmost 0.5 miles (0.8 km) is in Broome County. The southern terminus of NY 235 is at an intersection with NY 7 in the town of Colesville and its northern terminus is at a junction with the conjoined routes of NY 41 and NY 206 in the town of Coventry. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Route_235
009. William Schulhoff - William Schulhoff (March 19, 1898 – August 2, 1943) was an American painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Schulhoff
010. Robert Draper - Robert D. Draper (born as Robert Martin; 1938–2000) was a Navajo (Diné) and Hopi/Laguna contemporary artist, known for his watercolor paintings. He often painted realistic landscapes of the Navajo (Diné) Reservation and Canyon de Chelly. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Draper_(painter)
EXTRA CONTENT - FOREIGN ARTICLES (outside the United States):
011. Mysterious Island (1941 film) - Mysterious Island (Russian: Таинственный остров, tr. Tainstvenny ostrov) is a USSR film adaptation of the 1874 novel The Mysterious Island (French: L'Île mystérieuse) by Jules Verne. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterious_Island_(1941_film) - Plot summary - During the siege of Richmond, Virginia, in the American Civil War, five northern prisoners of war decide to escape in a rather unusual way – by hijacking a balloon. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterious_Island_(1941_film)
012. Brothers (ferry) - Brothers was a Manly ferry owned and operated by John and Joseph Gerard. She was built in 1847 by Thomas Chowney Pyrmont in New South Wales for use on Sydney Harbour. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_(ferry)
013. World Register of Marine Species - Ostend Belgium - The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a taxonomic database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Register_of_Marine_Species
014. M-1 Global - M-1 Global (Mixfight-1) or MMA-1 (Mixed martial arts-1) is a mixed martial arts promotion based in St. Petersburg, Russia which organizes between 10 and 20 competitions per year. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-1_Global
015. Tripple X III - Tripple X III (Namelus R x Calve B Z) is a horse formerly ridden by Canadian Tiffany Foster and British Ben Maher. Most famously he and Maher were on the gold medal winning team at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Foster also rode him to the team gold at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto on home soil. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripple_X_III
016. Ancistrus malacops - Ancistrus malacops is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is a freshwater fish native to South America, where it occurs in the Ampiyacu River basin in Peru. FishBase states that the species reaches 7.7 cm (3 inches) SL, although larger specimens, including one of 11.78 cm (4.6 inches) SL from the Gustavo Orcés V. Natural History Museum in Quito, Ecuador, are known. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancistrus_malacops
017. Caenognosis incisa - Caenognosis incisa is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found on the Philippines and Christmas Island, as well as in Australia (Queensland). Adults have white forewings, with brown markings near the apex and the basal half on the inner margin. The hindwings are plain pale brown. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenognosis_incisa
018. Municipal Theatre, Ho Chi Minh City - The Municipal Theatre of Ho Chi Minh City, also known as Saigon Municipal Opera House (Vietnamese: Nhà hát Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh), is an opera house in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It is an example of French Colonial architecture in Vietnam. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_Theatre,_Ho_Chi_Minh_City
019. UCL School of Pharmacy - The UCL School of Pharmacy (formerly The School of Pharmacy, University of London) is the pharmacy school of University College London (UCL). The School forms part of UCL's Faculty of Life Sciences and is located in London, United Kingdom. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCL_School_of_Pharmacy
020. Ordâncușa - The Ordâncușa (also: Ordencușa) is a left tributary of the river Gârda Seacă in Romania. It discharges into the Gârda Seacă near Gârda de Sus. Its length is 10 km (6.2 mi) and its basin size is 22 km2 (8.5 sq mi). - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ord%C3%A2ncu%C8%99a
021. Finke River - The Finke River, or Larapinta (Arrernte), is a river in central Australia, one of four main rivers of the Lake Eyre Basin and thought to be the oldest riverbed in the world. It flows for only a few days a year and when this happens, its water usually disappears into the sands of the Simpson Desert, rarely if ever reaching Lake Eyre. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finke_River
022. Kawabe Station (Akita) - Kawabe Station (Kawabe-eki) is a railway station in the city of Yurihonjō, Akita Prefecture, Japan, operated by the third-sector railway operator Yuri Kōgen Railway. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawabe_Station_(Akita)
This post was drafted on Saturday, December 31st, 2022 at 6:25 AM CST, and was published at 12:25 AM on Sunday, January 1st, 2023.
When I was growing up in the 1980's, one of my favorite things to do would be to sit down somewhere with a volume from the family encyclopedia set for reading. It was always fun to find articles that sparked my interest in learning something new. I would really love it if you have a favorite Wikipedia article of interest to suggest. Just give me the name of the article, and the Wikipedia url in a comment below, and thank you! I can use suggestions to add additional content to these Wikipedia article roundups.
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In this blog series, I have so far curated random Wikipedia articles related to... Alaska, artists, butterflies, California, coaches, constructors, crossword, databases, educators, fish, football, hotels, housing, mixed martial arts, Louisiana, moths, musicians, New Jersey, painters, parks, plants, puzzels, radio stations, rivers, sea life, schools, ships, sports, state parks, USA, weeds, writers, zen ... and more to come! Stay tuned to LIIINKZ.com and Wide Web Zine for the next roundup of random articles from Wikipedia.
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