Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of November 28, 2022 (self.wikipedia)
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Zhemao is the pseudonym of a Chinese Wikipedia editor that created over 200 interconnected articles about falsified aspects of medieval Russian history. They eluded detection for over a decade by faking a persona as a Russian history scholar and using sockpuppet accounts to feign support. (en.wikipedia.org)
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The Palmarian Christian Church, founded in 1978, does not recognize any popes after Paul VI as Catholic, and holds that the Palmarian Christian Church has continued the papacy. The current pope is Pope Peter III. Members are expected not to watch any films or television, vote or read newspapers. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Mobile SitePlacing notes in the Western Wall (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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HeLa is an immortal cell line used in scientific research. It is the oldest and most commonly used human cell line. The line is derived from cervical cancer cells taken on February 8, 1951 named after Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year-old African-American mother of five, who died of cancer on October 4. (en.wikipedia.org)
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I'm Backing Britain - 1968 campaign to boost the UK economy via unpaid overtime. "After a few months without any noticeable effect on individual companies or the economy generally, interest flagged amid much embarrassment about some of the ways in which the campaign had been pursued and supported." (en.wikipedia.org)
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Park51 is a development originally envisioned as a 13-story Islamic community center and mosque in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Due to its proposed location, two blocks from the World Trade Center site, the proposed building was widely referred to as the "Ground Zero mosque". (en.wikipedia.org)
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