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    Just like the iTunes shuffle thread but with Wiki.

    To the left of any Wiki page is a button called Random article, click and it gives you a random Wiki page.

    Post your first 5 clicks and see what random stuff you generate.

    I'll go first.

    Condillac, Drôme - Condillac is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France.
    Black Versace dress of Elizabeth Hurley - Elizabeth Hurley wore a black Versace dress, often referred to as "That Dress"
    Industrial Estates Limited - Industrial Estates Limited (IEL) was a Crown corporation established by the Government of Nova Scotia
    Christ Church, Crowton - Christ Church, Crowton, is located in Station Road, Crowton, Cheshire, England
    Magnets (album) - Magnets was The Vapors' second album, released in 1981.
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    Cellular Potts model - The cellular Potts model is a lattice-based computational modeling method to simulate the collective behavior of cellular structures.
    Karacabey - Karacabey is a town and district of Bursa Province in the Marmara region of Turkey.
    American Institute of Floral Designers - The American Institute of Floral Designers (AIFD), established in 1965, is a the oldest and largest non-profit organization dedicated to recognizing and promoting the art of floral design as a professional career.
    Bhakta Bahadur Shah - Bhakta Bahadur Shah is a Nepalese politician, belonging to the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).
    List of Zeppelins - This is a complete list of Zeppelins constructed by the original German Zeppelin companies from 1900 until 1938.
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    Manitoba Highway 12 - is a provincial highway in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It runs from the U.S. border (where it meets with Minnesota State Highway 313) to a dead end in Grand Beach. PTH 12 forms the Manitoba section of MOM's Way, a route from Thunder Bay to Winnipeg.

    Mariusz Szyszka (born 18 January 1988) is a Polish footballer who plays for Polonia Słubice in the Polish First League.

    Perkins Tank is located south of Williams in North Central Arizona within the acreage of Kaibab National Forest.

    The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a 1910 short play by George Bernard Shaw on William Shakespeare and the "Dark Lady" character in his sonnets.

    Karl R. Coolidge (29 March 1890 – 2 March 1964) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 73 films between 1913 and 1935. He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and died in Los Angeles, California.


    I got lame ones.
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    two barred or white winged crossbill A finch like bird found in Northern USA, Canada, across Asia and NE Europe.
    Evelyn Patuawa-Nathan A Maori authoress from the 1970s
    Robert Jolicoeur A Canadian landscape artist and designs show jumping courses born in 1948.
    Ţinutul Nistru A region in Romania capital city is Chisinau.
    Ruda Wieczynska A village in Poland 45mi SE of Poznan
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    Lyncina carneola
    Jessie Payne Margoliouth
    Litle Sokumvatnet
    Football at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads
    Semioscopis megamicrella
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    The Song of Dermot and the Earl- is an anonymous Norman verse chronicle written in the early 13th century.
    Wicked Funny Comedy Tour- is a televised stand-up comedy series that takes place throughout the Boston, MA area.
    IB Group 3 subjects- subjects of the IB Diploma Programme consist of nine courses offered at both the Standard level (SL) and Higher level (HL): Business and management, Economics, Geography, History, Information technology in a global society (ITGS), Islamic history, Philosophy, Psychology, and Social and cultural anthropology.[1]
    Highfield Church- is a parish church in the Highfield district of Southampton, England
    John Hobhouse, Baron Hobhouse of Woodborough- was a British judge and Law Lord.
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    William de Lauder - was bishop of Glasgow and Lord Chancellor of Scotland.
    Fast Lanes and Country Roads - is the title of a song written by Roger Murrah and Steve Dean, and recorded by American country music artist Barbara Mandrell.
    The RD Crusaders - is a super group band created by The Who's Roger Daltrey and newspaper publisher Richard Desmond in 2003.
    Elaine Caswell - is a female singer, heard on many recordings, and live appearances.
    An Uncommon Story - is an autobiographical literary memoir by Ivan Goncharov, written in 1875-1876 (with an 1878 addendum) and first published in 1924.
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    Novak Djokovic - (born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player who has been ranked World No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) since 4 July 2011. He has won five Grand Slam singles titles: the 2008, 2011 and 2012 Australian Open, the 2011 Wimbledon Championships, and the 2011 US Open. By winning three Majors in 2011, Djokovic became the sixth male player in the open era to win three Majors in a calendar year.

    ''Who's a Pretty Boy?" - is an episode of the BBC sitcom, Only Fools and Horses. It was the final episode of series 3, and was first broadcast on 22 December, 1983. In the episode, Del persuades Denzil to let them redecorate his flat, despite his wife Corrine's objections. Things go awry when they think they've killed Corrine's pet canary.

    "She's On Fire" - is a 1983 New Wave and synthpop song from the soundtrack of the film Scarface starring Al Pacino. The song was performed by singer Amy Holland, who had also recorded Turn Out the Night for the Scarface soundtrack.

    William John Paul "Liam" Gallagher - (born 21 September 1972) is an English musician and singer-songwriter, formerly the frontman of rock band Oasis and currently of the band Beady Eye. Gallagher's erratic behaviour, distinctive singing style, and abrasive attitude have been the subject of commentary in the press. He remains one of the most recognisable figures in modern British music.

    "The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala" - is a song by the English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys, released as the second single from their fourth studio album Suck It and See.

    This was completely random, honest.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WirralRiddler View Post
    Novak Djokovic - (born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player who has been ranked World No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) since 4 July 2011. He has won five Grand Slam singles titles: the 2008, 2011 and 2012 Australian Open, the 2011 Wimbledon Championships, and the 2011 US Open. By winning three Majors in 2011, Djokovic became the sixth male player in the open era to win three Majors in a calendar year.

    ''Who's a Pretty Boy?" - is an episode of the BBC sitcom, Only Fools and Horses. It was the final episode of series 3, and was first broadcast on 22 December, 1983. In the episode, Del persuades Denzil to let them redecorate his flat, despite his wife Corrine's objections. Things go awry when they think they've killed Corrine's pet canary.

    "She's On Fire" - is a 1983 New Wave and synthpop song from the soundtrack of the film Scarface starring Al Pacino. The song was performed by singer Amy Holland, who had also recorded Turn Out the Night for the Scarface soundtrack.

    William John Paul "Liam" Gallagher - (born 21 September 1972) is an English musician and singer-songwriter, formerly the frontman of rock band Oasis and currently of the band Beady Eye. Gallagher's erratic behaviour, distinctive singing style, and abrasive attitude have been the subject of commentary in the press. He remains one of the most recognisable figures in modern British music.

    "The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala" - is a song by the English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys, released as the second single from their fourth studio album Suck It and See.

    This was completely random, honest.

    Hmmm...
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    Ilya Gurevich (born February 8, 1972 in Kiev) is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster.

    Etim Ekpo is a town and Local Government Area in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.

    2705 Wu is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1183.5173900 days (3.24 years).The asteroid was discovered on October 9, 1980.

    Elliðavatn is a lake in Iceland. It is situated in the area of Reykjavík.

    Mirko Oremuš (born 6 September 1988 in Trogir) is a Croatian football midfielder, currently playing for Hapoel Tel Aviv in the Israeli Premier League.
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    Juville is a commune in the Moselle department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.

    The School Days anime, based off the visual novel of the same name, was produced by TNK.

    Casiano Mba (born 13 June 1978) is an Equatoguinean footballer.

    Ferenc Juhász (born 6 July 1960) in Nyíregyháza, is a former Minister of Defense for Hungary.

    The 2000 Toyota Atlantic Championship season was contested over 12 rounds.
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    Professor Ratbaggy (album) is the debut eponymous album by Australian rock/pop band Professor Ratbaggy and originally released on EMI Records in 1999

    Richard Money (Dicky Dosh) (born 13 October 1955) is an English former footballer turned manager, currently without a club

    Film budgeting refers to the process by which a line producer, unit production manager or filmmaker prepares a budget for a film production.

    The Turk's Head Building is a 16-story office high-rise in Providence, Rhode Island.

    Hayley-Marie Coppin (born 23 April 1983) is an English glamour model from Essex
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    Sand Point, also known as Qagun Tayagungin, is a city in Aleutians East Borough, Alaska,

    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Guaranda (Latin: Dioecesis Guarandensis) is a diocese located in the city of Guaranda in the Ecclesiastical province of Quito (Ecuador).

    Tangier is a 1946 black-and-white thriller film set in the city of Tangier, Morocco that was directed by George Waggner and filmed on Universal's backlot

    The Saca River is a tributary of the Clit River in Romania. (Love the river name!)

    Prairie smoke is a name attributed to several flowers:
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    Dominion Reptilian is the first album by the Swedish melodic death metal band Hearse.

    Daniel Břežný, (born 19 December 1977) is a Czech footballer who currently plays for FK Bosonohy.

    John of Viktring (btw. 1270 & 1280 - November 12, 1347) was a late medieval chronicler and political advisor to the rulers of Carinthia. He is also known as Johannes Victorensis, Johannes de Victoria, John of Victring, Johann von Viktring, or Jo(h)annes Victoriensis. In Slovene he is called Janez Vetrinjski.

    The Japanese Community Youth Council (JCYC) is a non profit community organization dedicated to serving the children, youth and families living in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Established in 1970, JCYC has become one of San Francisco’s most successful youth organizations. While still committed to children and youth from the Japanese American community, JCYC has evolved and grown into an organization, which annually serves over 8,000 young people from all socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds.

    John Floyer (26 April 1811 – 4 July 1887 ) was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1846 and 1885.
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    The Infernal Depths of Hatred - The Infernal Depths of Hatred is Anata's first full length album, released on Season of Mist Records.
    Batesia - Batesia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Caesalpinioideae.
    Červeňany - Červeňany (Hungarian: Veres) is a village and municipality in the Veľký Krtíš District of the Banská Bystrica Region of southern Slovakia.
    Bingley Music Live - Bingley Music Live is an annual music festival held in Myrtle Park, Bingley, West Yorkshire, England.
    Oklahoma state budget - The Budget of the State of Oklahoma is the Governor's proposal to the Oklahoma Legislature which recommends funding levels to operate the state government for the next fiscal year, beginning July 1.
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    The Young Men's Muslim Association (Arabic: جمعية الشبان المسلمين‎) (Jam'iyyat al-Shubban al-Muslimin) was founded in Egypt in 1928, with the start of the Muslim Brotherhood. By the end of the decade it had around 15,000 members. The leader of YMMA in Palestine was Izz al-din Qassam.

    Ikast-Brande is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Region Midtjylland in Denmark. It covers an area of 768 km² and a total population of 39,893 (2008).

    Inside Straight may refer to:
    • An inside straight is type of hand in poker—see Draw (poker)#Inside straight draw, Rank of hands (poker)
    • Inside Straight (album), an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley
    • Inside Straight, the first book in the "next-generation Wild Cards triad", edited by George R. R. Martin
    • "Inside Straight", a song by John Zorn from the 1989 album Naked City
    • Inside Straight, a 1951 film starring Mercedes McCambridge
    • "Inside Straight", a 1955 science fiction short story by Poul Anderson, taking place on a planet of gamblers
    • Inside Straight, a Jazz quintet led by Christian McBride formed in 2009

    Affirmative action refers to policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or national origin" into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group "in areas of employment, education, and business", usually justified as countering the effects of a history of discrimination.

    Acharya Nāgārjuna (Devanagari:नागार्जुन, Telugu: నాగార్జున, Tibetan: ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་ klu sgrub, Chinese: 龍樹, Sinhala නාගර්පුන) (ca. 150–250 CE) was an important Buddhist teacher and philosopher. Along with his disciple Āryadeva, he is credited with founding the Mādhyamaka school of Mahāyāna Buddhism. The Mādhyamaka school was in turn transmitted to China under the name of the Sānlùn School (Ch. 三論宗, "Three Treatise School").
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    Bektemir - Bektemir is one of 11 districts (tuman) of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.
    Dielman - Dielman may refer to: Frederick Dielman (1847–1935), American portrait and figure painter
    Deir Istiya - Deir Istiya is a Palestinian town of 3,106 located in the Salfit Governorate in the northern West Bank
    Phu Xuan - Phú Xuân is a historic place in **ế, Vietnam
    Roxanne Lowit - Roxanne Lowit is a New York-based fashion and celebrity photographer
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    2008–09 Coppa Titano - was the forty-ninth season of San Marino's oldest football competition. It began on 2 October 2008 with the first games of the Group Stage and ended on 4 May 2009 with the Final held at Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle. Murata were the defending champions. The winners of the competition earned a place in the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League 2009–10.

    The Impulse International is a rock 'n' roll band formed in New York City in 2003. The band consists of three members: Julius A. Buck (guitar, vocals), JD Romeo (bass, vocals), and Rob C. Sterling (drums).

    Anthony John "Tony" Randazzo (born January 11, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois) is an umpire in Major League Baseball. After working in the National League in 1999, he has umpired in both Major Leagues since 2000.[1]

    Nidorellia armata (common name, Chocolate Chip star) is a species of starfish. It is the only species in the genus Nidorellia. N. armata can be found in tropical waters clinging on corals and rocky reefs; and are sometimes kept as pets in home marine aquariums.
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    Hawksong
    is the first in a five book series of young adult fantasy shapeshifter novels called The Kiesha'ra Series.
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    Nice thread.

    Stuart Wagstaff AM (born 13 February 1925) is an Australian television and stage entertainer.

    Rumiejki [ruˈmjɛi̯ki] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bargłów Kościelny, within Augustów County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland

    "In Between Dances" is a single by American country music artist Pam Tillis. Released in 1995, it was the fifth single from the album Sweetheart's Dance. The song reached #3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[1]

    Arthur Caron (? - July 4, 1914) was a French Canadian anarchist and a member of the Industrial Workers of the World. He masterminded an attempt to assassinate John D. Rockefeller. He was killed along with Carl Hanson, and Charles Berg on July 4, 1914 when his bomb prematurely exploded.[1]

    The Lawrence L. Knoebel Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge located at Cleveland Township in Columbia County, Pennsylvania and Ralpho Township in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.

    The one who gets something Liverpool related first should get the Poster of the Year award.
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