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WELL, THERE YOU HAVE IT, I LEAVE. YOU ARE STILL FREE TO ENJOY WHAT I LEFT. SOME LINKS ARE BROKEN, SORRY, NO TIME TO TAKE CARE OF THOSE. I SPENT MOST OF THE TIME SCREWING ON MY OWN PAGE RATHER ON THE "BIG" PAGES. BYE!
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Do you speak English? Parlez-vous français? Hablas español? Sprechen Sie Deutsch? 你会说中文吗？日本語を話すか。
I will never be afraid again, I will keep on fighting 'till the end!
I can walk on water I can fly, I will keep on fighting 'till I die!
-Myself
Give me your secrets
Bring me a sign
Give me a reason
To walk the fire
See another dawn
Through our daughters' eyes
You give me a reason
To walk the fire
-The Unit
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Stuff about myself
- Real name: What do you get by regrouping the letters of my username? (nothing eh? - -b)
- Current location: Quebec, Canada
- Job: High school student
- Likes: Computer, movies (pretty much any kind)
- Other stuff: I'm a man, but I can't change, at least I believe so, I guess. (changed form The Red Green Show)
- Hello. Putting your real name on the Net is dangerous, if you didn't know that. I joined Wikipedia on July 2005 and before, eh, I was forbidded to go on to sites like this. Stuff about myself is there, above. I'm pretty much of a computer geek, and I use a proxy server whenever I go onto the Net.
What I do here
- I monitor the Recent Changes list. I dig in when I see bolded red numbers (the system bolds them for a reason, eh?), "blanked the page", and "replaced page with whatever".
- As the above, I revert vandalisms (if they are) and warn whoever did it. Sometimes bots go ahead of me.
- I check for typos in Random Article (
tyop).
- I patrol New Pages and tag bad ones.
- I try to improve certain articles that I know well.
-- If I made an error with any of the above, tell me.
- AND, I created 2 articles without being deleted.
That's pretty much it.
Articles by ME
These are all I know...
Riddle!
Thank you all for joining, winning, or died trying. This riddle is now closed. Reason: I leave.
Whoever solves this gets a barnstar.
Intro: There are 2 rooms (A and B). Room A has 3 switches, and room B has 3 light bulbs. Each switch controls 1 bulb, but you don't know which is which.
Rules:
You can only enter each room once (say, you enter room A, you get out, you cannot re-enter);You can only put each switch on for once (you put one of the switches to "ON", you turn it off, you cannot turn it on again).
Question: By following both rules, find a way to determine which switch controls which bulb.
This is a question invented by me. You will never find this elsewhere. Good luck!
Sign!
Sign here if you solved the problem (E-Mail me the answer to here. If the link does not work, click here instead)!
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Red Alert series - Soviet Rockets
Please be advised that this section is NOT an encyclopedic content!
- Red Alert 1: The opening scene of the Soviet Union launching a nuclear missile was in fact, a digitally re-made video of one of the the launchings of the Soviet Soyuz rockets (see pictures below).
- Red Alert 2: The Soviet nuclear missile was a re-make of the Soviet SS-6 missile.
The Soyuz rocket on launch pad
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Military Aircraft Milestones
Note: Some information might not be correct.
Blériot: First military aircraft (civil aircraft modified with knife attached to tail)
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1915 Fokker E-1 Eindecker: Max. speed 128km/h, first fighter aircraft having a front-firing machine gun.
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Handley-Page 0/400: Max. speed 128km/h, bomb load 906kg, first bomber aircraft.
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Supermarine Spitfire: Max. speed 656km/h, most produced WWII fighter aircraft (20,000).
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Gloster Meteor: Max. speed 969km/h, first planned jet fighter airctaft.
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Boeing B-52: Max. speed 960km/h, longest range heavy bomber.
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F/A-18C Hornet: Max. speed 2124km/h, most capable fighter aircraft today.
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F-22A Raptor: Future stealth fighter aircraft.
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History of modern cars
Note: Some information might not be correct.
1886 Karl Benz's car: 3/4 horsepower, maximum speed 13km/h.
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1908 Ford T, 20 horsepower.
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1927 KDF Wagen, ancester of the Volkswagen Beetle.
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WW2 Jeep, first 4x4 off-road vehicle.
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Cadillac Fleetwood 60, luxury car.
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Rolls-Royce Phantom V, leader of modern limosines.
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1959 Mini, A.Issigonis design, front-wheel drive.
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Porsche 928 S4, V8 engine, maximum speed 265km/h.
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Build your own Molotov Cocktail!
IMPORTANT: DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!
- Material: Any beer bottle, gasoline, some spare cloth, lighter (match, etc)
- EXTRA (to improve your Cocktail):
- White phosphorus (to make sure your Cocktail WILL burn);
- Starch, flour, detergent (to increase fuel viscosity and make it stick on targets longer);
- Household paint (to make a lot of smoke);
- Sulphuric acid (to increase power and damage, and/or to corrode fireproof layer/painting)
- Small amount of aluminium (to increase fire temperature; you can cut a tin can to get some).
- Pour gasoline into bottle; (NOTE: fill the bottle half full to 2/3 full. Do not overfill.)
- Seal your bottle with whatever you can get; (NOTE: do not use the same cloth for ignition to seal.)
- Cut a piece of cloth, tie it around the bottle neck;
- Wipe off excess gasoline on the outside of the bottle;
- Ignite & throw! (throw wherever you want, just not on the streets, if you don't plan to start a riot or get arrested.)
DANGER: You could get arrested for arson, disturbing the peace, attempted murder, and other stuff etc etc.
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- Read the Guerrilla Warfare book by Che Guevara here.
Interesting Facts (All thanks to Penubag!)
Every single one of these facts were typed up by Penubag and he grants you the freedom to do whatever you want with them.
Did You Know that...?
- Gold, the size of a matchbox, can be flattened to the size of a tennis court?
- The sentence: "The quick, brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet?
- Mosquitoes are more likely to bite you right after you've just eaten a banana?
- Camels are the only land mammals that can survive on salt water?
- Camels have 3 eyelids so they can see through the sandy wind?
- Mosquitoes favorite color is black. So, they will more likely bite you where you have dark clothes (on your leg near a black sock or on your arm where you are wearing a black mitten or sleeve).
- All polar bears are left-handed?
- Every continents’ name begins and ends with the same letter: Europe, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, America (North and South America are considered as America.)
- Taxi is spelled the same in all languages that use the ABCs for writing.
- Bats always exit to the right from a cave?
- Bats are the only mammals that can fly?
- A quarter has about 157 grooves (I don't remember the exact number) and a dime has one less?
- Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries?
- * If you think nothing is impossible, consider this: "It is impossible to be impossible". *
- * When you say a list of 2 or more things, you automatically put them in alphabetical order without even thinking about it. (It doesn't sound right to say "Bananas and apples"; you would normally say "Apples and bananas". It also doesn't sound right to say "Dogs and cats"; you would normally say "Cats and dogs". *
- In Egypt, only pharaohs were allowed to eat mushrooms?
- Ancient Egyptians used stones as pillows?
- The linen cloth used to wrap mummies was as long as the Empire State Building?
- Playing video games for over an hour can take your memory away. If you want to play longer, you should juggle for 15 minutes.
- The human brain can hold more than 10000 times the Encyclopedia Britannica.
- If you have a sore throat, gargle salt water. It will cure it.
- Racecar spelled backward spells Racecar.
- 2,000,000 frowns can make a permanent wrinkle.
- You're just as likely to die from falling out of bed than you are to be struck by lightning; 1 in 1,000,000 chance.
- Thomas Edison (The inventor of the light bulb) was afraid of the dark.
- There is a city called Rome in every continent.
- The Mona Lisa (A painting done by Leonardo da Vinci) has no eyebrows.
- Scissors were reportedly invented by Leonardo da Vinci.
- Experts say that tips rise by about 5% when waiters draw a happy face on the check.
- You buy a lot more groceries (food items) when you shop while you are hungry.
- Most lipsticks contain fish scales (The shiny part of the lipstick).
- Dogs can see less than color. (Example: They can see the difference between Red and Blue but not Blue and Violet).
- Monkeys can count.
- If you are lost and very hungry, chew on leather. It has enough nutrients to sustain life for a short time.
- If you are lost in a desert and very thirsty, suck on pebbles.
- Monkeys have blood type "B".
- It takes about the same amount of energy, as a city would use to make one anti-matter.
- Scientists predicted that all the galaxies that came from the Big Bang would eventually go back to that spot where it happened because of the gravity in our universe; but they recently found out that the galaxies are speeding up in the opposite direction as they predicted. Scientists think that there might be an opposite force of gravity in space, which they called dark force. This might mean in trillions of years from now, there won’t be any stars when we look up at the sky.
- The Tyrannosaurus Rex had a brain the size of a walnut.
- We previously thought that Daddy-Long-Legs are very poisonous, except that they don't bite humans because we're of our size. This is now just known as a past myth. see here.
- Jingle Bells was originally written for Thanksgiving, not for Christmas.
- Wrigley's Gum was the first product to have a barcode.
- It takes your body about 8 years to digest gum. (This may be inaccurate)
- The neater you can draw a circle, the smarter you are.
- A gifted person plays around, doesn't pay attention very well, never complement themselves, and always think that they can do better than they do.
- * If there were two paths (right and left), and if you could choose which path to take, you would choose the path on the right if you are right-handed (or maybe right-eyed) and left if you are left-handed. (This is only true if the paths look the same (the same because you would really take the path that looks the nicest to you) and if you don't care where you end up). *
- Kids that have autism usually think with pictures, not words.
- Kelp (seaweed) if the fastest growing thing on Earth. Bamboo is 2nd.
- A giraffe can kill a lion with one kick.
- A day on Mercury is hot enough to melt lead.
- The days on a desert are hot enough to fry an egg and the nights are cold enough to freeze a cup of water.
- Glue used to be marked Kosher because it didn’t have any meat products in it.
- A jiffy can vary in the amount of time. (see here).
- Babies in America are usually fed Cheerios first before any other hard, solid food.
- Only three rivers in the world flow uphill.
- About 68% Americans say that they have an IQ higher than average.
- It is illegal to look at a moose in any flying object in Alaska.
- Nose prints are used to identify pigs, as fingerprints for humans.
- Alaska's state sport is dogsledding.
- In Tibet, it is considered polite to stick your tongue out at people.
- Elephants are the only animals with 4 knees.
- A week old gazelle can outrun a full-grown horse.
- In college, Robin Williams was thought to be the least likely to succeed.
- To remove permanent marker, use nail polish remover or alcohol.
- Every day, Americans eat an average of 8 acres of pizza.
- Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his hat to keep him cool. He changed it every 3 innings.
- Humans have 9 neck bones, the same as giraffes.
- Adults have fewer bones than when they were born.
- * If you are right-handed, you will draw a circle counterclockwise. *
- If you eat an apple in the morning, it might wake you up. (Try this instead of drinking coffee).
- If your car gets stuck in a ditch in the snow, and you can't drive out of it, and you’re also in the middle of no-where, and if your cell phone doesn't work in that area, take half the air out from your tires. If you do that, you can drive out of the ditch until your cell phone works.
- If you feed a spider coffee, it will become drunk and it will spin its web in a mess.
- Black widows spin their webs messy.
- Sea urchin and black widow babies eat their mothers after they're born. Some shark parents eat their babies after their born if they can't swim away fast enough from them.
- During the year 2001, there has been about 6 people killed by sharks and over two thousand sharks killed by humans.
- The area of skin below your eye gets dark if you don't drink enough water.
- Vitamin A improves eyesight and it lets you see your dreams clearer and more often.
- Comets are made up of ice and other materials. It is thought that Earth's waters came from comets colliding into Earth and then melting.
- Venus flycatchers bloom pretty, delicate white flowers.
- A car with manual shift gets about 1 more mile before running out of gas than a car with automatic shift.
- A sneeze travels out of your mouth at about 100-mph.
- Donald Duck posters were once banned from libraries in Finland on the World because he wasn't wearing any pants.
- There aren't any clocks or windows in Las Vegas Casinos.
- Every time you get hit by a baseball, you lose about 10 brain cells.
- * If you like round things rather than sharp, pointed things, your writing tends to be rounder than some who likes sharper things. *
- Fish oils improve eyesight much better than carrots do.
- Strawberries and loquats are both members of the rose family.
- It is a mistaken thought that being cold will make you to sick.
- The average lighting bolt is about 6 times hotter than the surface of the sun. (54,000 degrees F)
- One in 300 have one blue eye and one brown eye.
- Jeans were invented in California..
- There are chemical elements called californium (Cf), americium (Am), and europium (Eu).
- If you chew gum and raw tuna fish at the same time, the gum will dissolve. This idea might take gum off the carpet or other places (but I’m not really sure).
- The longest word in the English language is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis, which is a disease. This is a real word, if you don’t believe me, go to Microsoft Word and type this in, it will be in the dictionary (and won’t be underlined red) It is supposedly the longest word in the English dictionary.
- Particles in our atmosphere that are approximately the same size as the wavelength of visible light cause the white light from the sun to scatter and split into individual components. Oxygen and Nitrogen (the main components of our atmosphere) scatter violet and blue light due to their small size. This is why the sky appears to be blue in the day time, especially at midday when the Sun is closest to us.
- Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
- There are 96 facts above this sentence. * (Not Including This One)
He typed all these facts, and he got them all from his memory (he didn't copy anything while he typed), and he got the information from many different sources (but none from the Internet), so these facts may not be very accurate. The stars (*) are the facts that he found out on his own (don't trust them to be right either).
Wikipedians that I wish to thank
- East.718, for helping me with the hash string and for reverting vandalism and protecting my page;
- Giles Bennett, for reverting vandalism for my page;
- Runewiki777, for letting me "copy" much of his cool ideas, and teaching me how to make signatures (he made me one);
- Penubag, for his really sweet interesting facts;
- Lindsey8417, for telling me informations about the "trivia";
- Zenlax, for being the first to sign my guestbook;
- And ALL other Wikipedians for making Wikipedia such a good place! This is awesome, thank you all very much!
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