User:MacGyverMagic/Reading list
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Interesting articles on my "To Be Read"-pile or articles I rarely edit but still like to keep stored somewhere or articles that are simply good.
Accuracy check: = May 1, 2007
- Bayeux Tapestry - possible FAC?
- Black Obelisk
- Cappuccio - headwear made by Italian Rennaisance tailors
- Chillingham Cattle
- Cochineal - red coloring derived from crushed beetles.
- Eyam - Plague village (victims)
- Fauna of Australia
- Genting Highlands - casino resort in rainforest
- Grand Canyon Skywalk
- Hill of Crosses
- Ithaa - underwater restaurant (covered at snopes.com)
- King's Cross fire
- Kaspar Hauser - murdered wild child in Middle Ages.
- Knut (polar bear) - polar bear subject to controversy. (Google, Newsround)
- Loimologia - treatise about bubonic plague by physicians that stayed.
- Ludlow wall box - wooden mailbox in UK.
- Mary King's Close - Hidden haunted street in Edinburgh.
- Medieval cuisine
- Saffron
- Tempest Prognosticator - Leech barometer.
- Teponaztli - Aztec slit drum.
- Tunguska Event - Unexplained explosion in 1908 Russia
- Victor of Aveyron - feral child
- Icelandic Phallological Museum
- Inaugural games of the Flavian Amphitheatre - the historical facts behind "The Gladiators of Capua"
- Cheese_rolling
- Leaning Tower of Pisa (straight dope)
- Celtic Thunder
FAC nominations to be read
[edit]Interesting article that still needs edit before going on this list
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