Posts Tagged ‘wikipedia’
Links for 2007-10-25
Thursday, October 25th, 2007Tolkienesque
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006Someone at Wikipedia must be a big Middle-earth fan. Yesterday’s featured article was on J. R. R. Tolkien. Last October 5, The Lord of the Rings was the featured article.
There was news a month before all this that J.R.R. Tolkien’s son, Christopher Tolkien, just completed editing The Children of Hurin, an epic started by Tolkien in 1918 which he had later abandoned.
Philippine History at Wikipedia
Friday, October 20th, 2006Today’s featured article on Wikipedia is the History of the Philippines.
On this day, October 20, sixty-two years ago, General Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines as promised. In 1955 on this day, The Return of the King was first published. The Monterey Bay Aquarium first opened its doors on this day in 1984. The Oakland Hills firestorm also happened on this day in 1991. This day also happens to be my birthday.
I waited for my link to the History of the Philippines to appear as a post using del.icio.us’s built-in daily blog tool but it failed for some reason. I just have to post links like this manually, I suppose.
Manila LRT
Friday, June 30th, 2006Wikipedia’s featured article today is on the Manila Light Rail Transit System. Check it out.
Do you know the scene in The Great Raid where they show cable cars in Manila streets? I thought it was an inaccurate historical detail included by the filmmakers. Well, it turns out they were right. These “cable cars” were electric powered vehicles called tramvias, according to the article above. (On Google preview, Mark already mentioned it in his review of the movie).