User:FrenchIsAwesome

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Hi! I like French.

Note: that's a wikipedia-approved template there - {{exploding animals}}. Apparently there was a lot of demand for a list of exploding animals.

Nifty Pages

The

Voynich Manuscript
- A hoax or just illegible?
Alexander "Sawney" Bean
- Legendary head of a cannibalistic family
Monty Hall problem - A counterintuitive solution that's nevertheless quite neat.
The
First image on the Web
!
Paul Gauthier, Canadian National Hockey League Players, are also the names of the founders of Inktomi
. Crazy, eh?
Note: these links go to to the NHL players' pages, as the Inktomi founders' pages do not currently exist. Maybe you want to edit
Eric's page? Or create Paul's
?
burn a million pounds. Read it, it's interesting.
Emperor Norton (c. 1815 - 1880) - the self-proclaimed emperor of the United States.
Fan death - the belief (held almost exclusively by South Koreans) that sharing a closed room with a running electric fan will lead to death.
Smart Alec (1951 film) - Possibly the first porn film, though I mainly put it on here because it has {{spoiler}} in it. Seriously? For a porn film?

Mojibake - I love that there is a name for this.

Mammalian diving reflex

Stendhal Syndrome
- "there are many descriptions of people becoming dizzy and fainting while taking in Florentine art, especially at the Uffizi"

Ayyyyyy!


Paraprosdokian: "a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part."

Zeugma: "a figure of speech describing the joining of two or more parts of a sentence with a single common verb or noun.", e.g. "Mr. Jones took his coat and his leave".

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Math Links

William James Sidis - A very gifted child prodigy (he wrote a treatise on anatomy when he was 4 years old) who is largely unknown today.
History of calculus

Wikipedia-related Links

User:The_Transhumanist/Virtual_classroom
- Lessons on advanced wikipedia skills

Users

Ogg Vorbis
player that lets you play songs in your browser on Wikipedia.

Monobook.js

User:FrenchIsAwesome/monobook.js: My (copied and pasted) JavaScript for the Monobook style (the default style).