User:Rickremember
A Little About Me
I won't lay claims to being any kind of wellspring of great knowledge, I've just enjoyed using Wikipedia as a reseach source and thought I'd help in contributing where I can.
Pop-culture is an area I'm most familier with. But I've an interest in almost all areas.
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Articles of Interest
Architecture
- Architectural acoustics
- Burj Khalifa
- Egyptian pyramid construction techniques
- Janka hardness test
- List of castles in France
- Oculus
- Rock-cut architecture
Armaments
- Bullet-shooting crossbow
- Burning glass
- Carcass (projectile)
- Centrifugal gun
- Confederate Revolving Cannon
- Damascus steel
- Dynamite gun
- Epsilon axe
- Estoc
- Express
- Fire lance
- Girandoni Air Rifle
- Harpe
- Hawaiian sling
- Henrion, Dassy & Heuschen Revolver
- Howdah pistol
- Hwacha
- Iaijutsu
- Khopesh
- Meteor hammer
- Mitrailleuse
- Mysorean rockets
- Nock gun
- Retiarius
- Ribauldequin
- Snaphance
- Sonic weapon
- Sonnengewehr
- Sprengel explosive
- Steam cannon
- Thermobaric weapon
- Tsar Tank
- Wind and fire wheels
- Wunderwaffe
- Yawara
Armor
Countermeasures
Art
- Aleatoricism
- An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
- Complexion
- Eurythmy
- Fabergé egg
- Gibson Girl
- Hawksian woman
- Hunger artist
- Impossible color
- Lycurgus cup
- Metafictional techniques
- Theory of Colours
Film-making
Music
- Armonica
- Canon
- Carl Stalling
- Coltrane changes
- Cristal baschet
- Gravikord
- Hauntology
- Idiophones
- Musique concrète
- Plunderphonics
- Singing bowl
- Slughorn
Songs
Theatre
Writing
- Allegory
- Anti-villain
- Bangsian fantasy
- Bathos
- Bechdel test
- Black books of hours
- Cacography
- CamelCase
- Clarke's three laws
- Cut-up technique
- Dark fantasy
- Decadent movement
- Diegesis
- Dundrearyism
- Fix-up
- Flyting
- Foil
- Free indirect speech
- Gaslamp fantasy
- Iceberg Theory
- Inherently funny word
- In medias res
- Interstitial art
- Intertextuality
- Inverted detective story
- Lost work
- Low fantasy
- Macaronic language
- Magic realism
- Manfra
- Mannerpunk
- Menippean satire
- New Weird
- Occult detective fiction
- Oulipo
- Paradoxography
- Postmodern literature
- Progymnasmata
- Snowclone
- Roman à tiroirs
- Swipe (comics)
- The Seven Basic Plots
- The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
- Uchronia
- Word count
- Works of unknown authorship
Journalism
Poetry
Stories
- The Aleph (short story)
- Brown on Resolution
- The Chronic Argonauts
- The Defence of Duffer's Drift
- The Future Eve
- The Invention of Morel
- Killed at Resaca
- Last Seen Wearing ...
- Mademoiselle de Scuderi
- The Oval Portrait
- The Sea Raiders
- True History
- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
- The Yellow Wallpaper
Aviation
- Airborne wind turbine
- History of aviation
- Kytoon
- Pacific Clipper
- Papin-Rouilly Gyroptère
- Rotor kite
- Sky lantern
- Vacuum airship
- Zero-length launch
Cartography
- Ammassalik wooden maps
- Early world maps
- Historic maps of the world
- Marshall Islands stick chart
- Phantom Island
Criminology
Crimes
- Bluebelle
- Gilles de Rais
- Hinterkaifeck murders
- Lady Bluebeard
- London Burkers
- Murder of Marion Parker
- Ratcliff Highway murders
- Thames Torso Murders of 1887-89
- Wineville Chicken Coop Murders
Disasters
- 1883 eruption of Krakatoa
- 1970 Propane vapor cloud explosion in Port Hudson
- Bal des Ardents
- Broughton Suspension Bridge
- Carrington Event
- Crush, Texas
- Great Chicago Fire
- Great Hinckley Fire
- Great Molasses Flood
- Hartford circus fire
- List of fires
- List of military nuclear accidents
- Szilveszter Matuska
- Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Aerial
- 1933 Imperial Airways Diksmuide crash
- 1940 Brocklesby mid-air collision
- 1946 Antarctica PBM Mariner crash
- 1947 BSAA Avro Lancastrian Star Dust accident
- 1950 British Columbia B-36 crash
- 2002 Eastern Mediterranean event
- B-25 Empire State Building crash
- Lady Be Good
- LANSA Flight 508
- List of sole survivors of aviation accidents
- Miss Macao
- Romance of the Skies
- USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)
- Tragedy at Kufra
Nautical
Economics
Fashion
Food
Condiments
Confectioneries
Drink
Spices
Games
Puzzles
History
- Able Archer 83
- Affair of the Poisons
- Ancient libraries
- Antarctic Snow Cruiser
- Attic calendar
- Berne Convention (1906)
- Cities of the ancient Near East
- Darien scheme
- Gong farmer
- Harlem Renaissance
- Heraldry
- Historic regions of the United States
- Imperial Throne (micronation)
- Inca road system
- Katorga
- List of archaeoastronomical sites by country
- List of Chinese inventions
- £sd
- Mayerling Incident
- Obsolete occupations
- Primitive technology
- Onna-bugeisha
- Prison ship
- Regnal name
- Regnal number
- Resurrectionist
- Revolutions of 1848
- Rhyton
- Roman festivals
- Sigillography
- Sino-Roman relations
- South American dreadnought race
- Speculum literature
- Sundown town
- Swastika (Germanic Iron Age)
- Szlachta
- Tanaka Memorial
- Thuggee and Dacoity Department
- Valknut
Language
- Center embedding
- Constructed language
- Cyrillic numerals
- False friend
- Floriography
- Glagolitic script
- Graphic pejoratives in written Chinese
- Grundyism
- Hepburn Romanization
- Linguistic relativity
- Mondegreen
- Onomastics
- Paraprosdokian
- Philosophy of language
- Profanity
- Prosody
- Ruby character
- Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
- Sociolect
- Slang
- Word order
- Ye olde
Locations
- Belem Tower
- Basilica Cistern
- City of Arts and Sciences
- Enfer
- Fingal's Cave
- Lake Manasarovar
- Mont Saint-Michel
- Nan Madol
- Neuschwanstein Castle
- Richat Structure
- Rujm el-Hiri
- Sedlec Ossuary
- Skara Brae
- Sphinx (Romania)
- Tulum
Logic
- Ariadne's thread
- Curry's paradox
- Godel's incompleteness theorems
- Ludic fallacy
- Markov chain
- Metatheory
- Morton's fork
- Probability interpretations
- Problem of induction
- Propositional calculus
- Unexpected hanging paradox
- Zeroth-order logic
Martial Arts
Mathematics
- Archimedean graph
- Base-11
- Catastrophe theory
- Clifford algebra
- Cryptography
- Game Theory
- Graph theory
- Hilbert's problems
- List of obsolete units of measurement
- Missing square puzzle
- Probability theory
- Proof by contradiction
- Summation
Media
Medicine
- Anthroposophical medicine
- Allodynia
- Argyria
- Bogart-Bacall syndrome
- Comorbidity
- Cyanosis
- Experiments in the Revival of Organisms
- Echophenomenon
- Gastroparesis
- Hypercapnia
- Hypochromic anemia
- Intraosseous infusion
- Jejunostomy
- Liquid breathing
- Medical scales
- Methemoglobinemia
- Obsolete medical theories
- Paradoxical reaction
- Parasympathomimetic drug
- Phantom limb
- Pharmacognosy
- Spagyric
- Sulfhemoglobinemia
- Superior mesenteric artery syndrome
- Theobromine poisoning
- The great imitator
- Toxicology
- Xanthopsia
Epidemiology
Music
Mythology
- Aaron's breastplate
- Adder stone
- Baetylus
- Balm of Gilead
- Billy Blind
- Child Ballads
- Classifications of fairies
- Crossroads mythology
- Daemon (classical mythology)
- Dybbuk
- Euhemerism
- Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts
- Folklore
- Gates of Alexander
- Greco-Roman mysteries
- Hind Etin
- Interpretatio graeca
- Language of the birds
- Legendary crows
- Legendary invertebrates
- Legendary serpents
- Liminality
- List of mythological objects
- Medieval European legendary creatures
- Mesoamerican world tree
- Morphology (folkloristics)
- Mythological archetypes
- Mythological cephalopods
- Mythological places
- Mythological substances
- Mytheme
- Nine Worthies
- Norumbega
- Ophir
- Orc
- Ouroboros
- Putto
- Sacamantecas
- Snallygaster
- Supernatural legends
- Will-o'-the-wisp
Arabian
Australian
Aztec
Buddhist
Chinese
Egyptian
English
German
Greek
- Agathodaemon
- Agdistis
- Androktasiai
- Apega of Nabis
- Cadmean vixen
- Cap of invisibility
- Comus
- Drakaina
- Dionysian Mysteries
- Eleusinian mysteries
- Gorgoneion
- Hysminai
- Kallikantzaros
- Maenad
- Omphalos
- Ring of Gyges
- Taraxippus
- Zagreus
Indian
Irish
- Aos Sí
- Dobhar-chú
- Fomorians
- Four Treasures of the Tuatha Dé Danann
- Immram
- Leanan sídhe
- Rath
- Scáthach
- The Morrigan
Japanese
Malaysian
Maori
Mayan
Mongolian
Native American/First Nations
- Inuit
- Kushtaka
- Kwakwaka'wakw mythology
- Mythologies of the indigenous peoples of the Americas
- Raven Tales
- Rougarou
- Skin-walker
Norse
- Dökkálfar and Ljósálfar
- Galdr
- Gleipnir
- Gná and Hófvarpnir
- Hafgufa
- Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks
- Hlín
- Horagalles
- Hrímthursar
- List of names of Odin
- Locations in Norse mythology
- Lyngbakr
- Numbers in Norse mythology
- Sæhrímnir
- Sága and Sökkvabekkr
- Seiðr
- Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr
- Þrúðvangr
- Völva
Orcadian
Roman
Scandanavian
Scottish
Slavic
Turkic
Welsh
Zoroastrian
Occult
- Abraxas
- Actorius
- Alchemical documents
- Animism
- Apotropaic magic
- Artificial scripts used in mysticism
- Augur
- Babalon
- Bilocation
- Chizuko Mifune
- Demon
- Egregore
- Enochian
- Entheogen
- Extispicy
- Glossolalia
- Greek Magical Papyri
- Grimoire
- Haruspex
- Hermeticism
- Hexenturm
- Hollow earth
- Icelandic magical staves
- Inedia
- Kirlian photography
- List of occult terms
- Magical texts
- Magic objects
- Magic spells
- Molybdomancy
- Nazism and occultism
- Occult books
- Onomancy
- Pareidolia
- Phlogiston theory
- Pneumatology
- Renaissance magic
- Seven rays
- Spiritism
- Spiritualism
- Subtle body
- Theurgy
- Thoughtography
- Tulpa
- Vril
- Walk-in
Optical Illusions
Paranormal
- Anomalistics
- Divination
- Ectoplasm
- Ghosts
- Paranormal hoaxes
- Paranormal terminology
- Parapsychology
- Society for Psychical Research
- Super-Sargasso Sea
- Time slip
People
- Aphra Behn
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy
- Bridey Murphy
- Bummer and Lazarus
- Carl Reichenbach
- Cornelis Drebbel
- Eben Byers
- Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire
- Ernst Chladni
- Frederick Gustavus Burnaby
- Gene Beene
- Horace de Vere Cole
- Hypatia
- Ingersoll Lockwood
- Ivan Ivanovich
- Jack Parsons
- Jackson C. Frank
- James Kenneth Stephen
- James Tilly Matthews
- James Vincenzo Capone
- Jeremiah N. Reynolds
- Jerome Caminada
- Joe Carstairs
- Johannes van der Beeck
- John Batman
- John Bodkin Adams
- John Cobb
- Johnny Eck
- Karolina Olsson
- Kirk Allen
- L'Inconnue de la Seine
- Madalyn Murray O'Hair
- Mary Grace Quackenbos (aka. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes)
- Person from Porlock
- Peter Rugg
- Phryne
- Piri Reis
- Roger Bacon
- Sawney Bean
- Sepharial
- Sigmund Neuberger
- Simon Hatley
- Solomon Andrews
- Spearhafoc
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Stanford R. Ovshinsky
- William James Sidis
- Wim Hof
- Yasuke
Philosophy
- Absurdism
- Amor fati
- Ancient Greek women philosophers
- Anthroposophy
- Arthashastra
- Atomism
- Buddhist philosophical concepts
- Causal adequacy principle
- Certainty
- Dasein
- Dream yoga
- Epiphenomenalism
- Essence
- Eternal return
- Existentialism
- Frege's Puzzle
- Haecceity
- Hermeneutics
- Idealism
- Kantian ethics
- Marx's theory of alienation
- Master-slave dialectic
- Metaphysics
- Metempsychosis
- Nihilism
- Noetic theory
- Objectivist philosophy
- Omega Point
- Ontology
- 'Pataphysics
- Phenomenology
- Philosophical zombie
- Post-structuralism
- Razors
- Ressentiment
- Shikata ga nai
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Solipsism
- Spectacle (critical theory)
- Stoicism
- Theodicy
- Theory of Forms
- Thing-in-itself
- Thought experiment
- Turiya
- Will to power
- World riddle
Politics
Sociology
- Communication
- Identity politics
- Social threefolding
- Strauss-Howe generational theory
- Structuralism
- Symbolic Convergence Theory
- Thought Experiments
- Unintended consequences
Science
- Aluminum based nanogalvanic alloys
- Analemma
- Computer science
- Electrical phenomena
- Faraday cage
- Haptics
- Heuristics
- Infrasound
- Kármán vortex street
- Lichtenberg figures
- List of Catholic cleric-scientists
- List of commonly used taxonomic affixes
- List of unusual units of measurement
- Malthusian catastrophe
- Molecular gastronomy
- Multimodal interaction
- Obsolete scientific theories
- Optography
- Philology
- Philosophy of science
- Pseudoscience
- Royal Society
- Sonoluminescence
- Statite
- Superseded scientific theories
- Synesthesia
- Teleforce
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation
- Ultraviolet catastrophe
Archeology
- Archeoacoustics
- Chinese pyramids
- Derinkuyu Underground City
- Etemenanki
- Experimental archeology
- Fluorine absorption dating
- Library of Pergamum
- Pyramids in Oceania
- Visby lenses
Astronomy
- A/2017 U1
- Almagest
- Apsis
- Astronomical controversies
- Aurora of November 17, 1882
- Black holes
- Centaurs
- CfA2 Great Wall
- Chthonian planet
- Comets
- Dark-sky preserve
- Drake equation
- Extrasolar planet
- Hanny's Voorwerp
- Hypothetical bodies of the Solar System
- Impact events
- Io as an X-ray source
- Kardashev scale
- Kessler syndrome
- Lagrangian point
- Libration
- Light echo
- List of Arabic star names
- Lists of constellations
- Makemake
- McKendree cylinder
- Nakshatra
- Olbers' paradox
- O'Neill cylinder
- Penrose process
- Planetary objects proposed in religion, astrology, ufology and pseudoscience
- Scattered disc
- Scholz's Star
- Solar storm of 1859
- Solar System dynamic theories
- SuitSat
- Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology
Astrophysics
Biology
- Amensalism
- Blue field entoptic phenomenon
- Cetacean intelligence
- Deep-sea gigantism
- DNA methylation
- Epigenetics
- Flow cytometry
- Haematophagy
- Hemocyanin
- Lamarckism
- Mendelian inheritance
- Monoamine oxidase A
- Myoglobin
- Nudibranch
- Price equation
- Totipotency
- Transposable element
- ZW sex-determination system
Chemistry
- Acid
- Alchemy
- Alkahest
- Allotrophy
- Amphoterism
- Biology and pharmacology of chemical elements
- Cinnamic acid
- Classical elements
- Dimethyltryptamine
- Greek fire
- Ouzo effect
- Picric acid
- Pneumatic chemistry
- Pyrophoricity
- Sonochemistry
- Stibnite
- Zwitterion
Cognitive Science
- Cognition
- Einstellung effect
- Endel Tulving
- Fuzzy-trace theory
- List of cognitive biases
- Magical thinking
- Metacognition
- Philosophy of mind
- Situation awareness
- Theory of mind
Fringe Science
Geography
Geology
Geometry
Geophysics
Magnetism
- Diamagnetism
- Earnshaw's theorem
- Geomagnetic reversal
- Magnetic levitation
- Magnetic moment
- Magnetic monopole
- Paramagnetism
- South Atlantic Anomaly
Materials Science
Metallurgy
Meteorology
Mineralogy
Neuroscience
- Bereitschaftspotential
- Declarative memory
- Ideasthesia
- Neuroplasticity
- Neuroscience of free will
- Sleep spindle
Paleontology
Physics
- Accumulator
- Aether theories
- Cauchy horizon
- Classical Mechanics
- Electrostatics
- Evanescent wave coupling
- Fluid dynamics
- Moduli space
- Physics in fiction
- Radiometry
- Rheology
- Simple machine
- Structural dynamics
- Time travel
Psychology
- ASMR
- Behavioral cusp
- Capgras delusion
- Cognitive psychology
- Cotard delusion
- Counterfactual thinking
- Dunning-Kruger effect
- Fluid and crystallized intelligence
- Folie à deux
- Fugue state
- Hyperthymesia
- Industrial and organizational psychology
- Involuntary Memory
- Jamais vu
- Johari window
- Logotherapy
- Mortality salience
- Neuro-linguistic programming
- Observer-expectancy effect
- Paraphilias
- Parasomnia
- Paris syndrome
- Personality psychology
- Presque vu
- Psychoneuroimmunology
- Richard von Krafft-Ebing
- The Sekhmet Hypothesis
- Spontaneous remission
- Stendhal syndrome
- Typical intellectual engagement
- Uncanny
Psychophysics
Quantum Electrodynamics
Quantum Field Theory
Quantum Mechanics
- Bell's theorem
- Quantum decoherence
- Quantum entanglement
- Many-worlds interpretation
- Thought experiments in quantum mechanics
Quantum Physics
Robotics
Space Exploration
Theoretical Computer Science
Thermodynamics
Zoology
- Aposematism
- Asian giant hornet
- Electroreception
- Ethology
- Giant salamander
- Metachronal rhythm
- Tibetan blue bear
- Vampyromorphida
Theology
Theosophy
Unexplained
- 1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg
- 19th-century hoaxes
- Archeological forgeries
- Acrocyanosis
- Angikuni Lake
- Anomalistics
- Antikythera mechanism
- Baghdad Battery
- Bell's palsy
- Bennington Triangle
- Bloop
- Bosnian pyramid claims
- Carroll A. Deering
- Cicada 3301
- Conspiracy theories
- Cryptid
- Dendera light
- Devil's Footprints
- Dyatlov Pass incident
- Extraterrestrial hypothesis
- Flannan Isles
- Forteana
- Hessdalen lights
- Hoaxes in science
- Inscriptions of disputed origin
- Joyita
- Kirlian photography
- Legend tripping
- Legio IX Hispana
- Ley line
- List of aerial disappearances
- List of people who disappeared mysteriously
- List of reported UFO sightings
- List of unusual deaths
- Lists of unsolved problems
- Lost cities and towns
- Lost lands
- Lost Ship of the Desert
- Nine Unknown Men
- Ourang Medan
- Out-of-place artifact
- Paradoxography
- Piri Reis map
- Pyramids of Paratoari
- Rongorongo
- Shugborough inscription
- SS Raifuku Maru
- Tabnit sarcophagus
- Tichborne case
- Toynbee tiles
- Tunguska event
- Undeciphered historical codes and ciphers
- Undeciphered writing systems
- Unexplained disappearances
- Unidentified people
- Urban legends
- Utsuro-bune
- Vela Incident
- Voynich manuscript
Vehicles
- Atmospheric railway
- Bennie Railplane
- cyclogyro
- Flywheel energy storage
- Ground effect vehicle
- Landship
- List of production battery electric vehicles
- Motorjet
- Nautilus-X
- Nazi UFOs
- Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility
- Schienenzeppelin
Words
- Acheiropoieta
- Aestivation
- Agape
- Apergy
- Anasyrma
- Askari
- Atlantropa
- Aventurescence
- Bergamot
- Birefringence
- Bluesnarfing
- Boustrophedon
- Brisance
- Caravanserai
- Carminative
- Caveat lector
- Chatoyancy
- Chionophile
- Cinnamaldehyde
- Combinatorics
- Crop milk
- Cryptomnesia
- Dabqaad
- Damnatio memoriae
- Detritivore
- Eggcorn
- Eigengrau
- Enthalpy
- Epistrophe
- Eucatastrophe
- Explanandum
- Februa
- Femtotechnology
- Festschrift
- Galactosemia
- Galalith
- Goethite
- Gostak
- Gracht
- Grawlix
- Groyne
- Hauntology
- Hendiadys
- Hieros gamos
- Heterodoxy
- Hodegetria
- Hunky Punk
- Hydrargyrum
- Hyperuranion
- Hypocorism
- Hystrix
- Immurement
- Incunabulum
- Inquilino
- Intercalation
- Katechon
- Kayfabe
- Kefitzat Haderech
- Kiseru
- Kleos
- Lorgnette
- Ludibrium
- Lusophone
- Mandylion
- Maleficium
- Muggeseggele
- Nociception
- Noosphere
- Nosology
- Ochlocracy
- Orichalcum
- Osmoregulation
- Osmothèque
- Panemone
- Panopticon
- Paraprosdokian
- Phalanstère
- Philia
- Phonaesthetics
- Phoneme
- Phrenitis
- Pluricontinentalism
- Polygynandry
- Pood
- Proprioception
- Prosopagnosia
- Psephology
- Qaraqalpaq
- Qliphoth
- Quaintrelle
- Recusancy
- Relict
- Rhodopsin
- Runcible
- Sandarac
- Saudade
- Scotobiology
- Siderogel
- Silcrow
- Simultaneity
- Skeggǿx
- Sniglet
- Snow
- Solvatochromism
- Spinbarkeit
- Spoom
- Storge
- Surfactant
- Thixotropy
- Thnetopsychism
- Thurible
- Tmesis
- Uranian
- Ventifact
- Verethragna
- Veridicality
- Verneshot
- Viscoplasticity
- Vṛddhi
- Wayzgoose
- Wendehorn
- Xerocole
- Yoga-nidra
- Yomp
- Zwitterion
- Zygii
- Zzxjoanw