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in an effort to lessen my infinite boredom.
my interests (in the context of wikipedia) include
- crime and criminology, specifically terrorism
- new religious movements/cults/whatever the word is
- political extremism
- newspapers/magazines/periodicals
- switzerland & south africa
- books about the aforementioned
i typically stay away from current events
Misc
Assessment tables
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Cats
try to keep maintained
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{{category tree|Terrorism}}
{{category tree|Crime}}
Deletion sorting
etc
{{quote frame|A human being possessed by a belief and not eager to pass it on to others is a phenomenon alien to the earth, where our mania for salvation makes life unbreathable.|Emil Cioran|4=A Short History of Decay}}
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| article_name = Seth Privacky
| date = 26 August 2023
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| article_name = 2017 Aztec High School shooting
| date = 7 April 2024
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| article_name = The Order of the Solar Temple: The Temple of Death
| date = 6 August 2024
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| article_name = 1997 Saint-Casimir mass suicide
| date = 1 October 2024
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{{GA user topicon
| article_name = Néo-Phare
| date = 26 October 2024
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| article_name = Zug massacre
| date = 14 January 2025
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| article_name = Our Friends from Frolix 8
| date = 14 February 2025
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{{GA user topicon
| article_name = William R. Ferguson
| date = 25 May 2025
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{{GA user topicon
| article_name = Dan Burros
| date = 6 June 2025
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| article_name = 1999 Tempe military base shooting
| hook = ... that after the 1999 Tempe military base shooting, the Pan African Congress demanded a military funeral for the perpetrator?
| date = 28 February 2024
| sortkey = 2024-02-28
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| article_name = 2017 Aztec High School shooting
| hook = ... that the perpetrator of the 2017 Aztec High School shooting had previously been investigated by the FBI, but the investigation was closed after he convinced them that he was simply "trolling"?
| date = 8 May 2024
| sortkey = 2024-05-08
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| article_name = 1997 Saint-Casimir mass suicide
| hook = ... that on the same day that the members of Heaven's Gate died in a mass suicide, five members of an unrelated group did likewise?
| date = 28 October 2024
| sortkey = 2024-10-28
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| article_name = Timeless Voyage
| hook = ... that the author of the comic book Timeless Voyage was the leader of a UFO religion?
| date = 2 December 2024
| sortkey = 2024-12-02
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| article_name = Corinne Rey-Bellet
| hook = ... that the murder of skier Corinne Rey-Bellet led to a change in Swiss gun-control regulations?
| date = 6 January 2025
| sortkey = 2025-01-06
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| article_name = Serpent's Walk
| hook = ... that the fantasy writer M. A. R. Barker wrote the neo-Nazi novel Serpent's Walk in 1991, but his authorship was only confirmed in 2022?
| date = 22 February 2025
| sortkey = 2025-02-22
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| article_name = Vatican murders
| hook = ... that one incident in Vatican City caused it to have the highest murder rate in the world in 1998?
| date = 10 March 2025
| sortkey = 2025-03-10
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| article_name = Our Friends from Frolix 8
| hook = ... that Our Friends from Frolix 8 could be Philip K. Dick's "most sterile" novel?
| date = 15 March 2025
| sortkey = 2025-03-15
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| article_name = Zug massacre
| hook = ... that the 2001 Zug massacre resulted in changes to security measures for public buildings, but not to Swiss gun laws?
| date = 13 April 2025
| sortkey = 2025-04-14
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