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Some of the more interesting pages that I've started:
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Consensus government - A bit of a stub, but it's interesting to see how politics works without political parties.
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Post-truth politics – Trying to pin down the meaning of the latest buzzword.
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Bpoplive - Back when it seemed like the worst lies in the EU referendum campaign would be about the line-up of a music festival.
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Birthday effect - A birthday can be deadly
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Henderson's - Not the
delicious sauce but an anarchist bookshop better known as the Bomb Shop
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Hugh Franklin (suffragist) - Whipper of Winston Churchill, burner of trains, and uncle to
Rosalind Franklin.
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Fanny Murray - An 18th century prostitute who invented a hat and became part of a constitutional crisis. An early example of
famous for being famous.
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Hessian cuisine - Apple-wine, vinegar, sour cheese and boiled pork.
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Gang War - A film no-one has seen for decades, originally attached to
one of the famous films of all time.
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Loose wheel nut indicator - A case of "I wondered what these were, perhaps other people do too."
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Road slipperiness - Exactly what it says on the can.
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Pingelap - A small atoll deep in the Pacific Ocean, where 10% of the population is
totally colour-blind.
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Kasongo Ilunga - A DR Congolese politician who apparently doesn't actually exist.
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Chester city walls - My username explains the interest...
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Funeral train - Back in the day, catching the train to your own funeral was a thing that happened.
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Roald Dahl Plass - Perhaps familiar to Doctor Who fans and Torchwood fans (if any still exist).
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List of Friends characters - Of all the articles I started, this is certainly now the longest.
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Vindaloo (song) - In retrospect, I should have never created this article and let the song fade into blissful oblivion.
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Hawarden Airport - Where
one of the world's largest planes flies from, and
another sails from.
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Dogs Trust - Inventors of "A dog is for life, not just for Christmas".
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British Rail flying saucer - Worth it for the title alone.
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Puddle - Hard to believe this didn't exist before.
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Cheshire Phoenix - Back when they were
Chester Jets.
Chester has a weakness for phoenix clubs, it seems.
Other pages that I have significantly expanded: