E-Verse Picks the Top 25 Most Interesting Wikipedia Articles
by Ernie on 21/01/10 at 10:40 am
25. New York Conspiracy of 1741 (Question to ponder: why do the Salem Witch Trials, which happened 50 years earlier, in a town of much smaller population, and which resulted in far fewer deaths, get so much attention, while this event, which happened in the major population center, even then, of New York City, and resulted in probably at least six times the number of deaths, including public burnings at the stake, gibbeting and long-term public display of rotting bodies, is almost never mentioned?)
24. Oneida Community
22. Stormfront
21. Phoolan Devi
20. Minnesota Starvation Experiment
19. Kuchisake-onna
18. Inattentional Blindness (if you want to see a video like the one mentioned in this article, click here)
17. Outreau Trial
12. Edgardo Mortara
11. Cognitive biases
10. Optical illusion
8. Fallacy
7. Dilawar (torture victim)
arianna
Jan 23rd, 2010
Gotta say, I always wondered about the exaggerated historical porportion of Salem myself, but I think it has to do with the nature of the deaths, which were hysteria and the never fully understood cause.
Phoolan Devi! A heroine of mine for years, the movie ‘The Bandit Queen’ is made about her.