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If the accumulated wealth of inventions and generational improvements is considered a human heritage and treated as such, perhaps every person on this earth could have decent housing, food, and basic health care.
Wikipedia is a part of this human heritage.
So is
sci-hub .
There are
human rights and human debts. We do not hear much about the latter: They have been called the
primordial debts .
A
patent (copyright?) is "a device that enables one man to claim special financial rewards for being the last link in the complicated social process that produced the invention".
[1]
Lewis Mumford
"
Corporations are
people " -
Mitt Romney
[2] : -
No , they are not. Andrew Jackson already knew this. According to the historian Harry Watson, "The problem with corporations as far as Jackson was concerned was they had no body to be kicked or soul to be damned."
"Claimed research findings may often simply be accurate measures of the prevailing bias" - John P. A. Ioannidis.
[3]
"
Justice ? – You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law." -
A Frolic of His Own by
William Gaddis , or in a paraphrase by
Eric Schmidt : The laws are written by lobbyists .
[4]
"The politician has to convince the people that all problems are "social" problems to be able to enslave them."
Escolios a un texto implicito: Seleccion by
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
"Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians." -
Thomas Sowell
"Never argue with stupid People, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." -
Mark Twain
References
Expanded articles
Major expansion or removal of stub status
Initiated
Arts & Literature
Bachmann (short story)
Bermuda Maritime Museum , DYK
Calvin Berger
Cathedral of Guatemala City
Chamber of Art and Curiosities , DYK
The Dinner (novel)
Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?
Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice
Empress Bianca
The Fight (book)
Maternal mortality in fiction
Mitsou (novella)
Nabokov's Butterflies
Nabokov's Quartet
Nasser Asphalt
National Museum of China
A Nursery Tale
Opening sentence , DYK
Rio das Mortes (film)
Silent Night (opera)
Spring in Fialta
Statue of Ramesses II (Mit Rahina) , DYK
The Aurelian
The Battle (Patrick Rimbaud novel) , DYK
The Enchanter , DYK
The First Emperor , DYK
The Fox on the Fairway
The Leonardo
The Mennello Museum of American Art
The Retreat (Patrick Rambaud novel)
The Return of Chorb
The Scene (play)
Terra Incognita (short story)
Theater St. Gallen , DYK
Tiefland (movie) , DYK
Tiffany Chapel
Too Much Money
Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories
The Waltz Invention
Zsolnay , DYK
Biochemistry/Physiology
Activin
Adjudin
Androgen receptor
Aromatase
Decidua , DYK
Efferent ducts
Endoglin
Endosulfan
Estrus cycle
Danazol
Human placental lactogen
FSH-receptor , DYK
Gestrinone , DYK
Glucocorticoid receptor
GnRH agonist
GnRH antagonist
17-hydroxypregnenolone
17-hydroxyprogesterone
Inhibin
IT-101
Letrozole
LHCG receptor
List of homologues of the human reproductive system
Lovaxin C
Methoxychlor , DYK
4-Methylbenzylidene camphor
Myometrium
Muscarinic receptor agonist
Necrobiome
Perfluorinated alkylated substances
Periplocin
Pregnenolone
Progesterone receptor
Relaxin
Selective progesterone receptor modulator
Sex hormone binding globulin
Stigma (anatomy)
Toxicity Class , DYK
Companies
Atlantic Health System
Automobilwerk Eisenach , DYK
Access Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Arena Pharmaceuticals
Bermuda Public Transportation Board , DYK
Bracongo
Cambridge Analytica
Calanda Bräu
KPS Capital Partners
Center for Health Transformation
Ferring Pharmaceuticals
Fund for the Defense of Net Neutrality
Jehmlich Orgelbau Dresden
KV Pharmaceutical
Napp Pharmaceuticals
OncoTherm
Ortho-McNeil-Janssen
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
SCL Group
Spectrum Pharmaceuticals
Swaziland Beverages Ltd , now
Eswatini Beverages Ltd
TauRx Therapeutics
Transit Film GmbH
Geography
Andernach
Apshawa Preserve
Arenenberg
Baćina lakes
Black River County Park
Burg Pfalzgrafenstein , DYK
Chardonnay, Saône-et-Loire
Col de la Traversette
Denisova Cave
Duke Farms , DYK
Düssel
Ehrenbreitstein
Farrington Lake
Former UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Fortifications of Kotor , DYK
Ghardimaou
Great North Road (Africa)
Great North Road (Australia)
Island of Mozambique
Javorniki
Josephina (road)
Kapiri Mposhi
Kotal-e Salang
Kuntsevo
La Recolección Architectural Complex
Lord Stirling Park
Middle Brook, New Jersey
Montségur
Nacala
Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor , DYK
New River (Belize)
Nkamba
Postojna Gate , DYK
Punta Gorda River
Punta Sur
Purbung
Rio Brito
Saalburg
Salang tunnel
San Carlos River (Costa Rica)
Schenkenschanz
Seerenbach Falls
Sibambe
Sidoarjo mud flow
Veste Oberhaus
Wanamaker, Pennsylvania
Washington Rock State Park
Washington Valley Park
Wupper
Zika Forest
History
162nd Turkoman Division
1773 Guatemala earthquake
2,500 year celebration of Iran's monarchy , DYK
Allied High Commission
Battle of Bound Brook
Bombings of Switzerland in World War II , DYK
Caesar's Rhine bridges , DYK
Camp Greyhound
Juan de Cartageña
Claustra Alpium Iuliarum , DYK
European Advisory Commission
Fair of Peace and Fraternity of the Free World , DYK
Fort Dimanche
Franco-Hova War , DYK
Gugler , DYK
Here I Stand (book)
International Eugenics Conference , DYK
London Somalia Conference
Massacre at Béziers
Middlebrook encampment , DYK
New York-New Jersey Line War , DYK
Partant pour la Syrie
Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom
Red Heat. Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean
Revolt of the comuneros , DYK
Revolt of the comuneros (Paraguay)
Revolt of the comuneros (New Granada)
Servicio de Inteligencia Militar
Siege of Drepana
Siege of Mahdia , DYK
Siege of Montségur
Timeline of Magellan's circumnavigation
Victims of Yalta
Medicine
Abdominal pregnancy , DYK
Adenomyosis
Anovulatory cycle
ART
Arrhenoblastoma
Asepsis
Asherman's syndrome
Atriocaval shunt
Benign acute childhood myositis
Caesarean delivery on maternal request , DYK
Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome
Cephalic presentation
Cryptomenorrhea
Egg donor
Elective caesarean section
Embryo transfer
Epoophoron
Estrogen insensitivity syndrome
Extramammary Paget's disease
Factor VII deficiency
Factor X deficiency
Factor XII deficiency
Falloposcopy
Fallopian tube cancer , DYK
Fertility medication
Fetoscopy
Gastric balloon
Gestational carrier
Gynecologic ultrasonography
Hepatitis B immune globulin
Hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction
Hysterosalpingography
Hysteroscopy
Immunization during pregnancy
Informed refusal
Interstitial pregnancy , DYK
Kennedy disease
List of vaccine ingredients
Lymphocele
Male breast cancer , DYK
Melanocytoma
Myomectomy
Mixed gonadal dysgenesis
Mullerian agenesis
Obstetrical hemorrhage
Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome
Ovarian pregnancy , DYK
Ovarian reserve
Pelvimetry
Pergonal
Perinatal mortality
Postcoital test
Preventive mastectomy
Reproductive endocrinology
Salpingectomy
Sebelipase alfa
Shoulder presentation , DYK
Spinnbarkeit
Third party reproduction
Trendelenburg position
Tuboplasty
Unicornuate uterus
Urinoma
Uterine clear cell carcinoma
Uterine fibroids
Uterine incarceration
Uterine malformation
Uterine papillary serous carcinoma
Uterine polyp
Uterine rupture
Uterine sarcoma
Uterine septum
Vaginal septum
Vulvar cancer , DYK
X-linked ichthyosis
XX gonadal dysgenesis
Zygote intrafallopian transfer
People
Numan Acar
Dan Agin
Aburizal Bakrie
Rebecca Berg (journalist)
Asia Bibi
Blanca of Navarre (daughter of Garcia VI)
William Burden (singer)
Rudi Carrell
Peter Chamberlen
Bernard Diederich
Sir Richard Croft, 6th Baronet
Paul Dahlke (Buddhist)
Kenneth Dart
Dominick Dunne
Robert Geoffrey Edwards
Karl-Axel Ekbom
Enguerrand I, Lord of Coucy
Klaus Fiedler
Friedrich Karl Flick
Otto-Ernst Flick
Georges Fouré
Hans Frangenheim
Johann Carl Fuhlrott
Jesús Galíndez
Carl Axel Gemzell
Peter S. Goodman
Joseph Green (merchant)
Guilhabert de Castres
Roger Guillemin
Axel Haverich
Willet M. Hays
David Heimbach
Harriet Howard , DYK
Ibrahim Jathran
Robert A. Kehoe
Kim Hyok-chol
María Manuela Kirkpatrick
Detlef Kleuker
Harry Klinefelter
Jost Kobusch
Konstantin of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
E. Stanley Kroenke
Joseph-François Lambert , DYK
Prince Louis Ferdinand II of Prussia
Lantian Man , DYK
Marina, Princess of Naples
Ivan Fedorovich Nikishov
Paoul Palmer
Francisco Pradilla Ortiz , DYK
George T. Pack
Carsten Podlesch
N. C. Paul
Ralph Pomeroy
Raymond de Péreille
Guido Rasi
Ernst Reuter , DYK
Eslanda Goode Robeson , DYK
Brian Hubert Robertson
Odile Rodin
Guy de Rothschild , DYK
Schmid
Else Lasker-Schüler
John A. Sampson
Francesco Schettino
Josef Schuster
Abd El Aziz Seif-Eldeen
Kurt Semm
J. Marion Sims
Michael Skakel
William Smellie (obstetrician)
Boris Smyslovsky
Johnny Sutton
Lawson Tait
Thom Thomas
Thomas C. Wales
Thomas, Lord of Coucy
Walton family
James "Bud" Walton
Robert Wiedersheim
Peter Winter (philately)
John Woodcock (magistrate)
Yuanmou Man
Vilmos Zsolnay
Philately
Deutsche Bundespost Berlin
Deutsche Post of the GDR
Germania (stamp)
German post offices abroad
List of stamp forgers
Postage stamps and postal history of the German colonies
Postage stamps and postal history of Germany , DYK
Vineta provisional
Railways
2014 Katanga train derailment
Bahnmuseum Albula
Beira railroad corporation
Benguela railway
Botswana Railways
Cape-Cairo railway
Egyptian National Railways , DYK
Ethio-Djibouti Railways
Islamic Republic of Iran Railways , DYK
Kazakhstan Temir Zholy , DYK
Kenya Railways Corporation , DYK
Luanda Railway
Mitropa
Mozambique Ports and Railways
National Railways of Zimbabwe
Rift Valley Railways Consortium
Shanghai–Hangzhou High-Speed Railway
Swazi Rail
Tanzania Railways Corporation
TransNamib
Tunisian Railways , DYK
Uganda Railways Corporation
Wanamaker, Kempton & Southern
Zambia Railways Limited
Things nautical
Royal Bermuda Yacht Club
La Dauphine , DYK
SS Dzhurma , DYK
Guayas (ship) , DYK
List of ships attacked by Somali pirates in 2012
São Gabriel (ship) , DYK
MV Morning Glory
SPS Patiño A14
SS Indigirka , DYK
MV Izumi , DYK
MV Irene SL
Navis lusoria , DYK
MV York , DYK
Portsmouth Naval Prison , DYK
RV Vema , DYK
Other
2010 Salang avalanches
2011 Nairobi pipeline fire
2015 Brazilian drought
2015 Caribbean drought
2017 Ciudad del Este robbery
2017 Kalynivka ammunition depot explosion
2019 measles outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
2020 China floods
Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorneys
Aliso Canyon gas leak
April 2007 Nor'easter
Aquarium fishery
ASRM
Avunculicide
Beni Sweif Cultural Palace Fire
Bird trapping , DYK
Blue Heron Farm
Bureau 121
Cajas Water Mouse
Costumbrista
Creole marble
Crop desiccation
Cultivator No. 6
Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime
Duke Farms , DYK
East County Park (New Jersey)
Enlist Weed Control System
Etowah marble
Falcon Lair
Fischer-Chöre
Former Residence of Soong Ching-ling
Fun
Gift card , DYK
Griftopia , DYK
Health Care for America Now
Helix Producer 1
Heredity Commission
Hochmoselbrücke , DYK
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World — and Us
Internet Security Essentials
The Invisibles (movie)
Jack Warner Estate
Khmeimim Air Base
List of invasive plant species in New Jersey
Luke 5
Miami Auto Museum at the Dezer Collection
Mitropa Rally Cup
Motor-paced racing , DYK
New York City's YMCA Camp
Nicaraguan Canal and Development Project
Notre-Dame des Neiges, L'Alpe d'Huez
The North Africa Post
Oil production in ISIL
Opera Omnia Leonhard Euler
Operation Broken Trust , DYK
Persecution of albinos , DYK
Pernil
Playboy (lifestyle) , DYK
Skillman Park
Small house movement
Stayer (horse)
Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
Supreme Council of the Armed Forces
UCI Motor-paced World Championships
Waddell Buddhist temple shooting
Wentworth by the Sea
Weeping Beech
Weeping tree
Wood ash
Translated from German/ Dutch/ French/ Italian/ Spanish
DYK
List
The current list is here:
User:Ekem/DYK with 109 entries.
25, 50, & 100 DYK
The 25
DYK Medal for Ekem
Congratulations! Here's a medal for you in appreciation of your hardwork in creating, expanding and nominating 25+ articles for DYK. Keep up the good work, Ekem! Need to be quick as you are half way to fifty --
Victuallers (
talk ) 17:23, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
The 50
DYK Medal
Over 50 articles! Chemicals, translations and the arts.... is there such a thing as a
wikimath ? Anyway thanks from me and the wiki. Oh and can I tell you that the 100 medal is really nice colour of gold ...
Victuallers (
talk ) 15:27, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
The 100
DYK Creation and Expansion Medal
Congratulations for reaching the 100 DYK mark! Here's to 100 more. —
KV5 •
Talk • 00:33, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
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