The Best of Wikipedia
What follows are my favorite pages on Wikipedia, roughly organized in ways that make sense to me. Let the geek show begin.
ASTRONOMY and SPACE
- The Solar System
- Sol (The Sun)
- Mercury
- Venus
- Explorations
- Earth
- History
- Luna (The Moon)
- Mars
- Deimos and Phobos
- Viking 1 and 2, Pathfinder, Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity
- [Asteroid Belt]
- Jupiter
- Great Red Spot
- Rings
- Moons, especially Europa
- Shoemaker-Levy 9
- Saturn
- Rings
- Moons, especially Enceladus and Mimas
- Cassini-Huygens
- Uranus
- Rings
- Moons
- [Centaur Planetoids]
- Neptune
- Rings
- Moons
- [Trojan Asteroids]
- Outer Solar System or "Trans-Neptunian Region"
- Pluto and Moons
- Orcus
- Quaoar
- Eris and Dysnomia
- Sedna
- [Regions: Kuiper Belt and Scattered Disk, then Oort Cloud (proposed) and Comets]
- List of Hypothetical Astronomical Objects, especially Nemesis [proposed binary companion to Sol]
- Nearest Stars
- Alpha Centauri [trinary]: Proxima Centauri [4.22 ly] and Alpha Centauri A/Alpha Centauri B [4.36 ly]
- Barnard's Star [5.96 ly]
- Wolf 359 [7.78 ly]
- Lalande 21185 [8.29 ly]
- Sirius [binary]: Sirius A and Sirius B [8.58 ly]
- Local Group
- Milky Way Galaxy
- Andromeda Galaxy
- Triangulum Galaxy [M33]
- Interesting Stars
- Polaris [trinary] [431 ly], the North Star, Pole Star, and Lode Star
- SN 1006
- BPM 37093 [50 ly]
- Lists of Stars (sorted by what makes them interesting), especially Stars with Planets
- Black Hole
- Event Horizon
- Telescopes
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Keck
- Gran Telescopio Canarias [in progress]
- Southern African Large Telescope
- Very Large Telescope
- Arecibo
- Very Large Array
BELIEF SYSTEMS
Mythology * Philosophy * Political Science
- Mythology, Religion, and Theology
- Christianity
- Jesus
- The Bible: Biblical Archaeology and Criticism (especially Documentary Hypothesis)
- History of Christianity
- Criticism of Christianity: Historical Persecution by Christians, especially People Burned as Heretics
- Deism
- Eastern Religion and Philosophy
- Jainism
- English
- Greek
- Roman
- Shinto
- Unitarianism and Unitarian Universalism
- General
- Epistemology and Ontology
- Skepticism and Solipsism
- The Nature of God in Western Theology
- Materialism, Naturalism, and the Supernatural
- Flying Spaghetti Monsterism and Invisible Pink Unicorn
- Philosophy and Political Science
- Agnosticism
- Strong Agnosticism
- Weak Agnosticism
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Bertrand Russell
- Anarchism: Anarcho-Communism (a.k.a. Anarchist Communism), Anarcho-Syndicalism, and Anarcho-Socialism/Libertarian Socialism
- Anarchism in Spain and the Spanish Civil War
- Industrial Workers of the World
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Noam Chomsky
- Voltairine de Cleyre
- Emma Goldman
- Peter Kropotkin and Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
- Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon
- Howard Zinn and A People's History of the United_States
- Atheism
- Strong Atheism
- Weak Atheism
- Antitheism
- History of Atheism
- Feudalism
- Monarchy
- New Tribal Revolution and New Tribalists
- Daniel Quinn
- Neolithic Revolution [a.k.a. Agricultural Revolution]
- Hunter-Gatherer
- Secular Humanism
- Bertrand Russell
- Carl Sagan
- Voltaire
- Kurt Vonnegut
HISTORY
Anthropology * Archaeology * Geology
- Archeological Discoveries and Sites as well as Geological Rock Formations
- Altamira [Upper Paleolithic]
- Avebury [Neolithic]
- Barringer Crater [Pleistocene]
- Chicxulub Crater [Cretaceous]
- Crater Lake
- Mount Mazama
- Cro-Magnon [Homo Sapiens]
- Easter Island
- Moai
- Frauds and Forgeries
- Archaeoraptor
- Piltdown Man
- Grand Canyon
- Halong Bay
- Java Man [Homo Erectus]
- Kennewick Man
- Lascaux [Upper Paleolithic]
- Lindow Man [Iron Age]
- Lucy [Australopithecus Afarensis]
- Mount St. Helens
- Mycenae [Mycenaean]
- Neanderthals [Middle Paleolithic]
- Otzi [Copper Age]
- Peking Man [Homo Erectus]
- Pompeii
- Mount Vesuvius
- Pyramids of America
- Cholula
- Uxmal
- Pyramids of Egypt
- Giza: Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure
- Great Sphinx
- Pyramids of the Middle East
- Choqa Zanbil
- Etemenanki, the Tower of Babel
- Sialk
- Red Lady of Paviland [Stone Age]
- Stonehenge [Neolithic and Bronze Age]
- Sutton Hoo [Medieval]
- Terracotta Army [Qin Dynasty]
- Tollund Man [Iron Age]
- Tutankhamun [Eighteenth Dynasty, New Kingdom]
- Uluru (a.k.a. Ayers Rock)
- West Kennet Long Barrow [Neolithic]
- Evolution
- Human Evolution
- Charles Darwin and The Origin of Species
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Timelines: Human and General
- Earth
- Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift
- Uniformitarianism
- Ur -> [many others] -> Pangaea [Paleozoic and Mesozoic] - > Today
- Geologic Timescale
- Natural Philosophy and the Scientific Method
- Human Migration and Exploration
- Bering Land Bridge
- Pre-Columbian Civilizations
- Monte Verde [12,000 B.C.E.] [hypothetical]
- Clovis [11,500 B.C.E.]
- Anasazi [1,200 B.C.E.]
- Maya [1,000 B.C.E.]
- Inca [1,000 C.E.]
- Chronology and Periods
- Exploration Before Columbus
- Norse: Kensington Runestone and Vinland Map [both fraud?]
- Chinese [hypothetical]
- Christopher Columbus
- A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome de las Casas
- Genocide
- Exploration After Columbus
- Francis Drake
- James Cook
VARIOUS
- ASCII
- Authors
- Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves
- Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and The Baroque Cycle
- J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion
- Binary
- The Black Death
- Bubonic Plague
- Great Plague of London and Great Fire of London
- Medieval Demography
- Conspiracy Theories and Hoaxes
- Apollo Moon Landing
- Illuminati
- Loch Ness Monster
- Masons
- New Chronology and Phantom Time Hypothesis
- Lists of Conspiracy Theories
- Cryptography
- Colossus
- Enigma
- PURPLE
- ULTRA
- Encryption
- Reverse Engineering
- End of Civilization (or life as we know it)
- Asteroids and Impact Event, especially Apophis
- Peak Oil
- Supervolcano
- Literary Techniques, Wit, and Word Play
- Backronym
- Conceit
- Constrained Writing
- False Etymology
- Neologisms on The Simpsons
- Non Sequitur (Absurdism)
- Palindromes
- Portmanteau
- Recursive Acronym
- Retronym
- Semordnilap
- Verbing
- Project MK ULTRA
- Music
- Minibosses
- Propagandhi
- Music and Politics
- List of Genres of Music, especially Metal and Punk
- History of Music
- Periodic Table
- Role-Playing Game
- Dungeons & Dragons
- Exalted
- Social Engineering in Politics and Security
- Time Travel
- The Grandfather Paradox
- John Titor [fraud?]
- Wootz Steel and Damascus Steel
And I can't forget the best link ever: RANDOM!
Geek to the max!