Wikipedia history!
Unbeknownst to me until recently, every time you look something up on the Wikipedia app on your phone, it does it in a new tab. I noticed a “91” in the upper corner of my Wikipedia app the other day, clicked on it, and saw my entire recent Wikipedia browsing history separate into tidy little tabs! Ninety-one of them! Here are some highlights:
Pages I probably opened because of a podcast reference. Draft lottery (1969), Monica Seles, Pamela Smart, Dupont de Ligonnes murders and disappearance, John Albert Gardner, Port Arthur Massacre, The Springfield Three.
Pages I probably opened because they related to a book or article I was reading. Provisional Irish Republican Army, Great Disappointment, Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, Jackie Speier, United Airlines Flight 93, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, 1998 United States embassy bombings, Never Again MSD, Jaclyn Corin.
Just everyday life stuff, you know, things I need info about to LIVE. The Last Kids on Earth (TV series), Katy Perry, Maya Rudolph, Sharon Eubank, United States presidential line of succession, Kristine Haglund, The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?), Eliza Reid (Iceland’s first lady and FYI she is CANADIAN), Oliver Holden, Cornelia de Lange Syndrome, Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, Magnitsky Act, Pine, List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom, Kenan Thompson, Michelle Monaghan (“is she the same as Bridget Moynahan and which one is in the Mission: Impossible movies”), Mother Teresa, Characters in the Kalevala.
Obviously I was watching the World Track & Field Championships. Kristiina Mäkelä, Konstanze Klosterhalfen, Lonah Chemtai Salpeter (she was born in Kenya and went to Israel to work as a nanny and married a running coach and now she is a champion!!!), Galen Rupp, Nikita Nagornyy (gymnast but he’s right in here with all these tabs so…).
I went to Denmark and asked Wikipedia some questions, including which European royals have children to marry off to my friends’ kids. Grundtvig’s Church, Votive ship, Lars Bo Enselmann, Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, List of Danish monarchs, Daniel Craig (“is he Danish”), Queen Letizia of Spain, Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark.
The Crown! Lady Amanda Ellingworth, Princess Alice of Battenberg, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Wallis Simpson, Elizabeth II.
Fact-checking that Netflix Christmas movie where a knight time travels to modern day. Edward III.
I have no idea why I was reading this. Shia LaBeouf (song), Mary Pinchot Meyer, Timiskaming District (this one is a real mystery to me because there seems to be nothing notable about this district!), Braess’s paradox, Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia.
