Roto-Ray
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Part of emergency vehicle lighting; especially on fire trucks, this is a spinning apparatus on the front of some fire trucks to catch drivers' attention. See it in action:
There is a Roto-Ray on the front of this truck.
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AKA baby pod, infant nest. It is "a mini cushioned day bed that comes with padded sides to provide your little one with a safe, snuggly and compact spot to relax".
Some articles and reviews about baby nests: Skalman (talk) 00:16, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
The "CN City" era of Cartoon Network began in June of 2004 and lasted until June of 2007, though the era would continue abroad until 2010. The era is named after and associated with, its animated bumpers made by Animal Logic and regular CN contributor Primal Screen. It succeeded the "Powerhouse" era and thus marked the closure of the Cartoon Cartoons branding.
These bumpers are shorts that show various Cartoon Network characters interacting together. They predominantly take place in a city (hence the name) comprised of various locales from the CN series, with a few original establishments. The bumpers, along with a new logo and announcer, were introduced with this montage.
What came afterwards varied depending on where you live. In the United States, the "Yes!" era gradually replaced it before being replaced in turn by the "Summer 2007" era, the "Fall" era, and finally, the "Noods" era. In Latin America, which saw the longest run of "CN City", The "Noods" bumpers would be imported to create the "Toonix" era. In Europe, the "Arrow" era would be adopted. In Asia and Oceania, a "New Wave" of bumpers would begin. All of these would eventually converge into the "CHECK IT" era of bumpers which continues to this very day.
About eleven years after the bumpers stopped airing, the city was featured as the setting of the OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes episode "Crossover Nexus", in which K.O., Garnet, Ben, and Raven join forces to save the city from a supervillain bent on eradicating heroes, with several other CN characters new and old (even a few from CN Latin America productions) making cameos. The show's grand finale "Thank You for Watching the Show" would see a brief return to the setting to squeeze in a few more cameos.
As that brief comeback indicates, this particular era of bumpers proved quite popular with fans due to the crossover premise and unique setting and style, leading to many re-circulation efforts. YouTube compilations are plentiful, this fan-site serves as an in-progress archive of various bumpers, and the Lost Media Wiki is working to recover several bumpers from this and other CN eras. Eventually, the director of these bumpers would release HD masters of most of these bumpers on Vimeo.
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American Kratom Association (AKA) is a nonprofit that advocates for liberalizing kratom availability and increasing regulation of its contents. 2603:6081:2142:D260:B519:F325:7F20:B50C (talk) 20:01, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
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AKA, HHS Rescinds Scheduling Recommendation For Kratom But FDA Failed To Notify The Public For 2 ½ Years, PR Newswire, Jan 28, 2021.
Bill Barlow, Kratom Questions, Some Raise Red Flags About Substance Sold as an Herbal Supplement, Cape May County Herald, Feb 5, 2021.
Business Matters, Best Kratom Vendors: Top Kratom Suppliers of 2021, Business Matters, 11 February 2021.
Already exist hr:Ulica grada Vukovara (Zagreb) and hr:Vukovarska ulica (Split) on Croatian Wikipedia. Bye--Uspjeh je ključ života (talk) 16:04, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
In the small hours of May 21, 2006, a woman was beaten and tortured to death by four juveniles (a pair of twins and their girlfriends) who are strangers to her while waiting for her husband on the street. It's often called 北京雙胞胎虐殺案 in China. -- Thedarkknightli (talk) 22:06, 24 September 2019 (UTC).
"We used to walk to school in the snow uphill, both ways" is a sarcastic expression that's at least 50 years old, used to make fun of people talking about the hardships of their childhood compared to modern day .
Not a Wonder Pot. Seem to be quite a good alternative to using an oven especially if you are only cooking for one or two. The raised center in the middle is what they call a "convection cone". Presumably it's meant to emulate a convection oven. Mosto notable examples are Dry Cooker, Swiss Dry Fryer, Ultimate Dutch Oven. Setenzatsu.2 (talk) 01:01, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
Cross between slingshot and bow&arrow. Even used by hunters. . There are models that look like a slingshot (essentially a small modification of a slingshot) and there are models that look more like a bow (example is gearhead archery t15 pro) 95.178.215.9 (talk) 12:49, 10 February 2020 (UTC).
A new type of recreational and hunting weapon. Can be bought at major online webshops like aliexpress, ebay... There are also how toes 95.178.215.9 (talk) 12:49, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
Airgun has its own page so this should too. Even though it's similar it is its own thing. Quite common. They shoot regular arrows NOT darts as is the case with tranquilizer guns (which also has its own page).95.178.215.9 (talk) 13:21, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
Some people buy insurance against liability or cancelation of weddings.
Some insurers have stopped selling wedding insurance, due to coronavirus.
There is a disambiguation page on the topic of “incognito,” but no link to an article about the most obvious usage of the term; that is to say, a person traveling incognito. The closest is a link to the concept of anonymity, but the the article on anonymity does not have a section on incognito travel. For example, have popes or heads of state visited places incognito? Bwrs (talk) 04:21, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
Welsh girl, UK, UFO incident alleged:
http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20Kingdom/UFO%20Brigantia/UFO%20Brigantia%20issue%2018.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:4000:62E0:7536:4D53:7E:195F (talk) 19:40, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
A former Cat café in Boston that was the subject of controversy and scrutiny from the internet, most specifically Facebook, for the owner's treatment of her cats, her employees, and her response to any criticism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uelly (talk • contribs) 12:36, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
Part of emergency vehicle lighting; especially on fire trucks, this is a spinning apparatus on the front of some fire trucks to catch drivers' attention. See it in action:
There is a Roto-Ray on the front of this truck.
"Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, African dignitaries and diplomats were repeatedly snubbed, verbally abused and discriminated against when they spent time in the US [so JFK] created the Special Protocol Service Section, a division designed to protect African diplomats from discrimination"
https://www.history.com/news/african-diplomat-segregation-scandal-jfk
Also mentioned by this extant article The Negro Motorist Green Book
Quite a few academic articles about it including: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2784029
Meltis New Berry Fruits - no article yet. British jelly sweets which have been in production for over 100 years. http://www.newberryfruits.co.uk/ SlippyLina (talk) 19:29, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
We have a page on long distance coach transport - Coach transport in the United Kingdom but none on the 1980s and early phenomena of Commuter coaches to London. This was mention at AFD by Thryduulf for Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/London commuter routes 781 and 784 and I agree that it should have a page.Davidstewartharvey (talk) 08:22, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
Victorian British coins: there are already two articles covering coins struck during the reign of Queen Victoria: Jubilee coinage for the period 1887-1893, and Old Head coinage for 1893-1901. A new article is requested for the Young Head coinage struck between 1838 and 1887, to a design by Thomas Brock. See the existing articles for sources etc. Masato.harada (talk)
An online communication with extraterrestrial intelligence service. It was featured in the following sources:
94.153.163.226 (talk) 19:06, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
Don't know what category they fall under since they're general-purpose.
I'm mostly interested in seeing an article about the Fresno Nightcrawler folklore/cryptid phenomena, as I've been attempting to do research on the subject, only to come up short on reputable sources. There's various articles on online publications, but staggeringly few cite their sources well, making it difficult to tell what is reputable. I know there are people smarter and more experienced than myself who could find scholarly or reputable sources on the subject, so I submit my request for that reason. Here's a selection of articles I've found, which approaches a bare-bones start: These all seem to mention or gesture at the same claims, but I can't for the life of me figure out the source for any of them. Ideally, a more experienced Wikipedia editor could sort through the mire and we could come out of this with an article that cites reputable and scientifically/historically accurate sources, like the other more famous cryptid articles on Wikipedia, the article on Bigfoot as an example, which goes into rigorous detail about the reputability of the original sightings, as well as the major figures involved in propagating the folklore. I myself lack the skill, perhaps someone else will fare better. 67.204.246.67 (talk) 02:46, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
Mentioned in several articles.
A compendium of all characters of the Advance Wars series. Each character's description would contain a quick introduction, their history and, most important of all, their playing style: it should be extensive enough for readers to understand, while also short enough to not make the article resemble a game guide.
An article featuring a list of the commanding officers in the series, listed according to their army. NikoPalad67140 (talk) 14:09, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
The House of Garsenda is a matrilineal house that has had many monarchs and current monarchs and well-known nobles. StrawWord298944 (talk) 01:31, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
Considering the city of Houston has one of the highest Filipino populations in the South and there's been articles on Vietnamese, Chinese, Koreans in Houston. I think this should be looked into. 2600:1700:12F0:2370:CDAF:70F1:C055:CC73 (talk) 03:31, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
I heard about this movement in passing on Tumblr, and apparently it's a grassroots Palestinian movement that doesn't lock step with Hamas. This sounds fairly important but it doesn't have a Wikipedia article. 136.223.34.14 (talk) 12:30, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
https://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php/Trachy Cartera100505 (talk) 23:04, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
Page for the DBC Panjim Holdwaters (talk) 14:54, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
There are cemetaries in closed military areas of Israel where Palestinians militants are buried identified only by numbers. This is very briefly mentioned under Necroviolence but I think there is enough reliable surces and general interest for an article, e.g. , ,, , NadVolum (talk) 11:26, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
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I-ready is a website/app that I remember my siblings and I taking tests on for school, there were also free lessons and quizzes 2600:1010:A105:5F96:E853:ED91:C54A:88C5 (talk) 19:16, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
https://suffolktimes.timesreview.com/2021/04/mattituck-senior-hopes-to-inspire-others-after-unique-yearbook-photo-goes-viral/ https://www.today.com/parents/high-school-salutatorian-s-goth-yearbook-photo-goes-viral-t213935 GBELLATRIX (talk) 18:19, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
Annual event held in universities and colleges in Ireland to celebrate the Christmas season and end of college term. Involves students dressing up in Christmas jumpers and costumes, and engaging in drinking and partying throughout a selected day at each college. Similar to 12 pubs of Christmas, rag week, or a "darty". Has been subject to debate and criticism over safety and destruction of property.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41521724.html
https://lovin.ie/news/christmas-day-nuig-galway Peelingoffthebark (talk) 09:01, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
Christian writer and blogger. 78.146.218.18 (talk) 15:46, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
Historical news event now reported. Please add Lucy Sands to Wikipedia. 2A0C:4F41:1C07:CA00:C0D6:7281:2B17:FD3E (talk) 10:44, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
Influential Turkish Media channel, believed to have connections to the AKP and Turkish Military 31.154.220.89 (talk) 20:48, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
Fahr Beyond is a charity based in the UK, and is the only known registered charity in the world to support people with Fahr's Disease (also known as Primary Familial Brain Calcification). Fahr Beyond has ben involved in advancing research into the patient experience of being diagnosed and living with Fahr's Disease 82.31.231.252 (talk) 10:09, 5 August 2025 (UTC)
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Some inventors have publicly expressed their regret in something they created after seeing its negative impact and/or misuse. E.G. Robert Oppenheimer famously regretted his work on the atomic bomb, Wally Conron said breeding the first labradoodles is his biggest regret, Ethan Zuckerman has apologized for inventing pop-up ads, etc. etc. 184.183.2.34 (talk) 20:04, 7 September 2025 (UTC)
Hi! Just to make sure, I'm putting in a request for a page for Blackburn Park. It's a park in Brookhaven, Georgia, and a lot of people go there. It hosts events too, like the Cherry Blossom Festival…or as I call it, Sakura Matsuri! I live across the street from it, and I know Blackburn very well. So, yeah, I think Blackburn Park should get a page. It's pretty well known ^_^
Thanks!
Lucy LostWord (ILike Leavanny) 02:19, 25 September 2025 (UTC)
Prince Group transnational criminal organization case. From 2020 to 2022, the judicial system of the People's Republic of China accused Prince Holding Group of Cambodia and its affiliated networks, Obtained more than 5 billion yuan of illegal income from illegal gambling. By October 14, 2025, the U.S. Treasury Department further announced that the Prince Group and its founder, Cambodian Chinese businessman, Chen Zhi were suspected of involving huge cryptocurrency fraud and human trafficking. Nvdtn19 (talk) 11:12, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
Munich German is the local bavarian dialect that's spoken in the city of Munich, Germany. Karamellpudding1999 (talk) 00:54, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
we need more information about polyominoes Martimko2024 (talk) 16:24, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
In Organization functioning only inside the Department: Deficit of communication from and to other Departments and sub-companies. Davidmoerike (talk) 18:08, 3 March 2026 (UTC)
I think it is belong to the category Business and economics/Terminology (business). The terms are commonly found nowadays. I am not sure why they are rejected (deleted) from the category, so I wrote my requests here. --Love Krittaya (talk) 20:33, 4 May 2026 (UTC)
On August 1st 2025 Mohammed Algasim, a young Saudi Arabian Cambridge student, was stabbed to death by an english construction worker, Chas Carrigan, who was wielding a knife and under the influence of cocaine. The murderer was assisted by his father, Peter Carrigan, after the killing took place. On June 1st, 2026, Carrigan was sentenced to life in prison. DillKingwell (talk) 13:43, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
On 2026, in Belfast Northern Ireland, a Sudanese migrant attempted to behead a man. The attack was filmed and the perpetrator was stopped before any more damage was made. The victim, to newer reports has not died, but has sustained severe head and neck injuries. The attack has caused uproar with English nationalist Tommy Robinson announcing protests nationwide.
source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/09/belfast-stabbing/ DillKingwell (talk) 18:47, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
A Neo-Nazi, nationalist, youth organization.
SOME SOURCES:
https://globalextremism.org/post/neo-nazi-teenagers/ MatthewMCN608 (talk) 01:22, 11 June 2026 (UTC)
A Thing the boy funny🤣 ~2026-38670-66 (talk) 23:15, 7 July 2026 (UTC)
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St Cyrus Playground is a popular playground in Colchester England, St Mark ~2026-42148-32 (talk) 18:46, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
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In Mic Mac Campground in Unity, Maine a young man named Deven Young allegedly murdered a local paddleboarder named Sunshine "Sunny" Stewart.
https://www.wmtw.com/article/murder-sunshine-stewart-where-case-stands-year-after-her-death/71809692