The featured Wikipedia article for october 24 is really good! It's the Tichborne case, just a genuinely really interesting story about an Australian(?) guy in the 1860s who claimed to be the missing heir to a baronetcy (and its vast fortune) who was presumed lost in a shipwreck. Check it out: just read the lead, skim through it, jump around, or read the whole story in chronological order, anything works. It's a good story in broad strokes and it's got all these weird details if you read the whole thing.
I think the Wikipedia writing style really lends itself to this kind of story; dry, factual, intensely detailed. The story is gievn room to speak for itself, there's no real commentary except that given by historians or the story's own characters: 'His speech was prefaced by a severe denunciation of Kenealy's conduct, the longest, severest and best merited rebuke ever administered from the Bench to a member of the bar" according to the trial's chronicler John Morse
. And especially well-fitting for a story with an air of mystery like this, Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy means that the article can't exactly come down on either side: Although most commentators have accepted the court's view that the Claimant was Orton, some analysts believe that an element of doubt remains as to his true identity and that, conceivably, he was Roger Tichborne
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I just kinda love reading Wikipedia.
Machine Love by Jamie Paige is a pretty awesome song.
okay that's all bye!