Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain.

[Gleb Gamow]

EDIT: At the very least, consider this a fun thread to read from the beginning forward oppose to commenting on it.

EDIT: Once we get to ~20 posts, I'll include the FORKING rules so that we're not locked into a singular chain.
EDIT: Post #20 depicts the start of a successful [contrived] fork (Post #21 locked it in). Simply mimic the text that's directly below the horizontal line which would include the link of the post you're desiring to fork. The single FORKING rule is apparent in Post #20.

If you opt to post to add to the chain, please incorporate the following format rules:

• Visit the Wiki page via the last link(s) posted.
• Find and quote any [single-sentence] passage containing a link to another Wikipedia page. Exclude any reference numbers within brackets.
• Post the URL (link) referenced (also linked) in the sentence below the quote.
• The resulting page must have at least one image on it that'll be gleaned and embedded in the post directly below the URL.
• The image must NOT be wider than 314pt.
• Refrain from posting images depicting illustrations unless it's interesting (I've included one below).
• Include the accompanied caption (in italics sans links) found on the Wiki page under the image for the added sharing of knowledge, in turn, further eliciting emotions.

To reiterate, a post that's continuing the chain should have:

• A quote, with one linked keyword corresponding with the URL Link.
• Corresponding URL Link.
• An Image.
• The caption below the image in italics cited verbatim from the Wiki page.

I reserve the right to revert back to an earlier correct submission that'd include a new addition if deemed necessary. If caught early enough, I may cite, then reformat an errant post using the outlined formatting above, again accompanied with a new submission.

Feel free to comment on posts, whereupon I, or others, will jump back in to continue the chain where it was left off. At the very least, readers and linkers alike will learn of things they've never encountered before.

I've jump-started the theme of this thread with the following depicting the desired affects. Here's to hoping you enjoy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology


An Okapi at Walt Disney's Animal Kingdom, symbol of the defunct International Society of Cryptozoology

Cryptozoologists contend that because species once considered superstition, hoaxes, delusions, or misidentifications were later accepted as legitimate by the scientific community, descriptions and reports of folkloric creatures should be taken seriously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoax


The Dreadnought hoaxers in Abyssinian regalia; the bearded figure on the far left is in fact the writer Virginia Woolf.

According to Professor Lynda Walsh of the University of Nevada, Reno, some hoaxes - such as the Great Stock Exchange Fraud of 1814, labeled as a hoax by contemporary commentators - are financial in nature, and successful hoaxers - such as P. T. Barnum, whose Fiji mermaid contributed to his wealth - often acquire monetary gain or fame through their fabrications, so the distinction between hoax and fraud is not necessarily clear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji_mermaid


P.T. Barnum's Feejee mermaid from 1842

In the '90s TV series The X-Files, the episode "Humbug" depicts the possibility of a series of sideshow murders having been committed by a Fiji mermaid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humbug_(The_X-Files)


The Conundrum consumes a raw fish.

The agents also meet former performer Jim Jim, the Dogface Boy, who later became the local sheriff after his face went through hair loss.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrichosis


Petrus Gonsalvus (1648), the first recorded case of hypertrichosis

One record in history concerning congenital hypertrichosis lanuginosa is the hairy family of Burma, a four-generational pedigree of the disease.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma


Kayan women in a village near Inle Lake, 2010.

The Lethwei, Bando, Banshay, Pongyi thaing martial arts and chinlone are the national sports in Burma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinlone


Men playing chinlone in Burma

The ball is woven from rattan, and makes a distinctive clicking sound when kicked that is part of the aesthetic of the game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattan


A rattan chair

Unsustainable harvesting of rattan can lead to forest degradation, affecting overall forest ecosystem services.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_forest


The forest in Stanley Park, Vancouver, Canada is generally considered to have second and third growth characteristics. This photo shows regeneration, a tree growing out of the stump of another tree that was felled in 1962 by the remnants of Typhoon Freda.

Usually, secondary forests have only one canopy layer, whereas primary forests have several.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopy_(biology)


A Monkey Ladder Vine canopy over a road

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[Gleb Gamow]

In the permaculture and forest gardening community, the canopy is the highest of seven layers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening


Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire

The above addition to the chain was accomplished via first visiting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopy_(biology) which was the last link in the previous post.

I quoted a sentence from that page which linked "forest gardening".

I posted its URL below the quote.

I included an image found on the page that's now only 314pt wide.

Under the image I added, verbatim, italicized verbiage used as the caption on the Wiki page.

[Gleb Gamow]

<one final example sans comments>

On the Yucatán Peninsula, much of the Maya food supply was grown in "orchard-gardens", known as pet kot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization


Jade funerary mask of king K'inich Janaab' Pakal

[Gleb Gamow]

In the last centuries before the Spanish Conquest, the Maya began to use the lost-wax method to cast small metal pieces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost-wax_casting


This bronze piece entitled Lazy Lady, by the sculptor Rowan Gillespie was cast using the lost-wax process.

Visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost-wax_casting and see if there's a sentence that includes a link to your liking and cite it, along with the linked term's URL and a no-wider-than 314pt (resized if larger) image from the resulting Wiki page.

[Gleb Gamow]

Some automobile manufacturers use a lost-foam technique to make engine blocks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder_block


DB 605 inverted aircraft engine of WW2, with monobloc cylinder blocks and heads

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The complex ducting required for intake and exhaust was too complicated to allow the integration of the banks, except on a few rare engines, such as the Lancia 22½° narrow-angle V12 of 1919, that did manage to use a single block casting for both banks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancia


Lancia Beta Torpedo (1909)

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Lancia's first car adopting a monocoque chassis – the Lambda produced from 1922 to 1931 - featured 'Sliding Pillar' independent front suspension that incorporated the spring and hydraulic damper into a single unit (a feature that would be employed in subsequent Lancia's, up to the Appia that was replaced in 1963).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocoque


Deperdussin Monocoque, with wooden shell construction

[Gleb Gamow]

The Falcon 1 first stage was powered by a single pump-fed Merlin 1C engine burning RP-1 and liquid oxygen providing 410 kilonewtons (92,000 lbf) of sea-level thrust and a specific impulse of 245 s (vacuum Isp 290 s).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(rocket_engine_family)


http://Merlin 1C under construction at SpaceX factory

[Gleb Gamow]

Finally, a Merlin 1C vacuum variant is used on the Falcon 9 second stage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum


A glass McLeod gauge, drained of mercury

[Gleb Gamow]

The reduction of convection provides the thermal insulation of thermos bottles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_flask


A cryogenic storage dewar of liquid nitrogen, used to supply a cryogenic freezer

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Over time, the company expanded the size, shapes and materials of these consumer products, primarily used for carrying coffee on the go and carrying liquids on camping trips to keep them either hot or cold.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee


Over the door of a Leipzig coffeeshop is a sculptural representation of a man in Turkish dress, receiving a cup of coffee from a boy

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Use in religious rites among the Sufi branch of Islam led to coffee's being put on trial in Mecca: it was accused of being a heretical substance, and its production and consumption were briefly repressed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufism


The tomb of Sheikh Rukn-ud-Din Abul Fath located in Multan, Pakistan. The city of Multan is known for various Sufi Saint tombs, as they call it the City of Saints

[Gleb Gamow]

Some teachers, especially when addressing more general audiences, or mixed groups of Muslims and non-Muslims, make extensive use of parable, allegory, and metaphor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory


Salvator Rosa: Allegory of Fortune, representing Fortuna, the Goddess of luck, with the horn of plenty

[Gleb Gamow]

The Feast of Herod with the Beheading of St John the Baptist by Bartholomeus Strobel is also an allegory of Europe in the time of the Thirty Years War, with portraits of many leading political and military figures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War


Soldiers plundering a farm during the thirty years' war by Sebastian Vrancx.

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The destruction of the Koneswaram temple of Trincomalee in 1624 and Ketheeswaram temple accompanied by an extensive campaign of destruction of five hundred Hindu shrines, the Saraswathi Mahal Library, many Buddhist temples and libraries and forced conversion to Roman Catholicism of Hindus and Buddhists conducted by the Portuguese upon their conquest of the Jaffna kingdom to the north of the island and Kingdom of Kotte in the south stand out as brutal consequences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trincomalee


Procession of Koneswaram idol pooja in Trincomalee city

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The British admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson called Trincomalee "the finest harbour in the world", while the British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger called the city "the most valuable colonial possession on the globe, as giving to our Indian Empire a security which it had not enjoyed from its establishment" and the harbour "the finest and most advantageous Bay in the whole of India".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Nelson,_1st_Viscount_Nelson


Emma Hamilton, Nelson's mistress and mother of his daughter Horatia, in a 1782–84 portrait by George Romney, depicting Emma at the height of her beauty

[Gleb Gamow]

Victory was towed to Gibraltar after the battle, and on arrival the body was transferred to a lead-lined coffin filled with spirits of wine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar


The last of Gibraltar, by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau.

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During World War II, Gibraltar's civilian population was evacuated (mainly to London, England, but also to parts of Morocco, Madeira and Jamaica) and the Rock was strengthened as a fortress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortification


The well preserved Bulgarian medieval fort Baba Vida.

[Gleb Gamow]

The art of setting out a military camp or constructing a fortification traditionally has been called "castramentation" since the time of the Roman legions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castra


A sanitary channel at Potaissa, Dacia (modern Romania). It is placed cross-slope with a slight decline and then exits down-slope.

[Gleb Gamow]

The Via Praetoria on that side might take the name Via Decumena or the entire Via Praetoria be replaced with Decumanus Maximus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decumanus_Maximus


Decumanus Maximus in Palmyra in Syria