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CPAC the Conservative Political Action Conference runs at the beginning of every year and its always an interesting event, to say the least.

Its often attended by Republicans, right-wing commentators, prominent media personalities and other right-wing activists. The event began in 1974, but has really picked up steam in the last decade, even more so after Trumps election. This year, its in - person at The Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida. Speakers include former U.S. President Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and Sean Hannity

On that note here are the top 10 of the most outrageous things which have ever happened at CPAC.

1. Member of Happy Science cult talks at CPAC 2021

Hiroaki Jay Aeba, a prominent Japanese conservative, will be speaking at CPAC 2021 he first spoke at the event in 2011. Aeba is the chairman of the Japanese Conservative Union, a right-wing political organization, and he helped found CPAC Japan, which has been running for the last four years in Tokyo. Seems above board - but Aeba is also a prominent member of the Happy Science cult, a Japanese cult who claims to be the incarnation of multiple gods.

2. Trump Jr makes #MeToo a CPAC joke, CPAC 2019

In 2019, Donald Trump Jr took part in a panel at CPAC, with other prominent right-wing commentators, including Charlie Kirk, who founded Turning Point, a right wing organisation catering to students and young people. Don Trump JR then suggested that Jerry Falwell Jr, one of the other panellists, should have been called Trump, (she was named Reagan). He then bizarrely said hashtag me too, which is almost unsurprising for Don Jr.

3. Diamond and Silk notice the last four letters of Democrats spells rats, CPAC 2020

Who could forget Diamond and Silk, two entertainers or right-wing commentators (its unclear what exactly they do), who have been Trump stalwarts since Day One. Theyre frequent guests on Fox News and InfoWars, and in 2020, they made a bizarre speech at CPAC where they pointed out that the last four letters of Democrats spelled rats, which is technically true but not really that noteworthy. They also pointed out that the last four letters of Republican spell out I can, which also just doesnt feel that special.

4. Trump admits that he isnt concerned at all about Covid-19, CPAC 2020

In 2020, CPAC was held just before the coronavirus pandemic caused states to lockdown. During that time, people were worried about potential superspreader events and even after people who had been at CPAC tested positive for Covid-19, Trump said that he wasnt concerned at all about the spread of the pandemic, which seems to have been an omen for darker times ahead.

5. Trump kisses a flagpole and mocks Greta Thunberg, CPAC 2020

In 2020, Trump kissed a flagpole and mocked Greta Thunberg during his speech, during which he also called prominent Republican senator Mitt Romney a low life. He also complimented Joe Bidens wife, while insulting now president Joe Biden, and then delved back into insulting the media. Pretty standard stuff for Trump, but it was still pretty bizarre to watch it altogether.

6. Trump admits he is balding, CPAC 2018

In 2018, Trump admitted during a keynote address that he was balding and that he does try a lot to hide a certain bald spot.

7. Ann Coulter upsets everyone, CPAC 2007 and 2008

Ann Coulter, the right-wing media personality, made several offensive remarks during her appearances at CPAC in 2008, but potentially one of the strangest was saying that the best thing that had ever happened to the campaign of Barack Hussein Obama was when he was born half black. The year before, she also called another media personality a homophobic slur.

8. Republican governor says he would rather go Waterboarding than listen to 70 political speeches, CPAC 2013.

While CPAC has been running for several years, media coverage of the event really started to pick up after Trump was elected. But previous years also had their fair share of controversy see Salons roundup of the most offensive remarks made on stage at CPAC 2013. The most outrageous of which might have come from Bobby Jindal, the former governor of Louisiana, who said that he would rather be waterboarded a controversial and common torture technique - than listen to 70 political speeches at CPAC, an event that he had chosen to both go to and actively participate in.

9. Nigel Farage and Marion Marechal-Le-Pen appear, CPAC 2018

Nigel Farage of UKIP and Marion Marechal-Le-Pen both spoke at CPAC in 2018 Marechal-Le-Pen warned attendees of the dangers of transhumanism, which is commonly used to refer to a movement of people who want to live forever with the aid of technology and science, but obviously wasnt what Le Pen was referring to. Farage took the opportunity to attack George Soros and praised Viktor Orban, the far-right prime minister of Hungary, for having the courage to stand up to him.

10. Organisers booed for asking attendees to wear masks, CPAC 2021

On the first day of CPAC 2021, when organisers told conference-goers to wear masks as they should at a primarily indoor event, they were booed off the stage. This is despite the fact that it is against the law to not wear a mask indoors in Florida at the moment, particularly in a gathering of the size of CPAC.

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Wikipedia is a Python library that makes it easy to access and parsedata from Wikipedia.

Search Wikipedia, get article summaries, get data like links and imagesfrom a page, and more. Wikipedia wraps the MediaWikiAPI so you can focus on usingWikipedia data, not getting it.

Note: this library was designed for ease of use and simplicity, not for advanced use. If you plan on doing serious scraping or automated requests, please use Pywikipediabot (or one of the other more advanced Python MediaWiki API wrappers), which has a larger API, rate limiting, and other features so we can be considerate of the MediaWiki infrastructure.

To install Wikipedia, simply run:

Wikipedia is compatible with Python 2.6+ (2.7+ to run unittest discover) and Python 3.3+.

Read the docs at https://wikipedia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/.

To run tests, clone the respository on GitHub, then run:

in the root project directory.

To build the documentation yourself, after installing requirements.txt, run:

MIT licensed. See the LICENSEfile forfull details.

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Gonglang (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Gnglng Zhn) is a town in Nanjian Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan, China. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 32,719 and an area of 277.78-square-kilometre (107.25sqmi). It is known as "Hometown of Tea", "Hometown of Walnut", and "Hometown of Citron".

As of 2018, the town is divided into fourteen villages:

The first dynasty to rule Gonglang was the Tang dynasty (618907), beginning in the 7th century. It came under the jurisdiction of Langcang Xunjiansi () in mid-Ming dynasty (13681644). In 1729, in the ruling of Yongzheng Emperor of the Qing dynasty (16441911), it was under the jurisdiction of Jingmeng ().

In 1914, the Nanjian Xunjiansi () was set up. In 1940, Langcang Town () was formed.

During the Great Leap Forward, it was renamed "Gonglang Commune" () in 1958. It was incorporated as a township in 1988. In 2000, Langcang Township () was revoked and Gonglang was upgraded to a town.

It lies at the southwestern of Nanjian Yi Autonomous County, bordering the towns of Wuliangshan, Xiaowandong, Baohua, townships of Bixi and Yongcui, Yun County, Fengqing County, and Jingdong Yi Autonomous County.[1]

The town's main industries are agriculture. Economic crops are mainly tea, walnut, and potato.

As of 2020, the National Bureau of Statistics of China estimates the town's population now to be 32,719.[1]

The Jade Emperor Pavilion () is a Taoist temple in the town, and the Guanyin Hall () is a Buddhist temple. The Land God Temple () is a temple of folk belief for Yi people. The Gonglang Mosque () was originally built in the Jiaqing period of the Qing dynasty (16441911).

he National Highway G214 passes across the town north to south.

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(Vandalism is measured as the number of users whose edits on a particular page were reversed by others in the Wikipedia community. Though not always necessary, a reversed edit is a sign its possibly bad, or worse, malicious.)

1. In the name of god

Religion is a hot topic in online discourse. The Wikipedia article about Bhagavad Gita was among the most vandalised last year. One user changed the text to claim that all forms of the Hindu deity Vishnu are actually avatars of Krishna. Another wanted to put 5561 BCE as the year of the Mahabharata war.

The article about Kumbh Mela, which took place in April 2021 in Haridwar, was also edited often. A user replaced every mention of Hinduism with Bhartiya Sanatana Dharma, vaguely known as Hinduism"'; another changed Allahabad to Prayagraj (Wikipedia policies insist on using new official names only after they have entered common usage).

An article on Religion in India was also abused, with provocative comments getting added about conversions to Islam. A section that cited slowing Muslim population growth to allay fears of demographic replacement was completely removed once. Each of these edits was reverted.

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2. Idolised beyond reason

Wikipedia pages about thinkers and philosophers also got abuse. In the article about Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, one user removed the part about how the Hindutva icon saw Muslims and Christians as people who couldnt be a part of India as their holy lands were elsewhere. Another tried to claim his militarisation of youth had inspired Subhash Chandra Bose and the 1946 Naval revolt.

In the page about Mahatma Gandhi, an edit tried to declare him a devout follower of the deity Ram without providing proof. Another user removed the part which mentioned how Gandhi didnt criticise the British after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, but had instead criticised Indians for not following non-violent methods.

On Jawaharlal Nehru, there was innocent disagreement about whether he should be described as atheist or agnostic, but some also tried to add scandalous accusations about the relationship between him and Edwina Mountbatten.

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3. Colouring The Past

Its said history is written by victors. But now its often written and rewritten by Wikipedia users. On the page Indian Rebellion of 1857, some users insisted it be called Indias first war of independence instead of rebellion, but their edits were reversed. Others removed the part that said the troops who mutinied were high-caste Hindus and Muslims worried about ritual pollution. (The revolt was sparked by rumours that sepoys would have to bite off cartridges greased with cow or pig fat.)

The page Partition of India faced vandalism that was incendiary in nature. A user tried to add specific incidents of Hindus and Sikhs being killed in Pakistani cities by Muslim mobs. Another attempted to include claims that more Muslims died during the Partition than Hindus and Sikhs combined.

In an article on MughalMaratha Wars, the reference to Maratha ruler Sambhaji was changed to Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj. A user changed the outcomes of wars, saying that after Aurangzebs death, Marathas took over all Mughal properties.

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4. Historical Figures Glorified

Online vandals attack pages on historical figures, too, but usually to present them in a more positive light. For example, one person tried to describe Maharana Pratap as the first freedom fighter of India because of his opposition to the Mughals. Another edit was made to romanticise his exploits, talking about how the Mughals couldnt capture him despite having a bigger army. A user emphasised his religion, changing his description from Indian ruler to Hindu maharaja.

Another ruler, Rani Lakshmibai, was valourised because of her battles with the British. One user tried to remove details about her death at the hands of the British, and about casualties for her army in her last battle. Others removed a part where she had fled to Gwalior and was unable to defend the city.

The page on Muhammad Iqbal, the composer of 'Saare Jahan Se Acha', was also edited and re-edited as many users from Pakistan insisted that their national poet be called 'Allama Muhammad Iqbal' instead.

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5. Food fights

A common theme to Wikipedia edit wars is the focus on origins. Some vandalised the page on biryani, choosing to diminish its roots in Muslim culinary traditions. Others said that while the immediate origins of the word 'biryani' may be Persian, if we go further back, it can be traced to the Sanskrit word vrihi.

Someone once removed a sentence about how the alphonso mango is named after a Portuguese colonial governor. The page says the mango comes from a region covering parts of Myanmar, Bangladesh and Northeast India. One person deleted the words Myanmar and Bangladesh.

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The page on dosa was vandalised as well, with many insisting on spelling it as 'dosai', which matches the pronunciation used in some southern states. Others fought over whether the oldest dosa recipe is found in ancient Tamil or Kannada literature.

Shijith Kunhitty is an independent data journalist.

A note on methodology:

A group of Wikipedia editors, WikiProject India, maintains articles about India and has assessed over 150,000 pages on the website as of 2021. From this set, articles on Indian thinkers, historical figures, food items etc. were chosen and their edit histories explored for this analysis.

These edit histories track every single addition and deletion in Wikipedia pages. Every time a user makes a damaging edit, it is reversed within hours, or even minutes, by another user or bot. These edits are tagged reverted and have been used to assess the levels of vandalism" in this analysis. The analysis counts the number of distinct users whose edits were reversed, rather than the number of edits, as in some cases, a few users may have been responsible for most of the damaging edits.

It must be noted that some of the reverted edits may not have been vandalism" or malicious, and were rolled back because they fell short of Wikipedias standards in other ways. The analysis intends to give a sense of which Indian pages were the most abused.

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So its a slow Tuesday in the world of sports, big deal. Team Shuster was upset by Italy in the Olympics, the Wild blew out the Red Wings last night, the world of the NFL is still recovering from the Super Bowl and Minnesota fans are just waiting for their day in the sun.

But online, the battle rages on! With questions surrounding the delayed announcement of Kevin OConnell becoming the next head coach of the Minnesota Vikings, fans have taken matters into their own hands and are now fighting over the claim of KOC on Wikipedia!

At least four times already today anonymous sources have updated OConnells Wikipedia page. One time it will represent the colors of the L.A. Rams, the next the Minnesota Vikings, most recently a neutral gray and black. Then someone will update his current position to be head coach of the Vikings, then back to offensive coordinator of the Rams, it was even once set to be Head Coach of the Rams.

*Reminder: Wikipedia.com is an open source informational website. That means that while most of the information on the site is accurate, its crowd sourced by users. So any Average Joe could login and update the page at their leisure.

In the big scheme of things, it all means nothing. But as Vikings fans are sitting around twiddling their thumbs, waiting for the worst possible news to be announced, this is what we monitor for entertainment!

The latest reports from Schefter say that the Vikings plan to introduce OConnell on Thursday. But lets all remember back in 2018 when Schefter reported McDaniels as a done deal with the Colts on the same day that he pulled out and rescinded his acceptance to stay in New England.

Aj Mansouris a member ofThe Power Trip Morning ShowonKFANand works foriHeartMediaand theVikings Radio Network. Hes also a senior writer for VikingsTerritory.com. Be sure to follow him on social media for the latest Vikings news and big opinions @AjKFAN

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Football fans are fighting over Kevin OConnell on Wikipediaand Im here for it! - Vikings Territory