Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
April’s fool day is known as Liar’s day in Ireland and the Isle of Man. During the Second World War, 1939-45 it was known as Hitler’s day in Northern Ireland but not in the South or on the Isle of Man, for some reason.
At the outbreak of World War II, the British Indian Army numbered 205,000 men. Later during World War II, the Indian Army became the largest all-volunteer force in history, rising to over 2.5 million men in size. [107] These forces included tank, artillery and airborne forces. Indian soldiers earned 30 Victoria Crosses during the Second World War.
This is a list of known World War II era codenames for military operations and missions commonly associated with World War II. As of 2022 this is not a comprehensive list, but most major operations that Axis and Allied combatants engaged in are included, and also operations that involved neutral nation states. Operations are categorised ...
The World War II Allied names for Japanese aircraft were reporting names, often described as codenames, given by Allied personnel to Imperial Japanese aircraft during the Pacific campaign of World War II. The names were used by Allied personnel to identify aircraft operated by the Japanese for reporting and descriptive purposes.
AF/91 was a virus hoax surrounding a computer virus purportedly created by the United States Intelligence Community as a cyberweapon during the Gulf War.The hoax originated in a 1991 InfoWorld article published as an April Fools' Day joke; in reality, no such virus ever existed, and the U.S. military is not known to have used a strategy similar to this in the Gulf War.
Almost every April Fools' Day (1 April) since 1989, the Internet RFC Editor has published one or more humorous Request for Comments (RFC) documents, following in the path blazed by the June 1973 RFC 527 called ARPAWOCKY, a parody of Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem "Jabberwocky". The following list also includes humorous RFCs published on other dates.
These will be a subpage of the page you are on right now, such as Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2022/Generic acid, as they would be deleted as a hoax anywhere else. South Carolina vs. Penn State Qix semifinal, an infamous college Qix game (turned from a video game into a physical sport).
April Fools/April Fools' Day 2024/Parking Lot has been vandalized by the Willy on wheels. Not anymore! As of 10:46pm UTC (6:46pm EDT), the parking lot is now full! Red Sea was turned into a sea of red. Similar actions were taken to preserve the Blue Nile; WP:October was updated to honor the continued existence of Halloween.