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“All I wanted to do was play baseball” A Harvard graduate and a Major League Baseball player from 1932 to 1934, pitching (throwing the ball) for the New York Yankees, Charlie Devens was the last surviving member of the 1932 World Series. A championship playoff famed for Babe Ruth’s accurate – though disputed – prediction that he would hit his last ever home run to centre field (straight ahead of the batter). Before we turn our attention to Charlie, here’s a question for you. Which future President of the United States threw the ceremonial first pitch during the third game of the 1932 World Series? Find the answer below the sources. Although part of the Yankees team in 1932, Charlie Devens did not have the honour of pitching during the 1932 World Series. Maybe the stress of not pitching gave him longevity in life, living until the ripe age of 93. In a 1933 interview, Devens’ himself describes the life of a baseball player “a lazy man’s existence”: “You rise at about...

A Nuclear Monstrosity A riveting first article detailing a former Canadian uranium company in Cheyenne, Wyoming, founded in 2004 and absorbed into the Energy Metal Corporation in 2007, thus increasing their ownership of 105,000 acres of uranium property to approximately over 165,000 acres in Wyoming and from 10,000 to 20,000 in Texas. It appears that this acquisition cost Energy Metal Corporation 52 million Canadian Dollars (~ 40 Million USD, 31 Million GBP)… just another day at the office. By all accounts, it seems that this corporation (owned by Canadian company Uranium One – possibly a Random Article for another time) is relatively successful. As the second largest producer of uranium, who knew Canadians would hold such a stake in the uranium market? Maybe it’s the Canadian politeness, eh? Can you guess the world leader in uranium production? Find the answer below the sources. Back to the real star of the show. High Plains Uranium had two notable operations in place, ...

Welcome to Click Random, a torrent (hopefully) of  daily (…hopefully) information, useful or useless, interesting or irrelevant. Prompted by the overlooked Random Article button on Wikipedia, the objective of Click Random is to delve deeper – a challenge to discover more about even the most dull of subjects. You can join in too by sharing your knowledge, be it personal or objective, about the given subject. And let’s make a little game out of this as well, a game from my secondary school days: “ Clicks to Hitler (or Jesus, whichever floats your boat)”. The aim is to find the shortest path to the Wikipedia article for Hitler or Jesus starting with the random article that I investigate and clicking a link to successive Wikipedia articles until you have found Jesus or Hitler and comment how many articles you clicked to reach him. Without further ado, let’s jump in with the first Random Article, High Plains Uranium!!! …I knew this would be fun.