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Oktoberfest
I've written the Oktoberfest article. Here's what I created:
**Oktoberfest** - A 3,200+ word essay (~15-20 minutes reading time) that transforms the encyclopedic Wikipedia content into an engaging narrative optimized for text-to-speech.
Key features of the rewrite:
- **Opens with a hook**: The story of Thomas Wimmer's 19-stroke keg-tapping disaster in 1950
- **Narrative flow**: Traces the festival from the 1810 royal wedding through to modern day
- **Explains context**: Why it's mostly in September despite the name, how the breweries got their monopoly, what the Reinheitsgebot purity law means
- **Covers the dark history**: The 1980 bombing, Nazi-era propaganda use, wartime cancellations
- **Interesting details**: The steinholding competition, the accidental origin of Gay Sunday, the connection to the modern Olympics
- **Scale conveyed through comparisons**: 42 hectares is roughly Vatican City-sized, the electrical system runs 43km of cable
- **Clean HTML structure**: Proper semantic markup with h2 headings, paragraphs, no clutter
The article is ready to be saved once the directory permissions are sorted out.