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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.

This article has been rewritten from Wikipedia source material for enjoyable reading. Content may have been condensed, restructured, or simplified.