Wikipedia is celebrating its tenth anniversary!
To mark the occasion, Wikipedia is showcasing content not normally
featured.
Today's featured list:
The moons of Saturn are numerous and diverse, ranging from tiny
moonlets less than 1 kilometer (0.62 mi) across to the enormous Titan,
which is larger than the planet Mercury. Saturn has sixty-two moons
with confirmed orbits, fifty-three of which have names, and only
thirteen of which have diameters larger than 50 kilometers (31 mi).
Saturn has seven moons that are large enough to become spherical, and
dense rings with complex orbital motions of their own.
Read the rest of this list:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Saturn>
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Today's featured topic:
The Guadalcanal Campaign was fought between August 1942 and February
1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of
World War II. Allied forces, predominantly American, landed on the
islands of Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and Florida in the southern Solomon
Islands, overwhelming the Japanese defenders and capturing an airfield
(later named Henderson Field). The Japanese made several attempts to
retake Henderson Field. Three major land battles, five large naval
battles, and continual, almost daily aerial battles culminated in the
decisive Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in early November 1942. The
Guadalcanal campaign was a significant strategic combined arms victory
by Allied forces over the Japanese in the Pacific theatre.
See all the articles in this topic:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Guadalcanal_Campaign>
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Today's featured sound:
The Four Seasons, a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi.
Composed in 1723, The Four Seasons is Vivaldi's best-known work, and
is among the most popular pieces of Baroque music. The texture of each
concerto is varied, each resembling its respective season. Performed
by John Harrison and the Wichita State University Chamber Players.
Hear it at:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:01_-_Vivaldi_Spring_mvt_1_Allegro_-_John_Harrison_violin.ogg>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1815:
War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore
Stephen Decatur, was captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_President_(1800)>
1885:
American photographer Wilson Bentley took the first known photograph
of a snowflake by attaching a bellows camera to a microscope.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Bentley>
1991:
Elizabeth II, as Queen of Australia, signed letters patent allowing
Australia to become the first Commonwealth realm to institute its own
separate Victoria Cross award in its own honours system.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross_for_Australia>
1999:
Yugoslav forces massacred 45 Kosovo Albanians in the village of
Račak, one of the main causes for the subsequent NATO bombing of
Yugoslavia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C4%8Dak_massacre>
2009:
After US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada Geese during its
initial climb out from LaGuardia Airport in New York City, Captain
Chesley Sullenberger successfully made an emergency landing in the
Hudson River.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
go hand in hand (v):
(idiomatic) Of two things, to be closely related or to go together
well.
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/go_hand_in_hand>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Those whose conduct gives room for talk
Are always the first to attack their neighbors.
--Molière
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Moli%C3%A8re>
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