Wikipedia article of the day is Rigel. Check it out: https://ift.tt/1SyKwfV Summary: Rigel is a blue supergiant star in the constellation of Orion, approximately 860 light-years (260 pc) from Earth. It is the brightest and most massive component of a star system of at least four stars that appear as a single blue-white point of light […]

Wikipedia article of the day is Margaret Macpherson Grant. Check it out: https://ift.tt/32tTNlb Summary: Margaret Macpherson Grant (1834–1877) was a Scottish heiress and philanthropist. Born in Aberlour parish to a local surgeon, she was educated in Hampshire and inherited a large fortune from her uncle, Alexander Grant, a planter and merchant who had become rich […]

Wikipedia article of the day is Banksia blechnifolia. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2ESI9HW Summary: Banksia blechnifolia is a species of flowering plant that was first described by Victorian state botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1864. Its leaves are reminiscent of the fern genus Blechnum. B. blechnifolia is one of several closely related species that grow as prostrate […]

Wikipedia article of the day is Tower Hill Memorial. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2g7wbMh Summary: The Tower Hill Memorial is a pair of Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorials in Trinity Square, on Tower Hill in London, England. The memorials, one for the First World War and one for the Second, commemorate more than 36,000 men and […]

Wikipedia article of the day is Erin Phillips. Check it out: https://ift.tt/3fq1P5n Summary: Erin Phillips (born 1985) is an Australian rules footballer for the Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women’s (AFLW) competition and a former professional basketball player. With the launch of the AFLW in 2017, Phillips began her football career at age 31. Despite […]

Wikipedia article of the day is Ealdred (archbishop of York). Check it out: https://ift.tt/2dNJJwH Summary: Ealdred (died 1069) was Abbot of Tavistock, Bishop of Worcester, and Archbishop of York in Anglo-Saxon England. After becoming a monk at the monastery at Winchester, he became abbot around 1027 and a bishop in 1047. Besides his clerical duties, […]

Wikipedia article of the day is Jomo Kenyatta. Check it out: https://ift.tt/VBxTld Summary: Jomo Kenyatta (c. 1897 – 1978) was an anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its prime minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first president from 1964 to his death in 1978. He was the country’s first indigenous head of […]

Wikipedia article of the day is Bat. Check it out: https://ift.tt/1DCGgEa Summary: Bats, of the order Chiroptera, are the only mammals capable of sustained flight. Their wings, spread-out fingers covered by a thin membrane, make them more manoeuvrable than birds. Bats range in size from Kitti’s hog-nosed bat, weighing 2–2.6 g (0.07–0.09 oz), to the giant golden-crowned […]

Wikipedia article of the day is Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2mUNfpO Summary: Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele is a large oil-on-oak panel painting completed around 1434–1436 by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck. It shows the painting’s donor, Joris van der Paele, within an […]

Wikipedia article of the day is Alfred Worden. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2aVS1kB Summary: Alfred Worden (1932–2020) was an American test pilot and astronaut who in 1971 was the command module pilot of the Apollo 15 lunar mission. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1955, and was commissioned in the Air Force. He proved […]