Wikipedia article of the day is The Bread-Winners. Check it out: https://ift.tt/1GZMKCG Summary: The Bread-Winners is an 1883 anti-labor novel by John Hay, who was Assistant Secretary to the President under Abraham Lincoln, and McKinley’s final secretary of state. Originally published anonymously in installments in The Century Magazine, the book attracted wide interest and provoked […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Flora of Madagascar. Check it out: https://ift.tt/35c6ANh Summary: The flora of Madagascar consists of more than 12,000 species of vascular and non-vascular plants. Around 83 per cent of Madagascar’s vascular plants are found only on the island. These include five entirely endemic plant families as well as most of the […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Tweed Courthouse. Check it out: https://ift.tt/28W8iDC Summary: The Tweed Courthouse (officially the Old New York County Courthouse) is a historic courthouse building in Civic Center, Manhattan, New York City. Listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places and protected as a New York City designated landmark, it is […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Battle of the Bagradas River (255 BC). Check it out: https://ift.tt/3aFw0ln Summary: The Battle of the Bagradas River was a victory by a Carthaginian army led by Xanthippus over a Roman army led by Marcus Atilius Regulus in early 255 BC, nine years into the First Punic War. The previous […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Ismail I of Granada. Check it out: https://ift.tt/3drOwQA Summary: Ismail I (1279–1325) was the fifth Nasrid ruler of the Emirate of Granada (map pictured) on the Iberian Peninsula, from 1314 to 1325. He claimed the throne during the reign of his uncle, Sultan Nasr, after a rebellion started by his […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Cactus wren. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2Hrs0Kb Summary: The cactus wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) is a large wren that is endemic to the deserts of the US and Mexico. It is the state bird of Arizona. The wren’s upperparts are brown with black and white spots and the underparts are cinnamon-buff […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Third Silesian War. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2uTEENd Summary: The Third Silesian War was a conflict between Prussia and an Austrian alliance that lasted from 1756 to 1763 and confirmed Prussia’s control of Silesia (now in south-western Poland). The war was fought mainly in Silesia, Bohemia and Upper Saxony and […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Vespro della Beata Vergine. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2lsTyX1 Summary: Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers for the Blessed Virgin) by Claudio Monteverdi is an extended composition for the evening vespers on Marian feasts, printed in 1610. The composer set the usual Latin psalms and Magnificat, but also solo concertos in […]
Wikipedia article of the day is New York State Route 175. Check it out: https://ift.tt/3hJhjSG Summary: New York State Route 175 is a west–east state highway located in Onondaga County, New York, in the United States. The 15.46-mile (24.88 km) route begins at an intersection with U.S. Route 20 east of the village of Skaneateles. It heads towards […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on August 30, 2020: “Everything is Going to be Alright” artwork by Martin Creed, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand https://ift.tt/3b86Spf