Wikipedia picture of the day on June 19, 2020: Daniel Souček playing for Czechia in European Under-21 Championship 2021 Qualifying Round between the Czech Republic and Greece https://ift.tt/2YRqSH1
Wikipedia article of the day is George Washington and slavery. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2qxr7nM Summary: George Washington was a slaveowner and Founding Father who became uneasy with the institution of slavery but provided for the emancipation of his slaves only after his death. Most of his slaves worked on his Mount Vernon estate. They built […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on June 18, 2020: Cruise ship Regal Princess (2013) at Warnemünde, Rostock, Germany https://ift.tt/3fD64Kb
Wikipedia article of the day is Meinhard Michael Moser. Check it out: https://ift.tt/3fChRbk Summary: Meinhard Moser (1924–2002) was an Austrian mycologist. His work principally concerned the taxonomy, chemistry, and toxicity of gilled mushrooms (Agaricales), especially the genus Cortinarius. Moser completed his doctorate at the University of Innsbruck in 1950, then briefly worked in England. He […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on June 17, 2020: Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros), female, in the park of Seehof Castle near Bamberg, Germany. https://ift.tt/30PHzFe
Wikipedia article of the day is Nestor Lakoba. Check it out: https://ift.tt/3deWiMM Summary: Nestor Lakoba (1893–1936) was an Abkhaz Communist leader. In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Lakoba helped establish Bolshevik power in Abkhazia in the Caucasus region of the Soviet Union. As the head of Abkhazia after its conquest by the Bolshevik Red […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on June 16, 2020: Image of the Virgin of Los Remedios (“Lady of the Cures”) in the homonymous Baroque chapel of the church of John the Baptist, Ágreda, province of Soria, Castile and León, Spain. The chapel was built in 1697 by Count of Villarea. The originally Romanesque church (visible […]
Wikipedia article of the day is 1944 Cuba–Florida hurricane. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2UL9eUb Summary: The 1944 Cuba–Florida hurricane was a large Category 4 tropical cyclone that caused widespread damage across the western Caribbean Sea and the Southeastern United States. It inflicted over US$100 million in damage and was responsible for at least 318 deaths. The unprecedented availability of […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on June 15, 2020: Flower of a red Chrysanthemum × morifolium with dew drops in a garden in Upper Franconia. Focus stack of 32 frames. https://wp.me/p4wJUi-6Ov
Wikipedia article of the day is A Song Flung Up to Heaven. Check it out: https://ift.tt/3d4oWjr Summary: A Song Flung Up to Heaven is the sixth book in a series of autobiographies by author Maya Angelou (pictured). Set between 1965 and 1968, it begins where her previous book All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes ends, […]