Wikipedia article of the day is 2006 Subway 500. Check it out: https://ift.tt/1XKriL0 Summary: The 2006 Subway 500 was the 32nd stock car race of the 2006 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series and the sixth in the ten-race Chase for the Nextel Cup. It was held on October 22, 2006, before a crowd of 65,000, at Martinsville Speedway […]

Wikipedia article of the day is U.S. Route 141. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2FDkn4o Summary: US Highway 141 is a north–south United States Numbered Highway that runs for about 169 miles (272 km) in the states of Wisconsin and Michigan. The highway runs north-northwesterly from Bellevue, Wisconsin, near Green Bay, to an intersection near Covington, Michigan. In between, […]

Wikipedia article of the day is Super Mario All-Stars. Check it out: https://ift.tt/1J3TED5 Summary: Super Mario All-Stars is a 1993 compilation of platform games for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It contains remakes of Nintendo’s four Super Mario titles released for the Nintendo Entertainment System and its Family Computer Disk System add-on: Super Mario Bros. […]

Wikipedia article of the day is Qibla. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2izLNMl Summary: The qibla is the direction towards the Kaaba in the Sacred Mosque, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, which is used by Muslims in various religious contexts, including ritual prayer. Muslims believe the Kaaba to be a sacred site built by the prophets Abraham and Ishmael, […]

Wikipedia article of the day is Bank of England £20 note. Check it out: https://ift.tt/23n3fPX Summary: HMS Temeraire was a 98-gun ship of the line of the British Navy, serving in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Built at Chatham Dockyard, Temeraire was launched in 1798 and commissioned in 1799. After years of routine duties she […]

Wikipedia article of the day is Hurricane Gordon (2006). Check it out: https://ift.tt/3hduiuU Summary: Hurricane Gordon was the third hurricane and first major hurricane of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the first tropical cyclone since 1992 to affect the Azores while retaining tropical characteristics. Gordon formed on September 10 in the tropical Atlantic Ocean. […]

Wikipedia article of the day is Michelle Williams (actress). Check it out: https://ift.tt/1ogYeTW Summary: Michelle Williams (born September 9, 1980) is an American actress. Her accolades include two Golden Globe Awards, and she has been nominated for four Academy Awards and one Tony Award. She made her feature film debut in Lassie (1994), and starred in […]

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 […]