Wikipedia article of the day is Spalding War Memorial. Check it out: https://ift.tt/1mNtSim Summary: Spalding War Memorial is a First World War memorial in the gardens of Ayscoughfee Hall in Spalding, Lincolnshire, in eastern England. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. The proposal originated with Barbara McLaren; her husband Francis McLaren, the town’s member […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on May 13, 2020: Silver Lake during dusk, Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska, United States. https://ift.tt/2WrDjcH
Wikipedia article of the day is These Are the Voyages…. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2WT9joL… Summary: “These Are the Voyages…” is the series finale of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise. The episode, which first aired on the UPN network on May 13, 2005, is a frame story, where the 22nd-century events of Star […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on May 12, 2020: An adult male sable antelope (Hippotragus niger) in the Tswalu Kalahari Reserve. Tswalu is in South Africa and was proclaimed a Nature Reserve on 12 May 2014. https://ift.tt/2Z0hQcx
Wikipedia article of the day is Superliner (railcar). Check it out: https://ift.tt/1Vx6wLA Summary: The Superliner is a type of bilevel intercity railroad passenger car used by Amtrak, the national rail passenger carrier in the United States. The design was based on Budd’s Hi-Level vehicles, employed by the Santa Fe Railway on its El Capitan trains. […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Sega Saturn. Check it out: https://ift.tt/1pFZ9ya Summary: The Sega Saturn is a 32-bit home video game console developed by Sega. Released in 1994 in Japan, and 1995 in North America and Europe, the Saturn is the successor to the Sega Genesis, and Sega’s fourth game console. It has dual-CPU […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on May 10, 2020: Ogden Point Breakwater during sunset, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada https://ift.tt/3dwWp6S
Wikipedia article of the day is Banksia speciosa. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2cOY0tf Summary: Banksia speciosa, the showy banksia, is a large shrub or small tree in the family Proteaceae. First collected and described by Robert Brown in the early 19th century, the species occurs on the south coast of Western Australia between Hopetoun and the […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on May 9, 2020: Aerial view of Krymsky Bridge in Moscow https://ift.tt/35GEYOu
Wikipedia article of the day is Target ship. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2fygYWw Summary: USS Oberrender (DE-344) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for Lieutenant Commander Thomas Olin Oberrender, Jr., the engineering officer of the light cruiser USS Juneau, killed when that ship was torpedoed […]