Wikipedia picture of the day on January 18, 2024: Praia Grande (Big Beach) at the end of the day. Porto Covo, Portugal. More Info

Wikipedia article of the day is Handel’s lost Hamburg operas. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: The music for three of the four operas written by the youthful composer George Frideric Handel (pictured) between 1703 and 1706, when he lived in the German city of Hamburg, is lost apart from a few orchestral fragments. Only the […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on January 17, 2024: The old town of Zug, Switzerland, at blue hour. More Info

Wikipedia article of the day is Adamson Tannehill. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Adamson Tannehill (1750–1820) was an American military officer, politician, civic leader, and farmer. Born in Maryland, Tannehill was among the first to join the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, becoming commander of the Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment. He then […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on January 16, 2024: Part of the facade of the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, Washington, USA More Info

Wikipedia picture of the day on January 15, 2024: Dried out lake in Sossusvlei, Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. More Info

Wikipedia article of the day is WWJ-TV. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: WWJ-TV (channel 62) is a television station broadcasting in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It is owned and operated by the CBS News and Stations group, with studios in the suburb of Southfield. Channel 62 was founded as WGPR-TV in 1975 by William V. Banks […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on January 14, 2024: A panorama showing the Uluguru Mountain Ranges, in Tanzania More Info

Wikipedia article of the day is Fleetwood Park Racetrack. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Fleetwood Park was a 19th-century American harness racing track in the Bronx, New York City. The races were a popular form of entertainment, drawing crowds as large as 10,000. The one-mile (1.6 km) course described an unusual shape, with four turns in […]

Wikipedia article of the day is Carucage. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Carucage was a medieval English land tax based on the size of the taxpayer’s estate. It was levied six times: by Richard I in 1194 and 1198, John in 1200, and Henry III in 1217, 1220, and 1224. The taxable value of an estate was […]