Wikipedia article of the day is Acamptonectes. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Acamptonectes is a genus of ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur, a type of dolphin-like marine reptile that lived during the Early Cretaceous around 130 million years ago. The first specimen—a partial adult skeleton—was discovered in Speeton, England, in 1958, but it was not formally described until 2012. […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on September 18, 2021: Tatra National Park, Poland. More Info
Wikipedia picture of the day on September 17, 2021: Sterntor in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is Hurricane Humberto (2019). Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Hurricane Humberto was a large and powerful tropical cyclone that caused extensive wind damage in the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda during September 2019. It was the eighth named storm and third hurricane of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season. Humberto formed on […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Roman withdrawal from Africa (255 BC). Check it out: Article-Link Summary: The Roman withdrawal from Africa in 255 BC was the attempt by the Roman Republic to rescue the survivors of their defeated expeditionary force to Carthaginian Africa (in what is now north-eastern Tunisia) during the First Punic War. A […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on September 16, 2021: Landscape in Sutton, Alaska, United States. More Info
Wikipedia picture of the day on September 15, 2021: The old Jewish cemetery near Heinsheim, Bad Rappenau, Germany. Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in Judaism, begins today with the sunset. More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is Raymond Pace Alexander. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Raymond Pace Alexander (1897–1974) was a civil rights leader, lawyer, and politician who was the first African-American judge appointed to the Pennsylvania courts of common pleas. In 1920, he became the first black graduate of the Wharton School of Business. He […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Keechaka Vadham. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Keechaka Vadham (The Extermination of Keechaka) is an Indian silent film produced, directed, filmed and edited by R. Nataraja Mudaliar (pictured), and released in the late 1910s. No print of it is known to survive. The first Tamil film and the first film […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on September 14, 2021: Dante and Virgil by William Bouguereau (1850), from the Musée d’Orsay Collection. More Info