Wikipedia article of the day is Rock parrot. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: The rock parrot (Neophema petrophila) is a species of grass parrot native to Australia. Described by John Gould in 1841, it is a small parrot 22 to 24 cm (8+3⁄4 to 9+1⁄2 in) long and weighing 50 to 60 g (1+3⁄4 to 2 oz) with predominantly […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on January 11, 2024: An ultrawide angle panoramic view along the inside of L’Umbracle, designed by renowned Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, in the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain. More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is The Firebird. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: The Firebird is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Michel Fokine, who collaborated with Alexandre Benois and […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on January 10, 2024: The Mont Blanc (“white mountain”) located on the French-Italian border. Rising 4,807.81 m (15,774 ft) above sea level, it is the highest mountain in the Alps mountain range and in Western Europe. More Info
Wikipedia picture of the day on January 9, 2024: This new Hubble image shows the scatterings of bright stars and thick dust that make up spiral galaxy Messier 83, otherwise known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy. More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is Communication. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Communication is usually understood to be the transmission of information. Many models of communication describe it in terms of a source using a coding system to express ideas in the form of a message. The message is sent through a channel to a […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. is a landmark 1948 New York Supreme Court decision. It was the first case in the United States dealing with moral rights in authorship. The Soviet composers Dmitri Shostakovich (pictured), Aram Khachaturian, […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on January 8, 2024: An African common toad swimming in Lake Sibhayi, South Africa More Info
Wikipedia picture of the day on January 7, 2024: Winter morning in the Carpathian National Park, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is Daisy Bacon. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Daisy Bacon (1898–1986) was an American pulp fiction magazine editor and writer, best known as the editor of Love Story Magazine from 1928 to 1947. She was hired in 1926 to assist with “Friends in Need”, an advice column in the magazine, […]