Wikipedia picture of the day on October 21, 2023: Tomorrow begins the annual MassKara Festival in the Philippines, one of the most important celebrations in the country since 1980. More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is Made You Look (Meghan Trainor song). Check it out: Article-Link Summary: “Made You Look” is a song by American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor (pictured) from her fifth major-label studio album, Takin’ It Back (2022). Trainor wrote the song with Sean Douglas and its producer, Federico Vindver. Epic Records released it […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Hurricane Willa. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Hurricane Willa was a powerful tropical cyclone that brought torrential rains and destructive winds to the Mexican states of Sinaloa and Nayarit in October 2018. It was the twenty-second named storm, thirteenth hurricane, and tenth major hurricane of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season, […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on October 20, 2023: Issued 100 years ago: “Notgeld” banknote: 1 000 000 000 Mark (1923), Trier, design: Fritz Quant (signed: “Quant”), RV: the “Hauptmarkt” in 1849 More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is Spacewar!. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Spacewar! is a space combat video game developed in 1962 by Steve Russell in collaboration with Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen, Bob Saunders, Steve Piner, and others. The first video game known to be played at multiple computer installations, it was popular in the […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on October 19, 2023: Pointe de Pen-Hir, a headland of the Crozon peninsula in Brittany, France. On the right is the Monument to the Bretons of Free France, or the Cross of Pen-Hir, inaugurated in 1951 by General Charles de Gaulle. More Info
Wikipedia picture of the day on October 18, 2023: View to the east from Cho La, 5,400 metres (17,700 ft) a. s. l., a feature-rich mountain pass to the south of the Great Himalayan Range in the Everest Zone of Nepal, Himalayas. Glacial field covered with snow, black cliffs exposing geological layers and a small glacial […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Growing Up Absurd. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Growing Up Absurd is a 1960 book by Paul Goodman (pictured) on the relationship between American juvenile delinquency and the lack of societal opportunities to fulfill natural needs. It drew from his prior works, psychotherapy practice, and personal experiences and relationships. […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Venus in fiction. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: The planet Venus has been used as a setting in fiction since before the 19th century. Its impenetrable cloud cover gave writers free rein to speculate on conditions at Venus’s surface, which was often depicted as warmer than Earth’s but habitable. […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on October 17, 2023: Breil-Brigels, Panorama road between Waltensburg / Vuorz and Breil/Brigels, Canton of Grisons, Switzerland. Carved out passage. More Info