Wikipedia article of the day is Mr. Dooley. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Mr. Dooley is a fictional bartender created by American journalist Finley Peter Dunne, appearing in print between 1893 and 1915, and again in 1924 and 1926. The bartender’s humorous but pointed commentary on American politics and international affairs first became nationally popular during […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on September 11, 2021: Boy reading a book in Dar ul-Ihsan Mosque, Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province. More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is United Airlines Flight 93. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: United Airlines Flight 93 was a passenger flight that was hijacked by four al-Qaeda terrorists in 2001 as part of the September 11 attacks. The hijackers stormed the westbound aircraft’s cockpit 46 minutes after its takeoff from Newark, New Jersey, and diverted […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Giovanni Antonio Grassi. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Giovanni Antonio Grassi (10 September 1775 – 12 December 1849) was an Italian Jesuit who led many academic and religious institutions in the United States and Europe. Born in Lombardy, he studied at the Jesuit College in Polotsk, where he began his academic career. He was […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on September 10, 2021: Vaka ‘A Hina, a sculpture by Sēmisi Fetokai Potauaine in Christchurch, New Zealand. More Info
Wikipedia picture of the day on September 9, 2021: Issued 100 years ago: 50 Pfennig “Notgeld” banknote (emergency money) of Berlin, district Tiergarten (1921). The reverse shows the first German steamboat, the “Prinzessin Charlotte von Preußen”, around 1830.However the date 1830 is mistaken, as the “Charlotte von Preußen” was already dismantled in 1824. More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is Huey Long. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Huey Long (1893–1935), nicknamed “The Kingfish”, was a populist member of the Democratic Party from Louisiana who was nationally prominent in the U.S. during the Great Depression for his vocal criticism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal, which Long […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on September 8, 2021: Eurasian wryneck (Jynx torquilla), Velykyi Luh National Nature Park, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine. More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is Can’t Get You Out of My Head. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” is a song recorded by Australian singer Kylie Minogue (pictured) for Fever, her eighth studio album. Parlophone released the song as the album’s lead single on 8 September 2001. Written and produced […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on September 6, 2021: Interior of Armenia Pavilion in VDNKh Park (former Agricultural Exhibition Ground) in Moscow, Russia More Info