Wikipedia picture of the day on August 5, 2021: Door lock on bunker 26 at the area of the US army at the special ammunition depot in the Dernekamp hamlet, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany More Info
Wikipedia picture of the day on August 4, 2021: View from Mount Fyffe, Kaikōura Ranges, New Zealand More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is Cai Lun. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Cai Lun (b. c. 50 – c. 62 CE; d. 121) was a Chinese eunuch court official traditionally regarded as the inventor of paper and the modern papermaking process, as he created paper in its modern form. Born in modern-day Leiyang, Cai served as chamberlain […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Moorgate tube crash. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: The Moorgate tube crash occurred on 28 February 1975 on the London Underground’s Northern City Line; 43 people died and 74 were injured after a train failed to stop at the line’s southern terminus, Moorgate station, and crashed into its end wall. It […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on August 3, 2021: View of Stockholm, Sweden, with Kastellet, Vasa Museum, and Nordic Museum. More Info
Wikipedia picture of the day on August 2, 2021: View of a glacier in Chugach State Park, Alaska, United States. More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is The Sirens and Ulysses. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: The Sirens and Ulysses is a very large oil painting by the English artist William Etty, first exhibited in 1837. It depicts the scene from Homer’s Odyssey in which Ulysses (Odysseus) resists the bewitching song of the Sirens by having […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on August 1, 2021: Rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta japonica) in summer plumage on Mount Tsubakuro, Japan More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is Partisan Congress riots. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: The Partisan Congress riots were attacks on Jews in Bratislava and other towns in the Slovak part of Czechoslovakia between 1 and 6 August 1946. After World War II, former Slovak partisans were often appointed as administrators of property and businesses that had been […]
Wikipedia article of the day is White-eyed river martin. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: The white-eyed river martin (Pseudochelidon sirintarae) is a passerine bird in the swallow family. First found in 1968, it is known only from a single wintering site in Thailand, and may be extinct, since there have been no confirmed sightings since […]