Wikipedia article of the day is Pisco sour. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: A pisco sour is a cocktail typical of South American cuisine. The drink’s name is a combination of the word pisco, which is its base liquor, and the term sour, in reference to sour citrus juice and sweetener components. Chile and Peru […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on June 19, 2021: Greenland Express Fokker 100 at Lviv International Airport, Ukraine. More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is Rock martin. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: The rock martin (Ptyonoprogne fuligula) is a small swallow that is resident in central and southern Africa. It breeds in the mountains, and at lower levels in rocky areas and towns. It has mainly brown plumage and white “windows” on the spread […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on June 18, 2021: Canadian Rockies in the morning. Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is Five Go Down to the Sea?. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Five Go Down to the Sea? were an Irish post-punk band from Cork, active during 1978 to 1989. Vocalist and lyricist Finbarr Donnelly (pictured), guitarist Ricky Dineen and brothers Philip O’Connell (bass) and Keith O’Connell (drums) formed the […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Antiochus X Eusebes. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Antiochus X Eusebes (c. 113 BC – 92 or 88 BC) was a king of Syria during the Hellenistic period. During his lifetime Seleucid Syria was beset by civil wars, interference by Ptolemaic Egypt and incursions by the Parthians. In 95 BC, Seleucus VI killed his own half-uncle […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on June 17, 2021: Mountain tour from Watles via Sesvennahütte and the Uina Slucht to Sur En Alte Pforzheimer Huette on the Pforzheimer See. More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is Podokesaurus. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Podokesaurus is a genus of coelophysoid dinosaur that lived in what is now the eastern United States during the Early Jurassic Period between 201 and 190 million years ago. Its only fossil was discovered by the geologist Mignon Talbot near Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, in […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on June 16, 2021: Sculpture “Silberne Frequenz” (Otto Piene, 1970/71, 2012/14 redesign) at the LWL museum, Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany More Info
Wikipedia article of the day is Bombing of Yawata (June 1944). Check it out: Article-Link Summary: The Bombing of Yawata on the night of 15/16 June 1944 was the first air raid on the Japanese home islands conducted by United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) strategic bombers during World War II. The attack was undertaken by 75 B-29 […]