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Article count removed. · Two shorter Today's Featured Article · Today's Featured List · Removed Wikipedia Languages · Style change · Sister projects given a more visible place · More portals, but lower · Added a small description of the project to banner

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  • Nat's description of wikipedia.
  • Ryan's style, some colour changes.
  • Trevor MacInnis' sister projects layout (images smaller).
  • Gnangarra for the idea of multiple TFA.
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Looking north on NY 32 in the Town of Cornwall
Looking north on NY 32 in the Town of Cornwall

New York State Route 32 is a north–south state highway that extends for 176.73 miles (284.42 km) through the Hudson Valley and Capital District regions of the U.S. state of New York. It is a surface road for nearly its entire length, with few divided and no limited-access sections. (more...)

A Scene from the Caucasian War, by Franz Roubaud (1856–1928)
A Scene from the Caucasian War, by Franz Roubaud (1856–1928)

The Russian–Circassian War was the period of hostilities between the Russian Empire and the inhabitants of Circassia during the Russian invasion and occupation of the Circassian region. Circassia was a region in Caucasia which consisted of the coastline and most of the interior of the current territory of Krasnodar Krai and Adygea. (more...)

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The List of Oklahoma birds lists every wild bird species ever seen in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, as recorded by the Oklahoma Bird Records Committee.

Zooming In on the Andromeda Galaxy
Zooming In on the Andromeda Galaxy
  • ... that more than one hundred million stars are visible in Zooming In on the Andromeda Galaxy (pictured)?
  • ... that Karen Tei Yamashita realized the structure of her novel, I Hotel, by cutting, folding, and writing on ten cardboard cubes, each representing a year in the book?
  • ... that Carrlyn Bathe met her husband after he sent her gear from his clothing brand?
  • ... that due to the near-miss effect, gamblers may mistake a game of luck for a game of skill?
  • ... that tacklers "bounced off" Chauncey Archiquette "as if he were a brick wall"?
  • ... that the author of the comic book Timeless Voyage was the leader of a UFO religion?
  • ... that Chief Constable James Smart flooded police courts with over 17,000 cases to prove the impracticality of leaving homeowners with the responsibility for lighting stairs?
  • ... that an Indiana university argued in court that The Silver Veil and the Golden Gate, a 1914 painting, was too modern for their art collection in 2024?
  • ... that Piri Reis did not map Antarctica in the sixteenth century?

Thierry Neuville in 2014
Thierry Neuville


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Orion in The Book of Fixed Stars

The Book of Fixed Stars (Arabic: كتاب صور الكواكب kitāb suwar al-kawākib, literally The Book of the Shapes of Stars) is an astronomical text written by Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Azophi) around 964. Following the Graeco-Arabic translation movement in the 9th century AD, the book was written in Arabic, the common language for scholars across the vast Islamic territories, although the author himself was Persian. It was an attempt to create a synthesis of the comprehensive star catalogue in Ptolemy's Almagest (books VII and VIII) with the indigenous Arabic astronomical traditions on the constellations (notably the Arabic constellation system of the Anwā'). The original manuscript no longer survives as an autograph, however, the Book of Stars has survived in later-made copies. This image from the book shows the constellation of Orion, in mirror image as if on a celestial globe, and is from a copy in the Bodleian Library dated to the 12th century AD.

Ilustration credit: Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi

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