Wikipedia:Main Page alternatives/(Tomorrow and Queue 6)

More main page alternatives

Welcome to Wikipedia,

the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

6,890,330 articles in English

Overview · Searching · Editing · Questions · Help

Categories · Featured content · A–Z index

Today's featured article

San Lorenzo Colossal Head 1

The Olmec colossal heads are at least 17 monumental stone representations of human heads sculpted from large basalt boulders. The heads date from at least before 900 BC and are a distinctive feature of the Olmec civilization of ancient Mesoamerica. All portray mature men with fleshy cheeks, flat noses and slightly crossed eyes; their physical characteristics correspond to a type that is still common among the inhabitants of Tabasco and Veracruz. The boulders were brought from the Sierra de los Tuxtlas, a mountain range in Veracruz. It is thought that the finished monuments represent portraits of powerful individual Olmec rulers. Each is given a distinctive headdress. The heads were variously arranged in lines or groups at major Olmec centres. Dating the monuments remains difficult due to the movement of many from their original context prior to archaeological investigation. Most have been dated to the Early Preclassic period (1500–1000 BC) with some to the Middle Preclassic period (1000–400 BC). (Full article...)

Recently featured:

Did you know...

Asik-Asik Falls

... that the water of Asik-Asik Falls (pictured) comes from a source inside a cliff?
... that Mokulubete Makatisi placed eighth at the 2022 Commonwealth Games women's marathon despite running in new shoes that she had received late during the race?
... that the developer of The Crimson Diamond first created a series of pixel-art rooms and later built a game around the house she had designed?
... that some of the work of lesbian feminist filmmaking pioneer Norma Bahia Pontes is lost media?
... that while soldiers carried out relief operations for Tropical Storm Kai-tak, the New People's Army attacked them?
... that Milan A. P. Harminc, the consul-general of the Slovak Republic in London, broke with his government at the outbreak of World War II and sided with the Allies?
... that there was a doomsday cult named after Neo from The Matrix?
... that "Europapa" was the first song in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest to be disqualified after the start of the contest?
... that a woman was considered a witch because her husband prepared chocolate instead of her?

In the news

Iranian missiles being intercepted

Amid escalating tensions in the Middle East, Israel invades Lebanon, and Iran launches missiles (pictured) against Israel.
Flooding in Nepal leaves more than 200 people dead, including 37 in the nation's capital, Kathmandu.
In Australian rules football, the Brisbane Lions defeat the Sydney Swans to win the AFL Grand Final.
Hurricane Helene leaves more than 100 people dead across the southeastern United States.
British actress Maggie Smith dies at the age of 89.

On this day...

October 4: Cinnamon Roll Day in Sweden and Finland

Seal of Otto IV

1209 – Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (seal pictured), was crowned.
1363 – Red Turban Rebellions: The rebel leader Zhu Yuanzhang won the Battle of Lake Poyang by deploying ships intentionally set aflame when the emperor tried to escape.
1918 – An ammunition plant in Sayreville, New Jersey, U.S., exploded, killing around 100 people and destroying more than 300 buildings.
1957 – The Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
2003 – A suicide bomber killed 21 people, including a two-month-old baby, and injured 60 others inside a restaurant in Haifa, Israel.

Charles Pearson (b. 1793)
Maurice Wilder-Neligan (b. 1882)
Henrietta Lacks (d. 1951)
Gunpei Yokoi (d. 1997)

More anniversaries:

Today's featured picture

Hübnerite is a mineral consisting of manganese tungsten oxide, with a chemical formula MnWO₄. It typically occurs in association with high-temperature hydrothermal vein deposits and altered granites and in alluvial deposits. Hübnerite is the manganese endmember of the wolframite solid solution series, with ferberite (FeWO₄) the opposite iron endmember. Color differences between members of the wolframite family are clear and marked, with the color of hübnerite varying from yellowish brown to reddish brown. It was first described in 1865 for an occurrence in the US state of Nevada and was named after the German mining engineer and metallurgist Adolf Hübner. This stacked image, composed of 38 individual photographs, shows red hübnerite crystals with quartz extracted from the Pasto Bueno mine in Pallasca Province, Peru.

Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus

Recently featured:

Other areas of Wikipedia

Community portal – The central hub for editors, with resources, links, tasks, and announcements.
Village pump – Forum for discussions about Wikipedia itself, including policies and technical issues.
Site news – Sources of news about Wikipedia and the broader Wikimedia movement.
Teahouse – Ask basic questions about using or editing Wikipedia.
Help desk – Ask questions about using or editing Wikipedia.
Reference desk – Ask research questions about encyclopedic topics.
Content portals – A unique way to navigate the encyclopedia.

Wikipedia's sister projects

Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects: