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2026-10-22

Gillingham 1986–87: 63 matches, a 6–6 semi-final, and a replay at somebody else's ground

Wikipedia's editors chose the 1986–87 Gillingham season for 22 October 2026: a third-division club carrying £700,000 of debt that reached the play-off final, lost a replay at Selhurst Park, and sold the striker who had scored 30 goals days later.

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2026-10-21

Hongwu: 15 countries he told his heirs never to invade, and 100,000 people purged at home

Wikipedia's editors put the Hongwu Emperor on the front page for 21 October 2026, his 698th birthday: a starving peasant who drove the Mongols out of China, abolished the office of prime minister for good, and killed about 100,000 of his own officials doing it.

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2026-10-20

The London Monster: 57 attacks, and a flower-maker with an alibi

Wikipedia's editors put the London Monster on the front page for 20 October 2026: fifty-seven reported attacks on women, more than thirty innocent men arrested, and one flower-maker convicted of cutting a silk gown under a statute written to protect the cloth trade.

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2026-10-19

Ancient Cappadocian: no texts, five disputed words, and an accent everyone mocked

Wikipedia's editors put the ancient Cappadocian language on the front page for 19 October 2026: a language with no surviving texts, known from a geographer's aside, a list of words for heaven, five disputed loanwords and an accent the Greek world mocked for centuries.

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2026-10-18

The Demi-Virgin: a magistrate called it obscene, and Broadway bought 200,000 tickets

Wikipedia's editors put The Demi-Virgin on the front page for 18 October 2026, the 105th anniversary of its premiere: Avery Hopwood's bedroom farce, which a New York magistrate ruled obscene and which ran for 268 performances on the publicity that followed.

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2026-10-17

Brennus: France's first modern battleship, unarmoured on the broadside

Wikipedia's editors put the French battleship Brennus on the front page for 17 October 2026: the first pre-dreadnought France built, launched on this day in 1891, and so badly overweight that her own captain reported she was unarmoured whenever she fired a broadside.

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2026-10-16

Alexander McQueen's The Hunger: a corset of live worms and a mooned front row

Wikipedia's editors put The Hunger on the front page for 16 October 2026: Alexander McQueen's Spring/Summer 1996 collection, shown in a tent at London's Natural History Museum on a reported £600, and remembered for a corset of live worms and the mooning that ended the show.

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2026-10-15

Adele's "Easy on Me": an apology written in the shower, and ten weeks at No. 1

Wikipedia's editors put "Easy on Me" on the front page for 15 October 2026, five years to the day after Adele released it: the torch ballad she wrote to explain her divorce to her son, and the single that became her longest-running number one.

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Wikipedia Featured Article
2026-10-14

RAAF area commands: how Australia's air force split a continent into five

Wikipedia's editors put RAAF area commands on the front page for 14 October 2026: the system that split Australia into five geographic commands in 1940, ran the air war from them, and gave way to functional commands in 1953.

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2026-10-13

Beauty Revealed: the self-portrait Sarah Goodridge painted without her face

Wikipedia's editors put Beauty Revealed on the front page for 13 October 2026: an 1828 watercolour on ivory, about the size of a playing card, in which Sarah Goodridge painted her own body and left her face out.

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Wikipedia Featured Article
2026-10-12

Van de Poll's molly: the fish that comes back from the sea every year

Wikipedia's editors put Van de Poll's molly on the front page for 12 October 2026: a Caribbean livebearer that tolerates water from fresh to four times saltier than the sea, and loses its whole freshwater population to the dry season every year.

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Wikipedia Featured Article
2026-10-11

Userkare: two cylinder seals, one copper mallet, and a tomb nobody has found

Wikipedia's editors put Userkare on the front page for 11 October 2026: an Egyptian king of the Sixth Dynasty who reigned for two to four years and left two cylinder seals, a copper mallet, and a dispute among Egyptologists over whether his successor tried to erase him.

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