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Wikipedia Featured Article10/06/2026, 08:11:19

The goat who nursed a god

Amalthea doesn't appear in Hesiod. She barely appears in Homer. And yet she ended up in Bernini's studio, on the ceiling of the Palazzo Vecchio, and in a specially designed grotto for Marie Antoinette. Today's Wikipedia Featured Article traces how two completely unrelated Greek myths — a magical horn and a divine nurse — slowly entangled over eight centuries until Ovid wrote them into the same paragraph, creating the origin story of the cornucopia most people carry in their heads today.

Wikipedia Featured Article09/06/2026, 08:11:49

The mammal that conquered Earth (and it isn't us)

Order Rodentia makes up 40% of all mammal species. The secret is a self-sharpening incisor that never stops growing — and 66 million years of improbable dispersal events, from Atlantic ocean-crossings on floating debris to eusocial colonies that function like a single organism. Today's Wikipedia Featured Article unpacks the full story.

Wikipedia Featured Article08/06/2026, 08:10:03

The night Toronto's ruling class smashed a printing press and handed a rebel his career

On June 8, 1826, the sons of judges and attorney generals destroyed a journalist's printing press. The £625 they owed him in court funded a rebellion.

Wikipedia Featured Article07/06/2026, 08:14:00

The show that turned the mirror on the audience

In September 2000, Alexander McQueen made his audience sit in silence for an hour staring at their own reflections before his Spring/Summer 2001 show began. What followed — 15 minutes, 76 looks, a dress made of 1,200 razor clamshells, a finale of moths released onto a naked woman in a shattered glass box — is still considered one of the greatest fashion shows ever staged. Today's Wikipedia Featured Article is the full story of Voss.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/06/2026, 08:11:12

She held the walls of Hennebont

In the spring of 1342, a French-backed army arrived outside Hennebont, a small Breton harbor town, expecting a quick capitulation. The duke was in a French prison. Supplies were running low. What no one had counted on was his wife — Joanna of Montfort, who put on armour, rode through the streets, and refused to negotiate. This is the story of a siege that lasted barely a month but set off a war that ran for 23 years, and of the woman history remembers as the Flame of Brittany.

Wikipedia Featured Article05/06/2026, 08:11:30

The river that moves two feet per minute

The Everglades is technically a river — but one that flows at 2 feet per minute across a third of Florida. Only 5,000 years old, fed entirely by rainfall, shaped by three scales of wildfire, and held together by a layer of algae called periphyton, it is one of Earth's most precisely timed ecosystems. When drainage began in the 1880s, no one read the manual. Wikipedia's Featured Article for June 5, 2026.

Wikipedia Featured Article04/06/2026, 08:13:46

The king whose name was its own punchline

Æthelred the Unready's notorious epithet is a medieval pun — and after 50 years of revisionist scholarship, historians are still arguing whether he deserved it.

Wikipedia Featured Article03/06/2026, 08:11:01

Tar, feathers, and the solicitor general

Two hundred years ago tonight, Upper Canada's Tory elite — lawyers, magistrates, and a future premier — tarred and feathered government official George Rolph at midnight, then watched the king's own solicitor general defend them in civil court. The civil trial yielded £20 in damages; a criminal trial was abandoned when the attorney general declined to prosecute.

Wikipedia Featured Article02/06/2026, 08:10:53

Burned twice, mocked, and bracing for the big one

Oregon's state capitol in Salem has burned down twice, spent 20 years in a political battle just to decide which city it would be in, was publicly derided as a "squirrel cage" when it finally opened in 1938 as one of only three Art Deco state capitols in the United States, and is now undergoing a nearly $600 million seismic retrofit to protect it from the Cascadia subduction zone — a fault that last ruptured at magnitude 9.0 in 1700.

Wikipedia Featured Article01/06/2026, 08:34:21

The dreadnought that stumbled into the lead

SMS Westfalen — Germany's oldest dreadnought, built with Victorian pistons in the age of turbines and an unusual hexagonal gun layout no other navy used — found itself leading the entire High Seas Fleet at Jutland on the night of May 31 to June 1, 1916, a quirk of formation that turned into a short, brutal action against British destroyers. Wikipedia selected it as the Featured Article for June 1, 2026, the 110th anniversary of the battle.

Wikipedia Featured Article31/05/2026, 08:15:47

The outdoor museum Nashville built for its birthday

Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park — a 19-acre outdoor museum in downtown Nashville modeled on the National Mall — draws 2.5 million visitors a year and holds the distinction of being Tennessee's most-visited state park. The article traces its story from French Lick Creek and "Hell's Half Acre" through the 1995 political near-cancellation (saved by Bob Corker and Howard Baker in a bipartisan intervention), to the park's extraordinary density of monuments, a 95-bell carillon, a granite map you can walk on, a live railroad trestle painted white, and buried time capsules whose scheduled opening date is 2096. Wikipedia selected it as the Featured Article for May 31, 2026.

Wikipedia Featured Article30/05/2026, 08:17:01

The gold serpent that survived the great melting

An Aztec gold lip ornament with a moveable bifurcated tongue — 51 grams, three lost-wax castings, and a serpent that may represent the sun god's own fire weapon — has sat at the Met since 2016, surviving when almost all Aztec gold was melted by Spanish conquistadors after 1521.