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Mon, 24 Sep 2018 04:08:57 -0300

Wikipedia 'Featured article': September 24

" Wreckage of the Japanese submarine I-1 Operation Ke was the largely successful withdrawal of Japanese forces from Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during World War II. All attempts by the Japanese army to recapture Henderson Field, the only airfield on the island being used by Allied aircraf…"

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Mon, 24 Sep 2018 04:08:12 -0300

Wikimedia Commons 'Picture of the day': September 24

"A female red-crowned woodpecker (Melanerpes rubricapillus rubricapillus). Trinidad and Tobago became a Republic on August 1, 1976. September 24 is Republic Day, the date when the Parliament first met. "

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Mon, 24 Sep 2018 04:07:04 -0300

Wikipedia 'On this day': September 24

"September 24: Mid-Autumn Festival (Chinese calendar, 2018); First day of Sukkot (Judaism, 2018); Heritage Day in South Africa Alfred Deakin 1789 – The Judiciary Act of 1789 was signed into law, establishing the U.S. federal judiciary and setting the number of Supreme Court Justices. 1841 – Raja Mud…"

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Sun, 23 Sep 2018 06:09:51 -0300

Wikipedia 'Featured article': September 23

" The red-billed tropicbird is a seabird, one of three species in the family Phaethontidae. Resembling a tern, it has mostly white plumage with some black markings on the wings and back, a black mask and a red bill. Most adults have tail streamers that are about two times their body length, and …"

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Sun, 23 Sep 2018 06:08:27 -0300

Wikimedia Commons 'Picture of the day': September 23

"A view of the interior of Nasir ol Molk Mosque located in Shiraz, Iran. The mosque includes extensive colored glass in its facade that makes beautiful colors when light is passed through it and is reflected on the carpets. "

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Sun, 23 Sep 2018 06:07:03 -0300

Wikipedia 'On this day': September 23

"September 23: Banned Books Week begins (2018); Celebrate Bisexuality Day; National Day in Saudi Arabia (1932) Ramón Emeterio Betances 1568 – Anglo-Spanish War: At San Juan de Ulúa (in what is now Veracruz, Mexico), Spanish naval forces forced English privateers to halt their illegal trade. 1803 – M…"

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Sat, 22 Sep 2018 06:08:40 -0300

Wikipedia 'Featured article': September 22

"Guy Burgess (1911–1963) was a British diplomat and Soviet agent, a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the Cold War. His defection in 1951 to the Soviet Union, with his fellow-spy Donald Maclean, led to a serious breach in Anglo-American …"

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Sat, 22 Sep 2018 06:07:54 -0300

Wikimedia Commons 'Picture of the day': September 22

"View from Mönchsberg to Hohensalzburg Castle and the historic center of Salzburg, federal state of Salzburg, Austria "

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Sat, 22 Sep 2018 06:07:02 -0300

Wikipedia 'On this day': September 22

"September 22: Independence Day in Mali (1960); Day of Baltic Unity in Latvia and Lithuania Richard Wagner 1499 – The Swabian War between the Old Swiss Confederacy and the House of Habsburg came to a close with the signing of the Treaty of Basel. 1869 – Das Rheingold, the first of four operas in Der…"

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Fri, 21 Sep 2018 20:07:03 -0300

Wikimedia Foundation News: Wikimedia Foundation releases gender equity report

"In April 2017, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Community Resources team launched the Gender Diversity Mapping Project to gather feedback from Wikimedians at the forefront of gender equity efforts in the Wikimedia movement. Our plan was…"

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