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Useful links[edit]
The Wikipedia Signpost[edit]
- News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections
- Special report: Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?
- Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24
- Comix: Generations
- Traffic report: Crawl out through the fallout, baby
Interesting stuff[edit]
Dimitri is an 1876 French-language grand opera in five acts by Victorin de Joncières. Set to a libretto by Henri de Bornier and Paul Armand Silvestre after Friedrich Schiller's incomplete play Demetrius, itself a story based on the life of the Russian pretender False Dmitry I (reigned 1605–1606), the opera was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre National Lyrique. Antonín Dvořák's 1881 opera Dimitrij was also based on Schiller's play. This picture shows the set design for Act V of Dimitri's première.Art credit: Philippe Chaperon; restored by Adam Cuerden
Did you know...
Painting of an empty chair by Kefah Ali Deeb
- ... that Syrian artist Kefah Ali Deeb painted an empty chair (pictured) as her vision of victims and refugees?
- ... that three of the four Richmond Theatres were destroyed by fire, of which the 1811 fire was described as "early America's first great disaster"?
- ... that Claude Hamilton Verity, a grandson of Doncaster mayor Charles Verity, was an early pioneer of the synchronisation of sound with silent films?
- ... that one of the "plushest" nightclubs in northern Florida turned into studios for a TV station in Jacksonville?
- ... that Left Socialist-Revolutionary leader Maria Spiridonova addressed her party's fourth congress in October 1918 by letter as she was in jail?
- ... that KT Leveston, the 254th pick in the 2024 NFL draft, is from U.S. area code 254?
- ... that many people with heart failure, diabetes, or ME/CFS cannot raise their heart rates sufficiently during exercise?
- ... that within years of Aza Arnold inventing a device to improve cotton roving, it was plagiarized across the United States and Europe?
- ... that Aurora Gaming's roster for Apex Legends is made up of Fire Beavers?
In the news
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Boeing Starliner launch
- The Boeing Starliner spacecraft conducts its first crewed flight (launch pictured), carrying two astronauts to the International Space Station.
- The CNSA Chang'e 6 completes sampling and takeoff from the far side of the Moon.
- Claudia Sheinbaum is elected as the president of Mexico.
- In South Africa's general election, the African National Congress wins the most seats but loses its majority for the first time since the end of apartheid.
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