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Wikipedia Featured Article07/01/2026, 08:12:27 AM

The volcano named for a survivor

Wikipedia's July 1 Featured Article follows Eve Cone, a remote cinder cone in northwestern British Columbia, from one brief eruption to the Tahltan survival story behind its name.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/30/2026, 08:14:08 AM

The team that kept the fire

Wikipedia's June 30 Featured Article follows the Calgary Flames from an Atlanta-born name to Calgary civic identity: one Stanley Cup, one famous near-miss, and a fan culture that made fire feel local.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/29/2026, 08:32:50 AM

The vow Belloc kept

Hilaire Belloc promised to walk to Rome under five strict vows and broke nearly all of them. Wikipedia's June 29 Featured Article shows why The Path to Rome survived anyway: the failed pilgrimage became a funny, restless, formally strange self-portrait.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/26/2026, 08:10:54 AM

The gorilla who saved Nintendo

In 1980 a failed arcade game left Nintendo of America broke. The gorilla they invented to fix it became one of gaming's greatest franchises.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/25/2026, 08:10:38 AM

He ended the republic and called it a restoration

Augustus was born a nobody, inherited an empire by a legally dubious will, and spent forty-one years ruling as an absolute monarch while insisting he had restored the Republic. His last words — "Have I played the part well?" — were the perfect curtain call. Today's Wikipedia Featured Article tells the full story: the teenage consul, the theatrical abdication, the Teutoburg catastrophe, and the system that outlasted him by two centuries.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/24/2026, 08:09:48 AM

She was the entire team

On June 30, 2022, Sara Carnicelli stepped to the start line of the women's half marathon in Oran, Algeria — the sole athlete representing Vatican City in the world's smallest nation's debut at any international multi-sport event. Today's Wikipedia Featured Article tells the story of a three-person delegation, a diplomatic gamble, and a finish-line result that was recorded but never officially placed.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/23/2026, 08:10:32 AM

The battle Venice won because its enemy lost its nerve

On June 23, 1266 — 760 years ago today — Venice destroyed the entire Genoese fleet at Trapani by attacking a commander who had chained his ships to the shore and then waited. Wikipedia's Featured Article for June 23 unravels what Lanfranco Borbonino was thinking, why his crews abandoned ship, and why the total annihilation of 27 galleys somehow changed almost nothing.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/22/2026, 08:12:36 AM

The city that built the modern world — and then had to rebuild itself

Manchester's Wikipedia Featured Article spans two thousand years — from Roman fort to world's first industrialised city, from the Peterloo Massacre and Engels writing in Chetham's Library to four world-changing scientific breakthroughs at one university, from Oasis to a 1996 IRA bomb that paradoxically triggered a renaissance. Today the city beats London in liveability while remaining Britain's most unequal local authority.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/21/2026, 08:09:25 AM

The man who saved Franklin — and died for a rescue that wasn't needed

Tatannuaq (c. 1790s–1834) was the Inuk interpreter who repeatedly saved John Franklin's Arctic expeditions — and died walking 1,900 km through a subarctic winter to join a rescue that had already ended.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/20/2026, 08:10:28 AM

The K-pop demon hunters who broke Netflix

On its exact one-year anniversary, Wikipedia has named KPop Demon Hunters — the 2025 Sony Pictures Animation / Netflix film about a K-pop girl group who secretly battle demons — its Featured Article of the day. The film became Netflix's most-watched title ever (500 million views), swept two Oscars and a Grammy, and sent Seoul's tourist numbers to an all-time monthly record.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/19/2026, 08:10:46 AM

The bargain that failed: Booker T. Washington's 1895 deal

In September 1895, Booker T. Washington proposed that Black Southerners accept segregation in exchange for schools, jobs, and a chance to prove their worth — then watched as the South kept building Jim Crow anyway. Wikipedia's Featured Article for June 19 is the Atlanta Compromise: the speech, the deal, the Du Bois counter-argument, and the question historians still haven't settled.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/18/2026, 08:12:43 AM

The song Mariah Carey never liked, and what 30 years did to it

On June 18, 1996 — exactly 30 years ago today — Columbia Records quietly sent a doo-wop waltz called "Forever" to radio stations with no commercial release, no Hot 100 eligibility, and an artist who later admitted she was "never a huge fan." Wikipedia has named it Featured Article of the Day on its 30th anniversary.