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fWotD Episode 3329: Eric Bana Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Tuesday, 16 June 2026, is Eric Bana. Eric Banadinović (born 9 August 1968), known professionally as Eric Bana ( ), is an Australian actor, comedian and producer. He began his career in the sketch-comedy series Full Frontal before gaining notice...

fWotD Episode 3328: Makemake Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Monday, 15 June 2026, is Makemake. Makemake (minor-planet number 136472) is a dwarf planet orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune. It has a diameter 60% that of Pluto, making it the fourth largest trans-Neptunian object and the largest member of the Sol...

fWotD Episode 3327: Early life and education of Donald Trump Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Sunday, 14 June 2026, is Early life and education of Donald Trump. Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, was born on June 14, 1946, in New York City to Fred Trump, a real-estate developer,...

fWotD Episode 3326: William IV's British coinage Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Saturday, 13 June 2026, is William IV's British coinage. The British coinage struck under William IV (r. 1830–1837) ranged in denomination from the double sovereign (£2) to the third farthing (1⁄12 of...

fWotD Episode 3325: Love Is Embarrassing Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Friday, 12 June 2026, is Love Is Embarrassing. "Love Is Embarrassing" (stylized in all lowercase) is a song by American singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo from her second studio album, Guts (2023). Rodrigo wrote the song with...

fWotD Episode 3324: UEFA Euro 2016 final Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Thursday, 11 June 2026, is UEFA Euro 2016 final. The UEFA Euro 2016 final was the final match of UEFA Euro 2016, the fifteenth edition of the European Championship, UEFA's quadrennial competition for national football teams. The match...

fWotD Episode 3323: Amalthea (mythology) Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Wednesday, 10 June 2026, is Amalthea (mythology). In Greek mythology, Amalthea or Amaltheia (Ancient Greek: Ἀμάλθεια) is the figure most commonly identified as the nurse of Zeus during his infancy. S...

fWotD Episode 3322: Rodent Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Tuesday, 9 June 2026, is Rodent. Rodents (from Latin rodens, 'gnawing') are a group of mammals belonging to the order Rodentia ( roh-DEN-shə or roh-DEN-chə) characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lo...

fWotD Episode 3321: Types Riot Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Monday, 8 June 2026, is Types Riot. The Types Riot was the destruction of William Lyon Mackenzie's printing press and movable type by members of the Family Compact on June 8, 1826, in York, Upper Canada (now known as Toronto). The Family Compac...

fWotD Episode 3320: Voss (collection) Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Sunday, 7 June 2026, is Voss (collection). Voss is the seventeenth collection by British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, released for the Spring/Summer 2001 season of his eponymous fashion house. The collection drew on imagery of mad...

fWotD Episode 3319: Siege of Hennebont Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Saturday, 6 June 2026, is Siege of Hennebont. The siege of Hennebont took place between late May and late June 1342 when the forces of Charles of Blois conducted an unsuccessful siege of the fortified port of Hennebont, commanded by Joa...

fWotD Episode 3318: Geography and ecology of the Everglades Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Friday, 5 June 2026, is Geography and ecology of the Everglades. Before drainage, the Everglades, a region of tropical wetlands in southern Florida, were an interwoven mesh of marshes and prairies covering 4,000 squ...

fWotD Episode 3317: Æthelred the Unready Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Thursday, 4 June 2026, is Æthelred the Unready. Æthelred II (c. 968 – 23 April 1016), known as Æthelred the Unready, was King of the English from March 978 to December 1013 and again from February 1014 un...

fWotD Episode 3316: Ancaster incident Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Wednesday, 3 June 2026, is Ancaster incident. The Ancaster incident was an attack on the Upper Canadian government official and politician George Rolph on June 3, 1826, in Ancaster, Upper Canada. Members of the Tory elite, motivated by s...

fWotD Episode 3315: Oregon State Capitol Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Tuesday, 2 June 2026, is Oregon State Capitol. The Oregon State Capitol is the building housing the state legislature and the offices of the governor, secretary of state, and treasurer of the U. S. state of Oregon. It is located in th...

fWotD Episode 3314: SMS Westfalen Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Monday, 1 June 2026, is SMS Westfalen. SMS Westfalen was one of the Nassau-class battleships, the first four dreadnoughts built for the German Imperial Navy. Westfalen was laid down at AG Weser in Bremen on 12 August 1907, launched nearly a...

fWotD Episode 3313: Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Sunday, 31 May 2026, is Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park. Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, commonly known as Bicentennial Mall, is an urban linear park in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The park...

fWotD Episode 3312: Serpent labret with articulated tongue Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Saturday, 30 May 2026, is Serpent labret with articulated tongue. The serpent labret with articulated tongue is a gold-alloy body ornament from the Aztec culture of the mid-second millennium AD. Designed to be insert...

fWotD Episode 3311: Patrick Henry Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Friday, 29 May 2026, is Patrick Henry. Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 [O. S. May 18, 1736] – June 6, 1799) was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty or give...

fWotD Episode 3310: Physella acuta Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Thursday, 28 May 2026, is Physella acuta. Physella acuta, also known as the European physa, tadpole snail, sewage snail, bladder snail, or acute bladder snail, is a species of small, air-breathing freshwater snail of the family Physidae. It...

fWotD Episode 3309: Nation of Islam Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Wednesday, 27 May 2026, is Nation of Islam. The Nation of Islam (NOI) is a religious organization founded in the United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930. A centralized and hierarchical group committed to black nationalism, it focuse...

fWotD Episode 3308: Sally Ride Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Tuesday, 26 May 2026, is Sally Ride. Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman...

fWotD Episode 3307: Menora v. Illinois High School Association Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Monday, 25 May 2026, is Menora v. Illinois High School Association. Menora v. Illinois High School Association, 683 F.2d 1030 (7th Cir. 1982), is a case heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh...

fWotD Episode 3306: Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Team event Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Sunday, 24 May 2026, is Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Team event. The figure skating team event at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held between 4 and 7 February at the Capital...

fWotD Episode 3305: Running Out of Time (song) Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Saturday, 23 May 2026, is Running Out of Time (song). "Running Out of Time" is a song by the American rock band Paramore. It was released on May 23, 2023, by Atlantic Records as the fourth single from the band's sixth...