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fWotD Episode 3304: Intraproboscis Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Friday, 22 May 2026, is Intraproboscis. Intraproboscis is a genus of Acanthocephala (thorny-headed or spiny-headed parasitic worms) containing a single species, Intraproboscis sanghae. Found in central Africa, it infests the black-bellied p...

fWotD Episode 3303: 2006 Football League Championship play-off final Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Thursday, 21 May 2026, is 2006 Football League Championship play-off final. The 2006 Football League Championship play-off final was an association football match which was played on 21 May 2006 at the Mill...

fWotD Episode 3302: Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Wednesday, 20 May 2026, is Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment. The Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment, most commonly known as Rawlings' Regiment in period documents, was organized in June 1776 as a specialized ligh...

fWotD Episode 3301: Silverthrone Caldera Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Tuesday, 19 May 2026, is Silverthrone Caldera. The Silverthrone Caldera, also referred to as the Silverthrone Caldera Complex, is a volcano in the Range 2 Coast Land District of British Columbia, Canada. It lies within the Pacific Ran...

fWotD Episode 3300: Sursock bronze Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Monday, 18 May 2026, is Sursock bronze. The Sursock bronze, also known as the Sursock statuette, is a gilded bronze sculptural group of Jupiter Heliopolitanus (Heliopolitan Jupiter) dating to the second century AD. The work is a miniature o...

fWotD Episode 3299: All Hell Breaks Loose (Charmed) Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Sunday, 17 May 2026, is All Hell Breaks Loose (Charmed). "All Hell Breaks Loose" is the twenty-second and finale episode of the third season of the American fantasy drama television series Charmed. Written by Brad...

fWotD Episode 3298: Erik Campbell (Final Destination) Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Saturday, 16 May 2026, is Erik Campbell (Final Destination). Erik Campbell is a character from Final Destination Bloodlines (2025), the sixth installment in the supernatural horror film franchise Final Destination, direct...

fWotD Episode 3297: Operation Brevity Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Friday, 15 May 2026, is Operation Brevity. Operation Brevity was an attack in mid-May 1941, during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. Conceived by the commander-in-chief of the British Middle East Command, General Archi...

fWotD Episode 3296: Talyllyn Railway Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Thursday, 14 May 2026, is Talyllyn Railway. The Talyllyn Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Talyllyn) is a narrow-gauge railway in Wales, which runs for 7+1⁄4 miles (12 km) from Tywyn on the Mid-Wales coast to Nant Gwernol near the village...

fWotD Episode 3295: Splatoon 3: Side Order Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Wednesday, 13 May 2026, is Splatoon 3: Side Order. Splatoon 3: Side Order is a 2024 downloadable content (DLC) expansion pack for the single-player mode of Splatoon 3, a 2022 third-person shooter video game by Nintendo for the Ninte...

fWotD Episode 3294: Golden Bough (Aeneid) Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Tuesday, 12 May 2026, is Golden Bough (Aeneid). The Golden Bough is a fantastical object described in the Aeneid, an epic poem by the Roman poet Virgil composed between 29 and 19 BCE narrating the adventures of the Trojan hero Aeneas...

fWotD Episode 3293: Japan Cup Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Monday, 11 May 2026, is Japan Cup. The Japan Cup (ジャパンカップ, Japan Kappu; JPN G-1) is a Group 1 horse race in Japan, held annually on the last Sunday of November, post time of 15:40 at Tokyo Racecourse in Fuchū, Tokyo. It is a flat race run...

fWotD Episode 3292: Ben&Ben Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Sunday, 10 May 2026, is Ben&Ben. Ben&Ben are a Filipino indie folk-pop band from Manila. They were formed in 2016 by twin brothers Paolo and Miguel Benjamin Guico (lead vocals and acoustic guitars), calling themselves The Benjamins. A...

fWotD Episode 3291: The Great Mecca Feast Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Saturday, 9 May 2026, is The Great Mecca Feast. The Great Mecca Feast (Dutch: Het Groote Mekka-Feest) is a 1928 documentary film by George Krugers. Divided into four acts, it opens with a group of Muslim men from the Dutch East Indie...

fWotD Episode 3290: First Treaty of London Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Friday, 8 May 2026, is First Treaty of London. The First Treaty of London, also known as the Treaty of Windsor, was formally agreed on 8 May 1358 at Windsor Castle in England. Its terms ended the then 21-year-old Anglo-French confli...

fWotD Episode 3289: Truganini Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Thursday, 7 May 2026, is Truganini. Truganini ( TROO-gə-NIH-nee; c. 1812 – 8 May 1876) was an Aboriginal Tasmanian woman who was widely described as the last surviving Aboriginal Tasmanian. A member of the Nuenonne people, she grew...

fWotD Episode 3288: Hurricane Joaquin Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Wednesday, 6 May 2026, is Hurricane Joaquin. Hurricane Joaquin ( hwah-KEEN; Spanish: Huracán Joaquín [uɾaˈkaŋ xoaˈkin]) was a powerful tropical cyclone that devastated several districts of the Bahamas in early October 2015....

fWotD Episode 3287: Katipō Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Tuesday, 5 May 2026, is Katipō. Katipō (pronounced kah-tih-PAW or KAH-tə-poh; Latrodectus katipo) is a species of cobweb spider found only in New Zealand. It is one of many species in the genus Latrodectus and is most closely related to the Austral...

fWotD Episode 3286: Maurice Suckling Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Monday, 4 May 2026, is Maurice Suckling. Captain Maurice Suckling (4 May 1726 [O. S. 23 April 1726] – 14 July 1778) was a Royal Navy officer and politician best known for starting the naval career of his nephew Horatio Nelson and fo...

fWotD Episode 3285: Shipping ethics controversy in fanfiction Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Sunday, 3 May 2026, is Shipping ethics controversy in fanfiction. Beginning in the mid-2010s and continuing into the 2020s, significant discourse emerged in online fandom spaces around the ethical implications of...

fWotD Episode 3284: Fuji-class battleship Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Saturday, 2 May 2026, is Fuji-class battleship. The Fuji class (富士型戦艦, Fuji-gata senkan) was a two-ship class of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the mid-1890s. They were the first battle...

fWotD Episode 3283: Crusading movement Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Friday, 1 May 2026, is Crusading movement. The Crusading movement—a major religious, political, and military endeavour of the Middle Ages—is generally dated from the Council of Clermont (1095), at which Pope Urban II proclai...

fWotD Episode 3282: 330 West 42nd Street Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Thursday, 30 April 2026, is 330 West 42nd Street. 330 West 42nd Street (also known as the McGraw-Hill Building and formerly as the GHI Building) is a 485-foot-tall (148 m), 33-story skyscraper in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Man...

fWotD Episode 3281: 1998–99 Gillingham F.C. season Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Wednesday, 29 April 2026, is 1998–99 Gillingham F.C. season. During the 1998–99 English football season, Gillingham F. C. competed in the Football League Second Division, the third tier of the English footb...

fWotD Episode 3280: This Side of the Moon Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Tuesday, 28 April 2026, is This Side of the Moon. This Side of the Moon is the third studio album by American singer Elizabeth Cook, released on May 17, 2005, by Hog Country Production. Cook based the album on her experience with War...