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Wikipedia Featured Article06/17/2026, 08:11:17 AM

The ace who outran a war, then drowned chasing a race

On his 130th birthday, Wikipedia has spotlighted Cedric "Spike" Howell — an Australian draughtsman who enlisted as a private, transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, and shot down 19 enemy aircraft over Italy in 1918, earning three gallantry decorations from King George V. Seven months after the Armistice, he died at 23 when his plane crashed into the sea off Corfu during the England-to-Australia air race.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/16/2026, 08:11:25 AM

The man who gained thirty pounds for a murderer

Eric Bana started as a barman doing Schwarzenegger impressions in Melbourne. What followed — gaining 30 pounds for a killer's biopic, training with Delta Force, shaving his head twice for different reasons, and eventually coming home — is a career built entirely on transformation.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/15/2026, 08:10:50 AM

The Easter Bunny that killed Pluto

Meet Makemake — the dwarf planet whose discovery dismantled Pluto's status, and which JWST just revealed may hide a subsurface ocean and active volcanoes beneath its methane frost.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/14/2026, 08:09:53 AM

The boy who borrowed his medals

On Donald Trump's 80th birthday, Wikipedia's Featured Article spotlight falls on his early life — a twenty-two-year Queens-to-Wharton story of tax-avoidance schemes that made him a millionaire by age eight, military academy years marked by borrowed medals and a .056 batting average, and a draft lottery number that made his bone-spur exemption redundant. The mythologizing didn't begin with the skyscrapers.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/13/2026, 08:10:26 AM

The king on the coin that said "It is the old boy himself!"

How a Royal Mint engraver pre-empted his rival, gave Britain its most candid royal coin portrait, and why some of those coins were still circulating in Jamaica in the 1890s.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/12/2026, 07:55:43 AM

The song that almost didn't make it onto Guts

On the morning that became "Love Is Embarrassing," Olivia Rodrigo was lying in bed replaying romantic mistakes — and wrote a 2:34 new wave track that nearly missed Guts entirely. Wikipedia's Featured Article for June 12, 2026 tells the story of a last-minute addition that critics called one of the album's sharpest songs, and the live performance at London's O2 Arena where the song literally earned its title all over again.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/11/2026, 08:10:42 AM

The man nobody expected to score

On the night of July 10, 2016, two things happened at Stade de France that nobody predicted: Cristiano Ronaldo was stretchered off before halftime, and a substitute who had scored twice all season for Swansea City hit the most important goal in Portuguese football history. This is the story of how Portugal won Euro 2016 without winning a single group game — and why the trophy meant something different from every other trophy in sport.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/10/2026, 08:11:19 AM

The goat who nursed a god

Amalthea doesn't appear in Hesiod. She barely appears in Homer. And yet she ended up in Bernini's studio, on the ceiling of the Palazzo Vecchio, and in a specially designed grotto for Marie Antoinette. Today's Wikipedia Featured Article traces how two completely unrelated Greek myths — a magical horn and a divine nurse — slowly entangled over eight centuries until Ovid wrote them into the same paragraph, creating the origin story of the cornucopia most people carry in their heads today.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/09/2026, 08:11:49 AM

The mammal that conquered Earth (and it isn't us)

Order Rodentia makes up 40% of all mammal species. The secret is a self-sharpening incisor that never stops growing — and 66 million years of improbable dispersal events, from Atlantic ocean-crossings on floating debris to eusocial colonies that function like a single organism. Today's Wikipedia Featured Article unpacks the full story.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/08/2026, 08:10:03 AM

The night Toronto's ruling class smashed a printing press and handed a rebel his career

On June 8, 1826, the sons of judges and attorney generals destroyed a journalist's printing press. The £625 they owed him in court funded a rebellion.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/07/2026, 08:14:00 AM

The show that turned the mirror on the audience

In September 2000, Alexander McQueen made his audience sit in silence for an hour staring at their own reflections before his Spring/Summer 2001 show began. What followed — 15 minutes, 76 looks, a dress made of 1,200 razor clamshells, a finale of moths released onto a naked woman in a shattered glass box — is still considered one of the greatest fashion shows ever staged. Today's Wikipedia Featured Article is the full story of Voss.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/06/2026, 08:11:12 AM

She held the walls of Hennebont

In the spring of 1342, a French-backed army arrived outside Hennebont, a small Breton harbor town, expecting a quick capitulation. The duke was in a French prison. Supplies were running low. What no one had counted on was his wife — Joanna of Montfort, who put on armour, rode through the streets, and refused to negotiate. This is the story of a siege that lasted barely a month but set off a war that ran for 23 years, and of the woman history remembers as the Flame of Brittany.