Wikipedia:Today's second feature
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Today's second feature is a section on the Wikipedia:Main Page alternative (Classic 2006) where additional areas of Wikipedia are displayed. On weekdays it highlights new articles with the Did You Know section (DYK). On weekends it shows the Picture of the Day (POTD) from Wikipedia's Featured Pictures.
Current version of this section on the Main Page:
From Wikipedia's newest articles:
- ... that Uri-On (pictured), created by Michael Netzer in 1987, was the first Israeli superhero to be published in color?
- ... that the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars increased in size from 40,000 regular troops to over 250,000?
- ... that Western Kentucky University's Van Meter Hall is said to be haunted by the ghost of a worker who possibly died due to seeing an airplane for the first time?
- ... that Mary's Point in New Brunswick, Canada has the world's highest density of Corophium volutator, a crustacean which is a food source of millions of Semipalmated Sandpipers?
- ... that Pakistan's ties with Turkey have been influenced by president Pervez Musharraf's admiration for Turkey's model of modernism and secularism?
- ... that the builder of Centinela Adobe traded his 2,200-acre (880 ha) ranch encompassing the modern city of Inglewood for a keg of whisky and a small home in Los Angeles?
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