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Today's featured article for November 6, 2024

Jackson c. 1903

Benjamin Jackson (January 2, 1835 – August 20, 1915) was a Canadian sailor and farmer. Raised in a small community of Black Nova Scotians, Jackson served for one year in the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Deployed in the Union blockade of the Confederate coastline, he also participated in the Battle of Mobile Bay as a gun captain. He disarmed multiple naval mines and once picked up a live grenade and threw it from the deck of his ship, an act that earned him a medal. After the war, Jackson lived the rest of his life in Lockhartville, Nova Scotia, sailing commercially until 1875 and farming for many years longer. His funeral in 1915 was described as "the largest seen in Lockhartville for many years", though his grave remained unmarked until 2010. One of the eight history markers on the Mathieu Da Costa African Heritage Trail is dedicated to his story and Ben Jackson Road in Hantsport, Nova Scotia, is named in his honour. (Full article...)

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Picture of the day for November 6, 2024

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (born Cecilia Helena Payne; (1900-05-10)May 10, 1900 – (1979-12-07)December 7, 1979) was a British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist who proposed in her 1925 doctoral thesis that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. Her groundbreaking conclusion was initially rejected because it contradicted the scientific wisdom of the time, which held that there were no significant elemental differences between the Sun and Earth. Independent observations eventually proved she was correct. Her work on the nature of variable stars was foundational to modern astrophysics.

Photograph credit: Science Service; restored by Adam Cuerden

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Sumburgh disaster

Greetings, please take note that the aircraft involved in this incident was NOT a CH-47. It was a Boeing Model 234 Chinook. (Note: rectangular windows versus round windows. This seat 44 in airline passenger comfort with an on board lavatory and numerous other differences including drive train and avionics). --Trashbag (talk) 14:58, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

2012 notes

New articles (unused): Hawker Hurricane; Hanford Site; Kelly Barnes Dam
Omitted: Scenes of Clerical Life; United States presidential election, 1860 (ineligible—maintenance); Battle of Passchendaele; Frequency modulation; Amchitka
Included: John Carroll (bishop) (3rd appearance, last in 2005); Sonderaktion Krakau (first appearance); Nguyen Ngoc Tho (2nd appearance, last in 2010); Rova of Antananarivo (first appearance); Ufton Nervet rail crash (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 12:28, 5 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes

Omitted: John Carroll (bishop); Sonderaktion Krakau; Nguyen Ngoc Tho; Ufton Nervet rail crash
Included: Scenes of Clerical Life (2nd appearance, last in 2011); History of American football (2nd appearance, last in 2010); Hawker Hurricane (first appearance); Kelly Barnes Dam (first appearance)
Repeats: Rova of Antananarivo (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:16, 5 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2014 notes

Rescued from Ineligible (unused): CSS Shenandoah
New articles (unused): Arthur Rothstein
Omitted: History of American football; Hawker Hurricane; Kelly Barnes Dam; Rova of Antananarivo
Included: John Carroll (bishop) (4th appearance, last in 2012; 225th anniversary); Sonderaktion Krakau (2nd appearance, last in 2012; 75th anniversary); Hanford Site (first appearance; 70th anniversary); Ufton Nervet rail crash (2nd appearance, last in 2012; 10th anniversary)
Repeats: Scenes of Clerical Life (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

—howcheng {chat} 08:30, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2015 notes

Rescued from Ineligible (unused): United States presidential election, 1860
Omitted: Scenes of Clerical Life (ineligible—maintenance); Hanford Site; Ufton Nervet rail crash
Included: Gustavus Adolphus Day (rescued from Ineligible); CSS Shenandoah (3rd appearance, last in 2010; 150th anniversary); Hawker Hurricane (2nd appearance, last in 2013; 80th anniversary); Rova of Antananarivo (3rd appearance, last in 2013; 20th anniversary)
Repeats: John Carroll (bishop) (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total); Sonderaktion Krakau (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 09:13, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016 notes

Omitted: John Carroll (bishop); CSS Shenandoah; Hawker Hurricane; Sonderaktion Krakau; Rova of Antananarivo
Included: Scenes of Clerical Life (4th appearance, last in 2014; rescued from Ineligible); History of American football (3rd appearance, last in 2013); Hanford Site (2nd appearance, last in 2014); Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ (3rd appearance, last in 2012); Ufton Nervet rail crash (3rd appearance, last in 2014)

—howcheng {chat} 06:13, 6 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2017 notes

Moved to Ineligible: John Carroll (bishop) (maintenance); United States presidential election, 1860 (maintenance); Frequency modulation (maintenance); Sonderaktion Krakau (maintenance)
Omitted: History of American football; Hanford Site; Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ; Ufton Nervet rail crash (ineligible—maintenance)
Included: Walls of Constantinople (3rd appearance, last in 2015; moved from January 27); Charter of the Forest (first appearance); Kelly Barnes Dam (2nd appearance, last in 2013; 40th anniversary); Rova of Antananarivo (4th appearance, last in 2015); Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March (first appearance); James Bowdoin (first appearance); Jerry Yang (first appearance)
Repeats: Scenes of Clerical Life (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total)

—howcheng {chat} 17:14, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Red Cloud

I assume no one will see this for a while, but I went ahead and added this entry seeing as how it's the 150th anniversary and all. Feel free to reach out if I've done something wrong. Been probably a year or more since I nominated something here. GMG ^talk 15:37, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@GreenMeansGo: Article looks good for the most part. The only concern I have is that the lead says it was signed on April 29, so readers will experience a bit of confusion when they read the article on November 6 and wonder what it's doing there. Would it be better to list it on April 29 instead? Alternatively, please expand the lead to explain the significance of November 6. Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 00:11, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2018 notes

Omitted: Charter of the Forest; Scenes of Clerical Life; Kelly Barnes Dam; Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March; James Bowdoin
Included: Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) (first appearance; 150th anniversary); Hawker Hurricane (3rd appearance, last in 2015); Sonderaktion Krakau (4th appearance, last in 2015; rescued from Ineligible); John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (first appearance); Else Ackermann (first appearance)
Repeats: Walls of Constantinople (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total); Rova of Antananarivo (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total); Jerry Yang (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 50th birthday)

—howcheng {chat} 17:01, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2019 notes

Moved to Ineligible: CSS Shenandoah (maintenance)
Omitted: Walls of Constantinople; Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868); Hawker Hurricane; Rova of Antananarivo (ineligible—maintenance); John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk; Else Ackermann; Jerry Yang
Included: Charter of the Forest (2nd appearance, last in 2017); Scenes of Clerical Life (6th appearance, last in 2017); 1869 New Jersey vs. Rutgers football game (first appearance; 15th anniversary); Hanford Site (3rd appearance, last in 2016; 75th anniversary); James Naismith (5th appearance, last in 2007; previously appeared on December 15); Ida Barney (first appearance); Hilda Braid (first appearance)
Repeats: Sonderaktion Krakau (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total; 80th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 18:02, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2020 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Hawker Hurricane (maintenance); Amchitka (maintenance)
Omitted: Charter of the Forest; 1869 New Jersey vs. Rutgers football game; Sonderaktion Krakau; Hanford Site; James Naismith; Ida Barney; Hilda Braid
Included: Walls of Constantinople (3rd appearance, last in 2018); John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore) (6th appearance, last in 2015; rescued from Ineligible); Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ (4th appearance, last in 2016); Kelly Barnes Dam (3rd appearance, last in 2017); John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (first appearance); Ida Lou Anderson (first appearance); Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya (first appearance)
Repeats: Scenes of Clerical Life (2nd consecutive appearance, 7 total)

—howcheng {chat} 18:58, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2021 notes

Omitted: Finnish Swedish Heritage Day (stubby); Walls of Constantinople; John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore); Scenes of Clerical Life; Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ; John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk; Ida Lou Anderson; Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya
Included: Charter of the Forest (3rd appearance, last in 2019); Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) (2nd appearance, last in 2018); Sonderaktion Krakau (6th appearance, last in 2019); Raqqa campaign (2016–2017) (first appearance); Charles II of Spain (first appearance); John Philip Sousa (first appearance); Anthony Sawoniuk (first appearance)
Repeats: Kelly Barnes Dam (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total)

—howcheng {chat} 03:32, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]