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Today's featured article for November 24, 2024

Scene from the play's opening run

The Importance of Being Earnest is a drawing-room comedy by Oscar Wilde. Premiered on 14 February 1895 in London, it depicts the affairs of two young men about town who lead double lives to evade unwanted social obligations, both assuming the name Ernest to woo two young women. Other characters are the formidable Lady Bracknell, the fussy governess Miss Prism and the benign and scholarly Canon Chasuble. The play, celebrated for its wit and repartee, parodies contemporary dramatic norms and comically satirises late-Victorian manners. The triumphant opening night was followed within weeks by Wilde's downfall and imprisonment for homosexual acts and the closure of the production, and Wilde wrote no more comic or dramatic works. From the early 20th century onwards, the play has been revived frequently and adapted for radio, television, film, operas and musicals. (Full article...)

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Picture of the day for November 24, 2024

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a NASA space mission aimed at testing a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects. The target object, Dimorphos, is a 160-meter-long (525-foot) minor-planet moon of the asteroid Didymos. DART was launched on 24 November 2021 and successfully collided with Dimorphos on 26 September 2022 while about 11 million kilometers (6.8 million miles) from Earth. The collision shortened Dimorphos's orbit by 32 minutes and was mostly achieved by the momentum transfer associated with the recoil of the ejected debris, which was larger than the impact. This video is a timelapse of DART's final five and a half minutes before impacting Dimorphos, and was compiled from photographs captured by the Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical navigation (DRACO), the spacecraft's 20-centimeter-aperture (7.9-inch) camera, and transmitted to Earth in real time. The replay is ten times faster than reality, except for the last six images, which are shown at the same rate at which the spacecraft returned them. Both Didymos and Dimorphos are visible at the start of the video, and the final frame shows a patch of Dimorphos's surface 16 meters (51 feet) across. DART's impact occurred during transmission of the final image, resulting in a partial frame.

Video credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins APL

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Talk:The_Origin_of_Species#immediately? Please change "and immediately sold out its initial print run." to "and sold out its initial print run on the first day." — Jeandré, 2005-11-24t15:37z

Good idea. Fixed accordingly. Thanks. -- PFHLai 21:22, 24 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

a couple of things

I'd like to suggest a couple of minor chages to the wordings here:

can the link text for the JFK entry be changed to "assassin to US President John F. Kennedy"
I think it would be good to say where the D. B. Cooper incident occured.

-- AJR | Talk 16:33, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done by Zzyzx11. —Mets501 (talk) 15:56, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Conrad and Isabella

Hi! I cannot edit the page, but I would like to suggest a few changes:

Conrad of Montferrat became de facto King of Jerusalem after marrying Queen Isabella.

Both Conrad and Isabella were de facto and de jure monarchs of Jerusalem. Conrad became de jure uxoris (by the right of wife) King of Jerusalem when he married Isabella. His wife also needs to be distinguished from another Queen of Jerusalem, who is sometimes called Isabella II, so it should be Isabella I. Surtsicna (talk) 18:45, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Where is the death of Freddie Mercury?

November 24, 1991 --AlemanI2.0 (talk) 06:44, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As stated in the FAQ above, Births and deaths can only be used on centennials, etc. Zzyzx11 (talk) 06:46, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

2012 notes

Moved to Ineligible: TABSO Flight 101 (maintenance)
Omitted: Battle of Solway Moss; On the Origin of Species; Canton Bulldogs–Massillon Tigers betting scandal; Jack Ruby/Lee Harvey Oswald; Lucy (Australopithecus)
Included: Leszek I the White (first appearance); Abel Tasman (2nd appearance, last in 2010); Battle of Lookout Mountain (2nd appearance, last in 2009); Robert Erskine Childers (5th appearance, last in 2010); 1976 Çaldıran-Muradiye earthquake (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 11:07, 23 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Jack Ruby/Lee Harvey Oswald (both: maintenance)
New articles (unused): 2012 Dhaka fire
Omitted: Leszek I the White; Abel Tasman; Robert Erskine Childers; 1976 Çaldıran-Muradiye earthquake
Included: Battle of Solway Moss (2nd appearance, last in 2011); On the Origin of Species (9th appearance, last in 2011); Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950 (first appearance); Lucy (Australopithecus) (5th appearance, last in 2011)
Repeats: Battle of Lookout Mountain (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total; 150th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 07:07, 23 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2014 notes

Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Jack Ruby (Lee Harvey Oswald still ineligible)
Omitted: Battle of Solway Moss; Battle of Lookout Mountain; Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950
Included: Abel Tasman (3rd appearance, last in 2012); Canton Bulldogs–Massillon Tigers betting scandal (2nd appearance, last in 2011); That Was the Week That Was (first appearance)
Repeats: On the Origin of Species (2nd consecutive appearance, 10 total); Lucy (Australopithecus) (2nd consecutive appearance, 6 total; 40th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 12:40, 23 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2015 notes

Omitted: Abel Tasman; On the Origin of Species; Canton Bulldogs–Massillon Tigers betting scandal; That Was the Week That Was; Lucy (Australopithecus)
Included: Leszek the White (2nd appearance, last in 2012); Black Beauty (first appearance); Robert Erskine Childers (6th appearance, last in 2012); Jack Ruby (6th appearance, last in 2011); 2012 Dhaka fire (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 13:08, 22 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Lucy (Australopithecus) (maintenance)
Omitted: Leszek the White (ineligible—maintenance); Abel Tasman; Black Beauty; Jack Ruby (ineligible—maintenance); 2012 Dhaka fire
Included: Battle of Solway Moss (3rd appearance, last in 2013); On the Origin of Species (11th appearance, last in 2014); Canton Bulldogs–Massillon Tigers betting scandal (3rd appearance, last in 2014); 1976 Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake (2nd appearance, last in 2012; 40th anniversary)
Repeats: Robert Erskine Childers (2nd consecutive appearance, 7 total)

—howcheng {chat} 09:05, 23 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2017 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Black Beauty (maintenance); That Was the Week That Was (maintenance)
New articles (unused): USS Liscome Bay
Omitted: Vietnamese Martyrs; On the Origin of Species; Canton Bulldogs–Massillon Tigers betting scandal; 1976 Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake
Included: Abel Tasman (5th appearance, last in 2015); Jack Ruby/Lee Harvey Oswald (Ruby: 7th appearance, last in 2015; Oswald: 3rd appearance, last in 2011; rescued from Ineligible); 2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown (first appearance); Magnús Óláfsson (first appearance); William Webb Ellis (first appearance); Anna Jarvis (first appearance)
Repeats: Battle of Solway Moss (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total); Robert Erskine Childers (3rd consecutive appearance, 8 total)

—howcheng {chat} 06:46, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2018 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Canton Bulldogs–Massillon Tigers betting scandal (date not certain)
Omitted: Battle of Solway Moss; Abel Tasman (ineligible—maintenance); Jack Ruby/Lee Harvey Oswald; 2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown; Magnús Óláfsson; William Webb Ellis; Anna Jarvis
Included: Tarabai (first appearance); On the Origin of Species (12th appearance, last in 2016); USS Liscome Bay (first appearance; 75th anniversary); 2012 Dhaka fire (2nd appearance, last in 2015); Junípero Serra (first appearance); Diego Rivera (first appearance); Beth Phoenix (first appearance)
Repeats: Erskine Childers (author) (4th consecutive appearance, 9 total)

—howcheng {chat} 08:41, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2019 notes

Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Canton Bulldogs–Massillon Tigers betting scandal
Omitted: Tarabai; On the Origin of Species; Erskine Childers (author); USS Liscome Bay; 2012 Dhaka garment factory fire; Diego Rivera; Beth Phoenix
Included: Gąsawa massacre (first appearance; blurb previously featured Leszek the White, which is currently ineligible and is making its 3rd appearance, last in 2015); Nullification Crisis (first appearance); Great Appalachian Storm of 1950 (2nd appearance, last in 2013); 1976 Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake (3rd appearance, last in 2016); Colombian peace process (first appearance); Pietro Torrigiano (first appearance); Freddie Mercury (first appearance)
Repeats: Junípero Serra (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 17:21, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2020 notes

New articles (ineligible): Zachary Taylor (POTD for 2020-07-09)
New articles (unused): Theresienstadt Ghetto; Mingyi Nyo; Philip Hamilton
Omitted: Gąsawa massacre; Nullification crisis (ineligible—maintenance); Great Appalachian Storm of 1950; 1976 Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake; Colombian peace process (ineligible—maintenance); Pietro Torrigiano; Junípero Serra (ineligible—maintenance); Freddie Mercury
Included: Battle of Solway Moss (5th appearance, last in 2017); Tarabai (2nd appearance, last in 2018); Lee Harvey Oswald (4th appearance, last in 2017); 2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown (2nd appearance, last in 2017); Bagrat IV of Georgia (first appearance); Laurence Sterne (first appearance); Beth Phoenix (2nd appearance, last in 2018; 40th birthday)

—howcheng {chat} 03:41, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2021 notes

Deleted: Freddie Mercury (moved to September 5)
Omitted: Battle of Solway Moss; Tarabai; Lee Harvey Oswald; Bagrat IV of Georgia; Laurence Sterne; Beth Phoenix
Included: Gąsawa massacre (2nd appearance, last in 2019); On the Origin of Species (13th appearance, last in 2018); Theresienstadt Ghetto (first appearance; 80th anniversary); D. B. Cooper (6th appearance, last in 2010 (!!!); 50th anniversary); Mingyi Nyo (first appearance); Zachary Taylor (first appearance); Arundhati Roy (first appearance; 60th birthday)
Repeats: 2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

—howcheng {chat} 08:40, 25 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Israel-Hamas ceasefire

Could the 2023 Israel-Hamas ceasefire which occurred on this day be eligible? The article seems fine. Personisinsterest (talk) 14:34, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]