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Today's featured article for November 28, 2024

Union artillery in action at Cane Hill

The battle of Cane Hill was fought during the American Civil War on November 28, 1862, near the town of Cane Hill, Arkansas. Union troops under James G. Blunt had pursued Confederate troops commanded by Thomas C. Hindman into northwestern Arkansas, and Hindman saw an opportunity to attack Blunt while the latter was isolated. Confederate cavalry under John S. Marmaduke moved to Cane Hill to collect supplies. Blunt moved to attack Marmaduke on November 27. The Union advance made contact with Confederate troopers the next morning. The Confederates fell back to an elevation known as Reed's Mountain. Blunt continued to pursue after the Confederates abandoned Reed’s Mountain, but his leading elements ran into an ambush. The Confederates then presented a flag of truce as a ruse to buy time. Hindman’s army and Blunt’s reinforced command fought the Battle of Prairie Grove on December 7, which retained Union control of Missouri and northwestern Arkansas. (Full article...)

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Picture of the day for November 28, 2024

The ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata) is a species of turkey residing primarily in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, as well as in parts of Belize and Guatemala. It is a relative of the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), although it is somewhat smaller. The body feathers of both sexes are a mixture of bronze and green iridescent color, with neither sex possessing the beard typically found in wild turkeys. Tail feathers of both sexes are bluish-grey with an eye-shaped, blue-bronze spot near the end with a bright gold tip. These spots, or ocelli (for which the ocellated turkey is named) have been likened to the patterning typically found on peafowl. This ocellated turkey was photographed near Tikal in the Petén region of Guatemala.

Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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2012 notes

Omitted: Skanderbeg; Sinn Féin; Albanian Declaration of Independence; South African Airways Flight 295
Included: Royal Society (5th appearance, last in 2010); Kilmichael Ambush (3rd appearance, last in 2008; rescued from Ineligible); Air New Zealand Flight 901 (5th appearance, last in 2010); 2002 Mombasa attacks (first appearance, last in 2010; 10th anniversary)
Repeats: Chicago Times-Herald race (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:07, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Albanian Declaration of Independence (maintenance)
Omitted: Royal Society; Chicago Times-Herald race; Kilmichael Ambush; Air New Zealand Flight 901; 2002 Mombasa attacks
Included: Shi Jingtang (first appearance); Skanderbeg (6th appearance, last in 2011); Grand Ole Opry (3rd appearance, last in 2006; rescued from Ineligible); Wasfi al-Tal (first appearance); John Major (first appearance; rescued from Ineligible)

—howcheng {chat} 08:22, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Liberated?

" Skanderbeg and his forces liberated Kruja in Middle Albania and raised the Albanian flag."

Liberty is inappropriate term in this 15th century context.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 07:01, 29 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Rewrote the blurb to better conform to the article text. —howcheng {chat} 18:30, 29 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2014 notes

Omitted: Shi Jingtang; Grand Ole Opry; Wasfi al-Tal; John Major
Included: Panama (rescued from Ineligible); Royal Society (6th appearance, last in 2012); Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3rd appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible); Tehran Conference (3rd appearance, last in 2005; rescued from Ineligible); South African Airways Flight 295 (2nd appearance, last in 2011)
Repeats: Skanderbeg (2nd consecutive appearance, 7 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:45, 27 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2015 notes

Omitted: Panama (ineligible—maintenance); Skanderbeg; Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor; Tehran Conference; South African Airways Flight 295
Included: Shi Jingtang (2nd appearance, last in 2013); Sinn Féin (4th appearance, last in 2013); Grand Ole Opry (4th appearance, last in 2013; 90th anniversary); John Major (6th appearance, last in 2013; 25th anniversary)
Repeats: Royal Society (2nd consecutive appearance, 7 total)

—howcheng {chat} 08:51, 26 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist, received the 1938 Nobel Prize in physics for identifying new elements and discovering nuclear reactions by his method of nuclear irradiation and bombardment. He was born in Rome, Italy, on September 29, 1901, and died in Chicago, Illinois, on ***'November 28'***, 1954, 1943 - 1949 103.232.128.16 (talk) 13:24, 29 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Chicago Times-Herald race (maintenance); Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (maintenance); Kilmichael Ambush (maintenance)
Omitted: Royal Society; Sinn Féin (ineligible—maintenance); Grand Ole Opry; John Major
Included: Skanderbeg (8th appearance, last in 2014); Tehran Conference (4th appearance, last in 2014); Wasfi al-Tal (2nd appearance, last in 2013); 2002 Mombasa attacks (2nd appearance, last in 2012)
Repeats: Shi Jingtang (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

—howcheng {chat} 08:23, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2017 notes

Moved to Ineligible: John Major (maintenance)
Omitted: Navy Day (ineligible—maintenance); Shi Jingtang; Skanderbeg; Tehran Conference; 2002 Mombasa attacks
Included: Cham–Annamese War (first appearance); Royal Society (8th appearance, last in 2015); Chicago Times-Herald race (3rd appearance, last in 2012); South African Airways Flight 295 (3rd appearance, last in 2014; 30th anniversary); William Blake (first appearance); Adina Emilia De Zavala (first appearance); Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (first appearance)
Repeats: Wasfi al-Tal (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

—howcheng {chat} 20:00, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2018 notes

New articles (unused): LaMia Flight 2933
Omitted: Albania (ineligible—maintenance); Cham–Vietnamese War (1471) (ineligible—maintenance); Royal Society; Wasfi al-Tal; South African Airways Flight 295; William Blake; Adina Emilia De Zavala; Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
Included: Shi Jingtang (5th appearance, last in 2016; last appeared on July 28, his birthday); Assembly of Vlorë (first appearance; blurb previously featured Albanian Declaration of Independence, which is currently ineligible, and is making its 2nd appearance, last in 2011); Tehran Conference (5th apparance, last in 2016; 75th anniversary); 2002 Mombasa attacks (3rd apparance, last in 2016); Esther Wheelwright (first appearance); `Abdu'l-Bahá (first appearance); Whitney Engen (first appearance)
Repeats: Chicago Times-Herald race (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total)

—howcheng {chat} 22:25, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2019 notes

Omitted: Shi Jingtang; Assembly of Vlorë; Tehran Conference; 2002 Mombasa attacks; Esther Wheelwright; `Abdu'l-Bahá; Whitney Engen
Included: Skanderbeg (9th appearance, last in 2016); Grand Ole Opry (5th appearance, last in 2015); Jocelyn Bell Burnell/PSR B1919+21 (both: first appearance); Air New Zealand Flight 901 (6th appearance, last in 2012; 40th anniversary); Betty Parris (first appearance); Johann Peter Salomon (first appearance); Keith Miller (first appearance; 100th birthday)
Repeats: Chicago Times-Herald race (3rd consecutive appearance, 5 total)

—howcheng {chat} 17:42, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2020 notes

Moved to Ineligible: William Blake (maintenance)
Omitted: Skanderbeg; Grand Ole Opry; Jocelyn Bell Burnell/PSR B1919+21; Air New Zealand Flight 901; Betty Parris; Johann Peter Salomon; Keith Miller
Included: Cham–Vietnamese War (1471) (2nd appearance, last in 2017; 550th anniversary); SS Petriana (first appearance); Michel Micombero (first appearance); Manuel I Komnenos (6th appearance, last in 2016; moved from September 24); Matsuo Bashō (first appearance); Helen of Greece and Denmark (first appearance)
Repeats: Chicago Times-Herald race (4th consecutive appearance, 6 total; 125th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 03:35, 1 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2021 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Wasfi Tal (maintenance)
Omitted: Cham–Vietnamese War (1471); Chicago Times-Herald race; SS Petriana; Michel Micombero; Manuel I Komnenos; Matsuo Bashō; Helen of Greece and Denmark
Included: Shi Jingtang (6th appearance, last in 2018); Royal Society (9th appearance, last in 2017); Tehran Conference (6th appearance, last in 2018); South African Airways Flight 295 (4th appearance, last in 2017); Abraham Brueghel; Gregorio Perfecto; ʻAbdu'l-Bahá (3rd appearance, last in 2021; 100th anniversary; also appeared on May 23, his birthday)

—howcheng {chat} 08:38, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]