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Central arcade of St Nidan's
The Old Church of St Nidan, Llanidan, is a medieval church in Anglesey, Wales. The first church on the site was established in the 7th century by St Nidan, the confessor of the monastery at Penmon, Anglesey; the oldest parts of the present structure date from the 14th century. In about 1500 a second nave was added, and an arcade (pictured) was built between the two naves. Between 1839 and 1843 a new church was built nearby, partly due to the cost of repairing St Nidan's. A sandstone chest containing bone fragments (which local tradition holds to be those of St Nidan) and a 13th-century font were relocated to the new church. Much of the old church was demolished, leaving part of the western end and the central arcade. It has been restored and is occasionally open to the public. The remaining parts of the church are a Grade II* listed building. In the 12th century, Gerald of Wales said that the church possessed a curious stone shaped like a thigh that would always return by the next day no matter how far away it was taken. A Norman earl, he said, had chained it to a large rock and thrown it into the sea, only for the stone to return to the church by the following morning. (Full article...)
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... that K-Run's Park Me In First (pictured), also known as Uno, was the first beagle to win the Westminster Kennel Club dog show?
... that the 2015 Football League Cup Final is a repeat of the 2008 Final between Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur?
... that in the 1960s, Kamal Ranadive established India's first tissue culture research laboratory at the Indian Cancer Research Centre in Mumbai?
... that six bridges were built across Toby Creek in 1941 alone, and four were built in 1963?
... that a scene from Resident Evil 5 was submitted to the British Board of Film Classification due to a complaint of racism?
... that American boxer Cletus Seldin was named after former New York Yankees third baseman Clete Boyer?
... that the dominant species of mangrove in the Sundarbans is being seriously affected by top dying disease?
... that Eleanor Winthrop Young was the first president of the Pinnacle Club, an association for women interested in "the climbing art"?
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Boris Nemtsov
Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov (pictured) is assassinated in Moscow.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission votes to reclassify Internet broadband as a utility, enforcing net neutrality rules for the service.
Avijit Roy, a secularist activist and blogger, is murdered in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
British soldier Joshua Leakey is awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in the war in Afghanistan.
A gunman kills eight people and commits suicide in the Czech town of Uherský Brod.
Birdman wins four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, at the Academy Awards.
In stock car racing, Joey Logano wins NASCAR's Daytona 500.
Ongoing: Boko Haram – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – War in Ukraine
Recent deaths: Leonard Nimoy

On this day...


March 1: Independence Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992); Victory at Adwa Day in Ethiopia (1896)

Christ the Redeemer statue, Rio de Janeiro
1565 – Rio de Janeiro (Christ the Redeemer statue pictured) was founded by the Portuguese as São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro.
1633 – Samuel de Champlain reclaimed his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
1872 – Yellowstone National Park, located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, the first national park in the world, was established.
1950 – In a trial lasting less than 90 minutes, German–British physicist Klaus Fuchs was convicted of violating the Official Secrets Act for supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union.
1979 – Philips publicly demonstrated a prototype of an optical digital audio disc at a press conference in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
More anniversaries: February 28 – March 1 – March 2
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Cigarette smuggling
A book used for cigarette smuggling, on display at the Main Custom Office in Munich, Germany. This practice generally involves the illicit transportation of cigarettes or cigars from one place to another with higher taxation on sale and consumption, and is thus a form of tax evasion.
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From today's featured article


Central arcade of St Nidan's
The Old Church of St Nidan, Llanidan, is a medieval church in Anglesey, Wales. The first church on the site was established in the 7th century by St Nidan, the confessor of the monastery at Penmon, Anglesey; the oldest parts of the present structure date from the 14th century. In about 1500 a second nave was added, and an arcade (pictured) was built between the two naves. Between 1839 and 1843 a new church was built nearby, partly due to the cost of repairing St Nidan's. A sandstone chest containing bone fragments (which local tradition holds to be those of St Nidan) and a 13th-century font were relocated to the new church. Much of the old church was demolished, leaving part of the western end and the central arcade. It has been restored and is occasionally open to the public. The remaining parts of the church are a Grade II* listed building. In the 12th century, Gerald of Wales said that the church possessed a curious stone shaped like a thigh that would always return by the next day no matter how far away it was taken. A Norman earl, he said, had chained it to a large rock and thrown it into the sea, only for the stone to return to the church by the following morning. (Full article...)
Recently featured: Poetry of Maya Angelou – Kenneth Horne – Operation Hardboiled
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Did you know...


From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

Uno in 2010
... that K-Run's Park Me In First (pictured), also known as Uno, was the first beagle to win the Westminster Kennel Club dog show?
... that the 2015 Football League Cup Final is a repeat of the 2008 Final between Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur?
... that in the 1960s, Kamal Ranadive established India's first tissue culture research laboratory at the Indian Cancer Research Centre in Mumbai?
... that six bridges were built across Toby Creek in 1941 alone, and four were built in 1963?
... that a scene from Resident Evil 5 was submitted to the British Board of Film Classification due to a complaint of racism?
... that American boxer Cletus Seldin was named after former New York Yankees third baseman Clete Boyer?
... that the dominant species of mangrove in the Sundarbans is being seriously affected by top dying disease?
... that Eleanor Winthrop Young was the first president of the Pinnacle Club, an association for women interested in "the climbing art"?
Archive – Start a new article – Nominate an article

 
In the news


Boris Nemtsov
Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov (pictured) is assassinated in Moscow.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission votes to reclassify Internet broadband as a utility, enforcing net neutrality rules for the service.
Avijit Roy, a secularist activist and blogger, is murdered in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
British soldier Joshua Leakey is awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in the war in Afghanistan.
A gunman kills eight people and commits suicide in the Czech town of Uherský Brod.
Birdman wins four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, at the Academy Awards.
In stock car racing, Joey Logano wins NASCAR's Daytona 500.
Ongoing: Boko Haram – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – War in Ukraine
Recent deaths: Leonard Nimoy

On this day...


March 1: Independence Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992); Victory at Adwa Day in Ethiopia (1896)

Christ the Redeemer statue, Rio de Janeiro
1565 – Rio de Janeiro (Christ the Redeemer statue pictured) was founded by the Portuguese as São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro.
1633 – Samuel de Champlain reclaimed his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
1872 – Yellowstone National Park, located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, the first national park in the world, was established.
1950 – In a trial lasting less than 90 minutes, German–British physicist Klaus Fuchs was convicted of violating the Official Secrets Act for supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union.
1979 – Philips publicly demonstrated a prototype of an optical digital audio disc at a press conference in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
More anniversaries: February 28 – March 1 – March 2
Archive – By email – List of historical anniversaries
It is now March 1, 2015 (UTC) – Reload this page




Today's featured picture


Cigarette smuggling
A book used for cigarette smuggling, on display at the Main Custom Office in Munich, Germany. This practice generally involves the illicit transportation of cigarettes or cigars from one place to another with higher taxation on sale and consumption, and is thus a form of tax evasion.
Photograph: High Contrast
Recently featured: Senegalese wrestling – Loren Pankratz – Goode homolosine projection

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This Wikipedia is written in English. Started in 2001, it currently contains 4,731,299 articles. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.
More than 1,000,000 articles: Deutsch ·
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