Wikipedia news from August 2nd, 2014

Jump to: navigation, search



Welcome to Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
4,572,226 articles in English

 Arts
Biography
Geography
 History
Mathematics
Science
 Society
Technology
All portals



From today's featured article


Pen portrait of Florence Fuller, 1897
Florence Fuller (1867–1946) was a South African-born Australian artist. Originally from Port Elizabeth, Fuller migrated as a child to Melbourne with her family. There she trained with her uncle Robert Hawker Dowling and teacher Jane Sutherland and took classes at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, becoming a professional artist in the late 1880s. In 1892 she left Australia, travelling first to South Africa, where she met and painted for Cecil Rhodes, and then on to Europe. Between 1895 and 1904 her works were exhibited at the Paris Salon and London's Royal Academy. In 1904, Fuller returned to Australia to live in Perth. She became active in the Theosophical Society and painted some of her best-known works. From 1908, Fuller travelled extensively, living in India and England before ultimately settling in Sydney where she was the inaugural teacher of life drawing at a women's art school. Highly regarded in her lifetime as a portrait and landscape painter, by 1914 Fuller was represented in four public galleries—three in Australia and one in South Africa—a record for an Australian female painter at that time. She subsequently suffered mental illness and sank into obscurity. (Full article...)
Recently featured: Flight Unlimited II – Royal baccarat scandal – History of Chincoteague, Virginia
Archive – By email – More featured articles...

Did you know...


From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

"The Risley"
... that Richard Risley Carlisle (pictured) is credited with originating the "Risley act" when he juggled his children with his feet?
... that the Park an der Ilm, landscaped partly by Goethe, contains a monument to Shakespeare by Lessing?
... that in 2010, Lazeric Jones became just the third junior college transfer in 30 years to play college basketball for the UCLA Bruins?
... that Sebastián Estevanez and Carina Zampini, the lead actors of the Argentine telenovela Camino al Amor, costarred in the 2012 telenovela Dulce amor?
... that John von Neumann's theorem that every closed real matrix group is a Lie group inspired Élie Cartan to prove a generali­za­tion, the closed subgroup theorem?
... that Melanie Hawtin was Canadian national champion in wheelchair racing, but made the national team in wheelchair basketball in 2014?
... that Queen Victoria was abandoned at a children's reformatory, called "the auld bitch" by James Joyce, and now lives in Sydney?
Archive – Start a new article – Nominate an article

 
In the news

Gas explosions in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, kill at least 26 people and injure more than 250.
Heavy rains trigger a landslide in the Pune district of India, killing at least 50 people.
The 45th Pacific Islands Forum opens in Koror, Palau, with climate change as the main topic.
The Permanent Court of Arbitration orders Russia to repay US$50 billion to shareholders of the Yukos Oil Company for breaching the Energy Charter Treaty.
Fuad Masum is elected President of Iraq by the Iraqi parliament.
The Séléka and anti-balaka militias agree to a ceasefire in the Central African Republic civil war.
Ongoing: Commonwealth Games – Gaza conflict – Ebola outbreak – Ukrainian unrest
Recent deaths

On this day...


August 2: Day of the Republic in Macedonia; Qixi Festival in the Chinese calendar (2014)

Leó Szilárd
216 BC – Second Punic War: Carthaginian forces led by Hannibal defeated a numerically superior Roman army, near the town of Cannae in Apulia in southeast Italy.
1790 – The first United States Census was conducted, as mandated by the United States Constitution to allocate Congressional seats and electoral votes.
1897 – The Siege of Malakand ended when a relief column was able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand region of colonial India's North West Frontier Province.
1939 – Physicist Leó Szilárd (pictured) wrote a letter to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, signed by Albert Einstein, warning that Germany might develop atomic bombs, which led to the establishment of the Manhattan Project.
1989 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Indian Peace Keeping Force began killing 64 minority Sri Lankan Tamil civilians over a two-day period in Valvettithurai, Sri Lanka.
More anniversaries: August 1 – August 2 – August 3
Archive – By email – List of historical anniversaries
It is now August 2, 2014 (UTC) – Reload this page




Today's featured picture


Menier Chocolate factory
A chocolate factory designed by the architect Jules Saulnier for Menier Chocolate in Noisiel, France. Completed in 1872, it has been cited as the first true skeleton structure, with exterior walls needing only simple infill. The factory was designated by the government of France as an official Monument historique in 1992, and it is on the tentative list to be named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Photograph: Myrabella
Recently featured: Portrait of a Young Girl – Orchis mascula – Prasat Sikhoraphum

Archive – More featured pictures...




Other areas of Wikipedia
Community portal – Bulletin board, projects, resources and activities covering a wide range of Wikipedia areas.
Help desk – Ask questions about using Wikipedia.
Local embassy – For Wikipedia-related communication in languages other than English.
Reference desk – Serving as virtual librarians, Wikipedia volunteers tackle your questions on a wide range of subjects.
Site news – Announcements, updates, articles and press releases on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation.
Village pump – For discussions about Wikipedia itself, including areas for technical issues and policies.

Wikipedia's sister projects
Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other projects:
Commons Commons
 Free media repository MediaWiki MediaWiki
 Wiki software development Meta-Wiki Meta-Wiki
 Wikimedia project coordination
Wikibooks Wikibooks
 Free textbooks and manuals Wikidata Wikidata
 Free knowledge base Wikinews Wikinews
 Free-content news
Wikiquote Wikiquote
 Collection of quotations Wikisource Wikisource
 Free-content library Wikispecies Wikispecies
 Directory of species
Wikiversity Wikiversity
 Free learning materials and activities Wikivoyage Wikivoyage
 Free travel guide Wiktionary Wiktionary
 Dictionary and thesaurus

Wikipedia languages

This Wikipedia is written in English. Started in 2001, it currently contains 4,572,226 articles. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.
More than 1,000,000 articles: Deutsch ·
 español ·
 français ·
 italiano ·
 Nederlands ·
 polski ·
 русский ·
 svenska
  
More than 400,000 articles: català ·
 فارسی ·
 日本語 ·
 norsk bokmål ·
 português ·
 Tiếng Việt ·
 українська ·
 中文
  
More than 200,000 articles: العربية ·
 Bahasa Indonesia ·
 Bahasa Melayu ·
 čeština ·
 한국어 ·
 magyar ·
 română ·
 српски / srpski ·
 suomi ·
 Türkçe
  
More than 50,000 articles: български ·
 dansk ·
 eesti ·
 Ελληνικά ·
 English (simple) ·
 Esperanto ·
 euskara ·
 galego ·
 עברית ·
 hrvatski ·
 latviešu ·
 lietuvių ·
 norsk nynorsk ·
 slovenčina ·
 slovenščina ·
 srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски ·
 ไทย
  
Complete list of Wikipedias
 




Navigation menu



Create account
Log in



Main Page

Talk









Read

View source

View history

















Main page
Contents
Featured content
Current events
Random article
Donate to Wikipedia
Wikimedia Shop

Interaction
Help
About Wikipedia
Community portal
Recent changes
Contact page

Tools
What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Permanent link
Page information
Wikidata item


Print/export
Create a book
Download as PDF
Printable version

Languages
Simple English
العربية
Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Melayu
Български
Català
Čeština
Dansk
Deutsch
Eesti
Ελληνικά
Español
Esperanto
Euskara
فارسی
Français
Galego
한국어
עברית
Hrvatski
Italiano
ქართული
Latviešu
Lietuvių
Magyar
Nederlands
日本語
Norsk bokmål
Norsk nynorsk
Polski
Português
Română
Русский
Slovenčina
Slovenščina
Српски / srpski
Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски
Suomi
Svenska
ไทย
Tiếng Việt
Türkçe
Українська
中文
Complete list


Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
Privacy policy
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Contact Wikipedia
Developers
Mobile view
Wikimedia Foundation
Powered by MediaWiki
   
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page





























Jump to: navigation, search



Welcome to Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
4,572,226 articles in English

 Arts
Biography
Geography
 History
Mathematics
Science
 Society
Technology
All portals



From today's featured article


Pen portrait of Florence Fuller, 1897
Florence Fuller (1867–1946) was a South African-born Australian artist. Originally from Port Elizabeth, Fuller migrated as a child to Melbourne with her family. There she trained with her uncle Robert Hawker Dowling and teacher Jane Sutherland and took classes at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, becoming a professional artist in the late 1880s. In 1892 she left Australia, travelling first to South Africa, where she met and painted for Cecil Rhodes, and then on to Europe. Between 1895 and 1904 her works were exhibited at the Paris Salon and London's Royal Academy. In 1904, Fuller returned to Australia to live in Perth. She became active in the Theosophical Society and painted some of her best-known works. From 1908, Fuller travelled extensively, living in India and England before ultimately settling in Sydney where she was the inaugural teacher of life drawing at a women's art school. Highly regarded in her lifetime as a portrait and landscape painter, by 1914 Fuller was represented in four public galleries—three in Australia and one in South Africa—a record for an Australian female painter at that time. She subsequently suffered mental illness and sank into obscurity. (Full article...)
Recently featured: Flight Unlimited II – Royal baccarat scandal – History of Chincoteague, Virginia
Archive – By email – More featured articles...

Did you know...


From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

"The Risley"
... that Richard Risley Carlisle (pictured) is credited with originating the "Risley act" when he juggled his children with his feet?
... that the Park an der Ilm, landscaped partly by Goethe, contains a monument to Shakespeare by Lessing?
... that in 2010, Lazeric Jones became just the third junior college transfer in 30 years to play college basketball for the UCLA Bruins?
... that Sebastián Estevanez and Carina Zampini, the lead actors of the Argentine telenovela Camino al Amor, costarred in the 2012 telenovela Dulce amor?
... that John von Neumann's theorem that every closed real matrix group is a Lie group inspired Élie Cartan to prove a generali­za­tion, the closed subgroup theorem?
... that Melanie Hawtin was Canadian national champion in wheelchair racing, but made the national team in wheelchair basketball in 2014?
... that Queen Victoria was abandoned at a children's reformatory, called "the auld bitch" by James Joyce, and now lives in Sydney?
Archive – Start a new article – Nominate an article

 
In the news

Gas explosions in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, kill at least 26 people and injure more than 250.
Heavy rains trigger a landslide in the Pune district of India, killing at least 50 people.
The 45th Pacific Islands Forum opens in Koror, Palau, with climate change as the main topic.
The Permanent Court of Arbitration orders Russia to repay US$50 billion to shareholders of the Yukos Oil Company for breaching the Energy Charter Treaty.
Fuad Masum is elected President of Iraq by the Iraqi parliament.
The Séléka and anti-balaka militias agree to a ceasefire in the Central African Republic civil war.
Ongoing: Commonwealth Games – Gaza conflict – Ebola outbreak – Ukrainian unrest
Recent deaths

On this day...


August 2: Day of the Republic in Macedonia; Qixi Festival in the Chinese calendar (2014)

Leó Szilárd
216 BC – Second Punic War: Carthaginian forces led by Hannibal defeated a numerically superior Roman army, near the town of Cannae in Apulia in southeast Italy.
1790 – The first United States Census was conducted, as mandated by the United States Constitution to allocate Congressional seats and electoral votes.
1897 – The Siege of Malakand ended when a relief column was able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand region of colonial India's North West Frontier Province.
1939 – Physicist Leó Szilárd (pictured) wrote a letter to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, signed by Albert Einstein, warning that Germany might develop atomic bombs, which led to the establishment of the Manhattan Project.
1989 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Indian Peace Keeping Force began killing 64 minority Sri Lankan Tamil civilians over a two-day period in Valvettithurai, Sri Lanka.
More anniversaries: August 1 – August 2 – August 3
Archive – By email – List of historical anniversaries
It is now August 2, 2014 (UTC) – Reload this page




Today's featured picture


Menier Chocolate factory
A chocolate factory designed by the architect Jules Saulnier for Menier Chocolate in Noisiel, France. Completed in 1872, it has been cited as the first true skeleton structure, with exterior walls needing only simple infill. The factory was designated by the government of France as an official Monument historique in 1992, and it is on the tentative list to be named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Photograph: Myrabella
Recently featured: Portrait of a Young Girl – Orchis mascula – Prasat Sikhoraphum

Archive – More featured pictures...




Other areas of Wikipedia
Community portal – Bulletin board, projects, resources and activities covering a wide range of Wikipedia areas.
Help desk – Ask questions about using Wikipedia.
Local embassy – For Wikipedia-related communication in languages other than English.
Reference desk – Serving as virtual librarians, Wikipedia volunteers tackle your questions on a wide range of subjects.
Site news – Announcements, updates, articles and press releases on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation.
Village pump – For discussions about Wikipedia itself, including areas for technical issues and policies.

Wikipedia's sister projects
Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other projects:
Commons Commons
 Free media repository MediaWiki MediaWiki
 Wiki software development Meta-Wiki Meta-Wiki
 Wikimedia project coordination
Wikibooks Wikibooks
 Free textbooks and manuals Wikidata Wikidata
 Free knowledge base Wikinews Wikinews
 Free-content news
Wikiquote Wikiquote
 Collection of quotations Wikisource Wikisource
 Free-content library Wikispecies Wikispecies
 Directory of species
Wikiversity Wikiversity
 Free learning materials and activities Wikivoyage Wikivoyage
 Free travel guide Wiktionary Wiktionary
 Dictionary and thesaurus

Wikipedia languages

This Wikipedia is written in English. Started in 2001, it currently contains 4,572,226 articles. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.
More than 1,000,000 articles: Deutsch ·
 español ·
 français ·
 italiano ·
 Nederlands ·
 polski ·
 русский ·
 svenska
  
More than 400,000 articles: català ·
 فارسی ·
 日本語 ·
 norsk bokmål ·
 português ·
 Tiếng Việt ·
 українська ·
 中文
  
More than 200,000 articles: العربية ·
 Bahasa Indonesia ·
 Bahasa Melayu ·
 čeština ·
 한국어 ·
 magyar ·
 română ·
 српски / srpski ·
 suomi ·
 Türkçe
  
More than 50,000 articles: български ·
 dansk ·
 eesti ·
 Ελληνικά ·
 English (simple) ·
 Esperanto ·
 euskara ·
 galego ·
 עברית ·
 hrvatski ·
 latviešu ·
 lietuvių ·
 norsk nynorsk ·
 slovenčina ·
 slovenščina ·
 srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски ·
 ไทย
  
Complete list of Wikipedias
 




Navigation menu



Create account
Log in



Main Page

Talk









Read

View source

View history

















Main page
Contents
Featured content
Current events
Random article
Donate to Wikipedia
Wikimedia Shop

Interaction
Help
About Wikipedia
Community portal
Recent changes
Contact page

Tools
What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Permanent link
Page information
Wikidata item


Print/export
Create a book
Download as PDF
Printable version

Languages
Simple English
العربية
Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Melayu
Български
Català
Čeština
Dansk
Deutsch
Eesti
Ελληνικά
Español
Esperanto
Euskara
فارسی
Français
Galego
한국어
עברית
Hrvatski
Italiano
ქართული
Latviešu
Lietuvių
Magyar
Nederlands
日本語
Norsk bokmål
Norsk nynorsk
Polski
Português
Română
Русский
Slovenčina
Slovenščina
Српски / srpski
Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски
Suomi
Svenska
ไทย
Tiếng Việt
Türkçe
Українська
中文
Complete list


Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
Privacy policy
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Contact Wikipedia
Developers
Mobile view
Wikimedia Foundation
Powered by MediaWiki
   
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page