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Wikipedia Featured Article06/12/2026, 07:55:43 AM

The song that almost didn't make it onto Guts

On the morning that became "Love Is Embarrassing," Olivia Rodrigo was lying in bed replaying romantic mistakes — and wrote a 2:34 new wave track that nearly missed Guts entirely. Wikipedia's Featured Article for June 12, 2026 tells the story of a last-minute addition that critics called one of the album's sharpest songs, and the live performance at London's O2 Arena where the song literally earned its title all over again.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/11/2026, 08:10:42 AM

The man nobody expected to score

On the night of July 10, 2016, two things happened at Stade de France that nobody predicted: Cristiano Ronaldo was stretchered off before halftime, and a substitute who had scored twice all season for Swansea City hit the most important goal in Portuguese football history. This is the story of how Portugal won Euro 2016 without winning a single group game — and why the trophy meant something different from every other trophy in sport.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/10/2026, 08:11:19 AM

The goat who nursed a god

Amalthea doesn't appear in Hesiod. She barely appears in Homer. And yet she ended up in Bernini's studio, on the ceiling of the Palazzo Vecchio, and in a specially designed grotto for Marie Antoinette. Today's Wikipedia Featured Article traces how two completely unrelated Greek myths — a magical horn and a divine nurse — slowly entangled over eight centuries until Ovid wrote them into the same paragraph, creating the origin story of the cornucopia most people carry in their heads today.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/09/2026, 08:11:49 AM

The mammal that conquered Earth (and it isn't us)

Order Rodentia makes up 40% of all mammal species. The secret is a self-sharpening incisor that never stops growing — and 66 million years of improbable dispersal events, from Atlantic ocean-crossings on floating debris to eusocial colonies that function like a single organism. Today's Wikipedia Featured Article unpacks the full story.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/08/2026, 08:10:03 AM

The night Toronto's ruling class smashed a printing press and handed a rebel his career

On June 8, 1826, the sons of judges and attorney generals destroyed a journalist's printing press. The £625 they owed him in court funded a rebellion.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/07/2026, 08:14:00 AM

The show that turned the mirror on the audience

In September 2000, Alexander McQueen made his audience sit in silence for an hour staring at their own reflections before his Spring/Summer 2001 show began. What followed — 15 minutes, 76 looks, a dress made of 1,200 razor clamshells, a finale of moths released onto a naked woman in a shattered glass box — is still considered one of the greatest fashion shows ever staged. Today's Wikipedia Featured Article is the full story of Voss.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/06/2026, 08:11:12 AM

She held the walls of Hennebont

In the spring of 1342, a French-backed army arrived outside Hennebont, a small Breton harbor town, expecting a quick capitulation. The duke was in a French prison. Supplies were running low. What no one had counted on was his wife — Joanna of Montfort, who put on armour, rode through the streets, and refused to negotiate. This is the story of a siege that lasted barely a month but set off a war that ran for 23 years, and of the woman history remembers as the Flame of Brittany.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/05/2026, 08:11:30 AM

The river that moves two feet per minute

The Everglades is technically a river — but one that flows at 2 feet per minute across a third of Florida. Only 5,000 years old, fed entirely by rainfall, shaped by three scales of wildfire, and held together by a layer of algae called periphyton, it is one of Earth's most precisely timed ecosystems. When drainage began in the 1880s, no one read the manual. Wikipedia's Featured Article for June 5, 2026.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/04/2026, 08:13:46 AM

The king whose name was its own punchline

Æthelred the Unready's notorious epithet is a medieval pun — and after 50 years of revisionist scholarship, historians are still arguing whether he deserved it.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/03/2026, 08:11:01 AM

Tar, feathers, and the solicitor general

Two hundred years ago tonight, Upper Canada's Tory elite — lawyers, magistrates, and a future premier — tarred and feathered government official George Rolph at midnight, then watched the king's own solicitor general defend them in civil court. The civil trial yielded £20 in damages; a criminal trial was abandoned when the attorney general declined to prosecute.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/02/2026, 08:10:53 AM

Burned twice, mocked, and bracing for the big one

Oregon's state capitol in Salem has burned down twice, spent 20 years in a political battle just to decide which city it would be in, was publicly derided as a "squirrel cage" when it finally opened in 1938 as one of only three Art Deco state capitols in the United States, and is now undergoing a nearly $600 million seismic retrofit to protect it from the Cascadia subduction zone — a fault that last ruptured at magnitude 9.0 in 1700.

Wikipedia Featured Article06/01/2026, 08:34:21 AM

The dreadnought that stumbled into the lead

SMS Westfalen — Germany's oldest dreadnought, built with Victorian pistons in the age of turbines and an unusual hexagonal gun layout no other navy used — found itself leading the entire High Seas Fleet at Jutland on the night of May 31 to June 1, 1916, a quirk of formation that turned into a short, brutal action against British destroyers. Wikipedia selected it as the Featured Article for June 1, 2026, the 110th anniversary of the battle.