User:Afterword

Search 6,880,278 articles:

 

Welcome to Wikipedia

the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit

Today's featured article Lexington, a racehorse whose pedigree was suspect The Jersey Act was a 1913 regulation by the British Jockey Club and the owners of the General Stud Book that prevented most American-bred Thoroughbred horses from registering with them. It was intended to halt the increasing importation of racehorses of possibly impure bloodlines from America. The loss of breeding records during the American Civil War and the late beginning of the registration of American Thoroughbreds led many in the British racing establishment to doubt that American-bred horses were purebred. The Act prohibited the registration of horses unless all of their Thoroughbred ancestors had been registered. Despite protests from American breeders the regulation was in force until 1949. By then, ineligible horses were increasingly successful in races in Europe, British and Irish breeders had lost access to French Thoroughbreds during and after the Second World War, and any impure ancestors of the American bloodlines had receded far back in most horses' ancestry. (Full article...) Recently featured: Wolverton Viaduct Frye Fire Titanis On this day... September 8: Victory Day in Malta Queen Elizabeth II in 1959 617 – Li Yuan defeated a Sui army at the Battle of Huoyi, opening the path to his capture of the Chinese imperial capital Chang'an and the eventual establishment of the Tang dynasty. 1565 – St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European origin in the contiguous United States, was founded by Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. 1831 – William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1966 – The science fiction show Star Trek made its American premiere with "The Man Trap", launching a media franchise that has since created a cult phenomenon and has influenced the design of many current technologies. 2022 – Queen Elizabeth II (pictured) died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland; her eldest son Charles III acceded to the throne as King of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms. Amy Robsart (d. 1560) John Aitken (d. 1831) Charles Hastings Judd (b. 1835) Pink (b. 1979) More anniversaries: September 7 September 8 September 9

In the news The aircraft involved in the crash A Mil Mi-8 helicopter (pictured) crashes in Kamchatka, Russia, leaving twenty-two people dead. The Summer Paralympics open in Paris, France. More than four hundred people are killed in an Islamist militant attack in Barsalogho Department, Burkina Faso. The Islamic State claims responsibility for a mass stabbing that killed three people at a festival in Solingen, Germany. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war timeline Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Cathy Merrick Rich Homie Quan Rebecca Cheptegei Hvaldimir Linda Deutsch Abu Shujaa Picture of the day Wikipedia:POTD row/September 8, 2024 Did you know? Modern sculpture of Henry III's white bear ... that in 1253 Henry III of England ordered that his white bear (sculpture pictured) be permitted to swim and hunt in the River Thames? ... that William Aitken, William J. Bain, J. Lister Holmes, John T. Jacobsen, and George W. Stoddard collaborated in the early 1940s to design America's first racially integrated public housing development? ... that the prison scenes in the film Plurality were shot in an archaeology museum? ... that the 1990 Serbian constitutional referendum also took place at six voting stations in Montenegro for voters who were on holiday? ... that Ana Sigüenza was the first woman to be the general secretary of a national trade union center in Spain? ... that during the 1929 Dollar Mountain Fire, 65 firefighters survived being surrounded by fire overnight by sheltering near a creek? ... that the lyrics of "Executioner's Tax (Swing of the Axe)" were inspired by beheadings in medieval Europe? ... that up to 16,000 crows regularly commute from around the Seattle metropolitan area to a wetland in Bothell, Washington? ... that according to a TikTok theory, burnt toast could save you from a car accident?

Participate in Wikipedia
The Community Portal — The center of community involvement. Learn about projects and activities you can join to help improve Wikipedia. The Help Desk — Come here if you need help editing. You browse help topics or ask questions about using Wikipedia. The Reference Desk — For questions about any subject you're researching or curious about (not about Wikipedia itself), just like at a library's reference desk. The Village Pump — The main discussion forums of Wikipedia. The Signpost — Wikipedia's newspaper, where you can read and post news about what's happening on this website.
Wikipedia in other languages
Complete list · Multilingual coordination · Start a Wikipedia in another language
Wikipedia's sister projects
Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that operates several other multilingual and free-content projects: Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals Wikiquote Collection of quotations s:Main Page Wikisource The free library Wikispecies:Main Page Wikispecies Directory of species Wikinews Free content news source commons:Main Page Commons Shared media repository Meta-Wiki Wikimedia project coordination