Wikipedia Featured Weekly — August 9, 2026
7 stories · August 9, 2026
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Russian battleship Petropavlovsk (1894)
en.wikipedia.org · Petropavlovsk-class battleship · Featured Aug 3
Petropavlovsk ( Russian: Петропавловск ) was the lead ship of her class of three pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy during the last decade of the 19th century. The ship…
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Black Prince's chevauchée of 1356
en.wikipedia.org · English raid of the Hundred Years' War · Featured Aug 4
An Anglo-Gascon force under Edward, the Black Prince, conducted a large-scale chevauchée (mounted raid) between 4 August and 2 October 1356 as a part of the Hundred Years' War. The war had broken out…
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs (EP)
en.wikipedia.org · 2001 EP by Yeah Yeah Yeahs · Featured Aug 5
Yeah Yeah Yeahs is the debut extended play (EP) by the American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. It was self-released on July 9, 2001, and reissued in 2002 by Wichita in the United Kingdom and Touch…
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Big Duck
en.wikipedia.org · Historic commercial building in New York · Featured Aug 6
The Big Duck is a 20-foot-tall (6.1   m) ferrocement building in the shape of a duck: a canonical example of novelty architecture. Built in 1931 in Riverhead, New York, United States, it was…
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Henry Macandrew
en.wikipedia.org · British Indian Army general (1866–1919) · Featured Aug 7
Major-General Sir Henry John Milnes Macandrew, KCB, DSO (7 August 1866 – 16 July 1919) was a British Indian Army officer who fought in the Boer War and First World War, rising to command cavalry…
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Cerro Panizos
en.wikipedia.org · Late Miocene caldera in Bolivia and Argentina · Featured Aug 8
Cerro Panizos ( Spanish: [ ˈse.ro paˈni.sos ], " Maize Hill") is a late Miocene -age shield-shaped volcano spanning the Potosi Department of Bolivia and the Jujuy Province of Argentina. It features…
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Wild Australia Show
en.wikipedia.org · Indigenous Australian travelling theatre troupe · Featured Aug 9
Wild Australia Show performers pictured on an 1892 greeting card The Wild Australia Show was a troupe of Indigenous Australian performers that toured Australia during 1892 and 1893. The group was…