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<h3 style="padding:3px 7px; margin:8px 0; background-color:#CEF2E0;">Today's Featured Article</h3>[[File:Edmund, son of Edmund Ironside.jpg|left|202x202px|style=max-width:40%; margin-right:10px;]]'''[[Edmund Ætheling]]''' (born 1016 or 1017, died before 1057) was a son of [[Edmund Ironside]] and his wife Ealdgyth. Edmund Ironside briefly ruled as king of England following the death of his father Æthelred the Unready in April 1016. Edmund Ironside died in late 1016 after a hard-fought war with Danish invader Cnut who became king of all England shortly after. The following year, Cnut sent Edmund Ironside's two infant sons, Edmund Ætheling and Edward the Exile, to Continental Europe, probably to the King of Sweden, to be murdered. Instead, the princes were spared and sent to Hungary, possibly after a sojourn at the court of Yaroslav I, prince of Kiev, in Russia. As Ironside's marriage lasted no more than 15 months, Edmund and Edward were either twins or one was born after their father's death. Edmund may have married a daughter of the Hungarian king, and he died in Hungary on 10 January in an unknown year before 1057. ''('''[[Edmund Ætheling|Full article...]]''')''   
<h3 style="padding:3px 7px; margin:8px 0; background-color:#CEF2E0;">Today's Featured Article</h3>[[File:Simon Cameron.jpg|alt=style=max-width:40%; margin-right:10px;|left|thumb|184x184px|Tom Hall]]<big>'''[[Simon Cameron]]''' (1799–1889) was an American politician who was elected senator from Pennsylvania four times, and was War Secretary under Lincoln at the start of the Civil War. At first a supporter of James Buchanan, whom he succeeded in the Senate when Buchanan became Secretary of State in 1845, Cameron broke with Buchanan and the Democrats by the 1850s. An opponent of slavery, he briefly joined the Know Nothings before winning another term in the Senate as a Republican in 1857. He helped nominate and elect Lincoln, but rumors of corruption surrounded him; it was with reluctance that Lincoln appointed him to the cabinet. He did not do well in his post, and Lincoln made him minister to Russia in 1862, a post he held briefly. He rebuilt his political machine in Pennsylvania, winning a third term in the Senate in 1867. After ten years he resigned, arranging the election of his son, Don Cameron, in his place. Simon Cameron lived to age 90; his machine dominated local politics until the 1920s. ''('''[[Simon Cameron|Full article...]]''')''</big>  


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Recently featured: '''[[Tom Hall|Tom Hall .]]''' [[Scott Zolak|'''Scott Zolak''']] . '''[[Theodosius III]] .''' '''[[Edmund Ætheling]] .''' '''[[Jefferson Davis]]''' '''.''' ''[[Ovalipes catharus]].'' [[wikipedia:SMS_Pommern|SMS Pommern]]
 
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<h3 style="padding:3px 7px; margin:8px 0; background-color:#CEDFF2;">Wiki News</h3>[[File:Rosen Zhelyazkov 2025 (cropped).jpg|thumb|224x224px|Rosen Zhelyazkov]]- Bulgarian prime minister [[Rosen Zhelyazkov|'''Rosen Zhelyazkov''']] ''(pictured)'' and his government resign after '''days of protests'''.
 
* [[wikipedia:Clair_Obscur:_Expedition_33|'''Clair Obscur: Expedition 33''']] wins Game of the Year at '''[[wikipedia:The_Game_Awards_2025|the Game Awards]]''' (producer and host [[Geoff Keighley]] pictured).
 
* In Australia, a ban on the use of certain social media platforms by under-16s comes into effect.


* In motorsport, [[Lando Norris|'''Lando Norris''']] ''(pictured)'' wins '''the Formula One World Drivers' Championship'''.  
* In motorsport, [[Lando Norris|'''Lando Norris''']] ''(pictured)'' wins '''the Formula One World Drivers' Championship'''.  


* In Benin, '''a coup attempt''' by members of the armed forces is thwarted. [[File:2024-08-25 Motorsport, Formel 1, Großer Preis der Niederlande 2024 STP 3968 by Stepro (Lando Norris).jpg|thumb|147x147px|Lando Norris]]Architect and designer '''Frank Gehry''' dies at the age of 96.
* In Benin, '''a coup attempt''' by members of the armed forces is thwarted. Architect and designer '''Frank Gehry''' dies at the age of 96.
* In Saint Lucia, the [[wikipedia:Saint_Lucia_Labour_Party|Labour Party]], led by Prime Minister [[Philip J. Pierre]] ''(pictured)'', '''[[wikipedia:2025_Saint_Lucian_general_election|retains its majority]]''' in the [[wikipedia:House_of_Assembly_of_Saint_Lucia|House of Assembly.]]
* In Saint Lucia, the [[wikipedia:Saint_Lucia_Labour_Party|Labour Party]], led by Prime Minister [[Philip J. Pierre]] ''(pictured)'', '''[[wikipedia:2025_Saint_Lucian_general_election|retains its majority]]''' in the [[wikipedia:House_of_Assembly_of_Saint_Lucia|House of Assembly.]]
* Playwright and screenwriter '''[[Tom Stoppard]]''' ''(pictured)'' dies at the age of 88.  
* Playwright and screenwriter '''[[Tom Stoppard]]''' ''(pictured)'' dies at the age of 88.  
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* Flooding and landslides caused by Cyclone Ditwah leave at least 469 people dead across Sri Lanka and India.
* Flooding and landslides caused by Cyclone Ditwah leave at least 469 people dead across Sri Lanka and India.
* An apartment complex fire in Hong Kong leaves at least 156 people dead.
* An apartment complex fire in Hong Kong leaves at least 156 people dead.
* In Guinea-Bissau, armed forces seize power in a military coup, arresting President Umaro Sissoco Embaló and proclaiming Horta Inta-A Na Man as head of a transitional government.<p style="float:right;">More current events •</p>
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<h3 style="padding:3px 7px; margin:8px 0; background-color:#CEDFF2;">Today's Featured Picture</h3>[[File:McCULLOCH, Hugh-Treasury (BEP engraved portrait).jpg|border|left|513x513px|style=max-width:40%; margin-right:10px;]]<big>[[Hugh McCulloch]] (December 7, 1808 – May 24, 1895) was an American financier who played a central role in financing the [[wikipedia:American_Civil_War|American Civil War]]. He served two non-consecutive terms as [[wikipedia:United_States_Secretary_of_the_Treasury|United States Secretary of the Treasury]] under three presidents. He was originally opposed to the creation of a system of national banks, but his reputation as head of the [[wikipedia:Bank_of_Indiana|Bank of Indiana]] from 1857 to 1863 persuaded the Treasury to bring him in to supervise the new system as Comptroller of the Currency from 1863 to 1865. As Secretary of the Treasury from 1865 to 1869 under [[Abraham Lincoln]] and [[wikipedia:Andrew_Johnson|Andrew Johnson]], McCulloch reduced and funded the gigantic Civil War debt of the Union, and reestablished the federal taxation system across the former [[wikipedia:Confederate_States_of_America|Confederate States of America]]. He served another six months as Secretary of the Treasury from 1884 to 1885, at the close of [[wikipedia:Chester_A._Arthur|Chester A. Arthur's]] term as president. This [[wikipedia:Line_engraving|line-engraved]] portrait of McCulloch was created by the [[wikipedia:Bureau_of_Engraving_and_Printing|Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP)]] as part of a [[wikipedia:US_Treasury_specimen_book|BEP presentation book]] of the first 42 secretaries of the treasury; McCulloch's portrait was used on the 1902 [[wikipedia:United_States_twenty-dollar_bill|United States twenty-dollar bill.]]</big>
<h3 style="padding:3px 7px; margin:8px 0; background-color:#CEDFF2;">Today's Featured Picture</h3>[[File:McClure Tunnel west.jpg|alt=style=max-width:40%; margin-right:10px;|border|center|950x950px|'''Leopard seal''']]The '''[[McClure Tunnel]]''' is a tunnel in Santa Monica, California, which connects Pacific Coast Highway (State Route 1) with the western terminus of the Santa Monica Freeway (Interstate 10). It is 400 feet (120 m) long. The first tunnel on the site was a Southern Pacific Railroad tunnel constructed in 1886. This featured in a brief 1898 film called ''Going Through the Tunnel'', which showed the ocean view appearing to the left as the passenger emerges from the western portal. The rail tunnel was demolished and replaced with the current road tunnel, which opened in 1936. It was named after local newspaper publisher Robert E. McClure in 1979.
<small>Photograph credit: Steve Lyon</small>


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