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Picture of the day archives: 2026 March < 2026 March 8 2026 March 10 > Picture of the day The Game.com is a fifth-generation handheld video game console manufactured by Tiger Electronics. Designed as a competitor to Nintendo's Game Boy series, it was released in September 1997. It sold less than 300,000 units and was discontinued in 2000 as a commercial Type: failure.photograph. Credits: : Evan Amos.

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Men's T20 World Cup - Wikipedia

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Zungeni Mountain skirmish - Wikipedia

The Featured Article of Monday 9 March 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Zungeni Mountain skirmish.

The Zungeni Mountain skirmish took place on 5 June 1879 between British and Zulu forces during the second invasion of Zululand, in what is now South Africa, during the later stages of the Anglo-Zulu War.

Picture of the day archives: 2026 March < 2026 March 7 2026 March 9 > Picture of the day Lilly Walleni (1875–1920) is the stage name of Swedish mezzo-soprano Sanna Klara Vallentin. Known for her powerful voice and dramatic stage presence, she performed major Wagnerian roles – including Elsa in Lohengrin, Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, and Brünnhilde in Die Walküre – at leading opera houses in Germany and at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. From 1911 to 1916 she was engaged by the Court Opera in Hanover, where she received cultural honours from the principalities of Lippe and Schaumburg-Lippe. This photograph shows Walleni in the title role of the opera Daria at the Royal Swedish Opera in Type: 1907.photograph. Credits: : Anton Blomberg; restored by Adam Cuerden.

The Picture of the Day of Sunday 8 March 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Lilly Walleni.

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Soham murders - Wikipedia

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Luisa Capetillo - Wikipedia

The Featured Article of Sunday 8 March 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Luisa Capetillo.

Luisa Capetillo Perón was a Puerto Rican labor organizer, writer, journalist, and cigar factory reader. She organized workers in Puerto Rico, the Republic of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and the United States.

Picture of the day archives: 2026 March < 2026 March 6 2026 March 8 > Picture of the day The African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) is a subspecies of the leopard and part of the cat family, Felidae. It is widely distributed across much of Sub-Saharan Africa, although its historical range has become increasingly fragmented due to habitat loss and human activity. It has also been recorded in North Africa. It inhabits various habitats including mountainous forests, grasslands and savannahs. The African leopard's coat colour varies from pale yellow to deep gold, tawny or black, and is patterned with black rosettes while the head, lower limbs and belly are spotted with solid black. Male leopards are larger than females, averaging 58 kg (128 lb), while females weigh about 37.5 kg (83 lb) on average. The African leopard has a very broad diet, with prey ranging from dung beetles and other arthropods to rodents, birds, antelopes, hyraxes, hares, and even large ungulates such as elands. Leopards typically concentrate their hunting on locally abundant medium-sized ungulates but opportunistically take a wide variety of other prey. This African leopard was photographed in Kruger National Park, South Type: africa.photograph. Credits: : Charles J. Sharp.

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Kristi Noem - Wikipedia

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Mean (song) - Wikipedia

The Featured Article of Saturday 7 March 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Mean (song).

"Mean" is a song written and recorded by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her third studio album, Speak Now (2010).

Picture of the day archives: 2026 March < 2026 March 5 2026 March 7 > Picture of the day Humayun's tomb is the tomb of the Mughal emperor Humayun, located in Delhi, India. The tomb was commissioned by Bega Begum, Humayun's first wife and chief consort, in 1558, and was designed by Mirak Mirza Ghiyas and his son Sayyid Muhammad, Persian architects chosen by Bega. Inspired by Persian architecture, it was the first Indian building to use the Persian double dome on a high neck drum, the dome being white in colour. The rest of the building is largely red sandstone, with white and black marble and yellow sandstone detailing. It reaches a height of 47 metres (154 ft) with a plinth 91 metres (299 ft) wide. A cenotaph is situated directly underneath the dome, while Humayun's actual burial place is in an underground chamber below that. The tomb is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and several smaller monuments and other tombs are located nearby. This photograph shows the western facade of Humayun's tomb as seen in Type: 2012.photograph. Credits: : Muhammad Mahdi Karim.

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Markwayne Mullin - Wikipedia

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Paradises Lost - Wikipedia

The Featured Article of Friday 6 March 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Paradises Lost.

Paradises Lost is a science fiction novella by American author Ursula K. Le Guin. It was first published in 2002 as a part of the collection The Birthday of the World.

Picture of the day archives: 2026 March < 2026 March 4 2026 March 6 > Picture of the day The toco toucan (Ramphastos toco) is a species of bird in the toucan family, Ramphastidae. It is the largest species of toucan and has a distinctive appearance, with a black body, a white throat, chest and uppertail coverts, and red undertail coverts. Its most conspicuous feature is its huge beak, which is yellow-orange with a black base and a large spot on the tip. It is endemic to South America, where it has a wide distribution from the Guianas south to northern Argentina and Uruguay, and its range has recently been expanding southwards. Unlike other toucans, which inhabit continuous forests, the toco toucan inhabits a variety of semi-open habitats at altitudes of up to 1,750 metres (5,740 ft). It feeds mainly on fleshy fruits, but can also supplement its diet with insects, eggs, and the nestlings of other birds. This toco toucan was photographed near Poconé in the Brazilian state of Mato Type: grosso.photograph. Credits: : Bernard Dupont.

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Elizabeth Lyon (criminal) - Wikipedia

The Featured Article of Thursday 5 March 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Elizabeth Lyon (criminal).

Elizabeth Lyon (fl. c. 1722–1726), nicknamed Edgworth Bess or Edgware Bess, was an English thief, a prostitute, and the partner of the criminal Jack Sheppard.

Picture of the day archives: 2026 March < 2026 March 3 2026 March 5 > Picture of the day Tancredo Neves (4 March 1910 – 21 April 1985) was a Brazilian politician, lawyer, and entrepreneur. He served as Minister of Justice and Internal Affairs from 1953 to 1954, President of the Council of Ministers from 1961 to 1962, and Minister of Finance in 1962. Neves also served in the Federal Senate from 1979 to 1983, and was Governor of Minas Gerais from 1983 to 1984. He was elected President of Brazil in 1985, but died before taking office. Neves was one of the most important Brazilian politicians in the 20th century and one of the major statesmen in the history of Brazil. In July 2012, he was chosen one of the 100 greatest Brazilians of all time in a competition organized by Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão. This photograph shows Neves during his time in the Federal Type: senate.photograph. Credits: : Federal Senate; restored by Adam Cuerden.

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Montana-class battleship - Wikipedia

The Featured Article of Wednesday 4 March 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Montana-class battleship.

The Montana class was a planned set of battleships for the United States Navy. Intended as the successor to the Iowa class, the Montanas were to be slower but larger, better armored, and better armed.

Picture of the day archives: 2026 March < 2026 March 2 2026 March 4 > Picture of the day Apollo 9 (March 3–13, 1969) was the third crewed mission in the United States' Apollo program. Launched by a Saturn V and flown in low Earth orbit, the mission flight-qualified the Lunar Module, showing that its crew could fly it independently, then rendezvous and dock, as would be required for Apollo 11, the first crewed lunar landing. Commander James McDivitt, Command Module Pilot David Scott, and Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart tested systems and procedures critical to landing on the Moon. A spacewalk tested the extravehicular life support backpack. McDivitt and Schweickart, entering the Lunar Module through the docking tunnel, became the first humans to pass between spacecraft without going outside them, two months after Soviet cosmonauts spacewalked to transfer between Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5. Apollo 9, a complete success, was followed by Apollo 10, the dress rehearsal for Apollo 11. This photograph shows Schweickart operating a Hasselblad camera on the porch of the Lunar Module during an extravehicular activity on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 mission. The image was taken by Scott while standing in the hatch of the Command Module Type: gumdrop.photograph. Credits: : David Scott / NASA.

The Picture of the Day of Tuesday 3 March 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Apollo 9.

Credits: David Scott / NASA.

John Tonkin - Wikipedia

The Featured Article of Tuesday 3 March 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: John Tonkin.

John Trezise Tonkin was an Australian politician who was the premier of Western Australia from 3 March 1971 to 8 April 1974.

Picture of the day archives: 2026 March < 2026 March 1 2026 March 3 > Picture of the day Haliotis jacnensis, commonly known as the Jacna abalone, is a species of sea snail in the abalone family, Haliotidae. It is found in the western Pacific Ocean at depths between sea level and 50 metres (160 ft), around the coasts of American Samoa, Fiji, Guam, Indonesia, Japan, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Niue, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. H. jacnensis features an oblong–ovate shell that varies in size between 7 to 25 millimetres (0.28 to 0.98 in). The shell is reddish-orange with a silvery interior and features irregular scaly ridges. This picture shows five views of a H. jacnensis shell, 18 millimetres (0.71 in) in length, found on Masbate Island in the Type: philippines.photograph. Credits: : H. Zell.

The Picture of the Day of Monday 2 March 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Haliotis jacnensis.

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Galaxy - Wikipedia

The Featured Article of Monday 2 March 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Galaxy.

A galaxy is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter bound together by gravity.

Picture of the day archives: 2026 March < 2026 February 28 2026 March 2 > Picture of the day The Garden at Sainte-Adresse is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French impressionist painter, Claude Monet. It was painted in 1867 in the French resort town of Sainte-Adresse, where Monet was spending the summer. The models were probably Monet's father Adolphe, his cousin Jeanne Marguerite Lecadre, her father Adolphe Lecadre, and perhaps Lecadre's other daughter, Sophie, the woman seated with her back to the viewer. The painting is composed with flat horizontal bands of colour, which were reminiscent of Japanese colour wood-block prints. The Garden at Sainte-Adresse is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York Type: city.painting. Credits: : Claude Monet.

The Picture of the Day of Sunday 1 March 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Garden at Sainte-Adresse.

Credits: Claude Monet.

Ali Khamenei - Wikipedia

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High and Low (1963 film) - Wikipedia

The Featured Article of Sunday 1 March 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: High and Low (1963 film).

High and Low is a 1963 Japanese police procedural film directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Picture of the day archives: 2026 February < 2026 February 27 2026 March 1 > Picture of the day Huey P. Newton (1942–1989) was an African-American revolutionary and political activist who co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966. He ran the party as its first leader and crafted its ten-point manifesto with Bobby Seale. Under Newton's leadership, the party organized numerous social programs and community events, but also advocated for collective defense and threatened political violence. This poster was made for the Black Panther Party in Emeryville, California, in 1968, and features a large portrait photograph, taken by Blair Stapp, depicting Newton seated in a peacock chair and wearing a beret and a black leather jacket. He holds a shotgun in his right hand and a spear in his left hand. Two leaf-shaped Zulu-style shields lean against the wall behind him. Underneath the photograph is a quotation from Newton as "Minister of Defence": "The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or face the wrath of the armed Type: people."poster. Credits: : Black Panther Party, from a photograph by Blair Stapp; restored by Adam Cuerden.

The Picture of the Day of Saturday 28 February 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Huey P. Newton.

Credits: Black Panther Party, from a photograph by Blair Stapp; restored by Adam Cuerden.

Scream 7 - Wikipedia

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Hume MRT station - Wikipedia

The Featured Article of Saturday 28 February 2026 on @wikipedia.org is: Hume MRT station.

Hume MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the Downtown Line (DTL) in Bukit Batok, Singapore.

Picture of the day archives: 2026 February < 2026 February 26 2026 February 28 > Picture of the day Thekla's lark (Galerida theklae) is a species of bird in the lark family, Alaudidae. It was named by German zoologist Alfred Brehm in 1857 for his recently deceased sister, Thekla Brehm. It is non-migratory and breeds on the Iberian Peninsula and in northern and sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal to Somalia. Its preferred habitat is dry open country, often at some altitude. Thekla's lark is similar to the crested lark, featuring a long, spiky, erectile crest. It is a relatively small member of its family and is predominantly brownish-grey or brown in colour, with a breast streaked with black and grey underwings. It eats weeds, seeds and insects, the last being especially popular in the breeding season, and it nests on the ground, laying two to six eggs. This Thekla's lark was photographed near Douz, in the south of Type: tunisia.photograph. Credits: : Charles J. Sharp.

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Rashmika Mandanna - Wikipedia

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