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<div class="EnWpMpContentBox" style="margin-bottom: .5em; border-color: #ffc9c9; background-color: #fff2f2;"> Today's featured article The military history of Canada entails millennia of armed actions in the territory encompassing modern Canada, and the role of the Canadian military in conflicts and peacekeeping worldwide. For at least 10,000 years, the area that would become Canada was the site of intertribal wars among First Nation groups. Beginning in the 10th century, the arrival of Europeans led to conflicts with the Natives and among the colonizing Europeans in the New World - full article... <p style="text-align: right; margin: .8em 0 0; border-top: 1px solid #ffc9c9; padding-top: .2em;"> archive - daily email - more featured articles... <div class="EnWpMpContentBox" style="border-color: #bfbfff; background-color: #ececff; position: relative;"> Did you know?...          Facts from Wikipedia's newest articles <ul style="font-size: 95%; text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1.5em; padding: 0; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none;"> <li style="margin: .5em 0;"> ...that George W. Atherton served as president of the Pennsylvania State University for 24 years and is buried on the university's main campus? </li> <li style="margin: .5em 0;"> ...that Lamb Chop is a fictional sheep that was created by comedienne and ventriloquist Shari Lewis and first appeared on the children's morning television show Captain Kangaroo in 1957? </li> <li style="margin: .5em 0;"> ...that the Alfa Romeo Montreal was so named because it was first unveiled in prototype form at Montreal's Expo 67 world's fair? </li> <li style="margin: .5em 0;"> ...that F.I.B.S is the earliest backgammon server on the internet and has been actively operating since July 19, 1992? </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0; border-top: 1px solid #bfbfff; padding-top: .2em; margin-top: .8em;"> start a new article - more facts... <div class="EnWpMpContentBox" style="margin-bottom: .5em; margin-left: .5em; border-color: #c6c9ff; background-color: #f0f7ff;"> In the news <ul style="font-size: 95%; position: relative"> <li style="margin: .5em 0;"> A motion of no confidence is introduced in the Canadian House of Commons. It is expected to result in the defeat of Prime Minister Paul Martin's government forcing a Canadian federal election. </li> <li style="margin: .5em 0;"> Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel leaves the Likud Party to found the centrist political party Kadima and calls for a March election. </li> <li style="margin: .5em 0;"> Benzene from the Jilin chemical plant explosions contaminates the Songhua River, forcing Harbin, China to suspend its water supply. </li> <li style="margin: .5em 0;"> Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union becomes the first woman to take office as Chancellor of Germany. </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0; border-top: 1px solid #c6c9ff; padding-top: .2em; margin-top: .8em;"> Wikinews - recent deaths - more news... <div class="EnWpMpContentBox" style="margin-left: .5em; border-color: #debdff; background-color: #f7f0ff;"> On this day: November 24th <ul style="font-size: 95%; position: relative;"> <li style="margin: .5em 0;"> 1642: Dutch explorer Abel Tasman reached Tasmania. He named the island Anthoonij van Diemenslandt. </li> <li style="margin: .5em 0;"> 1859: The Origin of Species by British naturalist Charles Darwin (pictured) was first published, and sold out its initial print run on the first day. </li> <li style="margin: .5em 0;"> 1963: On live television, Jack Ruby shot and fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy. </li> <li style="margin: .5em 0;"> 1971: After collecting a ransom payout of US$200,000, "D. B. Cooper" leaped out of the rear stairway of the airplane he had hijacked and disappeared. </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0; border-top: 1px solid #debdff; padding-top: .2em; margin-top: .8em;"> archive - daily email - more anniversaries...

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