Wikipedia:Main Page history/2023 February 21

 Welcome to Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. 6,621,239 articles in English

From today's featured article  Mayor Frank Hague An unsuccessful attempt was made to pass an amendment to the Constitution of New Jersey in 1927. The legislature twice passed a proposal, subject to a popular vote, intended to increase the length of the terms of its members and the governor, with the text approved by the state attorney general. Then, it was realized that though the legislature intended that members of its lower house, the General Assembly, be elected biennially (once in two years), the text actually read that they were to be chosen "biannually" (twice a year). The press was considerably amused by this. Democrats opposed the amendment as it provided that the governor would be elected at the same time as the U.S. president, something that they felt benefited Republicans. The Democrats' political boss, Jersey City mayor Frank Hague (pictured), spoke against it. On September 20, 1927, the people of New Jersey voted down the proposal, and Assembly members served one-year terms until the state passed a new constitution in 1947. (Full article...)

Recently featured: 


 * Wisconsin Territorial Centennial half dollar
 * Corp Naomh
 * Back to the Future

 Did you know ...  Iznik pottery dish with the dollar pattern  In the news   A Royal New Zealand Air Force helicopter distributing supplies near the flood-damaged community of Aropaoanui
 * Archive
 * By email
 * More featured articles
 * About
 * ... that the dollar pattern (example pictured) in Turkish Iznik pottery is a variant of the rock-and-wave border pattern adapted from Chinese porcelain?
 * ... that Jane Dempsey Douglass became the first woman to head a worldwide communion of churches in 1990?
 * ... that the 1968 single "There's a Blind Man Playin' Fiddle in the Street" by Tages was inspired by an old man that could be seen roaming around the streets of Gothenburg, playing a violin?
 * ... that Kurnianingrat helped historian George McTurnan Kahin smuggle speeches by leaders of the Indonesian revolution from the Dutch?
 * ... that Ethel Barrymore and Luisa Tetrazzini reportedly visited the Lambs Club Building even though women were not allowed to access the clubhouse's upper floors?
 * ... that in August 2022, Igor Mangushev spoke on a stage in a Russian nightclub with what he said was the skull of a Ukrainian soldier killed in the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works?
 * ... that the Capitol Hill Citizen &#39;s motto, "Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight", is intended as a jab at The Washington Post &#39;s motto, "Democracy Dies in Darkness"?
 * ... that Paul Harvey improvised a viral piano piece using only four notes?
 * Archive
 * Start a new article
 * Nominate an article

Ongoing:  Recent deaths&#58;   On this day February 21: Shrove Tuesday (Western Christianity, 2023); Language Movement Day in Bangladesh (1952)  Lucy Hobbs Taylor
 * Cyclone Gabrielle (flood damage pictured) causes widespread damage and flooding across New Zealand.
 * Nikos Christodoulides is elected President of Cyprus.
 * In American football, the Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl.
 * A megadrought and heatwave cause forest fires and a state of emergency in Chile.
 * After a derailment of a train carrying vinyl chloride near East Palestine, Ohio, US, residents are evacuated over health concerns from the subsequent controlled burn.
 * Russian invasion of Ukraine
 * Turkey–Syria earthquake
 * Ángela Gurría
 * Tim McCarver
 * Zia Mohyeddin
 * Shoichiro Toyoda
 * Christian Atsu
 * Friedrich Cerha
 * Nominate an article
 * 1437 – King  James I of Scotland was murdered at Perth in a failed coup by his uncle and former ally Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl.
 * 1828 – The inaugural issue of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first newspaper in a Native American language, was published.
 * 1866 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor (pictured) became the first woman to receive a doctorate from a dental college.
 * 1929 – In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.

<templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"> <ul><li>Raimondo Montecuccoli ( b. 1609)</li><li>Goscombe John  ( b. 1860)</li><li>Helen Hooven Santmyer  ( d. 1986)</li></ul> More anniversaries: <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/>
 * February 20
 * February 21
 * February 22
 * Archive
 * By email
 * List of days of the year

<h2 id="mp-tfp-h2" class="mp-h2">Today's featured picture <h2 id="mp-other" class="mp-h2">Other areas of Wikipedia <h2 id="mp-sister" class="mp-h2">Wikipedia's sister projects <templatestyles src="Wikipedia's sister projects/styles.css" /> Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects:
 * Community portal – The central hub for editors, with resources, links, tasks, and announcements.
 * Village pump – Forum for discussions about Wikipedia itself, including policies and technical issues.
 * Site news – Sources of news about Wikipedia and the broader Wikimedia movement.
 * Teahouse – Ask basic questions about using or editing Wikipedia.
 * Help desk – Ask questions about using or editing Wikipedia.
 * Reference desk – Ask research questions about encyclopedic topics.
 * Content portals – A unique way to navigate the encyclopedia.

<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/> <ul id="sister-projects-list"> <li> Commons Free media repository </li> <li> MediaWiki Wiki software development </li> <li> Meta-Wiki Wikimedia project coordination </li> <li> Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals </li> <li> Wikidata Free knowledge base </li> <li> Wikinews Free-content news </li> <li> Wikiquote Collection of quotations </li> <li> Wikisource Free-content library </li> <li> Wikispecies Directory of species </li> <li> Wikiversity Free learning tools </li> <li> Wikivoyage Free travel guide </li> <li> Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus </li> </ul> <h2 id="mp-lang" class="mp-h2">Wikipedia languages <templatestyles src="Wikipedia languages/styles.css"/> This Wikipedia is written in English. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below. <li> 1,000,000+ articles <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> </li> <li> 250,000+ articles <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> </li> <li> 50,000+ articles <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css"/> </li> </ul>
 * <span class="autonym" title="Arabic (ar:)" lang="ar">العربية
 * <span class="autonym" title="German (de:)" lang="de">Deutsch
 * <span class="autonym" title="Spanish (es:)" lang="es">Español
 * <span class="autonym" title="French (fr:)" lang="fr">Français
 * <span class="autonym" title="Italian (it:)" lang="it">Italiano
 * <span class="autonym" title="Dutch (nl:)" lang="nl">Nederlands
 * <span class="autonym" title="Japanese (ja:)" lang="ja">日本語
 * <span class="autonym" title="Polish (pl:)" lang="pl">Polski
 * <span class="autonym" title="Portuguese (pt:)" lang="pt">Português
 * <span class="autonym" title="Russian (ru:)" lang="ru">Русский
 * <span class="autonym" title="Swedish (sv:)" lang="sv">Svenska
 * <span class="autonym" title="Ukrainian (uk:)" lang="uk">Українська
 * <span class="autonym" title="Vietnamese (vi:)" lang="vi">Tiếng Việt
 * <span class="autonym" title="Chinese (zh:)" lang="zh">中文
 * <span class="autonym" title="Indonesian (id:)" lang="id">Bahasa Indonesia
 * <span class="autonym" title="Malay (ms:)" lang="ms">Bahasa Melayu
 * <span class="autonym" title="Min Nan Chinese (nan:)" lang="nan">Bân-lâm-gú
 * <span class="autonym" title="Bulgarian (bg:)" lang="bg">Български
 * <span class="autonym" title="Catalan (ca:)" lang="ca">Català
 * <span class="autonym" title="Czech (cs:)" lang="cs">Čeština
 * <span class="autonym" title="Danish (da:)" lang="da">Dansk
 * <span class="autonym" title="Esperanto (eo:)" lang="eo">Esperanto
 * <span class="autonym" title="Basque (eu:)" lang="eu">Euskara
 * <span class="autonym" title="Persian (fa:)" lang="fa">فارسی&lrm;
 * <span class="autonym" title="Hebrew (he:)" lang="he">עברית
 * <span class="autonym" title="Korean (ko:)" lang="ko">한국어
 * <span class="autonym" title="Hungarian (hu:)" lang="hu">Magyar
 * <span class="autonym" title="Norwegian (no:)" lang="no">Norsk Bokmål
 * <span class="autonym" title="Romanian (ro:)" lang="ro">Română
 * <span class="autonym" title="Serbian (sr:)" lang="sr">Srpski
 * <span class="autonym" title="Serbo-Croatian (sh:)" lang="sh">Srpskohrvatski
 * <span class="autonym" title="Finnish (fi:)" lang="fi">Suomi
 * <span class="autonym" title="Turkish (tr:)" lang="tr">Türkçe
 * <span class="autonym" title="Asturian (ast:)" lang="ast">Asturianu
 * <span class="autonym" title="Bangla (bn:)" lang="bn">বাংলা
 * <span class="autonym" title="Bosnian (bs:)" lang="bs">Bosanski
 * <span class="autonym" title="Estonian (et:)" lang="et">Eesti
 * <span class="autonym" title="Greek (el:)" lang="el">Ελληνικά
 * <span class="autonym" title="Simple English (simple:)" lang="simple">Simple English
 * <span class="autonym" title="Irish (ga:)" lang="ga">Gaeilge
 * <span class="autonym" title="Galician (gl:)" lang="gl">Galego
 * <span class="autonym" title="Croatian (hr:)" lang="hr">Hrvatski
 * <span class="autonym" title="Latvian (lv:)" lang="lv">Latviešu
 * <span class="autonym" title="Lithuanian (lt:)" lang="lt">Lietuvių
 * <span class="autonym" title="Malayalam (ml:)" lang="ml">മലയാളം
 * <span class="autonym" title="Macedonian (mk:)" lang="mk">Македонски
 * <span class="autonym" title="Norwegian Nynorsk (nn:)" lang="nn">Norsk nynorsk
 * <span class="autonym" title="Albanian (sq:)" lang="sq">Shqip
 * <span class="autonym" title="Slovak (sk:)" lang="sk">Slovenčina
 * <span class="autonym" title="Slovenian (sl:)" lang="sl">Slovenščina
 * <span class="autonym" title="Thai (th:)" lang="th">ไทย