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    May 5

    When you support the Wikimedia Foundation, you support the volunteers who build Wikipedia.

    This is the Wikimedia Foundation
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  2. 3 hours ago

    Vandalism to articles on Hillary Clinton and others was reverted quickly by volunteer editors. Articles are protected and being monitored.

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  3. 6 hours ago

    If you get an error message about the security certificate issue our provider is working to address, try Firefox, which appears unaffected.

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  4. 6 hours ago

    Novelist Irène Némirovsky spent over half her life in France and wrote in French, but was denied French citizenship.

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  5. 7 hours ago

    We are working with security certificate provider to address their issues causing error messages some users seeing. Thanks for telling us!

    24 retweets 22 likes
  6. 10 hours ago

    The konye, a critically endangered fish, is threatened by "burps" of CO-2.

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  7. 13 hours ago

    On this day in 1923: Ankara replaced Istanbul as Turkey's capital city.

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  8. 16 hours ago

    On this day in 1332: 6-year-old Rinchinbal Khan became Emperor of the Yuan dynasty, but reigned for only 53 days.

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  9. 20 hours ago

    NASA animation of the Earth at night from satellite photos is in public domain on Wikimedia Commons here:

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  10. 23 hours ago

    For Women's History Month, we're impacting 's Gender Bias with an Edit-a-thon on Oct. 26th! ♀💜Learn More:

    13 retweets 21 likes
  11. Oct 12

    A fascination with exploration: the polar pioneers of Wikipedia

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  12. Oct 12

    Today's featured article is on the gold dollar, a regular issue by the U.S. Mint from 1849 to 1889.

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  13. Oct 12

    A list of the largest domes in history:

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  14. Oct 12

    On this day in 1964: The Soviet Union launched Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight without the use of space suits.

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  15. Oct 12

    On this day in 1773: America's first insane asylum opened in Virginia. (Today the building operates as a museum.)

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  16. Oct 11

    The oldest known human footprints in continental Europe, c. 350,000 years ago, are called "devil's trails."

    11 retweets 22 likes
  17. Oct 11

    People all over the world have yet to discover Wikipedia. We went to them to find out why.

    27 retweets 27 likes
  18. Oct 11

    Immature defense mechanisms like denial are tied to glucose metabolization in the brain's left prefrontal cortex.

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  19. Oct 11

    Born this day 1894: Luis Ángel Firpo, boxer famous for knocking Jack Dempsey out of ring. Painting by George Bellows

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  20. Oct 11

    Mars requires less energy per unit mass to reach from Earth than any planet except Venus.

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  21. Oct 11

    Ada Lovelace's 1842 diagram for the first published computer algorithm, and portrait of her. More:

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