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August 22, 2025 • 2 mins
fWotD Episode 3032: White chocolate
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The featured article for Saturday, 23 August 2025, is White chocolate.
White chocolate is a chocolate made from cocoa butter, sugar and milk solids. It is ivory in color and lacks the dark appearance of most other types of chocolate as it does not contain the non-fat components of cocoa (cocoa solids...
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The featured article for Saturday, 23 August 2025, is White chocolate.
White chocolate is a chocolate made from cocoa butter, sugar and milk solids. It is ivory in color and lacks the dark appearance of most other types of chocolate as it does not contain the non-fat components of cocoa (cocoa solids...
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August 21, 2025 • 2 mins
fWotD Episode 3031: Dance the Night
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The featured article for Friday, 22 August 2025, is Dance the Night.
"Dance the Night" is a song by English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa from the soundtrack to the fantasy comedy film Barbie (2023). Lipa co-wrote the song with songwriter Caroline Ailin and its producers Andrew Wyatt and Mar...
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The featured article for Friday, 22 August 2025, is Dance the Night.
"Dance the Night" is a song by English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa from the soundtrack to the fantasy comedy film Barbie (2023). Lipa co-wrote the song with songwriter Caroline Ailin and its producers Andrew Wyatt and Mar...
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August 20, 2025 • 3 mins
fWotD Episode 3030: Flower
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The featured article for Thursday, 21 August 2025, is Flower.
Flowers, also known as blooms and blossoms, are the reproductive structures of flowering plants. Typically, they are structured in four circular levels around the end of a stalk. These include: sepals, which are modified leaves that support the flo...
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The featured article for Thursday, 21 August 2025, is Flower.
Flowers, also known as blooms and blossoms, are the reproductive structures of flowering plants. Typically, they are structured in four circular levels around the end of a stalk. These include: sepals, which are modified leaves that support the flo...
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August 19, 2025 • 2 mins
fWotD Episode 3029: Rose Cleveland
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The featured article for Wednesday, 20 August 2025, is Rose Cleveland.
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland (June 13, 1846 – November 22, 1918) was an American author and lecturer. She was acting first lady of the United States from 1885 to 1886, during the presidency of her brother, Grover Cleveland.
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The featured article for Wednesday, 20 August 2025, is Rose Cleveland.
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland (June 13, 1846 – November 22, 1918) was an American author and lecturer. She was acting first lady of the United States from 1885 to 1886, during the presidency of her brother, Grover Cleveland.
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August 18, 2025 • 3 mins
fWotD Episode 3028: Proceratosaurus
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The featured article for Tuesday, 19 August 2025, is Proceratosaurus.
Proceratosaurus ( proh-sə-RAT-oh-SAW-rəs) is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived during the Middle Jurassic in what is now England. The holotype and only known specimen consists of a mostly complete skull with an accompanying l...
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The featured article for Tuesday, 19 August 2025, is Proceratosaurus.
Proceratosaurus ( proh-sə-RAT-oh-SAW-rəs) is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived during the Middle Jurassic in what is now England. The holotype and only known specimen consists of a mostly complete skull with an accompanying l...
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August 17, 2025 • 2 mins
fWotD Episode 3027: Maltese nationality law
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The featured article for Monday, 18 August 2025, is Maltese nationality law.
The primary law governing nationality of Malta is the Maltese Citizenship Act (Maltese: Att dwar iċ-Ċittadinanza Maltija), which came into force on 21 September 1964. Malta is a member state of the European Union (EU...
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The featured article for Monday, 18 August 2025, is Maltese nationality law.
The primary law governing nationality of Malta is the Maltese Citizenship Act (Maltese: Att dwar iċ-Ċittadinanza Maltija), which came into force on 21 September 1964. Malta is a member state of the European Union (EU...
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August 16, 2025 • 3 mins
fWotD Episode 3026: Battle of Preston (1648)
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The featured article for Sunday, 17 August 2025, is Battle of Preston (1648).
The battle of Preston was fought on 17 August 1648 during the Second English Civil War. A Parliamentarian army commanded by Lieutenant General Oliver Cromwell attacked a considerably larger force of Royalists unde...
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The featured article for Sunday, 17 August 2025, is Battle of Preston (1648).
The battle of Preston was fought on 17 August 1648 during the Second English Civil War. A Parliamentarian army commanded by Lieutenant General Oliver Cromwell attacked a considerably larger force of Royalists unde...
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August 15, 2025 • 2 mins
fWotD Episode 3025: Kitty Marion
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The featured article for Saturday, 16 August 2025, is Kitty Marion.
Kitty Marion (born Katherina Maria Schäfer, 12 March 1871 – 9 October 1944) was an activist who advocated for women's suffrage and birth control. Born in the German Empire, she immigrated to England in 1886 when she was fifte...
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The featured article for Saturday, 16 August 2025, is Kitty Marion.
Kitty Marion (born Katherina Maria Schäfer, 12 March 1871 – 9 October 1944) was an activist who advocated for women's suffrage and birth control. Born in the German Empire, she immigrated to England in 1886 when she was fifte...
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August 14, 2025 • 3 mins
fWotD Episode 3024: Rani of Jhansi
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The featured article for Friday, 15 August 2025, is Rani of Jhansi.
The Rani of Jhansi (born Manikarnika Tambe; 1828 or 1835 – 18 June 1858), also known as Rani Lakshmibai, was one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The queen consort of the princely state of Jhansi from 1843...
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The featured article for Friday, 15 August 2025, is Rani of Jhansi.
The Rani of Jhansi (born Manikarnika Tambe; 1828 or 1835 – 18 June 1858), also known as Rani Lakshmibai, was one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The queen consort of the princely state of Jhansi from 1843...
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August 13, 2025 • 2 mins
fWotD Episode 3023: Mandell Creighton
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The featured article for Thursday, 14 August 2025, is Mandell Creighton.
Mandell Creighton (; 5 July 1843 – 14 January 1901) was a British historian, Anglican priest and bishop. The son of a successful carpenter in north-west England, Creighton studied at the University of Oxford, focusing hi...
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The featured article for Thursday, 14 August 2025, is Mandell Creighton.
Mandell Creighton (; 5 July 1843 – 14 January 1901) was a British historian, Anglican priest and bishop. The son of a successful carpenter in north-west England, Creighton studied at the University of Oxford, focusing hi...
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August 12, 2025 • 2 mins
fWotD Episode 3022: Dusky dolphin
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The featured article for Wednesday, 13 August 2025, is Dusky dolphin.
The dusky dolphin (Aethalodelphis obscurus) is a small oceanic dolphin found in coastal waters of the Southern Hemisphere. It is most closely related to the Pacific white-sided dolphin. The dolphin's range is patchy, major population...
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The featured article for Wednesday, 13 August 2025, is Dusky dolphin.
The dusky dolphin (Aethalodelphis obscurus) is a small oceanic dolphin found in coastal waters of the Southern Hemisphere. It is most closely related to the Pacific white-sided dolphin. The dolphin's range is patchy, major population...
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August 11, 2025 • 2 mins
fWotD Episode 3021: Eritha
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The featured article for Tuesday, 12 August 2025, is Eritha.
Eritha (Mycenaean Greek: 𐀁𐀪𐀲, syllabic transcription e-ri-ta, pronounced [ˈɛ.rɪ.tʰa]; fl. c. 1180 BCE) was a Mycenaean priestess. She was a subject of the Mycenaean state of Pylos, in the southwestern Peloponnese, based at the cult ...
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The featured article for Tuesday, 12 August 2025, is Eritha.
Eritha (Mycenaean Greek: 𐀁𐀪𐀲, syllabic transcription e-ri-ta, pronounced [ˈɛ.rɪ.tʰa]; fl. c. 1180 BCE) was a Mycenaean priestess. She was a subject of the Mycenaean state of Pylos, in the southwestern Peloponnese, based at the cult ...
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August 10, 2025 • 2 mins
fWotD Episode 3020: Berners Street hoax
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The featured article for Monday, 11 August 2025, is Berners Street hoax.
The Berners Street hoax was perpetrated by the writer Theodore Hook in London in 1810. After several weeks of preparation he made an apparently spontaneous bet with a friend that he could transform any property into the most...
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The featured article for Monday, 11 August 2025, is Berners Street hoax.
The Berners Street hoax was perpetrated by the writer Theodore Hook in London in 1810. After several weeks of preparation he made an apparently spontaneous bet with a friend that he could transform any property into the most...
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August 9, 2025 • 1 min
fWotD Episode 3019: Hurra-yi Khuttali
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The featured article for Sunday, 10 August 2025, is Hurra-yi Khuttali.
Hurra-yi Khuttali (Persian: حره ختلی; fl. 1006 c. 1006 – c. 1040) was a princess from the Ghaznavid dynasty and the daughter of Sabuktigin, ruler of Ghazna (now in Afghanistan). She was married to two ...
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The featured article for Sunday, 10 August 2025, is Hurra-yi Khuttali.
Hurra-yi Khuttali (Persian: حره ختلی; fl. 1006 c. 1006 – c. 1040) was a princess from the Ghaznavid dynasty and the daughter of Sabuktigin, ruler of Ghazna (now in Afghanistan). She was married to two ...
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August 8, 2025 • 2 mins
fWotD Episode 3018: 1883 FA Cup final
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The featured article for Saturday, 9 August 2025, is 1883 FA Cup final.
The 1883 FA Cup final was an association football match between Blackburn Olympic F. C. and Old Etonians F. C. on 31 March 1883 at Kennington Oval in London. It was the 12th final of the world's oldest football competition, the...
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The featured article for Saturday, 9 August 2025, is 1883 FA Cup final.
The 1883 FA Cup final was an association football match between Blackburn Olympic F. C. and Old Etonians F. C. on 31 March 1883 at Kennington Oval in London. It was the 12th final of the world's oldest football competition, the...
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August 7, 2025 • 2 mins
fWotD Episode 3017: The Diamond Smugglers
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The featured article for Friday, 8 August 2025, is The Diamond Smugglers.
The Diamond Smugglers is a non-fiction book by Ian Fleming that was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape on 29 November 1957. The book is based on two weeks of interviews Fleming undertook with John Coll...
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The featured article for Friday, 8 August 2025, is The Diamond Smugglers.
The Diamond Smugglers is a non-fiction book by Ian Fleming that was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape on 29 November 1957. The book is based on two weeks of interviews Fleming undertook with John Coll...
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August 6, 2025 • 3 mins
fWotD Episode 3016: Roy Marshall
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The featured article for Thursday, 7 August 2025, is Roy Marshall.
Roy Edwin Marshall (25 April 1930 – 27 October 1992) was a Barbadian cricketer who played in four Test matches for the West Indies and had an extensive domestic career with Hampshire in English county cricket. Marshall was born in ...
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The featured article for Thursday, 7 August 2025, is Roy Marshall.
Roy Edwin Marshall (25 April 1930 – 27 October 1992) was a Barbadian cricketer who played in four Test matches for the West Indies and had an extensive domestic career with Hampshire in English county cricket. Marshall was born in ...
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August 5, 2025 • 2 mins
fWotD Episode 3015: Constans II (son of Constantine III)
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The featured article for Wednesday, 6 August 2025, is Constans II (son of Constantine III).
Constans II (died 411) was the son of the Western Roman emperor Constantine III and served as his co-emperor from 409 to 411. When his father rebelled against the ruling emperor Honorius a...
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The featured article for Wednesday, 6 August 2025, is Constans II (son of Constantine III).
Constans II (died 411) was the son of the Western Roman emperor Constantine III and served as his co-emperor from 409 to 411. When his father rebelled against the ruling emperor Honorius a...
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August 4, 2025 • 2 mins
fWotD Episode 3014: Belvidere Apollo Theatre collapse
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The featured article for Tuesday, 5 August 2025, is Belvidere Apollo Theatre collapse.
On the evening of March 31, 2023, a tornado struck the Apollo Theatre in Belvidere, Illinois, United States, which caused the ceiling of the theater to suffer a critical structural failure and col...
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The featured article for Tuesday, 5 August 2025, is Belvidere Apollo Theatre collapse.
On the evening of March 31, 2023, a tornado struck the Apollo Theatre in Belvidere, Illinois, United States, which caused the ceiling of the theater to suffer a critical structural failure and col...
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August 3, 2025 • 1 min
fWotD Episode 3013: 2020 Missouri Amendment 2
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The featured article for Monday, 4 August 2025, is 2020 Missouri Amendment 2.
2020 Missouri Amendment 2, also known as the Medicaid Expansion Initiative, was a ballot measure to amend the Constitution of Missouri to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. The initiative was on August...
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The featured article for Monday, 4 August 2025, is 2020 Missouri Amendment 2.
2020 Missouri Amendment 2, also known as the Medicaid Expansion Initiative, was a ballot measure to amend the Constitution of Missouri to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. The initiative was on August...
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