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Wikipedia Featured Article2026. 06. 05. 08:11:30

The river that moves two feet per minute

The Everglades is technically a river — but one that flows at 2 feet per minute across a third of Florida. Only 5,000 years old, fed entirely by rainfall, shaped by three scales of wildfire, and held together by a layer of algae called periphyton, it is one of Earth's most precisely timed ecosystems. When drainage began in the 1880s, no one read the manual. Wikipedia's Featured Article for June 5, 2026.

Wikipedia Featured Article2026. 06. 04. 08:13:46

The king whose name was its own punchline

Æthelred the Unready's notorious epithet is a medieval pun — and after 50 years of revisionist scholarship, historians are still arguing whether he deserved it.

Wikipedia Featured Article2026. 06. 03. 08:11:01

Tar, feathers, and the solicitor general

Two hundred years ago tonight, Upper Canada's Tory elite — lawyers, magistrates, and a future premier — tarred and feathered government official George Rolph at midnight, then watched the king's own solicitor general defend them in civil court. The civil trial yielded £20 in damages; a criminal trial was abandoned when the attorney general declined to prosecute.

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