Today's featured article is expanded to three articles; at present we have just over 2100 FA that give us about 700 days, or almost 2 years to cycle through current ones including those that have already been on the main page.
Featured Picture occupies the whole width, the reason is that pictures have three formats, Portrait, Landscape, and Panorama. Along with the image, the text and attribution need to all be clearly displayed 50% or 33% result in too many compromises. 66% is possible to enable a Featured list, Sound links though it still impacts on panorama images.
section are symmetrical on the horizontal line that keeps the format consistent across various screen widths
move focus more towards content both quality and new material with FA and DYK first text sections, then FP. Following this with on this day and in the news which are more trivial links into Wikipedia content.
... that depictions of Tobias and the Angel(example pictured), unusually for a religious subject, typically show Tobias's dog?
... that Australian gamer Zer0 led his team to an Apex Legends Global Series championship with a substitution teammate to whom he had never spoken before?
... that football player Levi Drake Rodriguez, considered small for his position, went on an "eat-as-much-as-humanly-possible diet" to be noticed by NFL teams?
... that Macklemore's song "Hind's Hall" refers to Hind Rajab, a six-year-old girl who was killed in the Gaza Strip in January 2024?
... that starting at age 16, future Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci was named top sewing machine salesperson three years in a row?
... that the ancient Greek game polis is one of the world's oldest known strategy games?
An oblique shock is a shock wave that, unlike a normal shock, is inclined with respect to the direction of incoming air. It occurs when a supersonic flow encounters a corner that effectively turns the flow into itself and compresses. This photograph shows an oblique shock at the nose of a Northrop T-38 Talon aircraft, made visible through Schlieren photography.
Photograph credit: NASA & US Air Force (J.T. Heineck, Ed Schairer, Maj. Jonathan Orso, Maj. Jeremy Vanderhal)
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