Wikipedia:Main Page/Test

Welcome to Wikipedia, our multilingual, free-content encyclopedia. Since January 2001 we've written 6,948,633 articles in the English version. To learn how you can edit any article right now, visit the Community Main Page or experiment in the sandbox.

Featured article James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his short story collection Dubliners, and for his novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Together with Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Richardson, he is credited with the development of the stream of consciousness technique in which the same weight is given to both the internal world of the mind and the external world of events and circumstances as factors shaping the actions and views of fictional characters. His fictional universe is firmly rooted in Dublin and reflects his family life and the events and friends and enemies from his school and college days. In this, he became both one of the most cosmopolitan and local of all the prominent English-language modernists. (Full article...) Recently featured: Metaphysics Stanley Green Nihilism (Alexander McQueen collection) Zimmerman Telegram Zimmerman Telegram On February 24, .. 1582 - Pope Gregory XIII announced the Gregorian calendar. 1803 - Marbury v. Madison established judicial review in the U.S. 1917 - The Zimmermann Telegram was delivered, complicating World War I. 1999 - Arizona executed German national Karl LaGrand. Recent days: February 23 - February 22 More events in history... Did you know ...? Rose barnacles in Royal National Park ... that the rose barnacle (examples pictured) eats only when the current is strong? ... that Doris Tulifau, after founding an online campaign to counter Samoan gender-based violence, moved to Samoa to expand the campaign in person? ... that the 2014 chariot racing video game Qvadriga was inspired by a 1979 board game? ... that singer Tomoko Aran became a city-pop icon decades after her initial music career? ... that the owner of a Montana TV station bought an American Legion hall, gutted by fire, to use as a studio building? ... that Ernesius, a 12th-century archbishop of Caesarea, was once prevented from crossing the sea by such a severe storm that he refused to make a second attempt? ... that Olde Raleigh Distillery is not located within its namesake city? ... that archaeologists found evidence at Taur Ikhbeineh in the Gaza Strip of interactions between Egyptians and Canaanites in the 4th millennium BC? ... that an emu named Emmanuel Todd Lopez was the target of a death hoax by undercover journalists?	In the news Ahmed al-Sharaa Ahmed al-Sharaa (pictured) is appointed president of the Syrian transitional government. American Eagle Flight 5342 collides with an army helicopter over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., United States, killing all 67 people on board both aircraft. In sumo, Hōshōryū Tomokatsu becomes the 74th yokozuna. In an ongoing campaign, the Rwandan-supported March 23 Movement captures Goma, the capital of North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ongoing: Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Gaositwe Chiepe Norbert Horst Köhler Kazuyoshi Akiyama Leif "Loket" Olsson Salwan Momika Holidays {{Holidays}} Obituaries Italian cyclist Marco Pantani died suddenly at a hotel in Rimini, Italy on February 14. Former Chechen president Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev was killed in an apparent car bomb explosion on February 13. Former leader of the Canadian liberal party, Claude Ryan, died from stomach cancer on February 9 at age 79. More recent deaths...
Browse Wikipedia by topic Mathematical and Natural Sciences Astronomy - Biology - Chemistry - Computer science - Earth science - Ecology - Health science - Mathematics - Physics - Statistics Applied Arts and Sciences Agriculture - Architecture - Business - Communication - Education - Engineering - Family and consumer science - Finance - Government - Law - Library and information science - Marketing - Medicine - Politics - Public affairs - Software engineering - Technology - Transport Social Sciences and Philosophy Anthropology - Archaeology - Economics - Geography - History - History of science and technology - Language - Linguistics - Mythology - Philosophy - Political science - Psychology - Sociology Culture and Fine Arts Classics - Cuisine - Dance - Entertainment - Film - Games - Gardening - Handicraft - Hobbies - Holidays - Internet - Literature - Music - Opera - Painting - Poetry - Radio - Recreation - Religion - Sculpture - Sports - Television - Theater - Tourism - Visual arts and design Other Category Schemes About our category schemes - Alphabetical order by title - By category - By academic discipline - Historical timeline - Themed timelines - Calendar - Reference tables - Biographies - Countries - How-tos
Wikipedia in other languages Wikipedia language list - Afrikaans - ‮العربية ‬ (Araby) - Bahasa Indonesia - Bahasa Melayu - Bosanski - Български (Bulgarian) - Català - Česká - Corsu - Cymraeg - Dansk - Deutsch - Eesti - Español - Ελληνικά - Esperanto - Euskara - فارسی (Persian) - Français - Frysk - Galego - 한국어 (Hangukeo) - עברית (Hebrew) - हिन्दी (Hindi) - Hrvatski - Interlingua - Italiano - Kurdî - Latina - Latviešu - Lietuvių - Magyar - Maori - Nahuatl - Nederlands - 日本語 (Nihongo) - Norsk - Occitan - Plattdüütsch - Polski - Português - Română - Русский (Russkiy) - Shqip - Simple English - Slovensko - Српски (Srpski) - Suomeksi - Svenska - தமிழ் (Tamil) - Tiếng Việt - Türkçe - 中文 (简) - 中文 (繁) - Start a new edition Sister Projects Wiktionary - Wikibooks - Wikiquote - Wikisource - Meta-Wikipedia - 9-11 Memorial