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A modern statue of Jochi Jochi (c. 1182 – c. 1225) was a prince in the Mongol Empire. For many months before his birth, his mother Börte had been a captive of the Merkit tribe, one of whom forcibly married and raped her. Although there was thus considerable doubt over his parentage, Börte's husband Genghis Khan considered Jochi his son and treated him accordingly. Many Mongols, most prominently Börte's next son Chagatai, disagreed; these tensions eventually caused Jochi's exclusion from the line of succession. After Genghis founded the Mongol Empire in 1206, he entrusted Jochi with nine thousand warriors and a large territory in the west of the Mongol heartland; Jochi campaigned extensively to extend Mongol power in the region. He also commanded an army during the invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire, but during the Siege of Gurganj in 1221, tensions arose between him and his family. They were still estranged when Jochi died of ill health c. 1225. His descendants continued to rule his territories, which became known as the Golden Horde. (Full article...) Recently featured: George E. Mylonas Palo (religion) 1984–85 Gillingham F.C. season
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The cinnamon hummingbird (Amazilia rutila) is a species of hummingbird in the "tribe of the emeralds", Trochilini. Currently, four regional subspecies are recognized. It is predominantly found along the Pacific western coast of Mexico and south through Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, with some also residing in Belize and the southern Mexican states of Campeche, Quintana Roo and Yucatán. Cinnamon hummingbirds are typically found at or just slightly above sea level, often inhabiting coastal and lowland areas, as well as further inland in warmer locations in the southern parts of their range. The bird has a length of approximately 9.5 to 11.5 cm and on average weighs about 5 to 5.5 g. Its diet usually consists food foraged from the understory to the mid-story, but also will visit taller flowering trees. It feeds on nectar from a very wide variety of flowering plants and also eats insects and is a territorial species, defending its feeding sites from intrusion by other hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies. This cinnamon hummingbird was photographed in Los Tarrales natural reserve in Patulul, Suchitepéquez, Guatemala. Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp Recently featured:

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Could someone change Image:Tomwindo.JPG to Image:Tomwindo.png? --evrik 16:22, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Done. Thanks. -- PFHLai 19:29, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Error re: 1937 Ireland (Moved from Talk:Main Page)

This is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG:

• • 1937 - A new state called the Republic of Ireland replaced the Irish Free State when a new constitution was adopted.

NO new state called the Republic of Ireland replaced the Irish Free State on 29 December 1937. A new CONSTITUTION for the Irish Free State took effect on 29 December 1937 and changed the name of the country to "Eire" - or in English, "Ireland" - but it remained a dominion of the British Empire until 1949. The other important innovation in 1937 was the replacement of the Governor General, appointed on the advice of the Irish Prime Minister to represent King George VI, with an elected president - who still represented George VI. The accrediting of ambassadors to Ireland was still done by the King, not by the president.

The Republic of Ireland came into existence on 18 April 1949, when the Republic of Ireland Act - passed in 1948 - came into force. The Republic of Ireland Act, 1948, severed the link between Ireland and the British monarch, as well as severing Ireland's official links with the Commonwealth of Nations.

No mention of Wounded Knee?

I will say, I am loathe to question anything on the main page of Wikipedia, but in the list of "on this day" suggestions, I find the omission of the Wounded Knee Massacre quite glaring. In my understanding, that event is a kind of archetypal touchstone which represents to Native Americans, as metonymy, all the atrocities and injustices of the "Indian Wars." Certainly this event is more deserving of mention than, say, Feynman's lecture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lapisphil (talk • contribs) 00:47, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.244.43.2 (talk • contribs) 05:54, 2006 December 29 (UTC).

2011 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster
• New observances: Mongolian independence day
• Swapped out: Thomas Becket, Wounded Knee Massacre, History of basketball (ineligible), There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, Fernando Collor de Mello
• Swapped in: Treaty of New Echota (first appearance), HMS Warrior (1860) (5th appearance, last in 2009), Sun Yat-sen (6th appearance, last in 2009, 100th anniversary), Two-Nation Theory (first appearance), Constitution of Ireland (3rd appearance, last in 2007)

--howcheng {chat} 07:12, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

• Addendum: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom added to balance the columns. howcheng {chat} 00:49, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

2012 notes

• Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster
• Omitted: Treaty of New Echota; HMS Warrior (1860); Sun Yat-sen; Muhammad Iqbal/Two nation theory; There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom
• Included: Thomas Becket (7th appearance, last in 2010); Capture of Savannah (first appearance); Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (first appearance; 40th anniversary); Fernando Collor de Mello (2nd appearance, last in 2010; 20th anniversary)
• Repeats: Constitution of Ireland (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total; 75th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 06:35, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

2013 notes

• Omitted: Thomas Becket; Capture of Savannah; Constitution of Ireland; Eastern Air Lines Flight 401
• Included: HMS Warrior (1860) (6th appearance, last in 2011); Wounded Knee Massacre (4th appearance, last in 2006); Sun Yat-sen (7th appearance, last in 2011); Two-nation theory (2nd appearance, last in 2011; blurb also previously featured Muhammad Iqbal, which also appears on November 9)
• Repeats: Fernando Collor de Mello (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:57, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

2014 notes

• Omitted: HMS Warrior (1860); Wounded Knee Massacre; Two-nation theory
• Included: Treaty of New Echota (2nd appearance, last in 2011); History of basketball (2nd appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible); Constitution of Ireland (5th appearance, last in 2012)
• Repeats: Sun Yat-sen (2nd consecutive appearance, 8 total); Fernando Collor de Mello (3rd appearance, 4 total)

—howcheng {chat} 08:26, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

2015 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: HMS Warrior (1860) (TFA for 2015)
• Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Tian Tan Buddha
• Omitted: Treaty of New Echota; History of basketball; Sun Yat-sen; Fernando Collor de Mello
• Included: Thomas Becket (8th appearance, last in 2012); Wounded Knee Massacre (5th appearance, last in 2013; 125th anniversary); Two-nation theory (3rd appearance, last in 2013); Global spread of H5N1 (first appearance)
• Repeats: Constitution of Ireland (2nd consecutive appearance, 6 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:36, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

2016 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: Treaty of New Echota (maintenance); Consolidated B-24 Liberator (maintenance); Fernando Collor de Mello (maintenance)
• Rescued from Ineligible (unused): HMS Warrior (1860)
• Omitted: Wounded Knee Massacre; Two-nation theory; Constitution of Ireland; Global spread of H5N1
• Included: Capture of Savannah (2nd appearance, last in 2012); History of basketball (3rd appearance, last in 2014; 125th anniversary); Sun Yat-sen (9th appearance, last in 2014); There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (3rd appearance, last in 2011); Tian Tan Buddha (4th appearance, last in 2008)
• Repeats: Thomas Becket (2nd consecutive appearance, 9 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:34, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

2017 notes

• Moved to Ineligible: Two-nation theory (maintenance); Constitution of Ireland (maintenance)
• Omitted: Mongolia (ineligible—maintenance); Thomas Becket (ineligible—maintenance); Capture of Savannah; History of basketball (ineligible—maintenance); 1975 LaGuardia Airport bombing; Global spread of H5N1; Stephen Bocskai; Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee; Twinkle Khanna
• Included: Texas annexation (first appearance); HMS Warrior (1860) (7th appearance, last in 2013); 1975 LaGuardia Airport bombing (first appearance); Global spread of H5N1 (2nd appearance, last in 2015); Stephen Bocskai (first appearance); Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee (first appearance); Twinkle Khanna (first appearance)
• Repeats: Sun Yat-sen (2nd consecutive appearance, 9 total)

—howcheng {chat} 18:12, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

2018 notes

• Omitted: Texas annexation; 1975 LaGuardia Airport bombing; Stephen Bocskai; Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee; Twinkle Khanna
• Included: Ashtabula River railroad disaster (first appearance); There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (4th appearance, last in 2016); Maria Margaretha Kirch (first appearance); Christina Rossetti (first appearance); Ashleigh Banfield (first appearance)
• Repeats: HMS Warrior (1860) (2nd consecutive appearance, 8 total); Sun Yat-sen (3rd consecutive appearance, 11 total); Global spread of H5N1 (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

—howcheng {chat} 18:02, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

2019 notes

• Omitted: HMS Warrior (1860); Ashtabula River railroad disaster; Global spread of H5N1 (ineligible—maintenance); Maria Margaretha Kirch; Ashleigh Banfield
• Included: Capture of Savannah (3rd appearance, last in 2016); Second Great Fire of London (first appearance); Adele Zay (first appearance); Ann Demeulemeester (first appearance; 60th birthday)
• Repeats: Sun Yat-sen (4th consecutive appearance, 12 total); There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total; 60th anniversary); Christina Rossetti (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 125th birthday)

—howcheng {chat} 21:00, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

2020 notes

• New articles (unused): Empress Genmei
• Omitted: Capture of Savannah; Sun Yat-sen; There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom; Christina Rossetti; Adele Zay; Ann Demeulemeester
• Included: HMS Java (1811) (first appaerance); Texas annexation (2nd appearance, last in 2017); 1975 LaGuardia Airport bombing (2nd appearance, last in 2017); Guatemalan Civil War (first appaerance); Maria Margaretha Kirch (2nd appearance, last in 2018; 300th birthday); Diogo de Carvalho e Sampayo (first appaerance); C. T. Hsia (first appaerance)
• Repeats: Second Great Fire of London (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 80th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 03:24, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

2021 notes

• New articles (ineligible): Ezra Meeker (TFA for 2021)
• Omitted: HMS Java (1811); Texas annexation; Second Great Fire of London; 1975 LaGuardia Airport bombing; Maria Margaretha Kirch; Diogo de Carvalho e Sampayo; C. T. Hsia
• Included: HMS Warrior (1860) (9th appearance, last in 2019); Wounded Knee Massacre (6th appearance, last in 2015; rescued from Ineligible); Sun Yat-sen (13th appearance, last in 2019); There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (6th appearance, last in 2019); Empress Genmei (first appearance; 1300th anniversary); William Ewart Gladstone (first appearance); Marie Menken (first appearance)
• Repeats: Guatemalan Civil War (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 25th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 09:32, 30 December 2021 (UTC)