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Today's featured article for October 11, 2024
Algis Budrys, the editor of Tomorrow Speculative Fiction, in 1985 Tomorrow Speculative Fiction was a science fiction magazine edited by Algis Budrys (pictured), published in print and online in the US from 1992 to 1999. It was launched by Pulphouse Publishing, but cash flow problems led Budrys to buy the magazine after the first issue and publish it himself. There were 24 issues as a print magazine from 1993 to 1997, mostly on a bimonthly schedule. The magazine lost money, and in 1997 Budrys moved to online publishing, rebranding the magazine as tomorrowsf. Readership grew while the magazine was free on the web, but fell when Budrys began charging for subscriptions. In 1998 Budrys stopped acquiring new fiction, only publishing reprints of his own stories, and in 1999 he shut the magazine down. Tomorrow published many new writers, though few of them went on to successful careers. Well-known authors who appeared in the magazine included Gene Wolfe, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Harlan Ellison. Tomorrow was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine in 1994 and 1995. (Full article...) Recently featured: To Kill a Mockingbird River Parrett Tony Hawk's Underground Archive By email More featured articles About view – talk – edit – history – watch
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Wrong date: The University of Sydney was established via the passage of the University of Sydney Act, which was signed on October 1, 1850. Today is NOT the anniversary of the establishment. Please change "established" to "inaugurated" and "1850" to "1852". (See University of Sydney#History.) -- 199.71.174.100 16:45, 11 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

40th Anniversary of Apollo 7 I believe the picture preference should be set for the launch of Apollo 7, because it is a major anniversary, while the U of S's anniversary is not one of its major ones. This mission, paved the way to the first missions to the Moon.

2012 notes

Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Moved to Ineligible: Second Boer War (maintenance)
Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Saturday Night Live
Omitted: Huldrych Zwingli; Burchardi flood; University of Sydney (ineligible—maintenance); National Liberation War of Macedonia; Battle of Cape Esperance
Included: 1492 light sighting (first appearance); Battle of Camperdown (first appearance); Meriwether Lewis (first appearance); Field-sequential color system (first appearance); Operation Pawan (3rd appearance, last in 2010)

—howcheng {chat} 10:17, 10 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

2013 notes

Latest comment: 10 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Omitted: 1492 light sighting; Battle of Camperdown; Meriwether Lewis (ineligible—maintenance); Field-sequential color system
Included: National Coming Out Day (8th appearance, last in 2011; rescued from Ineligible); Jurchen campaigns against the Song Dynasty (first appearance); Huldrych Zwingli (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Battle of Valcour Island (first appearance); Apollo 7 (7th appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible)
Repeats: Operation Pawan (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total)

—howcheng {chat} 06:16, 10 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

2014 notes

Latest comment: 9 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Moved to Ineligible: Battle of Cape Esperance (TFA for 2014)
Omitted: Huldrych Zwingli; Battle of Valcour Island; Apollo 7; Operation Pawan
Included: Burchardi flood (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Battle of Camperdown (2nd appearance, last in 2012; World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia (2nd appearance, last in 2011; rescued from Ineligible); Second Vatican Council (7th appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible)
Repeats: Jin–Song Wars (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:17, 10 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

2015 notes

Latest comment: 8 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Omitted: Jin–Song Wars; Burchardi flood; Battle of Camperdown; World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia; Second Vatican Council
Included: 1492 light sighting (2nd appearance, last in 2012); Huldrych Zwingli (3rd appearance, last in 2013); Mason–Dixon line (first appearance); Battle of Cape Esperance (3rd appearance, last in 2011); Saturday Night Live (3rd appearance, last in 2005; 40th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 07:51, 9 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

2016 notes

Latest comment: 7 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Omitted: 1492 light sighting; Huldrych Zwingli; Mason–Dixon line; Battle of Cape Esperance; Saturday Night Live
Included: Ordinances of 1311 (first appearance); Adriaen Block (first appearance); Battle of Camperdown (3rd appearance, last in 2014); World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia (3rd appearance, last in 2014; 75th anniversary); Apollo 7 (8th appearance, last in 2013)

—howcheng {chat} 16:46, 7 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

2017 notes

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Moved to Ineligible: Burchardi flood (maintenance); Mason–Dixon line (maintenance); Second Vatican Council (maintenance)
New articles (unused): Henry J. Heinz
Omitted: Ordinances of 1311; Adriaen Block (ineligible—maintenance); Battle of Camperdown; World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia (ineligible—maintenance); Apollo 7 (ineligible—maintenance)
Included: 1492 light sighting (3rd appearance, last in 2015; 525th anniversary); Huldrych Zwingli (4th appearance, last in 2015); Battle of Cape Esperance (4th appearance, last in 2015; 75th anniversary); Operation Pawan (5th appearance, last in 2013; 30th anniversary); Casimir Pulaski (first appearance); María Teresa Ferrari (first appearance); Thích Nhất Hạnh (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 03:46, 11 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

2018 notes

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Omitted: 1492 light sighting; Huldrych Zwingli; Battle of Cape Esperance; Casimir Pulaski; María Teresa Ferrari; Thích Nhất Hạnh
Included: Jin–Song Wars (2nd appearance, last in 2014); Ordinances of 1311 (2nd appearance, last in 2016); Bashir Shihab II (first appearance); Field-sequential color system (2nd appearance, last in 2012); Grigory Potemkin (first appearance); Henry J. Heinz (first appearance); Dorothea Lange (first appearance)
Repeats: Operation Pawan (2nd consecutive appearance, 6 total)

—howcheng {chat} 16:34, 11 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

2019 notes

Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

New articles (ineligible): Douglas Albert Munro (TFA for 2019)
New articles (unused): Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights; Anita Hill
Omitted: Jin–Song Wars; Ordinances of 1311; Field-sequential color system; Operation Pawan; Grigory Potemkin; Henry J. Heinz; Dorothea Lange
Included: James the Deacon (first appearance); Huldrych Zwingli (5th appearance, last in 2017); Battle of Valcour Island (2nd appearance, last in 2013); Duke and Duchess of Windsor's 1937 tour of Germany (first appearance); Maria James (first appearance); Amitabh Bachchan (first appearance); Werner von Trapp (first appearance)
Repeats: Bashir Shihab II (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 16:23, 14 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

2020 notes

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Moved to Ineligible: Field-sequential color system (maintenance)
Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Apollo 7
New articles (unused): Edward Colston
Omitted: Huldrych Zwingli; Battle of Valcour Island; Bashir Shihab II; Duke and Duchess of Windsor's 1937 tour of Germany; Maria James; Amitabh Bachchan; Werner von Trapp
Included: Jin–Song Wars (3rd appearance, last in 2018); 1492 light sighting (4th appearance, last in 2017); Battle of Camperdown (4th appearance, last in 2016); Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights (first appearance); Casimir Pulaski (2nd appearance, last in 2017); María Teresa Ferrari (2nd appearance, last in 2017); Douglas Albert Munro (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 02:57, 13 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

2021 notes

Latest comment: 2 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

New articles (unused): Myyrmanni bombing
Omitted: Jin–Song Wars; 1492 light sighting; Battle of Camperdown; Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights; Casimir Pulaski; María Teresa Ferrari; Douglas Albert Munro
Included: Ordinances of 1311 (3rd appearance, last in 2018); Huldrych Zwingli (6th appearance, last in 2019); Bashir Shihab II (3rd appearance, last in 2019); Duke and Duchess of Windsor's 1937 tour of Germany (2nd appearance, last in 2019); Anita Hill (first appearance; 30th anniversary); Edward Colston (first appearance); Henry J. Heinz (2nd appearance, last in 2018); Beni Montresor (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 07:11, 12 October 2021 (UTC)Reply

2022 notes

Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Moved to Ineligible: Huldrych Zwingli (maintenance)
Omitted: Bashir Shihab II; Duke and Duchess of Windsor's 1937 tour of Germany; Anita Hill; Edward Colston; Henry J. Heinz; Beni Montresor
Included: Jin–Song Wars (5th appearance, last in 2020); Battle of Camperdown (5th appearance, last in 2020); Battle of Cape Esperance (5th appearance, last in 2017); Apollo 7 (9th appearance, last in 2016); María Teresa Ferrari (3rd appearance, last in 2020); Thích Nhất Hạnh (2nd appearance, last in 2017); Amitabh Bachchan (2nd appearance, last in 2019)
Repeats: Ordinances of 1311 (2nd consecutive appearance, 4 total)

Heart ^(talk) 23:23, 16 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

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