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They joined the advancing Allied units, and occasionally operated behind enemy lines, first in Italy, and later in France and Germany. Gathering information on the <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nuclear_weapon_project" title="German nuclear weapon project">German nuclear project</a>, mission personnel captured and dismantled the German experimental <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor" title="Nuclear reactor">nuclear reactor</a> at <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haigerloch" title="Haigerloch">Haigerloch</a> <i>(pictured)</i> in a daring raid behind German lines in April 1945. They took senior German researchers into custody, including <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Hahn" title="Otto Hahn">Otto Hahn</a>, <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_von_Laue" title="Max von Laue">Max von Laue</a>, <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg" title="Werner Heisenberg">Werner Heisenberg</a> and <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_von_Weizs%C3%A4cker" title="Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker">Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker</a>. They searched for personnel, records, and materials that might be useful, to make them available for Allied research and to keep them out of <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a> hands. Over 1,000 tons of <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_ore" title="Uranium ore">uranium ore</a> was recovered by the mission, along with stocks of <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water" title="Heavy water">heavy water</a>. 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Lichtenstein</a></b> is the lead author of the <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Heart_Association" title="American Heart Association">American Heart Association</a>'s Diet and Lifestyle Recommendations?</li> <li>... that on March 30, 1965, following the <b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_Moroccan_riots" title="1965 Moroccan riots">March 23 uprising</a></b>, King Hassan<span style="white-space:nowrap;"> </span>II categorically wished illiteracy upon Moroccan intellectuals?</li> </ul> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint"><b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions" title="Wikipedia:Recent additions">Archive</a></b> – <b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article" title="Wikipedia:Your first article">Start a new article</a></b> – <b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Did_you_know" title="Template talk:Did you know">Nominate an article</a></b></div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td style="border:1px solid transparent;"></td> <td class="MainPageBG" style="width:45%; border:1px solid #cedff2; background:#f5faff; vertical-align:top;"> <table id="mp-right" style="width:100%; vertical-align:top; background:#f5faff;"> <tr> <td style="padding:2px;"> <h2 id="mp-itn-h2" style="margin:3px; background:#cedff2; font-family:inherit; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3b0bf; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="mw-headline" id="In_the_news">In the news</span></h2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="color:#000; padding:2px 5px;"> <div id="mp-itn"> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;"><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Forbes_Nash,_Jr._by_Peter_Badge.jpg" title="John F. 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Nash, Jr." src="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/55/John_Forbes_Nash%2C_Jr._by_Peter_Badge_cropped.jpg/75px-John_Forbes_Nash%2C_Jr._by_Peter_Badge_cropped.jpg" width="75" height="100" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/55/John_Forbes_Nash%2C_Jr._by_Peter_Badge_cropped.jpg/112px-John_Forbes_Nash%2C_Jr._by_Peter_Badge_cropped.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/55/John_Forbes_Nash%2C_Jr._by_Peter_Badge_cropped.jpg/150px-John_Forbes_Nash%2C_Jr._by_Peter_Badge_cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="288" data-file-height="384"/></a></div> <ul> <li>In <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">cricket</a>, the <b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Cricket_World_Cup" title="2015 Cricket World Cup">World Cup</a></b> concludes with <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_national_cricket_team" title="Australia national cricket team">Australia</a> defeating <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_national_cricket_team" title="New Zealand national cricket team">New Zealand</a> in <b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Cricket_World_Cup_Final" title="2015 Cricket World Cup Final">the final</a></b>.</li> <li><b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makka_al-Mukarama_hotel_attack" title="Makka al-Mukarama hotel attack">A 12-hour siege</a></b> at a hotel in <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogadishu" title="Mogadishu">Mogadishu</a>, Somalia, ends with 20 people, including a UN diplomat, dead.</li> <li>Mathematicians <b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash,_Jr." title="John Forbes Nash, Jr.">John F. Nash, Jr.</a></b> <i>(pictured)</i> and <b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Nirenberg" title="Louis Nirenberg">Louis Nirenberg</a></b> share the <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Prize" title="Abel Prize">Abel Prize</a> for their work on <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_differential_equation" title="Partial differential equation">partial differential equations</a>.</li> <li>Saudi Arabia <b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_military_intervention_in_Yemen" title="2015 military intervention in Yemen">conducts airstrikes</a></b> against <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthis" title="Houthis">Houthi</a> militants and their allies after <b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Yemen_offensive_(2015)" title="Southern Yemen offensive (2015)">their advance</a></b> on the provisional Yemeni capital of <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aden" title="Aden">Aden</a>.</li> <li><b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525" title="Germanwings Flight 9525">Germanwings Flight 9525</a></b> crashes in the <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Alps" title="French Alps">French Alps</a>, killing all <span class="nowrap">150 people</span> on board.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kuan_Yew" title="Lee Kuan Yew">Lee Kuan Yew</a>, the first <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Singapore" title="Prime Minister of Singapore">Prime Minister</a> of <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a>, <b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Lee_Kuan_Yew" title="Death of Lee Kuan Yew">dies</a></b> at the age <span class="nowrap">of 91</span>.</li> <li><b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_March_20,_2015" title="Solar eclipse of March 20, 2015">A solar eclipse</a></b> is visible across much of Europe, with <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse#Terminology_for_central_eclipse" title="Solar eclipse">totality</a> over the <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe_Islands" title="Faroe Islands">Faroe Islands</a> and <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard" title="Svalbard">Svalbard</a>.</li> </ul> <p><b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events" title="Portal:Current events">Ongoing</a></b>: <span class="nowrap"><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant#Timeline_of_recent_events" title="Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant">Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant</a></span><br/> <b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2015" title="Deaths in 2015">Recent deaths</a></b>: <span class="nowrap"><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomas_Transtr%C3%B6mer" title="Tomas Tranströmer">Tomas Tranströmer</a> –</span> <span class="nowrap"><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinkha_IV" title="Dinkha IV">Dinkha IV</a></span></p> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding:2px;"> <h2 id="mp-otd-h2" style="margin:3px; background:#cedff2; font-family:inherit; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #a3b0bf; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;"><span class="mw-headline" id="On_this_day...">On this day...</span></h2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="color:#000; padding:2px 5px 5px;"> <div id="mp-otd"> <p><b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_30" title="March 30">March 30</a></b>: <b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Day" title="Land Day">Land Day</a></b> (<a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_people" title="Palestinian people">Palestinians</a>)</p> <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;"> <p><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wang_Jingwei_1.JPG" class="image" title="Wang Jingwei"><img alt="Wang Jingwei" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Wang_Jingwei_1.JPG/81px-Wang_Jingwei_1.JPG" width="81" height="100" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Wang_Jingwei_1.JPG/122px-Wang_Jingwei_1.JPG 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Wang_Jingwei_1.JPG/163px-Wang_Jingwei_1.JPG 2x" data-file-width="511" data-file-height="627"/></a></p> </div> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1867" title="1867">1867</a> – <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Secretary of State">U.S. Secretary of State</a> <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Seward" title="William H. Seward">William H. Seward</a> negotiated the <b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase" title="Alaska Purchase">purchase of Alaska</a></b> for US$<span class="nowrap">7.2 million</span> from Russia.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1899" title="1899">1899</a> – A committee of the German Society of Chemistry invited other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to form the <b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Isotopic_Abundances_and_Atomic_Weights" title="Commission on Isotopic Abundances and Atomic Weights">International Committee on Atomic Weights</a></b>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918" title="1918">1918</a> – <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolshevik" title="Bolshevik" class="mw-redirect">Bolshevik</a> and <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Revolutionary_Federation" title="Armenian Revolutionary Federation">Dashnak</a> forces <b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_Days" title="March Days">suppressed a Muslim revolt</a></b> in <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku" title="Baku">Baku</a>, Azerbaijan, resulting in up to 12,000 deaths.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940" title="1940">1940</a> – <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War" title="Second Sino-Japanese War">Second Sino-Japanese War</a>: <b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Jingwei" title="Wang Jingwei">Wang Jingwei</a></b> <i>(pictured)</i> was officially installed by Japan as head of <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reorganized_National_Government_of_the_Republic_of_China" title="Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China">a puppet state in China</a>.</li> <li><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981" title="1981">1981</a> – Trying to impress actress <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodie_Foster" title="Jodie Foster">Jodie Foster</a>, obsessed fan <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hinckley,_Jr." title="John Hinckley, Jr." class="mw-redirect">John Hinckley, Jr.</a> <b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Ronald_Reagan" title="Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan">shot and wounded</a></b> <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">U.S. President</a> <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> and three others outside the <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilton_Washington" title="Hilton Washington" class="mw-redirect">Hilton Hotel</a> in <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a></li> </ul> <p>More anniversaries: <span class="nowrap"><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_29" title="March 29">March 29</a> –</span> <span class="nowrap"><b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_30" title="March 30">March 30</a></b> –</span> <span class="nowrap"><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_31" title="March 31">March 31</a></span></p> <div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint"><span class="nowrap"><b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/March" title="Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March">Archive</a></b> –</span> <span class="nowrap"><b><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l" class="extiw" title="mail:daily-article-l">By email</a></b> –</span> <span class="nowrap"><b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries" title="List of historical anniversaries">List of historical anniversaries</a></b></span></div> <div style="text-align: right;"><small>It is now <span class="nowrap">March 30, 2015</span> (<a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>) – <span class="plainlinks" id="purgelink"><span class="nowrap"><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=purge">Reload this page</a></span></span></small></div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <table id="mp-middle" style="width:100%; margin:4px 0 0 0; background:none; border-spacing: 0px;"> <tr> <td class="MainPageBG" style="width:100%; border:1px solid #f2cedd; background:#fff5fa; vertical-align:top; color:#000;"> <table id="mp-center" style="width:100%; vertical-align:top; background:#fff5fa; color:#000;"> <tr> <td style="padding:2px;"> <h2 id="mp-tfl-h2" style="margin:3px; background:#f2cedd; font-family:inherit; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #bfa3af; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em"><span class="mw-headline" id="From_today.27s_featured_list">From today's featured list</span></h2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="color:#000;"> <div id="mp-tfl" style="padding:2px 5px;"> <div style="float:right;margin:0.5em 0 0.4em 0.9em"><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hutson-Don-1940.jpg" class="image" title="Don Hutson"><img alt="A man jumping and extending his arms to catch an American football" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Hutson-Don-1940.jpg/85px-Hutson-Don-1940.jpg" width="85" height="125" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Hutson-Don-1940.jpg/128px-Hutson-Don-1940.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Hutson-Don-1940.jpg/170px-Hutson-Don-1940.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1381" data-file-height="2027"/></a></div> <p>The number of <b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Football_League_season_receiving_yards_leaders" title="List of National Football League season receiving yards leaders">receiving yards each player has recorded in each season</a></b> is a recorded stat in <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football" title="American football">American football</a> games. In the sport, <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_pass#American_and_Canadian_football" title="Forward pass">passing</a> is one of the two main methods of advancing the ball down the field. Passes are typically attempted by the <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarterback" title="Quarterback">quarterback</a>, but any offensive player can attempt a pass provided they are behind the <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_of_scrimmage" title="Line of scrimmage">line of scrimmage</a>; a player who catches a forward pass is a receiver. The <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">National Football League</a> did not begin keeping official records until the <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_NFL_season" title="1932 NFL season">1932</a> season. The average number of <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiving_yards" title="Receiving yards" class="mw-redirect">receiving yards</a> the leader has gained has increased over time – since the <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_NFL_season" title="1961 NFL season">1961 season</a>, all but one year saw the receiving leader record over 1,000 yards. No player has ever finished with over 2,000 receiving yards in a season; the current record is 1,964 yards, set by <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Johnson" title="Calvin Johnson">Calvin Johnson</a> during the <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_NFL_season" title="2012 NFL season">2012 season</a>. <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Hutson" title="Don Hutson">Don Hutson</a> <i>(pictured)</i> led the league in receiving yards seven times, the most of any player; <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Rice" title="Jerry Rice">Jerry Rice</a> is second with six. (<b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Football_League_season_receiving_yards_leaders" title="List of National Football League season receiving yards leaders">Full list...</a></b>)</p> <div style="text-align:right;" class="noprint">Recently featured: <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Yukon" title="List of municipalities in Yukon">Municipalities in Yukon</a> – <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPJ_International_Press_Freedom_Awards" title="CPJ International Press Freedom Awards">CPJ International Press Freedom Awards</a> – <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel" title="Hugo Award for Best Novel">Hugo Award for Best Novel</a></div> <div style="text-align:right;" class="noprint"><b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_list/March_2015" title="Wikipedia:Today's featured list/March 2015">Archive</a></b> – <b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_lists" title="Wikipedia:Featured lists">More featured lists...</a></b></div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <table id="mp-lower" style="margin:4px 0 0 0; width:100%; background:none; border-spacing: 0px;"> <tr> <td class="MainPageBG" style="width:100%; border:1px solid #ddcef2; background:#faf5ff; vertical-align:top; color:#000;"> <table id="mp-bottom" style="width:100%; vertical-align:top; background:#faf5ff; color:#000;"> <tr> <td style="padding:2px;"> <h2 id="mp-tfp-h2" style="margin:3px; background:#ddcef2; font-family:inherit; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #afa3bf; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em"><span class="mw-headline" id="Today.27s_featured_picture">Today's featured picture</span></h2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="color:#000; padding:2px;"> <div id="mp-tfp"> <table style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0;"><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tule_Fog_California_-_2005.jpg" class="image" title="Tule fog"><img alt="Tule fog" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Tule_Fog_California_-_2005.jpg/300px-Tule_Fog_California_-_2005.jpg" width="300" height="400" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Tule_Fog_California_-_2005.jpg/450px-Tule_Fog_California_-_2005.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Tule_Fog_California_-_2005.jpg/600px-Tule_Fog_California_-_2005.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="3200"/></a></td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0"> <p><b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tule_fog" title="Tule fog">Tule fog</a></b> is a thick ground <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog" title="Fog">fog</a> that settles in the <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Joaquin_Valley" title="San Joaquin Valley">San Joaquin Valley</a> and <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_Valley" title="Sacramento Valley">Sacramento Valley</a> areas of <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>'s <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Central_Valley" title="California Central Valley" class="mw-redirect">Great Central Valley</a> during the state's <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainy_season" title="Rainy season" class="mw-redirect">rainy season</a>. It forms when there is a high <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_humidity" title="Relative humidity">relative humidity</a> (typically after a heavy rain), calm winds, and rapid cooling during the night, and is typically confined to the Great Central Valley region by the surrounding mountain ranges. Tule fog, a low cloud usually below 2,000 feet (610 m) in <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altitude" title="Altitude">altitude</a>, is highly immobile and can last for weeks if undisturbed. This fog is the leading cause of weather-related deaths in California.</p> <small>Photograph: Jeff Schmaltz/<a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a></small> <div style="text-align:right;"> <p>Recently featured: <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2015-03-29" title="Template:POTD/2015-03-29">Red Cross workers at the 2013 Dar es Salaam building collapse</a> – <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2015-03-28" title="Template:POTD/2015-03-28">United States ten-dollar bill</a> – <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2015-03-27" title="Template:POTD/2015-03-27">Pelagia noctiluca</a><br/></p> <div class="noprint"><b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/March_2015" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 2015">Archive</a></b> – <b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures...</a></b></div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <div id="mp-other" style="padding-top:4px; padding-bottom:2px;"> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Other_areas_of_Wikipedia">Other areas of Wikipedia</span></h2> <ul> <li><b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_portal" title="Wikipedia:Community portal">Community portal</a></b> – Bulletin board, projects, resources and activities covering a wide range of Wikipedia areas.</li> <li><b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk" title="Wikipedia:Help desk">Help desk</a></b> – Ask questions about using Wikipedia.</li> <li><b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Local_Embassy" title="Wikipedia:Local Embassy">Local embassy</a></b> – For Wikipedia-related communication in languages other than English.</li> <li><b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk" title="Wikipedia:Reference desk">Reference desk</a></b> – Serving as virtual librarians, Wikipedia volunteers tackle your questions on a wide range of subjects.</li> <li><b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:News" title="Wikipedia:News">Site news</a></b> – Announcements, updates, articles and press releases on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation.</li> <li><b><a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump" title="Wikipedia:Village pump">Village pump</a></b> – For discussions about Wikipedia itself, including areas for technical issues and policies.</li> </ul> </div> <div id="mp-sister"> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Wikipedia.27s_sister_projects">Wikipedia's sister projects</span></h2> <p>Wikipedia is hosted by the <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a>, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other <a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects" class="extiw" title="wmf:Our projects">projects</a>:</p> <table class="layout plainlinks" style="width:100%; margin:auto; text-align:left; background:transparent;"> <tr> <td style="text-align:center; padding:4px;"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/" title="Commons"><img alt="Commons" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/Commons-logo-31px.png" width="31" height="41" data-file-width="31" data-file-height="41"/></a></td> <td style="width:33%; padding:4px;"><b><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://commons.wikimedia.org/">Commons</a></b><br/> Free media repository</td> <td style="text-align:center; padding:4px;"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/" title="MediaWiki"><img alt="MediaWiki" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Mediawiki-logo.png/35px-Mediawiki-logo.png" width="35" height="26" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Mediawiki-logo.png/53px-Mediawiki-logo.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Mediawiki-logo.png/70px-Mediawiki-logo.png 2x" data-file-width="135" data-file-height="102"/></a></td> <td style="width:33%; padding:4px;"><b><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://mediawiki.org/">MediaWiki</a></b><br/> Wiki software development</td> <td style="text-align:center; padding:4px;"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/" title="Meta-Wiki"><img alt="Meta-Wiki" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Meta-logo-35px.png" width="35" height="35" data-file-width="35" data-file-height="35"/></a></td> <td style="width:33%; padding:4px;"><b><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://meta.wikimedia.org/">Meta-Wiki</a></b><br/> Wikimedia project coordination</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center; padding:4px;"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/" title="Wikibooks"><img alt="Wikibooks" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Wikibooks-logo-35px.png" width="35" height="35" data-file-width="35" data-file-height="35"/></a></td> <td style="padding:4px;"><b><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikibooks.org/">Wikibooks</a></b><br/> Free textbooks and manuals</td> <td style="text-align:center; padding:3px;"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/" title="Wikidata"><img alt="Wikidata" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/47px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" width="47" height="26" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/71px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/94px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590"/></a></td> <td style="padding:4px;"><b><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://www.wikidata.org/">Wikidata</a></b><br/> Free knowledge base</td> <td style="text-align:center; padding:4px;"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/" title="Wikinews"><img alt="Wikinews" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/Wikinews-logo-51px.png" width="51" height="30" data-file-width="51" data-file-height="30"/></a></td> <td style="padding:4px;"><b><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikinews.org/">Wikinews</a></b><br/> Free-content news</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center; padding:4px;"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/" title="Wikiquote"><img alt="Wikiquote" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/46/Wikiquote-logo-51px.png" width="51" height="41" data-file-width="51" data-file-height="41"/></a></td> <td style="padding:4px;"><b><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikiquote.org/">Wikiquote</a></b><br/> Collection of quotations</td> <td style="text-align:center; padding:4px;"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/" title="Wikisource"><img alt="Wikisource" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/Wikisource-logo-35px.png" width="35" height="37" data-file-width="35" data-file-height="37"/></a></td> <td style="padding:4px;"><b><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikisource.org/">Wikisource</a></b><br/> Free-content library</td> <td style="text-align:center; padding:4px;"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/" title="Wikispecies"><img alt="Wikispecies" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bf/Wikispecies-logo-35px.png" width="35" height="41" data-file-width="35" data-file-height="41"/></a></td> <td style="padding:4px;"><b><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://species.wikimedia.org/">Wikispecies</a></b><br/> Directory of species</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center; padding:4px;"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/" title="Wikiversity"><img alt="Wikiversity" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/Wikiversity-logo-41px.png" width="41" height="32" data-file-width="41" data-file-height="32"/></a></td> <td style="padding:4px;"><b><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikiversity.org/">Wikiversity</a></b><br/> Free learning materials and activities</td> <td style="text-align:center; padding:4px;"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/" title="Wikivoyage"><img alt="Wikivoyage" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Wikivoyage-Logo-v3-icon.svg/35px-Wikivoyage-Logo-v3-icon.svg.png" width="35" height="35" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Wikivoyage-Logo-v3-icon.svg/53px-Wikivoyage-Logo-v3-icon.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Wikivoyage-Logo-v3-icon.svg/70px-Wikivoyage-Logo-v3-icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="193" data-file-height="193"/></a></td> <td style="padding:4px;"><b><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikivoyage.org/">Wikivoyage</a></b><br/> Free travel guide</td> <td style="text-align:center; padding:4px;"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/" title="Wiktionary"><img alt="Wiktionary" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f2/Wiktionary-logo-51px.png" width="51" height="35" data-file-width="51" data-file-height="35"/></a></td> <td style="padding:4px;"><b><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://en.wiktionary.org/">Wiktionary</a></b><br/> Dictionary and thesaurus</td> </tr> </table> </div> <div id="mp-lang"> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Wikipedia_languages">Wikipedia languages</span></h2> <div id="lang" class="nowraplinks nourlexpansion plainlinks"> <p>This Wikipedia is written in <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>. Started in 2001<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2001</span>)</span>, it currently contains <a href="/web/20150330162259/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics" title="Special:Statistics">4,848,601</a> articles. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.</p> <ul> <li id="lang-4">More than 1,000,000 articles: <div class="hlist inline"> <ul> <li><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="German (de:)" lang="de" xml:lang="de">Deutsch</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Spanish (es:)" lang="es" xml:lang="es">español</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="French (fr:)" lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">français</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Italian (it:)" lang="it" xml:lang="it">italiano</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Dutch (nl:)" lang="nl" xml:lang="nl">Nederlands</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Polish (pl:)" lang="pl" xml:lang="pl">polski</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Russian (ru:)" lang="ru" xml:lang="ru">русский</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Swedish (sv:)" lang="sv" xml:lang="sv">svenska</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li id="lang-3">More than 400,000 articles: <div class="hlist inline"> <ul> <li><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Catalan (ca:)" lang="ca" xml:lang="ca">català</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Persian (fa:)" lang="fa" xml:lang="fa">فارسی</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Japanese (ja:)" lang="ja" xml:lang="ja">日本語</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Norwegian (bokmål) (no:)" lang="no" xml:lang="no">norsk bokmål</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Portuguese (pt:)" lang="pt" xml:lang="pt">português</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Vietnamese (vi:)" lang="vi" xml:lang="vi">Tiếng Việt</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Ukrainian (uk:)" lang="uk" xml:lang="uk">українська</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Chinese (zh:)" lang="zh" xml:lang="zh">中文</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li id="lang-2">More than 200,000 articles: <div class="hlist inline"> <ul> <li><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Arabic (ar:)" lang="ar" xml:lang="ar">العربية</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150330162259/http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/"><span class="autonym" title="Indonesian (id:)" lang="id" xml:lang="id">Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li> <li><a class="external text" 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