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Over almost four months, they played either 26 or 28 <a href="/wiki/Exhibition_game#Association_football" title="Exhibition game">friendly matches</a> in six cities. The tour gained its name due to the misfortunes endured by the club. Looking to recover from a financial crisis, Santa Cruz arranged five matches in <a href="/wiki/Bel%C3%A9m" title="Belém">Belém</a>, Pará. Traveling up the <a href="/wiki/Amazon_River" title="Amazon River">Amazon River</a> for another round of matches, they first started experiencing problems in <a href="/wiki/Manaus" title="Manaus">Manaus</a>, where two players left to play for other clubs and seven members of the team's delegation caught <a href="/wiki/Dysentery" title="Dysentery">dysentery</a>. Two players went on to contract <a href="/wiki/Typhoid_fever" title="Typhoid fever">typhoid fever</a> and died. 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It premiered at the <a href="/wiki/Savoy_Theatre" title="Savoy Theatre">Savoy Theatre</a> on 29 November 1899, closing on 28 June 1900 after a profitable run of 211 performances. 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margin: 0.5em 0.9em 0.4em 0em;"> <div class="thumbinner mp-thumb" style="background: transparent; color: inherit; border: none; padding: 0; max-width: 116px;"> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bird_notes_and_news_(1912)_(14562015579).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Lord Curzon, winner of the election"><img alt="Lord Curzon, winner of the election" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Bird_notes_and_news_%281912%29_%2814562015579%29.jpg/116px-Bird_notes_and_news_%281912%29_%2814562015579%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="116" height="168" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Bird_notes_and_news_%281912%29_%2814562015579%29.jpg/174px-Bird_notes_and_news_%281912%29_%2814562015579%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Bird_notes_and_news_%281912%29_%2814562015579%29.jpg/232px-Bird_notes_and_news_%281912%29_%2814562015579%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1660" data-file-height="2400"/></a></span><div class="thumbcaption" style="padding: 0.25em 0; word-wrap: break-word;">Lord Curzon, winner of the election</div></div> </div> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/January_1908_Irish_representative_peer_election" title="January 1908 Irish representative peer election">January 1908 Irish representative peer election</a></b> was held to fill a vacancy among the 28 <a href="/wiki/Representative_peer#Ireland" title="Representative peer">Irish representative peers</a> at the time elected for life to the British <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a>, with ballots sent by post to the 134 <a href="/wiki/Peerage_of_Ireland" title="Peerage of Ireland">Irish peers</a> eligible to vote. The winner was <a href="/wiki/George_Curzon,_1st_Marquess_Curzon_of_Kedleston" title="George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston">Lord Curzon</a> <i>(pictured)</i>, the former <a href="/wiki/Governor-General_of_India" title="Governor-General of India">viceroy of India</a>, who had never been to Ireland and owned no Irish lands. A former <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">MP</a>, he ran to return to parliament after being denied an earldom by the prime minister, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Campbell-Bannerman" title="Henry Campbell-Bannerman">Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman</a>. As he had not asked the House of Lords to affirm his right to vote in Irish representative peer elections, as required to vote in them, some stated that Curzon was ineligible for election. 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border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:350px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_Winston_Churchill_-_19086236948.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Black-and-white image of Winston Churchill standing with his left hand on his hip and his right hand resting on the back of a chair"><img alt="Black-and-white image of Winston Churchill standing with his left hand on his hip and his right hand resting on the back of a chair" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Sir_Winston_Churchill_-_19086236948.jpg/350px-Sir_Winston_Churchill_-_19086236948.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="435" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Sir_Winston_Churchill_-_19086236948.jpg/525px-Sir_Winston_Churchill_-_19086236948.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Sir_Winston_Churchill_-_19086236948.jpg/700px-Sir_Winston_Churchill_-_19086236948.jpg 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Apart from 1922 to 1924, he was a <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">member of Parliament</a> from 1900 to 1964, and represented five different <a href="/wiki/Constituencies_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom">constituencies</a>. This black-and-white photograph of Churchill, titled <i><a href="/wiki/The_Roaring_Lion" title="The Roaring Lion">The Roaring Lion</a></i>, was taken on 30 December 1941 by the Armenian-Canadian photographer <a href="/wiki/Yousuf_Karsh" title="Yousuf Karsh">Yousuf Karsh</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Centre_Block" title="Centre Block">Centre Block</a> on <a href="/wiki/Parliament_Hill" title="Parliament Hill">Parliament Hill</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ottawa" title="Ottawa">Ottawa</a>, Canada. Churchill is particularly noted for his posture and facial expression in the photograph, which have been compared to the wartime feelings that prevailed in the United Kingdom – persistence in the face of an all-conquering enemy. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/Yousuf_Karsh" title="Yousuf Karsh">Yousuf Karsh</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2024-11-29" title="Template:POTD/2024-11-29"><i>The Rose of Persia</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2024-11-28" title="Template:POTD/2024-11-28">Ocellated turkey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2024-11-27" title="Template:POTD/2024-11-27">Mary Jackson</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2024-11-30" title="Template:POTD/2024-11-30">view</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:POTD/2024-11-30" title="Template talk:POTD/2024-11-30">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2024-11-30&amp;action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2024-11-30&amp;action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2024-11-30&amp;action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_Winston_Churchill_-_19086236948.jpg" title="File:Sir Winston Churchill - 19086236948.jpg">file page</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD_protected/2024-11-30&amp;preload=Template:POTD/2024-11-30&amp;editintro=Template:POTD+protected+create+editintro&amp;action=edit&amp;preview=no&amp;summary=Manually+creating+the+protected+version+of+a+%5B%5BWP%3APOTD%5D%5D+template">create protected version</a> <small>(To create the protected version, replace the first line with <code class="nowrap">{{subst:POTD row</code> and save the page.)</small></li></ul> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="In_three_days_(December_1)" data-mw-thread-id="h-In_three_days_(December_1)"><span id="In_three_days_.28December_1.29"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-In_three_days_(December_1)"></span>In three days (December 1)<span data-mw-comment-end="h-In_three_days_(December_1)"></span></h2><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-In_three_days_(December_1)","replies":[],"uneditableSection":true}}--></div> <table role="presentation" class="wikitable" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td width="50%" style="vertical-align:top;"><b>Featured article</b> <hr/> <p><b>December 1</b> </p> <div id="mp-tfa-img" style="float: left; margin: 0.5em 0.9em 0.4em 0em;"> <div class="thumbinner mp-thumb" style="background: transparent; color: inherit; border: none; padding: 0; max-width: 160px;"> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Benty_grange_helm.jpg" title="Benty Grange helmet"><img alt="Benty Grange helmet" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Benty_grange_helm_crop.png/160px-Benty_grange_helm_crop.png" decoding="async" width="160" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Benty_grange_helm_crop.png/240px-Benty_grange_helm_crop.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Benty_grange_helm_crop.png/320px-Benty_grange_helm_crop.png 2x" data-file-width="1517" data-file-height="1389"/></a></span></div> </div> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Benty_Grange_helmet" title="Benty Grange helmet">Benty Grange helmet</a></b> is a <a href="/wiki/Wild_boar" title="Wild boar">boar</a>-crested <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxons" title="Anglo-Saxons">Anglo-Saxon</a> helmet from the 7th century. It was excavated by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Bateman_(antiquary)" title="Thomas Bateman (antiquary)">Thomas Bateman</a> in 1848 from a burial mound at the <a href="/wiki/Benty_Grange" title="Benty Grange">Benty Grange</a> farm in <a href="/wiki/Monyash" title="Monyash">Monyash</a> in western <a href="/wiki/Derbyshire" title="Derbyshire">Derbyshire</a>. The grave had probably been looted by the time of Bateman's excavation, but still contained other high-status objects suggestive of a richly furnished burial, such as the <a href="/wiki/Benty_Grange_hanging_bowl" title="Benty Grange hanging bowl">fragmentary remains of a hanging bowl</a>. The ornate helmet was constructed by covering the outside of an iron framework with plates of horn and the inside with cloth or leather, now decayed. It would have provided some protection against weapons, but may have also been intended for ceremonial use. It was the first Anglo-Saxon helmet to be discovered; others have been <a href="/wiki/Sutton_Hoo_helmet" title="Sutton Hoo helmet">found at Sutton Hoo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coppergate_Helmet" title="Coppergate Helmet">York</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pioneer_Helmet" title="Pioneer Helmet">Wollaston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shorwell_helmet" title="Shorwell helmet">Shorwell</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Staffordshire_helmet" title="Staffordshire helmet">Staffordshire</a>. The helmet is displayed at <a href="/wiki/Sheffield" title="Sheffield">Sheffield</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Weston_Park_Museum" title="Weston Park Museum">Weston Park Museum</a>, which purchased it from Bateman's estate in 1893. 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style="background-color:#ccc;"> <td colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"><b>Picture of the day</b> <hr/> <p><span class="nowrap"><b>December 1</b></span></p> <table role="presentation" style="margin:0 3px 3px; width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:400px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:African_helmeted_turtle_(Pelomedusa_subrufa).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="African helmeted turtle"><img alt="African helmeted turtle" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/African_helmeted_turtle_%28Pelomedusa_subrufa%29.jpg/400px-African_helmeted_turtle_%28Pelomedusa_subrufa%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="267" class="mw-file-element" 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The species naturally occurs in fresh and stagnant water bodies throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa, and in southern Yemen. It is omnivorous with its diet consisting mainly of aquatic invertebrates, small fish, and vegetation. It is typically a small turtle, with most individuals being less than 20 cm (7.9 in) in straight <a href="/wiki/Carapace" title="Carapace">carapace</a> length. The female lays two to ten eggs on average, normally during late spring and early summer. The eggs are placed in a flask-shaped nest about 4 to 7 in (10 to 18 cm) deep and hatch in 75–90 days This African helmeted turtle was photographed in <a href="/wiki/Phinda_Private_Game_Reserve" title="Phinda Private Game Reserve">Phinda Private Game Reserve</a>, South Africa. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Charlesjsharp" title="User:Charlesjsharp">Charles J. 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The <a href="/wiki/Concept_album" title="Concept album">concept album</a> follows the story of a young girl who is sent away by her family to the fictional island of Adan. Aoba and composer Taro Umebayashi wrote, <a href="/wiki/Musical_composition" title="Musical composition">composed</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arrangement" title="Arrangement">arranged</a>, and produced the music for the album, which was preceded by one <a href="/wiki/Single_(music)" title="Single (music)">single</a>, "Porcelain". <i>Windswept Adan</i> is a <a href="/wiki/Folk_baroque" title="Folk baroque">chamber folk</a> and <a href="/wiki/Psychedelic_folk" title="Psychedelic folk">psychedelic folk</a> album with elements of <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Classical_music" title="Classical music">classical</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ambient_music" title="Ambient music">ambient music</a>. Marking a departure from Aoba's earlier minimalist instrumentation, it includes a <a href="/wiki/Celesta" title="Celesta">celesta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wind_chime" title="Wind chime">wind chimes</a>, <a href="/wiki/String_section" title="String section">string arrangements</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Vocal_music" title="Vocal music">vocal</a> performances. The album received widespread critical acclaim for its arrangements, instrumentation, and <a href="/wiki/Worldbuilding" title="Worldbuilding">worldbuilding</a>. Upon its release, the album debuted at number 82 on the <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Japan_Hot_Albums" title="Billboard Japan Hot Albums"><i>Billboard Japan</i> Hot Albums</a> chart and number 88 on the <a href="/wiki/Oricon_Albums_Chart" title="Oricon Albums Chart">Oricon Albums Chart</a>. Aoba supported the album with her first international tour between August and October 2022. 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It was released in Japan on 3 December 1994, and most of the world in 1995. Sony began developing it after a failed venture with <a href="/wiki/Nintendo" title="Nintendo">Nintendo</a> to create <a href="/wiki/Super_NES_CD-ROM" title="Super NES CD-ROM">a CD-ROM add-on</a> in the early 1990s. The console was primarily designed by <a href="/wiki/Ken_Kutaragi" title="Ken Kutaragi">Ken Kutaragi</a> and his team in Japan, while additional development was outsourced in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>. An emphasis on <a href="/wiki/3D_computer_graphics" title="3D computer graphics">3D polygon graphics</a> was placed at the forefront of the console's design. The PlayStation signalled Sony's rise to power in the <a href="/wiki/Video_game_industry" title="Video game industry">video game industry</a>. It received acclaim and sold strongly; in less than a decade, it became the first computer entertainment platform to ship over 100 million units. Its use of <a href="/wiki/Compact_disc" title="Compact disc">compact discs</a> heralded the game industry's transition from <a href="/wiki/ROM_cartridge" title="ROM cartridge">cartridges</a>. The PlayStation's success led to a <a href="/wiki/PlayStation" title="PlayStation">line of successors</a>, beginning with the <a href="/wiki/PlayStation_2" title="PlayStation 2">PlayStation 2</a> in 2000. 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It changed call signs twice in that period, to WUSA in 1985 and KARE in 1986, when Gannett moved the WUSA call sign to <a href="/wiki/WUSA_(TV)" title="WUSA (TV)">its Washington, D.C., station.</a> More recently, as of 2022, the station has been a second-place finisher in local news. 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width:100%; box-sizing:border-box; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding:0 0.9em 0 0; width:400px; text-align:center;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sarcelle_cannelle_(Spatula_cyanoptera).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Cinnamon teal"><img alt="Cinnamon teal" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Sarcelle_cannelle_%28Spatula_cyanoptera%29.jpg/400px-Sarcelle_cannelle_%28Spatula_cyanoptera%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="263" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Sarcelle_cannelle_%28Spatula_cyanoptera%29.jpg/600px-Sarcelle_cannelle_%28Spatula_cyanoptera%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Sarcelle_cannelle_%28Spatula_cyanoptera%29.jpg/800px-Sarcelle_cannelle_%28Spatula_cyanoptera%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4410" data-file-height="2902"/></a></span> </td> <td style="padding:0 6px 0 0;"> <p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Cinnamon_teal" title="Cinnamon teal">cinnamon teal</a></b> (<i>Spatula cyanoptera</i>) is a species of <a href="/wiki/Anatinae" title="Anatinae">dabbling duck</a> found in western <a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_America" title="South America">South America</a>. It is a migratory species, travelling to northern South America and the Caribbean during the Northern Hemisphere's winter. The cinnamon teal lives in marshes and ponds, and feeds mostly on plants. It has a typical length of 16 in (41 cm), with a wing span of 22 inch (56 cm) and a mass of 14 oz (400 g). The male has bright reddish plumage with a duller brown coloration on the female. The bird feeds predominantly by dabbling, with its main diet being plants and sometimes <a href="/wiki/Mollusca" title="Mollusca">molluscs</a> and aquatic <a href="/wiki/Insect" title="Insect">insects</a>. This cinnamon teal was photographed at the Parrot World animal park in <a href="/wiki/Cr%C3%A9cy-la-Chapelle" title="Crécy-la-Chapelle">Crécy-la-Chapelle</a>, France. </p> <p style="text-align:left;"><small>Photograph credit: <a href="/wiki/User:Cl%C3%A9ment_Bardot" title="User:Clément Bardot">Clément Bardot</a></small></p> <div style="text-align:right;"> Recently featured: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline nowraplinks"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2024-12-01" title="Template:POTD/2024-12-01">African helmeted turtle</a></li></ul> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist noprint nowraplinks" style="text-align:right;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive" title="Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Archive">Archive</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">More featured pictures</a></b></li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist plainlinks metadata noprint nowraplinks" style="margin:0.5em 0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:POTD/2024-12-04" title="Template:POTD/2024-12-04">view</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:POTD/2024-12-04&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:POTD/2024-12-04 (page does not exist)">talk</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2024-12-04&amp;action=edit">edit</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2024-12-04&amp;action=history">history</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2024-12-04&amp;action=watch">watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Sarcelle_cannelle_(Spatula_cyanoptera).jpg" title="File:Sarcelle cannelle (Spatula cyanoptera).jpg">file page</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD_protected/2024-12-04&amp;preload=Template:POTD/2024-12-04&amp;editintro=Template:POTD+protected+create+editintro&amp;action=edit&amp;preview=no&amp;summary=Manually+creating+the+protected+version+of+a+%5B%5BWP%3APOTD%5D%5D+template">create protected version</a> <small>(To create the protected version, replace the first line with <code class="nowrap">{{subst:POTD row</code> and save the page.)</small></li></ul> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="In_seven_days_(December_5)" data-mw-thread-id="h-In_seven_days_(December_5)"><span id="In_seven_days_.28December_5.29"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-In_seven_days_(December_5)"></span>In seven days (December 5)<span data-mw-comment-end="h-In_seven_days_(December_5)"></span></h2><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-In_seven_days_(December_5)","replies":[],"uneditableSection":true}}--></div> <table role="presentation" class="wikitable" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td width="50%" style="vertical-align:top;"><b>Featured article</b> <hr/> <p><b>December 5</b> </p> <div id="mp-tfa-img" style="float: left; margin: 0.5em 0.9em 0.4em 0em;"> <div class="thumbinner mp-thumb" style="background: transparent; color: inherit; border: none; padding: 0; max-width: 120px;"> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mimodactylus_skeletal.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Skeletal diagram of Mimodactylus"><img alt="Skeletal diagram of Mimodactylus" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Mimodactylus_skeletal.png/120px-Mimodactylus_skeletal.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Mimodactylus_skeletal.png/180px-Mimodactylus_skeletal.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Mimodactylus_skeletal.png/240px-Mimodactylus_skeletal.png 2x" data-file-width="1080" data-file-height="1466"/></a></span><div class="thumbcaption" style="padding: 0.25em 0; word-wrap: break-word;">Skeletal diagram of <i>Mimodactylus</i></div></div> </div> <p><i><b><a href="/wiki/Mimodactylus" title="Mimodactylus">Mimodactylus</a></b></i> is a <a href="/wiki/Genus" title="Genus">genus</a> of <a href="/wiki/Ornithocheiromorpha" title="Ornithocheiromorpha">istiodactyliform</a> <a href="/wiki/Pterosaur" title="Pterosaur">pterosaur</a> that lived in what is now Lebanon during the <a href="/wiki/Late_Cretaceous" title="Late Cretaceous">Late Cretaceous</a>, 95 million years ago. The only known specimen was discovered in a <a href="/wiki/Limestone" title="Limestone">limestone</a> quarry near the town of <a href="/wiki/Hjoula" title="Hjoula">Hjoula</a>. The owner of the quarry allowed the specimen to be <a href="/wiki/Fossil_preparation" title="Fossil preparation">prepared</a> by researchers, and it was donated to the <a href="/wiki/MIM_Museum" title="MIM Museum">MIM Museum</a> in <a href="/wiki/Beirut" title="Beirut">Beirut</a>. In 2019, the researchers named the new genus and species <i><b>Mimodactylus libanensis</b></i>; referring to the MIM Museum, with the <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> word <i>daktylos</i> for "digit", and the <a href="/wiki/Specific_name_(zoology)" title="Specific name (zoology)">specific name</a> refers to Lebanon. The well-preserved <a href="/wiki/Holotype" title="Holotype">holotype specimen</a> is the first complete pterosaur from the Afro-Arabian continent (which consisted of the then joined <a href="/wiki/Arabian_Peninsula" title="Arabian Peninsula">Arabian Peninsula</a> and <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">Africa</a>), and the third pterosaur fossil known from Lebanon. The marine deposits of Hjoula are late <a href="/wiki/Cenomanian" title="Cenomanian">Cenomanian</a> in age and are well-known for fish fossils. The holotype specimen is comparatively small, with a wingspan of 1.32 metres (4.3 ft), and was probably young. 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