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fWotD Episode 3477: U.S. Route 101

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The featured article for Wednesday, 11 November 2026, is U.S. Route 101.

U. S. Route 101, or U. S. Highway 101 (US 101), is a major north–south highway that traverses the states of California, Oregon, and Washington on the West Coast of the United States. It is part of the United States Numbered Highway System and runs for over 1,500 miles (2,400 km) along the Pacific Ocean. The highway is also known by various names, including El Camino Real in parts of California, the Oregon Coast Highway, and the Olympic Highway in Washington. Despite its three-digit number, normally used for spur routes, US 101 is classified as a primary route with 10 as its "first digit".

The highway's southern terminus is at a major interchange with Interstate 5 (I-5) and I-10 in Los Angeles. US 101 follows several freeways in Southern California as it travels north of the Santa Monica Mountains and along the coast, where it is concurrent with California State Route 1 (SR 1). The highway travels inland from the coast after it splits from SR 1 and approaches the San Francisco Bay Area, where it becomes the Bayshore Freeway and later traverses San Francisco on city streets to reach the Golden Gate Bridge. US 101 continues north on the Redwood Highway and rejoins the coast before it enters Oregon.

The Oregon Coast Highway carries US 101 through the state's coastal towns and regions in the foothills of the Oregon Coast Range. The highway crosses over the Columbia River on the Astoria–Megler Bridge into Washington, where it follows Willapa Bay and an inland route to Aberdeen and Olympic National Park. US 101 travels north and east around the Olympic Peninsula and reaches its northernmost point in Port Angeles; from there, it travels east and later south to its northern terminus at I-5 in Tumwater, near Olympia. Several portions of the highway are also designated as scenic byways, including the Pacific Coast Scenic Byway in Washington; US 101 also serves three national parks: Pinnacles, Redwood, and Olympic.

The highway is a major north–south link along the Pacific coast north of San Francisco but does not serve the largest cities in Oregon and Washington; that role is instead filled by I-5 (formerly U. S. Route 99, U. S. Route 99E, and U. S. Route 99W), which has a more direct inland routing. US 101 was established in 1926 and followed several historic routes, including El Camino Real, which linked California's early Spanish missions, pueblos, and presidios. It originally terminated to the south in San Diego but was truncated to Los Angeles in 1964 after the construction of I-5. Other sections were later moved to freeway alignments that bypassed cities. Several sections of US 101 in Washington and Oregon were rebuilt in the mid-20th century to eliminate curves and address traffic congestion. Later projects expanded the Bayshore Freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area and relocated sections of the highway in Oregon in response to landslides and erosion.

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fWotD Episode 3476: Regulus (Turner)

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The featured article for Tuesday, 10 November 2026, is Regulus (Turner).

Regulus is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner, now in Tate Britain, London. It was initially painted in 1828 and significantly overpainted twice, first between 1829 and 1837, and again in 1837. The painting is based on a legend about the Roman consul and general Marcus Atilius Regulus, in which he was captured by Carthaginian forces and executed after refusing a prisoner exchange. Many accounts add that he was tortured by being forced to stare at the sun, blinding him. The painting depicts a harbour in either Rome or Carthage, with ships and buildings surrounding the ocean. It is dominated by the large white sun in the centre.

Turner originally painted and exhibited Regulus in Rome during an 1828 visit, after which it was shipped to London, where he lived. At some point during or after shipping, the upper-left part of the canvas was torn, requiring repair and repainting. The work was kept in Turner's private gallery until 1837, when it was overpainted at the British Institution during a varnishing day, an event where artists would make final revisions and varnish their paintings in front of a private audience before an exhibition. It subsequently gained notoriety, inspiring two derivative paintings and two engravings. Regulus was a controversial work, criticised heavily during its exhibitions and by contemporaries such as Turner's supporter John Ruskin. In 1863, it was stabbed by a man displeased with Turner’s technique and the artist himself. The painting has also suffered from flaking paint.

Exactly what the painting depicts is debated by scholars. Some believe the painting depicts Regulus leaving Carthage for Rome, while others argue it shows his return. Another point of contention is whether Regulus is a figure in the painting, whether it is from his perspective as he was blinded, or whether it is meant to depict Regulus's life in its entirety, conveying both aspects. Scholars have supported their interpretations using evidence drawn from the titles of subsequent engravings, Turner's other paintings, and the sources on Regulus from which Turner drew.

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fWotD Episode 3475: SoHo Weekly News

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The featured article for Monday, 9 November 2026, is SoHo Weekly News.

The SoHo Weekly News (SWN) was a weekly alternative newspaper founded by American music publicist Michael Goldstein and published in New York City from 1973 to 1982. Goldstein positioned the paper as a competitor to The Village Voice, an established alternative newspaper, but it struggled financially. SWN was acquired by Associated Newspaper Group in 1979 and ceased publication three years later after the company was unable to make it profitable.

The paper was known for its coverage of Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood as the area was becoming gentrified. Although the official editorial stance was anti-gentrification, one retrospective argued that its coverage of local culture and business contributed to the upward trend in property values. Its coverage of emerging music acts in local venues was particularly strong, including one of the first newspaper interviews with the punk rock band the Ramones.

Many of the staff went on to have distinguished careers after the paper shut down. Annie Flanders founded Details magazine while Kim Hastreiter and David Hershkovits started Paper. Bill Cunningham spent decades as a photojournalist for The New York Times, Allan Tannenbaum became known for his coverage of rock musicians, and Bruce Weber got his start photographing male fashion models with an influential SWN photo story showing an underwear-clad male model in erotic poses.

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fWotD Episode 3474: Formula, Vol. 1

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The featured article for Sunday, 8 November 2026, is Formula, Vol. 1.

Fórmula, Vol. 1 is the debut studio album by American singer Romeo Santos, released on November 8, 2011, by Sony Music Latin. It is Santos's first album as a solo artist following the break-up of American bachata group Aventura, of which he was the lead singer. The record contains fifteen tracks, most of which were composed by Santos and co-produced with Ivan Chevere. The album experiments with the sound of bachata and other genres including R&B and flamenco. It features several Anglophone and Hispanophone guest artists including Usher, Tomatito, Mario Domm, and Lil Wayne. Recording for the album took place in 2011 at The Castle, Fight Klub, and EMG Studios in New York City. A deluxe edition of the album containing five extra tracks was released exclusively in Walmart retail stores in the United States.

In the U. S., Formula, Vol. 1 peaked at number one on the Billboard Top Latin Albums and Billboard Tropical Albums charts and was the best-selling Latin album of 2012. It was certified three times platinum (Latin field) by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipping 300,000 copies and had sold 328,000 copies in the U. S. by February 2014. It ranked number thirteen, twenty-six, and seventy-seven on the Argentine, Mexican, and Spanish album charts respectively.

Santos promoted the record by touring the U. S., Latin America and Europe. It was generally well received by critics, who praised the production of the bachata tracks although some of the duets—including those with Mario Domm and Mala Rodríguez—were criticized as obvious attempts to appeal outside of the bachata audience. The album earned Santos several accolades, including a Grammy Award nomination, three Billboard Latin Music Awards, a Billboard Music Award, a Lo Nuestro nomination, a Premios Juventud award, and a Soberano Award. Six singles were released from the record, four of which, "You", "Promise", "Mi Santa", and "La Diabla", reached number one on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart in the U. S.

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fWotD Episode 3473: Premise

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The featured article for Saturday, 7 November 2026, is Premise.

A premise is a proposition offered to support a conclusion. Premises are true or false statements that act as the starting points of arguments by presenting reasons to substantiate or refute assertions. Each argument is made up of a set of premises together with a conclusion. For example, the premises "all men are mortal" and "Socrates is a man" guarantee the conclusion "Socrates is mortal". In ordinary language, premises can appear in the middle of a passage, often marked by indicator words, such as since and because. In formal logic, a common approach is to write each premise on a separate line, known as standard form.

Different types of premises are distinguished by their form of expression, their role in arguments, and their content. Explicit premises are overtly stated, whereas implicit premises are tacitly assumed without appearing in the text, often involving uncontroversial common-sense information shared by speaker and audience. Independent premises present distinct reasons, providing separate support for the conclusion. They contrast with dependent premises, which only work in combination. Other distinctions concern whether premises appear as first or intermediate steps in arguments, whether they are affirmative or negative, whether they refer to specific entities or make general claims, whether they are descriptive or normative, and what internal structure they have.

The role of premises in arguments is typically either to preserve truth when drawing a conclusion, or to transfer justification from accepted statements to the claim for which one is arguing. To succeed, premises must be true or justified and must be relevant to the conclusion. The premises of deductively valid arguments provide the strongest support: if the premises are true, then the conclusion cannot be false. The premises of non-deductive arguments aim to make the conclusion more reasonable or increase its probability, such as inductive, abductive, and analogical arguments. Defective arguments, called fallacies, can often arise from faulty premises. For example, premises may contain false information, confuse the audience with irrelevant details, or use ambiguous terms that mislead by shifting meaning. Premises are central to many fields, including logic, argumentation theory, mathematics, philosophy, science, and law.

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fWotD Episode 3472: Bill Madden (soldier)

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The featured article for Friday, 6 November 2026, is Bill Madden (soldier).

Horace William Madden, GC (14 February 1924 – 6 November 1951), was an Australian Army soldier who was posthumously awarded the George Cross, the highest award for extraordinary acts of gallantry away from the field of battle that could be awarded to a member of the Australian armed forces at the time. The citation for his award highlighted his "undaunted" resistance and "outstanding heroism" while a prisoner of war of the Chinese forces during the Korean War, which was "an inspiration to all his fellow prisoners". It was the highest decoration awarded to an Australian during the Korean War.

Madden served in the New Guinea and Bougainville campaigns in the latter stages of World War II, and after service with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan, he returned to civilian life in 1947. He enlisted for service in the Korean War in 1950 and joined the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3 RAR), in Korea in November of that year as a private. Madden participated with his unit in the constant offensives and counter-offensives – between the United Nations forces on one side and the North Korean and Chinese forces on the other – during early 1951 before being concussed and captured during the April Battle of Kapyong. According to the historian Craig Blanch, from the time of his capture Madden obstinately resisted his captors, verbally abused them when they beat him, and maintained an unbroken spirit while assisting fellow prisoners. The beatings included rifle butt strikes to the chest which broke several ribs; he was further punished through restriction of rations, and his physical condition deteriorated. Following a long forced march into North Korea, he died of malnutrition and as a result of ill-treatment in November 1951, aged 27.

Madden was posted as missing in action and his family did not learn of his death until 1953. Many of his fellow prisoners contributed witness statements to support the recommendation that he be posthumously awarded the George Cross, which was announced in December 1955 and presented to his sister the following year. In 1968, a portrait of Madden was painted by the artist Bruce Fletcher, and the following year the 3 RAR other ranks' bar was named the "Madden Club" in his honour. His George Cross is displayed at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

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fWotD Episode 3471: Nikolai Kulikovsky

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The featured article for Thursday, 5 November 2026, is Nikolai Kulikovsky.

Nikolai Alexandrovich Kulikovsky (5 November 1881 – 11 August 1958) was the second husband of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, the sister of Tsar Nicholas II and daughter of Tsar Alexander III. He was born into a military landowning family from the south of the Russian Empire, and followed the family tradition by entering the army. In 1903, he was noticed by Grand Duchess Olga during a military review, and they became close friends. Olga wanted to divorce her first husband, Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, and marry Kulikovsky, but neither her husband nor her brother, the Tsar, would allow it.

During World War I, Olga eventually obtained a divorce and married Kulikovsky. They had two sons. Her brother was deposed in the Russian Revolution of 1917, and Kulikovsky was dismissed from the army by the revolutionary government. The Kulikovskys were forced into exile, and he became a farmer and businessman in Denmark, where they lived until after World War II. In 1948, they emigrated to Canada as agricultural immigrants, but within four years of their arrival, they had sold their farm and moved into a small suburban house. He became increasingly disabled by back pain and died in 1958, aged 76.

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fWotD Episode 3470: Eunos MRT station

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The featured article for Wednesday, 4 November 2026, is Eunos MRT station.

Eunos MRT station is an elevated Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the East–West Line in Geylang, Singapore. Operated by SMRT Trains, the station is connected to the Eunos Bus Interchange. It also provides access to other surrounding landmarks such as the Masjid Darul Aman, Eunos Crescent Market and Food Centre, and Mangala Vihara Buddhist Temple.

Eunos appeared in plans for the initial MRT system in May 1982, and it was designated to be under Phase IIA of the MRT. Construction of the station began in January 1986 with a joint venture between Oh Teck Thye and Okumura Corporation. The former was put under receivership (a process in which the management of an organisation's financial assets is transferred to another party) in December 1986 as it failed to repay its debts to the United Overseas Bank. The joint venture was terminated, with Okumura continuing the project alone. Eunos, along with 9 other stations from Marina Bay to Tanah Merah, opened on 4 November 1989. Following Eunos's opening, there were multiple instances of design-related issues for stairs connected to the station. Platform screen doors were installed at Eunos in 2011.

In contrast to other elevated Phase IIA stations, which have domed roofs, Eunos has a traditional Malay roof as it is located in a Malay area. The station also has two murals created by local artist Erica Wee as part of SMRT's heritage-themed Comic Connect public art display, which showcases the history of Eunos as well as Katong and Joo Chiat.

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fWotD Episode 3469: Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen, BWV 49

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The featured article for Tuesday, 3 November 2026, is Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen, BWV 49.

Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen (I go forth and seek with longing), BWV 49, in Leipzig for the twentieth Sunday after Trinity Sunday and first performed it on 3 November 1726. It is a solo cantata, a dialogue for soprano and bass.

Bach composed the cantata in his fourth year as Thomaskantor (director of church music) in Leipzig. The librettist, Christoph Birkmann, based his text on the prescribed Gospel, the parable of the great banquet. He focused on the theme of a wedding feast, taking imagery from the love poetry of the Song of Songs, which has traditionally been interpreted as a dialogue between Jesus and the Soul as his bride. In the cantata, Jesus, sung by the bass as the vox Christi, is in dialogue with the Soul, inviting her as his bride to the wedding.

The cantata is structured in six movements, beginning with an instrumental sinfonia. The soloists perform alternating arias and dialogue recitatives. In the last movement, a stanza from Nicolai's "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern" is integrated into the dialogue. The Baroque instrumental ensemble is formed by oboe d'amore, violoncello piccolo, strings, organ and basso continuo. The Bach scholar Klaus Hofmann summarises: "Bach has clothed his music in the 'wedding garments' of exquisite scoring".

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fWotD Episode 3468: Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleship

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The featured article for Monday, 2 November 2026, is Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleship.

The Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleships (Project 23, Russian: Советский Союз, 'Soviet Union'), also known as "Stalin's Republics", were a class of battleships begun by the Soviet Union in the late 1930s but never brought into service. They were designed in response to the Bismarck-class battleships being built by Germany.

These ships would have rivaled the Imperial Japanese Yamato class and America's planned Montana class in size if any had been completed, although with significantly weaker firepower: nine 406-millimeter (16 in) guns compared to the nine 460-millimeter (18.1 in) guns of the Japanese ships and a dozen 16-inch (406 mm) on the Montanas. The failure of the Soviet armor plate industry to build cemented armor plates thicker than 230 millimeters (9.1 in) would have negated any combat advantages from the Sovetsky Soyuz class's thicker armor.

Construction of the first four ships was plagued with difficulties as the Soviet shipbuilding and related industries were not prepared to build such large ships. One battleship, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, was cancelled on 19 October 1940 after serious construction flaws were found. Construction of the other three ships was suspended shortly after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, and never resumed. All three of the surviving hulls were scrapped in the late 1940s.

This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:01 UTC on Monday, 2 November 2026.

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