The Wikipedia article of the day for October 9, 2018 is Camille Saint-Saëns. Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. His works include Danse macabre (1874), the opera Samson...
The Wikipedia article of the day for October 8, 2018 is Mark Oliphant. Mark Oliphant (8 October 1901 – 14 July 2000) was an Australian physicist who made the first experimental demonstration of nuclear fusion. Born and raised in Adelaide, he studied in England under...
The Wikipedia article of the day for October 7, 2018 is Francis Nash. Francis Nash (c. 1742 – October 7, 1777) was a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. As a lawyer and public official in Hillsborough, North Carolina, he...
The Wikipedia article of the day for October 6, 2018 is Tree swallow. The tree swallow is a migratory bird of the family Hirundinidae. Found in the Americas, it was first described in 1807 by French ornithologist Louis Vieillot as Hirundo bicolor. It has since been...
The Wikipedia article of the day for October 5, 2018 is Hurricane Hazel. Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest and costliest hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm was named by the US Weather Bureau on October 5. In Haiti, 40% of the coffee trees and...