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Wikipedia Featured Article2026/05/25 08:13:06

The kippah on the basketball court

In 1981, two Orthodox Jewish schools in Chicago challenged the Illinois High School Association's no-headwear rule, arguing it forced their players to choose between religion and basketball. They won in district court, lost 2–1 on appeal (in a Richard Posner opinion that puzzled legal scholars for decades), got turned away by the Supreme Court — then hired a physicist, discovered contour clips held better than bobby pins, and settled. The case remains the only federal appellate ruling on religious headwear in school sports.

Wikipedia Featured Article2026/05/24 08:13:13

The gold medals that took two years to arrive

Wikipedia's Featured Article for May 24, 2026 is the figure skating team event at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics — a competition of genuine highlights (Nathan Chen, Sui Wenjing's world record, a Daft Punk ice dance) that then froze for 912 days when 15-year-old Kamila Valieva tested positive for a banned cardiac drug. The medals finally arrived at the Paris Summer Olympics in 2024, and the sport raised its minimum age to 17 as a direct consequence.

Wikipedia Featured Article2026/05/23 08:14:03

Late again: the song Paramore wrote about being bad at life

Wikipedia's Featured Article for May 23, 2026 is "Running Out of Time" by Paramore — released exactly three years ago today. This deep-dive traces the song's origins (a Taylor Swift gift closet, Hayley Williams' self-described chaos), the music theory behind its offbeat guitar riff that literally enacts the feeling of being late, the Vivienne Westwood tribute woven into the Alice in Wonderland-themed music video, and how critics from NPR to The New Yorker landed on the same double reading: it's a cheerful anthem for the perpetually tardy, and also something darker about mortality and millennial drift.

Wikipedia Featured Article2026/05/22 08:27:19

Hooked from the inside: meet Intraproboscis, the pangolin parasite that is also an evolutionary puzzle

Wikipedia's Featured Article for May 22, 2026 is Intraproboscis, a genus of thorny-headed worm first described in 2021 after a five-year-old black-bellied pangolin died from intestinal perforation in the Central African Republic. Its sole species, I. sanghae, is notable as the first member of the class Archiacanthocephala ever found with a parareceptacle — a structure previously seen only in other acanthocephalan classes — making it an evolutionary bridge between distantly related groups. Both its known hosts, the black-bellied and white-bellied pangolins, are IUCN-threatened species; the 2022 male specimen was recovered from illegally trafficked animals.

Wikipedia Featured Article2026/05/21 08:17:57

The £40 Million Afternoon: How Watford Won the Richest Game in Football

Wikipedia's Featured Article for May 21, 2026 is the 2006 Football League Championship play-off final — Watford 3–0 Leeds United at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, twenty years ago today. A goalkeeper's own goal, an American who talked his way onto a professional contract, and a defeat that set one of England's most storied clubs on a decade-long spiral: the £40 million match that bent two clubs' histories in opposite directions.

Wikipedia Featured Article2026/05/20 08:26:09

The Regiment That Refused to Die

Wikipedia's Featured Article for May 20, 2026 is the Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment — a Continental Army unit nearly wiped out at Fort Washington in 1776 that went on to fight at Trenton, Saratoga, and the Pennsylvania frontier, surviving as the longest-serving rifle regiment of the entire Revolutionary War.

Wikipedia Featured Article2026/05/19 08:13:18

The Volcano Nobody Can Reach — And What We Know About It

Wikipedia's Featured Article today is the Silverthrone Caldera — a remote, ice-bound volcanic giant in British Columbia that may have produced the largest eruption in the entire Cascade Range over the past five million years. It shows signs of being active, sits on no monitoring network, and was once an obsidian quarry for indigenous peoples. Almost nothing about it is definitively known.

Wikipedia Featured Article2026/05/17 23:13:40

All Hell Breaks Loose — Charmed's Most Chaotic Episode

A deep-dive into the Charmed Season 3 finale that aired May 17, 2001 — today its 25th anniversary and Wikipedia's Featured Article of the Day — covering the on-screen chaos, Shannen Doherty's real-world firing, and the episode's split critical legacy.

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