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Today's featured article Miss Meyers (1949 – March 1963) was a chestnut-colored American Quarter Horse racehorse and broodmare. Her sire was American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) Hall of Fame member Leo, and her dam was Star's Lou. Miss Meyers raced from 1952 until 1955 and started 59 times. She was also the 1953 World Champion Quarter Running Horse. In her career she won $28,725 (equivalent to about $249,000 as of 2012) on the racetrack as well as 17 races. As a broodmare, she produced the first AQHA Supreme Champion, Kid Meyers, with AQHA Hall of Fame member Three Bars, a Thoroughbred. Miss Myers was the mother of three other foals and was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 2009. (more...) Recently featured: Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies – Ahalya – Mary Anning Did you know... From Wikipedia's newest content: ... that the male Forbes sea star (underside pictured) is sometimes castrated by Orchitophrya stellarum, a parasite which feeds on its gonads? ... that the film Thor 2 will have a "more Viking-influenced feel" than its 2011 predecessor, Thor? ... that the Liturgy of Saint Cyril is one of the three Anaphoras currently used by Coptic Christianity? ... that in 2011 Jerel Worthy, now a Green Bay Packers rookie, became the first defensive tackle from Michigan State to be named a first-team collegiate football All-American since 1971? ... that Hüseyin Özer went from living on the streets of Ankara to owning a British restaurant chain and teaching at Middlesex University? ... that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum used Grrrrrrrrrrr!! on promotional posters for its 1993 Roy Lichtenstein exhibition? ... that despite the flesh of the mushrooms smelling of semen, Inocybe salicis is best identified microscopically?

In the news SpaceX launches (pictured) a Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket, the first commercial flight to the International Space Station. A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen. Tomislav Nikolić is elected President of Serbia. Danilo Medina is elected President of the Dominican Republic. British singer-songwriter Robin Gibb, a member of the Bee Gees, dies at the age of 62. On this day... May 24: Saints Cyril and Methodius Day in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Russia; Independence Day in Eritrea (1993) 1883 – New York City opened the Brooklyn Bridge – the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time. 1930 – English aviatrix Amy Johnson landed in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to successfully fly from England to Australia. 1941 – Second World War: The German battleship Bismarck (pictured) sank the British battlecruiser HMS Hood in eleven minutes at the Battle of the Denmark Strait. 1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbited the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule. 2006 – An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary film about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate citizens about global warming, was released. More anniversaries: May 23 – May 24 – May 25 It is now May 24, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page

Today's featured picture The Arnolfini Portrait is an oil painting on oak panel dated 1434 by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck. This painting is believed to be a portrait of the Italian merchant Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife, presumably in their home in the Flemish city of Bruges. It is considered one of the most original and complex paintings in Western art history. The illusionism of the painting was remarkable for its time, in part for the rendering of detail, but particularly for the use of light to evoke space in an interior. Recently featured: Occupation of Blagoveshchensk by the Japanese Army – Blue wildebeest – Solar flare

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