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31 July 2025

  • 12:0212:02, 31 July 2025 diff hist +8,769 N Daniel Hopfer Created page with "{{Short description|German artist (1470–1536)}} '''Daniel Hopfer''' ({{Circa|1470}} – 1536) was a German artist who is widely believed to have been the first to use etching in printmaking, at the end of the 15th century.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Spotlight Essay: Daniel Hopfer {{!}} Kemper Art Museum|url=https://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/node/11293|website=www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu|access-date=2020-05-22}}</ref> He also worked in woodcut. A..." current
  • 12:0012:00, 31 July 2025 diff hist +39,777 N Etching Created page with "{{Short description|Intaglio printmaking technique}} thumb|upright|''The Soldier and his Wife.'' Etching by [[Daniel Hopfer, who is believed to have been the first to apply the technique to printmaking.]] '''Etching''' is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal.<ref>{{ci..." current
  • 11:5311:53, 31 July 2025 diff hist +10,948 N Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten Created page with "{{short description|Painter and writer from the Northern Netherlands}} {{Infobox artist | name = Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten | image = Samuel van Hoogstraten - Zelfportret.jpg | caption = <small>''Self-portrait ca. 1647''</small> | birth_name = Samuel van Hoogstraten | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1627|8|02}} | birth_place = Dordrecht | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1678|10|19|1627|8|02}} | de..." current

29 July 2025

25 July 2025

  • 10:0310:03, 25 July 2025 diff hist +5,806 N Kroaz Du Created page with "{{short description|Flag of Brittany}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:{{lang|br|Kroaz Du|nocat=y}}}} thumb|200px|right|{{lang|br|Kroaz Du}} The '''{{lang|br|Kroaz Du}}''' (Black Cross, {{langx|fr|Croix Noire}}) is a flag of Brittany, used as an emblem of the independent duchy in the late Middle Ages. In the Breton language, {{lang|br|kroaz}} means cross and {{lang|br|du}} means black. ==Origins== File:Banner of the Breton French.svg|200px|l..." current
  • 10:0210:02, 25 July 2025 diff hist +22,862 N Saint Piran Created page with "{{Short description|Cornish abbot and saint}} {{Infobox saint | honorific_prefix = Saint | name = Piran | birth_date = c. 5th century | death_date = c. 480 | feast_day = 5 March<ref name=MICHAEL-PIRAN-ORTH/><ref name=STANTON/><ref name=BUTLER/><ref name=SCHAFF/><ref name=HASLAM/> | venerated_in = Catholic Church<br>Eastern Orthodoxy<ref name=MICHAEL-PIRAN-ORTH/><br>Anglican Communion | image = StPiran.png | caption..." current
  • 10:0010:00, 25 July 2025 diff hist +148,006 N Cornwall Created page with "{{Short description|Ceremonial county in England}} {{About|Cornwall in the United Kingdom}} <!-- In Context note Cornish English words may be used, see Anglo-Cornish --> {{Infobox English county | official_name = Cornwall | other_name = {{native name|kw|Kernow}} | image_main = {{multiple images |border=infobox |perrow=2 1 |total_width=260px | image1 = The stamps and whim engine house at Wheal Coates - geograph.org.uk - 1476958.jp..." current
  • 09:5509:55, 25 July 2025 diff hist +42,378 N Margaret of Anjou Created page with "{{short description|Queen of England 1445–1461, 1470–1471}} {{For|the 13th-century French countess|Margaret, Countess of Anjou}} {{Infobox royalty |consort = yes |image = MargaretAnjou.jpg |caption = Detail from the Talbot Shrewsbury Book, {{circa|1445}} |alt = An illustration of Margaret of Anjou being presented with the Shrewsbury Book, taken from an illuminated manuscript, c. 1445. |succession = List of English royal consorts|Quee..." current
  • 09:5309:53, 25 July 2025 diff hist +26,934 N Alnwick Castle Created page with "{{Short description|Castle and stately home in Northumberland, England}} {{Infobox military installation |name=Alnwick Castle |partof= |location=Alnwick, Northumberland |map_type=Northumberland |map_alt= |coordinates = {{coord|55.4158|-1.7062|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline,title}} |image=Alnwick_Castle_in_uk.jpg |image_size=300px |caption=Alnwick Castle |condition= |ownership=The 12th Duke of Northumberland |b..." current
  • 09:5109:51, 25 July 2025 diff hist +12,184 N Nennius Created page with "{{About|the 9th century Welsh monk}} '''Nennius''' – or '''Nemnius''' or '''Nemnivus''' – was a Welsh monk of the 9th century. He has traditionally been attributed with the authorship of the ''Historia Brittonum'', based on the prologue affixed to that work.<ref>J. A. Giles (translator). [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/nennius-full.html ''Nennius: The History of the Britons'', in ''Six Old English Chronicles'' (1847)]</ref> This attribution is widely c..." current
  • 09:4809:48, 25 July 2025 diff hist +25,410 N Alan Rufus Created page with "{{Short description|Breton nobleman (c. 1040 – 1093)}} thumb|Alan Rufus, from a larger 14th century illumination, swearing fealty to [[William the Conqueror{{efn|Another painting of Alan Rufus from the Register of the Honour of Richmond, this from the latter 15th century, is at the Bodleian archive, and visible on the internet at http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/detail/ODLodl~1~1~47787~127458:Register-of-the-Honour-of-Richmond-..." current
  • 09:4809:48, 25 July 2025 diff hist +11,052 N Richmond Castle Created page with "{{Short description|Castle in North Yorkshire, England}} {{about|the castle in Yorkshire|the Baroque castle in Braunschweig|Schloss Richmond|the Edwardian mansion in Sri Lanka|Richmond Castle, Kalutara}}{{Distinguish|Richmond Palace}}300px|thumb|right|upright=1.35|The 12th-century [[keep is {{convert|100|ft|m}} high.]] '''Richmond Castle''' in Richmond, North Yorkshi..." current
  • 09:4609:46, 25 July 2025 diff hist +26,749 N King Arthur's family Created page with "{{Short description|Family}} thumb|[[King Arthur|Arthur in William Henry Margetson's illustration for ''Legends of King Arthur and His Knights'' (1914)]] '''King Arthur's family''' grew throughout the centuries with King Arthur's legend. The earliest Welsh Arthurian tradition portrays Arthur as having an extensive family network, including his parents Uther Pendragon and Eigyr (Igraine), his wife Gwenhwyfar (Gu..." current
  • 09:4409:44, 25 July 2025 diff hist +143,868 N Edward I of England Created page with "{{Short description|King of England from 1272 to 1307}} {{Featured article}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Edward I | image = Edward I - Westminster Abbey Sedilia.jpg | alt = Half figure of Edward facing left with short, curly hair and a hint of beard. He wears a coronet and holds a sceptre in his right hand. He has a blue robe over a red tunic, and his hands are covered by white, embroidered gloves. His left hand seems to be pointing left, to somet..." current
  • 09:4309:43, 25 July 2025 diff hist +14,895 N Tancred, King of Sicily Created page with "{{Short description|King of Sicily from 1189 to 1194}} {{infobox royalty | name = Tancred | succession = King of Sicily | image = Tankred syni.jpg | caption = Tancred of Sicily with his sons Roger and William | reign = 1189 – 20 February 1194 | predecessor = William II | successor = William III | house = Hauteville | father = Roger III, Duke o..." current
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