User:Afterword

Search 6,942,081 articles:

 

Welcome to Wikipedia

the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit

Today's featured article Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh was a comedy show broadcast from 1944 to 1950 and from 1951 to 1954 by BBC Radio, and from 1950 to 1951 by Radio Luxembourg. It was written by and starred Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne as officers in a fictional Royal Air Force station coping with red tape and the inconveniences and incongruities of life in the Second World War. After the war the station became a country club and, for its last season, the show became the chronicle of a newspaper, The Weekly Bind. Among the supporting cast were Sam Costa as the officers' batman, Maurice Denham in a multitude of roles, Dora Bryan and Nicholas Parsons. Singers in the show's musical interludes included Gwen Catley, Maudie Edwards, Binnie Hale and Doris Hare. Among those appearing as guest stars were Phyllis Calvert, Richard Dimbleby, Glynis Johns, Alan Ladd and Jean Simmons. The show followed It's That Man Again as the most popular British radio comedy and was succeeded by Take It from Here and The Goon Show. After the show ended, its two stars returned to radio in several long-running series. (Full article...) Recently featured: Freston causewayed enclosure William Robinson Brown Night of January 16th On this day... January 19 Iva Toguri 1419 – Hundred Years' War: The siege of Rouen ended with English troops capturing the city from Norman French forces. 1909 – A deed was recorded for David Hanbury to sell Island No. 2 in northern California to his brother John for $10 ($339.00 in 2023). 1977 – Iva Toguri (pictured), convicted of treason for broadcasting Japanese propaganda, was granted a full pardon by U.S. president Gerald Ford. 1996 – A tank barge and a tug grounded on a beach in Rhode Island, causing a spill of an estimated 828,000 U.S. gallons (3.13 million litres) of home heating oil. 2006 – In the deadliest aviation accident in Slovak history, an Antonov An-24 operated by the Slovak Air Force crashed in northern Hungary, killing 42 of the 43 people on board. Giuseppe Millico (b. 1737) Sophie Taeuber-Arp (b. 1889) Choor Singh (b. 1911) Sarah Burke (d. 2012) More anniversaries: January 18 January 19 January 20

In the news David Lynch in 1990 American filmmaker David Lynch (pictured) dies at the age of 78. South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol is arrested after his declaration of martial law. Joseph Aoun is elected president of Lebanon after a two-year vacancy, and Nawaf Salam is nominated as prime minister. An attack on the presidential palace in N'Djamena, Chad, results in 19 deaths. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Jack Hoffman Jafar Masood Hasani Nadwi Elgar Howarth Stephanie Aeffner Furio Colombo Heinz Kluetmeier Picture of the day Wikipedia:POTD row/January 19, 2025 Did you know? Desert paintbrush ... that the flowers of the desert paintbrush (example pictured) are small, green, and unremarkable? ... that all sporting events in Djibouti were banned for three days after the death of Abdoulkader Waberi Askar? ... that the 1925 Tri-State tornado was the deadliest in United States history? ... that Annilese Miskimmon directed a choose-your-own-ending production of Mozart's Così fan tutte? ... that more than 60 student athletes were involved in an academic dishonesty scandal at Florida State University between 2006 and 2007? ... that Malik Ambersley escaped homelessness by making TikTok Live content in which he pretended to be a non-player character version of the superhero Miles Morales? ... that Polish prisoners of war in World War II were held not only by Nazi Germany but also by the Soviet Union? ... that the death of child monarch Kerekorio Manu Rangi in 1867 ended the ancient dynasty of Easter Island, which according to local belief "went back to the gods themselves"? ... that a widespread violin performance scam was described by radio host Scott Simon as "one more raindrop in the storm of schemes that blur our view of what's right in front of us"?

Participate in Wikipedia
The Community Portal — The center of community involvement. Learn about projects and activities you can join to help improve Wikipedia. The Help Desk — Come here if you need help editing. You browse help topics or ask questions about using Wikipedia. The Reference Desk — For questions about any subject you're researching or curious about (not about Wikipedia itself), just like at a library's reference desk. The Village Pump — The main discussion forums of Wikipedia. The Signpost — Wikipedia's newspaper, where you can read and post news about what's happening on this website.
Wikipedia in other languages
Complete list · Multilingual coordination · Start a Wikipedia in another language
Wikipedia's sister projects
Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that operates several other multilingual and free-content projects: Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals Wikiquote Collection of quotations s:Main Page Wikisource The free library Wikispecies:Main Page Wikispecies Directory of species Wikinews Free content news source commons:Main Page Commons Shared media repository Meta-Wiki Wikimedia project coordination