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Featured article: October 24, 2006

The Rugby World Cup is the premier international rugby union competition in the world. The event is organised by the the sport's governing body, the International Rugby Board, and is contested by the men's national rugby union teams. The inaugural tournament was held in 1987, hosted by both Australia and New Zealand, and now held every four years. The winners are awarded the Webb Ellis Cup which is named after the pupil of Rugby school credited with the game's invention. The tournament is one of the largest international national sporting competitions in the world with 20 nations competing and a cumulative world television audience - including all of the matches - of 3.5 billion in the most recent tournament. The title of world champions is currently held by England, who won the 2003 tournament, held in Australia. Other champions include South Africa, New Zealand and Australia, with Australia being the most successful with two titles. The next Rugby World Cup will be hosted in France during September and October of 2007. (more...)

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A recording of "Hostias Et Preces" by Eugenio Terziani (1824-1889), sung the last surviving castrato of the Pope's choir, Alessandro Moreschi (1858-1922). Moreschi, as the only castrato trained in the old traditions to be recorded, provides our only insight into what a lost musical tradition was like. (file info)

Featured picture: April 25, 2007

A Black-bellied Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis) in mid-flight. This species of whistling duck breeds in the southernmost United States and tropical Central and South America. As the name implies, these are noisy birds with a clear whistling waa-chooo call.

Photo credit: Alan D. Wilson

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Featured list: List of Dartmouth College alumni

This list of Dartmouth College alumni includes graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Dartmouth College and its graduate schools.

Educators

Name	Year/Degree	Notability	Reference
Aiken, Charles AugustusCharles Augustus Aiken	1846	President of Union College 1869–1871	^[1]
Appleton, JesseJesse Appleton	1792	President of Bowdoin College 1807–1819	^[2]
Bailey, Rufus WilliamRufus William Bailey	1812	President of Austin College 1862–1863	^[3]
Bartlett, Samuel ColcordSamuel Colcord Bartlett	1836	President of Dartmouth College 1877–1892	^[4]
Brown, FrancisFrancis Brown	1805	President of Dartmouth College 1815–1820	^[4]
Carleton, Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton Carleton	1859	Founder of Carleton School for Boys	^[5]
Chase, PhilanderPhilander Chase	1795	Founder and first president of Kenyon College 1824–1831, President of Jubilee College 1831–1852	^[6]

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1943 – Heinrich Himmler - Posen speech

Excerpt from the Posen speech of October 4, 1943, made by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler to the seniority of the SS, discussing the ongoing extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust. A full translation is available at the file information page; a small sample is below.

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It's one of those things that is easily said: 'The Jewish people are being exterminated', says every party member, 'this is very obvious, it's in our program, elimination of the Jews, extermination, we're doing it, hah, a small matter.' [...] But of all those who talk this way, none had observed it, none had endured it. [...] To have endured this and at the same time to have remained a decent person - with exceptions due to human weaknesses - had made us tough. [...] We have the moral right, we had the duty to our people to do it, to kill this people who wanted to kill us.

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1890 – "America", read by Walt Whitman

Set nomination: Beethoven's Diabelli Variations

The Creatures of Prometheus by Ludwig Van Beethoven, Op. 43 — 14. Andante

J.S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

Frédéric Chopin - Cello Sonata Op. 65 (in three parts)

Navarra (Op. 33) by Sarasate

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Featured:	2593 / T	1948 / T	1500 / T	139 / T	93 / T	115 / T
Criteria:	FA? / T	FP? / T	FL? / T	FPO? / T	FT? / T	FS? / T
Candidates:	FAC / T	FPC / T	FLC / T	FPOC / T	FTC / T	FSC / T
Removal:	FARC / T	FPR / T	FLRC / T	FPR / T	FTRC / T	FSRC / T
Former:	769 / T	FFP	125 / T	FFPO	FFT	FFS