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Featured article: May 12, 2008
John Travolta signing copies of the Battlefield Earth novel
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 is a 2000 American film adaptation of the novel Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard. It was a commercial and critical disaster and has been widely criticized as one of the worst films ever made. Starring John Travolta, Forest Whitaker and Barry Pepper, the film depicts an Earth that has been under the rule of the alien Psychlos for 1,000 years and tells the story of the rebellion that develops when the Psychlos attempt to use the surviving humans as gold miners. Travolta, a long-time Scientologist, had sought for many years to make a film of the novel by Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. After a long search, he obtained funding from Franchise Pictures, an independent production company that specialized in rescuing stars' pet projects. However, Battlefield Earth received abysmal reviews on its release and failed to recoup its costs at the box office. Franchise Pictures was later sued by its investors and was bankrupted after it emerged that it had fraudulently overstated the film's budget by $31 million. (more...)

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Featured picture: June 5, 2008
Portsmouth Square, San Francisco, 1851

An 1851 daguerreotype of Portsmouth Square, San Francisco, California. Now a one-block square in Chinatown, it is located on the site of the first public square established in Yerba Buena, the Mexican community that became San Francisco. It is named after the USS Portsmouth, which raised the American flag here at the onset of the Mexican–American War.

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Featured list: List of Quebec premiers
Jean Charest is the current premier of Quebec.

This is a list of the premiers of the province of Quebec, Canada, since Confederation in 1867.

Premier
(party)		 Period Assem-
blies		 Elections District
(region)
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 1st Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau
(Conservative)		 July 15, 1867
February 25, 1873		 1st
2nd
...		 Elected Aug.-Sep. 1867
Re-elected Jun.-Jul. 1871
Resigned (moved to federal politics) Feb. 25, 1873		 Québec
(Québec)
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 2nd Gédéon Ouimet
(Conservative)		 February 27, 1873
September 22, 1874		 ...
...		 Designated Feb. 27, 1873
Resigned (Retired) Sep. 22, 1874		 Deux-Montagnes
(Laurentides)
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 3rd Charles Boucher de Boucherville
(Conservative)
(1st time of 2)		 September 22, 1874
March 8, 1878		 ...
3rd
...		 Designated Sep. 22, 1874
Re-elected Jul. 7, 1875
Dismissed by L-G Mar. 8, 1878

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