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From today's featured article Tropical Depression Ten was a short-lived tropical cyclone that made landfall on the Florida Panhandle of America in September 2007. The system developed as a subtropical depression on September 21 in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico from the interaction of a tropical wave, the tail end of a cold front, and an upper-level low. Initially containing a poorly defined circulation and intermittent thunderstorm activity, the system transitioned into a tropical depression after convection increased over the center. Tracking northwestward, the depression moved ashore near Fort Walton Beach early on September 22, before dissipating over southeastern Alabama. Initially the depression was forecast to move ashore as a minimal tropical storm, prompting state of emergency declarations in Mississippi and Louisiana. It was the first tropical cyclone to threaten the New Orleans area since Hurricane Katrina and the destructive 2005 hurricane season. Overall impact from the cyclone was minor and largely limited to light rainfall. However, the precursor system spawned a damaging tornado in Eustis, Florida, where 20 houses were destroyed and 30 more were damaged. (Full article...) Recently featured: The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Afroyim v. Rusk – Brabham BT19 Did you know... From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content: ... that the snail Tonna galea (shell pictured) is one of very few species of prosobranch gastropods that are luminescent? ... that Bruce Tasker, who is competing at the 2014 Winter Olympics, originally competed in the 400m? ... that scrap metal dealers who took apart the remains of the Călan steel works sorted and sold the metal on the works' grounds? ... that players on the 2000 Florida Marlins liked Rusty Kuntz? ... that although unsuccessful, the 1915 Chilembwe uprising changed the nature of British rule in Nyasaland? ... that when the leukemia researcher John M. Goldman was arrested by Iranian authorities, he drugged his guards with barbiturates in order to escape?

In the news Following demonstrations, the Ukrainian parliament restores the 2004 constitution and frees Yulia Tymoshenko, while Oleksandr Turchynov (pictured) becomes acting President. Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjørndalen becomes the most successful Winter Olympian in history after winning his 13th medal. An OHCHR panel releases a report on human rights violations in North Korea. Renaud Lavillenie of France breaks Sergey Bubka's indoor world record in pole vaulting, with a mark of 6.16 metres. Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam announces the formation of a new government. Recent deaths: Valeri Kubasov – Tom Finney – Balu Mahendra On this day... February 22: Feast of Cathedra Petri (Catholicism) 705 – Empress Wu Zetian, the only woman to rule China in her own right, abdicated the throne, restoring the Tang Dynasty. 1632 – Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, in which he advocated Copernican heliocentrism, was delivered to his patron, Grand Duke Ferdinando. 1980 – At the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United States ice hockey team defeated the Soviet Union in an unlikely victory that became known as the Miracle on Ice. 1997 – Scientists at The Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the birth of a cloned sheep named Dolly, the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell, seven months after the fact. 2011 – Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people marched in protest (pictured) in Manama against the deaths of seven people killed by police and army forces during previous protests. More anniversaries: February 21 – February 22 – February 23 It is now February 22, 2014 (UTC) – Reload this page

Today's featured picture The Long-toed Stint (Calidris subminuta) is a small and highly migratory wader bird. It breeds in northern Asia (little is known about its breeding habits) and winters in south and south east Asia and Australasia. This specimen was photographed in Pak Thale, Phetchaburi, Thailand. Photograph: JJ Harrison Recently featured: NROL-39 logo – Lunar distance – Door to Hell

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