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From today's featured article <a title="Artur Phleps" class="image" href="/wiki/File:Artur_Phleps_in_1943.jpg"><img width="100" height="99" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Artur_Phleps_in_1943.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Artur_Phleps_in_1943.jpg 2x" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Artur_Phleps_in_1943.jpg/100px-Artur_Phleps_in_1943.jpg" alt="Artur Phleps"></a> <a title="Artur Phleps" href="/wiki/Artur_Phleps">Artur Phleps</a> (1881–1944) was an <a title="Austria-Hungary" href="/wiki/Austria-Hungary">Austro-Hungarian</a>, <a title="Kingdom of Romania" href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Romania">Romanian</a> and <a title="Nazi Germany" href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany">German</a> officer who held the rank of <a title="Obergruppenführer" href="/wiki/Obergruppenf%C3%BChrer">SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS</a> (lieutenant general) in the <a title="Waffen-SS" href="/wiki/Waffen-SS">Waffen-SS</a> during World War II. He was an <a title="Austro-Hungarian Army" href="/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_Army">Austro-Hungarian Army</a> officer before and during World War I, specialising in <a title="Mountain warfare" href="/wiki/Mountain_warfare">mountain warfare</a> and logistics. During the interwar period, he joined the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Romanian Army" href="/wiki/Romanian_Army">Romanian Army</a> and became an adviser to <a title="Carol II of Romania" href="/wiki/Carol_II_of_Romania">King Carol</a>. After he spoke out against the government, he was sidelined and forcibly retired from the army. In 1941 he left Romania and joined the Waffen-SS. He saw action on the <a title="Eastern Front (World War II)" href="/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)">Eastern Front</a> before raising two Waffen-SS mountain divisions and one corps in occupied <a title="Kingdom of Yugoslavia" href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a>. Units under his command committed many crimes against the civilian population of the <a title="Independent State of Croatia" href="/wiki/Independent_State_of_Croatia">Independent State of Croatia</a>. This was the subject of international controversy when <a title="Kurt Waldheim" href="/wiki/Kurt_Waldheim">Kurt Waldheim</a>'s service as Phleps' translator became public in the mid-1980s, during his successful bid for the Austrian presidency. In addition to the <a title="Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross" href="/wiki/Knight%27s_Cross_of_the_Iron_Cross">Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross</a>, Phleps was awarded the <a title="German Cross" href="/wiki/German_Cross">German Cross in Gold</a>, and after he was killed in September 1944, he was awarded the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves" href="/wiki/Knight%27s_Cross_of_the_Iron_Cross_with_Oak_Leaves">Oak Leaves</a> to his Knight's Cross. (<a title="Artur Phleps" href="/wiki/Artur_Phleps">Full article...</a>) Recently featured: <a title="Niels Bohr" href="/wiki/Niels_Bohr">Niels Bohr</a> – <a title="Adiantum viridimontanum" href="/wiki/Adiantum_viridimontanum">Adiantum viridimontanum</a> – <a title="13th Airborne Division (United States)" href="/wiki/13th_Airborne_Division_(United_States)">13th Airborne Division (United States)</a> Did you know... From Wikipedia's <a title="Wikipedia:Recent additions" href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions">new and recently improved content</a>: <a title="John Baker White (West Virginia politician)" class="image" href="/wiki/File:Major_John_Baker_White.jpg"><img width="64" height="100" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/83/Major_John_Baker_White.jpg/97px-Major_John_Baker_White.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/83/Major_John_Baker_White.jpg/129px-Major_John_Baker_White.jpg 2x" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/83/Major_John_Baker_White.jpg/64px-Major_John_Baker_White.jpg" alt="John Baker White (West Virginia politician)"></a> ... that prior to receiving the <a title="Distinguished Service Order" href="/wiki/Distinguished_Service_Order">Distinguished Service Order</a> during <a title="World War I" href="/wiki/World_War_I">World War I</a>, <a title="John Baker White (West Virginia politician)" href="/wiki/John_Baker_White_(West_Virginia_politician)">John Baker White</a> (pictured) served as private secretary to <a title="List of Governors of West Virginia" href="/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_West_Virginia">West Virginia Governor</a> <a title="William A. MacCorkle" href="/wiki/William_A._MacCorkle">William A. MacCorkle</a>? ... that <a title="Strašnice" href="/wiki/Stra%C5%A1nice">Strašnice</a> became a part of <a title="Prague" href="/wiki/Prague">Prague</a> in 1922? ... that <a title="Antoine v. Washington" href="/wiki/Antoine_v._Washington">Antoine v. Washington</a> was a <a class="mw-redirect" title="United States Supreme Court" href="/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court">United States Supreme Court</a> case that allowed Native Americans to hunt and fish outside of their reservation without state interference? ... that the <a title="Thopha sessiliba" href="/wiki/Thopha_sessiliba">northern double drummer</a> is the second largest cicada in Australia? ... that <a title="James McBride (writer)" href="/wiki/James_McBride_(writer)">James McBride</a> was described as "clearly stunned" when his novel <a title="The Good Lord Bird" href="/wiki/The_Good_Lord_Bird">The Good Lord Bird</a> won the <a title="National Book Award for Fiction" href="/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Fiction">National Book Award for Fiction</a>? ... that although the <a title="Carmyllie Railway" href="/wiki/Carmyllie_Railway">Carmyllie Railway</a> was in operation for almost 130 years, it offered passenger services for less than 30 years?

In the news <a title="Valdis Dombrovskis" href="/wiki/File:Valdis_Dombrovskis_2009.jpg"><img width="66" height="100" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Valdis_Dombrovskis_2009.jpg/100px-Valdis_Dombrovskis_2009.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Valdis_Dombrovskis_2009.jpg/133px-Valdis_Dombrovskis_2009.jpg 2x" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Valdis_Dombrovskis_2009.jpg/66px-Valdis_Dombrovskis_2009.jpg" alt="Valdis Dombrovskis"></a> Latvian Prime Minister <a title="Valdis Dombrovskis" href="/wiki/Valdis_Dombrovskis">Valdis Dombrovskis</a> (pictured) <a title="Valdis Dombrovskis" href="/wiki/Valdis_Dombrovskis#Resignation">resigns</a> following the <a title="Riga supermarket roof collapse" href="/wiki/Riga_supermarket_roof_collapse">Riga supermarket roof collapse</a>. A 1640 copy of the <a title="Bay Psalm Book" href="/wiki/Bay_Psalm_Book">Bay Psalm Book</a> sells for US$14.2 million at auction, a record for a printed book. The earliest known <a title="Buddhism" href="/wiki/Buddhism">Buddhist</a> shrine is uncovered at <a title="Maya Devi Temple, Lumbini" href="/wiki/Maya_Devi_Temple,_Lumbini">Maya Devi Temple</a> in <a title="Lumbini" href="/wiki/Lumbini">Lumbini</a>, Nepal. In <a title="Canadian football" href="/wiki/Canadian_football">Canadian football</a>, the <a title="Saskatchewan Roughriders" href="/wiki/Saskatchewan_Roughriders">Saskatchewan Roughriders</a> defeat the <a title="Hamilton Tiger-Cats" href="/wiki/Hamilton_Tiger-Cats">Hamilton Tiger-Cats</a> to win the <a title="101st Grey Cup" href="/wiki/101st_Grey_Cup">101st Grey Cup</a>. <a title="Iran" href="/wiki/Iran">Iran</a> signs an interim <a title="Geneva interim agreement on Iranian nuclear program" href="/wiki/Geneva_interim_agreement_on_Iranian_nuclear_program">agreement</a> with the <a title="P5+1" href="/wiki/P5%2B1">P5+1 countries</a>, limiting its <a title="Nuclear program of Iran" href="/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran">nuclear program</a> in exchange for reduced <a title="Sanctions against Iran" href="/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iran">sanctions</a>. <a title="Deaths in 2013" href="/wiki/Deaths_in_2013">Recent deaths</a>: <a title="Arik Einstein" href="/wiki/Arik_Einstein">Arik Einstein</a> – <a title="Maurice Vachon" href="/wiki/Maurice_Vachon">Maurice Vachon</a> On this day... <a title="November 29" href="/wiki/November_29">November 29</a>: <a title="Liberation Day (Albania)" href="/wiki/Liberation_Day_(Albania)">Liberation Day</a> in Albania (<a title="1944" href="/wiki/1944">1944</a>) <a title="Joint session of the Diet of Japan" class="image" href="/wiki/File:The_Diet.jpg"><img width="100" height="67" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/The_Diet.jpg/150px-The_Diet.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/The_Diet.jpg/200px-The_Diet.jpg 2x" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/The_Diet.jpg/100px-The_Diet.jpg" alt="Joint session of the Diet of Japan"></a> <a title="1549" href="/wiki/1549">1549</a> – After the death of <a title="Pope Paul III" href="/wiki/Pope_Paul_III">Pope Paul III</a>, <a title="Papal conclave, 1549–50" href="/wiki/Papal_conclave,_1549%E2%80%9350">a papal conclave</a> with an unprecedented number of <a title="Cardinal (Catholicism)" href="/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholicism)">cardinal electors</a> convened to determine his successor. <a title="1777" href="/wiki/1777">1777</a> – <a title="San Jose, California" href="/wiki/San_Jose,_California">El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe</a>, the first civil settlement in the <a title="Spanish colonization of the Americas" href="/wiki/Spanish_colonization_of_the_Americas">Spanish colony</a> of <a title="Alta California" href="/wiki/Alta_California">Alta California</a>, was founded as a farming community. <a title="1890" href="/wiki/1890">1890</a> – The <a title="National Diet" href="/wiki/National_Diet">Diet of Japan</a> (pictured in session), a <a title="Bicameralism" href="/wiki/Bicameralism">bicameral</a> <a title="Legislature" href="/wiki/Legislature">legislature</a> modelled after both the German <a title="Reichstag (German Empire)" href="/wiki/Reichstag_(German_Empire)">Reichstag</a> and the British <a title="Westminster system" href="/wiki/Westminster_system">Westminster system</a>, first met after the <a title="Meiji Constitution" href="/wiki/Meiji_Constitution">Meiji Constitution</a> went into effect. <a title="1963" href="/wiki/1963">1963</a> – Five minutes after takeoff from Montreal, <a title="Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831" href="/wiki/Trans-Canada_Air_Lines_Flight_831">Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831</a> crashed, killing all 118 people aboard. <a title="2007" href="/wiki/2007">2007</a> – Philippine soldiers led by Senator <a title="Antonio Trillanes IV" href="/wiki/Antonio_Trillanes_IV">Antonio Trillanes</a>, on trial for the 2003 <a title="Oakwood mutiny" href="/wiki/Oakwood_mutiny">Oakwood mutiny</a>, <a title="Manila Peninsula rebellion" href="/wiki/Manila_Peninsula_rebellion">staged a mutiny</a> and temporarily seized a conference room in <a title="The Peninsula Manila" href="/wiki/The_Peninsula_Manila">The Peninsula Manila</a> hotel. More anniversaries: <a title="November 28" href="/wiki/November_28">November 28</a> – <a title="November 29" href="/wiki/November_29">November 29</a> – <a title="November 30" href="/wiki/November_30">November 30</a> It is now November 29, 2013 (<a title="Coordinated Universal Time" href="/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time">UTC</a>) – <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=purge" class="external text">Reload this page</a>