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Today's featured article Chrisye (1949–2007) was a Chinese-Indonesian singer and songwriter. Born in Jakarta, he became interested in music as a teenager. After joining a band in the 1960s and playing in New York, in 1976 he and the band worked on a collaboration with Guruh Sukarnoputra. The success of this album led to Chrisye being approached for two projects: the song "Lilin-Lilin Kecil" ("Small Candles") and the album Badai Pasti Berlalu (The Storm Will Surely Pass). Both projects were highly successful, and as a result Chrisye was signed to Musica Studios. With them, he released nineteen studio albums before his death of lung cancer. Chrisye was known as a stiff stage performer but widely praised for his vocal abilities. Rolling Stone Indonesia listed five of his albums and four of his songs as among the best in Indonesian music history; the magazine selected Chrisye as the third-best Indonesian musical artist of all time. His albums were mostly successful, and almost all were certified silver or higher. (more...) Recently featured: Ray Farquharson – William McKinley – Oldham Did you know... From Wikipedia's newest content: ... that at 270 feet (82 m), the US 12–St. Joseph River Bridge (pictured) is the longest surviving camelback bridge in the U.S. state of Michigan? ... that Japan's first wooden roller coaster appeared in Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla? ... that a stele of Egyptian king Seti I was found built into the wall of a local house in the village of Tell Shihab in southern Syria? ... that, Jesús Blancornelas, a Mexican journalist, risked his life while reporting on the Tijuana Cartel, the drug trade in Mexico, and political corruption? ... that despite being the son of a two-time NASCAR champion and brother of a Daytona 500 winner, Randy Baker never finished better than 17th in NASCAR competition? ... that Dedeline Mibamba Kimbata, a member of DR Congo's first Paralympic team, competed in a wheelchair donated by Kenyan Paralympian Anne Wafula Strike? ... that excavations at the town of Jayrud in the Qalamoun Mountains of Syria produced microliths, blades, scrapers and other lithic tools dating back to the Natufian culture? ... that it took 120 years before it was discovered that deep-water Stokes waves, named after George Gabriel Stokes, are unstable?

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Today's featured picture The Imperial Hairstreak (Jalmenus evagoras) is a butterfly species native to Australia. Its wingspan is about 40 mm (1.6 in). The caterpillars feed on various Acacia species and are found in mutualistic relationships with ants of Iridomyrmex. Photo: Benjamint444 Recently featured: Computer-generated imagery using Cobalt – Old Fort of Zanzibar – Lyapunov fractal

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