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From today's featured article Kappa Kappa Psi is a coeducational fraternity for college and university band members. The fraternity was founded on November 27, 1919, at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College in Stillwater, Oklahoma, by ten band members led by William A. Scroggs and Professor Bohumil Makovsky, and was incorporated on March 5, 1920. Since its founding, Kappa Kappa Psi has established several programs for the betterment of college bands and band music, including the National Intercollegiate Band, a band that has performed at every national convention of the fraternity since 1947; and the Commissioning Program, which has contributed dozens of works to the band repertoire as a national project and hundreds more from local chapter commissions. The fraternity holds a close relationship with its associated sorority, Tau Beta Sigma. More than 66,000 men and women have been initiated into Kappa Kappa Psi since 1919, including United States President Bill Clinton, John Philip Sousa, Neil Armstrong, and Dizzy Gillespie. (Full article...) Recently featured: Betelgeuse – Grey Cup – RAF Northolt Did you know... From Wikipedia's newest content: ... that the John Harvard statue (pictured) at Harvard University is not of John Harvard? ... that Charles Arundell has been claimed as the author of Leicester's Commonwealth, an anonymous work of propaganda which attacked Queen Elizabeth's favourite the Earl of Leicester? ... that the Ferlo Desert occupies one-third of Senegal's total area? ... that the video for the Alicia Keys track "Not Even the King" features visual references to the art of Basquiat? ... that Larry Clark's 2012 film Marfa Girl was filmed in the same small Texas town as James Dean's last film? ... that tennis champion Rodrigo de Castro Pereira, a scion of the Portuguese royal family, worked as a laborer in a U.S. ironworks?

In the news In Formula One, Sebastian Vettel wins the Drivers' Championship for the third consecutive year. In Canadian football, the Toronto Argonauts defeat the Calgary Stampeders to win the 100th Grey Cup (trophy pictured). A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi outlaws challenges to presidential authority. Israel and Hamas agree to a ceasefire to conclude a week-long escalation in hostilities in Southern Israel and the Gaza Strip. Recent deaths: Marvin Miller - Héctor "Macho" Camacho On this day... November 27 511 – Upon the death of Clovis, King of the Franks, Gaul was divided among his four sons: Theuderic, Chlodomer, Childebert, and Chlothar. 1727 – The foundation stone of Jerusalem's Church (pictured) in Berlin was laid. 1940 – Second World War: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engaged the Regia Marina near Sicily. 1978 – San Francisco mayor George Moscone and openly gay supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by supervisor Dan White. 2009 – A bomb exploded under a high-speed train travelling between Moscow and Saint Petersburg derailing it, killing 28 passengers and injuring 95 more. More anniversaries: November 26 – November 27 – November 28 It is now November 27, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page

Today's featured picture Synthetic crystals of high-purity bismuth, and a 1 cm3 cube of it for comparison. Bismuth is a pentavalent poor metal. Silvery white when freshly produced, it is often seen in air with a pink tinge caused by surface oxidation. Among metals, it is the most naturally diamagnetic and has one of the lowest values of thermal conductivity. Photo: Alchemist-hp Recently featured: Samuel Reshevsky vs. the world – Longtail tadpole shrimp – Stephen Merchant

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