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Today's featured article "Hey Baby" is a song written by Gwen Stefani, Tony Kanal, Tom Dumont, and Bounty Killer for Rock Steady (2001), the fifth studio album by No Doubt (pictured). Released as the album's lead single in October 2001, the song is heavily influenced by the Jamaican dancehall music present at No Doubt's post-show parties and tour bus lounges of their Return of Saturn tour. Its lyrics describe the debauchery with groupies at these parties. The song received positive reviews from music critics, though the song's dancehall influences had a mixed reception. The single was commercially successful and peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100. At the 45th Grammy Awards, "Hey Baby" won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. (more...) Recently featured: Malmö FF – W. E. B. Du Bois – Nyon Conference Did you know... From Wikipedia's newest content: ... that Alcock's Arabian (pictured), an Arabian horse imported to England in the 18th century, is putatively the ancestor of all grey Thoroughbred horses? ... that there are several ruins of Serbian Orthodox churches in Dvorane? ... that nearly half of all of the championships won by the William & Mary Tribe football team have occurred during current head coach Jimmye Laycock's tenure? ... that one species of the extinct bivalve Similodonta was found 108.90 metres (357.3 ft) down a Welsh borehole? ... that Pulitzer-winning photographer Frank Noel survived five days in a lifeboat after his ship was torpedoed, three years in communist prison camps, and the King David Hotel bombing? ... that in the "Pilot" for The Cosby Show Bill Cosby's character taught his son a lesson using Monopoly money?

In the news A train crash (aftermath pictured) in Buenos Aires kills 50 people and injures 703 others. Scientists reportedly regenerate specimens of Silene stenophylla from placental tissue frozen approximately 32,000 years ago. At least 44 people are killed during a prison riot in Apodaca, Mexico. Caesar Must Die wins the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. On this day... February 25: Soviet Occupation Day in Georgia (1921); National Day in Kuwait (1950) 1866 – Miners in Calaveras County, California, discovered a human skull (later revealed to be a hoax) that a prominent geologist claimed was proof that humans had existed in North America during the Pliocene age. 1948 – Fearful of civil war and Soviet intervention in recent unrest, Czechoslovakian president Edvard Beneš (pictured) ceded control over the government to the Communist Party. 1951 – After being postponed since 1943 due to World War II, the first Pan American Games opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1992 – Nagorno-Karabakh War: Armenian armed forces killed 613 ethnic Azerbaijani civilians from the town of Khojali in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. More anniversaries: February 24 – February 25 – February 26 It is now February 25, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page

Today's featured picture A 360° fog bow, an optical and meteorological phenomenon similar to a rainbow that causes a spectrum of light to appear when the Sun's rays shine through fog. Because of the very small size of water droplets that cause fog—smaller than 0.05 mm (0.0020 in)—fog bows have only very weak colors, with a red outer edge and bluish inner. In many cases when the droplets are very small, fog bows may appear white, in which case they are known as "white rainbows". Photo: Mila Zinkova Recently featured: Ice cream cone worm – Thrissops formosus fossil – Return of the Great White Fleet

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