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From today's featured article California Chrome (foaled 2011) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2014 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, and was the 2014 American Horse of the Year. His fans—called "Chromies"—supported him at his races as "the people's horse". His owners, Perry Martin and Steve Coburn, named their partnership DAP Racing, standing for "Dumb Ass Partners"—inspired by a passerby who questioned their wisdom in purchasing the horse's dam. Critics did not think the colt, trained by Art Sherman and ridden by Victor Espinoza, could win the Kentucky Derby due to his humble origins and pedigree, but California Chrome defied the skeptics and won. After the Preakness, anticipation rose that he could win the Triple Crown in the 2014 Belmont Stakes. But in that race, California Chrome was stepped on by another horse at the start, tearing tissue from his heel, and finished fourth. Healing from his injury, he raced in the fall, running third in the Breeders' Cup Classic and winning the Hollywood Derby. He received the 2014 Secretariat Vox Populi Award, the NTRA Moment of the Year, and Eclipse Awards for Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse and Horse of the Year. (Full article...) Recently featured: The Tower House – Æthelwold ætheling – Cretan War (205–200 BC) Did you know... From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content: ... that the Temple of Garni (pictured), the only Hellenistic structure in Armenia, collapsed in an earthquake and was reconstructed 300 years later? ... that Priyanka Chopra won a second consecutive Star Guild Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, for the 2009 caper-thriller Kaminey? ... that the unusual round tower of the medieval Hammarlunda Church probably served a defensive purpose? ... that the engineering professor Morrough Parker O'Brien is considered the founder of modern coastal engineering? ... that the Spillings Hoard in the Gotland Museum is the world's largest Viking silver treasure? ... that the CARMADI Foundation, an ecological research organization on Piscadera Bay, is the "largest field station in the Southern Caribbean"? ... that cucumber juice is commonly used topically as a skin rejuvenator and to improve skin complexion? ... that The Gift has been made by Joel Edgerton?

In the news Following a week of protests in Baltimore, United States, six city police officers are charged in relation to the death of Freddie Gray. NASA's MESSENGER probe (artist's rendering pictured) to Mercury purposely crashes into the surface of the planet after an eleven-year mission. Scientists announce the discovery of the first known dinosaur with membranous wings, Yi qi. The Americas becomes the first World Health Organization region to be officially declared free of rubella. The Russian Federal Space Agency loses contact with Progress M-27M which failed to reach the International Space Station and is now descending back to Earth's atmosphere Eight convicts, including Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran of the Bali Nine, are executed by firing squad in Indonesia. Ongoing: Nepal earthquake – Yemeni Civil War Recent deaths: Maya Plisetskaya – Ben E. King On this day... May 2: Flag Day in Poland 1559 – Scottish clergyman John Knox returned to Scotland from exile to lead the Scottish Reformation. 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate general Stonewall Jackson was wounded by friendly fire during the Battle of Chancellorsville, leading to his death by pneumonia eight days later. 1945 – World War II: General Helmuth Weidling, commander of the German troops in Berlin, surrendered the city to Soviet forces led by Marshal Georgy Zhukov, ending the Battle of Berlin. 1982 – Falklands War: HMS Conqueror launched three torpedoes and sank ARA General Belgrano (pictured), the only ship ever to have been deliberately sunk by a nuclear submarine in battle. 1995 – Croatian War of Independence: Serb forces began firing rockets on the Croatian capital of Zagreb, killing 7 and injuring at least 175 others. More anniversaries: May 1 – May 2 – May 3 It is now May 2, 2015 (UTC) – Reload this page

Today's featured picture A soybean cyst nematode (Heterodera glycines), together with an egg, as viewed through a low-temperature scanning electron microscope at 1000x magnification. This nematode infects the roots of soybeans, and the female nematode eventually becomes a cyst. Infection causes various symptoms that may include chlorosis of the leaves and stems, root necrosis, loss in seed yield and suppression of root and shoot growth. Photograph: Agricultural Research Service Recently featured: Motorboat – Homann map – The Dakota

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