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From today's featured article Powderfinger, an Australian rock band, formed in Brisbane in 1989. From 1992 to 2010 the lineup consisted of vocalist Bernard Fanning, guitarists Darren Middleton and Ian Haug, bass guitarist John Collins and drummer Jon Coghill. The group's third studio album, Internationalist, peaked at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart in September 1998. Their next studio album, Odyssey Number Five, reached number one in September 2000 and was certified eight times platinum, shipping over 560,000 units. Their next three studio albums also reached number one: Vulture Street (July 2003), Dream Days at the Hotel Existence (June 2007) and Golden Rule (November 2009). Powderfinger earned the third-highest total of ARIA Awards (18), after Silverchair and John Farnham. Their last tour, the Sunsets Farewell Tour, concluded on 13 November 2010. In November the following year, the band published a biography with Dino Scatena, a rock music journalist, called Footprints: the inside story of Australia's best loved band. (Full article...) Recently featured: Allah jang Palsoe Hugh de Neville God of War II Did you know... A Man with a Quilted Sleeve ... that the sitter in Titian's A Man with a Quilted Sleeve (pictured) has been thought to be the poet Ludovico Ariosto, a Venetian patrician, or Titian himself? ... that Lutheran children's educator Magdalena Heymair was the first woman to have her works listed as heretical in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum? ... that the United States gave nuclear weapons to Britain as part of Project E? ... that Undurti Narasimha Das provided evidence that gamma-linolenic acid inhibited the progress of human gliomas? ... that gridiron football player Ronnie Amadi played alongside his brother, Donnie Amadi, in high school and college? ... that Max Reger recorded some of his 52 Chorale Preludes, Op. 67, on the Welte Philharmonic organ? ... that Mary Ivy Burks has been called the "mother of Alabama wilderness"? ... that London Underground stations Paddington and Paddington are about 400 metres (1,300 ft) apart on foot, but over 20 kilometres (12 mi) apart by train?

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Today's featured picture Vertumnus is a painting completed by the Mannerist painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo in Milan c. 1590–1591. It depicts the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II as Vertumnus, the Roman god of metamorphoses in nature and life. The fruits and vegetables symbolize the abundance of the Golden Age that had returned under the Emperor's rule. The painting is now held at Skokloster Castle. Painting: Giuseppe Arcimboldo Recently featured: Caesio teres Albert Einstein Johan Zoffany

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