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Organ and west rose window of Laon Cathedral Notre-Dame, Picardy, France.

The Article of the day for October 9, 2016 is Russian battleship Potemkin . The Russian battleship Potemkin was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet and launched 9 October 1900. The crew's rebellion against the officers in June 1905 (during that year's revolution) is now viewed as a first step towards the Russian Revolution of 1917. After the mutineers sought asylum in Constanța, Romania, and the Russians recovered the ship, her name was changed to Panteleimon. She accidentally sank a Russian submarine in 1909 and was badly damaged when she ran aground in 1911. During World War I, Panteleimon participated in the Battle of Cape Sarych in late 1914 and covered several bombardments of the Ottoman Bosphorus fortifications in early 1915. The ship was relegated to secondary roles after the first dreadnought battleship entered service in late 1915. Panteleimon was captured when the Germans took Sevastopol in May 1918 and was handed ov...

Word of the day is up sticks : (Britain, colloquial) To go live in a different place.

Picture of the day on October 9, 2016: Organ and west rose window of Laon Cathedral Notre-Dame, Picardy, France

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