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Featured article: July 4, 2008

The Macintosh Classic is a personal computer that was manufactured by Apple Computer from October 15, 1990 to September 14, 1992. It was the first Apple Macintosh sold under US$1,000. Production of the Classic was prompted by the success of the Macintosh Plus and the SE. The Classic was very similar to its predecessors: due to limited technological advances, it used the same 9-inch (23 cm) monochrome CRT display, 512×342 pixel resolution, and its performance was hampered by the same 4 megabyte (MB) memory limit of the older Macintosh computers. Nevertheless, the Classic featured several improvements over the Macintosh Plus, which it replaced as Apple's low-end Mac computer. It was up to 25 percent faster than the Plus and included an Apple SuperDrive 3.5" floppy disk drive as standard. The Classic was an adaptation of Jerry Manock and Terry Oyama's Macintosh 128K industrial design, as was the earlier Macintosh SE. Apple released two versions that ranged in price from $1,000 to $1,500. Reviewers' reactions were mixed; most focused on the slow processor performance and lack of expansion slots. The consensus was that the Classic was only useful for word processing, spreadsheets and databases. (more...)

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Featured picture: July 16, 2008

A portrait of American writer Samuel Clemens, best known by his pen name Mark Twain, in his later years. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Twain enjoyed immense public popularity, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. Fellow author William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature".

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Featured list: List of sister cities in Maryland

This is a list of sister states, regions, and cities in the U.S. state of Maryland. Sister cities, known in Europe as town twins, are cities which partner with each other to promote human contact and cultural links, although this partnering is not limited to cities and often includes counties, regions, states and other sub-national entities.

Sister states, regions and cities of Maryland

A major street in the city of Huainan, northern Anhui Province, one of Maryland's sister regions.

Maryland Jurisdiction	Sister State, Region, or City	Country	Since
State of Maryland	Anhui Province	China	1980^[1]
State of Maryland	Estonia	—	2003^[2]
State of Maryland	Gyeongsangnam-do Province	South Korea	1991^[1]

Sister cities of Maryland cities and counties

Maryland Jurisdiction	Sister State, Region, or City	Country	Since
Annapolis	Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia	Canada	1980^[3]
Annapolis	Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland	United Kingdom	1987^[4]
Annapolis	Karlskrona, Blekinge County	Sweden	1994^[3]

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Featured topic: Seasons of Avatar: The Last Airbender

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