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Featured article: November 4, 2008

To coincide with the 2008 United States presidential election, the featured articles for both major candidates were selected for this day:

John McCain (born 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona and presidential nominee of the Republican Party in the 2008 United States presidential election. During the Vietnam War, he nearly lost his life in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. In October 1967, he was shot down and held as a prisoner of war until 1973, experiencing episodes of torture; his war wounds have left him with lifelong physical limitations. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982, he served two terms, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, and was re-elected in 1992, 1998, and 2004. (more...)

Barack Obama (born 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2008 United States presidential election. Obama is the first African American to be nominated for president by a major political party. Obama graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School, serving as the president of the Harvard Law Review. He served three terms in the Illinois Senate and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and was elected to the Senate in November 2004. (more...)

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The Maris Pacifici is believed to be the first printed map of the Pacific. It was published in Abraham Ortelius' 1589 Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, considered to be the first true modern atlas.

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Featured list: List of Telecaster players
Fender is a manufacturer of stringed instruments and amplifiers which was founded by Leo Fender. Among the best known products made by Fender were the Telecaster, the Broadcaster and the Esquire. Because of the great popularity of these models, musicians are listed here only if their use of this instrument was especially significant—that is, they are players with long careers who have a history of faithful Telecaster use, or the particular guitar they used was unique or of historical importance, or their use of the Telecaster contributed significantly to the popularization of the instrument. Syd Barrett (1946–2006), guitarist/singer/songwriter of the band Pink Floyd; used a unique mirror-disk covered Esquire.^[1] Phil Baugh (1936-1990), a hot country guitarist whose song "Country Guitar" with Vern Stovall, recorded on his Telecaster, was a hit in 1964 and earned him numerous awards. He worked as a popular session guitarist in Nashville from 1975 until his death in 1990.^[2]^[3] Jeff Beck (born 1944) Emerging in the mid 1960s with The Yardbirds, Beck proved that a ragged Fender Esquire could moan like a fuzzed-out violin. His lines in “Heart Full of Soul” and “Evil Hearted You” defined psychedelic guitar.^[4] Ed Bickert (born 1932) is a premier jazz player who started playing a Telecaster when his regular guitar was in the shop, and he has used it for the rest of his career.^[5] Frank Black (born 1965) of the Pixies is a long-time Telecaster player.^[6] See full list...

Featured list: List of Telecaster players

Fender is a manufacturer of stringed instruments and amplifiers which was founded by Leo Fender. Among the best known products made by Fender were the Telecaster, the Broadcaster and the Esquire. Because of the great popularity of these models, musicians are listed here only if their use of this instrument was especially significant—that is, they are players with long careers who have a history of faithful Telecaster use, or the particular guitar they used was unique or of historical importance, or their use of the Telecaster contributed significantly to the popularization of the instrument.

Syd Barrett (1946–2006), guitarist/singer/songwriter of the band Pink Floyd; used a unique mirror-disk covered Esquire.^[1]
Phil Baugh (1936-1990), a hot country guitarist whose song "Country Guitar" with Vern Stovall, recorded on his Telecaster, was a hit in 1964 and earned him numerous awards. He worked as a popular session guitarist in Nashville from 1975 until his death in 1990.^[2]^[3]
Jeff Beck (born 1944) Emerging in the mid 1960s with The Yardbirds, Beck proved that a ragged Fender Esquire could moan like a fuzzed-out violin. His lines in “Heart Full of Soul” and “Evil Hearted You” defined psychedelic guitar.^[4]
Ed Bickert (born 1932) is a premier jazz player who started playing a Telecaster when his regular guitar was in the shop, and he has used it for the rest of his career.^[5]
Frank Black (born 1965) of the Pixies is a long-time Telecaster player.^[6]
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1908 – Take Me Out to the Ball Game

"Take Me Out to the Ball Game", by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer, is a Tin Pan Alley waltz song which became the unofficial anthem of baseball. This version was sung by Edward Meeker for Edison Records in September 1908, and is one of the first recordings of the song.

1910 – La plus que lente

Claude Debussy's La plus que lente, his parody and epitome of the slow waltz. Performed by Wikipedian La Pianista in 2010.

1890 – Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo Sinfonico

An orchestral piece from "Cavalleria rusticana", a one-act opera by Pietro Mascagni. Performed by the Fulda Symphonic Orchestra in 2002.

1909 – Grace and Beauty

Grace and Beauty, by ragtime composer James Scott. MIDI sequencing by Adam Cuerden, piano synthesis by Jujutacular.

2009 – Swansong

"Swansong", the winning song in the Ubuntu 10.10 Free Culture Showcase, written and performed by Josh Woodward.

Magic Flute Overture

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute, performed live by the 2006 Bangkok Opera

1881 – Elfentanz

Erik Satie's Trois Gnossiennes (in three parts)

Other parts: Gnossienne 2 and Gnossienne 3. Performed by Wikipedian La Pianista

J. S. Bach - Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major (in 6 parts)

Bright College Years

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^ Although Barrett's mirror-disk guitar has been called a Telecaster in several sources, a photograph shows clearly that it has no neck pickup, and is therefore an Esquire. See: (Bacon 2005, p. 59)
^ Phil Baugh at Guitar Player
^ Phil Baugh at Sundazed Records
^ McCulley, Jerry (28 April 2009). "Legendary Guitar: Jeff Beck’s 1954 Yardbirds Esquire". Gibson.com. http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/legendary-guitar-jeff-beck-428/. Retrieved 4 October 2009.
^ Guitar Player Magazine, July, 1987, pp. 56, 57
^ (Bacon 2005, pp. 106, 109)