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Seal of the Empress Matilda
Seal of the Empress Matilda

Empress Matilda (1102–1167) was the claimant to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy. The daughter of King Henry I, she moved to Germany to marry the future Holy Roman Emperor Henry V. Her younger brother died in 1120, leaving a succession crisis. On Henry V's death in 1125, her father arranged for her to marry Geoffrey of Anjou. Henry I nominated her as his heir before his death in 1135, but she faced opposition from the Norman barons and the throne was taken by her cousin Stephen of Blois. In 1139 Matilda crossed to England to take the crown by force. She captured Stephen at the Battle of Lincoln in 1141, but London crowds blocked her attempt to be crowned and she was never formally declared queen. Her half-brother was captured and Matilda exchanged him for Stephen. A stalemate developed. She returned to Normandy in 1148, leaving her eldest son—later Henry II—to continue the campaign. She then focused on leading Normandy and giving her son political advice. (Full article...)

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Blue-ice area

Blue-ice areas are regions of Antarctica where the ice surface has a blue colour, contrasting with the more common white Antarctic surface. They form around 1% of the continent's ice area. Blue-ice areas typically form when the movement of both air and ice are obstructed by topographic obstacles such as mountains that emerge from the ice sheet, generating particular climatic conditions where the net snow accumulation is exceeded by wind-driven sublimation and snow transports. They are noted for being hard and flat, enabling their use as a runway, in addition to their stability. Ice of up to 2.7 million years in age has been extracted from blue-ice areas. There are also large numbers of meteorites accumulated on them, either from direct falls or having been transported from elsewhere by ice flow. This NASA photograph shows a blue-ice area in the Miller Range, with a meteorite.

Photograph credit: Nina Lanza / NASA

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(Is this the "queue" I hear about? Is this the right place to suggest anniversaries? Wetman 06:31, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC))

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2017 births/deaths - Margaret Thatcher dropped?

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Hi howcheng, just curious as to why Margaret Thatcher was removed from the births/deaths section? It's a Good Article, hasn't been on the main page since 2005, isn't listed on her birth date in October. Am I missing some reason that the article couldn't be included on April 8? TIA, MurielMary (talk) 11:20, 7 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@MurielMary: Thatcher appears as a blurb on May 4, last in 2016. On Talk:Margaret Thatcher, it's hidden in the {{article history}} template. —howcheng {chat} 07:25, 8 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks very much for that, I will make sure to use "show" and check all those details in the templates in future. MurielMary (talk) 11:19, 8 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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