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Featured article: January 26, 2007

The history of saffron cultivation and use reaches back more than 3,000 years and spans many cultures, continents, and civilisations. Saffron, a spice derived from the dried stigmas of the saffron crocus, has remained among the world's most costly substances throughout history. With its bitter taste, hay-like fragrance, and slight metallic notes, saffron has been used as a seasoning, fragrance, dye, and medicine. Saffron is native to Southwest Asia, but was first cultivated in Greece. The wild precursor of domesticated saffron crocus is Crocus cartwrightianus. Human cultivators bred C. cartwrightianus specimens by selecting for plants with abnormally long stigmas. Thus, sometime in late Bronze Age Crete, a mutant form of C. cartwrightianus, C. sativus, emerged. Saffron was first documented in a 7th-century BC Assyrian botanical reference compiled under Ashurbanipal. Since then, documentation of saffron's use over a span of 4,000 years in the treatment of some ninety illnesses has been uncovered. Saffron slowly spread throughout much of Eurasia, later reaching parts of North Africa, North America, and Oceania. (more...)

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Featured picture: June 8, 2007

Over 100,000 people attended the funeral of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink. Dink, noted for his opinions on Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, had been prosecuted three times for denigrating Turkishness, receiving multiple death threats which culminated in his assassination on January 19, 2007. During the march, funeral attendees carried placards reading "We are all Hrant Dink" and "We are all Armenians" in Turkish, Armenian and Kurdish. The building on the right with the black banner is the office of Agos, where Dink was killed.

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Featured list: List of dragonfly species recorded in Britain

This page contains a list of the species of Odonata recorded in Britain. The total number of species recorded is 56, made up of 20 damselflies (suborder Zygoptera) and 36 dragonflies (suborder Anisoptera).

Family Calopterygidae (Demoiselles)

Beautiful Demoiselle

Species	Scientific Name	Range Countries	Status Code
Banded Demoiselle	Calopteryx splendens	Eng/Wales
Beautiful Demoiselle	Calopteryx virgo	Eng/Scot/Wales

Family Lestidae (Emerald damselflies)

Species	Scientific Name	Range Countries	Status Code
Willow Emerald Damselfly ^[A]	Chalcolestes viridis		V (1899)
Scarce Emerald Damselfly	Lestes dryas	Eng
Emerald Damselfly	Lestes sponsa	Eng/Scot/Wales
Southern Emerald Damselfly	Lestes barbarus	Eng	V (2002)

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Featured topic: Iowa class battleships

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Iowa class battleships

USS Iowa (BB-61)

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USS Iowa turret explosion

USS Missouri grounding incident

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