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Featured article: September 2, 2007

John Millington Synge was an Irish dramatist, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore. He was a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and was one of the cofounders of the Abbey Theatre. He is best known for the play The Playboy of the Western World, which caused riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey. Although he came from a middle-class Protestant background, Synge's writings are mainly concerned with the world of the Roman Catholic peasants of rural Ireland and with what he saw as the essential paganism of their world view. Synge suffered from Hodgkin's disease, a form of cancer that was untreatable at the time. He died just weeks short of his 38th birthday and was at the time trying to complete his last play Deirdre of the Sorrows. (more...)

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A World War II gospel song sung by Bertha Houston and her congregation. (file info)

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Holoplatys semiplanata, a member of the Holoplatys genus of jumping spiders. This specimen is approximately 12 mm (0.5 in) in length.

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Featured list: List of largest suspension bridges

The world's longest suspension bridges are listed according to the length of their main span (i.e., the length of suspended roadway between the bridge's towers).

Rank	Name	Location	Main span metres	Main span feet	Year opened
1 ^[1]	Akashi Kaikyō Bridge (The longest since 1998)	Kobe-Awaji Route, Japan	1,991	6,532	1998
2^[2] *	Xihoumen Bridge	Zhoushan Archipelago, China	1,650	5,414	2009
3^[3]	Great Belt Bridge (also known as the Storebælt Bridge; Danish: Storebæltsbroen) (the longest in Europe)	Halsskov-Sprogø, Denmark	1,624	5,328	1998

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