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Featured article: October 15, 2006

Moraine Lake, and the Valley of the Ten Peaks

Banff National Park is Canada's first national park, established in 1885, in the Canadian Rockies. The park, located 120 kilometres west of Calgary in the province of Alberta, encompasses 6,641 square kilometres of mountainous terrain, with numerous glaciers and icefields, dense coniferous forest, and alpine landscapes. The Icefields Parkway extends from Lake Louise, connecting to Jasper National Park in the north. Provincial forests and Yoho National Park are neighbours to the west, while Kootenay National Park is located to the south, and Kananaskis Country to the southeast. The main commercial centre of the park is the town of Banff, in the Bow River valley. Millions more pass through the park on the Trans-Canada Highway. As one of the world's most visited national parks, the health of Banff's ecosystem has been threatened. In the mid-1990s, Parks Canada responded by initiating a two-year study, which resulted in management recommendations, and new policies that aim to preserve ecological integrity. (more...)

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Featured picture: March 27, 2007

A photo of the rope trick effect, the name for the lines and spikes which can emanate from the fireball of a nuclear explosion just after detonation, from the Tumbler-Snapper test series of 1952. The fireball has a surface temperature of over 20,000 kelvins and emits huge amounts of visible light radiation. The "rope tricks" which protrude from the bottom are caused by the heating, rapid vaporization and then expansion of the mooring cables tethering the tower supporting the nuclear bomb at the start of the test.

Photo credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Featured list: List of counties in Kentucky

This is a list of the one hundred and twenty counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Despite ranking 37^th in size by area, Kentucky has 120 counties, third in the U.S. behind Texas's 254 and Georgia's 159.

Alphabetical list

County	FIPS code ^[1]	County seat ^[2]	Established ^[2]	Origin	Etymolgy	Population ^[2]	Area ^[2]
Adair County	001	Columbia	1802	Green County	John Adair, Governor of Kentucky (1820–1824)	&000000000001724400000017,244	&0000000000000407000000407 sq mi (&00000000000010540000001,054 km²)
Allen County	003	Scottsville	1815	Barren County and Warren County	John Allen (1771–1813), soldier in the War of 1812	&000000000001780000000017,800	&0000000000000346000000346 sq mi (&0000000000000896000000896 km²)
Anderson County	005	Lawrenceburg	1827	Franklin County, Washington County and Mercer County	Richard Clough Anderson, Jr., Kentucky and United States legislator (1817–1821)	&000000000001911100000019,111	&0000000000000203000000203 sq mi (&0000000000000526000000526 km²)
Ballard County	007	Wickliffe	1842	Hickman County and McCracken County	Bland Ballard (1761–1853), soldier in the Battle of Fallen Timbers and Battle of River Raisin	&00000000000082860000008,286	&0000000000000251000000251 sq mi (&0000000000000650000000650 km²)

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Featured topic: Guadalcanal Campaign

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Guadalcanal Campaign

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Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo

Battle of Savo Island

Battle of the Tenaru

Battle of the Eastern Solomons

Battle of Edson's Ridge

Actions along the Matanikau

Battle of Cape Esperance

Battle for Henderson Field

Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands

Matanikau Offensive

Koli Point action

Carlson's patrol

Naval Battle of Guadalcanal

Battle of Tassafaronga

Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse

Battle of Rennell Island

Operation Ke

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