Jump to content

User:Afterword

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Welcome to Wikipedia

the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
Today's featured article
Edward the Martyr

Edward the Martyr (c. 962 – 18 March 978) was King of the English from 8 July 975 until he was killed in 978. His father, King Edgar, had been a strong and overbearing monarch who had forced the nobility to surrender land to the monasteries. Edward's reign is remembered as a time of lawlessness, because of the efforts of the nobles to get their land back, sometimes by force, and because of disputes between the leading magnates, although these never led to warfare. His short reign ended in his murder in unclear circumstances. Medieval kings were believed to be sacrosanct, and Edward's violent death deeply troubled contemporaries. He soon came to be regarded as a saint, and his feast of 18 March is still listed by the Church of England. Edward was known in his own time for his violent temper, and the historian Tom Watson comments: "For an obnoxious teenager who showed no evidence of sanctity or kingly attributes and who should have been barely a footnote, his cult has endured mightily well." (Full article...)

Recently featured:
On this day...

March 18: Feast day of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem (Christianity)

Traian Vuia's monoplane
Traian Vuia's monoplane
More anniversaries:
In the news
Nightclub fire damage
Nightclub fire damage
Picture of the day
Wikipedia:POTD row/March 18, 2025
Did you know?
Cat at the Forbidden City
Cat at the Forbidden City
Participate in Wikipedia
  • The Community Portal — The center of community involvement. Learn about projects and activities you can join to help improve Wikipedia.
  • The Help Desk — Come here if you need help editing. You browse help topics or ask questions about using Wikipedia.
  • The Reference Desk — For questions about any subject you're researching or curious about (not about Wikipedia itself), just like at a library's reference desk.
  • The Village Pump — The main discussion forums of Wikipedia.
  • The Signpost — Wikipedia's newspaper, where you can read and post news about what's happening on this website.
Wikipedia in other languages
Wikipedia's sister projects

Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that operates several other multilingual and free-content projects:

wikt:Main Page Wiktionary
Dictionary and thesaurus
b:Main Page Wikibooks
Free textbooks and manuals
q:Main Page Wikiquote
Collection of quotations
s:Main Page Wikisource
The free library
Wikispecies:Main Page Wikispecies
Directory of species
n:Main Page Wikinews
Free content news source
commons:Main Page Commons
Shared media repository
m:Main Page Meta-Wiki
Wikimedia project coordination