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Today's featured article Electroshock weapons, common instruments of non-scarring torture Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for various reasons, including punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for information, or intimidating third parties. Some definitions of torture are restricted to acts carried out by the state, but others include non-state organizations. A variety of methods of torture are used, including psychological methods to provide deniability. Beating is the most common form of physical torture. Most victims of torture are poor and marginalized people suspected of crimes, although torture against political prisoners or during armed conflict has received disproportionate attention. Torture is prohibited under international law for all states under all circumstances and is explicitly forbidden by several treaties. Opposition to torture stimulated the formation of the human rights movement after World War II, and torture continues to be an important human rights issue. (Full article...) Recently featured: Mckenna Grace Etika Cyclone Taylor Did you know... Clark House ... that Clark House (pictured) hosted Cold War meetings? ... that a 2022 book lamented that American painter Edna Hibel did not have a Wikipedia article? ... that there are more than 9,000 swamps in Belarus? ... that before becoming a voice actor, Kenichirou Matsuda attended law school trying to become a civil servant? ... that the first Hindu temple in Wisconsin was built "in the middle of nowhere"? ... that Alan Choe was tasked with developing Queenstown, Singapore's first satellite town, after its British architects left the country in the mid-1950s? ... that Google's Client Hints proposal was initially classified as harmful by Mozilla? ... that Dick Walker's discovery of Saturn's moon Epimetheus was only realized twelve years later? ... that Richard Linklater's original concept for Dazed and Confused took place entirely within a car as its characters listened to ZZ Top?

In the news Julian Assange WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (pictured) is released from prison as part of a U.S. plea bargain. In ice hockey, the Florida Panthers defeat the Edmonton Oilers to win the Stanley Cup. Coordinated attacks in Dagestan, Russia, leave 26 people dead. The Iberian lynx is reclassified from endangered to vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war timeline Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: George M. Woodwell Dennis Deer Russell Morash Ashin Munindabhivamsa Taylor Wily Keith Locke On this day... June 26 Julia Gardiner Tyler 1409 – The Council of Pisa elected Peter of Candia as Alexander V, becoming the third simultaneous claimant of the papacy during the Western Schism. 1844 – Julia Gardiner (pictured) married U.S. President John Tyler at the Church of the Ascension in New York, becoming the first lady. 1889 – Bangui, the capital and largest city of the present-day Central African Republic, was founded in French Congo. 1907 – Organized by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, among others, Bolshevik revolutionaries robbed a bank stagecoach in Tiflis, present-day Georgia. 1997 – Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first book in the Harry Potter series of fantasy novels by J. K. Rowling, was published. Marie Thérèse Geoffrin (b. 1699) Mary van Kleeck (b. 1883) Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1899) Olive Morris (b. 1952) More anniversaries: June 25 June 26 June 27

Today's featured picture Picture of the day Lord Kelvin (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907) was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer. Born in Belfast, he was Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow for 53 years, where he undertook significant research, including on electricity and the formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics. He was also the first to determine the correct value of absolute zero, and the Kelvin scale of temperature is named in his honour. Kelvin received the Copley Medal in 1883, served as the president of the Royal Society from 1890 to 1895, and in 1892 became the first British scientist to be elevated to the House of Lords. This photograph, taken circa 1900, shows Kelvin resting on a binnacle (the stand for a marine compass) of his invention, and holding a marine azimuth mirror.Photograph credit: T. & R. Annan & Sons; restored by Adam Cuerden Random tip Tip of the moment... Main page - Did you know Wikipedia:Did you know... is a section you can see on the Main Page. Wikipedia:Did you know (WP:DYK) is the project page for the "Did you know" section. The DYK section showcases new or expanded articles that are selected through an informal review process. It is not a general trivia section. For the discussion page see WT:DYK. Beginners should consult this Did You Know glossary if they don't understand any of the terms used. Beginners may like to start by looking at a summary of our many rules: this provides links to pages with more detailed explanations (which in turn may link to even more detailed pages). Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Did you know/Onepage   Did you know/Supplementary guidelines   Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}

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