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Featured Article: Francis Marrash
Francis bin Fathallah bin Nasrallah Marrash' (Arabic: فرنسيس بن فتح الله بن نصر الله مرّاش, ALA-LC: Fransīs bin Fatḥ Allāh bin Naṣr Allāh Marrāsh; 1835, 1836, or 1837 Sharon Halevi and Fruma Zachs referred to an obituary of Marrash published in an 1897 issue of Al-Hilal. – 1873 or 1874, also known as Francis al-Marrash or Francis Marrash al-Halabi, was a Syrian scholar, publicist, writer and poet of the Nahda or the Arab Renaissance, and a physician. Most of his works revolve around science, history and religion, analyzed under an epistemological light.
Popular Article: Bloody Sunday (1905)
Bloody Sunday or Red Sunday (Russian: Крова́вое воскресе́нье, tr. Krovávoe voskresénje, Russian pronunciation: [krɐˈvavəɪ vəskrʲɪˈsʲenʲjɪ]) was the series of events on Sunday, 22 January [O.S. 9 January] 1905 in St Petersburg, Russia, when unarmed demonstrators, led by Father Georgy Gapon, were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. The events in St. Petersburg provoked public outrage and a series of massive strikes that spread quickly to the industrial centers of the Russian Empire. The massacre on Bloody Sunday is considered to be the start of the active phase of the Revolution of 1905.
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