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Featured Article: Gilles Binchois
Gilles de Bins dit Binchois (c. 1400 – September 20,1460), was a Franco-Flemish School composer, one of the earliest members of the Burgundian School, and one of the three most famous composers of the early fifteenth century. While often ranked behind his contemporaries Guillaume Dufay and John Dunstable, at least by contemporary scholars, his influence was arguably greater than either, since his works were cited, borrowed, and used as source material more often than those by any other composer of the time.
Popular Article: Canadian Shield
The Canadian Shield—also called the Laurentian Plateau, Laurentian Shield, Bouclier Canadien (French), or Precambrian Shield—is the massive U-shaped, almost circular region of the Earth that has extensive exposed Precambrian rock, forms the nucleus of North America, and extends from Lake Superior on the south to the Arctic Islands on the north, and from western Canada eastward to most of Greenland, including in the United States the Adirondack Mountains in the northeast and the Northern Highlands in Wisconsin.
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The Flag of India has at its center the Ashoka Chakra, taken from the Lion Capital of Asoka sculpture (source: Flag of India)
