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Featured Article: Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia (lit. 'Holy Wisdom') is a mosque, a former church, and a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985. The current structure was built by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I as the Christian cathedral of Constantinople for the Byzantine Empire. It served as an Eastern Orthodox, a Catholic, and as a mosque until 1935, when it became a museum. In 2020, the site once again became a mosque.
Popular Article: Jupiter (mythology)
A Jupiter (Latin: Iuppiter, also known as Jove) was the supreme God in the Roman mythology pantheon. Like many of the figures of Roman mythology, Jupiter was appropriated from the Greeks, and is virtually identical to the supreme God Zeus in Greek mythology. Jupiter was known as the Roman god of the heavens and the sky. Along with Juno and Minerva, Jupiter was the chief member of the Capitoline Triad, a group of the three foremost deities in Roman religion.
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The phenomenon of magnetism was known in ancient times but it was not until the nineteenth century that the connection was made between magnetism and electricity (source: Magnetism)
