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Today's featured article William Burges in 1881. William Burges (2 December 1827 – 20 April 1881) was an English architect and designer. Among the greatest of the Victorian art-architects, he sought in his work to escape from both nineteenth-century industrialisation and the Neoclassical architectural style and re-establish the architectural and social values of a utopian medieval England. Burges stands within the tradition of the Gothic Revival, his works echoing those of the Pre-Raphaelites and heralding those of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Burges's career was short but illustrious; he won his first major commission for Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral in Cork in 1863. His architectural output was small but varied. Burges's most notable works are Cardiff Castle, constructed between 1866 and 1928 and Castell Coch (1872–91), both of which were undertaken for John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute. Other notable buildings include Gayhurst House, Buckinghamshire (1858–65), Knightshayes Court (1867–74), the Church of Christ the Consoler (1870–76) and St Mary's, Studley Royal (1870–78) in Yorkshire, and Park House, Cardiff, (1871–80). Beyond architecture, Burges designed metalwork, sculpture, jewellery, furniture and stained glass. (Read more...) Featured article · Archive · Daily email · More featured content Today's featured picture 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 Recently featured: The Great Train Robbery Sedge warbler Long Tack Sam   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 Aleksander Barkov In ice hockey, the Florida Panthers (captain Aleksander Barkov pictured) defeat the Edmonton Oilers to win the Stanley Cup Finals. Coordinated attacks in Dagestan, Russia, leave 28 people dead. The Iberian lynx is reclassified from endangered to vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. Thailand's parliament passes a bill to recognise same-sex marriage. American baseball player Willie Mays dies at the age of 93. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war timeline Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Dennis Deer Russell Morash Ashin Munindabhivamsa Taylor Wily Keith Locke Jodie Devos   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 President John Tyler at the Church of the Ascension in New York, becoming the first lady of the United States. 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

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