Wikipedia article of the day for February 17, 2019 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot

The Wikipedia article of the day for February 17, 2019 is Apus. Apus is a small constellation in the southern sky. It represents a bird-of-paradise, and its name (from Greek for “without feet”) was chosen because the bird-of-paradise was once wrongly believed to lack feet. First depicted on a celestial globe by Petrus Plancius in …

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