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Featured article: October 19, 2006

Nirvana was a popular American rock band from Aberdeen, Washington. With the lead single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from their 1991 album Nevermind, Nirvana exploded into the mainstream, bringing along with it an offshoot of punk and alternative rock referred to as grunge. As Nirvana's frontman, Kurt Cobain found himself referred to in the media as the "spokesman of a generation", with Nirvana the "flagship band" of "Generation X". Cobain was uncomfortable with the attention, and placed his focus on the band's music, challenging the band's audience with their third studio album In Utero. While Nirvana's mainstream popularity waned in the months following its release, their core audience cherished the band's dark interior, particularly after their 1993 performance on MTV Unplugged. Nirvana's brief run ended with the death of Cobain in 1994, but the band's popularity expanded in the years that followed. Since their debut, the band has sold more than fifty million albums worldwide, including more than ten million copies of Nevermind in the US alone. (more...)

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Featured picture: July 26, 2007

A mammatus cloud formation over Swifts Creek, Victoria, Australia. The name "mammatus" derives from the Latin mamma, or breast, due to their rounded, hanging shape. Mammatus clouds only occur where cumulonimbus are present and are often the byproduct of strong storm activity. Detailed observations of mammatus have been meager and usually occur only by chance, since they do not pose a meteorological threat to society.

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Featured list: Municipalities of Lithuania

Municipalities of Lithuania is the second-level administrative division of Lithuania. The first-level division consists of 10 counties (Lithuanian: singular – apskritis, plural – apskritys) that are further sub-divided into 60 municipalities (Lithuanian: singular – savivaldybė, plural – savivaldybės).

#	Municipality	County	Capital	Area (km²)^[1]	Area (rank)	Pop. (2008)^[1]	Pop. (rank)	Density (2008)^[1]	Density (rank)
1	Akmenė district municipality	Šiauliai County	Naujoji Akmenė	844	43	27,744	44	32.9	27–28
2	Alytus city municipality	Alytus County	Alytus	40	60	68,304	9	1,707.6	4
3	Alytus district municipality	Alytus County	Alytus^[2]	1,404	20	31,073	37	22.1	46
4	Anykščiai district municipality	Utena County	Anykščiai	1,765	6	32,137	36	18.2	54

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