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Featured article: February 6, 2008

Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as 1976, but won both the nomination and election in 1980. As president, Reagan implemented new political initiatives as well as economic policies, advocating a laissez-faire philosophy, but the extent to which these ideas were implemented is debatable. The policies, dubbed "Reaganomics," included substantial tax cuts implemented in 1981. After surviving an assassination attempt and ordering controversial military actions in Grenada, he was re-elected in a landslide victory in 1984. Reagan's second term was marked by the ending of the Cold War, as well as a number of administration scandals, notably the Iran-Contra affair. The president ordered a massive military buildup in an arms race with the Soviet Union, foregoing the previous strategy of détente. He publicly portrayed the USSR as an "Evil Empire" and supported anti-Communist movements worldwide. (more...)

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A daguerreotype of the United States Capitol in 1846, with the original green copper dome as designed by Charles Bulfinch. Over time, extensions to both the north and south wings, made to accommodate the addition of new states to the Union, made the dome aesthetically displeasing, and as a result, it was replaced by a white cast iron dome which was completed in 1866.

Daguerreotype credit: John Plumbe

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Featured list: List of islands of Scotland

This is a list of the islands of Scotland, the mainland of which is part of the island of Great Britain. Also included are various other related tables and lists. The definition of an offshore island used in this list is that it is "land that is surrounded by seawater on a daily basis, but not necessarily at all stages of the tide, excluding human devices such as bridges and causeways".¹

Scotland has over 790 offshore islands, most of which are to be found in four main groups: Shetland, Orkney, and the Hebrides, sub-divided into the Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides.² There are also clusters of islands in the Firth of Clyde, Firth of Forth, and Solway Firth, and numerous small islands within the many bodies of freshwater in Scotland including Loch Lomond and Loch Maree.

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Island	Group	Area (ha)³	Population⁴	Height (m)⁵
Ailsa Craig	Firth of Clyde	&0000000000000099.00000099	0	338
Arran	Firth of Clyde	&0000000000043201.00000043,201	5045	874
Auskerry	Orkney	&0000000000000085.00000085	5	18
Baleshare	Uists and Barra	&0000000000000910.000000910	49	12
Balta	Shetland	&0000000000000080.00000080	0	44
Barra	Uists and Barra	&0000000000005875.0000005,875	1078	383
Barra Head	Uists and Barra	&0000000000000204.000000204	0	193
Benbecula	Uists and Barra	&0000000000008203.0000008,203	1219	124
Berneray, North Uist	Uists and Barra	&0000000000001010.0000001,010	136	93

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