RSS feeds for study?

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RSS feeds for study?

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I read the news with an RSS reader every day; it's been extremely useful in helping me keep up with current events. On that note, I'm looking for a website that posts quizbowl-relevant info (preferably history) on a regular basis, and is accessible by RSS. For instance, I've been searching for reliable a feed for Wikipedia's daily featured articles, but with no luck.

Are there any RSS feeds that I could use to help study for quiz bowl in general?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?actio ... ormat=atom ===> Featured; most recent article is on Deusdedit
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?actio ... ormat=atom ===> Photo of the day; most recent photo on the Australian Golden Whistler
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?actio ... ormat=atom ===> On this day feed; most recent is, of course, March 21.
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Also, finding out the above was not very hard. If you like to go to any kind of website that is managed via a Content Management System, odds are that it has an RSS feed going for it.

If you want to subscribe to the feed, just copy/past your URL into google reader, and it will parse out the right link. For instance, to find out the wikipedia feed, I just put in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page into the google reader subscribe box.

I can only imagine that other readers are more than capable of doing just this.
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Gautam wrote:Deusdedit

Australian Golden Whistler
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