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The winning charities and participants of the latest AnswerThon have been announced and congratulated; see who won by clicking below!

Or I could just tell you here.

First place: The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society $5000

Second place: ArtWorks $1500

Third place:CaringBridge $500

The other two charities, Global AIDS Alliance and World of Good, will receive runners-up donations of $100 each.

The top 20 answerers (will get WikiAnswers t-shirts):

Darksyde
Kodiakcathy
Stupid little genius
JRWADDY
Mntnapoet
WikiRicki
BigSisterKnows
ThatwouldBme
Aggie80
Singingangel93
Tazmcg
Chicagoborn
Robbb
Natural Val
Krazywhitegirl
Porkdisco
Cdonorab
Mattmastersword
Apepper
Xanthotrichious

Stay tuned for more contests coming up soon…

Folks, this is last call for signing up to participate in the second WikiAnswers AnswerThon, which starts tonight at 12:00 am EDT.

It’s the charity-edition AnswerThon, where your answers are actually sponsoring the charity you choose from the available list. The charity with the most answers at the end of 48 hours will receive a $5,000 donation from WikiAnswers.

Of course, the top answerers will receive a small token of their own, so make sure you have your favorite category set up and dig in!

The second WikiAnswers AnswerThon is about a week away…

So which charity did you choose to sponsor?

Have you started your typing-finger exercises?

What kinds of snacks will you have next to your computer when you get the wiki-munchies?

Wait a second - you’re registered, right?

You get your mouse clicking over to the AnswerThon page right this second, young lady, and choose the charity you want to sponsor with your answers and register.

And I better not catch you slacking on those typing-finger exercises!!!

This week on WikiAnswers Wednesday, we are examining a question that everyone should already have the answer to, but we’ll share it anyway:

What is the WikiAnswers AnswerThon?

Yeah, I told you it was an easy one. Here is my artistic rendering of a WikiAnswers AnswerThon:

Oh, wait. That’s an AnswerThong. The WikiAnswers AnswerThon is a competition to see who can answer the most questions on WikiAnswers within 48 hours. The first AnswerThon was a few months back and included prizes. The upcoming competition (July 26-27) is actually a charity edition: you choose your favorite charity from a list and compete on their behalf; the winning charity is the one with the most questions answered by its team.

So my artistic rendering of a WikiAnswers AnswerThon looks more like this:

Make sure to sign up in time so you can be counted in the competition. See a full list of the participating charities.

Flex your intellectual muscles, promote worldwide knowledge-sharing and win cash for your favorite charity! Help a good cause by sharing what you know.

The latest and greatest WikiAnswers AnswerThon will be held at the end of July and we’re so excited about this one because we’re banding together to raise money for some fantastic causes. YOU can help!

Upon registration for the AnswerThon, you will be able to choose from a list of participating charitable organizations. Each participant then becomes part of a global team competing against other teams to win a donation for the charity of their choice.

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The participating organizations include:

ArtWorks provides children and young adults suffering from chronic and life-threatening illnesses, and their siblings, access to creative and performing arts programming which encourages the use of the creative process as a vehicle for healing, communication, self-expression, and personal development. ArtWorks seeks to empower, validate, and honor these children by offering them the hands-on experience and materials with which to create, as well as the opportunity to publicly share their artistic accomplishments.

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CaringBridge® offers free, personalized websites that allow people to stay in touch with family and friends during a health crisis, treatment and recovery. The goal of the service is to ease the burden of keeping friends and family updated, while also providing a way for them to send their love, support and encouragement.

With a few keystrokes, CaringBridge authors quickly and easily create private and personalized websites that display personal journal entries and photographs. Family and friends visit the site to read updates and leave messages of support in the guestbook.

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The Global AIDS Alliance seeks to mobilize a comprehensive and compassionate response to the global AIDS crisis, while addressing the epidemic’s fundamental links to social justice issues such as poverty and gender in equity. They demand faster, bolder action and concrete results for people living with HIV/AIDS and at risk of HIV infection.

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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is the world’s largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research and providing education and patient services. Founded in 1949, they are relentless in pursuit of their mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

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World of Good is focused on building strategies to substantially improve economic and social conditions for millions of artisans and their families living on less than $4 per day. Their organization promotes fair trade practices and invests in fair trade artisan communities around the world. They strive to educate US consumers and corporations about the benefits of engaging in ethical trade practices to bridge the gap between the global north and south. Key initiatives include catalyzing the development of transparent fair trade craft standards, promoting fair trade among craft trading companies and other community development projects.

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Click here to register for the WikiAnswers Charity AnswerThon now!

In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Merely 10 years later, the book had created such a stir that President Lincoln declared her “the little woman who started this big war.” Today, the book is still known as a classic example of anti-slavery literature.

In 1900, James Weldon Johnson and his brother penned “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” to celebrate the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. The words were so powerful and the tune so memorable, that the song spread from classroom to classroom, family to family, and was eventually embraced as the Black National Anthem.

In 1903, W.E.B. DuBois published his most famous book, The Souls of Black Folk, which delved into the psychology of the mind of a Black man and the famous concept of “double-consciousness” which he describes as such:

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

This concept still resounds in the hearts of many Americans as the population has become increasingly more diverse.

Today, there are many famous Black Americans who continue to use their status to influence change in society. Notable activists include Oprah Winfrey, the renowned talk show host whose Angel Network has helped countless people around the world; Alonzo Mourning, the former basketball player whose foundation has raised more than $6 million to help those less fortunate; and Maya Angelou, the writer and poet whose work speaks of healing and reconciliation throughout the nation.

Join the WikiAnswers community as we explore Martin Luther King’s dream by asking and answering questions about African American History in honor of Black History Month.