User:Allard
Hello and a warm welcome to all my fellow Wikipedians. How nice of you to drop in to see who I am!
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Wikipedia & me:
[edit]How I discovered Wikipedia, I do not remember. But from being a reader I slowly became a contributor. Although I don't work that much on Wikipedia I do see myself as a Wikipedian. I don't go searching on Wikipedia what I can edit next, I edit what I find and want to do. This means I add and mainly improve a lot of small things and only rarely I make large edits.
My work:
[edit]Articles I've started on Wikipedia:
- Fort Knox Bullion Depository
- Animals are Beautiful People
- Template:David Attenborough Television Series
- Template:Malta Islands
Images I made for Wikipedia:
- Dutch lower house as from 2006
- New image of the Netherlands Air Force Roundel
- Map on membership of the League of Nations
- United Nations membership map
- Improved image of the British Helgoland flag
- New image showing the current flag of Hel(i)goland
Article guide:
[edit]A list of articles worth looking at, if one can find them:
- Antidisestablishmentarianism
- Ball's Pyramid
- British Isles (terminology)
- Eadweard Muybridge
- Gunpowder Plot
- Horace de Vere Cole
- Humphrey (cat)
- Islomania
- List of countries by date of nationhood
- List of flags
- List of people who died on their birthdays
- List of regnal numerals of future British monarchs
- List of unusual deaths
- Northwest Angle
- Quadripoint
- Racetrack Playa
- Rule of tincture
- San Gimignano
- Transcontinental country
- Undivided India & Partition of India
- Voyager Golden Record
- Web colors
- Winchester Mystery House
And there's always the Random article
And to all citizens of the European Union, please read this: Oneseat.eu
News
[edit]- In the Japanese general election, the LDP-led ruling coalition loses its majority in the House of Representatives.
- Georgian Dream wins the parliamentary election in Georgia amidst allegations of voting irregularities.
- Protests break out in Cuba after a nationwide electrical blackout and the landfall of Hurricane Oscar.
- Tropical Storm Trami (satellite image shown) leaves more than 150 people dead in the Philippines.
Selected anniversaries
[edit]- 1938 – CBS Radio broadcast the radio drama The War of the Worlds, causing panic among some listeners who believed that an actual Martian invasion was in progress.
- 1948 – A luzzu (Maltese fishing boat) overloaded with passengers capsized and sank in the Gozo Channel off Qala, killing 23 of the 27 people on board (monument pictured).
- 1991 – The Madrid Conference, an attempt by the international community to revive the Israeli–Palestinian peace process through negotiations, convened.
- 1993 – The Troubles: Three members of the Ulster Defence Association opened fire in a crowded pub during a Halloween party, killing eight people and wounding nineteen others.
- 2002 – After his terminal-cancer diagnosis, Warren Zevon made his last public appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, giving the advice to "enjoy every sandwich".
- Miloš Trifunović (b. 1871)
- Dave Gallaher (b. 1873)
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz (d. 1975)
- Jam Master Jay (d. 2002)
Did you know...
[edit]- ... that Wing Sam Chinn combined Chinese and Beaux-Arts architecture in his design for a building in Seattle (pictured)?
- ... that the Labour Party of Turkey was banned by the Constitutional Court in 1980 due to its support for the use of the Kurdish language in schools?
- ... that Michael Sugrue became an "internet phenomenon" during the COVID-19 pandemic for his lectures on YouTube, recorded in 1992, that covered "the last 3,000 years of Western intellectual history"?
- ... that Ready Set Learn! was TLC's answer to the PBS children's lineup?
- ... that Shawn Mendes's song "Nobody Knows" was recorded in one take on a "tough night"?
- ... that in 2018 thieves stole 40 percent of the cocoa produced by the São Toméan Organic Cocoa Production and Export Cooperative?
- ... that Matthew Webb died attempting to swim down the Niagara Rapids?
- ... that Mobtown Ballroom and Café enlisted volunteers to build its sprung wood floor by hand – twice?
- ... that an attempt to portray Abbess Hathumoda as a Christian saint after her death failed because everyone knew that she could be quite petulant?
Today's featured article
[edit]The tomb of Philippe Pot is a life-sized funerary monument commissioned by the military leader and diplomat Philippe Pot. Pot was a godson of Philip the Good and became a knight of the Golden Fleece; he later served the French king, Louis XI, who appointed him grand seneschal of Burgundy, and Louis's son Charles VIII. His effigy shows him recumbent on a slab, his hands raised in prayer, wearing armour and a heraldic tunic. Pot commissioned the tomb when he was around 52 years old, some 13 years before his death in 1493. The inscriptions written on the sides of the slab emphasise his achievements and social standing. The tomb is made of limestone, paint, gold and lead. Although its sculptor is unrecorded, art historians generally cite Antoine Le Moiturier as the most likely designer. The monument was stolen during the French Revolution; since 1899 it has been in the Louvre, where it is on permanent display. The tomb underwent a major restoration between 2016 and 2018. (Full article...)