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]- Mark Carney (pictured) succeeds Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister of Canada after winning the Liberal Party leadership election.
- In Pakistan, a train hijacking by the Balochistan Liberation Army leaves at least 71 people dead.
- Former president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte is arrested on the basis of an International Criminal Court warrant charging him with crimes against humanity.
- Intuitive Machines' Athena lands on the Moon at an incorrect angle and is unable to complete its mission.
Selected anniversaries
[edit]- 44 BC – Julius Caesar (bust pictured), the dictator of the Roman Republic, was stabbed to death by a group of senators led by Marcus Junius Brutus.
- 1823 – American sailor Benjamin Morrell erroneously reported the existence of New South Greenland, a phantom island, near Antarctica.
- 1916 – Six days after Pancho Villa and his cross-border raiders attacked Columbus, New Mexico, U.S. general John J. Pershing led a punitive expedition into Mexico to pursue him.
- 1917 – Russian Revolution: Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate in the February Revolution, ending three centuries of Romanov rule.
- 1943 – The deportation of 50,000 Jews from the Greek city of Thessaloniki began.
- 1951 – The Iranian oil industry was nationalized in a movement led by Mohammad Mosaddegh.
- Albert of Schwarzburg (d. 1327)
- Matthew Charlton (b. 1866)
- Ignace Tonené (d. 1916)
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg (b. 1933)
Did you know...
[edit]- ... that the new eponym (pictured) of Fort Bragg stole a German ambulance and drove 20 miles (32 km) under fire to save a wounded soldier during the Battle of the Bulge?
- ... that a series of agreements at the Upstalsboom in 1323 prohibited bride kidnapping, provided the right to a speedy trial, and created a judicial veto in all Seven Sealands?
- ... that Time paid Alfred Wertheimer $3,000 to use a picture of Elvis Presley singing to a dog?
- ... that the political and media storm around so-called African gangs in Australia has been described by academics as a moral panic?
- ... that Palestinian singer Zeinab Shaath assumed a short film featuring her had been destroyed until a researcher discovered a copy in the archives of the Israel Defense Forces?
- ... that Our Friends from Frolix 8 could be Philip K. Dick's "most sterile" novel?
- ... that Jerome Xavier learned Persian to work on the Mir'at al-quds, a biography of Jesus?
- ... that before playing in the NFL, Rip Owens worked at a steel mill?
- ... that researchers confirmed that they had discovered toilets at the Archaeological Site in Wanggung-ri by finding a high concentration of parasite eggs there?
Today's featured article
[edit]The Territorial Force was a part-time volunteer auxiliary created in 1908. It was designed to reinforce the British Army overseas during war without resorting to conscription, but for political reasons it was constituted as a home defence force in which foreign service was voluntary. It was not well regarded by the military authorities. On the outbreak of the First World War, the regular army was expanded by raising the New Army from scratch rather than relying on the Territorial Force. Territorials volunteered for foreign service in large numbers, and territorial divisions filled the gap between the near destruction of the regular army during the German offensive of 1914 and the arrival of the New Army in 1915. The force also provided the bulk of the British contingent in the Sinai and Palestine campaign. The territorial identity was eroded by the introduction of conscription in 1916, and by the war's end there was little to distinguish between regular, territorial and New Army formations. (Full article...)