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]- South Korea's Constitutional Court removes Yoon Suk Yeol (pictured) as the president of South Korea, following his earlier declaration of martial law.
- US president Donald Trump announces trade tariffs on most countries.
- Marine Le Pen, the runner-up in the 2017 and 2022 French presidential elections, is convicted of embezzlement and banned from standing in elections for five years.
- A magnitude-7.7 earthquake leaves more than 4,300 people dead in Myanmar and Thailand.
Selected anniversaries
[edit]- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy unsuccessfully attempted to capture HMS Glasgow near Block Island.
- 1808 – John Jacob Astor founded the American Fur Company, the profits from which made him the first multi-millionaire in the United States.
- 1974 – ABBA (pictured) won the Eurovision Song Contest representing Sweden with the song "Waterloo".
- 1994 – The aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down in Kigali; the event became the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide.
- 2009 – Mass protests began across Moldova against the results of the parliamentary election.
- James Mill (b. 1773)
- Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (b. 1892)
- Rose O'Neill (d. 1944)
- Mingyu (b. 1997)
Did you know...
[edit]- ... that the leech Chtonobdella limbata (example pictured) can survive months without any water by entering an inanimate state?
- ... that two books of photos and drawings by Margot Dias were called "among the best-illustrated anthropological volumes ever produced"?
- ... that some legal documents in Old Frisian refer to the womb as a "fortress of the bones"?
- ... that the Mexican-American band Grupo Frontera has been affected by a massive backlash because of an alleged endorsement of Donald Trump after a viral video of the vocalist's grandmother?
- ... that Varsen Aghabekian is the first Armenian to serve as a minister in the government of the State of Palestine?
- ... that a Missouri TV station was twice denied in its efforts to move its transmitter tower to Kansas to increase its coverage area?
- ... that the arts magazine Paper Chained was banned in some Australian prisons due to its pen-pal program?
- ... that a survivor of the 1967 Belvidere tornado recalled being inside a school bus when "the tornado picked up the bus and the bus ended up in someone's living room"?
- ... that a buttock painted with "FUFN" was used to promote a recent song by Jade Thirlwall?
Today's featured article
[edit]The Suicide of Rachel Foster is a 2020 adventure video game developed by One-O-One Games and published by Daedalic Entertainment. It focuses on Nicole Wilson returning to her family's hotel ten years after she and her mother left, once her father's affair with the teenaged Rachel Foster was discovered, who then killed herself while pregnant. Trapped in the hotel due to a snowstorm, Nicole seeks to uncover the mystery of Rachel's suicide. Borne out of the studio's desire to create a horror game relying on suspense over monsters, it was set in a hotel to elicit fear and claustrophobia in players. The developers sought professional advice to portray topics like child sexual abuse and suicide compassionately. Released on Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch, the game received mixed reviews. The handling of child sexual abuse and suicide was heavily criticized, particularly over an interactive suicide attempt. A sequel, The Fading of Nicole Wilson, is set to be released in 2025. (Full article...)