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
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- 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]March 14: Sikh New Year's Day; White Day in parts of East Asia; Purim (Judaism, 2025); Pi Day
- 1309 – On Eid al-Fitr, the citizens of Granada stormed palaces in the city, deposing Sultan Muhammad III and placing his half-brother Nasr on the throne.
- 1864 – The Petite messe solennelle by Gioachino Rossini (pictured) was first performed in Paris, 34 years after his retirement as a composer.
- 1931 – Alam Ara, the first Indian sound film, premiered at the Majestic Cinema in Bombay.
- 1988 – China defeated Vietnam in a naval altercation while attempting to establish oceanographic observation posts on the Spratly Islands.
- 2021 – The Burmese military and police forces killed at least 65 civilians during the Hlaingthaya massacre in Yangon, including those protesting a recent coup d'état.
- Albert Einstein (b. 1879)
- Zita of Bourbon-Parma (d. 1989)
- Piri (b. 1999)
- Ieng Sary (d. 2013)
Did you know...
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- ... that Nyango Star (pictured), a half-cat, half-apple character who plays death metal drums, helps fund a town with a declining population?
- ... that the Williamsburg indie music venue Baby's All Right occupies a former hot dog factory?
- ... that Jarrad Searby left the Proud Boys after he became angry with their disavowal of neo-Nazism?
- ... that the Olympic Village in Saint-Denis used wood sourced from eco-managed forests and ultra-low-carbon concrete to reduce the carbon footprint of its construction?
- ... that Olympic team chaplain Ashley Null credits his work counseling elite athletes to his scholarly research on the Protestant Reformation?
- ... that French president Emmanuel Macron posted deepfakes of himself on Instagram ahead of the AI Action Summit?
- ... that George Seeman, shortly after signing to play for the Green Bay Packers, played in a game against the Packers?
- ... that four locations of Video Update were seized by sheriff's deputies in a lawsuit by a sign manufacturer?
- ... that inspired by the short story "Qingfeng", Mao Zedong likened the United States to a ghost?
Today's featured article
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The five-pound British gold coin has been struck intermittently since 1820, but was issued as a circulation coin only in 1887, 1893 and 1902. Through most of its history, it has depicted, on its reverse, Benedetto Pistrucci's portrayal of Saint George and the Dragon, traditionally used on the sovereign. The five-pound piece was first struck in 1820 as a pattern coin. It was issued again in small numbers in 1826, 1829 and 1839, with the last using the well-regarded depiction of Una and the Lion (pictured) by William Wyon. In 1887 and 1902 it was struck in small numbers at the Sydney Mint. A five-pound coin struck in preparation for the coinage of Edward VIII sold in 2021 for £1,654,000, the highest price paid for a British coin. Since 1980, it has been struck in most years by the Royal Mint for sale to collectors and investors. Commemorative versions have been issued, such as in 2022, following the death of Elizabeth II; this depicted her son and successor, Charles III. (Full article...)
