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]

My list of contributions

Articles I've started on Wikipedia:

Images I made for Wikipedia:

Article guide:[edit]

A list of articles worth looking at, if one can find them:

And there's always the Random article

And to all citizens of the European Union, please read this: Oneseat.eu

News[edit]

Frank Bainimarama

Former prime minister of Fiji Frank Bainimarama (pictured) is sentenced to one year in prison for attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Flooding in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, leaves more than 100 people dead and at least 130 others missing.
Kyren Wilson wins the World Snooker Championship.
In horse racing, Mystik Dan wins the Kentucky Derby.
Following the Solomon Islands general election, Jeremiah Manele becomes the prime minister.

Selected anniversaries[edit]

May 10

One World Trade Center

28 BC – Chinese astronomers during the Han dynasty made the first precisely dated observation of a sunspot.
1833 – Siamese–Vietnamese wars: Lê Văn Khôi escaped from prison to begin a revolt against Emperor Minh Mạng, primarily to avenge his adoptive father, Vietnamese general Lê Văn Duyệt.
1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five companions arrived at South Georgia, completing a 1,300 km (800 mi) lifeboat voyage over 16 days to obtain rescue for the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
1940 – World War II: German forces commenced their invasion of Belgium.
2013 – One World Trade Center (pictured) in New York City, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, was topped out at a height of 1,776 feet (541 m).

Leonhart Fuchs (d. 1566)
Karl Barth (b. 1886)
Arthur Kopit (b. 1937)

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Did you know...[edit]

Kiro Gligorov

... that under the rule of the first Macedonian president, Kiro Gligorov (pictured), the Republic of Macedonia was the only state that seceded from Yugoslavia peacefully?
... that due to Richard Louhenapessy's arrest, the Indonesian city of Ambon had four mayors in May 2022?
... that the Israel Defense Forces have accepted responsibility for killing seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in targeted drone strikes that destroyed the aid workers' cars one by one?
... that Broadway and film star Lester Allen began his career as a child acrobat in the Barnum and Bailey Circus?
... that the Skyrocket Galaxy has been described by NASA as looking like a "July 4th skyrocket"?
... that a reviewer described the approach of soprano Magdalena Hinterdobler to her role as Grete in Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge as "bold" and "sassy"?
... that of the 33 Green Bay Packers players named to an NFL All-Rookie Team since 1975, only one—James Lofton—went on to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
... that after being sent off for the record 97th time, footballer Elvio Porcel de Peralta went to the referee and punched him?
... that the café C1 Espresso delivers food to customers using pneumatic tubes?

Today's featured article[edit]

The Felix M. Warburg House is a mansion at 1109 Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was built from 1907 to 1908 for the German-American Jewish financier Felix M. Warburg, in the Châteauesque style, and designed by C. P. H. Gilbert. After Warburg's death in 1937, his widow sold it to a real estate developer. When plans to replace it with luxury apartments fell through, ownership reverted to the Warburgs, who donated it in 1944 to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. In 1947, the Seminary opened the Jewish Museum in the mansion. The house was named a New York City designated landmark in 1981 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. In 1993, Kevin Roche constructed an annex to the house in Gilbert's style, built with stone from the same quarry that supplied the original mansion. Critical reviews of the original house's architecture have generally been positive while the extension received a mixed reception. (Full article...)

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The Rokeby Venus is a painting by Diego Velázquez which was completed between 1647 and 1651. It depicts the Roman goddess Venus in a sensual pose, lying on a bed and looking into a mirror held by her son Cupid. The painting is the only surviving female nude by Velázquez. Since 1906 it has been in the National Gallery in London.Painting: Diego Velázquez

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