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Allium cyathophorum var. farreri, described by Stearn
Allium cyathophorum var. farreri, described by Stearn

William T. Stearn (16 April 1911 – 9 May 2001) was a British botanist. Born in Cambridge, he was largely self-educated. He was head librarian at the Royal Horticultural Society's Lindley Library in London from 1933 to 1952, and then moved to the Natural History Museum where he was a scientific officer in the botany department until 1976. After retirement, he became the president of the Linnean Society and taught botany at Cambridge University. He is known for his work in botanical taxonomy, history, and illustration, and for his studies of the Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus. Stearn is the author of Botanical Latin, as well as the Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners, a popular guide to the scientific names of plants. He is considered one of the most eminent British botanists of his time. An essay prize in his name from the Society for the History of Natural History is awarded each year. (Full article...)

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Anthropomorphic illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (1803–1847) was a French illustrator and caricaturist who published under the pseudonym of Jean-Jacques Grandville or J. J. Grandville. He has been called "the first star of French caricature's great age", and Grandville's book illustrations described as featuring "elements of the symbolic, dreamlike, and incongruous, and they retain a sense of social commentary". The anthropomorphic vegetables and zoomorphic figures that populated his cartoons anticipated and influenced the work of generations of cartoonists and illustrators including John Tenniel, Gustave Doré, Félicien Rops, and Walt Disney. He has also been called a "proto-surrealist" and was greatly admired by André Breton and others in the Surrealist movement. This illustration by Grandville is plate 52 from a 1854 collection of hand-coloured lithographs titled Les métamorphoses du jour (The Metamorphoses of the Day), and depicts five anthropomorphic male dogs following a female dog, all dressed in human clothing. The print is captioned "Temps de canicule", meaning 'heatwave weather' but incorporating a pun in French; canicule literally translates to 'dog days of summer' and may also refer here to animals being 'in heat'.

Illustration credit: Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard; restored by Adam Cuerden

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{Editprotected} Yom Hashoah is currently redirected to Yom HaShoa (though I have put in a request to restore it to Yom Hashoah). In the meantime, please change the link in the Holocaust Remembrance Day to Yom HaShoa so we don't have to deal with a redirect off the main page. Thanks, --Valley2city₪‽ 00:50, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done SGGH 09:52, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks SGGH, but after you fulfilled the edit request the move request (from Yom HaShoa to Yom HaShoah) was surprisingly fulfilled (the backlog on WP:RM is still a week). If you want, you can change it to Yom HaShoah, but the day is almost over in GMT and a single redirect won't screw up things like the previous double redir. Your choice. --Valley2city₪‽ 16:21, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Meh, why not? All done. SGGH 19:10, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I thought we are not supposed to fix links to redirects that aren't broken. No ? Anyway, to request small changes on MainPage, please use WP:ERRORS next time. Response is usually quicker. --PFHLai 05:45, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

2012 notes[edit]

—howcheng {chat} 11:15, 15 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Change[edit]

1853 – The first passenger line of what would become Indian Railways, the state-owned railway company of India, opened between Bombay and Thane.

stop: Should be changed to: The first passenger line of what would become Indian Railways, the state-owned railway company of India, opened between Bombay (now Mumbai) and Thane. Add the highlighted one if possible! -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 13:46, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes[edit]

NOTE: WP:Today's articles for improvement debuts on the Main Page today, necessitating the inclusion of 6 OTD items.

—howcheng {chat} 06:05, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2014 notes[edit]

—howcheng {chat} 05:48, 15 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2015 notes[edit]

—howcheng {chat} 07:42, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Checking list[edit]

I checked the lists and did some clean ups. Some of the articles were moved to the ineligible section. Mhhossein (talk) 07:25, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2016 notes[edit]

—howcheng {chat} 06:46, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2017 notes[edit]

—howcheng {chat} 23:16, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2018 notes[edit]

—howcheng {chat} 01:47, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2019[edit]

I've added the federal observance of Education and Sharing Day. per its page, it's on April 16 this year. Hydromania (talk) 08:35, 14 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2019 notes[edit]

—howcheng {chat} 16:45, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2020 notes[edit]

—howcheng {chat} 18:19, 17 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2021 notes[edit]

—howcheng {chat} 06:12, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2022 notes[edit]

—howcheng {chat} 03:05, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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