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:

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:

My list of contributions

Articles I've started on Wikipedia:

Images I made for Wikipedia:

Article guide:

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

Marine Le Pen

Marine Le Pen (pictured), 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.
The Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition unilaterally voids the 2018 peace agreement after the arrest of South Sudanese vice president Riek Machar and his wife, interior minister Angelina Teny.
The Sudanese Armed Forces recapture Khartoum from the Rapid Support Forces after almost two years of fighting.

Selected anniversaries

April 3

Rakesh Sharma

1043 – Edward the Confessor, usually considered to be the last king of the House of Wessex, was crowned King of England.
1984 – Aboard Soyuz T-11, Rakesh Sharma (pictured) became the first Indian to be launched into space.
1996 – A U.S. Air Force CT-43 crashed into a mountainside while attempting an instrument approach to Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia, killing all 35 people on board, including Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown.
2009 – A gunman opened fire at the American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York, U.S., killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide.
2013 – The northeastern section of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, experienced several flash floods that killed at least 100 people.

Mukhtar al-Thaqafi (d. 687)
Mary Carpenter (b. 1807)
Reginald Heber (d. 1826)
Gus Grissom (b. 1926)

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Did you know...

Roman baths (Amman)

... that two headless white marble statues found in Amman's Roman baths (pictured) in 2020 were carved from stone quarried in Greece?
... that Holy Cross Church in Kentucky was built on land donated by the namesake of a brand of whiskey?
... that Kanailal Sarkar, the opposition candidate for mayor of Calcutta in 1963, had been jailed during the 1930 protest movement against British rule in India?
... that Canadian football player Pieter Vanden Bos was traded from the Roughriders to the Rough Riders?
... that workers in European lace workshops and schools chanted catchy, often gruesome rhymes?
... that the tenure of Wallis and Futuna's longest-serving senator, Soséfo Makapé Papilio, ended when he was found dead in a car submerged in the sea?
... that velvet worms had an ancient relative with two pairs of antennae?
... that both athletes for American Samoa at the 2024 Summer Olympics represented the territory because their relatives were born there?
... that "the world's ugliest woman" won the women's world gurning title 28 times?

Today's featured article

Willow Lake, in the Big Butte Creek watershed, and Mount McLoughlin

Big Butte Creek is a 12-mile-long (19 km) tributary of the Rogue River located in the U.S. state of Oregon. It drains approximately 245 square miles (630 km²) of Jackson County. The north fork of the creek begins on Rustler Peak and the south fork's headwaters are near Mount McLoughlin (pictured). They meet near Butte Falls, and Big Butte Creek flows generally northwest until it empties into the Rogue River about 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of Lost Creek Dam (William L. Jess Dam). Big Butte Creek's watershed was originally settled more than 8,000 years ago by the Klamath, Upper Umpqua, and Takelma tribes of Native Americans. In the Rogue River Wars of the 1850s, most of the Native Americans were either killed or forced into Indian reservations. The first non-indigenous settlers arrived in the 1860s, and the area was quickly developed. The creek was named after Snowy Butte, an early name for Mount McLoughlin. The small city of Butte Falls was incorporated in 1911. (Full article...)

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Picture of the day

Ford Strikers Riot is a 1941 photograph that shows an American strikebreaker getting beaten by United Auto Workers (UAW) strikers who were picketing at the Ford Motor Company's Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Milton Brooks, a photographer for The Detroit News, captured the image on April 3, 1941, and it won the inaugural Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1942. The photograph has been called a portrayal of the struggle in America between capital and labor. During the incident, a peaceful picketing of the Ford Motor Company was interrupted when a single man clashed with the UAW strikers. The man ignored the advice of the Michigan State Police and crossed the picket lines. Brooks, who was waiting with other photojournalists outside the Ford factory gates, took only one photograph and said: "I took the picture quickly, hid the camera ... ducked into the crowd ... a lot of people would have liked to wreck that picture."Photograph credit: Milton Brooks; restored by Yann Forget

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