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

Grand Kartal Hotel in 2007

A fire at a ski resort hotel (pictured) in Kartalkaya, Turkey, leaves at least 76 people dead and injures 51 others.
A series of attacks by the National Liberation Army in the Catatumbo region of Colombia leaves more than a hundred people dead.
A ceasefire agreement suspends the Israel–Hamas war, involving the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners.
Two Supreme Court judges are assassinated in a shooting at the Supreme Court of Iran in Tehran.

Selected anniversaries

January 22: Little New Year in northern China (2025); Day of Unity of Ukraine

Cetshwayo

565 – Eutychius of Constantinople was arrested after he refused Byzantine emperor Justinian I's order to adopt the tenets of the Aphthartodocetae, a sect of non-Chalcedonian Christians.
1273 – Muhammad II became Sultan of Granada after his father's death in a riding accident.
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: The Zulu forces of King Cetshwayo (pictured) achieved a decisive victory at the Battle of Isandlwana.
1973 – The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Roe v. Wade struck down laws restricting abortion during the first two trimesters of pregnancy.
2006 – Evo Morales was inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
2012 – Croatia held a referendum in which it voted to become a member of the European Union.

Christian Ramsay (d. 1839)
Vito Cascio Ferro (b. 1862)
S. Vithiananthan (d. 1989)
Ursula K. Le Guin (d. 2018)

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Did you know...

Flag of Mozambique

... that the flag of Mozambique (pictured), which depicts an AK-47 equipped with a bayonet, is the only national flag to feature a modern firearm?
... that the collapse of the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund left 14,500 customers A$66 million out of pocket?
... that a labor union sued a Seattle TV station over a newscast aired on another station?
... that Arthur Swanstrom co-wrote the lyrics to "the first Off-Broadway musical to gain wide recognition in New York"?
... that a popular romantic pairing from Doctor Who was later adapted into the show at the suggestion of lead actress Jodie Whittaker?
... that shipwreck hunter Noel Hilliam claimed to have found a sunken U-boat off the coast of New Zealand?
... that lead actor Ian Chan also composed, arranged, and performed the interlude for Last Song for You?
... that in the 2019 NFC Championship Game, Raheem Mostert became the first person to rush for more than 200 yards and score four touchdowns in an NFL playoff game?
... that Ana María Ochoa was born in Colombia, studied in British Columbia, and taught at Columbia?

Today's featured article

Caitlin Clark (born January 22, 2002) is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). In her college freshman season with the Iowa Hawkeyes, she earned All-American honors; as a sophomore, Clark was again first-team All-American and in her junior and senior seasons, she was the national player of the year. She became the Division I women's career and single-season leader in points and is regarded as one of the greatest collegiate players of all time. Clark was selected first overall by Indiana Fever in the 2024 WNBA draft. In her first season, she won the WNBA Rookie of the Year award, made the All-WNBA First Team and WNBA All-Star Game. At youth international level, Clark won three gold medals with the United States, including two at the FIBA Under-19 Women's World Cup. Since her college career, she has helped to popularize women's basketball, a trend known as the "Caitlin Clark effect". (Full article...)

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The cattle tyrant (Machetornis rixosa) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatcher. It has a disjunct distribution, consisting of one race in a region from northern Argentina and Bolivia to the north-eastern tip of Brazil, and the two other subspecies ranging from Panama to Venezuela and eastern Ecuador. It inhabits drier open and semi-open habitats, and avoided forested and wooded areas. It can be found in savannah, pastureland, parkland, agricultural land and even gardens. The capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) is the largest living species of rodent, classified within the genus Hydrochoerus, the only other extant member of which is the lesser capybara (H. isthmius). Its close relatives include guinea pigs and rock cavies, and it is more distantly related to the agouti, the chinchilla, and the nutria. The capybara is a highly social species and inhabits savannas and dense forests, living near bodies of water. It is hunted for its meat and hide and also for grease from its thick fatty skin. This photograph, taken in the Pantanal, a wetland region in western Brazil, shows a cattle tyrant perching on the head of a capybara.Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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