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

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News

Andy Burnham

Andy Burnham (pictured) succeeds Keir Starmer as Leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following a leadership election.
In association football, the FIFA World Cup concludes with Spain defeating Argentina in the final.
British runner Josh Kerr breaks the world record for the mile run.
Barbadian cricketer Garfield Sobers dies at the age of 89.

Selected anniversaries

July 22: Feast day of Saint Mary Magdalene (Christianity)

First flag of Sarawak

1209 – A crusader army captured Béziers, France, and massacred the city's inhabitants in the first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.
1691 – Williamite forces defeated the Jacobites at the Battle of Aughrim, the decisive battle of the Williamite War in Ireland.
1951 – Soviet space dogs: Dezik and Tsygan were launched into a sub-orbital spaceflight from Kapustin Yar and became the first dogs to fly in space and the first to safely return.
1963 – The United Kingdom granted self-government to Sarawak (first flag pictured); the day would be celebrated as Sarawak Day.
1976 – Japan completed its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War.

Adam Malik (b. 1917)
Nadja Stefanoff (b. 1976)
Ursula Franklin (d. 2016)
Ozzy Osbourne (d. 2025)

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Did you know...

Administration building of Sengkang Depot

... that the construction of Sengkang Depot (building pictured) required the excavation of 3 million cubic metres (110 million cu ft) of earth?
... that early designs for Aloy were scrapped after market testing revealed that players felt she had an unbelievable "Disney princess" quality?
... that manure lagoons helped to clean Newaukum Creek?
... that a group called the Wrinkled Wheels cycled from Land's End to John o' Groats to raise money for St Helena Hospice?
... that the Great Smoky Mountains Parkway went from being a Native American trail to the main road serving the most-visited national park in the United States?
... that Swedish actress Ulla Smidje appeared in a film alongside her two-month-old daughter, who played a newborn boy?
... that the Uranian moon Francisco is named after both a Shakespearean character and an astronomer's daughter?
... that a lake in Minnesota may be named after a battle in which a Dakota warrior was found with severed feet?
... that an iron suspension bridge built in 1830 supported the weight of several elephants at once?

Today's featured article

Ludwig Ross (22 July 1806 – 6 August 1859) was a German classical archaeologist. He is chiefly remembered for the rediscovery and reconstruction of the Temple of Athena Nike in 1835 and 1836, and for his other excavation and conservation work on the Acropolis of Athens. He was also an important figure in the early years of archaeology in the independent Kingdom of Greece, serving as Ephor General of Antiquities between 1834 and 1836. As the first professor of archaeology at the University of Athens, he educated the first generation of natively trained Greek archaeologists, including Panagiotis Efstratiadis. Ross lost his post as a result of the 3 September 1843 Revolution, which removed most non-Greeks from public service in the country. He spent his final years as a professor in Halle, where he argued unsuccessfully against the reconstruction of the Indo-European language family, believing Latin to be a direct descendant of Ancient Greek. (Full article...)

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God Speed is a painting by British artist Edmund Blair Leighton which was completed in 1900. It depicts an armoured knight leaving for war and leaving his beloved, who ties a red sash around his arm. A griffin on the banister of the stairs is a symbol of strength and military courage. The painting was exhibited in the Royal Academy of Arts in 1900. It is now held in a private collection.Painting credit: Edmund Blair Leighton

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