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Fatmata Binta

• ... that Fatmata Binta (pictured) used her monetary award from the Basque Culinary World Prize to support women farmers' cultivation of fonio?
• ... that Byzantine general Belisarius lost a significant part of his army over a disagreement with his military commanders but still was able to capture Urbinus without a fight?
• ... that one of the first known books by an Aboriginal Australian author, written by David Unaipon, was not printed under his name for more than 70 years?
• ... that Mandate was one of the few nationwide publications in the US to feature full-frontal male nudity in the 1970s?
• ... that Todung Sutan Gunung Mulia founded a printing house after President Sukarno banned the importation of Indonesian-language Bibles?
• ... that basketball player Nick Martinelli led the Big Ten Conference in scoring for back-to-back seasons, but his high school's career scoring record is held by his older brother?
• ... that the geological formations of Australia's inland Denison Trough record evidence of when the area was a shallow sea?
• ... that Poetae Epici Graeci contains more than 1150 fragments from or about lost writings attributed in classical antiquity to the mythical poet Orpheus?
• ... that Bahamian member of parliament Bradley Roberts was known affectionately as "Big Bad Brad"?

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Nomination of Paul Greifzu for deletion

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Ecourter (talk) 08:59, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Nomination of Schwedentrunk for deletion

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Dingolover6969 (talk) 20:01, 12 June 2026 (UTC)