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

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News

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (pictured) survives an attack on his convoy by Al-Shabaab that kills at least 10 people.
Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip kill more than 400 people, ending the Gaza war ceasefire.
A nightclub fire in Kočani, North Macedonia, kills at least 59 people and injures more than 155 others.
In Yemen, 53 people are killed after the United States launches air and naval strikes.
At least 42 people are killed as a result of storms and tornadoes in the Midwestern and Southern United States.

Selected anniversaries

March 21: Oltenia Day in Romania

Cover of L'enfant et les sortilèges

1913 – More than 360 were killed and 20,000 homes were destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
1925 – Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortilèges (cover pictured), to a libretto by Colette, was premiered at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.
1968 – War of Attrition: The Battle of Karameh took place between the Israel Defense Forces and allied troops of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Jordanian Armed Forces.
1980 – The American soap opera Dallas aired the episode "A House Divided", which led to eight months of international speculation on "Who shot J.R.?"
2019 – A major explosion at a chemical plant in Yancheng, China, killed 78 people and injured 640 others.

Ælla of Northumbria and Osberht of Northumbria (d. 867)
Alice Henry (b. 1857)
Al Williamson (b. 1931)
Chinua Achebe (d. 2013)

More anniversaries:

Did you know...

Cao Shumin

... that Cao Shumin (pictured) was instrumental in overseeing the establishment of China's 4G mobile network?
... that an activist group projected an image of Elon Musk's salute onto a Tesla factory with the phrase "Heil Tesla"?
... that Jake Brown, although born with cerebral palsy, made dozens of appearances for the mainstream association football club Askam United?
... that the Hennepin Avenue Bridge was the first bridge across the Mississippi River?
... that Karl Braun and other German scientists played cards with their British colleagues during World War I?
... that a five-year-old boy thrown from a third-floor balcony in the Mall of America was released from the hospital just in time for his first day of kindergarten?
... that Andrzej Sapkowski, the creator of The Witcher, described his short story W leju po bombie as the only one of his works that can be classified as science fiction?
... that Black Forest gateau inspired an Internet meme?
... that Tim Urban stated that a procrastinator's brain is distracted by an "instant gratification monkey" and saved at the last minute by a "panic monster"?

Today's featured article

Rodrigo performing "All-American Bitch"

"All-American Bitch" is a 2023 song by American singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo (pictured) from her second studio album, Guts. Lyrically, it is satire and explores Rodrigo's concerns about society's double standards and contradictory expectations for women. Rodrigo co-wrote the song with its producer, Dan Nigro, and believed it captured feelings repressed since age 15. It begins as a folk song and transitions into pop-punk during the chorus, incorporating influences of punk, rock, grunge, and pop rock. "All-American Bitch" was viewed as a successful opening track that appealed to Generation Z by music critics, who praised Rodrigo's vocals and the production. The song reached number 13 in the US and the top 10 in Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. Rodrigo performed it on Saturday Night Live, where she stabbed a red-colored cake at a tea party and splattered it on her face; the performance received positive reviews. She also included it on the set list of the 2024–2025 Guts World Tour. (Full article...)

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Picture of the day

The winter moth (Operophtera brumata) is an insect in the geometer moth family, Geometridae. It is an abundant species in Europe and the Near East and a famous study organism for evaluating insect population dynamics. It is one of very few lepidopterans of temperate regions in which adults are active in late autumn and early winter. Winter moth caterpillars emerge in early spring from egg masses with recently hatched larvae feeding on expanding leaf buds, often after having burrowed inside the bud, and later on foliage. In addition to feeding on the tree where they hatched, young larvae will also produce silk strands to be wind-blown to other trees. The larvae descend to the ground by mid-May with pupation occurring in the soil in late May. Adult moths then emerge from the soil in mid-late November. This focus stack of 73 photographs shows a winter moth caterpillar on a rose leaf in a garden in Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany.Photograph credit: Reinhold Möller

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