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

Protest in Central Jakarta

A magnitude-7.7 earthquake leaves more than 100 people dead in Myanmar and Thailand.
Nationwide protests (example pictured) are held throughout Indonesia following the enactment of legislation increasing military involvement in civilian government roles.
Archaeologists announce the discovery of the Melsonby Hoard, a collection of Iron Age artefacts, in a field in North Yorkshire, England.
American world heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman dies at the age of 76.

Selected anniversaries

March 28

HMS Campbeltown during the St Nazaire Raid

1802 – German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered Pallas, the second asteroid to be identified, but at the time considered to be a planet.
1935 – The Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will, directed by Leni Riefenstahl, premiered in Berlin.
1942 – Second World War: The port of Saint-Nazaire in German-occupied France was disabled by British naval forces (ship pictured).
1946 – The US Department of State released the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, a proposal for the international control of nuclear weapons.
1979 – British prime minister James Callaghan was defeated by one vote in a vote of no confidence after his government struggled to cope with widespread strikes during the Winter of Discontent.
1999 – Kosovo War: Serbian police and special forces killed around 93 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica.

Ernst Lindemann (b. 1894)
Nasser Hussain (b. 1968)
Lady Gaga (b. 1986)
Charles Schepens (d. 2006)

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Did you know...

1868 view of the Amman valley

... that Amman's downtown area is located in a valley (pictured) that has attracted urban settlement for millennia?
... that weightlifter Mattie Sasser switched her sporting nationality twice before qualifying for the Marshall Islands at the 2024 Summer Olympics?
... that "the flower of the Yogyakarta nobility perished" at the Battle of Lengkong?
... that the 1918 book A Garden Flora was published posthumously?
... that the soap opera Neighbours was cancelled by Amazon MGM Studios just three days after the conclusion of its 40th anniversary tour?
... that the French Jesuit priest and archaeologist René Mouterde contributed to the documentation of 3,405 Greek and Latin inscriptions from Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria?
... that readers of Your Computer is On Fire would be "faced with an existential crisis", according to The Register?
... that a California radio station came to exist because a high-school faculty advisor was on leave in Europe?
... that a word in Wangerooge Frisian, once used to describe loading a gun, later came to be used to describe an invitation to a birthday party?

Today's featured article

Interstate 182 (I-182) is an east–west auxiliary Interstate Highway in the U.S. state of Washington. It serves as a connector from I-82 to the Tri-Cities region that crosses the Columbia River on the Interstate 182 Bridge between Richland and Pasco. I-182 is 15 miles (24 km) long and entirely concurrent with U.S. Route 12; it intersects State Route 240 and US 395. Business leaders in the Tri-Cities began lobbying for a freeway in 1958 after early alignments for I-82 were routed away from the area. I-182 was a compromise to the routing dispute, which allowed for direct access to the Tri-Cities and a bypass for other traffic. The new freeway would also include construction of a bridge between Richland and Pasco. Construction on I-182 was scheduled to begin in 1971, but was delayed and began in late 1980; it opened to traffic three years later. The final sections of the freeway, between I-82 and Richland, opened to traffic in March 1986. (This article is part of a featured topic: Interstate 82.)

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Joseph Bazalgette (28 March 1819 – 15 March 1891) was an English civil engineer. As Chief Engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation of a sewerage system for central London, in response to the Great Stink of 1858, which was instrumental in relieving the city of cholera epidemics, while beginning to clean the River Thames. He later designed the second and current Hammersmith Bridge, which opened in 1887. This photograph of Bazalgette was taken between 1864 and 1877.Photograph credit: Lock & Whitfield; restored by Adam Cuerden

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