User:Itai

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This user is a translator from Hebrew to English on Wikipedia:Translation.

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This user is a translator and proofreader from Hebrew to English on Wikipedia:Translation.

Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 24

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Milkie Way

... that a performance by Milkie Way (pictured) at the 2021 Heavy Music Awards got its Twitch stream banned for three days?
... that women seeking abortions in Eswatini or in Lesotho may travel to neighbouring South Africa, where it is legal?
... that New Zealand mayor Georgina Beyer was the world's first openly transgender mayor?
... that during World War II an armed resistance group was based at the Norwegian Soy Flour Plant in Larvik?
... that Moain Sadeq led excavations at Tell es-Sakan in the Gaza Strip, the oldest-known ancient Egyptian fortification to be excavated?
... that Richard Swanson died while trying to dribble a soccer ball from Seattle to São Paulo?
... that the British Unionist Party won their first elected representative in a "devastating upset" at the 2022 North Lanarkshire Council election?
... that when Didier Berthod failed to make the first free ascent of Cobra Crack in 2005, he quit climbing and became a Franciscan monk?
... that voice actress Aoi Koga has an interest in manhole covers?

Picture of the day

Baryte is a mineral consisting of barium sulfate (BaSO₄). Generally white or colorless, it is the main source of the element barium, an alkaline earth metal. It is found across the world and can be deposited through biogenic and hydrothermal processes or evaporation. Early records of baryte date to the 16th century, when a radiating form gained notoriety among alchemists for specimens found near Bologna, Italy. Carl Wilhelm Scheele determined that baryte contained a new element in 1774, but elemental barium was not isolated until 1808 by Humphry Davy, using electrolysis of molten barium salts. Modern uses of baryte include oil and gas drilling, oxygen and sulfur isotopic analysis, and radiometric dating. These crystals of baryte on a dolomite crystal matrix was found at Cerro Warihuyn in Miraflores District, Peru. This photograph was focus-stacked from 24 separate images.Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus

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