User:Itai

-

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

-

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

Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 14

Multi-licensed into the public domain
I agree to multi-license my eligible text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under Wikipedia's copyright terms and into the public domain. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions in the public domain, please check the multi-licensing guide.

Back

(No longer Away.)

My Wikipedia time is limited at the moment, but I'm still around.

Edmund C. Stanton

... that the tenure of Edmund C. Stanton (pictured) as director of the Metropolitan Opera featured the first United States performance of Wagner's Ring cycle?
... that Eurowhiteness disputes the belief that the European Union "stands for diversity, inclusion and openness"?
... that Hikaru Mori and Megu Uyama became world champions in synchronized trampoline after training together for only a month?
... that the Battle of Chunj is the only battle in which a British soldier died in action for Pakistan?
... that pilot-induced oscillations on board Olympic Airways Flight 3838 killed seven people, including Greek deputy foreign minister Giannos Kranidiotis?
... that Soepojo Padmodipoetro, despite being the highest administrator of Gadjah Mada University, could not attend its meetings?
... that a search engine for pirated books has been used to train large language models?
... that "Plaza", a recognized Basque surname, comes from the Spanish language?
... that the rock stonecrop can go in a soup as well as on a roof?

Picture of the day

Amélie of Leuchtenberg (1812–1873) was a French noblewoman and Empress of Brazil as the wife of Emperor Pedro I. She was the fourth child of Eugène de Beauharnais and his wife Princess Augusta of Bavaria. After the defeat of Napoleon in 1814, her father, having been granted the title of Duke of Leuchtenberg by his father-in-law, settled in Munich. When Pedro's first wife, Maria Leopoldina of Austria, died in 1826, he sent an ambassador to Europe to find him a second. Pedro's relatively poor reputation in Europe led to several refusals by princesses, and his union with Amélie resulted from a lowering of his strict conditions. They were married in 1829 and she moved to Brazil to be presented in court. Her husband abdicated the throne in 1831 and the couple returned to Europe. Their daughter Maria Amélia was born shortly after. Pedro died in 1834 and Amélie did not remarry, living the rest of her life in Portugal. This oil-on-canvas portrait of Amélie, produced in the 1830s by the German painter Friedrich Dürck, is now in the Soares dos Reis National Museum in Porto, Portugal.Painting credit: Friedrich Dürck

Archive – More featured pictures...