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/June 3

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Royal Game of Ur board, c. 2500 BCE

... that scholars disagree on whether the earliest-known game boards (example pictured) date to the Neolithic or the Early Bronze Age?
... that the Estado Novo deprived Aurora Rodrigues of sleep for more than two weeks to induce hallucinations?
... that the Hogmanay special Live into 85 was so shambolic it ended a 32-year tradition?
... that Casey Washington made the game-winning score that ended a record nine-overtime college football game?
... that the distinctive coloration of the giant panda appears to serve as camouflage in both winter and summer?
... that Saparinah Sadli defended one of her former students when Indonesia's State Intelligence Agency challenged her gendered exploration of the New Order regime?
... that the 18th-century hymn "Alas! and Did My Saviour Bleed" has been criticised because its lyrics have singers call themselves a "worm"?
... that Elizabeth Yeampierre has called Puerto Rico the "poster child for climate injustice" due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria?
... that Boston's World's Museum was a theatre, an aquarium, a menagerie, and a freak show?

Picture of the day

Laothoe populi, the poplar hawk-moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species is found throughout the Palearctic realm and the Near East, and is one of the most common members of the family in the region. On first hatching, the larvae are pale green with small yellow tubercules and a cream-coloured tail horn, at which point they are known as hornworms. They later develop yellow diagonal stripes on the sides, and pink spiracles. This photograph, taken in Saint-Quentin-en-Tourmont, France, shows a late instar of L. populi.Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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