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Hello friends... Earlier, during my school days, I frequently visited Wikipedia for collecting notes for my projects. It helped me a lot in those times. The help and support that Wiki gave me happened just because of the thousands of human hours spent by Wiki contributors in creating and editing Wikipedia.

So, I am happy in joining Wikipedia to help it in its growth...

Yes! The wiki is still growing like a child and she still needs our support... ;)

Jiss Tom Palelil 16:13, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Did you know ...

Chapel of Saint Paul

... that the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, was named after a log chapel (pictured)?
... that the death of Odysseus's dog in the Odyssey uses language typically reserved for the noble deaths of warriors?
... that when future Olympian Chang Wei-chia entered high school, her elementary-school swimming coach was hired full-time and continued to coach her?
... that Babak Ganjei tried to sell a painting of his credit card to Barclays?
... that An Amorous History of the Silver Screen has been read as a biographic metafilm, paralleling its lead's rise from prostitution into film stardom?
... that the first publication of the prolific author and Talmudic scholar Israel Ta-Shma was a Jewish songbook for the Israel Defense Forces?
... that Sarah Pickstone based her John Moores Prize–winning painting on an illustration that accompanied the poem "Not Waving but Drowning"?
... that Frank Ocean's song "American Wedding" was pulled from streaming platforms because of its unauthorized use of "Hotel California"?
... that after being signed, released, signed, released, signed, released, signed, released, signed, released, and signed again, Brandon Smith made his NFL debut?

On this day...

January 5: Twelfth Night (Western Christianity)

Harry S. Truman

1757 – King Louis XV survived an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, who later became the last person in France to be executed by drawing and quartering.
1869 – Te Kooti's War: After surviving a five-day siege in the pā at Ngātapa, Māori leader Te Kooti escaped from New Zealand's Armed Constabulary.
1919 – The German Workers' Party, the precursor of the Nazi Party, was founded by Anton Drexler.
1949 – In his State of the Union speech, U.S. president Harry S. Truman (pictured) announced: "Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal."
2003 – The Metropolitan Police arrested six people in conjunction with an alleged terrorist plot to release ricin on the London Underground, although no toxin was found.

al-Mu'tasim (d. 842)
Joseph Erlanger (b. 1874)
Edmund Herring (d. 1982)
Pierre Boulez (d. 2016)

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Salome Zourabichvili

Romania and Bulgaria become full members of the Schengen Area.
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Mikheil Kavelashvili is inaugurated as president of Georgia while incumbent Salome Zourabichvili (pictured) intends to remain in office amidst a constitutional crisis.

Today's featured picture

Holger Drachmann (1846–1908) was a Danish poet, dramatist and painter. He was a member of the Skagen artistic colony and became a figure of the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough Movement. Born in Copenhagen, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, going on to achieve fame for his painting of seascapes and ships in storms. He began writing poetry in 1872; his most famous work is the 1877 collection of poems Sange ved Havet (Songs of the Sea).

Photograph credit: unknown; restored by Adam Cuerden

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