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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 16

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Pavonia praemorsa flower

... that the flowers of Pavonia praemorsa (pictured) bloom and die within the same day?
... that soprano Joan Ruth rejected a marriage proposal because her suitor wanted her to abandon ambitions of a singing career?
... that the mascots of the 2026 Winter Olympics and 2026 Winter Paralympics were designed by schoolchildren?
... that Bengisu Avcı had to abandon her 45-kilometre (28-mile) swim across the Kaiwi Channel after being stung by jellyfish twelve hours in?
... that some of the first likely Libotonius fossils collected are lost at the Smithsonian?
... that Argentine naval officer Barry Melbourne Hussey was known as El Ingles ('The Englishman') by his comrades?
... that the 2024 song "Tobey" features "3 generations of Detroit"?
... that Leonhard Kaiser, a student of Martin Luther, was burned at the stake on 16 August 1527 after being declared guilty of heresy?
... that the area of Cultybraggan Camp has been a royal hunting ground, a prison for fervent Nazis and the site of an underground bunker intended for use in a nuclear war?

Picture of the day

Ceramica pisi, the broom moth, is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in a range covering the whole of Europe from the Arctic Circle to northern Spain, and across to the Russian Far East. It lives at heights of up to 2,000 metres. This photograph shows a broom moth caterpillar in Estonia.Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus

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