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This user is currently working on improving physicalism. enThis user is a native speaker of the English language. de-2Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse. This user is a member of the Counter-Vandalism Unit. Today is 6 December 2024 The English Wikipedia has 6,920,299 articles. exoThis editor is an exopedian.

Wikipedian as of February 18, 2006, with 290 contributions as of July 06 2006.

Goals

My goals as an editor of wikipedia are

To increase the amount of available knowledge

• Knowledge is an important thing to people, and adding to it is a great task to accomplish.
• Also it may help a person who needs certain information.
• Wikipedia is a free source of knowledge and deserves to be as good a possible; I hope to make it better.

To contribute to the comunity

• Wikipedia is a community effort, that needs everyones collaboration to succeed.
• Also, it is more than just text; it is the effort of people from every part of the world.
• Many people believe that Wikipedia is "no good", and I'll try to change their minds by writing higher quality articles.

and to learn in the process

• As I progress and grow I will aquire more knowledge naturally.
• And Perhapse, I will learn more about myself along the way.

Featured Article

Memorial plaque to the victims of the massacre

The École Polytechnique massacre was an antifeminist mass shooting that occurred on December 6, 1989, at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada. Fourteen women were murdered; another ten women and four men were injured. The perpetrator, Marc Lépine, entered a mechanical engineering class and separated the male and female students, ordering the men to leave. He shot all nine women in the room, killing six. The shooter then moved throughout the building, killing eight more women and wounding students before fatally shooting himself. The massacre is regarded as misogynist terrorism and representative of wider societal violence against women. In response to the massacre, the Canadian parliament passed more stringent gun control laws. It also led to policy changes in emergency services protocols for shootings, such as police intervening immediately to reduce casualties. The anniversary of the massacre is commemorated annually as White Ribbon Day. (Full article...)

Recently featured:

• Mimodactylus
• KARE (TV)
• PlayStation (console)

In the news

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah

• Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah (pictured) wins the Namibian general election.
• South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol declares martial law and lifts it hours later after a vote by the National Assembly.
• At least 56 people are killed in a crowd crush during a football match at the Stade du 3 Avril in Nzérékoré, southern Guinea.
• Syrian opposition forces enter Aleppo in the first offensive since the 2020 ceasefire.

Ongoing:

• Israel–Hamas war
• Israeli invasion of Lebanon
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
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• Sudanese civil war
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Recent deaths:

• John Stanley Pottinger
• Silvia Pinal
• Terry Griffiths
• Tom Hughes
• Peggy Caserta
• Siegfried Thiele

Selected anniversaries

December 6: Saint Nicholas's Day (Western Christianity); Independence Day in Finland (1917)

Blast cloud from the Halifax Explosion

• 1240 – After days of bombardment, Mongol invaders under Batu Khan breached the walls of Kiev and sacked the city.
• 1917 – A ship carrying TNT and picric acid in Halifax Harbour, Canada, caught fire after a collision and caused the second-largest accidental explosion in history (pictured).
• 1956 – In what became known as the Blood in the Water match at the Melbourne Olympics, the Hungarian water polo team defeated the Soviet Union 4–0 against the background of the Hungarian Revolution.
• 1988 – Self-government was granted to the Australian Capital Territory.
• 2017 – Under President Donald Trump, the United States government officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

• George H. D. Gossip (b. 1841)
• Mary Margaret O'Reilly (d. 1949)
• Satoru Iwata (b. 1959)

More anniversaries:

• December 5
• December 6
• December 7

Select quotes

Most Influential person of the 1900s.

• "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" — Albert Einstein
• "Those who do not remember their past are condemned to repeat their mistakes" — George Santayana
• "There is only one good, which is knowledge, and one evil, which is ignorance" — Plato
• "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance" — Socrates
• "He who has overcome his fears will truly be free" — Aristotle
• "Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the world" — Archimedes
• "Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases" — George Orwell
• "Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things" — Isaac Newton
• "An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind" — Gandhi