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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 11 December 2024 The English Wikipedia has 6,922,485 articles. exoThis editor is an exopedian. This user is a Citizen of the World (Terra, ⊕).

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

Len Deighton (born 1929) is a British author. His publications have included cookery books and works on history, but he is best known for his spy novels. He had several jobs before writing his first novel, The IPCRESS File, in 1962; it was a critical and commercial success. He wrote several spy novels featuring the same central character, an unnamed working-class intelligence officer. Between 1962 and 1966, Deighton was the food correspondent for The Observer and drew cookstrips – black-and-white graphic recipes with a limited number of words. A selection of these was collected and published in 1965 as Len Deighton's Action Cook Book, the first of five cookery books he wrote. Other topics of non-fiction include military history. Many of his books have been best-sellers and he has been favourably compared with John le Carré. Deighton's fictional work is marked by a complex narrative structure, extensive research and an air of verisimilitude. Several of his works have been adapted for film and radio. (Full article...)

Recently featured:

• Shovel Knight Showdown
• Golding Bird
• "You Belong with Me"

In the news

Bashar al-Assad

• Syrian rebel forces capture Damascus following multiple offensives as overthrown president Bashar al-Assad (pictured) flees to Russia.
• Notre-Dame de Paris reopens following reconstruction after the 2019 fire.
• The first round of the Romanian presidential election is annulled by the Constitutional Court following allegations of Russian electoral interference.
• The French government, led by Michel Barnier, collapses following a vote of no confidence by the National Assembly.

Ongoing:

• Israel–Hamas war
• Israeli invasion of Lebanon
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • timeline
• Sudanese civil war
  • timeline

Recent deaths:

• Eddie Stobart
• Dickie Rock
• Michael Ruetz
• Paolo Pillitteri
• Maggie Tabberer
• Kelly Powers

Selected anniversaries

December 11

Old Well at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• 1789 – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (structure pictured), one of the oldest public universities in the United States and the only one to award degrees in the 18th century, was chartered.
• 1886 – The London-based football club Arsenal, then known as Dial Square, played their first match on the Isle of Dogs.
• 1920 – Irish War of Independence: Following an Irish Republican Army ambush of an Auxiliary patrol, British forces burned and looted numerous buildings in Cork.
• 2006 – Criticized worldwide as a "meeting of Holocaust deniers", the International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust opened in Tehran.

• Averroes (d. 1198)
• Kamehameha V (b. 1830; d. 1872)
• Carl von In der Maur (d. 1913)
• Big Mama Thornton (b. 1926)

More anniversaries:

• December 10
• December 11
• December 12

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