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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/March 28

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1868 view of the Amman valley

... that Amman's downtown area is located in a valley (pictured) that has attracted urban settlement for millennia?
... that weightlifter Mattie Sasser switched her sporting nationality twice before qualifying for the Marshall Islands at the 2024 Summer Olympics?
... that "the flower of the Yogyakarta nobility perished" at the Battle of Lengkong?
... that the 1918 book A Garden Flora was published posthumously?
... that the soap opera Neighbours was cancelled by Amazon MGM Studios just three days after the conclusion of its 40th anniversary tour?
... that the French Jesuit priest and archaeologist René Mouterde contributed to the documentation of 3,405 Greek and Latin inscriptions from Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria?
... that readers of Your Computer is On Fire would be "faced with an existential crisis", according to The Register?
... that a California radio station came to exist because a high-school faculty advisor was on leave in Europe?
... that a word in Wangerooge Frisian, once used to describe loading a gun, later came to be used to describe an invitation to a birthday party?

Picture of the day

Joseph Bazalgette (28 March 1819 – 15 March 1891) was an English civil engineer. As Chief Engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation of a sewerage system for central London, in response to the Great Stink of 1858, which was instrumental in relieving the city of cholera epidemics, while beginning to clean the River Thames. He later designed the second and current Hammersmith Bridge, which opened in 1887. This photograph of Bazalgette was taken between 1864 and 1877.Photograph credit: Lock & Whitfield; restored by Adam Cuerden

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