User:Itai

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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/May 2

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Jex Blackmore during their performance art

... that Jex Blackmore, an American pro-choice activist and Satanist, performed art with 100 pounds (45 kg) of rotten fruit (pictured) before their second abortion?
... that the music video for the Weeknd's "I Feel It Coming" takes inspiration from people entombed in volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD?
... that Akihiko Kondo "married" Hatsune Miku, a fictional character?
... that Lake Bell made her directorial debut, In a World..., after no one else would direct it?
... that Enoch Edgar Hume was presented as a candidate for election to the Kentucky House of Representatives without his knowledge?
... that the Jewish villagers of Qision dedicated an inscription for the salvation of Roman emperor Septimius Severus and his family?
... that gymnast Andrei Muntean was Romania's first Youth Olympic Games champion?
... that a song from the EP In the Darkest of Nights, Let the Birds Sing, written in response to the cancer diagnosis of singer Mark Foster's uncle, was played for him before his death?
... that Karen B. Westerfield Tucker, who both edited and contributed to The Oxford History of Christian Worship, also served as a dog show judge?

Picture of the day

John Rocque's maps of London were published in 1746. A French-born British surveyor and cartographer, John Rocque produced two maps of London and the surrounding area. The better known of these, depicted here, is a 24-sheet map of the City of London and the surrounding area, surveyed by Rocque and engraved by John Pine and titled A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark. Rocque combined two surveying techniques: he made a ground-level survey with a compass and a physical metal chain – the unit of length also being the chain. Compass bearings were taken of the lines measured. He also created a triangulation network over the entire area to be covered by taking readings from church towers and similar high places using a theodolite made by Jonathan Sisson (the inventor of the telescopic-sighted theodolite) to measure the observed angle between two other prominent locations. The process was repeated from point to point. This image depicts all 24 sheets of Rocque's map.Map credit: John Rocque and John Pine

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