User:Unknownuserkottayam123

Hello friends... Earlier, during my school days, I frequently visited Wikipedia for collecting notes for my projects. It helped me a lot in those times. The help and support that Wiki gave me happened just because of the thousands of human hours spent by Wiki contributors in creating and editing Wikipedia.

So, I am happy in joining Wikipedia to help it in its growth...

Yes! The wiki is still growing like a child and she still needs our support... ;)

Jiss Tom Palelil 16:13, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Did you know ...

An African Song or Chant from Barbados

... that An African Song or Chant from Barbados (manuscript pictured) was nominated for inscription on UNESCO's Memory of the World International Register by someone who saw it in an online exhibition?
... that Elisheva Biernoff paints recreations of found vintage snapshot photographs, some including details like lens flare and overexposure?
... that staffers of an Ohio radio station learned that it had been sold on the same day as its owner's death?
... that A Narrative of the Travels and Adventures of Paul Aermont Among the Planets (1873), following the cancellation of a planned second edition, was not reprinted until 2018?
... that Harold Harrington did not seek out new species, but was the first to collect a plant that was later named after him?
... that fans of romcom heroine Bridget Jones were shocked at the death of a favourite character in the 2013 novel Mad about the Boy, and then again in a 2025 film?
... that a Bronze Age priestess named Eritha was the focus of the first recorded legal dispute in Europe?
... that the Roman-era Ard-al-Moharbeen necropolis is the largest cemetery discovered in Gaza?
... that the writer of "Crabs for Christmas" joked that it contributed to Baltimore's population decline?

On this day...

February 3: Lichun begins in East Asia (2025); Feast day of Saint Laurence of Canterbury (Western Christianity); Four Chaplains' Day in the United States

Eileen Collins

1047 – Emperor Henry III declared Drogo of Hauteville to be count of all Apulian and Calabrian Normans.
1862 – Moldavia and Wallachia formally united, creating the Romanian United Principalities.
1870 – Reconstruction era: The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, formally prohibiting race-based disenfranchisement in the United States.
1930 – The Communist Party of Indochina, the Communist Party of Annam and the Communist League of Indochina merged to form the Communist Party of Vietnam.
1995 – In mission STS-63, astronaut Eileen Collins (pictured) became the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle.

Caroline von Wolzogen (b. 1763)
Dolly Rudeman (b. 1902)
Umm Kulthum (d. 1975)
Mary Healy (d. 2015)

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In the news

Ahmed al-Sharaa

Ahmed al-Sharaa (pictured) is appointed president of the Syrian transitional government.
American Eagle Flight 5342 collides with an army helicopter over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., United States, killing all 67 people on board both aircraft.
In sumo, Hōshōryū Tomokatsu becomes the 74th yokozuna.
Miloš Vučević announces that he will resign as prime minister of Serbia following anti-corruption protests over the Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse.
In an ongoing campaign, the Rwandan-supported March 23 Movement captures Goma, the capital of North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Today's featured picture

Charles Henry Turner (February 3, 1867 – February 14, 1923) was an American zoologist, entomologist, educator, and comparative psychologist, known for his studies on the behavior of insects, particularly bees and ants. Born in Cincinnati, Turner was the first African American to receive a graduate degree at the University of Cincinnati and among the first African Americans to earn a PhD from the University of Chicago. He spent most of his career as a high-school teacher at Sumner High School in St. Louis. Turner was one of the first scientists to systematically examine the question of whether animals display complex cognition, studying arthropods such as spiders and bees. He also examined differences in behavior between individuals within a species, a precursor to the study of animal personality. This 1921 portrait photograph of Turner is in the collection of The Crisis, the magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Photograph credit: The Crisis; restored by Adam Cuerden

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