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Welcome to my userpage. I became a Wikipedian on 22 August 2006; However, I have been contributing to Wikipedia since 18 February, 2006. Recently, I have begun "punching up" stubs in Wikiproject Chemicals.

Featured Article

Modern gravestone of Justus

Justus was the fourth archbishop of Canterbury. Pope Gregory the Great sent Justus to England on a mission to Christianise the Anglo-Saxons, probably arriving with the second group of missionaries despatched in 601. Justus became the first bishop of Rochester in 604 and signed a letter to the Irish bishops urging them to adopt the Roman method of calculating the date of Easter. He also attended a church council in Paris in 614. Following the death of King Æthelberht of Kent in 616, Justus was forced to flee to Gaul but was reinstated in his diocese the following year. In 624, Justus became Archbishop of Canterbury, overseeing the despatch of missionaries to Northumbria. He died on 10 November, probably sometime between 627 and 631. After his death, he was revered as a saint and had a shrine in St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury, to which his remains were translated in the 1090s (gravestone pictured). (This article is part of a featured topic: Members of the Gregorian mission.)

Recently featured:

• George Floyd (American football)
• Mario Party DS
• Starship Troopers (film)

In the News

Olaf Scholz

• The German ruling coalition (Chancellor Olaf Scholz pictured) collapses over disagreements on economic policies.
• Donald Trump wins the United States presidential election.
• Maia Sandu is re-elected President of Moldova.
• In baseball, the Yokohama DeNA BayStars defeat the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks to win the Japan Series.
• A canopy collapse at Serbia's Novi Sad railway station kills fourteen people.
• The ruins of a Maya city, dubbed Valeriana, are discovered in Campeche, Mexico.

Ongoing:

• Israel–Hamas war
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
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• Sudanese civil war
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Recent deaths:

• Ram Narayan
• Elwood Edwards
• Anna Lo
• Syed Shah Khusro Hussaini
• Madeleine Riffaud
• Sharda Sinha

Selected anniversaries

November 10

Caroll Spinney with his Oscar the Grouch puppet

• 1599 – At the culmination of a Swedish civil war, supporters of the deposed King Sigismund III Vasa were publicly executed in the Åbo Bloodbath.
• 1969 – The children's television series Sesame Street (puppeteer pictured) premiered in the United States.
• 1972 – Three men hijacked Southern Airways Flight 49 and threatened to crash it into Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the U.S. state of Tennessee.
• 2006 – Nadarajah Raviraj, a prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and human rights lawyer, was assassinated in Colombo.
• 2009 – A skirmish occurred between South Korean and North Korean naval ships off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.

• Afzal Khan (d. 1659)
• Scipione Piattoli (b. 1749)
• Andrés Manuel del Río (b. 1764)
• Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu (b. 1887)

More anniversaries:

• November 9
• November 10
• November 11

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Picture of the day

The European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus), is a species of bark beetle in the true weevil family, Curculionidae. It is found in Europe and Asia Minor and east to China, Japan, North Korea and South Korea. Bark beetles are so named because they reproduce in the inner bark, living and dead phloem tissues, of trees. Their preferred trees in which to reside include spruces, firs, pines and larches. The species has the ability to spread quickly over large areas and some scientists hypothesize that long-distance movements originating from the Iberian Peninsula may have contributed to its invasion of northern Norway spruce forests. This female European spruce bark beetle was photographed in Naninne in the province of Namur, Belgium.Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus

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• “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” — Isaac Asimov
• “When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.” — Isaac Asimov
• “John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.” — Isaac Asimov
• “Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.” — Mark Twain
• “The more you know, the more you realise that you know nothing.” — Socrates
• “The important thing is not to stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein
• “We must respect other religions even as we respect our own. Mere tolerance thereof is not enough.” — Gandhi
• “The wisest mind has something yet to learn.” — George Santayana

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