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/April 3

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Roman baths (Amman)

... that two headless white marble statues found in Amman's Roman baths (pictured) in 2020 were carved from stone quarried in Greece?
... that Holy Cross Church in Kentucky was built on land donated by the namesake of a brand of whiskey?
... that Kanailal Sarkar, the opposition candidate for mayor of Calcutta in 1963, had been jailed during the 1930 protest movement against British rule in India?
... that Canadian football player Pieter Vanden Bos was traded from the Roughriders to the Rough Riders?
... that workers in European lace workshops and schools chanted catchy, often gruesome rhymes?
... that the tenure of Wallis and Futuna's longest-serving senator, Soséfo Makapé Papilio, ended when he was found dead in a car submerged in the sea?
... that velvet worms had an ancient relative with two pairs of antennae?
... that both athletes for American Samoa at the 2024 Summer Olympics represented the territory because their relatives were born there?
... that "the world's ugliest woman" won the women's world gurning title 28 times?

Picture of the day

Ford Strikers Riot is a 1941 photograph that shows an American strikebreaker getting beaten by United Auto Workers (UAW) strikers who were picketing at the Ford Motor Company's Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Milton Brooks, a photographer for The Detroit News, captured the image on April 3, 1941, and it won the inaugural Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1942. The photograph has been called a portrayal of the struggle in America between capital and labor. During the incident, a peaceful picketing of the Ford Motor Company was interrupted when a single man clashed with the UAW strikers. The man ignored the advice of the Michigan State Police and crossed the picket lines. Brooks, who was waiting with other photojournalists outside the Ford factory gates, took only one photograph and said: "I took the picture quickly, hid the camera ... ducked into the crowd ... a lot of people would have liked to wreck that picture."Photograph credit: Milton Brooks; restored by Yann Forget

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