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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/July 13

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Hermanus Johannes Lovink

... that Dutch agriculturist Hermanus Johannes Lovink (pictured) used a suitcase gramophone during his lectures?
... that the Vancouver School Board's alleged attempt to censor a student newspaper led to the drafting of a press-freedom act?
... that fans on TikTok were behind the choice of name for one of SZA's singles?
... that when sales slowed on the Texas Centennial half dollar, Senator Tom Connally suggested minting five separate versions?
... that the Green Bay Packers once had fourteen players selected to a national All-Pro team?
... that Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos bought New York City's Crown Building because of a tearful plea?
... that the magazine Acoustic Guitar said that Dan Erlewine "might be the most famous guitar repairperson on earth"?
... that models in the runway show for Nihilism by Alexander McQueen were dressed in plastic, locusts, rust, and clay?
... that literary critic Leslie Fiedler called the novel Band of Angels "operatic in the worst sense of the word"?

Picture of the day

The Death of Marat is a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David depicting the artist's friend and murdered French revolutionary leader, Jean-Paul Marat. It was painted when David was the leading French Neoclassical painter, a Montagnard, and a member of the revolutionary Committee of General Security. Created in the months after Marat's death, the painting shows Marat lying dead in his bath after his murder by Charlotte Corday on 13 July 1793. Art historian T. J. Clark called David's painting the first modernist work for "the way it took the stuff of politics as its material, and did not transmute it".Painting credit: Jacques-Louis David

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