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ABOUT ME

My Username

FayssalF

My Signature

Szvest → ^{Wiki Me Up ®}

Coming from

Morocco

Where I've been

Algeria Bahrain
England Saudi Arabia
Scotland Singapore
Spain Thailand
Tunisia UAE
United States Wales

Where I'd like to go

Everywhere but HELL

My Hobbies

Wikipedia, Collage, Photography

My Favorite human

Albert Einstein

My Favorite Movies

Highlander, Monsieur Ibrahim, Indigènes, Heat

My Favorite Books

No logo, A Brief History of Time

What I think is the most important event in history

The developement of Personal Computers.

My Favorite Website

http://www.HowStuffWorks.com/

My Position on Wikipedia

I've been an administrator since December 2005

My Wikipediholic Test score

Never tested it. Yes, I've never had a test

Committed identity: d3d9a389dbdbdcecd615229f4f705513fd939742 is a SHA-1 commitment to this user's real-life identity.

BABEL

This user contributes to Wikimedia Commons.

40,000

This user has over 40,000 edits on the English Wikipedia.

This user participates in Pages needing translation into English.

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Countering systemic bias.

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WikiProject Military history.

This user participates in WikiProject Spain.

This user is able to contribute with an advanced level of English.

اللغة الام لهذا المستخدم هي العربية.

Cet utilisateur parle français à un niveau comparable à la langue maternelle.

Este usario puede contribuir con un nivel avanzado en Español.

Ĉi tiu uzanto povas komuniki per baza nivelo de Esperanto.

Questo utente può contribuire con un italiano di livello semplice.

This user is Moroccan.

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This user is politically independent.

This user is a Citizen of the World (Terra, ⊕).

C#

This user can program in C#.

33

This user is 33 years old.

This user BOINCs.

This user supports moral equality amongst great apes and humans.

This user is car-free.^‡

This user owns one or more Siamese cats.

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Margaret Sibella Brown (1866–1961) was a Canadian amateur bryologist specializing in species native to Nova Scotia. Early in her career she was involved with gathering sphagnum moss to be used as surgical dressings during World War I, when cotton was in short supply. After the war, she researched mosses from around the world, publishing papers on materials she had collected herself as well as cataloging samples collected by others; her collections are now housed at major herbaria in North America and Europe. Born into upper-class society, Brown was educated in Nova Scotia and abroad. Although lacking formal scientific training, she has been recognized for her contributions to bryology and as an authority on the mosses and liverworts of Nova Scotia. At the age of 84, Brown was awarded an honorary MA degree from Acadia University after declining their offer of a PhD. She died at her home in Halifax aged 95 and in 2010 was posthumously inducted into the Nova Scotia Scientific Hall of Fame. (Full article...)

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Raising a Flag over the Reichstag (Russian: Знамя Победы над Рейхстагом, romanized: Znamya Pobedy nad Reykhstagom, lit. 'Victory Banner over the Reichstag') is an iconic World War II photograph, taken during the Battle of Berlin on 2 May 1945 by Yevgeny Khaldei. The photograph was reprinted in thousands of publications and came to be regarded around the world as one of the most significant and recognizable images of World War II, but, owing to the secrecy of Soviet media, both the identity of photographer and the identities of the men in the picture were often disputed.

The Reichstag was seen as symbolic of, and at the heart of, Nazi Germany. It was arguably the most symbolic target in Berlin. After its capture on 2 May 1945, Khaldei scaled the now pacified Reichstag to take a picture. He was carrying with him a large flag, sewn from three tablecloths for this very purpose, by his uncle. The official story would later be that two hand-picked soldiers, Meliton Kantaria (Georgian) and Mikhail Yegorov (Russian), raised the Soviet flag over the Reichstag, However, according to Khaldei himself, when he arrived at the Reichstag, he simply asked the soldiers who happened to be passing by to help with the staging of the photoshoot; the one who was attaching the flag was 18-year-old Private Kovalev from Burlin, Kazakhstan; the two others were Abdulkhakim Ismailov from Dagestan and Leonid Gorychev (also mentioned as Aleksei Goryachev) from Minsk.Photograph credit: Yevgeny Khaldei for TASS; restored by Adam Cuerden

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