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Contents 1 Welcome to Wikipedia! 2 Today's featured article 3 Wikipedia Help 4 Useful links 5 Wikipedia's sister projects 6 Article search 7 Create an article 8 Tasks you can do

[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!

Welcome to my Wikipedia portal. You may use this as a Wikipedia start page; it contains relevant information for beginners.

Today's featured article George I was King of Great Britain and Ireland, from 1 August 1714 until his death. At the age of 54, he ascended the British throne as the first monarch of the House of Hanover. Although many bore closer blood-relationships to the childless Queen Anne, the Act of Settlement 1701, which prohibits Catholics from inheriting the throne, designated her cousin, Sophia of Hanover, as heiress to the throne. Sophia was Anne's closest living Protestant relative but died a matter of weeks before Anne leaving the Protestant succession to her son, George. In reaction, the Jacobites attempted to depose George and replace him with Anne's Catholic half-brother, James Francis Edward Stuart, but their attempts failed. During George's reign in Britain, the powers of the monarchy diminished and the modern system of Cabinet government led by a Prime Minister underwent development. Towards the end of his reign, actual power was held by Sir Robert Walpole. George died on a trip to his native Hanover, where he was buried. (more...) Recently featured: 2006 Atlantic hurricane season – Jurassic Park – Formation and evolution of the Solar System Archive – By email – More featured articles...

From Wikipedia's newest articles:

• ... that the 5th-century Sassanian Emperor of Iran Yazdegerd I (pictured on coin) was given the epithets of Ramashtras ("the most quiet") as well as Al Khasha ("the harsh")?
• ... that Frank Lloyd Wright's textile block work, Storer House, was restored in the 1980s by Joel Silver, producer of the films Die Hard and The Matrix?
• ... that the 1992 Nicaragua earthquake was the first "tsunami earthquake" to be captured on modern broadband seismic networks?
• ... that Matthew Bruccoli, a scholar on F. Scott Fitzgerald, owned a collection of Fitzgerald memorabilia valued at US$2 million?
• ... that Roujin Z is a 1991 Japanese anime film about a computerized hospital bed with its own built-in atomic power reactor?
• ... that the Louisville and Nashville Railroad built a separate spur just for Western Kentucky University's Heating Plant?
• ... that Swiss illustrator Albert Lindegger was responsible for murals at the headquarters of the cantonal police and the crematorium in Berne?
• ... that in 1928, the Mayo Beach Light tower was removed from its site on Cape Cod and re-erected in California as the Point Montara Light?
  

Picture of the day
A daguerreotype of the United States Capitol in 1846, with the original green copper dome as designed by Charles Bulfinch. Over time, extensions to both the north and south wings, made to accommodate the addition of new states to the Union, made the dome aesthetically displeasing, and as a result, it was replaced by a white cast iron dome which was completed in 1866. Daguerreotype credit: John Plumbe Archive – More featured pictures...

[edit] Wikipedia Help

If you are a new user, and would like some help regarding how to edit Wikipedia, etc., then please feel free to ask me on my talk page, and I will try to help. I may not always be able to help but I will try to be of assistance wherever possible.

[edit] Useful links

• Wikipedia Introduction for newcomers
• About Wikipedia for newcomers
• What Wikipedia is Not information about what not to put on Wikipedia
• Featured Articles are specially selected by the community as the highest quality on Wikipedia
• The Wikipedia sandbox a place for you to experiment with Wikipedia
• Wikipedia Manual of Style
• Wikipedia Policy: Neutral Point of View
• Wikipedia Policy: No Original Research

[edit] Wikipedia's sister projects

All the below are co-ordinated by the Wikimedia Foundation.

• Wiktionary —Dictionary
• Wikinews —News
• Wikimedia Commons —Repository of openly licensed multimedia
• Wikiquote —Famous quotations
• Wikisource —Source text
• Wikibooks —Free factual textbooks

[edit] Article search

[edit] Create an article

[edit] Tasks you can do

Here are some tasks you can do:

• Wikify: Don Angell, Sergio Berlioz, Gene Clark, Maravilla, Alhamiri, Backlog...
• Cleanup: Tourism in the United States, List of music prodigies, Harry T. Burn, 1990 in association football, Software quality, Purwokerto, Backlog...
• Stubs: 1928 in radio, Capitalist Roader, Cable box (outside), CEVNI, Ajeeb, Academic institution, 112, More...
• Verify: Language demographics of Quebec, Pirates in popular culture, Angel, Backlog...
• Update: British Columbia Highway 99A, Australian Senate, Ansari X Prize, BBC One, Bright House Networks, More...
• Neutrality: E. Lee Spence, History of Latinos and Hispanics in the United States, Cod, Jack Dann, Liang-Jie Zhang, Backlog...
• Copyedit: Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha, OC Transpo Route 95, Naidu, Sorcerer Hunters, Gienger, More...
• Merge: Mendez Middle School, Elgin tablets, Institute of Scientific Instrumentation, Backlog...
• Style: Evolution of belief, CD-R, Gladiators (British TV show), Mercer County Park, Henry V (play), More...
• Expand: Bone Against Steel, Jed Buchwald, 1593 in music, Dan Balz, 1962 NFL Draft, The Artist at Work, 1975 Minnesota Twins season, 4G, Michael Curry, More...
• Requests: Interim efficient, Internal knowledge spillover, Linear pricing schedule, Market power theory of advertising, Metaproduction function, More...
• Articles to be split: A Separate Peace, AMV (TV station), Abu Suhail an-Nafi, Adam's Bridge, Afro-Mexican, More...
• Mediation Cabal: India, or help mediate an open case!
• Cleanup backlogs - Review recent overhauls - Active fixup projects - Maintenance projects - Maintenance COTW: be merged