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| “ | What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is commentary...Hillel | ” |
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- I began editing in 2005 and became an administrator in 2006. I am a member of other Wikimedia projects but mainly active here and occasionally Wikimedia Commons. If you find another Sandahl anywhere else on the internet it is not me.
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In the news
- Pakistan condemns an apparent United States-led air strike near the border with Afghanistan that killed 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops, in clashes that also killed eight Taliban militants.
- Japan's House of Councillors passes a censure motion against Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (pictured), the first such motion to be passed since World War II.
- Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashes on landing at Khartoum International Airport in Khartoum, Sudan, killing dozens.
- IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory break a processing speed record with the world's first petaflop computer, Roadrunner.
- Following a coal mine collapse in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, 24 miners are rescued with 12 still missing and one reported dead.
- Seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan.
Today in history
June 12: Independence Day in the Philippines; Russia Day in the Russian Federation; Dia dos Namorados in Brazil
- 1864 – Union General Ulysses S. Grant pulled his troops out of the Battle of Cold Harbor in Hanover County, Virginia, ending one of the bloodiest, most lopsided battles in the American Civil War.
- 1889 – In one of the worst rail disasters in Europe, runaway passenger carriages collided with a following train near Armagh, present-day Northern Ireland, killing 88 people and injuring 170 others.
- 1942 – On her thirteenth birthday, Anne Frank began keeping her diary during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
- 1967 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its decision in the landmark civil rights case Loving v. Virginia, striking down laws restricting interracial marriage in the United States.
- 1979 – Pilot Bryan Allen flew the human-powered aircraft Gossamer Albatross (pictured) across the English Channel to win the Kremer prize.
More events: June 11 – June 12 – June 13
A captive Mexican Wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, USA. This critically endangered subspecies of the Gray Wolf once ranged from central Mexico to the Southwestern United States. In 1980, the last five known surviving members were captured to save the species. Now, over 300 wolves are taking part in a wolf reintroduction program, with at least fifty individuals in the wild.
Photo credit: Jim Clark, USFWS
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From Wikipedia's newest articles:
- ... that the Lloyd Wright-designed John Sowden House (pictured) is known as the "Jaws House" because its facade resembles the open mouth of a shark?
- ... that Cuba-Pakistan relations were strengthened due to Cuba's assistance after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake?
- ... that William Rankin is the only person to survive a parachuting descent through a thunderstorm cloud?
- ... that in Norse mythology, the Æsir-Vanir War between two tribes of gods resulted in the unification of the tribes?
- ... that Steven Spielberg originally cast Tony Award nominee Julyana Soelistyo as Pumpkin in the film Memoirs of a Geisha?
- ... that although both Hebrew and Arabic texts are written from right to left, the question mark is mirrored in Arabic (؟) but not in Hebrew punctuation?
- ... that U.S. Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Harry S. Truman once lived in the Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building?
- ... that Bruno Sacco, the Italian-born head of styling at Daimler-Benz between 1975 and 1999, considers his design of the 1991 Mercedes-Benz S-Class luxury car to be four inches (10 cm) too tall?
