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/March 19

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Wingspread

... that when the owner of the house Wingspread (pictured) complained that his roof was leaking, the architect reportedly advised him to move his chair?
... that music manager Alan Wills learned about management from his father, who was "in charge of the UK's nuclear early warning system"?
... that according to some value theorists, nothing is good or bad?
... that the main dome of the Sadna Qasai Mosque has collapsed?
... that Gil Skeate was called up to the NFL straight from a lumber camp?
... that a Doctor Who episode took place during the partition of India, and used a unique Indian adaptation of the usual closing theme?
... that multiple deaths could have been avoided if the Peachtree 25th Building had a fire sprinkler system?
... that it took 40 years after the formation of the state of West Bengal before a member of the Rajbanshi people became a government minister?
... that anthropologist H. Russell Bernard teamed up with an oceanographer to estimate the number of people killed in an earthquake?

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David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th-century Moffat missionary family. His fame as an explorer and his obsession with learning the sources of the Nile was founded on the belief that if he could solve that age-old mystery, his fame would give him the influence to end the East African Arab–Swahili slave trade. Livingstone's subsequent exploration of the central African watershed was the culmination of the classic period of European geographical discovery and colonial penetration of Africa. His missionary travels, "disappearance", and eventual death in Africa‍—‌and subsequent glorification as a posthumous national hero in 1874‍—‌led to the founding of several major central African Christian missionary initiatives carried forward in the era of the European "Scramble for Africa". This portrait by Thomas Annan was taken in 1864.Photograph credit: Thomas Annan; restored by Adam Cuerden

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