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Wikipedia & me:
How I discovered
Wikipedia, I do not remember. But from being a reader I slowly became a contributor. Although I don't work that much on Wikipedia I do see myself as a Wikipedian.
I don't go searching on Wikipedia what I can edit next, I edit what I find and want to do.
This means I add and mainly improve a lot of small things and only rarely I make large edits.
... that football player Joe Gray was nicknamed the "Gray Ghost" because when running "it was like he wasn't there anymore"?
Today's featured article
Dorothy Olsen (1916–2019) was an American aircraft pilot and member of the
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) during
World War II. She developed an interest in aviation at a young age and earned her
private pilot's license in 1939, when it was unusual for women to be pilots. In 1943, Olsen joined the newly formed WASPs as a civil service employee. After training in
Texas, she was assigned to the Sixth Ferrying Group in
Long Beach, California, where she worked
ferrying new aircraft from the factories where they were built to U.S. airbases. She flew more than 20 types of military airplanes, including high-performance fighters – such as the
P-51 and the twin-engine
P-38 – which she favored over larger aircraft such as bombers. After the war, Olsen retired from flying and moved to the state of
Washington, where she married, raised a family, and lived for the rest of her life. In 2009, she was awarded the
Congressional Gold Medal honoring her service during the war. (Full article...)
The Nazca lines are a group of
geoglyphs made in the soil of the
Nazca Desert in southern Peru. They were created in two major phases – the
Paracas phase (from 400 to 200 BC) and the
Nazca phase (from 200 BC to 500 AD). The combined length of all the lines is more than 1,300 km (800 mi), and the group covers an area of about 50 km2 (19 sq mi). Most lines run straight across the landscape, but there are also figurative designs of animals and plants. Scholars differ in interpreting the purpose of the designs, but in general, they ascribe religious significance to them. The lines were designated as a UNESCO
World Heritage Site in 1994. This is an aerial view of the geoglyph known as the "monkey", one of the most well-known in the Nazca lines.Photograph credit:
Diego Delso