User:Rfl

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Penrose Tribar

Rafał Pocztarski

Administrator of the English Wikipedia since 2004 (original nomination)

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Picture of the day

The white stork (Ciconia ciconia) is a large bird in the stork family, Ciconiidae. Its plumage is mainly white, with black on its wings. Adults have long red legs and long pointed red beaks, and measure on average 100 to 115 centimetres (39 to 45 inches) from the beak tip to the end of the tail, with a wingspan of 155 to 215 centimetres (61 to 85 inches). It is a long-distance migrant, wintering in Africa from tropical sub-Saharan Africa to as far south as South Africa, or on the Indian subcontinent. A carnivore, it eats a wide range of animal prey, including insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, small mammals, and small birds. This white stork in flight was photographed in Andalusia, Spain, carrying a piece of plastic. It is fitted with a wildlife transmitter on its back.Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

Selected anniversaries

October 14: Indigenous Peoples' Day in the United States (2024); Thanksgiving in Canada (2024)

Roundhay Garden Scene

• 1758 – Third Silesian War: At the Battle of Hochkirch, an Austrian army under Leopold Joseph von Daun surprised the Prussians commanded by Frederick the Great, overwhelming them and forcing a general retreat.
• 1888 – French inventor Louis Le Prince filmed Roundhay Garden Scene (pictured), the earliest surviving motion picture, in Leeds, England.
• 1956 – B. R. Ambedkar, a leader of India's "Untouchable" caste, publicly converted to Buddhism and became the leader of the Dalit Buddhist movement.
• 2021 – Approximately 10,000 John Deere employees went on strike in one of the largest private-sector strikes in the United States.

• Antipope Dioscorus (d. 530)
• Jacques Arcadelt (d. 1568)
• Sumner Welles (b. 1892)
• Jessie Bonstelle (d. 1932)

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• October 15

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C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS)

• The comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) (pictured) is visible to the western sky after sunset.
• The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang.
• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is divided, with half awarded to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for their work on protein structure prediction and the other half to David Baker for his work on computational protein design.

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• Israel–Hamas war
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
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• Sudanese civil war
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Recent deaths:

• Amaury du Closel
• Fleur Adcock
• Kiril Marichkov
• George Baldock
• Zaw Myint Maung
• Ifigenia Martínez y Hernández

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