User talk:Dr. Dan
Did you know & Signpost[edit]
16 May 2024 |
- ... that Olga Lander's camera required her to work close to the dangerous wartime subjects she photographed (example pictured)?
- ... that the antiseptic cream Boroline was marketed to appeal to nationalistic sentiments?
- ... that King Christian IX and Queen Louise of Denmark were the parents of a Danish king, a British queen, a Greek king, and a Russian empress?
- ... that John D. Rockefeller Jr., under the name "David's Father", secretly authorized the purchase of an $8,000 "antique"?
- ... that although Evgeniia Subbotina failed to escape her own exile in Siberia, she successfully aided the escapes of Catherine Breshkovsky, Yelizaveta Kovalskaya and Sofya Bogomolets?
- ... that an 18th-century hymn inspired the title of George W. Bush's 1999 autobiography?
- ... that Denpasar mayor I Gusti Ngurah Jaya Negara became active in politics after he was laid off from a bank due to the Asian financial crisis?
- ... that Israel's destruction of trees and farmland in Gaza has been described as an ecocide?
- ... that Elizabeth Storie's doctor poured nitric acid into her mouth, causing her teeth to fall out?
Precious anniversary[edit]
precise reduction
Thank you for quality contributions, based on historic knowledge and language skills, to articles about people, places, music, wording with precision and reducing excess with a focus on content and accuracy, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (30 April 2010)!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:02, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
Two years ago, you were the 439th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:01, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
Three years ago, you were recipient no. 439 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:08, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
Four years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:45, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
- Es ist schön, sich noch einmal zu erinnern. Danke vielmals._Dr. Dan (talk) 17:09, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
- seven years now! ;) - ja, schön --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:26, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
- good to know --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:36, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
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Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago[edit]
Ten years! |
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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:22, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
Precious anniversary[edit]
Eight years! |
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sad to have had to contribute to the obit above, - miss her, and too many --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:43, 29 March 2021 (UTC)