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This user is a translator and proofreader from Hebrew to English on Wikipedia:Translation.

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Seth Peterson Cottage

... that the Seth Peterson Cottage (pictured) was said to have "more architecture per square foot" than any of Frank Lloyd Wright's other designs?
... that Robert Van Damme played ice hockey professionally before pursuing a career in gay pornography?
... that a 2023 tornado damaged Selma, Alabama, known for civil-rights marches attended by Martin Luther King Jr., just eight days before MLK Day?
... that Pitty recorded Admirável Chip Novo with a band hastily assembled from Salvador musicians after rejecting Rio de Janeiro's session musicians because it felt "strange"?
... that Joseph Pearman played American football with F. Scott Fitzgerald at a preparatory school?
... that A Polish Book of Monsters features stories in which the line between monster and human is blurred, reflecting what the editor saw as a quintessentially Polish view of monstrosity?
... that an Indian restaurant chain has more than 800 combinations of kulfi flavours, toppings, and sauces?
... that some mill workers in a historic district in Virginia gave their ages as fourteen despite appearing much younger?
... that Yi chieftain Xiao Yedan and a Chinese Red Army military leader established an alliance by drinking chicken blood?

Picture of the day

Galaxea fascicularis is a species of colonial stony coral in the family Euphylliidae, commonly known as octopus coral, fluorescence grass coral, or galaxy coral. It is found in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and in large areas of the Indo-Pacific, on coral-reef slopes at depths between between 2 metres (6.6 ft) and 15 metres (49 ft). Small colonies of G. fascicularis often form low domes but as they grow, the colonies become more irregular, massively hummocky or columnar, and may eventually reach 5 metres (16 ft) across. The individual polyps are embedded in circular, tube-shaped corallites less than 1 centimetre (0.39 in) across, made of a limy material extruded by the polyps. Lining the corallites are a large number of ridge-like septa radiating from the centre. The polyps often feed in the daytime, and when their tentacles are extended the basic skeleton of the coral is hidden. The general colour of the coral ranges from green and grey to reddish brown. The tentacles are often a contrasting colour and are usually tipped with white. This G. fascicularis colony was photographed in the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt.Photograph credit: Diego Delso

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