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/February 13

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Fatimid gold dinar of al-Mu'izz, Palestine 969/70

... that the Fatimid Caliphate used gold from the tombs of the pharaohs in its gold coinage (pictured)?
... that Paris was the first county seat of Linn County, Kansas, but hardly a ruin is left to tell where it once was?
... that Américo Ramos became Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe after his predecessor, Ilza Amado Vaz, resigned following a tenure of three days?
... that a million tulips at the 1939 New York World's Fair were destroyed and replaced the month after the fair began?
... that there are more than 100 rock paintings of Aboriginal pictographs on a cliff face in Missinaibi Lake?
... that the Deval Mosque was formerly a Hindu temple?
... that Andrei Demurenko, the first Russian officer to be a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, served alongside the Wagner Group in Ukraine?
... that the Stride bus network will launch with electric double-deckers that charge wirelessly?
... that a Taiwanese livestreamer accidentally solved a missing person's case?

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The Jadeite Cabbage, also known as Jadeite Cabbage with Insects, is a piece of jadeite carved into the shape of a head of Chinese cabbage, with a locust and a katydid camouflaged in the leaves. Created by an unknown sculptor in the 19th century, it was first displayed in the Forbidden City's Yonghe Palace, the residence of Consort Jin, who probably received it as part of her dowry for her wedding to the Guangxu Emperor in 1889. The Jadeite Cabbage is now part of the collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan. It has been called the museum's "most famous masterpiece" and, along with the Meat-Shaped Stone and the Mao Gong ding, is considered one of the Three Treasures of the National Palace Museum.Sculpture credit: unknown; photographed by the National Palace Museum

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