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/July 28

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Oliveira in 2018

... that Brazilian Olympic gymnast Lorrane Oliveira (pictured) trained for the circus before starting gymnastics?
... that some estimate that maintenance of existing software costs up to nine times as much as creating it in the first place?
... that at age 15, Lilia Cosman moved from the United States to Romania to compete for Romania's Olympic gymnastics team?
... that Baubau city filed two different budgets at the same time, losing their chance at becoming the capital of Southeast Sulawesi?
... that in 1948 Jane Wallis Burrell became the first CIA officer to die in service?
... that after being freed from Buq Buq labor camp in Italian-occupied Egypt, Libyan Jewish prisoners had to walk home across the desert?
... that Aminata Barrow is the first female Olympic swimmer for The Gambia?
... that the Newton Lower Falls Branch was operated with a single electric railcar nicknamed the "Ping-Pong"?
... that after disappearing in 2019, a donkey is now "living his best life" with a wild elk herd?

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Bultfonteinite is a pink, light-brown or colorless mineral with the chemical formula Ca₂SiO₂(OH,F)₄. It was first discovered in 1903 or 1904 in the Bultfontein mine in Kimberley, South Africa, with other finds in the same country in the following years. It has since been found across the world including in Australia, Botswana, Japan, Russia and the United States. The mineral occurs as radiating prismatic acicular crystals and radial spherules up to 2 centimetres (0.79 inches). This specimen of bultfonteinite, measuring 5.0 cm × 3.0 cm × 3.0 cm (2.0 in × 1.2 in × 1.2 in), was extracted from Shijiangshan Mine near Chifeng in Inner Mongolia, China.Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus

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