User:mtanne

Welcome To My Userpage

I have been using Wikipedia for many years. I've been making edits or contributions since February 2006. I mostly make small edits, but substantial contributions on subject about which I am familiar. I'd like to do more, but there are several reasons I don't. One reason is that there are so many prolific Wikipedians that someone usually makes or edits entries for events and topics before I get to it. Another reason is that I have a day job that keeps me pretty busy. Finally, I've been a little cautious so that I learn how to write in NPOV and don't step on too many toes or violate too many poicies in the process. But I'm getting better.

About Me

I live and work in California.

In the news:

• The government of Southern Sudan withdraws its mediation efforts at the Juba talks between Uganda and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (leader Joseph Kony pictured).
• In tennis, Rafael Nadal and Ana Ivanović win the singles titles in the 2008 French Open.
• The Diet of Japan recognizes the Ainu as an indigenous people for the first time.
• Israeli minister Shaul Mofaz threatens an attack on Iran's nuclear program.
• Turkey's Constitutional Court reinstates a ban on the hijab in universities, citing the constitution's secular principles.
• In ice hockey, the Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup by defeating the Pittsburgh Penguins in six games in the 2008 Finals.
• Zimbabwean police briefly detain foreign diplomats and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai before the second round of the presidential election.
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  On This Day:

  June 9: Shavuot (Judaism, 2008); St. Colmcille's Day in Ireland

  

• 68 – Roman Emperor Nero (bust pictured) committed suicide after he was deposed by the Senate.
• 1310 – Italian artist Duccio's Maestà with Twenty Angels and Nineteen Saints, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, was unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
• 1772 – In an act of defiance against the Navigation Acts, American patriots led by Abraham Whipple attacked and burned the British schooner HMS Gaspée.
• 1856 – Mormon pioneers began leaving Iowa City, Iowa and headed west for Salt Lake City, Utah, carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
• 1928 – Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew landed their Southern Cross aircraft in Brisbane, completing the first ever trans-Pacific flight from the United States mainland to Australia.

• More events: June 8 – June 9 – June 10

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