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Five steps of Wikipedia for Sunday, 28th April 2024

Welcome, добре дошли (dobre doshli), ласкаво просимо (laskavo prosymo), ongi etorri 🤗 Five steps of Wikipedia from "Kutschera (Bohemian noble family ennobled 1805)" to "Project Gutenberg". 🪜👣

Start page 👣🏁: Kutschera (Bohemian noble family ennobled 1805) "The Kutschera family is a Bohemian and Austrian noble family descended from Matthäus Kutschera (died 1755), a burgher of Leitmeritz, who became an accountant for the Prämonstratenserstift Strahow outside Prague...."

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Step 1️⃣ 👣: Baron "Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher than a lord or knight, but lower than a viscount or count. Often, barons hold..."

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Step 2️⃣ 👣: Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, (; 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892), was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his first solo..."

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Step 3️⃣ 👣: Alfred Austin "Alfred Austin (30 May 1835 – 2 June 1913) was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896, after an interval following the death of Tennyson, when the other candidates had either caused controversy or refused the honour. It was claimed that he was being rewarded for his support for the..."

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Step 4️⃣ 👣: Alfred Henry Miles "Alfred Henry Miles (26 February 1848 – 30 October 1929) was a prolific Victorian-age author, editor, anthologist, journalist, composer and lecturer who published hundreds of works on a wide range of topics, ranging from poetry (The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, 10 vols. (London: Hutchinson,..."

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Step 5️⃣ 👣: Project Gutenberg "Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts..."

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Five steps of Wikipedia for Saturday, 27th April 2024

Welcome, bienvenue, ongi etorri, fàilte 🤗 Five steps of Wikipedia from "Ricardo McPhee" to "10th parallel south". 🪜👣

Start page 👣🏁: Ricardo McPhee "Ricardo Rivaldo Jade McPhee (born 3 June 1999) is a Bahamian footballer who plays for United FC and the Bahamas national football team...."

Step 1️⃣ 👣: The Bahamas "The Bahamas ( bə-HAH-məz), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is a country in North America. It is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and 88% of its population. The archipelagic..."

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Step 2️⃣ 👣: 28th parallel north "The 28th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 28 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America and the Atlantic Ocean. In Mexico the parallel defines the border between the states of Baja California and Baja California Sur. This..."

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Step 3️⃣ 👣: 10th parallel north "The 10th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 10 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Ocean, Central America, South America and the Atlantic Ocean. At this latitude the sun is visible for 12..."

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Step 4️⃣ 👣: 105th meridian east "The meridian 105° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. Under mean solar time represents the offset of UTC+07:00 time zone. The 105th meridian east forms a..."

Step 5️⃣ 👣: 10th parallel south "The 10th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 10 degrees south of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Indian Ocean, Australasia, the Pacific Ocean and South America. Part of the border between Brazil and Peru is defined by the parallel...."

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On this day in Wikipedia: Saturday, 27th April

Welcome, добродошли (dobrodošli), welkom, velkommen 🤗 What does @Wikipedia say about 27th April through the years 🏛️📜🗓️?

27th April 2023 🗓️ : Death - Jerry Springer Jerry Springer, American politician and actor (b. 1944) "Gerald Norman Springer (February 13, 1944 – April 27, 2023) was an English-American broadcaster, journalist, actor, lawyer, and politician. He was best known for hosting the controversial tabloid talk show Jerry Springer from 1991 to 2018. He was noted as a pioneer in the emergence of "trash TV";..."

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27th April 2018 🗓️ : Event - Panmunjom Declaration The Panmunjom Declaration is signed between North and South Korea, officially declaring their intentions to end the Korean conflict. "The Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Reunification of the Korean Peninsula was adopted between the President of the Republic of Korea (ROK), Moon Jae-in and the President of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Kim Jong Un, on 27 April..."

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27th April 2014 🗓️ : Death - Dan Colchico Daniel Colchico, American football player and coach (b. 1935) "Daniel Mametta Colchico (May 27, 1935 – April 27, 2014) was an American athlete who played defensive end in the National Football League (NFL)...."

27th April 1974 🗓️ : Event - 1974 Leningrad Aeroflot Il-18 crash 109 people are killed in a plane crash near Pulkovo Airport. "On 27 April 1974, an Aeroflot Il-18 airliner crashed while operating a charter flight from Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) to Zaporizhzhia, continuing to Krasnodar, Russia. The plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Pulkovo Airport in Leningrad. None of the 109 people on board survived. The engine..."

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27th April 1924 🗓️ : Birth - Vernon B. Romney Vernon B. Romney, American lawyer and politician, 14th Attorney General of Utah (d. 2013) "Vernon Bradford Romney (April 27, 1924 – July 13, 2013) was an American lawyer who served as the attorney general of Utah from 1969 to 1977, and the Republican candidate for Governor of Utah in 1976. He was a member of the Romney family and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...."

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27th April 1822 🗓️ : Birth - Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant, American general and politician, 18th President of the United States (d. 1885) "Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American military officer, politician, and the 18th president of the United States, who served from 1869 to 1877. As commanding general, Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 and..."

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27th April 🗓️ : Holiday - Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Sierra Leone from United Kingdom in 1961. "This is a list of holidays in Sierra Leone. National holidays are non-working days only, and employers have to give workers the day off but they do not have to pay them. Businesses are not required to close...."

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Five steps of Wikipedia for Friday, 26th April 2024

Welcome, velkomin, selamat datang, ողջու՜յն (voġčuyn) 🤗 Five steps of Wikipedia from "Helderman Creek" to "1810 United States census". 🪜👣

Start page 👣🏁: Helderman Creek "Helderman Creek is a stream in Cape Girardeau County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of Cane Creek. Helderman Creek was named after the local Helderman family which emigrated from North Carolina...."

Step 1️⃣ 👣: List of rivers of Missouri "List of rivers in Missouri (U.S. state)...."

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Step 2️⃣ 👣: Anthony Branch "Anthony Branch is a stream in Oregon County in the Ozarks of southern Missouri. It is a tributary of the Warm Fork Spring River. The stream source area lies south of Missouri Route P about 5 miles west of Alton. The stream flows south-southeast for about six miles and joins the Warm Fork about 4.5..."

Step 3️⃣ 👣: Missouri "Missouri ( miz-OOR-ee) is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it borders Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas to the south and Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska to the west. In the south are the Ozarks, a..."

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Step 4️⃣ 👣: 1820 United States census "The 1820 United States census was the fourth census conducted in the United States. It was conducted on August 7, 1820. The 1820 census included six new states: Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama and Maine. There has been a district wide loss of 1820 census records for Arkansas..."

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Step 5️⃣ 👣: 1810 United States census "The 1810 United States census was the third census conducted in the United States. It was conducted on August 6, 1810. It showed that 7,239,881 people were living in the United States, of whom 1,191,362 were slaves. The 1810 census included one new state: Ohio. The original census returns for the..."

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Five steps of Wikipedia for Thursday, 25th April 2024

Welcome, ongi etorri, willkommen, bienvenue 🤗 Five steps of Wikipedia from "Park Byeongseon" to "110th meridian east". 🪜👣

Start page 👣🏁: Park Byeongseon "Park Byeongseon (Korean: 박병선; 1927 – 23 November 2011) was a South Korean librarian and historian. Park studied history education at Seoul National University, graduating in 1950. In 1955 she moved to France, to study Korean antiquities. Park pursued her doctorate at Paris Diderot University and..."

Step 1️⃣ 👣: French expedition to Korea "The French expedition to Korea (French: Expédition française en Corée, Korean: 병인양요) was an 1866 punitive expedition undertaken by the Second French Empire against Joseon Korea in retaliation for the execution of seven French Catholic missionaries. The encounter over Ganghwa Island lasted nearly six..."

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Step 2️⃣ 👣: Anglo-French War (1627–1629) "The Anglo-French War (French: Guerre Franco-Anglaise) was a military conflict fought between the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of England between 1627 and 1629. It mainly involved actions at sea. The centrepiece of the conflict was the siege of La Rochelle (1627–28), in which the English Crown..."

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Step 3️⃣ 👣: Acadia "Acadia (French: Acadie) was a colony of New France in northeastern North America which included parts of what are now the Maritime provinces, the Gaspé Peninsula and Maine to the Kennebec River. The population of Acadia included the various indigenous First Nations that comprised the Wabanaki..."

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Step 4️⃣ 👣: 46th parallel north "The 46th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 46 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean. At this latitude the sun is visible for 15 hours, 45 minutes during the summer solstice and 8 hours, 38 minutes..."

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Step 5️⃣ 👣: 110th meridian east "The meridian 110° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 110th meridian east forms a great circle with the 70th meridian west...."

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Five steps of Wikipedia for Wednesday, 24th April 2024

Welcome, tervetuloa, willkommen, üdvözöljük 🤗 Five steps of Wikipedia from "Sho Morita" to "1964 AFC Asian Cup squads". 🪜👣

Start page 👣🏁: Sho Morita "Sho Morita (森田 翔, Morita Sho, born 6 July 2003) is a Japanese footballer who plays as a defender...."

Step 1️⃣ 👣: J.League Cup "The J.League Cup (Japanese: Jリーグカップ, Hepburn: Jē-rīgu Kappu) is a Japanese football (soccer) competition organised by J.League, the men's association football league in Japan. It has been sponsored by Yamazaki Biscuits (YBC) of Yamazaki Baking (formerly Yamazaki Nabisco) since its inception in 1992...."

Step 2️⃣ 👣: 1996 J.League Cup "Statistics of J. League Cup, officially the '96 J.League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup, in the 1996 season...."

Step 3️⃣ 👣: 1996 AFC Asian Cup "The 1996 AFC Asian Cup was the 11th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The finals were held in the United Arab Emirates between 4 and 21 December 1996. Saudi Arabia defeated hosts United Arab..."

Step 4️⃣ 👣: 1956 AFC Asian Cup "The 1956 AFC Asian Cup was the first AFC Asian Cup, held every four years and organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The final tournament was held in Hong Kong from 1 September to 15 September 1956 as a four-team round-robin competition with no final. It was won by South Korea. An..."

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Step 5️⃣ 👣: 1964 AFC Asian Cup squads "Squads for the 1964 AFC Asian Cup played in Israel...."

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Five steps of Wikipedia for Tuesday, 23rd April 2024

Welcome, benvenuto, ongi etorri, bonvenon 🤗 Five steps of Wikipedia from "Raphaël Castoriano" to "2010 Nuclear Security Summit". 🪜👣

Start page 👣🏁: Raphaël Castoriano "Raphaël Castoriano is an artist, art advisor and founder & creative director of Kreëmart...."

Step 1️⃣ 👣: Brazil "Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and in Latin America. Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is..."

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Step 2️⃣ 👣: 12th BRICS summit "The 2020 BRICS summit was the twelfth annual BRICS summit, an international relations conference attended by the heads of state or heads of government of the five member states Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The meeting was originally scheduled to take place in Saint Petersburg from..."

Step 3️⃣ 👣: 1st BRIC summit "The inaugural BRIC summit took place in Yekaterinburg, Russia on June 16, 2009. The four heads of government from the BRIC countries attended...."

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Step 4️⃣ 👣: 2nd BRIC summit "The 2010 BRIC summit took place in Brasília, Brazil on April 16, 2010. This was the second BRIC summit after Yekaterinburg in 2009. The meeting took place between the four heads of government from the BRIC states following bilateral meetings in the prior days...."

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Step 5️⃣ 👣: 2010 Nuclear Security Summit "The 2010 Nuclear Security Summit was a summit held in Washington, D.C., on April 12 and 13, 2010. The Summit focused on how to better safeguard weapons-grade plutonium and uranium to prevent nuclear terrorism...."

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Five steps of Wikipedia for Monday, 22nd April 2024

Welcome, أهلا بك (ahlan bika), მოგესალმებით (mogesalmebit), добредојде (dobredojde) 🤗 Five steps of Wikipedia from "Adeniyi Sulaimon Gbadegesin" to "Accra Institute of Technology". 🪜👣

Start page 👣🏁: Adeniyi Sulaimon Gbadegesin "Adeniyi Sulaimon Gbadegesin (born 13 February 1958), is an Academician and was Vice chancellor of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH at Ogbomosho between 2011 and 2018..."

Step 1️⃣ 👣: Ladoke Akintola University of Technology "Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) is a tertiary institution located in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria. The university enrolls over 30,000 students and employs more than 3,000 workers including contract staff. ..."

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Step 2️⃣ 👣: Abdou Moumouni University "Abdou Moumouni University (French: Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, UAM), formerly the University of Niamey from 1974 to 1994, is a public university based in Niamey, the capital of Niger. The main campus is situated on the right bank of the Niger River. Historically, its students and faculty..."

Step 3️⃣ 👣: Addis Ababa Science and Technology University "Addis Ababa Science and Technology University (Amharic: አዲስ አበባ ሳይንስና ቴክኖሎጂ ዩኒቨርስቲ), or AASTU, is an Ethiopian higher institute in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The main campus is located in the Akaky Kaliti subcity, Kilinto area around Tulu dimtu. The concept of Addis Ababa Science and Technology..."

Step 4️⃣ 👣: African University College of Communications "The African University College of Communications is a private tertiary institution at Adabraka, Accra, Ghana, for the study and teaching of journalism, communication studies, information technology convergence, business, African Studies, providing opportunities for advanced learning, and practical..."

Step 5️⃣ 👣: Accra Institute of Technology "The Accra Institute of Technology (AIT), is an independent technology-focused research university based in Accra, Ghana. The university comprises six schools and three institutes. The university is modeled on internationally renowned institutes of technology like the Massachusetts Institute of..."

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