User:Rfl

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Penrose Tribar

Rafał Pocztarski

Administrator of the English Wikipedia since 2004 (original nomination)

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Picture of the day

Garlic (Allium sativum) is a species of bulbous flowering plants in the genus Allium. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, chives, Welsh onion, and Chinese onion. It is native to Central Asia, South Asia, and northeastern Iran. It has long been used as a seasoning and culinary ingredient worldwide, with a history of several thousand years of human consumption and use, including use in traditional medicine. It was known to ancient Egyptians and other ancient cultures for which its consumption has had a significant culinary cultural impact, especially across the Mediterranean region and across parts of Asia. It is produced globally, but the largest producer is China, which produced 73% of the world's supply of garlic in 2021. This photograph shows a bulb and cloves of garlic, and was focus-stacked from 37 individual images.Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus

Selected anniversaries

January 23: Little New Year in southern China (2025)

Hongwu Emperor

• 1368 – The Hongwu Emperor (pictured) ascended to the throne, initiating the Ming dynasty, which would rule China for three centuries.
• 1571 – Queen Elizabeth I opened the Royal Exchange in London, giving it its royal title.
• 1846 – Ahmad Bey declared the legal abolition of slavery in Tunisia.
• 1870 – American Indian Wars: The United States Army killed about 200 Piegan Blackfeet, mostly women, children, and the elderly, in the Marias Massacre.
• 1915 – Rebels led by John Chilembwe attacked local plantation owners, beginning an uprising regarded as a key moment in the history of Malawi.
• 2010 – The final signal was detected from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10, then about 12 billion kilometres (7.5 billion miles) from Earth.

• Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama (b. 1880)
• Guida Maria (b. 1950)
• Hsu Tain-tsair (b. 1953)

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Grand Kartal Hotel in 2007

• A fire at a ski resort hotel (pictured) in Kartalkaya, Turkey, leaves at least 79 people dead and 51 others injured.
• A series of attacks by the National Liberation Army in the Catatumbo region of Colombia leaves more than a hundred people dead.
• A ceasefire agreement suspends the Israel–Hamas war, involving the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners.
• Two Supreme Court judges are assassinated in a shooting at the Supreme Court of Iran in Tehran.

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• Russian invasion of Ukraine
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• Didier Guillaume
• Denis Law
• Hans Dobida
• Linda Nolan
• Tommy Brown

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