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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

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Picture of the day

The pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub in the family Lythraceae that grows between 5 and 10 metres (16 and 33 feet) tall. The pomegranate fruit husk is red-purple in color, with an outer, hard pericarp, and an inner, spongy mesocarp (white "albedo"), which comprises the fruit inner wall where seeds attach. Pomegranate seeds are characterized by having sarcotesta, thick fleshy seed coats derived from the integuments or outer layers of the ovule's epidermal cells. The number of seeds in a fruit can vary from 200 to about 1,400. Rich in symbolic and mythological associations in many cultures, the pomegranate is thought to have originated from Afghanistan and Iran before being introduced and exported to other parts of Asia, Africa, and Europe. This photograph, which was focus-stacked from 10 separate images, shows a whole pomegranate fruit (right), and a fruit split open to reveal the arils, each of which surrounds a seed (left).Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus

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February 14: Valentine's Day

Detail from Pale Blue Dot

• 1655 – Arauco War: The Mapuche carried out a series of coordinated attacks against Spanish settlements and forts in colonial Chile, beginning a ten-year period of warfare.
• 1779 – Native Hawaiians killed the English explorer Captain James Cook after he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief of the island of Hawaii.
• 1990 – The NASA space probe Voyager 1 took Pale Blue Dot (detail pictured), a photograph of Earth from a record distance of 40.5 astronomical units (6.06 billion km; 3.76 billion mi).
• 2005 – The online video platform YouTube was founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim.
• 2007 – The first of several bombings in Zahedan, Iran, killed 18 members of the Revolutionary Guards.

• Valentin Friedland (b. 1490)
• Eleanora Atherton (b. 1782)
• Nadezhda Krupskaya (b. 1869)
• Vito Genovese (d. 1969)

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Brigitte Haas

• The Patriotic Union, led by Brigitte Haas (pictured), wins the most seats in the Landtag of Liechtenstein.
• In American football, the Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Kansas City Chiefs to win the Super Bowl.
• Former president of Namibia Sam Nujoma dies at the age of 95.
• A series of boycotts against retail stores expands to several countries in Southeast Europe.
• The 49th imam of Nizari Isma'ilism, Aga Khan IV, dies at the age of 88 and is succeeded by his son Aga Khan V.

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• M23 campaign
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
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• Gyalo Thondup
• Louis-Gaston Mayila
• Beverly Byron
• Dick Jauron
• Hans-Peter Lehmann

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