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Did you know & Signpost

Cannonball in Milwaukee, 1966

• ... that despite being an ordinary commuter train, the Cannonball (pictured) was known for its Friday-night parties?
• ... that Jeya Wilson invited New Zealand prime minister David Lange to debate the moral indefensibility of nuclear weapons at the Oxford Union?
• ... that the music producer of Barney & Friends considered it ludicrous that its theme song was used in torture at Guantanamo Bay?
• ... that the Xinwen Bao was first published during the Lunar New Year to take advantage of its competitors being on hiatus?
• ... that psychologist Sonya Friedman recommends that women create a totem, a collection of objects that represent important turning points in their lives?
• ... that the FCC canceled a permit to build a Florida TV station, finding that "the most prominent facility completed within the studio building appears to be a toilet"?
• ... that a renovation of 240 Centre Street was delayed by several months because a street map was incorrect?
• ... that with the exception of one day in 1941, the Kaunas Carillon stopped playing music for sixteen years due to the Soviet and German occupations of Lithuania?

Precious anniversary

precise reduction
Thank you for quality contributions, based on historic knowledge and language skills, to articles about people, places, music, wording with precision and reducing excess with a focus on content and accuracy, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (30 April 2010)!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:02, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Two years ago, you were the 439th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:01, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Three years ago, you were recipient no. 439 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:08, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

• Very kind of you!_ Dr. Dan (talk) 18:28, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Four years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:45, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

• Es ist schön, sich noch einmal zu erinnern. Danke vielmals._Dr. Dan (talk) 17:09, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

seven years now! ;) - ja, schön --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:26, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

• Lebt noch. Danke._Dr. Dan (talk) 20:33, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

good to know --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:36, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

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Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago

Awesome

Ten years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:22, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Eight years!

sad to have had to contribute to the obit above, - miss her, and too many --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:43, 29 March 2021 (UTC)