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ABOUT ME

My Username

FayssalF

My Signature

Szvest → ^{Wiki Me Up ®}

Coming from

Morocco

Where I've been

Algeria Bahrain
England Saudi Arabia
Scotland Singapore
Spain Thailand
Tunisia UAE
United States Wales

Where I'd like to go

Everywhere but HELL

My Hobbies

Wikipedia, Collage, Photography

My Favorite human

Albert Einstein

My Favorite Movies

Highlander, Monsieur Ibrahim, Indigènes, Heat

My Favorite Books

No logo, A Brief History of Time

What I think is the most important event in history

The developement of Personal Computers.

My Favorite Website

http://www.HowStuffWorks.com/

My Position on Wikipedia

I've been an administrator since December 2005

My Wikipediholic Test score

Never tested it. Yes, I've never had a test

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40,000

This user has over 40,000 edits on the English Wikipedia.

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WikiProject Military history.

This user participates in WikiProject Spain.

This user is able to contribute with an advanced level of English.

اللغة الام لهذا المستخدم هي العربية.

Cet utilisateur parle français à un niveau comparable à la langue maternelle.

Este usario puede contribuir con un nivel avanzado en Español.

Ĉi tiu uzanto povas komuniki per baza nivelo de Esperanto.

Questo utente può contribuire con un italiano di livello semplice.

This user is Moroccan.

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This user is politically independent.

This user is a Citizen of the World (Terra, ⊕).

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This user can program in C#.

33

This user is 33 years old.

This user BOINCs.

This user supports moral equality amongst great apes and humans.

This user is car-free.^‡

This user owns one or more Siamese cats.

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Banded sugar worker ant with cocoon

The banded sugar ant (Camponotus consobrinus) is a species of ant endemic to Australia. A member of the genus Camponotus in the subfamily Formicinae, it was described by German entomologist Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson in 1842. Its common name refers to the ant's preference for sweet food and the distinctive orange-brown band around its gaster. The ant is polymorphic and relatively large, with castes called major workers (soldiers) and minor workers. Ants in these groups measure around 5 to 15 millimetres (0.20 to 0.59 inches) in length. Mainly nocturnal, the ants prefer a mesic habitat, and are commonly found in forests and woodlands; they are also found in urban areas, where they are considered a household pest. The ant's diet includes sweet secretions obtained from aphids and other insects. Workers prey on some insects, killing them with a spray of formic acid. Banded sugar ants are prey for other ants, echidnas and birds. The eggs of this species were consumed by Indigenous Australians. (Full article...)

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The Jewish Cemetery is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael. Painted in 1654 or 1655, it is an allegorical landscape painting suggesting ideas of hope and death, while also being based on Beth Haim, a cemetery located on Amsterdam's southern outskirts, at the town of Ouderkerk aan de Amstel. Beth Haim is a resting place for some prominent figures among Amsterdam's large Jewish Portuguese community in the 17th century. Ruisdael presents the cemetery as a landscape variant of a vanitas painting, employing deserted tombs, ravaged churches, stormy clouds, dead trees, changing skies, and flowing water to symbolize death and the transience of all earthly things. The known provenance for the painting dates back only to 1739 and its original owner is not documented; since 1926, it has been owned by the Detroit Institute of Arts.Painting credit: Jacob van Ruisdael

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