User:Itai

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This user is a translator from Hebrew to English on Wikipedia:Translation.

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This user is a translator and proofreader from Hebrew to English on Wikipedia:Translation.

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Cover of Al-Asma'i, 1908

... that the magazine Al-Asma'i (pictured), one of the first publications to emerge in Ottoman Palestine in 1908, was opposed to Zionism and frequently criticized Jewish immigration?
... that One Chun, a Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand restaurant, has black-and-white televisions, transistor radios, and aged clocks on a wall?
... that Heike Heubach became the first deaf member of the German Bundestag?
... that larvae of the species Carabus japonicus prey on earthworms up to 400 times larger than themselves?
... that John Quincy Adams described Jonathan Elliot, his former printer, as "penurious and venal"?
... that an Irish comedy group wrote the film Apocalypse Clown?
... that scholars debate whether Anactoria, mentioned in Sappho's poems, was a real person, a pseudonym, or an invention of Sappho?
... that American Colossus, a history book that describes how a banker bailed out the U.S. government in 1895, was published around a time when the U.S. government bailed out banks?
... that football player Joe Gray was nicknamed the "Gray Ghost" because when running "it was like he wasn't there anymore"?

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The Nazca lines are a group of geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. They were created in two major phases – the Paracas phase (from 400 to 200 BC) and the Nazca phase (from 200 BC to 500 AD). The combined length of all the lines is more than 1,300 km (800 mi), and the group covers an area of about 50 km² (19 sq mi). Most lines run straight across the landscape, but there are also figurative designs of animals and plants. Scholars differ in interpreting the purpose of the designs, but in general, they ascribe religious significance to them. The lines were designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. This is an aerial view of the geoglyph known as the "monkey", one of the most well-known in the Nazca lines.Photograph credit: Diego Delso

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