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Wikipedia, a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers known as Wikipedians, began with its first edit on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered. [2] It grew out of Nupedia, a more structured free encyclopedia, as a way to allow easier and faster drafting of articles and translations.
Wikipedia's first true logo was an image originally submitted by Bjørn Smestad – under the username Bjornsm – for a Nupedia logo competition which took place in 2000. [5] It was used provisionally as Wikipedia's logo until the end of 2001. [6]
Wikipedia's first true logo was an image that was originally submitted by Bjørn Smestad [1] for a Nupedia logo competition which took place in 2000. [2] It continued to be used after this time on Special Pages, such as search results. The logo included a quote from the preface of the 1879 book Euclid and his Modern Rivals by Lewis Carroll; due ...
e. Hatnotes are short notes placed at the very top of a page or a section, in the way that a hat is placed on top of one's head. For an example see the notes in italics immediately preceding the boxes above. The purpose of a hatnote is to help readers locate a different article if the one they are at is not the one they're looking for.
Nohat 07:22, 21 July 2005 (UTC) Reply . You have looked not very carefully. Word History: According to a popular story, bistro came into existence as a French word when Russian soldiers entered Parisian restaurants and cafés after the fall of Napoleon in 1815 shouting “bystro, bystro,” Russian for “quickly, quickly.”
User:Nohat was extremely helpful, looking up the OED for us, when I did a major cleanup of the List of English words of Japanese origin. I'll ask him if he can help. Also, Nohat has devised a 3-part test, to determine if words should be included on the list. The test is as follows: Does the word occur in English texts with any regularity?
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U.S. Open. 22nd: 2000. The Open Championship. T20: 2000. Notah Ryan Begay III (born September 14, 1972) is an American professional golfer. He is one of the few Native American [2] golfers to have played in the PGA Tour. [3] Since 2013, Begay has served as an analyst with the Golf Channel and NBC Sports.
Shutterstock, Inc. is an American provider of stock photography, stock footage, stock music, and editing tools; it is headquartered in New York. Founded in 2003 by programmer and photographer Jon Oringer, Shutterstock maintains a library of around 200 million royalty-free stock photos, vector graphics, and illustrations, with around 10 million video clips and music tracks available for licensing.
Norah Jones. Norah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar; March 30, 1979) [2] is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She has won several awards for her music and, as of 2023, had sold more than 50 million records worldwide. [3] Billboard named her the top jazz artist of the 2000s decade.