User:Rfl

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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

The red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is a bird of prey that breeds throughout most of North America, from the interior of Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies. It occupies a wide range of habitats and altitudes, including deserts, grasslands, forests, agricultural fields, and urban areas. Red-tailed hawks are opportunistic generalists and their diet is variable. In North America, they are most often predators of small mammals such as rodents. Prey that is terrestrial and at least partially diurnal is preferred, so types such as ground squirrels are preferred where they naturally occur. The bird is legally protected in Canada and Mexico, and in the United States by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. This red-tailed hawk in flight was photographed at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge in California.Photograph credit: Frank Schulenburg

Selected anniversaries

August 31: Independence Day in Malaysia (1957); Romanian Language Day in Moldova and Romania

Cartoon of Jack the Ripper as a phantom stalking Whitechapel

• 1218 – Al-Kamil became the fourth sultan of the Ayyubid dynasty of Egypt.
• 1888 – The body of Mary Ann Nichols, the alleged first victim of an unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper (pictured), was found in Buck's Row, London.
• 1942 – The Matagorda hurricane, the most intense and costliest tropical cyclone of the 1942 Atlantic hurricane season, dissipated after causing $26.5 million in damages and eight deaths.
• 1969 – On the final day of the Isle of Wight Festival 1969, attended by approximately 150,000 people over three days, Bob Dylan appeared in his first gig in three years.
• 2019 – A sightseeing helicopter crashed in the mountains of Skoddevarre in Alta, Norway, killing all six people on board.

• Aidan of Lindisfarne (d. 651)
• Alma Mahler (b. 1879)
• Feng Tianwei (b. 1986)
• William McAloney (d. 1995)

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Paralympics opening ceremony

• The Summer Paralympics open (ceremony pictured) in Paris, France.
• More than two hundred people are killed in an Islamist militant attack in Barsalogho Department, Burkina Faso.
• The Islamic State claims responsibility for a mass stabbing that killed three people at a festival in Solingen, Germany.
• In cycling, Katarzyna Niewiadoma wins the Tour de France Femmes.

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• Arthur J. Gregg
• Charlotte Kretschmann
• Juan Izquierdo
• David Anfam
• Salim Al-Huss

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