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I have many and extremely varied interests, ranging from Judaism to Ultimate to Genealogy, and, as I live in the DC area, politics, particularly US politics (both current events and history). And more!
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WikiProject New Jersey.
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WikiProject Baseball.
This user is Jewish.


This user believes in the existence of a human soul or spirit.
This user observes the dietary laws of Kashrut.
DadThis user is a father and proud of it!
This user watches 24.
This user lives in the United States Commonwealth of Virginia.
This user grew up in the state of New Jersey.
This user is owned by
one or more cats.
gtr-2This user is an intermediate guitarist.
This user enjoys rock music.
This user has an iPod.
This user owns an iPhone.
This user plays ultimate.
pno-2This user is an intermediate pianist.
WSHThis user is a fan of the
Washington Nationals.
NYM This user is a New York Mets fan.
WASThis user is a fan of the
Washington Commanders.
NYJThis user is a fan of the
New York Jets
...This user is proud to say that they have kept their amateur procrastinator status intact.
This user remembers using
a rotary dial telephone.
This user is greater than the sum of their userboxes.


Greetings

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Today is Tuesday, June 2, 2026. It's 01:59 (UT).

Wikipedia currently has 7,189,758 articles.

Today's Pic of the Day

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Black kite
The black kite (Milvus migrans) is a medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which occurs widely across Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, inhabiting both temperate and tropical regions. It is an opportunistic feeder, hunting small animals but also scavenging on carrion, household refuse and fish. Black kites are highly adaptable and often thrive in urban environments, especially in South Asia, where they frequently live close to humans. The bird has an average weight of 735 grams (26 oz) and features a forked tail and a distinctive shrill whistle followed by a rapid whinnying call. It is a skilled soarer, commonly using thermal currents to search for food and migrate. Several subspecies are recognised, including the Indian govinda and the Australian affinis. This black kite of the subspecies M. m. affinis was photographed in flight by the Adelaide River, east of Darwin in the Northern Territory, Australia.Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp
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General Editing

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Images, Copyright, Etc.

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Tools

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Policy

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Misc

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Redirect - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect #REDIRECT [[NAME OF PAGE 2]]
Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style
Upload - Special:Upload
Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines


Vandalism, Protection, Afd, Etc.

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Congressional Templates

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See [[Category:Succession templates]], particularly

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Template:U.S._Senator_box
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{{US House succession box |
  state=Texas |
  district=22 |
  before=[[Ron Paul]] |
  start=1984
}}
{{U.S. Senator box | 
  state=Washington| class=1 |
  before=[[Slade Gorton]] | 
  start=2001 | 
  alongside=[[Patty Murray]] |
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Also:

  • {{ushr|Pennsylvania|7|}} gives you "Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district"
  • {{CongBio|R000243|(default=name of page)}} gives you "
  • United States Congress. "name of page (id: R000243)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress."

External Links: 2006 Election

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These are some of the links that I frequently use in following the 2006 election. If you're reading this, and you find other useful ones, please add them!

Reference Templates

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<ref>
{{cite news  |first =  |last =  |author =  |coauthors = |url =  |title =  |work =  |publisher =  |pages =  |page =  |date =  |accessdate = 
}}
</ref>

if you need to cite a source twice, give it a name as such: 

<ref name="Source1">{{cite news | etc. }}}</ref>

then to link it again use 

<ref name="Source1"/>

Also 

{{cite web | title=Title | work=Title of Complete Work | url=http://www.example.com | accessdate=2006-06-28}}

Two columns for references? 

{{reflist|2}}

See also Sources of Articles.

Other Useful Templates

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  • {{subst:lifetime|1904|1991|Greene, Graham}}
  • {{birth date and age |1953|12|22}} yields (1953-12-22) December 22, 1953 (age 72)
  • {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, John}}

To Do List

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He proposed tax cuts in 1962; they were passed in 1964. [3] On a larger subject: the "Domestic Policies" section of the JFK article seems pretty dismissive. Certainly it's wrong to imply, as strongly as it does, that the tax cuts passed in 1964 owed little to his efforts. John Broughton 15:02, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
A quick scan of my old Ency. Britannica noted as accomplishments: Cuban missle crisis, which may have helped lead Kruschev to sign, 10 mos later, the nuclear test ban treaty. It notes that Congress was indeed wary of his domestic plans (one that passed was the Peace Corps) in part because of the closeness of the election -- but that Kennedy was convinced he would win a 1964 landslide against Goldwater, and get the mandate for the massive tax cut, and civil rights leglislation that he wanted. -- Sholom 21:13, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Trivia

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various 'landmarks'

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some articles I created

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Parsha of the Week

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Weekly Torah Portion
Shlach (שלח)
Numbers 13:1–15:41
The Weekly Torah portion in synagogues outside of Israel on Shabbat, Saturday, 21 Sivan, 5786—June 6, 2026
"The land that we traversed and scouted is an exceedingly good land." (Numbers 14:7.)

God told Moses to send one chieftain from each of the 12 tribes of Israel to scout the land of Canaan, and Moses sent them out from the wilderness of Paran. Among the scouts were Caleb son of Jephunneh from the Tribe of Judah and Hosea son of Nun from the Tribe of Ephraim. Moses changed Hosea's name to Joshua. They scouted the land as far as Hebron. At the wadi Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes so large that it had to be borne on a carrying frame by two of them, as well as some pomegranates and figs.

At the end of 40 days, they returned and reported to Moses, Aaron, and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh saying that the land did indeed flow with milk and honey, but that the people who inhabited it were powerful, the cities were fortified and very large, and that they saw the Anakites there. Caleb hushed the people and urged the people to go up and take the land. But the other scouts spread calumnies about the land, calling it "one that devours its settlers." They reported that the land's people were giants and stronger than the Israelites. The whole community broke into crying, railed against Moses and Aaron, and shouted: "If only we might die in this wilderness!"

Moses and Aaron fell on their faces, and Joshua and Caleb rent their clothes and exhorted the Israelites not to fear, and not to rebel against God. Just as the community threatened to pelt them with stones, God's Presence appeared in the Tabernacle. God complained to Moses: "How long will this people spurn Me," and threatened to strike them with pestilence and make of Moses a nation more numerous than they. But Moses told God to think of what the Egyptians would think when they heard the news, and how they would think God powerless to bring the Israelites to the Promised Land. Moses asked God to forbear, quoting God's self-description as "slow to anger and abounding in kindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression." (Num. 14:17–18.) In response, God pardoned, but also swore that none of the men who had seen God's signs would see the Promised Land, except Caleb and Joshua, and that all the rest 20 years old and up would die in the wilderness. God said that the Israelites’ children would enter the Promised Land after roaming the wilderness, suffering for the faithlessness of the present generation, for 40 years, corresponding to the number of days that the scouts scouted the land. The scouts other than Caleb and Joshua died of plague.

Early the next morning, the Israelites set out to the Promised Land, but Moses told them that they would not succeed without God in their midst. But they marched forward anyway, and the Amalekites and the Canaanites dealt them a shattering blow at Hormah.

tzitzit on the corner of a tallit

God told Moses to tell Israelites that when they entered the Promised Land and would present an offering to God, the person presenting the offering was also to bring flour mixed with oil and wine. And when a resident alien wanted to present an offering, the same law would apply. When the Israelites ate bread of the land, they were to set the first loaf aside as a gift to God.

If the community unwittingly failed to observe any commandment, the community was to present one bull as a burnt offering with its proper meal offering and wine, and one he-goat as a sin offering, and the priest would make expiation for the whole community and they would be forgiven. And if an individual sinned unwittingly, the individual was to offer a she-goat in its first year as a sin offering, and the priest would make expiation that the individual might be forgiven. But the person who violated a commandment defiantly was to be cut off from among his people.

Once the Israelites came upon a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day, and they brought him before Moses, Aaron, and the community and placed him in custody. God told Moses that the whole community was to pelt him with stones outside the camp, so they did so.

God told Moses to instruct the Israelites to make for themselves fringes (in Hebrew, ציצת or tzitzit) on each of the corners of their garments. They were to look at the fringes, recall the commandments, and observe them.

Hebrew and English text
Hear the parshah chanted
Commentary from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University (Conservative)
Commentaries from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (Conservative)
Commentary by the Union for Reform Judaism (Reform)
Commentaries from Project Genesis (Orthodox)
Commentaries from Chabad.org (Orthodox)
Commentaries from Aish HaTorah (Orthodox)
Commentaries from the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation (Reconstructionist)
Commentaries from My Jewish Learning (trans-denominational)

The Weekly Torah portion in synagogues in Israel on Shabbat, Saturday, 21 Sivan, 5786—June 6, 2026—is Korach.

Commentaries from Aleph Beta Academy

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