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Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. (Invictus) "abandoning leap seconds would break sundials" Picture of the day Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland, located on the Vistula in the east-central part of the country. It has an estimated population of 1.86 million, within a larger metropolitan area of 3.27 million residents, and it is a major cultural, political and economic hub. Warsaw originated as a small fishing town in Masovia, rising to prominence in the late 16th century when Sigismund III moved the Polish capital and his royal court from Kraków. It was the de facto capital of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1795 and then the seat of Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. The 19th century and its Industrial Revolution brought a demographic boom. Warsaw was bombed and besieged at the start of World War II in 1939, and its infrastructure and population suffered during the systematic razing which followed the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. The modern city features many historic monuments, including the reconstructed Old Town, designated a World Heritage Site. This 2022 photograph shows an elevated view of Warsaw's Constitution Square, looking northwards down Marszałkowska Street.Photograph credit: Emptywords After I die I promise not to perform any miracles Did you know... Titiou Lecoq ... that Titiou Lecoq (pictured) only realized that "women did not rule the universe" after she left home? ... that Brandiose's design work for the Rocket City Trash Pandas helped the team sell $4 million in merchandise before it played its first game? ... that Tupou VI was crowned by D'Arcy Wood, an Australian, in order to respect the tradition of native Tongans not touching the king's head? ... that Aleister Crowley's 1941 manifesto controversially asserts a human right to commit tyrannicide? ... that Begüm Pusat, a 15-year-old Turkish wheelchair basketballer, was one of the youngest players at the 2019 Women's U25 World Championship? ... that by losing her constituency of South West Norfolk in 2024, Liz Truss became the first former UK prime minister since 1935 to lose their seat? ... that Carey Wright implemented literacy reforms that led to the "Mississippi Miracle"? ... that Upper Ivory Coast was created from the former French Upper Volta to facilitate the provision of forced plantation labour? ... that Quintus Quincy Quigley preferred Angles to a ring? Favorite Books: The Time Traveler's Wife Favorite Wikipedia articles: Harrison Bergeron Newcomb's paradox I met a man who wasn't there "Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish that man would go away." Hughes Mearns (1875-1965) What is Texture reading? Empress Orchid (audiobook on audible.com) Newsweek, Wired, National Geographic, Hawaii... Books based in Japan: Cloud of Sparrows Autumn Bridge Accross the Nightingale Floor Fun new words Mokusatsu Looking at: Theo van Gogh (film director) The problem of Hell - Cool article Strange attractors (constantly vandalized articles): Pie Thomas Paine U.S. presidential election, 1860 Abraham Lincoln Anne Frank Articles of Confederation What is Texture watching? Time altering/paradox movies: The Lathe of Heaven Minority Report Donnie Darko Question reality movies: The Matrix The Thirteenth Floor (better than the Matrix in plot and concept) Existenz Mind movies Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind God and the Devil Bruce Almighty The Prophecy Stigmata Devil's Advocate (movie) Constantine The Kizilbash (red-heads) were Turkmen tribes http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif Standard diving dress - grandpa's picture (on the right) Codd's 12 rules - of RDBMS The following is a JOKE It is so terribly sad that I have to explain that the above is a JOKE If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream--and not make dreams your master, If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much, If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

For unique design and interesting content, I present you with this Excellent User Page Award. –Frater5 (talk/con) 16:12, 29 May 2006 (UTC)