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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Cat at the Forbidden City

... that around 200 cats (example pictured) are tasked, as "security officers", with keeping mice out of the Forbidden City?
... that the lyrics in Conan Gray's song "People Watching" were based on things he heard while eavesdropping on couples?
... that Lydie Pongault was appointed to the Congolese government to fill the roles of two other ministers?
... that the gray stonecrop was little known in the 1970s but became so popular by the 1990s that demand exceeded supply?
... that using samples provided by Johann Jacob Ferber, it was demonstrated that mosaics at Pompeii were made with glass paste, not stone?
... that seven U.S. prosecutors resigned in protest over the Eric Adams corruption case?
... that Abbess Ruothild wrapped the body of Saint Fara in a silk covered with bare-breasted Amazons?
... that Ethan Hawke and Devery Jacobs smoked CBD while filming the Reservation Dogs episode "Elora's Dad"?
... that someone accused George Chapman of basing his translation of the Odyssey on a Latin translation, and in return he called his accuser an "envious Windfucker" in the preface?

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The sword-billed hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera), also known as the swordbill, is a neotropical species of hummingbird from the Andean regions of South America. Among the largest species of hummingbird, it is characterized by its unusually long beak, being the only bird to have a beak longer than the rest of its body, excluding the tail. It uses its bill to drink nectar from flowers with long corollas, and has coevolved with the species Passiflora mixta. While most hummingbirds preen using their bills, the sword-billed hummingbird uses its feet to scratch and preen due to its beak being so long. This sword-billed hummingbird was photographed perching on a branch at Hacienda El Bosque in Manizales, Colombia.Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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