For your impressive contributions to Turkey-related articles, especially considering how recently you joined us, I, Khoikhoi, present you with the Exceptional Newcomer Award. Keep up the good work! Khoikhoi 00:18, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
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For your reasonableness, hard work, and efforts to improve Wikipedia on almost every level — I award you this barnstar. Tebrikler! Baristarim 05:52, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
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I award you this barnstar for making an effort on the Kaymakli monastery article Hetoum I 01:49, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
The Roswell incident is a conspiracy theory that alleges that debris from a United States Army Air Forces balloon (pictured) recovered in 1947 near Roswell, New Mexico, was part of a crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft. The debris was from the top-secret Project Mogul, which used high-altitude balloons to detect nuclear tests. Roswell Army Air Field personnel, unaware of Mogul, gathered the material and announced the recovery of a "flying disc"; the statement was retracted within a day. To obscure the source of the debris, the Army reported that it was a conventional weather balloon. In 1978, retired Air Force officer Jesse Marcel revealed that the weather balloon had been a cover story and speculated that the debris was extraterrestrial. This became the basis for long-lasting and increasingly complex and contradictory UFO conspiracy theories, none of which have any factual basis. The conspiracy narrative has become a common trope in fiction. The town of Roswell promotes itself as a UFO tourism destination. (Full article...)
747 BC – According to Ptolemy, the reign of the Babylonian king Nabonassar(name in Akkadian pictured) began, marking a new era characterized by the systematic maintenance of chronologically precise historical records.
... that the musical career of Louise Beach has ranged from nationally recognized compositions to a children's book about the viola?
... that the alpine columbine has been cultivated for centuries, and other columbines have often been mistaken for the species for decades?
... that the Lutheran pastor Théodore Beck employed modern education methods at the École alsacienne in Paris in the 1880s: no prizes and no corporal punishment?