“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.” – Henry Ward Beecher
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“Everyone is a genius at least once a year.” – Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.” – Galileo Galilei
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“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“Nature here was a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.” – Daniel Boone
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25 years ago today, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched Wikipedia. The collaborative online encyclopedia created and maintained by a community of volunteer editors,...
25 years ago today, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched Wikipedia. The collaborative online encyclopedia created and maintained by a community of volunteer editors, Wikipedia is one of the most-visited websites on the internet. The nonprofit funded primarily through donations has 6.2 million articles in English—and also features articles in 250 languages, altogether attracting 1.7 billion unique visitors monthly. Pages, particularly in English, get updated with remarkable speed to include deaths, sports results, and political events. READ a bit more... (2001)
