User:Adheesha88

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This user comes from Sri Lanka.

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මෙම පරිශිලකයාගේ මව්බස සිංහල භාෂාවයි.

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Cet utilisateur a pour langue maternelle le français.

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Igor Judge, Baron Judge, a British judge

Nominative determinism is the hypothesis that people are drawn to professions that fit their name. The term was first used in the magazine New Scientist in 1994, after its humorous Feedback column mentioned a book on polar explorations by Daniel Snowman and an article on urology by researchers named Splatt and Weedon. The hypothesis had been suggested by psychologist Carl Jung, citing as an example Sigmund Freud (German for 'joy'), who studied pleasure. A few recent empirical studies have indicated that certain professions are disproportionately represented by people with appropriate surnames, though the methods of these studies have been challenged. One explanation for nominative determinism is the theory of implicit egotism, which states that humans have an unconscious preference for things they associate with themselves. An alternative explanation is genetic: an ancestor might have been named Smith or Taylor according to their occupation, and the genes they passed down might correlate to aptitudes for those professions. (Full article...)

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Did You Know?

Congregation Shaar Hashomayim

... that the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim (pictured) in Windsor, Ontario, was modelled after a synagogue in Montreal?
... that NASA promoted the "faster, better, cheaper" approach to spacecraft missions in the 1990s?
... that Black model Debra Shaw walked the runway in Bellmer La Poupée wearing a metal frame that generated controversy over a perceived reference to slavery?
... that a spokesman for the Kaw Nation credited Robert L. Rankin with single-handedly preserving their language?
... that multiple members of various royal families have competed in the Olympics?
... that The Westerlies folded a piece of tin foil over the bell of a trombone to make it hiss?
... that after runner Frej Liewendahl had broken Paavo Nurmi's five-year winning streak, he went to his hotel room with flowers to apologise?
... that the crew of the US Coast Guard Cutter Dione repeatedly attacked the shipwrecks of oil tankers, believing them to be German U-boats?
... that one issue facing tsunami sirens in New Zealand has been a youth subculture that steals sirens to compete for the loudest and clearest sound?

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In The News

Trifid and Lagoon nebulae

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile releases the first light images (example shown) from its new 8.4-metre (28 ft) telescope.
In basketball, the Oklahoma City Thunder defeat the Indiana Pacers to win the NBA Finals.
An attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Damascus, Syria, kills at least 25 people.
The United States conducts military strikes on three nuclear facilities in Iran.
In rugby union, the Crusaders defeat the Chiefs to win the Super Rugby Pacific final.

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Picture of the day

Whitehead's trogon

Photograph credit: John Harrison

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On this day...

June 27: Helen Keller Day in the United States

Depiction of Pope Agatho

678 – Pope Agatho (depicted), later venerated as a saint in both the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, began his pontificate.
1800 – War of the Second Coalition: French forces won a victory at the Battle of Neuburg, ending Austrian control over the River Danube.
1905 – First Russian Revolution: The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin began a mutiny against their officers.
1950 – Korean War: Five North Korean aircraft attacked an American air convoy above Suwon Air Base in the first air engagement of the Korean War.
2015 – Ignition of corn starch caused a dust fire at a water park in New Taipei City, Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring more than 400 others.

Wilhelmina FitzClarence, Countess of Munster (b. 1830)
Frank Rattray Lillie (b. 1870)
Harry Pollitt (d. 1960)
Nico Rosberg (b. 1985)

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