User:FayssalF

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ABOUT ME

My Username

FayssalF

My Signature

Szvest → ^{Wiki Me Up ®}

Coming from

Morocco

Where I've been

Algeria Bahrain
England Saudi Arabia
Scotland Singapore
Spain Thailand
Tunisia UAE
United States Wales

Where I'd like to go

Everywhere but HELL

My Hobbies

Wikipedia, Collage, Photography

My Favorite human

Albert Einstein

My Favorite Movies

Highlander, Monsieur Ibrahim, Indigènes, Heat

My Favorite Books

No logo, A Brief History of Time

What I think is the most important event in history

The developement of Personal Computers.

My Favorite Website

http://www.HowStuffWorks.com/

My Position on Wikipedia

I've been an administrator since December 2005

My Wikipediholic Test score

Never tested it. Yes, I've never had a test

Committed identity: d3d9a389dbdbdcecd615229f4f705513fd939742 is a SHA-1 commitment to this user's real-life identity.

BABEL

This user contributes to Wikimedia Commons.

40,000

This user has over 40,000 edits on the English Wikipedia.

This user participates in Pages needing translation into English.

This user maintains a strict policy advising against all personal attacks.

This user is a participant of
WikiProject
Countering systemic bias.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Morocco.

This user is a member of
WikiProject Military history.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Spain.

This user is able to contribute with an advanced level of English.

اللغة الام لهذا المستخدم هي العربية.

Cet utilisateur parle français à un niveau comparable à la langue maternelle.

Este usario puede contribuir con un nivel avanzado en Español.

Ĉi tiu uzanto povas komuniki per baza nivelo de Esperanto.

Questo utente può contribuire con un italiano di livello semplice.

This user is Moroccan.

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This user is politically independent.

This user is a Citizen of the World (Terra, ⊕).

C#

This user can program in C#.

33

This user is 33 years old.

This user BOINCs.

This user supports moral equality amongst great apes and humans.

This user is car-free.^‡

This user owns one or more Siamese cats.

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Weise's epitaph in Eisenberg, Germany

In historical linguistics, Weise's law describes the loss of palatal quality some consonants undergo in specific contexts in the Proto-Indo-European language. In short, when the consonants represented by *ḱ *ǵ *ǵʰ, called palatovelar consonants, are followed by *r, they lose their palatal quality, leading to a loss in distinction between them and the plain velar consonants *k *g *gʰ. Some exceptions exist, such as when the *r is followed by *i or when the palatal form is restored by analogy with related words. Although this sound change is most prominent in the satem languages, it is believed that the change must have occurred prior to the centum–satem division, based on an earlier sound change which affected the distribution of Proto-Indo-European *u and *r. The law is named after the German linguist Oskar Weise (epitaph pictured), who first postulated it in 1881 as the solution to reconciling cognates in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit. (Full article...)

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Wait for Me, Daddy is a photograph taken by Claude P. Dettloff of the British Columbia newspaper The Province. It depicts a column of Canadian Army soldiers of the British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own) marching in New Westminster on October 1, 1940. In the foreground, five-year-old Warren "Whitey" Bernard runs out of his mother's reach towards his father, Private Jack Bernard. The photograph received extensive exposure worldwide, and was used in Canadian war-bond drives.Photograph credit: Claude P. Dettloff; restored by Yann Forget

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