Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/July 18

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John Glenn

John Glenn (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, and politician. Before joining NASA, Glenn was a distinguished fighter pilot in World War II, the Chinese Civil War and the Korean War. In 1957, he made the first supersonic transcontinental flight across the United States. He was one of the Mercury Seven, military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA as the nation's first astronauts. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, and the fifth person and third American in space. After retiring from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic U.S. senator from Ohio. In 1998, Glenn flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-95, making him the oldest person to enter Earth orbit and the only person to fly in both Project Mercury and the Space Shuttle program. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. (Full article...)

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Nave and font of Salisbury Cathedral

Salisbury Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Salisbury in Wiltshire, England. Considered to be one of the leading examples of early English Gothic architecture, it was built over a relatively short period, some 38 years between 1220 and 1258, and has a unity and coherence of design that is unusual in medieval English cathedrals. This photograph, taken in 2014, shows the interior of Salisbury Cathedral, looking eastwards towards the high altar through the tall and narrow nave, which has visual accentuation from the use of light grey Chilmark stone for the walls and dark polished Purbeck marble for the columns. It has three levels: a tall pointed arcade, an open gallery, and a small clerestory. The nave includes an unconventional modern baptismal font, installed in September 2008. Designed by the water sculptor William Pye, it is the largest working font in any British cathedral. The font is cruciform in shape, and has a 10-foot-wide (3.0 m) vessel filled to its brim with water, designed so that the water overflows in filaments through each corner into bronze gratings embedded in the cathedral's stone floor.

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Conflict with article?

Should the bit about the Great Fire of Rome state "while Roman Emperor Nero reportedly played his lyre and sang as he watched the blaze from a safe distance" when the article contradicts that? While "reportedly" is used, the report in question is, well, questionable, as the article explains. PoptartKing 01:59, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2012 notes

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2013 notes

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2014 notes

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Addendum: Messerschmitt Me 262 taken off due to Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 being shot down; replaced with Nadia Comăneci (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total). —howcheng {chat} 04:54, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2015 notes

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Alas, we already have a 20th anniversary item on right now. —howcheng {chat} 05:15, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I see what you are saying. Best, jona(talk) 13:12, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016 notes

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