User:Codrinb

About me

• A Romanian born in Cluj-Napoca, who spent a long time in Boston and currently living in Basel
• I love history and archaeology, especially related to Dacians and Romans, the founding nations of Romania
• Other interests include space exploration and astronomy
• Created WikiProject Dacia, WikiProiectul Dacia (in Romanian) and Commons:WikiProject Dacia to better organize the content related to ancient Dacia
• Maintaining WikiProject Romania and created Commons:WikiProject Romania
• I despise deletionists and people who spend their time, energy and effort to delete and destroy others work (often without any attempt to communicate), instead of creating and collaborating. They are usually the same people who attempt to force their views down the throats of others.
• Striving to keep neutrality in my work and judgment, and above all an open mind.

Current projects

I am a member of many projects, but currently focusing most of my efforts on:

• WikiProject Dacia - aimed to better organize and improve the quality and accuracy of the articles related to Dacia and Dacians. We need help expanding and reviewing many articles, and we also need more images. Feel free to join!
• WikiProject Romania - aimed to better organize and improve the quality and accuracy of the articles related to Romania. Maybe you are interested

In the works

•  Working : Timeline of Ancient Romania  • List of Romanian historical films
•  Working on Commons : National Museum of the Union  • Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli  • Danubius Pannonico-Mysicus  • Commons:WikiProject Dacia  • Commons:WikiProject Romania
• Partly done : Ziridava  • Capidava  • Amutria

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Trivia

• The Romans called their empire Romania
• The Roman Empire did not fall in 476 but in 1453
• The term Byzantine Empire is a modern invention

Picture of the day

Commons picture of the day
British Drift Championship driver Adam Simmons and his JZ-powered R33 visiting the Norfolk Arena Drift Team at Swaffham Raceway.

Picture of the day

Scoliidae, or the scoliid wasps, is a family of around 300 described species of wasps found worldwide. They are solitary parasitoids whose larvae develop on the larvae of other insects, most commonly the scarab beetle. Females search for hosts in soil or rotting wood, sometimes following tunnels created by the beetle larvae. After locating a host, the female stings and paralyses it and may move it into a chamber before laying a single egg on the immobilised grub. Because many scarab beetles are agricultural pests, scoliid wasps can act as important biological control agents. Adult wasps often visit flowers and may function as minor pollinators. In some species, orchid flowers mimic female wasps and attract males, which attempt to mate with the flowers and thereby pollinate them. This male scoliid wasp of the species Megascolia bidens was photographed near Soliman on Cape Bon, a peninsula in northeastern Tunisia.Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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On this day

March 13

Battle of Lissa

• 1811 – Napoleonic Wars: A British frigate squadron defeated a much larger squadron of French and Italian frigates and smaller vessels in the Battle of Lissa (depicted) in the Adriatic Sea.
• 1888 – The eruption of Ritter Island triggered tsunamis that killed up to 3,000 people on nearby islands.
• 1986 – Claiming the right of innocent passage, the American warships Yorktown and Caron entered Soviet territorial waters in the Black Sea.
• 2013 – Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected as Pope Francis, making him the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, and the first from the Southern Hemisphere.

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