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This user is a translator from Hebrew to English on Wikipedia:Translation.

This user is a translator and proofreader from Hebrew to English on Wikipedia:Translation.

Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 22

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Consistometer measuring barbecue sauce

... that ketchup in the US must be measured with a consistometer (example pictured) to be graded?
... that the Mitsubishi G6M was intended to be a escort gunship, but is best known as one of the transport aircraft that carried the Japanese surrender delegation to Iejima?
... that John Boyer was forced to train his own guide dog because the training program could not support people who were both blind and deaf?
... that Computer Mah-jong Yakuman was Nintendo's first handheld with multiplayer gaming via a link cable, an innovation that would later be integral to the success of the Game Boy?
... that there could have been as many as five individual leaders of the Big Three in World War II?
... that, nearly 50 years after the formation of Carlos y José, their grandsons, also named Carlos and José, formed Carlos y José Jr.?
... that Seattle mayor Thomas J. Humes went missing for more than 30 hours in 1902?
... that the African thin mouse shrew may have diverged from its nearest relative due to glacial cycles?
... that the theme song to SpongeBob SquarePants was written by Stephen Hillenburg with the idea "to try to make the most annoying song you can"?

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Édouard de Reszke (1853–1917) was a Polish bass from Warsaw. A member of the musical Reszke family, he was a successful opera singer, as were his brother Jean and his sister Josephine. He made his debut in Aida in Paris on 22 April 1876.Photograph credit: Nadar

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