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About Me[edit]

Hi! I'm Broadwaygenius and I am most certainly not a Broadway Genius. I joined Wikipedia in 2017, but have really gotten into editing since June 2018. I became a pending changes reviewer in June 2018.

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In The News[edit]

Willie Mays in 1961

• American baseball player Willie Mays (pictured) dies at the age of 93.
• In basketball, the Boston Celtics defeat the Dallas Mavericks to win the NBA Finals.
• A fire in a residential building in Mangaf, south of Kuwait City, kills fifty people.
• A plane crash near Chikangawa, Malawi, kills nine people, including Vice President Saulos Chilima.

Did You Know?[edit]

Victory Salute

• ... that the sprinter Peter Norman requested that he be left off the Olympic Black Power Statue (pictured) so that others could stand in his place?
• ... that a Japanese samurai was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI, nearly 400 years after his execution during the Great Martyrdom of Edo?
• ... that the Picts disappeared from the historical record after the devastation suffered following the Battle of Dollar?
• ... that the operators of a Wisconsin radio station received unsolicited checks and food deliveries?
• ... that the classicist Adam Parry said that he had only ever considered three careers: academia, law and beachcombing?
• ... that Isaac Watts, the "father of English hymnody", described one of Charles Wesley's hymns as "worth all the verses he himself had written"?
• ... that a Buddhist android preacher regularly gives sermons on the Heart Sutra?
• ... that the Nabisco Shredded Wheat Factory was used as a marketing tool, with an image of the factory on every cereal packet it produced until 1960?
• ... that Bills plays for the Bills?