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

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

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Roland L. Bragg

... that the new eponym (pictured) of Fort Bragg stole a German ambulance and drove 20 miles (32 km) under fire to save a wounded soldier during the Battle of the Bulge?
... that a series of agreements at the Upstalsboom in 1323 prohibited bride kidnapping, provided the right to a speedy trial, and created a judicial veto in all Seven Sealands?
... that Time paid Alfred Wertheimer $3,000 to use a picture of Elvis Presley singing to a dog?
... that the political and media storm around so-called African gangs in Australia has been described by academics as a moral panic?
... that Palestinian singer Zeinab Shaath assumed a short film featuring her had been destroyed until a researcher discovered a copy in the archives of the Israel Defense Forces?
... that Our Friends from Frolix 8 could be Philip K. Dick's "most sterile" novel?
... that Jerome Xavier learned Persian to work on the Mir'at al-quds, a biography of Jesus?
... that before playing in the NFL, Rip Owens worked at a steel mill?
... that researchers confirmed that they had discovered toilets at the Archaeological Site in Wanggung-ri by finding a high concentration of parasite eggs there?

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Xysticus cristatus, the common crab spider, is a species in the family Thomisidae. It has a Palearctic distribution, being found throughout Europe (including Iceland) and east through Asia to Siberia, China, Korea and Japan. It has been introduced to Canada and the United States. The species is usually found in low vegetation and avoids woodland and closed canopy habitats, but is otherwise found in almost every habitat type. The female has a body length of about 6 to 8 millimetres (0.24 to 0.31 inches), and the male about 3 to 5 millimetres (0.12 to 0.20 inches), with coloration varying from light cream, dark brown to greyish. X. cristatus is an ambush hunter that spends much time sitting still with its forelegs spread wide, waiting for insects to blunder into them. During reproduction, the female builds a flat white ovisac containing developing eggs, usually fixed on plants. The female sits on it to protect it, until myriad little spiders are released. This female X. cristatus spider with its prey, a Carniolan honey bee, was photographed in Bled, Slovenia. The photograph was focus-stacked from seven separate images.Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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