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I am a Wikipedian since February 29, 2004 and an administrator since July 29, 2004.


Coconut
The coconut (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the palm tree family, Arecaceae. Originally native to the Central Indo-Pacific, in the regions of Maritime Southeast Asia and Melanesia, coconuts are now found across the world due to human cultivation and dispersal. They are normally cultivated in hot and wet tropical climates. The term coconut also commonly refers to the seed and fruit of the coconut tree, which is botanically a drupe. The fruit has three layers including an edible white, fleshy endosperm and is filled with a liquid known as coconut water. The coconut thus played a critical role in the migration of Austronesian peoples across the Indian Ocean, as it provided a portable source of both food and water for long sea voyages. In modern times coconuts are used extensively in cooking and cuisine, using the raw flesh, the water or in alternative forms such as coconut milk and coconut butter. These coconuts, one whole and one halved, were grown in the Dominican Republic; this photograph was focus-stacked from 19 separate images.Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus

Pages that need work (reminders to myself)

Latvian alphabet

Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey


My contributions

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Some pages that I have written or contributed large part of content:

Yan Rudzutak, Uljana Semjonova, Latvian riflemen, Latvian national ice hockey team, Russian national ice hockey team, Darius Kasparaitis, Tom Barrasso, Janis Dalins, Chris Drury, Subset sum problem, Janis Lusis, Holidays in Latvia, List of political parties in Latvia, For Human Rights in United Latvia, Latvian Socialist Party, Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm, Category:Latvia and subcategories, Category:Chess and subcategories, Young tableau, Brendan Morrison, Latvian National Independence Movement (LNNK), Eliyahu Rips, Sandra Kalniete, San Jose Sharks, Polynomial time approximation scheme, Arthur-Merlin protocol, Advice (complexity theory), International Congress of Mathematicians, ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, PP (complexity class), Helmuts Balderis, Kremerata Baltica, Displaced person, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Gödel Prize, Alexander Mogilny, Salaspils, Vladimir Petrov,United Hockey League, Janis Cakste, Gustavs Zemgals, Alberts Kviesis, Karlis Ulmanis, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Einars Repse, Toffoli gate, Economy of Latvia, Rolandas Paksas, Arturas Paulauskas, De Boor algorithm, Bellman-Ford algorithm, Arturs Irbe, Sandis Ozolinsh, Karlis Skrastins, Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, Steiner tree, Extremal graph theory