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A fact from Aaron Carapella appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 July 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that self-taught cartographer Aaron Carapella makes maps of the locations and names of Pre-Columbian indigenous tribes of North America circa 1490?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2014/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Aaron Carapella.

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"claims"

Is that really the proper way to say someone speaks a language - they "claim" to speak the language. Seems off to me, I am going to look around for this. This is what it says about Melania Trump, for example: "Trump has said that she can speak English, Italian, French, and German in addition to her native Slovene, but she has only been heard speaking English and Slovene fluently. When communicating with speakers of other languages, she makes use of a translator." - her Wikipedia page CDA 00:48, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]