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Yugoslav submarine Hrabri
Yugoslav submarine Hrabri

The Hrabri class con­sist­ed of two sub­ma­rines built for the King­dom of Serbs, Croats and Slo­venes. The first sub­ma­rines to serve in the Royal Yugoslav Navy (KM), they arrived in Yugoslavia on 5 April 1928, and participated in cruises to Mediterranean ports prior to World War II. During the April 1941 Axis invasion of Yugoslavia, Hrabri (pictured) was captured by the Italians and later scrapped. Nebojša escaped to Egypt to join the British Royal Navy (RN). She served as an anti-submarine warfare training boat and then as a battery charging station. In May 1942 her crew were removed and placed in a British military camp following a revolt by Yugoslav generals in exile, and she received an almost entirely RN crew. She was briefly utilised for training at Beirut, but was formally handed back to the KM-in-exile in mid-1943. After the war, she was transferred to the new Yugoslav Navy and renamed Tara. She was used in a training role until 1954, then scrapped. (This article is part of a featured topic: Hrabri-class submarines.)

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Oligodon

Oligodon, commonly known as the kukri snakes, form a genus of colubrid snakes that was first described by Austrian zoologist Leopold Fitzinger in 1826. This genus is widespread throughout central and tropical Asia. This photograph shows a Hua Hin kukri snake (Oligodon huahin), in Kaeng Krachan National Park, Thailand.

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Today is Arbor Day in South Korea. Pls add. Thanks.[edit]

Today is Arbor Day in South Korea. Pls add. Thanks. -- 199.71.174.100 03:18, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Pls add Hansik instead. Thanks. --199.71.174.100 21:35, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

add Super Sentai first episode[edit]

Can you add the first episode of Gorenger, which started Super Sentai, pls add. 174.117.253.250 (talk) 00:50, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • Himitsu Sentai Gorenger has a big fat maintenance box at the top of the article, so that's out. As for Super Sentai, we just had Kamen Rider Series, so there's no way we're going to have two tokusatsu articles appearing on the Main Page so close each other. Besides, that article needs more references as well. howcheng {chat} 03:53, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

We could select this next year 174.117.253.250 (talk) 19:51, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, we could. Please make sure the articles are improved by then. Thanks. howcheng {chat} 20:40, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2012 notes[edit]

howcheng {chat} 05:24, 4 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes[edit]

howcheng {chat} 01:11, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2014 notes[edit]

howcheng {chat} 06:15, 4 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2015 notes[edit]

howcheng {chat} 10:25, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016 notes[edit]

howcheng {chat} 06:55, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Saul Bellow and Thomas Hobbes[edit]

I've removed both these suggestions from the born/died this day section as neither seem to be at main-page standard on referencing. There are whole paragraphs in both articles which lack citations. MurielMary (talk) 10:31, 29 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2017 notes[edit]

howcheng {chat} 04:27, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2018 notes[edit]

howcheng {chat} 03:10, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hansik error[edit]

The entry for Hansik erroneously suggests that it is exclusive to the Republic of Korea - it is in fact celebrated accross the Vietnam, China, and the two Koreas. BrxBrx(talk)(please reply with {{SUBST:re|BrxBrx}}) 01:38, 5 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@BrxBrx: In China, it was replaced by the Qingming Festival, and in Vietnam, it's on the 3rd day of the 3rd lunar month. April 5 is specific to Korea. howcheng {chat} 15:57, 5 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2019 notes[edit]

howcheng {chat} 15:55, 5 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2020 notes[edit]

howcheng {chat} 16:06, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2021 notes[edit]

howcheng {chat} 02:48, 7 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2022 notes[edit]

"The Libyan secret service bombed a discotheque in West Berlin, resulting in three deaths and 229 others injured."

This is alleged and has never been proven, and this is even alluded to in the article on the topic itself:

"Libya was accused by the US government of sponsoring the bombing, and US President Ronald Reagan ordered retaliatory strikes on Tripoli and Benghazi in Libya ten days later. The operation was widely seen as an attempt to kill Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.[4] However, in the bombing's aftermath, this claim was met with widespread skepticism. In 1987, Manfred Ganschow, the head of the West German team investigating the bombing, said that there was no evidence pointing the finger at Libya, a belief which was corroborated by numerous intelligence agencies in Europe at the time, according to a BBC report.[5]: 81  In 2001, following a four-year German trial called murky,[2] and marred by what the court called a "limited willingness" by the American and German governments to share evidence,[2][1] a court found that the bombing had been "planned by the Libyan Intelligence Service and the Libyan embassy",[1] but absolved Gaddafi of responsibility.[2][1][6]"

This seems *waaay* to nuanced to be included on the Main Page as it currently stands. PeaceThruPramana26 (talk) 09:01, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@PeaceThruPramana26: Would you mind rewriting the blurb to something more acceptable? Thanks. howcheng {chat} 07:32, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"A West Berlin discotheque is bombed in a terrorist attack, resulting in three deaths and 229 others injured; The United States alleges the Libyan Government is behind the incident"

Short of any objections, I think the language on this one is far more neutral and reflects both the content of the article and the reality of the situation far more at hand; Perhaps the wording 'terrorist attack' might be controversial, but I cannot see how anyone would dispute that this bombing was anything but. PeaceThruPramana26 (talk) 04:52, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

2022 notes[edit]

howcheng {chat} 07:31, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]