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From today's featured article Allen Walker cosplayer Allen Walker is a fictional teenage character who appears as the protagonist of Katsura Hoshino's manga D.Gray-man, as well as two anime adaptations, three light novels, two video games, and several crossover fighting games. In the 19th century, the gentlemanly teenager joins the Black Order, a group of soldiers known as Exorcists, and fights Akuma demons and their creator, the Millennium Earl. In the anime television series and related franchise, he was voiced by Sanae Kobayashi. In 2016, for the new television anime series D.Gray-man Hallow, he was voiced by Ayumu Murase, and by Todd Haberkorn in an English-language anime series. The character has been popular with D.Gray-man readers, usually ranking in the top three in the series' popularity polls. Reactions to him have also been generally positive in manga and anime publications and other media. Critics have noted approvingly that his calm demeanor and mysterious origin are atypical of a protagonist in manga for boys. Merchandise featuring Allen Walker's likeness includes clothing and cosplay pieces (example pictured). (Full article...) Recently featured: Sexuality after spinal cord injury Suillus salmonicolor Love, Inc. (TV series) Did you know... "Master I.B. with a Bird" ... that the real name of the 16th-century Italian printmaker Master I.B. with a Bird (monogram pictured) was long suspected to be bird-related, but this was only demonstrated in 1936? ... that the anti-cancer drug ixazomib can be metabolized by at least eight different enzymes? ... that Red Army commander August Kork served as an Imperial Russian Army staff officer in World War I? ... that Estocolmo is the first Argentine television series to be premiered by Netflix? ... that injury stopped Lorne Crerar from gaining a full international cap as a player, but 20 years later he took part in two Rugby World Cup Finals as a judicial officer? ... that from the 9th to the late 11th centuries, the droungarios of the Imperial Fleet headed the main fleet of the Byzantine navy, stationed at Constantinople? ... that siderography, a process to produce counterfeit-resistant banknotes, was submitted for an 1817 Bank of England contest in an era when English banknotes were known as "filthy rags"?

In the news Alan Turing Under the Alan Turing law (namesake pictured), more than 49,000 men in England and Wales are pardoned for breaching historical legislation that outlawed homosexual acts. Morocco is readmitted to the African Union despite an ongoing dispute over Western Sahara. A gunman kills six people and injures eight others in a mass shooting at a mosque in Quebec City, Canada. The Winter X Games conclude with the United States winning seven gold medals. A cold wave affects North India. Ongoing: U.S. immigration suspension Battle of Mosul Recent deaths: Desmond Carrington Tokitenkū Yoshiaki Masaya Nakamura Stuart Timmons On this day... February 4: Independence Day in Sri Lanka (1948) Constantin von Tischendorf 1169 – A strong earthquake struck the eastern coast of Sicily, causing at least 15,000 deaths. 1859 – German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf (pictured) rediscovered the Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th-century uncial manuscript of the Greek Bible, in Saint Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt. 1969 – Yasser Arafat was elected chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. 1974 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army bombed a motor coach carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel and their family members, killing twelve. 2004 – Four Harvard University students launched the popular social networking website Facebook from their dorm room. More anniversaries: February 3 February 4 February 5

Today's featured picture The Saalfeld Fairy Grottoes are caverns or grottoes of a former mine in near Saalfeld, in the German state of Thuringia. They have long been famous for their countless colorful mineral formations (speleothems) formed over many years by water dripping through relatively soft rock. Since 1993, the Guinness Book of World Records has termed the Feengrotten "the most colorful cave grottoes in the world." Photograph: Ansgar Koreng Recently featured: Charles de Solier, comte de Morette Eurasian eagle-owl River Dordogne

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