Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/June 26

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Parties to the Convention against Torture in dark green, states that have signed the treaty in yellow, and others in gray
Parties to the Convention against Torture in dark green, states that have signed the treaty in yellow, and others in gray

Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for various reasons, including punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for information, or intimidating third parties. Some definitions are restricted to acts carried out by the state, but others include non-state organizations. A variety of methods of torture are used, often in combination; the most common form of physical torture is beatings or psychological methods to provide deniability. Most victims of torture are poor and marginalized people suspected of crimes, although torture against political prisoners or during armed conflict has received disproportionate attention. Torture is prohibited under international law for all states under all circumstances and is explicitly forbidden by several treaties. Opposition to torture stimulated the formation of the human rights movement after World War II, and torture continues to be an important human rights issue. (Full article...)

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Lord Kelvin

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, FRS, FRSE (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907) was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast. He was the Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow for 53 years, where he undertook significant research and mathematical analysis of electricity, the formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and contributed significantly to unifying physics, which was then in its infancy of development as an emerging academic discipline. He received the Royal Society's Copley Medal in 1883, and served as its president from 1890 to 1895. In 1892, he became the first British scientist to be elevated to the House of Lords. The Kelvin scale of temperature is named in his honour.

He is seen here resting on a binnacle (the stand for a marine compass) of his invention, and holding a marine azimuth mirror. Kelvin's balls have been removed or not yet put in; they are the iron balls meant to help balance out the magnetic fields around the binnacle, since a metal ship can easily pull the compass needle off of true north.

Photograph credit: T. & R. Annan & Sons; restored by Adam Cuerden

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I think you mean Avignon Pope Benedict XIII instead of Benedict XII. Benedict XII was already quite dead by this time. JRP 12:11, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

2006 is the CN Tower's 30th Anniversary[edit]

A good candidate:

CN Tower CN Tower

--PFHLai 08:32, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Would be nice if this can be featured in 2006, in lieu of Saint Lawrence Seaway. -- 199.71.174.100 04:04, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sunthorn Phu Day[edit]

Please add " Sunthorn Phu Day in Thailand ". Thanks. -- 199.71.174.100 21:49, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Richard Whiteley[edit]

Death in 2005 Spa-Franks (talk) 19:52, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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