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Lourie Pieterse

NameThis user's name is Lourie Pieterse. This user tries to do the right thing. If he makes a mistake, please let him know. This user proudly participates in WikiProject South Africa. afHierdie gebruiker se moedertaal is Afrikaans. This user has rollback rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has helped promote 3 good articles on Wikipedia. en-3This user can contribute with an advanced level of English. This user has account creator rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user scored 12947 on the Wikipediholic test. 7,200+This user has made over 7,200 contributions to Wikipedia This user is a Developer and develops tools and scripts to help Wikipedia. This user has an additional page for his extra userboxes.

Picture of the day The European bison (Bison bonasus), also known as the wisent, is a mammal in the family Bovidae. It is one of two extant species of bison. Having been hunted to extinction in the wild by the early 20th century, the European bison was reintroduced to the wild in various European countries by the 2010s, following captive breeding programmes. It is the heaviest wild land animal in Europe, and individuals in the past may have been even larger than their modern-day descendants. The largest bulls of the species have a mass of up to 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb). The European bison is a herd animal, which lives in both mixed and solely male groups. Mixed groups consist of adult females, calves, young aged two to three years, and young adult bulls. A typical herd numbers around eight to thirteen animals on average. This male European bison was photographed in the Białowieża Forest, Poland.Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

Pages which I have created 32 Battalion (Book) 32 Battalion (disambiguation) Brandvlei, Northern Cape Crown Assets Distribution Kenhardt, Northern Cape Portuguese Colonial Act Sikorsky S-10 Vaalputs, Northern Cape Verneukpan Westland Interceptor Westland Sioux Westland Yeovil Westland Wizard

Awards I have received The WikiProject Barnstar For your excellent work and tireless contributions to WP:SPOTLIGHT. Keep up the good work! — DeontalkI'm BACK! 11:13, 15 July 2009 (UTC) The Editor's Barnstar Superb work on improving Operation Entebbe. Keep up the good stuff.  Chzz  ►  03:55, 7 July 2009 (UTC) The Invisible Barnstar For Contributing To Wikipedia Without Seeking An Award Srinivas 15:50, 6 July 2009 (UTC) The Excellent User Page Award I really like your user page!!! Srinivas 15:50, 6 July 2009 (UTC) The Hidden Page Barnstar This user has found Midnight Comet's hidden page. Can you find it?

My notepad is located here: My Notepad My sandbox is located here: My Sandbox Panoramic photo of the Seven Rila Lakes in the Rila mountains of Bulgaria.

My Favourite quotations “ All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. Perhaps that is why I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex. ” — Stephen Hawking “ Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. How terrible is the one fact of beauty! ” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. “ My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun? ” — Wernher von Braun “ Be polite and generous, but don't undervalue yourself. You will be useful, at any rate; you may just as well be happy, while you are about it. ” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. “ When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist. ” — Albert Hofmann “ A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine. ” — Alan Turing “ Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. ” — Herman Cain “ A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron. ” — Horace Mann “ Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it. ” — Albert Einstein “ I am discounting reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos? ” — Stephen Hawking “ The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. ” — Charles de Montesquieu “ A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future. ” — Albert Einstein “ Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. ” — John von Neumann “ With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk. ” — John von Neumann “ Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. ” — Winston Churchill “ Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. ” — William Cowper “ The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer. ” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. “ By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. ” — Mikhail Bakunin “ I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. ” — Albert Einstein “ A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live. ” — Unknown “ Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. ” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. “ If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. ” — Albert Einstein “ Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ” — Carl Sagan

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