User:Jerrch

Jerrch, a Taiwanese contributor of the English Wikipedia. 10,730 contributions in English

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Today's featured article First page of the autograph score Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild ('God the Lord is sun and shield'), is a church cantata for Reformation Day by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in 1725 while Thomaskantor in Leipzig, and led the first performance on 31 October that year. It is possibly his first cantata for the occasion; the text was written by an unknown poet. Bach structured the work in six movements, with an aria following the opening chorus, and a recitative and duet following the first chorale. He scored the work for three vocal soloists, a four-part choir, and a Baroque instrumental ensemble. He achieved a unity within the structure by using two horns not only in the opening but also as obbligato instruments in the two chorales, the first time even playing the same motifs. He performed the cantata again, probably in 1730. He later reworked the music of the opening chorus and a duet again for his Missa in G major and the music of an alto aria for his Missa in A major. (Full article...) Recently featured: 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning John Bullock Clark Siege of Tunis (Mercenary War) Contributions Main articles: /Pages and /Did you know Articles GA-class content Chai Trong-rong Chen Chi-mai Hsu Tain-tsair B-class content Economic history of Taiwan Shanhua, Tainan C-class content Chiang Peng-chien Sub-pages /Did you know /Pages /Photo gallery /Sandbox /Vandalism count

Motto of the Day “ If you're not getting dirty, you're not having fun. ” — Today's Motto of the Day On this day... October 31: Halloween Martin Luther 475 – Romulus Augustulus took the throne as the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire. 1517 – Martin Luther (pictured) posted his Ninety-five Theses onto the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, marking the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. 1999 – Australian sailor Jesse Martin arrived in Melbourne, becoming the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo, non-stop, and unassisted. 2000 – Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collided with construction equipment while attempting to take off from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan during heavy rain, killing 83 people aboard. 2017 – An Uzbek immigrant drove a rented truck into cyclists and runners in Lower Manhattan, New York City, killing eight people. John Keats (b. 1795) Juliette Gordon Low (b. 1860) Bill Kibby (d. 1942) Chris Chase (d. 2013) More anniversaries: October 30 October 31 November 1

Today's featured picture Nosferatu is a 1922 silent German expressionist horror vampire film directed by F. W. Murnau from a screenplay by Henrik Galeen. It stars Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife (Greta Schröder) of his estate agent (Gustav von Wangenheim) and brings the plague to their town. Nosferatu was produced by Prana Film and is an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. Various names and other details were changed from the novel, including Count Dracula being renamed Orlok. Although those changes are often represented as a defense against accusations of copyright infringement, the original German intertitles acknowledged Dracula as the source. Even with several details altered, Stoker's widow Florence sued over the adaptation's copyright violation, and a court ruling ordered that all copies of the film be destroyed. However, several prints of Nosferatu survived, and the film came to be regarded as an influential masterpiece of cinema and the horror genre. Film credit: F. W. Murnau Recently featured: Oxybelis aeneus Le droit d'aînesse Lower Manhattan

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Jerrch
666,702nd Wikipedian
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Nationality	Taiwanese
Political party	Dem. Progressive Party
Residence(s)	Virginia, United States

Rank	Language	Pages	Edits
1	English	70	10 730
2	Chinese	1	270
3	Spanish	2	15
4	Japanese	0	5
5	Italian	1	0

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I, Folic Acid, award this Republic of China Barnstar to Jerrch for his tireless work in expanding and updating all Taiwan-related articles. Keep up the good work! I, The4325, award you this barnstar for your contributions.	I, Loren, award you, Jerrch, this Cool Cucumber for maintaining your cool in difficult debate situations.