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Artur Phleps (29 November 1881 – 21 September 1944) was an Austro-Hungarian, Romanian and Nazi officer who was an SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS in the Waffen-SS during World War II. He was an Austro-Hungarian Army officer before and during World War I. During the interwar period, he joined the Romanian Army and became an adviser to King Carol. After he spoke out against the government, he was made to leave the army. In 1941 he joined the Waffen-SS. He saw action on the Eastern Front before raising two Waffen-SS mountain divisions and one corps in occupied Yugoslavia. Units under his command committed many crimes against the civilian population of the Independent State of Croatia. This became controversial when his onetime translator, Kurt Waldheim, successfully ran for the Austrian presidency in the 1980s. In addition to the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, Phleps was awarded the German Cross in Gold, and, posthumously, was awarded the Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross. (Full article...)

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The pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub in the family Lythraceae, subfamily Punicoideae, that grows between 5 and 10 m (16 and 33 ft) tall. The pomegranate was originally found only throughout the Mediterranean region. It was introduced into Spanish America in the late 16th century and into California by Spanish settlers in 1769. This photograph shows a number of sarcotesta seedcoats from a pomegranate. This image is a focus-stacked image consisting of 31 images.

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		For your excellent work on making sure pages meet the WP:CSD guidelines, and having done so for several hours in a row, i award you this barnstar! Excirial (Talk,Contribs) 16:04, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

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		I,  Chzz  ► , hereby award Ged UK the WikiProject Films Award for his/her valued contibutions to WikiProject Films. Congratulations on the GA of James Cagney. Awarded 19:52, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

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		You have been an admin for not even a month now, but you have made an impact. Thanks to your work at RFPP, it happens more seldomly that requests are going unanswered for half a day. And, thanks to you, I do not have to spend as much time there and can thus help out more at CSD. Keep up the good work! :-) SoWhy 21:24, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

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		Thanks for helping to clear out that massive backlog of broken redirects. I don't know how it took only four admins to make a RedirectCleanupBot, but it worked! --Dylan (chat, work, ping, sign) 20:26, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

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		I hearby award you the Admin's Barnstar for your tireless administrator work. Your doing a great job..--Michael (Talk) 09:50, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

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		For jumping in and clearing a huge backlog at RPP, spanning over 40 unfulfilled requests and several hours work! Taelus (talk) 11:03, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

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		Thank you for constantly being on the watch for page protections. Whenever I look at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection or make requests there, you seem to always be somewhere in the vicinity. Keep up the good work. –Turian (talk) 09:26, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

The Southern Marsupial Mole-shaped and arguably somewhat dubious Barnstar of helping me out.