User:Abirajeng
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Introduction
Abiraj Anandanadarajah of Colombo, Sri Lanka, possessor of User “Abirajeng” is an University undergraduate student. Basically, he is a Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering undergraduate of Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna, Galle, Sri Lanka. He is a Sri Lankan Tamil, speaking Tamil as his mother tongue while he can speak in English and Sinhala which is the Major language of the country.
As far as his family is concerned, both his father and mother retired government officers. His father was a Senior Labour Officer (SLO) and mother was an Asst. Commissioner of Labour (ACL) under the ministry of the Labour. He has got two brothers and two sisters and he is the last in his family.
Working Experience
He had worked at British American Tobacco (Ceylon) as the trainee engineer where he was involved in managerial operations and production and planning. Also, he had worked in Techmast Automation (Pvt) Ltd as the trainee engineer where he was involved in various activities including workshop practices, automation, PLCs, pneumatics and so on.
Activities
He is a supporter of Wikipedia Organization by editing and writing the articles as a public service. He is interested in writing poems, singing & googling as a hobby.
Today's Featured Article
The siege of Guînes took place from May to July 1352 when a French army under Geoffrey de Charny unsuccessfully attempted to recapture the French castle (pictured) at Guînes which had been seized by the English the previous January. The siege was part of the Hundred Years' War and took place during the uneasy and ill-kept truce of Calais. The strongly fortified castle had been taken by the English during a period of nominal truce and the English king, Edward III, decided to keep it. Charny led 4,500 men and retook the town but was unable to either recapture or blockade the castle. After two months of fierce fighting, a large English night attack on the French camp inflicted a heavy defeat and the French withdrew. Guînes was incorporated into the Pale of Calais. The threat posed by this enclave caused the French to garrison 60 fortified positions around it, at ruinous expense. The castle was besieged by the French in 1436 and 1514, but was relieved each time, before falling to the French in 1558. (Full article...)
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