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User:Kingturtle
- Lecture outlines
- SCUM[?]
- To do: Ali Ahmad Jalali, List of territorial occupations[?], Allen Funt[?].
- "I long to accomplish some great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." - Helen Keller
- "Statistics don't lie, but statistics don't die either." - Phil Ochs
- "There is such a thing as a free lunch. You just have to offer it." - Kingturtle
- "Foreigners, because they never have enough words to express their ideas, often invent remarkable new modes of expression. Poets are all foreigners." - Denis Diderot
- "Without irony, where would be poets be?" - Kingturtle
- "Me fail English? That's unpossible." - Ralph Wiggum
I discovered wikipedia the evening of February 27, 2003 while searching for information on the internet to fatten a lecture I was writing on prohibition. I teach U.S. History and Psychology in high school.
The discovery matched love-at-first-sight. For years, I've been collecting old almanacs and encyclopedia. I bandied about different ideas regarding sharing and documenting the information revealed in these discarded sources. To stumble on a thriving community devoted to sharing information gave me a tremendous thrill and a curious sense of relief. Thank heavens you're all out there!
I attended University of California, Santa Cruz and received a BA in political science. I've studied with Victor Burgin and Angela Davis. I study Hannah Arendt closely. I am a second cousin, five times removed, of Ralph Waldo Emerson. My aunt participated greatly with research projects concerning the endangered Least tern[?].
I grew up in Rochester, New York, lived in New York, New York for many years, and now reside in Santa Cruz, California. I am forever transfixed by "Black and Tan Fantasy[?]" by Duke Ellington. I was born with Spina bifida occulta.
I refer the List of reference tables often. I like to keep Wikipedia:Requested articles tidy.
My interests include: birding, chess, the Beatles, Freud, muckraking, baseball, the President of the United States of America, Afghanistan, Amedeo Modigliani, Tintin, Surrealism, U.S. presidential election, 2004, the Cold War, ukulele, punk music, indie rock, glam rock, semiotics, maps, word games, jazz, timelines, Fats Waller, lists, etc. etc. etc. I also haunt Disinfopedia [1] (http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml) but I don't post there.
Something to think about: WikiPrinciples
I've initiated the following artices:
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- Afghanistan timeline (and all the sub-links)
- International Security Assistance Force
- List of leaders of Afghanistan
- North Zone of Afghanistan
- Taliban members
- Afghan National Army
- Badar
- Orfeo Bartolini
- Haji Bashar
- BearingPoint
- Benazir Bhutto
- Dasht-i-Leili massacre
- International Resources Group
- Jaghalkani-i-Takhta Pul massacres
- Displaced person
- Abdullah Gan
- Haji Gilani
- Durand line
- Viktor Karpukhin
- Zalmay Khalilzad
- Juma Khan
- List of Afghan Transitional Administration personnel
- Juma Mohammad Mohammadi
- Zacarias Moussaoui
- Ricardo Munguia
- Operation Blessing International
- Mohammed Qalamuddin
- Mullah Mohammad Rabbani
- Ahmed Ressam
- Mullah Salam
- Vice and Virtue Ministry
- Albert Wohlstetter
- Haji Mohammed Zaher
- Ishaq Shahryar
- Ali Ahmad Jalali
- Yusuf Nooristani
- Anwar ul-Haq Ahadi
- Telephone Systems International
- Afghan Wireless Communication Company
- Heather Mercer
- Sediq Afghan
- Richard Green
- John Vines
- Bacha Khan Zadran
- Women's Edge
- Bill Buckner
- List of lifetime home run leaders through history
- Triple crown (baseball)
- List of major league baseball players
- List of highest paid baseball players
- Washington Senators rewrote
- Rafael Palmeiro
- The Game of The Century (chess)
- Bobby Bonds
- 30-30 club
- List of Birds of Santa Cruz County, California
- Regurgitation (the part about birds)
- Spina bifida
- Arnold-Chiari Malformation
- Hydrocephalus
- Neural tube
- shunt
- Paul Petard (botanist)
- List of botanists
- Comprehensive health insurance (Maine)
Regarding history, business and current events
- United States casualties of war
- Burchett, Wilfred
- List of contemporary civil wars
- No-Fly Zone
- Bernard Dowiyogo
- Rick Santorum
- Declaration of Windhoek
- World Press Freedom Day
- Gulf Cooperation Council
- Securities and Exchange Commission appointees
- James M. Landis
- Charles Thomson
- The other Transylvania
- James Stockdale
- UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
- Kim Phuc Phan Thi
- Aspasia
- Paul H. O'Neill
- Gong Shengliang
- Rafael E. Martinez
- Melquiades Rafael Martinez
- David Ahenakew
- Billboard (advertising)
- War Crimes Law (Belgium)
- Iraqi dinar
- Casey Jones
- Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere
- 10-in-1 food parcel
- Irvin McDowell
- Alain-René Le Sage
- Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
- Eightball
- Mocumentary
- List of historical novels
- Cocksucker Blues
- Ed Wynn
- Jim Backus
- Theda Bara
- The Bugaloos
- Bwana Devil
- Jenny Lind
- Three-letter vowel-less English word
- Woodlawn Cemetery
- Mutt and Jeff
- A&W
- Grant Wood
- Eddie Arcaro
- BVDs
- The Baker Street Irregulars
- Believe It Or Not
- Jay Berwanger
- Bizarro
- Burma-Shave
Someone else started these pages, but I participate(d) in their construction:
- Coalition of the willing
- Current events
- The Curse of the Bambino
- Freedom fries
- Green Monster
- Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
- Intact dilation and extraction
- List of people known by one name
- Protest song
- Rave party
- Raver
- Hater
Groups and individuals I've voted into my Hall of Fame: Phil Ochs -- Big Bill Broonzy -- The Carter Family[?] -- Townes Van Zandt[?] -- The Flaming Lips -- John Lennon -- Paul McCartney -- Cliff Edwards[?] -- Richard Pryor -- Joe Strummer -- David Bowie -- Marvin Gaye -- Buddy Holly -- Lou Reed -- Sophie Tucker[?] -- Fats Waller -- Joseph Campbell -- Beethoven -- Hannah Arendt -- Art Pepper[?] -- William Carlos Williams -- François Truffaut -- Jean-Luc Godard -- Allen Ginsberg -- Paul Klee -- Wallace Stegner[?] -- bell hooks -- Angela Davis -- Joe Hill -- Jack Schaar[?] -- Ann Lane[?] -- Calvin Johnson -- Pablo Neruda -- Tom Robbins[?] -- Mother Jones -- Harvey Milk -- Amiri Baraka[?] -- Bob Wills -- Django Reinhardt -- Jonathan Richman -- Nellie Lutcher[?] -- Sister Rosetta Tharpe[?] -- Jack Benny -- Eddie Izzard -- Utah Phillips -- Frank Black -- Bix Beiderbecke
Films I've voted into my Hall of Fame: The Hustler
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