User:EvKnight13
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I, Evans Knight, (born January 13, 1987 in Shreveport, Louisiana) am a high school student. I am adopted, and am biologically of Dutch, Swedish, Swiss, English, German, Scottish, Irish, French, Creole, Choctaw, Cherokee and African descent. Since 1999, I have lived in Los Angeles, California with my family, where I attended The Buckley School. I am now a freshman at the University of Southern California.
I am an avid reader, but my true passion lies with genealogy. Being an adopted child, my fascination with the ancestry of both my adopted and biological families is a natural one, and it has been a constant factor in my adolescence. I also religiously do the Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle, and I have played Jeopardy! with my grandfather since I could speak. When I was younger, I was eligible to join Mensa, but my parents deemed it an inappropriate waste of time. I got a 426 on the Are You a Wikipediholic Test. I am also substantially more well endowed than my fellow Wikpiedian, ParkerHiggins.
Some of my proudest discoveries in the research of my heritage are that I am descended of Nancy Ward, Colonel Thomas Horton and Randle T. Moore, as well as the Houses of Zähringen, Capet, Burgundy, Savoy, Stuart and Plantagenet (the latter through Thomas of Woodstock, the youngest son of King Edward III). I also consider myself to be a member of the Melungeon people. An interesting tidbit is that I have calculated the present Queen of England, Her Majesty Elizabeth II is my 18th cousin twice removed. I am also indirectly related to the the late Diana Spencer (through the de Brienne family), Alexander Hamilton, Daniel Boone and, through the Biddle family of Philadelphia, Nick Biddle, the frontman of Los Angeles based band, The Naturals. My Great-great-great-grandfather John William Jones was the 13th Mayor of Shreveport.

Presentyl, I am attending the University of Southern California as a freshman. I was accepted into the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, as a member of the inaugural College Honors Program, and will most likely be pursuing a major in Linguistics and Anthropology, or perhaps a synthesis of the two. My area of interest revolves around the culture of Muslim Spain, and the lasting effects that the Arabic occupation had upon the developement of the Spanish language and culture. I am also interested in studying the evolution of Spanish music, specifically that directly affected by Islamic and Gitano influences. I am in the process of contracting a teacher to instruct me in the art of the 'ud, and will continue singing at USC.
- Another field of study that I would like to tackle is the Ottoman Empire. Not the whole empire, specifically, but the idea of one great political power ruling over such a culturally and linguistically varied people. I am especially interested in the migration of the Sephardic Jews from Spain to Turkey, and the subsequent use and evolution of the Djudeo-Espanyol language in the Ottoman Empire. Perhaps I shall go at the Ottoman question from an ethnomusicological standpoint, though this will be rather difficult at USC, and may require subsequent graduate study at UCLA.
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[edit] Articles I've Created
- Tignon
- FA Willius
- Red River Revel
- Plaçage
- Qajar art
- Will Harris
- Mirza Ghiyas Beg
- Sher Afghan Quli Khan
- Abdul Hasan Asaf Khan (major restructure)
- Henry Stanley Plummer
- Randle T. Moore
- Frost Lumber Co.
- Prince Shahryar
- Marie Thérèse Metoyer
- Nicolas Augustin Metoyer
- Panthay (again, beginnning a major restructure and Wikification)
[edit] Some Articles I've Edited
- Slavery (I tried to revert vandalism, only to exacerbate the problem. Thus is the life of an amateur and mediocre Wikipedian.)
- November 24 (Added birthdate of FA Willius.)
- Randy Jackson (musician) (Added an interesting tidbit and changed a misspelling.)
- Málaga (Changed Spanish language spelling error.)
- Krumping (Got rid of extraneous and unnecessary info.)
- Chuck Norris (Wow. This article gets vandlized A LOT!!)
- Nancy Ward (Deleted vandalism. Racist bastards.)
- New Echota (Restructured a nonsensical picture caption.)
- Hendrix College (Got rid of vandalism to Residence Hall descriptions.)
- Steven Tyler (Deleted erroneous information about his address.)
- Voice instrumental music (Deleted erroneous preposition.)
- Louisa May Alcott (Deleted feces-related vandalism.)
- Brentwood College School (Deleted Vandalism.)
- Urban Sprawl (Deleted vandalism.)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (Deleted Vandalism.)
- Penguin (Deleted misplaced Talkpage info.)
- Matt Groening (Deleted vandalism. WhoTF is Jeremy D.?)
- Hungry Hungry Hippos (Deleted vandalism. No Deicide, please!)
- Ontario (Deleted vandalism. WTF is Suzaine?)
- Raphael Wicky (Deleted vandalism. Wikipedia is not the side of a water tower.)
- Synod of Dort (Deleted nonsensical vandalism.)
- Jean Nicolet (Deleted vandalism. Why so ugly?)
- Pager (Deleted vandalism, because I DO care.)
- Melissa Stark (Deleted vandalism. Besides, did you really love her?)
- West Azerbaijan (Reformat of English sentence. People need to learn to speak English!!)
- San José de Suaita (Typo.)
- Gorgeous George (Deleted vandalism. Who are you shouting out at anyway?)
- Eric Bischoff (Deleted vandalism. Tsk, tsk with the profanity.)
- Tsul 'Kalu (Changed typo. Dipthongs are not always appropriate.)
- Ricardo Cruz (Typo.)
- Bayezid I
- Trabzon (Fixed various formatting errors.)
- Orhan I (Fixed spelling error.)
[edit] Articles to which I have added a name in some form of the Arabic Alphabet
- Basant (Urdu)
- Lotf Ali Khan (Persian)
- Shahrisabz (Persian)
- Ibn Battuta (Arabic)
- Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan (Persian)
- Fath Ali Shah (Persian)
- Mullah (Persian)
- Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah Urdu
- Muhammad al-Taqi (Arabic)
- Golestan (Persian)
- Kermanshah (Persian)
- Muhammad ibn Ja'far (Arabic)
- Hofuf (Arabic)
- Ibn Yunus (Arabic)
- Ibrahim al-Fazari (Arabic)
- Ghazi al-Yawer (Arabic)
- Maturidi (Arabic)
- Sher Shah Suri (Persian)
- Syed Mohammad Jaunpuri (Urdu)
- Aga Khan (Persian)
- Koh-e-Murad (Persian)
- Kerbogha (Persian)
- Muhammad Aqa-Kermani (Persian)
- Zengi (Arabic)
- Osama Nazir (Urdu)
- Ibn Khordadbeh (Persian)
- Radhanite (Arabic)
- Mohammed Bijeh (Persian)
- Adnan Bukhari (Arabic)
- Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i (Arabic)
- Saeed Ahmad Khan (Urdu)
- Mehmed III (Ottoman)
- Muhammed edh-Dhib (Arabic)
- Abu Hafiza (Arabic)
- Abu Ali al-Harithi (Arabic)
- Al-Mansur ibn Buluggin (Arabic)
- Al-Jubba'i (Persian)
- Hafsa bint Umar (Arabic)
- Al-Muti (Arabic)
- Mohamed Mounir (Arabic)
- Kohkiluyeh and Buyer Ahmad (Persian)
- Nur Jehan (Persian)
- Adnan Pachachi (Arabic)
- Jafar Khan Zand (Persian)
- Orhan I (Arabic)
- Ghorban Tourani (Persian)
- Bijan Namdar Zangeneh (Persian)
- Mozzafareddin Shah Qajar (Persian)
- Agha Mohammad Khan (Persian)
- Mohammad Ali Shah (Persian)
- Marjane Satrapi (Persian)
- Mirza Kouchek Khan (Persian)
- Nan-e kabab (Persian)
- Maidan-e-Naqsh-e-Jahan (Persian)
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