User:Kingturtle

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I got married on June 17! And we've relocated from California to New York. I got a job teaching in Ithaca, New York.

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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 World History and Economics in high school. I used to teach U.S. History, World History and Psychology in high school. My first edit was on the article 1964.

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 studied closely the works of Hannah Arendt. I am a second cousin, five times removed, of Ralph Waldo Emerson. My great-grandfather was George Valentine Nash. My step-grandfather was James M. Landis. If I hadn't been an atheist all my life, I'd have been a priest.

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 became an admin 16:15 May 12, 2003 (UTC); at that point I had 3,944 edits and 75 days experience. I became a Bureaucrat February 28, 2004.

My interests include: birding, chess, the Beatles, baseball, the President of the United States of America, Afghanistan, Surrealism, the Cold War, ukulele, punk music, indie rock, glam rock, maps, word games, jazz, timelines, Fats Waller, lists, etc. etc. etc.

• "the revolution will not be televised. but it WILL be wikified." - Kingturtle
• "There is such a thing as a free lunch. You just have to offer it." - Kingturtle
• "It takes a flimflammer to catch a flimflammer." Harry Houdini
• "If you cannot rely on good, accurate intelligence that is credible to the American people and to others abroad, you certainly can't have a policy of preemption." - David Kay
• "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
• "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'm not here for rage; I'm here for revenge!" - George Costanza
• "Maintaining one's own dignity hangs on maintaining the dignity of others." Kingturtle
• "Only those who can play God can conceive of God." - Kingturtle

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I've started the following articles:

Contents 1 Regarding Afghanistan 2 Regarding baseball, chess, and sports 3 Regarding birds and nature (and toxonomy-related topics) 4 Regarding health, math and science 5 Regarding history, government, business and current events 6 Regarding Wikispace 7 Regarding entertainment 8 Regarding literature & books & art 9 Regarding the trivial 10 Image I've scanned

Regarding Afghanistan

Timeline of Afghan history (and all the sub-links) - International Security Assistance Force - 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 - 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 (soldier) - John Vines - Bacha Khan Zadran - Women's Edge - Afghan Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Program - Hedayat Arsala - Syed Ishay Ghalani - Operation Haven Denial - Faryadi Sarwar Zardad - Operation Warrior Sweep - AINA (organization) - OMAR Mine Museum - Zabul Province - Gul Agha Sherzai - Operation Mountain Viper - Provincial reconstruction team - Camp Julien - Civil-Military Co-operation - Operation Avalanche (Afghanistan) - 2003 Loya jirga - Hezb-e Jomhorikhahan - Comprehensive Disabled Afghans Program - Operation Headstrong - 100 Classrooms program - Operation Mountain Resolve - Kuchis - Kabul Soccer Club - Kabul University - The Afghan Women - Abdul Ahad Mohmand - Muhammad Ismail Agha - Asadullah Abdul Rahman - Afghanistan Meteorological Authority - Kabul-Kandahar highway - Daikondi Province - Panjshir Province - Economic Cooperation Organization - Abdullah Shah - Sayed Nabi Siddiqui - William Umbach - Reza Khan (Taliban) - Afghan New Beginnings Programme - Brent Bennett - Jamal Naseer - Afghan Special Narcotics Force - Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan - Six-plus-two nations - Alfredo Witschi-Cestari - Mohammad Saleheen - Radio Shariat - Istalif - Norbert Holl

Regarding baseball, chess, and sports

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 - Bobby Bonds - 30-30 club - List of Major League Baseball franchise post-season droughts - Major League Baseball titles streaks - Major League Baseball titles leaders - Hitting streak - Wahconah Park - Major League Baseball attendance records - Ray Chapman - Major League Baseball home run milestones - List of Major League Baseball principal owners - List of Major League Baseball stadiums - List of Major League Baseball retired numbers - Jack Beckley - List of most experienced baseball players never to play in a World Series - U.S. cities with teams from four major sports - Pete Franklin - List of National Football League franchise post-season droughts - List of NBA franchise post-season droughts - Jon Rauch - Yankee Clipper - Nelson Doubleday Jr. - List of Major League Baseball players suspended for performance-enhancing drugs - Beetle Cat - Rosie Bonds - George Sisler, Jr.

Regarding birds and nature (and toxonomy-related topics)

List of birds of Santa Cruz County, California - Pied-billed Grebe - Clark's Grebe - American White Pelican - Brown Pelican - Brandt's Cormorant - Double-crested Cormorant - Pelagic Cormorant - American Bittern - Mei (dinosaur) - GoldenPalace.com Monkey - Neltje Blanchan - Avian Brain Nomenclature Consortium - Huayna Picchu - Temple of the Moon

Regarding health, math and science

Spina bifida - Arnold-Chiari malformation - Hydrocephalus - Neural tube - Shunt (medical) - Paul Petard (botanist) - Comprehensive health insurance (Maine) - Temik - Rychard Bouwens - Isosorbide dinitrate/hydralazine - Aggregate data - Chained dollars

Regarding history, government, business and current events

Albert Wohlstetter - United States casualties of war - Wilfred Burchett - List of civil wars - Iraqi no-fly zones - Bernard Dowiyogo - Rick Santorum - Declaration of Windhoek - World Press Freedom Day - Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf - Securities and Exchange Commission appointees - James M. Landis - Charles Thomson - Transylvania (colony) - James Stockdale - UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador - Kim Phuc Phan Thi - Aspasia - Paul O'Neill - Gong Shengliang - Rafael E. Martinez - David Ahenakew - Billboard (advertising) - War Crimes Law (Belgium) - Iraqi dinar - Casey Jones - CARE (relief) - 10-in-1 food parcel - Irvin McDowell - Alain-René Lesage - Baghdad zoo - SAGEM Sperwer - Miantonomoh - List of United States Presidents by military rank - Operation Enduring Freedom - Philippines - Eurocorps - Hazel Carter - Anton Dostler - List of current monarchs - Nicaraguan Institute of Natural Resources and the Environment - List of United States Presidential assassination attempts - List of people granted honorary French citizenship during the French Revolution - United States Office of Economic Opportunity - Robert A. Lovett - Neil H. McElroy - Thomas S. Gates Jr. - James R. Schlesinger - Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense) - War Cabinet - Presidential Emergency Operations Center - Larry Thompson - Nuclear Risk Reduction Center - Office of Net Assessment - Andrew Marshall (foreign policy strategist) - Operation Orient Express - Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change - Emmet John Hughes - Harvey Matusow - Owen Lattimore - Deterrence theory - Panic of 1907 - Narodnaya Volya - Narodnaja Volya (newspaper) - Harry Fischel - George Opdyke - Abraham Cahan - Abraham Jacobi - Night letter - Salah Khalaf - Operation Red Dog - Beate Sturm - Dalal Mughrabi - Callixte Mbarushimana - Jobs created during U.S. presidential terms - Philadelphia Liberty Medal - List of United States presidential vetoes - Arab Islamic Republic - Herbert Porter - Central Asian Cooperation Organization - Robert Preston (private) - Victor Samuelson - Watergate Seven - Talon News - Curveball (informant) - Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study - Hippolyte Havel - Jennifer Wilbanks - Jerrie Mock - NICE Systems - WorldTeach - United States general elections, 2005 - UN Security Council Resolution 688 - List of UN Security Council Resolutions 1 to 100 (and the associated subpages with the assistance of User:IceKarma) - 1856 Republican National Convention - Michael Taylor

Regarding Wikispace

Template:Merge - Template:WorldCoin - Template:News - Template:UNSCR

Regarding entertainment

Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz (song) - Eightball (comic book) - List of historical novels - Cocksucker Blues - Ed Wynn - Jim Backus - Theda Bara - The Bugaloos - Bwana Devil - Jenny Lind - List of songs containing overt references to real musicians - List of band theme songs - List of songs about fictitious bands or musicians - Dirty Mac - The Hit Factory - Fania Marinoff

Regarding literature & books & art

John Louis DiGaetani - Wilfrid Mellers - Jerome Ch'en - Pitts Sanborn - Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession

Regarding the trivial

Three-letter vowel-less English word - Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx - Mutt and Jeff - Grant Wood - Eddie Arcaro - BVD - Baker Street Irregulars - Believe It Or Not - Jay Berwanger - Bizarro - Burma-Shave - List of people known as father or mother of something - Bob cut - Charles Atlas - Chattanooga Choo Choo - Colo (gorilla) - Countdown - List of notable occupants of the Watergate Hotel - List of fictional humanoid species - Snozzberry (written with Charlie) - George Willig - Darrell Winfield - Wingfoot Express - Van Nuys High School - Tinkerbelle - Skycycle X-2

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My heroes: Mario Savio -- 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 -- Fats Waller -- Joseph Campbell -- Beethoven -- Hannah Arendt -- Art Pepper -- William Carlos Williams -- François Truffaut -- Jean-Luc Godard -- Allen Ginsberg -- Paul Klee -- 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 -- Nellie Lutcher -- Sister Rosetta Tharpe -- Jack Benny -- Eddie Izzard -- Utah Phillips -- Frank Black -- Bix Beiderbecke -- Charles Bukowski -- Laurel and Hardy -- William Blake -- Federico Fellini -- Bob Dylan -- Jimi Hendrix

Image I've scanned

DeSoto	Defoe	Corneille	Cooper
Bryant	HC Anderson	L Alcott	Alcibiades
Abbotsford	N Green	H Knox	Macaulay
Meyerbeer	Miltiades	Murillo	Nordenskjold
A Pope	Racine	Brutus	Aspasia
Barbarossa	H Gates	W Hogarth	O Goldsmith
EK Kane	Hippocrates	Addison

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Personal use sub-pages: Reading List - Reading List Two - WikiPrinciples - Lecture outlines - Kingturtle/History of corruption in the United States government - Kingturtle/World Coin Gallery - Kingturtle/2Pac

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Notes to self: To do: Ali Ahmad Jalali, List of territorial occupations, Allen Funt. Playlists compete: 1/17/04, 1/10/04

next:

• 2000: completed up to May 3...December 31
• 2001: completed up to January 5...August 31; completed up to September 22
• 2002: completed up to February 28...October 31; completed up to November 30
• 2003: completed
• 2004: up to October 10
• Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

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