User:DO'Neil
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"Life is short. Live it up!" -Nikita Khrushchev
<math>Hello!<math> I'm a Sydneysider, that is to say, I was born and live in Sydney, Australia, in the great state of New South Wales.
I'm proud to have been a member of the wonderous website since February 27, 2004.
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Interests and hobbies
My interests include history (primarily the Age of Discovery, the Napoleonic Wars, the British Empire the Second World War and the Cold War, ornithology (even before I could read I'd spend hours looking at the pictures in my father's birdwatching guide) and world music, especially that of Latin America and the Caribbean, among a myriad of other things.
The cultures of Latin America and those of the Slavic peoples also fascinate me. The former so much so that I've had to make a seperate bragsheet (see below) about my Latin American contributions to prevent them clogging up my userpage!
I have many actual hobbies, such as playing the steel-stringed acoustic guitar, kayaking, the collecting of stamps and of foreign currency.
I am a Christian, more specifically, an Anglican, and I am of Irish descent.
I would describe myself as a leftist.
I have a certain obsession with diacritic marks. I simply cannot pass by "Vasco Nunez de Balboa", "Karl Doenitz" or "coup d'etat" without clicking on Edit This Page and replacing them with "Vasco Núñez de Balboa", "Karl Dönitz" and "coup d'état".
I made my 1000th edit on May 15, 2004. In October 23 (which is, curiously, my birthday!) I added several new events, such as the Red Army entering Hungary, the first use of aircraft in war in the Italo-Turkish War, and an attempted coup on the part of one of Napoleon Bonaparte's lieutenants.
I'm a part of the "mad little ship".
It's 19:33 on Monday, May 20, 2024. Well, not here in Sydney, but it's that time in cities like Warsaw, Paris, Berlin, Sarajevo and Luanda.
My Wikipedia ideology is one of inclusionism (http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusionism) and eventualism (http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/eventualism).
Articles Unrelated to Latin America That I've Significantly Contributed to, Started or Rewritten Include...
Geography
- Balaklava started
- Bydgoszcz significant contribution
- Cay started
- Fox Islands rewritten entirely
- Great Victoria Desert started
- Kinshasa Highway significant contribution
- Kraków significant contribution
- Kronenberg significant contribution
- Mostar significant contribution
- Narmada River started
- Nelspruit started
- Ordos Desert started
- Poznań siginificant contribution
- Szczecin significant contribution
- Wrangel Island started
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People
- Philip Agee started
- Michael Apted significant contribution
- Frank William Baxter started
- Juan Belmonte started
- Don Black started
- Frederick Charles Booth started
- Jan Carstensz started
- Bernard Coard started
- Sir Edward Codrington started
- Józef Cyrankiewicz rewritten entirely
- Dinis Dias started
- Petre Dumitrescu started
- Bertalan Farkas rewritten entirely
- Alfred Frenzel started, though I was (for some reason) not logged in at the time
- Mikhail Frunze started
- Antão Gonçalves started
- Zhugderdemidiyn Gurragcha started
- Mirosław Hermaszewski significant contribution
- Basil Arthur Horsfall started
- Ibrahim Bey started
- Georgi Ivanov started
- János Kádár rewritten entirely
- Léonce Lagarde started
- John Laws started
- Nigel Gray Leakey started
- Jones Morgan started
- Pavlik Morozov started
- Murad Bey rewritten entirely
- John Dering Nettleton started
- François l'Ollonais started
- Lindsay Owen-Jones started
- Tuân Pham started
- Stéphane Picq rewritten entirely
- Thomas Ricketts started
- Mathias Rust significant contribution
- Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler started
- Stepan Shaumyan started
- Irwin Shaw started
- Hugh Shearer started
- Fernando Sor rewritten entirely
- Sefanaia Sukanaivalu started
- Eugène Terre'Blanche started
- Tewodros II rewritten entirely
- Ismail Tiliwaldi started
- Nuno Tristão started
Biology
- Barbel started
- Klipspringer started
- Spitz started
- Wilson's Bird of Paradise started
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History
- Államvédelmi Hatóság significant contribution
- Battle of Tanga started
- Black Sheep Turkmen started
- Coat of Arms of East Germany started
- Conscientious objection in East Germany started
- Consumer goods in the Soviet Union started
- Education in East Germany started
- Education in the People's Republic of Poland started
- German East Africa Company started
- Goa Inquisition significant contribution
- History of the Turks and Caicos Islands started
- Italo-Turkish War started
- Kaiserwald started
- Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse started
- Mikhail Lermontov (ship) started
- Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde started
- People's Democratic Republic of Yemen rewritten entirely
- Portuguese Guinea started
- Propiska started
- Securitate rewritten entirely
- SVAZARM started
- Tourism in East Germany started
- Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic started
- Volkspolizei started
- Virgin Lands Campaign started
- White Sheep Turkmen started
Literature & Authors
- Louis de Bernières started
- Joyce Cary started
- Bryce Courtenay started
- Martin Cruz Smith started
- Fodor's Travel Guides started
- Christian Jacq significant contribution
- Wilbur Smith started
- The Power of One started
Linguistics
- Gilbertese started
- List of English words of Afrikaans origin started
- List of English words of Norwegian origin started
- List of English words of Turkish origin started
Music
- Buena Vista Social Club (album) started
- Dafne started
- Disraeli Gears significant contribution
- Doug Anthony All Stars started
- drukqs significant contribution
- In the Hall of the Mountain King started
- Kamancheh started
- The Lemon Pipers started
- Leningrad Symphony rewritten entirely
- Sandinista! siginificant contribution
- Sons and Daughters of St. Lucia significant contribution
- Washington Bullets started
- Viva, Viva a FRELIMO started
Miscellaneous
- Alewyfe started
- Apéritif started
- Balatá stared
- Boatswain started
- Coat of Arms of Wrocław started
- Compasssmith started
- Gallery of Socialist Realism started
- Gosudarstvennyj Universalnyj Magazin started
- Operation Southern Watch started
- Order of the White Eagle started
- Purda started
- Rudé Právo started
- Template:Sovietpd started
- Type 100 submachine gun started
- Ushanka started
- Workers' Party of Ethiopia started
- Yardie started
Airports
- Ostrava-Mošnov International Airport started
- Osvaldo Vieiro International Airport started
- Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport started
Aircraft
- Fiat BR.20 started
- Myasishchev M-4 started
- Piaggio P.108 started
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.81 started
- Sukhoi Su-15 started
Films
- Dark Blue World started
Sound files
Contributions About Latin America
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Images I Uploaded
Photographs I Have Taken
Sandbox
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