User:Grundle2600

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My user name is a reference to the video game "Adventure" on the Atari 2600. "Grundle" is the name of the green dragon in that game. See Adventure (Atari 2600).

[edit] Articles that I started

100 Black Men of America (an organization designed to educate and empower African American children and teens in the United States)

Afrocimex constrictus (an insect parasite of Egyptian fruit bats)

Agelas clathrodes (a species of sponge)

Alexis Lemaire (set new world record for calculating the 13th root of a random 200 digit number in the shortest time)

Anthosactis pearseae (a sea anemone that lives inside dead whales at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean)

Apteronotus galvisi (a species of ghost knifefish)

Blue Tree (a store owned by Phoebe Cates)

Bone Detectives (a TV series on The Discovery channel)

Bonnie Hayes (a new wave singer from the 1980s)

Bothriechis bicolor (Guatemalan palm-pitviper, a snake that lives in southern Mexico and Guatemala)

Chrysaora hysoscella (a species of jellyfish)

Cigar Lake Mine (the world's second largest uranium mine)

Conus textile (a species of cone snail known as the "cloth of gold")

Cosmo the Merry Martian (a 1950s comic book)

Desertec (a proposal for what would be the world's biggest solar power farm)

Eocarcharia (a dinosaur that lived in Africa 110 million years ago)

Extra Mile Education Foundation (a charitable organization located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which pays for scholarships for low income African American children and teens to attend private K-12 Catholic schools)

Flag Protection Act of 2005 (a bill introduced by Hillary Clinton that would punish flag burners with a punishment of one year in jail and a fine of $100,000)

Flippopotamus (a board game from the 1970s)

Godzilla Game (a Mattel board game from 1978)

Goodbye to You (Scandal song) (1982 song "Goodbye To You" by Scandal)

A Horsefly Fleas (1948 Warner Bros animated short)

Jaekelopterus rhenaniae (an extinct species of giant sea scorpion - one of the two biggest arthropods of all time)

Josephoartigasia monesi (a giant prehistoric rodent)

Laugh Comics Digest (from the Archie series of comics)

LED Incapacitator (a nonlethal weapon that police can use while trying to catch suspects)

Lemur Street (a TV show on Animal Planet)

LEXID (a hand held X-ray scanner used by police)

Life After People (a documentary about what the earth might be like if people went extinct)

Life Saver bottle (bottle that turns dirty water into clean water in just a few seconds)

Lightning GT (a plug in electric car)

Lights Out America (a nationwide event where U.S. citizens turn out their lights for one hour to draw attention to the environment)

Mark Addison (a shark researcher who interacts with sharks without using any safety equipment)

Mycoplasma laboratorium (a potential form of artificial life)

Nannarrup hoffmani (a species of centipede that was discovered in New York City's Central Park)

Nemicolopterus (one of the smallest pterosaurs)

Orangutan Island (a TV series on Animal Planet)

Orectochilus orbisonorum (a species of beetle named after Roy Orbison)

Phoxinus bigerri, Phoxinus septimaniae, Phoxinus strymonicus (three species of minnows)

Platanthera yosemitensis (an orchid that grows in Yosemite National Park)

Pristipomoides filamentosus (a fish that is eaten by humans in Hawaii)

Pyrops candelarius (a very interesting and beautiful insect)

Richard B. Bernstein (a constitutional historian whose biography of Thomas Jefferson was called "the best short biography of Jefferson ever written" by The New York Times)

Rise of the Video Game (a 5 part documentary about video games on the Discovery Channel)

Safari cards (animal information cards that were sold through mail order in the 1970s)

Smash Lab (a TV series on The Discovery channel)

Some Assembly Required (TV series) (a TV series on the Discovery channel)

Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (a gun rights organization)

Summit Candy Bar (a U.S. candy bar from the 1980s)

Teilhardina magnoliana (the first known primate to live in North America)

Tell Me You Love Me (a TV series on HBO)

Tesla BlueStar (a planned future plug in electric car)

The Compact (an environmental movement that asks people not to buy anything new for a year)

Toyota iQ (Toyota claims that this is the world's smallest 4 passenger car)

Weapon Masters (a TV series on The Discovery Channel)

Xenoposeidon (A genus of sauropod dinosaur that was discovered in 2007.)