User:Kingturtle

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This user supports Dennis Kucinich for President in 2008.

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Santa Cruz

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The Harley School.

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Kingturtle (talk • contribs • blocks • protects • deletions • moves • rights)
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I am Kingturtle on MetaWiki - I am Kingturtle on Uncyclopedia - my screenname is 亀王/kame Ō in Japanese
notes to self: tools, toolbox, Portal:Baseball, WikiPrinciples, teaching, Requested articles/Afghanistan, afghan timeline, paranoia, Reading List, 2Pac, Reading List Two, day-of-year standards, USH

Although my first edit took place on November 26, 2002, I didn't really catch onto Wikipedia until the evening of February 27, 2003 while searching for information on the internet to fatten a lecture I was writing on prohibition for my U.S. History class (I'm a high school teacher). The discovery of Wikipedia 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 grew up in Rochester, New York, lived in New York, New York and Santa Cruz, California, and now find myself back in Rochester. I am forever transfixed by "Black and Tan Fantasy" by Duke Ellington. I was born with Spina bifida occulta.

In my first edit I changed Camel case to CamelCase. In my 40,000th edit I removed the orphan tag from Gaius Ateius Capito (tribune). 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. This instant I have this many edits. I am the founder of WikiSCUM, an underground music encyclopedia for Santa Cruz County, California.

A Santa Cruz row house where I once lived. That was my door on the left.

I attended The Harley School. Then, I attended University of California, Santa Cruz and received a BA in political science. I've studied with Victor Burgin, Jack Schaar and Angela Davis. I studied closely the works of Hannah Arendt.

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.

According to Political Compass, I belong to the economic left (-7.00) and am a social libertarian (-6.05). That puts me in good company with the Dalai Lama and Dennis Kucinich.

1 Genealogy
2 Quotes
3 Regarding Afghanistan
4 Regarding baseball, chess, and sports
5 Regarding birds and nature (and toxonomy-related topics)
6 Regarding health, psychology, math and science
7 Regarding history, government, business and current events
8 Regarding Wikispace
9 Regarding entertainment
10 Regarding literature & books & art
11 Regarding the trivial
12 Image I've scanned that are in use
13 Photos I have taken that are in use
14 Images I've scanned that are not in use

Genealogy

I am a second cousin, five times removed, of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a great-grandson of George Valentine Nash, a step-grandson of James M. Landis, a sixth great-grandson of Bodo Otto, an eighth great-grandson of Mary Bradbury, a ninth great-grandson of George Soule, a tenth great-grandson of Stephen Hopkins and of John Howland, and an eleventh great-grandson of William Brewster. My uncle is buried at Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial. I am a tenth cousin of Barak Obama; I am a tenth cousin once removed of George Herbert Walker Bush and twice removed of George Walker Bush. I have a few ancestors who were killed in and who survived the 1704 Raid on Deerfield.

Quotes

"An apology with the word "if" in it isn't an apology at all." - Kingturtle
"People think it's a cluster of junk. I see it as a cluster of possibilities. Each object gives a direction; each is a line picked up here and there - indeed, gleaned - and which become my paintings. The aim of art is to tidy up one's inner and exterior worlds." - Louis Pons discussing his paintings, but I think it applies to our work here at Wikipedia.
"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 we 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
Pete Rose, Barry Bonds and Ty Cobb are the top three all-time leaders in Major League Baseball plate appearances. You heard it from me first. Kingturtle (talk) 23:55, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Linky is a Mozilla/Firefox utility that lets you open selected links into new tabs. This utility can help make your watchlist time more efficient. When you open the Linky with the links, right-click in the dialog box. Select "Enter pattern to match." If you want to open all the Diff links, enter "oldid". If you want to open all the Hist links, enter "history".

I've started the following articles:

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

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 - Lake Buel - Great pond - Common Shiner - Scirpus fluviatilis - Pontederia cordata

Regarding health, psychology, 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 - Decathexis - Chickenpox party

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 - Nathanael Greene - Aspasia - Servilius Casca - John Carver - Harriet Acland - 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 - Denny Altes - Mark Rosenker - Clement Eaton - World Assembly of Youth

Regarding Wikispace

Template:Merge - Template:WorldCoin - Template:News - Template:UNSCR - Template:Welcomebb - Template:Warningkt - {{User:Kingturtle/Red Hot Pawn|383918}} - Template:2008Demprimaries - Template:2008Repprimaries - Template:Geek-stub

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 - The Rebels (band)

Regarding literature & books & art

John Louis DiGaetani - Oswald Achenbach - Washington Allston - Wilfrid Mellers - Jerome Ch'en - Thomas Bailey Aldrich - Pitts Sanborn - Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession - Louis Pons - Agegnehu Engida

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 - J. Reginald Murphy - George Willig - Darrell Winfield - Wingfoot Express - Van Nuys High School - Tinkerbelle - Skycycle X-2 - List of halls and walks of fame - Camp Half Moon

Image I've scanned that are in use

DeSoto	Defoe	Corneille	L Alcott
Alcibiades	H Knox	Macaulay	Miltiades
Murillo	Nordenskjold	A Pope	Barbarossa
H Gates	O Goldsmith	Hippocrates	Addison
Bodo Otto

Photos I have taken that are in use

Images I've scanned that are not in use

Cooper	Bryant	N Green	Meyerbeer
Racine	Brutus	Aspasia	W Hogarth
EK Kane

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