User:DO'Neil
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"Life is short. Live it up!" -Nikita Khrushchev
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've been a Wikipedia member since late February, 2004.
My interests include history (primarily the Age of Discovery, the Napoleonic Wars, the British Empire and the Second and First World Wars), 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.
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, and I hope to see Mark Latham become our next Prime Minister.
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's lieutenants.
Articles I've Significantly Contributed to, Started or Rewritten Include...
Geography
- Balaklava started
- Cay started
- Fox Islands rewritten entirely
- Great Victoria Desert started
- Mostar significant contribution
- Narmada River started
- Nelspruit started
- Ordos Desert started
- Wrangel Island started
People
- Juan Belmonte started
- Sir Edward Codrington started
- Mikhail Frunze started
- John Laws started
- Jones Morgan started
- Lindsay Owen-Jones started
- Stepan Shaumyan started
- Hugh Shearer started
- Fernando Sor rewritten entirely
- Tewodros II rewritten entirely
Biology
- Barbel started
- Klipspringer started
- Wilson's Bird of Paradise started
History
- History of the Turks and Caicos Islands started
- Italo-Turkish War started
- Partido Africano para a Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde started
- Portuguese Guinea started
- Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic started
Literature & Authors
- Louis de Bernières started
- Joyce Cary started
- Bryce Courtenay started
- Martin Cruz Smith started
- Christian Jacq significant contribution
- Wilbur Smith started
Linguistics
- 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
Miscellaneous
- Alewyfe started
- Balatá stared
- Boatswain started
- Compasssmith started
- Gosudarstvennyj Universalnyj Magazin started
- Operation Southern Watch started
- Purda started
- Rudé Právo started
- Ushanka started
- Yardie started
Contributions About Latin America
== My Favourite Movies in No Particular Order... ==
- Catch Me If You Can (2002)
- The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
- Das Boot (1981)
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- Gandhi (1982)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- Schindler's List (1993)
- The Star Wars Movies (1977, 1980, 1983, 1999, 2002, 2005)
- Testimony (1987)
== My Favourite Literature (Books and Otherwise) in No Particular Order... ==
- Mister Johnson by Joyce Cary
- Shogun by James Clavell
- Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell
- Taipan by James Clavell
- The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
- Caribbean by James A. Michener
- The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
- Richard III by William Shakespeare
Images I Uploaded, in No Particular Order
