User:Diarmada

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Diarmada

This user lives in the U.S.
State of Alabama.

TEA!

This user drinks southern sweet tea.

This user lives in or hails
from Birmingham.

This user is a humanist.

Ted

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This user believes that William March is the unrecognized genius of our time

SG

This user activates the Stargate to explore other planets.

This user supports Scottish independence.

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Feck Off!

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Lynch

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SoE-n

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(Southern bah the grace o' God)

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Alba
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WikiProject Alabama.

ath

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This user supports the independence of Cascadia.

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This user was born to kill.

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'	This user does not believe in Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, but agrees it is as likely as creationism.

Diarmada (born June 23rd, 1976 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American Archivist best known for being Diarmada.

Thanks to the visionary contribution of Wikipedia to the world wide web by fellow Alabamian Jimmy Wales, Diarmada has been able to present aspects of Alabama's culture, diversity and history.

Sweet Home Alabama
Home as of last week, Washington, D.C.
Buchanan Street, A few blocks from my old apartment in Glasgow, Scotland
Birmingham, Alabama: The Magic City
"To me it has always seemed that God is so sickened with men, and their unending cruelty to each other, that he covers the places where they have been as quickly as possible." - William March
"If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God." - Thomas Jefferson
"The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured- especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised." - E. O. Wilson

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The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) is a very large bird of prey in the monotypic genus Gypaetus. It is vernacularly known as the Homa, a bird in Iranian mythology. The bearded vulture is the only known vertebrate whose diet consists of 70 to 90 per cent bone. It lives and breeds on crags in high mountains in Iran, southern Europe, East Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Tibet, and the Caucasus. The bearded vulture population is thought to be in decline; since 2014, it has been classified as near threatened on the IUCN Red List. Bearded vultures are 94 to 125 centimetres (37 to 49 inches) long, with a wingspan of 2.31 to 2.83 metres (7.6 to 9.3 feet). This bearded vulture was photographed carrying a piece of carrion in the Alps in Switzerland, where the species was reintroduced in the late 20th century after having become locally extinct in the early 20th century.Photograph credit: Giles Laurent

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Did you know...

... that 170 trips on Sounder commuter rail (pictured) were cancelled in a single winter due to mudslides?
... that John C. Raaen Jr., at age 103, is the last surviving US Army Ranger from the first D-Day assault wave on Omaha Beach?
... that the Donnie Creek fire in 2023 was the largest wildfire in British Columbia's history?
... that Teuku Karimoeddin was arrested by the Imperial Japanese military police for resisting mandatory head shaving and other regulations?
... that a dinner between Bill Maher and Donald Trump was satirized in "My Dinner with Adolf"?
... that Guyanese trade unionist Philomena Sahoye-Shury was nicknamed "Fireball" due to her "outspoken and forthright stance on the workers' behalf"?
... that some Byzantine churches in Philadelphia, modern-day Amman, were repurposed from earlier Roman temples?
... that upon being drafted by the NFL's Chicago Bears, Ralph Jarvis wanted to thank the judge who sent him to the reform school where he first played American football?
... that some bodies at Chalandriani were buried with "frying pans"?

More 'wooden nickels'

"Thomas Paine had passed the legendary limit of life. One by one most of his old friends and acquaintances had deserted him. Maligned on every side, execrated, shunned and abhorred -- his virtues denounced as vices -- his services forgotten -- his character blackened, he preserved the poise and balance of his soul. He was a victim of the people, but his convictions remained unshaken. He was still a soldier in the army of freedom, and still tried to enlighten and civilize those who were impatiently waiting for his death, Even those who loved their enemies hated him, their friend -- the friend of the whole world -- with all their hearts. On the 8th of June, 1809, death came -- Death, almost his only friend. At his funeral no pomp, no pageantry, no civic procession, no military display. In a carriage, a woman and her son who had lived on the bounty of the dead -- on horseback, a Quaker, the humanity of whose heart dominated the creed of his head -- and, following on foot, two negroes filled with gratitude -- constituted the funeral cortege of Thomas Paine." - Robert G. Ingersoll
"...I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." - Eugene V. Debs
"His power we allow is infinite: whatever he wills is executed: but neither man nor any other animal is happy: therefore he does not will their happiness. His wisdom is infinite: he is never mistaken in choosing themeans to any end: but the course of Nature tends not to human or animal felicity: thereforeit is not established for that purpose. Through the whole compass of human knowledge, there are no inferences more certain and infallible than these. In what respect, then, do his benevolence and mercy resemble the benevolence and mercy of men? Epicurus's old questions are yet unanswered. Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil?" - David Hume