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Hi! My name is Emily and I live in Nova Scotia. I like cats, dogs, horses, classical music (a LOT), Lilo and Stitch, thylacines, large words, and science. User Green451 is my brother. I am an advanced pianist and took my RCM grade 8 practical exam and scored "fist class honours", as well as my "grade 1 rudiments" theory exam. However I have grade 9 profficiency. I have taken my RCM grades 1, 3, and 5, and scored "First class honours" on all of them. To see the rest of my userboxes go here. To see my sandbox go here.

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[edit] Me: an FAQ

Essential facts
vn-2 This user page has been vandalized 2 times.
This user is a member of WikiProject Cats.
This user is a contributor to the
Wikipedia dog breed project.
This user comes from Canada.
This user comes from Nova Scotia.
"There is no sin except stupidity."

- Oscar Wilde
  • Username: Pharaoh Hound
  • Why I chose my username: the Pharaoh Hound is my favourite breed of dog
  • Real name: Emily
  • Country: Canada
  • Province: Nova Scotia
  • Pets: Many, see below
  • Favourite hobbies and interests: origami, gardening, photography, reading, Greek mythology, Show jumping (an interest rather than a hobby), anything relating to animals (with the exception of earwigs)
  • Favourite colours: Turquoise, Aqua, Aquamarine
  • Why my signature is that hideous shade of brown: Same colour as my username-sake

[edit] My work on Wiki

I discovered wiki ages ago, but only realised what it was fairly recently. I normally do most of my work on various dog articles, see the lists below for my pet pages. One of my biggist irks on wiki dog articles is when the Canadian breed clubs aren't listed in the external links (which is usually), and I have made it one of my missions to make sure that this problem is eleminated. I also vote on almost all of the Featured Pictures Candidates.I am a member of the Wikipedia dog breed project. My favourite type of articles to edit are dog breed stubs, as I get to work on them almost entirely on my own (very few other editors). When I don't feel like thinking too hard while editing I either add external links to dog breed clubs, or request better photos on dog (and ocasionaly horse) articles. Recently I've taken to adding infoboxes to thoroughbred racehorse pages (in spite of the fact that I know next to nothing about thoroughbred racing, I just pretend to know which races are important). My first registered edits were on February 6, 2006.

[edit] Pages I have done lots of work on

[edit] Pages I have done some work on

[edit] Pages I have created

[edit] Articles I plan to edit

  • Alaskan Husky - Copy-edit to remove "second person" tone in the "Hobbies" section (a section that probably should be merged with "temperament").
  • Expand Kromfohrlander
  • Add Health section to Saluki

[edit] Articles I plan to create

  • Ludger Beerbaum
  • Markus Fuchs

[edit] The Dogs Portal

In late October Rfrisbie contacted me to see if I would like to help with the recently activated Dog Portal. I'd never done anything with portals, but it looked neat so I said yes. A few weeks later, and it became (largely due to Rfrisbie's experience and initiative) a featured portal!

[edit] My Pets

My cat Patches
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My cat Patches

I LOVE animals and thank goodness my family does too. I have always owned cats, and can remember only one year of my life when my family hasn't had at least one. I have "Betta-itis", a disease that is incurable, but can be lived with. Symptoms of "Betta-itis" include: Dreaming about bettas, having as many bettas as is possible, talking to your bettas as if they understand you, constantly thinking of ways to get more bettas, and naming your bettas. I have also owned a Tarantula. I love dogs, but as of yet we don't have one for a variety of reasons. I also want a Leopard gecko (they're SO cute). The other pets I currently own (besides cats) only includes fish.

[edit] Current Pets

  • Two cats: Patches and Smokey, female and male, both six years old.
My Betta Memnon
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My Betta Memnon
  • Four male Bettas: Four year old Emperor, seven month old Memnon, six month old Umbra, and five month old Mars (named after the Roman God, not the planet)
  • Four Corydoras: including five-year-old Stitch (who holds the title of being my oldest fish, and is an albino), and three-year-old Pirate (who only has one eye).
  • Two three year old golden Gouramis.
  • Five White Cloud Mountain Minnows.
  • Two Zebra Danios (neither of which have names).
  • Three Neon Tetras.
  • A large number of Platys.
  • A large number of Swordtails. (I would be able to keep track of how many live-bearers I have if they weren't reproducing like crazy)

[edit] My music

I love music, but only certain types: Classical, Ragtime. and movie scores. I play piano at an advanced level (grade 9 RCM). The Baroque period music's complexity, unique articulation, and style of transitions continually lure me, and I always have at least one baroque piece in my repetoire. I LOVE to perform, and I am thinking about doing some recordings for the commons.

[edit] Some pieces of music in my repertoire

  • Little Prelude in E minor by J.S. Bach
  • Sonatina in G major, op. 36, no.5 (from Six Progressive Sonatinas for the Pianoforte) by Muzio Clementi
  • Valse, Op. 69, No.2 by Chopin
  • Capriccio, HWV 483 by Handel
  • Elite Sycopations by Scott Joplin
  • Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (arranged for solo piano by myself) by J.S. Bach

[edit] My Photography

I have always loved good photos, and since getting a digital camera last Christmas I have been shooting as much as I can. My favourite subjects are animals and plants, both of which I have easy access to. My camera is a Canon PowerShot A520. My dream is to get a high megapixel digital SLR (all of my shots on my current camera turn out slightly blurry). I also have Adobe Photoshop Elements to aid in my photography and graphic design. I'm contemplating nominating one of my photos for Featured picture candidates, but I don't have any photos that I'm really happy with. To see my gallery go here

[edit] Pictures to take

  • Salvia
  • Solid coloured pansy
  • Alyssum
  • Salt-and-Pepper Schnauzer (Schuatzi)
  • Sweet Pea
  • Zinnia
  • Trailing verbena
  • Hosta flowers
  • Better photo of a pink bleeding heart
  • Better photo of a white bleeding heart
  • Gypsophila
  • Lupin
  • A white Sweet Violet
  • Impatiens (note to self: Hybrid imatiens article called "busy lizzie")
  • Pelargonium
  • Gladiolus hybrids (I own and grow over 200 glad corms, so that shouldn't be a problem)
  • Golden variety of Trichogaster trichopterus (Gouramis).
  • Better photo of Memie for Siamese Fighting Fish
  • Neon tetra
  • Better photo of glad corms
  • Begonia

[edit] Official Picture of the Day

Picture of the day
Vibrissae (whiskers) of a Patagonian fox

Vibrissae
Photo credit: Whaldener Endo
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[edit] My picture of the week

I use this section to show the (few) visitors to my userpage some nice or otherwise interesting pictures that aren't currently FPs on English Wikipedia. I'll try to change it regularly, but no guarantees. I select pictures based on the featured picture criteria, but I'm more liberal for image quality and size. A list of former POTWs can be found at my gallery.

Pterois volitans (Red Lionfish) in its natural habitat. IMage by Jens Petersen
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Pterois volitans (Red Lionfish) in its natural habitat. IMage by Jens Petersen

[edit] My gardening

One of my gladioli
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One of my gladioli

Those of you who frequent the picture peer review will know that the only thing I ever submit is flower photos. And those of you who've actually looked at my gallery will notice that flower photos make up most of the gallery. Well, here's why: I'm obsessed with gardening. My dad's family has always started our own flowers from seed and I caught the gardening bug very early. In fact, I've spent many hours of my older childhood years transplanting seedlings (it was the first job I was entrusted with and one I still have to perform). I'm now entrusted with everything from watering (one of the most recent jobs I was allowed to do on my own) to garden planning. I love gardening because of the joy I get from watching plants through-out their entire life: from seeds or corms to full-grown blooming beauties. In my humble opinion it teaches patience better than any other hobby, consisting of a long time waiting for things to grow and a unfortunately short time enjoying their blooms (or leaves in foliage plants).

My favourite plant has to be the Gladiolus hybrids. They are stately, majestic, and colourful. And they're perennial, so I get to watch the same plants grow year after year (well, they're not perennial in Nova Scotia's climate, I have to store them inside over the winter). I currently own over 200 gladiolus corms (erroneously called "bulbs" by the unintiated), which are reproducing every year. This year I will attempt to save some gladiolus seeds for future planting, I can't wait to see what sort of colours I get.

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[edit] Favourite quotes

Here's a few quotes that really sum up my philosophy/view of life/personality from some of my favourite authors, playrights, philosophers, and poets.

  • "In time we hate that which we fear." Antony and Cleopatra
  • "A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies." Oscar Wilde
  • "Tempus edax rerum." ("Time is the devourer of everything") Ovid
  • "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." William Jennings Bryan
  • "Summum crede nefas animan praeferre pudor: et propter vitam viveddi perdeve causas" ("Count it the greatest sin to prefer mere existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.") Juvenal
  • "All intellectual improvement arises from leisure." Samuel Johnson
  • "Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. ("Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things") Virgil
  • "Ils ne se servent de la pensée que pour autoriser leurs injustices, et n' emploient les paroles que pour déguiser leurs pensées." ("[Men] use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.") Voltaire
  • "I hold that the charasteristic of the present age is craving credulity." Benjamin Disraeli
  • "The truth is rarely pure, and never simple." Oscar Wilde
  • "The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief." Othello
  • "Non omnia possumus omnes." (We can't all do everything.) Virgil
  • "No passion so effectively robes the mind of all its powers of acting or reasoning as fear." Edmund Burke
  • "It is our choices, Harry, that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities. Albus Dumbledore

[edit] Barnstars

To date I have two barnstars: the Excellent Userpage Award, and the newly created Fauna Barnstar.

[edit] Amusing pages

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