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When not on Wikipedia, I'm a computer science PhD student specializing in artificial intelligence. I'm also rather interested in philosophy, ancient history, and assorted miscellany. As a hobby (?), I maintain a site attempting to make the scam-filled world of personal finance a bit clearer. As far as other hobbies go, I seem to spend most of my time listening to music. Currently my favorites are EBM, Industrial, synthpop, futurepop, neofolk, martial, punk rock, and various bits of avant garde stuff.

I spend most of my time on the English Wikipedia, but I'm also sometimes active at Commons and on the Greek Wikipedia. My native languages are Greek and English (learned simultaneously while an infant) but since I was educated in English and live in the United States, my English, especially in written form, is substantially better.

Contents 1 Stuff I've written 1.1 History and Politics 1.2 Geography 1.3 Philosophy 1.4 Music 1.5 Arts and Literature 1.6 Math and Science 1.7 Alcoholic Beverages 1.8 Random 2 Stuff I've translated 2.1 From the German Wikipedia 2.2 From the Greek Wikipedia 2.3 From the French Wikipedia

[edit] Stuff I've written

Here's a list of articles I've started. I originally wrote most of these articles in their entirety, and some are still mostly my work. Some have now been here for upwards of four years, though, so may no longer very closely resemble my original articles.

Some are things I'm actually interested in, and some are just things I stumbled across that needed an article. Some short articles are probably missing from this list, as are ones I forgot about.

[edit] History and Politics

• Biographies
  • Mahmoud Abbas (major initial portion) -- former Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, and now its President
  • Athenagoras of Athens -- early Christian apologist (adapted/supplemented from an old encyclopedia)
  • Warren Austin -- American statesman and diplomat
  • Martin Van Buren Bates -- Civil War-era man nearly 8 feet tall
  • Patriarch Bartholomew I -- current Patriarch of Constantinople
  • Marvin R. Baxter -- justice on the Supreme Court of California
  • Denis Burke -- Australian politician
  • Ricardo Cavallo -- Argentine alleged to have committed crimes during the "Dirty War"
  • Camilo Cienfuegos (major part) -- Cuban revolutionary; disappeared in 1959
  • Lawrence Eagleburger -- American statesman and diplomat
  • E. E. Evans-Pritchard -- noted British anthropologist
  • Sulaiman Abu Ghaith -- Al-Qaida spokesman
  • Gregor Gysi -- former East German and current German politician
  • George T. Inkster -- pioneer in the Dakota Territory
  • Eric B. Kim -- Korean-American businessman
  • Alexander Korsakov -- Russian general of the Napoleonic Wars, c. 1800
  • Jim McConn -- mayor of Houston from 1978 to 1982
  • Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim -- former leader of Iraq's Shia Muslims
  • Chaim Herzog -- sixth President of Israel
  • Salim Joubran -- first Israeli Arab to become a permanent member of the Israeli Supreme Court
  • Siegfried Kampl -- Austrian politician embroiled a 2005 row over controversial remarks about Nazis
  • Wolfgang Lazius -- 16th-century Austrian humanist, known as a physician, mapmaker, and historian
  • Anatoly Lebedko -- Belarusian opposition leader; opponent of dictator Alexander Lukashenka
  • Raleb Majadele -- Israeli politician; the first Israeli Arab to be appointed cabinet minister
  • Spiros Markezinis -- noted Greek politician, economic reformer, and historical writer
  • Menachem Mazuz -- Israeli attorney general
  • Benno Ohnesorg -- protestor against a visit of the Shah of Iran to Germany killed in 1967
  • Guy V. Padgett III -- mayor of Casper, Wyoming, noted for being a popular openly gay mayor in a conservative town
  • Romano Prodi -- at various times Italian Prime Minister and President of the European Commission
  • Elyakim Rubinstein -- Israeli diplomat and politician
  • Robert Stafford -- American politician from Vermont
  • Smith Thompson -- United States Supreme Court justice
  • William M. Treloar -- U.S. Congressman from Missouri, music professor, and music publisher
  • H. W. J. Thiersch -- 19th-century German philologist and theologian, active in the Catholic Apostolic Church
  • Sanjar Umarov -- jailed Uzbek opposition leader
  • Urukagina -- 24th-century BC ruler of Lagash in Mesopotamia
  • C.F.W. Walther -- founder of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
  • Wu Jinglian -- one of China's preeminent economists
  • Philippe Wynne -- an R&B vocalist, both solo and with groups such as The Spinners and Funkadelic
  • Abdel Rahman Zuabi -- first Israeli Arab appointed to the Israeli Supreme Court
• Acteal massacre -- a 1997 massacre in Mexico
• Coat of Arms of Australia (about half)
• Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907)
• Heim ins Reich -- pre-WW2 Nazi policy
• Iqtisaduna -- a prominent work on Islamic economics
• Know-Nothing movement -- 1840s-50s U.S. nativist movement
• List of earthquakes (various)
• Loyal Legion -- society of American Civil War veterans, and now their descendents
• Marienfeld -- field in Germany, and site of World Youth Day 2005
• Patriarch of Constantinople -- head of the Eastern Orthodox Church
• Radio Free Afghanistan -- U.S. government radio service in Afghanistan
• Rheinische Zeitung -- radical paper edited by Karl Marx
• Rights of the Terminally Ill Act (Australia) -- controversial law legalising euthanasia between 1995 and 1997
• Star Engraving building -- historic building in Houston, Texas
• Students Islamic Movement of India (about half) -- Islamist movement in India
• Yasukuni Shrine -- controversial Japanese memorial shrine

[edit] Geography

• Greece
  • Ambracian Gulf -- gulf of the Ionian Sea
  • Dodecanese -- island group
  • Kerkis -- mountain on Samos
  • Mikri Vigla -- small village on Naxos
  • Mount Kyllini -- mountain in Peloponnesus
  • Simi -- island in the Dodecanese
  • Zakros -- archaeological site in Crete
• Brie -- a historic region of France, most famous for its Brie cheese
• Gil Island (Canada)
• Herat province -- in Afghanistan
• Montecristo -- Italian islet
• Pitt Island (Canada)
• Port Royal -- former capital of Jamaica, prior to destruction in an earthquake

[edit] Philosophy

• Categorical Imperative (introduction and section on formulations)
• Hypothetical imperative
• Richard Swinburne -- noted Christian philosopher
• Paul Tillich -- theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher

[edit] Music

• Genres
  • Electronic Body Music
  • Futurepop
• Groups
  • Bad Religion (various portions)
  • VNV Nation
• Labels
  • Come Organisation -- Power noise label associated with Whitehouse
  • Memento Materia -- Label "focusing on synth-, electro- and futurepop"

[edit] Arts and Literature

• Anglicisation -- making things more like the English language
• Cease and desist -- a demand or order for someone to stop doing something
• Joseph Kosuth -- American conceptual artist
• Phoenix (classics journal) -- a Canadian classics journal
• Justin Pierce -- actor in Kids
• Carl Rahl (translated/adapted from an old German encyclopedia) -- a 19th-century Austrian painter
• Vojteh Ravnikar -- Slovenian architect
• Rothko Chapel -- chapel in Houston, Texas filled with works by Mark Rothko
• Stages Repertory Theatre -- theatre in Houston, Texas
• The Story of Ferdinand, a 1936 children's book by American author Munro Leaf
• William Steig -- author of Shrek, among other works of children's literature, and also a prolific cartoonist for the New Yorker
• Ludwig Thiersch -- a 19th-century German painter also influential in Greece

[edit] Math and Science

• Computer-related
  • Bitwise operation (initial version, incl. most of the current content)
  • GUIDO music notation
  • Identifier naming convention
  • Klee's measure problem
  • Myhill-Nerode Theorem
  • Type polymorphism
  • Xiph.org Foundation
• The Analyst, or, Mathematical Museum -- early American mathematics journal
• Henry Darcy -- French hydraulics researcher
• Darcy-Weisbach equation
• Empirical relationship
• Guido Fubini -- Italian mathematician
• Journal of Machine Learning Research
• Hubert von Luschka -- 19th-century German anatomist
• Prony equation
• Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale
• Three cottage problem
• Josef Hoene-Wronski -- eccentric philosopher of mathematics
• Wronskian

[edit] Alcoholic Beverages

• Category:Anise liqueurs and spirits
  • Anisette
  • Herbsaint
  • Ouzo
  • Pastis
• Commandaria
• List of wine producing regions (Greek wine regions)
• Mythos Brewery
• Retsina

[edit] Random

• Claremont Colleges -- a consortium of colleges in California
• Cross-quarter day (major portion)
• Insanity
• Oplegnathidae -- a family of fish
• Shizuoka University of Art and Culture -- a university in Hamamatsu, Japan
• Toyoko Inn -- a business-hotel chain in Japan
• Yosemite Decimal System -- a rating system for climbing difficulty

[edit] Stuff I've translated

Sometimes I translate (or adapt) articles from other languages, using a combination of poor but improving reading skills, babelfish, and translation dictionaries. I mainly translate things from the German Wikipedia, since it has a large number of articles the English Wikipedia is still lacking, especially on topics relating to German-speaking countries (unsurprisingly).

[edit] From the German Wikipedia

• People
  • Gisela von Arnim, a 19th-century German author
  • Johann Crüger, a 17th-century German composer
  • Richard Euringer, a 20th-century German writer known for supporting the Nazis later in his career
  • Gottfried August Homilius, an 18th-century German composer and organist
  • Károly Klimó, a 20th-century Hungarian artist
  • Josef Maria Klumb, a present-day German martial-industrial musician
  • Gundolf Köhler, a German extremist who bombed the 1980 Oktoberfest
  • Paul Daniel Longolius, an 18th-century German encyclopedia editor
  • Andreas Maurer (politician), governor of Lower Austria from 1966 to 1981
  • Hermann Maurer, an Austrian computer scientist
  • Michael Mayr, Chancellor of Austria from 1920 to 1921
  • Otto I, Margrave of Brandenburg, ruler of the Margraviate of Brandenburg from 1170–1184
  • Otto II, Margrave of Brandenburg, ruler of the Margraviate of Brandenburg from 1184–1205
  • Karl Steinhoff, a 20th-century German politician of the Weimar Republic and later East Germany
  • Christoph Süß, a present-day German entertainer
  • Christian Ehregott Weinlig, an 18th-century German composer
  • Christian Theodor Weinlig, a 19th-century German composer and music teacher
  • Andreas Werckmeister, a 17th-century German composer and music theorist
• Places
  • Castor (mountain), a mountain in the Alps on the border between Italy and Switzerland
  • Marmolada, a mountain in Italy
  • Totenkopf (mountain), a mountain in Germany
  • Tre Cime di Lavaredo, a set of three peaks in Italy
  • Tsauchab, a rivier in Namibia
• Things
  • Hamburger Abendblatt, a newspaper in Hamburg, Germany
  • Lübecker Nachrichten, a newspaper in Lübeck, Germany
  • Schwerbelastungskörper, a World-War-II-era concrete cylinder in Berlin

[edit] From the Greek Wikipedia

• Ambracian Gulf (in part), a gulf in Greece

[edit] From the French Wikipedia

• Pierre Haski, a French journalist
• Théâtre du Marais (in part), a theatre in Paris