User:DO'Neil

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"Vertemnus" by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593)

the revolution will not be televised

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"Life is short. Live it up!" -Nikita Khrushchev

$H e l l o!$ I'm Daniel O'Neil and I'm a Sydneysider, that is to say, I was born and live in Sydney, Australia, in the great state of New South Wales, but almost my entire family lives in New Zealand, and I have dual citizenship.

I'm proud to have been a member of the wonderous website since February 27, 2004.

1 Interests and hobbies
2 Articles Unrelated to Latin America That I've Significantly Contributed to, Started or Rewritten Include...
3 Sound files
4 Contributions About Latin America
5 Images I Uploaded
6 Photographs I Have Taken
7 Where've I been?
- 7.1 Countries
- 7.2 States and provinces and such

[edit] Interests and hobbies

My interests include history (primarily the Age of Discovery, the Napoleonic Wars, the British Empire, the Second World War and the Cold War), 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.

DO'Neil

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This user uses Commonwealth spelling.

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Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.

This user is a citizen of New Zealand.

This user comes from Sydney.

This user has never left the Southern Hemisphere.

This user knows that there is no dark side of the moon really— matter of fact it's all dark.

This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.

This user contributes using Microsoft Windows XP.

This user has a ton of edits.

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This user considers singular they standard English usage.

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This user prefers not to use the serial comma.

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This user chooses to sometimes split infinitives.

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This user says snuck.

This user enjoys photography.

This user plays the bass guitar.

The cultures of Latin America and those of the Slavic peoples also fascinate me. The former so much so that I've had to make a seperate bragsheet (see below) about my Latin American contributions to prevent them clogging up my userpage!

I have many actual hobbies, such as playing the bass guitar (and my heroes in that regard are Peter Hook, Andy Rourke and Roger Waters), 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 generally support the Australian and New Zealand Labo[u]r Parties.

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 Bonaparte's lieutenants.

I'm a part of the "mad little ship".

My Wikipedia ideology is one of inclusionism and eventualism.