User:Marco polo

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Greetings, fellow Wikipedians.

My name is Mark O'Malley. I am new to Wikipedia as of 2006.

I live in the Boston urban area of the United States and am a native speaker of American English.

I am presently employed as an editor of secondary-school textbooks of social studies (mainly history and geography). I mostly edit but also write manuscript.

I was previously employed as an editor (and ghost writer) of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Prior to that, I worked as a freelance contributor and editor for Microsoft Encarta, for which I authored some articles. I have also worked editorially on other reference and travel publications.

I have a doctorate in geography from the University of California at Berkeley. My dissertation concerned the development of a culture of hygiene and sanitary infrastructure in 19th-century Berlin, Germany.

For my first major project here, I worked to improve the article on Berlin.

I have an abiding passion for history, geography, and languages. I also love to be outdoors hiking or exploring cities, rural landscapes, or the natural world.

Beyond my Babel-coded languages, I can decipher Portuguese, Catalan, Italian, Dutch and most West Germanic dialects.

Feel free to contact me here.

		The Geography Barnstar
		For your knowledge and ability to present it in an informative way at the Wikipedia reference desks, I award you this Geography Barnstar. Keep up the good work! DirkvdM 07:02, 17 October 2006 (UTC)