User:Arx Fortis

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User Summary
 This user lives in or hails from
North Carolina.
en This user is a native speaker of English.
HL7 This user is fluent in HL7.
This user has been on Wikipedia for
3 years, 4 months and 12 days.

List of contributions made 30 January 2005 to 27 June 2006 (prior to creating an account, plus a few additional edits through 25 August 2006) are available here. My contributions since creating an account are listed here.

I resisted creating an account for some time, but got tired of people assuming my edits were vandalism (without actually reading the edits) simply because I didn't have an account.

Areas of education, study and interest where I usually focus my efforts on Wikipedia:

  • Linguistics (English dialects)
  • Botany
  • Photography
  • History (US and World)
  • Geography
  • Wildlife
  • Theology
  • Sinology
  • Information Technology (specifically in Healthcare)

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Madison County Court House
Marshall, North Carolina

North Mills River
Western North Carolina

Rose Pink
(Sabatia angularis)

Mountain Laurel
(Kalmia latifolia)

Turk's Cap Lily
(Lilium superbum)

Flame Azalea
(Rhododendron calendulaceum)

Nodding Trillium
(Trillium cernuum)

Canadian White Violet
(Viola canadensis)

Tall Ironweed
(Vernonia altissima)

Everlasting Pea
(Lathyrus latifolius)

The Great Laurel
(Rhododendron maximum)

Fire Pink
(Silene virginica)


The Original Barnstar
To Arx Fortis, for your original idea of bolding the linked items in List of notable accidents and incidents on commercial aircraft, which I now realize makes the article look much nicer, Crum375 05:16, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

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