User:DavidWBrooks

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I am a newspaper reporter in New Hampshire. I came to Wikipedia in January 2003, following a media storm when it hit 100,000 articles, but after all this time I'm still uncertain how useful it is as a knowledge tool. Articles I have started, or done considerable work on, include:

• Authors/literature:
  • Gerald Durrell; "My Family and Other Animals"; Jersey Zoological Park
  • P.G. Wodehouse; Bertie Wooster; Jeeves; Drones Club
  • Arthur Ransome; Nevil Shute; A.A. Milne; Robert McCloskey; "Make Way for Ducklings"; "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"; "The Alexandria Quartet"; "The Phantom Tollbooth"; "Burmese Days"; "Why I Am Not a Christian"; "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"; Leonard Wibberley, Grand Fenwick; Walter Mosley; Jean Kerr; "Pat the Bunny" (definitely literature);

• Comedy:
  • W.C. Fields; Red Skelton; Fred Allen; Erma Bombeck; Bozo the Clown; Bert Lahr; Harvey Kurtzman (Mad magazine pioneer); Cartoon laws of physics

• Math:
  • Underwood Dudley; Kenneth Appel; Wolfgang Haken; A History of Pi

• Journalism:
  • various newspapers; Linotype machine; ETAOIN SHRDLU; Newsweek; Bob Woodward; Katharine Graham; AP Stylebook; AP; UPI; William S. Paley; Look magazine; Test Card F; copy editor; Tom Shales; Northern Virginia Sun

• Games:
  • Candy Land game; Trouble (board game); Mastermind;

• Music:
  • Wynton Marsalis; Elmer Bernstein; Ernest Tubb; ghettoblaster; Dr. Demento; Nils Lofgren; Dave Davies; Arthur Fiedler; Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, Edward Holland, Jr., Holland-Dozier-Holland; Loudon Wainwright III; Dan Fogelberg; Don Kirshner;Paul is Dead

• Labor/social issues/history:
  • United Mine Workers; Carry Nation; Socialist Party of America; Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere; Teamsters;

• Autos:
  • Ford Model A; Ford Aspire; Harvey Firestone; Datsun 240Z

• Sport:
  • Wilt Chamberlain; Oscar Robertson; Jerry West; Bill Walton; Red Auerbach; Howard Cosell; Earl Monroe; Bill Russell; Julius Erving; Harlem Globetrotters;
  • "The Curse of the Bambino"; Moe Berg; ski patrol; sandboarding; NELSAP;

• Space:
  • Deke Slayton, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, Gordon Cooper; Robert Goddard (scientist); ram scoop;

• Technical:
  • Area code; North American Numbering Plan; X Prize; Scaled Composites; BabelFish;

• Corporate:
  • GEnie (the ISP); New England Telephone and Telegraph; Sabena; Timex; Rolex; BankBoston; Ferromex; Chihuahua al Pacifico railroad; Schlitz; Planters; Mr. Peanut; Dixie Cup; Sara Lee; Coppertone;

• Miscellany:
  • 1906 San Francisco earthquake; bombardier beetle; Palmer Drought Index; Cardiff Giant; Amazing Stories; snipe hunt; Bible belt; ceiba; town meeting; umpteen; Iridology (oof, what a mess); cosmotheism (oof, what a mess II); Inside the Beltway; Doughboy; Overseas School of Rome; Ig Nobel Prize; Longest word in English;Long and short scales
  • maple syrup; pancake;
  • stirrup; socket wrench;
  • Jane Barbe ("time lady" voice); Geraldine Ferraro; Keir Dullea; Stamford Raffles; Captain Kangaroo; Walter Reed; Philip Zimbardo; Tom Mix; Ted Mack;

Geographic

• New Hampshire:
  • various locations, natural and man-made; Old Man of the Mountain; Live Free or Die; Meldrim Thomson, Jr.; Hugh Gregg; Gravity Research Foundation; America's Stonehenge; Eugene Mallove; Kancamagus Highway; Nashua Corporation; various political personages, past and present; various newspapers; the AMC mountain huts;

• New England:
  • Logan International Airport; Patriots' Day; Passamaquoddy; Charlie on the MTA / The MTA Song; Wapack Trail; Boston & Maine Railroad; NELSAP

• Virginia:
  • various geographic material; Virginia Tech;

• Australia:
  • Alice Springs; Pine Gap; camel train; thorn tree (Lonely Planet);

• Africa:
  • Northern Rhodesia; Southern Rhodesia; Niger River; Tombouctou (now Timbuktu); Gambia River; Jonas Savimbi;

• Latin America:
  • Huacachina; Copper Canyon; Aguas Calientes; Chihuahua al Pacífico; Guanacaste

• Iceland:
  • Various geographic material

Special characters

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