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English is my native tongue. I can read and listen to German at a high level after listening to a lot of German music and translating articles here. My spoken and written German hasn't kept pace, having never been immersed in the language, but I can easily make myself understood. French and Latin I haven't done since GCSE. At some point I want to learn Japanese and Hindi to better appreciate anime and the music and film of Asia.
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This user is a white middle class English male. Rock on. |
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I was born in Bath, Somerset, England, but most of my life has so far been spent in Cambridgeshire.
I will shortly be completing a degree in Economics.
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My politics are generally libertarian verging on anarcho-capitalism, but cats are the only thing I acknowledge as an actual bias. Sadly I don't have any of my own - such is student life.
Heavy metal (mostly European) and Indian music (Bollywood and desi) are my favourite music styles, and something I've been able to use to contribute to Wikipedia. Despite being white and not being able to speak a word of Hindi or Punjabi or whatever they're mostly singing in (yet).
I also like science fiction, but generally I read it, I don't write about it.
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The Sandwich of Exceptional
Excellence
This sandwich looked a lot tastier than the one for the "tireless contributor" and I figured you must be hungry after all that hard work you did on the Sanssouci article. :) Thanks for jumping right in and continuing to move it forward. -- Mmounties ( Talk)  03:34, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
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The Barnstar of Good Humor
For this comment which made my day end in a great mood. Misza13 T C 21:38, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
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The Deletionist's Barnstar
Exceptional garbage removal in WP:SD. Glen Stollery 12:50, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar is awarded to Samuel Blanning for his vandal fighting and maintanance of WP:AIAV. Banez 08:22, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar
For tireless dealing with vandalism, and being one of the best wiki-admins ever! --Sunfazer | Talk 21:16, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
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The Excellent Userpage
Award
For having an elegant and lovely user page. -- Frater5 16:33, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
For dealing with vandals, being a great editor, and helping users. Also for being a great editor! Sunholm(talk) 11:34, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
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The Shepherd's Pie
This Shepherd's Pie is awarded to Samuel Blanning for excellence in closing AfD debates. Thank you. - CrazyRussian talk/email 15:57, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
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The Ray of Sunshine
You have really made my day and for that you are somebody I will allways come back to with any query or proposal. You found time In you busy admin schedule to fit me In at short notice and to help me out. So for that I award you the ray of sunshine award.-- Lucy-marie 13:37, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
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The Balls of Steel
I hereby award you these balls of steel. You know why. Hipocrite - «Talk» 19:24, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
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This user is getting there, wherever there is. |
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- Cyanide fishing is an illegal, indiscriminate and highly-dangerous form of fishing which is thought to account for 70-90% of aquariam fish from the Philippines.
- Malamaal Weekly is a 2006 Bollywood comedy directed by Priyadarshan. Despite the director's adamant claims that his screenplay was original, several reviewers have pointed out the similarity between the film and Irish comedy Waking Ned.
- Cnidaria is a phylum containing about 10,000 simple ocean-dwelling species, including jellyfish and corals. Their name, 'nettle creatures', refers to some cnidaria's toxic, potentially fatal sting.
- First News is a weekly newsmagazine aimed at 9-12 year olds. It is led by editor Nicky Cox and "editorial overlord" Piers "Morgan" Moron.
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- Tilo Wolff is the founder of long-running darkwave band Lacrimosa, for which he writes, composes, arranges, sings and plays piano, as well as Hall of Sermon, the record label he founded to support Lacrimosa, and his newest project Snakeskin.
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- Jugendweihen (youth consecrations) are German coming-of-age rituals that started out in the mid 18th century as secularist ceremonies run as an alternative to Christian confirmation, and under the GDR were converted into a state institution of socialist indoctrination.
- Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst is a German television programme about unresolved crimes, on which America's Most Wanted and Crimewatch UK were based. It has been presented by Eduard Zimmermann, Butz Peters and Rudi Cerne.
- The Chinese House is a garden pavillion in Sanssouci Park in Potsdam. Frederick The Great had it built about seven hundred meters south-west of the Sanssouci Summer Palace to adorn his flower and vegetable garden.
- The Antique Temple is a small round temple in the west part of Sanssouci Park in Potsdam. Frederick the Great had the building constructed to house his collection of antique artefacts, coins and gems.
- Ms Scandalous is a British Asian bhangra/rap artist and member of Panjabi Hit Squad, who recorded her debut album Ladies First last year.
- The Road to Guantanamo is a 2006 docu-drama directed by Michael Winterbottom about the incarceration of three British detainees at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and the first film to be released simultaneously in theatres, on DVDs and the Internet.
- Baron Frederick William von Erdmannsdorff was a German architect and architectural theoretician, and one of the most significant representatives of German early classicalism.
- Rogelio dela Rosa was a Filipino silent film actor and politician born in Lubao, Pampanga, who withdrew from a presidential race in order to allow Diosdado Macapagal (who won the election) a clear run.
- The Church of Peace is situated in the so-called Marly Gardens on the Green Fence in the palace grounds of Sanssouci in Potsdam.
- The Pfaueninsel is an island situated in the Havel river near the Berlin Wannsee and a popular holiday decision.
- Ludwig Persius was an architect involved with the construction of the Great Fountain, the Church of Peace, and the Orangery and observation tower on the Ruinenberg opposite Sanssouci Palace.
- The Potsdam City Palace was the second official residence (the winter residence) of the Markgraf and Kurfürst of Brandenburg, and later of the King of Prussia and Kaiser of the German Empire.
- Protestation at Speyer: On the 19th April 1529 six Fürsten (princes) and 14 Imperial Free Cities petitioned the Reichstag at Speyer against the Reichsacht (Imperial Ban) against Martin Luther and called for the unhindered spread of evangelical belief.
- Reservists are an integral part of the Bundeswehr, and comprise every conscript which has served at least a day in the army, unless he is declared ineligible for military service or has made a claim of conscientious objection.
- Grand Monster Slam was declared to be the 100th best Amiga game of all time in Amiga Power's first All Time Top One Hundred. It never reappeared in the top 100 and its initial inclusion was said to be due to the insistence of a single writer.
- Soma Morgenstern was a Jewish-Austrian writer and journalist.
- The Tepuis are table-like mesas found only in the Guiana highlands, host to a unique array of endemic plant and animal species.
- The yellow-bellied toad is a small (between 35 and 55 mm) member of the fire-bellied toad genus widely though sparsely spread throughout middle and southern Europe.
- The Dornier 328 (DO 328) is a 32-seat turboprop powered regional airplane.
- Patricia Kaas is one of the most successful French-speaking singers in the world, having sold over 15 million records worldwide.
- The University of Potsdam is a German university, situated across four campuses in Potsdam, Brandenburg, including the New Palace of Sanssouci.
- A government policy statement is a declaration of a government's political activities, plans and intentions relating to a concrete cause or, at the assumption of office, an entire legislative session.
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