User:Cactus.man
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I first discovered this fantastic resource in May 2005. Amazing how one can navigate unexpectedly from Clinical depression to Hairy ball theorem in 2 hours, perhaps one causes the other ... :-) This is the quick way to do it, but it's not the route I used!!
I have now discovered the Symbolist painter Odilon Redon and his fantastic early charcoal works, including the incredibly appropriate Cactus Man. Also, check out the utterly brilliant Spirit of the Forest - this leaves Munch for dead. Not to mention Julio González, cubist sculptor, a contemporary of Picasso, and his enigmatic Monsieur Cactus.
- Board election series: An interview with the candidates
- RfA receives attention, open proxies policy reviewed
- WikiWorld comic: "Thagomizer"
- News and notes: Logo error, Norwegian chapter, milestones
- Features and admins
- Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- The Report on Lengthy Litigation
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[edit] Contributions and things to do
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| Articles • Featured on DYK • Images |
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| Floors Castle • John MacLean • Mary Barbour • Mellerstain House • Peter Howson • Ray Winstone • Drummond Castle • Wilhelmina Barns-Graham • Ben Nicholson • Trevor Bell • Sandra Blow • David Bomberg • Beryl Cook • Jessica Dismorr • Alfred East • Stanhope Forbes • Terry Frost • Patrick Heron • Howard Hodgkin • Bill Brandt • Kevin Carter • Alfred Eisenstaedt • Peter Lanyon • Bob Law • Tom Phillips • Annie Leibovitz • Niko Pirosmanashvili • Jane Bown • Robert Capa • Larry Burrows • 1943 Naples post office bombing • Foulis Castle • Balvaird Castle • Drummond Castle • Braemar • Duns Castle • Stirling Castle • Hammerbeam roof • Rannoch Moor • Dunbar Castle • Castle Campbell |
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[edit] Interesting Stuff
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The Starry Night is the title given to one of the best known and most reproduced paintings by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. A year after his painting Starry Night Over the Rhone, he announced "a new study of a starry sky." He finished The Starry Night in September 1889, but was unsatisfied with the final work, feeling it lacked "individual intention and feeling in the lines." Artist: Vincent van Gogh |
[edit] Did you know...
From Wikipedia's newest articles:
- ...that the City and Town Hall (pictured) in Rochelle, Illinois was constructed in 1884 following an 18-year disagreement over cost between the city and Flagg Township?
- ...that Introitus et Exitus, a financial record of the Apostolic Camera from 1279 to 1524, has been used to authenticate the provenance of artworks and study past European exchange and interest rates?
- ...that the Salerno Mutiny of 1943 saw the largest number of men charged with mutiny at any one time in all of British military history?
- ...that the third of four expeditions sent in the late 19th century by French nobleman Marquis de Rays to an imaginary majestic colony called New France in present day Papua New Guinea, saw 123 Italian settlers perish of disease and famine?
- ...that the Bangalore based SELCO company, which promotes solar power in rural India, has twice won an Ashden Award?
- ...that Ben Abell provided the St. Louis area with more than 120,000 weather forecasts?
- ...that The Secret Battle (1919) was the first novel by A. P. Herbert, and the first war novel to deal with the soldiers "shot at dawn" during World War I?
In the news
- Egyptologist Zahi Hawass identifies a mummy found in an unadorned tomb as that of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut.
- Gordon Brown (pictured) succeeds Tony Blair as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Blair assumes the post of Envoy for the Quartet on the Middle East.
- The leaders of the 27 European Union states agree to an outline for a Reform Treaty to replace the failed European Constitution.
- "Chemical" Ali Hassan al-Majid, cousin of Saddam Hussein, is sentenced to death along with two other defendants for his role in the Al-Anfal Campaign against the Iraqi Kurds.
- The Special Court for Sierra Leone issues the first-ever guilty verdicts by an international court on charges related to the military use of children, convicting three members of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council for war crimes during the country's civil war.
[edit] Tasks we can all help with
Here are some tasks you can do:
- Wikify: Ringo Starr, Deuce the Devil Dog, Carl Paul Caspari, Suzanne Haik Vantoura, Heidenreich (band), Carrollton Manor, Backlog...
- Cleanup: Protestants in Myanmar, Systems Applications Products audit, Murarbaji, Secure environment, Punk Metal, Backlog...
- Stubs: Essonne, Sarthe, Risk and Safety Statements, Deux-Sèvres, Satoru Otomo, Bourges, Savoie, More...
- Verify: Adolf Ziegler, "Superstar" Billy Graham, Saul Alinsky, Al Copeland, "King Of Extreme" David Campbell, Backlog...
- Update: Amer Mohammad Rashid, Amin Asikainen, 2007 Colorado Crush season, The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman, More...
- Neutrality: Anuak Militants, Anti-Pakistani sentiment, American Film Institute, Apache Cayenne, Apeejay Noida, Backlog...
- Copyedit: Miami bass, History of Cúcuta, Luca Valdesi, List of Sabini, Juigalpa, Chontales, Nanchang Q-5, More...
- Merge: Diversity of computer science, Japanese values, Constitutional democracy, Runoff primary, Nick Reid, Backlog...
- Style: AVG Anti-Virus, .htaccess, Accu-Tek AT32, Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies, Acel, More...
- Expand: Belvidere - Oak Lawn Tornado Outbreak, Belvidere - Oak Lawn Tornado Outbreak, Jeffrey Asch, More...
- Requests: Nerve tissue protein, Charles A. Boutelle, Richie Zito, Immunologic receptor, Rodolphe Gilbert, More...
- Mediation Cabal: Developed country, List of Mario series enemies, or help mediate an open case!
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Cleanup backlogs - Review recent overhauls - Active fixup projects - Maintenance projects - Maintenance COTW: be merged
[edit] Vandal humour
A collection of amusing vandalism encountered while on RC Patrol. This is intended to grow over time into my own personal BJAODN
- The secrets behind Thierry Henry's success are finally revealed
- The medical cause which leads people to give The finger
- The importance of the humble doughnut as an economic indicator
- How to become an FA Premier League football player, courtesy of Wikipedia
- Is this feline origin of the Question mark really true?
- Strange goings on at a New Zealand high school
[edit] Words of wisdom
Benjamin Franklin: "Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in."
Voltaire: "We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation."
Saki: "We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples, they sometimes live apart."
Sir James Dewar:"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open."
J. M. Barrie: "I am not young enough to know everything."
John Buchan: "An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."
George Bernard Shaw: "God help England if she had no Scots to think for her."
[edit] Images of Scotland to make you smile
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hello —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 194.82.255.75 (talk • contribs) 10:39, 25 April 2006 (UTC).
Hello to you too, benign anonymous user --Cactus.man ✍ 11:02, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
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