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Active also in Turkish and sometimes in French wikipedia. Quite active in Wikimedia Commons too (contributions).
Turkish...Descending from Cretan Turks. Mother's side American, straightforward Vermonters, with Dutch-German ascendancy on one side (1666 generation), Scottish-English on the other, according to fairly reliable research done by a family member. Not a U.S. citizen though, applied for it when 18, but since I did not have a criminal record from Cuba or Georgia, it didn't get through. Now I have a rather farcical one from the United Kingdom, but I don't think that will meet the requirement. By the way, I am also Belgian.
Maxims:
- Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
Mikhail Lermontov
Articles to which I contributed a good deal:
- Tantalus - Niobe - Pelops
- Gyges of Lydia
- Lydian language - Lydian script
- Lydians - Carians - Mysians - Lycians
- Lycian language - Lycian script
- İzmir - Bornova - Karşıyaka - Konak - Alsancak - Kemalpaşa - Urla - Çeşme - Karaburun - Yenifoça - Seferihisar - Tire - River Meles - Mount Nif - Mount Yamanlar
- Muğla
- Milas - Bodrum
- Akyaka - Gulf of Gökova
- Datça - Datça Peninsula
- Manisa - Turgutlu - Salihli - Gölmarmara
- Uşak - Banaz - Karahallı -
- Baklan - Bekilli - Beyağaç - Buldan - Çal
- Lake Bafa - Lake Acıgöl - Lake Salda - Lake Işıklı
- List of Ottoman Grand Viziers
- Tekeli Lala Mehmed Pasha - Kara Musa Pasha
- Sefâretnâme - Seyahatname
- Cretan Turks
- Giritli Ali Aziz Efendi - Ahmed Resmî Efendi
- SS Kurtuluş - Ottoman torpedo boat Muavenet-i Milliye
- Hanabad Caravanserai
- Levantine mansions of İzmir
- Nail Çakırhan - Selahattin Kantar
- Tuğba Özay - Jennifer Şebnem Schaefer - Aysun Kayacı - Demet Evgar
- Merve Terzioğlu
- Katharine Elizabeth Dopp - Arthur Stratton
- Turkish Sweetgum
- Marinas in Turkey
- 2005 Kuşadası minibus bombing
- May 2007 Malta migrant boat disaster - December 2007 Seferihisar, Turkey migrant boat disaster - November 2009 Cocos (Keeling) Island migrant boat disaster
- 2007 Hawiya, Saudi Arabia gas pipeline explosion
- Port of Dover
Templates I started:
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THE DAYS OF PEARLY SPENCER
(David McWilliams - 1967,
Marc Almond - 1992)
- A tenement, a dirty street
- Walked and worn by shoeless feet
- Inside it's long and so complete
- Watched by a shivering sun
- Old eyes in a small child's face
- Watching as the shadows race
- Through walls and cracks and leave no trace
- And daylight's brightness shuns
- The days of Pearly Spencer
- The race is almost run
- Nose pressed hard on frosted glass
- Gazing as the swollen mass
- On concrete fields where grows no grass
- Stumbles blindly on
- Iron trees smother the air
- But withering they stand and stare
- Through eyes that neither know nor care
- Where the grass is gone
- The days of Pearly Spencer
- The race is almost run
- Pearly where's your milk white skin
- What's that stubble on your chin
- It's buried in the rot gut gin
- You played and lost not won
- You played a house that can't be beat
- Now look your head's bowed in defeat
- You walked too far along the street
- Where only rats can run
- The days of Pearly Spencer
- The race is almost run
- The days of Pearly Spencer
- The race is almost run
- The race is almost run
- A tenement, a dirty street
- Remember worn and shoeless feet
- Remember how you stood to beat
- The way your life had gone
- So Pearly don't you shed more tears
- For those best forgotten years
- Those tenements are memories
- Of where you've risen from
- The days of Pearly Spencer
- The race is almost won
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NORWEGIAN WOOD
(Owen - October 1965;
Paul McCartney,
Ringo Starr)
- I once had a girl, or should I say, "She once had me"?
- She showed me her room. Isn't it good Norwegian wood!
- She asked me to stay and she told me to sit anywhere.
- So, I looked around and I noticed there wasn't a chair.
- I sat on her rug, biding my time, drinking her wine.
- We talked until two, and then she said "It's time for bed."
- She told me she worked in the morning and started to laugh.
- I told her I didn't and crawled off to sleep in the bath.
- And when I awoke I was alone: This bird had flown.
- So, I lit a fire. Isn't it good Norwegian wood!
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