"What are called higher institutions of learning are therefore, if we divorce them from the outer form they assume in their relation to the government, nothing other than the spiritual life of those human beings who are moved by external leisure or internal pressures toward learning and research. Even if they did not exist formally, one person would privately reflect and collect, another join himself to men of his own age, a third find a circle of disciples. Such is the picture to which the state must remain faithful if it wishes to give an institutional form to such indefinite and rather accidental human operations." (Humboldt)
I am a Wikipedian and a software developer for the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco. My edits on Wikipedia aren't official in any sense whatsoever. They represent my judgments as a private individual and are liable to be wrongheaded, sometimes spectacularly so. Go ahead and tell me.
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Sandbox
You can access my sandbox here. Right now, it contains some notes toward a revision of Ludlow massacre. Feel free to add any, if you're familiar with the topic.
By Way of Introduction
Barnstars
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For showing support and encouragement to a valuable Wikipedian, User:Lacatosias. -Etienne 22:25, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Wonderful things
- Maurizio Cattelan
- Silbo Gomero language
- Avenue of the Baobabs
- Milne's Court
- Megalopyge opercularis
- San Telmo (ship)
- Forest_tent_caterpillar#Outbreak_cycles
- File:VNAF pilot jumps into the sea from his Huey.jpg
- Dahala Khagrabari
- Kola Superdeep Borehole
- Chekhov's gun
- Betteridge's law of headlines
- Dolgopolsky list (and Swadesh list)
- Street light interference phenomenon
- Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!
- National Raisin Reserve
- Preserved Fish
- Unalaska, Alaska
- Russian copulation
- Honorifics for the dead in Judaism
- File:OtisControl.jpg