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This user is of German ancestry. |
This user is of Norwegian ancestry. |
This user is interested in the Middle Ages. |
This user is interested in World War I and World War II. |
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This user enjoys music, and art, by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. |
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This user drives a classic, air-cooled VW Bug (with pop-out rear windows!). |
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My heroes:
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- Beethoven: "Musik höhere Offenbarung ist als alle Weisheit und Philosophie."
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- Albert Einstein: "Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity."
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- Anne Frank: "What's done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it from happening again."
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- Adam von Trott zu Solz: "The minority which sullies the name of Germany ... will prove the misfortune of the whole German nation." (1939)
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- Marion Dönhoff: "Perhaps the highest form of love is loving without possessing."
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- Bob Dylan ('60s & '70s only): "You don't count the dead when God's on your side."
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- Joan Baez: "You burst on the scene already a legend, the unwashed phenomenon...."
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Act only according to that maxim
whereby you can at the same time will
that it should become a universal law.
– Immanuel Kant, resident of
Königsberg, Prussia, 1724-1804 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________
- Hello, guten Tag, dzien dobry, labas, добрый день. I've been a Wikipedian since 2004.
- The photo above was taken in Kaliningrad, Russia, in 1998, at Kant's tomb. While I cannot claim to be a serious student of Kant, I value some of his basic thoughts, including the motto "Dare to know" (Latin: sapere aude), which dovetails with my training in journalism.
I have a B.A. in journalism and 30-some years' experience as a reporter, editor and copy editor. Later I worked for a state human rights agency.
- My main interest on Wikipedia is history, specifically central and eastern European history, especially that of Germany – with a
focus on the expulsion of the Germans from eastern and central Europe in 1945-49. Politically I am a liberal, and I view history
with an eye on the impact of historical events on human rights. As a young man I actively opposed the Vietnam War.
- Among my forebears were "Russian" Germans from Bessarabia (now part of Moldova), who emigrated
to the U.S. in the late 19th century and ultimately settled in North Dakota. See: Bessarabia Germans.
- I've lived in Poland and Lithuania, so I also am particularly interested in the history of these countries, along with that of Russia.
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- In the late '80s, I wrote an academic paper titled, Revenge: The Expulsion of the Germans.
If you would like a digital copy, make a request on my Talk page.
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This user lives in the U.S. State of Idaho. |
This user is a Minnesota native. |
This user has lived in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. |
This user is an experienced brewer and drinker of coffee. |
This user can order a beer in six (or seven) languages! |
This user is old enough to remember what a typewriter is, and that's all you need to know. |
This user likes to translate and proofread articles from German to English. |
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This user has set foot in 18 countries (flags below), two of which no longer exist as such. |
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Anne Frank statue
Idaho Human Rights Memorial
Boise, Idaho, U.S.A.
“ | Despite everything, I believe that
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– Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl
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of U.S. society – one that should be ameliorated, and hopefully corrected,
by legislation to "add the words" to Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964
and to corresponding state laws, including Idaho Title 67, Chapter 59, Section 67-5909._____________________________________________________________________________________________________