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!!

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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.

I am an Administrator on the English Wikipedia which can be verified here - (my RFA). If you need administrative assistance please leave a message on my talk page.


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Contributions and things to do

My Contributions
Articles  •  Featured on DYK  •  Images

 

Articles to create
Empire Exhibition (Glasgow)  •  North Bridge (Edinburgh)  •  Pitreavie Castle  •  Ravenscraig Castle  •  Rainbow Theatre  •  Jack Coia  •  Alan Marcuson  •  Black Duncan Campbell  •  Cruck frame  •  Jankel Adler  •  National Trust for Scotland properties (missing articles)  •  Castles in Scotland (missing articles)  •  Historic houses in Scotland (missing articles)  •  Ian Beesley  •  Gered Mankowitz  •  Jim Marshall (photographer)  •  Henry Diltz  •  Bob Gruen  •  Grange Cemetery  •  Warriston Cemetery  •  Izzi Metstein  •  Andy MacMillan  •  Dana Stone  •  Sinclair & Girnigoe Castle  •  Castle Cary  •  Ardkinglas Estate  •  Hill of Tarvit  •  Scottish National War Memorial  •  Earlshall  •  Oxcars Lighthouse  •  Arnold Bronckorst  •  Tommy Morgan  •  Johnny Rep  •  Robert Scott Lauder  •  Duddingston Tower  •  Adolphe Smith  •  James Mackay Bryson  •  Ken Potter  •  Keizaburo Shimamoto

 

Articles for re-write / expansion / cleanup
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

 

Articles needing images
Articles in Category:Scottish painters  •  Articles in Category:British painters (and all related categories)  •  Articles in Category:Scottish photographers  •  Articles in Category:British photographers(and all related categories)  •  Inchmahome Priory  •  Finlarig Castle  •  Robert Lorimer  •  Damien Hirst  •  John Piper  •  Alfred Stieglitz  •  László Moholy-Nagy  •  Man Ray  •  Chris Ofili  •  Marcus Harvey  •  Richard Billingham  •  Sam Taylor-Wood  •  Will Lang Jr.  •  Don McCullin



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Interesting stuff

Dunnock
The dunnock (Prunella modularis) is a small passerine bird in the accentor family, Prunellidae. It is native to much of temperate Europe and parts of southwest Asia, including the Caucasus, northern Iran and Lebanon, and is also widely distributed in New Zealand after being introduced there in the 19th century. The dunnock inhabits lowland environments such as woodlands, shrubs, hedgerows and gardens, where it usually feeds on the ground. About 14 centimetres (5.5 in) long, it has a streaked brown back and grey head, a fine pointed bill, and produces a thin, tinkling song and a shrill tseep call. Dunnocks build nests low in bushes or conifers and typically lay three to five unspotted blue eggs. Their breeding system is variable, with different combinations of males and females sometimes sharing parental care.Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp
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Did you know...

Shorty Gallagher
Shorty Gallagher
  • ... that there was a decades-long search for a photograph of Shorty Gallagher (pictured)?
  • ... that, by establishing diplomatic missions like an embassy in Fiji, the Philippine government hopes to play a bigger role in international politics?
  • ... that the head of one piano department called Lucie Stern "the rarest talent of any child I ever heard"?
  • ... that a carnival group in Brazil plays songs by the Beatles in carnival march rhythms?
  • ... that Francisco Batista, the brother of ousted president Fulgencio Batista, fled to the Palm Beach Biltmore immediately after the Cuban Revolution and stated "We'll be back after the trouble is over"?
  • ... that a review of Chronicles from the Siege called it "a meditation on the endurance and fragmentation of Palestinian life under siege"?
  • ... that the Shaker leader Rebecca Landon said in 1842 that she experienced a vision that warned that the United States would face divine judgment for practicing slavery?
  • ... that a 2018 data breach at British Airways was traced to just 22 lines of injected JavaScript on its payment pages?
  • ... that in 1988 a young nun was kidnapped from her convent by her own family?


In the news

Jürgen Habermas in 2008
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Tasks we can all help with


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Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.

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Images of Scotland to make you smile

The Sound of Jura
Looking across the Lynn of Lorn to Lismore Island
Inveraray Bridge over Loch Fyne
Kyle of Durness
Loch Katrine
Quiraing, Isle of Skye
The Torridon hills viewed from the Shieldaig peninsula.
Loch Shiel


More words of wisdom

Chic Murray

Woodrow Wilson

Mary Queen of Scots

Voltaire

Saki

Sir James Dewar

J. M. Barrie

Sir Walter Scott

George Bernard Shaw

James Boswell

Dr John Arbuthnot

A collection of amusing vandalism encountered while on RC Patrol. This is intended to grow over time into my own personal BJAODN

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