User:DavidBrooks
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I'm an Englishman who has lived in the US since 1983, and since 1997 in the Seattle area. Main interests outside my occupation are flying small airplanes, a hobby that I started on my 50th birthday, and playing/singing in community orchestras and choruses.
My wife and I have a son and grandson in Portland, Oregon, a daughter who works for Microsoft, and a son in New York City.
My back is much improved, thank you, although I still have a bad case of Achilles tendinitis.
Contributions
I came across Wikipedia in March 2004, but came back to it and discovered the joy of contributing in November.
- Music:
- The Dream of Gerontius
- Brigg Fair -- Belshazzar's Feast (Walton) -- Gerard Schwarz (de-stubbed)
- Cleaned out Category:British composers, moving the articles to one of the four British nationalities
- Aviation:
- Completely reorganized the stuff about the various US certificates: 23 uploads on Mar 14 2005
- Airspace classes -- Aeronautical Information Manual -- Aviation Medical Examiner -- V Speeds
- Made a few other factual corrections
Template:Project missing articles
- Wrote the instructions for Wikipedia:2004 Encyclopedia topics, and contributed new articles:
- A New English Dictionary On Historical Principles -- Antequera (tr from German) -- Arthur Nikisch -- Taal Lake -- Taban Lo Liyong -- Tabinshwehti -- Taff Vale Case -- Tamara Karsavina -- Thibaw Min -- Tessitura -- Tessera – Jean Lemaire de Belges -- Jean Louvet (playwright) -- Jean Mairet -- Jean-Pierre de Crousaz -- Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (tr from French) -- Paul Monette -- Paul Niggli -- Feminine ending -- Feminine rhyme -- Ferricrete -- Ferrierite -- Ferrohortonolite -- Essexite -- Excelsior Diamond -- Fabius Planciades Fulgentius -- Francesco Ferruccio -- Antideuteron -- Arlindo Barbeitos -- Arnaut de Mareuil -- Ariston of Chios -- Apellicon of Teos -- Moroxite -- Mottramite -- Nobel's Will -- Nicholas Throckmorton -- Elizabeth Raleigh -- Morgan Llwyd -- Moritz, Graf von Strachwitz -- Moritz Schiff -- Samana Cay -- First Church of Christ, Scientist -- Saponite -- Sanxian -- Samsat, Turkey -- Chester Mystery Plays -- Quintus Cassius Longinus -- Queen Anne's Men -- Qift -- Quimper faience -- Qadariyah -- Gafsa -- Qalamkari -- Quinara -- Quelea -- Quiris
- Minor contributions in several areas, which I'm no longer keeping up to date.
- Skipping the disambiguation page for bass in the vocal sense; I need to go back and tidy that up
- Occasionally I have fun with nit-picking a random page.
I saw a stranger yestere'en;
I put food in the eating place,
Drink in the drinking place,
Music in the listening place;
And in the sacred names of the Triune
He blessed me and my house,
My cattle and my dear ones.
And the lark said in her song:
Often, often, often,
Goes the Christ in the stranger's guise:
Often, often, often
Goes the Christ in the stranger's guise.