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Background This user's timezone is GMT -5. Current time and date is 18:35 24 January 2025 (GMT) About me Name Norman Birth 28 Aug 1932 Birthplace Brooklyn, New York Residence Southern Maryland Washington, D.C. suburb Education C.C.N.Y.; U. of MD; U. of MI B.S.E.E, M.A. Mathematics, Ph.D. Psych. (Mathematical) Stuy This user is a Pegleg. Personal Attributes This user knows that 42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. This user is a Myers-Briggs type INTP. This user is a Citizen of the World (Terra, ⊕). Airship-skyship600.jpg User is alternately an Atheist or Omnitheist by conviction; a scientific Agnostic by pure reason; and a Religious Pluralist by inclination. evol-ution This user strongly supports the theory of evolution. I would say I'm a cynic but I bet you just wouldn't believe me. not PPC This user is Personally and Politically INcorrect. * This user is a Chinese (zodiac) Water Monkey. File:Macaca 775.jpg n3wb This user is still a Wikipedia newbie. Be gentle! This user tries to do the right thing. If he makes a mistake, please let him know. This user reserves the right to completely screw up their own edits. This user is a Wikipedian. This user is happy to help new users. here. This user enjoys writing. This user finds edit/revert wars disruptive. This user has a zero tolerance policy towards trolls on Wikipedia. @ This user can be reached by email. This user uses Google as a primary search engine. This user contributes using Microsoft Windows 7. Content contributed by this user is released into the public domain. LE-0 This individual still maintains a shred of dignity in this insane world by adhering to correct spelling, grammar, punctuation and capitalisation.

Articles on which I've done a significant amount of work.

• Acceptance test
• Adverse selection
• Analog computer
• Architecture and Architecture (disambiguation)
• Automation
• Catastrophic failure
• Computer software
• Corporate governance
• Cost/benefit analysis
• Data Processor
• Deadlock
• Deflation (economics)
• Engineer
• Engineering
• Event handler
• Exclusive
• Exhaust
• HOL
• Hybrid computer
• Inclusive
• Insourcing
• Interface Control Document
• Interrupt handler
• KISS principle
• Mind-body problem
• Object-oriented programming
• Operational definition
• Paleolithic
• Process (computing)
• Reentrant
• Social progress
• Software architect
• Software architecture
• Solipsism
• Specification
• Stand-alone
• Stock exchange
• Stock Market
• System
• Systems engineering
• Technician
• Technology
• Thrash (computer science)
• Work-around

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• Hardware architect
• Hardware architecture
• Systems architect
• Systems architecture
• Wikipedia:Starter toolset

• Philosophy of science
• Philosophy of physics | Interpretation of quantum mechanics | Philosophy of space and time
• Philosophy of biology | Anthropology
• Securities market trading
• Opera, Folk music, Operetta, musical theater, popular vocals (especially from the '20s, 30's, 40s, and 50s)— all forms of sung music that have a pleasant melody (even some rock music).

Alonzo W. Slayback, commander of the regiment

Slayback's Missouri Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Formed as Slayback's Missouri Cavalry Battalion, the unit consisted of men recruited in Missouri by Lieutenant Colonel Alonzo W. Slayback (pictured) during Price's Raid in 1864. The battalion's first action was at the Battle of Pilot Knob in September; it later participated in actions at Sedalia, Lexington, and the Little Blue River. In October, the unit was used to find an alternate river crossing during the Battle of the Big Blue River and saw action at the battles of Westport, Marmiton River, and Second Newtonia. Around February 1865, the battalion reached regimental strength after more recruits joined. On June 2, 1865, the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department surrendered. The men of the regiment were located at different points in Louisiana and Arkansas when they were paroled, leading the historian James McGhee to believe that the regiment had disbanded before the surrender. (Full article...)

January 24: Alasitas (La Paz, Bolivia); Day of the Unification of the Romanian Principalities (1859)

Sutter's Mill

• 1458 – The Estates unanimously proclaimed 14-year-old Matthias Corvinus King of Hungary after being persuaded to do so by his uncle Michael Szilágyi.
• 1848 – James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill (reconstruction pictured) in Coloma, California, leading to the California gold rush.
• 1968 – Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launched Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese army and the Viet Cong.
• 1977 – Spanish transition to democracy: Neo-fascists attacked an office in Madrid, killing five people and injuring four others.
• 1987 – About 20,000 protestors marched in a civil rights demonstration in Forsyth County, Georgia, United States.

Picture of the day

Chartres Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres, is a Catholic cathedral in Chartres, France, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) southwest of Paris. It is the seat of the bishop of Chartres. Mostly constructed between 1194 and 1220, it stands on the site of at least five cathedrals that have occupied the site since the Diocese of Chartres was formed as an episcopal see in the 4th century. It is one of the best-known and most influential examples of High Gothic and Classic Gothic architecture. Chartres Cathedral is known for its stained glass, and contains 167 stained-glass windows dating from the 12th century to the 20th century. This photograph shows the stained glass in the north transept of Chartres Cathedral. The rose window, which is 10.5 metres (34 feet) in diameter, was installed circa 1230 and contains imagery relating to the Virgin Mary and figures from the Old Testament. The presence of the coats of arms of King Louis IX and his mother Blanche of Castile are taken as a sign of royal patronage for this window. Below the rose are five lancet windows, each 7.5 metres (25 feet) tall, depicting Saint Anne and four Old Testament figures.Photograph credit: PtrQs

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