User:Aboudaqn

Background
I have been a writer and editor of Wikipedia entries since early 2006. I still find Wikipedia less than intuitively user-friendly to occasional users -- and still exciting.

NB
If you edit any of my work, please explain what and why, so I can understand better what editors and contributors deem appropriate.

Websites of some interest

 * Comrades in Art
 * Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin + Köln
 * Brecht + Weill
 * Maxim Gorky
 * Marxists.org
 * MarxistHistory.org
 * Peculiar Works Project Can You Hear Their Voices?
 * WC and WCinB
 * FBI Vault

Wikisource (10+)

 * Wikisource - Aboudaqn

Wikiquotes

 * Aboudaqn @ Wikipedia
 * Whittaker Chambers

Wiktionary
Aboudaqn @ Wiktionary
 * lignite

Wikipedia in other languages (10+)

 * French (3)
 * German (8)
 * Spanish (1)
 * Luxemburger (1)
 * Serbian (0)

September 2011

 * Ammar Abdulhamid

November 2011

 * Andrew O'Hagan
 * History of the Socialist Left Party

Noted Wikipedia Contributors

 * Carrite
 * NessieVL
 * SMasters
 * Nob101
 * Myers
 * Soman
 * Dudeman5685
 * DJ Silverfish
 * Skysmith
 * Leutha
 * Econterms
 * Jimharlow99
 * DGG
 * Ser Amantio di Nicolao
 * NatGertler
 * Bohemian Baltimore
 * Mary Mark Ockerbloom
 * Shushugah
 * AngryHarpy

Handy Wiki Info and Links

 * Purpose
 * Arbitration_Committee
 * Help:Directory
 * Help:Introduction to tables with Wiki Markup/1
 * Article_wizard
 * Help:Talk pages
 * Help:Minor edit
 * Manual of Style/Layout


 * Verifiability
 * Stubs:
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 * How to ask for help on an article: "{ { helpme } }" with no spaces
 * Help_desk/chat
 * Redirects:
 * DIY: Redirect
 * Wizard: Articles for creation/Wizard-Redirects
 * Citation templates
 * References:
 * Translator as " | others =" on Cite book
 * Cite book
 * Cite journal
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 * Cite conference or symposium
 * Cite Inteview or Oral history
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 * Citation overkill
 * Infoboxes:
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 * Template:Infobox person
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 * Help:Link
 * Mediation:
 * Responding to a failure to discuss
 * Third opinion
 * Mediation Committee/Policy
 * Requests for mediation
 * Template:Quote box

Americas

 * William Walker (filibuster) of Nicarague and Cost Rica
 * Casta

General

 * Regional natural parks of France
 * List of spa towns in France
 * List of museums in France

Provence

 * Barbegal aqueduct and mill
 * Nimes
 * Avignon
 * Arles
 * Uzes
 * Orange, Vaucluse

Tarn (department)

 * Burlats
 * Albi

Cathar castles

 * Châteaux de Lastours
 * Château de Montségur
 * Château de Termes
 * Puilaurens Castle
 * Laurac
 * Fanjeaux
 * Mas-Saintes-Puelles

fils de Carcassonne

 * Château d'Aguilar
 * Peyrepertuse
 * Puilaurens Castle
 * Château de Quéribus
 * Château de Termes

Loire Valley

 * Fontevraud Abbey

Châteaux of the Loire Valley

 * Château de Chenonceau
 * Château d'Azay-le-Rideau
 * Château d'Angers
 * Château de Villandry
 * Château de Châteaudun

Burgundy

 * Dijon
 * Lyon
 * Cîteaux Abbey (Cistercians)

Le Comte du Perche

 * Le Perche
 * Bellême
 * Mortagne-au-Perche
 * Nogent-le-Rotrou
 * Camembert, Orne
 * Nocé
 * Condé-sur-Huisne
 * Condeau
 * Alençon
 * Le Mans
 * La Ferté-Bernard
 * Arville, Loir-et-Cher
 * Château de Châteaudun

Stubs deleted by others

 * Mitchell A. Dubow: Mitchell A. Dubow was a 20th-century American labor lawyer and member of the (allegedly pro-communist) National Lawyers Guild, who defended alleged communists involved in the Hiss-Chambers Case, and was later Judge of District Court, Sixth Judicial District for the State of Minnesota.  On September 9, 1948, Dubow appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) with Joseph Forer as co-counsel for Maurice Louis Braverman.  Braverman was himself counsel for Mr. and Mrs. William Rosen, who testified about the Ford car involved in the Hiss-Chambers Case.  In 1951, Dubow joined Braverman, Harold Buchman, Ely A. Castleman, and William H. Murphy in signed a letter (dated June 18, 1951) that criticized the opinion of a dissenting judge in the Smith Act case.  In July 1951, he appeared before HUAC as counsel for William H. Wood, a Bethlehem Steel worker and brother of Roy Wood ("chairman of the Communist Party for the District of Columbia"), about whom HUAC questioned him.  He was also counsel to:  Levy Williamson, Aaron Ostrofsky, Milton Unterman, and John F. Goodell, all factory workers and union members.  During the hearings, HUAC asked Unterman whether Dubow (among many others) had been a communist; he refused to answer.  Dubow and Joseph Forer also served as counsel to Harold Buchman.  HUAC also read aloud the signatories of the June 1951 letter and asked Buchman if they (including Dubow) were CPUSA members; he refused to answer.  Dubow also represented the the Washington DC's Office of the Housing Expediter,  the Baltimore City Court (1951),   Dubow moved to Minnesota.  On November 11, 1966, Dubow began so serve as Judge of District Court, Sixth Judicial District, State of Minnesota.  He was the first judge in St. Louis County, Minnesota, to allow testimony from a child therapist to explain what the affects of sexual assault.  In February 1989, Judge Dubow applied for disability retirement.  Minnesota Governor Rudy Perpich granted his application, effective March 31, 1989.
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