User:Akendall/Interests

My interests are various, but generally focus around four main categories.

Oregon

 * Oregon City, Oregon (my hometown) and related articles, including:
 * Portland, Oregon - especially its history
 * Oregon Cascades-related topics, such as:
 * Willamette Valley, Willamette River, and Willamette Falls (in fact, I was born at Willamette Falls hospital, just like my father and my grandfather before me)
 * Oregon Coast, including:
 * Bridges in Oregon and Portland, including: List of crossings of the Willamette River and List of bridges on the Oregon Coast

Banking and Accounting

 * Accountancy and Bookkeeping
 * History of accounting
 * Accounting for financial institutions
 * Banking
 * Bank regulation (my thesis topic)
 * Bank history
 * Central banks
 * United States Federal Reserve Bank
 * Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
 * Internal Auditing

Classics

 * Latin language and literature
 * Epic history
 * The Aeneid
 * Livy's Ab Urbe Condita
 * Translation theory, techniques, and problems

China

 * Jiangsu Province
 * History of China
 * Railways in China