User:Astanhope

Who am I?
Adam Stanhope is 43, married with one child and lives in Kingston, Massachusetts, USA. I enjoy traveling, science fiction, digital photography, music, movies, flowers, geography and the internet. I like antique homes, the New England Coast, Southeast Asia, Paris, London and my family. I am an entrepreneur with professional history, interest and expertise in software, internet, guerrilla marketing, psychedelia, herbal & Traditional Chinese Medicine and international trade.

I attended the University of California, Berkeley in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I lived in Berkeley's infamous Barrington Hall for its last year as a USCA coop. While at Berkeley I was an undeclared Asian Studies major for which I focused my studies on Mandarin Chinese, Thai, geography, economics and third world development.

I really love Facebook and if you'd like to get in touch with me, adding me as a friend there is a good start. Here's a link to my Facebook profile.

Articles I started

 * Abdel Kechiche
 * Adongo Agada Cham
 * Amanda Marcotte
 * Ambrein
 * Andrew Cross
 * Angela Burt-Murray
 * Arnold Odermatt
 * Australian Consumers Association
 * Australian Soft Drinks Association
 * Azeezaly Jaffer
 * Brompton cocktail
 * Camden 28
 * Camp Pembroke
 * Charlotte Beers
 * Choice magazine
 * Ciara Durkin
 * Cle Shaheed Sloan
 * Cookin' with Coolio
 * Cosimo Cavallaro
 * Explosively Formed Penetrator
 * For Love Not Lisa
 * Ford Rowan
 * Frances Rivera
 * Frangela
 * Global Fund for Women
 * Hollywood Black Film Festival
 * Ich Zwerg
 * Ivo H. Daalder
 * James J. Bulger (started as/moved from James J. "Whitey" Bulger)
 * Jeff Stanzler
 * John Mulaney
 * Joshua Clover
 * Juan Sebastián Elcano (tall ship)
 * Katoucha Niane
 * Lama Hasan
 * The Liberace of Baghdad
 * Lipa Schmeltzer
 * Lubna Azabal
 * Macka B
 * Malagarasi River
 * Manomet, Massachusetts
 * Mark Kendall Bingham Memorial Tournament (started as/moved from Bingham Cup)
 * Marshfield Fair
 * Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Plymouth
 * Mechai Viravaidya (started as/moved from Meechai Viravaidya)
 * Micah Garen
 * Michel Martin (journalist)
 * Mikalah Gordon
 * Mine All Mine
 * Mohajer 4
 * Mondo Cane
 * Moose Dropping Festival
 * Mount Marathon Race
 * Murphy Morobe
 * Myles Standish State Forest
 * Narragansett Brewing Company
 * National Bank of Pakistan
 * Offer in compromise
 * Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films
 * Passagassawakeag River
 * Perry's Nut House
 * Pete's Candy Store
 * Peter Ladd Jensen
 * Queen Sirikit Botanical Garden
 * Rakan Ben Williams
 * Ramita Navai
 * Rashmi Sinha
 * Red State Update
 * Remote Area Medical
 * Rex Trailer
 * Reza Aslan
 * Rocky Nook, Massachusetts
 * Rudolf F. Haffenreffer
 * Sakar-20
 * Silver Lake Regional High School
 * Snake River Farms
 * Sorry, Haters
 * Studio 360
 * Syed Ali Raza
 * Teki Latex
 * Tell Me More
 * Thirstin Howl III
 * Tsietsi Mashinini
 * Vali Nasr
 * Villa Alegre
 * Wakako Tsuchida
 * Wat Nawamintararachutis
 * Winter Hill Gang
 * Wissam al-Zahawie
 * Your World Today
 * ZEGG (band)

Future articles

 * Zeitouna - Algeria? Tunisia?  Morocco?  Anyone?
 * Mello-T - Rapper from Jackson, Mississippi, featured in a Louis Theroux documentary about "Gangsta rap."
 * Lisa Wong - mayor of Fitchburg, Massachusetts - (link currently redirects to Fitchburg, MA's Wikipedia article)
 * Nadira Hira - Fortune Magazine
 * Arelia Margarita Taveras - "TV Commenter," suing Atlantic City casinos for her own gambling problem
 * Shonali Bhowmik of Ultrababyfat
 * adrenomyloneuropathy
 * Urbino Press Award - Diane Rehm & Martha Raddatz recipients
 * Joe Petrowski - CEO Gulf Oil, native of Brockton, Mass.
 * Las Bolas de Fuego, Nejapa, El Salvador - the article about Nejapa has some info about the fire-throwing festival, but the festival itself deserves its own article
 * Laostha - fantastic San Jose based Lao-refugee hip-hop band. I had written a Wikipedia article about them previously, but some jackass deletionist nixed it because he concluded that Laostha wasn't important enough to have their own article here.  Lame!
 * Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame - supposedly in Brockton, Massachusetts. If real, deserves its own article.

Special contribution articles
I am a proud major contributor to the following Featured Articles or otherwise excellent articles:


 * Isaan - Thailand's Northeast
 * Chaiyaphum Province - in Isaan

Press citation

 * Article Mondo Cane cited as a Wikipedia_as_a_press_source press source in South Africa's Mail & Guardian newspaper.

My Wikipedia Favorites

 * List of Unusual Wikipedia Articles
 * List of hoaxes
 * List of unusual deaths

Liens
Links:


 * Flickr Family and vacation photos
 * My loot on eBay
 * ABEBooks - Used, rare & out of print books
 * Travel Film Archive - YouTube
 * Sadly, No! - another favorite blog to which I nominally participate
 * Salon
 * The Boston Globe - Hometown paper
 * My profile on Facebook
 * Wat Thai Raynham
 * A Directory of Wonderful Things
 * Ecsphoria
 * Ginger Root Chinese restaurant Newton, Massachusetts - my friend Jack's restaurant
 * Former Wikipedia article List of Songs

Wikipedia Links:
 * Recent Changes

Wikipedia People
Wikipedia People:


 * Ajd = Massachusetts Geography
 * Stirling Newberry
 * Jimbo Wales
 * King Bltpdx

My edit count
My edit count as of September 11, 2009 :

Username	        AStanhope Total edits	        5115