User:Calypsos

Welcome. I am new here, and just about everyday I am learning something new. As long as this place is an educational resource then I will always come back!

Thanks, Wikipedia!

=Contributions I've Made=
 * Amazing Vacation Homes-Homes are neat
 * Didiayer Snyder-A very amazing person!!!
 * Notable Iranians

Notable Iranians

 * Abbas Kiarostami -former president of the Cannes Film Festival
 * Abdol-Hossein Sardari -charge d'affaires in Paris who issued hundreds of visas to non-Iranian Jews to save them from the Nazis
 * Abu-Rayhan Biruni -great contributer to the fields of mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and science
 * Ali Daei -first male soccer player to score 100 goals in international play
 * Andre Agassi -former World #1 professional tennis player
 * Anoushe Ansari -world's first female space tourist
 * Camila Batmanghelidjh -founder of Kid's Company, winner of UK's Woman of the Year 2006 award
 * Christiane Amanpour -chief international correspondent for CNN
 * Farabi -second only to Aristotle in knowledge
 * Farshid Moussavi -world leader in architectural engineering
 * Fariborz Sahba -designer of the Lotus Temple, the most visited building in the world
 * Farzad Nazem -chief technical officer and executive vice president of Yahoo!
 * Firouz Naderi -associate director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
 * Freddie Mercury -lead singer of Queen
 * Hossein Amanat -architect of the Azadi Tower
 * Lily Afshar -one of the world's best female classical guitarists
 * Nazanin Afshin-Jam -Miss World Canada 2003
 * Omar Khayyam -poet, mathematician, philospher, astronomer; triangle=b(squared)-4ac
 * Omar Djalili -the only Iranian comedian in the world, which is technically 3 more than Germany
 * Omid Kordestani -senior VP of worldwide sales and field operations for Google
 * Parisa Khosravi -senior VP and managing editor, international news gathering, of CNN
 * Pierre Omidyar -founder and chairman of Ebay
 * Ramona Amiri -Miss World Canada 2005
 * Razi -chemist, physicist, and philospher; discoverer of the medicinal aspects of alcohol
 * Rumi -poet
 * Saadi -poet; one on the hall of the UN
 * Shahrdad Rohani -conductor
 * Shirin Ebadi -2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner
 * Shohreh Aghdashloo -2003 Academy Award nominee