User:Cretanforever

Active also in Turkish and sometimes in French wikipedia. Quite active in Wikimedia Commons too (contributions).

Turkish...Descending from Cretan Turks. Mother's side American, straightforward Vermonters, with Dutch-German ascendancy on one side (1666 generation), Scottish-English on the other, according to fairly reliable research done by a family member. Not a U.S. citizen though, applied for it when 18, but since I did not have a criminal record from Cuba or Georgia, it didn't get through. Now I have a rather farcical one from the United Kingdom, but I don't think that will meet the requirement. By the way, I am also Belgian.

Maxims:


 * Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.

Mikhail Lermontov

Articles to which I contributed a good deal:


 * Tantalus - Niobe - Pelops
 * Gyges of Lydia
 * Lydian language - Lydian script
 * Lydians - Carians - Mysians - Lycians
 * Lycian language - Lycian script
 * İzmir - Bornova - Karşıyaka - Konak - Alsancak - Kemalpaşa - Urla - Çeşme - Karaburun - Yenifoça - Seferihisar - Tire - River Meles - Mount Nif - Mount Yamanlar
 * Muğla
 * Milas - Bodrum
 * Akyaka - Gulf of Gökova
 * Datça - Datça Peninsula
 * Manisa - Turgutlu - Salihli - Gölmarmara
 * Uşak - Banaz - Karahallı -
 * Baklan - Bekilli - Beyağaç - Buldan - Çal
 * Lake Bafa - Lake Acıgöl - Lake Salda - Lake Işıklı
 * List of Ottoman Grand Viziers
 * Tekeli Lala Mehmed Pasha - Kara Musa Pasha
 * Sefâretnâme - Seyahatname
 * Cretan Turks
 * Giritli Ali Aziz Efendi - Ahmed Resmî Efendi
 * SS Kurtuluş - Ottoman torpedo boat Muavenet-i Milliye
 * Hanabad Caravanserai
 * Levantine mansions of İzmir
 * Nail Çakırhan - Selahattin Kantar
 * Tuğba Özay - Jennifer Şebnem Schaefer - Aysun Kayacı - Demet Evgar
 * Merve Terzioğlu
 * Katharine Elizabeth Dopp - Arthur Stratton
 * Turkish Sweetgum
 * Marinas in Turkey
 * 2005 Kuşadası minibus bombing
 * May 2007 Malta migrant boat disaster - December 2007 Seferihisar, Turkey migrant boat disaster - November 2009 Cocos (Keeling) Island migrant boat disaster
 * 2007 Hawiya, Saudi Arabia gas pipeline explosion
 * Port of Dover

Templates I started:

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THE DAYS OF PEARLY SPENCER (David McWilliams - 1967, Marc Almond - 1992)


 * A tenement, a dirty street
 * Walked and worn by shoeless feet
 * Inside it's long and so complete
 * Watched by a shivering sun
 * Old eyes in a small child's face
 * Watching as the shadows race
 * Through walls and cracks and leave no trace
 * And daylight's brightness shuns


 * The days of Pearly Spencer
 * The race is almost run


 * Nose pressed hard on frosted glass
 * Gazing as the swollen mass
 * On concrete fields where grows no grass
 * Stumbles blindly on
 * Iron trees smother the air
 * But withering they stand and stare
 * Through eyes that neither know nor care
 * Where the grass is gone


 * The days of Pearly Spencer
 * The race is almost run


 * Pearly where's your milk white skin
 * What's that stubble on your chin
 * It's buried in the rot gut gin
 * You played and lost not won
 * You played a house that can't be beat
 * Now look your head's bowed in defeat
 * You walked too far along the street
 * Where only rats can run


 * The days of Pearly Spencer
 * The race is almost run
 * The days of Pearly Spencer
 * The race is almost run
 * The race is almost run


 * A tenement, a dirty street
 * Remember worn and shoeless feet
 * Remember how you stood to beat
 * The way your life had gone
 * So Pearly don't you shed more tears
 * For those best forgotten years
 * Those tenements are memories
 * Of where you've risen from


 * The days of Pearly Spencer
 * The race is almost won

NORWEGIAN WOOD (Owen - October 1965; Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr)


 * I once had a girl, or should I say, "She once had me"?
 * She showed me her room. Isn't it good Norwegian wood!
 * She asked me to stay and she told me to sit anywhere.
 * So, I looked around and I noticed there wasn't a chair.


 * I sat on her rug, biding my time, drinking her wine.
 * We talked until two, and then she said "It's time for bed."
 * She told me she worked in the morning and started to laugh.
 * I told her I didn't and crawled off to sleep in the bath.


 * And when I awoke I was alone: This bird had flown.
 * So, I lit a fire. Isn't it good Norwegian wood!

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