User talk:DBdO

January 2021
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 * Hi,
 * this seems to be a misunderstanding. DBdO stands for my image archive Das Bild des Orients which is mainly (95%) a scholarly repository free of any advertisment, completely independent and run by my own means.
 * I have contributed some articles on Wikipedia e.g. Katharina Otto-Dorn.
 * Regards,
 * Joachim Gierlichs DBdO (talk) 08:26, 8 May 2022 (UTC)