User:Ro Thorpe
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Astronomy
Started: Ceres, Orion Nebula; continued: Charles Messier, Constellation, Lunar eclipse, Solar system.
Language
Started: Back-chaining, Italian, List of artworks known in English by a foreign title, Spelling pronunciation; continued: Arabic, German, Japanese English, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish, Latin; Noun, Plural; C.
Music
Started: Cecil Gray, Domenico Scarlatti, Frederick Delius, Kraftwerk, Miles Davis, Nico; Rock music; continued: Gilad Atzmon, Jefferson Airplane, John Coltrane; Jazz, Rock and roll, Symphony, symphonies & symphonic composers
Literature
Started: Ivy Compton-Burnett, Marcel Proust; continued: Hayford Peirce.
Sport
Started: Conchita Martinez, Michael Holding; continued: Famous tennis players, Ken Rosewall, Pancho Segura.
Miscellaneous
Started: Alan Odle, CDT, En passant, Leitão assado à bairrada, Universal Time; continued: Euro, England, Marijuana, Wikipedia.
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Robert Thorpe, born in London in 1950, living in Esposende, Portugal. I have a degree in English from Peterhouse, Cambridge. For many years I worked as a teacher of the language, in Mâcon, France (at a lycée agricole); Mondovì, Italy; Beckenham, England; and finally in various locations in Portugal, where my wife is a primary school teacher. I can translate from the relevant languages as well as from German and Latin.
I came across Citizendium when I looked in Wikipedia for the latter's history. There, Rothorpe does mainly copyediting, though I have created a number of articles, including List of artworks known in English by a foreign title, which is virtually a solo effort. I am a nocturnal; and survived cancer in 2003: it did kill my voice, but then I am a Harpo Marx fan.