User:Ro Thorpe

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Astronomy

Started: Ceres, Orion Nebula; continued: Charles Messier, Constellation, Lunar eclipse, Solar system.

Language

Started: Anglo-Saxon (disambiguation), Italian, List of artworks known in English by a foreign title, Spelling pronunciation; continued: Arabic, German, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese English, Latin; Noun, Plural; C.

Music

Started: Domenico Scarlatti, Frederick Delius, Kraftwerk, Miles Davis, Rock music; continued: Gilad Atzmon, Jazz, Jefferson Airplane, John Coltrane, Rock and roll, Symphony.

Literature

Started: Ivy Compton-Burnett, Marcel Proust. To import restored version from WP: Hayford Peirce.

Miscellaneous

Started: CDT, En passant, Universal Time; continued: Euro, England, Marijuana, Wikipedia.

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Born in London in 1950, 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, Kent; and finally in various locations in Portugal, where my wife is a primary school teacher: we live in Esposende. 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.