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Petercorless

Joined 30 September 2005

Location: San Jose, CA, United States of America
Email: petercorless(a-t)mac(d-o-t)com
Disclsosures: In 2014-2015 I worked for Aerospike, Inc., and in 2015 founded Globalcommit.org. In the past I used to work for Cisco Systems, and founded Green Knight Publishing and Celebrate History (both presently defunct). I've done work for West End Games and Chaosium game products. I've worked at Apple (albeit for a contractor) and the old Macintosh dealer ComputerWare. I've also worked at Chase Manhattan Bank.

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Userboxes edit

Wikipedia Projects edit

 This user is a participant in WikiProject Computing.
 This user is a member of
WikiProject Military history.


Demographics edit

 This user is a citizen of the United States of America.
 This user lives in or hails from the U.S. State of California.
 This user is from Silicon Valley.
 This user lives in, or hails from,
New York City.
46This user is 46 years old.
enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.
 Éireannach
This user is Irish.
 This user is proud to be Celtic.
XThis user is a member of
Generation X.
 This user remembers using
a rotary dial telephone.

Education edit

CMUThis user attends or attended Carnegie Mellon University.
BFAThis user has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

Technical Skills edit

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xhtmlThis user can write XHTML.
{{Wiki}}This user can write in the MediaWiki language.
prog-1This user is a beginning programmer.
PerlThis user is just another Perl hacker.
C-1This user is a beginning C programmer.

Creative Skills and Interests edit

 This user enjoys writing.
 This user has published a book.
 
This user is interested in maps and mapmaking.
 This user writes poetry.
 This user enjoys photography.
 This user enjoys singing.

Travel edit

 This user visited the United Kingdom in 2006.
 This user visited Croatia in 2006.
 This user visited Ireland in 1994
 This user has visited Wales in 1994
 This user visited Norway in 1994
 This user visited France in 1994
 This user has visited Canada
 This user has visited Hungary
 This user has visited Japan
 This user visited the Netherlands
 This user has visited Finland
 This user has visited Sweden
 This user has never left the Northern Hemisphere.


Popular Culture Interests edit

 This user is a bibliophile.
 
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  This user is interested in Heraldry
  This user believes that "all the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players".
 This user enjoys the works of
J. R. R. Tolkien.
LOTR This user enjoys The Lord of the Rings book, the film trilogy, and the 1978 animated film.
CSLThis user enjoys the works of
C.S. Lewis.
  This user loves The Chronicles of Narnia, both the books and the movies.
 This user enjoys the works of
Isaac Asimov.
DON'T PANICThis user attempts not to panic with the aid of several towels.
1.618... This user is under the influence of Philip K. Dick.
 This user enjoys the works of
Kim Stanley Robinson.
ALIENIn space no one can hear this user scream.
Blade Runner This user thinks Blade Runner is one of the best science fiction films ever made.
Star
Wars		This user supports the Rebel Alliance.
 This user is a Jedi.
SW
I 		This user thinks The Phantom Menace was horrible .
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II 		This user thinks Attack of the Clones sucked more .
SW
III 		This user thinks Revenge of the Sith was so terrible he never went to see it .
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IV 		This user thinks A New Hope was the original and the best .
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V 		This user thinks The Empire Strikes Back was brilliant .
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VI 		This user thinks Return of the Jedi had too many Ewoks .
 This user took the red pill, not the blue pill.
G This user is a Gryffindor.
BB This user is on a mission from God.
WCThis user never leaves a fellow crasher behind.
 This user enjoys rock music.
 This user likes alternative rock.

Politics edit

 This user supports Citizen Media.
 This user is interested in politics.
 This user supports sustainable living.
 This user supports
renewable energy.
 This user is interested in political science. 
 
This user is interested in geopolitics.

Games edit

 This user is a Board Game Geek.
 This user is a grognard.
 This user settled Catan.
 This user is attacking you with all three dice.
 This user prefers to play games on a laptop.
 This user likes to play games on his or her Mac, but is getting awfully sick of Breakout.
DurntThis user lives on Strangerhood Lane.
SC4This user's city is much better than Defacto's.

History edit

 This user is interested in history.
 This user is a member of
WikiProject Military history.
 This user is interested in
ancient civilizations.
 This user is interested in the ancient Celts.
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Ancient Greece
 This user is interested in Ancient Rome.
 This user is interested in the Byzantine Empire.
 This user is interested in the
Middle Ages.
 This user is interested in the Crusades.
 
This user is interested in the Renaissance period.
 This user is very interested in Napoleon.
 This user is interested in World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945). 
 This user is interested in
art history.
 This user is a participant in WikiProject Terrorism
 This user is a participant in
WikiProject Somalia.

Wikipedia Contribution edit

Thank you!
Because of your support, I was elected Assistant Coordinator of the Wikipedia Military History Project in February 2007.
 
 
 

I took a virtual "leave of absence" 2007-2008 from Wikipedia, yet felt compelled to return to work on this global information resource in late 2008. It is very good to be back! --Petercorless (talk) 20:52, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Recent Changes edit

January 2016 edit

April 2011 edit

Africa edit

Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) • 2002 Mombasa hotel bombing • 1998 United States embassy bombings • Battle of Fada • Darfur conflict

African Union • List of African Union member states by political system

West Africa Campaign (World War II) • Libreville • Battle of Gabon • Battle of Dakar

Somalia edit

Somalia • History of Somalia • Economy of Somalia • Somali language • Greater Somalia

Somali Government edit

Transitional Federal Institutions

History of the Transitional Federal Government of the Republic of Somalia

Politics of Somalia

Peace and Peacekeeping edit

Disarmament in Somalia • Diplomatic and humanitarian efforts in the Somali Civil War • Attempts at Reconciliation in Somalia (1991-2004) • African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) / IGAD Peace Support Mission to Somalia (IGASOM) • Informal Preparatory Meeting on National Reconciliation • Conference on National Reconciliation in Somalia • 2002 Somali Reconciliation Conference • Addis Ababa Agreement (1993) • Operation Provide Relief • Operation Restore Hope

War and Conflict edit

Somali Civil War

Ethiopian-Somali conflict

Military Engagements edit

Battle of Baidoa • Battle of Bandiradley • Battle of Beledweyne • Battle of Jowhar • Fall of Mogadishu • Battle of Jilib • Fall of Kismayo • Battle of Ras Kamboni

States edit

Jubaland • Puntland • Southwestern Somalia • Galmudug

Factions edit

Factions in the Somali Civil War

Transitional National Government (TNG) • Juba Valley Alliance (JVA) • Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (ARPCT) • Somalia Reconciliation and Restoration Council (SRRC) • Somali Patriot Movement (SPM) • Somali National Front (SNF) • United Somali Congress (USC) • Somali National Movement (SNM) • Allied Somali Forces (ASF) • Somali National Alliance (SNA)

Islamic Courts Union (ICU) • Hizbul Shabaab • Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya • Popular Resistance Movement in the Land of the Two Migrations

National Security Service (Somalia) (NSS)

Tribes and Clans edit

Locations edit

Karkaar • Ayn

Ras Kamboni • Bakaara Market • Bardera • Bu'aale • Kismayu

Personalities edit

List of Somalians

TNG/TFG edit

Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed • Ali Mohammed Ghedi • Hussein Mohamed Farrah Aidid • Barre Adan Shire Hiiraale • Salad Ali Jelle • Gen. Ismail Qasim Naji • Hasan Muhammad Nur Shatigadud • Abdirashid Mohamed Hidig • Muktar Hussein Afrah • Abdiqasim Salad Hassan • Hassan Abshir Farah • Osman Jama Ali • Ali Khalif Galaydh • Jama Ali Jama • Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe • Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden • Asha Haji Elmi • Dr Mohamed Sheikh Mohamud Guled (Gacmadheere) • Mohamed Warsame Ali • Omar Muhamoud Finnish • Musa Sudi Yalahow • Mohamed Afrah Qanyare • Osman Ali Atto • Omar Hashi Aden

ICU edit

Hassan Dahir Aweys • Sharif Ahmed • Abdirahman Janaqow • Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki • Aden Hashi Farah "Eyrow" • Yusuf Mohammed Siad Inda'ade • Abu Taha al-Sudan • Daniel Joseph Maldonado

Warlords edit

Mohamed Farrah Aidid • Yusuf Ahmed Hagar Dabageed • Mohamed Omar Habeb Dhere • Mohammed Said Hersi Morgan • Abdi Hasan Awale Qeybdiid • Ali Mahdi Muhammad

Historical edit

Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi • Cabdulle Gorod • Aden Abdullah Osman Daar • Abdirashid Ali Shermarke • Abdirizak Haji Hussein • Mohammed Siad Barre

Somaliland edit

For Justice and Development (UCID)

Sool • Sanaag • Togdheer • Awdal • Las Khorey • Badhan

Ethiopia edit

Military of Ethiopia • Kombolcha • Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF)

Asia edit

Panjdeh Incident • 2007 Kuril Islands earthquake • Pankisi Gorge • Islamic Emirate of Waziristan • Gurkha

War in South Ossetia (2008) • First Nagorno-Karabakh War • Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan • Sadarak

Souvanna Phouma

India edit

Saffronization • Hindu nationalism • Naxalite • Communist Party of India (Maoist)‎ • Chhattisgarh • Liberhan Commission

Terrorist Attacks edit

2008 Mumbai attacks • Responsibility for the November 2008 Mumbai attacks • Azam Amir Kasav

Islamist Organizations edit

Deccan Mujahideen • Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) • Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam

China edit

Battle of Henan-Hunan-Guangxi

Europe edit

Balkans edit

Greater Bulgaria

Military edit

Strategies, Tactics, and Operations edit

Siege • Resistance movement • Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure (VBSS) • Maritime Security Operations (MSO) • Military operations other than war (MOOTW) • Effects-Based Operations (EBO) • Stand up (military)

Ground Vehicles edit

Technical (fighting vehicle) • High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) • Infantry Mobility Vehicle (IMV) • Scout car • Gun truck • Bushmaster IMV

Naval Vessels edit

Pre-industrial armoured ships • Russian submarine K-266

Fortifications edit

Castle • Motte-and-bailey • Limes • Concentric castle • Redoubt • Revetment • Japanese castle

Islam and Islamists edit

Islam

Global Conflict edit

Jihad vs. McWorld • Clash of Civilizations

Movements edit

Al-Qaeda • Mujahideen • Tablighi Jamaat • Qadiriyyah

Conflicts and Operations edit

List of wars in the Muslim world • Operation Cyclone • Soviet war in Afghanistan • Terrorism in Kashmir

Neologisms edit

Al-Qaedaism • Talibanization • Islamism • Islamofascism

Personalities edit

Fazul Abdullah Mohammed • Sulaiman Abu Ghaith • Ibn al-Khattab • Shamil Basayev

UN and Arms Control edit

SALW • Gun control/Gun politics • Domains of Gun Politics • Wendy Chamberlin • Arms control • Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) • Gunrunning • Phosphorus

US Military edit

Conflicts and Operations edit

War on Terrorism • Allegations of state terrorism by United States of America

Operation Enduring Freedom • Operation Enduring Freedom - Horn of Africa • Operation Enduring Freedom - Trans Sahara • Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Initiative • Operation Enduring Freedom - Pankisi Gorge • Joint Combined Exchange Training • Battle of Cieneguilla

Organizations and Commands edit

Unified Combatant Commands edit

United States Africa Command

Combined Task Forces edit

Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) • Combined Task Force 150 (CTF-150)

USMC edit

Combat Logistics Battalion 2 (CLB-2)

US Army edit

2d Battalion, 20th Field Artillery • 4th Infantry Division Artillery • 1st Infantry Division

Installations and Bases edit

List of United States Army installations • List of United States Air Force installations • List of United States Marine Corps installations • List of United States Navy installations

Cooperative Security Location (CSL) • Forward Operating Site (FOS) • Forward Operating Base (FOB)

Camp Lemonnier • Kelley Barracks

Ships edit

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) • USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81) • USS Newport News (SSN-750)

Leaders edit

General John Abizaid • Edwin Taylor Pollock

UK edit

Commodore Bruce Williams, Royal Navy

Operation Compass

Windsor Castle

British Iron Age

History edit

List of wars 2003–current • List of irredentist claims or disputes

Cold War (1953-1962) • U-2 Crisis of 1960

Monroe Doctrine

Knights Templar

World War II edit

World War II • Allies of World War II • Participants in World War II • Timeline of World War II

Pacific War • Ledo Road • The Stilwell Road (movie) • Wang Jingwei Government • Nanjing

13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade

Language, Linguistics & Philosophy edit

English edit

Stupidity

Latin Expressions edit

Carpent tua poma nepotes (User Page)

Art edit

Artists edit

Bruce Degen

Musicians & Singers edit

Ysabella Brave

Math edit

Timeline of algebra

Arthurian Legends edit

Lancelot-Grail

Politics, Sociology & Economics edit

Sovereignty • National security • Community recognition • Nationalism • Ethnic nationalism • McWorld • Energy intensity • David Emory

Health edit

2009 H1N1 Flu Outbreak

Nature and Conservation edit

Duck crossing

Roleplaying edit

Pendragon (role-playing game) • Castle Marrach

New York City edit

Queens edit

Beach Channel High School

Brooklyn edit

Floyd Bennett Field

Pennsylvania edit

Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts

Virginia edit

Liberty Middle School (Virginia)

Latest Graphics edit

War in Somalia, Securing the Kenyan Border, January 1-4, 2006

Somali War 2007, US Airstrike, January 8, 2007

Somali War, Battle of Ras Kamboni, January 5-12, 2007

 

 

 

Graphics Gallery edit

 
Somali Civil War, Withdrawal of the ICU, December 27-29, 2006
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    Somali Civil War, Battle of Jilib, December 31, 2006
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    Battle of Beledweyne, Dec 24–25, 2006
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    Battle of Baidoa, December 20-26, 2006
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    Battle of Bandiradley, December 24-25, 2006
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    Somali Civil War, Ethiopian Intervention, Dec 20-25, 2006
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    GDP per Capita vs. Energy Efficiency
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