User:Scanlan

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		For all your work on biographies, including prompting some articles to DYK status. Editorofthewiki (talk) 17:25, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

My Interests

Oceania - Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia
Biographies

Did you Knows (DYKs) I've created or expanded

... that Panapasa Balekana co-wrote God Save Our Solomon Islands, the national anthem, as a prayer for the country after receiving inspiration in a dream?
... that trade unionist after she took a job as a secretary for her future husband, Sir Alexander Bustamante
?

... that archives through donations from United Artists' studios and Katharine Hepburn
?

... that studio executive Steven Rothenberg designed and oversaw the film distribution strategy for the indie horror film The Blair Witch Project?

... that Reagan administration
?

... that
French Senate representing French Polynesia following his return from exile in France
?

... that voters in the Los Angeles area, an individual record both in California and the United States
?

... that employee, oversaw the importation of live whale sharks (pictured) from Taiwan to Atlanta for exhibition
?

... that the killing of Supreme Court of Ingushetia
, was described as "brutal" and "brazen"?

... that as
Compostela Valley, eventually serving as the new Filipino province's interim
governor in 1998?

... that Portuguese colonial rule
?
... that former
PBY Catalina flying boats for the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II
?

... that
development assistance in Rwanda
?

... that actor Jeff Bridges credits his mother, Dorothy Bridges, with passing down lessons she learned from acclaimed acting teacher Michael Chekhov to her children?

... that government censorship in the wake of the 2009 Fijian constitutional crisis
?

... that Carol Jean Vigil was the first Native American woman to be elected as a state district judge in the United States?

... that American journalist William Tobin was the first correspondent for the Associated Press to be based in Juneau, Alaska?

... that former
restaurant chain
?

... that High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia, previously worked as the chief of staff for the police commissioner of Réunion
?

... that Peter Tsiamalili, the first chief administrator of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, also served as Papua New Guinea's ambassador to Belgium?

... that the recently defunct Pacific Islands of Oceania, was the region's longest continuously published magazine
?

... that Petelo Vikena, one of the three reigning traditional monarchs within Wallis and Futuna, previously served in the French Army?

... that
USA, including Scottsdale City Hall, which features a kiva
for meetings?

... that the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, stands on the site of a 1777 Second Continental Congress meeting?

... that in order to get her first and only
film role, actress Phyllis Welch MacDonald
had to sign a contract pledging not to marry or become engaged for six months?

... that Utu Abe Malae and the American Samoa Power Authority received an award from the Mayor of Honolulu for their policies promoting sustainable development?

... that the winner of the Congressional delegate from the Northern Mariana Islands
?

... that four of the
Manu'a Islands
?

... that the current
Governor Tauese Sunia
?

... that
anti-Communist loyalty oath from the membership application of the Writers Guild of America, a relic of the Hollywood blacklist
era?

... that Robert Steinberg and John Scharffenberger experimented with the original varieties of Scharffen Berger brand chocolate in Steinberg's home kitchen?

... that Delegate from American Samoa to the United States House of Representatives
?

... that
fiber artist Fran Reed was known for her distinctive baskets made from dried fish
skins?

... that
Mike J. Manning was threatened with deportation from Papua New Guinea for a report criticizing corruption
in the government?

... that Morris Sullivan's relocation of his Sullivan Bluth Studios animation company from the U.S. to Ireland, to exploit tax advantages, helped stimulate the development of Ireland's animation industry?

... that Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum
?

... that
honorary consul of the Cook Islands to the United States
?

... that although
fortuneteller Madam Marie was "finally busted" in Bruce Springsteen's "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
", she was never arrested in real life?

... that Roman Catholic Archbishop of Papeete for 26 years, was succeeded in 1999 by his brother
?

... that in 2006 the
WCAU-TV
?

... that Nollaig Ó Gadhra's biography of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley (pictured) is regarded as one of the most comprehensive biographies ever written in the Irish language?

... that Pirates of the Caribbean and New Orleans Square
?

... that radio broadcasts
?
Silas Rhodes

Catherine Troeh

Frank Rosenfelt

Evan Enwerem

Ah Jook Ku

Eduardo Malapit

Nan Cross

Augie Hiebert

Otto Spacek

Joe Mitty

Ernie Renzel

Randy Van Horne

Zdzisław Peszkowski

Violet Kazue de Cristoforo

Frederick Bayer

Masakazu Yoshizawa

Aloysius C. Galvin

Bradford Kelleher

Richard Nolte

Herman Rose

Manolo Reyes

Rhoda Pritzker

Shu Uemura

James A. Martin

Joan Ingpen

Bob LeMond

Murray Klein

Miles Lerman

Lee Embree

Frances Dewey Wormser

Joyce Carlson (expanded)

Bill Hosokawa (expanded)

Irvan Perez

Dennis Letts

Merril Sandoval

Richard Baer (writer)

Gloria Shayne Baker

Ramón Barquín

Marta Fernandez Miranda de Batista

John Roderick (correspondent)

George Switzer (mineralogist)

Bob Kames

To Be Created
Marshall Tome - journalist and first Navajo to earn a bachelor's in journalism[1][2][3]

Kinkri Devi - Indian environmentalist[4][5][6][7]

Rudolph Sprüngli - [8]

Paulino Rivero - former President of the Canary Islands

Mayors of Osaka, Japan

Willem (Wim) Zonggonau (1942 - October 2, 2006)[9][10]

West Indian American Day Carnival Association,[11]

Dr. Terry Chase and Chase Studio - creators of museum dioramas based in the Ozarks [12]

Stuart Jewell, cinematographer and pioneer of time-lapse photography

Finland Calling).^[1]

To Be Finished or Expanded

Cuesta Benberry

John Cross Jr

Tom Davis (Cook Islands)

Lester Ziffren

Geoffrey Orbell

Tosiwo Nakayama - First president of the Federated States of Micronesia

Mali Finn

Peter Tsiamalili Done

Christianity in Qatar

trochiline

Done

^ Carl Pellonpaa Passes Away

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[1] Carl Pellonpaa Passes Away