User:Jrp
JRP is the initials of one Joe Pranevich of Watertown, Massachusetts.
By day, I'm a system administator and operations manager for Lycos. By night, I'm a freelance writer who has done a decent amount of (paid and unpaid) writing about Linux, especially the Linux kernel, as well as other topics. I'm also an evening student at Harvard Extension School. I have a number of interests, some of which I indulge on Wikipedia. I enjoy researching film history, politics, and history. I also know too much about anime and manga (especially work by Akira Toriyama), computer lore, animation in general but especially The Lion King, Star Trek, and many other things.
One fun way which I have found to work on Wikipedia is to create lists and succession boxes then trying to fill in the red links. Articles I have found to research in this way include the Governors of Puerto Rico, lists of ambassadors, and some early academy awards lists.
For my own recollection only, here are the pages which I have started... or at least the ones I've been able to remember/find:
Afghanistan
- Habiba Sarabi - first female governor
- Assadullah Wafa - governor
Al-Qaeda
Dragonball
- Dragon Ball canon
- Dragon Ball (franchise)
- Dragon Boy - unfinished Akira Toriyama manga
- Neko Majin Z - parody sequel
Film / Television
- Awards
- Shows
- Legends of the Superheroes - terrible TV show sequel
- The Littles - who doesn't like The Littles?
- The Plucky Duck Show - Tiny Toons spinoff
- Star Trek: New Voyages - fanon Star Trek
- People
- Poni Adams - 1940s/1950s actress
- William Austin - early actor, first portrayal of Alfred Pennyworth
- George Barnes (cinematographer) - early cinematographer
- Lajos Biro - early screenwriter
- Herbert Brenon - silent film director
- Alfred A. Cohn - screenwriter
- Douglas Croft - early child actor, first portrayal of Robin
- William C. DeMille - not-as-famous DeMille
- Shirley Dinsdale - ventriloquist
- Gerald Duffy - early screenwriter
- Joseph Farnham - early screenwriter
- Rochus Gliese - early art director
- Cyrus Kar - Iranian filmmaker, accused of being a terrorist
- Louis McManus - designed the Emmy
- Drew McWeeny - online film critic
- William Cameron Menzies - early color pioneer
- Charles Rosher - cinematographer
- Alan Shalleck - collaborator on Curious George series
- Karl Struss - cinematographer
- Ted Wilde - silent film director
- Movies
- Glorious Betsy - early Oscar-nominated historical drama
- Underworld (1927 movie) - Oscar-winner
- Speedy (movie) - early Oscar-nominated film
- Sorrell and Son - silent film
- Places
- Other
Geography
- Maccarthy Island - Island in Zambia
- Macocha Gorge - Cave in the Czech Republic
- Mount Darwin - Moiuntain in California
- Naujan Lake - Lake in the Philippines
Internet
- Dick Sabot - Founder of Tripod.com
Lists
- Category:Lists of United States ambassadors
- List of Afghanistan Governors
- List of United States ambassadors to Afghanistan
- List of United States ambassadors to Algeria
- List of United States ambassadors to Bahrain
- List of United States ambassadors to Iran
- List of United States ambassadors to Iraq
- List of United States ambassadors to Kuwait
- List of United States ambassadors to Lebanon
- List of United States ambassadors to the European Union
- Template:Dragon Ball games
Military
- Nicole Malachowski - first female Thunderbirds pilot
- Thomas Pappas - Abu Ghraib leader
- William Reynolds - Claimed Midway atoll for the US
Pittsburgh
- Pittsburgh/Allegheny County Belt System
- Red Belt
- Orange Belt
- Yellow Belt
- Green Belt (Pittsburgh)
- Blue Belt
- Purple Belt
Politics
- Ambassadors
- Anne Armstrong - first female cabinet member and US ambassador to the UK
- William Phillips (diplomat) - ambassador to Canada
- Warren Delano Robbins - ambassador to Canada
- Kansas
- Bill Bunten - mayor of Topeka, Kansas
- Butch Felker - corrupt politician from Topeka, Kansas
- Duane Pomeroy - acting mayor of Topeka, Kansas for two months
- James McClinton - first African American mayor of Topeka, Kansas
- Puerto Rico
- José E. Benedicto - briefly acting governor
- James R. Beverly - governor of Puerto Rico
- José E. Colón - very briefly a governor of Puerto Rico
- George Radcliffe Colton - another one
- José Miguel Gallardo - Governor of Puerto Rico
- Robert Hayes Gore - Governor of Puerto Rico
- Benjamin Jason Horton - Governor of Puerto Rico
- Regis Henri Post - another one
- Guy J. Swope - another governor of Puerto Rico, also a congressman from Pennsylvania
- Rexford Tugwell - governor of Puerto Rico and architecht of the New Deal
- Blanton C. Winship - also a Governor of Puerto Rico
- Beekman Winthrop - another one
- United States Virgin Islands
- Edwin Taylor Pollock - first governor
- James Harrison Oliver - second governor
- Joseph Wallace Oman - third governor
- Sumner Ely Wetmore Kittelle - fourth governor
- Henry Hughes Hough - fifth governor
- Philip Williams - sixth governor
- Martin Edwin Trench - seventh governor
- Waldo A. Evans - eighth governor
- Paul Martin Pearson - ninth governor
- Lawrence William Cramer - tenth governor
- Charles Harwood - eleventh governor
- William H. Hastie - twelveth governor
- Morris Fidanque de Castro - thirteenth governor
- Charles K. Claunch - fifteenth governor (acting)
- John David Merwin - seventeenth governor
- Guam
- Francisco Portusach Martínez - extremely briefly Governor of Guam
- Louis A. Kaiser - governor of Guam, 1899
- William Swift - governor of Guam, 1901
- Other
- Bob Cranmer - county commissioner of Allegheny County
- Thomas Esposito - corrupt (but reformed?) politician from West Virginia
- Harlan Majure - mayor of Philadelphia, Mississippi during the 1990s.
- Lawrence A. Rainey - sheriff of Philadelphia, Mississippi during the Mississippi Burning murders
- Jim Roddey - chief executive of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
- Benjamin Franklin Tilley - first Governor of American Samoa
- Henry Wynkoop - Continental Congressman of the revolution
Religion
- Category:Roman Catholic titular dioceses
- Alypius of Thagaste - early Christian Saint
- Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger - female "bishop", excommunicated
- Diocese of Thizica - titular diocese
- Edwin Frederick O'Brien - Roman Catholic archbishop
Sports
- Lavinia Miloşovici - Romanian gymnast
- Corina Ungureanu - Romanian gymnast
- Thumb wrestling - similar to a sport?