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There are many other cactus.men
Cactus of the month:
Echinocactus polycephalus
This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 6 months and 7 days.
This user has been an admin for
18 years, 8 months and 2 days.

I first discovered this fantastic resource in May 2005. Amazing how one can navigate unexpectedly from Clinical depression to Hairy ball theorem in 2 hours, perhaps one causes the other ... :-)    This is the quick way to do it, but it's not the route I used!!

I have now discovered the Symbolist painter Odilon Redon and his fantastic early charcoal works, including the incredibly appropriate Cactus Man. Also, check out the utterly brilliant Spirit of the Forest - this leaves Munch for dead. Not to mention Julio González, cubist sculptor, a contemporary of Picasso, and his enigmatic Monsieur Cactus.

I am an Administrator on the English Wikipedia which can be verified here - (my RFA). If you need administrative assistance please leave a message on my talk page.


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Edits 15238
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Pages deleted 1530
Revisions deleted 1
Pages restored 29
Pages protected 61
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Some Words of Wisdom

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Chic Murray


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Contributions and things to do

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My Contributions
Articles  •  Featured on DYK  •  Images

 

Articles to create
Empire Exhibition (Glasgow)  •  North Bridge (Edinburgh)  •  Pitreavie Castle  •  Ravenscraig Castle  •  Rainbow Theatre  •  Jack Coia  •  Alan Marcuson  •  Black Duncan Campbell  •  Cruck frame  •  Jankel Adler  •  National Trust for Scotland properties (missing articles)  •  Castles in Scotland (missing articles)  •  Historic houses in Scotland (missing articles)  •  Ian Beesley  •  Gered Mankowitz  •  Jim Marshall (photographer)  •  Henry Diltz  •  Bob Gruen  •  Grange Cemetery  •  Warriston Cemetery  •  Izzi Metstein  •  Andy MacMillan  •  Dana Stone  •  Sinclair & Girnigoe Castle  •  Castle Cary  •  Ardkinglas Estate  •  Hill of Tarvit  •  Scottish National War Memorial  •  Earlshall  •  Oxcars Lighthouse  •  Arnold Bronckorst  •  Tommy Morgan  •  Johnny Rep  •  Robert Scott Lauder  •  Duddingston Tower  •  Adolphe Smith  •  James Mackay Bryson  •  Ken Potter  •  Keizaburo Shimamoto

 

Articles for re-write / expansion / cleanup
Floors Castle  •  John MacLean  •  Mary Barbour  •  Mellerstain House  •  Peter Howson  •  Ray Winstone  •  Drummond Castle  •  Wilhelmina Barns-Graham  •  Ben Nicholson  •  Trevor Bell  •  Sandra Blow  •  David Bomberg  •  Beryl Cook  •  Jessica Dismorr  •  Alfred East  •  Stanhope Forbes  •  Terry Frost  •  Patrick Heron  •  Howard Hodgkin  •  Bill Brandt  •  Kevin Carter  •  Alfred Eisenstaedt  •  Peter Lanyon  •  Bob Law  •  Tom Phillips  •  Annie Leibovitz  •  Niko Pirosmanashvili  •  Jane Bown  •  Robert Capa  •  Larry Burrows  •  1943 Naples post office bombing  •  Foulis Castle  •  Balvaird Castle  •  Drummond Castle  •  Braemar  •  Duns Castle  •  Stirling Castle  •  Hammerbeam roof  •  Rannoch Moor  •  Dunbar Castle  •  Castle Campbell

 

Articles needing images
Articles in Category:Scottish painters  •  Articles in Category:British painters (and all related categories)  •  Articles in Category:Scottish photographers  •  Articles in Category:British photographers(and all related categories)  •  Inchmahome Priory  •  Finlarig Castle  •  Robert Lorimer  •  Damien Hirst  •  John Piper  •  Alfred Stieglitz  •  László Moholy-Nagy  •  Man Ray  •  Chris Ofili  •  Marcus Harvey  •  Richard Billingham  •  Sam Taylor-Wood  •  Will Lang Jr.  •  Don McCullin


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Interesting stuff

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Apennine Colossus
The Apennine Colossus is a stone statue, approximately 11 metres (36 feet) tall, in the estate of Villa Demidoff (originally Villa di Pratolino) in Vaglia in Tuscany, Italy. A personification of the Apennine Mountains, the colossal figure was created by Giambologna, a Flemish-born Italian sculptor, in the late 1580s. The statue has the appearance of an elderly man crouched at the shore of a lake, squeezing the head of a sea monster through whose open mouth water originally emanated into the pond in front of the statue. The colossus is depicted naked, with stalactites in the thick beard and long hair to show the metamorphosis of man and mountain, blending his body with the surrounding nature. It is made of stone and plaster and the interior houses a series of chambers and caves on three levels. Initially, the back of the statue was protected by a structure resembling a cave, which was demolished around 1690 by the sculptor Giovanni Battista Foggini, who built a statue of a dragon to adorn the back of the colossus. The Italian sculptor Rinaldo Barbetti renovated the statue in 1876.Sculpture credit: Giambologna; photographed by Rhododendrites

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Taylor Swift performing "How You Get the Girl"


In the news

Samantha Harvey in 2019
Samantha Harvey


Tasks we can all help with

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You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.)

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Images of Scotland to make you smile

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The Sound of Jura
Looking across the Lynn of Lorn to Lismore Island
Inveraray Bridge over Loch Fyne
Kyle of Durness
Loch Katrine
Quiraing, Isle of Skye
The Torridon hills viewed from the Shieldaig peninsula.
Loch Shiel


More words of wisdom

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Chic Murray

Woodrow Wilson

Mary Queen of Scots

Voltaire

Saki

Sir James Dewar

J. M. Barrie

Sir Walter Scott

George Bernard Shaw

James Boswell

Dr John Arbuthnot

Vandal humour

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A collection of amusing vandalism encountered while on RC Patrol. This is intended to grow over time into my own personal BJAODN

Cactus.man's Committed Identity

This page contains the Committed Identity and GPG public key details for Cactus.man.

First Committed ID
Status: Deprecated
Hash algorithm: SHA-1
Created: 9 May, 2007

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Second Committed ID

Status: Deprecated
Hash algorithm: SHA-512
Created: 17 May, 2007

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Third Committed ID
Status: Deprecated
Hash algorithm: SHA-512
Created: 05 May, 2019

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Fourth Committed ID
Status: Deprecated
Hash algorithm: SHA-512
Created: 28 September, 2021

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Fifth Committed ID
Status: Deprecated
Hash algorithm: SHA-512
Created: 03 November, 2022

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Latest Committed ID

Status: Current
Hash algorithm: SHA-512
Created: 28 April, 2024
Based On: E-C-i-t-F

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GPG Key ID: 0x7B381118
Fingerprint: 8C75 21F4 D387 4377 173B 6B62 0125 A6C8 11ED C5BD
Cipher: AES256
Key Type: DSA / ELG
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