CGlassey - Lawyer, Historian, Web Engineer, Teacher, Gamer

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Juris Doctor from Santa Clara University School of Law Bachelor of Arts in History from University_of_California,_Davis

Major fields of concentration: Intellectual Property, Chinese History, Vietnamese History, The Wars of Diadochi, World War I, World War II.

Minor in Philosophy, mainly focused on Aristotle and Wittgenstein.

Heroes: Richard Feynman, George S. Patton.


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I have become disenchanted with Wikipedia thanks to the work of a new editor who eliminated all the World of Warcraft instance pages. I did a fair amount of work on those pages but now, they are all gone. Cglassey 19:49, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

In Wikipedia
As of May 20 2006 - Helmuth von Moltke the Elder - total re-write based on the EB1911. Small edits to Otto von Bismarck and Albrecht Graf von Roon. Lots of work on early-modern Vietnamese history. New articles Trinh Cuong, Trinh Tac, Trinh Can, Trinh Khiem, Trinh Trang, and Trinh Tung. Lots of work on Trinh Lords, Nguyen Lords, Mac Dynasty, Mac Dang Dung, and Trinh-Nguyen War. More work on World War I: New articles East African Campaign (World War I), African theatre of World War I, West Africa Campaign (World War I), South-West Africa Campaign, Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I, Mediterranean naval engagements during World War I (the Black Sea section is all new). Continued work on the Caucasus Campaign and its related battles Battle of Manzikert (1915), Battle of Kara Killisse, Battle of Van, Battle of Sardarapat. Smaller edits on: Alexander de Rhodes, Jan Smuts, Battle of Tsingtao, Naval warfare of World War I, Erich von Falkenhayn, August von Mackensen, Alexander Kerensky. And Chuck Reed (new). As of April 20 2006 - Major work I did was: Creation of the Serbian_Campaign_(World_War_I) (I created the whole article from scratch). Creation of the Romanian_Campaign_(World_War_I) (I created this article from nothing as well). I'm still working on various Vietnamese history articles. I did a set of articles on the Mac Dynasty, Le Loi, the Trinh Lords, Le Thanh Tong, Nguyen Thi Anh, Trinh Kha, Le Nhan Tong. Still needs more work... I also worked on the Cuban Revolution. I created new articles for Battle of Las Mercedes, Operation Verano, and Battle of La Plata. I fixed up Camilo Cienfuegos and did a bit of work on Che Guevara's involvement in the Cuban Revolution (which still needs work... sigh. Tokugawa_Ieyasu (re-wrote much of this article); Caucasus_Campaign (re-wrote the whole thing); Russian_Civil_War (re-wrote the whole central section on the course of events); Sinai_and_Palestine_Campaign (created most of it); Kress_von_Kressenstein (new article); Otto_Liman_von_Sanders (new article); Colmar_Freiherr_von_der_Goltz (major re-write, an expansion of the ancient 1911 EB article); Charles_Vere_Ferrers_Townshend (new article); Battle_of_Ctesiphon_(1915) (significant re-write); Mesopotamian_Campaign (significant re-write); Fenton_Aylmer (major additions); Sir_John_Nixon (new article); Abdul_Hamid_II (major re-write); Mehmed_V (significant expansion); Eumenes (added some material early on); etc.
Lesser work I did: Enver_Pasha; Battle_of_Sarikamish; General Yudenich; Siege_of_Kut; Armenian_Genocide (added to the historical context of the Genocide); Hamidian_massacres; Great_Wall_of_China (added more to the history of the various walls); Baghdad_Railway (added some important details); Lucius_Cornelius_Sulla and Gaius_Marius (added material about the destruction of the Roman Republic), etc.

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