Here's a list of articles I've started. I originally wrote most of these articles in their entirety, and some are still mostly my work. Some have now been here for upwards of four years, though, so may no longer very closely resemble my original articles.
Some are things I'm actually interested in, and some are just things I stumbled across that needed an article. Some short articles are probably missing from this list, as are ones I forgot about.
History and Politics
edit- Biographies
- Mahmoud Abbas (major initial portion) -- former Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, and now its President
- Athenagoras of Athens -- early Christian apologist (adapted/supplemented from an old encyclopedia)
- Warren Austin -- American statesman and diplomat
- Martin Van Buren Bates -- Civil War-era man nearly 8 feet tall
- Patriarch Bartholomew I -- current Patriarch of Constantinople
- Marvin R. Baxter -- justice on the Supreme Court of California
- Denis Burke -- Australian politician
- Archibald Bush, 20th-century American businessman
- Ricardo Cavallo -- Argentine alleged to have committed crimes during the "Dirty War"
- Camilo Cienfuegos (major part) -- Cuban revolutionary; disappeared in 1959
- Lawrence Eagleburger -- American statesman and diplomat
- E. E. Evans-Pritchard -- noted British anthropologist
- Sulaiman Abu Ghaith -- Al-Qaida spokesman
- Alfred Gray (Kansas politician), 19th-century politician in the U.S. state of Kansas
- Gregor Gysi -- former East German and current German politician
- Georgi Iliev -- Bulgarian soccer-team owner murdered in 2005
- George T. Inkster -- pioneer in the Dakota Territory
- Eric B. Kim -- Korean-American businessman
- Waclaw Maciejowski, 19th-century Polish historian
- Jim McConn -- mayor of Houston from 1978 to 1982
- Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim -- former leader of Iraq's Shia Muslims
- Chaim Herzog -- sixth President of Israel
- G. M. Hirst, English-American classicist
- Salim Joubran -- first Israeli Arab to become a permanent member of the Israeli Supreme Court
- Siegfried Kampl -- Austrian politician embroiled a 2005 row over controversial remarks about Nazis
- John Scott Keltie, Scottish geographer
- Wolfgang Lazius -- 16th-century Austrian humanist, known as a physician, mapmaker, and historian
- Anatoly Lebedko -- Belarusian opposition leader; opponent of dictator Alexander Lukashenka
- Fred Lookout -- a 20th-century chief of the Osage Nation
- Karl Mager, 19th-century German educationist
- Raleb Majadele -- Israeli politician; the first Israeli Arab to be appointed cabinet minister
- Spiros Markezinis -- noted Greek politician, economic reformer, and historical writer
- Menachem Mazuz -- Israeli attorney general
- Kate Michelman, American pro-choice activist
- Benno Ohnesorg -- protestor against a visit of the Shah of Iran to Germany killed in 1967
- Guy V. Padgett III -- mayor of Casper, Wyoming, noted for being a popular openly gay mayor in a conservative town
- Romano Prodi -- at various times Italian Prime Minister and President of the European Commission
- Elyakim Rubinstein -- Israeli diplomat and politician
- Calvin Smyre, prominent black state legislator in the U.S. state of Georgia
- Robert Stafford -- American politician from Vermont
- Naji al-Suwaidi, Iraqi prime minister
- Tomás Terry, 19th-century Cuban business magnate
- Smith Thompson -- United States Supreme Court justice
- William M. Treloar -- U.S. Congressman from Missouri, music professor, and music publisher
- H. W. J. Thiersch -- 19th-century German philologist and theologian, active in the Catholic Apostolic Church
- Sanjar Umarov -- jailed Uzbek opposition leader
- Urukagina -- 24th-century BC ruler of Lagash in Mesopotamia
- C.F.W. Walther -- founder of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
- Wu Jinglian -- one of China's preeminent economists
- Philippe Wynne -- an R&B vocalist, both solo and with groups such as The Spinners and Funkadelic
- Abdel Rahman Zuabi -- first Israeli Arab appointed to the Israeli Supreme Court
- Acteal massacre -- a 1997 massacre in Mexico
- Coat of Arms of Australia (about half)
- De West, one of the two main newspapers of Suriname
- Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907)
- Heim ins Reich -- pre-WW2 Nazi policy
- Iqtisaduna -- a prominent work on Islamic economics
- Know-Nothing movement -- 1840s-50s U.S. nativist movement
- List of earthquakes (various)
- Loyal Legion -- society of American Civil War veterans, and now their descendents
- Marienfeld -- field in Germany, and site of World Youth Day 2005
- Museum of the Macedonian Struggle, museum in Thessaloniki, Greece, documenting the Greek Struggle for Macedonia
- Patriarch of Constantinople -- head of the Eastern Orthodox Church
- Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, law in India
- Radio Free Afghanistan -- U.S. government radio service in Afghanistan
- Rheinische Zeitung -- radical paper edited by Karl Marx
- Rights of the Terminally Ill Act (Australia) -- controversial law legalising euthanasia between 1995 and 1997
- Sri Lanka Library Association, the main library association of Sri Lanka
- Star Engraving building -- historic building in Houston, Texas
- Students Islamic Movement of India (about half) -- Islamist movement in India
- Yasukuni Shrine -- controversial Japanese memorial shrine
Geography
edit- Greece
- Ambracian Gulf -- gulf of the Ionian Sea
- Dodecanese -- island group
- Kerkis -- mountain on Samos
- Mikri Vigla -- small village on Naxos
- Mount Kyllini -- mountain in Peloponnesus
- Simi -- island in the Dodecanese
- Zakros -- archaeological site in Crete
- Brie -- a historic region of France, most famous for its Brie cheese
- Gil Island (Canada)
- Herat province -- in Afghanistan
- Montecristo -- Italian islet
- New World Island, island of Canada
- Pitt Island (Canada)
- Port Royal -- former capital of Jamaica, prior to destruction in an earthquake
Philosophy
edit- Clemens Baeumker -- a German historian of philosophy
- Categorical Imperative (introduction and section on formulations)
- Hypothetical imperative
- Richard Swinburne -- noted Christian philosopher
- Paul Tillich -- theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher
Music
edit- Genres
- People and groups
- Augusta Amherst Austen, 19th-century British composer and organist, chiefly of hymns
- Francesco Carattoli, Italian opera buffa singer
- Ramón Carnicer, 19th-century Spanish composer, known for composing the National Anthem of Chile
- Heinrich Gebhard, German-American pianist and piano teacher
- Hermann Anton Gelinek, German monk and musician
- Emil Genetz, Finnish composer
- Francis Hueffer, German-English music writer, critic, and librettist
- Friedrich Ladegast, German organ builder
- Paul Henry Lang, Hungarian-American musicologist
- Gaetano Latilla, 18th-century Italian opera composer
- Sophie Löwe, 19th-century German opera soprano
- Henry Needler, 17th/18th-century British musician and music transcriber
- Walter Morse Rummel, prominent pianist associated with Claude Debussy
- VNV Nation
- Labels
- Come Organisation, power-electronics and noise label associated with Whitehouse
- Memento Materia, label "focusing on synth-, electro- and futurepop"
- Other
- Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, reference work for music-related biographies
- Pantalon, odd instrument of the 18th century
Arts and Literature
edit- Franz Adam -- a 19th-century German painter
- Anglicisation -- making things more like the English language
- Bluff Hall -- a historic residence in Demopolis, Alabama
- Cease and desist -- a demand or order for someone to stop doing something
- Harry Fenn, English-born American illustrator
- Joseph Kosuth -- American conceptual artist
- Georg Mader, 19th-century Austrian painter
- Siegfried August Mahlmann, 18th/19th-century German poet and editor
- Aimé Maillart, 19th-century French composer, especially of operas
- Nellie Neilson -- an American historian
- Alexandre Orion, Brazilian graffiti artist and photographer
- Herbert L. Osgood, American historian of colonial American history
- John Carl Parish, 19th/20th-century American historian of American history
- Phoenix (classics journal) -- a Canadian classics journal
- Justin Pierce -- actor in Kids
- Vojteh Ravnikar -- Slovenian architect
- Rothko Chapel -- chapel in Houston, Texas filled with works by Mark Rothko
- Alexander Souter -- a Scottish biblical scholar
- Stages Repertory Theatre -- theatre in Houston, Texas
- The Story of Ferdinand, a 1936 children's book by American author Munro Leaf
- William Steig -- author of Shrek, among other works of children's literature, and also a prolific cartoonist for the New Yorker
- Ludwig Thiersch -- a 19th-century German painter also influential in Greece
Math and Science
edit- Computer-related
- Bitwise operation (initial version, incl. most of the current content)
- GUIDO music notation
- Identifier naming convention
- Klee's measure problem
- Myhill-Nerode Theorem
- Type polymorphism
- Xiph.org Foundation
- The American Journal of the Medical Sciences -- American medical journal, published 1820–present
- The Analyst, or, Mathematical Museum -- early American mathematics journal
- Marie Boivin -- French midwife and writer on obstetrics
- The Cincinnati Lancet-Clinic -- a 19th- and early-20th-century U.S. medical journal
- Henry Darcy -- French hydraulics researcher
- William Potts Dewees -- a notable 19th-century American obstetrician
- Darcy-Weisbach equation
- Empirical relationship
- Guido Fubini -- Italian mathematician
- Journal of Machine Learning Research
- The Mathematical Diary, American mathematics journal and magazine
- The Medical Repository -- the first American medical journal
- Prony equation
- Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale
- Three cottage problem
- Josef Hoene-Wronski, eccentric philosopher of mathematics
- Wronskian
Alcoholic Beverages
edit- Category:Anise liqueurs and spirits
- Chian wine, the wine of the Greek island of Chios
- Coan wine, wine from the Greek island of Kos, and in particular a style of wine invented there in classical antiquity that was known for its saltiness
- Commandaria
- Greek Wine Cellars, Greek wine producer
- Mythos Brewery
- Retsina
Random
edit- Claremont Colleges -- a consortium of colleges in California
- Cross-quarter day (major portion)
- Cruzio -- a local internet service provider in Santa Cruz County, California
- Insanity
- Oplegnathidae -- a family of fish
- Shizuoka University of Art and Culture -- a university in Hamamatsu, Japan
- Toyoko Inn -- a business-hotel chain in Japan
- Yosemite Decimal System -- a rating system for climbing difficulty