I am a medical library researcher at Duke University who enjoys contributing to Wikipedia. I especially enjoy writing articles about actresses who appeared in silent films and early sound era motion pictures.
I have introduced and/or made significant contributions to:
Actors: Ross Alexander, Stuart Whitman, James A. Herne
Alfa Romeo Formula 1 Drivers: Andrea de Cesaris, Bruno Giacomelli, Consalvo Sanesi, Vittorio Brambilla, Patrick Depailler, Philippe Etancelin.
Algerian politics, places, events, and people: Abbassi Madani, Chadli Bendjedid, 2008 in Algeria, Sidi Bel Abbes, Serkadji prison, El Taref, Cap Djinet, Bejaia, Tipaza, Tigzirt, Tizi Ouzou Province, Tigzirt, Djemila, Abu Hamza al-Masri, Setif, Abbassi Madani, Bordj El Kiffan, Abderrachid Boukerzaza, 2009 in Algeria, 2010 in Algeria.
Ancient/Medieval Exploration (Vikings, Phoenicians): Tartessos, Atlantida (ancient city), Aalesund ship.
Ancient Greek Philosophers: Leucippus, Zeno of Elea.
Ancient Roman Women: Drusilla (sister of Caligula), Agrippina the Younger, Pompeia (wife of Julius Caesar), Pompeia Plotina, Poppaea Sabina, Constantina, Fulvia Plautilla, Eunoe (Wife of Bogudes), Cossutia, Cornelia Cinna minor.
Astronomy: Electra (Pleiad), Merope (star), NGC 1435.
Baseball Players: Jack Boyle, Martin F. Hogan, Al Pratt, George Washington Bradley, and Gus Alberts; baseball umpire Charles F. Daniels; early 20th century pitcher Karl Adams, Gary Geiger, Carlos Paula.
Bulgaria: Kintex (Bulgaria), Dimitar Zhelyazkov.
Business profiles and bios: Love Cosmetics, Kookai, Nicolai Gedalia, David Thompson (businessman), Corwin Thompson, William B. Draper, Detmer Woolen Company, George E. Cutler, Atlantic National Bank, New York City, Davega Stores, Paris Decorators Corporation, V. Vivaudou Inc., Skol Company, Segal Lock and Hardware Company, Richelieu Inc., Shanley's Restaurants, Huyler's, Schaffer Stores Company, Daniel Reeves Stores, Metric Hosiery Company, Kent Automatic Garages, Kinsley & Darling Druggists, Monarch Underwear Company Fire, Dorb the Chemist, Inc., Pavonia Ferry, Mori's Restaurant, Old London Inc., Ceco Manufacturing Company, Greenmal Holding Corporation, Chesebrough Manufacturing Company, General Laundry Machine, National Cordage Company, Deco Refreshments, Inc., Central West Public Service Corporation, Legnam Corporation, Verville Aircraft, Universal Wireless Communication Co., Inc., American Phenix Corporation of New York, Verville Aircraft, American Yvette Company, J. Lehrenkrauss Corporation, Peerless Woolen Mills, Sauquiot Spinning Company, Standard Coosa-Thatcher Company, McCrory Stores Corporation, Helene Curtis, Institut Jeanne Gatineau, Christie, Brown Company, Rome Company, Inc., Combustion Engineering Company, American Chicle Company, Nytronics, Inc., Apartment A Go Go, Standard Gas Light Company, Cummings Machine Works, Vinco Corporation, New York Daily Graphic, Lane Drug Stores, Lawrence Warehouse Company, Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company, Zonite Products Corporation, United Gas Improvement, R. Hoe & Company, Biflex Products Corporation, Annette's Perfect Cleanser Company, Novadel-Agene, Garfinkel Painting Company, Bontal Restaurant Corporation, Klareco Textile, Ferndale Dairies, The Judge's Chop House, Titanine, Incorporated, Titanine, Incorporated (Union City, New Jersey), McQuay-Norris, Weber & Heilbroner, Greeley Bar and Grill, Loft, Inc., Paprin's Restaurant, Normandy Cafeteria, Bartlett Street Lamps, Bellcamp Stores, Penny Cafeteria, August Brentano, Manhattan Soap Company, H.B. Claflin & Company, J.B. Greenhut & Company, David D. Doniger & Company, Wallachs, Henry Bischoff & Company, Du Barry Modes, Annis-Krapes Corporation, Ess Bee Dress Company, Olive Eat (Restaurant), Bacterol Products Company, Broadstreet's, Tinsley & Hull.
Collegiate basketball players: John Vallely, Hank Siemiontkowski.
Comedian: Peggy Bernier.
Comics Real Clue Crime Stories (Comic), Justice Traps The Guilty (Comic), Web of Evil (Comic), Headline Comics (For The American Boy), Warfront (Comic), Fightin' Marines.
Dancers: Dolores Delmar, Blanche Satchel, Delphine Walsh, Myra Kinch, Harriet Hoctor, Sharon Shore, Jean Mode, Hinda Wassau, Saharet, La Sylphe, Vera Olcott, Lotta Faust, Anita Elson, Blanche Deyo, Dorothy Sherwood, Joan Winters, Joan Warner, Minnie Renwood, Tonja Dawn, Margaret Hart Ferraro, Roxana Sand, April Flowers (Stripper), Virginia Rangle, Mademoiselle Fifi (Stripper), Marie Warner (Ballerina).
Drugs and Drug Industry Executives: Eskatrol, Benzodiazepine, Meprobamate, Dexamyl, Kurt Anker Nielsen, Aguamiel, Argyrol, Ovoferrin.
Fashion Designers: Francisco Costa, Giambattista Valli, Alberta Ferretti, Lolita Lempicka, Edith Reuss
Scuderia Ferrari Formula 1 Drivers: Lorenzo Bandini, Richie Ginther. Michele Alboreto, Giancarlo Baghetti, Eugenio Castellotti, Luigi Musso, Alfonso de Portago, Harry Schell, Jean Behra, Willy Mairesse, Ludovico Scarfiotti, Mike Parkes, Nino Vaccarella, Piero Taruffi, Louis Rosier, Peter Whitehead (racing driver), Cliff Allison.
Formula 1 Drivers (various marques): Johnny Claes, Onofre Marimon, Joakim Bonnier, Brett Lunger.
Geographical topics: Highbridge Reservoir, Williamsbridge Reservoir.
Health Products: Gleem toothpaste.
Historical buildings: Niblo's Garden, Bronx Lyceum, New York Crystal Palace, Boulevard Gardens Apartments, Queens, Battery Tower, New York City, Hotel Carter, Manhattan, Weylin Hotel, Dauphin Hotel, Olcott Hotel, Allerton Hotel for Women, Marbridge Building, Studebaker Building, Manhattan, Prudence Building, Bretton Hall, Manhattan, Hendrik Hudson Hotel, Metropolitan Fireproof Warehouse, Parker Building, New York City, Gallatin Bank Building, Metropolitan Savings Bank Building, De La Salle Institute, Silk Centre, Gunther Building, Bradford Hotel, Luxor Hotel (New York City), Bradford Hotel, L.P. Hollander Company Building, Judge Building, Mills Building (New York City), Spero Building, Chateau Moderne, Hamilton Fish Park Pool, Chelsea Corners, Garfield Building (New York City), Hale Building, Burton Arms Apartments, Salmon Tower Building, Bryant Hall Building, Cholera Hospital, Holland Plaza Building.
Horse Racing: Nasomo, Blessbull, Naughty Jake, Burnt Cork (Horse), Slide Rule (Horse), Blue Swords (Horse), Ocean Wave (Horse), Vincentive.
Ice Hockey Players: Gord Hannigan, Gil Mayer.
Images which I have submitted include magazine photos of actresses Helen Vinson, Gloria Swanson, Karen Morley, Ann Harding, Olive Borden, Louise Fazenda, Doris Kenyon, Carmel Myers, Marilyn Miller, and Kay Francis.
JFK Assassination: Dial D. Ryder, Ella German, Alexander Ziger, John Douglas Kinser, Silvia Odio, Karen Bennett Carlin.
Journalists/Newspapers: Edward Riggs, George Mallon, John B. Wood, New Yorker Volkzeitung.
Kansas City Athletics Players: Bud Daley, Moe Burtschy.
Medieval Historical Topics: Compagnacci.
Medieval philosophers & theologians: Ratherius, Hrosvit, John Scotus Eriugena, Adam de Buckfield, Richard Fishacre, Syrianus.
American Revolution, Mexican-American War and American Civil War biographies: James E. Slaughter, George Fenner, Murray F. Tuley, Orlando Bolivar Willcox, David H. Nichols, Edward Wallace, G.W. Hockley, Bennet Riley, William Kennon Mayo, W.W. Bliss, [[Herman Husband]], Nathan Hale (statue).
Miscellaneous: Barracuda, Muskellunge, Andrea Doria, Scuba Diving, Socialist/feminist Rose Pastor Stokes, Peasant Leader Wat Tyler. Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, Ichthyologist Eugenie Clark, Post-Surrealism, and Ellsworth UFO Case, Angela Atwood, Henry Katz, Globe Trotters (Burlesque), Jay Ferdinand Tower, Marian Spore, Frances Smith, Ixion Bicycle Club, Long line rider.
Models: Christina Bellin, Sondra Lipton, Gillis MacGill, Kirsty Hume, Vanessa Duve, Veronica Webb, Daniela Urzi, Anne Meister, Asia Pulco, Ana Colja, Arantxa Santamaria, Melody Woodin, Charlott Cordes, Marla Boehr, Mor Katzir, Yfke Sturm, Christelle Lefranc, Tatiana Usova, Querelle Jansen, Kim Noorda, Marla Boehr, Rianne ten Haken, Veronica Gedeon, Marian McGuire.
Movie and Stage Actresses: Sarah Padden, Helen Arnold, Greta Nissen, Kay Johnson, Dorothy Hart, Mona Rico, Patricia Dane, Fay Davis, Florence Pigott, Jane Lee, Rubye De Remer, Olive Tell, Jane Wheatley, Fay Spain, Esther Muir, Doro Merande, Dorothy Seastrom, Doris Kenyon, Helen Trix, Madeline and Marion Fairbanks, Zelda Sears, Ingrid Goude, Rosita Diaz Gimena, Steffi Duna, Linda Watkins, Paulette Duval, Fay Tincher, Toni Seven, June Caprice, Gilda Gray, Joyce Coad, Isabel Withers, Gloria Holden, Lorna Maitland, Margot Grahame, Belle Bennett, Delia Magana, Joi Lansing, Myrna Hansen, Glenda Farrell, Lillian Adelaide Neilson, Vola Vale, Lillian Peacock, Ethel Hall, Irene Rooke, Heather Thatcher, Ethel Shutta, Pauline Garon, Mona Maris, Gloria Fonda, Barbara Lang, Margot Grahame, Charlotte Walker (actress), Ruth Royce, Elise Cavanna, Leona Hutton, Armida Vendrell, Margarita Fischer, Rosita Marstini, Barbara Ruick, Conchita Montenegro, June Travis, Martha Sleeper, Majel Coleman, Sally Long, Ruth Taylor, Rebecca Weintraub, June Elvidge, Carmelita Geraghty, Margaret Shelby, Peggy Fears, Karen Morley, Ethel Teare, Rosemarie Bowe, Paula Stewart, Sally Phipps, Iris Stuart, Natalie Kingston, Jacqueline Logan, Joan Marsh , Anna Luther, Lillian Roth, Claudia Dell, Ynez Seabury, Alice Joyce, Marjorie White, Doris Rankin, Christina Montt, Bessie Barriscale, Liska March, Lenore Ulric, Mae Busch, Jetta Goudal, Lucy Beaumont, Aleta Freel, Pauline Curley, Ann Christy, Virginia Valli, Virginia Brown Faire, Florence Roberts, Alma Rubens, Mary Davis, Dagmar Godowsky, Dagmar Oakland, Helen Raymond, Derelys Perdue, Kathleen Hughes, Veronica Hurst, Inez Courtney, Jean Paige, Jane Novak, Violet Mersereau, Louise Carver, Myrtle Stedman, Helene Chadwick, Peggy Allenby, Miriam Cooper, Mabel Julienne Scott, Dagmar Dahlgren, Sally Crute, Helen Vinson, Gladys Brockwell, Ella Margaret Gibson, Irene Dalton, Louise Huff, Naomi Childers, Phyllis Haver, Elaine Hammerstein, Eulalie Jensen, Hazel Forbes, Dorothy Revier, Laura Hope Crews, Cleo Ridgely, Helen Kane, Anna Luther, Diana Miller, Mary Thurman, Mabel Van Buren, Gia Scala, Leigh Snowden, Helen Holmes, Genevieve Blinn, Helen Lindroth, Jane Winton, Martha Mansfield, Beverly Bayne, Marguerite Snow, Renee Adoree, Ida Darling, Virginia Pearson, Beverly Bayne, Kate Lester, Dorothy Sebastian, Charlotte Burton, Hazel Keener, Mary Alden, Alice Harrison, Dorothy Walters, Edith Day, Lya De Putti, Eleanor Phelps, Patterson Dial (actress & author), Madlaine Traverse, Joan Lowell, Kate Price (actress), Tamara Geva, Julie Haydon, Mary Nolan. Clara Blandick, Charlotte Merriam, Natalie Joyce, Edna Hibbard, Jean Stuart, Barbara Castleton. Ethel Clayton, Minta Durfee, Ruth Stonehouse, Valeska Suratt, Peggy Hyland, Lina Basquette, Karyn Kupcinet, Camille D'elmar, Violet MacMillan, Lona Andre, Lucile Gleason, Marla English, Blanche Ring, Cleo Madison, Yvonne Hughes, Gladys Hulette, Juliann Graham, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Allene Ray, Alison Skipworth, Luana Walters, Jeanette Loff, Alice Lake, Rhea Haines, Viola Barry, Blanche Mehaffey, Renee Torres & Raquel Torres, Julia Bruns, Suzanne Kaaren, Margaret Ehrlich, Barbra Fuller, Sally Mansfield, Clara Whipple, Molly Pearson, Gail Kane, Edith Taliaferro, Madge Kennedy, Ida Conquest, Marie Fedor, Emily Stevens, Rita Jolivet, Patricia Collinge, Adele Blood, Hazel Dawn, Laura Nelson Hall, Teresa Maxwell-Conover,Ruth Hiatt, Venetia Stevenson, Alice Calhoun, Kathleen Kirkham, Marvel Rea, Roxana McGowan, Inga Arvad, Nina Byron, Dorothy Burgess, Malvina Longfellow, Dolores Fuller, Christine Mayo, Jean Vachon, Ann May, Vahina Giocante, Anna Lehr, Rosemary Theby, Billie Seward, Francelia Billington, Teddie Gerard, Beatrice Prentice, Ethel Jackson, Beverley Sitgreaves, Diamond Donner, Virginia Earle, Victoria Montgomery, Carrie Reynolds, Grace Larue, Majorie Bonner, Bijou Fernandez, Phyllis Rankin, Lillian Lee (actor), Amelia Bingham, Elizabeth Tyree, Jennie Worrell, Effie Germon, Ruth Shepley, Inez Plummer, Anne Sargent, Daisy Harcourt, Jessie Mackaye, Olive Redpath, Alice Dovey.
Murder Victims: Georgette Bauerdorf, Margie Lee Winn, Louise Teuber, Julia Nussenbaum, Cheri Jo Bates, Anna Margaret Urbas, Ginny Augustin.
Musical Groups: We Five, The Cyrkle.
N.F.L. Players: Martin Ruby, Cliff Lewis (football player), Kent Nix, Steve Lach.
Native American tribes: Wyandot
Neuroscience topics: Visual perception; Chubb illusion; Cornsweet illusion; Mach bands, and Optical illusion.
North Carolina: Charles B. Root, Seaton Gales.
Opera singers: Lillian Nordica, Emma Trentini, Lillian Blauvelt, Emma Juch, Margarethe Arndt-Ober, Lola Beeth.
Pittsburgh Pirates Players: Tom Saffell, Bill Werle, Dee Fondy, Erv Brame, Steve Swetonic.
Playboy Playmates: Patti Reynolds, Victoria Vetri, Connie Kreski, Joyce Nizzari, Gloria Root, Joey Gibson.
Porn stars: Shauna Grant, Diamond James.
Collectors of the Port of New York & colleagues: Simeon Draper, Hiram Barney, Daniel Magone, Alfred Puffer, Alpheus Smith.
Railroad executives: George D. Fowler, A.A. Talmadge, Albert Keep, Thomas J. Potter.
Singers: Monica Boyar, Del Shannon, Mariska Veres, Alice Hathaway Burrage
Vaudeville performers: Claire Rochester, Emma Carus, Troja (singer), Lizzie Evans, Lola Cotton.
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