User:Xenonts
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Hello! I'm Xenonts. I have been using Wikipedia for as long as I can remember,[citation needed] but I created my account in 2018. I wanted my user page to include various interests of mine, and I think it has essentially become a compendium of subjects I find intriguing.
I live in Morris County, New Jersey, in the United States. Sto studiando l'italiano :)
Some of my interests
- Americana
- Astronomy
- Baseball, as a fan of the New York Yankees
- Carl Sagan's works, including my favorite book, Pale Blue Dot
- Cartography/Geography
- Environmental science, which I'm currently studying in college
- Film photography; I mainly shoot with 35mm on an early 1950s Kodak Retina Ia
- Hiking
- History in general, but right now, particularly American history in the latter half of the 19th century (i.e., the Civil War and Gilded Age periods)
- Listening to music; I listen to many genres of music, but my favorite is probably classic rock, and my favorite band is Chicago
- Playing instruments; I play several saxophones, and main the soprano saxophone, as well as low clarinets, my favorite of which being the alto clarinet
- Seinfeld
- Time as a concept
- Statistics
- Vexillology
Some of my favorite music albums
- Abbey Road, the Beatles, 1969
- Blood, Sweat & Tears, Blood, Sweat & Tears, 1968
- Chicago Transit Authority, the Chicago Transit Authority, 1969
- Chicago II, Chicago, 1970
- Revolver, The Beatles, 1966
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles, 1967
- Time Out, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1959
Some of my favorite video games
- Deliver Us the Moon
- The Forgotten City
- L.A. Noire
- Minecraft
- Okami
- Railway Empire
- Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II
- The Wii series, with Wii Sports Resort being my favorite game in the series
Wikipedia articles I find interesting
Lastly, since this is Wikipedia, I think it's fitting for me to include a (very) long list of articles of various topics I've found intriguing over the years, not including ones I've already mentioned:
- 46 BC
- 51st state
- Abiogenesis
- Absaroka (proposed state)
- Albedo
- Alert, Nunavut
- Altissimo
- American frontier
- American march music
- Ampersand
- Anadrome
- And yet it moves
- Anglo-Frisian languages
- Ars subtilior
- Atlantic coastal pine barrens
- Atmosphere of the Moon
- Aviation in the pioneer era
- Bioregionalism
- Blowhole (geology)
- Brackish water
- Breviograph
- Caffenol
- Calque
- Cat organ
- Cape to Cairo Railway
- Chess annotation symbols
- Christmas truce
- City-state
- Cold seep
- Color temperature
- Common heritage of humanity
- Connecticut Western Reserve
- Cryptic (geology)
- Data and information visualization
- De Stijl
- Delmarva Peninsula
- Disrupted planet
- Eggnog riot
- Environmental portrait
- Eskaleut languages
- Eureka, Nunavut
- Extreme trans-Neptunian object
- Extremes on Earth
- Fairy chess piece
- Fallingwater
- Fleuron (typography)
- Fort Ross, California
- Freedom to roam
- Freezing level
- Gay Nineties
- Geologic time scale
- Geology of the Moon
- Geology of Socotra
- Gravettian
- Glossary of environmental science
- Glossary of jazz and popular music
- Glossary of music terminology
- Hertzsprung–Russell diagram
- Highly composite number
- History of Antarctica
- Hoba meteorite
- Holocene calendar
- Human–canine bond
- Human outpost
- Humanism
- Indian reunification
- Intercalation (timekeeping)
- Intertidal zone
- Irony punctuation
- Jackson Hole
- Jesus bloodline
- Jim Bridger
- Julie d'Aubigny
- Language change
- Language family
- Ligature (writing)
- Lincoln Highway
- List of artificial objects on the Moon
- List of language regulators
- List of medieval abbreviations
- List of musical symbols
- List of musical works in unusual time signatures
- List of non-standard dates
- List of ghost towns in Alaska
- List of ghost towns in Hawaii
- List of tautological place names
- Long s
- Lost Dakota
- Lunar geologic timescale
- Manhattanization
- Meng Po
- Mensural notation
- Metric prefix
- Meroë
- Middle English
- Molecular vibration
- My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love
- Names of the American Civil War
- Native Esperanto speakers
- Neutral Moresnet
- Noctilucent cloud
- Nok culture
- Non-numerical words for quantities
- North American X-15
- Northeast megalopolis
- Obelus
- Oceanic dispersal
- Oort cloud
- Orders of magnitude (length)
- Outer Lands
- Outline of meals
- Parity of zero
- Paul Gauguin
- Peconic County, New York
- Per sign
- Percy Grainger
- Perfect number
- Petrichor
- Phantom island
- Planetary geology
- Post-theism
- Pyramiden
- Proton decay
- Republic of Formosa
- Retail apocalypse
- Ribs (recordings)
- Río Rico, Tamaulipas
- Rodney, Mississippi
- Salt marsh
- Satellite tornado
- The School of Athens
- Shooting an apple off one's child's head
- Shorthand
- Space Station Freedom
- Spacetime
- Spencerian script
- Sprocket hole photography
- Sumerian religion
- Summer of Love
- Swinging Sixties
- Swiss Style (design)
- Table of nuclides
- TAU (spacecraft)
- Tetration
- Thimble Islands
- Timbre
- Timeline of the far future
- Tutankhamun's trumpets
- Tuvan People's Republic
- Unit of time
- Urban prairie
- Venus snow
- Voltaire
- Wanderlust
- Warming stripes
- Wetland
- Wilmer McLean
- York Factory
- Young Man at His Window
In closing
Thank you for reading this far! Lastly, here's a quote from Carl Sagan:
"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers."