User:EdK

Personal summary: EdK is a reading specialist and statistics teacher in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States, a former Landis Valley Project teacher who has met the Belsnickel and who once taught seventh graders the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Robert Frost, and Richard Wilbur in classes conducted in a rustic yellow barn. He has a background degree in English, a graduate degree in reading education, and has completed additional studies in mathematics, statistics education, and accounting. He's interested in bicycling, hiking, astronomy, geography, literacy education, and mathematics education, and also engaged by traditional stories and ballads, history, language history, writing, watershed investigations, and educational applications of technology. His Wikipedia contributions have generally related to the geographic, historic, and cultural landscape of southeastern Pennsylvania and southwestern Puerto Rico, but sometimes stray further. Some contributions to Wikipedia: People:   Moses M. Beachy – Marguerite de Angeli – Solomon DeLong – H. L. Fischer – Jacob Glatstein – John A. Hostetler – Johannes Kelpius – George Lippard – Anna Balmer Myers – Joseph Yoder – Thomas C. Zimmerman Places - Watersheds:   Byberry Creek – Conestoga River – Paper Mill Run – Pennypack Creek – Pequea Creek – Poquessing Creek – Tacony Creek/Frankford Creek – Wingohocking Creek – Wissahickon Creek Places - PR:   Guánica, Puerto Rico – Yauco, PR – Battle of Yauco – Puerto Rican Campaign Places - Philadelphia region:   Logan, Phila. – Olney, Phila. – Morrell Park, Phila. – Mikveh Israel Cemetery – SCI-Graterford – Marmora, NJ Places - Lancaster County:   Gordonville, Pennsylvania – Weavertown AM Ch – Amish Mennonite Things:   Sun dog – Mason-Dixon Line – Map – The Three Bears – Music of Pennsylvania – Mennonite Pennsylvania German articles:   Moses M. Beachy – Solomon DeLong – H. L. Fischer – Thomas C. Zimmerman – Gordonville, PA – Weavertown, PA Quotations Quotations The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It's a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you'll probably take a few.   (Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes) Know what's weird? Day by day nothing seems to change, but pretty soon everything is different.   (Calvin in Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes) It's a magical world, Hobbes ol buddy. . . let's go exploring.   (These words from the final panel of Calvin and Hobbes gently suggest the path we may continue to follow.) Admovere Oculis Distantia Sidera Nostris. Ovid: They brought the distant stars closer to our eyes. Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea; Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage And make a Northwest Passage to the sea.   Northwest Passage by Stan Rogers Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað: from the Old English poem The Battle of Maldon (based on battle fought in 991) meaning "Thought shall be the surer, heart the keener, courage shall be the greater, as our strength lessens." Known Some Call Is Air Am : though these words from House of Leaves appear to be random, the phrase is phonetically equivalent to the Latin expression "Non sum qualis eram," meaning "I am not as I was." Wyrd bið ful aræd: from the Old English poem The Wanderer, meaning "Fate remains wholly inexorable" or "Destiny is everything." See Wikipedia article Wyrd for more information. 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Meta-Links Meta pages & links Wiki info:   Signpost – Wikipedia – Intro – WWIN – Policies – Wiki Stats Wiki plus:   Wikisource – Wiktionary – Wikinews – Wikibooks – Wikiquote – Meta-Wiki – b:Wikiversity – Wikibroadcast – Wikitravel – Commons Portals:   Schools – Math – Music – Biography – History – Society – Culture – cryp – Wikicities Projects:   Schools – Numbers – Maps – geog cöord – Songs – Cities – Community – Userboxes – rcp Style:   Style – Biog – Naming – Layout – Copyright – Stubs – Better – Great Edit:   Markup – Boilerplate – Template – stubs – Upload – Upload/Commons – Images – HTML Help:   Edit tutor – Picture tutor – Userbox – Help – Math – Music – Templates User:   Work in Progress – Sandbox – Gallery – Bulletin – Calendar – Edit count (kate) – Edit count (interiot) – EdK namespace Interesting links:   Degrees of Wikipedia – What's your world view quiz Math links:   NP-complete – NP-hard – Complexity classes P and NP – Real number – Primes – Prime test – Math junkyard – Calculator – random math article Language links:   Language acquisition – Linguistics – Language – English language – Verb valency – Causative – Philly accent – NY-NJ English – PA Germ encycl Literature links:   Richard Wilbur – Seamus Heaney – Randall Jarrell Other links:   List of reference tables Outstanding articles:   Gerrard Winstanley – Mary Campbell – Cellular automaton – Sense of community – Geographic references Special:   Vip – Vfd – Ifd – Needy pages – Complaints – Incidents – Disputes – 3RR – templTalk – AfD3 == == ==

Friday, 2024 November 8, 20:45 UTC Almost every day is a good day. What's happening: current events and news. Other user boxes enThis user is a native speaker of the English language. es-2Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español. ang-1Þes brūcere cann forðian mid grundlicgendre mǣðe Englisces. ipa-2 əThis user has an intermediate understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet. <html>This user can write HTML. ’sThi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice. A, B, and CThis user prefers the serial comma. This user's time zone is UTC-5. This user begrudgingly observes Daylight Saving Time. This user enjoys bicycling. This user enjoys skygazing and astronomy. This user remembers using a rotary dial telephone. PTCThis user fondly recalls the onetime ubiquity of Philadelphia streetcars This user lives in or hails from Philadelphia. DadThis user is a father and proud of it! This user is a teacher. This user is a statistician. 2nThis user, IFF n<10, has 2n (n-3)-great-grandparents, else fewer. This user is of Puerto Rican ancestry. Éireannach This user is Irish. LSUThis user was graduated from La Salle University when it was still called La Salle College. This user reads between the lines. Which this user is a fan of the Aubrey–Maturin series. LOTRThis user enjoys reading Lord of the Rings. GThis user enjoys reading the Epic of Gilgamesh. mægen lytlaðThis user enjoys reading The Battle of Maldon. PThis user enjoys reading the poetry of Seamus Heaney. PThis user enjoys reading the poetry of Richard Wilbur. MAGAZINEThis user has had their work published in a magazine. This user realizes that people from the Middle Ages already thought that the Earth was spherical. This user is interested in beauty. :-/This user is a skeptic about many things, including this userbox.