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Hello I'm Jersey Devil and I am a user on the English Wikipedia. My editing interests include a wide-range of issues but I typically like to work on Peru and Latin America related articles as well as articles about domestic political affairs, independent and public media, and my home state of New Jersey. I am a member of several Wikiprojects but the main one I focus on is Wikiproject Peru. If you need any help with anything on Wikipedia feel free to ask me.

WikiProject Peru
National Flag of Peru
National Flag of Peru
Coat of Arms of the Republic of Peru
Coat of Arms of the Republic of Peru
Location of Peru in South America
Location of Peru in South America
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#wikipedia-en-wpperu
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Main project talk
Peru portal talk
New articles talk
Cleanup articles talk
Peer review talk
Source reliability talk
Deletion talk
Peru related ACID
Article improvement drive talk
  Previous collaborations talk
  Featured collaborations talk
  Previous nominations talk
Peru Assessment
Assessment department talk
  Assessment bot log talk
Task forces
Translation project talk
Images task force talk
Maps task force talk
Congressional project talk
Other
Outreach talk
Template list talk
Category structure talk
Notability criteria talk
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Orion in The Book of Fixed Stars
The Book of Fixed Stars (Arabic: كتاب صور الكواكب kitāb suwar al-kawākib, literally The Book of the Shapes of Stars) is an astronomical text written by Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Azophi) around 964. Following the Graeco-Arabic translation movement in the 9th century AD, the book was written in Arabic, the common language for scholars across the vast Islamic territories, although the author himself was Persian. It was an attempt to create a synthesis of the comprehensive star catalogue in Ptolemy's Almagest (books VII and VIII) with the indigenous Arabic astronomical traditions on the constellations (notably the Arabic constellation system of the Anwā'). The original manuscript no longer survives as an autograph, however, the Book of Stars has survived in later-made copies. This image from the book shows the constellation of Orion, in mirror image as if on a celestial globe, and is from a copy in the Bodleian Library dated to the 12th century AD.Ilustration credit: Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
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  • On behalf of the Wikipedia community, this Exceptional Newcomer Award is hereby presented to Jersey Devil for exemplary contributions to Latin America related articles, in particular for the addition of a list of graduates from the School of the Americas article, and for displaying exceptional enthusiasm, skill, and boldness beyond your experience. Keep up the great work! Ombudsman 04:35, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
    On behalf of the Wikipedia community, this Exceptional Newcomer Award is hereby presented to Jersey Devil for exemplary contributions to Latin America related articles, in particular for the addition of a list of graduates from the School of the Americas article, and for displaying exceptional enthusiasm, skill, and boldness beyond your experience. Keep up the great work! Ombudsman 04:35, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
  • For all your excellent contributions.--MONGO 02:18, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
    For all your excellent contributions.--MONGO 02:18, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Jersey Devil, I award you this Barnstar of National Merit for your great contributions to Peru related articles. Descendall 05:15, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
    Jersey Devil, I award you this Barnstar of National Merit for your great contributions to Peru related articles. Descendall 05:15, 10 October 2006 (UTC)


  • Thanks for help with disruptive users! Buddhipriya 07:42, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
    Thanks for help with disruptive users! Buddhipriya 07:42, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Well done with the Brianna Rieffel issue!--DarkAudit 20:07, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
    Well done with the Brianna Rieffel issue!--DarkAudit 20:07, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
  • I, Javitomad, give you this Barnstar for contributing for a better Spanish-English Wikipedia. January 3st, 2008.
    I, Javitomad, give you this Barnstar for contributing for a better Spanish-English Wikipedia.
    January 3st, 2008.
  • You deserve this award for contributing to content of interest to the Latinos WikiProject. Outstanding contributions are generally about articles pertaining to Latinos and/or Hispanics in the United States as well as articles about Latin America. LatinoMuslim 02:13, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
    You deserve this award for contributing to content of interest to the Latinos WikiProject. Outstanding contributions are generally about articles pertaining to Latinos and/or Hispanics in the United States as well as articles about Latin America. LatinoMuslim 02:13, 2 November 2008 (UTC)


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"The charter of this tribunal gives warning for the future, I say, and repeat again, gives warning for the future, to the dictators and tyrants masquerading as a state, that if...they debate the sanctity of man in their own countries, they act at their peril, for they affront the international law of mankind."--Sir Hartley Shawcross, Britain's Chief Prosecutor at Nuremberg, 1945.

"What are the common wages of labour, depends every where upon the contract usually made between those two parties, whose interests are by no means the same. The workmen desire to get as much, the masters to give as little as possible. The former are disposed to combine in order to raise, the latter in order to lower the wages of labour.

It is not, however, difficult to foresee which of the two parties must, upon all ordinary occasions, have the advantage in the dispute, and force the other into a compliance with their terms. The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily; and the law, besides, authorises, or at least does not prohibit their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen."-Adam Smith Book I Chapter VII "Wages of Labour" p.67 The Wealth of Nations

"God made the integers; all else is the work of man."-Leopold Kronecker

"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."--President George W. Bush, 2002

"And you'll ask: why doesn't his poetry
speak of dreams and leaves
and the great volcanoes of his native land?
Come and see the blood in the streets.
Come and see
The blood in the streets.
Come and see the blood
In the streets!"--Pablo Neruda Last lines of "I'm Explaining a Few Things"

"I'm a head of state, I'm a diplomat, I'm not a criminal or a terrorist...I know who is behind this, that Communist Garces."--Augusto Pinochet Upon being arrested in London refering to Joan Garces Chilean-Spanish attorney and former advisor to Salvador Allende.

"Nobody has ever seen Big Brother. He is a face on the hoardings, a voice on the telescreen… Big Brother is the guise in which the Party chooses to exhibit itself to the world. His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt towards an individual than towards an organization."-Goldstein's book from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."-Steve Biko

"Now I feel I am able to say what I couldn't then. At the time I called it "the hand of God". Bollocks was it the hand of God, it was the hand of Diego! And it felt a little bit like pickpocketing the English."-Diego Maradona on the Hand of God goal

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