User:Anthony Argyriou

I am a Geotechnical Engineer licensed (and practicing) in the State of California. I graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a B.S. Civil Engineering in 1991.

I live in Alameda, California, and have lived all of my adult life in the East Bay Area.

I dance, primarily vintage ballroom and Irish ceili, but am also familiar with English Country Dance, swing, tango, Irish stepdance, and some ballroom Latin dance.

I am a contributor at Wikipedia, and have made significant contributions to the Wikipedia articles on geotechnical engineering (and related topics), some articles on construction and construction materials, Irish dance, Irish stepdance, articles on Alameda and Oakland, and minor contributions on articles about a few places in Colombia, and various political topics. I expect to contribute to the articles on similar topics here, mostly excepting the political articles.

Articles

from Wikipedia articles	de novo	Started from my contributions at Wikipedia	Significantly expanded here
I've started the articles on: Geotechnical engineering Foundation Bearing capacity Civil engineering Colombia International System of Units year star (later deleted because nobody else worked on it) calendar concrete Deep foundation Shallow foundation Baseline (surveying) In all cases, I've imported parts of the Wikipedia articles of the same name.	I've also started: mile foot (measure) metre kilometre day second sundial litre week time zone black hole ampere volt month polygon measurement Encyclopaedia Britannica wood interest steradian newton coulomb mole (unit) hertz joule pascal (unit) Celsius ohm siemens (unit) List of computer industry pioneers money Gunpowder race (sports) D. A. Abrams groundwater coal (replacing a redirect which existed previously) President of the United States of America firearm mortgage parsec republic Casa Lleó-Morera Illa de la Discòrdia earthquake All these, I've started effectively de novo, sometimes using public domain information primarily from U.S. goverment sources.	I've created the following article concurrently with rewriting the article of the same name in Wikipedia; as I am the author of the text, the article below is not subject to Wikipedia licensing restrictions. Proctor compaction test I've created the following article using (or attempting to) only my contributions to the article of the same name on Wikipedia: Irish dance pozzolan Mineral hydration Meridian (geography) Principal meridian R-value (soils) D-Q University	I've significantly expanded (or heavily contributed to) the following articles: Electoral College Communism Fractional-reserve banking Binary number system U.S. States and Territories web browser watt

Images

Images I created:

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  Casa Batlló in Barcelona

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  Casa Amatller in Barcelona

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  Casa Lleó-Morera in Barcelona

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  Piledriving at the Maxwell Bridge (Imola Avenue) in Napa, California.

Images I found:

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  Willard Gibbs
  Found on Wikimedia Commons

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  Principal meridians of the United States
  Found at U.S. BLM website

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  Map of the United States
  Found at National Atlas website

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  Historic expansion of the U.S.
  Found at National Atlas website

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  U.S. one cent coin
  Found at U.S. Mint website

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  Map locating Colombia
  Found on Wikimedia Commons

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  Flag of Colombia
  Found on Wikimedia Commons

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  Congreso de Cúcuta - heroes of Colombian independence
  Found on Wikimedia Commons

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  Relief map of Colombia
  Found at UTexas website,originally from the U.S. CIA

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  Alvaro Uribe, President of Colombia
  From Agência Brasil website

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  Historic map of the world
  Found on Wikimedia Commons

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  The Geographer
  Painting by Jan Vermeer

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  Data representation in GIS
  Found on Wikimedia Commons

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  Photomosaic of the earth
  Found on NASA website

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  Map of world population density
  Found on Wikimedia Commons

For my reference

• CZ:High priority articles for pilot
• User:Anthony Argyriou/WPbasicarticles1 - copied from Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
• CZ:Core articles
• CZ:Citation templates

I release all my contributions to Citizendium, including those texts which I originally wrote for Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons CC-by-SA 3.0 Unported license.