User:Furchild

My name is David Eisenstein, and I am from the midwest United States.

Here is my Fedora Project user page. Furchild 02:15, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

The Forsters in the South Sea

... that John Beaglehole described the appointment of Johann Reinhold Forster (pictured with his son George) as naturalist on Cook's second voyage as "one of the Admiralty's vast mistakes"?
... that the University of Virginia threatened to leave the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1949 if the Sanity Code, which barred athletic scholarships, was not amended?
... that Kit Nascimento, a spokesperson for the government of Guyana during the aftermath of Jonestown, disagrees with current proposals to open the former Jonestown site as a tourist attraction?
... that the morning show on an Oklahoma TV station was such a "local phenomenon" that the president of ABC acquiesced to them not airing Good Morning America?
... that Riko Dan, who featured on a UK Top 30 hit in 2024, first performed on the radio in 1994?
... that a blizzard across the United States caused a major water crisis in Richmond, Virginia?
... that it is said that Antoinette Lubaki, Congo's first named woman artist, painted her watercolours by candlelight at night, as no stories were allowed to be told during daylight?
... that Graham Crowley entered the John Moores Painting Prize ten times since 1976 before finally winning in 2023?
... that "Dr. Sex" called for a "Big Breast Renaissance"?