🌐 Maringaense

🇧🇷 From: Maringá, Paraná, Brazil 🇬🇧 Also: London & Oxford (former resident) 🗣️ Languages: Portuguese  · English 🔧 Role: WikiGnome 🔭 Interests: Astronomy · Photography · Audio 📖 History · Literature · Classic cinema

"Knowledge is as important as the air we breathe."

Knowledge is as important as the air we breathe. Not taking heed of that is grasping for it whilst drowning in sheer ignorance.

As a self-proclaimed WikiGnome, there isn't obviously much to report home in terms of article creation — I'd rather do my WikiGnome business in the lurk, under the ad hoc Wikipedian mushrooms, than expose myself to the rather flashy but harmful, UV-laden spotlights of recognition.

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The nick Maringaense comes from the demonym for natives of Maringá, in southern Brazil — where I am originally from. I also lived for several years in both London and Oxford.

Subjects I am very interested or conversant in:

Topic	Notes
🔭 Astronomy & Astrophysics	Stars, cosmology, deep-sky objects, the big questions
📷 Photography	Favourite genre: street photography — colour, coincidence, geometry
🎵 Digital Audio	Lossy and lossless encoding; audio formats and codecs; active member of the Hydrogen Audio community
📜 History	WWI flying aces (a lifelong fascination); Victorian and Edwardian London; British social history
🇬🇧 England	London and Oxford, where I spent a good number of years
📚 Literature	The classics; eerie gothic horror (18th–20th c.); sci-fi; crime fiction; Sherlock Holmes
🎬 Films / Cinema	Golden Age of Hollywood; film noir; Hitchcockian suspense; pre-code Hollywood

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Interests	👁 Crab Nebula This user is interested in astronomy.	📷 This user enjoys street photography.	FLAC This user prefers lossless audio formats.
	WWI This user is interested in World War I, especially the flying aces.	🔍 This user is a fan of Sherlock Holmes.	🎬 This user enjoys film noir.
	👻 This user enjoys gothic horror literature and film.	🚀 This user enjoys science fiction.	🎦 This user is a fan of the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Knowledge is as important as the air we breathe. Not taking heed of that is grasping for it whilst drowning in sheer ignorance.

As a self-proclaimed WikiGnome, there isn't obviously much to report home in terms of article creation — I'd rather do my WikiGnome business in the lurk, under the ad hoc Wikipedian mushrooms, than expose myself to the rather flashy but harmful, UV-laden spotlights of recognition.

→ My contributions

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The nick Maringaense comes from the demonym for natives of Maringá, in southern Brazil — where I am originally from. I also lived for several years in both London and Oxford.

Subjects I am very interested or conversant in:

Topic	Notes
🔭 Astronomy & Astrophysics	Stars, cosmology, deep-sky objects, the big questions
📷 Photography	Favourite genre: street photography — colour, coincidence, geometry
🎵 Digital Audio	Lossy and lossless encoding; audio formats and codecs; active member of the Hydrogen Audio community
📜 History	WWI flying aces (a lifelong fascination); Victorian and Edwardian London; British social history
🇬🇧 England	London and Oxford, where I spent a good number of years
📚 Literature	The classics; eerie gothic horror (18th–20th c.); sci-fi; crime fiction; Sherlock Holmes
🎬 Films / Cinema	Golden Age of Hollywood; film noir; Hitchcockian suspense; pre-code Hollywood

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Audio & Communities	Template:User Audacious	Template:User Spotify	Template:User YouTube music
	Template:User Last.fm	File:Hydrogenaudio logo.png This user is a member of the Hydrogen Audio community.
Interests	👁 Crab Nebula This user is interested in astronomy.	Template:User street photography	Template:User lossless
	Template:User WWI	Template:User Sherlock Holmes	Template:User film noir
	Template:User horror	Template:User science fiction	Template:User Golden Age of Hollywood

Knowledge is as important as the air we breathe. Not taking heed of that is grasping for it whilst drowning in sheer ignorance.

As a self-proclaimed WikiGnome, there isn't obviously much to report home in terms of article creation — I'd rather do my WikiGnome business in the lurk, under the ad hoc Wikipedian mushrooms, than expose myself to the rather flashy but harmful, UV-laden spotlights of recognition.

→ My contributions

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The nick Maringaense comes from the demonym for natives of Maringá, in southern Brazil — where I am originally from. I also lived for several years in both London and Oxford.

Subjects I am very interested or conversant in:

Topic	Notes
🔭 Astronomy & Astrophysics	Stars, cosmology, deep-sky objects, the big questions
📷 Photography	Favourite genre: street photography — colour, coincidence, geometry
🎵 Digital Audio	Lossy and lossless encoding; audio formats and codecs
📜 History	WWI flying aces (a lifelong fascination); Victorian and Edwardian London; British social history
🇬🇧 England	London and Oxford, where I spent a good number of years
📚 Literature	The classics; eerie gothic horror (18th–20th c.); sci-fi; crime fiction; Sherlock Holmes
🎬 Films / Cinema	Golden Age of Hollywood; film noir; Hitchcockian suspense; pre-code Hollywood

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