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My name's Ben Yates; I'm a technical writer, student, and keyboardist from Ann Arbor.

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So. I've been here since late 2003; I started the wikipedia articles Metrosexual and Hell, Michigan (and the wikibooks summary of Understanding Comics). Most of my stuff is elsewhere, though.

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... that Adrien Nunez (pictured), despite limited playing time, was more highly paid than a projected NBA draft lottery pick while in college?
... that specimens of Aquilegia daingolica were collected in 1906 and 1909, but it was first described as a new species in 2013?
... that Yanou Collart helped Rock Hudson get medical treatment when Nancy Reagan would not?
... that when Alexander McQueen, following years of criticism for over-reliance on runway spectacles, presented The Man Who Knew Too Much, it was criticised for its lack of theatrics?
... that Lars Chemnitz was one of the first recipients of Nersornaat, the highest honor in Greenland?
... that the principal songwriter of a song on Always Happy to Explode asked listeners to "love it for me, for I cannot"?
... that Daniel Hermann wrote poems on the inclusion of a lizard and a frog in a piece of amber, the eagle in the coat of arms of Poland, and a child suffering from Fraser syndrome?
... that the harsh treatment of Allied prisoners of war in Japan is well known in the West but mostly ignored or glossed over in Japan itself?
... that a cable TV channel in the UK was still broadcasting primarily in black and white as late as 1979?