User:Tom

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Contributions
I have been contributing to the Wikimedia Commons since March 2005 and have uploaded nearly 2,000 images. I feel that articles are incomplete without adequate visual aids, thus I have worked continuously to create a large visual database for the Wikimedia projects. I primarily use public domain sources such as U.S. Government websites or the Library of Congress.

Selected images
While many of my images that I have uploaded are simply official portraits or photographs, below are some that I feel are particularly interesting:

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  1912 Democratic National Convention
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  Aftermath of San Francisco earthquake of 1906
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  Riparian buffer
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  Tomb of the Unknowns
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  Survivor of Konzentrationslager Mauthausen-Gusen
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  A young Marine private in Da Nang
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  Allied military personnel celebrating Japanese surrender
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  Tadpole Galaxy
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  Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom visiting NASA
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  Brightest supernova ever recorded, SN 2006gy
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  Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, mid-day.
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  Damage and fires at Ground Zero on September 11.
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  Honor guard folding John F. Kennedy's flag
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  Good photo of Kennedy
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  Not too interesting, but it was the 1,000th image I uploaded to the Commons
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  Air Force firefighters
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  Highway of Death
• A Toulonian weeps as French troops leave metropolitan France
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  American World War II generals
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  Dawn, seen from space
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  Abandoned mental hospital building
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  A depression-era bar with some character
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  Robert Kennedy speaking before a crowd
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  Dead Zarqawi
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  USS Oriskany is sunk to become a reef.
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  Official portrait of the crew for the final fateful flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia
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  Surgeons at FitzSimons Army Hospital
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  Abandoned street in Mogadishu, Somalia, that divides the warring clans' territories
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  Scars of the Soviet-Afghan War that remain even to this day
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  Scars of the Soviet-Afghan War that remain even to this day
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  Fireball
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  Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney meets with Saudi Prince Sultan to discuss the Gulf War
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  A man not fond of Iranians
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  Governor of Alabama standing defiant...
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  Gas panic, 1979
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  Richard Nixon throwing out the opening pitch, 1969
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  Average precipitation in the USA... pretty
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  A street in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
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  Guanajuato, Mexico
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  Damage to Pearl Harbor visible even to this day
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  Lightning!
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  Why asbestos is not your friend
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  Tiny turtle
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  2005 Pacific hurricane season; 3 active storms with a 4th forming... simply cool
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  Fateful decision, declaration of war, 1941
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  Fleeing Hurricane Rita
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  It wasn't just people who were affected by Hurricane Katrina
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  Total devastation as a result of Katrina
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  Seeking refuge at the Superdome
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  On top of the world
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  On top of the world, first time for an American, 1965
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  Eye of Hurricane Katrina
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  Hurricane Andrew, 1992
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  Cyclone Catarina, a rare South Atlantic tropical cyclone.