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- Elonka Dunin, elonka@aol.com, AIM: elonka
Hello! Among other things, I am a writer, game developer, cryptologist, webmistress, world-traveller, and appreciator of all kinds of different subcultures. :)
I am also considered "Notable", and now have an official page at: Elonka Dunin (thanks to Zippy for helping with that).
Contact information
I live in St. Charles, Missouri. My email address is elonka@aol.com, and the quickest way to get in contact with me is usually via AIM at screen-name "elonka".
Job title
General Manager of Online Community, Simutronics Corp.
External links with more information about Elonka
- Elonka-at-a-Glance quickref
- Professional Bio
- Personal Bio
- Elonka.com Homepage
- Elonka-in-the-News - a list of articles and other media appearances
- My blog page at Memestreams
Stuff which could potentially be added to the official page at some point
This section is for anyone who's looking to expand the official Elonka Dunin page. You can pick and choose whatever you think is appropriate. Some of the sources/references will be obvious, but if you would like any advice on where to find references, just ask. Or, check my Elonka-in-the-news page at my personal site.
Public speaking
Given talks on Steganography, Kryptos, the PhreakNIC v3.0 Code, Famous Unsolved Codes and other cryptographic subjects at venues such as DragonCon, Def Con, PhreakNIC, ShmooCon, Archon (convention), UMR-Rolla, Washington University, the St. Louis FBI Computer Crimes task force, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the NSA's Cryptologic History Symposium.
While in the United States Air Force, stationed at RAF Mildenhall from 1978-1981 in the United Kingdom, and Beale Air Force Base in California, where she worked as an Avionics Technician on the SR-71 and U-2 reconnaissance aircraft from 1981-1983. Other aircraft worked on included: TR-1, KC-135, EC-135, RC-135, T-38, C-130.
Famous Relatives
(unreferenced context) My father, Stanley Dunin, was a war orphan. Both of his parents were killed in Poland in September 1939 during the German blitzkrieg. Other family was arrested and sent to Auschwitz. My father and his sisters (all under the age of 6) were able to survive only through the frantic assistance of friends and relatives throughout Europe and North America. The children finally made their way to the United States with the assistance of Senator Homer Ferguson of Michigan (I'd love to find a reference for that), and grew up to have families of their own. But because of the chaos of the war, much of our family history was lost. One of my projects has been to try and piece together the bits and pieces of my family genealogy and heritage. Misplaced Pages has been a good source for this, as I have been learning about some of my more famous relatives, especially from the Polish szlachta (noble/gentility) classes. This section provides links to those relatives who are notable enough to have their own articles.
- Great-great-grandniece (via my paternal grandmother's paternal grandmother) of Saint Raphael Kalinowski
- Great-granddaughter of Edward Werner, Polish Vice-Finance Minister
- Great-great-grandniece (via my paternal grandmother's maternal grandfather) of the famous German botanist Eduard Strasburger
- First Cousin (by marriage) once-removed of Pulitzer-prize-winner Jared Diamond.
- Antoni Dunin - My grandfather, who was awarded the prestigious Virtuti Militari award (a Polish version of the Medal of Honor)
- Rodryg Dunin - My great-grandfather. He had the title of "Hrabi" (Count), and was listed as a "Notable Pole" in a book somewhere (I'll dig up the link later)
- Edmund Taczanowski - Great-great-grandmother's brother-in-law. My great-great-grandmother: Maria-Antonina Baranowska. Her sister: Aniela Baranowska. Her husband: Edmund. I'm actually related to him my blood, as well, as he's the grandson of my great-great-great grandfather Maksymilian Taczanowksi, which makes him the first cousin of my great-grandmother Lucia Taczanowska Dunin, or you could say he's my first cousin thrice removed, take your pick. ;)
- Agnieszka Lipska Baranowska - Great-great-great grandmother, famous Polish playwright from the Poznan area
- Count Alfred Niezychowski, great-uncle. Author of "The Cruise of the Kronprinz Wilhelm", 1928, as "Alfred Von Niezychowski". Published by Doubleday & Company.
- Jan Czarnowski - Papal Chamberlain to Pope Pius XII, and leader of the Polish Order of the Knights of the Maltese Cross
- Adam Tarnowski - Polish diplomat member of the Polish Government in Exile
- Maksymilian Taczanowski - Great-great-great-grandfather
- Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to the United States, Baron Ladislaus von Hengelmueller
- Pazmaneum - This is a school in Vienna that was founded by one of my great-great-great grandfathers, (first name unknown) Pazman. I've been told that there are many references to the Pazman name in Hungary, but since I don't speak Hungarian, I haven't been able to trace this very far.
Other hobbies/accomplishments
- Administration of the IGDA MediaWiki at http://www.igda.org/
- Maintains a personal MediaWiki site at http://www.wiki.elonka.com/ (currently under password while book manuscript is being developed)
- Maintains multiple Simutronics wiki projects - OpenWiki and MediaWiki software
- Author of The Mammoth Book of Secret Code Puzzles due in April 2006
Popular webpages at elonka.com
As of late 2005, my elonka.com site has generated over 1.4 million page views, with hundreds of thousands of visitors. Most of the traffic is generated by the following sections:
- http://www.elonka.com/kryptos - About the CIA's mysterious Kryptos sculpture
- http://www.elonka.com/UnsolvedCodes.html - A list of the world's most famous Unsolved Codes
- http://www.elonka.com/SimuTimeline.html - A timeline with significant events in the growth of Simutronics Corporation, where I have worked since 1990.
- http://www.elonka.com/family/saint/raphael.html - About my great-great-granduncle, Saint Raphael Kalinowski
Misplaced Pages history
Pages I have created
- Saint Raphael Kalinowski
- Edward Werner
- Andrew Mishkin
- Augusto Czartoryski
- (and several others in other-language wikis)
Pages I have made changes to
(not counting discussion pages, or trivial punctuation/spelling fixes)
- Albin Cardinal Dunajewski
- Beale ciphers
- Carmelites
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Cliff Johnson
- Czartoryski
- Dan Brown
- Dragon's Gate
- DragonRealms
- Duran Duran
- Ecstasy of St Theresa
- Edmund Taczanowski
- Eduard Strasburger
- Elonka Dunin
- GEnie
- GemStone IV
- Grind (gaming)
- Hero's Journey (game)
- Howard Carter
- Institute for Nobles
- James Sanborn
- January Uprising
- Jeri Ellsworth
- Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (St. Louis Arch)
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- John of the Cross
- Kendra Wilkinson
- Kesmai
- Kryptos
- List of Poles
- List of famous ciphertexts
- Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Mars Pathfinder
- MMORPG
- Modus Operandi RPG
- Monomyth
- Raphael (disambiguation)
- Simon Le Bon
- Simutronics
- Steganography
- Taczanowski
- The Solomon Key
- University High School (Los Angeles)
- Virtual Community
- Wadowice
- West Los Angeles
- Whitfield Diffie
- Zodiac Killer
Other language wikis that I have participated in
(see the "in other languages" toolbar on the left)
Other Misplaced Pages pages to eventually make or modify
- Modus Operandi
- Alliance of Heroes
- CyberStrike
- Orb Wars
- Memestreams
- List of saints
- Cyrillic_Projector
- Polish Government in Exile
- Lansat - first geosynchronous communications satellite
- Pazmaneum
- Cyrillic Projector
- Antipodes
- Famous Unsolved Codes
More userboxes I couldn't resist
Userbox bouquet
Template:User cvg Template:User greentea Template:User sushi
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- Sandbox
- /Sandbox/profile - Draft Elonka page