User:Vecrumba

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Šim lietotājam latviešu valoda ir dzimtā valoda.

Misplaced Pages

If it doesn't appear here, that means I'm not really thinking about it right now. Well, at least, not too much.

Rewrite of History of Russians in Latvia
Rewrite of Occupation of Latvia 1940-1945, second and third sections still WP:INCOMPLETE
Latvia contributions
Portal:Latvia maintenance

Nothing is ever considered WP:DONE!

On Latvia — Own parents Latvian from Latvia, wife's parents Latvian from Latvia. An "A" student all throughout Latvian school (history, geography, literature,...) growing up. Bibliophile collecting (rare) Latvian-related materials using own web site, LATVIANS.COM, to bring them to a wider audience. More generally, a long time student of history. The best quote about me and Latvia came from my first wife, now quite (!) a few years ago... "I don't see you passionate about anything except Latvia."

On Post-Soviet geopolitics — Russia's holding to official positions in direct contradiction to incontrovertible fact—and then leveraging those lies to its advantage with a great flourish of posturing and "righteous" diplomatic indignation—is far from limited to the Baltics. That behavior extends throughout its own territory to the borders of the "former states of the Soviet Union" and beyond, where debunking Soviet myth is regularly denounced as "historical revisionism."

On Indo-European culture/language — Having been inculcated from an early age that Lithuanian and Latvian are the oldest living European survivors of the Indo-European language tree, it's been a topic of a fair amount of reading and yet another enabler for my bibliomania affliction.

Pēters Jānis Vecrumba

Born, raised, living in Brooklyn, New York
Ņujorkiets, Rīdzinieks, un Kuldīgnieks
Parents both from Latvia, father graduated Latvian Academy of Art, mother was assistant postmaster in Talsi
Graduated Cooper Union in New York (Bachelor of Science in Engineering)
Career in information technology
Taught structured programming at Cooper Union as adjunct professor
Calligraphy teaching assistant to Don Kunz, protegé of Lloyd Reynolds, at Cooper Union
Web design and implementation is an avocation
LATVIANS.COM is main personal project with wife Silvija