User:Antonin~enwikiversity/sandbox

First I would like to introduce myself to all users of all wikipedia projects who might find my contributions to the universal encyclopaedia both useful and interesting. I hope to set up at least two or three academic courses in the fields of pure logic, Papal history and international military conflict. To give a brief account of my competence to contribute to this type of teaching and responding to queries on these subjects, as well as editing them, I should mention that I have degrees at the following levels in the following subjects. A BA in philosophy and history of linguistic communication.An LesL (Paris) in mediaeval history of Western Europe. An MA in French as a foreign language (Geneva) and a PhD in the history and practice of covering breaking world news stories, mainly diplomatic, military, ecclesiastical and medical. I have covered five conflicts, Franco-Algerian,1960-61 while still at university; six days war in Middle East 1967;Vietnam & Cambodia 1968-71; Northern Ireland 1975-84; Middle East in general 1986-89. I have worked mostly for two of the world's leading news agencies and contributed news stories from 72 countries between 1960 and 1990. I retired from this work through ill health aged 48 and have spent the time since then writing novels, poetry, history and children's books as well as translating them from and to English, American, French, Italian and Spanish. I was born in England of an Australian father and a Scottish mother and am a practising Catholic. I hope to get to know and to help as many of you as I can. Cheers. Antonin.