User:Akendall/Interests

My interests are various, but generally focus around four main categories.

Oregon

• Oregon City, Oregon (my hometown) and related articles, including:
• Portland, Oregon - especially its history
• Oregon Cascades-related topics, such as:
• Willamette Valley, Willamette River, and Willamette Falls (in fact, I was born at Willamette Falls hospital, just like my father and my grandfather before me)
• Oregon Coast, including:
• Bridges in Oregon and Portland, including: List of crossings of the Willamette River and List of bridges on the Oregon Coast

Banking and Accounting

• Accountancy and Bookkeeping
  • History of accounting
  • Accounting for financial institutions
• Banking
  • Bank regulation (my thesis topic)
  • Bank history
  • Central banks
  • United States Federal Reserve Bank
  • Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
• Internal Auditing

Classics

• Latin language and literature
  • Epic history
  • The Aeneid
  • Livy's Ab Urbe Condita
  • Translation theory, techniques, and problems

China

• Jiangsu Province
• History of China
• Railways in China