User contributions for 208.71.200.91

21 May 2024

• 23:1923:19, 21 May 2024 diff hist +37‎ Seth Aframe ‎ Correcting name of MA Supreme Judicial Court Tag: Visual edit

22 May 2019

• 20:1320:13, 22 May 2019 diff hist +15‎ Spirobranchus giganteus ‎ →‎Anatomy and morphology

3 April 2019

• 20:4720:47, 3 April 2019 diff hist +6‎ Tarantula hawk ‎ →‎Sting
• 20:4120:41, 3 April 2019 diff hist −64‎ Frozen Charlotte (doll) ‎ →‎References Tags: categories removed reference list removal
• 20:4020:40, 3 April 2019 diff hist +48‎ Frozen Charlotte (doll) ‎ →‎History
• 20:3920:39, 3 April 2019 diff hist +35‎ Frozen Charlotte (doll) ‎ →‎History

6 February 2019

• 21:1421:14, 6 February 2019 diff hist +26‎ Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary ‎ →‎Early history

4 May 2017

• 02:4402:44, 4 May 2017 diff hist −1‎ Circular flow of income ‎ →‎Overview: Removed a superfluous comma

25 August 2016

• 19:5119:51, 25 August 2016 diff hist +6‎ V-1 flying bomb ‎ Change wording of image caption to give due credit to the pilot of this maneuver.

7 June 2016

• 22:5222:52, 7 June 2016 diff hist +1‎ Conical pendulum ‎ Use a better word (swinging, not rocking) to descibe motion of a planar pendulum.
• 22:5022:50, 7 June 2016 diff hist +1‎ Falsifiability ‎ Fix "i.e." -- that means "that is", not "for example".
• 22:4622:46, 7 June 2016 diff hist +522‎ Talk:Pendulum ‎ →‎Semi-protected edit request on 7 June 2016: new section

14 December 2013

• 01:3401:34, 14 December 2013 diff hist +1‎ Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine ‎ Added missing paren to mine vs. cache addition.
• 01:3301:33, 14 December 2013 diff hist +133‎ Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine ‎ Add mine vs. cache variation.

1 September 2013

• 09:5909:59, 1 September 2013 diff hist +107‎ James Dean ‎ Added sentence re what lighting conditions were at the time of the accident.
• 09:5609:56, 1 September 2013 diff hist +128‎ James Dean ‎ Added sentence re what the common reaction would be to the situation.

25 August 2013

• 14:1014:10, 25 August 2013 diff hist +2‎ VRLA battery ‎ Replaced idiotic Microsoft euphemism "issues" with the proper word, "problems".

23 December 2012

• 12:0012:00, 23 December 2012 diff hist −2‎ Timeline of World War II (1940) ‎ Remove commas around "Sir Henry Tizard" -- must be a restrictive clause (there was more than one British scientist).

23 November 2012

• 08:3308:33, 23 November 2012 diff hist +129‎ Barbershop music ‎ Added ref to ringing chords in the song "On Moonlight Bay".

14 October 2012

• 13:1013:10, 14 October 2012 diff hist +15‎ Logical Disk Manager ‎ Decode the Microsoft "issue" euphemism. Also fixed a comma issue.
• 13:0713:07, 14 October 2012 diff hist −5‎ Tinker Bell ‎ Corrected the instructions for flying.

7 October 2012

• 10:1010:10, 7 October 2012 diff hist −1‎ Hemoglobin ‎ Removed, extraneous comma.

30 September 2012

• 06:5106:51, 30 September 2012 diff hist +2‎ Eclipse (software) ‎ Fix word choice -- "issues" is a synonym/euphemism for "problems" only in Redmond.
• 06:4806:48, 30 September 2012 diff hist −1‎ Arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm ‎ Make references to Gia Long Palace consistent, for clarity.

25 September 2012

• 06:2906:29, 25 September 2012 diff hist −5‎ Jimmy Walker ‎ The stock-market crash did not cause the depression; there was much more to it than that.
• 06:2106:21, 25 September 2012 diff hist +8‎ GUID Partition Table ‎ Combined cause and effect of misalignment.

9 September 2012

• 06:3906:39, 9 September 2012 diff hist +5‎ Zinc ‎ Qualify which isotopes are being considered for "long-lived".
• 06:3706:37, 9 September 2012 diff hist −2‎ Zinc ‎ Remove commas from restrictive clause.
• 06:3506:35, 9 September 2012 diff hist 0‎ Zinc ‎ Give copper top billing, it's the major constituent of brass.
• 06:3306:33, 9 September 2012 diff hist +32‎ Zinc ‎ Add a very common application (castings, e.g., car door handles).

7 September 2012

• 09:5609:56, 7 September 2012 diff hist +14‎ Predication (computer architecture) ‎ More specific wording for "whether that instruction should have an effect".
• 09:5409:54, 7 September 2012 diff hist −2‎ Predication (computer architecture) ‎ Fixed wording of "all possible branch paths are executed".

29 August 2012

• 11:1011:10, 29 August 2012 diff hist +40‎ History of Easter Island ‎ Lay proper blame for the extinction of the tradition.

23 August 2012

• 10:5210:52, 23 August 2012 diff hist +117‎ Sorting algorithm ‎ Explain 'key'.
• 10:4810:48, 23 August 2012 diff hist +18‎ Mountain Meadows Massacre ‎ Don't omit the fact that the attackers were Mormons.
• 10:4510:45, 23 August 2012 diff hist −37‎ USB flash drive ‎ Removed blatant Microsoft marketing plug.

25 July 2012

• 08:0608:06, 25 July 2012 diff hist +1‎ Talk:Marlin Perkins ‎ Fixed header.
• 08:0508:05, 25 July 2012 diff hist +373‎ Talk:Marlin Perkins ‎ →‎Reference in modern culture: new section
• 07:5807:58, 25 July 2012 diff hist +11‎ Control theory ‎ Changed example in first bullet item -- the original was more of a model uncertainty (next bullet item).
• 07:5507:55, 25 July 2012 diff hist +6‎ Control theory ‎ Changed "avoid the problems" to more appropriate "overcome the limitations".
• 07:0807:08, 25 July 2012 diff hist +294‎ Talk:Disk loading ‎ Problems in "Theory" section.

20 July 2012

• 07:3107:31, 20 July 2012 diff hist −6‎ Helicopter flight controls ‎ Fix nonsensically vague "attitude of the nose".

18 June 2012

• 23:1423:14, 18 June 2012 diff hist −188‎ Kay Kyser ‎ The plug for a game doesn't belong here; it's already in "Cultural references". Tag: section blanking
• 23:0423:04, 18 June 2012 diff hist −261‎ Radial engine ‎ Removed unrelated plug for Saito.

17 May 2012

• 11:3411:34, 17 May 2012 diff hist +1‎ French Polynesia ‎ Fixed "Sunrise over Moorea" -- the sun rises in the east and *sets* in the west, even in the southern hemisphere.
• 11:3011:30, 17 May 2012 diff hist +31‎ Vibraphone ‎ A better fix for "Quintet": Trio + 1 = Quartet
• 11:2811:28, 17 May 2012 diff hist 0‎ Vibraphone ‎ Quartet, not Quintet (off-by-one error).

7 April 2012

• 02:2202:22, 7 April 2012 diff hist 0‎ Bernoulli's principle ‎ Fixed: Nasa -> NASA (it's an acronym)

6 November 2011

• 07:4207:42, 6 November 2011 diff hist −18‎ Fukushima nuclear accident ‎ Backed out "No longer necessary" -- there may be an intentional distinction between "core" and "containment vessel".
• 07:3907:39, 6 November 2011 diff hist +18‎ Fukushima nuclear accident ‎ Changed Seawater injection "Not necessary" to more informative "No longer necessary" (for Units 1,2,3).