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7 April 2014

• 16:1416:14, 7 April 2014 diff hist +126‎ Battle of the Boyne ‎ Battle of the Boyne Day actually commemorates the Battle of Aughrim *not* the Battle of the Boyne. Dates of events are almost never changed from Old Style to New Style, or (Traditional) Columbus Day would be 22 October instead of 12 October.

26 March 2014

• 21:3521:35, 26 March 2014 diff hist +1‎ Private prosecution ‎ Canadians *never* talk about "federation" - always *con*-federation.

17 March 2014

• 16:0516:05, 17 March 2014 diff hist 0‎ Hebrew calendar ‎No edit summary

28 February 2014

• 23:0423:04, 28 February 2014 diff hist +3‎ Lincoln Law School of San Jose ‎No edit summary
• 23:0323:03, 28 February 2014 diff hist −120‎ Lincoln Law School of San Jose ‎ As a single subject institution with no university affiliation, Lincoln Law School of San Jose is not eligible for accreditation by (as opposed to "membership in") the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

26 February 2014

• 01:5701:57, 26 February 2014 diff hist +59‎ Hi-C ‎ Hi-C is *not* a soda drink - at least not in the United States. It's a non-fizzy juice-flavoured soft drink.

6 February 2014

• 20:1320:13, 6 February 2014 diff hist +4‎ Michael Learned ‎No edit summary

3 February 2014

• 21:5621:56, 3 February 2014 diff hist +1,086‎ Talk:Unorganized territory ‎No edit summary

31 January 2014

• 21:4021:40, 31 January 2014 diff hist +2,327‎ Lunar New Year ‎No edit summary

21 January 2014

• 21:3221:32, 21 January 2014 diff hist +384‎ Sunday ‎ →‎In government and business

14 January 2014

• 23:1023:10, 14 January 2014 diff hist +1,048‎ Double escrow ‎No edit summary

13 January 2014

• 16:4516:45, 13 January 2014 diff hist +14‎ Mary Mallon ‎ At the time Mary Mallon was born, all of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801-1922) -- so she was a *British* Subject, not an Irish one (pre-1801, post-1921).

7 January 2014

• 17:4817:48, 7 January 2014 diff hist +21‎ Mister Rogers' Neighborhood ‎No edit summary

27 December 2013

• 19:5419:54, 27 December 2013 diff hist +29‎ Coccinellidae ‎No edit summary

12 December 2013

• 17:2217:22, 12 December 2013 diff hist +1,844‎ Talk:Ovadia Yosef ‎No edit summary
• 16:5816:58, 12 December 2013 diff hist +350‎ Talk:Ovadia Yosef ‎No edit summary

18 November 2013

• 17:1217:12, 18 November 2013 diff hist −2‎ Vaughn Meader ‎ "Typecast" - not 'typecasted' - because it is an adjective in the relevant sentence, not a past participle.

13 November 2013

• 20:0220:02, 13 November 2013 diff hist +52‎ Walton-on-Thames ‎No edit summary

12 November 2013

• 21:3921:39, 12 November 2013 diff hist +488‎ Parochial school ‎No edit summary

7 November 2013

• 00:1600:16, 7 November 2013 diff hist +369‎ Calgon ‎No edit summary

1 November 2013

• 22:2022:20, 1 November 2013 diff hist −5‎ Franz Harary ‎No edit summary
• 22:1922:19, 1 November 2013 diff hist −8,661‎ Franz Harary ‎ This is NOW finally written like an encyclopedia entry instead of a TV info-mercial!

27 September 2013

• 23:2723:27, 27 September 2013 diff hist −153‎ Métis ‎No edit summary

20 September 2013

• 16:3016:30, 20 September 2013 diff hist +6‎ Nolo contendere ‎ As a government body, "Board of Pharmacy" is a proper noun (like "Board of Accountancy" and "State Bar of California"), so it is properly capitalised.

19 September 2013

• 15:4015:40, 19 September 2013 diff hist +315‎ Consolidated city-county ‎ →‎Other

17 September 2013

• 22:5222:52, 17 September 2013 diff hist +105‎ Beaumont, California ‎ →‎Politics

4 September 2013

• 19:2319:23, 4 September 2013 diff hist +1‎ Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. ‎ The cases that law students read are not set by any jurisdiction but they are matter of curriculum and instruction decided by individual law schools and professors.

28 August 2013

• 23:4923:49, 28 August 2013 diff hist +5‎ Janis Joplin ‎ Clarified the four-year period discussed in the first paragraph was her solo career, since she full "active" career was 1962-1970, which is *eight* years.

23 August 2013

• 18:3218:32, 23 August 2013 diff hist −3‎ Happy Birthday to You ‎ Anniversaries take ORDINAL numbers, not cardinal numbers: First Anniversary, Second Anniversary, Third Anniversary. The word "year" is part of the word "Anniversary" (Latin, "Anno" = "Year").

22 August 2013

• 16:0816:08, 22 August 2013 diff hist +8‎ San Francisco Human Rights Commission ‎ It's not a department of City Government; it's a charter commission. Commissions (especially charter commissions) operate with a degree of autonomy that departments do not have.

15 August 2013

• 23:2723:27, 15 August 2013 diff hist +3‎ State Bar of California ‎No edit summary
• 23:2723:27, 15 August 2013 diff hist +42‎ State Bar of California ‎No edit summary
• 23:2623:26, 15 August 2013 diff hist −61‎ State Bar of California ‎ Under the terms of the statute that created it, the State Bar is a public corporation NOTa bar association!

14 August 2013

• 17:2017:20, 14 August 2013 diff hist +1‎ Unorganized territory ‎No edit summary
• 17:1617:16, 14 August 2013 diff hist +4‎ Humidity ‎No edit summary

8 August 2013

• 23:3623:36, 8 August 2013 diff hist +319‎ Unorganized territory ‎No edit summary

1 August 2013

• 18:4318:43, 1 August 2013 diff hist −1,762‎ Minor (law) ‎No edit summary

2 July 2013

• 22:5122:51, 2 July 2013 diff hist +453‎ Queen mother ‎No edit summary

6 May 2013

• 17:3917:39, 6 May 2013 diff hist +1,184‎ Pluricentric language ‎ →‎Writing system

2 May 2013

• 21:5221:52, 2 May 2013 diff hist +295‎ Tony Chebatoris ‎ There was no "loophole" in state law in 1938; besides which, the man was not even charged with treason! He was tried, sentenced and executed entirely under FEDERAL jurisdiction - *that's* why the execution could happen!
• 21:2121:21, 2 May 2013 diff hist +124‎ Capital punishment in the United States ‎ Michigan did not amend its constitution in 1963 - it wrote an entirely new one. The state has had four constitutions: 1835 (adopted while still a territory), 1850, 1908, and 1963 (effective 1964).
• 21:0721:07, 2 May 2013 diff hist −7‎ Capital punishment in the United States ‎ Changed "Recent Abolition" to "Abolition" - since 1846 and 1853, and even 1965, are not "recent" abolitions, unless you're speaking in context of the 1.4 million years of human history
• 21:0021:00, 2 May 2013 diff hist +429‎ Taxation in the United States ‎ Per the US Supreme Court, a fee is not a tax. Fees are designed only to cover actual costs, whereas taxes are designed to generate revenue - either for general operations or for a specific purpose.
• 19:3319:33, 2 May 2013 diff hist +160‎ Barrister ‎ →‎England and Wales, UK
• 16:4916:49, 2 May 2013 diff hist +3‎ Anne Francis ‎ It was legally significant at the time that Anne Francis was not "single" (which means someone who has never been married) but "unmarried" *and* already had a daughter; so there was legally less for her to prove to the family court to adopt Maggie.

15 April 2013

• 17:3717:37, 15 April 2013 diff hist +4‎ Ius ‎ Conformed "right" to the others in the sequence; corrected the Spanish. Only the German noun should be capitalised because German still capitalises all nouns; the other languages do not.

1 April 2013

• 18:0618:06, 1 April 2013 diff hist +196‎ Scots law ‎ →‎History
• 18:0018:00, 1 April 2013 diff hist +24‎ Scots law ‎ →‎Scotland as a distinct jurisdiction
• 17:5517:55, 1 April 2013 diff hist +9‎ Right to keep and bear arms ‎ →‎Canada
• 17:5217:52, 1 April 2013 diff hist +276‎ Talk:Right to keep and bear arms ‎No edit summary