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Bio Sketch
Born in
B.A. Political Science, University of Rhode Island; M.A. Education, University of Rhode Island with certification to teach middle and high school social studies; Honor Society memberships: Kappa Delta Pi (education) and Phi Alpha Theta (history) The Honorable Order of Saint Barbara (US Army Artillery); l'Ordre du Bon Temps, Nova Scotia; Order of the Pelican, Society for Creative Anachronism
Contributions
Articles Written
African Institution 19th century society
Châtel-Argent Aosta Valley, Italy
Denys, Nicholas (1598?-1688) French colonial leader
Double Rush 1995 television comedy
Fish, Marion - (1853 - 1915) Gilded Age socialite
Greene, Christopher (1737-1781) American Revolution Army officer
Oelrichs, Theresa "Tessie" (1854-1926) Gilded Age socialite
Order of the Hatchet medieval award to women warriors
Rienzi, Thomas (1919-2010) Major General and Chief Signal Officer
Articles Expanded Upon
Alva Belmont - Added Rise in Society section, yacht and Newport mansion and references.
Battle of Mlali - Had only one sentence. Fleshed out the infobox and text.
Bavaria-Landshut - Added many references where there were none, fact-checked.
Benefice - Fixed a poor definition, added references, a picture, Roman origins and secular usage.
Bischofshofen - Added a history section.
Burgmann - Pointed out distinctions with ministerials and added examples and sources.
Castellan Added pictures and resources and fleshed out each section of this stub article.
Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour (1593-1666) - Added rivalry with d'Aulnay.
Château de Tardes - Added infobox, location and history.
Cornelius Vanderbilt - Added early years, the origin of his nickname and references.
Dingo ate my baby = Added a Pop Culture ssection and Oz reference.
Donar's Oak - Added location information.
Eltz Castle - Added to the location, history and today sections, re-formatted sections. STUB is now START class.
Foucarville - Added the WWII prisoner of war camp.
Georgenberg Pact - Added any references, fleshed out narrative a bit, added pictures.
German heraldry - Added section on tinctures.
Hallein - Made a stub into a start-class article: added a section on culture, a picture, and references. Fixed grammar.
Heinfels Castle - Had no information. Added its location, history and a reference.
Henry Symes Lehr - added marriage details, nickname, and elaborate parties plus references.
History of Tyrol - Added 1423 parliament, Sigismund and Maximilian, plus references and a picture.
Innsbruck - Added Roman province, comital ownership and World War One attack.
Josef Speckbacher - Made a stub into a Start-class article. Added references and content.
Kitzbühel - Added mining information, sub-categorized the history section for readability, added the ski race and references.
Lavau, Aube - Added archaeological find and translated French wiki article.
Lorch (Württemberg) - Improved the stub by translating some of the German wiki.
Marksburg - Grammar, format and fleshed out history section plus references.
Military communications - Expanded a Start-class article. Added references and content.
Ministerialis - Expanded a Start-class article into a B-class article.
Neuburg am Inn - Translated it from German and added some history, a picture of the castle and references.
Paul Cuffe (1759-1817) - Turned a start-class article into a C-class article. Extensive work on spelling, grammar and sources.
Peru - Added the controversial 2000 election with references.
Ploye - Added any references where there weren't any.
Pogue - Added "fobbit" and "REMF" with references. Edited grammar.
Rattenberg - Expanded the history, added references and categorized the article.
Rosenburg - Had to be completely rewritten. It sounded like a bad middle school book report. "One bitch of a monastery" - seriously?
Septimer Pass - Added 3 sources where there were none and fleshed out the history of this stub.
Sierra Leone Company- Added the first and second expeditions with references, reorganized layout.
Spital am Semmering - Added its foundation and refs.
Tactical communications - Expanded a bare stub into a Start-class article.
Toll castle - Added sources and lists of examples.
Ulrich von Liechtenstein - Added biographical information, impact of his works and references.
United States Army Signal Corps - Added World War II training sites, the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm/Shield; fixed footnotes
Ward McAllister - Seriously needed references
Articles Touched Up a Trifle
1st Rhode Island Regiment - Deleted incorrect reference.
Aaron Lopez - Added second wife and reference.
Acadia - Added minor content and references. Edited grammar, spelling, format.
African-American history - Added Herbert Gutman and touched up grammar.
Alemanni - Grammar and links.
Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy - Fleshed out his nickname story, placed events in order and added references.
American Colonization Society - Added Paul Cuffe refs.
Ardee, Ireland - Added refs.
Argengau - Added a ref.
baron - Expanded the introduction.
Bartolomé de las Casas - Fixed some punctuation and added a citation
Battle of Benevento - Added a reference and battle damage assessment.
Battle of Civitate - Grammar.
Battle of Mühldorf - Added any sources and references, fixed grammar.
Battle of New Orleans - Made consistent with Jean Lafitte, touched up phraseology
Battle of Rhode Island - Added background info
Battle of Riade - Added equipage of the soldiery and a source.
Benjamin Church (military officer) - Added links and corrected names, updated his rank and added more on the 1696 Acadia raid.
Boston, Lincolnshire - added a ref.
Burg Bruck - Added chapel frescoes, reference, and fixed some grammar.
Burghausen, Altötting - Reduced POV and fixed grammar. Added a source.
Castine, Maine - Spelling and grammar
Celia Lovsky - Added the Twilight Zone reference.
Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour (1593-1666) - Added references.
Château de Sully-sur-Loire - Grammar, timeline and flow
Château d'Yèvre-le-Châtel - Added infobox
Colmberg - Added small reference to the castle.
Count palatine - Fixed links.
Crupet Castle - Added a bit of history.
Daniel Morgan - Spelling, added references when there were none.
Department of Defense Education Activity - Added links.
Down to the Countryside Movement - Added references.
Duchy of Savoy - Added historical bits and references.
Edgar Bergen - Added children's birth dates.
Fall of Constantinople - Added Mehmed's artillery train and ref.
Fort Adams - Grammar and spelling.
Freiburg im Breisgau - Added a reference.
Friesach - Added a reference and put events in chronological order.
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney - Added details of husband's death and estate.
Gina Lollobrigida - Added son's birth date.
Gloria Vanderbilt - Added childhood anecdotes and references. Added citations for brother's death.
Grace Vanderbilt - Edited grammar, citations and format, added a source.
hide (unit) - added Holy Roman section.
Hinckley Yachts - Updated the language a bit.
Hochosterwitz Castle - Added information about the sights and a reference.
Hohenstaufen Castle - Added a reference.
House of Savoy - Added a reference.
Indenture - Added cross-links.
Jamestown, Rhode Island - added location of the Revolutionary War battery.
John Easton - Fixed grammar and a typo.
Kent State shootings - Defined acronym and clarified terms.
Kingdom of Sardinia - Added results of the Congress of Vienna.
Kufstein Fortress - Added Maximilian's expansion and ref.
Law of Germany - Added cross-links to Salic Law and Early Germanic Law.
Mali Empire - Added a reference.
Meersburg - Edited spelling and grammar.
Menelik II - Edited spelling and grammar.
Mercury (element) - Added reference to Spain's mines in the colonial era.
The Mission (film) - Fixed grammar. Clarified some plot points.
Murau - Fixed a bit of grammar and amended a date.
National Endowment for the Humanities - Added a link and date.
North Tyrol = Fixed a picture.
Ochre Court - added a second source.
Operations order - grammar, sentence structure.
Order of Good Cheer - Added a reference. Edited grammar.
Paul Cuffe Farm - Fixed spelling.
Peace and Truce of God - Added German equivalent.
Peninsulares - Added a reference.
Perry Mill, Newport, RI - Added a reference.
Pope Gregory VII - Added cross-links.
Prince Hall - added reference to Newport, was a slave, and worked as a steward.
Quebec City - Included Cap-Diamant in the mention of the river narrowing.
Rhode Island - Added references to the Great Swamp Fight, Metacomet, John, Nicholas and Moses Brown and Samuel Slater.
Richard Morris Hunt - Added his architectural philosophy about clients and its source.
Rodeneck - Added the origin of the alod.
Rothenburg ob der Tauber - poor html.
Sacagawea - Grammar and spelling.
Saint-Pierre, Aosta Valley - Grammar, and added a geography section.
Salzburg - Fleshed out the history a bit, added citations.
Samori Ture - Added a reference, fixed spelling.
Schwaz, Austria - fleshed out the history section.
Sierra Leone - Added the African Institution period.
Society for Creative Anachronism - Clarified the description of the peerages.
Soninke people - Added to the Religion section and added any references.
Stuyvesant Fish - Added a few references.
The Breakers - Corrected construction details, added a source.
Thomas Tew - Added a privateer commission, fixed grammar, added a source and helped another reference.
Tittmoning - Added a burggraf and source.
Transylvanian Saxons - Added more about their flight, plus a reference.
Two Guys - Spelling and grammar, added the link to the commercial.
United States Army Signal Corps - Defined technical and operational terms. Edited grammar. Adjusted format to reflect added content.
Usquepaug, Rhode Island - Specified corn used and added a ref.
Vladimir Lenin - Clarified the use of an acronym.
Weregild - Added Early Germanic Law practices and reference.
war wagon - Added a reference where there were none and fixed some grammar
William Barton (soldier) - Broke up into sections for readability.
Yul Brynner - Added a source.
Frequently-used Sources
- Arnold, Benjamin. German Knighthood 1050–1300 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985)
- de Fabianis, Valeria, ed. (2013). Castles of the World. New York: Metro Books. ISBN 978-1-4351-4845-1
- Delbrück, Hans, trans. Walter Renfroe Jr. History of the Art of War, Volume III: Medieval Warfare (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1982)
- Freed, John B. "Nobles, Ministerials and Knights in the Archdiocese of Salzburg" Speculum 62:3 (July 1987) pp. 575–611
- Freed, John B. "Reflections on the Medieval German Nobility," American Historical Review, 91:3 (June 1986), pp. 553–575
- Freed, John B. Noble Bondsmen: Ministerial Marriages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg, 1100-1343 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995)
- Ganshof, François-Louis. “Benefice and Vassalage in the Age of Charlemagne.”Cambridge Historical Journal 6, No. 2 (1939): 147-175.
- Leyser, Karl. “The German Aristocracy from the Ninth to the Early Twelfth Century: AHistorical and Cultural Sketch.” Past & Present 41, (Dec., 1968): pp. 25–53.
- Thompson, James Westfall. "German Feudalism". The American Historical Review 28, no. 3 (1923) 440-474.