User:LarryMorseDCOhio

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Barnstar: Periodic table

		The Original Barnstar
		For completely reorganising the YWA 07:56, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

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Substantial or significant Wikipedia contributions

While my professional interests center on

Mid-Atlantic Region, especially the Washington, D.C.

, area.

Over the years, I've gained substantial experience in English-language technical writing and editing, and while reading Wikipedia articles of interest frequently find that I am making minor stylistic, syntactical, or punctuation edits, and occasional minor rephrasings, within diverse Wikipedia articles on unfamiliar subjects; such incidental contributions are not noted here.

The following Wikipedia articles are among the many to which I have made substantial or significant additions, revisions, reorganizations, or other contributions:

escaped, or cultivated), especially trees, shrubs, and other woody plants, with emphasis on classification, geographical distribution, habitats, and conservation (or invasiveness
):

List

- Amelanchier (the serviceberry, shadbush, or juneberry genus)
- Asimina triloba (the American pawpaw tree), and Asimina (its genus)
- Carica papaya
  (the tropical papaya or papaw tree)
- Cornus
  (the dogwood genus)
- Liquidambar
  (its genus)
- Magnolia (the magnolia genus)
- Nyssa sylvatica (the black gum or tupelo tree), and Nyssa (its genus)
- Pistacia (the pistachio genus)
- Rubus (the large genus including raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, and cloudberries)
- Rubus (raspberry subgenus) (the various species of raspberry)
- Rubus occidentalis (the Eastern North American black raspberry)
- Rubus strigosus (the North American red raspberry plant)
- Salix babylonica (the classic weeping willow)
- Salix matsudana
  (the Chinese willow, including the corkscrew willow)

North American geography and general natural history:

List

- Atchafalaya Basin (Louisiana)
- Capital Beltway
  (I-495 and I-95 [in part], the circumferential highway around Washington, D.C.)
- Chrysaora quinquecirrha
  (the sea nettle, a jellyfish, not a plant!)
- Falco peregrinus (the peregrine falcon)
- Haliaeetus leucocephalus (the bald eagle)
- Mississippi River
- Mississippi River floods of 2011
- Morganza Spillway (on the Mississippi River in Louisiana)
- New Madrid earthquakes
  (Missouri, 1811-1812)
- Theodore Roosevelt Island (in the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.)
- 2011 Virginia Earthquake
  (which I experienced!)
- Washington, D.C.

The chemical elements:

List

- Chemical element
- radioactive decay
  series)
- Periodic table
- Numerous significant revisions within articles for various individual chemical elements, including:

Americium, Boron, Magnesium, Neon, Neptunium, and Rhenium

Miscellaneous other subjects:

List

- Boundary Markers of the Original District of Columbia (from the Ellicott and Banneker
  survey in 1791 & 1792)
- Filé powder (a herb produced from Sassafras leaves)
- Great Oxygenation Event (Increase in atmospheric oxygen in Precambrian
  geologic time)
- Incandescent light bulb
- Incense
- "Inside the Beltway" (phrase referring to Washington, D.C., especially the U.S. federal government)
- National Limited (the former B&O Railroad passenger train)
- NatureServe conservation status ranks (imperilment-ranking system for plants, animals, fungi, and natural ecological communities)
- Paul Revere (Massachusetts patriot)
- Potentiometer (an electrical device)
- Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania (Strasburg, Pennsylvania)
- Ring roads (circumferential highways)
- Robert Peary (Arctic explorer)
- Sarah Palin (American politician)
- Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.)
- WikNics (annual mid-summer Wikipedia-related picnic events in the USA)

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D.C. Meetups attended

D.C. Meetups master page

DC-area Meetup, Saturday, June 25, 2011

Great American Wiknic (Iwo Jima Monument) & Theodore Roosevelt Island field trip

D.C. Great American Wiknic!

Who and what: Join us on a relaxing Saturday afternoon for a picnic lunch at the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima) park in Arlington, overlooking the monuments and skyline of Washington, D.C.!
When: Saturday, June 25, 12 noon and on
Where: U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima) park, Arlington, probably over by the Netherlands Carillon.
Announcement & list: Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 19 WikNiks overview article: Wikipedia:Wiknic
Island invitation: Currently planning to attend, weather permitting. If any others interested, could take a group to
Kennedy Center. About two miles of walking on good trails, and two hours at a lazy pace; wear comfortable, mud-tolerant shoes. --- User:LarryMorseDCOhio (talk
) (23 June 2011)

Washington Post article: On the morning of the event (Saturday, June 25, 2011), The Washington Post published an article on the Washington, D.C. Wiknic, entitled "A Wiki-Picnic for online encyclopedia editors".

DC-area Meetup, Saturday, August 6, 2011

National Archives Backstage Pass

National Archives Backstage Pass
	On Saturday, August 6, the National Archives is hosting a Wikipedia meetup, backstage pass tour, and edit-a-thon in College Park, Maryland. Meet staff and fellow Wikipedians, go behind the scenes at the National Archives, help digitize documents, and edit together! Dominic·t 21:27, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Announcement & list: Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 20