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A user with 768 edits. Account created on 25 February 2011.
24 October 2024
- 16:1116:11, 24 October 2024 diff hist +33 m Anne Burns →Gliding: Correct wording on her bail-out from a glider current
16 October 2024
- 16:1616:16, 16 October 2024 diff hist +198 m Andrew Humphrey →RAF career: Some consequences of Defence reviews (I served at RAE Farnborough at the time as Wing Commander Flying and liaised with RAE Befrord before kits closure) Tag: Reverted
12 October 2024
- 15:3415:34, 12 October 2024 diff hist −37 m Royal Aircraft Establishment →History: Adding Hunter to aircraft at RAE plus various helicopters (I was OC Flying there in the 1980s)
10 July 2024
- 15:5315:53, 10 July 2024 diff hist 0 m Slingsby Skylark 3 correcting year of first flight to 1953 current
- 15:4915:49, 10 July 2024 diff hist 0 m Slingsby Skylark 3 Correction to date of first flight so that the picture data agrees with the text
2 June 2024
- 14:5814:58, 2 June 2024 diff hist +96 m West Woodhay →West Woodhay House: adding picture from other wiki entry
11 May 2024
- 13:4913:49, 11 May 2024 diff hist +10 m Anne Burns →Gliding: line 4 - her records were for women, men had exceeded them for many years
28 March 2024
- 18:4218:42, 28 March 2024 diff hist −23 m Stone of Scone →First return to Scotland: Robert Grey was the politician, not the stonemason
- 15:3915:39, 28 March 2024 diff hist +246 m Edward VII Adding reference to the diplomacy of Bismarck Tag: Reverted
- 15:1915:19, 28 March 2024 diff hist +125 m Edward VII Better spacing
- 14:5714:57, 28 March 2024 diff hist +121 m Edward VII Breaking up the text on different subjects into sub-paras
- 14:1914:19, 28 March 2024 diff hist −1 m Charles Darwin →Overwork, illness, and marriage: re-locating Emma picture to para about Emma
15 March 2024
- 15:1415:14, 15 March 2024 diff hist +16 m Zoroaster adding date to first para
25 February 2024
- 14:2014:20, 25 February 2024 diff hist +15 m Sergei Diaghilev →Concerts historiques russes: clarification of "Worlds culture capitals"
24 February 2024
- 15:5215:52, 24 February 2024 diff hist −12 m Watt steam engine →Introduction: changing depth units from yards to feet
22 February 2024
- 19:5219:52, 22 February 2024 diff hist +15 m Michael Portillo →Early life: adding date of birth to first sentence
13 February 2024
- 12:2812:28, 13 February 2024 diff hist +133 m Charles Darwin →Overwork, illness, and marriage: adding a sentence about marriage (surprisingly no reference to actual marriage in earlier wording!)
7 February 2024
- 16:0716:07, 7 February 2024 diff hist +29 m Anne Boleyn as suggested, breaking the over-long first para into sections with headings Tag: Reverted
- 15:4315:43, 7 February 2024 diff hist +14 m Battle of Gibraltar (1607) →Forces: clarification of wording
3 February 2024
- 16:5416:54, 3 February 2024 diff hist +9 m The Hoover Company adding company date
30 January 2024
- 17:0717:07, 30 January 2024 diff hist +102 m John J. Pershing more precise casualty figures
- 16:3616:36, 30 January 2024 diff hist +53 m Nuremberg trials "summary executions" without a trial is what Stalin wanted, NOT the UK ! Tag: Reverted
23 January 2024
- 16:4116:41, 23 January 2024 diff hist −47 m Ring of Fire better wording and spacing between subjects
- 16:1916:19, 23 January 2024 diff hist +5 m Richter scale →Richter magnitudes: clearer wording
- 16:0316:03, 23 January 2024 diff hist +24 m Stromboli →Height and shape: Better wording
- 11:2611:26, 23 January 2024 diff hist +44 m Alton, Hampshire →Modern period: dates at start of paras and separate para for Fanny Adams Tag: Reverted
16 January 2024
- 17:2117:21, 16 January 2024 diff hist +246 m List of glider pilots Adding Strachan to the list
15 January 2024
- 17:5017:50, 15 January 2024 diff hist +31 m John W. R. Taylor small change of wording
- 17:4417:44, 15 January 2024 diff hist +95 m John W. R. Taylor improved wording
- 16:1016:10, 15 January 2024 diff hist +10 m Nazi Germany better wording Tag: Reverted
- 15:5415:54, 15 January 2024 diff hist +14 m Anton Bruckner better wording about "humility"
13 January 2024
- 15:3515:35, 13 January 2024 diff hist −112 m Hans Langsdorff →Battle of the River Plate: Adding the name of the British Commodore Harwood
11 January 2024
- 16:5016:50, 11 January 2024 diff hist +11 m Hartley Mauditt some cleaning up of wording
- 13:3513:35, 11 January 2024 diff hist −30 m Hieronymus Bosch →Life: clarity on his original first name
10 January 2024
- 18:5118:51, 10 January 2024 diff hist −710 m Eric Brown (pilot) →Early life: some more detail on his adoption from the book "Winkle" by Paul Beaver
- 18:3518:35, 10 January 2024 diff hist −87 m Peter Twiss better wording
8 January 2024
- 17:0717:07, 8 January 2024 diff hist +14 m Adolf Galland →Argentina: making the difference clear between offers by British and Russians
- 12:4412:44, 8 January 2024 diff hist +76 m Max Bruch →Personal life and final years: explanation of why they lived in Liverpool, England
28 December 2023
- 17:2317:23, 28 December 2023 diff hist +98 m Strachan Adding Ian Strachan
23 December 2023
- 13:0913:09, 23 December 2023 diff hist +35 m Shere →Others: expanding heading to be more meaningful and slight adjustment to text
11 December 2023
- 17:5117:51, 11 December 2023 diff hist +71 m Lord Randolph Churchill better wording , no change of meaning
- 17:2017:20, 11 December 2023 diff hist −16 m Lord Randolph Churchill better wording
7 December 2023
- 17:0817:08, 7 December 2023 diff hist +79 m Shulbrede Priory →Ponsonby ownership: adding relationship to Queen Victoria's secretary
- 16:2416:24, 7 December 2023 diff hist −9 m Linchmere better position for photo of heads in the church
- 16:0716:07, 7 December 2023 diff hist +64 m Linchmere adding location relative to local towns
1 December 2023
- 17:1517:15, 1 December 2023 diff hist +7 m George Edwards (aviation) →Early life: Additional word
- 16:1716:17, 1 December 2023 diff hist +8 m George Edwards (aviation) →Early life: adding date of BSc
- 16:1316:13, 1 December 2023 diff hist +79 m George Edwards (aviation) →Early life: Addition from his biography by Robert Gardner (with a foreward by Sir John Major)
24 November 2023
- 16:2616:26, 24 November 2023 diff hist −10 m Sergei Prokofiev adding date of marriage (info from wife's wiki entry)
22 November 2023
- 15:4915:49, 22 November 2023 diff hist −39 m Chawton House correction to spacing at the beginning