h2g2 - Gnomon's Approved Entries

Here are the entries I have written which have been published as Approved Entries. I've also listed here the ones I contributed a small amount to, and as a result got my name on the author list.

A star after a name indicates that the entry has a picture.

Note that some entries are listed more than once in this list, as they belong in a few categories.

Astronomy and Space

Sundials *
An Amazing A-Z of Space *
The Christmas Star
A Pyramid on Mars
Lagrange Points (with Euan)
The Prague Astronomical Clock *
Binoculars *
The Space Elevator
The Nebra Sky Disc
The Moon and the Tides with Jimi X, Fragilis and Zubeneschemali *
Constellations - Overview
Constellations: Mensa 'the Table Mountain'
Constellations: Lacerta 'the Lizard' *
Constellations: Dorado 'the Dorado fish'
Constellations: Telescopium 'the Telescope' *
Constellations: Tucana 'the Toucan' *
Constellations: Octans 'the Octant' *
The Lives of Stars *
Sirius - the Dog-Star
Polaris - the North Star

Musical Instruments

Bagpipes *
Bells *
Bodhr�ns
Bouzoukis *
Cellos
Clarinets
Double Basses
Flutes (with J'au-�mne and Amy �) *
French Horns
Harps
Harpsichords (with Recumbentman) *
Mandolins
Lutes
Ocarinas
Orchestral Percussion - The Kitchen Sink Department *
Recorders *
Trombones (with Jeremy)
The Trumpet (with Mystrunner)
Violas
Woodwind Instruments - An Overview
How to Play the Recorder *
How to Play the Saxophone
How to Play the Tin Whistle
Unusual Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments *
Pipe Organs
Positioning the Bridge on a Mandolin *
The Museum of Musical Instruments, Brussels, Belgium

Music

Introduction to Orchestral Music
The Music of Mahler
Carl Nielsen - Composer
Richard Strauss
Richard Wagner
Ludwig van Beethoven - Pianist and Composer (with Azara)
'Bolero' by Maurice Ravel
'The Planets' by Gustav Holst
Death, Suicide and Close Shaves in the World of Classical Music
Carmina Burana - Drink, Sex and Mediaeval Monks
Peter Tchaikovsky - Composer *
Made In Heaven - Queen's Last Album
The Enigma in Elgar's Variations
'An Alpine Symphony' by Richard Strauss *
The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd's Iconic Album *
Writing a 12-Bar Blues
The BACH Theme

Ireland

Dublin

Dublin, Ireland
The Spire of Dublin (with Recumbentman)
Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland
The Archaeology and History Museum, Dublin, Ireland
Dublin's Dead Zoo - The Natural History Museum (with TRiG) *
Dublin Statue Trail - Edited Entry of the Month, September 2010 *

Wexford

County Wexford, Ireland *
Wexford Wildfowl Reserve
The Irish National Heritage Park

Prehistory and Archaeology

The Neolithic Passage Tombs of Br� na B�inne *
Ogham - an ancient Celtic alphabet *
Pre-Celtic Ireland *
Irish Neolithic Tombs *
The Archaeology and History Museum, Dublin, Ireland

Other

Old Irish Money
Irish Soda Bread

Egypt

The Great Pyramid, Giza, Egypt
Cairo, Egypt *
Luxor, Egypt (with Shazz)
Hieroglyphs *
Belzoni - Tomb Raider and Archaeologist: Part 1
Belzoni - Tomb Raider and Archaeologist: Part 2 *
Belzoni - Tomb Raider and Archaeologist: Part 3
The Pyramid of Hawara

Greece

General

The Greek Alphabet *
Eating Out in Greece *
The Minoan Civilisation of Crete
Bouzoukis *
The Decipherment of Linear B
Greek Temples *
Santorini - Remains of a Volcanic Cataclysm *
A Brief History of Greece *
Pronouncing Ancient Greek for English Speakers *
The Phaistos Disc
The Ancient Olympic Games

Places

Greece (with Fafnir)
Athens (with ZaPHod)
Corfu, Greece (with JC) *
Corfu Town, Corfu, Greece
A Tourist Guide to the Minoan Civilisation *
Santorini - a Tourist Guide
Iraklion, Crete, Greece
The Peloponnese, Greece
Delphi, Greece *
The Lion of Chaironeia *
Chalkida, Evia, Greece

Other Places

Iceland (with ismarah) *
A Guide to Icelandic pronunciation
The Pantheon, Rome, Italy
The Museum of Musical Instruments, Brussels, Belgium
Prague, Czech Republic (with many other researchers)
The Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland
The French Pyrenees *
Venice (with Number Six and some other people) *
Seattle, Washington, USA (with Mikey and Baffled Greg) *
The Isle of Man (with Pimms Lettuce)
Washington State, USA (with Dr Memory, Miloso and Mikey) *
Stonehenge - picked 20-Feb-2006 (written by Annie and many other people as a Topic of the Week, then rewritten by me) *
Istanbul, Turkey - with Woodpigeon, Wilma Neanderthal and Edward the Bonobo *

Project: The Byzantine Empire

Byzantium: Overview
Constantine and the Founding of Constantinople
Justinian and the Nika Riots
Heraclius
Irene and Iconoclasm
Constantine Porphyrogenitus
Basil the Bulgar-Slayer
Empress Zoe
Romanos Diogenes and the Loss of Anatolia
The Sack of Constantinople
Constantine XI and the Fall of Constantinople
Hagia Sophia *
The Walls of Constantinople

Books and Plays

Diana Wynne Jones - Author
The Origin of Terry Pratchett's Discworld
CS Lewis (with Demon Drawer) *
'Waiting for Godot' - the play
The Earthsea Stories of Ursula K Le Guin
Tolkien's Silmarillion - an Overview
Gerald Durrell - Animal Collector, Conservationist and Author *

Mathematics

The 3n + 1 conjecture - Proof Needed! with GTBacchus
Mersenne Numbers
Calculating the date of Easter
Diophantine Equations
Fermat Numbers
The Monty Hall Problem (with Recumbentman) *
Googol - an unimaginably large number *
Perfect Numbers *
John Horton Conway - Mathematician
Curved Space and the Fate of the Universe 100th solo entry! *
Boolean Expressions from Truth Tables (written by Old Hairy but heavily re-written by me)
Hilbert's Infinite Hotel (with Calroth)
The Hairy Ball Theorem
How to Draw a Pentagram - a Flea Market rescue, by Fire Bat and Florida Sailor *
The Helix
Euclid's Elements
Leonhard Euler - Mathematician
Mathematical Knots
Archimedes *

Language, Writing and Alphabets

Ogham - an ancient Celtic alphabet *
Anglo-Saxon (Old English)
How to pronounce Italian
The Greek Alphabet *
A Brief Guide to the Czech Language (with Jules and Woodpigeon)
The Development of Our Alphabet
A Guide to Icelandic pronunciation
The Tetragrammaton
The Decipherment of Linear B
Hieroglyphs *
The Story of Yogh *
Pronouncing Ancient Greek for English Speakers *
Writing Systems *

Wildlife and Nature

Hedgehogs *
Magpies
Common Wrens
Wexford Wildfowl Reserve
Northern Gannets (with Bels) *
Octopuses *
Blackbirds (with FordsTowel) *
The War of the Crows *
Gerald Durrell - Animal Collector, Conservationist and Author *
Animal Sex - with lots of Researchers *
Dublin's Dead Zoo - The Natural History Museum - with TRiG *
Echinoderms *
Coastal Redwoods (with Amy Pawloski) *
The Nautilus - a Creature of the Deep *
Moorhens

Food and Drink

Ways to make good coffee (with Global Village Idiot, Pheroneous and hwilker)
Corks *
A Fruit for All Seasons
Champagne and Sparkling Wine *
Tuna and Broccoli Bake
Eating Out in Greece *
Irish Soda Bread
Potato and Mushroom Gratin

Project: The First Crusade

First Crusade - Setting Out *
First Crusade - Into Muslim Territory
First Crusade - Antioch
First Crusade - Straying from the Path
First Crusade - Jerusalem

General

Sandcastles (with Lucinda, Norman and Dr Wonky Mungbean) *
The Wells Cathedral Clock
How Power Stations Work
Migraine (with Potholer and Cloviscat)
Wikipedia
Advanced Driving Techniques (with lots of researchers)
They Discovered America
Binoculars *
Deus Ex Machina *
Aztl�n Mythical Homeland of the Aztecs *
Chicken and Egg - a rational answer *
Riven - the computer game
Driving in France for British Drivers (with Whisky, Number Six and stjarna) *
Rubik's Cube *
Simple Tips For Taking Good Photographs (with lots of people) *
Painting with Acrylics (with Jimster and Sea Change)
Forth - the Programming Language
Gold *
Mysteries of the Telephone Explained *
Latitude *
Squinches
Islands and How They are Made *
Leonardo's Bridge
Tourists - an update of an old Entry; the original was by many researchers *
The Five Card Trick *
The Ark of the Covenant
Chariot Racing *
The Cable Cars of San Francisco *
Talking with Cats *
Purple - with lots of researchers - Edited Entry of the Month, May 2009 *
Orange - the Colour *
Flags *
The Holy Grail
Portal 2 - the Computer Game

I contributed small amounts to these Entries:

I also have my name on some Entries because I sub-edited them. These are listed separately in my sub-editing page.

Solo	182
Collaborative where I wrote most of it	41
Small contributions	28
Sub-editor	396
Total	646

(The figure for sub-edited includes 3 entries where I did the sub-editing but was not listed as the sub-editor, as they were updates and the original sub-editor took the sub-editor spot.)


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