Here are the entries I have written which were all my own work.
| Year 2000 - 3 Entries |
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| 1 | The Music of Mahler | 01-Dec-2000 |
| 2 | Recorders | 06-Dec-2000 |
| 3 | Unusual Musical Instruments | 21-Dec-2000 |
| Year 2001 - 31 Entries |
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| 4 | How to Play the Tin Whistle | 03-Jan-2001 |
| 5 | Clarinets | 09-Jan-2001 |
| 6 | Richard Wagner | 24-Jan-2001 |
| 7 | Hedgehogs | 25-Jan-2001 |
| | The Interregnum - BBC buys h2g2 from Douglas Adams | |
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| 8 | How to Play the Recorder | 19-Mar-2001 |
| 9 | Mandolins | 26-Mar-2001 |
| 10 | Double Basses | 04-Apr-2001 |
| 11 | The Pantheon, Rome, Italy | 23-Apr-2001 |
| 12 | Cellos | 20-Apr-2001 |
| 13 | 'Bolero' by Maurice Ravel | 26-Apr-2001 |
| 14 | Diana Wynne Jones - Author | 02 May 2001 |
| 15 | Dublin, Ireland | 29 May 2001 |
| 16 | Sundials | 29 May 2001 |
| 17 | County Wexford, Ireland | 31 May 2001 |
| 18 | Ogham - an ancient Celtic alphabet | 05-Jun-2001 |
| 19 | Richard Strauss | 08-Jun-2001 |
| 20 | Carl Nielsen - Composer | 26-Jul-2001 |
| 21 | Death, Suicide and Close Shaves in the World of Classical Music | 01-Aug-2001 |
| 22 | French Horns | 03-Sep-2001 |
| 23 | 'The Planets' by Gustav Holst | 04-Sep-2001 |
| 24 | How to pronounce Italian | 14-Sep-2001 |
| 25 | Violas | 19-Sep-2001 |
| 26 | The Great Pyramid, Giza, Egypt | 09-Oct-2001 |
| 27 | Orchestral Percussion - The Kitchen Sink Department | 18-Oct-2001 |
| 28 | Introduction to Orchestral Music | 26-Oct-2001 |
| 29 | An Amazing A-Z of Space | 19-Nov-2001 |
| 30 | The Neolithic Passage Tombs of Br� na B�inne | 27-Nov-2001 |
| 31 | Woodwind Instruments - An Overview | 11-Dec-2001 |
| 32 | Harps | 21-Dec-2001 |
| 33 | Calculating the date of Easter | 20-Dec-2001 |
| 34 | The Wells Cathedral Clock | 28-Dec-2001 |
| Year 2002 - 24 Entries |
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| 35 | The Museum of Musical Instruments, Brussels, Belgium | 16-Jan-2002 |
| 36 | Mersenne Numbers | 23-Jan-2002 |
| 37 | The Christmas Star | 29-Jan-2002 |
| 38 | The Origin of Terry Pratchett's Discworld | 05-Feb-2002 |
| 39 | Old Irish Money | 20-Feb-2002 |
| 40 | Anglo-Saxon (Old English) | 07-Mar-2002 |
| 41 | Carmina Burana - Drink, Sex and Mediaeval Monks | 08-Apr-2002 |
| 42 | Santorini - Remains of a Volcanic Cataclysm | 29-Apr-2002 |
| 43 | Santorini - a Tourist Guide | 30-Apr-2002 |
| 44 | Peter Tchaikovsky | 27-May-2002 |
| 45 | Bagpipes | 31-May-2002 |
| 46 | Lutes | 11-Jun-2002 |
| 47 | How Power Stations Work | 19-Jun-2002 |
| 48 | Corks | 16-Jul-2002 |
| 49 | Made In Heaven - Queen's Last Album | 23-Jul-2002 |
| 50 | Iraklion, Crete, Greece | 05-Aug-2002 |
| 51 | The Enigma in Elgar's Variations | 16-Sep-2002 |
| 52 | How to Play the Saxophone | 19-Sep-2002 |
| 53 | The Minoan Civilisation of Crete | 03-Oct-2002 |
| 54 | A Tourist Guide to the Minoan Civilisation | 10-Oct-2002 |
| 55 | A Fruit for All Seasons | 17-Oct-2002 |
| 56 | The Greek Alphabet | 30-Oct-2002 |
| 57 | A Pyramid on Mars | 15-Nov-2002 |
| 58 | Pre-Celtic Ireland | 03-Dec-2002 |
| Year 2003 - 24 Entries |
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| 59 | Wikipedia | 13-Feb-2003 |
| 60 | Champagne and Sparkling Wine | 18-Feb-2003 |
| 61 | Diophantine Equations | 11-Mar-2003 |
| 62 | 'Waiting for Godot' - the play | 21-Mar-2003 |
| 63 | Bodhr�ns | 28-Mar-2003 |
| 64 | Fermat Numbers | 16-Apr-2003 |
| 65 | They Discovered America | 30-Apr-2003 |
| 66 | The Prague Astronomical Clock | 03-Jun-2003 |
| 67 | Corfu Town, Corfu, Greece | 27-Jun-2003 |
| 68 | 'An Alpine Symphony' by Richard Strauss | 30-Jun-2003 |
| 69 | Magpies | 04-Jul-2003 |
| 70 | Tuna and Broccoli Bake | 10-Jul-2003 |
| 71 | Bouzoukis | 14-Jul-2003 |
| 72 | Common Wrens | 24-Jul-2003 |
| 73 | Ocarinas | 25-Jul-2003 |
| 74 | Binoculars | 06-Aug-2003 |
| 75 | Deus Ex Machina | 26-Aug-2003 |
| 76 | Wexford Wildfowl Reserve | 28-Aug-2003 |
| 77 | The Irish National Heritage Park | 21-Oct-2003 |
| 78 | Bells | 27-Oct-2003 |
| 79 | The Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland | 30-Oct-2003 |
| 80 | Aztl�n, Mythical Homeland of the Aztecs | 07-Nov-2003 |
| 81 | The French Pyrenees | 12-Dec-2003 |
| 82 | The Space Elevator | 30-Dec-2003 |
| Year 2004 - 19 Entries |
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| 83 | Cairo, Egypt | 03-Feb-2004 |
| 84 | Chicken and Egg - a rational answer | 17-Feb-2004 |
| 85 | Googol - an unimaginably large number | 02-Mar-2004 |
| 86 | Perfect Numbers | 22-Mar-2004 |
| 87 | Riven - the computer game | 24-Mar-2004 |
| 88 | Rubik's Cube | 02-Apr-2004 |
| 89 | The Development of Our Alphabet | 08-Apr-2004 |
| 90 | A Guide to Icelandic pronunciation | 05 May 2004 |
| 91 | The Nebra Sky Disc | 18 May 2004 |
| 92 | The Earthsea Stories of Ursula K Le Guin | 24-Jun-2004 |
| 93 | Tolkien's Silmarillion - an Overview | 05-Jul-2004 |
| 94 | Octopuses | 12-Aug-2004 |
| 95 | Forth - the Programming Language | 06-Sep-2004 |
| 96 | The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd's Iconic Album | 17-Sep-2004 |
| 97 | Irish Neolithic Tombs | 17-Nov-2004 |
| 98 | John Horton Conway - Mathematician | 25-Nov-2004 |
| 99 | Curved Space and the Fate of the Universe | 26-Nov-2004 |
| 100 | The War of the Crows | 08-Dec-2004 |
| 101 | Gold | 10-Dec-2004 |
| Year 2005 - 9 Entries |
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| 102 | The Tetragrammaton | 28-Jan-2005 |
| 103 | Mysteries of the Telephone Explained | 31 May 2005 |
| 104 | Eating Out in Greece | 22-Jun-2005 |
| 105 | Latitude | 28-Jun-2005 |
| 106 | The Decipherment of Linear B | 26-Aug-2005 |
| 107 | Writing a 12-Bar Blues | 11-Oct-2005 |
| 108 | Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland | 27-Oct-2005 |
| 109 | The Archaeology and History Museum, Dublin, Ireland | 24-Nov-2005 |
| 110 | Gerald Durrell - Animal Collector, Conservationist and Author | 30-Nov-2005 |
| Year 2006 - 4 Entries |
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| 111 | Greek Temples | 03-Mar-2006 |
| 112 | The Hairy Ball Theorem | 22-Mar-2006 |
| 113 | The Peloponnese, Greece | 10 May 2006 |
| 114 | Delphi, Greece | 02-Nov-2006 |
| Year 2007 - 33 Entries |
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| 115 | Byzantium: Overview | 26-Jan-2007 |
| 116 | Byzantium: Constantine and the Founding of Constantinople | 26-Jan-2007 |
| 117 | Byzantium: Justinian and the Nika Riots | 26-Jan-2007 |
| 118 | Byzantium: Heraclius | 26-Jan-2007 |
| 119 | Byzantium: Irene and Iconoclasm | 26-Jan-2007 |
| 120 | Byzantium: Constantine Porphyrogenitus | 26-Jan-2007 |
| 121 | Byzantium: Basil the Bulgar-Slayer | 26-Jan-2007 |
| 122 | Byzantium: Empress Zoe | 26-Jan-2007 |
| 123 | Byzantium: The Sack of Constantinople | 26-Jan-2007 |
| 124 | Byzantium: Constantine XI and the Fall of Constantinople | 26-Jan-2007 |
| 125 | Byzantium: Hagia Sophia | 26-Jan-2007 |
| 126 | Byzantium: The Walls of Constantinople | 26-Jan-2007 |
| 127 | Hieroglyphs | 26-Mar-2007 |
| 128 | Squinches | 30-Apr-2007 |
| 129 | Belzoni - Tomb Raider and Archaeologist: Part 1 | 18 May 2007 |
| 130 | Belzoni - Tomb Raider and Archaeologist: Part 2 | 18 May 2007 |
| 131 | Belzoni - Tomb Raider and Archaeologist: Part 3 | 18 May 2007 |
| 132 | The Helix | 22 May 2007 |
| 133 | The Story of Yogh | 25 May 2007 |
| 134 | Islands and How They are Made | 29 May 2007 |
| 135 | Echinoderms | 30 May 2007 |
| 136 | Musical Instruments | 31 May 2007 |
| 137 | Irish Soda Bread | 07-Jun-2007 |
| 138 | A Brief History of Greece | 08-Jun-2007 |
| 139 | Leonardo's Bridge | 13-Jun-2007 |
| 140 | Euclid's Elements | 27-Jun-2007 |
| 141 | The Lion of Chaironeia | 09-Jul-2007 |
| 142 | Pronouncing Ancient Greek for English Speakers | 16-Jul-2007 |
| 143 | The Phaistos Disc | 30-Jul-2007 |
| 144 | Writing Systems | 19-Oct-2007 |
| 145 | Leonhard Euler - Mathematician | 20-Nov-2007 |
| 146 | The Five Card Trick | 03-Dec-2007 |
| 147 | The Ark of the Covenant | 28-Dec-2007 |
| Year 2008 - 13 Entries |
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| 148 | Byzantium: Romanos Diogenes and the Loss of Anatolia | 04-Mar-2008 |
| 149 | Constellations: Overview | 17-Mar-2008 |
| 150 | Chariot Racing | 20-Mar-2008 |
| 151 | Constellations: Mensa 'the Table Mountain' | 19-Aug-2008 |
| 152 | Constellations: Lacerta 'the Lizard' | 28-Aug-2008 |
| 153 | Constellations: Dorado 'the Dorado fish' | 04-Sep-2008 |
| 154 | Constellations: Telescopium 'the Telescope' | 10-Sep-2008 |
| 155 | Constellations: Tucana 'the Toucan' | 24-Sep-2008 |
| 156 | Constellations: Octans 'the Octant' | 14-Oct-2008 |
| 157 | The Lives of Stars | 07-Nov-2008 |
| 158 | Mathematical Knots | 05-Dec-2008 |
| 159 | The BACH Theme | 10-Dec-2008 |
| 160 | The Cable Cars of San Francisco | 29-Dec-2008 |
| Year 2009 - 8 Entries |
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| 161 | The Pyramid of Hawara | 23-Feb-2009 |
| 162 | Talking with Cats | 02-Mar-2009 |
| 163 | Pipe Organs | 13-Mar-2009 |
| 164 | Positioning the Bridge on a Mandolin | 18 May 2009 |
| 165 | Chalkida, Evia, Greece | 29-Jun-2009 |
| 166 | Archimedes | 08-Jul-2009 |
| 167 | Sirius - the Dog-Star | 14-Dec-2009 |
| 168 | The Nautilus - a Creature of the Deep | 21-Dec-2009 |
| Year 2010 - 6 Entries |
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| 169 | First Crusade - Setting Out | 24 May 2010 |
| 170 | First Crusade - Into Muslim Territory | 24 May 2010 |
| 171 | First Crusade - Antioch | 24 May 2010 |
| 172 | First Crusade - Straying from the Path | 24 May 2010 |
| 173 | First Crusade - Jerusalem | 24 May 2010 |
| 174 | Dublin Statue Trail | 27-Sep-2010 |
| Year 2011 - 4 Entries |
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| 175 | Orange - the Colour | 24 May 2011 |
| 176 | Polaris - the North Star | 9-Aug-2011 |
| 177 | Flags | 15-Aug-2011 |
| 178 | Moorhens | 22-Aug-2011 |
| | The Second Interregnum - NPL buys h2g2 from BBC | |
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| Year 2012 - 2 Entries |
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| 179 | The Holy Grail | Feb 2012 |
| 180 | Portal 2 - the Computer Game | 1-Oct-2012 |
| Year 2013 - 6 Entries |
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| 181 | Potato and Mushroom Gratin | 10 May 2013 |
| 182 | The Top 14 Sights of Athens | 05-Jul-2013 |
| 183 | Elrond the Half-Elven | 20-Oct-2013 |
| 184 | Delta Cephei and the Size of the Universe | 03-Nov-2013 |
| 185 | Basic Beef Goulash | 16-Dec-2013 |
| 186 | Larry Niven's Ringworld - a Vast Construction in Space | 23-Dec-2013 |
| Year 2014 - 13 Entries |
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| 187 | William Rowan Hamilton, Mathematician
| 03-Jan-2014 |
| 188 | Prats de Mollo, Eastern Pyrenees, France | 27-Jan-2014 |
| 189 | Slide Rules - a History and How To Guide | 28-Jan-2014 |
| 190 | Mozart's Clarinet Concerto | 29-Apr-2014 |
| 191 | Top 14 Sights in Istanbul | 05 May 2014 |
| 192 | Number Systems Through the Ages | 12 May 2014 |
| 193 | Green and Violet Stars | 27-Aug-2014 |
| 194 | Why the Far Side of the Moon Looks Different | 02-Sep-2014 |
| 195 | Forbidden Planet - the Movie | 22-Sep-2014 |
| 196 | The Great Telescope of Birr Castle, Ireland | 06-Oct-2014 |
| 197 | Algol the Demon Star | 27-Oct-2014 |
| 198 | Irish High Crosses | 12-Nov-2014 |
| 199 | The Gregorian Calendar and 30 February | 28-Nov-2014 |
| Year 2015 - 10 Entries |
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| 200 | The Mars / Barsoom Books of Edgar Rice Burroughs | 09-Feb-2015 |
| 201 | Living on Jupiter | 16-Feb-2015 |
| 202 | Tolkien's Dwarves | 23-Feb-2015 |
| 203 | The Aelric Books of Richard Blake | 30-Mar-2015 |
| 204 | Vega - the Summer Sapphire Star | 06-Jul-2015 |
| 205 | Goldfinches | 20-Jul-2015 |
| 206 | The Arklow Pyramid | 24-Aug-2015 |
| 207 | Irish Round Towers | 01-Sep-2015 |
| 208 | The Monkey and the Coconuts - a
Mathematical Problem | 15-Sep-2015 |
| 209 | Syros, a Greek Island | 25-Sep-2015 |
| Year 2016 - 27 Entries |
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| 210 | Mimar Sinan, the Architect of the Ottoman Empire | 25-Jan-2016 |
| 211 | The Chora Church, Istanbul, Turkey | 01-Feb-2016 |
| 212 | Galadriel, the Elf-Lady of Lorien | 08-Feb-2016 |
| 213 | A Walk in the Cloghoge Valley | 15-Feb-2016 |
| 214 | How to Move Around in Space | 07-Mar-2016 |
| 215 | Ireland and What to Call It | 14-Mar-2016 |
| 216 | 'Almagest' - Ptolemy's Guide to the Heavens | 04-Apr-2016 |
| 217 | The Mass in B Minor, by JS Bach | 18-Apr-2016 |
| 218 | Massy's Wood Walk, Dublin Mountains, Ireland | 30-May-2016 |
| 219 | Chongqing, China | 06-Jun-2016 |
| 220 | Orcs | 20-Jun-2016 |
| 221 | A Canal Walk - the Corbally Naas Branch of Ireland's Grand Canal | 04-Jul-2016 |
| 222 | The Man Mo Temple, Hong Kong, China | 11-Jul-2016 |
| 223 | The Nazgul, Tolkien's Black Riders | 18-Jul-2016 |
| 224 | The Bohernabreena Reservoirs
| 26-Jul-2016 |
| 225 | Little Hagia Sophia Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey | 01-Aug-2016 |
| 226 | Tolkien's Elves | 08-Aug-2016 |
| 227 | Sauron, the Dark Lord of Middle-earth | 15-Aug-2016 |
| 228 | The Ham Sandwich and Pancake Theorems | 22-Aug-2016 |
| 229 | The Dolmabah�e Palace, Istanbul, Turkey | 29-Aug-2016 |
| 230 | Westminster Mass - Roxanna Panufnik | 03-Oct-2016 |
| 231 | Howth Cliff Walk | 17-Oct-2016 |
| 232 | Choosing an Eyepiece for an Astronomical Telescope | 24-Oct-2016 |
| 233 | Pokemon Go
| 31-Oct-2016 |
| 234 | The Atomium, Brussels | 28-Nov-2016 |
| 235 | Loughcrew, a Megalithic Cemetery | 12-Dec-2016 |
| 236 | Tintern Abbey, Co Wexford, Ireland | 19-Dec-2016 |
| Year 2017 - 9 Entries |
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| 237 | Tolkien's Maps | 09-Jan-2017 |
| 238 | The Non-Culture Science Fiction of Iain M Banks | 16-Jan-2017 |
| 239 | How to Pronounce Mandarin Chinese | 23-Jan-2017 |
| 240 | Lord of the Rings: Downs, Barrows and Wights | 08-Feb-2017 |
| 241 | The Culture Books of Iain M Banks | 28-Feb-2017 |
| 242 | 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King' (2003) - Film Review | 17-Mar-2017 |
| 243 | How to Pronounce Turkish | 29-May-2017 |
| 244 | The Spinc Walk, Glendalough, Co Wicklow | 05-Jun-2017 |
| 245 | 'No Man's Land' - a play by Harold Pinter | 12-Jun-2017 |
| Year 2018 - 2 Entries |
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| 246 | Verona, Italy | 23-Apr-2018 |
| 247 | Moroccan Vegetable Tagine | 07-May-2018 |
| Year 2019 - 3 Entries |
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| 248 | Bray Head Cliff Walk, County Wicklow, Ireland | 04-Mar-2019 |
| 249 | The Kadikoy Crocodile | 10-Jun-2019 |
| 250 | Irish Stone Circles | 29-Jul-2019 |
| Year 2020 - 3 Entries |
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| 251 | The Strange Worlds of Larry Niven | 20-Jan-2020 |
| 252 | Trees in JRR Tolkien's world of Middle-earth | 20-Apr-2020 |
| 253 | Jadis the White Witch | 06-Jul-2020 |
| Year 2021 - 1 Entry |
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| 256 | Napier's Bones - an 18th-Century Calculation Aid | 01-Nov-2021 |
| Year 2022 - 1 Entry |
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| 254 | An Introduction to Minecraft, the Video Game | 26-Sep-2022 |
| Year 2023 - 1 Entry |
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| 255 | The Crow Road - a Novel by Iain Banks | 23-Jan-2023 |
| The Ransomnesia - mid Feb 2023. Everything between April 2021 and February 2023 deleted. Luckily we were able to restore Edited Entries from the Internet Archive but conversations and most new non-edited entries were lost. My 3 published entries for the period 2021 - 2023 were recovered, but the published dates on them are now wrong. |
| Year 2024 - 1 Entry so far |
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| 257 | The Great Pyramid and Irrational Numbers | 06-Jan-2024 |
