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Created | Updated Oct 12, 2005
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Solo Efforts
These are all of my accepted solo effort entries. A next to the title suggests that it got an editor's choice. A after the title shows it has a reference to Ohio in it. If it is in italics, it means that I liked the entry - though if it's not, that doesn't mean I disliked it. In each point, the entries are ordered by how I liked them against the other entries in that category. The first one is the one I liked best in that category.
I did a lot of biographies. Biographies are good, usually easy to research, easily structured, simple and sequential. I'd suggest biographies to any new person looking to write for h2g2. You may also notice I have whole chunks of entries about certain subjects - for instance, I once chose to do a bunch of entries about the Wright Brothers, then baseball, then US Presidents1, then Ohio, etc... that's another thing that makes researching easier. Immersing yourself in a general topic at once makes it easier to research a few aspects. By the end of the baseball project, I could nearly write a whole entry in one sitting because I already knew what I needed to write from references and notes in other areas. It's a useful thing.
Those are just the easy ones, though... the ones I'm not proud of. I like the ones that are fun (there are three, by my reckoning) and specific. I'm trying to do more of those...
Television and Entertainment - Andy Kaufman- The Song and Dance Man2, Seinfeld - A History, 'The Smurfs' - The Smurfy TV Series, The Lion King, 'Calvin and Hobbes' the Comic Strip, Sloopy!, The 'Dilbert' Books, Seinfeld - The TV Series, 'Cheers' - The TV Series, 'Twenty-One' - The Game Show, I Love Lucy - The TV Series, 'The Cosby Show' - The TV Series
History - Preparing to be Inaugurated as US President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy - 35th President of the United States3 (split into three parts - JFK, Presidency and Assassination), A HIstory of the United States4, Lyndon Baines Johnson - 36th President of the United StatesJohn Glenn - Astronaut, Politician and Pilot, The Kent State University Shooting of 1970, Oliver Hazard Perry - Naval Hero, , Christopher Columbus - Explorer - Part One, Christopher Columbus - Explorer - Part Two, Christopher Columbus - Explorer - Part Three, Johnny Appleseed, 'Join, or Die' - The Cartoon by Benjamin Franklin, Richard Milhous Nixon - 37th President of the United States, 'The Monitor' and 'The 'Merrimack' Armoured Ships
US Civil War - Abraham Lincoln - 16th President of the United States, The Death of Abraham Lincoln, The Legacy of Abraham Lincoln, The Beginning of it, Events (with Jimi X5), End of it, Robert E Lee, Ulysses S Grant, Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson
The Wright Brothers - The First Canoe to Fly Around the Statue of Liberty, The Wright Brothers - Aviators, The Patent Wars of the Wright Brothers, The Legacies of the Wright Brothers in Dayton Ohio, Family of the Wrights, The Wright Brothers - How They Almost Quit
Geographic Entries - The World's Second Largest Ball of Twine, Cawker City, Kansas, Toasting in Georgia, Ohio, USA, Transportation between Dayton and Cincinnati, Ohio, Lombard Street, San Francisco, California, USA, Visiting the Grand Canyon - See 'Mostly My Work', The Legacies of the Wright Brothers in Dayton Ohio, see 'Wright Brothers', Lake Cumberland, Kentucky, USA
Baseball - Great Moments in Baseball - See 'Mostly My Work', Yogi-isms - the Strange Sayings of Yogi Berra, The Rise of Free Agency and the Reserve Clause in Baseball, Unassisted Triple Plays in Baseball, Baseball Basics - See 'Updated Entries', Baseball Teams of the American League - See 'Collaborative Contributions'.
Baseball Legends6 - An Introduction to the Legends of Baseball, Ty Cobb - Baseball Legend, Babe Ruth - Baseball Legend, Ted Williams - Baseball Legend, Lou Gehrig - Baseball Legend, Willie Mays - Baseball Legend,
Sandy Koufax - Baseball Legend7
Cy Young - Baseball Legend, Joe DiMaggio - Baseball Legend, Jackie Robinson - Baseball Legend, Mickey Mantle - Baseball Legend, Yogi Berra - Baseball Legend, Pete Rose - Baseball Legend, Cal Ripken - Baseball Legend, Rogers Hornsby - Baseball LegendOther - The State Flag of Ohio, USAHow to Train Your Parakeet to Speak, The Winners of Triple Crown in Horse Racing, Election and Voting Methods in the United States, A Guide to British-English Spelling for Americans
Collaborative Efforts
Mostly My Work - Great Moments in Baseball with Jimi X et al, Visiting the Grand Canyon - with JD, A Beginner's Guide to Feng Shui - with ZSF
Collaborative Contributions - Baseball Teams of the National League, How to Plan a Surprise Party, Wedding Etiquette, Answers to Children's Questions, Bad Habits and How to Stop Them, Wonderful Rivers, Great Sporting Achievements, The Needs of Pregnant Women, Great Dates in History, Great International Breakfast Dishes, Relaxation Techniques, Great Comedy Acts, Tips on How to Make Commuting Bearable
Updated Entries - Baseball Basics8, New York City, New York, USA9, The Statue of Liberty10, Calvin and Hobbes (see Television and Entertainment).
UnderGuide Polished Entries
These are entries that I have polished (though some of them are under the guise of the UnderGuide Editors Persona) for h2g2's UnderGuide-
Polished Entries - Why I Hate Sheep, Three Popes - or the Great Schism, Beggar's Belief, Why?, Welsh Sojourn, The Octopus, How to Climb Mountains, Gorgon, Northern Exposure, The Truth About Airplanes, The Rose and the Nightingale.
Ohio Entries
Ohio is the state I come from and live in, and I love the place, so I've written a few entries on it. Most of my entries have a reference to Ohio in them somewhere11, or would not have been written if I were not an Ohioan, but the following entries I consider to be about Ohio.
- Legacies of the Wrights in Dayton, Ohio, Ohio, USA, Toledo 'War', The Kent State University Shooting, The State Flag of Ohio, The Canals of Ohio, Jonathan Dayton12, Hang on Sloopy!, European Cities in Ohio.
Format lifted from Mikey the Humming Mouse - Thanks Mikey!
Last updated the last time I wrote an entry