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Entry: Davy Crockett, Tennessee Legend - A61686345
Author: Dmitri Gheorgheni - U1590784

Okay, more historical maunderings.

Go ahead, tell me nobody outside the US has ever heard of the Alamo. I dare you.

Sometimes, when I wake up and look to see if anything good has come into PR overnight, it is a real joy to find a contribution like this to read whilst I have some . It makes being a scout worthwhile

Back later

Lanzababy

Excellent are you going to do any of the other American heroes

I shall have to come back to this as I should be elsewhere, but it is fascinating. One thing I spotted which I suggest you might change:

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Remove 'entire' as it is rather a contradiction of the rest of the sentence.

I will come back and read properly. I am not likely to forget as the song is now buzzing round in my head and won't go away!

Websailor

Back as promised! A very entertaining and educational read Dmitri, very enjoyable.

Only noticed two places where hyphens might be better.

miniseries ---> mini-series

reelection --->re-election



Lanzababy

Thanks, Websailor - well spotted, I took out that 'entire'.

Lazababy, I hyphenated those words. Thank you - American orthography strikes again, everybody writes 'miniseries' around here.

Bob, I noticed Pailaway has already done the Bowie knife. There's certainly a wealth of material out there.

Somebody sent me an email of quotes yesterday. One was from a film in which a character said (I'm paraphrasing), 'We're Americans. You know what that means. It means our ancestors were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We're the wretched refuse.'

Hi there! I like this a lot.

What's the Red Scare? Could we have a footnote for tose of us lacking in teh American History department?

How can the series have first aired on two seperate dates? (Footnote 1).

"... proud of: woodsman..." do you want an 'a' before woodsman? Ah, no, I've got it; you needs semi colons rather than commas for each part of that sentence. Or not... I'm nit really sure. Nw I've read it a few times I understand it, but it really confused me when I first read it. Perhaps take abother look at this bit?

In 'King of the Wild Frontier', you state his age as 12, fifteen, and 16. I think writing it out as twelve, fifteen and sixteen is correct bit 12, 15 and 16 would be fine as ling as you're consistant.

Who is Andrew Jackson? Again I might eb showing my lack of knowledge here.

This is lovely!

Beautifully written!

Surprised there was no mention of the classic question 'How many ears does Davy Crockett have?'

The answer, of course, is three, including his 'wild frontier'.

Oh my word - my typing is appalling in that post. Really sorry. Ask if you need clarification of anything.

Perview is my friend, preview is my friend...

Elektra is over here yelling, 'Tell them about the Red Scare, they'll think it's Red Indians!'

I will give you footnotes on the Red Scare - you people are showing your youth, that was in the 50s - and footnote Old Hickory (shame, he's on the 20-dollar bill, the old villain) and change the numbers, thanks for spotting that.

And I'll go look at whatever it is that's confusing you about that sentence, if I can find it, Vip.

Oh, and the series can have first aired on different dates because it was a series.

Different parts first aired on different nights, as part of the Disney 'Frontierland' series.

That sentence with the word 'woodsman' in it looks right to me.

Wonderful entry. Glad you wrote it to free me of my ignorance thinking you were talking about the Miami Vice character.

That was how it started, wasn't it? B'Elana, you are an inspiration.

Yeah that woodman one does look fine to me now, but I had to read it four or five times to really get it. Now I've got it though, I can't understand why I had such a problem with it. I guess if nobody else thinks it's a problem we can write it off as a Vip-ism.

Sometimes my prose affects people in, er, odd ways...

I've added a footnote (stop groaning) and a caveat in the 'For Further Reading'.

Hi Dmitri. Terrific Entry. Let us know when you think it's done and we'll accept for submission.

Cheers
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Thanks. I've said all I wanted to say about ol' Davy.

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