h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Osborne House, Isle of Wight, UK - A66523845
Author: Bluebottle - U43530

Osborne House is one of the finest palaces in Britain. Discuss.

(Submitted for review within a minute of the entry being added!)

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Mostly lovely.

There are only four things that caught my eye:

It was in the Sitting Room that the Queen ... through dispatch boxes and memorandum.
-->I think the plural of memorandum is memoranda.

What was "The Bedchamber Question"?? Please please elaborate (perhaps in a footnote).

"British houses in the later half of the Nineteenth Century5as..."
-->missing space after footnote

"Convalescent Homes helped the wounded recover and regain their fitness – Convalescent Homes were intended to be far away from the front line to allow a full recovery."
-->two mentions of Convalescent Homes

I'm sure I spotted something else, but not on a second reading.

Otherwise, lovely!

Well done!

Galaxy Babe did a University Project about Victoria and her family A13915668

lil x

Changes made - I'll think of how to delicately mention the bedchamber question in a footnote. I've added the University Project into reference tabs.

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Queen Victoria had in her early years faced accusations of stupidity and ignorance from her own obsessively controlling mother who did not wish to lose the powers her title of Regent over the young Victoria had given her.

I think that should be: ...who did not wish to lose the powers over the young Victoria her title of Regent had given her.


She also had made a major political mistake in what was known as “The Bedchamber Question” which had lost her public support, Thomas Creevey MP had even described her with the words "The Queen is a resolute little tit" and her marriage to Prince Albert had been questioned. Yet by 1848 all of this was behind her, and like her new house, Victoria’s image was rising to stand magnificent, proud and tall.
'The Bedchamber Question' (single quotes)
'The Queen is a resolute little tit' (single quotes)
Victoria's (curly apostrophe fixed)

There's lots of curly apostrophes I don't have time to point out, sorry

Hi >BB>, this is a great piece of work. Well written and researched.
My only gripe, (for want of a better expression) is there are one too many footnotes for my liking. As GB says there are curly apostrophes that need to be changed to ' as well. Other than that, a great piece, well done.

Bluebottle's sentence about the Regency and Galaxy Babe's rewording of it mean two entirely different things. One is that she did not want to lose her power of the UK, and the other is that she did not want to lose her power over Victoria. Which did you mean, Bluebottle?

Hello, I hate the apostrophes and quotation marks - it always takes longer to uncurl them than to write the article in the first place. But I think I've got them all now.

I've also incorporated two footnotes into the text's body and clarified the Duchess of Kent sentance.

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<< I hate the apostrophes and quotation marks - it always takes longer to uncurl them than to write the article in the first place. But I think I've got them all now.>>

It's a royal pain in the ass for the sub-ed to fix too, but there's an easy way, just CTRL+F and add a curly apostrophe to the search box, and you'll find the rest

Double quotes shouldn't be in there at all, you can find them the same way

You can also tell Microsoft Word not to use 'smart quotes', in which case it will use straight quotes.

All apostrophes should now be fixed.

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Just what the Guide needs right now. I think one point that might be worth making is that Albert was a resolute modernist who believed strongly in the ability of technology to improve matters. He also felt that State money should be spent responsibly, hence the reason that Osborne was constructed fron concrete as opposed to stone.

Good point - I'll add something about this (although it was the Queen's personal money and not state funds that paid for Osborne)

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Hi Bluebottle. This is looking great. And nice apostrophe work! Let us know when you've made that last addition and if you are happy - and everyone else is - we'll accept.

(BTW, this Ed has seen Osborne House in the flesh, as it were, and would agree that it's a pretty amazing place, a real jewel of a building.)

We already have an uploaded photo on A13915794 in case you want to apply it to this, BB

Okay, I've added a section on Prince Albert, and have also added the photo, which looks rather nice (although I must admit I've got photos of Osborne House taken on a sunnier day).

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You can submit your own photo of Osborne House for your entry if you prefer, BB

I'm happy to go through the photographers group approach and see what is decided.

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Photographers can supply their own photos for their own entries while they're going through PR, no need to go through the Photographers Group. That way the entry hits the FP complete with a picture

Just wanted to say that I liked the entry.