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h2g2 Guide Editors Posted Nov 15, 2012
Thank you Gnomon
All of those have been actionedand links have been added in A72023609
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Nov 15, 2012
A72024563 Social Climber
The brother-in-law of Clark, Newton's landlord in Grantham, was Humphrey Babington, a Senior Fellow of Trinity College1 in Cambridge.
-- this seems a little bit cumbersome. I think it would be better phrased as:
Newton's landlord in Grantham, Clark, had as a brother-in-law Humphrey Babington, a Senior Fellow of Trinity College1 in Cambridge.
William of Orange, landed and staged a bloodless coup
-- hardly bloodless! - this was probably the bloodiest war to ever affect Ireland, and its after-effects are still being felt in Northern Ireland. It wasn't insignificant in Scotland either. You could just remove the word "bloodless".
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A72024752 The Feuds
Christian Huygens --> Christiaan Huygens
4 July 1711 --> 4 July, 1711
4 March 1699 --> 4 March, 1699
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Nov 16, 2012
A72024905 Celibate or Closet Homosexual?
The section on Wickens needs a little rewording, as it is repetitive. We are told "Wickens assisted Newton in his alchemical researches" and two sentences later "Wickens assisted Newton with his alchemical experiments". Later in the same sentence we have "alchemical experiments" again.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Nov 16, 2012
A72025508 Heretic
No suggested changes.
A72025553 Economist and Saviour of the Nation
No suggested changes.
A72025599 Spymaster and Detective
Remove the header "The Mint". It's normal not to have headers at the start of entries.
The section on Chaloner should include a reference to the Feuds entry where the tale of Chaloner is told in much detail.
That's the lot! Just make these changes I've suggested and add Dmitri's pictures and this project will be ready to go.
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h2g2 Guide Editors Posted Nov 16, 2012
Thank you Gnomon
All of those have been actioned
£ changed to £ in all entries
More links added
In the banners I have removed the current article links
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Giford Posted Nov 18, 2012
Thanks for the spot on 'bloodless revolution', Gnomon, and all the other profing you have done in general.
As an aside, since writing this I've got back in contact with an old schoolfriend who has become a historian specialising in that period. It seems that even in England, there were a couple of pitched battles and an awful lot of rioting - yet if you put 'bloodless revolution' into Wikipedia, guess what happens...?
I assume the 'bloodless' tag is a bit of C17 propaganda that has stuck... it's a fascinating bit of UK history, and it's possible to debate whether it was a 'revolution' or an 'invasion', whether the 'glorious revolution' actually included Scotland and/or Ireland or whether they were separate conquests, and so on.
Gif
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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Dec 24, 2012
Congratulations Gif, a great project
PS He was a good-looking chap, wasn't he? Far better looking than Brian May
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