User:Ecphora

My contributions
Articles I have written or substantially expanded include:

Books & art Music Stamps Fossils & molluscs
 * Joseph Hémard
 * Daniel Spoerri
 * Francisco Eppens Helguera
 * Charles-Léonce Brossé
 * Hans P. Kraus
 * Allan H. Stevenson
 * Block book
 * Sibyllenbuch fragment
 * 36-line Bible
 * Spanish Forger
 * Fake memoirs
 * Angel at the Fence
 * Epistolary poem
 * Book size
 * Folio
 * Quarto
 * Octavo
 * Disjecta membra
 * Confederate imprint
 * Fragmentology (manuscripts)
 * Erskine Butterfield
 * Mauritius "Post Office" stamps
 * Postage stamps and postal history of Mauritius
 * Postage stamps and postal history of Mexico
 * Postage stamps and postal history of Tannu Tuva
 * Postage stamps and postal history of Turkey
 * Postage stamps and postal history of Tuscany
 * Corrientes
 * Primitives
 * Plating
 * Cancellation
 * Cut to shape
 * Burelage
 * Art Deco stamps
 * Glen Rose Formation
 * J. C. McConnell
 * Beijing Museum of Natural History
 * Lufeng Dinosaur Museum
 * Cuphosolenus
 * Vasum horridum
 * Strombus
 * Rooster conch

Little things


 * Identified the creator of Mr. ZIP
 * Triggered the Marzocco article
 * Added image of the Azerbaijan 1919 stamp depicting the Baku Fire Temple
 * Added quote that the 1952 discovery of a living Monoplacophoran was "one of the greatest sensations in the century."
 * Located an (apparently) accurate image of the British Guiana 1c magenta
 * Noted that Simon Rodia (Watts Towers) appears on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
 * Added the earliest dated uses of the terms Urban legend, Hamster wheel, Chick lit and The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
 * Added obvious fact that a rook (chess) is also called a "castle" (per OED, etc.), over near fanatical opposition.  Otra vez
 * Added Thomas Nast's illustration of Petroleum V. Nasby's "Dream of Perfect Bliss"
 * Cleaned up the origin of the name Bicha of Balazote
 * LBNL, added the magnificent pen and ink drawing of "Ecphora quadricostata" by J. C. McConnell

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