User:Lupo/To do

A list of various things I want to do. If you want to help me, jump right in!


 * Stanley Ross Morgan (redir "Stanley R. Morgan", dab at Stanley Morgan): U.S. Signal corps sergeant who recovered the bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post. Born 1904-02-27 in Payson, Utah, died 1978-02-09. Soldier's Medal 1936. 1935 newspaper article: The Sunday Morning Star, 1935-10-13 Shop owner in 1965 in Nome: LIFE, 1965-10-01. In Nome apparently already 1949: President of the Nome Rotary Club in 1949. In the Signal Corps, apparently promoted to Captain by 1952? (Is this the same Stanley R. Morgan?) According to Bodfish, Waldo: Kusiq: An Eskimo Life History from the Arctic Coast of Alaska, Oral Biography Series, University of Alaska, 1991; ISBN 0912006447, Morgan was "a second lieutenant in 1943. He retired from the Army in 1946 (Tewkesbury and Tewkesbury 1947:54)". The mentioned reference would be Tewkesbury, David & William: Tewkesbury's Who's Who in Alaska and Alaska Business Index, Tewkesbury Publishers, Juneau, Alaska, 1947.

Inventors:


 * Frederick Ellsworth Sickles or "Sickels": born in New Jersey on September 20, 1819, died March 8, 1895 in Kansas City. Inventor of steam engine gears ("drop-cut-off" or "detachable valve-gear", 1841, patented May 20, 1842 patent #2631; this type of valve made high-pressure steam engines possible and was used later in the Corliss engine) and steering devices for ships (patent no. 9713, May 10, 1853). Lived in New York. At least one daughter? Patent case before the U.S. Supreme Court: Other links:, . Obituary in Sci Am 72:195? NY Times from April 8, 1895. Inducted in the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2007.
 * Isaiah Jennings: born 1782-12-13 in Frankford, Connecticut, died 1863-07-02 in Fairfield, Connecticut. Inventor of a mixture of distilled turpentine and alcohol; first fluid allowing smokeless burning of oil lamps. Patented October 16, 1830, improved June 13, 1831. Also invented a 12-shot repeating flintlock rifle (sold at $34,000 at an auction in 2006). Further inventions include a threshing machine.

Early women photographers:
 * Ella E. McBride (November 17, 1862 - September 14, 1965):, , and Google. Photos. Worked with Edward S. Curtis.
 * Adelaide Hanscom: see commons:Creator:Adelaide Hanscom. Chronology here.
 * Myra Albert Wiggins (1869 – 1956): Glabuer, C: The Witch of Kodakery: The Photography of Myra Albert Wiggins, 1869-1956, ISBN 087422148x. Also see.
 * Check "dturnernor" on Flickr: looks like he's a teacher who ran some project, where his students had to write brief bios of 8 photographers each, and he graded them.

Famous African Americans:
 * Expand Coretta Scott King and David Dinkins.

History of Switzerland:
 * Keep going with the articles linked from Template:History of Switzerland.
 * Expand both Zürich and Grisons. The History of the Grisons is sufficiently complicated that it probably deserves its own article. de:Graubünden is a good, if a bit too concise, summary. See also and.
 * Bern and Canton of Berne also look rather shallow. Probably deserves a separate article History of Berne, with summaries with different emphasis in the two other articles, for the canton grew out of the city's tributary regions.
 * History of the Valais from de:Geschichte des Wallis.
 * History of Lucerne from de:Geschichte des Kantons Luzern.
 * Rewrite Battle of Sempach, its current [ 14:27, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC) ] style is just unbearable.
 * Städtebund, with redirects from Städtebünde and maybe City alliances (I haven't found any exact translation of the German term), starting from e.g. (a bit too Switzerland-centric) and de:Städtebund.
 * Communal movement in medieval Europe. I have a preliminary print source, will need researching of on-line resources.
 * Hintersassen: not all Eidgenossen were equal! Cf..
 * Basel is very short indeed.

Nazi Germany People


 * Go through Special:Contributions/68.248.199.3 and verify/source these articles!
 * Check any article on Nazi Germany people I come across for "hidden" (and typically apologetic or outright pro-Nazi) POV phrasing. Such as capitalizing on successes, not mentioning war crimes committed (or, in the case of military commanders, committed by their troops or in areas they were active), not mentioning convictions in post-war trials, putting terms like "war criminal" or "crimes against humanity" in quotes, biased references showing only one (usually the positive) side, etc.

Medieval Literature


 * Fix Reynard the Fox and write Ysengrimus. (The former is derived from the latter, so there cannot be any talk of "most improbably"!) My research so far:
 * , Google cache of Britannica page, the 1911 Britannica, History of Reynard the Fox (PDF, 393kB),, , a literature fer for Ysengrimus, one for Reynard (pp. 155-166), comprehensive history of Reynard (in German), Dutch text, also mentioning the Ecbasis captivi, another precursor of Reynard, in which the beasts are unnamed, Isengrim @ Britannica, French Literature @ 1911.