User:MacGyverMagic/Scribble pad

Capsaicin

 * How spicy foods can kill cancers - include in article.

Bananas
Bananas extinct or not?


 * http://www.chacha.com
 * http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/bananas.asp
 * http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2003/september/banana.htm
 * http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9152-a-future-with-no-bananas.html

Users

 * User:Omicronpersei8
 * User:Redvers

Daniel

 * BCSD - Daniel (Daniel Siegert)
 * danielsiegert.da.funpic.de/include.php?path=start.php 

Translation option
de:Joseph in Egyptenland

Other

 * User:Lightdarkness/ARV
 * WP:REWARD

Usernames

 * - userpage mfd?
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Snopes article ideas

 * US Muslim holiday stamp.
 * Frogs in salad
 * USS New York - ship built with WTC scrap metal.
 * Arthur Lintgen - Record reader.
 * ELO - CD renamed in US because of mistaken phone message.
 * Byrds CD accidentally left untitled.
 * Dress of rotting meat -- by Jana Sterbak
 * Microscopic art

News article ideas

 * Dog of war statue to be unveiled.
 * Willem van der Zwan up in flames.
 * Alexander Cummings and his Phil. Bulletin.
 * The Bulletin at Britannica (    The Bulletin   full?)
 * Governor General Loudon (ship) and Krakatoa - Google
 * Frananglais in Cameroon (BBC article)

Other article ideas

 * Bonanza Creek, Rabbit Creek - update related articles afterwards. (Aug 16 or 17?)

Check up

 * - Wrote how-to.
 * needs her created dabs formatted properly.
 * articles lacking proper lead section.
 * wrote nonsense (now deleted)
 * - advertising and copyvio images

Welcome
Use Template:Welcomeg to alter my own welcome template.

Section 5 - Block 4 - Mgm DONE

 * Kuini Liliha - DONE
 * Doreen Bird - needs formatting could possibly be reworded to be about Bird College instead. - intial attention givenpress release website.
 * International Life-Saving Appliance Code - DONE, link preserved elsewhere, copy of source text deleted.
 * List of Falklands War Victoria Cross recipients - DONE
 * Bastille Day Flare - DONE
 * Fannett - DONE
 * Bull Creek - DONE
 * Red emerald - DONE
 * SNL Films - DONE (formatted, referenced and renamed to SNL Studios)
 * Barlee - DONE

DYK reads
From Wikipedia's newest articles:
 * ...that Turkish shadow puppet characters Karagöz and Hacivat (pictured) are supposedly based on two laborers who were executed because their banter slowed down the construction of a mosque?
 * ...that the Hunt Memorial Building in Ellenville, New York, has served as a public library, an appliance store, and several other things?
 * ...that Alexey Ekimyan, the author of many Soviet hits, was considered the only popular composer in the world who ruled a law enforcement department at the same time?
 * ...that the 1997 volcanic eruption of Pillan Patera on Jupiter's moon Io was the largest effusive eruption ever witnessed?
 * ...that "Pick You Up" was the first Powderfinger song to be nominated for an ARIA Music Award; the 1996 award for "Song of the Year"?
 * ...that cricketer Steve Atkinson has played for both the Netherlands and Hong Kong in international cricket?
 * ...that the giant jellyfish Chrysaora achlyos is the largest invertebrate discovered in the 20th century?
 * ...that road slipperiness causes over 53,000 accidents a year in the United Kingdom alone?
 * ...that Sholom Schwartzbard was acquitted in the Schwartzbard trial despite pleading guilty to murder, and that the family of his victim was ordered to pay for the cost of the trial?


 * ...that the Observatory (pictured) on Clifton Down in Bristol contains the only camera obscura open to the public in England?
 * ...that Werner Erhard named his company Erhard Seminars Training after the science fiction book est: The Steersman Handbook?
 * ...that of 43 people on board, the sole survivor of the 2006 Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crash was at the toilet at the time of the crash?
 * ...that, fearing his life was threatened, Ottoman Dragoman Alexander Hangerli moved to Russia and started a career as a linguist?
 * ...that Maniam Moorthy, a member of the first team of Malaysians to summit Mount Everest, fell during army training a year later and became a paraplegic?
 * ...that though the origin of the Western Ganga Dynasty of Talakad (in modern Karnataka, India) is debated, they made rich contributions to the polity, culture and literature of the region?
 * ...that historical demography, popularized by French historian Louis Henry, is the study of historical records leading to estimations of past human population?
 * ...that plant collector Mary Strong Clemens sometimes paid for field-trip accommodation with scripture lessons and hymn-singing?
 * ...that the Jagiellonian Library (pictured) of Kraków, dating back to the 14th century, is the largest Polish collection of pre-19th century texts?
 * ...that the Calvinist philosopher and New Testament scholar Vern Poythress argues that mathematics is the rhyme of the universe?
 * ...that the travel narrative The Malay Archipelago, by biologist Alfred Russel Wallace, was used by Joseph Conrad as a reference for his novel Lord Jim?
 * ...that Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler Raatbek Sanatbayev was running for President of the National Olympic Committee of Kyrgyzstan, when he was assassinated, as the previous head of the Committee had been?
 * ...that Flamingo, a stabile by Alexander Calder located in Chicago, was the first piece of art commissioned by the General Services Administration under its Percent for Art program?


 * ...that the House of the Faun, one of the grandest private residences discovered in Pompeii, is named after the statue of a dancing faun (replica pictured), in its central impluvium?
 * ...that NFL hall of famer Bud Grant and MLB hall of famer Dave Winfield both played for the Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team?
 * ...that the land of Haydarpaşa Cemetery, a burial ground in Istanbul, Turkey for British Empire and Commonwealth soldiers from three wars, belonged to Suleiman the Magnificent?
 * ...that heavyweight boxer Joe Baksi recorded nine victories in his first year as a professional, including one over future actor Jack Palance?
 * ..that Marie de France's poem "Chevrefoil", one of the 12 Lais of Marie de France, recounts an episode from the legend of Tristan and Iseult?


 * ...that classification of the Yellow-crowned Amazon (pictured) is so problematic that some authorities divide it into three separate species?
 * ...that Isaac Ironside, a politician in Sheffield, attempted to implement ideas originating from Robert Owen and from Toulmin Smith's localist theories?
 * ...that some of the disused railway stations between Plymouth in Devon and Penzance in Cornwall, England, were closed during the "Beeching Axe" in the 1960s?
 * ...that from 1950 to 1953, the Office of Defense Mobilization was one of the most powerful agencies in the U.S., controlling almost every facet of the economy?
 * ...that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard created a belief system regarding sexual activity?
 * ...that American thoroughbred race horse Little Current received the 1974 Eclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Year-Old Male Horse despite having his racing career ended mid-season by a bone chip in his leg?