User:Verne Equinox

Like the  1911 Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica aimed to be more then a century ago, Wikipedia also threatens to become "the sum of human knowledge" for modern times, with entries at this moment, calculated to represent nearly 3,000 volumes.

Many of my contributions to this juggernaut have been initiated by finding empty entries or stubs during 'Random Article' searches. I am also interested in connections. Many of my minor edits have been to fix links, grammar and spelling. Of the articles that I write, I tend to focus on biographical matters rather than technical ones. I have also contributed quite a few photographs, some of which you can find at the bottom of this page.

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Barnstars
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Thank you for quality articles, letting us know places such as Saltwood Castle and mostly interesting people such as the best political cartoonist, Bruce MacKinnon, for gnomish improvements and for taking care of categories, all spiced with a grain of satire, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:42, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

thanks for your help with Charles Eisenmann Pumkinhead001 (talk) 03:38, 19 March 2012 (UTC) 

Articles I started or made substantial contributions to
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Media and the arts

 * Art repatriation
 * Lois Andrews, actor
 * The Bells (group), performers
 * Ronald Blythe, writer and editor
 * Rosa Bonheur, painter
 * Kevin Brodie, actor
 * Henry Burr, performer
 * Kendel Carson, fiddler, singer
 * Wells Coates, architect
 * Heather Cooper, illustrator
 * Phil Coulter, songwriter and producer
 * Monica Crowley, journalist and writer
 * Esmée Denters, performer
 * Constant-Désiré Despradelles, architect
 * Maria Dunn (musician), singer-songwriter
 * Jill Eikenberry, actor
 * Scott English, singer, songwriter and producer
 * Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, painter
 * Ralph Erskine, architect
 * Tommy Faile, songwriter and performer
 * Leslie R. Fairn, architect,
 * Tovah Feldshuh, actor
 * Anthony Flower, painter
 * Charles Foster, writer and publicity agent
 * Kevin Frayer, photojournalist
 * René-Arthur Fréchet, architect
 * Barbara Grantmyre, writer
 * Robert Harris (painter), painter
 * William Critchlow Harris, architect
 * Philip Haas, film director
 * Francis R. Heakes, architect
 * Douglas How, writer and editor
 * Edward D. Ives, folklorist
 * Erin Karpluk, actress
 * Nora Benjamin Kubie, writer, artist and amateur archaeologist
 * Eric Kuhne, architect
 * Richard Kerr, songwriter
 * John Korty, film director and animator
 * Stephen Low, film maker
 * Linden MacIntyre, broadcast journalist
 * Louise Manny, folklorist
 * Bill Martin, songwriter and producer
 * Dagmar Midcap, television personality
 * Miou-Miou, film actor
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 * Willard M. Mitchell, painter and architect
 * Graham Moffat, playwright, director and humourist
 * Gretchen Mol, actress
 * Thomas Charles Morgan, writer
 * New Brunswick culture
 * Paladin (band)
 * John Prebble, historian and writer
 * Evelyn M. Richardson, writer
 * Rowland Salley, musician and songwriter
 * Matt Stawicki, illustrator
 * George Steeves, photographer
 * Philip J. Thomas, folklorist
 * Ken Tobias, songwriter and performer
 * Tom Vanderbilt, print and Internet journalist
 * Frederick William Wallace, journalist, historian and photographer
 * George S. Zimbel, photographer
 * Silvan Zingg, performer

Business

 * Michael Burry, hedge fund manager
 * Cassidy's Ltd.
 * Clairtone
 * George Barton Cutten, university administrator
 * Lovat Dickson, publisher
 * Jake Eberts, movie producer
 * Roscoe Alfred Fillmore, socialist and horticulturalist
 * Ernest Gambart, art dealer
 * Nina Jacobson, movie producer
 * North American Newspaper Alliance
 * Stephen A. Jarislowsky, investment broker
 * James Pearson Newcomb, publisher
 * Simeon Perkins, diarist
 * Victor Posner, businessman
 * John Risley, businessman
 * Flora Solomon, businesswoman
 * Richard John Uniacke, lawyer
 * Twinight Records
 * Casey Wasserman, businessman

Other

 * Herbert W. Ladd, politician
 * William D. Persell, bishop
 * Don Starkell, adventurer

Places, events and things

 * Aarsele Netherlands
 * Aula Magna (Stockholm University)
 * Bear River First Nation
 * Bear River (Nova Scotia)
 * Car crusher
 * Deadman's Island Park
 * Fermont, Quebec
 * Fort Edward (Nova Scotia)
 * Frank Slide
 * Halifax City Hall
 * Hants County Exhibition
 * Havana Harbor
 * Harbourview, Nova Scotia
 * HMCS New Glasgow (K320)
 * Iroquois, Ontario
 * List of Eiffel Tower replicas (In June, 2012, CrazyFacts.org linked to the article about a month after I converted an ugly list to a table format; it got nearly 20,000 hits.)
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 * Makkovik, Newfoundland and Labrador
 * Nerepis River
 * N'Mai River
 * Non-denominated postage
 * Paley Park
 * Park Ship merchant navy vessels
 * Port of Saint John
 * Purgatory Correctional Facility
 * Rothesay Railway Station
 * Saltwood Castle
 * Shoyna, Russia
 * Times Square Building Seattle
 * Windsor Pumpkin Regatta
 * Woodleigh Replicas
 * Zingst Germany

Science

 * Peter Coade, meteorologist
 * James Collip, co-discoverer of insulin
 * Herald R. Cox, epidemiologist
 * William Francis Ganong, botanist and historian
 * Ernest Hanbury Hankin, Rennaissance man
 * Henry How, geologist
 * Leon Mead, etymologist
 * Silas Tertius Rand, linguist
 * C. W. Thornthwaite, geographer and climatologist
 * John Clarence Webster, obstetrician, historian and philanthropist
 * Melissa Trainer, astro-botanist
 * Charles Wyckoff,photochemist and photographic innovator

Disambiguation Pages

 * Cannula (disambiguation)
 * Charles Foster
 * Jukebox
 * Lam
 * Palliser
 * Siesta
 * Tracadie

Categories and templates

 * Template:Allied Military Deception in World War II
 * Template:Soviet Bloc disinformation in the Cold War
 * Category:Art and cultural repatriation
 * Category:Canadian diarists
 * Category:Canadian inventions
 * Category:Gated communities
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 * Category:Oases
 * Template:Urban Planning
 * Template:Autonomous cars and enabling technologies
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Images
This section shows some of my favourite images and notes some that have been popular for reuse on other websites. As I generally publish my images requesting reuse by attribution, I note which were acknowledged and which were not:

Places I've been
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