User talk:Sleigh

Halon 1202
Dibromodiflouromethane, also known by the name Halon 1202 or Halon-1202, is an organic halide found in the atmosphere as a greenhouse gas.

Grandson
In 1475, the Swiss invaded the Barony of Vaud and took the castle of Grandson from Jacques de Savoie, the count of Romont and Lord of Vaud. Charles the Bold, an ally of Jacques de Savoie, besieged the castle of Grandson in 1476. The Swiss defenders, believing that they would be spared if they surrendered, surrendered. However, Charles the Bold believed the Swiss threw themselves on his mercy and he executed all 412 Swiss by hanging and drowning. At the Battle of Grandson, a Swiss relief force arriving too late to lift the siege, defeated Charles the Bold and annexed Grandson and its surrounding area to Bern. Grandson was an exclave, surrounded by Neuchâtel and the Barony of Vaud.

Vaud
In 1474, the Swiss, except Unterwalden, declared war on Charles the Bold. In 1475, Bern and Fribourg invaded and occupied the Barony of Vaud which was ruled by Jacques de Savoie, the count of Romont and Lord of Vaud, an ally of Charles the Bold. In 1476, peace was concluded at the Congress of Fribourg (25 July to 12 August). In return for 50,000 florins, the Barony of Vaud would be returned to Jacques de Savoie. However, Bern retained some lands: Orbe, Eschallens, Aigle, Yverdon, by right of occupation and Grandson, by right of conquest. Fribourg, an ally of Bern, retained the remainder of the County of Gruyere that Bern had previously acquired in 1403. Valais, a Swiss associate, retained Lower Valais. Morat, which had been annexed as a condominium of Bern and Fribourg, after the Battle of Morat in 1353, was permanently annexed as a condominium.

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Bulgaria
I read you have added something about Bulgaria. Are you interested in this country? If so you may ask me questions on its history and geography. And plz tell me your opinion of Bulgaria.--Gligan 10:04, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Talk page categories
I noticed that your talk page was showing up inappropriately in a couple of chemistry-related categories. I've commented out the categories in your Dibromodiflouromethane section to fix it. Hope you don't mind. --Ed (Edgar181) 21:53, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Journey Page--Don't Stop Believin'
Hi Sleigh; I just wanted to thank you and say "good job" on your recent work on the Journey page. I've edited only one minor item that you changed: although "believing" is correctly spelled as I just did, the way the band spelled it when they entitled the song was "believin'" with the apostrophe for the dropped "g."

Dave Golland 21:46, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[Brunswick-Lüneburg]
In my believe you should change back almost all the changes to Brunswick-Lunenburg. If the changes where made thoroughly even Brunswick would have to be changed to 'Braunschweig' - including the heading. I did think about changing Lunenburg to Lüneburg a while ago and figured out that the than present Lunenburg was authentic to the English Language and one mentioning of Braunschweig-Lüneburg within the article ought to be enough to find it from everywhere. Yust my 2c. --Oldnag85 (talk) 21:09, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Celt?
I have used the word celt in the article on Sitakunda Upazila, but it is creating some confusion as the word generally means a group of people, not an implement. If you can clear this confusion, please, leave a note on Talk:Sitakunda Upazila. Aditya (talk • contribs) 04:11, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Unblock request moot, see below.  Sandstein  19:48, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Left a note for Gwen Gale
I've informed Glen Gale that her name was mentioned in the above request for unblock. I don't know what to do myself. EdJohnston (talk) 19:15, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

I have lifted the autoblock and account creation block on this IP. I'm watching this page, you should be able to edit now. Gwen Gale (talk) 19:22, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Ioun stones
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History of Patrae
Ancient Greek Ἀρόη Ανθεια Μεσάτις

KB -> kB
Please explain this change. - Denimadept (talk) 03:27, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

K=Kelvin, k=kilo in SI. Sleigh (talk) 13:05, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Artillery park
"(previously artillery park)." That is not a term I have heard before when and where was it used? -- PBS (talk) 09:21, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Used in the Early Modern period 1500-1750 for black powdwer artillery. Sleigh (talk) 11:01, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Deleted post
There is a discussion which concerns you at Wikipedia talk:Reference desk.  Spinning Spark  19:40, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Unwanted a tags in your edits
Hi Sleigh, I've seen, that you tried to introduced text strings like  into Reference desk/Humanities ([//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog/7280667 here]). We see that happening for some time now, but haven't yet found the reason for this to happen. As we already investigated, that those strings don't come from our software, we expect an erroneous browser extension to be the cause (probably one which does search completion). To make us able to find the reason for those nasty text additions, it would be great, if you could let us know, which browser you use (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, ...) and if you know how to look that up, the list of enabled extensions! Thanks, Hoo man (talk) 22:16, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Iron (a Chrome clone) with AutocompletePro plugin for chrome - Version: 1.0 Sleigh (talk) 11:05, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Take care with the grammar
See [here] after your comment why. OsmanRF34 (talk) 11:50, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

US vs. U.S.
Hello, I noticed that you have been changing "US" to "U.S." across Wikipedia, most recently in PayPal. Please note that there is a guideline regarding the above acronym at MOS:ACRO, and your edits often seem to go against the guideline.

Regards,  kashmiri 11:48, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Talkback
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All sieges and all famines
While I'd think resorting to cannibalism is a more relevant option in circumstances where the starving individual is awaiting likely and perhaps imminent rescue, yours is indeed a thoughtful reply to that Humanities RD query. I appreciate your reminding us, lest the comforts of our own relatively privileged lives keep us isolated from others' conditions. -- Cheers, Deborahjay (talk) 09:30, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

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