Some articles created edit
The list below is of some of the more significant articles I have created – the date shown is when the page became an article in main space. A complete list is accessible via XTools which gives the date when each page was first edited.
Biographies edit
- 2017-08-08: Thomas Abernethy (explorer) (1803–1860, polar explorer) DYK
- 2019-02-28: Caroline Fitzgerald (1865–1911, expatriate American poet and supposed Isabel Archer clone)
- 2014-06-03: Norman Heathcote (1863–1946, writer about St Kilda) – DYK
- 2019-10-14: Ellis Martin (1881–1977, Ordnance Survey map cover illustrator)
- 2023-02-20: Christabel Russell (1895–1976, dress shop entrepreneur and dress designer; notorious ultimate divorcée)
- 2014-08-31: Jane Sissmore (1898–1982, MI5 and MI6, married name Jane Archer)
Lists edit
- 2011-08-19: Bayeux Tapestry tituli (embroidered text describing the scenes)
- 2020-02-03: Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard (list to accompany Lewis Chessmen)
- 2017-04-04: List of Mountain Bothies Association bothies (mostly in Scotland) DYK
- 2016-05-17: List of hill passes of the Lake District (England)
Expeditions edit
- 2015-03-16, 2014-08-15: Bailey–Morshead exploration of Tsangpo Gorge and Henry Morshead (China, 1913)
- 2014-06-14: 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition
- 2015-05-18: Affair of the Dancing Lamas (1925 aftermath of 1924 British Mount Everest expedition) DYK
- 2015-12-12: Shipton–Tilman Nanda Devi expeditions, 1934–1936 (Himalayan mountain in India)
- 2015-02-20 – 2015-06-04: British Mount Everest expeditions: 1935 reconnaissance, 1936 and 1938
- 2018-10-30 – 2019-03-02: American Karakoram expeditions to K2: 1938, 1939 DYK and Dudley Wolfe
- 2018-04-07: 1950 French Annapurna expedition (Himalayan mountain in Nepal)
- 2016-01-06: Mount Everest reconnaissance from Nepal and 1951 expedition
- 2021-02-16: 1953 German–Austrian Nanga Parbat expedition
- 2019-02-02, 2019-02-11: 1954 Italian expedition to K2 DYK and controversy
- 2021-03-04: 1955 French Makalu expedition
- 2021-01-09: 1955 British Kangchenjunga expedition DYK
- 2020-01-18: 1970 British Annapurna South Face expedition
- 2014-09-10: 1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition
Stone circles edit
- 2020-02-29: Axial stone circle (type of megalithic stone circle found in counties Cork and Kerry)
- 2020-02-29: List of axial multiple-stone circles and List of axial five-stone circles
- 2020-03-18: List of recumbent stone circles (found in Aberdeenshire)
- 2020-03-13 and 2020-10-21: Tomnaverie and Loanhead of Daviot recumbent stone circles
Others edit
- 2017-04-07: Animals Drawn from Nature and Engraved in Aqua-tinta (1788 book, by Charles Catton the younger)
- 2013-06-28: Big-game tunny fishing off Scarborough (mostly 1930s in Britain)
- 2016-04-08: Cairngorm Plateau disaster (deaths on 1971 school expedition in Scotland) DYK
- 2019-01-11: Dunnicaer (sea stack off Aberdeenshire with hill fort and Pictish stones)
- 2016-12-20: Dyce Work Camp (1916 Scottish camp for conscientious objectors in World War I)
- 2021-06-11, 2021-06-25: Fuller calculator (advanced cylindrical slide rule) and Slide rule scale
- 2017-09-11: Glas-allt-Shiel (Queen Victoria's "widow's house" rebuilt 1868)
- 2021-07-23: Granny (sea anemone) (long-lived beadlet specimen kept in Edinburgh) DYK
- 2022-03-15: Highlands controversy of Northwest Scotland (19th-century geological disputes)
- 2016-04-10: Lairig an Laoigh (mountain pass in Scotland)
- 2019-08-14: London to Brighton in Four Minutes (1953 BBC fast motion film) DYK
- 2013-06-25: John Rocque's Map of London, 1746 DYK
- 2022-03-01: March Stones of Aberdeen (boundary stones around Aberdeen's Freedom Lands)
- 2018-08-27: Triple Kirks (1843 Aberdeen churches: three in one and one in three)
- 2023-08-18: Vespers (poem) (1923 poem by A.A. Milne about his son, who grew to hate its inaccuracy)