User contributions for Gliderman
A user with 182 edits. Account created on 29 January 2008.
25 May 2024
- 21:4121:41, 25 May 2024 diff hist +99 Great egret Note that Great Egrets are regularly seen at WWT Slimbridge added. Tag: Reverted
14 February 2024
- 14:0114:01, 14 February 2024 diff hist −2 m Talk:Ultra-processed food →Definition of UPF
- 14:0014:00, 14 February 2024 diff hist +700 Talk:Ultra-processed food →Definition of UPF: new section Tag: New topic
14 October 2023
- 10:2210:22, 14 October 2023 diff hist +1,109 Dounreay Para on the Dounreay Fast Reactor Irradiated Fuel Reprocessing Plant added.
- 09:4509:45, 14 October 2023 diff hist +394 Dounreay Para on the MTR Reprocessing Plant added.
28 September 2023
- 18:2718:27, 28 September 2023 diff hist +137 High-lift device No edit summary
- 18:1918:19, 28 September 2023 diff hist +134 High-lift device Blackburn Buccaneer added as an example of an aircraft which used boundary air control.
19 April 2023
- 15:1415:14, 19 April 2023 diff hist −59 Talk:Sauropsida My 'reply' to my own edit of this afternoon more correctly merged into my original section on 'Excretion of Nitrogenous Waste'
- 15:1015:10, 19 April 2023 diff hist +192 Talk:Sauropsida →Excretion of Nitrogenous Waste: Reply Tag: Reply
- 14:4014:40, 19 April 2023 diff hist +4 m Talk:Sauropsida delete 'you', insert ' someone'
- 14:3714:37, 19 April 2023 diff hist −5 m Talk:Sauropsida Slifght change to 'Excretion of Nitrogenous Waste'
- 14:3614:36, 19 April 2023 diff hist +594 Talk:Sauropsida →Excretion of Nitrogenous Waste: new section Tag: New topic
- 14:1214:12, 19 April 2023 diff hist −523 Paraphyly The first example of paraphyly given said that 'Reptilia' was paraphyletic with respect to birds and mammals. It is now known that mammals are not descended from reptiles as was once believed (see for example 'Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution' by Elsa Panciroli, or the Wikipedia article on Reptiles), so the example has been updated/corrected. [The technically not quite correct definition of 'Sauropsids' has been deleted, see the Wiki article on Sauropsids].
23 March 2023
- 18:4218:42, 23 March 2023 diff hist +373 1958 Syerston Avro Vulcan crash Blackman's view on the likely cause of this accident expanded. See his book as referenced.
10 March 2023
- 15:4215:42, 10 March 2023 diff hist +83 European hedgehog Supporting ref. to last edit inserted.
- 15:4015:40, 10 March 2023 diff hist +399 European hedgehog Sentance added noting that in England predation by the increasing number of badgers may be a cause of declining hedgehog numbers.
20 December 2022
- 00:1700:17, 20 December 2022 diff hist +131 Fastest animals Example in my earlier edit of today on the physics of 'body length per second' expanded.
19 December 2022
- 23:5823:58, 19 December 2022 diff hist +2 m Fastest animals Minor correction to English of my edit of a minute or so ago.
- 23:5523:55, 19 December 2022 diff hist +380 Fastest animals Comment added that 'body length per second' is a theoretically dubious unit.
- 23:4823:48, 19 December 2022 diff hist −142 Fastest animals Undid my revision 1128402291 by Gliderman (talk) -following editing error. Tag: Undo
- 23:4323:43, 19 December 2022 diff hist +142 Fastest animals No edit summary Tag: Reverted
- 23:4323:43, 19 December 2022 diff hist +30 Fastest animals Comment added that 'body length per second' is not a unit that can be supported by analysis of the relevant physics (dimensional analysis).
12 November 2022
- 08:5208:52, 12 November 2022 diff hist +93 Air Forces Memorial Sentence added to make it clear that the named listed in this article are only a tiny subset of all the airmen whose deaths are recorded at Runnymede
5 October 2022
- 10:4910:49, 5 October 2022 diff hist +133 Frock Phrase added to the effect that a frock, in UK English, typically refers to a woman's dress suitable for a smart occasion but with a hemline higher than a full length ballgown
18 May 2022
- 14:3414:34, 18 May 2022 diff hist +425 Bronze Section on Biblical references to brass/bronze expanded to cover translation of Hebrew 'nehoshet'.
- 13:5713:57, 18 May 2022 diff hist +3 Bronze Para clarified to make it clear that the use of the term' ‘copper alloy' in place of 'bronze' is in the context of older artworks, due to the massive difference in the mechanical properties of brass and bronze neither ancient or modern swordsmiths and engineers have never regarded brass and bronze as ‘equivalent’.
- 13:4113:41, 18 May 2022 diff hist +195 Lead Section on 'Confusion with Tin and Antimony' edited to make it clear that from the Bronze Age on the difference between lead and tin was well understood.
- 09:4509:45, 18 May 2022 diff hist +97 Lead Phrase explaining that lead was easy to weld and enabled the easy production of waterproof joints inserted. Other text left 'as was'.
17 May 2022
- 17:0117:01, 17 May 2022 diff hist +55 RAF Regiment Mention of German losses added. Simultaneous edit by another hopefully left intact.
- 16:3916:39, 17 May 2022 diff hist +737 RAF Regiment Paragraph added on the disastrous failure of the Army to defend airfields in Crete in 1941 resulting in the formation of the RAF Regiment in 1942
19 April 2022
- 20:5220:52, 19 April 2022 diff hist +319 Paternoster lift Mention of the Paternoster lifts in the former UKAEA site at Risley added
8 April 2022
- 12:0512:05, 8 April 2022 diff hist 0 m Blood alcohol content Spelling of 'calculations' corrected.
- 12:0412:04, 8 April 2022 diff hist +423 Blood alcohol content Temporary comment inserted pointing out an error in the calculations -could the author correct please.
29 March 2022
- 16:3616:36, 29 March 2022 diff hist +35 Race (human categorization) Mention of 'variety' added. Tag: Reverted
- 15:4215:42, 29 March 2022 diff hist −1 Mitochondrial Eve 'last ice age some 10000 years ago' corrected to 'last ice age some 8000 years ago'
- 15:3715:37, 29 March 2022 diff hist +385 Mitochondrial Eve The conflict between late dates for the MRCA and the apparent near impossibility of remote populations having a common ancestor born within the last ten thousand years noted. thousand years ago
26 March 2022
- 08:1608:16, 26 March 2022 diff hist +108 River Ref 4 improved by mention of John Speed's atlas of 1611
- 08:0108:01, 26 March 2022 diff hist +364 River Note added that older towns & cities are commonly located at the few locations where larger rivers could be crossed.
4 March 2022
- 18:1418:14, 4 March 2022 diff hist +208 Brunel Manor Update to reflect sale of Brunel Manor in 2021
15 February 2022
- 17:4217:42, 15 February 2022 diff hist +1 m MOX fuel Space inserted in 'core, so' (was core,so).
- 17:4017:40, 15 February 2022 diff hist +471 MOX fuel Sentence added stating that most modern thermal reactors produce part of their output from fission of plutonium created in nthe fuel during core life.
10 February 2022
- 18:2018:20, 10 February 2022 diff hist +56 Battle of Dien Bien Phu Minor alt t my edit of 5 minutes ago
- 18:1618:16, 10 February 2022 diff hist +276 Battle of Dien Bien Phu Reference added to much earlier book by Robbins with several pages describing the CIA funded US pilots dropping supplies to Dien Bien Phu and the death of McGoon & Burford..
- 16:5516:55, 10 February 2022 diff hist +155 Battle of Dien Bien Phu After sentence on US support to French, sentence added re Soviet & PRC support to the Viet Minh
7 February 2022
- 16:4716:47, 7 February 2022 diff hist +4 m Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor 'the' inserted before 'need' in earler edit of today.
- 16:2216:22, 7 February 2022 diff hist +19 m Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor Slight corrections to my previous edit of a few minutes ago.
- 15:5315:53, 7 February 2022 diff hist +742 Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor History expanded to make it more clear that there were three different 'first
28 January 2022
- 15:0015:00, 28 January 2022 diff hist +38 Hiram Powers Raby Castle (England) added to list of Collections including Powers work (the original of 'The Greek Slave' is there).
5 January 2022
- 19:1019:10, 5 January 2022 diff hist +153 Courtaulds Red Scar Works Preston Sentance added informing that the on site power station had the unusual feature of generating at two different frequencies.
8 December 2021
- 20:5720:57, 8 December 2021 diff hist +160 Hillfort Note about the different requirements for animal enclosures and military defences added. Tag: Reverted
