User:Leonard G.
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for the week of March 11th through week of April 8th
Great Wall of China - Storehouse and barracks near Bejing
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[edit] Favorite quotes:
- "The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry"[1]
- "[Leonard], you worry too much! " [2]
- "Don't worry - be happy." [3]
- "What, me worry? " [4]
- "Don't worry, my dog found the chainsaw " [5]
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
- Grandmaster Byong Hong Yu, my taekwando master.
- Meher Baba - spiritual leader of my late and beloved next door neighbors.
- Alfred E. Neuman - the gapped toothed mascot of Mad Magazine, a periodical reflective of (and reenforcing) the cultural reaction against post-war conformity that ultimately enabled the massive protests against the Viet Nam War and the downfall of United States Presidents Lyndon Baines Johnson and (as a consequence of the Watergate scandal and the bombing of Cambodia) Richard Millhouse Nixon.
- From the animated film Lilo & Stitch
Hayward Fault Zone
Machine Age
Utah Road 400
with related creation of the minor articles Cottonwood Canyon, Utah and Grosvenor Arch and contributions to Kodachrome Basin State Park
Solar tracker
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
(with User:SamuelWantman)
[edit] Topics of interest and some knowledge
- Aviation - light aircraft and sailplanes.
- Battery electric automobiles and light trucks and their construction and conversion from ICE vehicles.
- Energy conservation and alternative sources.
- Mount Diablo (in central CA).
- Photovoltaic on-grid (net metering) household solar power.
- Roof water recovery and storage for two season climate regions.
- Top bar hives for beekeeping in developed countries.
- U.S. Naval aircraft of the 1950's and 1960's. Have historic info and pictures.
I am willing to take and submit requested photographs in my area (greater San Francisco Bay area and Contra Costa county).
[edit] Did you know... main page featured new articles
 Steam clock |
 Table bridge |
[edit] Major articles created or with substantial expansion or rewrite
- Bridge (most of my contributed content is now in derived articles - this is now a master index)
- Cyclotron
- Electric vehicle conversion - Almost all of the article content has been moved to this Wikibook
- Ford Ranger EV
- Haptic
- Hayward Fault Zone
- Hydrogen economy
- Movie projector
- Riverboat
- Sand casting (started and subsequently substantially expanded by other editors)
- Secular icon
- Stereography (subsequently divided by others, creating also Anaglyph image and content for Stereoscope)
- Synchrotron
- San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Western span retrofit)
- Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, a division by others of content from San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
[edit] Minor articles created or enhanced with substantial expansion or rewrite
- Africanized bee
- Alluvial plain
- Anchor windlass
- Art game
- Athabasca Glacier
- Bell tower
- Bi-metal (now largely in Bi-metallic strip)
- Box truss
- Break action
- Campanile
- Centrifugal casting
- City car
- Cloisonné
- Contact print
- Continuous-rod_warhead
- Cottonwood Canyon, Utah
- Crookes tube
- Diorama
- Diving bell
- Dry dock
- Earthquake warning system
- Enlarger
- Eyebar
- Ferry slip (Barge slip)
- Fireboat
- Gigapixel image
- Grosvenor Arch
- Grape joke
- Horses in art
- Hummer H2
- Template:HoneybeeArticles
- Imperial guardian lions
- Imperial roof decoration
- Isochron dating
- Kinder Morgan Energy Partners
- Kinoscope
- Locomotives in art
- Linear particle accelerator
- Linoleum
- List of honeybee articles and its associated template
- Machine Age
- Pipeline video inspection
- Pontoon
- Radar
- Magnetron
- Mass flow sensor
- Meridian Gate
- Model yachting
- Neighborhood electric vehicle
- Oil refinery#Specialized end product units
- Orgasmatron
- Parkfield, California#Geology
- Parkfield earthquake (an article split from the above)
- Partial zero-emissions vehicle
- Personal weapon
- Pressure gauge
- Radiation damage
- Repeating rifle
- San Francisco War Memorial Opera House (with composite image)
- Savo Island
- Side-spar cable-stayed bridge
- Semi-submersible
- Sensor
- Slotted waveguide
- Slow search
- Snow coach
- Stairway
- Steam clock
- Stressed ribbon bridge
- Suisun Bay
- Sundowner (three meanings added)
- Super Ultra Low Emission Vehicle
- Superstate
- Temple of Bel
- Template:HoneybeeArticles
- The Immoral Mr. Teas
- Thermostat
- Torque converter
- Top bar hive
- Trim package (automobile)
- Vacuum casting
- Vierendeel bridge
- Worker bee
- Weigh lock
- Wet sub
- Wrench
[edit] Works in progress:
- Offline translation of french WP barometer article to replace barometer
- Household seismic safety
- Seismic retrofit
[edit] Major contributions:
- Grand_Staircase#Paleontolgy, with images
- Haptic
- Mount Diablo
- Naval architecture (add sections: Seakeeping, Habitability, Range, Style)
- Perpetual war
- San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (seismic refits and rebuilding)
- Silver Bridge (extensive copyedit and added material)
- Suspension bridge#Construction sequence
- Tripartite Pact#German declaration of war
- Unicameralism#Unicameralism trends within the States of the United States
[edit] Substantial article enhancements:
- Balboa Park Station (Architecture noted)
- California government and politics#Bi-partisan gerrymandering
- California mission#Architectural influence
- Die (manufacturing)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Forbidden Planet
- Hummer H2
- Klystron
- Loge (Theater seating)
- Luck
- Military engineer
- Petard
- Prius#Driving tricks to improve mileage
- Regulatory capture#A modern example
- Regulatory capture#Current concerns
- Reamer
- Reflux#Use in beverage distilation
- San Francisco Bay Area (Terrains, Landforms, Earthquake Faults, Earthquakes, Living expenses)
- Seismometer
- Slip (aerodynamic)
- DaimlerChrysler smart#smart in North America
- Qilin
[edit] Disambiguation enhancements:
- Loge (theater seating)
- Slip (woman's clothing, ceramics, aeronautics)
- Sundowner (vehicle, herder, resthome resident)
[edit] Image with associated text contributions to the following articles:
- 9_O'Clock_Gun
- Anchor windlass
- Ariel Atom
- Beaux Arts (architecture)
- Beijing opera
- Bridge
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Bucksport (town), Maine
- Caboose
- Caisson (engineering)
- Capstan (nautical)
- Catherine Palace
- Carex (commons image references)
- Central Park
- Chongqing
- Cloisonné
- Crookes tube
- Diana (goddess)
- Francis P. Duffy
- De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter (floatplane image)
- Dragon dance
- Electric vehicle conversion
- Enlarger
- Erie canal Locks and bridges
- Ferris wheel
- Ferry slip
- Filoli (Garden image)
- Fireboat
- Forbidden City
- Fort Knox, Maine
- Funicular
- Gerrymander (PD map)
- Golden Gate Park (North windmill)
- Great Hall of the People
- Great Wall of China
- Greek Revival
- Great Wall of China
- Hydrofoil
- Imperial roof decoration
- Jin Mao Building
- Kiel canal
- Kodachrome Basin State Park
- Library
- Lift bridge
- Manhattan Bridge
- Marble sculpture (Origin and qualities, The West Wind by Gould)
- Masonry
- Meridian Gate
- Movie projector
- Monument to the People's Heroes
- Monterey, California
- Mystic Seaport
- Navajo Bridge
- Nian
- Oriental Pearl Tower
- Painted Desert, Arizona
- Parkfield earthquake (PD maps)
- Peace Hotel
- Personal weapon (reproduction weapons at the Great Wall)
- Peterhof
- Plate girder bridge
- Platybelodon
- Poison Oak
- Pomona
- Postmodern architecture (A too eclectic example)
- Prenocephale
- Pudong
- Qilin
- Riverboat (Six types of river craft and a cruise ship diagram)
- Robert Fleming Gourlay
- Rocky Mountaineer (coach and train images)
- San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (various images)
- San Francisco War Memorial Opera House
- Seismic retrofit
- Shanghai#Architecture
- Shay locomotive
- Simple suspension bridge
- Solar tracker
- Stainless steel
- Stereoscopy
- Streamline Moderne (S.F. Maritime Museum, 1937)
- Sundial Bridge (using third party contributed pictures)
- Sulfur (Pile prepared for loading aboard ship)
- Surface supplied diving
- Tachymeter (enhanced existing image)
- Three Gorges Dam#Dam model
- Tiananmen Square
- Tiananmen Gate
- USS Arizona Memorial (PD image)
- Valkyrie (equestrian statue of a valkyrie)
- Vancouver
- Vermilion Cliffs
- VIA Rail (Locomotives, dining car interior)
- Western Skunk Cabbage
- Whaleboat
- Williamsburg Bridge
- Wind farm
- Wrightspeed X1
- Wuhan
- Zen garden
[edit] Minor contributions
- Adjustable spanner (Proper use)
- Beekeeping leading practices (Fall requeening, managing in africanized areas)
- Coalinga, California (etemology)
- Disruptive technology (High performance replacement examples)
- Golden Gate Bridge (Fort Point, movies)
- Helper, Utah (etemology, map)
- Mazda B-Series (North America) (Sundowner model noted)
- Parachute, Colorado (etemology)
- Santa Barbara Channel (Get Oil Out)
- Sutro tower (functionality, aesthetics)
[edit] Text added to image descriptions
Image:Forbidden_Planet_poster.jpg
[edit] English translations of technical diagrams found on commons
 Sewage treatment process diagram |
 Movie projector display sequence |
 Prague Astronomical Clock functions |
[edit] Quotation contributions:
[edit] Some more images
[edit] Featured selected images gallery by week
(Images include those uploaded directly to Commons, but all have been incorporated into English Wikipedia articles)
[edit] 2005
 A floatplane |
 NYC Public Library |
 A Shay locomotive |
 A Beaux Arts façade |
 A a garden at Filoli |
 Jellyfish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium |
 The customs house at Monterey, California |
 A nian at the Ming Dynasty Tombs |
 A schematic for electric vehicle conversion |
 A bridge taxononmy |
 Ancient and modern at Wuhan |
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 Father Duffy monument |
 Steam engine model |
 A novelty battery electric vehicle |
 The West Wind, a marble sculpture |
[edit] 2006
 The West Wind, a marble sculpture |
 Reproduction personal weapons |
 A Bogen enlarger |
 A Caisson (engineering) |
 A relay |
 An inertial switch |
 A surface supplied diver |
 Cloisonne headress |
 A step-stone bridge |
 View of Mt. Diablo and the Diablo Valley |
 Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall interior |
 A Moon Bridge |
 Great Wall of China |
 A Danish offshore wind farm |
 A concert of Tang Dynasty Music |
 The Navajo Bridges |
 A view of Utah Road 400 |
 A weigh bridge |
 Antique snow coach |
 The Vermilion Cliffs |
 The Rocky Mountaineer |
 An Ariel Atom sports car |
 Erie Canal locks |
 VIA Rail Dining car interior |
 Solar tracker headworks detail |
 VIA Rail locomotives and cars |
 Portrait sculpture of Robert Fleming Gourlay |
 A model yacht |
 Seismic retrofit |
 A California Condor |
 Paleoseismology pit |
 Paleoseismology surface, annotated |
 Wrightspeed X1 battery electric vehicle |
 Painted Desert, Arizona |
 Sulphur piles at Vancouver, British Columbia |
 Railroad hand car |
 Primitive railcar |
 railcar |
 Slotted waveguide antenna |
steam clock |
 9 O'Clock Gun |
 Fossilized hadrosaur (partial) |
 Kodachrome Basin State Park |
 Eyebar detail of a truss bridge |
 Laced ties and struts |
 Qing dynasty Qilin |
 Grand Canyon Railway locomotive |
[edit] 2007
 Falco sparverius (American Kestrel) |
 Sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh |
 Fountains at Peterhof |
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 Chapel at Peterhof |
 A music room at Peterhof |
 Danish resistance movement armored car |
 Feburary 25th |
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