User:Tlogmer

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I run a weblog about wikipedia. If you want me to write about a particular article/topic/concept/whatever, leave a note, or comment on a weblog post.

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My name's Ben Yates; I'm a technical writer, student, and keyboardist from Ann Arbor.

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This user rescues articles for the Article Rescue Squadron.

This user plays the piano.

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This user knows where in the world Carmen Sandiego is.

So. I've been here since late 2003; I started the wikipedia articles Metrosexual and Hell, Michigan (and the wikibooks summary of Understanding Comics). Most of my stuff is elsewhere, though.

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An African Song or Chant from Barbados

... that An African Song or Chant from Barbados (manuscript pictured) was nominated for inscription on UNESCO's Memory of the World International Register by someone who saw it in an online exhibition?
... that Elisheva Biernoff paints recreations of found vintage snapshot photographs, some including details like lens flare and overexposure?
... that staffers of an Ohio radio station learned that it had been sold on the same day as its owner's death?
... that A Narrative of the Travels and Adventures of Paul Aermont Among the Planets (1873), following the cancellation of a planned second edition, was not reprinted until 2018?
... that Harold Harrington did not seek out new species, but was the first to collect a plant that was later named after him?
... that fans of romcom heroine Bridget Jones were shocked at the death of a favourite character in the 2013 novel Mad about the Boy, and then again in a 2025 film?
... that a Bronze Age priestess named Eritha was the focus of the first recorded legal dispute in Europe?
... that the Roman-era Ard-al-Moharbeen necropolis is the largest cemetery discovered in Gaza?
... that the writer of "Crabs for Christmas" joked that it contributed to Baltimore's population decline?