My contributions

Articles I have written or substantially expanded include:

Books & art

• Joseph Hémard
• Daniel Spoerri
• Francisco Eppens Helguera
• Charles-Léonce Brossé
• Hans P. Kraus
• Allan H. Stevenson
• Block book
• Sibyllenbuch fragment
• 36-line Bible
• Spanish Forger
• Fake memoirs
• Angel at the Fence
• Epistolary poem
• Book size
• Folio
• Quarto
• Octavo
• Disjecta membra
• Confederate imprint
• Fragmentology (manuscripts)

Music

• Erskine Butterfield

Stamps

• Mauritius "Post Office" stamps
• Postage stamps and postal history of Mauritius
• Postage stamps and postal history of Mexico
• Postage stamps and postal history of Tannu Tuva
• Postage stamps and postal history of Turkey
• Postage stamps and postal history of Tuscany
• Corrientes
• Primitives
• Plating
• Cancellation
• Cut to shape
• Burelage
• Art Deco stamps

Fossils & molluscs

• Glen Rose Formation
• J. C. McConnell
• Beijing Museum of Natural History
• Lufeng Dinosaur Museum
• Cuphosolenus
• Vasum horridum
• Strombus
• Rooster conch

Little things

• Identified the creator of Mr. ZIP
• Triggered the Marzocco article
• Added image of the Azerbaijan 1919 stamp depicting the Baku Fire Temple
• Added quote that the 1952 discovery of a living Monoplacophoran was "one of the greatest sensations in the century."
• Located an (apparently) accurate image of the British Guiana 1c magenta
• Noted that Simon Rodia (Watts Towers) appears on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
• Added the earliest dated uses of the terms Urban legend, Hamster wheel, Chick lit and The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
• Added obvious fact that a rook (chess) is also called a "castle" (per OED, etc.), over near fanatical opposition. Otra vez
• Added Thomas Nast's illustration of Petroleum V. Nasby's "Dream of Perfect Bliss"
• Cleaned up the origin of the name Bicha of Balazote
• LBNL, added the magnificent pen and ink drawing of "Ecphora quadricostata" by J. C. McConnell

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