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[edit] Ross Rifle bayonet example added to Ross Rifle article, May 14-20 2006
Bayonet example
"Bayonet example" is submitted with images as a possible stub beginning for a Ross Rifle bayonets article that could possibly be sourced from a company catalogue, documents and patent. See images for example Ross Rifle bayonet serial number.
Between the years 1907 and WWI, there was a warehouse with this example bayonet inside, in a crate with 10,000± other new ones of the same patent, somewhere in Quebec or Ontario, Canada.
After reading the "Huot" sourced Wikipedia article for Ross Rifles, I am not convinced if this bayonet was made only for the 1907 'sporting' variant of the Ross Rifle just because the patent year coincides with that type. For example, was it continuously made as a bayonet knife for Canadian hunters, marksmans and snipers, 1907 to WWI?
In my opinion, a bayonet was probably a good knife for anything and may have gone direct to surplus army merchandise. Even though the 1907 rifle version most closely compares to the 7mm Mauser that the Ross Rifle was intended to compete with during war or occupation duty. Instead, for example, hunting and fishing use in Canada. Then continued decades of use as a durable used item, including edge trimming the lawn, which is what I used it for today.
The design has an interesting fastener. Some type of screw rivet built into the knife handle that a knife expert might know the name of. See detail image. The surface diameter of the hole through the side of the handle is 11mm. The width and length of the end of the handle is 20mm by 43mm. The overall length of the handle is 115mm. The length of the blade from the front of the hilt is 300mm±. Overall length is 415mm± (original length of blade un-researched).
My guess is that this particular bayonet in the attached images had a humble history - most likely purchased from an army surplus sale and used for hunting deer or moose, salmon fishing, or even used by an employee of a fish cannery, British Columbia, Canada, 1920s-'60s. Then was eventually found discarded, pitted with rust, or found at a flea market where my grandfather White purchased the bayonet as a knife. During the '70s he did not fish or hunt and did not clean or display the bayonet with his other antiques (leverites). The bayonet was left rusted in a can or box in the backyard tool shed to open a can of paint and change a tire on the trailer for his boat "The Seadoucer" only if nothing else was close at hand, Kelowna, BC, 1970s. This particular WWI era bayonet example was received, cleaned of rust, sharpened and reused as a tool, c2003-.
I don't think this example bayonet in the image returned as a WWI battlefield souvenier or went from Canada in a trunk for a Safari in Africa or to the arctic and used to make igloos. However, if I find out more, including any example dramatic uses and complimentary, technical, encyclopedic descriptions, this stub could be cleaned-up from being an eBay-like description and separated from the article Ross Rifles as a separate Ross Rifle bayonet Wikipedia-list-like article. Stub and images submitted and edited May 14-19, 2006. Reviewed and separated from Ross Rifle article, May 15-23, 2006. Scheduled completion of this temporary user page as an article by author. When I can afford time and trips to reference libraries and archives. My interest in submitting this article is neutral and for sharing an item description of military history interest to Canadians. The item is not for sale or available for research or donation and has no connection to paid employment or a business. "Bayonet example" stub and images not referenced from any article source including Ross Rifle source "Huot".
[edit] Ross Rifle bayonet example removed from article by Wikipedian, May 23 2006
(note: during the next week, iBook model replaced by MacBook model at apple.com! what the heck?! :o) ) (i liked the black carbon fiber so much I bought one!)
[edit] Talk:Tuberculosis discussion comment, May 27 2006
History or Relevant, for disambiguity and ranked searching or search ranking?
TB and peritonitis
1966 Webster's Third New International Dictionary lists abreviation TT Page 2,458 TT 1.. 2.. 6 tuberculin tested
1966 Webster's Third New International Dictionary lists TB a cause of 2 diseases Page 2,459 tuberculous 1 : .. 2 a : constituting or affected with tuberculosis ... b : caused by or resulting from the prescence or products of the tubercle bacillus <~ peritonitis> <~ meningtis> — tuberculously adv
John Zdralek my mom can slice thinner than your mom (joke) 06:13, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
question - who posts to the talk and does a person talk then is selected by the editor to be talk what is talk?
hmmm... obviously there is a difficulty uploading a verified image of the dictionary to a talk page ... let then try else this
[edit] Talk:Metadata discussion comment, May 30-June 4 2006
Digital Camera Metadata linking across all applications?
I just noticed my Netscape 7.2 program is now automatically displaying metadata for email message composition with digital camera images. By symbolic link?
John Zdralek what does god want with my quantum thoughts? 10:02 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Disambiguity of the MetaData virus listed on a webpage of symantec.com 31 May 2006?
John Zdralek what the heck? 17:52 04 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Foothills Hospital added to 1966 in architecture, June 6 2006
Buildings
- The Gateway Arch in St Louis, Missouri, designed by Eero Saarinen is completed.
- Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada, opens in June as a largest hospital of North America.
[edit] Historical Events and Source added to Foothills Medical Centre article, June 6 2006
Historical Events
- First school of nursing class begins study, Foothills Hospital, Calgary, AB, Canada.
- Planning continues for 100 bed auxiliary hostpital and 370 beds for psychiatric patients, Foothills Hospital
- February, Main Hospital Phase II complete, Foothills Hospital, Calgary, AB, Canada.
- April, First out-patients and glaucoma laboratory, Foothills Hospital, Calgary, AB, Canada.
- June, Foothills Hospital opens, Calgary, AB, Canada.
C$21M, 12-storey Foothills Hospital is a largest of North America, Calgary, AB, Canada.
329 nursing student residence is linked to Foothills Hospital, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Next 4-decades+, largest hospital of the province of AB to be Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Source for Historical Events
- Patient Care, Foothills Hospital, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, by Foothills Hospital, published by J. D. Francis & Associates, Calgary, printed by Alcraft Printing, Canada, 1966 Referenced from the Calgary home library of a medical laboratory technologist (of BCIT and St Paul's Hospital) employed to help open a pathology laboratory of Foothills Laboratory, Calgary, AB, 1966. Relocated during same year to a pathology laboratory of the Grey Nuns hospital of Regina, SK, Canada, 1966.
Sample text inside front cover
"Facts and Figures"
"Foothills Hospital overlooks the north bank of the Bow River at 13 Avenue and 29 Street N.W. Largest completely new hospital of its kind constructed in North America; 765,000 square feet of floor space; 2,000 rooms. Patient capacity: 766 beds, 116 bassinettes, 15 day care beds. Staff when the hospital is in full operation: 1,200-1,500. Cost: $21,000,000 for construction of hospital, School of Nursing and Power Plant — $5,000,000 for initial equipment. T-shaped hospital building, 12 storeys plus basement. The cross-piece of the T includes all nursing units. The back wing or stem of the T includes all clinical and other service departments and is 10 storeys high. A 100 bed auxiliary hospital is planned for later construction on site; also a 370 bed psychiatric hospital which will be operated under separate administration. Capital financing for construction was by the usual Federal Provincial grants plus a $17 million debenture issue to be retired by the Provincial Government over a 20 year period. Operation costs will be met by the standard per diem payments made under Alberta Hospitalization benefits. Complete hospital control is vested in the board of Management."
Page 5 "Pathology labs have advanced equipment to provide a complete pathology service."
Back cover "Through organization a pattern emerges of far greater functional value than a mere sum of its parts."
[edit] Foothills Hospital history source condensed in article by Wikipedian, June 6 2006
[edit] added to user page, userboxes with link to Category:Wikipedians in Calgary June 7 2006
checked links, category link still not a link, and userboxes page deleted for an undefined reason "This page has been deleted, and should not be re-created without a good reason." June 10 2006
[edit] created a PDF and PDF-X file of user page June 10 2006
not quite the formatting i expected for a standard size of real paper
stacked and right formatted preview images relocate to the top of the page?
by coincidence June 2 2006 Wiki current event news features PDFs! (Current Science and Technology Events)
[edit] added to user page, a view of Kartoo with search result for Wikipedia user John Zdralek [[1]] June 11 2006
interesting observation by writer for New York Times about the ultimate disambiguity - a real person - specifically a (insert adjective synonymous with fictitious-read-between-the-lines-example here) real person and net personality affecting employment
"E-Mail This"
http://www.nytimes.com/mem/emailthis.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=login
[edit] added link from user page to Canadian bayonets article [2] June 16 2006
checked "my watchlist" for the first time to link to a new article. noticed there actually is a Ross Rifle bayonet article! [3] Feb 21 2006!? 373 accesses. noticed that my late grandfather's bayonet is missing the attachment for the rifle. obviously been clamped into a workbench vice and sawed off. quite a bit missing from the blade. whatever it was used for it was used a lot. either for yard and gardening work and likely even house building work in Kelowna, '45 to c'55. or it really was used in a cannery on the west coast of BC. now I know what the holster looks like. at a closer look, it looks like the blade and hilt is 3 pieces; the blade, the butt and the attachment. not a wiggle in the metal anywhere despite the rusty blade and a slight bend to it. whatever the blade got on it the hilt didn't. still not sure what that curly-cue is at the bottom. to rest on the table at the top of the trench? or to keep the whole rifle from going through the shield? should be good for edge trimming the lawn for a few more years in Calgary. Now where do I buy the book and the replica with the holster? I've seen a lot of Lord of the Rings swords but no Ross Rifle bayonets.
[edit] moved electrons to decision making region for adding link relevant to quantum entanglement June 21 2006
practiced my GNU use of * [ and [[ with or without linking effects of http://
wondered whether adding a Google news search link for quantum entanglement was an illegal use of a psuedo-bot for Wikipedia
[edit] moved electrons to decision making region for adding link relevant to Chelsea Ship's Bell clocks June 22 2006
Wikipedia clock article seems to end at Eli 1797
Chelsea disambiguity list doesn't include Chelsea Clock Company or Chelsea Ship's Bell clocks
real Chelsea Ship's Bell clock owners manual 10M-1-80 features relevant historical years 1780 1765 1802 1878 1880 1897
[edit] matched format for 1966 in architecture June 24, 2006
improved my Djoser and Saqqara reading Wikipedia article
improved my Cyril and Methodius by reading Wikipedia Khazars article
improved my Olaf the White re-reading about Early Medieval Ireland 800-1166
Olaf the White not listed in disambiguity list of Olafs?
noticed that answers.com summarizes Wikipedia very well
noticed that Wikipedia doesn't disambiguity a "List of Archaeology Websites"
archeaologica.org for example has no article (I've read every article almost since 2002 and timelined quite a few)
[edit] updated copyright for 1966 Foothills Hospital image Oct 11, 2006
reread the very long list of Wikipedia copyright options. no option for store catalog or company brochure? hard to update or even delete and update a licence description.
reread Ross Rifle. new photographs! the real deal. hoorah! needs a New York Times-like graphic.
[edit] moved electrons to decision making region for suggesting adding to Socialist Party of British Columbia Nov 16, 2006
Vancouver newspaper "The Province", Friday November 24, 1899
On Thursday, the 23rd inst., there was started on Mt. Pleasant an organization to be known as “The Vancouver Socialist Club.” There was not a very large attendance but those who were there (were) all fighters and mean business. The objects of the organization are to organize educate and agitate the cause of socialism, and in any matters of public interest the Vancouver Socialist Club propose to be heard from.
referenced from actual newspaper found in a log cabin in the Okanagan Valley, BC, Canada, 1962
John Zdralek wasn't that a lot of culture. 09:39 16 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] moved searchable text most likely relevant to Socialist Party of British Columbia Nov 18, 2006
then i was instantly shwacked with a wikify lable from a computer student in Albany and spent 2hrs wikifying the blurb like so
History of Socialism in British Columbia
Friday, November 24, 1899
- On Thursday, the 23rd inst., there was started on Mt. Pleasant an organization to be known as “The Vancouver Socialist Club.” There was not a very large attendance but those who were there (were) all fighters and mean business. The objects of the organization are to organize educate and agitate the cause of socialism, and in any matters of public interest the Vancouver Socialist Club propose to be heard from.[1]
References
...and then another hour passed, and i reviewed Mr Gosnold on break
and then spent another 2hrs adding Electoral History web page links
...and another hour adding Grolier footnote and formatting for the halibut
and now it looks like so
History of Socialism in British Columbia, Canada
1899, November 24, Friday, Example news report describing political activism of a new socialist agenda in Vancouver.
- On Thursday, the 23rd inst., there was started on Mt. Pleasant an organization to be known as “The Vancouver Socialist Club.” There was not a very large attendance but those who were there all fighters and mean business. The objects of the organization are to organize educate and agitate the cause of socialism, and in any matters of public interest the Vancouver Socialist Club propose to be heard from.[2]
1900, June 9, Example provincial election of Canada including first provincial representation of socialism in BC, Western Canada
- William MacClain, 683 votes, 4.46 percent of vote, Vancouver. Nominee of the United Socialist Labour Party and Canadian Socialist League. Supported by the Vancouver Trades and Labour Council. First socialist to contest a British Columbia election.[3]
- abbreviations of socialist parties include[4]
- SPC Socialist Party of Canada (old)
- SPC Socialist Party of Canada (new)
- SPC(BC) Socialist Party of Canada (B.C. section)
1952 23rd General Election 1952
1961 Last year of a Socialist party candidate for federal level election contested by the Socialist Party of Canada
1966 Example summary of national economic improvement in Canada, 1961-1966
- It was also a stormy year on the labor front. Strikes, strike threats or lockouts hit almost every major industry. Some of these disputes were settled by direct Government intervention. The terms were so generous that the peacemakers were criticized for setting a dangerously high pattern for future negotiations. Thoughtful people in both management and labor expressed growing dissatisfaction with the present piecemeal method of handling labor problems of automation and its effects. However, none of these dissensions or disturbances had any marked effect on industrial production. Nor did they interrupt seriously the economic upswing that began in 1961 and has become the longest sustained advance since World War II.[5]
References
- ^ Vancouver newspaper The Province, Friday, November 24, 1899
- ^ Vancouver newspaper (summary by editor?)The Province, Friday, November 24, 1899
- ^ Elections BC "Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986" "9th General Election 1900", retrieved Nov 18, 2006
- ^ Elections BC "Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986", retrieved Nov 18, 2006
- ^ "Smith, R.D. Hilton. "Canada", editor Martin, Lowell A. "The Book of Knowledge Annual 1967" published by Grolier and Grolier of Canada, 1967.
[edit] R. D. Hilton Smith article started, December 11, 2006
time to complete an article for Socialist Party of British Columbia — 3-weeks±
time to start R. D. Hilton Smith article — 3hrs±
