User:Leonard G.

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A selected image from my contributions - for the week of December 10thEyebar detail of a truss bridge
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A selected image from my contributions -
for the week of December 10th
Eyebar detail of a truss bridge
This User lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.


en This user is a native speaker of English.


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For your high quality photos and breath-taking panoramas, I award you this Photographer's Barnstar. •Zhatt• 17:39, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
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For your high quality photos and breath-taking panoramas, I award you this Photographer's Barnstar. •Zhatt• 17:39, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
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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]


  1. William F. Buckley, Jr.
  2. Grandmaster Byong Hong Yu, my taekwando master.
  3. Meher Baba - spiritual leader of my late and beloved next door neighbors.
  4. 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.
  5. From the animated film Lilo & Stitch


A recently refined and completed major articleHayward Fault Zone
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A recently refined and completed major article
Hayward Fault Zone
A recent stub (a work in progress) - Trains in art
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A recent stub (a work in progress) - Trains in art
A recent complete minor articleMachine Age
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A recent complete minor article
Machine Age
A recent complete minor articleUtah Road 400 with related creation of the minor articles Cottonwood Canyon, Utah and Grosvenor Arch and contributions to Kodachrome Basin State Park
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A recent complete minor article
Utah Road 400
with related creation of the minor articles Cottonwood Canyon, Utah and Grosvenor Arch and contributions to Kodachrome Basin State Park
A recent complete minor articleSolar tracker
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A recent complete minor article
Solar tracker

[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
13 April 2006 - subsquently expanded by others

Table bridge
7 September 2006
(with User:Carlos0253)

[edit] Major articles created or with substantial expansion or rewrite

The fireboat Guardian
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The fireboat Guardian
Red-cyan anaglyph image
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Red-cyan anaglyph image

[edit] Minor articles created or enhanced with substantial expansion or rewrite

At Wuhan
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At Wuhan
Pressure gauge - Indicator Side
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Pressure gauge - Indicator Side
Mechanical Side
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Mechanical Side
Mechanical Details
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Mechanical Details
Slotted waveguide antenna (highlighted)
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Slotted waveguide antenna (highlighted)

[edit] Works in progress:

[edit] Major contributions:

View of Mt. Diablo and part of the Diablo Valley from Dinosaur Hill Park
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View of Mt. Diablo and part of the Diablo Valley from Dinosaur Hill Park


[edit] Substantial article enhancements:

The West Wind, a marble sculpture
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The West Wind, a marble sculpture

[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:

Diagram of a Crookes tube apparatus
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Diagram of a Crookes tube apparatus
Schematic cross section of a caisson
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Schematic cross section of a caisson
Diana and Pomona grace a Beaux Arts facade
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Diana and Pomona grace a Beaux Arts facade
A garden pool at the mansion Filoli
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A garden pool at the mansion Filoli
Youth learn to sail at the Mystic Seaport
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Youth learn to sail at the Mystic Seaport
Platybelodon skeleton, mounted, Wuhan, China
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Platybelodon skeleton, mounted, Wuhan, China
Shay locomotive accessories annotated
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Shay locomotive accessories annotated

[edit] Minor contributions

[edit] Text added to images

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[edit] Quotation contributions:

[edit] Some more images

Toronto's Urban Skyline
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Toronto's Urban Skyline
Vancouver's Urban Skyline
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Vancouver's Urban Skyline
A concert of Tang Dynasty Music at Wuhan
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A concert of Tang Dynasty Music at Wuhan

Cruising the Kiel canal
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Cruising the Kiel canal

[edit] Featured selected images gallery by week

[edit] 2005

Sept 11th
A floatplane
Sept 18th
NYC Public Library
Sept 25th
A Shay locomotive
Oct 2nd
A Beaux Arts façade
Oct 9th
A a garden at Filoli
Oct 16th
Jellyfish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Oct 23rd
The customs house at Monterey, California
Oct 30th
A nian at the Ming Dynasty Tombs
Nov 6th
A schematic for electric vehicle conversion
Nov 13th
A bridge taxononmy
Nov 20th
Ancient and modern at Wuhan
Nov 27th
San Francisco War Memorial Opera House
Dec 4th
Father Duffy monument
December 11th
Steam engine model
December 18th
A novelty battery electric vehicle
December 25th
The West Wind, a marble sculpture

[edit] 2006

January 1st
The West Wind, a marble sculpture
January 8th
Reproduction personal weapons
January 15th
A Bogen enlarger
January 29th
A Caisson (engineering)
February 4thth
A relay
February 11th
An inertial switch
February 18th
A surface supplied diver
February 25th
Cloisonne headress
March 11th
A step-stone bridge
March 19th
View of Mt. Diablo and the Diablo Valley
March 26th
Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall interior
April 2nd
A Moon Bridge
April 9th and 16th
Great Wall of China
April 23rd
A Danish offshore wind farm
April 3rd - May 21st
A concert of Tang Dynasty Music
May 28th
The Navajo Bridges
June 4th
A view of Utah Road 400
June 11th
A weigh bridge
June 18th
Antique snow coach
June 25th
The Vermilion Cliffs
July 2nd
The Rocky Mountaineer
July 9th
An Ariel Atom sports car
July 16th
Erie Canal locks
July 23rd
VIA Rail Dining car interior
July 30th
Solar tracker headworks detail
August 6th
VIA Rail locomotives and cars
August 13th
Portrait sculpture of Robert Fleming Gourlay
August 20th
A model yacht
August 27th

Highway 24

Seismic retrofit
September 3rd
A California Condor
September 10th
Paleoseismology pit
September 17th
Paleoseismology surface, annotated
September 24th
Wrightspeed X1 battery electric vehicle
October 1st
Painted Desert, Arizona
October 8th
Sulphur piles at Vancouver, British Columbia
October 15th
Railroad hand car
October 22nd
Primitive railcar
October 29th
railcar
November 5thth
Slotted waveguide antenna
November 12thth

Gastown

steam clock
November 19th

Vancouver's

9 O'Clock Gun
November 26th
Fossilized hadrosaur (partial)
December 3rd
Kodachrome Basin State Park
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