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[edit] London symbols
Assuming no-one else has replied to your query, I'll have a go. The lion and unicorn are both supporters of the royal arms - but the unicorn symbolises Scotland (there are two on the Royal Coat of Arms of Scotland)
The heraldic supporters of the City of London are dragons (or are they wyverns?), hence the use around the City, but the City of Westminster's crest is a portcullis, the Parliamentary symbol - would this be the gate you saw?
Hope this helps. Man vyi 12:25, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
- Glad to help. Most of this info is in the various articles, but I suppose you'd have to know what you were looking for to find it. Man vyi 10:06, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
I came to let you know that I'd answered your long-lost and forlorn question on Talk:England; but I see that somebody has already answered you here. Well, perhaps some other reader of the that page will find it useful. Doops | talk 08:04, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] degrees and arcseconds only for declination?
Hi, In the articles on arcsecond and minute of arc, you state that degrees (and minutes and seconds of arc) are used only when expressing declination. I have corrected this error on one page and a friend of mine did so on the other. Are there any other articles where you have made this unjustified claim? MHD 14:42, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
You are completely correct in the comment you posted on my talk page. I'm sorry if my message from yesterday came across too harsh. It is indeed a good idea to place a caveat on those pages about the possible confusion between seconds/minutes and arcseconds/arcminutes. I propose to move the discussion about better wording and possible further improvement to the arcminute talk page. MHD 10:54, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bunker Hill holiday
I've been a resident of Hampden, Hampshire and Middlesex counties in Massachusetts for about 45 years and I've never once encountered a Bunker Hill holiday. Are you thinking of Patriot's day? Can you point to something at the state's website? WikiParker 22:03, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] June Meetup in New York
Hi, I noticed you on a list of New Yorkers. If you are interested in around we are having a meetup Wikipedians in June. Take a peek at this and please tell any other Wikipedians that you think might be interested in participating about this event. Thanks. Alex756 02:25, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] CTY Cross Dressing the Lancaster way
I had no idea the practice was now a CTY 'tradition', but I can speculate that your story regarding the Lancaster skirt wearing 'incident' derived from me. To my recollection your version is almost entirely myth, though someone might have done something similar before or after. The tie story is probably a better explanation, as almost every CTY tradition can be traced in some form to Matthew. I also wouldn't doubt that changing mores resulted in a cross-dressing Saturday, to which some intrepid soul, well versed in fourth generation stories, put 2 and 2 together to get 17. CTY should probably be the focus of a study on the formation of oral traditions.
In first term of '90 or '91 I wore an ankle length pink skirt, borrowed from a friend (Angel?). Not so brave as all that, I seem to recall wearing it over my shorts (there were comments about my leg hair); and far from being original, my primary motivation, in what can only be described as CTY logic, was to impress girls. After putting the thing on, three friends and I walked around F&M on a Friday or Saturday afternoon (CTY was far less regimented then: the only crime was leaving campus unattended, and mandatory fun, only recently implemented, was for weekends only. I don't recall anything mandatory in '89 or '90). We wandered around the tennis courts and into the F&M library, where the librarians stared for a good couple of minutes. Eventually we just sat under a tree in the quad. There were a lot of questions/jokes/comments/glances from friends and passersby. Only one was particularly nasty, to which I quickly retorted "You're just jealous because you don't have the balls to wear a skirt." That probably got me farther with the girls than anything else.
There was a lot of talk about me wearing the skirt to that evening's dance. Being shy, I declined. However, I might recall, very hazilly, other boys wearing skirts that evening. I do not remember cross dressing at any future dance, though '91 was my last term (I did visit in '92). I certainly wasn't forced to take the thing off by staff. The worst that might have happened was snarky comments from a passing RA.
It's amazing how memory works. I had completely forgotten about that until reading your comment. Now I can remember leaves and twigs sticking to the skirt from sitting under the tree. Funny.--Mrdarcey 20:06, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
- Just because I'm lazy, you left this last August:
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- Word of mouth at Lancaster has it that at least 10 years ago, there was a male student who wore a skirt. The administration at the time was not nearly as "Zero Indifference" as they are now, and ordered him to dress gender-appropriately. In retaliation, at the Second Saturday dance, a large number of students cross-dressed to show their solidarity. From this, the tradition of Second Saturday was born. However, I do not have a solid source on this. Has anyone done research on CTY culture?
- I'm not really familiar with any of the online CTY communities. I just sort of stumbled across the wiki entry yesterday while procrastinating. There is a CTYwiki, which has a Hall of Fame/Shame section, but most of the entries there are, understandably, much newer. I do think it's wonderful that CTY, even after so much bad press, continues to have such a positive effect on young people today.
- When were you at CTY? You're blog says you're 28, so it's possible we were at the same session (Lancaster, '91?). I was called Floyd back then, but I can't say that I'm in anyway significant to anything other than my own mind. Cheers,--Mrdarcey 19:57, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Islamic Origins of Peer Review?
Since you contributed a passage on this topic at Avicenna#Philosophy please comment on the discussion at Talk:History of scientific method#Peer review in medieval Islam?. --SteveMcCluskey 19:01, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
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Why do you tell us your birthday?--Emporer 19:54, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Acetaminophen recall
Zandperl, I have moved the note you added to Paracetamol into a separate section, I hope you won't object. If you'd like to chime in, please go ahead (preferably on Talk:Paracetamol so that other editors can follow an eventual discussion). Thank you, Fvasconcellos 14:11, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
- You're welcome. There doesn't seem to be a consensus yet, so I won't remove it — I see no harm in the section remaining in the article as of now. Fvasconcellos 21:11, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
