Talk:1955

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Put your text for the new page here.I was born in the year during which no Nobel Peace Prize was awarded. That is a daunting fact. It insperes me to be a better kindergarten teacher. Peace is such a fragile state, especially for children.

[edit] Factual disparity regarding Nuclear Power

This page alleges the following: "*July 18 - The first atomic-generated electrical power is sold commercially" And yet another wiki page alleges that the first commercial nuclear reactor was calder Hall which wasn't opened, according to that page, until 1956.

[edit] page layout years

There is a discussion on my talk page on page layout.

For most of the last three hundred years there is inconsistency and duplication between the year in topic paragraph, the "see also" box and what is on the year by topic pages. Prior to 1950 I am pretty convinced we can painlessly (except for sore fingers) delete all of the year in topic paragraphs and ensure that the material goes into a "see also" box, creating such a box where none exists. Post 1950, particularly from the "year in US television" link a lot of material has been added to this paragraph as highlights (sometimes making up most of the page content pointed at).

Personally I think we should still delete the paragraph, keep the box linking to the topic sites and move any particularly important parts of the year in topic paragraph to the main chronological list. This does involve undoing quite a bit of work which someone has done.

Therefore, unlike for prior to 1950 (where I've said no objection= I do it) for post 1950 I won't touch these pages unless a significant number of people agree with the change. (I am also unlikely to get the pre 1950 stuff done before summer unless the service speed improves dramatically).

(talk)--BozMo 14:25, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Back to the Future

Should that really be there? Part of the film takes place in 1955 but I think it might be misleading to have it there. --Sholtar | talk 20:12, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

I'm all for removing the references (a reference also appears in the November headline). It's fiction, and not historic.

I agree; I'd remove the one from the November headline and place the whole thing in "Fictional References". But whoever does so, please remember to do the same for 1985 and 1885! ekedolphin 06:27, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

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