User:Ecphora
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
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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