User contributions for Xiphophilos
A user with 371 edits. Account created on 29 July 2006.
14 May 2024
- 22:4422:44, 14 May 2024 diff hist +532 Talk:Ancient Rome and wine →Epitaph: Reply current Tag: Reply
- 22:3922:39, 14 May 2024 diff hist +7 Ancient Rome and wine →Medical uses: The epitaph is CIL VI, 15258, and yes, its spelling of "sed" is non-classical "set". No brackets needed, see CIL image at http://www.antiquitatem.com/en/baths-wine-sex-hedonism-carmina/
- 17:4617:46, 14 May 2024 diff hist +239 Bureau International de l'Edition Mecanique Added exact founding date, reference current
14 April 2024
- 15:3615:36, 14 April 2024 diff hist +3 m Yes! We Have No Bananas Fixed word order current
13 April 2024
- 00:4300:43, 13 April 2024 diff hist −3 m Travnik →Transport: Fixed typo
9 January 2024
- 04:5804:58, 9 January 2024 diff hist +63 We'll Knock The Heligo-- Into Heligo-- Out Of Heligoland! The Kaiser stands on top of the Upper Land of Heligoland, not just any old island, see postcard at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heligoland#/media/File:Helgoland,_Germany,_ca_1890-1900.jpg current
- 04:4304:43, 9 January 2024 diff hist −1 m We'll Knock The Heligo-- Into Heligo-- Out Of Heligoland! The lyricist's last name is spelled O'Brien, not O'Brian, on the sheet music. The US soldiers were Navy uniforms, blue dungaree suits with white sailor hats.
28 December 2023
- 06:5206:52, 28 December 2023 diff hist −20 m Rural Free Delivery Fixed dead link
6 December 2023
- 22:0622:06, 6 December 2023 diff hist 0 m Heinrich Heine →Julius Campe and first literary successes: Mondschein, not the unmetrical Mondenschein. Armesünderblum' (2x) with apostrophe. Cf. the image of the book page at https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Am_Kreuzweg_wird_begraben#/media/Datei:Buch_der_Lieder_166.jpg
7 October 2023
- 16:4316:43, 7 October 2023 diff hist +1 m Ben Bernie Anzelevitz per tomb stone at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7256722/ben-bernie
- 16:4016:40, 7 October 2023 diff hist +1 m Ben Bernie Anzelevitz per tomb stone at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7256722/ben-bernie
24 August 2023
- 22:3222:32, 24 August 2023 diff hist +3 m Mark Antony →Gallic Wars: added missing preposition
- 20:5520:55, 24 August 2023 diff hist 0 m Gaius Antonius Hybrida Fixed typo: Cephallenia, not Cephallania
25 March 2023
- 14:0514:05, 25 March 2023 diff hist +34 There's a New Moon Over My Shoulder →Other versions: Corrected recording date per M. Ruppli, The Decca Labels: A Discography, vol. 1: The California Sessions, page 208. Release date per Billboard, January 20, 1945, page 61: Popular Record Releases (from January 18 thru January 25)
29 January 2023
- 19:1419:14, 29 January 2023 diff hist +1 m Rigler-Deutsch Index →Digitization: Fixed syntax error.
4 October 2022
- 07:4307:43, 4 October 2022 diff hist 0 m Don Lang (musician) Corrected HMV POP260 title, cf. label image at https://www.discogs.com/release/14353284
8 June 2022
- 00:4600:46, 8 June 2022 diff hist +53 Gitta Alpár Added link to grave, fixed minor formatting issues
7 June 2022
- 23:5623:56, 7 June 2022 diff hist +147 Gitta Alpár →Biography: Added requested citation
2 June 2022
- 19:4819:48, 2 June 2022 diff hist 0 m John Kameaaloha Almeida →Musical career: Fixed typo
10 October 2021
- 17:5717:57, 10 October 2021 diff hist +839 Otto Goritz Dates and places of birth & death per 1929 Hamburg death certificate. The New York Times obituary also states that Goritz died in Hamburg and talks about the Lexington Theatre riot in October 1919; see also https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/opera-house-riot-8jl873cd8. The January 1920 US Census still lists Goritz and his family in New York.
8 January 2021
- 18:4618:46, 8 January 2021 diff hist −8 m Robert Shafer (conductor) Fixed dead link to faculty bio
15 December 2020
- 20:5020:50, 15 December 2020 diff hist +5 m Friedrich Ludwig Jahn →Life: more stylistic improvements.
- 20:4520:45, 15 December 2020 diff hist +82 m Friedrich Ludwig Jahn →Life: fixed stylistic error re: universities, added link to Evangelisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster
14 August 2020
- 16:0016:00, 14 August 2020 diff hist 0 m Black & White Records →Cover version controversy: fixed typo
6 July 2020
- 04:1904:19, 6 July 2020 diff hist 0 m John Kameaaloha Almeida →Family life: fixed typo "congential"
8 June 2020
- 22:1422:14, 8 June 2020 diff hist +11 Sokol movement →In emigration: Clarified Nyack link. The Nyack, NY Sokol is mentioned in https://news.hrvh.org/veridian/?a=d&d=ieadbehj19350801.1.3&
- 22:0722:07, 8 June 2020 diff hist +41 m Sokol movement →In emigration: fixed or created links
- 21:5821:58, 8 June 2020 diff hist 0 m Sokol movement →United States: Replaced : with .
- 21:5521:55, 8 June 2020 diff hist +39 Sokol movement →Sokol society among South Slavs: Fixed English style problems, tried to clarify text. Still not sure what is meant by "Tyrš's gymnastics bases".
1 June 2020
- 07:3207:32, 1 June 2020 diff hist −1 m Robert Leonhardt →Biography: replaced "Brün" with Czech "Brno"; the German name would be "Brünn" anyway.
31 May 2020
- 20:5720:57, 31 May 2020 diff hist +1 m Robert Leonhardt →Discography: Placed Columbia E4997 into correct numeric order.
22 February 2020
- 06:5806:58, 22 February 2020 diff hist +33 Grawemeyer Awards →Religion: 2020 awardee, cf. press release at https://www.presbyterianmission.org/story/stephen-j-patterson-wins-2020-grawemeyer-religion-award/
8 October 2019
- 15:3415:34, 8 October 2019 diff hist 0 Eddie Beal Corrected military service dates per US Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File for Corporal Eddie Beal (Edward Truman Beal), born June 13, 1910.
7 February 2019
- 18:0718:07, 7 February 2019 diff hist +2 m Gandersheim Abbey German grammar fix
- 18:0618:06, 7 February 2019 diff hist +2 m Gandersheim Abbey German grammar requires neuter endings when the article "das" is not used before the phrase.
1 November 2018
- 19:3519:35, 1 November 2018 diff hist +7 Efim Schachmeister The Nazi lexicon describes Schachmeister as "Tonangebender Jazz-Kapellmeister der Systemzeit," i.e., not Nazi era, but a contemptuous Nazi term for the Weimar Republic era.
20 November 2017
- 19:1119:11, 20 November 2017 diff hist +1 m Zambra Fixed typo. See also Amnon Shiloah, Music in the World of Islam: A Socio-Cultural Study, p. 77 (https://books.google.com/books?id=S6gwlvp61s4C&pg=PA77&dq=Zambra+%2B+Andalusian+%2B+Arab&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwizvu7p7M3XAhVD6GMKHedLAE0Q6AEIMDAC#v=onepage&q=)
23 September 2017
- 20:1220:12, 23 September 2017 diff hist −3 V-Disc →History: Ofay is not Pig Latin but jive slang of "unknown origin" (Merriam Webster), possibly first attested in Cab Calloway's 1938 Hepster's Dictionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ofay). Also added missing space.
19 September 2017
- 20:5120:51, 19 September 2017 diff hist −4 m Rafael Méndez →In music: removed superfluous "the"
- 20:5020:50, 19 September 2017 diff hist +7 m Rafael Méndez →In music: fixed English
13 August 2017
- 06:2706:27, 13 August 2017 diff hist +419 Bob Johnstone (singer) Added print source ()https://books.google.com/books?id=n-hYmPstZmIC&pg=PA253&lpg=PA253&dq=%22Bob+Johnstone%22+%2B+singer&source=bl&ots=gKTHqf6Ldr&sig=s-wH51FZOAKJLUGLEfAuasIA28c&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjYsKzyxtPVAhVM6WMKHUoTA544ChDoAQhPMA0#v=onepage&q=%22Bo
8 March 2017
- 21:5921:59, 8 March 2017 diff hist −23 Jazz Man Records →Select discography: corrected wrong performer on Jazz Man 17 per http://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/number17
1 February 2017
- 03:4903:49, 1 February 2017 diff hist +1 m Dave Stogner Fixed typo.
25 January 2017
- 16:1716:17, 25 January 2017 diff hist +42 Duke Ellington discography →External links: The original link works only when I copy it into my browser, but for some reason not from wikipedia. So I've linked the archived version instead.
- 16:0916:09, 25 January 2017 diff hist −77 m Duke Ellington discography →External links: fixed seemingly dead link by removing the l of html.
18 October 2016
- 04:5204:52, 18 October 2016 diff hist +184 Oflag X-B →External links: Added link to photos of Oflag XB/Stalg XC guard troops
- 04:4704:47, 18 October 2016 diff hist +1 m Oflag X-B →Stalag X-C: typo
- 04:4604:46, 18 October 2016 diff hist −3 m Oflag X-B →Oflag X-B: fixed German word Ordonnanz (i.e., batman or officer's servant)
- 04:4304:43, 18 October 2016 diff hist +1 m Oflag X-B →Mudra-Kaserne: fixed English grammar
2 May 2016
- 17:1517:15, 2 May 2016 diff hist −6 m Manius Curius Dentatus Fixed wrong translation of Latin "nec ... nec."
