User:Tlogmer

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I run a weblog about wikipedia. If you want me to write about a particular article/topic/concept/whatever, leave a note, or comment on a weblog post.

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My name's Ben Yates; I'm a technical writer, student, and keyboardist from Ann Arbor.

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This user rescues articles for the Article Rescue Squadron.

This user plays the piano.

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This user knows where in the world Carmen Sandiego is.

So. I've been here since late 2003; I started the wikipedia articles Metrosexual and Hell, Michigan (and the wikibooks summary of Understanding Comics). Most of my stuff is elsewhere, though.

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Sequoites dakotensis cone cast fossils

... that Sequoites dakotensis was first described from clay-filled casts (examples pictured) and not the original tree cones?
... that Jeremy Allen White's underwear campaign with Calvin Klein earned US$12.7 million in media exposure in less than 48 hours?
... that Laurence Sterne's journal of love letters reverses the found-manuscript literary device by claiming that his real diary is fictional?
... that Katsumaro Akamatsu, a founding member of the Japanese Communist Party, supported the expulsion of communists from the Japanese Federation of Labour?
... that Eleanor Island was first designated as a Migratory Bird Sanctuary and later as a National Wildlife Area to give it a stronger protection status?
... that Vermont politician William Baxter personally funded the construction of an Orleans County school, provided that the second floor was used for religious purposes?
... that a fictional character from Peg O' My Heart complained about his insomnia with netizens on Threads?
... that a candidate in the 1968 United States House of Representatives election in Delaware took his dog on the campaign trail?
... that an elderly Brazilian woman helped to arrest dozens of drug traffickers and corrupt police officers?