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A user with 1,739 edits. Account created on 26 January 2024.
10 October 2024
- 22:4122:41, 10 October 2024 diff hist +282 Template talk:UFO sidebar →This keeps popping up so just asking, why don't you all want Ariel in here?: new section current Tag: New topic
- 22:2022:20, 10 October 2024 diff hist +7 m User:Very Polite Person No edit summary current
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8 October 2024
4 October 2024
- 02:1802:18, 4 October 2024 diff hist +24 Abigail Becker →The Angel of Long Point: lake ship current
1 October 2024
- 13:1813:18, 1 October 2024 diff hist +64 Invention Secrecy Act →See also: +2
29 September 2024
28 September 2024
- 03:2403:24, 28 September 2024 diff hist +51 Invention Secrecy Act {{short description|Law that allows the USA to classify any invention deemed a 'national security' threat.}}
- 03:2403:24, 28 September 2024 diff hist +111 National Security Space Association {{Short description|Business/professional group; military-industrial complex and aerospace industry related.}} current
- 03:2403:24, 28 September 2024 diff hist +146 Tip and cue {{Short description|Active tracking measures for satellite imagery to automatically track objects across satellites in real or near real-time.}}
- 03:2303:23, 28 September 2024 diff hist +119 Gravity map {{Short description|Mapping the gravity of a planet to create a "raised-relief map" of gravity anomalies and levels.}}
- 03:2203:22, 28 September 2024 diff hist +110 Gravitational scattering {{Short description|How gravity manipulates celestial bodies behaviors through their gravitational fields.}} current
- 03:2203:22, 28 September 2024 diff hist +118 Abigail Becker {{Short description|Canadian woman credited with saving the lives of seventeen people across five unique incidents.}}
- 03:1803:18, 28 September 2024 diff hist +87 Abigail Becker thumb|upright|Abigail Becker, the Angel of Long Point.
- 03:0303:03, 28 September 2024 diff hist +7 Abigail Becker copy edit
- 03:0003:00, 28 September 2024 diff hist −44 Abigail Becker copy edit
- 00:0400:04, 28 September 2024 diff hist +19 Abigail Becker →Later life: clarify that Jeremy took trips south... not her son.
27 September 2024
- 22:3022:30, 27 September 2024 diff hist 0 m Abigail Becker →Later life: : >> .
- 22:1522:15, 27 September 2024 diff hist +127 User:Very Polite Person Abigail Becker (still working on it)
- 22:1322:13, 27 September 2024 diff hist +88 Abigail Becker She was an impoverished farmer and trapper, had eleven children, raised another six she was stepmother to, and saved the lives of a total of seventeen people over five unique events in her lifetime. She was honored by the Government of Canada, Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, and ultimately ran her own successful farmstead.
- 22:1122:11, 27 September 2024 diff hist +168 Abigail Becker →The Angel of Long Point: clarify Abigail only saved the cook on the third and final shipwreck; the rest came ashore on their own.
- 22:0722:07, 27 September 2024 diff hist +57 Abigail Becker All six crewmembers were saved.<ref name="Pearce Becker Norfolk 1999" /><ref name="Boyer True Tales 1971" />
- 21:5321:53, 27 September 2024 diff hist 0 Abigail Becker →Early life: on to in
- 21:5121:51, 27 September 2024 diff hist −8 Abigail Becker →The Angel of Long Point: language tweak c/e
- 21:4921:49, 27 September 2024 diff hist −186 Abigail Becker Remove Wheeler/Calvert book which is a reference, drop Sources and just external links.
- 21:4821:48, 27 September 2024 diff hist +4 Abigail Becker order--that preceded Jeremiah
- 21:4621:46, 27 September 2024 diff hist +30 Abigail Becker +Government of Canada
- 21:1921:19, 27 September 2024 diff hist −15 Abigail Becker -rm "illiterate" for now; I thought that was sourced to the Norfolk Historical Society, but apparently not? May be in MacDonald's book that I can't find at the moment, need to dig it out.
- 21:1221:12, 27 September 2024 diff hist −28 Abigail Becker →The Angel of Long Point: c/e
- 21:1221:12, 27 September 2024 diff hist +25 Abigail Becker →The Angel of Long Point: readability & flow
- 21:1121:11, 27 September 2024 diff hist 0 Abigail Becker →The Angel of Long Point: tweak order
- 21:0721:07, 27 September 2024 diff hist +163 Abigail Becker →Legacy: Relics from Abigail's life are displayed in the Eva Brook Donly Museum of Art and Antiques in Simcoe.<ref name="Pearce Becker Norfolk 1999" />
- 21:0521:05, 27 September 2024 diff hist +207 Abigail Becker →Legacy: On September 10th, 1958, a plaque honoring Abigail as the "Heroine of Long Point" was placed by the Archaeological and Historic Sites Board of Ontario at Port Rowan.<ref name="Pearce Becker Norfolk 1999" />
- 21:0121:01, 27 September 2024 diff hist +178 Abigail Becker →The Angel of Long Point: Abigail was offered a large amount of money to tour the United States for performances, but she declined, not wanting to be 'exhibited'.<ref name="Pearce Becker Norfolk 1999" />
- 20:5920:59, 27 September 2024 diff hist +49 Abigail Becker →The Angel of Long Point: +1860 & <ref name="Pearce Becker Norfolk 1999" />
- 20:5820:58, 27 September 2024 diff hist +162 Abigail Becker →The Angel of Long Point: The storm continued for four days, with the ''Conductor'' crew stranded at the Becker homestead until Jeremiah returned.<ref name="Pearce Becker Norfolk 1999" />
- 20:5620:56, 27 September 2024 diff hist +84 Abigail Becker →The Angel of Long Point: <ref name="Pearce Becker Norfolk 1999" />
- 20:5120:51, 27 September 2024 diff hist +1 Abigail Becker →Early life: update name
- 20:5120:51, 27 September 2024 diff hist +4 Abigail Becker 1830 or 1831
- 20:4820:48, 27 September 2024 diff hist +354 Abigail Becker →Early life: expand early life, not discrepency in year of birth reporting Tag: Disambiguation links added
- 20:4220:42, 27 September 2024 diff hist +430 Abigail Becker <ref name="Pearce Becker Norfolk 1999">{{Cite web|date=1999-12-24|title=Historical Highlights of Norfolk County; The Heroine of Long Point|last1=Pearce|first1=Bruce M. |url=https://norfolklore.com/nhh/ab_page1/|url-status=live|website=Norfolk Historical Society |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240927203644/https://norfolklore.com/nhh/ab_page1/|archive-date=2024-09-27}}</ref>
- 20:3120:31, 27 September 2024 diff hist +162 Abigail Becker →Legacy: The Abigail Becker Conservation Area today encompasses the area where her family farm stood in Norfolk County.<ref name="Augusteijn canadianencyclopedia 2008" />
- 20:3120:31, 27 September 2024 diff hist +197 Abigail Becker →The Angel of Long Point: Then Governor General of Canada, John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, also praised Abigail and mailed her directly.<ref name="Augusteijn canadianencyclopedia 2008" />
- 18:4518:45, 27 September 2024 diff hist 0 Abigail Becker →Later life: typo
- 18:4318:43, 27 September 2024 diff hist −11 Abigail Becker →The Angel of Long Point: ce
- 18:4318:43, 27 September 2024 diff hist −18 Abigail Becker →Early life: c/e
- 18:1018:10, 27 September 2024 diff hist +264 Abigail Becker →External links: +categories, none prior
- 18:0418:04, 27 September 2024 diff hist +75 Abigail Becker →Legacy: pull songs for now for sourcing, plus the poetry about her needs to be added. Add details about the hospital.
- 17:5717:57, 27 September 2024 diff hist +129 Abigail Becker →Later life: Becker was buried with her medals and a Bible gifted to her decades prior by Captain Dorr.<ref name="Fleming Becker 1946" />
- 17:5417:54, 27 September 2024 diff hist +331 Abigail Becker Abigail's actions were celebrated by the Canadian Parliament while meeting in Quebec City, and a motion was passed granting her family 100 acres of land in Norfolk County in thanks.<ref name="Fleming Becker 1946" />