User contributions for Adam H Warren
A user with 31 edits. Account created on 6 February 2007.
22 April 2024
- 15:5515:55, 22 April 2024 diff hist +3 Évry Cathedral →Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament: "jaw stone" not attested in Shorter Oxford Dictionary or Websters: I have substituted "dulled stone" for clarity.
- 15:5015:50, 22 April 2024 diff hist +8 Évry Cathedral →Southeast side – main entrance: Spelling: "meurtrières"; added "arrow" to "slits".
- 15:4615:46, 22 April 2024 diff hist +1 Évry Cathedral →Botta and the truncated cylinder: Final full stop (period) added.
- 15:4415:44, 22 April 2024 diff hist −2 Évry Cathedral →Form
- 15:4315:43, 22 April 2024 diff hist +124 Évry Cathedral →History: Ticino Canton. A sentence re-ordering. Freising-Munich is the German diocese. Some minor punctuation amendments: missing full stops. A minor syntax amendment. Tag: Disambiguation links added
- 15:2915:29, 22 April 2024 diff hist +4 Évry Cathedral →Inspiration: amended isolated "Corbusier" to "Le Corbusier". Amended "not realised" to "not fulfilled".
- 15:2715:27, 22 April 2024 diff hist +40 Évry Cathedral →The bells: I've given the pitches of the peal: G, A, B, D, and E.
- 15:2215:22, 22 April 2024 diff hist +17 Évry Cathedral →Setting: "to be proportional with " amended to "designed to be in keeping with the height of the adjacent buildings"; "building" amended to "building complex". Minor punctuation changes.
- 15:1615:16, 22 April 2024 diff hist +6 Évry Cathedral →Chapel of the Holy Sacrament: Blessed Sacrament (2 instances): the standard English rendering for "le Saint Sacrement".
- 15:1515:15, 22 April 2024 diff hist −9 Évry Cathedral →Ceiling and skylights: at its edges windows shuttered by movable panels
- 15:1215:12, 22 April 2024 diff hist −10 Évry Cathedral →Nave: beween 800 and 1,500 worshippers
- 15:1115:11, 22 April 2024 diff hist +8 Évry Cathedral →Chancel: chœur > chancel (not "choir"; pulpit (ambon) > lectern; Gallery-Disambulatory > amended to "Deambulatory" to distinguish it from the upper "Galleries". Some minor puncttuation amendments.
- 15:0215:02, 22 April 2024 diff hist +56 Évry Cathedral →Interior: "chœur" translates as "chancel"; ambon: "lectern"; "assessors" is out of place. I have replaced it by "assisting clerics". Disambulatory doesn't appear to exits, and I have corrected "Gallery-Disambulatory" by "Deambulatory" to distinguish this feature from the upper "Galleries".
6 February 2024
- 08:3708:37, 6 February 2024 diff hist 0 m Philippe Kieffer "Bavant" spelling corrected to "Bavent" (Calvados) - I know the area.
10 January 2024
- 15:0915:09, 10 January 2024 diff hist −1 m Vidkun Quisling "abatement" is meaningless. I have replaced it by "abetment", i.e. complicity.
9 January 2024
- 15:3215:32, 9 January 2024 diff hist +5 m Noor Inayat Khan "vermeil" is "silver-gilt".
8 January 2024
- 15:5815:58, 8 January 2024 diff hist +6 m French Resistance "..."those Frenchmen making up charges, the cellar would have looked to them like Dante's Inferno.
- 15:5315:53, 8 January 2024 diff hist +8 m French Resistance '''Jour J,'' ("D Day")' - the English added for clarity.
- 15:4715:47, 8 January 2024 diff hist −2 m French Resistance Amended to "and many in the SOE preferred arming resistance groups in Yugoslavia, Italy and Greece rather than French ones." A more coherent and concise rendering.
- 15:4215:42, 8 January 2024 diff hist +2 m French Resistance "wildness" amended to "wilderness"
- 15:4015:40, 8 January 2024 diff hist +1 m French Resistance *should "in this manner" be amended to "in this matter"? This would be more coherent.
- 15:2615:26, 8 January 2024 diff hist +8 m French Resistance added after "leadership of": "the OCM" was assumed by Colonel Alfred Touny
- 15:2015:20, 8 January 2024 diff hist −1 m French Resistance What happended to the Jews *was* a secondary matter: corrected "were" to "was".
- 15:1815:18, 8 January 2024 diff hist 0 French Resistance I have corrected this single occurrence of "Freney", which surely should be spelt "Frenay" as in "Henri Frenay"
- 15:0615:06, 8 January 2024 diff hist −1 m French Resistance →1943: A mass movement emerges
15 April 2014
- 09:5109:51, 15 April 2014 diff hist +300 Félix Amiot →Further reading: Julian Jackson mentions Félix Amiot among the industrialist collaborators during WW2
4 April 2011
- 20:3320:33, 4 April 2011 diff hist +81 List of foreign recipients of the Légion d'Honneur by country →United Kingdom: I have added Graham Greene as a British recipient of the Légion d'Honneur. It is important to include this significant 20th-century author. I have documented the entry with a link to a website noting the award in 1967.
23 March 2011
- 08:5708:57, 23 March 2011 diff hist +78 List of foreign recipients of the Légion d'Honneur by country →United Kingdom: I have added Graham Greene as a British recipient of the Légion d'Honneur. I have not documented this, but it is important to include this 20th-century author.
7 February 2009
- 08:1208:12, 7 February 2009 diff hist +2 Penhaligon's →Company Information: "counts" amended to "accounts"
6 February 2007
- 21:4421:44, 6 February 2007 diff hist +4 Trajan's Column →Modern: Royal Holloway and Bedford New College: "New" added
- 21:4221:42, 6 February 2007 diff hist +254 m Trajan's Column →Inspired: added a reference to the eponymous weekly humorous article published in "Château" at Royal Holloway, London
