User:PedanticallySpeaking/Articles
I'm a lifelong Ohioan and am interested in, among other things, Ohio history, Ohio lands, Ohio school districts, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Congress, copyright, Richard M. Nixon, Vice Presidents of the United States, (especially William R. King), railroads, the United States Constitution, Pearl Harbor, the events leading up to the entry of the U.S. into World War II, bibliography, libraries, newspapers (especially those in Cincinnati, Ohio and New York, New York), property tax, London, England, San Francisco, California, islands of the Pacific Ocean, Britain's colonies (e.g. Pitcairn Island, Tristan da Cunha, Falkland Islands, British Indian Ocean Territory),movies and television, the Academy Awards, and Latin.
My first contribution was on August 9, 2004.
Articles I've written are (by category):
Pop culture: Dawson's Creek, Kevin Williamson, Michelle Ingrid Williams, Harve Presnell, James T. Aubrey, Jr., Julia Stiles, Margaret Herrick.
Supreme Court: John McLean, Pierce Butler, Samuel Freeman Miller, James Clark McReynolds, Four Horsemen, David Josiah Brewer (started), Joseph Philo Bradley (started), John Catron (started), John Hessin Clarke (started), George Shiras, Jr., John Archibald Campbell (started), Stephen Johnson Field, Edward Terry Sanford (started), Peter V. Daniel (started), Horace Gray (started), Robert Cooper Grier.
Congress: Sen. John McLean (Illinois), the Bricker Amendment, Frank Cremeans, Clarence E. Miller, Clarence J. Brown, Clarence J. Brown, Junior, Bob McEwen,
Ohio History: Little Miami Railroad, The Western Star, Symmes Purchase,
Other: Wilson Edgar Terry, Kentucky colonel, Berniece T. Hiser, John Morton Eshleman, General Land Office, Hugh W. Sloan, Jr., Cox Communications
I'm preparing articles on the Postal savings; John H. Reagan, Postmaster General of the Confederacy; Paul Stupin, a producer of Dawson's Creek; director Carl Dudley; Lowell Thomas; two important copyright cases Wheaton v. Peters and Donaldson v. Beckett; Supreme Court reporers such as Richard Peters and Cranch, plus an expansion of Alexander J. Dallas; an expansion of the Katie Holmes article; inventor Ralph J. Stolle, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary; Supreme Court nominees not confirmed (e.g. Homer Thornberry);and a rewrite of 10 Things I Hate About You.