User:Dino/Articles I wrote

Articles I wrote or at least started (in at least close to chronological order)

• Gothic, Colorado (Almost, but not quite a Colorado ghost town.)
• Neerchokikoo (Deserved filled in.)
• Johnson Granite Porphyry (Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park. Needed filled in.)
• Siletz Reef (Lincoln County, Oregon) (Needed filled in.)
• Graveyard of the Great Lakes (Needed filled in.)
• Paleotsunami (Needed filled in.)
• Oregon Buttes (Needed filled in.)
• Witch Hill (The Salem Martyr) (Am a descendant of Rebecca Nurse.)
• Let Us Break Bread Together (I grew up singing that in church.)
• Intrusive Suite of Merced Peak (Yosemite National Park)
• Schnebly Hill Formation (Sedona, Arizona)
• Cayuse Five (Unpleasant history, in my native Pacific Northwest)
• Shaman Rock (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal. I've been near.)
• The Examination of a Witch (painting) (A painting.)
• Hellscape (Because.)
• John Lewis Dyer (A Colorado figure. Because.)
• Nehalem Bank (Oregon)
• Ellipsoidal dome (Why? Because.)
• Elliptical dome (Why? Because.)
• Family curse (So many references, and no article existed?)
• Fractal curve (Mathematics)
• Elaine Nicpon Marieb (Deserved filled in)
• Central-peak crater (craters)
• The highest mountains of Yosemite National Park (Yosemite National Park, Tuolumne Meadows area)
• False White Mountain (Yosemite National Park, Tuolumne Meadows area)
• Excelsior Mountain (Yosemite) (Yosemite National Park, north of Tuolumne Meadows)
• Mount Florence (Tuolumne Meadows) (Yosemite National Park)
• Granite Domes of Yosemite National Park (Yosemite National Park)
• Kuna Crest (Yosemite) (Yosemite National Park, near Tuolumne Meadows)
• Mammoth Peak (Yosemite National Park) (Yosemite National Park, near Tuolumne Meadows)
• Echo Peaks (Toulumne Meadows) (Yosemite National Park, near Tuolumne Meadows)
• Cockscomb (Tuolumne Meadows) (Yosemite National Park, near Tuolumne Meadows)
• Mono Pass (Yosemite National Park) (Really outside Yosemite National Park, via Tuolumne Meadows)
• Hiking, rock climbing, and mountain climbing around Tuolumne Meadows (Tuolumne Meadows)
• Multi-ringed basin (impact craters)
• Intrusive Suite of Sonora Pass (In and near Yosemite National Park)
• Intrusive Suite of Yosemite Valley (Yosemite National Park)
• Tuolumne Intrusive Suite (Yosemite National Park)
• Intrusive Suite of Buena Vista Crest (Yosemite National Park)
• Bloody Ploughman (An apple)
• Sweet Sixteen (apple) (An apple)
• Juan de Fuca Canyon (A big one. Needed filled in.)
• Quileute Canyon (Needed filled in.)
• Astoria Fan (Needed filled in.)
• Quinault Canyon (Needed filled in.)
• Motobu Peninsula (On Okinawa, Japan. Have crossed it.)
• Katsuren Peninsula (On Okinawa, Japan. Have been there.)
• Sentinel granodiorite (Lived in Yosemite Valley.)
• Kuna Crest Granodiorite (Lived in Yosemite Valley.)
• Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Tuczno) (Have been there.)
• El Capitan Granite (Lived in Yosemite Valley.)
• Half Dome Granodiorite (Lived in Yosemite Valley.)
• Weighted catenary (Deserved to be filled in.)
• Parabolic arch (Am a math nerd.)
• Catenary arch (Have seen a few. Deserved to be filled in.)
• Jahu (Himachal Pradesh) (India)
• Lost Blue Bucket mine (A lost mine. I'm from Oregon, grew up hearing the legend.)
• Angle trisection (Mathematics. Wrote from redirect; made a full article.)
• Geology of the Pacific Northwest (I'm from the Pacific Northwest, if a mathematician, not a geologist.)
• Phrases from Hamlet in common English (Shakespeare. Read the whole thing, three times, taking notes of common phrases.)
• Giant Forest (I once lived there.)
• Sierra Nevada Batholith (I just did granite dome)
• Granitic dome (I used to live in Yosemite National Park)
• Highway mirage (I saw so many of these in the Oregon desert as a kid)
• Feedback loop (Converted from a redirect page to a full-fledged article)
• Law of Truly Large Numbers (mathematics, pseudoscience)
• Yaquina Head (Beautiful place I've been to many times, in my home state of Oregon)
• The Song of the Stormy Petrel (Something I translated from Russian.)
• Ashcroft v. Raich (US Supreme Court Case.)
• Soviet atomic bomb project (No one had previously touched this important history?!.)
• Sabbath Breaking (For the fun of it. I've done a lot of it these past years ...)
• Victory disease (A military term. I wrote the first draft right after Bush's 2004 victory. Woe to him who does not learn the lessons of history ...)
• Willamette Meteorite (Oregon)
• Cockaigne (A medieval legend)
• Cascadia Earthquake (An earthquake in my native Northwest.)
• Ward Hill Lamon (Abraham Lincoln's bodyguard. Filled in for the joy of writing & researching of it.)
• The Vanishing Hitchhiker (An urban legend that I heard as a child.)
• Willie Sutton (An American criminal who never said "Because that's where the money is".)
• Great Sand Dunes National Monument and Preserve (Part of my adopted state of Colorado.)
• Red Cloud (Native American leader. He was the most successful of all native leaders in his wars against the US military, and deserved to be filled in.)
• Theodore Parker (American Unitarian minister, abolitionist, and a controversial interesting person..)
• Godwulf of Asgard (My brother does genealogy, and I was as suprised as anyone to discover I descended from a figure from Norse mythology. I descended from Odin too, but He already has an article.)
• Tin pest (Chemistry. An autocatalytic reaction of the metal tin.)
• Gehenna (See next, Fire and Brimestone.. A religious thing. I filled it in for the heck of it & because I found writing & researching it interesting.)
• Fire and brimstone (A religious thing. I filled it in for the heck of it & because I found writing & researching it interesting.)
• Siloviki (A Russian thing)
• Quietism (Christian sect. Needed filled in. I turned it into a disambiguation page; I spun off the original as a separate article at Quietism (Christian philosophy))
• Epic Western (On a genre of the Western movie.)
• Cyanide process (Chemistry. A controversial gold mining technique.)
• Sullivan Act (A controversial gun control question in New York City. Deserved an article; it traces to 1911.)
• Teton Dam (A horrible failure of the United States Bureau of Reclamation in my native American West.)
• O'Shaughnessy Dam (I used to live in Yosemite National Park, and am well aware of the controversial issues surrounding this dam, John Muir,"Dam Hetch Hetchy!", the San Francisco Water Board, and Donald Hodel,. Deserved to be filled in, but needs more detail.)
• Oregon Constitution (A stub I did on my home state's constitution only because it needed filled in.)
• Vote-by-mail (A stub I did. Needed filled in.)
• Bonneville Dam (A stub I did on a dam in my native Northwest)
• Buck Owens (A stub I did for no good reason than the fact it was there.)
• Crittenden-Johnson Resolution (A smallish article relating to the American Civil War.)
• Open Range (2003 film) (A Western movie. Deserved it's page filled in.)
• Copperheads (politics) (A political group during the U.S. Civil War.)
• The Virginian (novel) (Wild West stuff. I'm a Western native.)
• Norse Saga (I have read a few in English & love their style. )
• compos mentis & non compos mentis (Two stub articles I wrote because they were there.)
• Habu snake (A snake that lives on Okinawa.)
• Chief Ouray (A missing link in the next.)
• Alferd Packer (America's only convicted cannibal, and the name of a college grill at the next.)
• University of Colorado at Boulder (My alma mater, where I went to grad school in mathematics, leading to the next article ...)
• Campbell-Hausdorff formula (Initial page on a mathematical topic.)
• Perfect crime (A stub I did for no good reason than the fact it was there.)
• Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (Info on an American author and abolitionist.)
• Two Years Before the Mast (Info on the previous author's most famous work. )
• Freethought (Yes, Virginia, there are a skeptics and freethinkers in the USA. Out of the closet! A freethinker and proud!.)
• Junker (Wrote to fill in a non-existent link in the next. )
• Revolution_of_1848 (A lot of writing that took a long time, & has several sub-pages. Interests me because some of my German ancestors came to America as result of the failures of 1848.)
• Battle_of_Vicksburg (And several of its main sub-pages, on the American Civil War.)
• Fort_Donelson (American Civil War.)
• Battle_of_Palmito_Ranch (The last land battle of the American Civil War.)

Smallish articles or stubs I wrote or at least started

• Boulder Theater (Because)
• Dish Garden (Because)
• The Great Offshore Grounds (Novel) (Read it.)
• Tumalo Volcanic Center (Oregon Cascades.)
• Florence Hutchings (Lived in Yosemite Valley.)
• Rock Corral on the Barlow Road (Oregon.)
• Tunguska Basin (Siberia. Have been there.)
• Volcanogenic (Geology)
• Creatures that once were Men (Maksim Gorki story. Read it, a long time ago.)
• Heat dome (There was no article on this important topic?!.)
• Asiatic Low (It needed filled in.)
• Krymsky Val (Moscow. It needed filled in.)
• Nanda Devi Glacier (India. It needed filled in.)
• Dakshini Nanda Devi Glacier (India. It needed filled in.)
• Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve (Why? Because)
• Oregon's Matterhorns (Why? Because)
• Paleoshorelines (Why? Because)
• Stonewall Bank (Lincoln County, Oregon) (By Newport. Mom's parents lived there; have been there, many times.)
• Terraced wall (Why? Because)
• Cantilevered stairs (Because)
• Washington Column (Yosemite)
• Catia Bastioli (She deserved an article)
• Brooke Borel (She deserved an article)
• Abbot Pass (Clackamas County, Oregon) (Oregon)
• Cline Hill Summit (Lincoln County, Oregon) (Biked over it, in 1986)
• The Senate (Sequoia grove) (Sequoia National Park)
• The House (trees) (Sequoia National Park)
• Giant Forest Museum (Sequoia National Park)
• A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (Read it. It deserved filled in)
• Tidal strait (It deserved filled in)
• Boulder Oil Field (It deserved filled in)
• Mount Andrea Lawrence (Yosemite) (Yosemite National Park)
• Virginia Peak (Yosemite) (Yosemite National Park)
• Twin Peaks (Yosemite) (Yosemite National Park)
• Donohue Peak (Yosemite) (Yosemite National Park)
• White Mountain (Yosemite) (Yosemite National Park)
• Whorl Mountain (Yosemite) (Yosemite National Park)
• Foerster Peak (Yosemite) (Yosemite National Park)
• Electra Peak (Yosemite National Park, in Tuolumne Meadows area)
• Subcrop (geology) (geology)
• Ragged Peak (Yosemite National Park, in Tuolumne Meadows area)
• West Quarter Dome (Yosemite National Park, in Yosemite Valley area)
• Lamb Dome (Tuolumne) (Yosemite National Park, in Tuolumne Meadows area)
• Hetch Hetchy Dome (Yosemite National Park, in Tuolumne Meadows area)
• South Whizz Dome (Tuolumne) (Yosemite National Park, in Tuolumne Meadows area)
• North Whizz Dome (Tuolumne) (Yosemite National Park, in Tuolumne Meadows area)
• Hammer Dome (Tuolumne) (Yosemite National Park, in Tuolumne Meadows area)
• East Cottage Dome (Tuolumne) (Yosemite National Park, in Tuolumne Meadows area)
• West Cottage Dome (Tuolumne) (Yosemite National Park, in Tuolumne Meadows area)
• Drug Dome (Yosemite) (Yosemite National Park, in Tuolumne Meadows area)
• Dog Dome (Tuolumne) (Yosemite National Park, near Tuolumne Meadows)
• Doda Dome (Yosemite) (Yosemite National Park, near Tuolumne Meadows)
• Simmons Peak (Tuolumne Meadows) (Yosemite National Park, near Tuolumne Meadows)
• Tioga Peak (Yosemite National Park, near Tuolumne Meadows)
• Unicorn Peak (Toulumne Meadows) (Yosemite National Park, near Tuolumne Meadows)
• Puppy Dome (Yosemite) (Yosemite)
• Marmot Dome (Yosemite National Park) (Yosemite)
• Mariolumne Dome (Yosemite)
• Harlequin Dome (Yosemite)
• Dozier Dome (Yosemite)
• Young Lakes (Yosemite National Park) (Yosemite)
• Soda Springs (Yosemite National Park) (Yosemite)
• Lyell Meadow (Yosemite)
• Elizabeth Lake (Yosemite National Park) (Yosemite)
• Tuolumne Peak (Yosemite National Park) (Yosemite)
• Johnson Peak (Tuolumne Meadows) (I climbed it, in 1987)
• Golconda Thrust (Geology)
• Golden Sweet (apple) (An apple.)
• Ballyfatten (apple) (An apple.)
• Bailey Sweet (apple) (An apple.)
• Airlie Red Flesh (An apple.)
• Aia Ilu (An apple.)
• Malinda (apple) (An apple.)
• Asperity (faults) (Earthquakes.)
• Surface Rupture (Earthquakes.)
• Euler measure (Mathematics.)
• Aquatic sill (Needed filled in.)
• Katsuren Peninsula (On Okinawa, Japan. Have been there.)
• Intrusive suite (Geology)
• Magmatic foliation (Geology)
• Aggregate (geology) (Geology)
• Color index (geology) (Geology)
• Melanocratic mineral (Geology)
• Primocryst (Geology)
• Kakinohana gusuku (Okinawa)
• Uegusuku Castle (Tomigusuku) (Okinawa)
• Starry vault (Needed filled in)
• Nootka Fault (Needed filled in. Out of chronological order)
• Exfoliating granite (Geology)
• Twin Peaks (Sequoia National Park) (Climbed the highest)
• Oling, Netherlands (Have ancestors from Oling)
• Peak ring (crater) (Needed filled in)
• Line of thrust (Needed filled in)
• River fork (Needed filled in)
• Akigawa River (Japan)
• North Fork Dam (Clackamas County, Oregon) (Estacada, Oregon)
• North Fork Reservoir (Clackamas County, Oregon) (Estacada, Oregon)
• Silliman Pass (Climbed it, in Sequoia National Park)
• Mount Silliman (Climbed it, in Sequoia National Park)
• Kings-Kaweah Divide (Sequoia National Park)
• Thioacetone (Chemistry. A foul-smelling compound.)
• Neskowin Ghost Forest (Oregon coast.)
• Left Hand Canyon (Boulder, Colorado.)
• Uegusuku Castle (Okinawa Island.)
• Nago Castle (Okinawa Island.)
• Sashiki Castle (Nanjō) (Okinawa Island.)
• Tamagusuku Castle (Okinawa Island.)
• Kyan Castle (Okinawa Island.)
• Itokazu Castle (Okinawa Island.)
• Gushikawa Castle (Itoman) (Okinawa Island.)
• Chinen Castle (Okinawa Island.)
• Tomigusuku Castle (Okinawa Island.)
• Fanfare-Rondeau (Classical music.)
• Bearpaw Meadow (Have been there.)
• Cresset (Just filled in.)
• Réseau (Encountered the term in John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, wanted to know what it meant, wrote the article.)
• Garlic breath (I can't believe I wrote something this silly)
• Resolvent cubic (Spun off)
• Khuzhir, Irkutsk Oblast (I was there, summer 2009)
• Herpestes lemanensis (Species of mongoose)
• Colorado Division of Water Resources (Colorado)
• Colorado Department of Agriculture (Colorado)
• Water in Colorado (Colorado)
• Colorado Community Colleges Online (Colorado)
• Twenty-six Men and a Girl (Something I read in the original Russian it was written in)
• Cazadero Dam (Raised next to it)
• Justus D. Barnes (an American film actor)
• Chichester Canal circa 1828 (a painting)
• Carter constant (Physics)
• Horse Heaven, Oregon (Ghost town in Oregon)
• Russian famine of 1601 - 1603 (Russian History)
• Original of what redirected to International copyright agreements — no article on this important subject?
• The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (A painting)
• Two-dimensional graph (mathematics— no article about this?!)
• Three-dimensional graph (mathematics— no article about this?!)
• Spintria (Roman thing, rather sexual.)
• Supernumerary rainbow (jollies.)
• Iridescent Cloud (for kicks.)
• Great ellipse (mathematics, geometry.)
• Milo McIver State Park (Area of Estacada, Oregon, where I was raised.)
• Magnetic South Pole (Needed split off.)
• Magnetic North Pole (Needed split off.)
• Irrational rotation (mathematics.)
• Foul papers (Shakespeare.)
• Second folio (Shakespeare.)
• First quarto (Shakespeare.)
• Crystal Cave (Sequoia National Park) (I've been there.)
• Bergþórshvoll (A setting in Njal's Saga.)
• The Peasant Wedding (A painting. Wrote from a redirect)
• Lithium-based grease (It's a long story ...)
• Colorado Shakespeare Festival (Boulder, Colorado event)
• Conference on World Affairs (Boulder, Colorado event)
• Kaweah peaks (A sub-range of the Sierra Nevada. Plus Black Kaweah, Red Kaweah, Kaweah Queen, and most notably, Mount Kaweah, which I once climbed)
• Dime Western (A sub-genre of the Western)
• Probabilistic number theory (Math)
• J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement (Literature)
• Gísla saga (Classic, Icelandic Norse Saga I have read.)
• Jeane Dixon effect (pseudoscience)
• Chagan (nuclear test) (Soviet atomic bomb project)
• RDS-37 (Soviet atomic bomb project)
• Joe 4 (Soviet atomic bomb project)
• Thunderegg (Oregon's state rock.)
• Shotgunning (cold reading) (Pseudoscience.)
• Wickard v. Filburn (US Supreme Court case.)
• Organochlorine compound (A class of pesticide.)
• Alan Nunn May (A spy.)
• Pentachlorophenol (A pesticide.)
• Property is theft! (Anarchist slogan.)
• United States v. National City Lines Inc. (US Supreme Court case.)
• William Hopper (I grew up watching Perry Mason.)
• Entelechy (Philosophical term.)
• Elkhorn Range (Oregon geography.)
• Hairshirt (A Catholic thing — and I was raised Protestant.)
• Awamori (Booze I drank in Okinawa)
• Pikes Peak or Bust (Colorado history)
• Fifty-Niner (Colorado history)
• Urquhart Castle (A castle by Loch Ness, Scotland into which I snuck after hours. Saw no monsters.)
• Mineral Information Institute (For the heck of it.)
• Kadena Air Base (I worked there when I lived in Japan.)
• Wecta (Mythology.)
• Train wreck (For the heck of it.)
• Crystal Power (I'm a skeptic.)
• Cucking stool (Needed an article.)
• Fremont Pass (Colorado) (Colorado geography)
• The Simple Art of Murder (Detective fiction I once read)
• Measure zero (Mathematics)
• Snake River Plain (Western geography)
• Mount of the Holy Cross (Colorado mountain)
• Boxcar Willie (Country singer)
• List of Oregon mountain ranges (Oregon geography)
• Donner Pass (California geography)
• Alvord Desert (Oregon geography)
• Steens Mountain (Oregon geography)
• Expectancy effect (Paranormal investigation)
• Diversionary dam (Needed filled in.)
• Fibrous root ( Well, I did the next, ...)
• Taproot (For kicks)
• Yaquina (A tribe & a placename in Oregon)
• Spinneret (Spiders.)
• Crazy Woman Creek (Wyoming geography.)
• California Spangled cat (Filled in for kicks.)
• The Mysterious Stranger (Novella by Mark Twain.)
• Bridge of the Gods (On my native Northwest.)
• Bonneville Slide (On my native Northwest.)
• Privateer (A link in an article that referred back to the original article. Fixed..)
• Ruritania (For kicks.)
• Sadie Hawkins (For kicks. I grew up reading Li'l Abner.)
• Fifty-Four Forty or Fight (American history.)
• Byssus (For the heck of it.)
• Comma splice (English usage.)
• Seiche (Small article I did for kicks. I'm a skeptic, and seiches are common sources of Loch Ness Monster myths.)
• Coastal Range (Stub I did for kicks. I was raised behind Oregon's coast range.)
• Rain shadow effect (Stub I did for kicks. I was raised in one.)
• Yurt (Stub I did for kicks.)
• Red ochre (Stub I did for kicks.)
• White flag (Stub I did for kicks.)
• Sylvia Brown (A psychic fraud. Why do I waste time on junk like psychics?)
• The Long Goodbye (A mystery by Raymond Chandler. Deserved to be filled in.)
• Farewell, My Lovely (Chandler again. One of the best damn writers I have read.)
• Hypnopompic state & Hypnagogic state (I'm a skeptic, and these deserved to be filled in, as they are common sources of Out-of-Body-Experiences.)
• Psychic detective (A psychic fraud.)
• Roll on, Columbia (A song I grew up singing, growing up in the Northwest. My original on this was pretty small; someone else filled in a lot of detail.)

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Oh, get real.

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