I try to remain an active Wikipedian, though sometimes the pressures of the real world make that less likely. Given my editing tendancies I would consider myself a WikiOgre, though I've collected quite a healthy edit count. Somebody even called me a champion once.
John Rocque's maps of London were published in 1746. A French-born British surveyor and cartographer, John Rocque produced two maps of London and the surrounding area. The better known of these, depicted here, is a 24-sheet map of the City of London and the surrounding area, surveyed by Rocque and engraved by John Pine and titled A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark. Rocque combined two surveying techniques: he made a ground-level survey with a compass and a physical metal chain – the unit of length also being the chain. Compass bearings were taken of the lines measured. He also created a triangulation network over the entire area to be covered by taking readings from church towers and similar high places using a theodolite made by Jonathan Sisson (the inventor of the telescopic-sighted theodolite) to measure the observed angle between two other prominent locations. The process was repeated from point to point. This image depicts all 24 sheets of Rocque's map.Map credit: John Rocque and John Pine
...that the flèche is an aggressive fencing attack generally used with the foil and épée weapons, and is actually illegal to use with the sabre under USFA rules?
Whereas Staxringold has participated in the promotion of various and sundry lists and articles toward the admirable end goal of creating the Major League Baseball awards Featured Topic; and
Whereas the project expresses its appreciation to the participants for their hard work and dedication to furthering the coverage of the sport of Baseball; and
Whereas the aforementioned Featured Topic has been recognized by a group of peers and promoted to Featured Status on March 5, 2010—
Staxringold has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, I've officially declared today as Staxringold's day!
For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Staxringold!
Awarded to Staxringold, for outstanding content contributions during the 2010 WikiCup. J Milburn, Fox and The ed17J Milburn (talk) 00:07, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
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