08:4108:41, 27 August 2020diffhist−2
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Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
replaced awkward and ambiguous linguistic surplusage from initial paragraph, and cured a staggeringly inept omission, namely the total lack of reference to the phrase in the Amendment barring the states from exercising any powers forbidden to them by the Constitution that are not necessarily delegated to the United States (e.g. powers that the Constitution asserts that no political entity within its jurisdiction may exercise.
18:3918:39, 17 September 2017diffhist−55
SMS Emden
Deleted destroyed oil and corrected date. Destroyed oil was part of a raid on the port of Madras on Sept. 22, 1914 and was not part of the Penang battleTags: Mobile editMobile web edit
23:2623:26, 24 May 2017diffhist+71
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Motorboating (disambiguation)
Eliminate redundancies, remove periods at end of entries, and redo link position per Wikipedia style manual for dab pages. Improve description of motorboating (sexuality).
15:2415:24, 23 May 2017diffhist0
m
Single-source publishing
Apply hyphenation rule to compound adjective in compound phrase. Chicago Manual of Style, AP Style Manual, preferred usage in Oxygen XML's website, etc. Did not edit non-hyphenated phrase when it was part of a title.
18:1518:15, 4 February 2017diffhist+2,140
Chlorpyrifos
→Residue: add recent news from EPA on recommended exposure tolerance levels and news about how EPA's scientific findings may be rejected for purely political and economic considerations.
16:2716:27, 8 January 2017diffhist+3
Yulia Tymoshenko
→Cultural and political image: Changed Yu to Tymoshenko in this sentence: "According to the Ukrainian magazine Focus Lady Yu was placed first in annual ranking of the most influential women in Ukraine in 2006–2010 (five years)."Tags: Mobile editMobile web edit
04:0904:09, 8 January 2017diffhist−41
Constantin Cantacuzino (aviator)
→World War II: Replaced irrelevant fact (duration of flight) with significant fact (liberated nearly 1300 POWs). Source: Stephen Ambrose, The Wild Blue: the men and boys who flew the b-24s over Germany 1944-45, p. 122.Tags: Mobile editMobile web edit
21 August 2016
20:2320:23, 21 August 2016diffhist+6
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Hajo Holborn
→Early life: Combine the first two sentences to clarify the subject of the second sentence. Ambiguity regarding use of pronoun "he" to start second sentence after first sentence introduces two persons with identical last name.
19:1319:13, 6 September 2015diffhist+170
Corporate personhood
Edit opening paragraph to emphasize the definition without altering it; move 2d paragraph (consisting solely of discussion of corporate personhood in U.S. legal history) to subsection on case law in the U.S.; clean up last paragraph
08:4108:41, 27 August 2020diffhist−2
m
Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
replaced awkward and ambiguous linguistic surplusage from initial paragraph, and cured a staggeringly inept omission, namely the total lack of reference to the phrase in the Amendment barring the states from exercising any powers forbidden to them by the Constitution that are not necessarily delegated to the United States (e.g. powers that the Constitution asserts that no political entity within its jurisdiction may exercise.
18:3918:39, 17 September 2017diffhist−55
SMS Emden
Deleted destroyed oil and corrected date. Destroyed oil was part of a raid on the port of Madras on Sept. 22, 1914 and was not part of the Penang battleTags: Mobile editMobile web edit
23:2623:26, 24 May 2017diffhist+71
m
Motorboating (disambiguation)
Eliminate redundancies, remove periods at end of entries, and redo link position per Wikipedia style manual for dab pages. Improve description of motorboating (sexuality).
15:2415:24, 23 May 2017diffhist0
m
Single-source publishing
Apply hyphenation rule to compound adjective in compound phrase. Chicago Manual of Style, AP Style Manual, preferred usage in Oxygen XML's website, etc. Did not edit non-hyphenated phrase when it was part of a title.
18:1518:15, 4 February 2017diffhist+2,140
Chlorpyrifos
→Residue: add recent news from EPA on recommended exposure tolerance levels and news about how EPA's scientific findings may be rejected for purely political and economic considerations.
16:2716:27, 8 January 2017diffhist+3
Yulia Tymoshenko
→Cultural and political image: Changed Yu to Tymoshenko in this sentence: "According to the Ukrainian magazine Focus Lady Yu was placed first in annual ranking of the most influential women in Ukraine in 2006–2010 (five years)."Tags: Mobile editMobile web edit
04:0904:09, 8 January 2017diffhist−41
Constantin Cantacuzino (aviator)
→World War II: Replaced irrelevant fact (duration of flight) with significant fact (liberated nearly 1300 POWs). Source: Stephen Ambrose, The Wild Blue: the men and boys who flew the b-24s over Germany 1944-45, p. 122.Tags: Mobile editMobile web edit
21 August 2016
20:2320:23, 21 August 2016diffhist+6
m
Hajo Holborn
→Early life: Combine the first two sentences to clarify the subject of the second sentence. Ambiguity regarding use of pronoun "he" to start second sentence after first sentence introduces two persons with identical last name.
19:1319:13, 6 September 2015diffhist+170
Corporate personhood
Edit opening paragraph to emphasize the definition without altering it; move 2d paragraph (consisting solely of discussion of corporate personhood in U.S. legal history) to subsection on case law in the U.S.; clean up last paragraph