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What is this foolishness about Charlie Duke finding 100,000 year old doubles of themselves on the moon?! I'm removing it as it is most likely a prank or disinformation. Besides, it is in a trivia section. 125.238.138.136 22:17, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
He had a dream while he was on the moon where this happened. It is mentioned in his autobiography and the film. "For All Mankind". I am a regular contributor but am on an unsecured wifi network now. I will sign in and add the appropriate references later this week. I am attending a speech he is giving in a few days. -- 24.218.11.38 ( talk) 20:44, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Why are the professions of his brother & niece included in the first paragraph of this page? They add nothing of value or interest & are not relevant to his career and the feat Charlie is best known for - walking on the Moon. 86.142.204.216 16:49, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
http://gizmodo.com/5377509/this-is-not-your-ordinary-family-photo
i though it might be revelant for someone with more wikiskills than me to add this little but very interesting fact —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.41.93.242 ( talk) 20:28, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I have added a tag on his high school for improvement-- Scoobynaiterpaul123 ( talk) 20:19, 4 March 2011 (UTC). Hey again! I have also added a new picture.-- Scoobynaiterpaul123 ( talk) 21:30, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
The article matches Duke's official bio, saying he graduated from Admiral Farragut Academy in St. Petersburg FL in 1953, so maybe it shouldn't be changed. However, I find this odd because the AFA he went to was in Pine Beach NJ. AFA was a prestigious all-boys military school in a sleepy NJ town near Toms River at the time. Many AFA kids would go on to the Navy, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marines. It had financial difficulty in the 1990s and had to shut its doors (the campus has since been sold and the buildings destroyed). But with wealthy and powerful alumni and a long history, it was able to reinvent itself as a coed, less military-oriented, prep school in Florida. Should this Wikipedia article say he graduated from AFA in Pine Beach NJ, to be more accurate? — Preceding unsigned comment added by BK DC ( talk • contribs) 14:40, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
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Leaving this here in case anyone wants to track it down, but did he get that Coors distributorship? Should probably mention that was his plan on leaving the corps.
<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20570089/florida_today/|title=Astronaut Corps Getting Thinner and Thinner|newspaper=Florida Today|location=Cocoa, Florida|page=11A|date=September 18, 1975|last1=Chriss|first1=Nicholas}}</ref>
See ref formatted above (used it in another article). Thanks! Kees08 (Talk) 09:39, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
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Should Coors ever try to market on the moon, they have two distributors who are already familiar with the territory: Alan B. Shepard (Houston), the first American in space and the fifth person to walk on the lunar surface; and Charles M. Duke (San Antonio) , the tenth man on the moon.
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What do you think of the Naval Academy photo? I created that one myself. I found the pic of his test pilot class on Commons, but it was not tagged with any of the astronauts. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:21, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
Will mostly be making changes like the ones I have made already, let me know if you object to any.
Integers greater than nine expressible in one or two words may be expressed either in numerals or in wordsHawkeye7 (discuss) 02:17, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
@ Hawkeye7: Just the last couple of points above and we can finish this up. Kees08 (Talk) 22:20, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
"He was no athlete, but played golf for the academy team."
"They went to Jamaica for their honeymoon, but came down with food poisoning."
"They met and befriended a young couple, Glenn and Suzanne House. Glenn was an architect, and he agreed to design them a house for $300."
"Duke contracted rubella (German measles) from Paul House, the son of Glenn and Suzanne House."
"Duke had always been fond of Coors Beer, which was only available in Texas around Dallas and El Paso at the time."
"The Lancaster News ran his picture on the front page along with the announcement of his acceptance." Fghijklmn45679 ( talk) 08:28, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
"His mother traced her ancestry back to Colonel Philemon Berry Waters (1775–1807), who fought in the American Revolutionary War.[2]". This is clearly wrong as the treaty ending the war was signed in 1783. 2600:1702:1D30:1690:F59D:5CA6:E8C:2823 ( talk) 07:28, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
Per a recent NYT article, and some Google searching, this guy was/is commonly known simply as " Colonel Duke" -- yet there's no mention of it in the article. I can't seem to find any reason *why* that is, but its unusual-ness seems to bear mention? DrewHeath ( talk) 13:38, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
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What is this foolishness about Charlie Duke finding 100,000 year old doubles of themselves on the moon?! I'm removing it as it is most likely a prank or disinformation. Besides, it is in a trivia section. 125.238.138.136 22:17, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
He had a dream while he was on the moon where this happened. It is mentioned in his autobiography and the film. "For All Mankind". I am a regular contributor but am on an unsecured wifi network now. I will sign in and add the appropriate references later this week. I am attending a speech he is giving in a few days. -- 24.218.11.38 ( talk) 20:44, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Why are the professions of his brother & niece included in the first paragraph of this page? They add nothing of value or interest & are not relevant to his career and the feat Charlie is best known for - walking on the Moon. 86.142.204.216 16:49, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
http://gizmodo.com/5377509/this-is-not-your-ordinary-family-photo
i though it might be revelant for someone with more wikiskills than me to add this little but very interesting fact —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.41.93.242 ( talk) 20:28, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I have added a tag on his high school for improvement-- Scoobynaiterpaul123 ( talk) 20:19, 4 March 2011 (UTC). Hey again! I have also added a new picture.-- Scoobynaiterpaul123 ( talk) 21:30, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
The article matches Duke's official bio, saying he graduated from Admiral Farragut Academy in St. Petersburg FL in 1953, so maybe it shouldn't be changed. However, I find this odd because the AFA he went to was in Pine Beach NJ. AFA was a prestigious all-boys military school in a sleepy NJ town near Toms River at the time. Many AFA kids would go on to the Navy, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marines. It had financial difficulty in the 1990s and had to shut its doors (the campus has since been sold and the buildings destroyed). But with wealthy and powerful alumni and a long history, it was able to reinvent itself as a coed, less military-oriented, prep school in Florida. Should this Wikipedia article say he graduated from AFA in Pine Beach NJ, to be more accurate? — Preceding unsigned comment added by BK DC ( talk • contribs) 14:40, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
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Leaving this here in case anyone wants to track it down, but did he get that Coors distributorship? Should probably mention that was his plan on leaving the corps.
<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20570089/florida_today/|title=Astronaut Corps Getting Thinner and Thinner|newspaper=Florida Today|location=Cocoa, Florida|page=11A|date=September 18, 1975|last1=Chriss|first1=Nicholas}}</ref>
See ref formatted above (used it in another article). Thanks! Kees08 (Talk) 09:39, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
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Should Coors ever try to market on the moon, they have two distributors who are already familiar with the territory: Alan B. Shepard (Houston), the first American in space and the fifth person to walk on the lunar surface; and Charles M. Duke (San Antonio) , the tenth man on the moon.
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What do you think of the Naval Academy photo? I created that one myself. I found the pic of his test pilot class on Commons, but it was not tagged with any of the astronauts. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:21, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
Will mostly be making changes like the ones I have made already, let me know if you object to any.
Integers greater than nine expressible in one or two words may be expressed either in numerals or in wordsHawkeye7 (discuss) 02:17, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
@ Hawkeye7: Just the last couple of points above and we can finish this up. Kees08 (Talk) 22:20, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
"He was no athlete, but played golf for the academy team."
"They went to Jamaica for their honeymoon, but came down with food poisoning."
"They met and befriended a young couple, Glenn and Suzanne House. Glenn was an architect, and he agreed to design them a house for $300."
"Duke contracted rubella (German measles) from Paul House, the son of Glenn and Suzanne House."
"Duke had always been fond of Coors Beer, which was only available in Texas around Dallas and El Paso at the time."
"The Lancaster News ran his picture on the front page along with the announcement of his acceptance." Fghijklmn45679 ( talk) 08:28, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
"His mother traced her ancestry back to Colonel Philemon Berry Waters (1775–1807), who fought in the American Revolutionary War.[2]". This is clearly wrong as the treaty ending the war was signed in 1783. 2600:1702:1D30:1690:F59D:5CA6:E8C:2823 ( talk) 07:28, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
Per a recent NYT article, and some Google searching, this guy was/is commonly known simply as " Colonel Duke" -- yet there's no mention of it in the article. I can't seem to find any reason *why* that is, but its unusual-ness seems to bear mention? DrewHeath ( talk) 13:38, 3 November 2023 (UTC)