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Was this part of the Afrika Korps or not? On its own page it says it was; on the Alamein Order of Battle page it's listed outside the DAK. Both can't be true. Ericoides ( talk) 05:59, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
The Comparison of alphabetic country codes lists and compares the country codes of ISO, IOC and FIFA. According to this, the FIFA deviates from IOC country codes in 23 cases. But apparently most other sporting federations and events strictly follow suit with the IOC. As far as I can see, the Commonwealth Games country codes were unified with IOC in 2010. World Chess Federation FIDE had but a few deviating country codes (Romania, Belize, Mauretania, and Trinidad & Tobago), but they also have been unified later. FINA codes are apparently the same, as are those of World Sailing and World Athletics. Are there still other fedrations left with thir own country codes lists, distinct from IOC - or is FIFA the only one? (Countries and territories not having an IOC code like England are not part of the question.) -- KnightMove ( talk) 06:39, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
I forget this memoir's title and the author's name and I might be wrong about the timing.
He was a c. mid-20th century British civil servant who wrote a memoir about his childhood in poverty and his parents' awful marriage. His mother was a teacher and academic; his father was a postman. They had nothing in common. He had a brother and the two boys seemed to be autodidacts who later got on in life, I think.
Years ago I asked this question and help deskers found the article, but I've lost the reference. I searched here, but I can't find it. Please help. Thanks in advance. Manytexts ( talk) 11:25, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
In the 1992 adaptation of Maigret Goes Home one of the characters tells the inspector off for smoking his pipe in the graveyard, saying something like "that is not permitted here". Maigret later makes reference to this when he is describing the character's law-abiding nature. Is/was this an actual law in France, or more of a custom? Thank you, DuncanHill ( talk) 13:28, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
I was alarmed by WSJ's data on tangible book values. For example, NWG is listed (Market data -> Quotes -> Financials) as having only $2.66 per share in tangible book. I saw another site using ycharts data, and the tangible book ratio there was less than 1; this seems to be corroborated by Investing.com, which lists (Quotes -> Financials -> Ratios) over $8/sh. for the same company. What gives? Imagine Reason ( talk) 14:53, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
Smith Whiting (Q108594078) was a wildlife photographer and naturalist, active in the UK in 1900s and 1910s. In 1905, his address was given as Carlton Road, Southampton. His work appears in The Birds of Hampshire (1905) by Kelsall & Munn, and in British Birds ( [1])and Nature ( [2]) at around the same time, and he is mentioned in The Peregrine Falcon at the Eyrie (1913), by Francis Heatherley. Can we source his dates, profession, and any other info? Was "Smith" a given name? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:39, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
@ Pigsonthewing: I can send you a pdf if you email me, I found it on the BNA. DuncanHill ( talk) 21:09, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
Catherine M. Clark (Q108544308), is described in:
as a "freelance journalist" who "contributed a weekly nature article for the past ten years" to the Westmoorland Gazette and whose writing and photographs appeared in several books. In the early 1940s, she also supplied several pictures to the correspondence pages of Country Life (suggesting, perhaps, that she was a 'lady of leisure'), when her address was given as "Fayrer Holme, Windermere" (now a hotel).
Hosking and Lowes note that "the effects of a bad radium burn" interfered with her career and that "news of her death has been reported" as their book went to press.
When and how did she die? Was the radium burn related to treatment for cancer, war work, or something else? Were any obituaries published?
Another source says that Fayrer Holme was occupied by two sisters who died in close succession. What were her family circumstances? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:19, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
I found a death notice, in The Times, 23 July 1946:
CLARK.—On July 19, 1946, at Fayrer Holme, Windermere, CATHERINE MARY, elder daughter of JAMES R. J. Clark and the late Mary Clark.
The Times of 23 January 1929, has a death notice for her mother, Mary Clark, who died 20 January 1929 at Fayrer Holme. The edition of 19 June 1947 has a death notice for her father, James Richard Joseph Clerk [SIC], died at the same location on 17 June 1947. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:25, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
The sister appears to be "Miss. F.M. Clark of Windermere" per [3]. The family were living in Huyton in 1899 and 1900. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:59, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
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Was this part of the Afrika Korps or not? On its own page it says it was; on the Alamein Order of Battle page it's listed outside the DAK. Both can't be true. Ericoides ( talk) 05:59, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
The Comparison of alphabetic country codes lists and compares the country codes of ISO, IOC and FIFA. According to this, the FIFA deviates from IOC country codes in 23 cases. But apparently most other sporting federations and events strictly follow suit with the IOC. As far as I can see, the Commonwealth Games country codes were unified with IOC in 2010. World Chess Federation FIDE had but a few deviating country codes (Romania, Belize, Mauretania, and Trinidad & Tobago), but they also have been unified later. FINA codes are apparently the same, as are those of World Sailing and World Athletics. Are there still other fedrations left with thir own country codes lists, distinct from IOC - or is FIFA the only one? (Countries and territories not having an IOC code like England are not part of the question.) -- KnightMove ( talk) 06:39, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
I forget this memoir's title and the author's name and I might be wrong about the timing.
He was a c. mid-20th century British civil servant who wrote a memoir about his childhood in poverty and his parents' awful marriage. His mother was a teacher and academic; his father was a postman. They had nothing in common. He had a brother and the two boys seemed to be autodidacts who later got on in life, I think.
Years ago I asked this question and help deskers found the article, but I've lost the reference. I searched here, but I can't find it. Please help. Thanks in advance. Manytexts ( talk) 11:25, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
In the 1992 adaptation of Maigret Goes Home one of the characters tells the inspector off for smoking his pipe in the graveyard, saying something like "that is not permitted here". Maigret later makes reference to this when he is describing the character's law-abiding nature. Is/was this an actual law in France, or more of a custom? Thank you, DuncanHill ( talk) 13:28, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
I was alarmed by WSJ's data on tangible book values. For example, NWG is listed (Market data -> Quotes -> Financials) as having only $2.66 per share in tangible book. I saw another site using ycharts data, and the tangible book ratio there was less than 1; this seems to be corroborated by Investing.com, which lists (Quotes -> Financials -> Ratios) over $8/sh. for the same company. What gives? Imagine Reason ( talk) 14:53, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
Smith Whiting (Q108594078) was a wildlife photographer and naturalist, active in the UK in 1900s and 1910s. In 1905, his address was given as Carlton Road, Southampton. His work appears in The Birds of Hampshire (1905) by Kelsall & Munn, and in British Birds ( [1])and Nature ( [2]) at around the same time, and he is mentioned in The Peregrine Falcon at the Eyrie (1913), by Francis Heatherley. Can we source his dates, profession, and any other info? Was "Smith" a given name? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:39, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
@ Pigsonthewing: I can send you a pdf if you email me, I found it on the BNA. DuncanHill ( talk) 21:09, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
Catherine M. Clark (Q108544308), is described in:
as a "freelance journalist" who "contributed a weekly nature article for the past ten years" to the Westmoorland Gazette and whose writing and photographs appeared in several books. In the early 1940s, she also supplied several pictures to the correspondence pages of Country Life (suggesting, perhaps, that she was a 'lady of leisure'), when her address was given as "Fayrer Holme, Windermere" (now a hotel).
Hosking and Lowes note that "the effects of a bad radium burn" interfered with her career and that "news of her death has been reported" as their book went to press.
When and how did she die? Was the radium burn related to treatment for cancer, war work, or something else? Were any obituaries published?
Another source says that Fayrer Holme was occupied by two sisters who died in close succession. What were her family circumstances? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:19, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
I found a death notice, in The Times, 23 July 1946:
CLARK.—On July 19, 1946, at Fayrer Holme, Windermere, CATHERINE MARY, elder daughter of JAMES R. J. Clark and the late Mary Clark.
The Times of 23 January 1929, has a death notice for her mother, Mary Clark, who died 20 January 1929 at Fayrer Holme. The edition of 19 June 1947 has a death notice for her father, James Richard Joseph Clerk [SIC], died at the same location on 17 June 1947. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:25, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
The sister appears to be "Miss. F.M. Clark of Windermere" per [3]. The family were living in Huyton in 1899 and 1900. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:59, 20 September 2021 (UTC)