King Hildebrand

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Hello, welcome, and thanks

Four months is too long without a proper hello. I keep an eye on a few months worth of date articles, and you edited one. About a third to half of these edits are useless or worse. Your edits, of course, were fine, and I noticed no one had ever left a message on your talk page. You probably already know most of the stuff on the Welcome message, but it still seemed a good way to say hello, welcome, and thanks. Rklawton 19:15, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

How Falkirk Wheel's caissons are kept level.

(From Talk:Falkirk Wheel) I tried to visualise in my mind how the gears work to keep the caissons level, but ran into difficulties trying to animate it! This section calls out for a diagram of the workings so that the less engineering-literate, like myself, can understand it better. Is there a public domain picture of this, or can someone with suitable knowledge and skills produce one? That aside, I concur with the general view that this is a very informative and interesting article. --King Hildebrand 15:12, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

I have created a detailed explanation at User:RealGrouchy/FalkirkGearing, using Lego technic gears to demonstrate the principle used on the Falkirk Wheel. I hope you enjoy it! --RealGrouchy 03:32, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Ditchling Beacon

I have added a reply to your question at my talk page. Regards, Hassocks5489 18:31, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

2CV advertisements

Hi... annoying when that happens - I prefer Firefox and Opera myself. I think it's a matter for the site owner. Perhaps the Wikipedia article should say "doesn't work with Firefox"? Anyway, I'm a bit behind with other stuff... so maybe mention it on the talk page, or just be bold and make a note on the page, or if you find a better link, change it. --Chriswaterguy talk 12:29, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Lewis and Harris

(duplicate from L&H talk page) There are also dozens of islands split between Chile and Argentina, e.g. Tierra del Fuego. Perhaps if the Tamil Tigers get their way, Sri Lanka may have two names. And then there's Cyprus, which is horribly divided, but more or less retains the same name. --MacRusgail 16:10, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Lunar tides

I think you are right. Please see my two-cents I've added to that discussion topic. Greg L (my talk) 04:54, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

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