Wikipedia:GLAM/Derby

GA & Featured Articles

• none as yet

Longer Articles

• Whitehurst & Son sundial (1812)

New shorter articles

• Joseph Whittaker (botanist)
• Matlockite
• Allenton hippopotamus
• Ashford Black Marble
• Richard Knill Freeman
• Indian Widow (Joseph Wright painting)
• Romeo and Juliet: the tomb scene
• Samuel Rayner
• The King of Rome
• William Hunt Painter
• Alfred E. Goodey
• The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus
• Benjamin Vulliamy
• Ronald Pope
• QRpedia
• oh, and lots more ... see the Multi-lingual challenge page

New stubs needing improvement

• Alfred John Keene
• Cathedral Quarter, Derby
• Virgil's Tomb (Joseph Wright painting)
• Hayman Rooke
• Heath Wood barrow cemetery

Significantly improved articles

• Ernest Townsend

Articles currently being drafted/improved

• The Flora of Derbyshire

Articles wanted

See : Orphans (aah Articles that could be written)

Articles in other languages

Existing short articles

• Joseph Wright of Derby in Italian
• Joseph Wright in Portuguese
• Joseph Wright of Derby in Norwegian Bokmal

Existing stubs

• Derby in Polish
• Muzeo kaj artgalerio de Derby, i.e. Derby Museum and Art Gallery in Esperanto
• Joseph Wright of Derby in Esperanto
• Joseph Wright of Derby in French
• Joseph Wright of Derby in Polish

New longer articles

• Cadran Solaire de Whitehurst & Son in French
• Rellotge de sol de Whitehurst & Son in Catalan

New stubs

• ja:ダービー博物館・美術館 Done. --Tomo_suzuki ( talk ) 16:28, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
• Derby in Albanian
• ডার্বি, i.e. Derby in Bengali
• Ντέρμπι, i.e. Derby in Greek
• डर्बी, i.e. Derby in Hindi
• डर्बी, i.e. Derby in Marathi
• Derby Museum and Art Gallery in Albanian
• Museum on Dēoraby, i.e. Derby Museum and Art Gallery in Anglo-Saxon
• Derby Museum and Art Gallery in German
• Derby Museum and Art Gallery in Basque
• Derby Museum and Art Gallery in Catalan
• Derby Museum and Art Gallery in Spanish
• Derby Museum and Art Gallery in French
• Μουσείο του Ντέρμπι, i.e. Derby Museum and Art Gallery in Greek
• डर्बी म्युसियम ऐंड आर्ट गल्लेरी, i.e. Derby Museum and Art Gallery in Hindi
• Derby Museum and Art Gallery in Dutch
• Derby Museum and Art Gallery in Portuguese
• Derby Museum and Art Gallery in Romanian
• Derventio (Little Chester) in Latin
• Richard Knill Freeman in French
• Matlockite in German
• Músaem agus Gailearaí Ealaíne Derby in Irish

Did you knows

• ... that Joseph Whittaker, who has 2,200 pressed plants in Derby Museum, sold 300 South Australian plants he collected in 1839–40 to Kew Gardens? (9 December 2010 930 hits)

• ... that the rare mineral Matlockite (PbFCl) (pictured) is named after a town in Derbyshire? (21 January 2011 6,000 hits)

  

• ... that Derby's Silk Mill is used as a design theme for the bobbins on the St Alkmund's Way Footbridge and a needle on the nearby swingbridge? (20 January 2011 1,600 hits to Silk Mill)

• ... that the Allenton hippopotamus was discovered in England in 1895 and is now in Derby Museum? (10 February 2011 5,629 hits)

• ... that during World War II, Derby Art Gallery's Ernest Townsend created camouflage designs to make Spitfire engine factories look like a village from the air? (22 February 2011 4,869 hits)

• ... that Derby Museum has a diagram of Ecton Hill (pictured) made from Ashford Black Marble and other minerals? (3 March 2011 2,537 hits)

• ... that in the first scientific study of fossils in English, William Martin speculated that horn coral (pictured) was a kind of bamboo and said another fossil was not a small crocodile tail? (6 March 2011 3,000 hits)
• ... that Richard Knill Freeman, who designed British municipal buildings, schools and museums, also designed a church in Moscow in the 1880s? (9 March 2011 1,600 hits)
• ... that Wright of Derby's painting of Romeo and Juliet: the Tomb Scene depicts Juliet (pictured) saying her final line "... Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!" in Shakespeare's play? (20 March 2011 6,000 hits)
• ... that Samuel Rayner, who painted the Derby Exhibition in 1839 (pictured), had one of his paintings exhibited in the Royal Academy when he was only 15? (2? March 2011 2,000 hits)
• ... that Wright of Derby's Indian Widow (detail pictured) was exhibited in 1785 at what may have been the first one-person-show in England? (25 March 2011 9,300 hits)
• ... that The King of Rome's skin is preserved in Derby Museum because he survived where other pigeons died? (21 April 2011 9,500 views)
• ... that the plant Fumaria painteri has only been found twice in Britain, and both times by the Rev. W. H. Painter? (27 April 2011 1,500 hits)
• ... that Alfred E. Goodey collected and commissioned paintings to record the history of Derby? (May 2011 500 hits)
• ... that Joseph Wright of Derby's painting, The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus (detail pictured), was only sold after his death, when all of his possessions were auctioned at Christie's? (10 May 2011 6,200 hits)
• ... tha English sculptor Ronald Pope learnt how to work with metals at Rolls-Royce during World War II? (? May 2011 2,900 hits)
• ... that the Atlas Coelestis (pictured) is a star atlas published posthumously in 1729, based on the First Astronomer Royal's observations? (May 2011 1,200 hits)
• ... that Benjamin Vulliamy, who designed the clock that defined time at the Prime Meridian, also designed clocks with porcelain cases? (30 May 2011 1,400 hits)
• ... that Joseph Wright of Derby's painting of Miravan's revulsion as he breaks open a tomb (detail pictured) is based on a story retold by John Gilbert Cooper? (June 2011 2,100 hits)
• ... that the bankrupt dandy "Champagne Charlie" sold his inheritance including the painting Earthstopper on the banks of the Derwent (detail pictured)? (June 2011 4,300 hits)
• ... that the 96,000 people who visited the The Derby Exhibition of 1839 (pictured) were able to view a coconut? (June 2011 4,500 hits)

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