Note: the user name is Jdlh, with only one capital letter, even though Jim spells it with all capitals ("JDLH"). This is a legacy of technical limitations earlier in Wikipedia's history.
Jdlh is the same person as
User:JimDeLaHunt. The latter user name came to Wikimedia via the merger with Wikivoyage. I have not yet reconciled the two accounts. I tend to use JimDeLaHunt on Wikivoyage and Jdlh on Wikipedia, but there is some leaking across.
Until
July,
2005, he lived in
Palo Alto, California. He had a day job working in
Silicon Valley and was very heavily involved in civil rights work, particularly in winning the Freedom to Marry for same-sex families. As a result, he has learned a bit about the sociology and history of
marriage, and about
marriage equality.
Present Wikipedia interests:
Frank Brickle, draft article on US-Canadian composer
Account in German from de-nichilo.de
[11]. Includes text of article from the
Kieler Nachrichten newspaper from
February 5,
2002 about the salute and the reception in Washington.
"A noble urban legend that's true", Detroit News, The (MI) - November 6, 2001, article #3096 from the
News Library online archive. Full article 808 words long, and I haven't read it because I'm too cheap to pay for the article from the archive.
"Terror forges a new world order", by
PIERS AKERMAN, from The
Sunday Telegraph (
Sydney,
Australia), on
October 7,
2001, Sunday. 799 words. Reprints the email, and reflects that "The world changed in unimaginable ways for everyone on September 11. Old enemies have come together; new alliances have formed in the name of liberty." Also an example of the story being repeated outside the
United States.
"West has united against terror", by
Harold W. Andersen, from the
Omaha World Herald newspaper,
Nebraska on
October 1,
2001, Monday. 923 words. Includes excerpts from the email. Comments that, "What is the possible greater significance of this moving story? Consider that the sailor's letter to her father noted that 60 years ago - a relatively short time in the span of history - the United States was at war with Germany...."
"A Show Of Respect For The Fallen", by Lt.j.g.Kevin McHorney of the USS Doyle,
mayportmirror.com 092503
npr.org story on the incident. It includes an interview with the captain of the FGS Niedersachsen. He tells that the US commander was so surprised by the gesture that many of the crew missed it, so he asked the Niedersachsen to make a second pass for the Doyle's photographers.
www.embassymarine.org has the same photo, and what looks like a fairly complete copy of the email telling the story. The name of the email author isn't given.
www.dajudge.us has the photo and email of the Niedersachsen salute, plus another nice story about the
USS Kitty Hawk encountering a Russian ECM ship during a typhoon.
Different use of "We stand by you" slogan mentioned in "Europe's first CART race a go", article in the
Daily News newspaper of
Halifax, Nova Scotia on
September 14,
2001, pg. 57. 515 words. " The German newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt yesterday ran a full- page in support of the United States, anchored by the photo of an American flag buried in rubble and topped by a headline: Americans, We Stand By You." Available from
Proquest archive database (may require a fee).
"Power curve" article notes
Wikipedia has no article for the
Aeronautics (or
Aerodynamics) term "Power Curve". I want to write such an article. Here's some notes and sources.
"Power curve", "Back side of the power curve", "region of reversed command", "behind the [power] curve"
strange but true: there is no Wikipedia article on
Water as of
February 13,
2006. Appears to be a temporary glitch; Google has a cached copy of the article.