User:Charlesdrakew

Charles

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This user comes from Sussex.

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This user can make The Spinning Dancer turn both ways.

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This user believes that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is as likely as creationism.

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CHARLES lives in southern England.

Gender; Male.

Interests include; conservation, ecology, gardens, shotokan karate.

I mainly work on articles relating to southern England and rivers and Roman roads, plus anything else that catches my interest. I take lots of photos wherever I go to upload to commons.

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Princess Ida is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was Gilbert and Sullivan's eighth operatic collaboration, preceding The Mikado. Princess Ida opened at the Savoy Theatre in 1884 and ran for 246 performances. Based on the narrative poem The Princess by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the opera concerns a princess who founds a women's university and teaches that women are superior to men and should rule in their stead. Prince Hilarion, to whom she had been betrothed, sneaks into the university, and a war erupts between the two sexes. Princess Ida satirizes feminism, women's education and Darwinian evolution, controversial topics in conservative Victorian England. Princess Ida was only a modest success, and after its initial run, it was not revived in London until 1919. Nevertheless, the piece is performed regularly today by both professional and amateur companies. This watercolour-and-pencil-on-card image by C. Wilhelm shows his costume design for the characters of Arac, Guron and Scynthius in the 1884 production of Princess Ida.Costume design credit: C. Wilhelm; restored by Adam Cuerden

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Spell Checkers

Here are some spelling checkers to assist you in your Wikipedia editing. Please spell check before you save an article. (Also nice for spot checking articles).

Mozilla Firefox add-on for U.S English, also British, Canadian, Australian and South African.
Google Toolbar offers spell checking in various languages for Internet Explorer.
A well-designed spell checker for Internet Explorer is ieSpell.
For Mozilla Firefox textboxes, there's SpellBound.
Konqueror uses Aspell if it's installed and set up in your KDE Control Center.
A good stand-alone spell checker for English Wikipedia pages is Inspyder InSite. (The free version is good enough for fixing Wikipedia articles.)
The macOS universal spell checker is available in Wikipedia's "edit this page" mode while using Safari and in theory any other Cocoa-based browser.

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