User:Sunsetsunrise
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--Sunsetsunrise (talk) 20:45, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Articles to improve list[edit]
- McGill University I hope to get it to FA status. (Mainly on this)
- MechQuest To at least B level on the quality scale.
- Battle of Stalingrad I want to significantly add to it and regain its FA status.
- Nero Get it to FA, first peer review.
MechQuest[edit]
- Need to keep editing the article, get more refs
- Need to get attract more users to help with the article
- Expand the smaller sections.
- Get a reassessment of the article once all is done.
McGill University[edit]
Wait for peer review to have at least 4 replies- Begin to follow suggestions on review
- Get copyediting
REALLY NEED TO BEGIN!
Other[edit]
- Find out about images.
Asked PeterSymonds.
List of McGill University Miscellaneous Facts[edit]
This is a list of McGill University Miscellaneous Facts. McGill University is a major, public, research-intensive university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Harry Houdini[edit]
On October 22, 1926, after giving a performance in the McGill Union Ballroom, renowned magician Harry Houdini was punched several times in the abdomen by McGill theology student J. Gordon Whitehead. It is believed that these punches ruptured Houdini's appendix, which led to his death nine days later.[1]
Although Gordon Whitehead was never officially charged with the crime, he did sign an affidavit for Houdini's widow so that she could collect insurance under the double indemnity clause.[2]
McGill-Queen's University Press[edit]
McGill-Queen's University Press began as McGill in 1963 and amalgamated with Queen's in 1969. McGill-Queen's University Press focuses on Canadian studies and publishes the Canadian Public Administration Series. [3]
McGill in fiction and pop culture[edit]
- Dr. James Wilson — oncologist at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in FOX Network TV drama House is a McGill alumnus.
- Dr. Walter Langkowski, a fictional researcher from the Marvel Comics Canadian superhero series Alpha Flight. Langkowski was portrayed as McGill-based biophysicist researching the gamma radiation accident which created the Hulk. His discoveries transformed him into the superhero known as Sasquatch.
- Major Donald Craig, a Canadian commando serving with British special forces during World War II, portrayed by Rock Hudson in the 1967 war movie Tobruk is a McGill alumnus. Though the film was loosely based on real events, it is not clear whether or not Hudson's character was based on a real person. Most likely he was a pastiche character, given a Canadian background as cover for Hudson's inability to emulate a British accent.
- Lieutenant Alan McGregor, played by Gary Cooper in the movie Lives Of the Bengal Lancers (1935) is a McGill alumnus.