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24 June 2026

  • 21:1121:11, 24 June 2026 diff hist +153 Morgan Freeman →Quotes: {Holiday movie project - Juneteenth} In the attribution subtext below the just-added quote where Freeman discusses the US Civil War movie "Glory" (1989), I added links to the Wikiquote page for "Glory (film)", to the Wikipedia page for "1989 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards" and a link to a 1989 review of the movie in the New York Times. current
  • 20:5920:59, 24 June 2026 diff hist +103 Morgan Freeman →Quotes: {Holiday movie project - Juneteenth} In the text of the just-added quote where Freeman discusses the US Civil War movie "Glory" (1989), I added links to the Wikiquote page for "American Revolution" and to the Wikipedia pages for "Military history of African Americans" and "United States Colored Troops".
  • 20:5220:52, 24 June 2026 diff hist +572 Morgan Freeman →Quotes: {Holiday movie project - Juneteenth} I added a quote Freeman made while discussing his role in the US CIvil War movie, "Glory" (1989): "African Americans have fought and died in every conflict this nation was involved in, from the Revolutionary War onward . . . . We are Americans, and we fought and died to be Americans." The quote is from a New York Times article about the movie written by Glenn Collins.
  • 20:1420:14, 24 June 2026 diff hist −8 m Glory (film) {Holiday movie project - Juneteenth} Minor word order switch in the first sentence of the lead paragraph. current

22 June 2026

  • 22:4222:42, 22 June 2026 diff hist +154 Glory (film) {Holiday movie project - Juneteenth} In the Intro section's first sentence, I added links to the Wikiquote page for "Prejudice", and to the Wikipedia pages for "54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment', "United States Colored Troops", "American Civil War", "Union army" and "Confederate States Army".
  • 22:2822:28, 22 June 2026 diff hist +61 Glory (film) {Holiday movie project - Juneteenth} In the Intro section's first sentence, I changed "Glory is a 1989 film about the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer regiment as they fight . . ." to "Glory is a 1989 film about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the first African American regiments in the US Civil War, as they fight . . . ."
  • 21:5421:54, 22 June 2026 diff hist −17 Glory (film) →Quotes about Glory: {Holiday movie project - Juneteenth} Oops - I changed the link connecting Morgan Freeman's name in the attribution subtext beneath his quote from his Wikipedia page to his Wikiquote page.

21 June 2026

  • 22:3222:32, 21 June 2026 diff hist +157 Glory (film) →Quotes about Glory: {Holiday movie project - Juneteenth} In the attribution subtext below the just-added quote from Morgan Freeman, I added links to the Wikipedia pages for "Morgan Freeman" and "1989 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards", as well as a link to a 1989 review of the movie in the New York Times.
  • 22:2122:21, 21 June 2026 diff hist +103 Glory (film) {Holiday movie project - Juneteenth} In the text of the just-added quote from Morgan Freeman, I added links to the Wikiquote page for "American Revolution" and the Wikipedia pages for "Military history of African Americans" and "United States Colored Troops".
  • 22:0422:04, 21 June 2026 diff hist +552 Glory (film) {Holiday movie project - Juneteenth} I added a new section header entitled "Quotes about 'Glory'". I also added a quote from Morgan Freeman (who portrayed Sergeant Major John Rawlins in the movie): "Black men have fought and died in every conflict this nation was involved in, from the Revolutionary War onward. We are Americans, and we fought and died to be Americans." The quote is from a 1989 review of "Glory" in The New York Times written by Glenn Collins.

11 September 2025

  • 01:5001:50, 11 September 2025 diff hist −193 Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey →External links: I deleted the now-dead links to two streaming video services which no longer have Cosmos: ASO available to stream, and added one that does now which was not available when I created this page in 2016 (it's Tubi, and it's free). I also changed the Amazon link from a link hawking the Cosmos: ASO DVD box set to the Amazon Prime page to stream the series.

10 September 2025

30 June 2025

29 June 2025

  • 22:4822:48, 29 June 2025 diff hist +62 Saving Private Ryan →Dialogue: {Holiday movie project: Memorial Day - belated for 2025} In the dialogue segment that ends with Captain Miller revealing that he was formerly a schoolteacher, I linked Private Reiben's contention that "little Jimmy's life is a little bit more important than two of our guys!" with Roger Ebert's 1998 movie review of "Saving Private Ryan" where Ebert discusses essentially the same idea.
  • 22:3822:38, 29 June 2025 diff hist +231 Saving Private Ryan →Dialogue: {Holiday movie project: Memorial Day - belated for 2025} In the dialogue segment that ends with Captain Miller revealing that he was formerly a schoolteacher, I added links to the Wikiquote page for "Loss," to the Wikipedia pages for "German prisoners of war in northwest Europe," "Military order (instruction)," "List of World War II firearms of Germany {'Machine_guns' secction}," "Mission-type tactics," and "Defensive fighting position," and to the Wiktionary page for "decent."

28 June 2025

  • 21:3021:30, 28 June 2025 diff hist +30 Saving Private Ryan →Dialogue: {Holiday movie project: Memorial Day - belated for 2025} In the dialogue segment where Private Reiben tells Captain Miller that if he had to do it over again, "I'd shoot myself before I ever got off the damn boat," I added a link to the Wikipedia page for "Suicide in the military."
  • 21:2521:25, 28 June 2025 diff hist +75 Saving Private Ryan →Dialogue: {Holiday movie project: Memorial Day - belated for 2025} In the dialogue segment where Private Reiben misquotes Romans 8:31 as "If God's on our side, who the hell could be on theirs?" and Corporal Upham gives him the correct quote, I added a link to the New International Translation's rendering of Romans 8:31 on Bible Gateway {"If God is for us, who can be against us?"}.
  • 21:0421:04, 28 June 2025 diff hist +52 Saving Private Ryan →Dialogue: {Holiday movie project: Memorial Day - belated for 2025} In the dialogue segment where Captain Miller tells Sergeant Horvath that "This Ryan better be worth it," I added links to the Wikiquote page for "Killed in action," and to the Wikipedia page for "Saving Private Ryan {'Cast' section}."
  • 20:5320:53, 28 June 2025 diff hist +24 Saving Private Ryan →Dialogue: {Holiday movie project: Memorial Day - belated for 2025} In the setting prologue for the dialogue segment where Captain Miller speaks first with Captain Hamill and then tells the wrong Private Ryan {from Minnesota} that his brothers are dead, I added a link to the Wikipedia page for "Neuville-au-Plain."

19 June 2025

  • 23:4023:40, 19 June 2025 diff hist +227 12 Years a Slave (film) →Dialogue: {Holiday movie project: Juneteenth} In the dialogue between Birch and Solomon Northup, I added links to the Wikipedia pages for "Solomon Northup," "Free Negro," "Kidnapping into slavery in the United States {'Prevention and rescue' section}," and "Fugitive slaves in the United States." I also added a link to a page from the Smithsonian showing the tin used by a free black person to carry documentation proving their free status prior to the Civil War.
  • 22:5122:51, 19 June 2025 diff hist +29 12 Years a Slave (film) {Holiday movie project: Juneteenth} In the introductory sentence, I changed the link originating with the word "slavery" from the Wikiquote page for "Slavery" to the Wikiquote page for "Slavery in the United States."
  • 20:3920:39, 19 June 2025 diff hist +34 12 Years a Slave (film) →Other: {Holiday movie project: Juneteenth} I added a link to the Wikipedia page for "Black Codes (United States)."
  • 20:2420:24, 19 June 2025 diff hist +445 12 Years a Slave (film) →John Tibeats: {Holiday movie project: Juneteenth} I added links to the Wikiquote page for "Escape," to the Wikipedia pages for "William Prince Ford," "Plantation complexes in the Southern United States," "Fugitive slaves in the United States," "Slave patrol" {2 links}, and "Run, {N-word}, Run," and to relevant non-Wikimedia pages from Enyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia.com and PBS.
  • 19:3419:34, 19 June 2025 diff hist +4 12 Years a Slave (film) {Holiday movie project: Juneteenth} In the introductory sentence I added a link to the Wikiquote page for "Slavery."
  • 17:4417:44, 19 June 2025 diff hist +164 12 Years a Slave (film) In the subtext quotes beneath the three already-placed images for this page, I added links to the Wikiquote pages for "despair" and "freedom," and to the Wikipedia pages for "Treatment of slaves in the United States {'Living conditions' section}," "The Bible and slavery," and "Torture of slaves in the United States {'Whips and similar' section}."
  • 00:0100:01, 19 June 2025 diff hist +139 12 Years a Slave (film) →Edwin Epps: I added links to the Wikipedia pages for "Parable of the Faithful Servant {'Narrative' section}," "Torture of slaves in the United States {'Whips and similar' section}" and "The Bible and slavery."

18 June 2025

  • 23:5123:51, 18 June 2025 diff hist +73 12 Years a Slave (film) →Solomon Northup: {Holiday movie project: Juneteenth} I added links to the Wikiquote pages for "Despair" and "Freedom," and to the Wikipedia page for "Treatment of slaves in the United States {'Living conditions' section}."
  • 23:4223:42, 18 June 2025 diff hist +195 12 Years a Slave (film) {Holiday movie project: Juneteenth} In the introductory sentence, I added links to the Wikipedia pages for "History of slavery in New York (state)," "Free Negro," "Kidnapping into slavery in the United States," "Slavery in the District of Columbia," and "Slave trade in the United States."

5 June 2025

  • 00:1900:19, 5 June 2025 diff hist +70 Saving Private Ryan →Dialogue: {Holiday movie project: Memorial Day - belated for 2025} I added links to the Wikipedia pages for "History of Berlin {'Second World War' section}" and "Operation Magic Carpet."
  • 00:0700:07, 5 June 2025 diff hist +303 Saving Private Ryan →Dialogue: {Holiday movie project: Memorial Day - belated for 2025} I added links to the Wikipedia pages for "Operation Overlord {'Beaches' section}," "Bernard Montgomery {'Normandy' section}," "Battle for Caen," "Saint-Lô {'World War II' section}," "Battle of Saint-Lô," "Valognes," "Operation Cobra {'Planning' section}," "Cherbourg {'Second World War' section}," "Battle of Cherbourg," "Paris in World War II," and "Liberation of Paris."

4 June 2025

  • 22:3422:34, 4 June 2025 diff hist +249 Saving Private Ryan →Dialogue: {Holiday movie project: Memorial Day - belated for 2025} I added links to the Wikiquote page for "Home," to the Wikipedia pages for "Captain (United States O-3)," "Command hierarchy {'Military chain of command' section}," "United States Army Rangers," "Major (United States)," "Sir {'Military and police' section}," "Bazooka," and "2nd Ranger Battalion {'Omaha Beach' section }," and to the Wiktionary page for "foul up."
  • 21:5221:52, 4 June 2025 diff hist +219 Saving Private Ryan →Dialogue: {Holiday movie project: Memorial Day - belated for 2025} I added links to the Wikiquote pages for "Brotherhood," "Mothers," "Alfred, Lord Tennyson {'The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)' section}," and "Death," and to the Wikipedia pages for "Unit cohesion," "Soldier's Creed," "Military order (instruction)," "Sniper," "Sniper rifle," and "Adolf Hitler."

3 June 2025

  • 23:2023:20, 3 June 2025 diff hist +116 Saving Private Ryan →Dialogue: {Holiday movie project: Memorial Day - belated for 2025} I added links to the Wikipedia pages for "Saving Private Ryan {'Cast' section}," "Corporal {'United States Army' section}," "Salute {'U.S. Armed Forces' section} and to the Wiktionary page for "motor pool."
  • 22:5322:53, 3 June 2025 diff hist +332 Saving Private Ryan →Dialogue: I added links to the Wikiquote page for "Safety," to the Wikipedia pages for "Omaha Beach {'Infantry landings' section}," "Fog of war," "Vierville-sur-Mer," "Neuville-au-Plain," "Squad," "101st Airborne Division" a separate link to the "101st Airborne Division {'Operation Overlord' section}," and "Company (United States Army)," and to an Encyclopedia Britannica page that contains facts and figures related to the Omaha Beach landings.

1 June 2025

16 May 2025

9 May 2025

  • 19:4719:47, 9 May 2025 diff hist +476 David Souter I added a new section, "Quotes about Souter" and a statement by SCOTUS Chief Justice Roberts: "Souter served our Court with great distinction for nearly twenty years. He brought uncommon wisdom and kindness to a lifetime of public service. He will be greatly missed."
  • 19:2319:23, 9 May 2025 diff hist +5 m David Souter Sadly, Justice David Souter died yesterday. I changed the lead sentence to reflect his dates of birth and death.

1 May 2025

  • 21:3921:39, 1 May 2025 diff hist +80 Saving Private Ryan →Dialogue: {Holiday movie project: Memorial Day} In both instances on the page as it exists today where the abbreviation “BAR” is used, I changed “BAR” to “B.A.R.” and then added a link from that term to the Wikipedia page for “M1918 Browning automatic rifle.”
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