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Thank you for using the Sandbox for you're tests but plz reset the page everytime u r done

• No problem, I was in the progress of doing a rather large edit. Freedom to share _{3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510}

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File:Two ducks at Kew.jpeg

Those are Canada Geese, not ducks. :)

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Hi, I responded to you and moved the discussion to the Linux page, I think it's better to have it there. Cheers, Chris Pickett 22:16, 6 February 2007 (UTC) (P.S. I'm not particularly bothered by the whole thing; would be good to get someone else's opinion is all.)

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At the moment I was just using the lens that came with the Canon Rebel XTi. Oh and thanks for supporting the image. -- IvanTortuga 18:04, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

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Dear Freedom to share,

thanks for your support of my proposal of the Scutari map for Featured picture. It seems that the colleagues are not very much interested in maps, however they can be very beautiful and interesting.

For your information, you can find 200 such maps in the category "3rd Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary", uploaded by me. These were of course not scanned by me, but by the library of the Budapest university named ELTE. I did enhance a little the colours in the case of the Scutari map, because they were faded by the time. There were some notes in German about the original colours used, so I tried to reconstruct them.

Regards--Szilas 06:07, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

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