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Frame from Gertie the Dinosaur
Frame from Gertie the Dinosaur

Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 animated short film by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. He first used the film before audiences as an interactive part of his vaudeville act: the frisky, childlike dinosaur Gertie did tricks at his command. His employer, magnate William Randolph Hearst, later curtailed McCay's vaudeville activities, so McCay added a live-action introductory sequence to the film for its theatrical release. Gertie was the first film to use animation techniques such as keyframes, registration marks, tracing paper, the Mutoscope action viewer, and animation loops, and the first to feature a dinosaur. Gertie influenced the next generation of animators, including the Fleischer brothers, Otto Messmer, Paul Terry, and Walt Disney. McCay abandoned a sequel, Gertie on Tour, around 1921 after producing about a minute of footage. Gertie is the best preserved of his films—others are lost or in fragments—and has been preserved in the US National Film Registry. (Full article...)

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Hyacinth macaw

The hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) is a parrot in the family Psittacidae, native to central and eastern South America. With a length of around 1 metre (3.3 ft), it is longer than any other species of parrot. It is also the largest macaw and the largest flying parrot species. The hyacinth macaw mostly nests in manduvi trees; these trees rely on the toco toucan for the majority of their distribution of seeds, but that bird also feeds on a sizeable proportion of the hyacinth macaw's eggs. Habitat loss and the trapping of wild birds for the pet trade have taken a heavy toll on their population in the wild, so the species is classified as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. This hyacinth macaw eating a nut was photographed by the Rio Negro in the pantanal of Brazil.

Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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2012 notes

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2016 / Cowherd death

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I offer the Cowherd death to bring back the earliest date and to add variety. I can see that it's not a major event at the time, and that that counts against it.

Although it *is* a minor death at the time, it's important in the development of a significant [edit: global] social movement (vegetarianism). And it's also an interesting, quirky, piece of history.

His followers are also important in the Salford liberal culture - they helped found the Guardian newspaper, opposed the slave trade, founded a municipal graveyard, etc. So though he's not a household name, his life had ripple effects.

Anyway, I thought I'd create a talk page section so that you know where it came from, and it was offered in good faith. Ian McDonald (talk) 00:48, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The article does not mention the date of his death. --BorgQueen (talk) 01:29, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Of course. Thanks for explaining your revert here. I'd independently realised it and added it, with more info about his burial and inscription, before I got your revert notification. Ian McDonald (talk) 15:10, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@BorgQueen: (Just so that User talk:BorgQueen gets a notification) Ian McDonald (talk) 14:40, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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