c7da7856bf
Merge changes from current as of 20200406
2020-04-08 14:03:04 +00:00
a9be058835
Update entries for North and South Yemen, since the two countries were
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united a long time ago (according to WikiPedia).
Thanks, wiz, for double-checking!
2016-06-28 09:27:26 +00:00
32b1c97b7e
Fix typo.
2016-06-28 09:17:06 +00:00
ce296c4c72
Missed one.
2016-06-28 00:16:57 +00:00
5be0c85005
Merge updates from PR bin/42576
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XXX Any typos are mine, not those of the PR submitter!
2016-06-28 00:15:40 +00:00
4b939f034f
Fix two lines which were broken by previous commit. Noticed by Thomas
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Klausner.
2005-10-12 15:33:41 +00:00
099795b92c
misc/31566: Jaap Boender: update African and Asian capitals to the
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current situation.
2005-10-12 15:14:27 +00:00
995abc5571
Sulfur|Sulphur -> Sul[f|ph]ur
2005-08-14 21:19:35 +00:00
2b5ff6359d
Sulfur -> Sulfur | Sulphur
2005-08-14 21:17:37 +00:00
5b7baeda3b
er, forgot the C{a}esium change in the last
2005-08-14 20:31:34 +00:00
0874287eda
1) Update atomic weights.
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The weights here are taken from
http://www.iupac.org/publications/pac/2003/7508/7508x1107.html
and have been rounded to four significant figures in all cases.
In the case of elements that have no isotopes stable enough for
reasonable measurement, numbers have been updated from Zumdahl,
"Chemistry", Fifth edition and are presented (as before) in parentheses.
2) Cesium is now C{a}esium
3) A number of new elements have been added at the end of the periodic
table.
2005-08-14 20:28:25 +00:00
a2a84a1ed5
Aluminum -> Alumin{i}um
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Aluminium is really the official name, but doing it this way allows
entry of either answer.
2005-08-14 19:34:50 +00:00
4156b28f30
Sulphur -> Sulfur
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Although the traditional spelling in commonwealth countries is
"Sulphur", the official IUPAC name of the element is "Sulfur", and
even the Royal Society of Chemistry now spells it "Sulfur".
2005-08-14 17:45:17 +00:00
3b4f381581
Sort list, and add Nunavut, which has been a Canadian province since 1999.
2005-05-02 15:48:58 +00:00
245f508216
Cyprus is part of Europe, not Asia. Turkey is currently listed in both
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Europe and Asia, I'm leaving it that way.
2005-05-02 15:39:27 +00:00
9ea9920e14
The current President of the United States is George Walker Bush, not George
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Walker Bush, Jr. (his father was George Herbert Walker Bush).
2005-05-02 15:29:59 +00:00
c1e0ba8801
Yugoslavia has changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro.
2003-03-29 17:54:44 +00:00
cd2ce25e12
The Hague is not the capital of the Netherlands. Reported by Hugo van
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Galen <hugo@Dot.net> (in the Netherlands) and Florian Boehl
<flo@namensraumverschmutzung.net>.
2003-03-29 17:54:00 +00:00
d9308b55e8
remove spurious ^A's and ||
2002-08-20 13:49:11 +00:00
25e280d9bf
Typo fixes. From OpenBSD.
2001-07-10 16:56:39 +00:00
06f3cba6d2
The capital of Mordor is _not_ Minas Morgul.
2001-01-12 04:33:51 +00:00
793ecee1b1
CNN, BSD declare Bush winner.
2000-12-14 02:38:02 +00:00
aec3f4964a
Correct capital of the Philippines, allow usual spelling of Jakarta
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and prefer the usual name of Cambodia to Khmer.
Problems reported by Robert Vollmert <rvollmert@gmx.net>.
2000-04-09 22:37:40 +00:00
b5df0f4b98
Fix capital of Monaco. It should be Monaco rather than Monte Carlo;
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checked with CIA World Factbook.
Problem reported by <capo@writeme.com>.
1999-12-16 14:13:23 +00:00
52c6bf2220
Change quiz `pres' data file to include vice-presidents, and fix some
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minor errors.
From OpenBSD.
1999-09-14 20:04:02 +00:00
9c30da9453
Update, from PR bin/5829 by Joseph Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
1998-07-24 23:13:25 +00:00
1705f47464
some more presidents, via tsarna@endicor.com in PR 4957
1998-02-09 07:05:35 +00:00
e9f6264b87
Add missing space between play and act.
1997-07-06 11:20:10 +00:00
ff7a5b906d
A more interesting set of machines (PR#645).
1996-06-02 23:37:33 +00:00
765b078fbc
src/games/quiz from Lite
1995-04-22 08:35:52 +00:00
70efa792bd
Two corrections from George Robbins (confirmed by `The lore of the train'
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by C. Hamilton Ellis).
1995-01-08 20:01:44 +00:00
5bfb98b1c8
added quiz from net-2
1993-04-04 10:49:24 +00:00
martin