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Here are my wiki article ideas. I may decide to proceed with a project or scrap it all together. Some article ideas may be personal wiki challenges, while others will welcome input from other wikipedians, however all projects and article ideas can be discussed here. The format of this section is not formal, but rather brain-storming, bulleted notes, and drafting of articles.

Globie & Harlem Globetrotters

Wikipedians are invited to help expand on this project idea. Discussion.
For creation of a main article: Globie
And inclusion of new info for article: Harlem Globetrotters
Notes/to do: Fix infobox (help at Template:Infobox) possibly even create the Infobox "Template:Infobox Basketball club Mascot". Include more images (help at Wikipedia:Images) and info sourced from external links. Find <ref> syntax and add citations.

External resource links

• Globie team member page at Harlem Globetrooters Website
• Globie at Harlem Globetrotters Wiki
• Globies - Harlem Globetrotters Twitter account
• Naismith Memorial: Basketball Hall of Fame - Globie presents Hall with ball from Space
• Big G at WalkAround Mascots

Draft Article Text

Globie

Globie with fans in Salzburg (March 29, 2007) Globie with fans in Salzburg (March 29, 2007) Team Harlem Globetrotters Website Official Website

Globie has been the mascot for the exhibition basketball team Harlem Globetrotters since 1993. The Globetrotters website states his birthday as April 22nd, recognised internationally as Earth Day.

Variations

Big G, Little G, and Mini G are Globie's "posse" and fellow mascots for the Harlem Globetrotters.

Cannabis in Australia

Wikipedians are invited to help expand on this artcle idea. Discussion.
For addition to one of the main articles:

• Hemp (perhaps in the "History" section)
• Cannabis (perhaps under the section "Aspects of Cannabis production and use")
• Cannabis (drug) cultivation (maybe creating a section "History of Cultivatiing Cannabis(drug)")
• Sir Joseph Banks (perhaps an addition to introduction that cannabis was first introduced to Australia by Joseph Banks - historical importance "Hunter Valley crop was intimately linked with the founding of Australia")^{(quoted from forum link)}

External resource links

• International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums (Get research links for the history shown in this post)
• Herer, Jack. Internet edition of The Emperor Wears No Clothes
• High Times - Global Harvest Report - Australia
• Jiggens, Dr John. Marijuana Australiana: Cannabis use, popular culture and the Americanisation of drugs policy in Australia, 1938-1988 QUT Thesis.
• Speech transcript Lee Rhiannan MLC of the NSW Greens at the launch of Dr John Jiggens book The Sydney Connection on 04 May 2004.
• Dr J Jiggens' personal website.
• Hemp cultivation Contract between Sir Joseph Banks, Edward Porter and others. 1st April 1801. Further primary source papers can be accessed at this site.
• Australia as a Hemp colony

Further reading

Campbell, Dr. Francis. 1846. A Treatise on the Culture of Flax and Hemp Sydney.

Draft article text

The origin of cannabis cultivation and use in Australia began with acclaimed botanist Sir Joseph Banks who arranged to have hemp seed sent to Australia from East India for the production of sails, uniforms, oakum, and rope. "The British government encouraged the hemp industry with bounties, grants of land, and free seed in all its colonies." ^{(quoted from forum link)} In 1803 Governer King wrote to Joseph Banks stating, "From a pint of hemp-seed, sent from India in 1802, I have now sown 10 acres for Government. A specimen of the rope is round the box that Cayley sends you, which I have desired may be carefully preserved. It grows with the utmost luxuriance, and is generally from 6 to 10 feet in height." ^{(quoted from forum link)}

The reference to "hemp-seed, sent from India" suggests that Governer King was in fact growing C. indica rather than C. sativa (preferred for its fibre quality) for his hemp production, as a distinction between cannabis varieties was yet to be made.

"Cannabis cigarettes, known variously as Joy’s Cigarettes or Cannadonna cigarettes, were also widely advertised in colonial Australia as a cure for asthma." ^{(quoted from forum link)}

On November 16, 1964 media reported that "the dreaded sex drug, marihuana" had been discovered growing wild along a 65km stretch of the Hunter River. It is now believed this prolific crop had resulted from colonial cultivation by the "Bell brothers — Archibald Bell and William Sims Bell — the first white settlers of Singleton in the Upper Hunter in 1823." ^{(quoted from forum link)} "Their father, Archibald Bell, believed that Australia should be a colony for the production of hemp and argued this case before the Bigge Royal Commission in 1819." ^{(quoted from forum link)} "In those days the view that Australia should be a hemp colony was widespread."^{(quoted from forum link)}

Where historically the cultivation of hemp had been important to the colonisation of Australia, the Hunter Valley discovery became a catalyst for marijuana prohibition in the country.

The Maitland Mercury, a local newspaper, revealed that “the plant did not need any special preparation. Flowering tops of the female plant or the leaves could be cut and dried and used immediately.” ^{(quoted from forum link)} Emboldened with curiosity, people began to search out the wild Hunter Valley cannabis for recreational use.

"The day after the story of the Hunter Valley crop broke, Inspector Blake of the Maitland Police warned “would-be marihuana hunters” that they would be charged with “possession of a narcotic”. As the Maitland Mercury reported: ‘Police fear that Maitland’s wild marihuana will fall into the hands of narcotic agents or teenagers “out for kicks.”’" ^{(quoted from forum link)}

"The day after the Hunter Valley crop was discovered, the NSW Department of Agriculture announced it would immediately begin a campaign of eradication: cannabis was classified as a noxious weed under the Local Government Act, and all hemp plants were to be destroyed." ^{(quoted from forum link)} The Customs Department eventually "estimated that 200 hectares of the Hunter Valley were heavily infested with cannabis, and the largest patch was over 40 hectares in size." ^{(quoted from forum link)}

Reports published by the Department of Customs and Excise confirm "farmers were being paid a bounty if they successfully dobbed in a weed raider." ^{(quoted from forum link)}

"The first busts of any size in Australia happened in the Hunter." ^{(quoted from forum link)}

Ultimately it took five years to exterminate the wild Hunter Valley crop in which time recreational use of cannabis became widespread over the east coast of Australia.

The eradication of the Hunter valley crop in the late 1960's meant recreational cannabis could only be sourced from international import of the drug or outdoor cultivation. In the 1980's indoor cultivation of cannabis for recreational use became popular in Australia.

"Now, the annual report of the Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence states: "Domestic production of hydroponically grown cannabis appears to have reduced the demand for imported herbal cannabis."^{(source High Times link)}

Multiple birth

Wikipedians are invited to help expand on this project idea. Discussion.
For addition to the main article: Multiple birth

Draft article text

Terminology

• One - Singleton
• Three or more - Higher Order Multiples (specify further terminology for HOMs in animal kingdom, such as Litter.)

Medical risks

• Why more modern deliveries of HOMs by caesarian section?

Human genetic and psychological studies

• Update Birth stats for triplets, identicals, natural vrs fertility treatments, identical vrs fraternal etc. with world view
• Human twin studies and main article, Twin study.
• Chimera (genetics)
• Controversial studies - Dionne quintuplets?
• Nature versus nurture

Cultural aspects

• Multiples through history
• Multiples in myth & legend - Native American creation myths - Hero Twins, Mayan Egret Woman (mother of twins and possibly triplets) (Grus:stork, Cynus:swan), Leda (impregnated by Zeus, mother of quads - Helen, Clytemnestra, Kastor and Polydeuces)

Wiki resource links and notes

• Maya Hero Twins (2nd generation twins)
• Popol Vuh
• Hun Hunahpu (One Hunahpu, 1st generation twin, father of Hero Twins and their half-brother's the Howler Monkey Gods - also twins)
• Seven Hunahpu (Vucub Hunahpu), twin of One Hunahpu, had no children.
• Research simularities, inconsistancies, and repetitions in the stories of Hero Twins, One and Seven Hunahpu, and the Howler Monkey Gods.
• XQuic (Blood Moon or Blood Woman) is the mother of the second generation Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque, who ultimately become the sun and the moon, respectively.

External resource links

• Book preview Maya calendar origins By Prudence M. Rice.
• Some info about Xb'aqiyalo Egret Woman (wife of One Hunahpu, mother of Howler Monkey Twins, and possibly mother of triplets).
• Complete Hero Twins myth
• Native American creation myths
• The Maya Creation Story by Gene Fernandez.
• God Checker - Mayan Mythology - funny but factual site.

In popular culture

• List of multiple births
• Category:Triplets
• Category:Fictional triplets

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