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Narrator[edit]

How do I get Windows 10 to narrate - speak - a wikipedia article?

Settings, Ease of Access, Narrator. --Viennese Waltz 15:03, 26 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Dust Bowl[edit]

Is there any info on how high was the total death toll from the Dust Bowl (from all causes -- dust pneumonia, malnutrition/starvation, heatstroke/dehydration in the desert while on the way to the West Coast, suicide, etc.)? 2601:646:8A01:B180:D04D:1AEA:82F8:896D (talk) 12:58, 26 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This article says 7,000 for "dust pneumonia", but I have failed to find a more reliable source. Alansplodge (talk) 21:14, 26 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

potatoes[edit]

In this article when it says to bag the potatoes are they saying all potatoes including sweet potato or have I got it wrong?https://web.archive.org/web/20110707013735/http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/carbohydrates/index.html

It doesn't make it clear, it just says "bag" (i.e. don't eat) potatoes. I would have thought the author isn't talking about sweet potatoes, only about normal potatoes, but who knows. --Viennese Waltz 15:36, 26 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

FYI this article gives the basic differences between sweet and regular potatoes. I know it is not an answer to the original question but there is info that might be of interest. MarnetteD|Talk 15:47, 26 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Name for global signposts[edit]

Is there a name for the type of (not very serious) signpost one finds in many places, showing direction and (huge) distance to global cities? ---Sluzzelin talk 23:49, 26 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe Fingerpost. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:10, 27 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No, that just identifies the style of sign, not the "distance to global cities" thing. --174.94.31.124 (talk) 04:03, 27 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Are you the OP? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:30, 27 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No, just someone who prefers answers to be pertinent (but is unable to provide one in this case). --174.94.31.124 (talk) 07:20, 27 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note the caption for the photo in Sister city. Unless you think it's impertinent. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 07:41, 27 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

How about "global fingerpost"? I don't think that there is a standard name. Just because a black sheep is a sheep, doesn't mean all sheep are black. Similarly fingerposts.-- SGBailey (talk) 07:50, 27 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

International signpost gets plenty of nicely illustrated Ghits.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 08:27, 27 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, everyone! ---Sluzzelin talk 12:47, 27 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The best known in the UK is the one at Land's End in Cornwall - it is just called the Land’s End Signpost. Alansplodge (talk) 10:56, 28 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

While not as well known (perhaps because not as many tourists get that far north) there is one at John o' Groats as well. I'm lucky enough to have my picture taken at both - though it was so long ago that they were takern with a camera that had actual film in it :-) MarnetteD|Talk 14:02, 28 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Commons' category Fingerposts in Antarctica has some special ones too, and I really like Signpost in Charlotte, North Carolina, pointing to other Charlottes! ---Sluzzelin talk 14:44, 28 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]