Talk:John Torrington

A fact from John Torrington appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 July 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that when John Torrington's corpse was exhumed 138 years after his death, it was almost perfectly preserved?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/July.

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Problems with references, cleanup

This article has a number of problems with its references -- some do not, I feel, come from what WP considers reliable sources -- "Mummy Tombs" and "Find a Grave" in particular. The WP main entry on Franklin's lost expedition contains a good bibliography, which can and should be used to source the details on Torrington's career. I'll work on this much as I can.

I've linked the first sentence of the "Northwest Passage Expedition" to this main entry, and deleted the reference to the number of men. It would be misleading, in any case, to say how many men sailed from Greenhithe -- 134 -- since five of these men were invalided and sent back from Greenland, and only 129 men (Franklin included) actually were on the expedition.

I do want to do what I can to make this article accurate and complete; the photograph of Torrington's grave here was taken by me in April of 2004, and I'm the author of the biography of Franklin on the Elisha Kent Kane Society's website, which is among the references here.

Clevelander96 (talk) 12:52, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ice mummy pictures?

It would be very interesting to put the ice mummy picture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.168.223.232 (talk) 09:43, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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