Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Douglas Adams across 4 places, from 1952 to 1999.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Douglas Adams is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Douglas Adams was documented, and when
11 March 1952exact date
Cambridgeattested“Douglas Noël Adams was born in Cambridge on 11 March 1952 to Christopher Douglas Adams, a management consultant and computer salesman who formerly worked as a probation officer, and nurse Janet Dora Sydney Adams (née Donovan).”source: Wikipedia: Douglas Adams
1983year
Los Angelesattested“The couple lived in Los Angeles together in 1983 while Adams worked on an early screenplay of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy film.”source: Wikipedia: Douglas Adams
1985year
Madagascarattested“In 1985, the World Wildlife Fund and The Observer organised for Adams and naturalist Mark Carwardine to travel to Madagascar to search for the endangered aye-aye.”source: Wikipedia: Douglas Adams
1999year
Montecito, Californiaattested“Adams and his family moved to Montecito, California, in 1999 when the film was close to being made, but it remained in development hell.”source: Wikipedia: Douglas Adams
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In each of these, a source puts Douglas Adams and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
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1971year
Innsbruckmentioned“Adams first conceived of the title in 1971 while he lay drunk in a field in Innsbruck gazing at the stars.”source: Wikipedia: Douglas Adams
October 1993month
New Mexicomentioned“While working in New Mexico in October 1993 he began posting to his own USENET newsgroup.”source: Wikipedia: Douglas Adams
April 2001month
San Franciscomentioned“He was a keynote speaker at the 1996 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) and the April 2001 Embedded Systems Conference, both held in San Francisco.”source: Wikipedia: Douglas Adams
17 September 2001exact date
St Martin-in-the-Fieldsmentioned“A memorial service was held on 17 September 2001 at St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square—the first church service broadcast online by the BBC.”source: Wikipedia: Douglas Adams
June 2002month
Highgate Cemeterymentioned“His ashes were interred in Highgate Cemetery, London, in June 2002.”source: Wikipedia: Douglas Adams
Two people documented in the same place in the same year is a correlation, not a meeting.
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How to read this page
Every line above is a dated fact taken from a source, with the sentence it came from and a link
back to it. Nothing is inferred, and a gap in the record is not evidence that someone was elsewhere.
A tag says how the fact is carried by its source: documented a structured,
explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
mentioned a sentence that ties the person to the place without stating presence.
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