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The King of Rome - A dead pigeon that saved someone’s life? The man whose life was saved by this pigeon found the bird via QRpedia QRpedia.org - Crowd Sourcery

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Smart UK Short List at Westminster Conference Centre on 23rd January 2012.QRpedia on show with 12 other Smart Mobile ideas.Examples shown are from, Derby Museum - King of Rome, Domesday Book, Collosus Computer from Bletchley Park, Wiki Loves Monuments from Russia, Jimmy Wales in Indianapolis Childrens Museum

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The King of Rome - A dead pigeon that saved someone’s life?

The man whose life was saved by this

pigeon found the bird via QRpedia

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Benjamin West Painting was not on show in April 2012 @ Derby Museum

This painting was written about by a

Frenchman – and read by over 50,000 people in Russia – in Russian

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QRpedia launched April 9th by Bamkin & Eden in Derby

50 editors outside the UK created 1,200 articles in over 50

languages

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Derby Museum can be read about in Anglo-Saxon, Belorussian, Catalan,

Danish, Esperanto, Finnish, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean,

Latin...

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QRpedia at the Indianapolis Children's Museum

Jimmy Wales showing his support for

QRpedia.

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QRpedia has been on Spanish TV three times (used at Joan Miró exhibition)

Frenchman reads about Joan Miró

painting in one of eight languages in

Barcelona

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QRpedia is used on some of the World’s most iconic objects

The famous Colossus computer at Bletchley

Park has a QRpedia code in 20 languages

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The Domesday Book – about forty languages – including English

Some of the most valuable items in the UK National Archives have a QRpedia Code

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QRpedia has been on Russian Television

Anastasia Lvova arranged for us to

label a photo exhibition in about 8

languages

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Occupy – QRpedia

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Some of the applications for QRpedia we only find out about later

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Imagine a whole town covered in QRpedia codes – Imagine it in

April – in three months

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A gravestone from MonmouthpediA – Creating a wiki-town

10,000 people read about a church in

Monmouth on 21st January 2012

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We’ve had 20,000 hits of wiki article in

last 3 months

QRpedia Statistics