Goose Academy · Last revision: May 30, 2026
Credits
Contributors
- Development by @pidupuis, Senior Software Engineer, Bioinformatics background
- Visual design by @annkief, Senior Graphic Designer
Testers
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who tested Goose Academy during development. Your feedback, patience, and sharp eyes helped shape the experience.
Attributions
Flagpedia.net: Flags, country lists, and capital city data are sourced from Flagpedia.net. A fantastic open resource for flag imagery and country information. Flagpedia.net
PubChem: Periodic table element data is sourced from PubChem, a service of the National Library of Medicine (NIH). A comprehensive open resource for chemical information. PubChem
Encyclopædia Britannica: Historical battle dates, locations, and outcomes are synthesized from public-domain records and reference works including Encyclopædia Britannica, the Cambridge Ancient History, and peer-reviewed military history scholarship. Approximate dates for ancient battles follow scholarly consensus and are marked with 'circa' where appropriate. Encyclopædia Britannica
DenseNet201 / PyTorch: Flag visual similarity data is generated using DenseNet201 (Huang et al., 2017), a deep convolutional neural network pre-trained on ImageNet, via PyTorch/torchvision. torchvision — DenseNet
Association des Sports de Mémoire: Major System peg-word list (EN) sourced from standard English mnemonic tradition, drawing on Bruno Furst's 'Stop Forgetting' (1949) and community-curated lists (Art of Memory Forum). French Centium (FR) sourced from Association des Sports de Mémoire (asmemoire.fr). Spanish Sistema Mayor (ES) follows the Campayo/Latin-American phonetic convention. asmemoire.fr
Species Images
Species photographs and illustrations are sourced from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses (Public Domain, CC0, CC BY, and CC BY-SA). All images have been resized and re-encoded to WebP format from their original Wikimedia Commons files. Individual attributions are provided for each image in-app.