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Greater Napanee

Greater Napanee is a town in southeastern Ontario, Canada, approximately 45 km west of Kingston and the county seat of Lennox and Addington County. It is located on the eastern end of the Bay of Quinte. Greater Napanee municipality was created by amalgamating the old Town of Napanee with the townships of Adolphustown, North and South Fredericksburg, and Richmond in 1999. Greater Napanee is co-extensive with the original Lennox County.

The town is home to the Allan Macpherson House, a historic 1826 property that is now a museum. Macpherson was a major in the Lennox militia, operated the town's grist and saw mills, as well as the distillery and general store. He served as post master and land agent, operated the first local printing press and helped fund the establishment of many local schools and churches. The home sits on the banks of the Napanee River, which runs through the town.

The largest employer is a Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company passenger car tire plant (opened in 1988).

The main streets are Dundas Street (east–west) and Centre Street (north–south). Dundas Street is part of former provincial Highway #2, also known as Kingston Road, and travels through downtown from Toronto in the west and onward to Kingston in the east. Centre Street travels through the centre of the town from the modern commercial area close to Highway 401 to the downtown and onwards, as County Road 8 to Lake Ontario.

History
The first recorded settlement in the area of Greater Napanee is Ganneious, an Iroquois village, settled temporarily by the Oneida from approximately 1660 to 1690. The village was located on or near the Hay Bay area and is one of seven Iroquois villages settled on the northern shores of Lake Ontario in the 17th century. The exact location of the village has not been determined. The area was settled by Loyalists in 1784 and Napanee was first incorporated in 1854. The first Loyalists settlers arrived at Adolphustown on June 15, 1784. Their landing spot and site of the first Loyalist cemetery in the area has been preserved by the Loyalists.

The town developed at the site of a waterfall, the head of navigation, on the Napanee River where early industry could utilize the power potential of the river. The river transported logs from the interior north of the town. Sawmilling, gristmilling and other farm service industries were established. Napanee was first known as Clarksville after Robert Clark, who built a grist mill there.

Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister, practised law in Napanee.

Historical sites

 * Allan Macpherson House: (c. 1826) Built for Allan Macpherson, agent for the influential Richard Cartwright family, the house is a Georgian design with neo-classical elements (note the entrance's rectangular transom and radiating muntin bars). The Lennox and Addington Historical Society restored the house to its early 19th century elegance. It now operates as a museum.
 * Old Hay Bay Church: (c. 1792) Situated in Adolphustown, Canada's oldest surviving Methodist Church was created in 1792. It now operates as a museum but still hosts an annual service in August.
 * County of Lennox & Addington Museum and Archives: (c.1864) The changing exhibits displayed at the Museum allow visitors to step into the county's past, while the papers and documents found in the reading room of the Archives inspire guests to dive into their own family's history as well as the Town's. The Museum also hosts many events for people of all ages to enjoy.
 * UEL Heritage Park Centre and Park: (c. 1784) Located at the place where the first United Empire Loyalists landed, this heritage site is now a museum and camping ground perfect for all ages.
 * Loyalist Memorial Church: This church, located in Adolphustown, was built to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first landing of the United Empire Loyalists. Services are still held at this site on Sundays.
 * Town of Greater Napanee Town Hall: (c. 1856) Designed by architect, Edward Horsey, this structure was built as a town hall and market combination in the centre of Napanee.

Napanee's downtown core (along Dundas Street) is also lined with historical buildings dating back to the 1800s. The Town of Greater Napanee's Self-Guided Historic Walking Tour provides locations and information on these sites as well as other historical locations nearby.

Annual town events
Some annual events are the Napanee Riverfront Festival and the Multicultural Festival, Music By The River, the Scarecrow Festival, the Downtown Shopping Party and the Big Bright Light Show, as well as an annual art exhibition and sale in Conservation Park, Art in the Park. Napanee also hosts a bi-weekly Hometown Market in the summer months.

The Napanee Country Jamboree and the Voodoo Rockfest take place the third week of September annually.

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Greater Napanee had a population of $16,879$ living in $6,868$ of its $7,461$ total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of $15,892$. With a land area of 462.3 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Population:
 * Population in 2006: 15 400 (2001 to 2006 population change: 1.8%)
 * Population in 2001: 15 132
 * Population total in 1996: 14 994
 * Adolphustown: 946
 * Napanee: 5 450
 * North Fredericksburgh: 3 258
 * Richmond: 4 143
 * South Fredericksburgh: 1 197
 * Population in 1991:
 * Adolphustown: 886
 * Napanee: 5 179
 * North Fredericksburgh: 3 183
 * Richmond: 4 037
 * South Fredericksburgh: 1 222

Mother tongue:
 * English as first language: 94.8%
 * French as first language: 1.8%
 * English and French as first language: 0%
 * Other as first language: 3.4%

Schools

 * Southview Public School
 * The Prince Charles Public School
 * Cornerstone Christian Academy
 * J. J. O'Neill Catholic School
 * Selby Public School
 * Napanee District Secondary School

Some students commute a short distance to Ernestown Secondary School to the east in Loyalist township, Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School further east in Kingston, or Loyalist Collegiate and Vocational Institute for the LEAP and Challenge Program in Kingston. A bus also takes students to Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute for the International Baccalaureate program.

Notable people

 * Aaron Doornekamp, professional basketball player, member of the Canadian national men's basketball team.
 * Alan Aylesworth Macnaughton, Senator and former Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Mount Royal between 1949 and 1966. Speaker of the House of Commons (1963–1966), founder of the Canadian branch of the World Wildlife Fund and Officer of the Order of Canada (1995). Born in Napanee on July 30, 1903. The Senator was the grandson of a former mayor of Napanee, Jehiel Aylesworth.
 * Albert Schultz, Gemini Award winning actor, he starred in the CBC Television hit drama Street Legal and the medical drama Side Effects. His theatre career includes leading roles at the Stratford Festival and as Founding Artistic Director of the Soulpepper Theatre Company. Schultz moved to Napanee at an early age and he attended elementary school there.
 * Arthur Eyguem De Montaigne Jarvis, World War I flying ace. As a member of the Royal Flying Corps scored at least five victories. Awarded the United Kingdom's Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC). Also decorated by the government of France with the Croix de Guerre with Palm. Jarvis was born in Napanee and spent his childhood there.  His father was the deacon of the Anglican church in Napanee.
 * Avril Lavigne, musician, grew up in Napanee. She sang about the town in her song "My World" from her debut album, Let Go. Avril Lavigne has sold more than 35 million albums worldwide.
 * Britt Benn, athlete, member of Canada's gold medal-winning team in Rugby Women's Sevens at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto. Benn was also a bronze medal winner at the 2016 Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the same event.
 * Deborah Kimmett, writer and comedian and former member of The Second City's Toronto cast
 * Edmund James Bristol, Born (September 4, 1861) and raised in Napanee. Member of Parliament (MP) serving the electoral district of Toronto Centre in the House of Commons of Canada (1905 by-election and re-elected in 1908, 1911, 1917, 1921, and 1925). In 1921, he served as Minister without Portfolio in Prime Minister Arthur Meighen's cabinet. An avid sportsman, Edmund Bristol won the Royal Canadian Yacht Club's Prince of Wales Cup in 1895.
 * Kathleen Frances Daly, painter. Born in Napanee on May 28, 1898. Closely associated with the Group of Seven, her works can be found in many major Canadian exhibitions as well as in exhibits in London, England.
 * H. Bedford-Jones, born in Napanee, Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones (1887–1949) was a Canadian historical adventure fantasy and science fiction writer. He wrote over 100 novels and was considered one of the leading pulp fiction writers of the 20th century.
 * Harry Ham, born in Napanee, Harry Breden Ham (1886–1943) was an early silent screen actor in Christie and Mutual comedies from the mid-1910s. Perhaps his most famous role was that of leading man, Harry Faversham in the UK release of The Four Feathers (1921 film).
 * John Gibbard founded the Gibbard Furniture Company in Napanee in 1835. The company operated for 173 years and was the oldest furniture maker in Canada and one of the oldest continuously operating companies in North America at the time of its closing. Gibbard's furniture can be found in many Canadian embassies around the world.
 * Sir John A. Macdonald, lawyer, businessman, politician, first Prime Minister of Canada. At age 17, Sir John A. managed a branch legal office in Napanee (1832–1834). As Prime Minister he would bring Manitoba, BC and PEI into the confederation of Canada.  Sir John A. Macdonald was the architect of the transcontinental railway that united the West Coast with the rest of Canada.  This critical rail link was a condition for B.C. joining the confederation.
 * Leroy Blugh, Former Canadian Football League defensive lineman who played fifteen seasons in the CFL including eleven seasons for the Edmonton Eskimos. Two-time CFL West Division All-Star and Grey Cup Champion (1993).  In 2014, Blugh was named defensive line coach for the CFL's, Ottawa Redblacks. Later in 2014, Blugh was named to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
 * Lesley Thompson, Five-time Olympic medalist, including winner of an Olympic gold medal in the Women's Eights Rowing event in Barcelona, Spain, 1992. Upon winning a silver medal in the same event at the London 2012 games, she became the first Canadian to win medals at five different Olympic Games.
 * Michael Breaugh(1942–2019) Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of Canada (1990–1993) representing the electoral district of Oshawa. Prior to that Breaugh served as Member of the Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Oshawa in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (1975 to 1990).
 * Ralph McCabe, former Major League Baseball pitcher with the Cleveland Indians (1946)
 * Reginald Aldworth Daly, (1871–1957) geologist; taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1907–12) before joining Harvard University (1912–42). He was an authority on igneous rocks and the geological structures of the Earth's crust and independently developed the theory of magmatic stoping.  Daly was awarded the Penrose Medal in 1935, the Wollaston Medal in 1942 and the William Bowie Medal in 1946. Craters on Mars and the Moon are named in his honor.  His home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, (the Reginald A. Daly House) is now an American National Historic Landmark.
 * Scott Chadwick, professional curler with Team Epping
 * Stuart Wood, was born in Napanee on October 17, 1889, served as the ninth Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, from March 6, 1938, to April 30, 1951. He was a CMG (Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George) and the great-great-grandson of U.S. President Zachary Taylor.
 * Toby Sexsmith, was born in Napanee on October 23, 1885, and served as a Member of Provincial Parliament in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1933 to 1943, and also served as president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association.
 * Helen Merrill Egerton (1866-1951), Canadian writer

Sports
The Napanee Raiders Jr. C hockey club joined the Empire B Junior C Hockey League in 1989. In that time they have claimed eight league championships. In 1993 they went on to capture the All-Ontario, Clarence Schmalz Cup as the Ontario Hockey Association's Junior "C" ice hockey champions by defeating the Hanover Barons of the Western Ontario Junior C Hockey League. The Raiders used to be the only EBJCHL team to ever capture the All Ontario title up until the Picton Pirates accomplished the task in 2013. The Raiders were crowned the Schmalz Cup and PJHL Champions in the 2018-2019 season defeating the Grimaby Peach Kings. Their home games are played in the Strathcona Paper Centre, which opened in 2004. Prior to the Raiders, Napanee played in the Quinte-St. Lawrence Junior C Hockey League as The Napanee Kelly Tiremen. Their uniform resembled the green, yellow and white uniform of the Minnesota North Stars formerly of the NHL. In 1980, the Kelly Tiremen were rebranded as the Napanee Warriors. The Warriors and the league ceased operation in 1986.

Napanee made one appearance in the Ontario Junior "B" Provincial hockey championship playoffs during the 1934–35 season. They defeated Kingston, 13–10 in a two-game, total goals series, second round playoff. They were eliminated from the Sutherland Cup playoffs by Peterborough in the next round.

The Napanee Comets were a successful Ontario Major Intermediate A Hockey team that won three consecutive Ontario championships in 1958, 1959 and 1960 and provincial Intermediate B championships in 1971 and 1972.

The Lennox & Addington Lynx floor hockey team took the gold medal at the Special Olympics Canadian National Winter Games in Quebec City in 2008, defeating teams from across the country.

Napanee is also well known for its success in both boys and girls softball. Napanee has won four national midget (U19) championships since 1982 including 2018 when it claimed the title on home field. The Napanee Legionnaires captured the Canadian title in 1982 and the Napanee Express took top honours in 1997 and 2005. The Napanee North Key Express won the 2010 Canadian Junior fastball championship defeating the host Nova Scotia Eagles 6–1 in the national final. The Napanee (Junior) Express boys claimed a National Junior Fastball title in 1996. Also in 2008, the Napanee (Bantam) Express girls fastball team captured the provincial tier II title defeating Oakville 7–4 in the final. The girls also became the first team in Napanee history to qualify for the Eastern Canadian Championships where they finished in second place.

The Napanee Golf and Country Club was established in 1897. The course has nine holes, with different tees for the front and back nine. The course record is 62 set by local amateur Josh Whalen, breaking the previous record of 63 after it had stood for 58 years and 30 days.

The Napanee Curling Club was established in 1957 and numerous teams have captured Zone and District titles. Napanee was selected to host the 2010 Ontario Tankard, the annual men's curling championship that sends its winner to the Canadian championship. The event was held February 1–7 at the Strathcona Paper Centre. Glenn Howard, representing Coldwater and District Curling Club, completed a perfect week by defeating Bryan Cochrane of the Rideau Curling Club 5–3 in the final, to capture his fifth straight title.

Napanee District Secondary School is the home of the Golden Hawks. The Golden Hawks field teams in various sports including hockey, football, basketball, rugby, gymnastics, volleyball, swimming and track. The Golden Hawks compete against high schools teams in the "Kingston Area Secondary Schools Athletic Association" (KASSAA). In 2008, the Napanee girls rugby team and the boys junior and senior squads all won league championships. In 2009, the girls gymnastics team earned the bronze medal for their overall result at the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Association's (OFSAA) provincial gymnastics championship meet held in Windsor, Ontario.

Downtown
The downtown area of Napanee has experienced a recent revival and the gorgeous historical buildings are taking on a whole new life. Downtown Napanee is home to a number of boutiques. There have been multiple revitalization projects like The Waterfront River Pub and Terrace, a complete reworking of an abandoned limestone brewery right on the Napanee river. Wallace's, the oldest continuously operating drug store, is located on the corner of Dundas and John Streets. It has been in the same location under the same name since it was established in 1854.

Napanee is also the home of "La Pizzeria", made famous by Avril Lavigne's declaration to Rolling Stone Magazine that her "favorite pizza" was served there.

There is a bi-weekly Hometown Market with locally made and homegrown items that runs in Market Square in the summer months.

Media
Napanee is home to the oldest independently owned newspaper in Canada, The Napanee Beaver. It is distributed weekly along with the "Napanee Guide" on Thursdays.

In 2007, a new radio station, CKYM, opened in Napanee on 88.7 FM. The station broadcasts adult contemporary music, sharing a transmitting antenna with Deseronto's CJOH-TV-6. 88.7 MyFM has provided OHL Kingston Frontenacs Hockey coverage since 2009. Napanee from is also served by radio and television stations from Belleville and the larger Kingston market.

A 100% volunteer-run community radio station, Island Radio CJAI 101.3 FM, serves Napanee from nearby Loyalist Township.

Live theatre
Greater Napanee is home to Lennox Community Theatre (formerly Lennox Theatre Guild) which operates from The Village Theatre in the village of Selby. The theatre seats 80 and mounts five productions annually from September through June. A historical collection of programs stored at the theatre shows that Avril Lavigne performed on stage there as a child in productions of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, and Godspell.

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Christopher Urswick

Christopher Urswick (1448–1522) was a priest and confessor of Margaret Beaufort. He was Rector of Puttenham, Hertfordshire, and later Dean of Windsor. Urswick is thought to have acted as a go-between in the plotting to place her son Henry VII of England on the throne.

Early life and education
Urswick was born at Furness in 1448. His father, John Urswick, and his mother were lay brother and sister of Furness Abbey.

He was educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School (which was then called 'The Free School at Lancaster')

Career
He was Archdeacon of Wilts (1488–1522), Archdeacon of Richmond (1494–1500) and Archdeacon of Norfolk (1500–1522). Circa 1486 he was given the prebend of Chiswick in St Paul's Cathedral. He was also Dean of York from 1488 to 1494, a Canon of St George's Chapel, Windsor from 1492 to 1496 and then Dean of Windsor from 1495 to 1505. He was the Lord Almoner from 1485 to 1495.

He declined the position of Bishop of Norwich in 1498 and was collated Archdeacon of Oxford in 1504.

Amongst his more important positions, Urswick became Rector of the Parish of Hackney in 1502, where he ordered the medieval parish church to be rebuilt. St Augustine's Tower is the only remnant.

Death
Urswick died on 24 March 1522 in Hackney (parish) and was buried in St Augustine's Church, Hackney.

Commemoration
He appears as a minor character in Shakespeare's Richard III.

He built a parish house in Hackney (Urswick House, now demolished), where he lived for a time. He is commemorated in Urswick Road in nearby Homerton.

He founded The Urswick School for 12 poor boys, which was until recently called Hackney Free and Parochial School in Hackney Central. The Urswick Chantry in St. George's Chapel commemorates him.

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James MacArthur

James Gordon MacArthur (December 8, 1937 – October 28, 2010) was an American actor and recording artist.

He had a long career in both movies and television, and his early work was predominantly in supporting roles in films. Later, he had a starring role as Danny "Danno" Williams in the long-running television series Hawaii Five-O.

In 1963, his spoken-word recording "The Ten Commandments of Love" charted on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 94.

Early life
MacArthur was born in Los Angeles, and was adopted by playwright Charles MacArthur and his wife, actress Helen Hayes. He was raised in Nyack, New York along with his elder sister, the MacArthurs' biological daughter Mary, who died of polio in 1949. He was educated at Allen-Stevenson School in New York and later at the Solebury School in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where he starred in basketball, football and baseball.

In his final year at Solebury, MacArthur played guard on the football team, captained the basketball team, rewrote the school's constitution, edited the school paper, played Scrooge in a local presentation of A Christmas Carol and was president of his class, the student government and the drama club. He also dated fellow student and future actress Joyce Bulifant, whom he married in November 1958 and divorced nine years later.

MacArthur was raised among people of literary and theatrical talent. Lillian Gish was his godmother, and his family's guests included John Steinbeck, John Barrymore, Harpo Marx, Ben Hecht, Beatrice Lillie and the humorist Robert Benchley.

Early career
MacArthur's first radio role was on the Theatre Guild on the Air in 1948, accompanying his mother Helen Hayes.

MacArthur made his stage debut in Olney, Maryland in 1949 with a two-week stint in The Corn Is Green. His sister Mary, who was also in the play, had requested that he join the company. The following summer, he repeated the role in Dennis, Massachusetts and his theatrical career was under way.

In 1954, he played John Day in Life with Father with Howard Lindsay and Dorothy Stickney. He became involved in important Broadway productions only after receiving his training in summer-stock theater. He worked as a set painter, lighting director and chief of the parking lot. During a Helen Hayes festival at the Falmouth Playhouse on Cape Cod, he had a few walk-on parts. He also helped the theater's electrician and became so interested that he was allowed to remain after his mother's plays had ended. As a result, he lit the show for Barbara Bel Geddes in The Little Hut and for Gloria Vanderbilt in The Swan.

Television
In 1955, at the age of 18, MacArthur played Hal Ditmar in the television play '"Deal a Blow", an episode of the series Climax! directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Macdonald Carey, Phyllis Thaxter and Edward Arnold. The critical response was excellent, with the New York Times saying that he "performed splendidly."

The following year, Frankenheimer directed the film version of the play, which was renamed The Young Stranger (1957), with MacArthur again in the starring role. His performance was again critically acclaimed, earning him a nomination for Most Promising Newcomer at the 1958 BAFTA awards.

In late 1956, it was announced that MacArthur would make Underdog, based on a novel by W. R. Burnett, along with his mother and Susan Strasberg, but the project never materialized.

MacArthur returned to television to appear in World in White (1957) and episodes of General Electric Theater, Studio One in Hollywood and Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse.

Disney
MacArthur was selected by Walt Disney to star in The Light in the Forest (1958), playing a white man raised by Indians. In April 1957, he signed a three-picture deal with Disney. For Light in the Forest he was paid $2,500 per week, which increased to $3,000 per week for the second film and $3,500 for the third. However, MacArthur was only available to work during his summer vacation from Harvard, where he was studying history.

Disney executives liked his performance and cast him in Third Man on the Mountain (1959), playing a young man who climbs the Matterhorn. His mother had a cameo role.

Deciding to make acting his full-time career, he left Harvard in his second year to appear in two more Disney movies, Kidnapped (1960) and Swiss Family Robinson (1960). He was named a possibility for Bon Voyage (1962) but did not appear in the film.

MacArthur made his Broadway debut in 1960 playing opposite Jane Fonda in Invitation to a March, for which he received a Theatre World Award. Although he never returned to Broadway, he remained active in theater throughout his career, appearing in such productions as Under the Yum Yum Tree, The Moon Is Blue, John Loves Mary (with his wife Joyce Bulifant), Barefoot in the Park and Murder at the Howard Johnson's.

He also released several records in the early 1960s, scoring two minor hits with "(The Story of) The In-Between Years" and "The Ten Commandments of Love", which peaked at number 94 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963.

MacArthur delivered a chilling performance as baby-faced opium dealer Johnny Lubin in The Untouchables episode "Death For Sale". He also appeared in episodes of the television shows Bus Stop and Wagon Train. He returned to feature films as one of several young actors in The Interns (1962), Columbia's popular medical drama.

He appeared in episodes of The Dick Powell Theatre, Sam Benedict and Arrest and Trial, then made Spencer's Mountain (1963) at Warner Bros. with Henry Fonda and Cry of Battle (1963) in the Philippines.

In 1963, MacArthur was nominated for the Top New Male Personality category of the Golden Laurel Awards. That year, he starred in and produced a pilot for a television series about a writer, Postmark: Jim Fletcher, but it was not sold.

He guest-starred on the television shows Burke's Law, The Eleventh Hour and The Great Adventure, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour before appearing in the feature films The Truth About Spring and The Bedford Incident, both in 1965.

In Battle of the Bulge (1965), MacArthur again played the role of a young and inexperienced officer. He appeared in Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966) and guest-starred on Branded, Combat!, Gunsmoke, Hondo, Insight, Death Valley Days, Bonanza, The Virginian, Twelve O'Clock High and Tarzan.

MacArthur returned to Disney to appear in Willie and the Yank (1967) for television, released theatrically as Mosby's Marauders. He also had a role in The Love-Ins (1967) for Sam Katzman and a brief but memorable appearance in the Clint Eastwood film Hang 'Em High (1968) as a preacher.

Hawaii Five-O
Hang 'Em High was written by Leonard Freeman, who was producing a new police procedural, Hawaii Five-O. Tim O'Kelly was originally cast as Jack Lord's assistant, but test audiences felt that he was too young, so MacArthur was offered the role. MacArthur said that Lord "said 'book him' to others in the cast, but I guess he said it to me the most. It wasn't anything we really thought about at first. But the phrase just took off and caught the public's imagination."

Appearing in the show made MacArthur wealthy, and he invested much of his earnings in Hawaiian real estate.

MacArthur left the show in 1979, feeling that it had become bland and predictable. It was canceled one year later. He later reflected: "It was just time. I called the producer from South America and told him I was heading down the Amazon River."

William Smith, who replaced him on the show, claimed that MacArthur quit "because Jack Lord wouldn't let him have a dressing room. He had to change in the prop truck for eleven years."

After Hawaii Five-O
After leaving Hawaii Five-O, McArthur guest-starred on television shows such as Time Express, Murder, She Wrote, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Walking Tall, The Littlest Hobo,Vega$ and Superboy. He also appeared in the miniseries Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (1980) and The Night the Bridge Fell Down (1983). He returned to the stage, appearing in A Bedfull of Foreigners in Chicago in 1984 and in Michigan in 1985. He followed this with The Hasty Heart before taking a year out of showbusiness.

In 1987, he again took to the stage in The Foreigner, and then played Mortimer in the national tour of Arsenic and Old Lace. In 1989, he followed another stint in The Foreigner with Love Letters and in 1990–1991, A Bedfull of Foreigners in Las Vegas.

Semi-retirement
From 1959 to 1960, MacArthur partnered with actors James Franciscus and Alan Ladd, Jr. in the ownership of a Beverly Hills telephone-answering service. In June 1972, he directed the Honolulu Community Theatre in a production of his father's play The Front Page.

He appeared at conventions, collectors' shows and celebrity sporting events. A keen golfer, he won the 2002 Frank Sinatra Celebrity Invitational Golf Tournament.

MacArthur also appeared in television and radio specials and on interview programs such as Entertainment Tonight, Christopher's Closeup and the BBC Radio 5 Live obituary program Brief Lives, in which he paid tribute to his Hawaii Five-O castmate Kam Fong. In 1997, MacArthur returned without Jack Lord (who was in declining health) to reprise his character, who had become Hawaii's governor, in the 1997 unaired reboot pilot of Hawaii Five-O.

In April 2003, he traveled to Honolulu's historic Hawaii Theatre for a cameo role in Joe Moore's play Dirty Laundry. Negotiations were under way in Summer 2010 for MacArthur to make a cameo appearance in the new CBS primetime remake of Hawaii Five-0 at the time of his death, a role that eventually was offered to Al Harrington. Before the start of the November 1, 2010 episode, MacArthur's death was mentioned in a short tribute.

In 2001, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars was dedicated to MacArthur.

Personal life and death
At the time of his death, MacArthur was married to former LPGA golfer Helen Beth Duntz. MacArthur had two daughters and two sons.

MacArthur died on October 28, 2010, at the age of 72 of unspecified causes in Florida.

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Dallas Fort Worth International Airport

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport is the primary international airport serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and the North Texas region, in the U.S. state of Texas.

It is the largest hub for American Airlines, which is headquartered near the airport, and is the third-busiest airport in the world by aircraft movements and the second-busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic in 2022 and 2023, according to the Airports Council International. As of 2021, it is the sixth-busiest international gateway in the United States and the second-busiest international gateway in Texas (behind Houston-IAH). The hub American Airlines operates at DFW is the second-largest single airline hub in the world and the United States, behind Delta Air Lines's hub in Atlanta.

Located roughly halfway between the major cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, DFW spills across portions of Dallas and Tarrant counties and includes portions of the cities of Grapevine, Irving, Euless, and Coppell. At 17207 acre, DFW is the second-largest airport by land area in the United States after Denver International Airport covering an area larger than Manhattan in New York City. It has its own post office ZIP Code, 75261, and United States Postal Service city designation ("DFW Airport, TX"), as well as its own police, fire protection, and emergency medical services.

DFW Airport has service to 254 destinations (191 domestic, 63 international) from 28 passenger airlines. As of April 2023, DFW Airport has service to more nonstop destinations than any other airport in North America. Every major city in the Contiguous United States can be flown to in four hours or less. It is also the largest carbon neutral airport in the world and the first in North America to achieve this status.

Planning
As early as 1927, before the area had an airport, Dallas proposed a joint airport with Fort Worth. Fort Worth declined the offer and thus each city opened its own airport, Love Field in Dallas and Meacham Field in Fort Worth, each of which had scheduled airline service.

In 1940, the Civil Aeronautics Administration earmarked US$1900000 1940 for the construction of a Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Airport. American Airlines and Braniff Airways struck a deal with the city of Arlington to build an airport there, but the governments of Dallas and Fort Worth disagreed over its construction and the project was abandoned in 1942. After World War II, Fort Worth annexed the site and developed it into Amon Carter Field with the help of American Airlines. In 1953, Fort Worth transferred its commercial flights from Meacham to the new airport, which was 12 mi from Love Field. In 1960, Fort Worth purchased Amon Carter Field and renamed it Greater Southwest International Airport (GSW) in an attempt to compete with Dallas' airport, but GSW's traffic continued to decline relative to Love Field. By the mid-1960s, Fort Worth was getting 1% of Texas air traffic while Dallas was getting 49%, which led to the virtual abandonment of GSW.

The joint airport proposal was revisited in 1961 after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) refused to invest more money into separate Dallas and Fort Worth airports. While airline service had steeply declined at both GSW and Meacham, Love Field was congested and had no more room to expand. Following an order from the federal government in 1964 that it would unilaterally choose a site if the cities could not come to an agreement, officials from the two cities finally agreed on a location for a new regional airport that was just north of the near-abandoned GSW and almost equidistant from the two city centers. The land was purchased by the cities in 1966 and construction began in 1969. The cost of the first phase of Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Airport was estimated at $700 million.

Voters went to the polls in cities throughout the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex to approve the new North Texas Regional Airport, which was named after the North Texas Commission that was instrumental in the regional airport coming to fruition. The North Texas Commission formed the North Texas Airport Commission to oversee the planning and construction of the giant airport. Area voters approved the airport referendum and the new North Texas Regional Airport would become a reality. However, many Dallas residents remained satisfied with Love Field, and an attempt to establish an independent Dallas Fort Worth Regional Airport Authority—despite strong backing from the Dallas Chamber of Commerce and Dallas mayor J. Erik Jonsson—failed when Dallas voters rejected the proposal by a narrow margin. After further negotiation, the cities instead established an appointed airport board consisting of seven members from Dallas and four from Fort Worth and were able to persuade all existing air carriers at Love, GSW, and Meacham to move to the new regional airport.

Under the original 1967 airport design, DFW was to have pier-shaped terminals perpendicular to a central highway. In 1968, the design was revised to provide for semicircular terminals, which served to isolate loading and unloading areas from the central highway, and to provide additional room for parking in the middle of each semicircle. The plan proposed thirteen such terminals, but only four were built initially.

Opening and operations

DFW held an open house and dedication ceremony on September 20–23, 1973, which included the first landing of a supersonic Concorde in the United States, an Air France aircraft en route from Caracas to Paris. The attendees at the airport's dedication included former Texas Governor John Connally, Transportation Secretary Claude Brinegar, U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen and Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe. The airport opened for commercial service as Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Airport on January 13, 1974, at a cost of $875 million (equivalent to $5.5 billion in 2024), which included $65 million for the land and $810 million in total construction costs. At the time of DFW's opening, at 17,500 acre, it was the largest airport in the world ever constructed in terms of land area (surpassed in October 1975 with the opening of Montréal-Mirabel International Airport). The first flight to land was American Airlines Flight 341 from New York, which had stopped in Memphis and Little Rock. The surrounding cities began to annex the airport property into their city limits shortly after the airport was developed. The name change to Dallas/Fort Worth International did not occur until 1985.

An innovative feature of the airport during its early history was the Vought Airtrans, the world's first operational fully automated people mover system. Later rebranded as the Airport Train and then the TrAAin ("AA" signifying American Airlines), the system ultimately encompassed 13 mi of fixed guideways and transported as many as 23,000 persons per day at a maximum speed of 17 mph.

When it opened, DFW had four terminals, numbered 2W, 2E, 3E and 4E. During its first year of operations, the airport was served by American Airlines, Braniff International Airways, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Eastern Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, Ozark Air Lines, Rio Airways and Texas International Airlines.

Southwest Airlines had not begun flights when the other airlines agreed to move from Love Field to DFW, and it had only received approval to fly within the state of Texas. It refused to move to DFW because it felt that convenience for Dallas residents was central to its business. After the Airline Deregulation Act was enacted in 1978, Southwest announced flights to other states. Local officials feared that the resumption of long-distance flights at Love would threaten DFW's financial stability, prompting the enaction of the Wright Amendment in 1979, which banned airliners with more than 56 seats from operating between Love Field and airports beyond Texas and its four neighboring states: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.

Braniff International Airways was a major operator at DFW in the airport's early years, operating a hub from Terminal 2W with international flights to South America and Mexico from 1974, London from 1978, and Europe and Asia from 1979, as well as extensive domestic service before ceasing all operations in 1982. During the Braniff hub era, DFW was one of only four U.S. airports to have scheduled Concorde service; Braniff commenced scheduled Concorde service from Dallas to Washington from 1979 to 1980, using British Airways and Air France aircraft temporarily re-registered to Braniff while flying within the United States. British Airways later briefly flew Concordes to Dallas in 1988 as a substitute for its ordinarily scheduled DC-10 service.

Following airline deregulation, American Airlines (which had already been one of the largest carriers serving the Dallas/Fort Worth area for many years) established its first hub at DFW on June 11, 1981. American finished moving its headquarters from Grand Prairie, Texas, to a building in Fort Worth located on the site of the old Greater Southwest International Airport, near DFW Airport on January 17, 1983; the airline began leasing the facility from the airport, which owns the facility. By 1984, the American hub occupied most of Terminal 3E and part of Terminal 2E. American's hub grew to fill all of Terminal 2E by 1991. American also began long-haul international service from DFW, adding flights to London in 1982 and Tokyo in 1987.

Delta Air Lines also built up a hub operation at DFW, which occupied most of Terminal 4E through the 1990s. The Delta hub peaked around 1991, when Delta had a 35% market share at DFW; its share was halved by 2004, after many of its mainline routes were downgraded to more frequent regional jet service in 2003. Delta constructed a satellite terminal in Terminal E in 1988 to accommodate their hub, which was permanently reopened in May 2019 for American Eagle operations. Delta closed its DFW hub in 2004 in a restructuring of the airline to avoid bankruptcy, cutting its DFW operation to only 21 flights a day from over 250 and redeploying aircraft to hubs in Cincinnati, Atlanta and Salt Lake City. Prior to the closure, Delta had a 17.3% market share at DFW.

In 1989 the airport authority announced plans to rebuild the existing terminals and add two runways. After an environmental impact study was released the following year, the cities of Irving, Euless and Grapevine sued the airport over its extension plans, a battle that was finally decided (in favor of the airport) by the US Supreme Court in 1994. The seventh runway opened in 1996. The four primary north-south runways (those closest to the terminals) were all lengthened from 11388 ft to their present length of 13400 ft. The first, 17R/35L, was extended in 1996 (at the same time the new runway was constructed) and the other three (17C/35C, 18L/36R, and 18R/36L) were extended in 2005. DFW is now the only airport in the world with four serviceable paved runways longer than 4000 m.

Terminal D, built for international flights, and DFW Skylink, a modern bidirectional people mover system, opened in 2005. The remaining Airport Train system, which had been mostly replaced by buses in 2003, had been fully decommissioned weeks earlier. The largest commercial aircraft in the world, the Airbus A380, made its inaugural arrival at DFW in September 2014 and was handled at Terminal D.

From 2004 to 2012, DFW was one of two US Army "Personnel Assistance Points" that received US troops returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for rest and recuperation. This ended on March 14, 2012, leaving Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport as the sole Personnel Assistance Point.

In the late 20th century, the Wright Amendment had become unpopular with travelers and business groups because it suppressed local airline competition, but it was backed by powerful political interests including American Airlines, which did not want direct low-fare competition from Southwest Airlines at its DFW fortress hub. Efforts to revise the amendment in the 1980s and early 1990s became mired in lawsuits and political wrangling. In a 2023 statement to The Dallas Morning News, former American Airlines chief executive officer Robert Crandall said that at the time, a Wright repeal was a greater threat to American Airlines than to DFW Airport.

The Wright Amendment status quo was upset between 1996 and 2000, when laws were passed adding new states to the Wright service area, and several airlines began long-distance service from Love Field under the previously unexploited 56-seat exemption. This broke Southwest's monopoly at Love Field, threatened highly profitable American Airlines routes at DFW, and proved that changes to the amendment were now politically viable. Southwest soon began campaigning to repeal the Wright Amendment, but was staunchly opposed by American Airlines, which feared that Southwest would maintain its near-monopoly at Love Field while simultaneously expanding to DFW Airport and possibly Fort Worth Alliance Airport or Meacham Airport.

In a 2006 agreement brokered by Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. Senator from Texas, DFW Airport, Dallas, Fort Worth, Southwest, and American agreed to mutually support the repeal, but with a number of conditions. The agreement permanently capped the number of gates at Love Field and gave American and Southwest preferential leases to the remaining gates. Until 2025, international passenger flights in the metroplex may only operate from DFW Airport; Southwest must surrender Love Field gates if it or any codeshare agreement partners offer flights from DFW or another airport in the metroplex; and the parties agreed to cooperatively oppose passenger service from other airports in the area.

On October 13, 2014, the Wright Amendment domestic flight restrictions ended, allowing airlines to fly from Love Field to anywhere in the U.S. Despite the increased local competition, the number of annual enplanements at DFW grew by five million from 2013 to 2015, only slightly less than an approximately six million passenger increase at Love Field during the same period.

Airports Council International (ACI) named DFW Airport the best large airport with more than 40 million passengers in North America for passenger satisfaction in 2016.

In June 2018, DFW Airport opened a fully functioning, free standing emergency room on airport grounds, located in Southgate Plaza near the Airport Headquarters and Rental Car Center. With this opening, the facility became the first actual ER on an airport's property anywhere around the globe.

DFW Airport tentatively completed a $2.7 billion "Terminal Renewal and Improvement Program" (TRIP), which encompassed renovations of three of the original four terminals (A, B, and E). Work on the project began following the conclusion of Super Bowl XLV in February 2011. Terminal A was the first terminal to undergo these renovations, which were completed in January 2017 at a cost of about $1 billion. This was followed by the completion of Terminal E in August 2017 and Terminal B in December 2017. While Terminal C was originally part of the multibillion-dollar renovations, American Airlines in 2014 asked to delay renovations of the terminal.

In early 2023, Frontier Airlines established a crew operating base at DFW and added a gate to accommodate additional flights.

In 2023, DFW served 81,764,044 passengers, a record for the facility, exceeding 80 million passengers for the first time in the airport's 50-year history.

Future
DFW Airport has embarked on a series of expansion projects expected to last until 2028.

The first phase will construct the long-discussed Terminal F, albeit significantly downsized from earlier plans. The 15-gate concourse will cost $1.63 billion and will be built between 2024 and 2026. Previous plans for Terminal F called for 24 gates at a cost of $3.5 billion. Terminal F will have no landside facilities. Passenger and baggage screening and services will be handled in a new expansion of Terminal E, with passengers boarding Skylink to reach Terminal F, and baggage travelling in a tunnel under International Parkway. Terminal F will be built in a way that it could be expanded to 22 gates in the future.

The second phase of the project will include the delayed renovations of Terminal C, adding piers to with additional gates to terminals A and C, and upgrading roadways. The $2.72 billion project will add nine additional gates and will be completed in phases by 2028.

Composition and facilities

Of the portions of the airport, fewer than 8000 acre reside in Grapevine, fewer than 6000 acre are in Irving, over 3000 acre are in Euless, and 266 acre are in Coppell.

Terminals
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport has five terminals and 174 gates; these terminals are in the City of Grapevine. DFW's terminals are designed in a half-circle shape, which minimizes the distance between a passenger's car and airplane, and to reduce traffic on main airport roads. The DFW Skylink automated people mover system allows passengers to quickly travel between gates inside the secured area of the airport, with an average travel time of seven minutes.

Terminal D is the airport's primary international terminal, with CBP (Customs and Border Protection) facilities to process arriving international passengers and has a gate capable of accommodating an Airbus A380.

American Airlines has a presence in every terminal at DFW. Other domestic airlines operate out of Terminal E, while overseas carriers operate out of Terminal D.

Airlines that provide nonstop service to DFW include: Air Canada, Air France, Emirates, Qatar Airways, Japan Airlines, Korean Air, British Airways, Lufthansa, Qantas, Volaris, and Aeromexico.

 * Terminal A has 26 gates.
 * Terminal B has 45 gates (35 in the main terminal and 10 in a satellite building).
 * Terminal C has 29 gates.
 * Terminal D has 33 gates.
 * Terminal E has 41 gates (26 in the main terminal and 15 in a satellite building).

Hotels
There are two Hyatt branded hotels located in the central terminal area.

The Hyatt Regency DFW International Airport was built in 1978 as the east wing of the Airport Marina Hotel. It originally had an identical twin west wing, located on the opposite side of International Parkway, which was built in 1974 and demolished for construction of Terminal D. It has 811 rooms, 92000 sqft of meeting space and four food and beverage outlets. The hotel is located adjacent to Terminal C, with shuttle buses connecting to all terminals.

The Grand Hyatt DFW opened on July 1, 2005 and has 298 rooms, 34000 sqft of meeting space and three food and beverage outlets. The hotel is located directly above Terminal D, with direct access to the check-in area.

Ground transportation

The DFW Airport area is served by International Parkway (partially State Highway 97 Spur), which runs through the center of the airport, connecting to Airport Freeway (State Highway 183) on the southern side of the airport and John W. Carpenter Freeway (State Highway 114) on the northern side. International Parkway continues north of State Highway 114, carrying the State Highway 121 designation for a short while until its interchange with the Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway (I-635), where State Highway 121 continues north as the Sam Rayburn Tollway.

Bus routes serving the airport are operated by Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) and Trinity Metro. DART operates route 230 from Downtown Irving/Heritage Crossing Station and Southwestern Medical District/Parkland Station to the Remote South Parking facility, and Trinity Metro operates the TRE Link bus route from CentrePort/DFW Airport station.

Three rail systems serve the airport: DART Light Rail, TEXRail, and the Trinity Railway Express. DART operates light rail from DFW Airport Terminal A station. This provides direct rail service on the to Dallas and Las Colinas (with a later extension to DFW Airport North station). TEXRail is a commuter rail service between DFW Airport Terminal B station and T&P Station in downtown Fort Worth. DFW Airport is additionally served by the Trinity Railway Express commuter rail line at CentrePort/DFW Airport Station via shuttle bus to the Remote South parking lot. The line serves both downtown Dallas and downtown Fort Worth. There is also the DART Silver Line opening in 2024 which will also serve terminal B.

A consolidated rental car facility is located at the south end of the airport and connected to all terminals by a dedicated network of shuttle buses. Hosting ten rental car companies, the center was completed in March 2000.

Other facilities
A cargo facility at 1639 West 23rd Street is located on the airport property and in the City of Grapevine. Tenants include China Airlines, Lufthansa Cargo, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The DFW Airport Department of Public Safety provides the airport with its own police, fire protection, and emergency medical services.

The DFW International Airport headquarters is located nearby at 2400 Aviation Drive.

In 1995, the airport opened Founders' Plaza, an observation park dedicated to the founders of DFW Airport. The site offered a panoramic view of the south end of the airport and hosted several significant events, including an employee memorial the day after the September 11 attacks in 2001 and the airport's 30th anniversary celebration in 2004. As part of the perimeter taxiway project, Founders' Plaza was closed in 2007 and moved to a new location surrounding a 50 ft-tall beacon on the north side of the airport in 2008. The 6 acre plaza features a granite monument and sculpture, post-mounted binoculars, piped-in voices of air traffic controllers and shade pavilions. In 2010, a memorial honoring Delta Air Lines Flight 191 was dedicated at the plaza.

Accidents and incidents

 * August 2, 1985: Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 on a Fort Lauderdale–Dallas/Fort Worth–Los Angeles route, crashed near the north end of runway 17L (now 17C) after encountering a severe microburst on final approach; the crash killed 8 of 11 crew members, 128 of 152 passengers on board and one person on the ground. This was the first fatal accident at or near DFW since its opening in January 1974.
 * March 24, 1987: The pilot of a Metroflight Convair CV-580, registration number N73107, operating for American Eagle Airlines bound for Gregg County Airport, lost directional control during a crosswind takeoff. The left-hand wing and propeller struck the runway and the nose landing gear collapsed as the craft slid onto an adjacent taxiway; eight passengers and three crew aboard the airliner suffered minor or no injuries. The crash was attributed to the pilot's decision to disregard wind information and take off in weather conditions that exceeded the rated capabilities of the aircraft; the pilot's "overconfidence in [his/her] personal ability" was cited as a contributing factor in the accident report.
 * May 21, 1988: An American Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, registration number N136AA, operating as AA Flight 70 bound for Frankfurt Airport, overran runway 35L after warning signals prompted the flight crew to initiate a rejected takeoff. The jetliner continued to accelerate for several seconds and did not stop until it had run 1,100 feet (335 m) past the runway threshold, collapsing the nose landing gear. Two crew were seriously injured and the remaining 12 crew and 240 passengers escaped safely; the aircraft was severely damaged and was written off. Investigators attributed the overrun to a shortcoming in the design standards when the DC-10 was built; there had been no requirement to test whether worn (as opposed to new) brake pads were capable of stopping the aircraft during a rejected takeoff and eight of the ten worn pad sets failed.
 * August 31, 1988: Delta Air Lines Flight 1141, a Boeing 727, bound for Salt Lake City International Airport, crashed after takeoff, killing 14 of the 108 people on board and injuring 76 others, 26 seriously. To date, this is the last and most recent fatal accident to occur near or on airport property.
 * April 14, 1993: The pilot of American Airlines Flight 102, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, registration number N139AA, lost directional control during a crosswind landing in rain on arrival from Honolulu International Airport. The jetliner slid off runway 17L (now 17C) and dug into deep mud, collapsing the nose landing gear and damaging the left-hand engine and wing. A fire in the left-hand wheel well was rapidly extinguished by firefighters. Two passengers suffered serious injuries while using the evacuation slides; the remaining 187 passengers and 13 crew evacuated safely. The aircraft was written off.
 * October 1, 1993: Martinaire Flight 639, a Cessna 208B Caravan cargo aircraft, registration number N9762B, was blown off runway 17L by jet blast after arriving from Tulsa International Airport, sustaining substantial damage to the left wing. The pilot and sole occupant was not injured. The pilot had disregarded a safety advisory from air traffic control and attempted to taxi behind a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 as it was cleared for takeoff.
 * July 18, 1997: A Cessna 172 allegedly stolen from Sherman Municipal Airport was unlawfully flown at very low altitude across DFW Airport, Fort Worth Alliance Airport, and the landing area at a Bell Helicopter facility, causing significant air traffic disruptions. The unknown pilot then flew the aircraft back to Sherman Municipal and parked it. The Cessna's owner denied flying it that day and stated that he could not positively identify the incident pilot because several people had access to the aircraft.
 * May 23, 2001: The right main landing gear of an American Airlines Fokker 100, registration number N1419D, operating as AA Flight 1107, collapsed upon landing on runway 17C after a scheduled flight from Charlotte/Douglas International Airport. The pilot was able to maintain directional control and stop the aircraft on the runway. The incident was attributed to metal fatigue caused by a manufacturing flaw in the right main gear; there were no serious injuries to the 88 passengers or 4 crew, but the aircraft was badly damaged and was written off.

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User talk:Jimregan/Archive1

Heya, and welcome to Wikipedia. Please don't create subpages like you did on the Therapy? page (i.e. pages separated with a slash from the article). We are trying to get rid of those entirely. Thanks. --Eloquence 08:48 Apr 21, 2003 (UTC)

 * Noted. Thanks.

Yay! A fellow Irishman. 'bout bloody time. We are few and far between. But it is so much fun correct the mountains of errors about Ireland others (particularly Irish-American) put on wiki! Slán ÉÍREman 04:05 Apr 24, 2003 (UTC)
 * Heh - it's ironic, but the only such error I've changed so far is for a British band being claimed as Irish (My Bloody Valentine). I've come across some of your work and been intimidated... I think I'll stick to writing about bands for the time being. BTW, this is the preferred form of reply, isn't it?

Jaysus, don't be intimidated! :-) One thing I found was that I didn't realise just how much I knew until I'd discover a page and find myself spotting mistakes. You'll probably find that too. Replying here on the person's talk page are both fine. Putting it on the latter does have the benefit of you then getting a message saying there is a message. But either is OK. ÉÍREman 20:54 Apr 24, 2003 (UTC)

Hey, I responded to you at User talk:TUF-KAT/List of albums. Many thanks for all your work so far, but I would like to point out a few pretty minor things.
 * I reworded one para at Decade of Aggression. The original wasn't badly POV (if you haven't yet, see our policy about maintaining a neutral point of view), but I attributed the view to Slayer's fans.
 * Songs should be quotes, albums in italics
 * Genres aren't capitalized as a rule (there are exceptions, like New Wave). I fixed this at Hell Awaits
 * Don't preemptively disambiguate albums unless there's an obvious need for it. For example, there's no reason Infernal Love (album) shouldn't be at Infernal Love, unless you know something I don't about another use of the term.  It's easy to disambiguate later if another use comes up.

Tuf-Kat

 * I caught the reply, forgot to say thanks. Sorry. I was thinking the Decade of Agression bit wasn't NPOV (I flagged it in the summary), but it never occurred to me to attribute the view. Guess I can go remove a bunch of extraneous stuff from the albums list.

Jim, I should apologise to you for barging into PS/2 just now. That was rude of me. Tannin

 * Nah, you obviously had more to contribute. I just found it fun to watch the way the page grew within minutes of putting up the FOLDOC stuff!

Hello Jim.

Should you again meet the problem of Right Back, please do not hesitate to add it to Votes for undeletion, where you can list articles you think have been deleted with too much haste or by mistake, without going through the Votes for deletion process. This page was set for that purpose. Thanks and good contributions. User:anthere

 * Thanks. Martin brought my attention to it earlier, but I chose not to vote for it, since it is just a stub. I think I need a User:Jimregan/Notes to self page to keep track. Luckily, people are pretty quick to give a nudge in the right direction, thanks again for being on of them. -- Jimregan

- Yo. I'll help you on Everything is Wrong if you want. I'm done working on Animal Rights, though: I loaned the CD out and never got it back. Koyaanis Qatsi

 * Go right ahead. I just have that list so I can have a todo list. I haven't really done much on albums for the last week, and I can't find that one anyway. Jimregan

Hiya long long long long long long distant cousin! :-) If you get a chance, could you look at Republic of Ireland/temp to see what you think. Slán FearÉÍREANN 03:07 27 May 2003 (UTC)

 * Ha! 57th cousin a few hundred times removed? Why not. Had a look at it while ago. The history section looks more like the stuff I had to remember for my Leaving Cert alright, and the counties section looks more like the announcements after elections. The counties bit looks alright, but for certain purposes (eg sports, postal addresses?) they still go with the traditional counties, right? For Tipperary anyway. And isn't the fada on the 'i' in FearÉÍREANN superfluous? :) -- Jimregan 03:19 27 May 2003 (UTC)

Speaking of real operating systems, just imagine the culture shock of coming from Unix-oriented academia to 1988 Apple, where the big achievement of the previous year was a machine with a separate color monitor and a motherboard with slots... Larry Tesler told me it would take six months just to get over the shock, and he was pretty accurate about that. The tables are turned now - Unix folks in charge, and old Mac people grumbling about it! :-) Stan 05:49 27 May 2003 (UTC)

 * Heh. My culture shock was discovering Linux in college, after using Windows. "Don't UNIX licenses cost hundreds of pounds? Don't you need special workstations?". I was shown a Mac after that, but it just didn't fit my inclinations. Plus, after being forced to use them at a previous job, I hope to never repeat the experience. -- Jimregan 08:45 29 May 2003 (UTC)

Hi Jim. Calling a fellow Irishman. Defend your country! *grin* Actually a recurring problem has cropped up again. Some months ago a user called Scipius tried to screw up the Republic of Ireland page. He wanted to call it simply Ireland even though the page is only on the RofI, and everyone else told him it should be called the Rep of Irl. He tried to change facts and got into a major row with me, with other Irish users, with Northern Irish users and people who had worked on the page in general with his pre-occupation with changing things to his own highly inaccurate understanding of Irish history, culture, politics, etc. Now he is back again and trying to rewrite the agreed template on the RofI page; one of his recurring insistences for example, is in suggesting that the Irish and english languages have equality of status, by removing a simple reference to the Irish language being defined as the national language and english as a (not the) secondary language. On past evidence, he will simply keep reverting the page again and again and again, ignoring any past consensus reached until it people can get it clear to him that he is not getting his way. So it would be a great help if you could keep an eye on the page and tell him that the page as it is (I reverted his changes) is factually accurate and his 'version' is factually inaccurate and simplistic. In the past people have just given up when he has waged his factually dodgy war elsewhere. But there is no way I am going to let him screw up the R of I page again. The more Irish people join in the better. Otherwise we will have weeks of him ignoring everyone and bulldozing his way through, as he tried (and failed) the last time. FearÉIREANN 02:59 10 Jun 2003 (UTC)

 * Another of those damnable Irish-Americans eh? :) Will do. I'll take the evening watch. BTW, nice to see I've had some small influence on you (i.e. the loss of the superfluous fada, italics in e-mail) - maybe one of the days I'll come under your influence and write a good article. On the "getting more Irish people to join" front, I've been trying to get a friend of mine to chip in, though I think he'll wait till he's gotten through your articles first (he loves his politics - used to spend his mornings arguing with Morning Ireland when I shared a house with him in college). -- Jim Regan 20:24 10 Jun 2003 (UTC)

 * Hi there Jim, just thought I'd point out that JTD's representation of me is somewhat off (and no, I'm a fellow European ;)). You can see User talk:Jlk7e for a lengthier reply. It's a pity that JTD is not in a particularly cooperative mood, but I'd like to mention that my intentions and edits aren't anything near what JTD suggests they are. Thanks for listening. -Scipius 22:58 10 Jun 2003 (UTC)

 * Sorry about that characterisation I made of you - a joke between JTD and I (as you may have gathered from other comments on this page). Having read your changes, and reasonings, and JTD's, I would tend to agree with his position; after all, the consensus seems to be with him, your contributions to the Republic of Ireland page do have inaccuracies, and it is inappropriate to discuss the history of Ireland in a page about the Republic. That said, I think if you and JTD could discuss these changes point by point I think you could both find some common ground. There was a thing or two I thought sh/could be kept (the details escape me at the moment), but I didn't have the time. I might have another look later. -- Jim Regan 19:26 11 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Hi Jim, re the fada. I never actually noticed I had accidentially fadaised (if such a word exists!) the i and capitalised it as well until you mentioned it. I meant to thank you for spotting that, so a belated. . . oh hell, I can't remember the Irish for 'thank you' *embarrassment*. I see that Scipius has contacted you. Oh lucky you! :-) The saga of Scipius and the Republic of Ireland goes on and on . . . and on and on. How many users does it take for Scipius to listen to them? It was like this the last time and like the last time Scipius just ignored everyone and changed things to his way. (Though John reverted.) The irony is Scipius is a good contributor, just a tad "stubborn" as Mav put it. He doesn't seem to grasp that having cleaned up the mess on the Irish pages that was on wiki before (go to the old John Redmond page if you want a laugh. Though I hasten to add that was nothing to do with Scipius) Irish users tend to be rather stubborn too when it comes to defending accuracy with regard to Ireland on wiki. Having once had a page that said deV won the civil war (which would have come as a surprise to him!) the days of inaccurate half-baked Oirish stuff packed with simplistic theories and monumental inaccuracies are over. Only Scipius seems incapable of realising that he is wrong. I wish a user with his ability would stick to pages where he knows what he is talking about not forcing his version when people are queuing to tell him he is wrong. Plus ca change. lol. FearÉIREANN 23:30 10 Jun 2003 (UTC)
 * Go raibh maith agat is what you were looking for there. Tá fáilte romhat (I think. Dammit, I won a scholarship to a Gaeltacht years ago, but I've not had a use for the language since my Leaving Cert). deV eh? I've seen people get into lengthy, garullous (and drunken) conversations about the whole deV/Collins thing, and to be honest, it never interested me much—it seems to bring out the inner Nationalist in too many people. And don't get me started on the what have the British ever done for us B.S. -- Jim Regan 19:26 11 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Good idea. I see 149.101.1.126 is doing strange things to articles again. Sometimes they add in good stuff, sometimes POV garbage. I've appealed to them to stop, be careful, understand what NPOV means and how the naming conventions work. Sometimes they follow them, other times just bulldoze their way through with dodgy stuff. I have asked Mav to have a word with them to see if he can talk some sense into them. *sigh*. In 30 minutes I will be enjoying a pint in the city centre. It cannot come soon enough!!! FearÉIREANN 18:19 12 Jun 2003 (UTC)

 * Damn, thought I replied to this earlier today. Bloody Mozilla keeps crashing on me. Hope you enjoyed your pint(s?), have a WikiPint on me :) I had a look at what you meant about 149.101.1.126 - sheesh. I think most of the POV (libellous :) stuff can be covered by a simple, two word instruction - attribute opinions. -- Jim Regan 02:04 13 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Have you tried the safari browser? It is the best I have come across. Opera is also pretty Ok. I see you have done some edits on work by 67.122.114.153 on Phil Collins. Can you be sure the original article is accurate? The problem is that people strongly suspect that 67. . . is Michael *sigh* again. If it is Michael and is accurate, the best solution might be to blank Michael's version and state you are doing that. Then install the text under your name with some textual changes. I know it seems a bit alkward but everytime Michael sees that his version unreverted exists it acts as an encouragement to him to think he can still work on wiki and get away with it. Another alternative might be to do a redirect to the basic text rewritten by you under a new article name. Such actions by everyone might just get the message through to that ejjit Michael that the entire wiki is saying to him "fuck off''! Though it is a long shot. FearÉIREANN 16:50 13 Jun 2003 (UTC)

 * Safari? Isn't that Apple's version of Konqueror? (Yes, it is, never mind). I'd use KDE on GNU/Linux but I have a damned Winmodem, and it's taking me a while to get ADSL (sorry about that alphabet soup). As to the 67... edits, I did check, though if I'm completely honest, I'm not 100% sure about the track order, just the names. I've never knowingly listened to Phil Collins voluntarily, so I never could be 100% sure :) I wouldn't be too sure about that being Michael - the info (I saw) was accurate, and it's anathema to a punk (as Michael claims to be) to listen to an old fart like Phil Collins! I don't see the point in blanking Michael's stuff, as in anything I've edited that he's touched, there's never been any sentences, just track listings, dates &c, which don't merit that sort of rewriting once verified. I know most people prefer that approach, but a lot of them have more of an axe to grind with him; I prefer to live and let live where possible—I'll just try to take on what I can do in a timely fashion to try and take the load off. Like I've said before, (though where, I can't say) Michael is an annoyance to most, but a motivator to me, in that most of the articles I work on are music related, and within my tastes, which have some overlap with Michael's; and I don't think it right to put articles up under an incorrect title, as would be the case if I were to rename an article written about an album or band. (Speaking of getting a kick up the arse, your message prompted me to verify those Phil Collins pages).

Hiya, could you take a look at British Isles. There is one user who doesn't seem to understand that it is seen as a geo-political term, not merely a geographic one, and seems to think that the offence is caused on when the term is wrongly interpreted. They seem not to understand that this term is a problem for Irish people, and keeps adding in POV stuff to the effect of 'it is only offensive if you interpret it as offensive.' FearÉIREANN 20:09 13 Jun 2003 (UTC)

 * That's been put in again, but honestly, I don't have the expertise to give a yay or nay in the matter, so I don't feel it would be apropriate for me to merely revert the changes. Though I am going to give it another look, and leave that sentence intact whatever I finally decide, just so you'll know I've been iffy about it!

 * Right, in the end I reinstated a sentence describing Irish distaste for the term (though it is stated later in the article). Oh, and sorry if my replies have been rambling and incoherent, I'm just back from the pub :) -- Jim Regan 04:25 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)

 * I was just thinking about the last sentence in that message. Funnily enough, the logical part of my brain made me want to argue with it, in the sense of "well, I'm Irish, and I don't take offense to it", but being honest, I found that I do take offense to it. I find it strange that though I've been brought up to eschew this nationalist nonsense, and can see the logic in the naming of the "British Isles" that I can still feel this knee-jerk "I'm not f***ing British" kind of reaction. Wierd! Best you look over my revision, as I'd forgotten enough of Irish history to have been shocked earlier tonight to find out a guy I was talking to was both a nationalist and a Protestant. -- Jim Regan 04:52 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Did you know that Ian Paisley gets thousands of Catholic votes? I'm dead serious. ''At this point you have probably fallen of your chair, are clambering up in a state of confusion going "what the fuck did I just read?", have read it and collapsed down on the ground again in shock. But in the 1998 European elections, 4 people voted Ian Paisley no.1 and Sinn Féin's candidate no. 2. OK. there you go down onto the floor again in shock. If you are shocked, think how Big Ian felt! And Sinn Féin! OK now that you have recovered from all your falling around, I looked over the page and agreed with the sentence you put in. In fact I agreed with it so much I went and redid the entire article again. :-) I can understand the point the original author is making about it being a geographic term, but he doesn't seem to grasp that in the real world there is no such thing as geography, or history, or politics, or economics, or . . . Everything is tied to everything else and looking at it purely from the point of view of geography is not merely factually wrong but ludicrous. It is much much more complex than that and hopefully the rewrite conveys that. OK. It is 6.25am. I have a bad cold, a hideous cough, my nose could run in the Special Olympics and I have just taken more Uniflu (Oh and if I take any more cough mixture I will be higher than Ian Paisley's ego! So Slán. (Is Oiche Mhaith still appropiate as it is a nice bright morning here in Dublin???) FearÉIREANN 05:27 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Thanks. There I was writing on your page, and you on mine. BTW, have you stopped laughing yet about Cabin Fever??? Talk about the ultimate Irish joke. And on Friday the 13th!!! FearÉIREANN 05:30 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)

 * Yeah, I've seen that about Ian Paisley before. It doesn't really surprise me, as I've seen in various places that he's not quite the demon his newsbytes make him out to be. Voting Paisley 1 and Sinn Fein 2 though... sick puppies! I don't know about "oíche mhaith". Maybe best to go with "Slán go fhóill" (though I'm not sure about the ó vs. o there). Don't worry about the cough bottle; it's pretty hard to get any with codeine in it any more (memories of my not-so-distant teenage years :) I might be reaching for the aspirin later... I have to commend your choice of Uniflu—it give cold and flu the old one-two y'know :) As for Paisley's ego... he's a politician, it's in the job description. -- Jim Regan 05:43 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)
 * And there I was writing a reply here, and you got here first. Cabin Fever? Huh? -- Jim Regan 05:43 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)

You do know what happened with Cabin Fever last night? Is there anyone who doesn't know??? The friggin' ship sank of Tory Island!!!! FearÉIREANN 06:01 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Oh. I started a reply, you beat me again. I'll quote myself; "OK, I googled it. Is that the reality TV show you're referring to? Because I avoid those like the plague. I haven't watched anything on RTÉ since I got Sky Digital about 3 months ago either, so I need filling in here!". So, there you go, one person who didn't hear. Though I'm sure I'll hear about nothing else for the rest of the week! Ship sinking? RTÉ? Where's the surprise? :) -- Jim Regan 06:05 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)

It is on wiki's front page! (OK. I put it there!) See Cabin Fever. Half a million euros worth of ship smashed on the rocks. And the blooming RTE film crew had left the boat half an hour earlier after filming for 15 hours. 15 hours of nothing. They leave. The ship hits the rocks and everyone has to be rescued. And there is no-one there from RTÉ to film it. Aaaaaaagh! Talk about bad luck!!! :-) I wouldn't mind but I know the exec-producer, Julian and he's a decent guy. Why couldn't Pat Kenny have been on the boat??? Now that would be funny! FearÉIREANN 06:11 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Media prediction the show: Cabin Fever is set to be the summer's reality tv hit. They were talking about the show, guys, not what they suggested you do to Tory Island! FearÉIREANN 06:15 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)

 * OK, I really like that the crew missed it. They'd have turned a profit otherwise. One more nail in the coffin of reality TV (hopefully). You know the exec producer? He wouldn't be due a ribbing over this now, would he? That is, unless you like to watch grown men cry :) -- Jim Regan 06:18 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)

He got me onto radio a few times, which was a handy little earner (stress the word 'little'. £35 for guesting on a show with Joe Duffy, £30 for something with Marian Finucane. I think £50 for something with P. Kenny) He once almost forced me to tell a story on radio - 12.15pm on a sunday. People come out of church, turn on their radio and there I am telling a story with the word "fuck" three times. (Actually it was a true story that involves someone coming out of a confessional, seeing someone they hated, belting them with an unbrella and saying "you fucking bastard. You fucking hoor you". Then realising they were in a church, getting embarrassed, saying A jaysus turning around and going straight back into the confessional that they had been leaving, with more sins to confess! *And the cursing all took place in a strong Cork accent. I witnessed it, hence the story!) Joe turns about 15 shades of red and purple with embarrassment. The other guests get the joke and roar laughing. ANd Julian (the bastard) almost pisses himself with enjoyment as Joe Duffy's embarrassment. (Yet Joe did bring me back on again!!! But he did threaten to physically strangle poor Julian and get him back. Maybe that is why the ship sank. Joe 'holed' it as long delayed revenge!!! FearÉIREANN 06:29 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)

 * Yeah, I'm sure he twisted your arm. And like you don't know any radio-safe euphemisms. I'm trying to picture Joe Duffy as the Godfather now... doesn't quite work :) -- Jim Regan 14:04 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Hi Jim,

Have you voted yet on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (years in titles)?. I am afraid that wiki is about to make a major captioning error. It seems to be voting to putting the year first when naming elections, sports events, etc. While people often do so in spoken english, in titles and captions it doesn't do so, because to do so makes the year the central fact, whereas in reality what the event is is central, the year the disambigulation point. For example, media outlets caption election coverage as Election 2000, General Election 2000, Presidential Election 2000 etc because the the fact that it is an election is the main fact to know, that it is a general/presidential/local/state/congressional election central. We have been following this rule for ages on wiki, so we have everything from UK general election, 1970 to U.S. presidential election, 1932 to Irish general election, 2002, etc. Moving to 1932 US presidential election goes against standard media caption style and would involve the wholescale renaming of pages covering elections and all sorts of events from all over the globe. You are talking about hundreds if not thousands of pages having to be renamed and go against standard caption style, which is often called the where what, when rule. After all, people if they are searching for a page on an election will use the name of the election as their entry point for a list (particularly if they don't know the year). Typing in a search for ''U.S. presidential election throws up a clear orderly list of US presidential elections, with the disambigulation year at the end uniformly.

As you may guess, I do think wiki's proposed to system would amount to a pointless waste of energy in remaining vast numbers of pages, especially when it is to a format that is generally not used in titles and captions but only in speech. And this debate is all about titles. So I am canvassing support to vote down what I think is a flawed, ill thought through and pointless that originated initially with Adam Rinkleff (in the Susan Mason persona) some months ago and survived as an idea after SM was banned. (I don't know if you know about Adam. Basically Adam was another Michael only more devious and who caused chaos for six or seven months, creating multiple personæ who went around wiki spreading mischief and provoking edit wars. Sometimes he'd have two 'trolls' working at once; in an attempt to convince us they weren't him he'd have them talking to each other. But each in turn was banned and Adam claims now that he has stopped his infiltration, though few believe it. So if nothing else this message has given you some background info on our most famous troll, Adam, who would make the likes of Michael or DW look like amateurs in comparison!) wikilove FearÉIREANN 01:46 18 Jun 2003 (UTC)

 * I looked at it, and was disappointed to find that while I could vote several times, I couldn't weight my voting. Maybe it's just that I've only experienced voting in the form used in our elections, and in the "just pick one" form.
 * Now, the thing I don't understand is why there has to be a single convention for years - the two main examples given were for elections and sporting events, but the convention I've always observed are that both use different conventions - 2002 Premiership and General Election, 2002 &c. Since it's natural to assume that people who work on sporting events and those who work on elections wouldn't have much overlap, both here and in, say, newspapers, why can't these different groups use their own conventions? Are people really that opposed to the use of redirect pages? The waste in energy goes in both directions, as the sporting people already have their convention, and the elections, as you have said, have another. To me, it's much like the capitalisation debate you commented on in the mailing list.
 * And no, I've never had any dealings with Adam. In fact, apart from one-off vandals, I've never had any dealings with any of them except Michael. The thing that gets me about the whole thing with Michael is having to deal with the aftermath. Having to constantly check pages to see if he's been around tampering with them is no big deal to me - I end up checking revisions to any page I've made changes to anyway (or, at least, the one's I'm interested in). -- Jim Regan 02:49 18 Jun 2003 (UTC)

It is a fair point re different styles for sports and everything else. re Adam - oh you were soooo lucky never to deal with him. He was the troll from hell. When I joined, there was an edit war going on, where people would all work together on a version of one particular page. An agreed version would be worked out, then Vera Cruz as he called himself, would tear it to shreds and produce a version that was factually incorrect, hard to read and blatently POV. It would be reverted, he would revert. Then his cancer would stread to other pages, and he would almost stop the wiki as everyone got focused on the latest Vera Cruz versus the entire wiki became the issue. Over a few months, Rickleff came back as Lir, Vera Cruz, Bridget, Susan Mason, Dietary Fiber, Zxcvb, Shino Baku and a host of other trolls. At one stage to try to convince us that they weren't the same person and neither was Adam, Susan and Dietary began leaving messages for "each other" supporting each other against all the attacks. But then one of them inadvertently claimed that they had done an edit that the other had actually and demonstrably done so they were caught. One night it all came to a head. Zoe, 172, myself, Tannin and others decided "fuck it. We have had enough."

So, as now happens to Michael, we waged total war. Everything Adam in the name of his latest troll touched was reverted on sight. One page on James I of England was reverted by the minute all night. If he so much as changed a comma, it was reverted, no matter how accurate (and a lot of Adam's stuff was quirky, to put it mildly!). Eventually he went away and sent a message to Jimbo saying he was gone for good; he even give a list of his trolls and it turned out there were some that had not been caught. He swears he is gone for good, but few believes it. Unfortunately some new users came on at the time of the 'night war' and, not knowing what was going on, presumed Zoe, Tannin, 172, I and others were bullies attacking this poor user!!! (Cpromt still thinks we were hard on them. He never had to deal with them, though. Adam's classic stunt was to start off all nice and polite, do something, people would change it and nicely explain why it was wrong. Adam would be so nice and polite . . . and change it back. So the gullible user would be all nice back, trying to explain the change. Then finally it would dawn on the user after a week or two that they were falling for an act. Adam was ignoring everything they said while pretending he was listening, appreciated their friendliness, was thinking about what they said etc. And he'd find a gullible newbie everytime to fall for it, sending messages around saying 'why are you all being so horrid to this poor user? If you explain the problem they will listen'. 2 weeks later, that newbie would be spitting blood, screaming "that son of a bitch" at Adam, by which time another newbie had fallen for the charm offensive. (I did once in my time too!) So the next time you hear people screaming that 'x' or 'y' is Adam or Lir, don't be surprised if things get a little heated or that you find yourself facing an unexpected charm offensive from that x or y, as they mutter 'but I'm an innocent user being attacked by all these bullies' before taking you for a ride if you are not careful. Comparing Michael to Adam/Lir is like comparing Charlie Haughey to Hitler. :-) FearÉIREANN 03:55 18 Jun 2003 (UTC)

 * Heh. Wiki Reminiscences. "When I was a lad, we had to walk six miles to use Wikipedia, in our bare feet, to spare the shoe leather, all up-hill, and in the driving hail". That said, I've been getting a few nostalgic moments of late, both for college, and when the young lad was still an infant. I'm only 23, goddammit! I'm too young to be nostalgic! I'll give it a month before it's something like "I remember the good old days when the cabal was just a joke, and we didn't have to pay our daily tithe to the evil sysop over lords. Why didn't we listen to GrahamN?" :) -- Jim Regan 04:40 18 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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Talk:James MacArthur

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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- KenWalker | Talk 04:54, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

The biography posted to this page contained text identical to that on http://www.hawaiifive0.org/Cast%20Members/danno.htm, for the reason that I wrote both of them. Teresa Fogarty.

Hi, Teresa. OK, that does make a difference, but still, we strive for neutral point of view here, and your article is hardly that. -- Zoe

The text has been restored. -- Notheruser 05:21 18 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Moved from Charles MacArthur and to be grafted into this article at a suitable time:

 * ...best known for playing "Danny Williams" on the American television series Hawaii Five-O from 1968 to 1979.

--Jerzy 05:28, 2003 Oct 25 (UTC)

Is that change necessary? It could be a case of 'too many cooks overcook the broth.' The article already contains the phrase ' For eleven years, James MacArthur played the role of Dan (Danno) Williams, reliable second-in-command to Steve McGarrett (played by Jack Lord), head of the fictional Hawaiian State Police Squad, Hawaii Five-O. The role made his name a household word and won him fans all over the world.'

Teresa

T, plz forgive me for not responding immediately to the content of your note above, in favor of a more urgent matter.

Would you please be so kind as to leave me a note at My talk page, saying which of the following you've done:
 * send an EMail to the EMail address for Angela that is described by "angelaatwikipedia@yahoodotcodotuk", from one of the EMail addresses that is noted as yours on a Web page on a major non-anonymous site (e.g. IMDB, IIRC) where you have also asserted ownership of the copyright on this article, or
 * register as a WP user, listing such an address in the EMail-address blank of your registration form.

This is a matter of protecting both your copyright and WP's due diligence with regard to it. Your anonymous assertion here of being the copyright owner is not verifiable as it stands, and therefore not sufficiently credible, since anyone violating your copyright by posting here could claim to be you and in effect involve us in their violation. Without your cooperation in this, the whole article may have to be rewritten from scratch, rather than carry forward a presumed copyright violation. Tnx --Jerzy 02:00, 2003 Nov 20 (UTC)

Teresa, Thanks for your patience, and sorry for the misunderstanding re my 05:28, 2003 Oct 25 (UTC) edit to this page.

Perhaps i could have better worded it. But here is where we are, and thank you for adding clarity by noting the redundancy. Odds are excellent that you've prevented any harm that might have followed from my unclarity.

As to "too many cooks spoiling the broth" my perception is that our policy of "editing boldly" is, statistically, a good one. In a line, IMO there is and may always be a place in the world for what i think of as the "Samuel Johnson" model of writing, but WP is not now such a place. (It probably will never be, but that is both uncertain and irrelevant.)

You've observed that it isn't necessary to register in order to work here, but i urge you to consider doing so (for reasons more enduring than my request above re copyvio) and becoming more part of the WP community. --Jerzy 15:12, 2003 Nov 20 (UTC)

Jerzy, Thank you for YOUR patience! I am following your suggestion, that I log in as a registered user, to cofirm that I did in fact write the biography of James MacArthur which I posted to this site. Copies of this biography can also be found at The Hawaii Five-0 Fan Club website, The International Movie Database and the website which I maintain, The Official James MacArthur International Fan Club website (www.jamesmacarthurfanclub.cm). All of these versions were written by me. Though there may be different email addresses attached to them (tfogarty@bigpond.net.au, jmfanclub@teresafogarty.com, webmaster@jamesmacarthurfanclub.com, these email addresses do belong to me, and I am able to respond to emails at any of them.

I do hope this helps to allay any concerns you may have about copyright or the GDL. --TeresaFogarty
 * Sorry abt my using the wrong TLA, which you are polite enuf to imitate: we don't spend a lot of time here talking about the "GNU Free Documentation License", and when (using EMail) i had to refer to it without the statement at the bottom of every Edit page in front of me, i kept calling it "GDL" instead of GFDL as i should have. --Jerzy 05:40, 2004 Jan 21 (UTC)

To whom it may concern: i have corresponded with a person having receive and send access at one of the above addresses, which also appears on Web sites implicitly claiming authorship to an article i believe to be another stage in the life of the same literary work as first edit of this talk page's article. IMO it is worth believing her claim. I also am thoroughly convinced that no one other than her could both be performing their due diligence to protect their copyright and have written it. --Jerzy 05:40, 2004 Jan 21 (UTC)

Teresa, pleased to see you here after our EMail correspondence; i was a little concerned about not having heard from you for a while, but to coin a phrase, Wikipedia "grinds exceeding slow, tho it grinds exceeding coarse" [chuckling at my own supposed wit]. Ours is an unusual process, and there isn't a lot here that doesn't deserve patience.

You're of course under no more obligation to participate further than you have been under so far. But it'd be neat if you catch the bug; from our point of view, it'd be neat bcz you are a very skilled writer, and tho our style-book may not be what you're used to, i bet your experience and insight will be valuable here if you get interested in writing in other areas (including other performers) and in fixing imperfections in what others have written in many, many areas.

But i'm going on here abt things that were better said on your talk page; i'll copy this there and continue a little further. --Jerzy 05:40, 2004 Jan 21 (UTC)

Moved unsourced information
Moved from article pending a source: "Born in Los Angeles, California, the product of an affair between Charles MacArthur and a mistress, he was adopted as an infant by his biological father Charles MacArthur and his wife, Helen Hayes." All Hallow's Wraith (talk) 20:47, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

 * James Gordon MacArthur may have been born in Washington, D.C., but adopted in Los Angeles California. There is supposedly evidence of Washington, D.C. being his place of birth in the United States Census of 1940, but until such time as someone can provide a link or specific reference, the birthplace should remain Los Angeles, California, as stated in The New York Times and at Find A Grave. — QuicksilverT @ 09:14, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Vandalism?
Someone changed "Book 'em Danno" to "My heart's an open book." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tishbite37 (talk • contribs) 07:39, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Natural causes?
It appears redundant to say he died of natural causes at the Mayo Clinic. Why was he at the Mayo Clinic if he died of natural causes? Caeruleancentaur (talk) 14:47, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I mean "contradictory"! Caeruleancentaur (talk) 14:52, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
 * "Natural causes" could include any number of diseases: cancer, heart condition, etc. Anything that wasn't the result of some accident or criminal action. Wschart (talk) 23:43, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Personal Life
Why is there no section on personal life. Pieces of his personal life are interwoven throughout. More importantly, was he married to Melodie Patterson (F-Troop)? Did they have children, and were they divorced and where was his residence during this period of time? N0w8st8s (talk) 13:26, 23 September 2015 (UTC)n0w8st8s

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James Blount (English soldier)

Sir James Blount (died 1493) (sometimes spelt Blunt) was commander of the English fortress of Hammes, near Calais.

Blount was the son of Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy, and uncle of William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy. In 1473, he sat in Parliament as the MP for Derbyshire.

He was appointed governor of Hammes jointly with his elder brother John Blount, 3rd Baron Mountjoy in 1476. When, in 1484, the Earl of Oxford and William, 2nd Viscount Beaumont, were imprisoned at Hammes, Blount was apparently persuaded to switch to the Lancastrian side. Blount, Oxford, and Beaumont fled to join Henry Tudor, (the future Henry VII of England who was then living in exile in France).Blount remained with the Lancastrian forces and landed with Henry Tudor's forces in 1485 at Milford Haven, where he was knighted.

Blount appears as a minor character in William Shakespeare's play Richard III.

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Robert Stillington

Robert Stillington (about 1405 – May 1491) was an English cleric and administrator who was Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1465 and twice served as Lord Chancellor under King Edward IV. In 1483 he was instrumental in the accession of King Richard III, leading to later reprisals against him under King Henry VII.

Life
Stillington was Archdeacon of Taunton (1450–1465) and Archdeacon of Berkshire (1464–1465) when he was made Keeper of the Privy Seal from 1460 to 1467.

Stillington was selected as Bishop of Bath and Wells on 30 October 1465, and was consecrated on 16 March 1466. He was appointed Lord Chancellor on 20 June 1467 and held the office until 29 September 1470, when Henry VI was restored to the throne. After the return of Edward IV, he was reappointed to his former office and held it until 18 June 1473, when Edward dismissed him.

In 1478, Stillington spent some weeks in prison, apparently as a result of some association with the disgraced George, Duke of Clarence. It has been suggested that he gave Clarence information about the king's prior common law association with a mistress Lady Eleanor Talbot, information that would have put Clarence in a position to claim the throne for himself.

After Edward's death in April 1483, Stillington was a member of the council of the boy-king Edward V. Some time in June, a clergyman, identified as Stillington only by the writings [Mémoires, book VI chapter 17] of the French diplomat Philippe de Commines (who referred to him as levesque de Bas (bishop of Bath) and ce mauvais evesque (this bad bishop)), told Richard, Duke of Gloucester, the Lord Protector, that the marriage of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville had been invalid on the grounds of Edward's earlier marriage to Lady Eleanor Talbot, at which he claimed to have officiated. This led to Elizabeth Woodville's children by Edward IV being declared illegitimate and the Duke of Gloucester ascending the throne as Richard III.

After Henry VII defeated Richard III at Bosworth in 1485, he immediately had Stillington imprisoned again. Henry had the bigamy charge against Edward IV reversed, and married Edward's daughter, Elizabeth of York.

Some years after Stillington's second release, he became involved in the plot to place the impostor Lambert Simnel on the throne in 1487. After finding refuge at Oxford University, he was eventually handed over to the king and imprisoned. He was buried in a chapel of his own founding, since demolished, at Wells Cathedral.

title: Robert Stillington