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Moving Minister of Agriculture (Canada)
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In the scenario you provided, Wigan would get a 12-point deduction, which would push QPR up to 21st. In any scenario where QPR finishes 22nd before applying the 12-point deduction, the teams below them would be Barnsley and either Luton Town or Hull City (those teams play each other, so at least one will not have enough points to catch QPR). So Wigan would not finish in the relegation zone based on their match results in any scenario where QPR is in the relegation zone. Then their deduction would kick in this season instead of next season, which would place them below QPR. See: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/soccer-predictions/championship/ Cheers. Bmf 051 (talk) 21:52, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

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Karman
Hi. You should read the article here: https://airandspace.confit.dev/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/JSL-41.2.pdf It cites a lot of souces and parties involved in establishing what we know as a Karman line. This clearly shows that U.S and then Soviet Union agreed upon definition of space. Probably made it intentionally higher then what Karman calculations suggested, because they wanted to have bigger airspace. So you see Karman line is defined by FAI and have nothing to do with Karman calculations really. Also AFAIK there is only one Karman line, but there are multiple definitions of airspace / outer space boundary. Nux (talk) 08:58, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

Irish Election Summary Templates
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Joy Adamson

Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson ( Gessner; 20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) was a naturalist, artist and author. Her book, Born Free, describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. Born Free was printed in several languages, and made into an Academy Award-winning movie of the same name. In 1977, she was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art.

Biography
Adamson was born to Victor and Traute Gessner ( Greipel) in Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary (now Opava, Czech Republic), the second of three daughters. Her parents died when she was 10, and she went to live with her grandmother. In her autobiography The Searching Spirit, Adamson wrote about her grandmother, saying, "It is to her I owe anything that may be good in me".

She grew up on an estate near Vienna, was educated in Vienna earning a music degree before studying sculpting and medicine. As a young adult, Adamson considered careers as a concert pianist, and in medicine.

Joy Adamson married three times in the span of ten years. Her first marriage in 1935 was to Viktor von Klarwill (aka Ziebel; 1902–1985).

She went to Kenya in 1937 where she met and married in 1938 the botanist Peter Bally, who gave her the nickname "Joy". Peter did botanical paintings, and it was he who encouraged her to continue sketching and painting the flora and fauna in her surroundings. She met her third husband, senior wildlife warden George Adamson, while on safari in the early 1940s and married him in 1944. They made their home together in Kenya.

Joy Adamson is best known for her conservation efforts associated with Elsa the Lioness. In 1956, George Adamson, in the course of his job as game warden of the Northern Frontier District in Kenya, shot and killed a lioness as she charged him and another warden. George later realized the lioness was just protecting her cubs, which were found nearby in a rocky crevice. Taking them home, Joy and George found it difficult to care for all the cubs' needs. The two largest cubs, named "Big One" and "Lustica", were passed on to be cared for by a zoo in Rotterdam, and the smallest, "Elsa", was raised by the couple.

After some time living together, the Adamsons decided to set Elsa free rather than send her to a zoo, and spent many months training her to hunt and survive on her own. They were in the end successful, and Elsa became the first lioness successfully released back into the wild, the first to have contact after release, and the first known released lion to have a litter of cubs. The Adamsons kept their distance from the cubs, getting close enough only to photograph them.

In January 1961, Elsa died from babesiosis, a disease resulting from a tick bite. Her three young cubs became a nuisance, killing the livestock of local farmers. The Adamsons, who feared the farmers might kill the cubs, were able to eventually capture them and transport them to neighboring Tanganyika Territory, where they were promised a home at Serengeti National Park.

In the concluding part of Forever Free the Adamsons lost track of the cubs in their new home. After describing a fruitless search, Joy Adamson contemplated a pair of lions: "My heart was with them wherever they were. But it was also with these two lions here in front of us; and as I watched this beautiful pair, I realized how all the characteristics of our cubs were inherent in them. Indeed, in every lion I saw during our searches I recognized the intrinsic nature of Elsa, Jespah, Gopa and Little Elsa, the spirit of all the magnificent lions in Africa".

During Elsa's lifetime, Joy and George Adamson needed each other to educate her, but after she died and her cubs were taken in by the park, their interests went in separate directions, as did their lives. While neither wanted a divorce nor a legal separation, their conflicting interests (George wanted to continue to work with lions and she with cheetahs) made it necessary for them to live apart (though they sometimes discussed living together again, they never did). They spent each Christmas together and they remained on good terms.

Using her own notes and George's journals, Joy wrote Born Free to tell the lion's tale. She submitted it to a number of publishers before it was bought by Harvill Press, part of HarperCollins. Published in 1960, it became a bestseller, spending 13 weeks at the top of The New York Times Best Seller list and nearly a year on the chart overall. The success of the book was due to both the story of Elsa and the dozens of photographs of her. Readers had pictures of many of the events of Elsa's life leading up to her release. Subsequent books were also heavily illustrated. Born Free received largely favorable reviews from critics. Adamson worked closely with publishers to promote the book, which contributed to the Adamsons' new-found international celebrity.

She spent the rest of her life raising money for wildlife, thanks to the popularity of Born Free. The book was followed by Living Free, which is about Elsa as a mother to her cubs, and Forever Free, which tells of the release of the cubs Jespah, Gopa and Little Elsa. Adamson shared book proceeds with various conservation projects.

While television specials kept the Adamsons' cause in the spotlight, Adamson spent her last 10 years travelling the world, giving speeches about the perils faced by wildlife in Africa.

A book of her paintings, Joy Adamson's Africa, was published in 1972. She rehabilitated a cheetah and an African leopard. Pippa the cheetah was raised as a pet and given to Adamson at the age of seven months in hopes that she could also be released. Pippa had four litters before her death. Adamson wrote The Spotted Sphinx and Pippa's Challenge about Pippa and her cheetah family. Later, Adamson reached her goal of many years, when she obtained an African leopard cub. Penny was eight weeks old when a ranger acquaintance of George Adamson found her in 1976. Penny had a litter of two cubs before the publication of Queen of Shaba, Adamson's posthumous and final book.

During her lifetime, she created more than 500 paintings and line drawings. Her work included portraits of the indigenous populations commissioned by the government of Kenya, as well as botanical illustrations for at least seven books on East African flora. She also did animal paintings, among them studies of Elsa and Pippa.

Murder and legacy
On 3 January 1980, in Shaba National Reserve in Kenya, Joy Adamson's body was discovered by her assistant, Pieter Mawson. He mistakenly assumed she had been killed by a lion, and this was what was initially reported by the media. She was a few weeks short of her 70th birthday.

The police investigation found Adamson's wounds were too sharp and bloodless to have been caused by an animal, and concluded she had been murdered. Paul Nakware Ekai, a discharged labourer formerly employed by Adamson, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to indefinite imprisonment. He escaped capital punishment because the judge ruled he might have been a minor when the crime was committed.

Joy Adamson was cremated and her ashes were buried in Elsa the Lioness's grave in Meru National Park in Meru, Kenya.

George Adamson was murdered nine years later in 1989, near his camp in Kora National Park, while rushing to the aid of a tourist who was being attacked by poachers. He is credited with saving the tourist's life.

In addition to Joy Adamson's books about big cats, a book of her artwork was published as an autobiography entitled The Searching Spirit. George Adamson's second autobiography, My Pride and Joy, was published in 1986.

Books by Joy Adamson

 * Born Free (1960) ISBN 1-56849-551-X
 * Elsa: The Story of a Lioness (1961)
 * Living Free: The story of Elsa and her cubs (1961) ISBN 0-00-637588-X
 * Forever Free: Elsa's Pride (1962) ISBN 0-00-632885-7
 * The Spotted Sphinx (1969) ISBN 0-15-184795-9
 * Pippa: The Cheetah and her Cubs (1970) ISBN 0-15-262125-3
 * Joy Adamson's Africa (1972) ISBN 0-15-146480-4
 * Pippa's Challenge (1972) ISBN 0-15-171980-2
 * Peoples of Kenya (1975) ISBN 0-15-171681-1
 * also, (1978) ISBN 0-00-216035-8
 * Queen of Shaba: The Story of an African Leopard (1980) ISBN 0-00-272617-3
 * Friends from the Forest (1980) ISBN 0-15-133645-8

As illustrator only

 * Gardening in East Africa, II edition
 * At least six other books depicting the flowers, trees, and shrubs of East Africa

Books by George Adamson

 * A Lifetime With Lions. (Autobiography). Doubleday,1968. ASIN: B0006BQAZW
 * Bwana Game: The Life Story of George Adamson, Collins & Harvill (April 1969), ISBN 978-0-00-261051-3
 * also, The Harvill Press (22 September 1986), ISBN 978-0-00-272518-7

Books by others

 * Wild Heart: The Story of Joy Adamson, Author of Born Free by Anne E. Neimark.
 * Sleeping With Lions by Netta Pfeifer
 * Joy Adamson : Behind the Mask by Caroline Cass.
 * The Great Safari: The Lives of George and Joy Adamson by Adrian House

Films

 * Born Free
 * Living Free
 * Elsa & Her Cubs – 25 minutes; Benchmark Films Copyright MCMLXXI by Elsa Wild Animal Appeal and Benchmark Films, Inc.
 * Joy Adamson – About the Adamsons – Producer-Benchmark Films, Inc.
 * Joy Adamson's Africa (1977) – 86 minutes
 * The Joy Adamson Story (1980) – Programme featuring interviews with Joy Adamson about her life and work in Austria and in Africa, and her famous lioness Elsa. Director: Dick Thomsett Production Company: BBC

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Necklace

A necklace is an article of jewellery that is worn around the neck. Necklaces may have been one of the earliest types of adornment worn by humans. They often serve ceremonial, religious, magical, or funerary purposes and are also used as symbols of wealth and status, given that they are commonly made of precious metals and stones.

The main component of a necklace is the band, chain, or cord that wraps around the neck. These are most often rendered in precious metals such as gold, silver, and platinum. Necklaces often have additional attachments suspended or inset into the necklace itself. These attachments typically include pendants, lockets, amulets, crosses, and precious and semiprecious materials such as diamond, pearls, rubies, emeralds, garnets, and sapphires. They are made with many different type of materials and are used for many things and sometimes classified as clothing.

Prehistoric neckware
Prehistoric peoples often used natural materials such as feathers, bone, shells, and plant materials to create necklaces. Evidence of early Upper Paleolithic necklace making in southern Africa and east Africa dates back to 50,000 BP. By the Bronze Age metallic jewellery had replaced pre-metallic adornments. Necklaces were first depicted in statuary and art of the Ancient Near East, and early necklaces made of precious metals with inset stones were created in Europe.

Ancient civilizations

In Ancient Mesopotamia, cylinder seals were often strung and worn as jewellery. In Ancient Babylon, necklaces were made of carnelian, lapis lazuli, agate, and gold, which was also made into gold chains. Ancient Sumerians created necklaces and beads from gold, silver, lapis lazuli and carnelian. In Ancient Egypt, a number of different necklace types were worn. Upper-class Ancient Egyptians wore collars of organic or semi-precious and precious materials for religious, celebratory, and funerary purposes. These collars were often ornamented with semi-precious, glass, pottery, and hollow beads. Beads made from a variety of precious and semi-precious materials were also commonly strung together to create necklaces. Gold that was fashioned into stylised plant, animal, and insect shapes were common as well. Amulets were also turned into necklaces. In Ancient Crete necklaces were worn by all classes; peasants wore stones on flax thread while the wealthy wore beads of agate, pearl, carnelian, amethyst, and rock crystal. Pendants shaped into birds, animals, and humans were also worn, in addition to paste beads. In Ancient Greece, delicately made gold necklaces created with repoussé and plaited gold wires were worn. Most often these necklaces were ornamented with blue or green enameled rosettes, animal shapes, or vase-shaped pendants that were often detailed with fringes. It was also common to wear long gold chains with suspended cameos and small containers of perfume. New elements were introduced in the Hellenistic period; colored stones allowed for poly-chromatic pieces, and animal-head finials and spear-like or bud shaped pendants were hung from chains. Ancient Etruscans used granulation to create granulated gold beads which were strung with glass and faience beads to create colorful necklaces. In Ancient Rome necklaces were among the many types of jewellery worn by the Roman elite. Gold and silver necklaces were often ornamented with foreign and semi-precious objects such as amber, pearl, amethyst, sapphire, and diamond. In addition, ropes of pearls, gold plates inset with enamel, and lustrous stones set in gold filigree were often worn. Many large necklaces and the materials that adorned the necklaces were imported from the Near East. Later in the empire, following barbarian invasions, colorful and gaudy jewellery became popular. In the Byzantine era, ropes of pearls and embossed gold chains were most often worn, but new techniques such as the use of niello allowed for necklaces with brighter, more predominant gemstones. The Early Byzantine Era also saw a shift to distinctly Christian jewellery which displayed the new Christian iconography.

Timeline of non-classical European necklaces
2000 BC – AD 400: Bronze amulets embossed with coral were common. In Celtic and Gallic Europe, the most popular necklace was the heavy metal torc, made most often out of bronze, but sometimes out of silver, gold, or glass or amber beads.

AD 400 - 1300: Early European barbarian groups favored wide, intricate gold collars not unlike the torc. Germanic tribes often wore gold and silver pieces with complex detailing and inlaid with colored glass and semi-precious stones, especially garnet. Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian groups worked mainly in silver, due to a deficit of gold, and wrought patterns and animal forms into neck-rings. In the Gothic period necklaces were uncommon, though there are a few records of diamond, ruby, and pearl necklaces. It was not until the adoption of lower necklines later in the Middle Ages that necklaces became common.

1400 – 1500: During the Renaissance it was fashionable for men to wear a number of chains, plaques, and pendants around their necks, and by the end of the 15th century the wealthiest men would wear great, shoulder covering collars inlaid with gems. Women typically wore simpler pieces, such as gold chains, or strung beads or pearls. By the end of the period, larger, more heavily adorned pieces were common among the wealthy, particularly in Italy.

1500–1600: Long pearl ropes and chains with precious stones were commonly worn. In the latter half of the century, natural adornments, such as coral and pearl, were joined with enamel and metals to create intricate pendants. Heavily jeweled, delicately framed cameo pendants were popular as well. Chokers, last worn commonly in antiquity, also made a resurgence at this time.

1600–1700: Few men in the Baroque period wore jewellery, and for women necklaces were unsophisticated, often a simple strand of pearls or delicately linked and embellished strands of metal with small stones. Later in the century, after the invention of new diamond cutting techniques, priority was for the first time given to the jewels themselves, not their settings; it was common for jewels to be pinned to black velvet ribbons. Miniatures also grew in popularity, and were often made into portrait pendants or lockets.

1700–1800: Portrait pendants were still worn, and in extravagantly jeweled settings. The newly wealthy bourgeoisie delighted in jewellery, and the new imitation stones and imitation gold allowed them more access to the necklaces of the time. In the early part of the century, the dominant styles were a velvet ribbon with suspended pendants and the rivière necklace, a single row of large precious stones. By mid-century colorful, whimsical necklaces made of real and imitation gems were popular, and the end of the century saw a neo-Classical resurgence. In the Age of Enlightenment gowns often featured a neck ruffle which women accented with neck ribbons rather than traditional necklaces, but some women did wear chokers inlaid with rubies and diamonds. Seed pearls were introduced to the United States during the Federalist Era, leading to an increase in lacy pearl necklaces.

1800–1870: The low necklines of the court gowns fashionable at this time led to the use of large necklaces set with precious jewels. In Napoleon's court that ancient Greek style was fashionable, and women wore strands of pearls or gold chains with cameos and jewels. In the Romantic period necklaces were extravagant: it was fashionable to wear a tight, gem-encrusted collar with matching jewel pendants attached and rosettes of gems with pearl borders. It was also common to wear jeweled brooches attached to neck ribbons. Some necklaces were made to be dismantled and reconfigured into a shorter necklace, brooches, and a bracelet. Highly embellished Gothic style necklaces from England reflected the crenelations, vertical lines and high relief of the cathedrals. Empress Eugénie popularised bare décolletage with multiple necklaces on the throat, shoulders, and bosom. There was also an interest in antiquity; mosaic jewellery and Roman and Greek necklaces were reproduced. Machine-made jewellery and electroplating allowed for an influx of inexpensive imitation necklaces.

1870–1910: The Edwardian era saw a resurgence of pearl necklaces, in addition to a dog-collar style of necklace made of gold or platinum with inset diamonds, emeralds, or rubies. The Art Nouveau movement inspired symbolic, abstract designs with natural and animal motifs. The materials used - glass, porcelain, bronze, ivory, mother of pearl, horn, and enamel - were not used for their value, but for their appearance.

1910–1970: Chanel popularised costume jewellery, and ropes of glass beads were common. The Art Deco movement created chunky, geometric jewellery that combined multiple types of gems and steel. By the 1960s costume jewellery was widely worn, which resulted in seasonal, ever-changing styles of necklaces and other jewellery. Fine jewellery that was common in this period included wholly geometric or organically shaped silver necklaces, and precious gems set in platinum or gold necklaces inspired by the time of the French Empire. Love beads (a single strand of stone or glass beads) and pendant necklaces (most often made of leather cords or metal chains with metal pendants) became popular and were worn mostly by men.

In Qing dynasty China, a court necklace called , was worn by the Qing dynasty emperors and other members of the imperial family. The court necklace originated from a Buddhist rosary sent in 1643 by the Dalai Lama to the first emperor of the Qing dynasty. The necklace is composed of 108 small beads, with 4 large beads of contrasting stones to symbolize the 4 seasons, and was placed between groups of 27 beads. The necklace was also practical as it could be used for mathematical calculations in the absence of an abacus.

Necklace with longevity lock pendant
In China, there is a custom of wearing a necklace with a longevity lock pendant. These lock charms were sometimes personally tied around the necks of children by Buddhist or Taoist priests. The longevity lock is known as  and is an important form of amulet for children for thousand of years in Chinese culture. According to Chinese beliefs, the protect children from evil spirits and bad luck by locking its wearer's soul and life inside of the lock. The is often made with precious materials, such as gold, silver, and jade, and having auspicious words carved on it. This form of necklace continues to be worn in present-days China.

was a ring-like neck ornament or fashionable necklace which was originally a Buddhist ornament depicted in Buddhist arts (e.g. sculptures and paintings) in China; the have roots in ancient India where its earlier prototype is the Indian ornament ''keyūra.  The depictions of the keyūra was introduced in China along with Buddhism.  The depictions of in China, such as those found in Dunhuang, evolved in shape and styles showing the cultural integration of foreign (non-Chinese) culture and the native Chinese culture due to the special characteristics of its geography.  The  eventually evolved from an ornament in Buddhist arts and eventually became an actual necklace by the Tang dynasty.  The  then became a classical form of necklace in Chinese society throughout centuries. '' It continues to be worn in present-day, especially as a common hanfu accessory being used by Hanfu enthusiasts since the Hanfu movement. It comes in variety of styles, shapes, and materials.

Shell necklaces
Aboriginal Tasmanian women have been making shell necklaces from maireener (Phasianotrochus irisodontes) shells for at least 2,600 years, with some major collections in museums. The continuation of the practice is being threatened by reducing supply, and sixth-generation Palawa woman Lola Greeno is concerned that the practice will die out.

Necklace lengths
Necklaces are typically classified by length:

 * Collar
 * About 30~33 centimetres (12~13 inch) long and sits high on the neck.

 * Choker
 * Close-fitting, short, 35~41 centimetres (14~16 in) long.

 * Princess necklace
 * 45~50 centimetres (18~20 in) long.

 * Matinee necklace
 * 56~58 centimetres (22~23 in) long.

 * Opera necklace
 * 75~90 centimetres (30~35 in) long and sits at the breastbone.

 * Rope necklace
 * Any longer than opera length.

 * Lariat necklace
 * Very long variation on the rope, without a clasp, often worn draped multiple times around the neck.

Similar items

Pectoral Ornaments are jewellery items that are also used similar to a necklace, such as reimiro, and Pectoral (Ancient Egypt).

Non-jewellery items, for example lanyards, for holding badges and cards, are similar to a necklace and worn on a neck.

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REO Speed Wagon

The REO Speed Wagon (alternatively Reo Speedwagon) was a light motor truck model manufactured by REO Motor Car Company. It is an ancestor of the pickup truck.

First introduced in 1915, production continued through at least 1953, and made REO (the initials of its founder, Ransom Eli Olds) one of the better-known manufacturers of commercial vehicles in America prior to World War II. Although the basic design and styling of the chassis remained consistent, the Speed Wagon was manufactured in a variety of configurations (pickup and panel truck, passenger bus) to serve as delivery, tow, dump, and fire trucks, as well as hearses and ambulances. Other manufacturers provided refits for adapting the Speed Wagon for specialized purposes. The Speed Wagon used REO's "Gold Crown" series of engines, and was well regarded for power, durability, and quality.

While REO produced some wagons based on its automobile chassis (the Model H) starting in 1908 and had organized a division to produce trucks in 1910 with success, the Speed Wagon's introduction in 1915 was a significant step and a sales success. The company was soon offering a variety of Speed Wagon models with many options, and by 1925 had produced 125,000.

After years of roughly equal car and truck emphasis, REO shifted its focus completely to trucks, ending automobile production in 1936. Production for the civilian market was suspended during World War II, resuming in 1946. In 1967, Diamond T and Reo Trucks were combined to form the Diamond Reo Trucks Division of the White Motor Corporation.

The rock and roll quintet REO Speedwagon took its name from this vehicle, which was, in turn, later adapted into a main character in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

Models

 * 1915 model featured 1-ton weight, four-cylinder engine, three speed transmission and aimed to be faster than the 10 - 15 mph average speed of contemporary trucks.
 * 1917 model featured 3.25-ton weight and canvas top and sides and cost $1125.
 * 1925 model featured six-cylinder engine
 * 1929 model featured REO's "Gold Crown" 268 cuin, 67 hp, six-cylinder engine.
 * 1933 Model BN featured REO's six-cylinder "Gold Crown" engine and combination of parts from the company's Flying Cloud and Royale luxury cars. It is a rare, relatively fast panel delivery truck with wooden body.

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Bracelet

A bracelet is an article of jewellery that is worn around the wrist. Bracelets may serve different uses, such as being worn as an ornament. When worn as ornaments, bracelets may have a supportive function to hold other items of decoration, such as charms. Medical and identity information are marked on some bracelets, such as allergy bracelets, hospital patient-identification tags, and bracelet tags for newborn babies. Bracelets may be worn to signify a certain phenomenon, such as breast cancer awareness, or for religious/cultural purposes.

If a bracelet is a single, inflexible loop, it is often called a bangle. When it is worn around the ankle it is called an ankle bracelet or anklet. A boot bracelet is used to decorate boots. Bracelets can be manufactured from metal, leather, cloth, plastic, bead or other materials, and jewelry bracelets sometimes contain jewels, rocks, wood, shells, crystals, metal, or plastic hoops, pearls and many more materials.

Origin and etymology

Although the term armlet may be technically similar, it is taken to mean an item that sits on the upper shoulder: an arm ring. The origin of the term 'bracelet' is from the Greek brachile meaning 'of the arm', via the Old French bracel. A bracelet is also a small brace or bracer (an arm-guard used by archers).

Cultural and religious significance
The history of Egyptian bracelets is as old as 5000 BCE. Starting with materials like bones, stones and woods to serve religious and spiritual interests. From the National Geographic Society, the Scarab Bracelet is one of the most recognized symbols of ancient Egypt. The scarab represented rebirth and regeneration. Carved scarabs were worn as jewelry and wrapped into the linen bandages of mummies. Myth told of the scarab god, Khepri, pushing the sun across the sky.

In 2008, Russian archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of Novosibirsk, working at the site of Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia, uncovered a small bone fragment from the fifth finger of a juvenile hominin, dubbed the "X woman" (referring to the maternal descent of mitochondrial DNA), or the Denisova hominin. Artifacts, including a bracelet, excavated in the cave at the same level were carbon dated to around 40,000 BP.

In Bulgaria, there is a tradition called martenitsa, which sometimes involves tying a red and white string around the wrist to please Baba Marta in order for spring to come sooner.

In Greece, a similar tradition, weaving a bracelet from a red and white string on the first day of March and wearing it till the end of summer, is called "Martis" and is considered to help protect the wearer's skin from the strong Greek sun.

In some parts of India, the number and type of bangles worn by a woman denotes her marital status

In Sikhism, an iron bracelet is one of the most mandatory articles known as the Five Ks.

In Latin America, Azabache Bracelets are worn to protect against the Mal de ojo, or evil eye. The evil eye is believed to result of excessive admiration or envious looks by others. Having newborn babies wear an azabache (a gold bracelet or necklace with a black or red coral charm in the form of a fist), is believed to protect them from the evil eye.

Alternative health
Alternative health bracelets, such as ionized bracelets, karma bracelets, magnetic bracelets, Power Balance hologram bracelets, etc., are not distinguished by their design but rather the beneficial function claimed for them by their manufacturers and distributors. Karma bracelets are made from wood beads and may contain various charms, and are associated with bringing good luck and good karma to those who choose to wear it. No claims of effectiveness made by manufacturers have ever been substantiated by independent sources.

Bangles

Hard material or rigid bracelets, usually made from metal, wood, or plastic, are referred to as bangles or bangle bracelets. They can be smooth, textured or set with stones. In India, glass bangles are common. There are a lot of handcrafted bangles in India too. Made from ordinary glass that is about 1/8 to 1/4 in in width, they are worn in groups so that arm movement causes them to make a gracious sound rather like the clinking of wind chimes. In India, it is also common that young children will wear thin gold bangles on their hands and ankles. A common type is also Friendship bracelets.

Beaded

Usually made from loose beads with a center hole and connected by a piece of string or elastic band through the holes. Most often made with wooden beads, plastic, glass or even crystal beads.

Charm
A charm bracelet carries pendants or trinkets which can be signifiers of important things, interests/hobbies, and memories in the wearer's life.

While traditional charms dangle, Italian charms feature individual pieces soldered flat onto the surface of the link.

Elastic
Made from an elastic fabric or spandex material, elastic bracelets are typically sublimation printed with colorful designs and reversible. First created and made popular by Zox in the early 2010s, they've become more popular in the past decade.

Link

Bracelets made from connecting or linking various or similar components or jewelry findings. Link bracelets can be made of a variety of materials including metals and gemstones.

Penannular
Penannular, meaning an incomplete circle, has been a very common form for bracelets, especially ones made in a single piece of a slightly flexible material such as metal or plastic. It is particularly popular in gold.

Slap
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, "slap bracelets"—flat, felt-covered metal strips that curved around one's wrist when gently hit against it—were a popular fad. Often adorned with neon colors and vivid graphics, these bracelets could be found at inexpensive retailers. A false rumor emerged that "slap bracelets" caused bleeding and puncture wounds and thus they fell out of style.

Sports

The use of colored silicone rubber as a material for producing sports bracelets was popularized by Nike and Lance Armstrong through the Yellow Livestrong wristband starting in May 2003. Their success has led to the silicone bracelet becoming a low cost tool for various awareness, information, and charity campaigns. This can be likened to the use of awareness ribbons for similar purposes. These bracelets are also known as "baller id bands", "baller bands" or "wristbands". They can also be referred to as rubber wristbands, silicone wristbands or gel wristbands. For sport climbing, bracelets are designed with climbing cords (dynamic rope) to serve as a mountain climbing gear.

Tennis

While playing a match at the 1978 U.S. Open, tennis player Chris Evert was wearing a diamond line bracelet, which fell from her wrist to the surface of the court. She said about this, "I dropped my tennis bracelet", and since then diamond line bracelets have also been called "tennis bracelets". The term tennis bracelet appears in print before this incident, but not necessarily referring to diamond line bracelets. An advertisement for a "sterling tennis bracelet" in The New Yorker in 1975, for example, shows a solid silver bangle featuring a tennis racket design, made by the Gorham Manufacturing Company.

Tennis bracelets are made up of many identical settings, each of which incorporates a hinge. The links are usually riveted or soldered from the sides of the bracelet allowing it to flex freely around the wrist with minimal movement left-to-right. A typical tennis bracelet will feature round diamonds set in four claw settings. Tennis bracelets can be adjusted to fit the wearer by removing links, this must be done by a jeweller.

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Talk:Bristol Parkway railway station

Sponsorship
Added section on Sponsorship of the train station and photographs. Relevant content as it is an important first time the station has been sponsored in such a way. Added citations to the sponsorship text too. Deejayone (talk) 14:18, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

 * The discussion at Talk:Bristol Temple Meads railway station is relevant to this – once a concensus has been reached there I would suggest that this article should be edited in the same style so as to avoid the advertising. Geof Sheppard (talk) 15:38, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Map
The most important thing is completely missing on this page - a map showing the station's location..!

As I'm trying to get to it by road this page is useless and I can't find any other website that shows the station's location either.....

Ian Lyman.

 * Will this do? --rbrwr

 * ...or in words, M4 to J19, M32 to J1 (less than a mile), west on the A4174 for about a mile to a big roundabout, turn right and you should be able to follow the signs from there. --rbrwr

Platform 3 / 1
Lets discuss the whole constant battle between those who refer to the current platform 3 as it's former platform 1 designation. Although the signage hasn't been updated it was officially renamed when the 4th platform was opened although for some reason they haven't started using it yet!

Orphaned references in Bristol Parkway railway station
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Bristol Parkway railway station's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "nrfacilities": From Clifton Down railway station:  From Nailsea and Backwell railway station:  From Yatton railway station:  From Redland railway station:  From Parson Street railway station:  From Montpelier railway station:  From Bedminster railway station:

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 20:57, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Surrounding development
Responding to this edit. At the time the station was built, it was essentially located in open countryside, with relatively easy road access, etc.. However, since the 1970s there has been massive and comprehensive urban development - of housing, and retail and office parks - within the Bristol North Fringe area in the M4/M5/M32 box which surrounds Parkway station and which has generated substantial traffic congestion across the area. This has, to a large extent, destroyed the original planning rationale for the station (and other Parkway-type stations) - which was to promote rail travel by opening up new "park and ride" stations easily accessible by road. This is an important component of the Bristol Parkway story - not in terms of rail engineering, but in terms of development planning. I encapsulated the changes by simply inserting the word "now", but can find sources to write a longer paragraph on this. (I used to be a town planner in the area, for what it's worth.) The article is not just about the station as it is "now" - it is about its history as well. Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:24, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, Description section is pretty much as-is, though minimal historical details can be included. I like the idea of surrounding development, but I have no idea where to find information from. If you can cite it, add it. -mattbuck (Talk) 16:32, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

 * I agree with Ghmyrtle, the station was built as a Parkway but seems to have become more of a Bristol North station. Mark999 (talk) 16:58, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
 * There is a useful source here, pp.17-19, with statements like "Bristol Parkway has grown beyond the original Parkway station, as many employers have opened offices nearby (e.g. Axa, the MOD and the University of the West of England (UWE)....Growth in passengers using Parkway station and growth in employment and housing in the North Fringe has led to congestion around the station, particularly at peak times and pressure on the station car park. The car park reaches capacity between Tuesday and Thursday during the day and there is pressure on local residential streets from overspill parking."  Some more information on relieving the congestion here and here.  I'll scour the loft for old offline sources...  Ghmyrtle (talk) 19:13, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
 * That was already cited (non-PDF), but I've used it and a few maps/photos to cite growth of Bristol. -mattbuck (Talk) 21:26, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * The "city" is the administrative area, which Parkway is still outside. Ghmyrtle (talk) 21:44, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Your version is certainly better, though I would say city is used more loosely here. -mattbuck (Talk) 23:20, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I know what you mean, but we need to be as clear as we can be, and many people in S Glos get quite upset at their area (or any part of it) being described as within "the city" of Bristol. Ghmyrtle (talk) 16:15, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I'll take your word for it. Anyway, are we good to go with a GA nom? -mattbuck (Talk) 21:33, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
 * The article should be clearer about (a) what is the linespeed ("over 110" is vague - how much over 110?) (b) why is the standard journey time to Paddington 90 minutes, when it was 75 in the mid-70s (c) what is the new Park and Ride scheme (isn't the whole station a park-and-ride scheme?) (d) where the new platform will be - will it be Platform 1, forming an island with platform 2, for example? See http://www.networkrail.co.uk/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=30064778689, p79, but there may be more up-to-date sources. An illustration showing all 3 present platforms, and the location of the future 4th, would be helpful. Also Services, para 3, and Future, para 1, don't seem to have anything specifically to do with Bristol Parkway. Winstonsmith99 (talk) 05:38, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
 * (a) - No idea, the reference says 110-125.
 * (b) - 75mins was the quickest journey possible, not the average
 * (c) - That should be fixed
 * (d) - the refs I had didn't specify, but that would seem to be the obvious conclusion.
 * (e) (i) - I've included that in a load of other GAs, it seems reasonable to say what trains you'd see at a train station
 * (e) (ii) - As above, it seems sensible to say who will be running trains from there. -mattbuck (Talk) 06:40, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I have fixed (c), and restored the cited statement that was deleted (re BRI-BPW-PAD - see RAIL696, p53, rightmost column). -mattbuck (Talk) 19:46, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

Stoke Gifford IEP depot
Is it ok to add info about the new "Stoke Gifford IEP depot" on this page - or should it go somewhere else?83.100.174.82 (talk) 03:23, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't think it should really be on this page - it probably needs its own article. I added a mention of it on this page because it seemed of interest, but this isn't the place to add large amounts of detail. -mattbuck (Talk) 09:25, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Started the article Filton Triangle depot, Stoke Gifford, added links to this page, IEP, also to 21st-century modernisation of the Great Western Main Line
 * If other articles could be linked, or if anything else needs updating please do this - I'm not familiar with the Bristol rail area, so I'll leave that to others.
 * As for route diagrams - the depot connects to the east-west line to the Avonmouth docks, as well as to the north-east chord to the severn tunnel and wales at the easternmost corner of the "filton diamond" - a connection to the NE chord near to patchway station is also proposed...
 * Some on Network Rail websitewhere I read that the connection will be made at the same time as the electrification.. but I can't find that now. If anyone notices that please let me know so I can update the article.Prof.Haddock (talk) 03:19, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Don't suppose there's a layout anywhere we could see? I've added a few comments at Talk:Filton Triangle depot, Stoke Gifford on reference issues. -mattbuck (Talk) 09:51, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
 * As per the problems with links mentioned elsewhere - try this link (it might be slow, wait a few secs)
 * then visit this (it's the 3rd document down, 23 May 2013) called "planning statement" - the 2013 modifications are shown - the original plan is shown in http://www.railtex.co.uk/_downloads/presentations/Railtex_hitachi.pdf p.11
 * Overview here
 * There's a full 2013 site plan here - it's the "LANDSCAPE AND ECOLOGY MASTERPLAN" (4 Jun 2013) - if the link doesn't work try here first http://developments.southglos.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=MN5O1BOK02R00 (about 14 from the bottom).

 * again let me know if the links don't work - there seems to be a problem with some.Prof.Haddock (talk) 18:38, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
 * (I might make a map for the article at some point - but will at least be waiting until the final design is built.. if someone else does it first I won't mind)Prof.Haddock (talk) 19:12, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
 * By the look of the RailTeX presentation, it doesn't connect to the Avonmouth Line, I think those are the existing civil engineering sidings. -mattbuck (Talk) 20:01, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
 * My copy of
 * shows the CE sidings as having just one connection: to the Avonmouth line, facing Avonmouth. There are no tracks coming off the portion of the Tunnel Line which constitutes the curve connecting Stoke Gifford No. 2 Junction with Patchway No. 2 Jc. -- Red rose64 (talk) 20:16, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
 * (Re: Railtex) I agree - there's no connection to the depot shown on the railtex image.. However there is one on the 2011, and 2013 planning documents. The railtex image is more like the 2011 plans and not like the 2013 plans - I expect it's an old image or something. Clarify - none of the other plans show anything of the current sidings surviving, though there is a connection from the Avonmouth line to the depot on the planning documents - but at the other end.
 * As I mentioned elsewhere - I recall it being stated somewhere that the connections would be made as part of the work to electrify the GWML - I can't give a definative answer on what will happen but it may be worth checking the Network Rail site for their GWML plans periodically.Prof.Haddock (talk) 23:00, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
 * As I mentioned elsewhere - I recall it being stated somewhere that the connections would be made as part of the work to electrify the GWML - I can't give a definative answer on what will happen but it may be worth checking the Network Rail site for their GWML plans periodically.Prof.Haddock (talk) 23:00, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

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