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Double Dragon

Double Dragon is a beat 'em up video game series originally developed and published by Technōs Japan. It began with the release of the arcade game Double Dragon in 1987. The series features twin martial artists, Billy and Jimmy Lee, as they fight against various adversaries and rivals.

The original Double Dragon was a hit arcade video game, ushering in a "Golden Age" for the beat 'em up genre, resulting in a flood of beat 'em ups during the late 1980s to 1990s that followed the conventions set by Double Dragon. A 1993 animated series and 1994 live-action film adaptation were produced; these adaptations were widely-panned by critics and audiences.

In June 2015, Arc System Works acquired the rights to all former Technōs IPs, including the Double Dragon series. Arc System Works had previously ported the original Double Dragon to the Master System console in 1988.

Game series
The first game, Double Dragon, was released in the arcades in 1987. A Nintendo Entertainment System version produced by Technōs was released in 1988, followed by a Game Boy version in 1990. Various licensed versions were also produced by other developers for gaming platforms such as the Master System, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Genesis, Atari Lynx and for home computers.

Two Double Dragon sequels were released for the arcade: Double Dragon II: The Revenge in 1988 and Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone in 1990. Like the original, Technōs produced versions for the NES (Double Dragon II: The Revenge in 1989 and Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones in 1991, respectively).

In 1991, a game titled Double Dragon II, unrelated to its arcade and NES counterpart, was released for the Game Boy.

A fourth game in the main series was released exclusively for the Super NES in 1992, titled Super Double Dragon. It was the last game produced by the original team at Technōs.

The Game Gear game Double Dragon is not a port of the original arcade game, but is instead an entirely new entry in the series that has gameplay elements that are more similar to Streets of Rage.

In 1994, Tradewest released Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls for the Super NES and Genesis in North America and Europe, a fighting game developed by Leland Interactive based on the Double Dragon animated TV series by Bohbot Entertainment. A Jaguar version was released by Telegames as well.

Another fighting game produced by Technōs, simply titled Double Dragon, was released for the Neo Geo arcade and home console in 1995. A Neo Geo CD version was also released, as well as a PlayStation version by Urban Plant. It was the last Double Dragon game produced by Technōs before the company went out of business.

In 2003, a remake of the original Double Dragon, titled Double Dragon Advance, was produced by Atlus and Million (the copyrights holder of the Double Dragon series at the time) for the Game Boy Advance.

In 2009, a remake was released for the Zeebo, developed by Brizo Interactive and published by Tectoy.

In 2011, another remake was released for the iPhone, developed by Brizo Interactive and published by Aksys Games.

WayForward Technologies developed Double Dragon Neon, a self-parody of the series. The game was released on September 11, 2012, for the PlayStation 3 on PlayStation Network; one day later for the Xbox 360 on Xbox Live; and was released for PC in the first quarter of 2014.

Double Dragon II: Wander of the Dragons, a 3D remake of the original Double Dragon II, was released on the Xbox Live Arcade by game developer Gravity in April 2013.

A compilation of the three arcade titles, titled Double Dragon Trilogy, was released by DotEmu in 2013 for iOS, Android, GOG and Steam platforms.

In 2017, Double Dragon IV (not to be confused with Super Double Dragon) was released in January 2017, for the PlayStation 4 and PC, respectively, and September 7 for the Nintendo Switch. It takes place shortly after Double Dragon II: The Revenge and uses an 8-bit artstyle, similar to the NES ports of the earlier entries of the series. The title was developed by Arc System Works and former Technōs staff such as producer Takaomi Kaneko, director Yoshihisa Kishimoto, character designer Koji Ogata, composer Kazunaka Yamane and programmer Kei Oyama.

In 2023, a spin-off of the franchise, titled Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons, was announced for Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S, and was released on July 27, 2023.

Other appearances and related games

 * Super Spike V'Ball (NES) – the NES version which features Billy and Jimmy as playable characters.
 * WWF Superstars (arcade) – features a cameo by Billy as one of the game's spectators.
 * River City Ransom (NES) – the Double Dragon theme music plays during the battle against Randy and Andy, two characters based on Billy and Jimmy. The Japanese counterparts of Randy and Andy, Ryūichi and Ryūji, are recurring characters in the later Kunio-kun games. Abobo appears as a recurring enemy in the sequel, River City Ransom Underground.
 * Battletoads/Double Dragon (NES, GB, Genesis, SNES) – a crossover game between the Double Dragon and Battletoads franchises.
 * Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer (Neo Geo) – Burnov from the second game makes a cameo as Captain Atlantis' opponent in his ending.
 * Rage of the Dragons (Neo Geo) – an unofficial homage to Double Dragon produced by Evoga and Noise Factory in association with Playmore which become the current incarnation of SNK. The main characters are named Billy and Jimmy Lewis.
 * Abobo's Big Adventure (PC) – an unofficial parody of various Nintendo Entertainment System titles, including Double Dragon, and starring Abobo as the main character.
 * River City: Rival Showdown (3DS) – both Billy and Jimmy Lee are playable characters in the Double Dragon Duel mode.
 * River City Girls (PC, Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One) – the Lee Brothers have two Dojos in River City, where the player characters can acquire new fighting moves from the brothers in exchange for money. Abobo appears as a boss in the game, Marian and Skullmageddon as shop keepers, and Burnov works as a bouncer.
 * River City Girls 2 (PC, Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S) – Marian appears as a playable character in the base game. Billy and Jimmy are playable via downloadable content.

Related media
A Double Dragon comic book limited series loosely based on the games was published by Marvel Comics in 1991, which lasted six issues from July to December. The comic book was written by Dwayne McDuffie for the first four issues and by Tom Brevoort and Mike Kanterovich for the final two. It features original villains and a unique story that explains the brothers parentage.

Double Dragon is one of the video games featured in the manga, titled Rock'n Game Boy by Shigeto Ikehara, in Comic BomBom from October 1989 to December 1991.

A Double Dragon animated series was produced by DIC Animation City and Bohbot Entertainment, which originally aired in syndication on Bohbot's Amazin' Adventures block for two seasons from 1993 to 1995, lasting 26 episodes.

A film version of Double Dragon was released in theaters in 1994, directed by James Yukich and starring Scott Wolf and Mark Dacascos as the Lee brothers.

Gameplay
The gameplay in most of the games takes place in a pseudo 3D perspective as seen in Renegade and later beat 'em ups, in which the player can move in four directions but is always facing left or right. In almost all cases the player moves to the right in a horizontally scrolling environment, encountering various enemies who attack and try to prevent the player from progressing. The player can perform a variety of unarmed fighting techniques against their enemies, as well use melee weapons such as baseball bats and throwing knives normally obtained from enemies or found on the floor. In some installments, there are techniques that can be done in combination with another player.

Lee Brothers
For most of the series, players take control of martial artist William "Billy" Lee, who battles against various adversaries such as gang members and rival fighters. He is often assisted by his elder twin brother James "Jimmy" Lee, who usually serves as the second player's character in most of the games. The Lee brothers are characterized as successors of a fictional martial art known as Sōsetsuken (双截拳), which combines techniques from other styles such as karate, tai chi and Shorinji Kempo.

The duo were actually unnamed when the original arcade game was initially released in Japan, although the names Hammer and Spike were given to them in the cabinet and promotional flyer produced by Taito for the overseas version. The names Billy and Jimmy Lee were first established in the Famicom/NES version of the first game and consequently used in other console versions and tie-in products such as The Original Sound of Double Dragon soundtrack album, but were not actually used in the arcade versions until Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone. Billy Lee's name comes from a combination of Bruce Lee's last name with the first name of his character Billy Lo from the movie Game of Death, while Jimmy is named after musician Jimmy Page.

Because of the differences between the arcade and console versions of the games, the designs of the Lee brothers tend to vary throughout the series. While the original arcade game has Player 1 controlling a blond-haired Lee brother dressed in a blue outfit and Player 2 as a brown-haired brother in red, the NES version had their hair and outfit colors switched around: Billy was now the brown-haired brother in blue, while Jimmy became the blond-haired brother in red. Super Double Dragon was the first game to have the Lee brothers sport different hairstyles during gameplay, with Billy being given a laid down hairstyle and Jimmy a spiky flat top, a design convention adopted by later games such as Double Dragon Advance and the smartphone versions, although some of the promotional art and in-game visuals for the earlier games (such as the ending photograph of Double Dragon II: The Revenge and the story sequences/character portraits of Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones) had already depicted the Lee brothers with differing hairstyles. Other games such as the Neo Geo fighting game and Double Dragon Neon depict the Lee brothers as identical twins like in the first arcade game.

The two brothers are shown to be romantically interested in a young woman named Marian, a student in their dojo. The arcade version of the first game (along with most console versions) can end with both brothers fighting each other over Marian if two players reach the end together, with the survivor ultimately winning Marian's affections. The Famicom/NES version, which establishes Marian to be Billy's long-term girlfriend, changes the story so that Jimmy was actually the leader of the Black Warriors (a change made as a result of the lack of two-player cooperative play in that version) and was the one who orchestrated Marian's kidnapping.

Enemy characters
The enemy organization in the original Double Dragon are the Black Warriors gang, who are characterized as the dominant criminal organization in New York City after a nuclear war has left the city deprived of any law and order. Much like the Lee brothers themselves, the names of the gang members were established throughout the console versions of the series. The gang's original leader is the machine gun-toting Willy Mackey (commonly known simply as Willy), who wishes to acquire the knowledge of the Lee brothers' martial arts for himself and orders the kidnapping of Marian as ransom. Recurring members of the gang throughout the various versions of the first game include the thugs Williams and Rowper, dominatrix Linda and bald strongman Abobo. The arcade version also featured two unnamed head swaps of other characters (namely of Abobo and the Lee brothers) as end-stage bosses: although these characters were absent in the NES version, which instead introduced a unique enemy, a Chinese martial artist named Chin Taimei. The Lee brother head swap would later appear in the Mark III/Master System version released by Sega, where he was named Jeff.

The name of the gang would change in later games. While the arcade version of Double Dragon II: The Revenge had Willy and the Black Warriors retaliating against their earlier defeat by gunning down Marian, the Famicom version replaced Willy with a nameless fighter who led a mysterious armed group following the dissolution of the original Black Warriors. While unnamed in the Japanese version, the English localization of the NES version would refer to this organization as the Shadow Warriors (or the Black Shadow Warriors in the manual), a name later used for an unrelated enemy group in Super Double Dragon, as well as Willy's own gang in Double Dragon Advance. The Shadow Warriors was also the name of the villain group in the Double Dragon animated series and its tie-in game, Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls, where they consisted almost entirely of new characters.

The names Williams and Rowper were derived from the characters played respectively by Jim Kelly and John Saxon in the movie Enter The Dragon. Other characters seem to follow a similar naming convention such as Linda, who shares her name with Bruce Lee's widow Linda Lee Cadwell, and the enemy character Bolo from Double Dragon II: The Revenge, who shares his name with actor Bolo Yeung.

Legacy
While not the first games in the genre, the original Double Dragon titles laid the foundations for modern beat 'em up games. They influenced the creation of titles such as Golden Axe, Ninja Gaiden and Final Fight, which firmly established beat 'em ups as a popular game genre.

Double Dragon ushered in a "Golden Age" for the beat 'em up genre that took it to new heights with its detailed set of martial arts attacks and its two-player cooperative gameplay. Double Dragon's success resulted in a flood of beat 'em ups in the late 1980s. Subsequent beat 'em ups during the late 1980s to 1990s followed the conventions set by Double Dragon.

Years later, original series creator Yoshihisa Kishimoto lamented the inconsistency in design and quality of the various versions and spin-offs of Double Dragon in games and other media. He attributed these failings to Technōs losing the control of the license and allowing a multitude of third parties to work on the franchise.

External links (where to play)

 * Double Dragon series director Yoshihisa Kishimoto
 * Double Dragon series at MobyGames
 * Double Dragon detailed knowledge
 * DOUBLE DRAGON at ddragon (available)
 * DOUBLE DRAGON at ddragon (available)

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The three-toed earless skink (Hemiergis decresiensis) is a viviparous earless skink from southeastern Australia.

Description
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Destino

Destino is an animated surrealist short film released in 2003 by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Destino is unique in that its production originally began in 1945, 58 years before its eventual completion in 2003. The project was originally a collaboration between Walt Disney and Spanish painter Salvador Dalí, with music written by Mexican songwriter Armando Domínguez and performed by Mexican singer Dora Luz as the sound track. It was included in the Animation Show of Shows in 2003.

History
Destino (Spanish for "Destiny") was storyboarded by Disney studio artist John Hench and artist Salvador Dalí for eight months in late 1945 and 1946, but production ceased not long after. Walt Disney Studios (later The Walt Disney Company) was in financial difficulty in the World War II era. Hench compiled a short animation test of about 17 seconds in the hopes of rekindling Disney's interest in the project, but the production was no longer deemed financially viable and put on indefinite hiatus.

In 1999, Walt Disney's nephew Roy E. Disney, while working on Fantasia 2000, unearthed the dormant project and decided to bring it back to life. Walt Disney Studios Paris, the company's small Parisian production department, was brought on board to complete the project. The short was produced by Baker Bloodworth and directed by French animator Dominique Monféry in his first directorial role. A team of approximately 25 animators deciphered Dalí and Hench's cryptic storyboards (with a little help from the journals of Dalí's wife Gala Dalí and guidance from Hench himself), and finished Destino's production. The end result is mostly traditional animation, including Hench's original footage, but it also contains some computer animation.

Plot
The seven-minute short follows the story of Chronos and his ill-fated love for a mortal woman named Dahlia. The story continues as Dahlia dances through surreal scenery inspired by Dalí's paintings. There is no dialogue, but the soundtrack includes music by the Mexican composer Armando Dominguez. The original 17-second animation test—the segment with the two tortoises—is included in the finished product; this footage is also shown in Bette Midler's host sequence for Piano Concerto No. 2/The Steadfast Tin Soldier in Fantasia 2000, where she referred to Destino as an "idea that featured baseball as a metaphor for life".

Public screenings
Destino premiered on June 2, 2003 at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film of 2003. In 2004, Destino was released theatrically in a very limited release with the animated film The Triplets of Belleville, and also with Calendar Girls.

In 2005, the film was shown continuously as part of a major retrospective Dalí show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, titled The Dalí renaissance: new perspectives on his life and art after 1940.

The film was also shown as part of the exhibition Dalí & Film at Tate Modern from June to September 2007, as part of the Dalí exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from October 2007 to January 2008; at an exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art called Dalí: Painting and Film from June to September 2008; also at an exhibit at the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida in 2008. In mid-2009, it had exposure in Melbourne, Australia at the National Gallery of Victoria through the Dalí exhibition Liquid Desire, and from late 2009 through April 2010 at the Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio, in an exhibit entitled Dalí and Disney: The Art and Animation of Destino.

In 2012, the film was featured in the "Dalí" exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.

In 2019, Destino was featured in the Dalí exhibition at the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.

In 2022 and 2023, Destino was shown on a continuous loop in the exhibition Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today, at the Design Museum in London.

Home media
The Disney DVD True-Life Adventures, Volume 3 has a trailer for Destino, and mentions a forthcoming DVD release. Destino was made available on the Fantasia & Fantasia 2000 Special Edition Blu-ray disc released on November 30, 2010, as well as on the standalone Fantasia 2000 Blu-ray. Salvador Dalí Museum and Dalí Theatre and Museum also made available a standalone DVD release. These releases were accompanied by a feature-length documentary on the project called "Dali & Disney: A Date with Destino". Destino was released on the Disney+ streaming service in January 2020.

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Hi, I made a minor change to the wording: I got rid of the bit about a "fit of anarchist fervor" because it doesn't make sense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.165.166.72 (talk) 23:07, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi all. I'm currently going through Emile Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart adding more information for each novel. I've done the first five novels in the cycle and the seventh (incidentally if anyone thinks this is too much information please say so!) Zola's most famous novel is titled "Germinal", after a month in the French Revolutionary Calendar, but all current Wikipedia references to both the novel and the month point to this page. Since the "what links here?" stats line up pretty much equal between articles pointing to either of the two meanings, I was wondering if a disambig page might be a better idea here, and if so, how does one go about doing that?

Please forgive my asking such newbie questions, but, well, I am one.

Its probably not necessary until more information is added to both the calendar entry, and the book entry. Germinal is a good book. Lirath Q. Pynnor

-- Yes, but I want to expand the book entry to about eight or nine long paragraphs, which will mean the page as it currently stands will be one line about the month and then a much, much larger amount about the novel. I'm very firmly of the opinion there should be 2 separate pages and I just wanted to know what the procedure should be - what you're saying is just to do it and let someone else who knows what they're doing disambig the entries later? Fosse8 06:09, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Okay, now it's kind of all over the place. The French- and German-language links are interesting, both those Wikipedias have different approaches to this page. Help? Someone? I don't know what I'm doing Fosse8 08:56, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

If the page only has one line about the month, then the month does not need its own article. Lirath Q. Pynnor

Okay, I think it's alright the way I've done it now. The foreign-language links are still a bit crazy though. Fosse8 10:48, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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The claim that Germinal is considered one of the most important (or best, I can’t remember the phrasing) novels in the French tradition is far too vague. Does this refer to the quite French tradition which Zola wrote in, which was naturalism? In this case this should be made abundantly clear for readers of this page, and will also provide contextual information on the author.

If it is meant to suggest the more expansive “French tradition” as in all works written in French (or something similar).. well.. one should provide evidence that it is really regarded as such.

I’ll change it to the former for now. 135.180.162.171 (talk) 13:59, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

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Lucy Kaplansky

Lucy Kaplansky (born February 16, 1960) is an American folk musician based in New York City. Kaplansky has a PhD in clinical psychology from Yeshiva University and plays guitar, mandolin, and piano.

Life and career
Kaplansky was originally from Chicago; her father was the noted mathematician Irving Kaplansky (1917–2006). Later, she would sometimes perform math-related songs composed by her father, who was also an accomplished pianist. At the age of 18, she decided not to go to college, but moved to New York City, where she became involved in the city's folk music scene, particularly around Greenwich Village, where she played with, among others, Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin and Richard Shindell.

In 1983, she decided to become a psychologist, enrolling at Yeshiva University. She continued playing music while pursuing her PhD, and began to have some success as part of a duo with Colvin. When they began to attract record company interest, Kaplansky declined, choosing instead to set up a private practice and become a staff psychologist at a New York hospital. For several years, she concentrated largely on this work, and played little in the way of concerts. She still did some session work, such as singing backing vocals in the studio for Suzanne Vega.

By the early 1990s, she found herself increasingly drawn back to music. Colvin, who by this time had experienced some commercial success, offered to produce an album for her. The result, The Tide, a mixture of her own songs and several covers, was released by Red House Records in 1994. At this time, she decided to give up her psychology practice and return to music full-time. More albums have followed.

In 1998, Kaplansky joined with Dar Williams and Richard Shindell to form the folk group Cry Cry Cry; they made an album and toured at length before going their separate ways. Her album Ten Year Night, released in 1999, won rave reviews and boosted her popularity, leading to performances on CBS-TV. Her album The Red Thread has a song about her experience of being a New Yorker on 9-11. In August 2001, Kaplansky had sung harmony with John Gorka in a concert on the World Trade Center plaza.

She is a semi-regular collaborator with John Gorka and appeared often with the late Nanci Griffith.

Solo releases

 * The Tide (1994, re-released 2005)
 * Flesh and Bone (1996)
 * Ten Year Night (1999)
 * Every Single Day (2001)
 * The Red Thread (2004)
 * Over the Hills (2007)
 * Kaplansky sings Kaplansky EP available at live shows (2011)
 * Reunion (2012)
 * Everyday Street (2018)
 * Last Days of Summer (2022)

Collaborations

 * The Song Project (1985) with Frank Christian, Tom Intondi, and Martha Hogen
 * Cry Cry Cry (1998) with Dar Williams and Richard Shindell
 * Red Horse (July 13, 2010) with John Gorka and Eliza Gilkyson
 * Tomorrow You're Going (2014) with Richard Shindell (The Pine Hill Project)
 * Live @ the Freight (2020; digital album) as a member of Cry Cry Cry

Appears on

 * "It Ain't Me, Babe" on the album A Nod to Bob: An Artists' Tribute to Bob Dylan on His 60th Birthday (2001) – various Dylan songs by various artists. Similarly, "Every Grain of Sand" on Nod to Bob 2 (2011).

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Kenaf

Kenaf [etymology: Persian], Hibiscus cannabinus, is a plant in the family Malvaceae also called Deccan hemp and Java jute. Hibiscus cannabinus is in the genus Hibiscus and is native to Africa, though its exact origin is unknown. The name also applies to the fibre obtained from this plant. Kenaf is one of the allied fibres of jute and shows similar characteristics.

Common names
Other names include Bimli, Ambary, Ambari Hemp, and Bimlipatum Jute.
 * Europe:
 * English: Deccan hemp, Java jute, wild stockrose
 * French: chanvre de Bombay, chanvre du Deccan, chanvre de Guinée, chanvre de Gambo, chanvre de roselle, jute de Java, jute de Siam, kénaf, ketmie à feuilles de chanvre (Belgium), roselle
 * German: Ambari, Dekkanhanf, Gambohanf, Hanfeibisch, Javajute, Kenaf, Rosellahanf, Roselle, Siamjute
 * Portuguese: cânhamo rosella, juta-de-java, juta-do-sião, quenafe
 * Spanish: cáñamo de la India, cáñamo de gambo, cáñamo Rosella, pavona encendida, yute de Java, yute de Siam
 * Americas:
 * Brazilian Portuguese: papoula-de-são-francisco, cânhamo-brasileiro, quenafe
 * Africa:
 * Afrikaans: stokroos
 * Egypt & Northern Africa: til, teel, or teal تيل
 * West Africa: dah, gambo, and rama
 * Asia
 * Himachal (Pangolu): sunn
 * Lao: ປໍແກ້ວ
 * India (Manipur): Shougri
 * India (Bihari): Kudrum
 * India (Bengal): mesta
 * India (Kannada): Pundi Palle
 * India (Marathi): Ambaadi
 * India (Tamil): pulicha keerai (புளிச்சைக் கீரை) Palungu (பலுஂகு)
 * India (Telugu): Gongura, Taag-Ambadi, Puntikura
 * Iran (Persian): Kanaf کنف
 * Taiwan: ambari
 * China: Hóng Má (红麻; red hemp); officially changed from Yáng Má (洋麻; foreign hemp) during the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.

According to Miyake and Suzuta (1937), there are more than 129 names for kenaf worldwide.

Characteristics
It is an annual or biennial herbaceous plant (rarely a short-lived perennial) growing to 1.5–3.5 m tall with a woody base. The stems are 1–2 cm diameter, often but not always branched. The leaves are 10–15 cm long and variable in shape; leaves near the base of the stems are deeply lobed (3 to 7 lobes) and leaves near the top of the stem are shallowly lobed or unlobed lanceolate. The flowers are 8–15 cm in diameter. The flower base color can be white, yellow, or purple, and the white and yellow flowers are dark purple in the center. The fruit is a capsule 2 cm in diameter and contains several seeds.

Fibre
The fibres in kenaf are found in the bast (bark) and core (wood). The bast constitutes 40% of the plant. "Crude fibre" separated from the bast is multi-cellular, consisting of several individual cells stuck together. The individual fibre cells are about 2–6 mm long and slender. The cell wall is thick (6.3 μm). Kenaf fibre from bast could be gained as long as 2 meters and it becomes more widespread in polymer composite and concrete industry. The kenaf fiber needs to be treated properly to remove the lignin. The tensile strength of the kenaf fiber is about 800 MPa, which makes it suitable natural fiber in engineering applications. The core is about 60% of the plant and has fibre cells that are thick (≈38 μm) but short (0.5 mm) and thin-walled (3 μm). Paper pulp can be produced using the whole stem, and therefore contains both bast and core fibres. The pulp quality is similar to that of hardwood.

Uses
Kenaf is cultivated for its fibre in India, Bangladesh, United States of America, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Africa, Vietnam, Thailand, parts of Africa, and to a small extent in southeast Europe. The stems produce two types of fibre: a coarser fibre in the outer layer (bast fibre), and a finer fibre in the core. The bast fibres are used to make ropes. Kenaf matures in 100 to 200 days. First grown in Egypt over 3000 years ago, the leaves of the kenaf plant were a component of both human and animal diets, while the bast fibre was used for bags, cordage, and the sails for Egyptian boats. This crop was not introduced into southern Europe until the early 1900s. Today, while the principal farming areas are China and India, Kenaf is also grown in countries including the US, Mexico, and Senegal.

The main uses of kenaf fibre have been rope, twine, coarse cloth (similar to that made from jute), and paper. In California, Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, 3,200 acres (13 km2) of kenaf were grown in 1992, most of which was used for animal bedding and feed.

Uses of kenaf fibre include engineered wood; insulation; clothing-grade cloth; soil-less potting mixes; animal bedding; packing material; and material that absorbs oil and liquids. It is also useful as cut bast fibre for blending with resins in the making of plastic composites, as a drilling fluid loss-preventive for oil drilling muds, and for a seeded hydromulch for erosion control. Kenaf can be made into various types of environmental mats, such as seeded grass mats for instant lawns and moldable mats for manufactured parts and containers. Panasonic has set up a plant in Malaysia to manufacture kenaf fibre boards and export them to Japan.

Additionally, as part of an overall effort to make vehicles more sustainable, Ford and BMW are making the material for the automobile bodies in part from kenaf. The first implementation of kenaf within a Ford vehicle was in the 2013 Ford Escape. The BMW i3 uses kenaf in the black surrounds.

The use of kenaf is anticipated to offset 300,000 pounds of oil-based resin per year in North America and should reduce the weight of the door bolsters by 25 percent.

Reported in 2021, Kenaf Ventures, an Israeli company, is developing and producing sustainable raw materials made from the kenaf plant (Hibiscus cannabinus) in an effort to decarbonize the construction sector without reducing product quality.

Kenaf seed oil
Kenaf seeds yield an edible vegetable oil. The kenaf seed oil is also used for cosmetics, industrial lubricants and for biofuel production. Kenaf oil is high in omega polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). Kenaf seed oil contains a high percentage of linoleic acid (Omega-6) a polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA). Linoleic acid (C18:2) is the dominant PUFA, followed by oleic acid (C18:1). Alpha-linolenic acid (C18:3) is present in 2 to 4 percent.

Kenaf seed oil is 20.4% of the total seed weight, similar to that of cotton seed. Kenaf Edible Seed Oil Contains:
 * Palmitic acid: 19.1%
 * Oleic acid: 28.0% (Omega-9)
 * Linoleic acid: 45% (Omega-6)
 * Stearic acid: 3.0%
 * Alpha-linolenic acid: 3% (Omega-3)

Kenaf paper
The most common process to make kenaf paper is using soda pulping before processing the obtained pulp in a paper machine.

The use of kenaf in paper production offers various environmental advantages over producing paper from trees. In 1960, the USDA surveyed more than 500 plants and selected kenaf as the most promising source of tree-free newsprint. In 1970, kenaf newsprint produced in the International Paper Company's mill in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, was successfully used by six U.S. newspapers. Printing and writing paper made from the fibrous kenaf plant has been offered in the United States since 1992. Again in 1987, a Canadian mill produced 13 rolls of kenaf newsprint which were used by four U.S. newspapers to print experimental issues. They found that kenaf newsprint made for stronger, brighter and cleaner pages than standard pine paper with less detriment to the environment. Due partly to kenaf fibres being naturally whiter than tree pulp, less bleaching is required to create a brighter sheet of paper. Hydrogen peroxide, an environmentally-safe bleaching agent that does not create dioxin, has been used with much success in the bleaching of kenaf.

Various reports suggest that the energy requirements for producing pulp from kenaf are about 20 percent less than those for wood pulp, mostly due to the lower lignin content of kenaf. Many of the facilities that now process Southern pine for paper use can be converted to accommodate kenaf.

An area of 1 acre of kenaf produces 5 to 8 tons of raw plant bast and core fibre in a single growing season. In contrast, 1 acre of forest (in the US) produces approximately 1.5 to 3.5 tons of usable fibre per year. It is estimated that growing kenaf on 5,000 acres (20 km2) can produce enough pulp to supply a paper plant having a capacity of 200 tons per day. Over 20 years, 1 acre of farmland can produce 10 to 20 times the amount of fiber that 1 acre of Southern pine can produce.

As one of the world's important natural fibres, kenaf is covered by the International Year of Natural Fibres 2009. The first novel to be published using 100% kenaf paper was The Land of Debris and the Home of Alfredo by Kenn Amdahl (1997, Clearwater Publishing Company).

David Brower, former Executive Director of the Sierra Club, in chapter 8 of his semi-autobiographical environmental book Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run: A Call to Save the Earth (1995, Harper Collins), titled "Forest Revolution," advocated for kenaf paper use and explained its many advantages over wood pulp. The first edition of the book was printed on kenaf paper.

References and external links

 * KenafUSA, Website of Dr. Gerald Feaster (PhD), a Kenaf researcher.
 * Greenfiber Net, A B2B platform to promote the use of natural fibres like kenaf and jute.
 * American Kenaf Society (AKS), Founded in 1997 with individuals and organizations working directly or indirectly with kenaf and kenaf-based products, plus those with environmental concerns.
 * CCG International (CCG), Leading International efforts to promote the use of kenaf and allied natural plant fibres.
 * International Jute Study Group, An UN collaboration for learning various aspects of jute and kenaf. Its headquarters is in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It targets business societies in India, Bangladesh, and Thailand.
 * About the Kenaf Plant, Vision Paper - Gives detailed description of kenaf plant and provides many links to kenaf industry. Pioneers in the kenaf paper industry. Produced first ever chlorine free 100% tree-free kenaf paper in 1992.
 * Information about Kenaf in German language, Provides information on Market Place, News, and Links about Kenaf in German language.
 * Nachwachsende-Rohstoffe, A German site for Kenaf and other agricultural commodities related articles (Also available in English).
 * Alternative Field Crops Manual
 * Kenaf: Taking Root? 1995 article by Brooke Wurst
 * Mabberley, D.J. 1987. The Plant Book. A portable dictionary of the higher plants. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 706 pp. ISBN 0-521-34060-8.

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Nobuko Miyamoto

Nobuko Miyamoto (宮本 信子) is a Japanese actress. She was born in Otaru, Hokkaidō, and raised in Nagoya. She was married to director Juzo Itami from 1969 until his death in 1997, and regularly starred in his films.

She has been nominated for eight Best Actress Japanese Academy Awards, winning in 1988 for her role in A Taxing Woman.

Film

 * Lost Sex (1966)
 * The Funeral (1984)
 * Tampopo (1985)
 * A Taxing Woman (1987)
 * A Taxing Woman's Return (1988)
 * Sweet Home (1989) as Akiko Hayakawa
 * A-Ge-Man: Tales of a Golden Geisha (1990)
 * Minbo (1992)
 * Daibyonin (1993)
 * Supermarket Woman (1996)
 * Woman in Witness Protection (1997)
 * Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997)
 * Hankyu Railways: A 15-Minute Miracle (2011) as Tokie Hagiwara
 * Isoroku (2011)
 * Strawberry Song (2019)
 * Stand by Me Doraemon 2 (2020)
 * It's a Flickering Life (2021) as Yoshiko
 * BL Metamorphosis (2022) as Yuki Ichinoi
 * Haw (2022)

Television

 * Uchi no Ko ni Kagitte... (1984)
 * Mōri Motonari (1997), Tae
 * Manten (2002–03)
 * Tenchijin (2009), narrator
 * Amachan (2013)
 * Botchan (2016)
 * Hiyokko (2017), Suzuko
 * In This Corner of the World (2018), Ito Morita
 * Hiyokko 2 (2019), Suzuko
 * House of Ninjas (2024), Taki Tawara

Honours

 * Medal with Purple Ribbon (2014)
 * Kinuyo Tanaka Award (2022)
 * Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2022)

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Tsutomu Yamazaki

Tsutomu Yamazaki (山崎 努) is a Japanese actor. He won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor in 1984 for The Funeral and Farewell to the Ark. Yamazaki is well known for his role "Nenbutsu no Tetsu" on the television jidaigeki Hissatsu Shiokinin and Shin Hissatsu Shiokinin.

Career
Yamazaki graduated from Haiyuza Theatre Company and joined Bungakuza in 1959. He made his film debut in Kihachi Okamoto's Daigaku no sanzôkutachi in 1960. In 1961, he received the Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year. In 1963, he appeared in Akira Kurosawa's High and Low. He worked with Kurosawa twice more: in the director's next film, 1965's Red Beard, then fifteen years later, in Kagemusha.

In 1973, he appeared jidaigeki television drama Hissatsu Shiokinin and he played the same role in Shin Hissatsu Shiokinin again in 1977. He also starred in number of Juzo Itami's films, including his role as a trucker who resembles John Wayne in Tampopo (1985). He co-starred in The Ramen Girl (2008) with Brittany Murphy.

He also played a supporting role in Yōjirō Takita's Departures.

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State University of New York at New Paltz

The State University of New York at New Paltz (SUNY New Paltz or New Paltz) is a public university in New Paltz, New York. It traces its origins to the New Paltz Classical School, a secondary institution founded in 1828 and reorganized as an academy in 1833.

History

The university's origins can be traced back to the New Paltz Classical School, which originally opened in 1828. After changing its name to the New Paltz Academy in 1833, the school was decimated by a fire in 1884, after which the school offered their land to the state government of New York contingent upon the establishment of a normal school.

In 1885, one year after the fire, the New Paltz Normal and Training School, or New Paltz Normal School, was established to prepare teachers to practice their professions in the public schools of New York. It was granted the ability to award baccalaureate degrees in 1938, after which it was renamed as the State Teachers College at New Paltz; the inaugural class of 112 students graduated in 1942. In 1947, a graduate program in education was established.

When the State University of New York was established by legislative act in 1948, the Teachers College at New Paltz was one of 30 colleges associated under SUNY's umbrella. An art education program was added in 1951. The school experienced another name change in 1959, becoming the State University College of Education at New Paltz. One year later, in 1960, the college was authorized to confer liberal arts degrees. Just one year after that, in 1961, the school updated its name yet again, to the State University of New York College of Arts and Science at New Paltz.

Amid this tumult, the college's general education program (including then-vanguard introductory surveys of African and Asian cultures) was eliminated in 1971; a distribution requirement was re-instituted in 1993. A program in African American studies was established in 1968. Three years later, the experimental studies program (reorganized as the innovative studies program in 1975) began to enroll students, instructors, and local residents in credited and cocurricular courses that encompassed myriad disciplines, including video art (under Paul Ryan), dance therapy, clowning, camping, and ecodesign. Instructors in the program were hired by students and compensated through student activity fees. A 4 acre environmental studies site operated by students and community members under the aegis of the program at the southern periphery of the campus included geodesic domes, windmills, kilns, a solar-powered house funded by the Department of Energy, and more inchoate variants of sustainable architecture. Upon ascending to the college presidency in 1980, Alice Chandler characterized the edifices as "shacks and hovels" and abolished the program in the early 1980s, demolishing most of the site in the process.

Under Chandler's leadership, the college began to offer professional degree programs in nursing, engineering, journalism, and accounting. The Legislative Gazette, a journalism and political science internship in which students live and work in Albany and produce a weekly newspaper about state politics, was established in 1978.

On December 29, 1991, the campus was the scene of a widely reported PCB incident that contaminated four dormitories (Bliss, Gage, Capen and Scudder halls), as well as the Coykendall Science Building and Parker Theatre. Under the direction of the county and state health departments, the university began a massive, thorough cleanup effort. As an additional precaution, 29 other buildings were thoroughly tested and, if necessary, cleaned. The clean-up process lasted until May 1995. Since 1994, PCBs have not been used on the SUNY New Paltz campus.

The college was rebranded as the State University of New York at New Paltz in 1994.

In November 1997, two events on campus attracted nationwide media attention. The first, a feminist conference on sex and sexuality sponsored by the women's studies department entitled "Revolting Behavior: The Challenges of Women's Sexual Freedom", featured an instructional workshop on sex toys offered by a Manhattan sex shop proprietor and a lecture panel on sadomasochism ("Safe, Sane and Consensual S/M: An Alternate Way of Loving"). The second, a seminar entitled "Subject to Desire: Refiguring the Body", was sponsored by the School of Fine and Performing Arts. One presenter, Fluxus performance artist and longtime New Paltz resident Carolee Schneemann, was best known for Interior Scroll (1975), a piece that culminated in her unrolling a scroll from her vagina and reading it to the audience; at the seminar, Schneemann exhibited abstract photographs of her vagina as part of Vulva's Morphia (1995), "a visceral sequence of photographs and text in which a Vulvic personification presents an ironic analysis juxtaposing slides and text to undermine Lacanian semiotics, gender issues, Marxism, the male art establishment, religious and cultural taboos."

Political conservatives were outraged that a public university had hosted such events, and Governor George Pataki and SUNY chancellor Robert King expressed their displeasure. The controversy escalated when the theatre arts department staged The Vagina Monologues shortly afterwards. The college's then-president, Roger Bowen, defended freedom of expression on campus and refused to apologize, doing little to allay conservative ire. "The real issue," he said, "is whether some ideologues, however well-intentioned, have the right to dictate what we say and what we do on this campus." SUNY trustee Candace de Russy called for him to be dismissed. Bowen later resigned.

In 2023, the institution was officially reclassified as a university by the State University of New York. The change took effect January 1, 2023, exactly seventy-five years after the SUNY system was founded; New Paltz was a founding member.

Campus
The SUNY New Paltz campus consists of about 216 acre in the small town of New Paltz, New York. There are 14 residence halls, centered mostly in two quads. The main campus has two dozen academic buildings, including the Haggerty Administration Building, a lecture hall, Old Main, Sojourner Truth Library, one main dining hall, the Student Union Building, Science Hall and extensive gymnasium and sports areas.

The college also operated the Ashokan campus in Olivebridge, New York, consisting of another 400 acre. In 2008 it was sold by Campus Auxiliary Services to the Open Space Conservancy; it is now operated as the Ashokan Center.

SUNY New Paltz has undergone extensive construction projects since 2008, totaling nearly $300 million, including:

 * Renovation of Hasbrouck complex residence halls (ongoing)
 * Student Union Building addition: "The Atrium" (completed fall 2010)
 * Old Main renovation (completed spring 2011)
 * The Concourse landscaping/renovation (completed fall 2011)
 * Hasbrouck Quad landscaping/renovation (completed fall 2011)
 * Construction of Mohonk Walk (completed summer 2012)
 * Ridgeview Hall (completed summer 2015)
 * Sojourner Truth Library renovation (completed fall 2015)
 * Wooster Science Building renovation (completed summer 2016)
 * Construction of Science Hall, a new science building (completed winter 2017)
 * Engineering Innovation Hub (completed fall 2019)

Campus theaters
SUNY at New Paltz contains three on-campus theaters.

McKenna Theater
McKenna Theatre is a fully equipped proscenium theatre, with seating for 366. The theater is named in honor of Dr. Rebecca McKenna, professor of English and drama and the founder of the theatre arts program at New Paltz. At the rear of the theater is a sound booth for digital audio equipment which has the capabilities to play back, mix, and amplify audio. There is also a lighting booth with a computerized light board (controlling over 200 dimmers) and LCD video projection equipment behind the audience (and upstairs). There are 32 line sets in the fly space above the stage. There is also a scene shop behind the stage, storage area for scenery, a paint shop, and other technical facilities.

Parker Theater

The building was originally built as a dining hall. Parker was then converted to a theatre venue and teaching space. In 1972 it was made into a theatre production facility. The building was renovated in 1994, featuring a modified thrust stage surrounded by a three-quarter audience configuration seating up to 200 people. In the rear are lighting and sound booths with computerized light board (controlling over 90 dimmers) and digital audio equipment. To both sides of the stage are performance studio spaces. Classes are offered in acting, voice, movement, and musical theatre. On the same floor of the theater are a costume studio, dressing rooms, costume maintenance, storage facilities, and faculty offices.

Parker Theatre was built in 1962. It houses the Raymond T. Kurdt Theatrical Design Collection, one of the most significant collections of original costume and set designs in the nation.

Max and Nadia Shepard Recital Hall
Max and Nadia Shepard Recital Hall is located in College Hall, the oldest residence hall on campus. Built in 1951, it is a landmark, and is the closest hall to the village of New Paltz. Its basement, now used primarily for storage, was built as a fallout shelter, and was stocked as such until the 1980s. The only remaining remnant are the "".

The facility contains 125 seats and is named in honor of patrons of the performing arts programs at SUNY New Paltz. The hall offers a delicate setting for student recitals and chamber music performances. The rear of the hall contains a small studio equipped with Pro-tools HD and a Control 24 sound board used for recording professional performances.

Max and Nadia Shepard Recital Hall is an important facility for the community. It hosts many recitals and is an integral part of the Piano Summer program.

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
At the center of campus is the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, which opened in 2001. With more than 9,000 square feet of exhibition space in six galleries, the Dorsky is one of the largest art museums in the SUNY system. The East Wing includes the Morgan Anderson Gallery, Howard Greenberg Family Gallery, Sara Bedrick Gallery, and the Corridor Gallery, and the West Wing includes the Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery and the North Gallery. The Dorsky's permanent collection comprises more than 7,000 works of American Art (with emphasis on the Hudson Valley and Catskill Regions), 19th, 20th and 21st century photography, metals, and a "world collection" of art and artifacts dating back to ancient times and representing diverse cultures. Through its collections, exhibitions, and public programs, the Dorsky supports and enriches the academic programs at the college, presents a broad range of world art for study and enjoyment, and serves as a center for Hudson Valley arts and culture. The Dorsky's facilities include research and seminar rooms for visitors, students and professors at SUNY New Paltz.

Athletics
SUNY New Paltz teams participate as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division III. The Hawks are a member of the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC). Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, soccer, swimming & diving, volleyball and lacrosse; women's sports include basketball, cross country, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis and volleyball.

For the first time in program history, New Paltz men’s volleyball team captured the NCAA Division III Tournament title in 2016. The win also marked the first NCAA title for any New Paltz team. Three years later, they defeated UC Santa Cruz to win their second championship in the sport and second for the school overall.

Clubs and traditions
The student governance is operated by the Student Association, which funds most student activities through a mandatory fee. There are many clubs, fraternities, and sororities. Clubs that are recognized by the Student Association are organized into one of six boards: academic, advocacy, athletic, fine and performing arts, media, and social and cultural. There is also an on-campus government, the Residence Hall Student Association (RHSA).

The college has an auxiliary services corporation common to many state campuses in New York, called Campus Auxiliary Services, Inc. This on-campus company operates the dining halls and bookstore, as well as being the source of discretionary funds for spending by the college president and the RHSA.

The college has a foundation and an active alumni association.

The college's official student newspaper is The Oracle. In 2010, it was honored by the Society of Professional Journalists for having the Best Affiliated Website for four-year college or university (Region 1 competition). It was named as a runner-up for the National Title.

The campus TV station is WNPC TV. It broadcasts on channels 3, 6 and 8 in the New Paltz area.

The college's radio station, WFNP, is known as "The Edge". It broadcasts part-time at FM 88.7, and also streams online.

Greek life
Recognized fraternities and sororities at the university include:

Vietnam War
There were several student-led demonstrations in the late 1960s and early 1970s, primarily against the Vietnam War. In the spring of 1967, a sit-in protesting military recruitment on campus blocked the entrance to the Student Union for two days. While there were scores of demonstrators the first day, all but 13 dispersed before New York State Troopers arrived and bodily carried the demonstrators to a waiting school bus for a trip to court. In the fall of 1968, students rallied in support of Craig Pastor (now Craig DeYong) who had been arrested by New Paltz Village Police for desecration of the American flag which he was wearing as a superhero cape in a student film directed by Edward Falco. College President John J. Neumaier posted bail. Pastor was released and charges were dropped.

The Cambodian Campaign and concomitant Kent State shootings in May 1970 led to a protest that culminated in a five-day student occupation of the Administration Building, subsequently renamed Old Main after the opening of the Haggerty Administration Building two years later. A March 1974 sit-in at the Haggerty Building reacted against perceived discriminatory hiring practices, the state-mandated reintegration of Shango Hall (which then housed underrepresented students), and the threatened cessation of the experimental studies program in the wake of a budget shortfall.

Israel-Hamas War
Protests at the university over the Israel-Hamas War began in early 2024. On February 28, 2024, members of the Israeli Defense Forces were invited to campus by the Jewish Student Union with the assistance of the New Paltz chapter of Students Supporting Israel, to discuss their experiences serving, as well as their opinions of the war. In response a protest rally was organized by New Paltz Students for Palestine, in which over 150 students, alumni, and activists protested during and after the event. Following the event and the protest, President Wheeler released a statement, saying, "I write today to share a brief note of gratitude to those within our community who helped ensure that all participants’ safety and rights were protected during the event organized yesterday by our Jewish Student Union and the corresponding counter demonstration."

On May 1 2024, over 100 students, faculty and others pitched in to establish an encampment on Parker Quad, spurred on by the Gaza Solidarity encampments established at other colleges across the country. President Wheeler visited the encampment and asked them to dismantle the tents, but students refused. He then wrote down notes regarding the demands of the organizers, which included divestment from companies doing business with Israel, amnesty for people disciplined by the school, and disclosure of the investments the school makes.

The following day, on May 2, two members of Student Affairs visited the encampment in an effort to get students to dismantle it by 7:00 PM. The protesters refused, and were later told to leave by 9:00 PM. When the time came, they refused to leave, and administration called the police. Officers including New York State troopers, the NYSUP, Ulster County Sheriff’s Office, and the New Paltz Police Department all participated. Police brought K-9s, batons, and nonlethal firearms. Over 100 people were arrested, with at least three people injured. One student being kicked in the face and an elderly woman was allegedly knocked unconscious.

Notable alumni
SUNY New Paltz alumni include:
 * Salvador Agron – "The Capeman," the main figure from the Broadway show The Capeman
 * Michael Badalucco – actor
 * Yak Ballz – underground rapper born Yashar Zadeh
 * David Bernsley (born 1969), American-Israeli basketball player
 * Eleonor Bindman (born 1965), American pianist, teacher and recording artist
 * Rob Borsellino – reporter
 * Kevin Cahill – member of the New York State Assembly
 * Regina Calcaterra – author
 * Joan Chen – actress
 * Scott Cohen – actor
 * Murali Coryell – guitarist
 * Marco DaSilva - multimedia artist
 * Anthony Denison – actor
 * Mary Deyo (1887 graduate of normal school) – missionary teacher in Japan
 * James Dolan – owner of the New York Knicks, New York Rangers and Madison Square Garden; former CEO of Cablevision
 * Chris Eachus – member of the New York State Assembly
 * Jessica Faieta – Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
 * Edward Falco – novelist and professor of English at Virginia Tech
 * Helen K. Garber – photographer
 * Michael J. X. Gladis – actor
 * Vinny Guadagnino – Jersey Shore reality show actor
 * Maurice Hinchey '68, M.A. '70 – member of the United States House of Representatives
 * Vicky Jeudy – actor
 * Gary King – university professor of government at Harvard University
 * Robert Kyncl – CEO of Warner Music Group
 * Kenneth LaValle – member of the New York State Senate
 * Christopher Manson – children's book author and illustrator
 * Tomas Morales – president of  California State University, San Bernardino
 * Eileen Moran – visual effects producer and former executive at Weta Digital
 * Fabrizio Moretti – drummer for The Strokes
 * Alex Luciano – musician, guitarist and songwriter for Diet Cig
 * Berhanu Nega – Ethiopian politician
 * Ann Nocenti – Marvel Comics editor; journalist
 * William Parment – member of the New York State Assembly
 * Andrea Peyser – New York Post columnist
 * Roseann Runte – president of Old Dominion University
 * Ilyasah Shabazz – daughter of Malcolm X; writer
 * Andy Shernoff – songwriter, rock musician
 * Frank Skartados – member of the New York State Assembly
 * Alex Storozynski – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
 * Brianna Titone - geologist and Colorado state representative
 * Aida Turturro – actress
 * John Turturro – actor
 * Jason West – former mayor of the village of New Paltz, New York
 * Zach Zarba – NBA official
 * Kevin Zraly –  wine educator; founder of the Windows on the World Wine School

Notable faculty

 * Clinton Bennett – adjunct lecturer, religious studies program; authority on Islam
 * Jamie Bennett – emeritus professor (1985–2015) of art
 * Manuel Bromberg - professor emeritus of art
 * Lew Brownstein - historian and former chair of political science and international relations department
 * Arthur H. Cash (died 2016) – SUNY Distinguished Professor and professor emeritus of English; authority on Laurence Sterne
 * Robert Ebendorf – former professor in the metals department, starting in 1970.
 * Vladimir Feltsman – university professor, music department
 * Heinz Insu Fenkl – professor of English; novelist, translator and folklorist
 * Carol Goodman – adjunct in creative writing; novelist
 * Laurence M. Hauptman – distinguished professor of history
 * Ray Huang – late professor emeritus of history; authority on the Ming dynasty; author of 1587: a Year of No Significance
 * Nancy Kassop - former chair of the political science department
 * Chaim Koppelman (1920–2009), American artist, educator, and Aesthetic Realism consultant
 * John Langan - instructor of creative writing and gothic literature; author of horror stories, notably the Bram Stoker Award winning novel "The Fisherman"
 * Joe Langworth – adjunct, musical theatre
 * Kurt Matzdorf – professor emeritus of goldsmithing and silversmith (working from 1957 to 1985); he founded the metals department.
 * Anthony Robinson – professor emeritus of English and former director of creative writing program
 * Harry Schwartz – The New York Times editorial writer, Soviet specialist
 * H.R. Stoneback – SUNY distinguished teaching professor and professor of English; authority on Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Lawrence Durrell
 * William Strongin - Rabbi, author, and professor who is currently the director of Jewish Studies


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John McLane

John McLane (February 27, 1852 – April 13, 1911) was a Scottish-American furniture maker and politician who served as the 50th governor of New Hampshire from 1905 to 1907.

Biography
McLane was born in Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire, in Scotland, the son of Mary, née Hay and Alexander McLane, and was brought to America with his family in 1853, when he was one year old. They settled in Manchester, and moved to Milford in 1869. On finishing school he became a cabinetmaker's apprentice, going on to open his own shop in 1876. The business's success as one of the largest manufacturers of post-office furniture in North America secured other business opportunities for him including becoming director of the Milford Granite Company, the Souheagan National Bank and the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company.

On 10 March 1880 he married Ellen Luetta Tuck (1855–1927), and together they had four children, Clinton Averill McLane (born 1881), Hazel Ellen McLane (born 1885), John Roy McLane (born 1886), and Charles Malcolm McLane (born 1895). His great-granddaughter, Ann McLane Kuster, is the New Hampshire Representative in the 2nd District in the House of Representatives.

McLane was elected, as a Republican, to the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1885, and to the New Hampshire Senate in 1891, representing the 16th District 1891-92 and the 15th District 1893-94. He was president of the senate during his two terms. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention from New Hampshire in 1900, and was elected governor in 1904.

As governor, McLane was instrumental in securing funding for highway improvement, and welcomed delegates to the Russo-Japanese War Peace Conference, which was held in Portsmouth during his term in office.

He died in Pinehurst, Moore County, North Carolina, and was interred at the West Street Cemetery, Milford, New Hampshire.

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Wikipedia talk:Federal Standard 1037C terms/computer programming terms

As it is, this is more a list of computer programming topics than a glossary. --Mrwojo 05:13, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I concur, and I question its usefulness as well. At best, it provides good ideas for new computer science pages to write, but we appear to have covered the majority of them now.

Derrick Coetzee 05:49, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Moved
I've moved this from Glossary of computer programming terms. When/if it becomes more glossary-like, it can be moved back. - dcljr 23:40, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)


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Wikipedia talk:Federal Standard 1037C terms/computer hardware terms

As it is, this is more a list of computer hardware topics than a glossary. --Mrwojo 05:13, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Page has been renamed. - dcljr 06:45, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)


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Masahiko Nagasawa

Masahiko Nagasawa (長澤 雅彦 Nagasawa Masahiko, born 28 February 1965 in Akita, Japan) is a Japanese film director. He was given a Best New Director award for his film Koko ni irukoto at the 2002 Yokohama Film Festival.

Filmography

 * 1) Killing Angel (? on trans.) (皆殺しの天使) (1997) (Video)
 * 2) Being Here (Koko ni iru koto, ココニイルコト) (2001)
 * 3) Seoul (ソウル) (2002)
 * 4) Graduation (Sotsugyou, 卒業) (2002)
 * 5) Thirteen Steps (13階段) (2003)
 * 6) Way of Blue Sky (Aozoranoyukue) (2005)
 * 7) Night Time Picnic (Yoru no pikunikku) (2006)
 * 8) Faraway Heaven (Tengoku wa mada tôku) (2008)

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Elgin Academy (Elgin, Illinois)

Elgin Academy was an independent, coeducational, college-preparatory school in Elgin, Illinois, United States. Elgin Academy was notable for many accomplishments, such as its Scholastic Bowl and ACES teams.

History
The academy was established by charter of the Illinois General Assembly in 1839 to provide students with a classical education. The academy's original building, Old Main, was constructed in 1855-6, and is on the United States' National Register of Historic Places. It now serves as a museum of the Elgin Area Historical Society.

The original charter was granted by the Illinois legislature and signed in 1839, only four years after the founding of Elgin. The academy opened, and has continued, with a non-denominational and coeducational policy. In 1856 the first building, Old Main, was completed at a cost of $19,000 and opened for classes, but the first diploma was not awarded until 1872 when Laura Davidson, the granddaughter of James Gifford, Elgin's founder, earned the honor. Davidson later married Nathaniel Sears and their family became major donors to the academy.

During the American Civil War seven commissioned officers, six non-commissioned officers, and 21 privates served from the academy. All together, 153 Civil War veterans, whose names are inscribed on the base of two authentic Union cannons, were associated with the academy.

In 1874, 274 students were enrolled and high school degrees were offered in the areas of College Preparatory, Normal, English, Classical, Latin-Scientific, and Business. By 1900 the football team, basketball team, and a school newspaper were established. About this time the academy became briefly associated with the University of Chicago and then with Northwestern University from 1903 to 1927 and from 1932 to 1943. The Sears family helped build the academy's first gymnasium in 1918. A boarding program ran from 1920 to 1987, with girls allowed to board starting in 1941.

The Sears family helped build the Sears Art Gallery in 1924 and Sears Hall in 1940. The new gymnasium was built in 1958, North Hall was built as a girls' dormitory in 1962, and Edwards Hall was built in 1969. Old Main was closed in 1972.

Enrollment fell to 85 students in 1973, but rose to 425 in 2012. In 1984 the program was expanded to K-12, and preschool was added in 1997. The Harold D. Rider Family Media, Science, and Fine Arts Center opened in 2008.

Enrollment fell back down to 200 in 2023, and on November 7, 2023, the school officially announced its planned closing. The school closed at the end of the 2023-2024 school year after graduating its final class of 19 seniors.

Facilities
The school occupies a 18 acre campus 35 mi northwest of Chicago in the Historic District of the city of Elgin. The school's classrooms are largely housed in four buildings:
 * The Harold D. Rider Family Media, Science and Fine Arts Center houses the Kimball Street Theatre and part of the Liautaud-Lyons Upper School program, partially donated by the philanthropic James "Jimmy John" Liautaud.
 * Edwards Hall houses the Liautaud-Lyons Upper School program.
 * Sears Hall houses the Middle School program.
 * North Hall houses the Early Childhood and Lower School programs.

Other buildings on campus include:
 * Sears Gallery
 * The Gymnasium
 * Raymond House (business office)
 * Penney House (admissions, marketing, development and alumni relations offices)
 * Old Main (the Elgin Area Historical Society and one classroom used daily by the academy)

A sports field complex, approximately one half-mile away from the main campus, includes tennis courts, grass fields, and 1/5-mile all-weather track.

Old Main
Old Main is the academy's original building. Rather than restore it in the early 1970s, the academy sold it to the city of Elgin for $1. Today, it is primarily used as the museum for the Elgin Area Historical Society. One room still serves as a regular school classroom for the school.

The Academy today
The academy offers an academic, college-preparatory curriculum. It is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools and is accredited by both the Independent Schools Association of the Central States and the AdvancEd commission. The school is a member of the Lake Michigan Association of Independent Schools, the Illinois Coalition of Nonpublic Schools, the Cum Laude Society, the National Honor Society, and many other academic organizations. It is recognized by the Illinois Non-Public Schools Recognition Program.

Athletics
Elgin Academy's sports teams are nicknamed the Hilltoppers (the school being built on a hill), and their mascot is Foxman, after the nearby Fox River. Basketball, soccer, track, cross country, golf, tennis, volleyball, and baseball are offered. The school's sports affiliations include the Illinois High School Association, the Illinois Council of Private Schools, and the Independent School League.

Notable Achievements
Academic: Athletic:
 * Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE) State Champions
 * Scholastic Bowl State Champions (2022 Masonic State 1A)
 * Scholastic Bowl Nationals 11th Place (2022 NAQT SSNCT)
 * Nationally Recognized Model UN Team
 * IHSA Regional Basketball Champions, 1983
 * 1983 Chicago Tribune basketball state power rankings as # 10 best in Illinois.
 * Soccer Regional Champions, 2016
 * Cross Country Sectional Qualifiers, 2017
 * Baseball 3x ISL Champions (2017-2019) and 4x Regional Champions (2016-2019)
 * 2022 Tennis Doubles State Champions
 * 2023 Tennis Singles State Champion

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Margherita

Margherita is an Italian feminine given name. It also is a surname. As a word, in Italian it means "daisy". The name is related to Margaret.

Given name
As a name, it may refer to:

 * Margherita Aldobrandini (1588–1646), Duchess consort of Parma
 * Margherita de' Medici (1612–1679), Duchess of Parma and Piacenza
 * Margherita Maria Farnese (1664–1718), Duchess of Modena and Reggio
 * Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma (1847–1893)
 * Margherita of Savoy (1851–1926), former Queen Consort of Italy and wife of Umberto I
 * Margherita, Archduchess of Austria-Este (1930–2022)
 * Margherita Bagni (1902–1960), Italian actress
 * Margherita Piazzola Beloch (1879–1976), Italian mathematician
 * Margherita Boniver (born 1938), Italian politician
 * Margherita Buy (born 1962), Italian actress
 * Margherita Caffi (1650–1710), Italian painter of still lifes
 * Margherita Carosio (1908–2005), Italian operatic soprano
 * Margherita Durastanti (fl. 1700–1734), Italian singer
 * Margherita Galeotti (1867–after 1912), Italian pianist and composer
 * Margherita Gargano (born 1952), Italian middle-distance runner
 * Margherita Gonzaga (disambiguation)
 * Margherita Granbassi (born 1979), Italian fencer
 * Margherita Grandi (1894–1972), Australian-born Italian soprano born Margaret Gard
 * Margherita Guidacci (1921–1992), Italian poet
 * Margherita Hack (1922–2013), Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer
 * Margherita Magnani (born 1987), Italian middle-distance runner
 * Margherita Roberti, American operatic soprano whose career began in 1948 and ended in 1988
 * Margherita Sarfatti (1880–1961), Italian journalist and mistress of Benito Mussolini
 * Margherita Taylor (born 1972), English TV and radio presenter
 * Margherita Zalaffi (born 1966), Italian fencer

Surname

 * Lesli Margherita, American actress
 * Pabitra Margherita, Indian politician

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Rainbow Bridge

Rainbow Bridge may refer to:

Bridges

 * Bifröst, a rainbow bridge connecting Asgard to Midgard in Norse myth
 * Rainbow Bridge (pets), Bifrost as a location where deceased pets go to wait for reunion with their owners
 * Rainbow Bridge in Haleiwa, Hawaii
 * Rainbow Bridge, Kaifeng, Henan, China, a former bridge depicted in the Qingming Scroll
 * Rainbow Bridge, Kansas, USA
 * Rainbow Bridge, Niagara Falls, New York, on the US–Canadian border
 * Rainbow Bridge, Oxford, UK
 * Rainbow Bridge, another name for the Medley Footbridge, Oxford, UK
 * Rainbow Bridge, Texas, USA
 * Rainbow Bridge, Tokyo, Japan
 * Rainbow Bridge, La Conner, Washington, USA
 * Rainbow Bridge, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China, a famed bridge at Slender West Lake

Natural features

 * Rainbow Bridge National Monument, a natural rock formation in Utah, USA

Films

 * Rainbow Bridge (1963 film), a Japanese anime film
 * Rainbow Bridge (film), a 1971 film featuring the music of Jimi Hendrix

Other arts and entertainment

 * Rainbow Bridge (album), a 1971 album by Jimi Hendrix
 * "Rainbow Bridge" (M*A*S*H), an episode of the television series M*A*S*H

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The Beastmaster

The Beastmaster is a 1982 sword and sorcery film directed by Don Coscarelli and starring Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, John Amos and Rip Torn. Loosely based on the 1959 novel The Beast Master by Andre Norton, the film is about a man who can communicate with animals, and who fights an evil wizard and his army.

Commercially, The Beastmaster was not considered a box office success during its original cinematic run, but later received extensive television exposure and success on cable in the American market on channels TBS, TNT, and HBO. The original film spawned two sequels as well as a syndicated television series that chronicled the further adventures of Dar.

Plot
In the kingdom of Aruk, witches tell high priest Maax [ ] a prophecy that he will die at the hands of King Zed's unborn son. Maax sends one of his witches to kidnap and kill the child. The witch magically transport the child from his mother's womb and into a bull. Later she cuts the baby out of the bull and brand it with the mark of Ar, and is about to sacrifice him when a villager rescues the child and raises him as his own son in the village of Emur. Named Dar, the child learns how to fight, and being brought into the world by an animal through magic, he develops the ability to telepathically communicate with animals. Years later, a fully grown Dar witnesses his people being slaughtered by the Juns, a horde of fanatic barbarians allied with Maax. Dar, the only survivor of the attack, journeys to Aruk to avenge his people. In time, Dar is joined by a golden eagle he names Sharak, a pair of thieving ferrets he names Kodo and Podo, and a black "panther" he names Ruh.

Dar meets a slave girl called Kiri before getting himself lost and ending up surrounded by an eerie half-bird, half-human race who externally dissolve their prey for nourishment. As the bird-men worship eagles, they spare Dar when he summons Sharak and give him an amulet. Dar soon arrives at Aruk where Maax had assumed total control with the Juns' support. Maax has taken the children of the townspeople and is sacrificing them to his god, Ar. After having Sharak save the child of a townsman named Sacco, Dar learns that Kiri is to be sacrificed. On his way to save her, Dar is joined by Zed's younger son Tal and his bodyguard Seth, and learns that Kiri is Zed's niece as the three work to save her. While Seth gathers their forces, Dar helps Kiri and Tal infiltrate the temple and rescue King Zed.

An obstinate Zed leads his forces to attack the city, despite the prudent warnings of Dar, who leaves the group in anger. They all are easily defeated and captured, and Dar decides to return to save them from being sacrificed. In the conflict that follows, Maax reveals Dar's relationship to Zed before slitting Zed's throat and facing the Beastmaster. Despite being stabbed, Maax is revived by a witch and, when he attempts to kill Dar, Kodo sacrifices himself to cause the high priest to fall into the sacrificial flames. The victory is short-lived as the Jun horde approaches Aruk, arriving by nightfall to face the trap Dar and the people set for them. Tal is wounded as Dar succeeds in burning most of the Juns alive while defeating their chieftain before the bird-men arrive to consume those remaining. The following day, Seth invites Dar to be the new king, but Dar explains that Tal would make a better king, and he leaves Aruk. Dar sets off into the wild with Kiri, Ruh, Sharak and Podo, who has given birth to two baby ferrets.

Cast

 * Marc Singer as Dar
 * Billy Jacoby as young Dar
 * Tanya Roberts as Kiri
 * Rip Torn as Maax
 * John Amos as Seth
 * Josh Milrad as Tal
 * Rod Loomis as King Zed
 * Vanna Bonta as Zed's Wife
 * Ben Hammer as Dar's father
 * Ralph Strait as Sacco
 * Tony Epper as Jun Leader
 * Paul Reynolds as Tils
 * Donald Battee as Chameleon

Production
Beastmaster began with a screenplay in the early 1980s written by Paul Pepperman and Don Coscarelli. The two writers based their film on Andre Norton's 1959 novel The Beast Master. The writers changed the story dramatically as the original novel had the hero named Hosteen Storm who was a veteran soldier of Navajo descent in a futuristic science fiction setting. Norton was unhappy with the liberties taken with the film's script and asked for her name to be removed from the credits. When Coscarelli signed on as a director, Pepperman became the film's producer and brought in co-producer Sylvio Tabet to the project. The producers went to raise funds for the film at the 1981 MIFED film market in Milan and at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. The budget of $9 million was raised, giving director Coscarelli his highest budget to work with up until that point in his career.

Coscarelli was frustrated while making the film, during which he feuded with the film's executive producer predominantly over the film's editing and casting. Coscarelli originally wanted Demi Moore for the role of Kiri, but the executive producer overrode his choice and had Tanya Roberts cast. The role of Maax was originally written for Klaus Kinski, but he was not cast over a salary dispute. The film was shot over the course of five-and-a-half months. The film was shot in California's Simi Valley and in Los Padres National Forest's Lake Piru in Ventura County, and Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada. Interior shots were done at MGM/UA lot.

The black "panther" was actually played by a tiger, which they dyed black since tigers are easier to handle for filming. During production, the tiger wasn't allowed to be on set at the same time as children or other animals, since it might harm them.

Music
The score was composed and conducted by Lee Holdridge; it was recorded in Rome with members of The Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia of Rome and the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Rome. The soundtrack album was originally issued by Varèse Sarabande, and subsequently by C.A.M. In 2013 Quartet Records released a 1200-copy limited edition featuring the original album (tracks 1–13, disc 1) and most of the film's score (Holdridge wrote eighty minutes of music for the film; a few cues could not be found, but the album includes music that was not heard in the finished product).

Disc 1

 * 1) The Legend of Dar (Main Theme) (1:32)
 * 2) The Horde (The Destruction of Emur) (2:43)
 * 3) A Sword and an Eagle (The Epic Begins) (4:49)
 * 4) Friends of Dar (Suite 1): A) The Princess Kiri B) Kodo, Podo and Reu (3:35)
 * 5) The Pyramid (2:47)
 * 6) Night Journey (Suite 2) A) The Eagle B) The City (3:56)
 * 7) The Battle on the Pyramid (6:42)
 * 8) A Hero's Theme (The Legend of Dar) (2:56)
 * 9) Heroic Friends (4:30)
 * 10) Escape From the Pyramid (2:40)
 * 11) Dar's Solitude (1:28)
 * 12) The Great Battle (Dar's Triumph) (3:37)
 * 13) The New Kingdom (3:22)
 * 14) The Beastmaster (Seq. 1 – Main Titles) (1:48)
 * 15) The Beastmaster (Seq. 2 – Stealing the Child) (3:12)
 * 16) The Beastmaster (Seq. 3 – The Ritual) (1:36)
 * 17) The Beastmaster (Seq. 4 – A New Father) (1:35)
 * 18) The Beastmaster (Seq. 5 – Jun Raid) (4:21)
 * 19) The Beastmaster (Seq. 6 – Sword and Eagle) (4:41)
 * 20) The Beastmaster (Seq. 7 – Ferret Chase/Quicksand) (2:13)
 * 21) The Beastmaster (Seq. 8 – Captive Panther/Fighting Juns) (2:53)
 * 22) The Beastmaster (Seq. 9 – The Bathing Scene) (1:20)
 * 23) The Beastmaster (Seq. 10 – Dar Pursues Kiri) (5:10)

Disc 2

 * 1) The Beastmaster (Seq. 11 – Journey to the City) (1:31)
 * 2) The Beastmaster (Seq. 12 – Sacrifice Thwarted) (4:16)
 * 3) The Beastmaster (Seq. 13 – Death Sentence) (2:16)
 * 4) The Beastmaster (Seq. 14 – Eagle Vision) (2:22)
 * 5) The Beastmaster (Seq. 15 – The Rescue of Kiri) (2:21)
 * 6) The Beastmaster (Seq. 16 – Raft Escape) (4:12)
 * 7) The Beastmaster (Seq. 17 – Into the Pyramid/Corridor Ambush) (1:00)
 * 8) The Beastmaster (Seq. 18 – Stealing the Keys/The Cell) (4:41)
 * 9) The Beastmaster (Seq. 19 – The Escape Begins/The Escape Continues) (2:49)
 * 10) The Beastmaster (Seq. 20 – A Little Late) (1:27)
 * 11) The Beastmaster (Seq. 21 – Outside the Pyramid) (1:34)
 * 12) The Beastmaster (Seq. 22 – Through the Gate/Dar the Outcast) (2:44)
 * 13) The Beastmaster (Seq. 23 – Pyramid Battle, Part I (Alternate) (2:49)
 * 14) The Beastmaster (Seq. 24 – Pyramid Battle, Part II (Alternate) (2:18)
 * 15) The Beastmaster (Seq. 25 – Pyramid Battle, Part III (Alternate) (3:57)
 * 16) The Beastmaster (Seq. 26 – Preparations) (1:48)
 * 17) The Beastmaster (Seq. 27 – The Horde Attacks/The Moat/Dar vs. Jun Leader) (4:48)
 * 18) The Beastmaster (Seq. 28 – The Tide Turns) (1:30)
 * 19) The Beastmaster (Seq. 29 – A New King) (3:24)
 * 20) The Beastmaster (Seq. 30 – Finale) (2:05)
 * 21) The Battle on the Pyramid (Film version) (6:42)

Release
The Beastmaster was originally planned to open December 25, 1982, but that July United Artists acquired domestic distribution rights and rescheduled the film for a summer release. It was rescheduled to August and had a promotional sneak peek of the film at the Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention in Los Angeles. The Beastmaster premièred in theatres on August 19, 1982. It was released in 16 cities in the United States on 165 screens and opened in eight more cities and 66 screens in its second week. The film opened in fifth place on its opening week. After six weeks, it had a total box office revenue of $3,561,475.

It subsequently received significant local TV and cable airplay, notably on HBO, TBS, and TNT. The film was shown so often on HBO that comedian Dennis Miller joked that HBO stood for "Hey, Beastmaster's On". It was also shown so often on TBS that it popularly gained a similar joke that TBS stood for "The Beastmaster Station". In 1993, a programming director for TNT claimed that it was second only to Gone with the Wind as the most popular movie to air on the network and attributed its success to its "mythological appeal—it's more serious than the Conan movies", while a programming director for Cinemax stated that "you can come into any part of it and not feel you've missed much".

The filmmakers arranged for star Tanya Roberts to appear in Playboy to help promote the film, but that issue didn't end up coming out until after the film had already been released.

Reception
The Beastmaster grossed roughly $14 million on its initial theatrical release. Josh Milrad was nominated for a Young Artist Award for "Best Young Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture" for his co-starring role as Tal in the film.

According to Variety, the film opened to mixed reviews. Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave it two stars out of four and wrote that it "isn't bad as much as it is overlong. After one of the film's major bad guys has been bumped off, the film inexplicably goes on for another 20 minutes. In this sort of brainless adventure film, one climax is enough". Vincent Canby of The New York Times thought the film was "neither better nor worse than 'Conan the Barbarian and "looks both big and cheap". Variety wrote: "When The Beastmaster begins, it is very hard to tell what it is all about. An hour later, it is very hard to care what it is all about. Another hour later, it is very hard to remember what it was all about". Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called it "a veritable comic book adventure come alive" that "succeeds on its own merits". Tom Milne of The Monthly Film Bulletin found the film "marginally livelier" than Conan the Barbarian but criticized the "very basic acting, the appalling post-synching, the sets which resort to disconcertingly ramshackle models, and direction of supreme stodginesss which predictably uses helicopter shots to illustrate the eagle's spying missions (when all it sees as a rule is the hero prancing on the hilltops in self-conscious martial arts poses)".

The film holds a score of 50% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 14 reviews, with an average rating of 5.31 out of 10.

Sequels and television series
The Beastmaster received a sequel in 1991, Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time. The film was directed by the original film producer Sylvio Tabet. The made-for-television third film aired in 1996 on Universal Television's Action Pack and is titled Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus. Both sequels feature Marc Singer in the role of Dar. The films were followed by a syndicated television series in 1999. The television series changes the backstory of Dar, who is played by Daniel Goddard.

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User talk:Novel approaches

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Beastmaster

Beastmaster may refer to:

 * The Beast Master, a 1959 novel by Andre Norton
 * The Beastmaster (film), a 1982 film loosely based on the novel
 * Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time
 * Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus
 * Beastmaster (TV series), a 1999 television series based on the 1982 film
 * "Beastmaster", one of several Final Fantasy character classes
 * Beast Master (manga), a manga created by the artist Kyousuke Motomi
 * "Beastmaster", an X-Wild song from the album So What
 * Ultimate Beastmaster, a Netflix reality TV show

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User talk:Dayrave

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Jacksonian

Jacksonian may refer to:

 * Jacksonian democracy, American political philosophy
 * Jacksonian seizure, in neurology

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