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Schizopolis

Schizopolis (also known as Steven Soderbergh's Schizopolis) is a 1996 surrealist experimental comedy film with a non-linear narrative written and directed by Steven Soderbergh.

Plot
Although the film does not have a linear plot, a structure exists, telling the same story from three different perspectives. At the beginning, Soderbergh speaks to the audience in a style meant to evoke Cecil B. DeMille's introduction to The Ten Commandments.

Fletcher Munson is an office employee working under Theodore Azimuth Schwitters, the leader of a self-help company known as Eventualism. The first part of the film is seen from Fletcher's perspective, seeing the underlying meaning in everything. He pays more attention to meaning, rather than what is said. He shows less and less attention to other people, to the point where he comes home and communicates with his wife by describing what they are saying. When Fletcher's co-worker Lester Richards dies, Fletcher takes his job as speechwriter. His personal life suffers because of this. He becomes more detached from his wife, who copes by having an affair.

Meanwhile, Elmo Oxygen, an exterminator, goes from house to house, bedding the housewives who work for Schwitters. In each house he takes pictures of his genitals using cameras he finds. Elmo and the women speak in a nonsensical code. Fletcher's key will not work in his car door. He looks around to find that his actual car (parked two spots away) is an exact match for the one he is trying to get into. He goes to enter his car when he sees a man who is his exact double get into the car he just tried to enter. Fletcher follows his doppelgänger home, closes his eyes, and becomes him.

Next we follow Fletcher's doppelgänger, Dr. Jeffrey Korchek, a dentist. He always wears a jogging suit. He is also a fan of Muzak, and is the mystery man that Fletcher's wife has been sleeping with. Korchek suggests she leave Fletcher for him.

The next day, Korchek has breakfast with his heroin-addicted brother, who asks to stay with Korchek and for money. Korchek says that his brother should not be dealing with drug dealers and that he can get him drugs. Korchek goes to work, where he meets Attractive Woman Number 2, Mrs. Munson's doppelgänger. Korchek falls instantly in love and writes her a letter professing such. He leaves the note and goes home, where he sees a car in the driveway. It is Mrs. Munson, who has left Fletcher. Korchek admits that he has fallen in love with someone else. Mrs. Munson is upset and leaves.

The next day Korchek gets to work and is confronted by a man who says "Your brother, eight hours, fifteen thousand dollars." Almost all of his dialog consists of these three commands. Korchek goes into the office and finds a letter from a law firm representing Attractive Woman Number 2, who is filing a sexual harassment suit against him. He discovers that his brother has stolen all of his money. Korchek leaves work. Korchek is shot dead. A couple following Elmo approach him, to convince him to stop playing his role in the film, in order to become a star in an action show. Unlike the rest of the film, Elmo's storyline moves forward in time.

Finally we see the perspective of Mrs. Munson. We move through the storyline, seeing her experiences with Fletcher and Dr. Korchek and being a mom. The events are the same but Fletcher and Korchek speak foreign languages, similar to the "generic greetings" from earlier. Once Mrs. Munson leaves Korchek, she reconciles with Fletcher and they go home. Fletcher finishes Schwitters' speech. Schwitters mounts the podium and gives the oration. After acknowledging applause with a "Thank you," Elmo bursts in and shoots Schwitters in the shoulder. Schwitters survives and Elmo is arrested and interrogated.

In a shopping mall Fletcher narrates events from the rest of his life. Then, Soderbergh returns in front of a blank movie screen and asks if there are any questions. After offering several responses he walks offstage as the camera pulls back to reveal he's been talking to an empty auditorium. The film has no beginning or end credits. A man clad only in a black T-shirt appears at the beginning and conclusion of the film, being chased by men in white coats through a field. In the beginning, the T-shirt sports the title of the film; later, it says "The End."

Cast

 * Steven Soderbergh as Fletcher Munson / Dr. Jeffrey Korchek
 * Betsy Brantley as Mrs. Munson / Attractive Woman #2
 * David Jensen as Elmo Oxygen
 * Mike Malone as T. Azimuth Schwitters
 * Eddie Jemison as Nameless Numberhead Man
 * Scott Allen as Right-Hand Man
 * Katherine LaNasa as Attractive Woman #1
 * Mary Soderbergh as Document Delivery Woman
 * Trip Hamilton as Dr. Korchek's Brother
 * Ann Hamilton as Schwitters' Wife
 * Rodger Kamenetz as Cardiologist

Production
Schizopolis was shot in Soderbergh's hometown of Baton Rouge, Louisiana over a period of nine months, beginning in March 1995, on a budget of only $250,000. Due to Soderbergh's desire to keep the film simple, many people had multiple duties (i.e. David Jensen played Elmo Oxygen as well as being the casting director and key grip) and many friends and relatives were hired in various capacities.

Betsy Brantley, who plays Mrs. Munson, is Steven Soderbergh's ex-wife in real-life. Soderbergh himself took the lead role, instead of hiring a professional actor, in part because, as he said, "There was just nobody I knew that I could make that demand of - come and work for free for nine months whenever I feel like it in Baton Rouge!"

Interpretations
Several interpretations suggest that the film is exploring certain themes. One such theme is lack of communication: Munson and his wife only engage in templates of speech, such as "Generic greeting!" and "Generic greeting returned!" Another theme is the idea of social restraint versus internal thought: at Lester Richards' funeral, the priest begins the eulogy "Lester Richards is dead, and aren't you glad it wasn't you?" Interpretations differ greatly and the narrative jokes about its own apparent lack of meaning; at one point in the middle of the film a written message appears on a tree trunk stating "IDEA MISSING."

Release
The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival as a film surprise on May 18, 1996, where it was poorly received. This prompted the filmmakers to add the Cecil B. DeMille inspired introduction and conclusion in the theater as a way to signal to the viewers that the film was "ironical and self-serving". Schizopolis was given a limited theatrical release, as it was considered too odd for mainstream audiences. The film found an appreciative small audience and was included in the Criterion Collection, a specialist DVD distributor, which includes two audio commentaries, one of which consists of Soderbergh interviewing himself for the duration of the film.

Critical reception
Reviews of the film were mixed; it received a 63% rating at review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, and a "mixed or average reviews" descriptor at Metacritic. Roger Ebert wrote that Schizopolis was "a truly inexplicable film...which had audiences filing out with sad, thoughtful faces". Leonard Maltin gave the film a more favorable rating of three stars out of four, and wrote in his Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, "A broad-ranging jab at modern society and its ills, its tone arch, its technique one of non sequiturs, and its audience likely to be small. But if you latch onto it early enough, you may find (as we did) that it's fun — and funny — to watch."

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Talk:Republic of Serbian Krajina

Background - 5 yr old tags, unaddressed
The entire "background" section has not a single reference. This was tagged over 5 years ago. Unreferenced information can be removed immediately, let alone giving editors notice to finish the job ... well, five years is long enough. Removed. If you have Reliable Sources (for which this topic has very, very many), then restore it properly referenced.50.111.24.147 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:27, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

requesting Administrator help
We have a section - "Background" - on this article that was tagged FIVE years ago for being completely unreferenced. Unreferenced material can be removed immediately. It was tagged to give interested editors a chance to backtrack and fill in the necessary in-line citations. No such activity was forthcoming. As Jimmy Wales has so often addressed on Talk Pages, unreferenced material may be removed as soon as it is posted. Well, I like to give the editing process some time. But five years has passed, and this is an encyclopedia - this is not how Wiki operates. I've tried to remove the section twice, to be reverted by editors who apparently have no regard for Wiki guidelines. Need Administrator action here. 50.111.24.147 (talk) 17:44, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Uncited material can be removed in some cases. But in this case, we have no obvious reason to doubt its veracity, and what is needed is for someone to find citations. Perhaps instead of trying to delete material, why not try to find a reliable source and improve the article? Wikipedia is a work in progress, and needs folks like you to help build it up, not tear it down. CaptainEek  Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 22:10, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
 * DOESN'T MATTER. ANY unreferenced material must be removed IMMEDIATELY - that's the rules here. Now, that section can be moved to the TP for interested editors to refer to and find sources. But the bottom line is, none of it should have been added this way in the first place.  I've notified Jimbo Wales and asked him to comment.  As it stands, technically, all that is Original Research, and can be voided on that basis alone.50.111.36.101 (talk) 23:55, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * This page in a nutshell: Readers must be able to check that any of the information within Wikipedia articles is not just made up. This means all material must be attributable to reliable, published sources. Additionally, quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be supported by inline citations. - Wiki Policy 50.111.36.101 (talk) 00:06, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Language is Serbo-Croatian
I was instructed on some other wikpedia articles there should not be Croatian for a language in usage, but Serbo-Croatian, so it seems here should not be Serbian, but also Serbo-Croatian. That goes for any other article on Wikipedia concerning topics about Serbia or Serbians, and all will be changed accordingly. Walter9 (talk) 09:57, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

 * This is just your opinion, you don't work in the language committee. Also the croatization of the serbian language is getting more and more know each day and history is being rewritten, because serbia tried to put croatia under itself historically and the made up serbo-croatian is just a part of it VEcev (talk) 18:24, 21 September 2021 (UTC)VEcev
 * Incorrect. Both parties speak Serbo-Croation (see that article and the Wiki policy statement at the top of its Talk Page) - 'Croatian' and 'Serbian' are standardized creations - due to politics - of the same language common to both, on the most prominent diaclect.50.111.25.27 (talk) 17:08, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

Government-in-exile again
Twelve years ago, I brought up the matter here on the talk page, now archived in Talk:Republic_of_Serbian_Krajina/Archive_3, about how the coverage of this "government-in-exile" group was faulty.

Two years ago, another user seems to have picked up on that and removed mention of it, with an edit summary saying it was "unsourced", "the article about it got deleted" and "fringe group whose notability is not proven". These are reasonably obvious appeals to WP:V, WP:REDNOT, WP:FRINGE, WP:GROUP.

Now, this is being reverted, and we've seen these edit summaries:

said "linked to from international recognition of abkhazia/south ossetia" - this is a procedural revert, that I addressed by removing that link because it actually made no sense where it was

said "WP:NODEADLINE also applies to WP:BRD, and the original reason for removal was not policy based" - this is also a procedural revert, that then makes a claim about policy that does not seem to be grounded in fact, as the 2020 edit by Koreanovsky was hardly very bold (with a cleanup tag sitting there since 2013), and it reasonably clearly appealed to the policies and guidelines as described above.

Can someone help me understand how these reverts have meaning, one that isn't wikilawyering? Why doesn't someone cite an actual source that provides coverage about the said government-in-exile that instead addresses the fairly obvious issues? --Joy [shallot] (talk) 11:10, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

 * Hi @Joy!
 * Nisam te u potpunosti razumio, ako nije problem molim te da mi ukratko objasniš (na hrvatskome) što se točno dešava, hvala lijepa!
 * I honestly do not really remember making that edit, but as I see, I have stated why I removed that. Long story short: It literally seems like there never ever was a government in exile of the so-called Republic of Serbian Krajina and you cannot find any WP:RELY information about it. The quasi-government in exile of the so-called Serbian Krajina was "founded" 10 years after this proto-state fell by some random people in Serbia and the same year, in 2005, Serbian media (but also serious media like DW) wrote something about it's "establishing", the reactions and that's it! After the media went quiet about it you couldn't find any information or "official" news about it, because it seemed literally to be more a symbolic thing. There might be a few newer (= after 2005) news articles about it, but that's literally it. Not less and not more.
 * My point with that is, just because Serbian media had some sort of articles about it or because some people from that group had interviews, it really does not mean that it is a serious thing that existed for real. Literally anyone could create a such "government in exile". Imagine if someone of us creates e.g. a website and claims to be the "government of exile" of a historic proto-state (or actual nation), this would definitely not automatically make it a legitimate/recognised/serious government in exile.
 * Best regards, Koreanovsky (talk) 17:40, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

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RFA Wave Sovereign

RFA Wave Sovereign (A211) was a Wave-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and was built at Haverton Hill by the Furness Shipbuilding Company.

On 8 December 1948, Wave Sovereign was in collision with the destroyer HMS Corunna while refuelling Corunna. She was extensively modified in the early 1960s.

She was decommissioned in 1966 and laid up at Singapore. Wave Sovereign was scrapped there in May 1967.

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RFA Wave King

RFA Wave King (A182) was a Wave-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary built at Govan by Harland & Wolff Ltd. In 1945, she served in the Far East with the British Pacific Fleet, designated Task Force 57 upon joining the United States fleet. On 6 May 1945 Wave King and Wave Monarch were with the Logistic Support Group 300 miles south-east of Miyako to refuel Task Force 57 which was launching air strikes against island targets in the Okinawa campaign.

Wave King struck a rock north of São Luís de Maranhão, Brazil, on 9 August 1956 and suffered severe damage. She arrived at Barrow-in-Furness on 16 April 1960 for scrapping.

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RFA Wave Chief

RFA Wave Chief was a Wave-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary that was built in 1946 as SS Empire Edgehil by Harland & Wolff, Govan, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

She saw service during the Korean War, earning a battle star. Wave Chief also served in the First Cod War and Second Cod War against Iceland. She was extensively modified in the early 1960s and escorted Sir Alec Rose around Cape Horn, South America in April 1968. She was decommissioned and laid up at Rosyth, Fife, in August 1974, and arrived at Inverkeithing, Fife, for scrapping on 13 November 1974.

Description
The ship was built by Harland & Wolff, Govan, Glasgow. She was yard number 1306.

The ship was 492 ft long, with a beam of 64 ft. She had a draught of 28 ft. She was assessed at.

The ship was propelled by two steam turbines, double reduction geared, driving a single screw propeller. The turbines were made by Metrovick, Manchester, Lancashire. They could propel her at 14.5 kn.

History
Empire Edgehill was launched on 4 April 1946. On 27 July 1946, she was transferred to the Admiralty and three days later she was completed as Wave Chief, allocated the United Kingdom Official Number 180935 and the pennant number X119.

Wave Chief was initially chartered out before she was taken over by the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She was operating in the Mediterranean in 1947, when one of her firemen was discharged dead at Suez, Egypt. In 1949, she loaded a cargo at Abadan, Iran and delivered it to Sydney, Australia. On 25 June 1950, Wave Chief joined the United States Seventh Fleet for naval operations. On 18 November 1951, Wave Chief was refuelling HMAS Sydney (R17) off the coast of Korea when there was an accident which resulted in a large spill of fuel and damage to her rig.

On 27 July 1953, Wave Chief was awarded a battle honour for her service during the Korean War. During December 1956 and January 1957, Wave Chief accompanied HMY Britannia during the Duke of Edinburgh's tour of the southern oceans. From 1957, she took part in Operation Grapple X, the British hydrogen bomb tests at Christmas Island. On 13 November 1957, she ran aground at Batu Puteh, Singapore, holing all but four of her eighteen tanks.

From November 1958, Wave Chief was deployed supporting Royal Navy ships in operations off Iceland in the First Cod War. These deployments continued until February 1961. In 1961, Wave Chief came to the assistance of the Haisboro Light Vessel which was sinking off the Norfolk coast after being in collision with another ship. From September to December 1965, Wave Chief accompanied HMS London (D16), HMS Lynx (F27), HMS Odin (S10) HMS Penelope (F127) and HMS Tiger (C20) on a goodwill tour of South America. The squadron, under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir Fitzroy Talbot, visited ports in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.

On 12 December 1967, Wave Chief was severely damaged in a storm in the Mediterranean. Repairs were carried out at Gibraltar. On 25 April 1968, Wave Chief departed from Punta Arenas, Chile to rendezvous with the yacht Lively Lady, which was being sailed single-handedly around the world by Alec Rose. She escorted Lively Lady around Cape Horn, South America on 1 April. From 15–17 March 1973, Wave Chief assisted Icelandic Coast Guard, Royal Air Force and Royal Navy units in the unsuccessful search for survivors from the trawler Sjoestjaman.

From May to August 1973, Wave Chief operated in support of Royal Navy units involved in the Second Cod War. She was decommissioned in August 1974 and laid up at Rosyth, Dunbartonshire. In September she was listed for disposal. Wave Chief was purchased for £208,825 to Thos. W. Ward. She arrived at Inverkeithing, Fife on 13 November 1974 for scrapping, which took place in 1975.

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Dagwood sandwich

A Dagwood sandwich is a tall, multilayered sandwich made with a variety of meats, cheeses, and condiments. It is named after Dagwood Bumstead, a central character in the comic strip Blondie, who is frequently illustrated making enormous sandwiches. According to Blondie scripter Dean Young, his father, Chic Young, began drawing the huge sandwiches in the comic strip in 1936.

Ingredients
Though the exact contents of Chic Young's illustrated Dagwood sandwich remain obscure, it appears to contain large quantities and varieties of cold cuts, sliced cheese, and vegetables separated by additional slices of bread. A whole small fish, presumably a sardine, is usually visible. An olive pierced by a toothpick or wooden skewer usually crowns the edible structure. "Dagwood sandwich" has been included in Webster's New World Dictionary, and "Dagwood" (referring to the sandwich) has been included in the American Heritage Dictionary.

Products and restaurants

 * In 1951, businessmen Bob Weiler and Art Lang opened a Dagwood-themed restaurant in Toledo, Ohio, with hopes of establishing a national chain. They had not licensed the Dagwood name and were ordered to stop using it by King Features.
 * A Dagwood Diner (spelled "Dag-Wood") operated in Ann Arbor, Michigan, until 1971.
 * Assorted lunch meats featuring Dagwood have been sold at grocery stores. In May 1999, a counter-service restaurant named Blondie's opened at Universal Orlando's Islands of Adventure, serving a traditional Dagwood-style sandwich. Blondie's bills itself as "Home of the Dagwood Sandwich." The exterior displays a 20-foot plastic Dagwood sandwich over the entrance.
 * Denny's in the early 2000s offered their breakfast Dagwood; it contained over a thousand calories. It was later removed from their menu.
 * Dagwood's Sandwich Shoppes, a Blondie-themed restaurant chain founded in 2006, had franchise locations open in Florida, Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri, and Georgia that have all closed as of 2011. The chain struggled financially and never reached the growth anticipated by its founders. Two lawsuits were filed alleging mismanagement, fraud, embezzlement, and deliberate deception of the chain's financial state as it collapsed. The Dagwood was sold as a 1.5 lb sandwich. The Dagwood sandwich served in the Dagwood Sandwich Shoppes included the following ingredients: three slices of deli bread, Genoa salami, ham, pepperoni, turkey, cheddar cheese, provolone, lettuce, tomato, roasted red bell peppers, banana peppers, red onion, deli mustard, and low calorie mayonnaise.
 * Cincinnati-based chain Penn Station East Coast Subs refers to its "create-it-yourself" submarine sandwich as a Dagwood. A customer may include up to five meats, and any combination of available condiments and vegetables.
 * Dagwoods are also a popular sandwich in South African takeaway (fast-food) restaurants and roadhouses, both in small street-side stands and larger chains. A South African Dagwood is usually made with three slices of toasted bread with a hamburger patty (or two), along with lettuce, tomato, and a fried egg. Other common accoutrements may be added and the beef patty may be replaced by savory mince reminiscent of an American sloppy joe, but it seems to be the fried egg and double-decker nature of the sandwich that characterizes a South African Dagwood.
 * In 2008, Man v. Food host Adam Richman visited Columbus, Ohio, and partook in the Ohio Deli and Restaurant's Dagwood Challenge. The challenge was to eat a 2-1⁄2-pound Dagwood sandwich, plus a full pound of French fries, within 30 minutes. Richman successfully ate the sandwich and fries in 20 of the 30 minutes and was awarded a commemorative T-shirt.
 * Dagwood's Deli and Sub Shop opened in Indiana in 1985, now serving several locations. On the menu is a "Dagwood Supreme", which includes roast beef, ham, turkey, provolone and Colby cheeses, lettuce, tomato, and onions and a "Dagwood" sauce.
 * Dagwoods Sandwichs et Salades is a fast-food chain operating in Canada. It was founded in 1989 in Montreal but subsequently expanded throughout Quebec and into Eastern Ontario.
 * Canadian supermarket chain Sobeys sells an in-store made Dagwood sandwich, but this does not look like the multi-layered sandwiches from the comic and instead resembles a thick Submarine sandwich.

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RFA Wave Duke

RFA Wave Duke (A246) was a Wave-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary built at Sir J. Laing & Sons Ltd at Sunderland. She saw service during the Korean War. She was laid up at Devonport on 30 April 1960, and arrived at Bilbao to be scrapped on 25 December 1969.

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Talk:Lady Godiva

Another Literature Note
Edward Rutherfurd also wrote about her in one of his books. The problem is that I can't remember which one. I'd have to check. I'm fairly certain that it's Sarum, but just not 100%. In any case, her story is told and it uses her original name. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 19:05, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

More Info Needed
The article states: "Her mark, 'di Ego Godiva Comitissa diu istud desideravi', appears on a charter purportedly given by Thorold of Bucknall to the Benedictine monastery of Spalding. However, this charter is considered spurious by many historians.[8]"

It is apparent that mark = charter, but what is this, and what is the purpose and cultural significance.

Also, what does the latin actually translate to?

Pvtbuddie (talk) 06:20, 20 April 2008 (UTC)pvtbuddie

Patroness of Engineers
Lady Godiva is also the patron saint of engineers - does anyone know more about where this comes from and care to add it to the article? -lommer 23:58, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Actually shouldent this be moved to Lady Godiva? G-Man 00:14, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

She is not the patron saint of engineers. She is not a saint. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.208.114.13 (talk) 08:40, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

 * She should be a saint.--Jack Upland (talk) 23:40, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

 * Perhaps she escaped the notice of the Popes even in the early mediaeval period. No miracles were ascribed to her, the usual basis for canonisation.Cloptonson (talk) 18:12, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Domesday Book women
Godiva wasn't the only female landowner mentioned in the Domesday Book. There are two Anglo Saxon woman mentioned together in Wiltshire. Leofgyth, who was the widow of a citizen of London and later married Otto the goldsmith held Knook and another widow,Aelfhild, held Hartham.I'm sure there are others.

 * Queen Edith, Einarr's stepmother, Countess Judith, Queen (Matilda?), Siward the Priest's wife, Wulfgeat's wife, Wulfgeat's wife's mother and Wulffaed - Wulfgeat's mother, for example. This is without looking for feminine names such as Gytha and Leodflæd, or leaving Lincolnshire. (RJP 10:10, 26 July 2005 (UTC))

Is there actually more than one Godiva being discussed in this article? Surely the same Godiva who is alive in 1085 is not the same as the naked horse-riding Lady Godiva...I mean, "Godgifu" is probably not a rare name. Maybe I'm just confused by all the birth- and death-dates that currently appear in various places. Adam Bishop 05:29, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I too, have trouble with the dates. Chambers Biographical Dictionary gives her date of death as 1080. Hereward, who was not her youngest son, was born about 1035, which would make her about 55 at the time, if she was born in c.980. (RJP 10:10, 26 July 2005 (UTC))

 * Godiva did not die in 1080, nor in 1067. Her death date is not recorded.  As far as Domesday, I have rephrased the article.  Godiva is mentioned, *not living* in Domesday as someone who *had* held property here and there (without dates).  At the time of Domesday, that property was in the hands of other people, so we do not quite know when she gave it up or when they took it, so we cannot say when she died.  And she wasn't alive.  I believe the original editor meant something closer to "she held the land *through* the Conquest" in order words it wasn't seized in 1066.  That implies only that she lived then, not that she lived at Domesday, which she clearly didn't. Wjhonson 23:44, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Higham and Ryan say that the Domesday Book lists her as a landowner in 1086. FangoFuficius (talk) 10:42, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Godiva did not have a son called Hereward, (I'm guessing you are referring to Hereward the Wake), she had a son Ælfgar and a daughter, (I have never been able to find conclusive evidence for her name). (Saliaria 21:35, 10 August 2006 (UTC))

Could anyone tell me the source for a daughter? Thanks.Liam guilar 23:29, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Historical Importance
Where is the historical importance of Lady Godiva? This should be a necessary part of the article. 12/21/05

Apart from her role as benefactress, wouldn't that be two fold? 1) In the family politics of Eleventh century England, although lacking the flamboyant dysfunction of the Godwines, her family played a crucial part in the events leading up to 1066. Her Grandaughter is the last Queen of Anglo-Saxon England, though Harold is thought to have married her to keep her brothers on his side and their inactivity (Godiva's Grandsons) after Hastings probably contributed significantly to the Norman take over. 2) The earliest latin version of the story of her ride could be used as evidence for how quickly Anglo-Saxon assumptions about the legal and financial rights of women had not only disapeared from the writer's culture, but were unknown to him. (The story of the ride makes no sense in the light of what is known about Godgifu's historical legal situation.)Liam guilar 23:44, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Somebody edited this stating that in 1043 Leofric founded and endowed a monastery and how Roger of Wendover credits Godiva as a force behind it ..How is this possible if she was born in 1040? She would have had to be 3 years old then ...Somebody needs to correct this.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.125.195.25 (talk) 04:18, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Patroness of Engineers?
What? Is this something particularly Eurpean or something? RJFJR 14:50, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Many Canadian engineering faculties use the Lady Godiva song (U of A and Waterloo for example).

Music Section
I notice a number of recent edits to to the music section of this article. Many of these are unclear, unspecific or sentence fragments. I also wonder how noteworthy a number of them are. An article probably shouldn't consist of a catalog of every time a mythological figure is mentioned.

Since a number of the citations appear to be very minor mentions of Godiva within a song, I would like to propose a removal of all songs other than ones which make major use of the Lady Godiva imagery. At this time this Appears only to be the Velvet Underground and the Peter and Gordon songs. (If any of the other songs are more significant, someone would have to elaborate to make their significance clear).

Thoughts? ~CS 22:27, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

A week and a half later and there have been no objections -- I'm going to be bold and go ahead and remove them. ~CS 01:50, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Looks like they're starting to creep back in :-/ --Co149 17:18, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * It's pretty difficult to discourage people from adding bits of trivia like this. I think that a bulleted list is an acceptable format; if it's unacceptably long it can be put into two columns or even broken out into a "List of musical references to ..." article. Think more in terms of channeling water, than damming it. ;-) --Dhartung | Talk 22:40, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * No, no, the real solution is to stop making songs about Lady Godiva :-) Seriously, I'm with you on the rechanneling idea.  Maybe we can let it go for six more months or so to see how it develops, and just try to keep the punctuation in line.  Godiva's pretty popular, maybe we'll get enough material to branch out by then.  There's more than just music, too, and not yet any mention of a famous Dr. Seuss book.  --Co149 03:09, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
 * ...Except under "See also", where it might not belong. --Dhartung | Talk 04:00, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I put it there because I recalled it was more of an original story than a retelling of the (one) Lady Godiva tale. I could be wrong.  Powers 11:18, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Think it's time for another cull here? not only is the music section bloated again, but the other misceleny are filled with non-notible one-line references to the character. This article shouldn't be a depository for every reference ever made to Lady Godiva. ~CS 17:57, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

"Godiva ride"
What specifically does the École Polytechnique massacre have to do with the decline of "Godiva rides"? If I understand correctly, the perpetrator simply went into a building and started shooting. There is no indication (at least in the École Polytechnique massacre article) that this was during such a ride, that the EP ever held such rides, or that the resulting rise in Canadian feminism led to any specific action against such rides, either at the EP or elsewhere. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 151.204.105.10 (talk • contribs).

Essentially, the Godiva Ride is seen as anti-feminist, which in the wake of an anti-feminist killing spree, does not go over well. Engineering societies themselves therefore backed down on the tradition to avoid some bad publicity.  I don't know much about this personally as I hadn't heard of a Godiva ride before coming to this page (despite studying engineering), but maybe that just goes to show how much it's declined? 65.95.10.216 (talk) 01:13, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Giddyap!
I actually thought of putting this picture in there, as an example of a "Godiva ride", but it appears someone else beat me to the point with a painting of Godiva herself. — Rickyrab | Talk 00:49, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Where's Peeping Tom? Colin4C (talk) 20:48, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Holding the camera? :P —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.197.27.152 (talk) 11:12, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Lady Godiva's Horse
Does anyone know the name of Lady Godiva's horse? This question appears in a crossword puzzle and we have not found the answer. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.251.36.2 (talk) 21:38, 25 January 2007 (UTC).

 * Aethenoth ClemMcGann 09:15, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Death
What is the source for the exact death date in this article? I'm tagging it, because I believe it's legendary or perhaps unsourced entirely. Wjhonson 17:58, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Since no one has entered a source, I have reverted her life-dates back to what the DNB shows which is "fl 1040-1080". These aren't dates of birth and death, only a range in which she lived.  Doesn't imply exactly when she was born or died. Wjhonson 23:46, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Exposure, I presume? --78.159.146.26 (talk) 06:08, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

According to www.FamilySearch.org Lady Godiva was born about 980 and died Sep 10, 1067 you need to search for last name Mercia first name Godiva. She had children born in 1002 and 1004. Godiva Countess Of MERCIA B: Abt 0980 Of, Mercia,, England D: 10 Sep 1067 M:  1030 This death date also matches the story of her living in 1066. Legend is that the ride took place in the second half of the 11th century which would have made her a senior citizen at the time of her ride. Peeping Tom must have been very perverse to want to see the old lady make her ride. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lookinhere (talk • contribs) 10:52, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 * That sounds reasonable, but what are their sources? MagnoliaSouth (talk) 19:10, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

 * Since the only sources presented for her exact death, are a personal website by an amateur writer, and two books on folklore, I have again reverted her birth and death date information to what the DNB is showing.Wjhonson (talk) 02:25, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Anyone wishing to again state that she died exactly in 1067, or even with an exact date, should review again, what we do and don't know at this link where *all* the primary statements about her have been collected.Wjhonson (talk) 23:14, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Rise of the Legend
When did the legend arise with her in it? The article now states that the famous ride was not documented in her time. So when DID it arise? My WAG would be about the time of Mallory and other such revival/revisionists. But that is blatant speculation. --Wolfram.Tungsten (talk) 19:19, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

good sources
I have added the Oxford DNB, which is the bbest general source and some books. I have removed some non authoritative blogs and web sites. DGG (talk) 15:07, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Legends sharing related themes
I advise adding such a section. I haven't done any exploration but I know by chance an example of a legend from the Balkans sharing some similar themes. The legend is about a peasant’s daughter who is very intelligent and beautiful and helps him pass a set of hard trials imposed to him by the landlord. In the last trial the landlord finds out that it his daughter who helped the peasant and asks from him as a last trial to send her to his palace while she will have to arrive nor riding neither walking and nor clothed neither naked. She arrives the next day, parading trough the town riding a goat and wearing only a fisherman’s net as clothes. Finally the landlord marries her. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.68.139.108 (talk) 09:40, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

OE Translation of "Godgifu"
This is just a very minor detail, but as noted in your second citation "The Historical Godiva" by Octavia Randolph and in Sweet's Anglo-Sixon Primer (Ninth Edition), the word "god" in OE can mean either "god" or "good." "Godgifu" can mean either "god's gift" or "good gift." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.215.181.113 (talk) 04:31, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Degree of nakedness
I thought it was a very interesting point that — if there's an historical basis to the legend — Godiva might have ridden in her shift as a penitent. That seems so plausible. The article goes on to say that, however, "naked" never means anything but stark naked. I wonder, though, how many of the sources are in Latin; the gullible and anecdotal Roger produced his work in Latin. In Latin "naked" is nudus (or in Godiva's case, nuda), which can mean "stripped" or "stripped down" as well as, well, buck-nekkid. Nudus in reference to a warrior can mean fighting without armor, and not necessarily balls-to-the-breezes. Nudus can also mean "unadorned," left plain, which may have contributed to the notion that she rode without jewelry, though that seems a little pointless, undramatic and lame. You'd have to compare Latin usage in various sources for the time period in which the Godiva sources were written, and that would require dauntingly specialized knowledge. It would be interesting, though, for someone with access to check the OED on the historical usage of "naked," to see whether it's true that during the time of the earliest English sources "naked" can only mean completely in the buff. Cynwolfe (talk) 03:29, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Wearing a shift wouldn't be memorable. But since you ask, the OED says: Having no clothing on the body, stripped to the skin; unclothed, nude. Formerly also: †wearing only an undergarment (obsolete). So there you go.--Jack Upland (talk) 05:26, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks - you realize you are adding to a 15-yo thread? One rather wonders how the Victorian lexicographers could get that sort of detail from very old mentions! Johnbod (talk) 17:15, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I think if a thread is here there's nothing wrong with replying to it. OED isn't Victorian. It was published in 1989.--Jack Upland (talk) 03:56, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
 * You think? Read OED - most of it is unchanged since the original edition. "N" was in fact published in 1908, but the research had been going on since the 1860s. Johnbod (talk) 04:24, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
 * The entry that I copied from was actually the online version. It is updated from the 1989 version. I don't know what the original version was like, but the entry has obviously revised, for what it's worth.--Jack Upland (talk) 02:39, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Why "obviously"? Usually when they say some meaning is "obselete", they mean it stopped being used in 1700 or so. Now you've made me look it up, & in 1908 it was: "Unclothed, having no clothing on the body, stripped to the skin, nude. Also occas †having only an under-garment on." Johnbod (talk) 03:12, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Well, it doesn't matter anyway. There is no source as far as I know that says Godiva was wearing a shift.--Jack Upland (talk) 03:31, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Coventry City Council
Is it worth mentioning their logo? It's a silhouette of the faces of a female and a horse, appearing not only on official documents and their website but also all the 'gateway' road signs - presumably intended to be representative of Lady Godiva... Mittfh (talk) 11:34, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Trivia inaccuracy, sort of
In the firstly mentioned Frasier episode, the lady was actually wearing an Eve costume, and Frasier started a conversation with her, asking if she was Lady Godiva. Since both costumes would not include clothes in the traditional sense, the factoid may actually be correct (:

The name "Peeping Tom" for a voyeur originates from later versions of this legend[?]
"The name "Peeping Tom" for a voyeur originates from later versions of this legend in which a man named Tom had watched her ride and was struck blind or dead."

This strikes me as unlikely. "Tom" is one of several names used in English to denote everyman, any man, and often a common, lower-class, or working man. Compare "every/any Tom, Dick, and/or Harry", "every man Jack" and so on. In this case, I think we can safely conjecture that the legend was backformed from a stock phrase describing a voyeur. That the name Tom became attached to this activity might have been influenced by the sexual connotations from the use of tom to denote a male cat. (Compare our current use of "tomcatting" to describe the behavior of men on the sexual prowl.) The addition to the legend seems likelier to have arisen from the phrase than the other way around.

Someone who can address this question with more authority might want to qualify the present assertion.

Michael (talk) 21:09, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

 * For many years I have understood Peeping Tom to have been (a) a nameless male as you say and (b) a punishment by the Church. The article says he was struck blind as if it were fact not myth yet does not say how. My understanding is that the ride goes much much further back into legend and myth and like the myths of Arthur and Merlin the most recent accounts are just that - the most recent. The ride was that of the May Queen on Mayday and could have happened in many places but in Coventry the church took a dim view and forbade anyone to look. "Tom" was caught and blinded as an example, or else it never happened and was just a threat. I am very skeptical about this being anything to do with local taxes as the article claims and I can't find any evidence this was so.

Robotics1 (talk) 13:00, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Moved trivia to here for now
Not sure how much of this, if any, is appropriate for an encyclopedia article. --Malleus Fatuorum 03:30, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Trivia, including references to the subject of an article in popular culture (i.e. television and music) are often included in the article on Wikipedia. As you can see at Trivia_sections, it is not necessary to completely remove the trivia section from the article. I've added the trivia section back - it's an interesting part of the article. While that may not be relevant, I don't see any good reason for it to be moved to the talk page. --AF1990 (talk) 16:53, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

 * I, however, disagree. I feel it's better on the talk page. It totally overwhelms the actual facts about Godiva and little of it contributes to any understanding of Godiva. If you want, you could always create a Lady Godiva in Popular Culture article, as there are so many mentions. Ealdgyth - Talk 16:57, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Good suggestion, I'll create the article and place the trivia there, with a link on the article, similar to Hercules. --AF1990 (talk) 17:04, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Oh well, the Lady Godiva in popular culture page was mysteriously deleted but it seemed like a perfectly good article. I was just trying to help improve wikipedia but I'll just go off and do something else now :) --AF1990 (talk) 17:18, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Disregard that, apparently I was on a different page, different capitalization = different page? --AF1990 (talk) 17:23, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Music
Several popular songs make contemporary usage of the Lady Godiva image. These include:
 * Eartha Kitt's "Champagne Taste" from her 1961 live album, In Person At The Plaza, includes the lyrics "And it wouldn't surprise me if a lady like Godiva had someone like you to give her the stole/For with her champagne taste and your beer bottle pocket/when she couldn't get those dresses she just let down all her tresses and forgot she was a lady after all."
 * The Velvet Underground's "Lady Godiva's Operation" on their 1968 LP, White Light/White Heat, referring to a transwoman who dies at the hands of her surgeons during a sexual reassignment-turned-lobotomy.
 * Peter and Gordon's "Lady Godiva" (UK: single Columbia DB 8003 P.1966, best place in British Charts: # 16, 22.09.1966 ;US: LP "Lady Godiva" (S) T 2664 Capitol Records-EMI P. 1967; FRANCE: EP "Lady Godiva" Columbia ESRF 1824 P. 1967) sing this about a woman who becomes involved in a burlesque show. Like Coventry's Lady Godiva, the Lady Godiva of the song has long flowing hair that covers her body. However, the song has her hair cut, as she "doesn't need it long any more."
 * Grant Lee Buffalo's song "Lady Godiva and Me" from their 1994 album, Mighty Joe Moon, includes references to Peeping Tom.
 * Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show recorded the song "Hey, Lady Godiva."
 * Mother Love Bone recorded a song, "Lady Godiva Blues," on their 1992 self-titled album and on the reissue of Apple.
 * Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" sees Freddie Mercury "passing by like Lady Godiva."
 * Simply Red recorded "Lady Godiva’s Room" on their 1992 EP Montreux
 * Aerosmith's song "My Girl" from their album, Pump, contains the line, "My girl's a Lady Godiva."
 * In Peter Gabriel's song "Modern Love" from his self-titled 1977 album, he states "For Lady Godiva I came incognito."
 * Boney M's song "Lady Godiva" was released in 1993 on the album Boney M. More Gold.
 * Groucho Marx's song "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" mentions one of the tattoos being "there's Godiva but with her pyjamas on"
 * Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass had a 1967 hit, "Lady Godiva."
 * Toots & the Maytals recorded the song "Peeping Tom" in 1970 on the album Monkey Man
 * Mother Love Bone has a song called "Lady Godiva Blues" as a bonus track on their 1990 studio album Apple
 * King Khan & The Shrines' song 'The Ballad of Lady Godiva' is the last track on their 2007 album 'What Is?!'

Classical music and opera
The plot of Mascagni's opera Isabeau is based on the story of Lady Godiva.

Vitezslav Novak composed an overture for a play based on the story of Lady Godiva in Prague in 1907.

Literature

 * "Godiva" (1842), a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
 * Hereward the Wake (1866), a novel by Charles Kingsley, features Lady Godiva as a character.
 * "Women in Love" (1916), a novel by [DH Lawrence] features a sculpture entitled Lady Godiva; a character refers the name to "the middle-aged wife of some Earl or other, who covered herself with her long hair," and is mocked.
 * Guli ("The Heart"), a poem by Galaktion Tabidze, includes a mention of Lady Godiva.
 * "Boston" (1928) a novel by Upton Sinclair, references Lady Godiva on page 652.
 * The Seven Lady Godivas: The True Facts Concerning History's Barest Family (1939), a short illustrated novel by Dr. Seuss.
 * Kaputt (1944), a novel by Curzio Malaparte, includes a mention of Lady Godiva.
 * "Ariel" (1965), a poem by Sylvia Plath includes a mention of Lady Godiva.
 * "Nicotine," a poem by Ezra Pound mentions Lady Godiva.
 * King Hereafter (1982), a novel by Dorothy Dunnett features Lady Godiva as a character.
 * Inshalla (1992), a novel by Oriana Fallaci has a small subplot centered on the purchase of a sex doll called Lady Godiva.
 * "Godiva: The Viking Sagas" (2004), a novel by David Rose.
 * "Godiva" (2008), a historical novel by Nerys Jones, who died while the book was in press, relates the tumultuous events of 1042 culminating in the events of the legend and features Lady Godiva as the heroine.
 * "Naked" (2008), a short story by Louise Hawes, part of her book of retold fairytales; "Black Pearls, A Faerie Strand."

Television

 * Dorothy Reynolds portrayed Lady Godiva in the BBC TV series Hereward the Wake (1965).
 * In the Charmed episode "The Bare Witch Project," a student in Magic School accidentally conjures Lady Godiva and Lord Dyson out of a history book. Later, Phoebe, inspired by Lady Godiva, decides to ride naked through a crowded street in support of women's liberation.
 * In an episode "The Godiva Affair" of the British sitcom Dad's Army, women in the town of Walmington-on-Sea compete for the part of Lady Godiva to head a carnival procession in the town, ultimately performed by Elizabeth, the wife of Captain Mainwaring, causing him to collapse in astonishment and shame.
 * The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling featured a character named Godiva who rode to the ring on a horse and wore a sheer bodysuit.
 * The Histeria! episode "Tribute to Tyrants" featured a sketch about the legend of Lady Godiva, portrayed by the World's Oldest Woman.
 * In one Frasier episode, a costume party is held with the theme of characters from literature. Frasier (played by Kelsey Grammer), dressed as the Bishop of Bath from The Canterbury Tales, sees a woman in a flesh-colored bodystocking (played by Grammer's real-life wife, Camille Donatacci), and guesses that she's Lady Godiva.  She says she's Eve from the Bible, leading Fraiser to say, "Now I know why it's called the Good Book!"
 * In another Frasier episode, the character of Maris was involved in an unfortunate chemical bonding incident while performing a Lady Godiva impression on a horse saddle her husband Niles Crane had bought her.
 * In the 'Twelve Hungry Men' episode of Hancock's Half Hour, a spoof of Twelve Angry Men, Hancock demonstrates his mangled view of the Godiva legend by comparing it to the case in hand: "Take the case of Doubting Thomas who was sent to Coventry for staring through a keyhole at Lady Godiva. Can anybody prove he was looking at her? Can anybody prove it was he who shouted 'Get your hair cut!'?"
 * In the Blackadder Goes Forth episode "Private Plane," Captain Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) describes the Royal Flying Corps as "the biggest show-offs since Lady Godiva entered the royal enclosure at Ascot claiming she had literally nothing to wear."
 * In the Round the Twist episode "Linda Godiva," Linda helps Pete win a cross-country horse race by being invisible, she is later turned visible and is seen riding the horse naked.
 * In the first episode of The Vicar of Dibley, several characters reminisce about when Letitia Cropley rode through Dibley stark naked in a Lady Godiva reenactment.
 * In the Seinfeld episode "The Apology," Jerry's girlfriend regularly walks around in his apartment naked, and at one point he refers to her as "Lady Godiva."
 * The title of Canadian comedy-drama series Godiva's is an allusion to Lady Godiva.
 * In an episode of Time Squad Larry showed Otto videos of previous missions and in one of these missions Lady Godiva was riding her horse naked while Tuddrussel ran after her, trying to persuade her to wear some clothes.
 * In an episode of Spin City, the mayor's rebellious daughter rides naked though Central Park,New York City in protest.
 * In the 1970s TV series Maude, the opening song, sung by Donny Hathaway, includes the lyrics, "...Lady Godiva was a freedom rider, she didn't care if the whole world looked."
 * In the episode "Dead Uncles and Vegetables" from the second season of Gilmore Girls, the grocer Taylor Doose refers to the rejected troubador running the farmer's market as Lady Godiva because of his long hair.
 * In the 3-hour pilot episode "Oil" from the first season of Dynasty, Blake Carrington complains that his headstrong and flirtatious daughter Fallon "thinks she's some kind of Lady Godiva."
 * In the Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman episode "The Race" Hank, the saloon keeper, suggests that if Dr. Quinn rides like Lady Godiva in the race "folks might go for it". In other words, she would be allowed to compete in the males only horse race.

Film

 * Lady Godiva (1911) the first film telling of the story starring Julia Swayne Gordon and produced by the Vitagraph company.
 * Lady Godiva (1928), a British silent short with Gladys Jennings in the title role.
 * The Ghost Talks (1949), a short film featuring the Three Stooges in a slapstick send-up of the Lady Godiva legend. The film changes key elements of the legend, eliminating Tom's blindness as his penalty and inventing a relationship between the tailor and the Lady. After an encounter between the Stooges and a haunted, empty suit of armour occupied by the spirit of Peeping Tom, the Stooges act out the ghost's narrative of the events of the famous day in costumes based on the clothing of a period many years later than the life of the historic Godiva.
 * Lady Godiva of Coventry (1955) starring Irish actress Maureen O'Hara in the title role.

Sports

 * Lady Godiva is the name of a women's Ultimate team from Boston, Massachusetts.

Video games

 * The title "Lady Godiva" can be obtained in the game Warhammer Online when a player summons their mount in a capital city while not wearing any armor.

 * In FIFA: Road to World Cup 98, commentator Andy Gray refers to a goalkeeper who is left exposed by his defenders: "Lady Godiva had more cover than he's had!"

Charmed TV show episode...
This is a trivial mention of Godiva, if we listed every time something mentioned Godiva, it'd overwhelm the article with mentions. See WP:TRIVA and WP:POPCULTURE Ealdgyth - Talk 16:51, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

What "mention"? She was a featured character in the episode. Dimadick (talk) 08:38, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

 * And what information does that add to our understanding of Lady Godiva? None. That's why it's not appropriate for this article, which is about Lady Godiva, not an episode of some TV serial. --Malleus Fatuorum 14:16, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

I am not suggesting we add an extensive summary of the episode. Just mention it among "depictions in fiction" Dimadick (talk) 07:35, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

 * What do her depictions in fiction tell us about Lady Godiva? The correct place for this material is the Lady Godiva in popular culture article. --Malleus Fatuorum 15:20, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

What did "Naked" mean?
I visited Coventry today (October 1 2011) and saw information there on Lady Godiva said something about what "Naked" really meant. It said that it probably did not mean that she had literally no clothes on. Perhaps the disputes about what "naked" means in Lady Godiva's case could go in the article. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:34, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
 * There is some details in the "Legend" section on the different theories. If you have more sources to back up these or another one then by all means add to the section. Keith D (talk) 23:53, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Salic law is not the only reason a husband ends up dominating a highborn wife
Even though the Saxons didn't follow Salic law that doesn't mean they were wide open to women disobeying their husbands. Like the rest of Christendom, a man got to tell his wife what to do. So the idea that a Countess in her own right could disobey her husband's edicts is quite faulty and should be omitted from this article.

Godiva was the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia. He would have set taxes in Coventry and elsewhere, not her Salic law is irrelevant. Godiva had not inherited power, she married the Earl.Royalcourtier (talk) 07:03, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

several citation tags long not answered - also, this article goes to far treating this as fact rather than legend
I know of NO mainstream reputable historian that treats this as any more than legend based on very scrappy evidence. I would like to see the names of 'scholars' that put forth she actually rode around nude on a horse, let alone actually existed.HammerFilmFan (talk) 23:07, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Bullshit. The article clearly distinguishes between the undoubted historical figure - name one historian who DOESN'T believe she existed - and what is clearly said to be the legend. Johnbod (talk) 01:35, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Requested move 03 December 2013

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The result of the move request was: not moved Armbrust The Homunculus 19:05, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Lady Godiva → Godiva – This article is about a historical person and should be treated like one. It is not about a legend that is based on historical person (possibly King Arthur), but about a person who is the subject of legend (like Roderic). Making an exception to WP:HONORIFIC in this case confuses the lady and the legend. Srnec (talk) 15:53, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Survey

 * Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with  or  , then sign your comment with  . Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's policy on article titles.

 * Oppose per WP:COMMONAME. Most reliable English language sources seem to refer to her as "Lady Godiva". This is basically also listed as one of the exceptions of WP:HONORIFIC: "when a honorific is so commonly attached to a name that the name is rarely found in English reliable sources without it, it should be included." Under Wikipedia's policies on article titles, I fail to understand the rationales to move the page on grounds that we should treat the article primarily has a historical figure (when most reliable sources seem to primarily talk about the legend first, and the real person as secondary); and on grounds to prevent possible confusion between the legend and the actual person. IMO, that seems to be more based on editors' opinion or original research than what the reliable sources say. The story and legend of Lady Godiva has evolved through the centuries quite differently than Roderic (who appears to not have a honorific in his most common name), and the current practices of the latter's article do not necessarily apply to the former's page (see also Other stuff exists).Zzyzx11 (talk) 04:42, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
 * "Godiva" on its own is enough to identify the figure of legend in most cases. "Lady Godiva", while common, is not necessary even to identify the legendy. So why treat her differently than all other Anglo-Saxon ladies? The article as it stands has almost as much history as legend. The ODNB titles its article "Godgifu". Srnec (talk) 03:50, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

 * Oppose. Overwhelmingly her WP:COMMONNAME. Historical or not, she's entered mythology under this name. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:13, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose per others. Godgifu would be the correct alternative, but who knows her as that? The use of "lady" in the text should be drastically reduced though. Johnbod (talk) 15:58, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Godiva/Godeva is a contemporary Latinisation, I believe. The ODNB titles its article "Godgifu". Srnec (talk) 03:50, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

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Mother of Hereward the Wake?
Godiva and Leofric are often reported to have been the parents of Hereward the Wake, the Saxon who led a long and celebrated rearguard fight/rebellion against William the Conqueror. It may not be historically true, but it is part of the legend of both Godiva and Hereward and so is worth recording. Cassandra. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.12.107.7 (talk) 15:22, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

 * Lady Godiva is mentioned with a speaking part, as an old woman, in Charles Kingsley's novel, Hereward the Wake. I recall reading that book but not thoroughly enough to see if it retrospectively mentioned her past ride ('past' at the time of the novel's post-1066 setting) in Coventry. However, Hereward's rebellion was surely later than the 1067 Leofric's widow is said to have died in?Cloptonson (talk) 20:56, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

Peeping Tom and Actaeon - any published account linking their legends?
Twice in the section on Peeping Tom I see documented references to him being alternatively identified as someone named "Action" allegedly pronounced Actaeon. I wonder if any published accounts have suggested links between the legends of Lady Godiva's ride and the death of Actaeon in Greek mythology? (The latter sometimes portraying Actaeon as seeing the goddess Artemis (the Roman Diana) in her al fresco bath and being punished by her by being turned into a stag and hunted to death by his own hounds.) Both have connotations with voyeurism and both feature a male supernaturally punished for looking upon a naked female.Cloptonson (talk) 21:13, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

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1066 and all that
Godiva is described as "English" in the introduction. Perhaps it would be better to describe her as "Anglo-Saxon", to emphasise the point that she was a noblewoman from before the Norman Conquest. It is important to recognise that, when it is said that no contemporary records of the ride exist, shortly after the ride allegedly happened her country ceased to exist.--Jack Upland (talk) 00:00, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

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RFA Wave Laird

RFA Wave Laird (A119) was an Wave-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She was built in 1946 as Empire Dunbar by Sir J Laing & Sons Ltd, Sunderland, Co Durham for the Ministry of Transport and completed at Wave Laird. She served until 1961 when she was laid up at HMNB Devonport. Wave Laird was scrapped in 1970 in Spain.

Description
The ship was built in 1946 by Sir J Laing & Sons Ltd, Sunderland. She was yard number 767. The ship was 493 ft long overall (465 ft between perpendiculars ), with a beam of 64 ft. She had a draught of 28 ft, and a depth of 35 ft. She was assessed as,. Fully loaded, she displaced 16,650 tons.

The ship was propelled by two Metrovick-type double reduction geared steam turbines, which were fed by three drum boilers. 6800 shp. The turbines were built by Richardsons Westgarth Ltd. They drove a single screw propeller, and could propel the ship at 15 kn.

History
Empire Dunbar was built by Sir J Laing & Sons Ltd, Sunderland for the Ministry of Transport. She was launched on 3 April 1946 and completed on 30 September 1946 as RFA Wave Laird for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Her port of registry was London. She was allocated the United Kingdom Official Number 180967 and the Pennant number X129. This was later changed to A119.

Wave Laird suffered a number of problems shortly after entering service. In October 1946, her steering gear failed on a voyage from Sunderland to the Tyne and she was towed into port. In December 1946, boiler problems delayed her departure from Portland, Dorset for Trinidad. On 17 March 1947, boiler problems left her adrift in gale-force winds 20 nmi off the Tasker Rock, Ireland. Assistance was requested as the ship suffered heavy damage, which had to be repaired before her cargo was able to be discharged at Old Kilpatrick. On 10 November 1949, Wave Laird was on a voyage from Abadan, Iran to Malta when she was caught in a storm. A deckhand sustained fatal injuries. He was buried at Kalkara Naval Cemetery in Malta. The funeral was attended by officers and crew from RFA Nasprite, RFA Rowenol and Wave Laird and the Secretary of the Malta Branch of the National Union of Seamen.

Wave Laird was on active service in Korea from 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953. She was awarded a battle honour. On 19 July 1951, she was involved in a collision with the Royal Interocean Line's ocean liner SS Boissevain off Singapore. In January 1954, Wave Laird was one of the naval vessels supporting the Royal Yacht SS Gothic (1947) in Australia. On 31 October 1956, Wave Laird was one of 35 Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships deployed as part of Operation Musketeer. From 16–29 September 1960, she was deployed off Iceland in support of the Royal Navy, which was caught up in the Cod Wars. Wave Laird was featured on a postcard produced by Valentine's, Dundee. The card showed Wave Laird refuelling HMS Scorpion (D64) at sea.

Wave Laird was laid up in reserve at HMNB Devonport in 1961. She was advertised for sale by tender in November 1969 "as lying at HMNB Devonport". She departed from Devonport under tow on 26 January 1970, bound for Gibraltar, from where she departed on 25 February under tow for Gandia, Spain. Wave Laird was scrapped in March 1970 by Hierros Ardes, Gandia.

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RFA Wave Prince

RFA Wave Prince (A207) was a Wave-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She was built by Sir J. Laing & Sons Ltd at Sunderland and was employed as an underway replenishment oiler. During 1961-1962 she was modified extensively, laid up at Devonport in August 1965 and arrived in Burriana, Spain for scrapping on 16 December 1971.

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RFA Wave Master

RFA Wave Master (A193) was a Wave-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

She was built as Empire Salisbury by Sir J. Laing & Sons Ltd, and transferred to the Royal Fleet Auxiliary in 1946. She was laid up at Singapore on 23 September 1962, and scrapped at Jurong in May 1963.

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WIN Television

WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single television station covering the Wollongong region. The WIN Network has since grown to cover much of regional Australia. The network's name, WIN, originates from its first station, Wollongong's WIN-4. WIN has a programme supply agreement with metropolitan broadcaster Nine Network, covering its stations in Regional Queensland, Southern and Western New South Wales, Griffith, Regional Victoria, Mildura, Tasmania, Eastern South Australia, and Regional Western Australia. WIN also has a programme supply agreement with third-placed metropolitan broadcaster Network 10 for its Northern New South Wales station. WIN also produces and broadcasts weeknight half-hour local news bulletins across its Queensland, southern New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania markets as WIN News.

Regional services
Through its many television broadcast licences, WIN re-broadcasts metropolitan network content into regional Australian markets, as follows:

Early years in Wollongong
Television Wollongong Transmission Limited (TWT) was incorporated on 4 October 1955 by a group of local businessmen. Five years later, it was awarded a licence by the Postmaster-General's Department over a number of other groups aligned to Sydney-based stations ATN-7 and TCN-9 to broadcast to the Illawarra and South Coast regions. The new station was to broadcast on the VHF-4 frequency, using the callsign WIN (which stood for Wollongong Illawarra New South Wales), in line with other Australian call signs.

1980–1999: aggregation and expansion

During this period, WIN expanded through the purchase of stations in Victoria, Queensland, and New South Wales. In 1984, WIN became the first regional television station to transmit stereophonic sound. Close links between WIN Television and the Nine Network ensured the Nine Network affiliation for southern New South Wales when aggregation occurred in March 1989. The changes meant that WIN expanded into the rest of southern New South Wales, launching new stations in Canberra, Orange, Bathurst, Dubbo, and Wagga Wagga, with new buildings and studios built in Orange, Wagga, and Canberra. Aggregation also provided the network with two additional competitors, The Prime Network and Capital Television.

In 1990, WIN purchased Queensland station Star TV, with stations in Rockhampton (RTQ) and the Darling Downs (DDQ and SDQ), just weeks before aggregation was to occur in regional Queensland. The station had already been set to become a Network 10 affiliate under its previous owners; however, WIN's links with the Nine Network enabled it to clinch the Nine Network affiliation away from QTV, which was then forced to affiliate with third-placed Network Ten with just days to go.

ENT Limited, a Launceston-based company that owned a number of television and radio stations in regional Victoria and Tasmania, was taken over by WIN in 1994. Television Victoria and TasTV were, as a result, rebranded as WIN Television. The network further expanded to Griffith in 1998, when WIN purchased MTN-9 Griffith and its supplementary station AMN-31 from its local owners. As MTN had been affiliated with WIN since the early 1990s, the station was easily integrated into the network.

WIN became regional Western Australia's second commercial television network on 26 March 1999 after winning the rights tender in 1997. Prior to the launch of the new station, GWN held a commercial monopoly on the market. GWN became an affiliate of the Seven Network, while WIN took a combination of Nine Network and Network Ten programming. Despite Nine's traditional ratings dominance throughout most of the country, incumbent GWN has remained the market's most-watched station. The second ratings survey of 2006 placed WIN Television with a 34.7% commercial audience share in prime-time, compared to the Golden West Network with 65.3%.

Also in 1999, WIN purchased two stations in South Australia: SES-8 in Mount Gambier and RTS-5a in the Riverland region. They became known as WIN SA. In 2002, supplementary licences were granted under Section 38A of the Broadcasting Services Act, allowing the network to launch a WIN Ten service using the MGS call sign in Mount Gambier and LRS in the Riverland. This enabled the main SES/RTS station to be a sole Nine Network affiliate, which lasted until 2007, when a supply agreement was made with Seven.

As well as the flagship weeknightly WIN News bulletin, WIN has been prolific in broadcasting relevant programmes for its audience. In the past, it produced current affairs programming, including the community affairs programme Roving Eye, and Sunday Review, a weekly review of international, national, and local stories. It produced a mid-week rugby league wrap panel show in the mid-1990s, while in 1995, WIN Television Queensland produced its own rugby league coverage by televising games featuring the fledgeling North Queensland Cowboys in their maiden ARL Winfield Cup competition season.

2000–2016: Nine affiliation

WIN Television began to introduce digital television soon after it became available to metropolitan areas in January 2001. Under Section 38A of the Broadcasting Services Act, the network was able to introduce, in partnership with other stations, additional digital-only Network Ten affiliates. These included Tasmania's TDT, launched in late 2003 in partnership with Southern Cross Broadcasting, and Mildura's MDV in January 2006, with Prime Television.

On 30 May 2007, WIN purchased NWS from Southern Cross Broadcasting for A$105 million. Similarly, STW Perth, owned by Sunraysia Television and affiliated with the Nine Network, was purchased on 8 June 2007 for A$163.1 million.

Despite the station's ownership of Nine Perth, the regional WIN WA service continued to broadcast Ten News Perth, produced for and shown on rival Perth station Ten Perth, until 27 August 2007, when Ten West came into service.

A conflict between WIN and its long-time metropolitan partner, the Nine Network, arose in mid-2007, with PBL Media, Nine's parent company, requesting 40 percent of the network's advertising revenue in return for programme supply. WIN's owner, WIN Corporation, rejected this offer, expecting to pay only 29% (a 3% decrease from the previous contract and in line with many of the network's competitors, such as Prime Television and Southern Cross Ten). The network's owner, Bruce Gordon, subsequently threatened to sever the network's affiliation after negotiations stagnated, stating that his previous position at Paramount Pictures meant he could programme the network independently. On 16 August 2007, WIN Television dropped key Nine Network programmes from its daytime television schedule, including Mornings with Kerri-Anne and National Nine News: Morning Edition. WIN also secured a new programme supply agreement for its regional South Australian station with Nine's rival Seven Network. Announced on 4 September 2007, the new programme schedule included a mixture of Seven and existing WIN programming, commencing on 1 October 2007. WIN also started producing some local Australian programmes to replace key Nine content, including Alive and Cooking and Susie, as well as the independently sourced The Ellen DeGeneres Show. WIN also produced Fishing Australia as part of its local content output on the WIN Network. Two years later, WIN officially reinstated its supply of Nine content to regional South Australia with a new supplementary channel, WIN SA, relaying NWS from Adelaide.

On 9 August 2009, WIN began transmission of the new digital channel GO! on channel 88 in Southern NSW, Regional Victoria, Tasmania, and Regional Queensland. It soon reached Mildura in 2010 and regional SA in 2011.

In June 2010, playout was moved from WIN's Wollongong headquarters to its new Media Hub facility in the south-west Sydney suburb of Ingleburn, co-owned with ABC Television.

On 26 September 2010, WIN began transmission of the HD digital channel GEM on channel 80 in Southern NSW, Regional Victoria, Tasmania, and Regional Queensland.

On 1 May 2012, WIN began transmission of an SD digital infomercial channel, Gold, on channel 84. The second infomercial channel, Gold2, began on 13 July 2013 as a five-hour timeshift of Gold.

Following Nine's launch of 9HD and 9Life on 26 November 2015 and WIN's promise of following suit, WIN began broadcasting a "coming soon" test pattern on channels 85 and 86 on 10 February 2016. Both channels began broadcasting on 1 March 2016. As a result, their channel listing was reshuffled to match Nine's metropolitan with 9Gem on channel 82, 9Go! on channel 83, 9Life on channel 84, Extra on channel 85, and Gold on channel 86.

The network continued to produce its own local news service, WIN News, for most of its markets throughout its Nine affiliation, although requests for increased revenue by Nine repeatedly threatened the news division's viability. By 2016, only twelve bulletins were being produced and presented.

2016–2021: 10 affiliation
After Nine launched its new online catch-up video on demand and live streaming service 9Now on 27 January 2016, WIN filed a lawsuit against Nine, claiming that live streaming into regional areas breached their exclusive affiliation agreement. Justice Hammerschlag of the NSW Supreme Court dismissed the case on 28 April 2016, ruling that the definition of "broadcasting" in WIN's affiliation agreement with the Nine Network did not cover internet streaming "and that Nine is under no express or implied obligation not to do it".

Shortly after WIN's legal defeat, Nine announced a new $500 million, five-year programme supply agreement with Southern Cross Austereo, the Ten affiliate. This saw Southern Cross Austereo's stations in Southern NSW, the ACT, and regional areas in Victoria and Queensland switch to Nine affiliation at midnight on 1 July 2016. With that announcement, WIN was effectively stripped of its 27-year partnership with Nine. In response, WIN entered affiliation talks with Network Ten, in which Gordon held a significant stake, reaching a final agreement on 23 May 2016. From 1 July 2016, WIN carried Ten programming into its regional Queensland, Southern NSW, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia markets. Supplementary station deals were left until late due to disagreement over the rate that loss-making stations should make to Nine Network. With just days left, deals were secured for South Australia, Griffith, and Tasmania. However, no deal was secured for the Western Australia joint venture West Digital Television before 1 July, but a deal was later finalised on 2 July 2016, with the relay of Nine content commencing that night. The channel changes reshuffled WIN's LCN listing, with One on LCNs 81 and 86, Eleven on LCN 82, TVSN on LCN 84, and Gold on LCN 85. WIN and WIN HD remained on LCNs 8 and 80. WIN also relocated its SD simulcast from LCN 81 to LCN 88.

Negotiations in January 2017 for WIN to acquire Northern New South Wales station NRN in exchange for WIN's Wollongong radio station i98FM with Southern Cross Austereo failed,   although a deal was secured on 28 March 2017 for the sole sale of NRN to WIN for $55 million. The sale took effect on 31 May 2017; NRN was rebranded as WIN on 1 September 2017, with playout and transmission transferred to WIN, while the LCNs were reshuffled to align with WIN's other stations, although they stayed as 5-numbered due to 8-numbering already held by Nine-owned NBN Television for Northern NSW.

On 28 May 2018, WIN announced a new programme supply agreement with the Australian News Channel to carry Sky News Australia content on a new free-to-air channel, Sky News on WIN, which launched on 2 September 2018. The channel consisted of mixed Sky News and Fox Sports News programming, along with WIN's All Australian News, while Sky programmes gained access to WIN's regional news stories.

WIN converted TVSN to MPEG-4 SD on 30 August 2018, two days before the launch of Sky News on WIN.

On 31 October 2018, at 6:30p.m., during The Project, WIN updated its logo, launching at the same time as the launch of Network 10's new logo. WIN also rebranded its versions of 10's multi-channels, One and Eleven, into WIN Boss (later changed to WIN Bold in December) and WIN Peach.

On 29 March 2021, the WIN channel in the Illawarra region was converted to MPEG-4 HD as an experiment for other WIN areas. On 14 May 2021, it was reverted to the MPEG-2 format in SD after viewers complained that they could no longer get the WIN channel on LCN 8.

2021–present: Return to Nine affiliation
On 12 March 2021, Nine announced it had secured a new programme supply agreement with its original partner, WIN Network, across regional Australia beginning 1 July 2021, in effect dumping Southern Cross Austereo, which was forced to return to relaying third-placed Ten content. The seven-year deal sees WIN pay around 50 percent of broadcast advertising revenue to Nine Entertainment Co., plus advertising time for Nine's properties on WIN's television and radio assets. WIN also integrated advertising sales services for Nine's O&O regional stations, NBN, and NTD. Nine CEO Hugh Marks explained that "while our relationship with Southern Cross has been strong over the last five years, the opportunities presented by the WIN Network to both extend the reach of Nine's premium content into more regional markets under one agreement and to work cooperatively with them on a national and local news operation mean this is the right time for us to return to WIN". Also for the first time, WIN now broadcasts Nine content under Nine branding. WIN's multi-channels have again been rearranged, with 9Gem on channel 81, 9Go! on channel 82, and 9Life on channel 83, while TVSN and Gold would continue to broadcast on channels 84 and 85, but despite the return, the "nine dots" were not reinstated on the network logo. WIN still broadcasts Network Ten content on its northern New South Wales station.

On 18 March 2022, WIN Television celebrated 60 years of broadcasting across Wollongong and the Illawarra.

On 16 June 2022, WIN Television converted 9Gem and 9Go! to MPEG-4 SD in Tasmania via WIN's Tasmanian station TVT.

On 22 March 2023, WIN Television announced that they would be converting all of their remaining MPEG-2 channels to MPEG-4 later that same year. On 22 May 2023, 9Gem was converted into an MPEG-4 SD channel in most WIN areas, except Tasmania, Western Australia, and Northern NSW. On 19 June 2023, 9Go! was converted into an MPEG-4 SD channel in most WIN areas, except Tasmania, Western Australia, and Northern NSW. In most WIN areas, except Northern NSW and Western Australia, 9Gem was upgraded to an MPEG-4 HD channel on 27 July 2023. In Northern NSW, WIN upgraded 10 Bold and 10 Peach from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 in November 2023, 10 Bold on 21 November 2023, and 10 Peach on 28 November 2023. On 6 December 2023, 9Go! was converted into an MPEG-4 HD channel in most WIN areas, except Western Australia, and Northern NSW.

Programming
WIN Television carries the programming of all three commercial television stations in Australia. It is a sole affiliate of the Nine Network in all broadcast areas except for Northern NSW, but it is also an affiliate of the Seven Network in Griffith, New South Wales, and eastern South Australia and is an affiliate of Network 10 in Griffith, Northern New South Wales, and eastern South Australia. WIN Television has always produced regional programming, including the flagship local news service WIN News, that supplements programmes sourced from affiliates.

Since its inception, the network has produced and broadcast notable programmes, including Sportsview and Sportsworld, a review of international, national, and local sporting events. From the first week of transmissions, the children's television series The Channel 4 Club was produced, with the children's television programme Stopwatch beginning in 1979. The English-language educational programme You Say the Word began in 1971, catering to non-English-speaking immigrants. The long-running entertainment programme Variety Italian Style premiered in 1974, with Malcom Elliott initially hosting the short-lived Tonight Show in 1981 before being replaced by John Tingle a year later. To commemorate WIN Television's 21st year of broadcasting, a one-and-a-half-hour retrospective montage special was produced in 1983. WIN Television also co-produced the telemovie Last Chance in 1986 with a Canadian television production company. Spanning close to a decade, the children's television series Goodsports was produced by WIN Television from 1991 to 2000.

WIN Television's current Australian programming productions consist of television shows including Fishing Australia and Alive and Cooking. On 17 May 2007, WIN Television announced a new midday programme called Susie; however, this was subsequently moved to a morning timeslot. It lasted until 2009. WIN Television also broadcasts a range of exclusive overseas and domestically sourced programming, including The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Alive and Cooking; however, since 2021, WIN has broadcast a direct feed from Nine, excluding WIN News.

The only local programming broadcast by the WIN Network consists of half-hour local WIN News bulletins for its Nine stations in Regional Queensland, Southern New South Wales, Griffith, Regional Victoria, and Tasmania, as well as short news updates for its Ten station in northern New South Wales.

News and current affairs
WIN News is the network's local news service. Fourteen regional bulletins and news updates are presented from studios in Wollongong, with reporters and camera crews based in district newsrooms. In most markets, WIN News may compete with Seven News or Nightly News.

WIN has produced independent news reports and bulletins since 1962 for its original Wollongong station. As well as the flagship nightly bulletin, WIN Television has in the past produced current affairs programming, including the community affairs programme Roving Eye, and Sunday Review, a weekly review of international, national, and local stories.

WIN also broadcast WIN's All Australian News at 7a.m. weekdays and weeknights at late nights, which featured highlights from news bulletins from its regional stations that ceased in June 2021 due to Nine's new affiliation agreement with WIN.

Sport
On most of the WIN Network's stations, it relays sports coverage broadcast from Nine's Wide World of Sports. On WIN's Northern New South Wales 10 station and other 10 stations in Griffith, Mildura, Regional WA, and Eastern SA owned by WIN and affiliated with 10, it relays sports coverage provided by 10 Sport. The Seven stations in Griffith, Mount Gambier, and the Riverland carry Seven Sport sports coverage.

Availability
WIN Television's transmissions are available from both free-to-air terrestrial transmitters in major regional centres and free-to-view satellite transmissions across regional and remote Western Australia on the Viewer Access Satellite Television service. WIN News bulletins are carried on the VAST service to allow viewers in remote areas of Central and Eastern Australia, as well as terrestrial reception blackspots, to obtain news local to their area.

Subscription cable is also provided by TransACT in the Australian Capital Territory and Neighbourhood Cable in Ballarat and Mildura.

WIN broadcasts to a geographically large portion of regional and remote Australia through owned-and-operated stations including RTQ Queensland, NRN Northern New South Wales, WIN Southern New South Wales & ACT, VTV Victoria, TVT Tasmania, MTN Griffith, STV Mildura, SES Mount Gambier, RTS Riverland, and WOW Western Australia.

WIN HD
WIN's high-definition channel, WIN HD, originally launched on 17 March 2008 as a sister to the Nine Network's rebranded high-definition simulcast, 9HD. WIN HD broadcast in 1080i high definition and was available on WIN's regional stations, RTQ Queensland, WIN Southern New South Wales and ACT, VTV Victoria, and TVT Tasmania. The channel broadcast breakaway programming from launch until 3 August 2009, when it was turned into a straight HD simulcast. WIN HD fully ceased broadcasting on 26 September 2010 with the launch of the HD multi-channel GEM (now 9Gem).

On 10 February 2016, WIN announced that it would launch its own HD simulcast in the coming months in response to Nine Network relaunching 9HD as its second high-definition channel. WIN HD re-launched on 1 March 2016. Four WIN regions were excluded from the 1 March launch date, although in four regions the launch was delayed: Griffith, Mildura, Eastern South Australia (2 March due to technical issues), and Regional Western Australia (10 March). On 1 July 2016, with WIN's new programme supply agreement, the channel's programme schedule changed in line with WIN. The channel ceased on 30 June 2021 with WIN's new programme supply agreement with Nine. WIN now re-broadcasts Nine HD across its Nine stations and 10 HD across Northern New South Wales.

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RFA Olna (A216)

RFA Olna (A216) was one of two ships built for Shell. She was originally named Hyalina and taken up for Fleet Service soon after building.

She was taken into service as a fleet tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA). The ship was built for service with the British Pacific Fleet against Japan, and was commissioned into the Royal Navy for that purpose. However, after the Second World War the ship was quickly transferred to the RFA, making the move in 1946. Olna was crucial to the development of replenishment at sea doctrines for the British fleet, and saw service up until 1966.

In 1955 when serving with the Mediterranean fleet, Olna was used in the making of the film Battle of the River Plate to depict the German supply ship GERMAN TANKER Altmark.

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Talk:Decompression stop

nice article

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Things to do

 * describe the mechanisms involved in decompression stops:
 * offgassing
 * bubble reduction
 * types of deep stops:
 * Pyle
 * reducing gradients
 * WKPP deep stops

2000 foot dive
Dear Mark,

Thank's for all the info. I'm not a diver but I'm trying to learn about diving, decompression, etc. In the movie The Abyss, the divers work safely at 2000 feet and I have some questions:

1. In this hypothetical 2000 feet dive, using scuba, how much time would be necessary to descent?

2. How much time would be necessary to decompress?

3. Is it possible to design a decompression table for this situaton?

Thank's

Alvaro Augusto http://alvaug.multiply.com

 * Although the question was not directed at me, I will take liberty of replying.
 * 1. The rate of descent in SCUBA diving is usually only limited by diver's ability to equalize his sinuses. There are some opinions that too rapid descent increases affects of Nitrogen narcosis, but it is not confirmed.
 * 2. SCUBA dive to 2000 meters was not attempted yet. The record for deepest SCUBA dive is about 330 meters (990 feet). The wet decompression (actual acsent in the water) was 26 hours, and after that dry decompression was performed (in a decompression chamber).
 * 3. Dives below 100 meters (300 feet) require using different gases on different stages of the dive, such as trimix and nitrox. It would be impractical to design decompression table for each dive profile. Therefore special decompression software (such as V-Planner and GAP Software) is used to calculate decompression stops.
 * I hope this was helpful. You are welcome to ask me further questions. Michagal 08:19, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't know the answers to your questions - a 2000 ft dive is way out of my depth. Here's a link to some links to deco software, http://www.deepdiving.net/tools/deco.html. I've used ZPlan, DDPlan and MV-Plan. I think you'll find none will plan a dive as deep as you want. Mark.murphy 20:56, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

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Coming in late to this party:

Open Circuit SCUBA to 2000 feet, is not gonna happen.

The ambient pressure at a depth of 2000 feet (600 meters), is about 600 atmospheres (ATA).

 * That's twice the pressure of a "high pressure" (300 bar) SCUBA tank. So even a "high pressure" tank, will not have anywhere near enough pressure, to deliver even a single breathe of air, at that depth.

 * Even if you got special high pressure tanks that COULD deliver air at that depth, the density of that air will be ~600 times normal - precluding the use any normal SCUBA breathing regulators (in my opinion).

 * Assuming a descent rate of 30 meters/minute, it would take about 20 minutes to get down to that depth. From an air consumption viewpoint, that's 20 minutes at an average depth of 1000 feet (300 meters). Let's assume a personal air consumption rate of 0.5 cubic feet per minute at sea level. To get down, you'll need 20 * 0.5 * 300 cubic feet of air (surface equivalent), ie. 3000 cubic feet. That's THIRTY standard 100 cu.ft. SCUBA tanks - and a similar number to get back up afterwards!

So you could maybe go straight down to 2000 feet, turn around IMMEDIATELY, and come straight back up, if you had SIXTY specially manufactured tanks and breathing regulators - EXCEPT:

 * Gas mixtures that are safe to breathe when shallower, are not safe to breathe when very deep - and vice versa. So you'll need multiple tanks of different gas mixtures, each of which you can only use at certain depths. You'd need at least double the number of tanks required by the previous naive calculations - ie. 120 tanks.

 * The decompression requirements would be enormous. Let's say 80 hours at 6 meters depth. (This is a guess, but there's no way it would be less.) This would need 80 * 60 * 0.5 * 1.6 = 3840 cubic feet (surface equivalent) of decompression gas - another ~40 standard 100 cu.ft. tanks! We now have 160 tanks for the dive.

 * No sane technical diver goes deep diving without backup breathing gas. This is in case the main tank(s) or breathing regulator(s) malfunction. Let's use an arbitrary safety factor of 20%. This gives 32 more tanks, for backup!

So, since SCUBA means self contained underwater breathing apparatus (not surface supplied), I'd say that you're good to go - as soon as you get the special tanks and breathing regulators designed, manufactured, and tested - and work out how you'll handle the *NEARLY TWO HUNDRED TANKS* that you'll need on the dive !!

Closed Circuit SCUBA is different. The gas supply is recirculated, instead of being lost to the system on each exhalation. But the equipment issues, and decompression requirements, would still be so large, as to make a dive to 2000 feet completely impractical in my opinion.

Saturation diving is different again. The divers live in a habitat at the actual maximum depth. Their decompression obligations soon plateau, so it doesn't matter how much longer they stay down (from a decompression viewpoint). When they've finished, they get hauled back up to the surface, and stay in a recompression chamber for days or weeks until they've decompressed safely. But that isn't "SCUBA" in any accepted sense of that word.

TC 203.122.223.121 (talk) 07:12, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

 * Not really, TC. One atmosphere of pressure is 10 metres of water. So at around 2,000 ft or 600 metres, the ambient pressure is about 60 bar - quite easy to deliver from standard tanks. Nobody would be breathing air at that depth, a helium-hydrogen mix with less than 2.5% oxygen is required (hydreliox). Fortunately, that mix is between 1/7 and 1/14 the density of air, so even at 60x its surface density (not 600x), it would be breathable without a massive extra effort. Obviously, a rebreather would be the sensible choice for this sort of very extreme diving, as dive duration is approximately independent of depth for a CCR. The sane backup for a rebreather is a second rebreather, of course, rather than 200 tanks. Since a CCR will dynamically alter the mix on descent/ascent, there's no need for different tanks containing different mixes. Realistically, the obvious way of conducting such dives is via excursion from a bell with controlled staged descent to ameliorate HPNS (a descent rate of 30 m/s is impractically fast for that reason). The eventual decompression could be of the order of weeks, but still perfectly manageable with that sort of system. Finally, there's a 1994 paper describing some experiments at 50 ATA undertaken by Comex that might be of interest:
 * Hope that helps. --RexxS (talk) 08:41, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Hope that helps. --RexxS (talk) 08:41, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

 * Doggone it dude! You're right, 2000 feet depth is 60 bar, not 600. But my main point was, there's no way you could do that dive on open circuit (including descent, ascent and decompression). I still contend this - and I think you would agree - due to decompression gas requirements, if for no other reason. Yes? No? TC 203.122.223.121 (talk) 09:57, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree, of course. Because of HPNS, the descent rate is limited to a few metres/minute (requiring days rather than hours to reach 600 m), and decompression obligations are of the order of a week (Bennet & Elliott, page 325). A diver using open circuit scuba would likely be using around 1,000 litres of gas per minute at 600 m, and 500 L/min at 300 m - an impossibly large amount of gas to try to supply using open circuit. A rebreather oxygen cylinder (3 L @ 300 bar) contains around 800 litres of oxygen, and a relaxed diver with low metabolism might hope to use about 0.5 litre of oxygen per minute – giving a dive duration of 1600 min, or about 27 hours per rebreather. Having multiple rebreathers to switch to at fixed points on a shot line might make such a dive possible on self-contained closed circuit, but as you can see there's really no margin for error. Realistically, any scuba diving that needed to be done at that sort of depth would have to be as excursions from a surface-supplied bell. I think that Comex's Hydra 8 experiment in 1988 still holds the open-water record for scuba at 535 metres (that was an excursion from a bell) – not too far off the 600 metres that the original poster referred to. Comex also did a simulated dive to 701 metres (Hydra 10 experiments) in 1992, so it's technologically and physiologically possible, but not yet accomplished. --RexxS (talk) 22:53, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your informative responses :-) TC 203.122.223.121 (talk) 04:47, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Dive profile
The dive profile are usualy drawn with Y-axis (depth) pointing down. I would suggest replacing the image. Michagal 10:17, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

title: Talk:Decompression stop