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Maldivian Democratic Party

The Maldivian Democratic Party (ދިވެހި ރައްޔިތުންގެ ޑިމޮކްރެޓިކް ޕާޓީ, Dhivehi Rayyithunge Demokretik Paati; MDP) is the first political party formed in the Republic of Maldives with a total membership of 51,516 individuals as of 25 April 2024.

The party is supportive of the promotion of human rights and democracy in the Maldives. It won the first ever multi-party elections in the Maldives with the support from all the other political parties in the 2008 elections against then president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.

History
There had not been political parties in the Maldives since 1952. The MDP initially submitted its registration on 24 February 2001. In 2001, the party's first president was Qasim Ibrahim. Although the Maldivian Constitution allows political parties to operate, the MDP's application was rebuffed. After the people fighting for their rights on the street and the death of Evan Naseem, MDP declared its existence in exile from Sri Lanka on 10 November 2003. Initially, it was formed by a group of 42 people, which included members of parliament, a former cabinet minister and leading businessmen. Members on its first general council were elected on 13 February 2004. Although the MDP was not recognized by the Maldivian government, it began operating in Maldives on 30 April 2005.

On 2 June 2005, the members of the People's Majlis unanimously voted to legally recognize political parties. The MDP subsequently submitted its registration on 26 June 2005, becoming the first political party to be registered in the Second Republic of Maldives.

Throughout 2006, the opposition faced restrictions on freedom of assembly, and the government continued to arrest opposition activists. In March 2006, the government introduced a "Roadmap for Reform" and subsequently introduced several bills in parliament. In August 2007, voters decided via referendum that the Maldives' new constitution should provide for a presidential system of government (vice parliamentary). The special Majlis completed its work and the new constitution took effect in August 2008.

In accordance with the new constitution ratified by then-President Gayoom on 7 August 2008, the first round of presidential elections was held on 10 October 2008. Due to no single candidate receiving 50% of the vote, a second round was held on 29 October between President Gayoom and Mohamed Nasheed. Nasheed won with 54% of the vote.

At the first multi-party parliamentary elections in Maldives, on 9 May 2009, the MDP won 26 out of the 77 seats in the parliament, netting the second-most seats. However, the MDP gained the most votes, with a total of 35.3% (50,562 votes) which is a 10.39% increase from the first round of 2008 presidential elections when the MDP was allied with other parties. From the elections, Gayoom's DRP gained 27.5% of the votes (39,399 votes) which is a 12.5% decrease from the first round of the 2008 presidential elections. In November 2013 elections ex-President Mohamed of the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) narrowly lost and Abdulla Yameen of PPM was elected as new president of Maldives. In the 2018 presidential elections, the MDP candidate Ibrahim Mohamed Solih defeated incumbent President Abdulla Yameen, and was sworn in as president on November 17, 2018. He promised to fight against widespread corruption and investigate the human rights abuses of the previous regime. In the April 2019 parliamentary election, the party won a landslide victory, and won 65 of 87 seats of the parliament. This was the first time a single party was able to get such a high number of seats in the parliament in Maldivian history.

Post-2018 election
In June 2022, former President and Speaker of Parliament Mohamed Nasheed announced that he would be contesting against the incumbent President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih in the Maldivian Democratic Party's primary election amid a growing political rift between the two. The rift originally started with a disagreement between the two on changing the Maldives' presidential system of governance to a parliamentary system, with Nasheed preferring the latter. Nasheed also accused the President of enacting policies contrary to the founding principles and ideology of the party, occasionally voting against bills sent by the MDP government in parliament. He also alleged that the President had removed more than 39,000 of the original party members from the membership register, stating that they were less likely to vote for him and potentially twist the primary election in the President's favor. The results revealed that President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih won the primary election with 61.10% of the vote.

On 17 May 2023, 12 members of Maldivian Democratic Party left the and formed a new party called The Democrats. The twelve members defected from the MDP after the warnings of expulsions of four MDP MPs in their faction from the party as well as the expulsion of Central Henveiru MP Ali Azim (who was also a Nasheed loyalist). The faction on several occasions violated the party's whip line and launched a no-confidence motion against multiple government ministers in Ibrahim Mohamed Solih's cabinet.

On 21 June 2023, the party's leader and the faction's leader Mohamed Nasheed quit after 18 years of being a member of the party and joined the newly created Democrats.

The Democrats had announced that they would contest in the 2023 Presidential election in September. But the party came third place with 7% of the vote, making them ineligible to run in the second round.

In the first round of the 2023 elections, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih received 39% of the votes to the PNC/PPM candidate Mohamed Muizzu's 46%. In the second round, held on 30 September 2023, Mohamed Muizzu won the second-round runoff of the Maldives presidential election, beating incumbent president, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, with 54% of the vote to his 45%. Some attribute this loss to The Democrats and others to dissatisfaction with Ibrahim Mohamed Solih's presidency.

On 29 December 2023, several members of the MDP defected to PNC.

In the 2024 Maldivian parliamentary election, the party was wiped out in an landslide defeat, losing 56 seats and winning just 9.

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Fine Line Features

Fine Line Features was the specialty films division of New Line Cinema. From 1991 to 2005, under founder and president Ira Deutchman, Fine Line acquired, distributed and marketed independent films. In 2005, New Line teamed up with fellow Time Warner subsidiary HBO to form Picturehouse, a new specialty film label into which Fine Line was folded.

Fine Line Features DVD releases were split between HBO Video and New Line Home Entertainment. When New Line Home Entertainment ceased to exist in 2010, it was folded into Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment.

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Dopaminergic pathways

Dopaminergic pathways (dopamine pathways, dopaminergic projections) in the human brain are involved in both physiological and behavioral processes including movement, cognition, executive functions, reward, motivation, and neuroendocrine control. Each pathway is a set of projection neurons, consisting of individual dopaminergic neurons.

The four major dopaminergic pathways are the mesolimbic pathway, the mesocortical pathway, the nigrostriatal pathway, and the tuberoinfundibular pathway. The mesolimbic pathway and the mesocortical pathway form the mesocorticolimbic system. Two other dopaminergic pathways to be considered are the hypothalamospinal tract and the incertohypothalamic pathway.

Parkinson's disease, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), substance use disorders (addiction), and restless legs syndrome (RLS) can be attributed to dysfunction in specific dopaminergic pathways.

The dopamine neurons of the dopaminergic pathways synthesize and release the neurotransmitter dopamine. Enzymes tyrosine hydroxylase and dopa decarboxylase are required for dopamine synthesis. These enzymes are both produced in the cell bodies of dopamine neurons. Dopamine is stored in the cytoplasm and vesicles in axon terminals. Dopamine release from vesicles is triggered by action potential propagation-induced membrane depolarization. The axons of dopamine neurons extend the entire length of their designated pathway.

Major
Six of the dopaminergic pathways are listed below.

Minor

 * Hypothalamospinal
 * Hypothalamus → Spinal cord
 * Incertohypothalamic
 * Zona incerta → Hypothalamus
 * Zona incerta → Brainstem VTA → Amygdala (mesoamygdaloid pathway)
 * VTA → Hippocampus
 * VTA → Cingulate cortex
 * VTA → Olfactory bulb
 * SNc → Subthalamic nucleus

Mesocorticolimbic system
The mesocorticolimbic system (mesocorticolimbic circuit) refers to both the mesocortical and mesolimbic pathways. Both pathways originate at the ventral tegmental area (VTA)  which is located in the midbrain. Through separate connections to the prefrontal cortex (mesocortical) and ventral striatum (mesolimbic), the mesocorticolimbic projection has a significant role in learning, motivation, reward, memory and movement. Dopamine receptor subtypes, D1 and D2 have been shown to have complementary functions in the mesocorticolimbic projection, facilitating learning in response to both positive and negative feedback. Both pathways of the mesocorticolimbic system are associated with ADHD, schizophrenia and addiction.

Mesocortical pathway
The mesocortical pathway projects from the ventral tegmental area to the prefrontal cortex (VTA → Prefrontal cortex). This pathway is involved in cognition and the regulation of executive functions (e.g., attention, working memory, inhibitory control, planning, etc.) This intricate neural circuit serves as a crucial communication route within the brain, facilitating the transmission of dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with reward, motivation, and cognitive control. The prefrontal cortex, being a central hub for executive functions, relies on the input from the mesocortical pathway to modulate and fine-tune cognitive processes essential for goal-directed behavior and decision-making. Dysregulation of the neurons in this pathway has been connected to ADHD.

Mesolimbic pathway
Referred to as the reward pathway, mesolimbic pathway projects from the ventral tegmental area to the ventral striatum ( VTA → Ventral striatum (nucleus accumbens and olfactory tubercle). When a reward is anticipated, the firing rate of dopamine neurons in the mesolimbic pathway increases. The mesolimbic pathway is involved with incentive salience, motivation, reinforcement learning, fear and other cognitive processes. In animal studies, depletion of dopamine in this pathway, or lesions at its site of origin, decrease the extent to which an animal is willing to go to obtain a reward (e.g., the number of lever presses for nicotine or time searching for food). Research is ongoing to determine the role of the mesolimbic pathway in the perception of pleasure.

Nigrostriatal pathway
The nigrostriatal pathway is involved in behaviors relating to movement and motivation. The transmission of dopaminergic neurons to the dorsal striatum particularly plays a role in reward and motivation while movement is influenced by the transmission of dopaminergic neurons to the substantia nigra. The nigrostriatal pathway is associated with conditions such as Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, ADHD, Schizophrenia, and Tourette's Syndrome. Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, and Tourette's Syndrome are conditions affected by motor functioning while schizophrenia and ADHD are affected by reward and motivation functioning. This pathway also regulates associated learning such as classical conditioning and operant conditioning.

Tuberoinfundibular pathway
The tuberoinfundibular pathway transmits dopamine from the hypothalamus to the pituitary gland. This neural circuit plays a pivotal role in the regulation of hormonal balance and, specifically, in modulating the secretion of prolactin from the pituitary gland, which is responsible for breast milk production in females. Hyperprolactinemia is an associated condition caused by an excessive amount of prolactin production that is common in pregnant women. After childbirth, the tuberoinfundibular pathway resumes its role in regulating prolactin levels. The decline in estrogen levels postpartum contributes to the restoration of dopaminergic inhibition, preventing sustained hyperprolactinemia in non-pregnant and non-nursing individuals.

Cortico-basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical loop
The dopaminergic pathways that project from the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc) and ventral tegmental area (VTA) into the striatum (i.e., the nigrostriatal and mesolimbic pathways, respectively) form one component of a sequence of pathways known as the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical loop. The nigrostriatal component of the loop consists of the SNc, giving rise to both inhibitory and excitatory pathways that run from the striatum into the globus pallidus, before carrying on to the thalamus, or into the subthalamic nucleus before heading into the thalamus. The dopaminergic neurons in this circuit increase the magnitude of phasic firing in response to positive reward error, that is when the reward exceeds the expected reward. These neurons do not decrease phasic firing during a negative reward prediction (less reward than expected), leading to hypothesis that serotonergic, rather than dopaminergic neurons encode reward loss. Dopamine phasic activity also increases during cues that signal negative events, however dopaminergic neuron stimulation still induces place preference, indicating its main role in evaluating a positive stimulus. From these findings, two hypotheses have developed, as to the role of the basal ganglia and nigrostiatal dopamine circuits in action selection. The first model suggests a "critic" which encodes value, and an actor which encodes responses to stimuli based on perceived value. However, the second model proposes that the actions do not originate in the basal ganglia, and instead originate in the cortex and are selected by the basal ganglia. This model proposes that the direct pathway controls appropriate behavior and the indirect suppresses actions not suitable for the situation. This model proposes that tonic dopaminergic firing increases the activity of the direct pathway, causing a bias towards executing actions faster.

These models of the basal ganglia are thought to be relevant to the study of OCD, ADHD, Tourette syndrome, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, and addiction. For example, Parkinson's disease is hypothesized to be a result of excessive inhibitory pathway activity, which explains the slow movement and cognitive deficits, while Tourettes is proposed to be a result of excessive excitatory activity resulting in the tics characteristic of Tourettes.

Regulation
The ventral tegmental area and substantia nigra pars compacta receive inputs from other neurotransmitters systems, including glutaminergic inputs, GABAergic inputs, cholinergic inputs, and inputs from other monoaminergic nuclei. The VTA contains 5-HT1A receptors that exert a biphasic effects on firing, with low doses of 5-HT1A receptor agonists eliciting an increase in firing rate, and higher doses suppressing activity. The 5-HT2A receptors expressed on dopaminergic neurons increase activity, while 5-HT2C receptors elicit a decrease in activity. The mesolimbic pathway, which projects from the VTA to the nucleus accumbens, is also regulated by muscarinic acetylcholine receptors. In particular, the activation of muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M2 and muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M4 inhibits dopamine release, while muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M1 activation increases dopamine release. GABAergic inputs from the striatum decrease dopaminergic neuronal activity, and glutaminergic inputs from many cortical and subcortical areas increase the firing rate of dopaminergic neurons. Endocannabinoids also appear to have a modulatory effect on dopamine release from neurons that project out of the VTA and SNc. Noradrenergic inputs deriving from the locus coeruleus have excitatory and inhibitory effects on the dopaminergic neurons that project out of the VTA and SNc. The excitatory orexinergic inputs to the VTA originate in the lateral hypothalamus and may regulate the baseline firing of VTA dopaminergic neurons.

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Hibernating myocardium

In cardiology, hibernating myocardium is a state when some segments of the myocardium exhibit abnormalities of contractile function. These abnormalities can be visualised with echocardiography, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR), nuclear medicine (PET) or ventriculography. Echocardiography: A wall motion abnormality at rest which improves during a low-dose dobutamine stress test is classified as "hibernating myocardium." Low dose dobutamine stimulates contractile function and thus helps to predict functional recovery after revascularization. Cardiac magnetic resonance: The most frequently used MR contrast agents based on Gd-chelates accumulate in the extracellular space which is increased in scarred myocardium. This leads to a signal increase which can be visualised with the "late gadolinium enhancement technique." This is probably the most accurate way to visualise scarred myocardium. An alternative (or additional) technique with CMR is the use of low dose dobutamine similar to echocardiography. PET: The finding of a perfusion or metabolic mismatch between PET-FDG and PET-NH3 is indicative of decreased metabolism. The wall of the affected segments is hypo-, a-, or dyskinetic.

The phenomenon is highly significant clinically because it usually manifests itself in the setting of chronic ischemia, that is potentially reversible by revascularisation via cardiac catheterization. The regions of myocardium are still viable and can return to normal function. There develops a new steady state between myocardial blood flow (MBF) and myocardial function, MBF reduced and in consequence function is reduced too. The clinical situations where one can expect hibernating myocardium are:
 * chronic stable angina
 * unstable angina
 * silent ischemia
 * after AMI

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Talk:Military of the Faroe Islands

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Danish military runs a NATO radar base on the Faroes. The soldiers are sitting in the base of Mjørkdalur: http://home19.inet.tele.dk/mdl Arne List 22:20, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

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Please note this article was removed from category:militaries by User:Huaiwei. — Instantnood 18:38, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Your point being?--Huaiwei 18:54, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * To notify other wikipedians that such an edit to the article was made. — Instantnood 19:25, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Their watchlists and article history don't tell them that? SchmuckyTheCat 21:40, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Not every wikipedian reading this article is having it in her/his watchlist. When time goes by there will be many pages of history for this article. — Instantnood 20:02, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * So who do you think will have this article in their watchlist? And who will want to go through mountains of history to come to this?--Huaiwei 13:18, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * That's why I put a short note here on this talk page. — Instantnood 13:26, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * My question is who. Answer my question and dont evade it.--Huaiwei 13:34, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I've not idea who will have this article in their watchlist, and who will want to go through the history of the article. I'm interested to know why you're asking me such questions. — Instantnood 13:40, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * If you have no idea who you are doing this for, when why do you do this? Your claims of ignorance dosent tally with your actions, it seems.--Huaiwei 14:03, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Interesting.. Schmucky asked me why watchlist and history can't do the same, and you took this as an opportunity to challenge why I had to do so. Do I have to designate a target group to have something being noted in a talk page? — Instantnood 14:09, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * What has my simple question gotta do with him? As for the "target group", if you have one, please tell us who they are. If they are none, then you have even more reason to explain why you did the above actions, because otherwise it will make no sense. Again, I am demanding an answer.--Huaiwei 14:46, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * To repeat, do I have to designate a target group to have something being noted in a talk page? The target is obviously anybody who would arrive at this talk page. — Instantnood 15:13, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * And I repeat. Your failure in answering this question will suggest a lack of a "target" when initiating an "action". Logic tells us this usually does not happen. Your refusal to answer the questions suggests you are hiding an agenda. So, you answer it, or not answer it, you are already at a loosing end.--Huaiwei 15:21, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * It's so interesting you can come up with an assumption in this way. Alright I now declare myself the loser and u're the winner. Congratulations~ — Instantnood 15:37, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * But its not my assumption dear. Its psychological. And who cares if you are the loser and who is the winner? I am still demanding an answer to the above.--Huaiwei 07:37, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Missing article
Would there be any reason why there isn't an article on this topic, whereas there's one for Greenland? Is the Faroe Islands not as autonomous as Greenland in defence matters? Apart from Greenland there are also similar Wikipedia articles on Åland, Aruba, Bermuda, the Falkland Islands, the British Virgin Islands, and so on. 220.246.55.231 (talk) 14:03, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

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The Shaggy Dog (1959 film)

The Shaggy Dog is a 1959 American fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and loosely based on the 1923 novel The Hound of Florence by Felix Salten. Directed by Charles Barton from a screenplay by Lillie Hayward and Bill Walsh, the film stars Fred MacMurray, Tommy Kirk, Jean Hagen, Kevin Corcoran, Tim Considine, Roberta Shore, and Annette Funicello. The film follows a teenage boy named Wilby Daniels who, by the power of an enchanted ring of the Borgias, is transformed into a shaggy Old English Sheepdog.

The film was released on March 19, 1959, and grossed over $9 million during its initial release, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 1959. Its successes spawned a franchise thereafter including: a sequel The Shaggy D.A. (1976), starring Dean Jones, Tim Conway, and Suzanne Pleshette. It was followed by a 1987 television sequel, a 1994 television remake and a 2006 theatrical live-action remake.

Plot
Wilbur "Wilby" Daniels is a boy who is misunderstood by his father, Wilson. Wilson thinks Wilby is crazy half the time because of his elder son's often dangerous inventions. As a retired mailman who often ran afoul of canines, he hates dogs, and cannot understand why his younger son, Montgomery ("Moochie"), wants one.

Wilby and his rival Buzz Miller go with French girl Francesca Andrassy to a museum. Wilby gets separated from the other two, who leave without him. Wilby encounters former acquaintance Professor Plumcutt (whose newspaper Wilby used to deliver), who starts speaking about mystical ancient beliefs, including the legend of the Borgia family, who used shape-shifting as a weapon against their enemies.

On the way out, Wilby collides with a table that holds a display case of jewelry. He accidentally ends up with one of the rings in the cuff of his pants. It is the cursed Borgia ring, and after reading the inscription on it ("In canis corpore transmuto, which, unknown to Wilby, means, "Into a dog's body I change"), he transforms into Chiffon, Francesca's shaggy "Bratislavian sheepdog", a.k.a Old English Sheepdog. Confused, Wilby, as a dog, goes to Professor Plumcutt, who says the Borgia curse can only be broken through a heroic act of selflessness. After getting chased out of his own house by his enraged father, who fails to recognize him as a dog, Wilby has various misadventures while switching back and forth between human form and dog form. Only Moochie and Professor Plumcutt know his true identity, as Wilby has spoken to them both in dog form. While at a dance in his human form, he accidentally transforms himself into a dog.

Francesca sees that Chiffon has been acting strangely, and asks her adoptive father, Dr. Andrassy, to watch over Chiffon for the night. As she exits, Thurm, an associate of Dr. Andrassy, enters. Wilby, as a dog, overhears Thurm and Dr. Valasky discuss plans to steal a government secret.

The next day, Wilby, as a dog, tells Moochie about the spies. Wilby reveals the secret to his dumbfounded father. As Wilby and Moochie discuss what to do next, Francesca's butler Stefano drags Wilby into the house. Moochie runs to his father to get help, who goes to the authorities, until Wilson finds himself accused of being either crazy or a spy.

Stefano and Francesca's adoptive father, Dr. Andrassy, are discussing plans to steal a government secret, and Wilby, as a dog, overhears. He however transforms into human Wilby right in front of the spies and has been discovered, but not before he hears Dr. Andrassy expressing his wish to get rid of his own daughter.

The spies capture Wilby and force Francesca to leave with them, leaving the human Wilby bound and gagged in the closet at once. Moochie sneaks into the house just after Dr. Andrassy, Stefano, and Francesca leave, and discovers Wilby, who is transformed into a dog, still bound and gagged in the closet.

When Buzz appears at the Andrassy residence to take Francesca on a date, Wilby, still in his dog form, steals Buzz's hot rod automobile. Buzz reports this to Officers Hansen and Kelly, who are taken for fools when they report the suspect as a "large shaggy dog", until this is sighted by two policemen who decide to aid Kelly and Hansen. Wilson and Moochie follow Buzz and the police, who end up chasing everyone. The spies attempt to leave aboard a boat, but the police call in the water police to apprehend Dr. Andrassy and stop his boat. Wilby, in his dog form, swims up and wrestles with the men, as Francesca gets knocked out of the boat. Wilby drags her to shore, where Buzz tries to take credit for her rescue. This angers Wilby, who is still a dog and attacks Buzz. Wilby's snarling soon turns into a tirade as Wilby finds himself wrestling with Buzz. Buzz is perplexed that Wilby came out of nowhere. Francesca awakens to see a wet Chiffon and hugs it thinking he was her rescuer. When Wilby notices he and Chiffon are seen together, he realizes he has broken the Borgia curse.

Now that Wilson and Chiffon are declared heroes, Francesca can leave for Paris without her evil adoptive father and former butler, both of whom have been arrested for espionage, and she gives Chiffon to the Daniels family as her way of thanking them. Since Wilson has gotten such commendation for foiling a spy ring because of "his love of dogs", he stops hating dogs and allows Moochie to care for Chiffon. Wilby and Buzz decide to forget their rivalry over Francesca and resume their friendship instead.

Development
Walt Disney had previously bought the rights to Felix Salten's 1923 novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods and produced an adaptation of it in 1942 under his animation department. Prior to that film's release, Walt Disney bought the rights to five more Salten novels in May 1941, as well as options to have him adapt them. The novels were Bambi's Children, Perri, Renni, City Jungle, and The Hound of Florence. He did not want to make Bambi's Children but did not want anyone else to make it, but he intended to make the other films as cartoons. Salten was then living in Switzerland and was paid out of funds owing to Disney's then-distributor RKO Radio Pictures which had been "frozen" in that country; this would be credited against money RKO owed Disney for distributing his films. Salten died in Zurich in 1945.

In June 1955, when Disney was making Lady and the Tramp, he said he still had no plans to film The Hound of Florence. However, ABC wanted Disney to make another TV series, and he pitched them The Shaggy Dog, "a story that treated the younger generation and its problems in a light manner. They turned me down flat. I was hopping mad when I went back to the studio, so I called in Bill Walsh and said 'Let's make a feature of it.'" Star Tommy Kirk later claimed the film was meant to be a two-part television show and "only at the very last minute did they decide to splice them together and release them as a film."

In the late 1950s, the idea of an adult human turning into a beast was nothing new, but the idea of a teenager doing just that in a film was considered avant-garde and even shocking in 1957 when American International Pictures released their horror film, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, one of the studio's biggest hits. The Shaggy Dog betrays its successful forebear with Fred MacMurray's classic bit of dialogue: "That's ridiculous—my son is not a werewolf! He's nothing more than just a big, baggy, stupid-looking shaggy dog!"

The director was Charles Barton, who also directed Spin and Marty for The Mickey Mouse Club. Veteran screenwriter Lillie Hayward also worked on the Spin and Marty serials, which featured several of the same young actors as The Shaggy Dog. Disney producer Bill Walsh mused that "The Shaggy Dog" was the direct inspiration for the TV show My Three Sons, and Walsh said "Same kids, same dog and Fred MacMurray!"

Casting
The lead role went to Tommy Kirk, who had started with Disney in a Hardy Boys serial for The Mickey Mouse Club alongside Tim Considine. Considine also played a role, as did Annette Funicello who had been the most popular member of The Mickey Mouse Club. It was Funicello's first film.

It took several months for Disney to find the right dog.

Kirk later said: "At the time, I viewed it as a fairy tale, but in later years, I've come to think that the film has one of the screwiest combinations of plot elements in any movie ever made. It has all the realistic elements of the Cold War -- Russian spies plotting against the government -- mixed in with a rivalry over Annette between two teenage boys, mixed in with a fantasy about a boy who turns into a dog because he encounters a ring from the Borgias!"

Filming
Filming started on August 4, 1958. Disney later recalled that "nobody — not even on the lot — paid any attention to us. We made the picture for one and a quarter million dollars while the rest of the town was turning out super dupers."

Tim Considine was clawed in the eye by the sheepdog during filming.

Dialogue would be written to match the mouth movements of the dog. If the dog did not move its mouth, beef jerky was used.

Kirk said he had "beautiful memories of" Barton, "as he was a very gentle, nice person with a good sense of humor". He also enjoyed working with MacMurray: "I thought he was a great actor. I liked him enormously. I tried to get to know him, and got to know him a little bit, but he did have a kind of wall that I never got around. He was distant, he was conservative, and kind of remote. He didn't go out and have lunch. Instead, he had a tiny can of Metrecal — a horrible diet drink. There were stories about him being cheap, and I heard that he was worth $500 million at the time of his death. But I just loved him. They say he was Walt Disney's favorite actor, and I can understand that. He ranks up there with Cary Grant as one of the great light comics." Veteran Disney voice actor Paul Frees had a rare on-screen appearance in the film — for which he received no on-screen credit — as Dr. J.W. Galvin, a psychiatrist who examines Wilby's father (MacMurray), Wilson Daniels. Frees also did his usual voice acting by also playing the part of the narrator who informs the audience that Wilson Daniels is a "man noted for the fact that he is allergic to dogs".

Reception
The Shaggy Dog was the second-highest-grossing film of 1959 and was Disney's most financially successful film of the 1950s. During its initial release, the film grossed $9.6 million in domestic theatrical rentals on a budget of less than $1 million, making it more profitable than the year's highest-grossing film, Ben-Hur. The Shaggy Dog also performed very strongly on a 1967 re-release. The film was the most profitable film made by Disney at that time.

According to Diabolique, "the movie kicked off a whole bunch of comedies with a slight fantastical element that powered Disney film division for the next two decades. Much of the credit went to MacMurray; a lot of the credit should have gone to Kirk, whose easy-going boy next door charm made him the ideal American teen".

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 68% approval rating with an average rating of 5.8/10, based on 19 reviews. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 45 out of 100 based on 6 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Novelization
While the film is based on Salten's The Hound of Florence, a novelization of the film published by Scholastic eight years later in 1967 made some changes to the plot. First, Funicello's character Allison was removed entirely, and her name is not listed among the movie's principal performers. As a result, the rivalry between Wilby and Buzz is greatly reduced. Also, Dr. Valasky is changed into Francesca's uncle, not her adoptive father.

A comic book adaptation also appeared from Western Publishing, which followed the film's storyline more closely. This was reprinted in 1978 as a companion story to an adaptation of The Cat from Outer Space.

Legacy
The Shaggy Dog was at that time the most profitable film produced by Walt Disney Productions, which influenced the studio's follow-up live-action film production. Using a formula of placing supernatural and/or fantastical forces within everyday mid-twentieth century American life, the studio created a series of "gimmick comedies" (a term used by Disney historian and film critic Leonard Maltin) with action to keep children entertained and some light satire to amuse the adult audience. Using television actors on their summer hiatus who were familiar to audiences but did not necessarily have enough clout to receive over-the-title billing (or a large fee) from another major studio was one way these comedies were produced inexpensively, they also tended to use the same sets from the Disney backlot repeatedly. This allowed Walt Disney Productions a low-risk scenario for production, any of these films could easily make back their investment just from moderate matinee attendance in neighborhood theatres, and they could also be packaged on the successful Disney anthology television series The Wonderful World of Disney.

The popular television series My Three Sons (1960–1972) reunited MacMurray and Considine, and also features a pet shaggy sheepdog named "Tramp".

Sequels

 * The film was followed in 1976 with a theatrical sequel, The Shaggy D.A., starring Dean Jones as a 45-year-old Wilby Daniels.
 * In 1987, a two-part television movie set somewhere in the 17 years between the events portrayed in The Shaggy Dog and The Shaggy D.A., entitled The Return of the Shaggy Dog, presented a post–Saturday Night Live Gary Kroeger as a 30-something Wilby Daniels.

Remakes

 * In 1994, the first remake of the film was a television movie, with Disney regular Scott Weinger as a teenaged Wilbert "Wilby" Joseph Daniels, and Ed Begley Jr. playing a part similar to the one originated by Fred MacMurray in 1959.
 * In 2006, Disney released a live-action remake of the film with Tim Allen as a 50-something Dave Douglas. This film has an entirely different story, characters, and transformation plot device unrelated to the original trilogy. To tie-in with the theatrical release of the 2006 remake, the original 1959 film was re-issued in the United States as a special DVD labeled The Wild & Woolly Edition, which featured the film in two forms: one in the original black and white, the other a colorized version. The colorized version however is not restored and suffers from age. In the UK, the 1959 film has only ever been made available on DVD in black and white. The 2006 remake and Tim Allen's performance was poorly received by critics and fans of the 1959 original and 1994 remake, with a moderately successful box office return.

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Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp

The Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp is an American twin-row, 18-cylinder, air-cooled radial aircraft engine with a displacement of 2,800 cuin, and is part of the long-lived Wasp family of engines. The R-2800 saw widespread use in many important American aircraft during and after World War II. During the war years, Pratt & Whitney continued to develop new ideas to upgrade the engine, including water injection for takeoff in cargo and passenger planes and to give emergency power in combat.

Design and development
First run in 1937, near the time that the larger 3347.9 cuin competing 18-cylinder Wright Duplex-Cyclone's development had been started in May of that year, the 2804.5 cuin displacement R-2800 was first-flown by 1940, one year before the Duplex-Cyclone. The Double Wasp was more powerful than the world's only other modern 18-cylinder engine, the Gnome-Rhône 18L of 3442 cuin.

The Double Wasp was much smaller in displacement than either of the other 18-cylinder designs, and heat dissipation was a greater problem. To enable more efficient cooling, the usual practice of casting or forging the cylinder head cooling fins that had been effective enough for other engine designs was discarded, and instead, much thinner and closer-pitched cooling fins were machined from the solid metal of the cylinder-head forging. The fins were all cut at the same time by a gang of milling saws, automatically guided as it fed across the head in such a way that the bottom of the grooves rose and fell to make the roots of the fins follow the contour of the head, with the elaborate process substantially increasing the surface area of the fins.

The twin distributors on the Double Wasp were prominently mounted on the upper surface of the forward gear reduction housing - with one of the pair of magnetos mounted between them on most models - and almost always prominently visible within a cowling, with the conduits for the spark plug wires emerging from the distributors' cases either directly forward or directly behind them, or on the later C-series R-2800s with the two-piece gear reduction housings, on the "outboard" sides of the distributor casings. When the R-2800 was introduced in 1939, it was capable of producing 2000 hp, for a specific power value of 0.71 hp/cuin. The design of conventional air-cooled radial engines had become so scientific and systematic by then that the Double Wasp was introduced with a smaller incremental power increase than was typical of earlier engines. Nevertheless, in 1941 the power output of production models increased to 2100 hp, and to 2400 hp late in the war. Even more was coaxed from experimental models, with fan-cooled subtypes like the R-2800-57 producing 2800 hp, but in general the R-2800 was a rather highly developed powerplant right from the beginning.

WWII

The R-2800 powered several types of fighters and medium bombers during the war, including the US Navy's Vought F4U Corsair, with the XF4U-1 first prototype Corsair becoming the first airframe to fly (as originally designed) with the Double Wasp in its XR-2800-4 prototype version on May 29, 1940, and the first single-engine American fighter plane to exceed 400 mph in level flight during October 1940. The R-2800 also powered the Corsair's naval rival, the Grumman F6F Hellcat, the US Army Air Forces' Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (which uniquely, for single-engined aircraft, used a General Electric turbocharger), the twin-engine Martin B-26 Marauder and Douglas A-26 Invader, as well as the first purpose-built twin-engine radar-equipped night fighter, the Northrop P-61 Black Widow.

When the US entered the war in December 1941, designs advanced rapidly, and long-established engines such as the Wright Cyclone and Double Wasp were re-rated on fuel of much higher octane rating (anti-knock value) to give considerably more power. By 1944, versions of the R-2800 powering late-model P-47s (and other aircraft) had a rating (experimental) of 2800 hp on 115-grade fuel with water injection.

After World War II, the engine was used in the Korean War, and surplus World War II aircraft powered by the Double Wasp served with other countries well past the Korean War, some being retired as late as the latter part of the 1960s when the aircraft were replaced.

Peacetime
Engines grow in power with development, but a major war demands the utmost performance from engines fitted to aircraft whose life in front-line service was unlikely to exceed 50 hours flying, over a period of only a month or two. In peacetime however, the call was for reliability over a period of perhaps a dozen years, and the R-2800's reliability commended its use for long-range patrol aircraft and for the Douglas DC-6, Martin 4-0-4, and Convair 240 transports. The last two were twin-engine aircraft of size, passenger capacity, and high wing loading comparable to the DC-4 - itself usually powered by the R-2000 bored-out version of the Twin Wasp - and the first Constellations, which mostly used Wright Aeronautical's large Duplex-Cyclones.

The Double Wasp still flies in restored vintage warbird aircraft displayed at air shows, and sees service worldwide on aircraft such as the Canadair CL-215 water-bomber. In addition, R-2800s continue to power Douglas DC-6 cargo and fuel-carrying aircraft in locations such as Alaska. A total of 125,334 R-2800 engines were produced between 1939 and 1960.

Variants
This is a list of representative R-2800 variants, describing some of the mechanical changes made during development of the Double Wasp. Power ratings quoted are usually maximum "military" power that the engine could generate on takeoff and at altitude; 100 Octane fuel was used, unless otherwise noted.

The R-2800 was developed and modified into a basic sequence of subtypes, "A" through "E" series, each of which indicated major internal and external modifications and improvements, such that the "E" series engines had very few parts in common with the "A".. Pratt & Whitney's internal variant identification incorporated the series letter as part of the designation, for example Double Wasp S1A4-G ("A" series) and Double Wasp CB17 ("C" series).

 * Note:Suffixes such as -S14A-G denote engines developed for export to other countries.

Data from White (Airlife) unless otherwise noted:

Military
The dash number for each military type (e.g.: -21) was allocated to identify the complete engine model in accordance with the specification under which the engine was manufactured. Thus dash numbers did not necessarily indicate the sequence in which the engines were manufactured. For example: the -18W was a "C" series engine, built from 1945, whereas the -21 was a "B" series engine, built from 1943.

Until 1940 the armed forces adhered strictly to the convention that engines built for the Army Air Forces used engine model numbers with odd numeric suffixes (e.g.: -5), while those built for the US Navy used even (e.g.: -8). After 1940, however, in the interests of standardization, engines were sometimes built to a joint Army-Navy contract, in which case the engines used a common numeric suffix (e.g. the -10 was used by both Army and Navy aircraft.)

The suffix W e.g.: -10W denotes a sub-series modified to use water injection. The "Anti-Detonant Injection" (ADI) system injected a mixture of water and methanol into the carburetor to increase power for short periods. Several models of the R-2800s were fitted with ADI as standard equipment and were not given the W suffix. Few commercial aircraft used water injection.

"A" Series:
 * R-2800-1
 * 1,500 hp at 2,400 rpm at 7,500 ft. Production prototype of "A" series engines with the first flight test July 29, 1939. Single-speed two-stage supercharger. Production = 2 (P&W). Tested in Vultee YA-19B.

 * R-2800-5
 * 1,850 hp at 2,600 rpm at 2,700 ft. Main production "A" series engine used in Martin B-26A, early B series and XB-26D and Curtiss C-55/XC-46. Production = 1,429 (P&W 475, Ford 954.)

 * R-2800-39 - 2,000 hp
 * Double Wasp S1A4-G - 1,850 hp

"B" Series:
 * R-2800-8
 * 2,000 hp at 2,700 rpm at 1,000 ft; 1,800 hp at 2,700 rpm at 15,500 ft. First series production "B" Series engine using a two-stage, two-speed supercharger and with internal engineering changes resulting in increased power and reliability. Updraft Bendix-Stromberg PT-13D-4 pressure carburetor. First production engines delivered to USN November 11, 1941. Used in Brewster F3A-1, Goodyear FG-1, Vought F4U-1 and F4U-2. Production = 3,903 (P&W 2,194; Nash 1,709.)

 * R-2800-8W
 * 2,250 hp WEP with water injection. First production engine using ADI equipment, major production version of -8 and used in some versions of F4U Corsair. Production = 8,668 (P&W 5,574; Nash 3,094.)

 * R-2800-10 and R-2800-10W
 * 2,000 hp at 2,700 rpm at 1,000 ft; 1,800 hp at 2,700 rpm at 15,500 ft; up to 2,250 hp WEP with water injection. Similar to -8 series apart from downdraft PT-13G2-10 and PT-13G6-10 (-10W) carburetor. Used in Curtiss XP-60E, Grumman F6F-3 (-10; late production -10W) and F6F-5 (-10W) series and Northrop XP-61, YP-61, and P-61A-1. Production = 4,621 -10 (P&W 2,931; Nash 1,690) and 12,940 -10W (P&W 3,040; Nash 9,900); Total = 17,561.

 * R-2800-21
 * 2,000 hp at 2,700 rpm at 2,500 ft; 2,000 hp at 2,700 rpm at 25,000 ft. First production variant fed by a General Electric C-1 turbosupercharger. Designed for use in the Republic P-47B, C, D, G and XP-47F and K. Production = 5,720 (P&W 1,049; Ford 4,671.)

 * R-2800-25 - 2,000 hp — for Northrop P-61 Black Widow
 * R-2800-27 - 2,000 hp
 * R-2800-31 - 2,000 hp
 * R-2800-41 - 2,000 hp
 * R-2800-43 - 2,000 hp
 * R-2800-51 - 2,000 hp
 * R-2800-59
 * 2,000 hp at 2,700 rpm at 2,500 ft; 2,000 hp at 2,500 rpm at 25,000 ft; 2,300 hp WEP with water injection. Main production variant used in P-47 series, fed by an improved C-23 turbosupercharger. Differed from -21 in being fitted with ADI and a General Electric ignition system with a simplified tubular ignition harness developed by the Scintilla company in partnership with Bendix. Used in P-47C and D, XP-47L. Production = 11,391 (P&W 592; Ford 10,799).

 * R-2800-59W - 2,500 hp
 * R-2800-65 - 2,000 hp
 * R-2800-65W - 2,250 hp
 * R-2800-71 - 2,000 hp
 * R-2800-75 - 2,200 hp
 * R-2800-79 - 2,100 hp
 * Double Wasp 2SB-G - 1,850 hp

"C" Series

 * R-2800-18W
 * 2,100 hp at 2,800 rpm at 1,000 ft; 1,800 hp at 2,800 rpm at 25,500 ft. First series production variant of the "C" Series, which was a complete redesign of the R-2800. Some of the main changes were: forged rather than cast cylinders, allowing an increased compression ratio (from 6.65:1 to 6.75:1); a redesigned crankshaft; a single piece (rather than split) crankcase center section; a two section nose casing, incorporating hydraulically operated torque-monitoring equipment and an automatic vacuum-operated spark-advance unit. The supercharger used fluid coupling for the second stage. Updraft Bendix-Stromberg PT-13G2-10 carburetor. Used in Vought F4U-4 and -4 variants. Production = 3,257 (P&W).

 * R-2800-22W - 2,400 hp
 * R-2800-34 - 2,100 hp
 * R-2800-34W - 2,100 hp, 2,400 hp with water-methanol injection
 * R-2800-44 - 2,300 hp
 * R-2800-44W - 2,400 hp
 * R-2800-48 - 2,500 hp
 * R-2800-48W - 2,400 hp
 * R-2800-52W - 2,500 hp
 * R-2800-54 - 2,100 hp
 * R-2800-57 - 2,800 hp
 * R-2800-57C - 2,800 hp
 * R-2800-73 - 2,800 hp — with General Electric CH-5-A3 turbocharger for P-61C Black Widow
 * R-2800-77 - 2,800 hp
 * R-2800-83 - 2,100 hp
 * R-2800-83AM - 2,100 hp
 * R-2800-99W - 2,300 hp
 * R-2800-103W - 2,500 hp
 * Double Wasp CB16 - 2,400 hp, 2,500 hp
 * Double Wasp CB17 - 2,500 hp
 * Double Wasp S1C3-G - 2,100 hp

"D" Series:
 * R-2800-23 - 2,200 hp
 * R-2800-29 - 2,000 hp

"E" Series:
 * R-2800-30W  - 2,250 hp, 2,500 hp with water-methanol injection — with variable speed single-stage supercharger for Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat
 * R-2800-32W  - 2,450 hp, 2,850 hp with water-methanol injection — with variable speed two-stage supercharger for Vought F4U-5 Corsair

Applications
The following is a partial list of aircraft that were powered by the R-2800 (and a few prototypes that utilized it at one point):

• Brewster XA-32

• Breguet Deux-Ponts

• Canadair CL-215

• Canadair C-5 North Star

• Consolidated TBY Sea Wolf

• Convair 240, 340, and 440

• Curtiss P-60

• Curtiss XF15C

• Curtiss C-46 Commando

• Douglas A-26 Invader

• Douglas DC-6

• Fairchild C-82 Packet

• Fairchild C-123 Provider

• Grumman AF Guardian

• Grumman F6F Hellcat

• Grumman F7F Tigercat

• Grumman F8F Bearcat

• Howard 500

• Lockheed Ventura/B-34 Lexington/PV-1 Ventura/PV-2 Harpoon

• Lockheed XC-69E Constellation

• Martin B-26 Marauder

• Martin PBM-5 Mariner

• Martin 2-0-2

• Martin 4-0-4

• North American AJ Savage

• North American XB-28

• Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet

• Northrop P-61 Black Widow

• Northrop F-15 Reporter

• Republic P-47 Thunderbolt

• Sikorsky CH-37 Mojave

• Sikorsky S-60

• Vickers Warwick

• Vought F4U Corsair

• Vultee YA-19B

Engines on display

 * There is an R-2800-39 on display at the New England Air Museum, Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, CT.
 * An R-2800 used on Finnair Convair Metropolitan is on public display at Helsinki Airport.
 * An R-2800 Double Wasp is on display at the Aerospace Discovery at the Florida Air Museum.
 * An R-2800 Double Wasp Cutout is on display at Texas State Technical College in Waco Texas.
 * An R-2800 Double Wasp manufactured by Ford Motor Company is on display at the Yankee Air Museum Belleville, Michigan
 * An R-2800-8W Double Wasp is on display at the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum at MCAS Miramar, California.
 * An R-2800 Double Wasp moving cut-away is on display at the USS Midway Museum at San Diego, California.
 * An R-2800 Double Wasp is on display at (The National Museum of WWII Aviation) located in (Colorado Springs, Colorado).
 * An R-2800-34 Double Wasp is on public at the Aerospace Museum of California.
 * Two R-2800 Double Wasps are displayed alongside a B-25 at the Girua Airport, Popondetta, Oro Province, Papua New Guinea.

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Talk:Home Depot

A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion
The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion: Participate in the deletion discussion at the. —Community Tech bot (talk) 18:37, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
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When was opening day, really?
I saw a mention in the article that the first stores opened on June 21, 1979, while the official online corporate history asserts it was the next day. (Granted, the source for the June 21 date was published on a June 21st, which may have caused a Freudian slip.) [[User:Rickyrab2|Rickyrab (2nd account)!]] | [[Talk:Rickyrab2| yada yada yada]] (old page: [[User:Rickyrab]]) (talk) 07:22, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Infobox Addition
Hi, I have disclosed my conflict of interest per Wikipedia:COI on my User page and on this page above. I would like to request the following edits which will enhance the usefulness of the page to Wikipedia readers, adding information and clarifying details:

- In the infobox, Ken Langone should be added as a Founder of Home Depot. This fact has been substantiated in numerous media outlets  and on Home Depot's own website.

KGL Rep (talk) 15:37, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ Happy Editing-- IAm Chaos  02:11, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

 * Thank you for your help in making those edits. Based on the references cited above, could we also add Ken Langone to the first sentence in the first paragraph under "History" so that it reads: "The Home Depot was co-founded by Bernard Marcus, Arthur Blank, Ron Brill, Pat Farrah, and Ken Langone in 1978." KGL Rep (talk) 16:35, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Done. Also restored the previous COI edit, which another user had reverted.  By adding the WP:RS to the reference in the article body, perhaps the infobox change will stick this time. W.stanovsky (talk) 00:03, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose that Blinds.com be merged into The Home Depot as Blinds.com is not notable, has very few reliable third party sources, and was acquired by The Home Depot. I believe the Blinds.com article should be trimmed and then added to a separate section in The Home Depot. Toast  (talk)  15:27, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Requested move 15 April 2024

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 03:13, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

The Home Depot → Home Depot – Looking at the sources in the article, "Home Depot" seems to, by far, be the WP:COMMONNAME in independent sources. It's also used in some primary sources, such as, and is a more global title, as Home Depot Canada does not use "The" in their branding. The article was moved to Home Depot in this 2006 discussion and moved back in this 2008 discussion where half the support votes were essentially "it's the official name". In light of Wikipedia:Naming conventions (companies) § Leading The  being updated to say a leading definite (The) or indefinite (A, An) article is normally included in the article title, it seems like we should revisit this topic, especially since both discussions were before WP:OFFICALNAME was even promoted to "essay" status and 8 of the 17 examples of "The" company articles given in the second discussion have since been moved to remove the "The". --Ahecht (TALK PAGE ) 20:22, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. microbiology Marcus [petri dish·growths] 20:48, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Cfls (talk) 21:06, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

 * Support per nom.
 * DS537(WIR) 21:30, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support per nom. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:25, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Support - nom's rationale is tight. Primergrey (talk) 20:49, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

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Obersturmbannführer

Obersturmbannführer (Senior Assault-unit Leader; ; short: Ostubaf) was a paramilitary rank in the German Nazi Party (NSDAP) which was used by the SA (Sturmabteilung) and the SS (Schutzstaffel). The rank of Obersturmbannführer was junior to the rank of Standartenführer, and was equivalent to the military rank of Oberstleutnant (lieutenant colonel) in the German Army.

As the SA expanded, the rank of Ostubaf was created in May 1933 to provide a rank above Sturmbannführer; likewise, the Ostubaf was an SS rank. The Obersturmbannführer rank insignia was composed of four silver pips and a black stripe on a silver background, all elements are centered in the left wing of the collar of the tunic of an SS or of an SA uniform. The rank also was worn on the shoulder boards of an Oberstleutnant and was the highest rank in the SS and the SA to display SS unit insignia on the collar wing opposite the rank insignia.

Various Waffen-SS units composed of foreign recruits were considered distinct from the German SS, and thus they were not permitted to wear SS runes on their collar tabs but had their divisional insignia instead. Their ranks were also prepended with "Waffen" instead of "SS", as in, Waffen-Obersturmbannführer.

Adolf Eichmann
In 1940, Adolf Eichmann was promoted to Obersturmbannführer, and was listed as such in the minutes of the Wannsee Conference held in January 1942. In 1961, during the Eichmann trial for Lt. Col. Eichmann's crimes against humanity, the chief prosecutor, Gideon Hausner, drew attention to the executive significance and command responsibility of the rank of Obersturmbannführer, in response to Eichmann's claim that he was merely a clerk obeying orders; Hausner asked, "Were you an Obersturmbannführer or an office girl?"

In the book Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963) the political theoretician Hannah Arendt said that Obersturmbannführer was not a rank of significance, because Eichmann whiled away the war time awaiting promotion to the rank of Standartenführer. That "people like Eichmann, who had risen from the ranks, were never permitted to advance beyond a lieutenant colonel [i.e. Obersturmbannführer] except at the front", in combat with the enemy.

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Timeless

Timeless (or atemporal) or timelessness (or atemporality) may refer to:

 * Akal (Sikh term), timelessness in Sikhism
 * Eternity, timeless existence or infinite duration
 * Immortality, everlasting life not limited by time

Film and television

 * Timeless (film), a 2016 German film
 * Timeless (TV series), a 2016–2018 American science fiction series
 * Timeless (Philippine TV series) or Sana'y Wala Nang Wakas, a 2003–2004 drama series
 * Barbra Streisand: Timeless, a 2001 television special by Barbra Streisand
 * "Timeless" (The Flash), a television episode
 * "Timeless" (Star Trek: Voyager), a television episode

Literature

 * Timeless (Carriger novel), a 2012 novel by Gail Carriger
 * Timeless (Cole novel), a 2003 Doctor Who novel by Stephen Cole
 * Timeless (Monir novel), a 2011 novel by Alexandra Monir

Music

 * Timeless (Barbra Streisand), a 2000 concert tour
 * Timeless (Bert Nievera), a 1990–2002 concert series
 * Timeless (Mylène Farmer), a 2013 concert tour
 * Timeless Festival, in Huddersfield, England 2002–2005
 * Timeless Records, a Dutch jazz record label

Albums

 * Timeless (Bobby Vinton album), 1989
 * Timeless (Chuck Brown album), 1998
 * Timeless (Dallas Smith album) or the title song (see below), 2020
 * Timeless (Davido album), 2023
 * Timeless (Diane Schuur album), 1986
 * Timeless (Eric Martin album), originally Mr. Vocalist 2, 2009
 * Timeless (Goldie album) or the title song, 1995
 * Timeless (Il Divo album), 2018
 * Timeless (Isley Brothers album), 1978
 * Timeless (Jim Ankan Deka album), 2012
 * Timeless (John Abercrombie album) or the title song, 1975
 * Timeless (Kenny Lattimore album), 2008
 * Timeless (Khalil Fong album), 2009
 * Timeless (Martina McBride album), 2005
 * Timeless (Meghan Trainor album), 2024
 * Timeless (N-Dubz album), 2023
 * Timeless (Onewe album), 2022
 * Timeless (Piolo Pascual album), 2007
 * Timeless (Sarah Brightman album), 1997
 * Timeless (Sérgio Mendes album) or the title song, 2006
 * Timeless (Ungu album), 2012
 * Timeless (Uverworld album), 2006
 * Timeless (Wet Wet Wet album), 2007
 * Timeless (Kaytranada album), 2024
 * Timeless, Live at the Velvet Lounge, by Fred Anderson, 2006
 * Timeless: Live in Concert, by Barbra Streisand, 2000
 * Timeless: The All-Time Greatest Hits, by the Bee Gees, 2017
 * Timeless: The Classics, by Michael Bolton, 1992
 * Timeless: The Classics Vol. 2, by Michael Bolton, 1999
 * Timeless, by After 7, 2016
 * Timeless, by Cormac De Barra and Moya Brennan, 2019
 * Timeless, by Home Free, 2017
 * Timeless, by Jami Sieber, 2013
 * Timeless, by Jeff Sipe, 2006
 * Timeless, by the Quebe Sisters, 2007
 * Timeless, by Shirley Brown, 1991
 * Timeless: Songs of a Century, by Michelle Creber, 2012
 * Timeless – Wendy Moten sings Richard Whiting, by Wendy Moten, 2014
 * Timeless...The Musical Legacy, by Badfinger, 2013

EPs

 * Timeless (Of Mice & Men EP) or the title song, 2021
 * Timeless, by Ron Browz, 2009
 * Timeless, by the Swon Brothers, 2016

Songs

 * "Timeless" (A Boogie wit da Hoodie song), 2016
 * "Timeless" (Dallas Smith song), 2019
 * "Timeless" (Queensberry song), 2012
 * "Timeless" (Reece Mastin song), 2013
 * "Timeless" (Zhang Liyin song), 2006
 * "Timeless", by Badfinger from Ass, 1973
 * "Timeless", by Benny the Butcher from Burden of Proof, 2020
 * "Timeless", by DMA's from Hills End, 2016
 * "Timeless", by In Flames from Subterranean, 1994
 * "Timeless", by Make Them Suffer from Old Souls, 2015
 * "Timeless", by NCT from NCT 2018 Empathy, 2018
 * "Timeless", by Of Mice & Men from Echo, 2021
 * "Timeless", by Pestilence from Hadeon, 2018
 * "Timeless", by Taylor Swift from Speak Now (Taylor's Version), 2023
 * "Timeless", by Textures from Phenotype, 2016
 * "Timeless", by UNVS, 2020
 * "Timelessness", by Fear Factory from Obsolete, 1998

Other

 * Timeless (radio network), a defunct American satellite music service
 * Timeless Media Group, an American home entertainment company

Science

 * Timeless (gene), a gene in Drosophila
 * Timelessness, in canonical quantum gravity, a property of the Wheeler–DeWitt equation

Sports

 * Timeless Test, a type of cricket match

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UWS

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Education

 * Swansea University, a university in Wales formerly known as the University of Wales, Swansea
 * University of the West of Scotland, a university operating across four campuses in Scotland
 * University of Western States, a university in Portland, Oregon
 * University of Western Sydney, a university in Australia
 * University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, Sheboygan Campus, a university campus in the United States formerly known as the University of Wisconsin–Sheboygan
 * University of Wisconsin–Stout, a university in the United States
 * University of Wisconsin–Superior, a university in the United States
 * Upper West Success Academy, the former name, renamed Success Academy Upper West, is part of Success Academy Charter Schools
 * United World Schools, a non-profit organisation

Places

 * Upper West Side, a neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States

Sports

 * United Women's Soccer, a second-division women's soccer league in the United States, founded in 2015

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