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Nanker Phelge

Nanker Phelge (also known as Nanker-Phelge) was a collective pseudonym used between 1963 and 1965 for several Rolling Stones group compositions. According to manager Andrew Loog Oldham the 'Nanker Phelge' credit was mostly used for tracks where the origin lay in blues standards from the 1950s they heard when visiting the Chess studios in Chicago. It also enabled Oldham to benefit from writing credits.

Stones bassist Bill Wyman explained the origins of the name in his 2002 book, Rolling with the Stones:

"When the Stones cut "Stoned" – or "Stones", according to early misprinted pressings – as the B-side to "I Wanna Be Your Man", Brian [Jones] suggested crediting it to Nanker Phelge. The entire band would share writing royalties. Phelge came from Edith Grove flatmate Jimmy Phelge, while a Nanker was a revolting face that band members, Brian in particular, would pull."

Thus anything credited to Nanker Phelge refers to a Mick Jagger/Brian Jones/Keith Richards/Charlie Watts/Bill Wyman/Andrew Loog Oldham collaborative composition. The ASCAP files for the very earliest Nanker Phelge compositions also list early Rolling Stones member Ian Stewart (also known as "the sixth Stone") as a co-author covered by the pseudonym.

The name resurfaced in the late 1960s on the labels of the original vinyl pressings of Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed. Manufacture of both albums was credited to Nanker Phelge, which was then acknowledged as an ABKCO company (ABKCO was manufacturing the records that still bore the London and Decca labels).

Songs credited to Nanker Phelge

 * "Stoned" (Oct. 1963) (ASCAP also credits Ian Stewart as co-writer)
 * "Little by Little" (Feb. 1964) (credited as 'Phelge') (co-written with Phil Spector; ASCAP also credits Ian Stewart as co-writer)
 * "Andrew's Blues" (Feb. 1964) (unreleased)
 * "And Mr. Spector and Mr. Pitney Came Too" (Feb. 1964) (an instrumental blues-rock jam with prominent harmonica, unreleased, co-written with Phil Spector) Appears on the Black Box bootleg compilation.
 * "Now I've Got a Witness" (credited as 'Phelge') (Apr. 1964)
 * "Stewed and Keefed (Brian's Blues)" (Jun. 1964)
 * "2120 South Michigan Avenue" (Aug. 1964)
 * "Empty Heart" (Aug. 1964)
 * "Off the Hook" (Nov. 1964) (originally credited to "Nanker, Phelge", but now credited to Jagger/Richards by BMI)
 * "Play with Fire" (Feb. 1965)
 * "The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man" (May 1965)
 * "The Spider and the Fly" (July 1965) (originally credited to "Nanker, Phelge" but now credited to Jagger/Richards by BMI)
 * "I'm All Right" (July 1965) (sometimes credited to Phelge/McDaniel, although it is an Ellas McDaniel cover song. Now credited to Jagger/Richards)
 * "Godzi" (unreleased but registered with BMI)
 * "We Want the Stones" (a recording of the audience cheering on the 1965 Got Live If You Want It! EP)
 * Bill Wyman claims in his books that "Paint It Black" was a collective effort of the group, and should have been credited to Nanker Phelge, but he didn't know why was credited to Jagger/Richards.

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Shanghaiing

Shanghaiing or crimping is the practice of kidnapping people to serve as sailors by coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence. Those engaged in this form of kidnapping were known as crimps. The related term press gang refers specifically to impressment practices in the United Kingdom's Royal Navy.

Etymology
The verb "shanghai" joined the lexicon with "crimping" and "sailor thieves" in the 1850s, possibly because Shanghai was a common destination of the ships with abducted crews. The term has since expanded to mean "kidnapped" or "induced to do something by means of fraud or coercion".

Background
Crimps flourished in port cities like London and Liverpool in England and in San Francisco, Portland, Astoria, Seattle, Savannah, and Port Townsend in the United States. On the West Coast of the United States, Portland eventually surpassed San Francisco for shanghaiing. On the East Coast of the United States, New York had the most incidents, followed by Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.

The role of crimps and the spread of the practice of shanghaiing resulted from a combination of laws, economic conditions, and the shortage of experienced sailors in England and on the American West Coast in the mid-19th century.

First, once an American sailor signed on board a vessel for a voyage, it was illegal for him to leave the ship before the voyage's end. The penalty was imprisonment, the result of federal legislation enacted in 1790 (this factor was mitigated by the Maguire Act of 1895 and the White Act of 1898, and finally abolished by the Seamen's Act of 1915).

Second, the practice was driven by a shortage of labor, particularly of skilled labor on ships on the West Coast. With crews abandoning ships en masse because of the California Gold Rush, a healthy body on board the ship was a boon.

By 1886, San Francisco surpassed New Bedford, Massachusetts as the United States' leading whaling port.

Finally, shanghaiing was made possible by the existence of boarding masters, whose job was to find crews for ships. Boarding masters were paid "by the body", and thus had a strong incentive to place as many seamen on ships as possible. This pay was called "blood money", and was just one of the revenue streams available. These factors set the stage for the crimp: a boarding master who uses trickery, intimidation, or violence to put a sailor on a ship.

The most straightforward method for a crimp to shanghai a sailor was to render him unconscious, forge his signature on the ship's articles, and pick up his "blood money". This approach was widely used, but there were more profitable methods.

In some situations, the boarding master could receive the first two, three, or four months of wages of a man he shipped out. Sailors were able to get an advance against their pay for an upcoming voyage to allow them to purchase clothes and equipment, but the advance wasn't paid directly to the sailor because he could simply abscond with the money. Instead, those to whom money was owed could claim it directly from the ship's captain. An enterprising crimp, already dealing with a seaman, could supplement his income by supplying goods and services to the seaman at an inflated price, and collecting the debt from the sailor's captain.

Some crimps made as much as $9,500 per year.

The crimps were well positioned politically to protect their lucrative trade.

Some examples included Jim "Shanghai" Kelly and Johnny "Shanghai Chicken" Devine of San Francisco, and Joseph "Bunko" Kelly of Portland. Stories of their ruthlessness are innumerable, and some made it into print.

Another example of romanticized stories involves the "birthday party" Shanghai Kelly threw for himself, in order to attract enough victims to man a notorious sailing ship named the Reefer and two other ships.

Ending the practice
Demand for manpower to keep ships sailing to Alaska and the Klondike kept crimping a real danger into the early 20th century, but the practice was finally ended by a series of legislative reforms that spanned almost 50 years.

Before 1865, maritime labor laws primarily enforced stricter discipline on board ships. However, after 1865, this began to change. In 1868, New York State started cracking down on sailors' boardinghouses. They declined in number from 169 in 1863 to 90 in 1872. Then in 1871, Congress passed legislation to revoke the license of officers guilty of mistreating seamen.

In 1872, Congress passed the Shipping Commissioners Act of 1872 to combat crimps. Under this act, a sailor had to sign on to a ship in the presence of a federal shipping commissioner. The presence of a shipping commissioner was intended to ensure the sailor wasn't "forcibly or unknowingly signed on by a crimp".

In 1884, the Dingley Act came into effect. This law prohibited the practice of seamen taking advances on wages. It also limited the making of seamen's allotments to only close relatives. However, the crimps fought back. In 1886, a loophole to the Dingley Act was created, allowing boardinghouse keepers to receive seamen's allotments.

The widespread adoption of steam-powered vessels in the world's merchant marine services in the late 19th and early 20th centuries radically altered the economics of seafaring. Without acres of canvas to be furled and unfurled, the demand for unskilled labor greatly diminished (and, by extension, crimping). The sinking of the RMS Titanic, followed by the onset of World War I (which made the high seas a much more dangerous place due to the threat of submarine attack), provided the final impetus to stamp out the practice. In 1915, Andrew Furuseth and Senator Robert M. La Follette pushed through the Seamen's Act of 1915 that made crimping a federal crime, and finally put an end to it.

Notable crimps

 * Maxwell Levy, Port Townsend's Crimper King
 * James "Shanghai" Kelly of San Francisco
 * Johnny "Shanghai Chicken" Devine of San Francisco
 * Joseph "Bunko" Kelly of Portland
 * "One-Eyed" Curtin
 * "Horseshoe" Brown
 * Dorothy Paupitz of San Francisco
 * Andy "Shanghai Canuck" Maloney of Vancouver
 * Anna Gomes of San Francisco
 * Thomas Chandler
 * James Laflin
 * Chris "Blind Boss" Buckley, the Democratic Party boss of San Francisco in the 1880s
 * William T. Higgins, Republican Party boss of San Francisco in the 1870s and '80s
 * "Shanghai Joe" of New Bedford, Mass.
 * Tom Codd the Shanghai Prince of New Bedford, Mass.
 * James Turk of Portland
 * Billy Gohl, known as "the Ghoul of Grays Harbor", of Aberdeen, Washington (also a known serial killer)
 * Tommy Moore of Buenos Aires

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Right now its on 29-July-2024

All my edits and contributions are here.

the people are concealing the truth by quoting their claims in the names of Qura'an and hide truth of Qur'an. والهدي من بعد ما بيناه للناس في الكتاب اولئك يلعنهم الله ويلعنهم اللاعنون إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَكْتُمُونَ مَا أَنزَلْنَا مِنَ الْبَيِّنَاتِ وَالْهُدَى مِن بَعْدِ مَا بَيَّنَّاهُ لِلنَّاسِ فِي الْكِتَابِ أُولَـئِكَ يَلعَنُهُمُ اللّهُ وَيَلْعَنُهُمُ اللَّاعِنُونَ Tahir ul Qadri بیشک جو لوگ ہماری نازل کردہ کھلی نشانیوں اور ہدایت کو چھپاتے ہیں اس کے بعد کہ ہم نے اسے لوگوں کے لئے (اپنی) کتاب میں واضح کردیا ہے تو انہی لوگوں پر اﷲ لعنت بھیجتا ہے (یعنی انہیں اپنی رحمت سے دور کرتا ہے) اور لعنت بھیجنے والے بھی ان پر لعنت بھیجتے ہیں

Yousuf Ali Those who conceal the clear (Signs) We have sent down, and the Guidance, after We have made it clear for the people in the Book,-on them shall be Allah's curse, and the curse of those entitled to curse,-

|ان - that| الذين - those| يكتمون - they hide/they conceal/they -- hiding/they -- concealing/hide/ conceal (p) | ما - what| انزلنا - we descended | من - of| البينات - the evidences | والهدي - null| من - of| بعد - null| ما - what| بيناه - we clarified it/we showed it/ we explained it | للناس - to the people/for the people | في - in| الكتاب - the book| اولئك - null| يلعنهم - null| الله - God| ويلعنهم - null| اللاعنون - the cursors/the humilliators/ the expellors | 10. [2:160] Illa allatheena taboowaaslahoo wabayyanoo faola-ika atoobuAAalayhim waana alttawwabu alrraheemu الا الذين تابوا واصلحوا وبينوا فاولئك اتوب عليهم وانا التواب الرحيم إِلاَّ الَّذِينَ تَابُواْ وَأَصْلَحُواْ وَبَيَّنُواْ فَأُوْلَـئِكَ أَتُوبُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَأَنَا التَّوَّابُ الرَّحِيمُ Tahir ul Qadri مگر جو لوگ توبہ کر لیں اور (اپنی) اصلاح کر لیں اور (حق کو) ظاہر کر دیں تو میں (بھی) انہیں معاف فرما دوں گا، اور میں بڑا ہی توبہ قبول کرنے والا مہربان ہوں

Yousuf Ali Except those who repent and make amends and openly declare (the Truth): To them I turn; for I am Oft-returning, Most Merciful. Farrukh38 (talk) 20:42, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Qur'an article looks like qur'an as per people understanding. as per wikipedea verifiablity claim must be verified with reference. claim 23 years Ref 17:106 text of 17:106 وقرانا فرقناه لتقراه على الناس على مكث ونزلناه تنزيلا no word for 23 years.

(Torah),[55][56] word taorah is written but not that torah is a book of Allah revealed previi am fighting up to my levelously.

3:3 نزل عليك الكتاب بالحق مصدقا لما بين يديه وانزل التوراة والانجيل here no step by step is written in arabic

best tafseer brig allah not tafseer by Mohammad in 2:151 ولاياتونك بمثل الا جئناك بالحق واحسن تفسيرا

Transliteration Wala ya/toonaka bimathalin illa ji/naka bialhaqqi waahsana tafseeran Literal And they do not come to you with an example except We came to you with the truth and (a) better explanation/interpretation.

Yusuf Ali And no question do they bring to thee but We reveal to thee the truth and the best explanation (thereof). Pickthal And they bring thee no similitude but We bring thee the Truth (as against it), and better (than their similitude) as argument. Arberry They bring not to thee any similitude but that We bring thee the truth, and better in exposition. Shakir And they shall not bring to you any argument, but We have brought to you (one) with truth and best in

thats why please improve Qur'an as per text of Qur'an and not as per people understanding in the name of research. thanks Farrukh38 (talk) 00:36, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] wrong references of verses of Qur'an should be removed to improve this article Wrong references of verses of Quran which do not have the claims like 17:106 doesnot have 23 years in the arabic text of Qur'an. Quran is in arabic and not in eglish translations. please avoide to write in the name of Qur'an people openions if necessary then have to be written down as per people and not as per Qur'an plz. you have not considered the talk page of Qur'an too.

did not consider the discussion on talk page. Farrukh38 (talk) 13:24, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

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Indian silverbill

The Indian silverbill or white-throated munia (Euodice malabarica) is a small passerine bird found in the Indian Subcontinent and adjoining regions that was formerly considered to include the closely related African silverbill (Euodice cantans). This estrildid finch is a common resident breeding bird in the drier regions of the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent. It has also been introduced into many other parts of the world and has become established in some areas. They forage in small flocks in grassland and scrub habitats.

Taxonomy
The Indian silverbill was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. He placed the species with the crossbills in the genus Loxia and coined the binomial name Loxia malabarica. The specific epithet is from the Malbar region on the west coast of India. Linnaeus specified the locality as India but this was restricted to the Malabar region by E. C. Stuart Baker in 1926. The Indian silverbill is now placed with the African silverbill in the genus Euodice that was introduced by Ludwig Reichenbach in 1862. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.

The Indian and Africa silverbills were formerly placed in the genus Lonchura. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2020 found that these two silverbills formed a clade that was basal to the members of Lonchura.

Description
The adult Indian silverbill is 11–11.5 cm long and has a conical silver-grey bill, buff-brown upperparts, white underparts, buffy flanks and dark wings. The tail is black and the wings are dark contrasting with a white rump. The sexes are similar, but immatures have buff underparts and a shorter tail. The tail appears pointed as the length of the feathers reduces from the centre outwards. It feeds mainly on seeds, but also takes insects and has been known to visit nectar bearing flowers, such as those of Erythrina trees.

Habitat and distribution
It frequents dry open scrub, fallow land and cultivation, sometimes near water. Although mainly found on the plains, they can be found up to about 1200 m in some sub-Himalayan regions. It occurs in Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Iran and Israel. It has been accidentally introduced into many other parts of the world and has established itself in Jordan, Israel, Kuwait, Oman, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt since 2019, United States, Virgin Islands (possibly extinct) and Nice (southern France).

Although largely sedentary, some populations make seasonal movements.

Behaviour and ecology
These birds are gregarious and are found in flocks of as many as 60 birds. They feed on the ground or on low shrubs and grass stalks. They constantly utter a low cheeping or chirping contact call as they forage. They visit water and drink with a rapid sip and swallow action. Their feed on a wide range of grass seeds and will also make use of crop species. The breeding season is spread out and varies with region. They nest in winter in southern India and after summer in northern India. The nest, an untidy ball of grasses with an opening on the side, is placed in low shrubs, often on thorny Acacia. They are also known to make use of the old nests of baya weaver sometimes even visiting those that are occupied by the weaver birds. They will sometimes build their nest below the platform nests of vultures or storks. Old nests are used as dormitories through the year for roosting. Females are known to lay their eggs in the nests of other pairs. The clutch varies from 4 to 8 white eggs and these are incubated by both parents for about 11 days. Helpers may be involved in breeding as more than a pair are sometimes seen at a nest.

Several parasitic protozoans and coccidia (Sivatoshella lonchurae) have been described from the species.

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