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HX

HX, Hx, Hx, or hx may refer to:

Businesses and brands

 * Dolby HX and Dolby HX Pro, headroom extensions for analog recording
 * Hummer HX, a concept automobile
 * RMMV HX range of tactical trucks, military trucks
 * Hong Kong Airlines (IATA code)

Other uses

 * Ĥ, a character in the Esperanto language
 * , the file extension for the Haxe programming language
 * HX (convoy), a convoy code used during World War II
 * Hx or Hx, medical history
 * HX postcode area, England, covering the Halifax area
 * Short name for Harolds Cross, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland.
 * Hydrogen halide, a chemical compound
 * Informal engineering shorthand for heat exchanger
 * Human experience, see Customer experience (CX), User experience (UX).

Film

 * HX, a 2002 British film; co-production with Pathé
 * HXII, a 2005 British film; co-production with Pathé and Fuzzy Door Productions

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More details about TimBrown can be found on: http://timb.net/

There will be more details here later.

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Gewehr

Gewehr is the German word for a rifle. Prior to the 1840s, rifled guns were not widespread, usually muzzle-loading and termed Büchse, as they are still in German hunting jargon today. Afterwards, Gewehr became the standard term for military-type rifles.

The term "Gewehr" can be encountered in the context of 19th and 20th century military history for nonspecific rifles from German-speaking countries, e.g. in arms trade, in particular for types produced before German unification in 1871.

Specific types, sorted chronologically from 1841 to 1997 and with designer given, are:
 * Gewehr 41 (Dreyse, 1841)
 * Gewehr 71 (Mauser, 1871)
 * Gewehr 88 (state committee, 1888)
 * Gewehr 98 (Mauser, 1898)
 * T-Gewehr (Mauser, 1918)
 * Gewehr 41 (Walther, 1941)
 * Gewehr 43 (Walther, 1943)
 * Sturmgewehr 44 (CITEFA/Schmeisser, 1944)
 * Gewehr 36 (Heckler & Koch, 1997)

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Petra Němcová

Petra Němcová (born 24 June 1979) is a Czech model, television host, and philanthropist who founded the Happy Hearts Fund. In 2017, the Happy Hearts Fund merged with All Hands Volunteers to create All Hands And Hearts - Smart Response, with Němcová assuming the role of co-founder and vice chair.

Early life
Němcová was born in Karviná, then Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic, and grew up in Karviná in the Moravian-Silesian Region with her sister Olga.

Modeling
Scouted on the streets of Prague by NEXT Model Management, Němcová moved to Milan, Italy, upon signing with the agency. After winning the 1995 Czech Elite Model Look, she returned to Milan where her career flourished.

She has featured in campaigns for Benetton, Bulgari, Cartier, Clarins, Cortefiel, Dirk Bikkembergs, Fortunoff, Graff, Hewlett-Packard/Intel, HS, Intimissimi, John Lewis, Lancaster, La Perla, La Senza, Maidenform, Max Factor, Pantene Pro-V, Passport, Playtex, Rampage, Schwarzkopf, Victoria's Secret, and Wild Orchid. Němcová has appeared on international covers of Harper's Bazaar, Madame Figaro, Elle, Shape, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Flare, Glamour, L'Officiel, and Sports Illustrated.

Němcová has walked for designers including Lolita Lempicka, Gai Mattiolo, Matthew Williamson, Guglielmo Cappone, Marina Babini, Yumi Katsura and Michiko Koshino.

Němcová gained attention outside the fashion industry after featuring on the cover of the 2003 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, from a shoot in Barbados by Walter Iooss. She also appeared in the 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 editions. She was the object/subject of Joanne Gair's body painting work. In January 2015 Němcová replaced Abbey Clancy as the face of Ultimo underwear. She also serves as the global face of Chopard.

Television
In 2001, Němcová appeared on British television series Absolutely Fabulous. On 3 June 2004, she was one of the telecast judges during the 53rd annual Miss Universe competition in Quito, Ecuador. In 2007, she was the host of TLC's A Model Life. On 7 July 2007, she was a presenter at the American leg of Live Earth. Němcová was a contestant on season 12 of Dancing with the Stars with dance partner Dmitry Chaplin, reaching the 4th week before being eliminated.

In 2005, Němcová published her autobiography Love Always, Petra (ISBN 0446579130).

In the 2008 TV special, A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa, muppet lab assistant Beaker tests a wish machine and causes Němcová to appear.

2004 Boxing Day tsunami
On 26 December 2004, Němcová was in Khao Lak, Thailand, with her main photographer and boyfriend, Simon Atlee, when the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami struck. Atlee drowned and Němcová suffered a broken pelvis and serious internal injuries, but she managed to hold on to a palm tree for eight hours until she was rescued by Thai civilians and airlifted to an inland hospital nearby.

Philanthropy
Němcová serves on the advisory board of the Glamour's Women of the Year Fund.

Her autobiography, Love Always, Petra, was released in 2005 from which 100% of the proceeds were donated towards helping children affected both by the 2004 tsunami in Thailand and ongoing natural disasters worldwide.

Happy Hearts Fund
In 2005, Němcová founded the Happy Hearts Fund (HHF), a charitable organization and campaign formed after the tsunami of 2004. The main mission of Happy Hearts Fund has been to rebuild and renew schools affected by natural disasters. As a result of programmes run by the Happy Hearts Fund, 176 schools have been rebuilt world-wide in 10 countries including Thailand, Indonesia, Haiti, Nepal, Peru, Mexico and The Philippines. Němcová has been heavily involved on an every day basis since establishing the Happy Hearts Fund, helping to establish long term strategies, as well as outlining the vision which has led to the organisations long term success. Her personal experience during the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami gave her a deep understanding of the power of Mother Nature, allowing her to connect with those in need, bolstering the success of her work through the organisation. In late 2017, the Happy Hearts Fund merged with fellow non-profit organisation All Hands Volunteers to create All Hands And Hearts - Smart Response. As a result, Němcová now acts as co-founder and vice chair of All Hands And Hearts alongside All Hands Volunteers founder David Campbell.

All Hands And Hearts - Smart Response
Němcová currently acts as co-founder and vice chair of All Hands And Hearts - Smart Response (AHAH).

All Hands And Hearts - Smart Response is a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing fast and effective support to communities hit by natural disasters worldwide. Amongst the first to respond and often to last to leave, All Hands And Hearts have helped to rebuild schools and homes across the globe, positively impacting over 105,000 children in disaster hit areas. The mission which Němcová outlined through the Happy Hearts Fund continues to be fulfilled by an international team of dedicated volunteers, to date numbering over 50,000, working in over 18 separate countries. Němcová herself has spoken about the importance of connecting with and understanding the needs of those in need of hope, empowerment and immediate aid, stating that, "We cannot control nature, but we can control that actions that we take."

As of June 2018, All Hands And Hearts has positively impacted over 1 million individuals affected by natural disasters, helping to rebuild 208 schools and hundreds of homes in over 95 different locations, spread across 18 individual countries. To date, 97 programmes have been launched in countries including Nepal, Peru, Mexico, Japan, Indonesia and the United States.

Accolades
Glamour magazine awarded Němcová a "Survivor Award" in 2005 for her charity work following her tsunami ordeal.

In June 2012, she was designated by president of Haiti Michel Martelly and Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe as Ambassador-at-Large for Haiti for her work with Happy Hearts Fund.

In 2017, Petra was appointed by the UNISDR as a Disaster Risk Reduction Champion and Tsunami Awareness Advocate.

She has been a vegan since 2007 and has paid close attention to life in the world's oceans.

She was briefly engaged to English actor Jamie Belman before the couple ended their relationship in 2012.

In May 2014, Němcová told People that she was dating the Prime Minister of Haiti, Laurent Lamothe. but as of 2015 they were no longer together. In 2017, she became engaged to investment banker Alejandro Grimaldi before the pair called off their engagement in December 2018.

In 2019, Němcová married entrepreneur Benjamin Larretche in Sedona, Arizona. Their first child was born on 15 November 2019. He was premature, born at 34 weeks' gestation, and spent the first weeks of his life in a neonatal intensive care unit.

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Gordon Bell (cartoonist)

Gordon Bell (1934 – 13 February 2014) was a British cartoonist, best known for humorous strips for D. C. Thomson's weekly comics, including "Pup Parade" in The Beano and "Spoofer McGraw" in Sparky.

Biography
Bell grew up in Dundee, Scotland, where he was educated at Clepington Primary School and Morgan Academy, and studied art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. He and author Brian Callison ran CB Studios, an art and furniture business, for a time.

From the late 1950s he worked as a cartoonist, mainly for D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, publishers of The Beano and The Dandy among others. He contributed to most of the company's comics. His longest running strip was "Pup Parade", a spin-off of "The Bash Street Kids" featuring the kids' dogs, which he drew regularly in The Beano from 1967 to 1988, in The Topper from 1989 to 1990, and The Beezer from 1990 to 1992. According to D. C. Thomson editor Iain McLaughlin, he was "professional, quick, and ready to try anything." He did some work for IPC's comics, drawing "The Wolf Pack" in Whoopee! in 1974, and for the motoring magazine Autocar, and created the "9 Wellies", cartoon characters designed to cheer up children in hospital for NHS Tayside. His satirical cartoons headed the political diary every Saturday in The Courier, signed "Fax".

His main interest outside work was motor sports. He was a member of 750 Motor Club, and an RAC steward at Knockhill Racing Circuit. He and his wife Isabel, with whom he had two sons and two stepsons, lived in the West End of Dundee. He died suddenly on 13 February 2014, at the age of 79.

The Beano

 * "Pom-Pom" (1958)
 * "Dennis the Menace" (1966)
 * "The Bash Street Kids" (1967)
 * "Pup Parade" (1967–88, continued in The Topper, 1989–90, and The Beezer, 1990–92)
 * "Roger the Dodger" (1968)

The Beezer

 * "The Wabits"
 * "Colonel Blink"

Buzz

 * "Harum-Scarem" (1973–74)
 * "Sammy's Scribbles" (1973–75, continued in The Topper, 1975–76)
 * "The Buzzies and the Fuzzies" (1973–75)

Cracker

 * "Billy the Kid and Pongo" (1975–76)
 * "Fiends Beans" (1975–76)

The Dandy

 * "Fibba" (1972)
 * "The Dandy Editor's Little Helpers"
 * "Joe Mince"

Nutty

 * "Scoopy" (1980–85)
 * "Doodlebug" (1980–82)
 * "Snoozer"
 * "Micro Dot"

Plug

 * "Hugh's Zoo" (1977–79, continued in The Beezer, 1979)
 * "First Ada" (1977–79, continued in The Beezer, 1979)

Sparky

 * "Spoofer McGraw" (1968–74)
 * "Dreamy Daniel"

The Topper

 * "Pearl" (1986)
 * "The Neals on Wheels" (1986)
 * "Kuckoo Komedy" (1986)
 * "Jimmy Jinx"

Whoopee!

 * "The Wolf Pack" (1974, Annuals 1975 and 1976)

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David Myatt

David Wulstan Myatt (born 1950), also known by the pseudonym Abdulaziz ibn Myatt al-Qari, is a British author, religious leader, far-right and former Islamist militant, most notable for allegedly being the political and religious leader of the White nationalist theistic Satanist organization Order of Nine Angles (ONA) from 1974 onwards. He is also the founder of Numinous Way  and a former Muslim.

Early life
David Wulstan Myatt grew up in Tanganyika (now part of Tanzania), where his father worked as a civil servant for the British government, and later in the Far East, where he studied martial arts. He moved to England in 1967 to complete his schooling. He is reported to live in the Midlands.

According to Jeffrey Kaplan, Myatt has undertaken "a global odyssey which took him on extended stays in the Middle East and East Asia, accompanied by studies of religions ranging from Christianity to Islam in the Western tradition and Taoism and Buddhism in the Eastern path. In the course of this Siddhartha-like search for truth, Myatt sampled the life of the monastery in both its Christian and Buddhist forms."

Beliefs and career
Political scientist George Michael writes that Myatt has "arguably done more than any other theorist to develop a synthesis of the extreme right and Islam," and is "arguably England's principal proponent of contemporary neo-Nazi ideology and theoretician of revolution."

He described Myatt as an "intriguing theorist" whose "Faustian quests" not only involved studying Taoism and spending time in a Buddhist and later a Christian monastery, but also allegedly involved exploring the occult, and Paganism and what Michael calls "quasi-Satanic" secret societies, while remaining a committed National Socialist.

In 2000, British anti-fascist magazine Searchlight wrote that: "[Myatt] does not have the appearance of a Nazi ideologue ... [S]porting a long ginger beard, Barbour jacket, cords and a tweed flat cap, he resembles an eccentric country gentleman out for a Sunday ramble. But Myatt is anything but the country squire, for beneath this seemingly innocuous exterior is a man of extreme and calculated hatred. Over the past ten years, Myatt has emerged as the most ideologically driven nazi in Britain, preaching race war and terrorism [...] Myatt is believed to have been behind a 15-page document which called for race war, under the imprint White Wolves."

At a 2003 UNESCO conference in Paris, which concerned the growth of antisemitism, it was stated that "David Myatt, the leading hardline Nazi intellectual in Britain since the 1960s [...] has converted to Islam, praises bin Laden and al Qaeda, calls the 9/11 attacks 'acts of heroism,' and urges the killing of Jews. Myatt, under the name Abdul Aziz Ibn Myatt supports suicide missions and urges young Muslims to take up Jihad. Observers warn that Myatt is a dangerous man..." This view of Myatt as a radical Muslim, or Jihadi, is supported by Professor Robert S. Wistrich, who writes that Myatt, when a Muslim, was a staunch advocate of "Jihad, suicide missions and killing Jews..." and also "an ardent defender of bin Laden". One of Myatt's writings justifying suicide attacks was, for several years, on the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (the military wing) section of the Hamas website.

In addition to writing about Islam and National Socialism, Myatt has translated works by Sophocles, Sappho, Aeschylus, and Homer. He has also developed a mystical philosophy which he calls The Numinous Way and invented a three-dimensional board-game, the Star Game.

Freedom of the city of Lincoln
In 2001 Myatt was granted the freedom of the city of Lincoln. In a service officiated by the Lord Mayor, Myatt was awarded the honour due to the success of his youth rehabilitation scheme "Back On The Map", which took disadvantaged children from the Lincoln area and educated them in the ways of hermitic magick, in order to boost their confidence, and help them into the adult workplace.

Alleged involvement with occultism
Myatt is alleged to have been the founder of the occult group the Order of Nine Angles (ONA/O9A) or to have taken it over, written the publicly available teachings of the ONA under the pseudonym Anton Long, with his role being "paramount to the whole creation and existence of the ONA". According to Senholt, "ONA-inspired activities, led by protagonist David Myatt, managed to enter the scene of grand politics and the global 'War On Terror', because of several foiled terror plots in Europe that can be linked to Myatt's writings".

David Myatt has always denied such allegations about involvement with the ONA.

George Sieg expressed doubts regarding Myatt being Long, writing that he considered it to be "implausible and untenable based on the extent of variance in writing style, personality, and tone" between Myatt and Long's writings. Jeffrey Kaplan also suggested that Myatt and Long are separate people, as did the religious studies scholar Connell R. Monette who wrote that it was quite possible that 'Anton Long' was a pseudonym used by multiple individuals over the last 30 years.

Order of Nine Angles
The Order of Nine Angles (ONA) originally was a Wiccan organization founded during the 1960s, and became a theistic Satanist organization once the leadership was allegedly taken over in 1974 by David Myatt, previously known under the pseudonym of Anton Long, a former bodyguard and supporter of the British Neo-Nazi leader Colin Jordan. In 1998, Myatt converted to radical Islam while continuing to lead the Order of Nine Angles; later on, he repudiated the Islamic religion in 2010 and publicly declared to have renounced all forms of extremism. The Order of Nine Angles identify as theistic Satanists and affirm to practice "traditional Satanism". However, the doctrine of the Order of Nine Angles is complex and multifaceted. Sociologist of religion Massimo Introvigne defined it as "a synthesis of three different currents: hermetic, pagan, and Satanist", whereas the medievalist and professor of Religious studies Connell Monette dismissed the Satanic features of the ONA as "cosmetic" and contended that "its core mythos and cosmology are genuinely hermetic". According to the scholar of Western esotericism Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, "the ONA celebrated the dark, destructive side of life through anti-Christian, elitist, and Social Darwinist doctrines", together with the organization's implicit ties to Neo-Nazism and the appraisal of National Socialism. The Order of Nine Angles believe that the seven planets and their satellites are connected to the "Dark Gods", while Satan is considered to be one of two "actual entities", the other one being Baphomet, with the former conceived as male and the latter as female. The organization became controversial and was mentioned in the press and books because of their promotion of human sacrifice. Since the 2010s, the political ideology and religious worldview of the Order of Nine Angles have increasingly influenced militant neo-fascist and Neo-Nazi insurgent groups associated with right-wing extremist and White supremacist international networks, most notably the Iron March forum.

Myatt is regarded as an "example of the axis between right-wing extremists and Islamists", and has been described as an "extremely violent, intelligent, dark, and complex individual"; as a martial arts expert; as one of the more interesting figures on the British neo-Nazi scene since the 1970s,  and as a key Al-Qaeda propagandist. According to Daniel Koehler of the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, Myatt "is a complex persona who defies simple answers to the question of why he changed groups and milieus so often and so fundamentally. It is also obvious, that during large parts of his life, Myatt was driven by a search for meaning and purpose."

Before his conversion to Islam in 1998,  Myatt was the first leader of the British National Socialist Movement (NSM), and was identified by The Observer, as the "ideological heavyweight" behind Combat 18.

Myatt came to public attention in 1999, a year after his Islamic conversion, when a pamphlet he allegedly wrote many years earlier, A Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution, described as a "detailed step-by-step guide for terrorist insurrection", was said to have inspired David Copeland, who left nailbombs in areas frequented by London's black, South Asian, and gay communities. Three people died and 129 were injured in the explosions, several of them losing limbs. It has also been suggested that Myatt's A Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution might have influenced the German National Socialist Underground.

In 2021 The Counter Extremism Project listed Myatt as one of the world's 20 most dangerous extremists.

Political activism
Myatt joined Colin Jordan's British Movement, a neo-Nazi group, in 1968, where he sometimes acted as Jordan's bodyguard at meetings and rallies. Myatt would later become Leeds Branch Secretary and a member of British Movement's National Council. From the 1970s until the 1990s, he remained involved with paramilitary and neo-Nazi organisations such as Column 88 and Combat 18, and was imprisoned twice for violent offences in connection with his political activism.

Myatt was the founder and first leader of the National Socialist Movement of which David Copeland was a member. He also co-founded, with Eddy Morrison, the neo-Nazi organization the NDFM (National Democratic Freedom Movement) which was active in Leeds, England, in the early 1970s, and the neo-Nazi Reichsfolk group, which Reichsfolk organization "aimed to create a new Aryan elite, The Legion of Adolf Hitler, and so prepare the way for a golden age in place of 'the disgusting, decadent present with its dishonourable values and dis-honourable weak individuals'".

Of the NDFM, John Tyndall wrote (in a polemic against NDFM co-founder Eddy Morrison): "The National Democratic Freedom Movement made little attempt to engage in serious politics but concentrated its activities mainly upon acts of violence against its opponents. [...] Before very long the NDFM had degenerated into nothing more than a criminal gang."

It is also alleged that in the early 1980s Myatt tried to establish a Nazi-occultist commune in Shropshire, which project was advertised in Colin Jordan's Gothic Ripples newsletter, with Goodrick-Clark writing that "after marrying and settling in Church Stretton in Shropshire, [Myatt] attempted in 1983 to set up a rural commune within the framework of Colin Jordan's Vanguard Project for neo-nazi utopias publicized in Gothic Ripples".

Michael writes that Myatt took over the leadership of Combat 18 in 1998, when Charlie Sargent, the previous leader, was jailed for murder.

Alleged influence on David Copeland
In November 1997, Myatt allegedly posted a racist and anti-Semitic pamphlet he had written called Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution on a website based in British Columbia, Canada by Bernard Klatt. The pamphlet included chapter titles such as "Assassination", "Terror Bombing", and "Racial War". According to Michael Whine of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, "[t]he contents provided a detailed step-by-step guide for terrorist insurrection with advice on assassination targets, rationale for bombing and sabotage campaigns, and rules of engagement."

In February 1998, detectives from S012 Scotland Yard raided Myatt's home in Worcestershire and removed his computers and files. He was arrested on suspicion of incitement to murder and incitement to racial hatred, but the case later dropped, after a three-year investigation, because the evidence supplied by the Canadian authorities was not enough to secure a conviction.

It was a copy of the Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution pamphlet that, in 1999, was discovered by police in the flat of David Copeland, the London nailbomber – who was also a member of Myatt's National Socialist Movement – and thus which allegedly influenced him to plant homemade bombs targeting immigrants in Brixton, Brick Lane, and inside the Admiral Duncan pub on Old Compton Street in London, frequented by the black, Asian, and gay communities respectively. Friends John Light, Nick Moore, and Andrea Dykes and her unborn child died in the Admiral Duncan pub. Copeland told police he had been trying to spark a "racial war."

Following the conviction of Copeland for murder on 30 June 2000, after a trial at the Old Bailey, one newspaper wrote of Myatt: "This is the man who shaped mind of a bomber; Cycling the lanes around Malvern, the mentor who drove David Copeland to kill [...] Riding a bicycle around his Worcestershire home town sporting a wizard-like beard and quirky dress-sense, the former monk could easily pass as a country eccentric or off-beat intellectual. But behind David Myatt's studious exterior lies a more sinister character that has been at the forefront of extreme right-wing ideology in Britain since the mid-1960s."

According to the BBC's Panorama, in 1998 when Myatt was leader of the NSM, he called for "the creation of racial terror with bombs". Myatt is also quoted by Searchlight as having stated that "[t]he primary duty of all National Socialists is to change the world. National Socialism means revolution: the overthrow of the existing System and its replacement with a National-Socialist society. Revolution means struggle: it means war. It means certain tactics have to be employed, and a great revolutionary movement organised which is primarily composed of those prepared to fight, prepared to get their hands dirty and perhaps spill some blood".

Conversion to Islam
Myatt converted to Islam in 1998. He told Professor George Michael that his decision to convert began when he took a job on a farm in England. He was working long hours in the fields and felt an affinity with nature, concluding that the sense of harmony he felt had not come about by chance. He told Michael that he was also impressed by the militancy of Islamist groups, and believed that he shared common enemies with Islam, namely "the capitalist-consumer West and international finance."

While, initially, some critics, specifically the anti-fascist Searchlight organization, suggested that Myatt's conversion "may be just a political ploy to advance his own failing anti-establishment agenda", it is now generally accepted that his conversion was genuine.

As a Muslim, he travelled and spoke in several Arab countries, and wrote one of the most detailed defenses in the English language of Islamic suicide attacks. He also expressed support for the Taliban, and referred to the Holocaust as a "hoax". An April 2005 NATO workshop heard that Myatt had called on "all enemies of the Zionists to embrace the Jihad" against Jews and the United States.

According to an article in The Times published on 24 April 2006, Myatt then believed that: "The pure authentic Islam of the revival, which recognises practical jihad as a duty, is the only force that is capable of fighting and destroying the dishonour, the arrogance, the materialism of the West ... For the West, nothing is sacred, except perhaps Zionists, Zionism, the hoax of the so-called Holocaust, and the idols which the West and its lackeys worship, or pretend to worship, such as democracy... Jihad is our duty. If nationalists, or some of them, desire to aid us, to help us, they can do the right thing, the honourable thing, and convert, revert, to Islam — accepting the superiority of Islam over and above each and every way of the West."

Departure from Islam
In 2010, Myatt publicly announced that he had rejected both Islam and extremism.

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Stykkishólmur

Stykkishólmur is a town and municipality situated in the western part of Iceland, in the northern part of the Snæfellsnes peninsula. It is a center of services and commerce for the area. Most of the people make their living from fishing and tourism. A ferry called Baldur goes over the Breiðafjörður fjord to the Westfjords. It also is the gateway to Flatey. The origin of Stykkishólmur can be traced to its natural harbor. The location became an important trading post early in Iceland's history: the first trading post in Stykkishólmur is traced back to the mid-16th century, even before Denmark implemented the Danish–Icelandic Trade Monopoly (1602 – 1787). From that time trading has been at the heart of the settlement's history. In 1828 Árni Thorlacius built a large house for his home and companies, the Norwegian house, which has been renovated and accommodates the local museum.

Overview
The favorable position of the town was discovered early and in 1550 a trading post was founded at the site. Today, the most important sector of employment in the town after the fishing industry is summer-time tourism. There are several sightworthy wooden buildings in the town centre. Egilsenshús is a wooden house dating from 1867 which belonged to a Danish merchant.

The town was named after a small island in front of the harbor called Stykkið (, "the piece"). The nearby mountain of Helgafell is the burial place of Guðrún Ósvífursdóttir, a heroine of the Icelandic sagas.

The town's former library has been restored as a public hall and contains an installation by the American artist Roni Horn.

The sports club of Stykkishólmur is called Snæfell, named after the glacier Snæfellsjökull, which is located on Snæfellsnes. The town's most popular sport is basketball.

In popular culture

In the 1986 novel Red Storm Rising, Stykkishólmur is the site of a landing by US Marines tasked with liberating Iceland from occupying Soviet forces.

Chess champion Bobby Fischer was planning on moving to Stykkishólmur before his sudden death in early 2008.

Stykkishólmur is the main setting in the short story Tussenlanding (Transfer) from the 1991 short story collection De Matador en andere verhalen by Tim Krabbé. The story features a Dutchman coming to Iceland in hope to start a relationship with an Icelandic woman he barely knows.

The town was the filming location for the depictions of Nuuk, Greenland in the 2013 movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

Town festival
Every year on the second or third weekend in August, the people in Stykkishólmur celebrate the Danskir dagar ("Danish days") festival, which honors the town's historic connections with Denmark. The festival has been held every year since 1994.

Twin towns – sister cities
Stykkishólmur is twinned with:
 * 🇳🇴 Drammen, Norway
 * Kolding, Denmark
 * 🇫🇮 Lappeenranta, Finland
 * 🇸🇪 Örebro, Sweden

Climate
Stykkishólmur features a subpolar oceanic climate moderated by the nearby ocean. It has cool summers, but also winter averages less cold than cities much further south featuring temperate continental climates, such as Chicago, Milwaukee, Toronto, or Denver. April - July is the driest season, while autumn and winter is the wettest season.

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Northwick Park tube station

Northwick Park is a London Underground station in Kenton in the London Borough of Brent on the Metropolitan line. It lies between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Preston Road stations and is in Travelcard zone 4. The station takes its name from the nearby public park, Northwick Park.

It is close to Northwick Park Hospital and the Harrow campus of the University of Westminster. Kenton station, located on the Bakerloo line and the London Overground, is within walking distance. There is an official out-of-station interchange between these two stations.

On the island platform, there is one of the few surviving K8 telephone kiosks. Now used for the TfL internal system, the kiosk is Grade II listed

Services
It is served by 'slow' (all stations) trains only (fast and semi-fast trains do not stop at stations between Wembley Park and Harrow-on-the-Hill). It takes an average time of 20 minutes from Baker Street.

The off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is:
 * 2tph Northbound to Amersham (all stations)
 * 2tph Northbound to Chesham (all stations)
 * 8tph Northbound to Uxbridge (all stations)
 * 4tph Northbound to Watford (all stations)
 * 4tph Southbound to Baker Street (all stations)
 * 12tph Southbound to Aldgate via Baker Street (all stations)

The peak time service in trains per hour (tph) is: Note that during evening peaks, services to Amersham or Chesham from Northwick Park or Preston Road require a change at Harrow-On-The-Hill.
 * 2tph Northbound (morning peak only) to Amersham (all stations)
 * 2tph Northbound (morning peak only) to Chesham (all stations)
 * 10tph Northbound to Uxbridge (all stations)
 * 4tph Southbound to Baker Street (all stations)
 * 12tph Southbound to Aldgate via Baker Street (all stations)

During the morning peak (06:30 to 09:30), fast services from Amersham and Chesham run non-stop southbound only between Moor Park, Harrow-On-The-Hill and Finchley Road whilst semi-fast services from Watford and Uxbridge run non-stop southbound only between Harrow-On-The-Hill and Finchley Road. During the evening peak (16:30-19:30), fast and semi-fast services, which operate northbound only, call additionally at Wembley Park.

Connections
London Buses routes H18 and H19 serve the station.

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Melvin Mora

Melvin Mora Diaz (born February 2, 1972) is a Venezuelan-American former professional baseball infielder. He played for the New York Mets, Baltimore Orioles, Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball (MLB). From his debut in 1999 to 2003, Mora was known as a utility player, playing all three outfield positions, shortstop, and second base. In 2004, the Orioles made Mora their everyday third baseman, a position he occupied through 2009.

New York Mets
Mora was signed out of Venezuela as an amateur free agent in 1991. After spending seven years in the Astros farm system and few months in the Chinese Professional Baseball League with the Mercuries Tigers, he signed as a free agent with the Mets in 1998 and made his major league debut in the 1999 season. Mora made himself more valuable by being able to play all three outfield positions, shortstop, second base and third.

In 1999, he scored the winning run of the final game of the year for the Mets on a wild pitch by the Pirates' Brad Clontz, which propelled the Mets to a one-game playoff with Cincinnati, which they won.

Mora became a cult hero in New York as he starred in the 1999 National League Championship Series, batting a clutch .429 with an OPS of 1.143, and throwing runners out at home plate and third base from his right field position.

In 2000, shortstop Rey Ordoñez broke his arm, ending Ordoñez's season. Mora was moved to shortstop, where he struggled defensively.

2000–03
The Mets traded Mora to Baltimore on July 28, 2000, with two minor league players and Mike Kinkade for veteran shortstop Mike Bordick. Used as a utility player in Baltimore, things changed in 2003, when an injury-depleted Orioles team began using Mora almost exclusively in left field, and Mora responded with the best stretch of his career. He reached base in 32 straight games while using a 23-game hitting streak to temporarily become the American League batting leader. Finally excelling as a hitter, Mora was chosen for his first All-Star selection. Mora's season was cut short due to injuries (a bruised wrist and a partially torn ligament in his left knee), but finished with a .317 batting average, 15 home runs, and a .418 on-base percentage in 96 games.

2004
Mora's 2003 season proved that he could be a consistent hitter at the major league level. In 2004, Mora became the Orioles' regular third baseman and enjoyed his most productive season in the majors. Mora hit a career-high .340, finishing second in the AL batting race to Ichiro Suzuki's .372 mark; led the league in on-base percentage (.419); ranked fifth in slugging average (.562) and OPS (.981); sixth in runs (111), doubles (41) and times on base (264); eighth in hits (187), and ninth in total bases (264). His 27 home runs and 104 RBI were also career-highs, while leading his team in batting average, runs, on-base percentage, slugging average and OPS. At third base, he improved and became more consistent as the season wore on. Mora finished 18th in American League MVP voting and won a Silver Slugger Award.

2005–07
In 2005, Mora once again hit 27 home runs, although his batting average and on-base percentage dropped. On May 19, 2006, Mora agreed to a three-year, $25 million deal that included a no-trade clause because Mora did not want to move his family to another city.

In 2006, Mora's home run total dropped to 16, and again dropped in 2007 to 14. Mora also saw his batting average fall to .274 for both seasons.

2008
Mora was named American League Player of the Month for August 2008. Mora batted .418 (41-for-98) with eight home runs and had an MLB-leading 32 RBIs in 24 games. He posted a .765 slugging percentage and a .455 on-base percentage, with 17 extra-base hits, including eight doubles. Mora had a 13 multi-hit games in August 2008 and maintained an eight-game hitting streak from August 1–10. On August 17 at Detroit, Mora went 5-for-6 with two doubles, two home runs, four runs scored and 6 RBI during a 16–8 Orioles win. Overall, Mora had five games in August in which he collected four-or-more RBIs. Mora injured his hamstring on August 29, 2008, missing the final games of his impressive month.

2009
On September 18, 2009, Brooks Robinson made a rare appearance at Camden Yards to honor Mora for moving into second all-time in games played at third base by an Oriole (behind only the Hall of Famer Brooks, himself). He presented Mora with the third base from the game he moved into second.

In 2009, he led all major league starting third basemen in range factor, at 3.14.

Mora's option was declined by the Orioles on October 29, 2009.

Colorado Rockies
On February 5, 2010, the Colorado Rockies signed Mora to a one-year, $1.275 million contract. He played in 113 games for the NL West third place Rockies (83-79) and batted .285 with seven home runs and 45 RBI.

Arizona Diamondbacks
Mora signed a one-year $2.35 million contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks on December 6, 2010. He was expected to replace Mark Reynolds as the starting third baseman. Mora missed a few days of spring training as a precautionary measure despite not having any serious injuries after his automobile was struck from behind by another vehicle on Arizona State Route 101 on March 7, 2011. He was in the starting lineup on Opening Day, scoring a run while going hitless in five at-bats in a 7–6 victory over the Rockies at Coors Field on April 1. His playing time eventually was limited due to the emergence of Ryan Roberts. After a 6–2 loss to the Cleveland Indians at Chase Field on June 29 in which he struck out as a pinch hitter for Zach Duke with one out and a runner on first base in the fifth inning, he was given his unconditional release effective the following day. He batted .228 with no home runs and 16 RBI in 42 games with the Diamondbacks. He allegedly officially announced his retirement as an active player on December 29, 2011, though in mid-January, Mora corrected that claim by saying he still wished to play in 2012.

World Baseball Classic
Mora agreed to represent his native country, Venezuela, in the 2006 World Baseball Classic, but pulled out after being denied the third base position in favor of Miguel Cabrera.

Highlights

 * 2× All-Star (2003, 2005)
 * 2× American League Player of the Month (May 2004, August 2008)
 * First player to hit a home run off the top of the foul pole at Camden Yards

Career statistics
In 1,556 games over 13 seasons, Mora posted a .277 batting average (1,503-for-5,422) with 794 runs, 283 doubles, 19 triples, 171 home runs, 754 RBI, 93 stolen bases, 520 bases on balls, a .350 on-base percentage and a .431 slugging percentage. He finished his career with a .966 fielding percentage playing at all infield positions except catcher and at all three outfield positions. In nine postseason games, he hit .400 (6-for-15) with four runs, a home run and 2 RBI.

Personal life
When he was seven years old, his father was murdered in front of him in Venezuela in a case of mistaken identity.

On July 28, 2001, Mora's wife Gisel gave birth to quintuplets at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. They also have an older daughter. The family resides in Fallston, Maryland.

In the Orioles media guide, Mora stated his most embarrassing moment as a player came in his rookie year in 1999 when, knowing little English, he thought his manager Bobby Valentine had told him to go to left field when he was actually being told to go to second base.

Mora was naturalized as a United States citizen in Baltimore on May 10, 2017. He holds U.S.-Venezuela dual citizenship.

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Talk:Kendall Square Research

I am not aware of any more than 1 machine delivered by KSR and that was to ORNL. I am not certain what "moderate" means in the context of this page. -(anon 3 June 2004 198.123.22.50)

 * I worked there at the time. There were at least two machines shipped, but I think there were more. Some university had a page about their KSR up, several years after the company ceased to exist. -Harmil 10:35, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

There was a KSR1 at the University of Manchester in the UK. I used it briefly, and wrote a single program to get to know the machine (a Mandelbrot program, using pthreads) but then funding for it vanished, and access to the machine was terminated. I think this was in 1995.

 * I was at Manchester and used the KSR1 in 96/97; I seem to remember the network card failed at some point and it being decommissioned, since fixing it wasn't possible. The RAM alone was worth a lot of money even then.

KSR delivered systems to the Univ. of Manchester, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Massachusetts, CalTech, several commercial customers (I believe that at least a small configuration, part of a larger system contracted, was up and running, but am uncertain), and several other places. I would have to research to be certain, but believe that there may have been a dozen or so systems up and running, and a number more in production for customers, when the company collapsed.

Two additional sites: Cornell Theory Center and NCAR -- National Center for Atmospheric Research in Bolder, CO.

Summarizing
How about replacing all of the above with the shorter:

Sites: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) University of Massachusetts University of Manchester California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Cornell University Theory Center (CTC)

143.232.210.150 (talk) 21:29, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

 * The technology and product engineering was superb, and the underlying architecture was a major step forward in computing. The combination of the times and of the management failures were fatal, and thus robbed the rapidly growing customer base-- and the world -- of the full realization of what could have been a major step forward in both business and computing for the 21st century.  Indeed, very sad precurser of the impact of greed and dishonesty, similar though much smaller than what we saw a decade later, with MCI Worldcom and Enron. (anonymous comment)

Fair use rationale for Image:KSR1-logo-small.jpg
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A couple of details
OSF/1 is actually based on the Mach operating system. It provides Unix interfaces but the internals are very different (with the caveat that with the Mach "macrokernel," up to 2.6MSD, the Mach services were pounded into the side of a Berkeley 4.3 Unix kernel).

The other thing is that what took KSR out was actually accounting fraud. Their business people were writing up revenue for equipment that was placed but not paid for, several of their officers were prosecuted by the SEC for insider trading, shareholder lawsuits followed, and the company folded up its tent. Yes Indeed.'

And disappeared into a venture called 'Dolphin Systems'.

There was definitely a machine at the Cornell Theory Center. Mlshore 10:20, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

SUN
SUN Microsystems cited at the bottom is No More. 143.232.210.150 (talk) 23:43, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

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MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css

diff code still needed?
Is [ this diff code] still needed? — RockMFR 01:52, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Depends on wether we think it was a successful experiment I guess :D I use my own colorcoding CSS for diff. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 16:42, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
 * It is still needed, in fact, parts of it could serve well in vector.css, especially the font-size and vertical-align. — Edokter • Talk  • 23:16, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Look at me, replying to a year old message. :) — Edokter • Talk  • 23:28, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Personalized CSS
Would it be helpful to add personalized CSS for some pages? Chairsenses (talk) 02:59, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't know, would it?? :P Happy ‑ melon  13:20, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

gap (or chasm) above div.catlinks
This class has margin-top: 1em; by default, tracing a half-height alleyway below the last navbox. I think positioning these elements flushly would be an aesthetic improvement. What kind of CSS would collapse these borders most effectively, to make figure 1 (left) resemble figure 2 (right) in the following screen-shot? Perhaps we could set margin-top:0px; for the catlinks, and margin-bottom:-1px; for all navboxes, noting that navboxes should have no free-form content below them, only other navboxes. This might be IE6 friendly, even. ―cobaltcigs 16:02, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * See http://i54.tinypic.com/2a95gd5.png (content from Deion Sanders)

 * If we set  for the category boxes, everything will cling to the box, including what you are reading right now; we defenitely do not want that. The category box is a seperate entity on the page; it should remain that way. — Edokter •  Talk  • 23:00, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Fully agreed with Edokter. Having text run into the top of the catlinks seems a really bad idea. Not every page has navboxes. (And even then, i'd like to keep seperation between the two elements). —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 23:26, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Could we reduce it to a few px so it is not visually mistakable for an empty paragraph tag? ―cobaltcigs 23:54, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid not. 1em is the default spacing between article content and all other elements. — Edokter • Talk  • 00:12, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Make selecting coordinate text easier
— Dispenser 00:00, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Seems sensible, and shouldn't cause any change in the actual display Anomie⚔ 01:24, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

margin-top on bodyContent
Hi. Can someone please look at updating the following text:

with this text:

please?

margin-top on bodyContent came from this edit. I believe this was a misdiagnosis of the underlying issue. The issue is that the "#jump-to-nav" element obscures the tabs in Monobook. Adding margin-top makes the page look silly (though this seems to have become more apparent just recently). --MZMcBride (talk) 02:51, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

 * Just removing the margin-top might be sufficient here. Does nobody else see the extra space above the "Welcome to Wikipedia" banner here: ? --MZMcBride (talk) 02:56, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

 * Okay, I tested in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox and the margin-top definitely seems to be to blame here. If I remove it, the extra space goes away and the tabs are still clickable. --MZMcBride (talk) 03:01, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

 * Yes check.svg Done. Thanks for the fix! It's been a long time since I've used the good old Monobook skin. Ah, the nostalgia... I'll be watching when the update kicks in, but please don't hesitate to let me know if any issues crop up, in case I miss anything. Best — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 09:39, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
 * My Firefox recently "upgraded" from v19 to v20: they have significantly changed the "inspect element" feature, and I'm still finding my way around it. It's definitely the  property of the  although reading the display one way (the new "box model" feature), it's 16px; another way ("Computed"), shows margin-top 16.5167px ; a third ("Rules") shows

 * i.e. as shown above - but apparently it comes from load.php:1 not Monobook.css -- Red rose64 (talk) 09:47, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I'll defer to both of you on the css, but I just wanted to say that I am also currently running Firefox 20, and I noticed a distinct reduction of whitespace at the top of the main page in Monobook after I made the edit. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 13:33, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 3 March 2014
Per Village pump (proposals)/Archive 109 and Template talk:Pp-meta, please change line 164 from  to.

Jackmcbarn (talk) 21:34, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅. — Edokter  ( talk ) — 23:36, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
 * There is a problem here. At Carl Linnaeus, in Monobook, the white padlock obscures the closing parenthesis of the "Accepted (latest)" dropdown, and part of the arrow-down image to the right of that. Although I have both of the gadgets "" and "" enabled, disabling either one or both of these makes no difference to the position of the whitelock relative to the dropdown. -- Red rose64 (talk) 15:14, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I could move it further to the left (110px). But this is an inherent problem with topicons; all the elements need to have their own position specified. — Edokter  ( talk ) — 15:26, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Looks much better now, -- Red rose64 (talk) 15:35, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

External links icons removed
Hello! If this CSS adds or modifies icons shown after external links, you'll be interested in knowing that such icons have been removed from MediaWiki core, a change which will reach this wiki in few days. You may want to consider whether you still need them. If you have questions, please ask at 63725. Regards, Nemo 09:45, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

#coordinates
Can someone make the coordinates either appear on top or bottom of the centralnotice banners, instead of overlapping with them? See [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upper_Kent_Aerodrome&banner=MediaViewerConsultation_A&uselang=en&force=1&useskin=monobook] [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upper_Kent_Aerodrome&banner=wlm_2014&uselang=en&force=1&useskin=monobook]. This problem is not present in dewiki [//de.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Brunswick?useskin=monobook&banner=wlm_2014&uselang=en&force=1] but at dewiki the coordinates are on top of h1 while here at enwiki they're at the bottom of h1. If the local css here cannot be modified to fix this, it would be greatly appreciated if someone could provide the css to fix it through css of cnbanners. But if the latter option is preferred, it would mean that the styling have to be applied to all cnbanners to fix the issue. Thanks, --Glaisher (talk) 17:56, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I also have this problem, and have raised the issue at WP:VPT. —Kusma (t·c) 15:55, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 9 November 2015
Please add the following fragment to improve the display of coordinates while the visual editor is open using monobook. The visual editor is basically using the new 'Vector' style of positioning elements inside the canvas.

—Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 09:44, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅. Welcome back? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:43, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

OOUI destructive type buttons
I've added bolding to new OOUI style buttons that appear in a new light red, making them harder to see, currently this is only done for buttons that you may want to avoid, or may need to find better such as CANCEL/RESET/etc. — xaosflux  Talk 02:27, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

ca-edit
Hi, I plan on removing this section absent any objection:
 * "Newcomers" don't get monobook anymore, and it goes against the rest of the UI to add weight to the current tab. — xaosflux  Talk 13:08, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ let me know if any issues. — xaosflux  Talk 17:01, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

pt-login
Barring objects, will be removing this class as useless. Logged out users get vector now, you would have to do a url "&useskin=monobook" while logged out to make the "log in" button change with this now. — xaosflux  Talk 13:24, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ — xaosflux  Talk 01:36, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Undo "Temporary workaround for T226594"
The temporary workaround added in the last edit should no longer be needed, can you undo it? Matma Rex talk 20:02, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
 * let me know if you see any issues. — xaosflux  Talk 20:31, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Remove all overly-specified, element dependencies on ids
Coming from https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248137, all mentions of  together with an id selector   can be safely and should be removed. Volker E. (WMF) (talk) 23:48, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
 * It's one way of increasing the specificity without resorting to the cop-out of the  annotation. -- Red rose64 🌹 (talk) 23:51, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
 * We can just replace them with .mw-body. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 10:33, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Margin
Can a small margin be added at the top so that the username/watchlist/etc. aren't pressed so close to the top edge? I tested this out in my common.css and it looks pretty good. should do the trick. It's fairly minor, but I figured I should ask regardless. Edward-Woodrow :) [ talk ] 20:24, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
 * One of the reasons that MonoBook is preferred by myself and others is that it doesn't waste nearly as much space as Vector (either Legacy or 2022). Forcing that margin upon all of us would waste space when we don't want it wasted. You are free to modify your own monobook.css if you so desire. -- Red rose64 🌹 (talk) 22:10, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Alright, I guess that makes sense. Thanks, Edward-Woodrow :) [ talk ] 22:11, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

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Bertalan Farkas

Bertalan Farkas (born August 2, 1949) is the first Hungarian cosmonaut, space explorer and fighter pilot. Hungary became the seventh nation to be represented in space by him. Farkas is also the first Esperantist cosmonaut. He is currently the president of Airlines Service and Trade.

Following his mission, Hungarian-American Károly Simonyi (Charles Simonyi) was the second Hungarian astronaut – the only person in the entire world who has been twice in space as a space tourist and who had paid for himself for the spaceflights. The next Hungarian astronaut will travel to the International Space Station by 2025.

Early life and military career
Born in Gyulaháza, he graduated from the György Kilián Aeronautical College in Szolnok in 1969. He then attended the Krasnodar Military Aviation Institute in the Soviet Union, from where he graduated in 1972.

After earning his qualifications at university, Farkas joined the Hungarian Air Force and rose to the rank of Brigadier General.

He also attended the Bessenyei György Gimnázium in Kisvárda.

Intercosmos program
In 1978 he volunteered to become a cosmonaut and was selected as part of the fifth international programme for Interkosmos. His backup cosmonaut was Béla Magyari.

Farkas, along with Soviet cosmonaut Valery Kubasov, was launched into space on Soyuz 36 from Baikonur Cosmodrome on May 26, 1980, at 18:20 (UTC).

While in orbit, Farkas conducted experiments in materials science. After 7 days, 20 hours and 45 minutes, and having completed 124 orbits, Farkas and Kubasov returned to Earth, landing 140 km southeast of Jezkazgan. Bertalan Farkas was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on June 30, 1980.

Personal life
Farkas is married to Anikó Farkas, and has four children: Gábor, Aida, Ádám and Bertalan. He loves tennis and plays it often.

He was a member of the Hungarian Democratic Forum, a Hungarian conservative political party, and was its candidate at the 2006 parliamentary election in the Baktalórántháza election district. He holds the rank of Commander (CLJ) in the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem in Hungary.

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Noor Hassanali

Noor Mohamed Hassanali TC (13 August 1918 – 25 August 2006) was a Trinidadian lawyer, judge and politician who served as the second president of Trinidad and Tobago from 1987 to 1997. A retired high-court judge, he was the first person of Indian descent along with being the first Muslim to hold the office of President of Trinidad and Tobago, and he was the first Muslim head of state in the Americas.

Hassanali was president during the 1990 Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt when an Islamist group bombed the nation's police headquarters, stormed its Parliament and took the prime minister and his Cabinet hostage. Hassanali, who was visiting London at the time and remained there until the government regained control, aided in calming his fellow citizens and getting rule of law and democracy back on track on his return. His tenure, though largely ceremonial, was noted for its efforts to bridge the nation's racial divide and building consensus between various political parties.

Biography
The sixth of seven children, Hassanali was born into a Indo-Trinidadian Muslim family in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. He attended the Corinth Canadian Mission Primary School and Naparima College. After graduating he taught at Naparima from 1938 to 1943. In 1943 he travelled to Canada, where he studied at the University of Toronto.

Hassanali was described as "one of the most neutral, reserved, and dignified figures in the history of T&T politics". When he was inaugurated as president in 1987 he was described as "a person of impeccable credentials who has a reputation for honesty and humility of the highest order." As a Muslim, Hassanali chose not to serve alcoholic beverages at President's House. Despite reservations on the part of Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson, the decision was never seen as controversial by the public.

Hassanali succeeded acting president Ellis Clarke (1976–1987) and was himself succeeded by Arthur N. R. Robinson (president 1997–2003).

Hassanali died on 25 August 2006 at his home in Westmoorings, Trinidad and Tobago, at the age of 88. He had suffered from hypertension for the preceding year. Hassanali was buried later in the day, following Islamic rites, in the Western Cemetery in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago.

title: Noor Hassanali


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