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Edward D. Hoch

Edward Dentinger Hoch (February 22, 1930 – January 17, 2008) was an American writer of detective fiction. Although he wrote several novels, he was primarily known for his vast output of over 950 short stories. He was one of the few America fiction writers of his generation who supported himself financially through short story publication, rather than novels or screenplays.

Early life and career
Hoch (pronounced hoke) was born in Rochester, New York, the son of Alice Ann Hoch (née Dentinger) and Earl George Hoch, a banker who outlasted both the Wall Street Crash and subsequent Depression. Graduating from the Aquinas Institute of Rochester in 1947, Edward attended the University of Rochester for two years before dropping out in 1949. He enlisted in the Army the following year, serving as a military policeman at Fort Jay on Governor's Island in New York Harbor. After his discharge in 1952, Hoch remained in New York City for another year, working at Pocket Books, Inc.. Returning to New Rochelle, he began working at Hutchins Advertising Company as a copy and public relations writer, in which capacity he remained for roughly 15 years, until transitioning to strictly fiction writing in 1968.

Hoch began writing in the 1950s; his first story appeared in 1955 in Famous Detective Stories and was followed by stories in The Saint Mystery Magazine. In January 1962, he began appearing in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. In December 1962, he kicked off his most successful collaboration, with the appearance of his first story in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine; in the years since EQMM has published over 450 of Hoch's stories, roughly half of his total output. In May 1973, EQMM began publishing a new Hoch story in every monthly issue; as of May 2007, the author had gone an astonishing 34 years without missing a single issue.

Other magazines Hoch wrote for included Adventure, Double-Action Detective, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, The Magazine of Horror and Web Detective Stories.

Hoch was a master of the classic detective story, emphasizing mystery and deduction rather than suspense and fast action; EQMM has called him "The King of the Classical Whodunit." His stories are regarded as very well written and are usually tightly plotted puzzles, with carefully and fairly presented clues, both physical and psychological. He was particularly partial to "impossible crime" tales, where to all appearances the crime (usually a murder) could not have been committed at all; he invented numerous variants on the locked room mystery popularized by John Dickson Carr and others. For instance, in "The Second Problem of the Covered Bridge", a man is shot at close range while alone on a covered bridge, while crowds of witnesses watch both ends of the bridge. Hoch cited Graham Greene, John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen and Jorge Luis Borges as influences on his fiction, and reportedly took great pride in the compliment Carr paid him in a review of the 1970 anthology, Ellery Queen's Grand Slam: 25 Stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. "Let prejudice speak. My concern is with who and how and seldom with why. Therefore, in one person's opinion, the prize should go to the very first story, 'Murder Offstage,' a short-short by Edward D. Hoch; Satan himself could be proud of its ingenuity."

Hoch also published magazine stories under the names "Stephen Dentinger", "R. L. Stevens", "Pat McMahon", "Anthony Circus", "Irwin Booth", "R. E. Porter", "Mr. X" and the House Name "Ellery Queen". In many cases, he also had a story under his own name in the same magazine issue. Hoch also wrote a novel published as Ellery Queen, under the supervision and editing of Manfred Lee, half of the writing partnership known as Ellery Queen.

In 2001, Hoch was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, the first time a Grand Master was known primarily for short fiction rather than novels.

Hoch, a Catholic, died at home in Rochester of a heart attack, aged 77. His wife, née Patricia McMahon, was his only immediate survivor.

Series stories
The overwhelming majority of Hoch's stories feature series characters. He has created at least a dozen different series of stories for EQMM alone. His Captain Leopold series reached over 100 stories.

Nick Velvet
Nick Velvet is a professional thief for hire, with a peculiar specialty: for a flat fee, he steals only objects of negligible apparent value. Since his first appearance in EQMM in September 1966, he has stolen such things as an old spiderweb (which he was then obliged to replace), a day-old newspaper, and a used teabag. His original fee for a theft was $20,000. In 1980 he raised it to $25,000 at the urging of his long-time girlfriend Gloria (who met Nick in 1965 when he was burgling her New York apartment); in the 21st century his fee has risen to $50,000. Unlike many fictional thieves, Nick usually works alone on his thefts—in fact, until 1979 Gloria believed that Nick worked for the U.S. government.

The Nick Velvet caper stories generally combine a near-impossible theft with the mystery of why someone would pay $20,000 to have an apparently valueless item stolen. Although Nick often appears as devoid of curiosity as his targets are of value, circumstances usually force him to identify his clients' true motives, making him as much of a detective as Hoch's more conventional characters. Most of the Nick Velvet stories have a light and humorous tone reminiscent of Leslie Charteris' early stories of the Saint. The fundamental immorality of Nick's chosen profession is frequently offset by the larger justice resulting from his detective work.

A Nick Velvet story, "The Theft of the Circus Poster" in May 1973, began Hoch's unbroken string of monthly appearances in EQMM. Another story, "The Theft of the Rusty Bookmark" in January 1998 featured the real-life Mysterious Bookshop of New York City, and its real-life owner (and Edgar-winning publisher and editor), Otto Penzler. "The Theft of Gloria's Greatcoat" (May 1998), which describes the first meeting of Nick and Gloria, is unusual in that it is told in the first person by Gloria; all of the other Nick Velvet stories (and indeed the majority of Hoch's stories) are third-person narratives.

Captain Leopold
Captain Jules Leopold is a police detective, the head of the Violent Crimes Squad of the police department for the fictional city of Monroe, Conneciticut, a city apparently modeled on Hoch's own home town, Rochester, New York, in Monroe County, New York. Along with his colleagues Lieutenant Fletcher and Sergeant Connie Trent, he is one of Hoch's most conventional characters. The Leopold stories are police procedurals on the surface, showing the interaction of the officers as they investigate crimes, but the crimes themselves are frequently unusual and reflect Hoch's skill at plotting and placement of clues. The story outcomes usually depend on the deductive ability of Leopold and his comrades rather than on straightforward police work, and sometimes feature impossible crimes and locked rooms.

The Leopold stories best illustrate one of the attractions of Hoch's series tales: The characters age and alter realistically with time. In the course of the series, Leopold has divorced, remarried, retired, returned to work, and retired a second time. Lieutenant Fletcher has been promoted to captain to replace him, and Connie Trent has been promoted to Lieutenant. In some of the recent stories, the focus is on Fletcher and Trent, with Leopold only acting as a respected adviser.

Leopold first appeared as a subsidiary character in a 1957 story. In "The Theft of Leopold's Badge" in March 1991, Hoch brought Captain Leopold and Nick Velvet together in the same story.

EQMM has published the majority of the Leopold stories, but a number have appeared in AHMM as well. The Edgar-winning "The Oblong Room", perhaps the most frequently reprinted Leopold story, was first published in The Saint Magazine.

Dr. Sam Hawthorne
Dr. Sam Hawthorne is a retired family practitioner who is also a specialist in impossible murders. His tales are told as reminiscences of his small-town medical practice in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Sam Hawthorne tries to live a quiet life in the fictional New England town of Northmont, but wherever he goes someone always seems to die in a most improbable way.

First appearing in 1974, the Dr. Sam Hawthorne stories are carefully researched historical pieces, rich with period details about Sam's cars, medical practices of the times, politics, and clothing. The stories of this series are among Hoch's most humane tales: Sam himself is a cheerful fellow and tells his tales with humor, but his first-person narratives give readers a close look at his distress at the murders he investigates and his sympathy for the survivors. Because most of the tales take place in a single small town, the series has a larger-than-usual cast of recurring minor characters.

Each Hawthorne story is a "locked room mystery", where an impossible crime occurs, usually a murder.

The earlier tales of the series include one peculiar device: Each one ends with a hint about the next story's central puzzle, and each one begins with a reference to the previous story's hint. Such a device is sometimes inserted when stories are anthologized, to make them seem more like a continuous narrative, but it is very unusual in the initial publication of independent stories in a series.

In "The Problem of Suicide Cottage" (EQMM, July 2007), it is revealed old Sam is 80 years old, and has a daughter named Samantha. He is telling his stories in 1976, and was born in 1896.

Rand
Jeffery (sometimes Jeffrey) Rand is a code and cipher expert, formerly with the Department of Concealed Communications of British intelligence. The Rand stories take place in exotic locations around the world, and frequently feature secret messages or codes. After he left Concealed Communications, many of his stories involved his half-Egyptian, half-Scots wife, Lella Gaad, who Rand met in "The Spy and The Nile Mermaid". Rand met another Hoch character, Michael Vlado, in "The Spy and the Gypsy".

Simon Ark
Simon Ark was the protagonist of Hoch's first published story and ultimately featured in 39 short stories, which Hoch first collected in 1984. Ark appears to be an ordinary man in his sixties, tall and stout, but in many of the stories Ark implies that he is actually over 2000 years old, a Coptic priest who travels the world looking for evil—specifically, Satan. It is said that he is cursed by God, that when Jesus carrying the cross wanted to rest, Ark refused him rest and in turn has never known rest himself, doomed to wander the globe forever (although at least one story suggests Ark was instead the author of a fraudulent gospel so pious that God was unable to punish him with hell or reward him with heaven, and so left him on the Earth instead). However the immortality element is not played up in any way and is just incidental.

The Simon Ark stories have supernatural occult themes, although the crimes in them are always found to have been committed by mundane means. In the introduction to his 1984 collection, Hoch left the matter of Simon Ark's real nature a matter for the reader to ponder. The 1984 volume presents what Hoch deemed to be the nine best of the 39 stories that he devoted to Simon Ark; it concludes with a list of all 39 stories, giving details of their original publications. (There were 39 stories as of 1984. He wrote others subsequently.)

Ben Snow
Ben Snow features in a series of American Old West mysteries set around the start of the 20th century. Like the Dr. Sam Hawthorne series, these tales are carefully researched historical pieces, sometimes including real historical characters such as Butch Cassidy. He met another Hoch character, Sam Hawthorne, in "The Problem of the Haunted Teepee".

The first Ben Snow series appeared in 1961 in The Saint Mystery Magazine; the series has since been continued in EQMM.

Stanton and Ives
Walt Stanton and Juliet Ives are two Princeton graduates turned international couriers that have appeared in newer stories, beginning with "Courier and Ives" in November 2002. The pair are often sent to pick up or retrieve an item, and end up picking up the mystery around it.

Sir Gideon Parrot
Sir Gideon Parrot (pronounced parroe) is Hoch's humorous tribute to the detectives of the Golden Age of mystery fiction, particularly Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot and John Dickson Carr's Dr. Gideon Fell. These stories are gentle parodies of classic mystery devices, the ones so overused they have become cliches.

Michael Vlado
Michael Vlado is the young king of a Romany (Gypsy) tribe in contemporary eastern Europe.

Alexander Swift
Alexander Swift, one of Hoch's later creations, is an intelligence agent for General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. The stories comprise more nearly a serial than a series, as Swift probes ever deeper into rumors that the fort of West Point, commanded by General Benedict Arnold, houses a traitor who will betray the fort to the British Army. In the last Swift story, "Swift Among the Pirates", Swift travels to England, to discover Benedict Arnold is dead.

Barney Hamet
Barney Hamet is a mystery writer who stumbles into real mysteries when he attends mystery conventions. Hamet also featured in Hoch's 1969 novel The Shattered Raven.

Susan Holt
Susan Holt is a minor executive, in charge of promotions for a department store chain.

Interpol
The Interpol stories are an apparently discontinued series from the 1970s and 1980s. Interpol officers Sebastian Blue and Laura Charme investigated cases of international crime in Europe.

Al Darlan
Al Darlan (originally Al Diamond; Hoch decided to change the character's name after the earliest stories to avoid confusion with radio/TV detective Richard Diamond) is a private investigator whose appearances have been sparse. His last appearance was in the May 2008 issue of EQMM.

Novels
Barney Hamet investigates a murder at the Mystery Writers of America. (as Ellery Queen). "Trouble shooter" Mike McCall investigates the murder of a film producer.
 * The Shattered Raven, 1970. ISBN 0709112300
 * The Blue Movie Murders, 1973. ISBN 0575015950

Science fiction detective stories
These three science fiction novels, set in the mid-21st century, feature Carl Crader and Earl Jazine of the Computer Investigation Bureau, nicknamed the "Computer Cops".
 * The Transvection Machine, 1971. ISBN 0802755399
 * The Fellowship of the Hand, 1973. ISBN 0802755534
 * The Frankenstein Factory, 1975. ISBN 0446768618

Short story collections

 * City of Brass and Other Simon Ark Stories (Simon Ark), 1971, Leisure Books. ISBN 0843900296
 * The Judges of Hades (Simon Ark), 1971, Leisure Books. ISBN 0843900334
 * Ellery Queen Presents the Spy and the Thief (Rand / Nick Velvet), ed. Queen, 1971, Davis Publications. LCCN 72099895
 * The Thefts of Nick Velvet (Nick Velvet), 1978, Mysterious Press. ISBN 0892960353
 * The Quests of Simon Ark (Simon Ark), 1984, Mysterious Press. ISBN 0892961139
 * Leopold's Way (Captain Leopold), ed. Nevins & Greenberg, 1985, Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 0809312336
 * The Spy Who Read Latin and Other Stories (Rand), 1990, Mysterious Press.
 * The Night, My Friend (non-series), ed. Nevins, 1992, Ohio University Press. ISBN 0821410113
 * Diagnosis: Impossible (Dr. Sam Hawthorne), 1996, Crippen & Landru. ISBN 1885941021
 * The Ripper of Storyville and Other Ben Snow Tales (Ben Snow), 1997, Crippen & Landru. ISBN 1885941196
 * The Velvet Touch (Nick Velvet), 2000, Crippen & Landru. ISBN 1885941420
 * The Old Spies Club and Other Intrigues of Rand (Rand), 2001, Crippen & Landru. ISBN 1885941609
 * The Night People (non-series), 2001, Five Star Publishing. ISBN 0786231467
 * The Iron Angel and Other Tales of the Gypsy Sleuth (Michael Vlado), 2003, Crippen & Landru. ISBN 1885941919
 * More Things Impossible (Dr. Sam Hawthorne), 2006, Crippen & Landru. ISBN 1932009493
 * The Sherlock Holmes Stories of Edward D. Hoch, (Sherlock Holmes), 2008, Mysterious Press.
 * Nothing Is Impossible (Dr. Sam Hawthorne), 2014, Crippen & Landru. ISBN 1936363038
 * The Future Is Ours, The Science Fiction Stories of Edward D. Hoch, ed. Steven Steinbock, 2016, Wildside Press. ISBN 1479407305
 * All but Impossible (Dr. Sam Hawthorne), 2017, Crippen & Landru. ISBN 1936363224
 * Challenge the Impossible (Dr. Sam Hawthorne), 2018, Crippen & Landru. ISBN 1936363291
 * Hoch's Ladies (Susan Holt, Libby Knowles, Annie Sears), 2019, Crippen & Landru. ISBN 1936363429
 * Funeral in the Fog (Simon Ark), 2020, Crippen & Landru. ISBN 1936363488
 * Constant Hearses and Other Revolutionary Mysteries (Alexander Swift, Gideon Parrot), 2022, Crippen & Landru. ISBN 193636364X
 * The Killer Everyone Knew and Other Captain Leopold Stories (Captain Leopold), 2023, Crippen & Landru. ISBN 1936363771

Collections edited by Hoch

 * Dear Dead Days, 1972, Littlehampton Book Services. ISBN 0575017732
 * Best Detective Stories of the Year, 1976 through 1981, Dutton
 * All But Impossible! An Anthology of Locked Room & Impossible Crime Stories by Members of the Mystery Writers of America, 1981, Robert Hale Limited. ISBN 0709007795
 * The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1982 through 1995, Walker & Co.
 * Murder Most Sacred: Great Catholic Tales of Mystery and Suspense, 1989, Random House Value Publishing. ISBN 0517061597
 * Twelve American Detective Stories, 1997, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192880640

Awards

 * 1968 Edgar Allan Poe Award (Mystery Writers of America): "The Oblong Room", The Saint Mystery Magazine, July 1967
 * 1998 Anthony Award (Bouchercon World Mystery Convention): "One Bag of Coconuts", EQMM, November 1997
 * 2001 Anthony Award (Bouchercon): "The Problem of the Potting Shed", EQMM, July 2000
 * 2007 Ellery Queen Readers Choice Award (awarded 2008): "The Theft of the Ostracized Ostrich", EQMM, June 2007
 * Lifetime Achievement Award (Private Eye Writers of America), 2000
 * Grand Master (Mystery Writers of America), 2001
 * Lifetime Achievement Award (Bouchercon), 2001

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Takao Kobayashi

Takao Kobayashi (小林 隆男) is a Japanese amateur astronomer and an outstanding discoverer of minor planets who currently works at the Ōizumi Observatory. The asteroid 3500 Kobayashi is named after him.

Career
Kobayashi has discovered more than 2000 asteroids using CCD technology, including the Amor asteroids 7358 Oze,, and about nine Trojan asteroids. He also discovered the periodic comet P/1997 B1 (Kobayashi), which he originally reported as an asteroid.

His asteroid discoveries of January 16, 1994 and December 31, 1994, have been named 8883 Miyazakihayao and 10160 Totoro by Kobayashi. The names reference anime filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, and one of his creations, My Neighbor Totoro. The names were approved by the International Astronomical Union. Kobayashi is not to be confused with another Japanese astronomer, Toru Kobayashi, who co-discovered comet C/1975 N1 (Kobayashi-Berger-Milon).

P/1997 B1 Kobayashi
On January 30 and January 31, 1997, Kobayashi observed an object, P/1997 B1 Kobayashi, which was initially thought to be a minor planet and was reported to the IAU as such by Syuichi Nakano. Over the next few days, the object was observed to be in a cometary orbit. Warren B. Offutt later showed it to be a comet.

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Megaherz

Megaherz (German name meaning "Mega-heart", a pun on the homophone "megahertz") is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band formed in Eichenau in 1993.

Megaherz has gone through many changes in musical style since their founding. Their early works can be categorized as dark alternative metal, comparable to 1990s American bands such as Faith No More, whereas recent works are comparable to bands such as Oomph! and Rammstein. Their early albums all include at least one song based on a classic German fairy tale, including "Hänschen klein" ("Little Hans") on Herzwerk, "Rapunzel" on Kopfschuss, "Windkind" ("Wind Child") on Himmelfahrt, and "I.M Rumpelstilzchen" on Herzwerk II.

The band has had many changes in line-up since its formation in 1993. Guitarist Christian Bystron and bassist Wenz Weninger have been the band's only consistent members since 1995. Since vocalist Alexander Wesselsky's departure in 2003, no founding member has remained in the band.

Formation and early success (1993–2002)
Megaherz began as a musical project of Alexx Wesselsky, Josef Kalleder, Marc Bredtmann, and Tobias Trinkl. In 1995, they released a self-published demo album titled Herzwerk.

Christian "X-ti" Bystron joined the band while they were touring for Herzwerk. After a few rehearsals, bassist Kalleder quit and was subsequently replaced by Wenz Weninger. Both Bredtmann and Trinkl left the band soon after. The now trio of Alexx, X-ti and Wenz released the first studio album Wer bist du? in 1997, with a completely different sound, inspired by Clawfinger and incorporating electronic and rap elements that would become a staple in future albums.

Noel Pix had helped with the keyboards and programming on Wer bist du?, but joined the band full time on keyboards for the second album, Kopfschuss, released in 1998. The single "Freiflug" was released in 1999 to further promote Kopfschuss; it became Megaherz's most successful single to date, peaking at No. 7 on the Deutsche Alternative Charts.

Kopfschuss was followed by Himmelfahrt (2000) and became the band's debut album on the Media Control Charts, peaking at No. 78. Herzwerk II, released in 2002, had similar success, also reaching No. 78 on the German charts. In October 2002, vocalist Wesselsky announced that he was leaving the band due to creative differences. He would finish the 2002 tour before officially leaving the band on 1 January 2003 and forming the group Eisbrecher with Noel Pix. Since Wesselsky's departure, there are no remaining founding members left.

The search for a lead singer (2003–2007)
In April 2003, the remaining members announced the new singer, Mathias "Jablonski" Elsholz of the band Twelve After Elf. Elsholz was already familiar to the band's fans, as his vocals had been briefly featured on the track "Falsche Götter" from the album Himmelfahrt. By June 2004, a new album was under way. A new song was soon released with a small Macromedia Flash animation, substantiating the rumors of a new singer. This song was later revealed to be "Zeig' mir dein Gesicht" from the album 5, which was released on 6 December 2004.

On 23 September 2005, the rest of the tours for the year were cancelled, as Elsholz left in "total surprise" to the band. The reason was not given on the Megaherz homepage, but, in the Eisbrecher forums. Elsholz announced that he and his wife were expecting twins, and he wished to devote more time to his soon-to-be family. 5 was released in the US via Eclipse Records on 21 February 2006.

On 18 April 2007, it was confirmed on Megaherz's official website that the band found a new singer and was working on their sixth record. It was also stated that the band would tour while recording their new album.

Lex Wohnhaas officially joins (2007–2010)
By 18 August 2007, the band's new line-up was announced, and the website was re-launched. Lex Wohnhaas from the band Seelenbrand was announced as the new singer, and Jürgen "Bam Bam" Wiehler from the band Bonfire was replacing Jürgen Zink. Lex previously played for Megaherz during a concert in Moscow just after Elsholz left.

The new album, Heuchler, was released in July 2008. After its release, it reached position No. 31 on the German Album Charts. The band played at the Summer Breeze Open Air festival in August 2008 and continued touring in 2009, playing at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen festival in Leipzig, Germany.

A compilation album was released in early March 2009, titled Totgesagte leben länger ("Those declared dead live longer", a line from "Dein Herz schlägt" from the album 5).

The band released their first remix album, Loblieder, on 1 April 2010, featuring remixes by artists such as Die Krupps, Suicide Commando, Rotersand, Letzte Instanz, and Staubkind.

Götterdämmerung, Zombieland and Erdwärts (2010–2017)
By 22 December 2010, Megaherz were back in the studio working on their seventh album. On 18 April 2011, they announced that Christoph Klinke from 'From Constant Visions' was the band's new rhythm guitarist, replacing Roland Vencelj.

Announced on their official website on 24 May 2011, Megaherz was scheduled to release their new album on 14 October 2011, but by 20 August, it was announced that the release date for the new album has been moved to early December. Afterwards, an announcement on the band's website on 22 September 2011 stated: "In coordination with our record company, GoldenCore Records/ZYX Music, we decided to postpone the release of our new album finally to January 20th, 2012". Megaherz would also mention that the new album will feature 11 songs, and that one of the new songs will become available for download in October 2011.

Megaherz went on tour with Subway to Sally and Letzte Instanz in December 2011 before embarking on their own national tour in early 2012 to promote the new album.

The first single, "Jagdzeit", was released on 23 December 2011. The new album, Götterdämmerung, was released on 20 January 2012, and hit the German Media Control Charts at No. 19. Megaherz played at Wacken Open Air festival on 2 August, as well as Mera Luna Festival on 11 August 2012.

Megaherz released their first concert DVD on 16 November 2012, titled Götterdämmerung: Wacken Live.

The song "Gegen den Wind" was released on 25 January 2013 as the second single to the band's album Götterdämmerung.

The band announced on their official website on 20 January 2014 that they were working on a new album. By the end of February, the band announced that they had signed with a new record company, Napalm Records. The new album, Zombieland, was released on 24 October 2014 and would chart in the Media Control Charts at No. 17.

Megaherz then went on a tour with Unheilig, as support for their Gipfelstürmer Open Air Tour, between June and September 2015.

Megaherz would then release a new EP titled Erdwärts on 4 December 2015, followed by a tour across Russia, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland between December 2015 and April 2016. The EP consists of four new songs and two re-recorded tracks ("Jordan" and "Teufel"), both songs previously released on the band's 1998 album Kopfschuss.

Megaherz once again went on tour with Unheilig between May and July 2016 as a supporting act during Unheilig's Ein Letzte Mal Tournee. Though Megaherz did not play any support shows for Unheilig in August, Megaherz was one of four supporting acts for the tour finale at RheinEnergieStadion on 10 September 2016.

Megaherz then embarked on the second leg of the Erdwärts Club Tour between November 2016 and January 2017.

Tour in China, Komet and departure of Jürgen "Bam Bam" Wiehler (2017–2019)
On 9 January 2017, after the "Erdwärts Tour" finale, the band announced that they have entered the studio to record their next studio album.

The band went on a four-date tour in China for the very first time in the bands 20+ year career in May 2017 playing in four cities, including Beijing. Megaherz opened for Marilyn Manson on 22 July 2017 at Woodstage Open Air Festival in Dresden, Germany.

Komet was revealed as the title of the upcoming 10th album scheduled to be released in February 2018.

Longtime drummer Jürgen Wiehler left the band in February 2018; Tobias Derer, was later announced as his replacement. Derer's run with the band was short lived, as he left in April 2018. The band officially announced his departure in July 2018 and welcomed Rolf Herring on board as the new drummer.

Komet would turn out to be Megaherz's highest-charting album to date, reaching number 7 on the German charts.

In Teufels Namen (2019–present)
In August 2019, Megaherz announced that they have begun work on a new studio album, originally aimed for a release in 2020.

On August 14, 2021, Megaherz announced via Facebook that drummer Rolf Hering would be leaving that band and joining medieval metal band Feuerschwanz. On April 6, 2022, they revealed that Maxx Hertweck was the new drummer of the band.

On August 11, 2023, their eleventh studio album In Teufel's Namen was released.

Musical style
Megaherz primarily plays a style of Neue Deutsche Härte, a subgenre of industrial metal, which incorporates elements of groove metal, techno, and German rock. Megaherz makes use of clean and deep male vocals, heavy riffs, samples, keyboard, and synthesizer effects. During the early days of the band, Megaherz played an alternative metal style in the vein of Faith No More. Their albums Wer bist du? and Kopfschuss took on a rap metal and funk metal style, which included slap bass riffs and rapping.

Current members

 * Alexander "Lex" Wohnhaas – vocals (2007–present)
 * Christian "X-ti" Bystron – lead guitar (1997–present), programming (2002–present)
 * Wenz Weninger – bass (1997–present)
 * Maxx Hertweck – drums (2022–present)
 * Christoph "Chris" Klinke – rhythm guitar (2011–present)

Former members

 * Alexander "Alexx" Wesselsky – vocals (1993–2003)
 * Mathias "Jablonski" Elsholz – vocals (2003–2005)
 * Jochen "Noel Pix" Seibert – guitar, keyboards, programming (1998–2001)
 * Christian Scharinger – keyboards, programming (1995–1997)
 * Josef Kalleder – bass (1993–1995)
 * Roland Vencelj – guitar (2007–2011)
 * Oliver Pohl – guitar (2002–2003)
 * Marc Bredtmann – guitar (1993–1995)
 * Rolf Herring – drums (2018–2021)
 * Tobias Derer – drums (2018)
 * Jürgen "Bam Bam" Wiehler – drums (2007–2018)
 * Jürgen Zink – drums (2003–2007)
 * Jürgen Schlachter – drums (2002–2003)
 * Frank Gegerle – drums (1998–2001, touring 2005)
 * Tommy Eberhard – drums (1997–1998)
 * Tobias Trinkl – drums (1993–1995)

Remix albums

 * 2010: Loblieder

Singles

 * 1997: "Gott sein"
 * 1998: "Rock Me Amadeus"
 * 1998: "Liebestöter"
 * 1999: "Freiflug"
 * 2000: "Himmelfahrt"
 * 2002: "Herzblut"
 * 2004: "Gott sein '04" (non-physical release)
 * 2004: "Dein Herz schlägt" (non-physical release)
 * 2008: "Mann von Welt"
 * 2011: "Jagdzeit"
 * 2013: "Gegen den Wind"
 * 2014: "Wir könnten Götter sein"
 * 2017: "Vorhang auf"
 * 2018: "Komet"
 * 2018: "Von oben"
 * 2023: "Alles Arschlöcher"
 * 2023: "Engelsgesicht"
 * 2023: "In Teufels Namen"

EPs

 * 2007: Freiflug EP: The Early Years (1996–2000)
 * 2008: Mann von Welt
 * 2008: Heuchler
 * 2011: Jagdzeit
 * 2015: Erdwärts

Compilation albums

 * 2001: Querschnitt
 * 2009: Totgesagte leben länger

Music videos

 * 1999: "Freiflug"
 * 2011: "Jagdzeit"
 * 2013: "Herz aus Gold"
 * 2014: "Himmelsstürmer"
 * 2014: "Für immer"
 * 2016: "Einsam"
 * 2017: "Vorhang auf!"
 * 2018: "Komet"
 * 2018: "Nicht genug"
 * 2023: "Alles Arschlöcher"
 * 2023: "Engelsgesicht"

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul Brandenburg

A 19-year-old university student. --Delirium 01:25, May 3, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete! --bodnotbod 01:31, May 3, 2004 (UTC)
 * I see no reason why this university student should not be allowed to have a space on Wikipedia, deletion seems unnecessary. --158.143.161.42
 * This is an encyclopedia, not a yearbook. Delete.  RickK 03:26, 3 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Why not just say "I see no reason why I should not...". Welcome to Wikipedia, and remember that all IPs are logged. Delete. --Ben Brockert 03:44, May 3, 2004 (UTC)
 * Hilarious! Slapping him with his own IP, that is, not the page, on which I vote delete. Grendelkhan 22:37, 2004 May 5 (UTC)
 * Delete. -- Chris 73 | Talk 03:02, 3 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete useless vanity. -- Cyrius|&#9998 03:06, May 3, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. Wikipedia is not a blog. Near-identical Paul Brandenburg article was speedily deleted a day ago. --Zigger 03:41, 2004 May 3 (UTC)
 * Delete. No interesting content. Mike Church 10:40, 3 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Not vanity.  Not useless.  Being 19 and in school is not a valid reason for deletion. anthony (see warning)
 * Nor is it a valid reason for inclusion. Delete. -Fennec 15:40, May 3, 2004 (UTC)
 * I never said it was a valid reason for inclusion. anthony (see warning)
 * Nope...this is just another vanity page with the author posing in the third person for his argument to stay. Delete. - Lucky 6.9 15:33, 3 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vanity. To the author, 158.143.161.42: you're an adult, now. Why don't you become a registered user and put this personal info on your own page? (And I thought LSE grads were smart...) Alcarillo 16:09, 3 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. You're at uni, get a life. :p The Land 21:40, 3 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Pure vanity. PMC 20:42, 6 May 2004 (UTC)
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Anglicanism and the Anglican Communion
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Bosniaks
Greetings. I've noticed you are one of the editors who has edited the Bosniaks article. I was wondering if you would have any input into a few "revert wars" happening lately over there. Here's a diff. Personally, I think the changes are biased, a little racist/xenophobic, but mostly, they are wrong.

P.S, I've sent this message to a few of the users I've seen in the talk page history to try to get a discussion started. 121.222.199.140 (talk) 10:00, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Biased editing of Technological Utopianism by Loremaster.
Biased editing of Technological Utopianism by Loremaster.

Due to your past contribution to Singularitarianism, you may want to help editing the Technological utopianism article because currently only one editor is contributing to the article. The Singularitarianism Article could also benefit from your help.

I feel Loremaster is editing Singularitarianism and Technological utopianism in a biased manner in accordance with his Save The Earth propaganda. Loremasters's ideology seems to verge towards Neo-Luddism. Here are the damming facts Loremaster has stated in discussion:

 * Loremaster says he is:

 * Loremaster wants people to:

 * Loremaster sees his editing as a 'fight' and he states:

86.174.64.123 (talk) 12:58, 18 December 2010 (UTC)?

--Loremaster (talk) 13:11, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
 * LOL
 * 1) Despite the fact that I openly admit to being a technorealist who is critical of techno-utopianism in all its forms, I have let never this point of view influence any of my edits or reverts of the Technological utopianism article. On the contrary, I am the person most responsible for expanding this article with content some would argue is “pro-techno-utopian” (i.e. passages from James Hughes' book Citizen Cyborg).
 * 2) I find it disgusting that User:86.174.64.123 would take comments I made out of context to falsely make it seem I see my editing of any article as part of my fight for the environment.
 * 3) In light of this outrageous act of bad faith, I will do everything in my power to get this jerk banned from Wikipedia.

Gattaca "new eugenics" -> "liberal eugenics"
In September 2008, you made this edit to the Gattaca article. I realize this is a very old edit of yours, but I was puzzled about the sense you intended. Did you mean "liberal" in the sense of "used generously", or did you intend the sense of "a political point of view"? J JMesserly (talk) 05:28, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Please disregard. I did not see that it was linked to the "liberal" eugenics article- a noun phrase that reliably misleads people because the dominant sense of the term "liberal" is radically different than the technical moral and political philosophy meanings of the term.  -J JMesserly (talk) 03:29, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

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Hello AndrewTheLott, On the German-language Wikipedia the community has introduced a system for several years in what users conform that they have met other users in real life. This system was created to create more trust between users and thus creating a better and nicer place to work on the wiki. On the German-language Wikipedia it is a huge success and I translated a large part of this tool in English so that also users from other Wikipedias can use it. It only makes sense to sign up into the system if you have met at least three other users in person. You can sign up for the tool, after three other users confirm they have met you, you can confirm other users yourself. About this system, more information can be found at Personal acquaintances. In the green section are the instructions. On Personal acquaintances/Participants will grow a list of participants who are active in the English speaking parts of the world. It would be great if would you sign up! :-) Greetings - Romaine (talk) 15:58, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
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Category:British Hills by Height
I saw you comments in Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Automatically Generating Category-Lists from Categories and realised you may be interested in the categorys Category:British Hills by Height and Category:Mountains by Elevation (km). These appear (in my opinion) to be liked by the actual mountain contributors. Can I tempt you to make a contribution/comment here to save (or otherwise) these pages?: Categories_for_deletion/Log/2005 September 1

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Self-phase modulation
Hi BoP, I just did a rewrite of self-phase modulation, because I think the derivation you added isn't correct. In particular the frequency shift doesn't seem right. Please take a look and let me know if I'm missing something. --Bob Mellish 00:58, 4 November 2005 (UTC) - I agree that the new derivation is much more generic and looks quite O.K. to me! (I have only corrected the inst. phase $$\phi \rightarrow \phi(t)$$)--BoP 08:24, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Numerical aperture and focal length
Hi BoP. In Numerical aperture you wrote "The f-number therefore is independent of the object distance and is directly related with the focal length, while the numerical aperture is dependent on the particular imaging geometry." This is not really true. The f-number (as defined in the article) describes the imaging properties of the lens only when the object or the image is at infinity. It is no more independent of the imaging geometry than numerical aperture is. To describe imaging with the object and image a finite distance from the lens, one must use the "effective f-number", which is defined slightly differently. (I don't remember the formula offhand, and the book where I have it is at work.) Photographers simply ignore this. One could say that the use of f-number in photography involves an approximation, that the object distance is much greater than the image distance. I would expect that this approximation would become noticeably inadequate for closeups and macro photography, but unless someone is dealing with exposure very quantitatively one still might not notice.--Srleffler 00:47, 4 March 2007 (UTC) Agreed - the earlier definition was a bit misleading - The current version seems to take care of that! --BoP (talk) 21:44, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

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