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User talk:Bcorr/Archive 200404

Archived talk from April 2004

• Building Janitor
So apparently I'm not very original. :) moink 16:10, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

 * Not to worry -- you're original here... :-) BCorr | Брайен 16:32, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)

• Removing nonsense
Hi! Thanks for editing my user talk page, but it's probably best to leave stuff that people put for me there, even if it's weird nonsense (as this was), because if I overlook it, I might miss something important. Jimbo Wales 04:20, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

 * Hi Jimbo -- thanks for the nice note -- will do! BCorr | Брайен 12:33, Apr 5, 2004 (UTC)

• Paul Voguel requests...
Brian, quit POV reverting the cosmotheism article without first discussing it in the TalkPages. Thanks! :D

 * Hi Paul. I've discussed it on the talk page first this time as you requested.

 * Thanks, Bcorr, but, the POV nonsense and the POV "invented" terms are NOT Wiki NPOV and these will be deleted and reverted. Thanks again! -PV

• Blocking T of N
-> User talk:The Trolls of Navarone

• Michael Luther King, Jr.?
These seem like reputable sources to confirm what I have stated about Martin Luther King's birthname.

http://www.pbs.org/empires/martinluther/who_said.html http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/mlking.asp http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/king_martin_luther.shtml

 * Hi Darrien -- the Snopes page you listed has the following quote from MLK's father:

 * I had been known as Michael Luther King or "Mike" up until I was 22 . . . when one day my father, James Albert King, told me: 'You aren't named Mike or Michael either. Your name is Martin Luther King. Your mother just called you Mike for short.' I was elated to know that I had really been named for the great leader of the Protestant Reformation, but there was no way of knowing if papa had made a mistake after all. Neither of my parents could read or write and they kept no record of Negro births in our backwoods county . . . I gladly accepted Martin Luther King as my real name and when M.L. was born, I proudly named him Martin Luther King, Jr. But it was not until 1934, when I was seeking my first passport . . . that I found out that Dr. Johnson, who delivered M.L., had listed him in the city records as Michael Luther King, Jr., because he thought that was my real name.

 * To me, this is not enough to say that he was born Michael King. Snopes is usually quite definitive in its statements, and in this case they basically say that they don't know. And the BBC article clearly confuses MLK with his father. So for me this still falls into the "urban legend" category. Thanks, BCorr | Брайен 04:11, Apr 10, 2004 (UTC)

are you around ? :-) ant

• sand dunes
Like the sand eh? Suddenly all my arts have an inbound link count of +1... (-: +sj+ 21:16, 2004 Apr 10 (UTC)

 * Um, sorry, I don't understand: sand? inbound link count? Did I edit something you're referring to? I'm such a doofus -- yep -- it's totally cool!
 * Thanks, BCorr | Брайен 21:21, Apr 10, 2004 (UTC)

• Kalmykia
Could you put the name for Kalmykia at the page in Russian? I think it should be in Kalmyk too... Dagestan
 * Калмыцкая Республика Российской Федерации is now there. And I don't know where you might find the Kalmyk script (an example here: ) -- or even a transliteration. Thanks, BCorr | Брайен 01:34, Apr 12, 2004 (UTC)

Kalmyk is officially written in Cyrllic. The example you have is not the official script. Dagestan

 * If you find it somewhere, I'm happy to generate it for use here. Cheers, BCorr | Брайен 02:16, Apr 12, 2004 (UTC)

Actually, Kalmyk is the same language as Mongolian. I'm sure we'll be able to find stuff on Mongolian. Dagestan

• the IRC cabal
Hi Bcorr. This is supposed to be the Wikipedia, not the IRCopedia. I deeply resent the IRC cabal, and wish that there was a way to require Wikipedians to discuss things openly where all contributors have equal access. Alas, I don't think this is possible or practical, so those of us who prefer not to dabble with evil protocols like IRC will have to remain second-class citizens and put up with it.

With that said, the reality is that Wik's nomination is never, ever going to succeed, not while Wik have a long, long list of dedicated enemies - many of them people I respect a great deal, I might add. It's quite pointless, and serves only to risk stirring up and antagonising a contributor who, whatever his faults, is a human being just like you or me. I am not going to get into an edit war over it - thjat would only make things worse - but, honestly, what is the point of subjecting Wik to this public humiliation? There is no point.

Best regards -- Tannin 03:26, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the reply. I appreciate your points on all of this, and although I like the fact there are a lot of levels, layers and aspects to Wikipedia that serve different functions, I have to admit that could just be because I take part in many of them. In any case, I'm still not sure if the nomination should be reinstated or not, but understand your position, and think it's reasonable. Thanks, BCorr | Брайен 03:35, Apr 13, 2004 (UTC)

• Thank you from Cecropia
Thanks for setting an end time. This has been a strange journey with my nomination. We're getting close to the time, and I'm one vote under that 80%, but this is going to have to be a judgment call on some Bureaucrat's part anyway, I guess. I'm think I'm running for "Wikipedian with the most positive votes who never became an admin." :) But we shall see... Thanks again for your help. Cecropia 03:55, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

 * It's no problem -- and if that happens, I'm sure you'll be nominated again soon! -- BCorr | Брайен 11:22, Apr 13, 2004 (UTC)

• Admin Nomination
Hello, I would appreciate your help by earning your vote as an admin. I have been here about 5 months now and have been nominated. I have made many contributions and have improved on my editing and behavior. I take this seriously, that is why I have gotten into it with Anthony so much. You can look at my user page yourself and see my contribtions. I would appreciate a vote in the yes column if you agree. Again, thanks for your time and help. ChrisDJackson 02:34, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

 * Hi Chris -- First, I have to say that I don't feel that enough time has passed since I last felt the need to make comments on your behavior to feel comfortable with your nomination. Second, I have real questions about the motivations of the user who nominated you. In addition, I'm strongly opposed to lobbying for one's own nomination. If you have to organize people to get the votes, it means to me that the community isn't ready for you to be a sysop yet. Please just relax and wait for the time to be right. Thanks, and please keep up the good work -- it will pay off. Thanks, BCorr | Брайен 01:50, Apr 14, 2004 (UTC)

 * What is wrong with asking people to vote? There have only been a handful of votes, therefore I wanted to get more folks involved in the vote so I posted it on their talk page.  That is not spam.  It was simply a invitation to vote in the nomination process, hopefully in favor of me.  But thanks for the advice.  ChrisDJackson 02:10, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

 * I rest my case. sigh -- BCorr | Брайен 02:16, Apr 14, 2004 (UTC)

 * What "real questions" do you have about motivations of me? --Lst27 20:45, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

 * I have no answers, only questions, I guess? -- BCorr | Брайен 00:05, Apr 16, 2004 (UTC)

• User:Ryan524's nomination at WP:RFA
You are right on the money with regards to one thing: I indeed justified my removal of the vote based on the precedence of Wik's case. -- Dissident 02:19, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

And you have to admit that Wik has a much better claim to adminship than Ryan524, right? -- Dissident 02:21, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

 * Your point is correct, Dissident, but it's a very different situation. As I mentioned, it's almost never a good idea to remove a nomination (self- or otherwise) before the usual week has passed -- although I know it's been done recently with User:Wik. Leaving it for a week gives the community time to see it, think about it, and comment on it. If, for example, Ryan renominates himself or someone else nominates him, most people wouldn't even know about this one after such a short time. Wik is a very well-known editor, and people are familiar with him, but User:Ryan524 is man unknown quantity, and often people who make unusual or unlikely requests on RfA reappear there or somewhere else, and it's good for people to know the history. And again, I realize that you were just trying to save some embarassment and/or contention, and please don't take my reversion of the page personally. Thanks, BCorr | Брайен 02:30, Apr 15, 2004 (UTC)

• Jeu de quelques canards et les fleurs
I am OK :-) The operation was around 8h30. I woke up a good hour later. And actually... went back to sleep for most of the day :-) Except lunch that was really a nice moment :-) I felt ravenous.

I came back home at the end of the afternoon, walking through the local park, a bit staggering (still a bit sleepy, and low blood pressure). There were many flowers, beautiful blue sky (after so many rainy days...), and two males ducks playing with a female one. So I sat there for a while, warmed by the sun. All was so clear.

Everything went well, and news are very good. So, soon, I guess, it will be just memory :-) I feel relieved. While I was sleeping, I decided (that was a rather curious sleep, and last night was a very bad sleep) to try to go working on the mediation FAQ soon, and to work again on biodiversity as well. The ecoregion project is working well, so I am glad. I hope my mood is better now and that I do not hurt anyone feelings :-) (but Stuart :-))

Thanks for your thoughts Brian :-)

(PS : there is a problem with the top of your user page; all is messed up).

FirmLittleFluffyThing

 * D'accord -- et je ne sais pas qu'est ce le probleme avec ma page d'utilsateur -- en mes browsers c'est pas de probleme. Et je suis très heureux tu va bien. -- BCorr | Брайен 00:05, Apr 16, 2004 (UTC)

• Augusto Pinochet
I have create a poll at talk:Augusto Pinochet on how to describe the CIA's role in the coup against Allende. Please vote and/or comment. --Uncle Ed 14:17, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

 * D'accord, mon frère -- BCorr | Брайен 14:50, Apr 16, 2004 (UTC)

• CBC
Please disambiguate CBC on your User page. Thanks. RedWolf 01:10, Apr 17, 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the note -- I never expected CBC to become a disambig page! -- BCorr | Брайен 12:06, Apr 17, 2004 (UTC)

• Thanks for supporting my nomination as an admin...
...I appreciate it. Dpbsmith 10:09, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

 * You're very welcome -- see you around! -- BCorr | Брайен 12:06, Apr 17, 2004 (UTC)

• Ashkenazi
Bcorr, just wondering, how can you justify keeping Ashkenazi, as it does not even link to a study or anything meaningful to support this controversial statement? It seems like a very appropriate thing to strike, or at least rewrite carefully citing an actual study, metrics and particulars of any study. Fuzheado 15:49, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

 * Hi Fuzheado, I'm sorry -- I in no way intended for my leaving the #Intelligence section in to mean that I thought it was correct. I guess I was just trying to be "generous" in leaving something of the edits, and I was sort of assuming that someone else would remove it.... Thanks, BCorr | Брайен 04:02, Apr 18, 2004 (UTC)

• Sanctions & exclusions
Hello Brian. Incidently, would you come and vote on this

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia%3ASanctions_et_exclusions

Merci Ant

 * d'accord -- B

• Steward: Thanks :-)
Hi Bcorr,

I have not yet had the chance to get to know you more, but thank you nevertheless for the trust you gave me by giving me your vote for Steward. I feel very honored.

If you ever see me doing something you disagree, please let me know. I always want to learn, to improve.

Thanks a lot :-) Fantasy 20:01, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

 * You're very welcome – thanks for the note and your openness to suggestions – I appreciate it -- BCorr | Брайен 21:14, Apr 20, 2004 (UTC)

• Oil For Food
Hi, Brian. Thanks for showing up over at Oil for Food. Unfortunately, this issue is unlikely to be resolved on talk without outside intervention. Would you mind stepping in with an outsider's perspective? The situation so far is that there are three active users working on this article: myself (Rei), Get-Back-World-Respect, and TDC. Both Get-Back-World-Respect and myself are advocating for an article about oil for food which is at least *half* about the program; certainly with no more than half of the article about allegations that are currently under investigation. TDC wants to make the article 4:1 about the allegations. Get-Back-World-Respect and myself find this completely unreasonable; at least until the allegations (who are being pushed by Ahmed Chalabi, hardly a reliable figure) are investigated (it's only going to take a few months); otherwise, it is smear. We're perfectly willing to leave a whole half of the article not about the Oil For Food program (which a real encyclopedia would be all about), but about the allegations. But 4:1 just seems ridiculous. Would you mind stepping in with your opinion on the subject? I don't think TDC and our differences will just get resolved on their own; we've been trying to resolve them for a long time, and it hasn't gotten anywhere. --Rei

 * Hi Rei -- since I protected the article, I think it's best that I not get involved in the discussion, although I understand your frustration. I have a couple of suggestions: first, I think that you should try listing the article's talk page on Requests_for_comment -- usually people will weigh in and bring some new perspective and fresh ideas to the article. If that doesn't work, you could bring it to the WikipediaMediation Committee at the Requests for mediation page.

 * I hope this helps. Thanks, BCorr | Брайен 16:02, Apr 28, 2004 (UTC)

Hi there. I would appreciate if next time you protect a page you check before which version would be wisest to keep. TDC started his allegations based on an entry from clearly partisan "free"republic.com, and he is known to be an abusive user listed as a vandal. Thanks anyway for pushing the resolution of the problem.

I saw that you have versions of your page in other languages. The German one does not quite make sense, and I neither speak Russian nor Maori, but the French one is good, so I thought maybe you would be interested in a vocabulary project I am starting with some people from here and wikibooks? Please check my page and let me know. Get-back-world-respect 23:20, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

 * Hi GBWR (if I may be so bold as to call you that) -- no matter which version one protects, someone will believe it's The Wrong Version, so our general rule of thumb is not to try to pick a certain version, and then wait until it's current before protecting the page. In fact, that would really be a back-door way of getting involved in the dispute, and you aren't allowed to protect a page in which you're a party to the conflict.

 * Also, thanks for the feedback on my deutsche benutzerseite -- I learned my German from some of those Berlitz records, so I know lots of useful phrases such as "Ach, schau all die Autos!" and "Ich habe ein hund. Er ist sehr klug" and ''"Entschulicht mich kinder, Mütter ruft!" Please feel free to fix my malformed German. Danke schön, BCorr | Брайен 01:46, Apr 29, 2004 (UTC)
 * Well, I agree that you should not pick what you like best, but when one user is listed as a vandal, told others to "suck their own dick" and such, I guess it is a clear case. Also you were not involved in the conflict and your mediation seems to show you work in the interest of wikipedia and not because you want to make a case about your beliefs about oil for food.
 * Regarding German it should be "Ich habe einen Hund." and "Entschuldigt mich Kinder, Mutter ruft!" What were you trying to say with that phrase on your Benutzerseite? I wish someone corrected my English once in a while. I especially have problems with prepositions and when to use gerund and when infinitive after another verb. Get-back-world-respect 21:21, 3 May 2004 (UTC)

• SAT vocabulary words
Hi Bcorr, I found those SAT words on this site (http://www.freevocabulary.com/). It says the words are "free for individual and classroom use". Texas Instruments also have a freely downloadable pdf with the words and definitions. As well as this I have seen the words in numerous other places. That's why I added them to Wikipedia. Thanks for your comments and sorry for any trouble I caused. User:147.252.229.65, 13:51, Apr 29 2004 (GMT)

 * Well, they've since been removed for copyright violation, and from what the site says, I don't think that the permission given would cover what Wikipedia needs, since we use GFDL. Thanks, BCorr | Брайен 03:27, Apr 30, 2004 (UTC)

• BJAODN/WikiSex
Hi. Since I deleted this article this evening according to wikipedia policy, someone has listed it on Votes for undeletion. Please pay a visit and vote for it to stay deleted. -- Graham :) | Talk 03:09, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the note, Graham. BCorr | Брайен 03:27, Apr 30, 2004 (UTC)

• Oil for Food 2
Hello Brian :-)

Re : your comment for reviewing and participating to the oil and food proposal. I think your proposal is very good indeed, but I see not what I have to do with it. I think removal of basically all the original article was way out of line, but these guys are not fighting upon the removal of my participation, since nearly all of it is gone already. They are fighting upon things they added themselves and to which I understand little and feel unconcerned. I am not gonna add to the confusion :-) Better that they fixed their issue first, and later I will come back....or decide not to spent time trying to write english words on a matter which is potentially hot so likely to result in edit war and removal of my input. I only spent about a week on this article, I can learn my lesson :-) Amicalement, I hope you succeed on this one :-) SweetLittleFluffyThing

 * Mais oui, ant. Puisque tu avais édité l'article récemment, j'ai voulu toi offrir la chance de participer -- et pour me faire étais inclus et juste. J'ai également invité Edmond le Pauvre.  Et, oui, je conviens que tu devais éviter cet article pendant un moment.  Et merci pour tes compliments! BCorr | Брайен 11:22, Apr 30, 2004 (UTC)

• Oil for Food 3
Bcorr, may I suggest you do with Oil for Food what was done pretty successfully with Terrorism. Protect the page and refer editors to "Oil for Food/Draft." When everyone agrees that the Draft is in reasonable shape, then transfer the agreed material and Unprotect. I don't think it serves any purpose to leave the live article unprotected and asking people not to edit it, because if someone does, it would only have to be reverted anyway, with lack of agreement. -- Cecropia 14:30, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

 * Hi Cecropia. Thanks for the note. I appreciate your suggestion and understand, but part of my goal in unprotecting the article is establish some good faith and respect of process and agreement among the people involved -- if not towards each other, at leat towards me as mediator. If people can voluntarily agree not to edit the article, I think that helps to change the attitude of people towards this process. Rather than taking every opportunity to make a point or try to win the argument, people will voluntarily forgo that -- at least in a few specific ways. I hope this makes sense, and if someone does edit the original article, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it, but hopefully we won't have to.... Thanks, BCorr | Брайен 15:14, Apr 30, 2004 (UTC)

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George Michael Moser

George Michael Moser (17 January 1706 – 24 January 1783) was a renowned artist and enameller of the 18th century, father of celebrated floral painter Mary Moser, and, with his daughter, among the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768.

Biography
He was the son of Michael Moser, an eminent Swiss engineer and worker in metal. Moser was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland and trained initially as a coppersmith in Geneva. He later learnt additional skills as a chaser, goldsmith and engraver.

He moved to London during the 1720s and married Mary Guynier. Surviving metal works by him include elaborate gold snuffboxes and watch-cases (including movements by noted watchmakers George Philip Strigel and John Ellicott, among others), and silver candlesticks in the Rococo style.

He subsequently rose to be head of his profession as a gold-chaser, medallist, and enameller, and was particularly distinguished for the compositions in enamel with which he ornamented the backs of watches, bracelets, and other trinkets. A beautiful example of this work was a watch-case executed for Queen Charlotte, adorned with whole-length figures of her two eldest children, for which he received 'a hatful of guineas.' Moser was drawing-master to George III during his boyhood, and on his accession to the throne was employed to engrave his first great seal. When the art school afterwards known as the St. Martin's Lane Academy was established about 1736, in Greyhound Court, Strand, he became manager and treasurer, and continued in that position until the school was absorbed in the Royal Academy.

Moser was an original member, and afterwards a director, of the Incorporated Society of Artists, whose seal he designed and executed, and was one of the 21 directors whose retirement, in 1767, led to the establishment of the Royal Academy. To Moser's zeal and energy the latter event was largely due. In association with William Chambers, Benjamin West, and Francis Cotes, he framed the constitution of the new body, and on 28 November 1768, presented the memorial to the king asking for his patronage.

He became a foundation member, and was elected the first keeper, having rooms assigned to him in Somerset House. For this position he was well qualified by his powers as a draughtsman and knowledge of the human figure, while his ability and devotion as a teacher gained for him the strong affection of the pupils. He taught many notable artists including William Blake. Another student was his nephew Joseph Moser.

Moser was greatly esteemed in private life, and enjoyed the friendship of Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, and other literary celebrities of his day. According to Boswell, he once greatly mortified Goldsmith by stopping him in the middle of a vivacious harangue with the exclamation, 'Stay, stay! Toctor Shonson's going to say something'.

He died at Somerset House on 24 January 1783, and was buried in the churchyard of St Paul's, Covent Garden, his funeral being attended by almost all his fellow-academicians and pupils. On the day after Moser's death a notice of him from the pen of Sir Joshua Reynolds was published, in which he was described as the first goldchaser in the kingdom, possessed of a universal knowledge of all branches of painting and sculpture, and 'in every sense the father of the present race of artists.'

Family
He left an only daughter, Mary Moser.

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Talk:1928

Year in topic
I think the page layout for "year in topic" in some places where it is flagged in the box as on this page 1921, 1922 is better. I seek opinions before making them all the same.

In this case the by topic duplication under television would go from this page BozMo(talk)

Maginot Line
In the unknown dates it states that the construction of the Maginot Line started in 1928, whereas every other resource I've seen says 1930. Could someone confirm this? Until then I'll take it off.

Blizzard
I'm removing "March 11 - Blizzard in England; In London temperature drops to 9 degrees Celsius". 9 degrees C is way above freezing. Can someone check this one out? fabiform | talk 30 June 2005 18:40 (UTC)

 * Since 1959, temperature in London ranged from -3.8 to 27 °C (mean monthly minimum to mean monthly maximum). There were only 11 years when the mean monthly minimum went below 0 °C. I could not find any reliable data before 1959. See http://www.metoffice.com/climate/uk/stationdata/index.html

 * There is a claim of -9 °C at http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~taharley/british_weather_in_march.htm. The text that you found may be a misquote of that. I don't know if it is reliable enough source to be included here. Bobblewik (talk) 30 June 2005 20:07 (UTC)

Emmeline Pankhurst
List page says she died June 4, main page says June 14 (correct). Don't know how to amend, can some Wikipedian do this? 90.152.3.218 (talk) 12:48, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Format
[See: Talk:1950. -Wikid77 16:48, 16 December 2006 (UTC)]

Pictures
The German site for this year has some nice pictures, whereas this English version only has one picture. Can't we add some good pictures?211.225.34.49 (talk) 08:43, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

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Walter Staunton Mack Jr.

Walter Staunton Mack (October 19, 1895 – March 18, 1990) was a US drink businessman and financier. He was president of Pepsi-Cola from 1938 until 1951 after taking over from Charles Guth. Walter S Mack Jr, his son, married Consuelo Mack.

Biography
Mack was born on October 19, 1895, in Manhattan, New York City.

He graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School and from Harvard College in 1917. In World War I he joined the United States Navy, and he earned an ensign's commission while he served in the North Atlantic.

He was elected Pepsi's president in 1938, and served as both president and board chairman from 1951 to 1956. When he became president, the cola company had just been spun off from Loft, Inc., a New York candy company that sold its soft drink, in syrup form, to candy store soda fountains. The formula was concocted in 1893 by a North Carolina pharmacist.

Pepsi was only one of scores of cola drinks when he became president, and like all the others, was making little headway against the giant Coca-Cola bottling concern. But Pepsi made $3 million in 1938, increased profits an impressive 76 percent, and saw its stock increase in value from $70 to $190 a share.

Mack decided that real success would only come at the expense of Coke. In the late 1930s, in a notable court case, Pepsi won from Coke the right to add "cola" to its name. By the 1940s, Pepsi too was an international giant and second only to Coca-Cola in sales.

Another noted move he made was to dispense with long, wordy advertisements on radio and broadcast memorable commercial jingles. One famous spot, "Pepsi-Cola Hits the Spot", launched in 1939, went:

Under Mack's direction, Pepsi also became known for its aggressive promotion campaigns. Before he stepped down, the company was financing nearly 120 new scholarships each year. It began a national program of scholarships for black students in 1945. The company also financed art exhibits, and built gathering places for city youths and for servicemen.

He resigned after a fight with the board of directors over his promotion campaigns and the stream of innovations he was bringing to the company. These included selling soft drinks in cans in the early 1950s, the first large firm to do so.

After leaving Pepsi, he directed a variety of companies. In 1978, he came out of retirement to set up King-Cola Corp., which went bankrupt in 1981.

Mack, who was born in New York City, graduated from Harvard University in 1917. He then served as a Navy officer aboard destroyers and transports in the Atlantic during World War I.

His 1982 autobiography, "No Time Lost," published by Atheneum, included other details of his wartime duty. He remembered Newport, R.I., as "a continuous round . . . of cocktail parties, banquets, holiday balls and especially coming-out parties for the debutantes."

After the war, he became a salesman with the Bedford Mills textile firm, and rose to its presidency in 1926. Five years later, he resigned to enter the investment banking business. During the Great Depression, he gained a reputation as a businessman and financer who could turn around troubled companies. He and his companies would pump money into failing firms where they saw promise, after gaining stock options and a say in management. It was while working with the Loft's candy chain that Mack discovered its Pepsi syrup and saw its potential.

Over the years, he also was active in New York civic affairs and in the Republican Party. He ran unsuccessfully for the state Senate from Manhattan in 1932 and worked on New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's mayoral campaigns. He also served as chairman of the New York County Republican Committee and was active in most Republican presidential races from the early 1940s to the early 1960s.

In his later years, Mack was a vocal advocate for older workers. "Work keeps me alive, as it does a great many people," he testified before the House Select Committee on Aging in 1981. He remained active in business ventures until about two years ago.

He died on March 18, 1990, of heart disease at his home in Manhattan, New York City.

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Talk:The Graduate (soundtrack)

Sample
I've removed the sample given for "Mrs. Robinson". My rationale is that the sample ("Joe DiMaggio", etc.) is not contained in the soundtrack version, which only features the first verse. Deltabeignet 01:50, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:1929

Layout
I think the page layout for "year in topic" in some places where it is flagged in the box as on this page 1921, 1922 is better. I seek opinions before making them all the same.

In this case the by topic duplication would go from this page BozMo(talk) —Preceding undated comment added by BozMo (talk • contribs) 11:33, 4 May 2004 (UTC)

Soviet-Chinese War
I was looking for information on the 1929 Soviet-Chinese Conflict. I found nothing in Russie, nothing in China, and nothing here. I decided to add a link here in hopes that someone knows about this conflict and will write the article. Kainaw 20:09, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Unknown dates
I'm pretty sure that the date of transfer from the Coolidge presidency to the Hoover presidency is known - Hoover was inaugurated on March 4, 1929. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Op47b (talk • contribs) 22:15, 17 February 2005 (UTC)

Format
[See: Talk:1950. -Wikid77 02:12, 16 December 2006 (UTC)]

WP:YRS collaboration
To get started, I'm wondering how we want to organize this. I don't think going by month is going to work as we expand. Maybe we should start by picking out a few major events that kind of sum up the year? Also we might need sections for entertainment, literature, academia, science... Wrad (talk) 22:30, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * For reference, here is a map of europe at this time (see [File:EUROPE 1919-1929 POLITICAL 01.png] ) Wrad (talk) 22:35, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

May I suggest that the best way to do this may be to add cited bullet points to the article, grouping them by geographic area, and then going from there? Wrad (talk) 22:41, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Maybe take a section you're interested in, cite everything you can, remove what isn't notable, expand on what is, and then turn the bullet points into a summary of events in that area. Wrad (talk) 23:13, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * We should make sure that where possible entries which are not notable for this page should be moved to the relevant Year in Topic and/or year in Country page.
 * I'm just digging around Category:1929 and subcats for now. -- Kendrick7talk 23:21, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't know if we need all the separate headers. From what is in the categories, not much else happened in 1929 than what I've dug up other than football and a few elections. -- Kendrick7talk 00:03, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, I thought those region sections were new.... -- Kendrick7talk 00:05, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * There's plenty more to be said about all sort of things, in my experience. The idea is to get this at least to the level of 1346. Wrad (talk) 00:09, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

How do we deal with deaths? I don't think the "9 non-English articles" standard will work. 23:50, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Not sure if I understand the question. Fork it out to 1929 in death would be my first instinct. -- Kendrick7talk 00:03, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I kind of want to deal with that later. I think we'll have a better idea of what's notable after writing the summary. We'll probably trim it down to about 25 people or so and put the rest in a sub-article. Wrad (talk) 00:04, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Iraq
I tried rewording it again. Yes, Iraq did have a government during this period, in the same sense that Palestine and India did. It was just very much dependent on Britain. Wrad (talk) 20:55, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * OK. "Beginning of the end" is much better; the thesis of the ref is that control continued in one form or another until ~1941. -- Kendrick7talk 01:52, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, good catch. Wrad (talk) 01:54, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Too many Europes
... in my opinion. Did the divide between East and West even exist before WWII? And I've never thought of Italy as "Central Europe" either. Not my area of expertise, but I think having one whole Europe section would be less confusing. -- Kendrick7talk 04:28, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It was just my way of organizing things very roughly before doing the real organizing. We can make one big Europe. Makes more sense. Wrad (talk) 06:34, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm going to divide it back into east and west (but not central). These divisions are older than the middle ages, so don't worry. Wrad (talk) 20:18, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Zimbabwe
The word Zimbabwe is used in the side template but the country was called Southern Rhodesia in 1929. How should this problem be addressed?Flaviusvulso (talk) 08:41, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * That template seriously needs to be redesigned. Wrad (talk) 08:44, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Would it make more sense to have this as a footer template? Or just as see alsos or something? -- Kendrick7talk 21:55, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I think so. I also think the foreign dates template needs to be a footer template. Wrad (talk) 22:42, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I've taken a crack at putting these onto subpages of subpages in the "see also" section. Maybe not the most elegant solution, but prettier. -- Kendrick7talk 21:31, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Deaths
A quick go at making a top-10 list of deaths for this year (as requested):
 * March 20 - Ferdinand Foch, French commander of Allied forces in World War I (b. 1851)
 * April 4 - Karl Benz, German automotive pioneer (b. 1844)
 * May 21 - Archibald Primrose, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1847)
 * June 16 - Bramwell Booth, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)
 * August 3 - Emil Berliner, German-born inventor (b. 1851)
 * October 3 - Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)
 * October 28 - Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
 * November 6 - Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1867)
 * December 20 - Émile Loubet, 8th President of France (b. 1838)
 * December 29 - Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846)

It seems rather overloaded with Germans! 03:14, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

I would replace a couple Germans with:
 * January 13 - Wyatt Earp, American gunfighter (b. 1848)
 * April 24 - Caroline Rémy, French feminist (b. 1855)
 * September 29 - Tanaka Giichi, 26th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1863)

Remy is a very very internationally famous feminist. Trust me. I say we trade the two non-Nobel Chancellors and Maybach for these three. -- Wrad (talk) 05:23, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I know numbers ending in zero are magical and everything, but we can always do a top 13. BTW, I would mention explicitly that Berliner invented the phonograph. -- Kendrick7talk 05:33, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not stuck on 10, but what's so special about German Chancellors? Wrad (talk) 05:46, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * As one of the protagonists in WWI and at the time one of the top half dozen or so most important countries in a global sense I thought the political leader of such a country would be more notable than almost anyone else. As a Nobel laureate I can't see any argument about Stresemann. von Bülow was chancellor for 9 years and was a major figure in the German "policy of aggrandizement in the years preceding World War One." Prince Maximilian was the chancellor who negotiated the armistice. On the whole they seem to be more internationally and historically significant than the 3 you mention, but then I think 10 is probably too few in any case. 23:11, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, let's just keep what we've listed so far. Wrad (talk) 23:33, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Births
My list of 25 (after I got it down to 40 there was a lot of "How can I take that person out?":
 * January 15 - Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
 * January 23 - John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate
 * January 31 - Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist, Nobel laureate
 * February 15 - Graham Hill, English race car driver (d. 1975)
 * March 23 - Sir Roger Bannister, British athlete
 * April 5 - Ivar Giaever, Norwegian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
 * May 4 - Audrey Hepburn, Dutch actress (d. 1993)
 * May 6 - Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate
 * June 3 - Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist, Nobel laureate
 * June 12 - Anne Frank, German-born diarist and Holocaust victim (d. 1945)
 * July 1 - Gerald Edelman, American biologist, Nobel laureate
 * July 2 - Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines
 * July 9 - King Hassan II of Morocco (d. 1999)
 * July 28 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American First Lady (d. 1994)
 * August 24 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
 * September 5 - Bob Newhart, American comedian and actor
 * September 10 - Arnold Palmer, American golfer
 * September 15 - Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist, Nobel laureate
 * September 25 - Barbara Walters, American journalist
 * November 2 - Richard E. Taylor, American physicist, Nobel laureate
 * November 7 - Eric R. Kandel, Austrian-born neuroscientist, Nobel laureate
 * November 9 - Imre Kertesz, Hungarian writer, Nobel laureate
 * November 12 - Grace Patricia Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco (d. 1982)
 * November 30 - Dick Clark, American television entertainer
 * December 9 - Bob Hawke, twenty-third Prime Minister of Australia

A lot of Nobel laureates born in 1929! Didn't leave a lot of room for others. Eventually had to keep on the basis of the following:
 * Actor/actress: Academy Awards winner
 * Sporting: Global sport and a major figure in the history of that sport
 * State leader: Importance of country x length of leadership
 * Newhart/Walters/Clark: Major figures in television history
 * Frank/Marcos: Internationally iconic figures

BTW The format I follow in such lists (as in 2009 in 2008) is to link nothing apart from the name and the date and to not put in excess text such as a film or tv show the person is/was associated with. This is a summary page and only the minimum of detail should be added. Anything else is a single mouse-click away. Cheers, 03:38, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

 * There should not be a quota of how many births or deaths per year - inevitably the number of significantly notable people that were born / die will vary from year to year. There are far too few people listed in the Births section - compare to other year articles. Qzm (talk) 22:26, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Heburn was born to a British (Irish father) and Dutch mother; she was never a Dutch citizen; she was a subject of the British Empire; --71.145.163.224 (talk) 06:52, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Template replacement articles
Without anyone mentioning it to me 1929 world leaders was prod'd and deleted. I've restored it. Does anyone have a better idea? I thought this served well as a centralized clearing house for the three related articles in the original template. -- Kendrick7talk 21:28, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Amos and Andy
Wikipedia's own entry on the radio show states that it started before 1929. --71.145.163.224 (talk) 06:55, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Need for Summary section?
This article has a very long section at the beginning titled Summary. It doesn't seem consistent with WikiProject Years. The sections should be Intro, Births, Deaths, Other. I propose that it is either removed, or shortened and added the article intro (see Intro Section), or moved to the end of the article (just before the references). It might also be a good idea to rename it Summary by Country. Maestroso simplo (talk) 05:30, 11 February 2015 (UTC) (talk · contribs · email)

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LSA

LSA or Lsa is an acronym standing for:

Education and academia

 * Licence of the Society of Apothecaries
 * Light: Science & Applications, a scientific journal
 * Student Union of Latvia (Latvijas Studentu apvienība)

Institutions

 * University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
 * University of Liverpool School of Architecture, England, UK
 * La Salle Academy, a Catholic, all-boys high school in New York
 * Lakshmipat Singhania Academy, a non-profit school group in India

Military

 * Light Small Arms
 * Logistics Support Analysis, a military support planning methodology
 * Logistics Support Area, a large military depot
 * London Small Arms Co. Ltd, an English gun-making firm between 1866 and 1935
 * Lubricant, Semi-fluid, Automatic Weapons, MIL-L-46000

Organizations

 * Law and Society Association
 * Law Society of Alberta
 * League for Socialist Action, a Canadian political group active in the 1960s and 70s
 * Learn and Serve America, a U.S. government community service program
 * Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries
 * Linguistic Society of America
 * Lithuanian Space Association, Lithuania's space agency
 * Luxembourg Space Agency, national space agency of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
 * Local Spiritual Assembly, an administrative body of the Bahá'í Faith
 * Lone Scouts of America, an independent Scouting organization that merged into the Boy Scouts of America
 * Lone Star Alliance, lacrosse-only athletic conference
 * Lutheran Services in America, the largest network of human service organizations in the United States
 * Student Union of Latvia (Latvijas Studentu apvienība)
 * Leaf Spring Army (LSA), A group of Youtube users that are subscribed to the channel The Enforcer.

Places

 * London Stansted Airport
 * Lytham St. Annes, seaside town in Lancashire, England
 * LSA, IATA airport code of Losuia Airport in Papua New Guinea

Science and technology

 * Late Stone Age
 * Least squares adjustment
 * Anterolateral central arteries of the brain
 * Lichen sclerosus et atrophicus, a skin disease
 * Light-sport aircraft
 * Lobe Separation Angle, see cam
 * Lsa, the abbreviation for the orchid genus Luisia
 * Lysergic acid amide (ergine), a compound closely related to LSD
 * Lötfrei, schraubfrei, abisolierfrei, an insulation-displacement connector for telecommunications
 * Liver stage antigen, a set of peptides
 * Low specific activity, radioactive substances produced by oil and gas production installations. Also referred to as NORM, naturally occurring radioactive material

Computing

 * Latent semantic analysis, a technique in natural language processing
 * Link-state advertisement, communication mechanism of the OSPF routing protocol for IP
 * Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (Local Security Authority), the centre of the Windows NT security subsystem (lsass.exe)
 * License and Services Agreement

Other uses

 * Lighting & Sound America, an entertainment technology magazine published by PLASA Media Inc
 * Linseed Sunflower Almond, a health food that is a ground mixture of these three seeds.
 * Limited symptom attack, a milder form of panic attack, with fewer than four panic-related symptoms
 * Life-saving appliance, the multitude of devices designed for saving lifes typically found on a ship. Ranging from e.g. rescue boat to SART

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Talk:LSA

Why is this by default directing here?
It should direct to the chemical. -- 65.97.14.167

 * No it shouldn't. Paul Beardsell 22:30, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes it should. 65.97.14.167 11:33, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, fix it, then. It's a wiki.  Edit boldly!  Paul Beardsell 19:20, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

But I think the article has been "fixed" incorrectly. Who is to say what the default LSA article should be? Usual practice is to fix the links which go to the disambiguation page so they do not go there but to the intended article. I am renaming this back to LSA. Paul Beardsell 07:52, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

To explain. If you want another article not to read "the Lichen sclerosus et atrophicus disease is truly dreadful" but instead to read "the LSA disease is truly dreadful" then write the link this way: LSA. Paul Beardsell 07:58, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

In order to have a LSA (disambiguation) article there must be one instance/usage of LSA which is overwhelmingly more popular / well known than its other uses. E.g. CIA points to the article about the secret service and there is a CIA (disambiguation) page for the other far less known meanings of the acronym and that is linked to from the top of the CIA article. Contrast with ABC which is a link direct to a page for disambiguation not to the broadcasting company, not to the circulation bureau, not to the Spanish newspaper, not to the motor car. Paul Beardsell 08:04, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:1936

Year in topic
I think the successive pages on year in topic are getting very repetitive.

Here we have a year in topic box at the top (only on some years), then in the text as a paragraph, then with bullets in the paragraph duplicating stuff on the year in topic pages. I think we should just keep the top box in view of the multiple entires and put it in where missing. Anyone disagree? BozMo(talk)

As per discussion at WikiProject_Years the year in topic paragraph is scheduled to be deleted as it largely duplicates the links in the top box, and is not consistent with other year. Any objections should be made on that page please --BozMo|talk 19:34, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Owens-Illinois
I have found this website that seems to suggest an earlier date for the construction of the Owens-Illinois building:

http://www.insulators.info/go-withs/glassblk.htm

Can verification be produced for the 1936 date? Arsene(talk) -09:13 1 June 2006

Format
[See: Talk:1950. -Wikid77 13:24, 14 December 2006 (UTC)]

Sports
At the Big Ten Track and Field Championships of 1935, Ohio State's Jesse Owens equaled or set world records in four events: the 100 and 220-yard dashes, 200-yard low hurdles and the long jump. He was also credited with world marks in the 200-meter run and 200-meter hurdles. That's six world records in one afternoon, and he did it all in 45 minutes!

The following year, he swept the 100 and 200 meters and long jump at the Olympic Trials and headed for Germany favored to win all three.

In Berlin, dictator Adolf Hitler and his Nazi followers felt sure that the Olympics would be the ideal venue to demonstrate Germany's oft-stated racial superiority. He directed that $25 million be spent on the finest facilities, the cleanest streets and the temporary withdrawal of all outward signs of the state-run anti-Jewish campaign. By the time over 4,000 athletes from 49 countries arrived for the Games, the stage was set.

Then Owens, a black sharecropper's son from Alabama, stole the show–winning his three individual events and adding a fourth gold medal in the 4x100-meter relay. The fact that four other American blacks also won did little to please Herr Hitler, but the applause from the German crowds, especially for Owens, was thunderous. As it was for New Zealander Jack Lovelock's thrilling win over Glenn Cunningham and defending champ Luigi Beccali in the 1,500 meters.

Germany won only five combined gold medals in men's and women's track and field, but saved face for the “master race” in the overall medal count with an 89-56 margin over the United States.

The top female performers in Berlin were 17-year-old Dutch swimmer Rie Mastenbroek, who won three gold medals, and 18-year-old American runner Helen Stephens, who captured the 100 meters and anchored the winning 4x100-meter relay team.

Basketball also made its debut as a medal sport and was played outdoors. The U.S. men easily won the first gold medal championship game with a 19- — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.190.66.58 (talk) 17:10, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

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George Hainsworth

George Henry Hainsworth (June 26, 1893 – October 9, 1950) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League, and the Saskatoon Crescents in the Western Canada Hockey League. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Personal
Hainsworth was born in the Kew Beach area of Toronto in 1893. His parents, John Hainsworth and Mary James, were both from England. Hainsworth's family moved to Berlin, Ontario, where his father was a water commissioner for many years. Previously, his father had worked as a plumber in Toronto. He also owned a plumbing retail business, Hainsworth Plumbing, in Berlin.

After his playing days were over, Hainsworth returned to Berlin (now named Kitchener) with his wife Alma and son Bill. Bill played goaltender, like his father, and played in the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) as a junior and later as a senior player but never a professional.

Playing career
Hainsworth played junior hockey for the Berlin Union Jacks then moved up to senior hockey with the Berlin City Seniors and the Kitchener Greenshirts. Hainsworth won the Allan Cup, as senior amateur champions of Canada, with the Kitchener Greenshirts in 1918. One of the games he played for Kitchener against the Toronto Argonaut Rowing Club in the 1923 OHA playoffs was the first game that Foster Hewitt broadcast. By the end of the 1922–23 season, Hainsworth had played five seasons for the Greenshirts. At that time, Newsy Lalonde, manager of the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL) Saskatoon Crescents, needed a goalie. On the recommendation of Montreal Canadiens' part-owner Leo Dandurand, Lalonde signed Hainsworth to a pro contract of $2,500 per season with Saskatoon. Hainsworth played three seasons with Saskatoon before he was signed by Dandurand to play goal for Montreal in 1926. The Western league was in the process of folding, and Dandurand signed Hainsworth to a $6,500 per year contract before Toronto claimed him from the Western league players who were en masse moving to the National Hockey League (NHL). Dandurand had to pay $5,000 to Saskatoon for the rights to Hainsworth.

There was a need for a top goaltender in Montreal. Georges Vezina, the Canadiens goaltender, had recently died of tuberculosis. Vezina had played every game in team history from the 1910–11 NHA season until the opening game of the 1925–26 NHL season, when the illness proved too much for him. In his memory, the team decided to create the Vezina Trophy for the team goaltender(s) who allowed the least goals in the NHL.

Hainsworth proved up to the challenge by winning the Vezina Trophy for the 1926–27, 1927–28 and 1928–29 NHL seasons. In 1928–29, he set an all-time record with 22 shutouts and a 0.92 goals against average while playing all 44 games. In 1930 he set an NHL record that still stands, going 270 minutes and 8 seconds without allowing a goal during the playoffs for the Canadiens. He backstopped the Canadiens to back to back Stanley Cups in 1930 and 1931. Hainsworth served as the Canadiens' captain during 1932–33, becoming the second of only eight goalies to serve as an NHL team's captain.

Hainsworth was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1933 for Lorne Chabot in a move by Dandurand to land another French-Canadian on his roster and boost attendance. He helped the Maple Leafs reach the 1935 Stanley Cup Finals. In 1936, Turk Broda won the goaltender job for Toronto, and Leaf manager Conn Smythe gave Hainsworth his outright release on November 25, 1936. Hainsworth retired, but was persuaded to join the Canadiens again after goaltender Wilf Cude was injured. He played four more games for the Montreal Canadiens, from December 12 to 20, 1936, before retiring for good.

Post career
In 1936, Hainsworth became a radio inspector with Dominion Electrohome Ltd. During World War II, he was a member of Kitchener's civil defence guard. In 1949, he was elected to Kitchener's city council.

Hainsworth died in a head-on collision between his car and a light panel truck near Gravenhurst, Ontario, on Monday, October 9, 1950. Hainsworth was pronounced dead at the scene from several broken ribs which punctured his heart. Hainsworth was returning home from Val D'Or, Quebec, where he and his wife had visited their son Bill. He was 57. His funeral was held October 13 at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Kitchener and the burial was at Woodland Cemetery.

Awards and achievements

 * Vezina Trophy (1927, 1928, 1929)
 * Stanley Cup Championship (1930, 1931)
 * The Captains Cup (1933)
 * Played in the 1934 NHL All-Star Game
 * In 1998, he was ranked number 46 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 greatest hockey players.
 * Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1961.
 * Inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.

Records

 * He is third all-time in professional (including both NHL and WCHL/WHL) shutouts with 104.
 * His 94 career NHL shutouts are third on the NHL's all-time list behind Martin Brodeur's 125 and Terry Sawchuk's 103.
 * Has the second lowest career goals against average in the NHL with 1.93, behind Alex Connell's 1.91.
 * Holds the NHL single-season shutout record with 22 shutouts in 1928–29.
 * Holds the NHL single-season goals against average record with 0.92 in 1928–29.
 * Holds the NHL single-playoffs record of time in net without allowing a goal, at 270 minutes and 8 seconds, in 1929-30.

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Needs a rewrite...
This page needs to be rewritten for proper grammar and clarity, particularly the second and third paragraphs. Particularly the part about the U.S. navy attacking to keep the American prisoners in captivity ;-) 128.222.37.21 (talk) 18:09, 27 June 2008 (UTC) Dan H.

The name comes from Barbarosa (Spanish for red beard), not from the "Berber people". Sheesh. 12.165.139.33 (talk) 18:21, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

 * Interresting I'm reading this for the first time, though it sounds credible, when one thinks of the islamic custom of tinting the beard red with henna, like Muhammed did.-- 178.115.170.201 (talk) 09:27, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Can you provide sources for this claim? AbuYahyaAšǝlḥiy (talk) 03:04, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

I'd like to see a map in the main article
I'd like to see a map in the main article. Readers need to see a map to understand how a weakness to a Navy and their merchant marine would be at a narrow point such as the Straights of Gibralter.

We could compare the Straights of Gibraltar then, to the Straights of Hormuz today (in the year 2008). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.70.243.33 (talk) 05:21, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

European slaves are asome
An editor has correctly questioned the 3 miillion European slave figure. Davis, in the bottom external link, suggests over 1 million, but he seems to be alone in this article.

I read "someplace", that the pirates had boldly sailed up to some Irish coastal town and depopulated it! Not sure of the time but 18th or 19th century. So it was fairly extensive. Student7 (talk) 21:05, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Geographical limits of Barbary Coast?
Someone recently changed the article Republic of Salé from referencing the former city-state from being on the Morroccan Coast (With a link which was a redirect to the article about modern Morrocco) to be a link to here (Barbary Coast). However, I thought that the common definition of "Barbary Coast" was the North African ports from the Strait of Gibralter (ie Tangier) and eastward into the Mediterranean. Salé on the Bou Regreg River is on the Atlantic coast, and while it was a base for Barbary Pirates it was not part of the Barbary Coast (A slight difference in distinction between "Barbary" and "Barbary Coast"). Am I misteaken and the geographical term "Barbary Coast" does include Salé and other such ports on the Atlantic coast? I'm going to go ahead and Be Bold and change that article to reference the river, but since I'm not 100% sure that the term "Barbary Coast" is incorrect in that case, hence my asking here. Gecko G (talk) 21:41, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

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Why are racist and derogatory terms like Berber, Barbar, Barbary, barbaric, Barbarian, etc still used to describe us? How hard is it to use correct terminology like Amazigh, Imazighen, Tamazight, Tamazgha, etc? AbuYahyaAšǝlḥiy (talk) 03:07, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Another map

Another map which may be considered for use in this article, file at File:Barbarie. Africae, Described. The manners of their Habits and buildings newly done into English by I.S (cropped).jpg. ☿ Apaugasma  ( talk  ☉) 11:03, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

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Lai Châu

Lai Châu is a city in the Northwest region of Vietnam. It is the capital city of Lai Châu Province. The city borders Phong Thổ District, Sìn Hồ District và Tam Đường District.

History
Lai Châu, or Muang Lay (Vietnamese: Mường Lay) was the seat of lords of the White Tai who were dominant over other Thai peoples of the area, though there was rivalry between the White Tai rulers of Muang Lay and Muang So. During the 1870s Muang Lay was the base of lord Đèo Văn Trị of the White Tai who sought to unite and become chief of the 12 mường (Sino-Vietnamese: Châu / ) making up the Sip Song Chau Tai. This he partially achieved, with the help first of the Chinese Black Flags, then later the French. His authority, and the autonomy of the area, was recognised by the French in 1890.

Demographics
As of 2020 the city had a population of 42,973, covering an area of 92.37 km².

Administrative divisions
Lai Châu City is officially divided into 7 commune-level sub-divisions, including 5 wards (Đoàn Kết, Đông Phong, Quyết Thắng, Quyết Tiến, Tân Phong) and 2 rural communes (San Thàng, Sùng Phài).

Climate
Lai Châu has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cwa), typical for northwestern Vietnam, with hot, oppressively humid, and wet summers and warm to very warm, dry winters.

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Face detection

Face detection is a computer technology being used in a variety of applications that identifies human faces in digital images. Face detection also refers to the psychological process by which humans locate and attend to faces in a visual scene.

Definition and related algorithms
Face detection can be regarded as a specific case of object-class detection. In object-class detection, the task is to find the locations and sizes of all objects in an image that belong to a given class. Examples include upper torsos, pedestrians, and cars. Face detection simply answers two question, 1. are there any human faces in the collected images or video? 2. where is the face located?

Face-detection algorithms focus on the detection of frontal human faces. It is analogous to image detection in which the image of a person is matched bit by bit. Image matches with the image stores in database. Any facial feature changes in the database will invalidate the matching process.

A reliable face-detection approach based on the genetic algorithm and the eigen-face technique:

Firstly, the possible human eye regions are detected by testing all the valley regions in the gray-level image. Then the genetic algorithm is used to generate all the possible face regions which include the eyebrows, the iris, the nostril and the mouth corners.

Each possible face candidate is normalized to reduce both the lighting effect, which is caused by uneven illumination; and the shirring effect, which is due to head movement. The fitness value of each candidate is measured based on its projection on the eigen-faces. After a number of iterations, all the face candidates with a high fitness value are selected for further verification. At this stage, the face symmetry is measured and the existence of the different facial features is verified for each face candidate.

Facial recognition
Face detection is used in biometrics, often as a part of (or together with) a facial recognition system. It is also used in video surveillance, human computer interface and image database management.

Photography
Some recent digital cameras use face detection for autofocus. Face detection is also useful for selecting regions of interest in photo slideshows that use a pan-and-scale Ken Burns effect.

Modern appliances also use smile detection to take a photograph at an appropriate time.

Marketing
Face detection is gaining the interest of marketers. A webcam can be integrated into a television and detect any face that walks by. The system then calculates the race, gender, and age range of the face. Once the information is collected, a series of advertisements can be played that is specific toward the detected race/gender/age.

An example of such a system is OptimEyes and is integrated into the Amscreen digital signage system.

Emotional Inference
Face detection can be used as part of a software implementation of emotional inference. Emotional inference can be used to help people with autism understand the feelings of people around them.

Lip Reading
Face detection is essential for the process of language inference from visual cues. Automated lip reading has applications to help computers determine who is speaking which is needed when security is important.

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Mount Scopus

Mount Scopus (הַר הַצּוֹפִים Har HaTsofim, "Mount of the Watchmen/ Sentinels"; جبل المشارف Ǧabal al-Mašārif, lit. "Mount Lookout", or جبل المشهد Ǧabal al-Mašhad "Mount of the Scene/Burial Site", or جبل الصوانة "Mount Syenite") is a mountain (elevation: 826 meters above sea level) in northeast Jerusalem.

Between the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and the Six-Day War in 1967, the peak of Mount Scopus with the Hebrew University campus and Hadassah Hospital was a UN-protected exclave of Israel within Jordan. Today, Mount Scopus lies within the municipal boundaries of the city of Jerusalem.

Name and identification
The ridge of mountains east of ancient as well as modern Jerusalem offers the best views of the city, which it dominates. Since the main part of the ridge bears the name Mount of Olives, the name "lookout" was reserved for this peak to the northeast of the ancient city. Its name in many languages (Hebrew, Arabic, Greek and Latin) means "lookout." Scopus is a Latinisation of the Greek word for "watcher", skopos, the same as in "telescope" (tele- meaning far and skopos – watcher). Adding to the multi-layered meaning of the name, it is also said that in times in which the city's Roman or Byzantine authorities prohibited Jews from entering Jerusalem, they used to come and look at their former capital from this vantage point.

The Hebrew name, Har HaTzofim, "Lookout Mountain", is not mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in the form of the Greek "ὁ Σκοπός" (skopós) in the works of Josephus (The Jewish War 2.528; 5.67, 106, first century CE) in connection to Alexander the Great and the 70 CE Roman siege. The Mishnah (third century CE) mentions "Tzofim" in relation to Jerusalem, but it is not at all certain that it means a particular location or rather any point from which the Temple can be seen.

The ancient name Har Hatzofim or Mount Scopus has been affixed to this particular mountain and its peak in the 20th century without the certainty that it corresponds precisely to what Josephus had referred to as Mount Scopus (see Modern era section).

Antiquity
Overlooking Jerusalem, Mount Scopus has been strategically important as a base from which to attack the city since antiquity. During the Great Jewish Revolt, the 12th Roman Legion commanded by Cestius, camped there in 66 CE. In 70, at the conclusion of the same war that led to the destruction of the Jewish Temple, Mount Scopus was used as a base to carry out the final siege of the city by the same 12th Legion, plus the 15th and 5th Legions, while the 10th Legion was positioned on the continuation of the same ridge, known as the Mount of Olives. The Crusaders used it as a base in 1099.

Modern era

The exact location of the mountain known in the ancient sources as Mount Scopus is not known. It is described as being in the north-eastern part of the ridge that prominently includes the Mount of Olives, which dominates Jerusalem from the east. As the Zionist organisations decided to build a new Jewish institution of higher learning in Jerusalem, which eventually became the Hebrew University, they decided that it was unwise to try and ask for donations for a project designed to be built on the Mount of Olives, a location with many Christian connotations.

The site chosen for the university did correspond approximately to the description of the ancient Mount Scopus and so it was decided to name that particular peak "Mount Scopus". The name became widely used and few Jerusalemites would nowadays know about this rebranding story of an old name. However, the ancient Mount Scopus cannot be far from the modern one.

In 1948, as the British began letting go of their security responsibilities, the Jewish enclave on Mount Scopus became increasingly cut off from the main sections of Jewish Jerusalem. Access to the hospital and university campus was through a narrow road, 2.4 km long, passing through the Palestinian neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Arab sniper fire on vehicles moving along the access route became a regular occurrence, and road mines were laid. When food and supplies at the hospital began to dwindle, a large convoy carrying doctors and supplies set out for the besieged hospital, leading to an attack that became known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre. Seventy-eight Jewish doctors, nurses, students, patients, faculty members, and Haganah, and one British soldier were killed in the attack. After the ceasefire agreement of November 30, 1948, which established the division of East and West Jerusalem, Israel controlled the western part of the city while Jordan controlled the east. Several demilitarized "no man's land" zones were established along the border, one of them Mount Scopus. Fortnightly convoys carrying supplies to the university and hospital located in the Israeli part of the demilitarized zone on Mount Scopus were periodically held up by Jordanian troops.

Article VIII of the 1949 Armistice Agreements signed by Israel and Jordan in April 1949 called for: "[T]he normal functioning of the cultural and humanitarian institutions on Mount Scopus and free access thereto; free access to the Holy Places and cultural institutions and use of the cemetery on the Mount of Olives; resumption of operation of the Latrun pumping station; provision of electricity for the Old City; and resumption of operation of the railroad to Jerusalem."

In January 1958, Francis Urrutia, a representative of the UN Secretary-General, tried to persuade Jordan to abide by Article VIII, but without success. In May 1958, Jordanian soldiers fired on Israeli patrols, killing a UN officer and four Israeli policemen.

Mount Scopus was not a traditional exclave. There were two versions of the demilitarization agreement: one was initialed by Franklyn M. Begley, a UN official; the local Jordanian commander; and the Israeli local commander; while the other was not initialed by the Israeli local commander. Having two versions of the map was the cause of many incidents within the Mount Scopus area. "[W]ithin the Mount Scopus enclave Israel lacked many aspects of the traditional concept of sovereignty: it could not control cross-border movements (interdependence sovereignty); it lacked de jure and de facto control of the area (Vattelian sovereignty) as the area was subject to UN control; and it arguably also lacked recognition on the part of all those who lived within the bounds of the enclave, as it would be presumptuous to assume that the inhabitants of the Arab village of Issawiya, which was located within the enclave, would have recognized Israel (domestic sovereignty).

Seen from the Israeli perspective, which is easier to adopt due to archival accessibility, one may say that every move that the state of Israel made within the bounds of the enclave was designed to assert its sovereignty while at the same time consolidating and expanding its territory. Put differently, sovereignty – and not its absence – appears to be the fundamental issue that governed all developments throughout the enclave’s existence."

Ralph Bunche, assistant to UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld visited Jerusalem and Amman to find a solution, followed by Hammarskjöld himself, again unsuccessfully. The Mount Scopus Agreement signed on July 7, 1948, regulated the demilitarised zone around Mount Scopus and authorized the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization to settle disputes between the Israelis and Jordanians.

Two Jewish-owned plots in Issawiya known as Salomons Garden were purchased by Mrs. V.F. Salomons in 1934 and sold to the Gan Shlomit Company, Ltd. in 1937. It was surrounded by a fence, but clashes erupted when Arabs living on the other side of the fence sought to cultivate land, pick olives, and carry out repairs on homes close to the fence. The Arabs were requested not to work closer than fifty metres from the fence unless prior permission was granted by the Israeli police.

Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Construction of the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University began in 1918 on land purchased from the Gray Hill estate. The dedication ceremony was held in 1925 in the presence of many dignitaries. A design for the university campus by Sir Patrick Geddes positioned the university buildings on the slopes of the mount, below a domed, hexagonal Great Hall recalling the Star of David, as a counterpoint to the octagonal Dome of the Rock in the Old City. This plan was never implemented, but Geddes designed the university Library, today the Hebrew University Faculty of Law on Mount Scopus.

By 1947, the university was a solid research and teaching institution with humanities, science, medicine, education and agriculture departments (in Rehovot), a national library, a university press and an adult education center. The university had a student population of over 1,000 and 200 faculty members.

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design is Israel's national school of art, founded in 1906 by Boris Schatz. It is named for the Biblical figure Bezalel (בְּצַלְאֵל), who was appointed by Moses to oversee the design and construction of the Tabernacle in Exodus 35:30-35.

The university's main campus was located on Mount Scopus from 1990 to 2023.

Cave of Nicanor
The Cave of Nicanor is an ancient burial cave located on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, Israel. Excavations in the cave discovered an ossuary referring to "Nicanor the door maker." He has been identified as Nicanor of Alexandria, who donated one of the gates of Herod's Temple. The cave is located in the National Botanic Garden of Israel.

There was a plan to use the Cave of Nicanor as a national Pantheon of Zionism, but due to circumstances (the area of Mount Scopus after receipt of Israel's independence was an enclave, surrounded by the West Bank territorial possessions of Jordan), this project was not implemented. Only two of Zionist leaders – Leon Pinsker and Menachem Ussishkin – were interred inside the ancient tomb. After 1948, the national cemetery was created on Mount Herzl, closer to the centre of West Jerusalem.

Hadassah Hospital (Mount Scopus)
In 1939, the Hadassah Women's Organization opened a teaching hospital on Mount Scopus in a building designed by architect Erich Mendelsohn. In 1948, when the Jordanians occupied East Jerusalem and blockaded the road to Mount Scopus, the hospital could no longer function. In 1960, after running clinics in various locations, the organization opened a medical center on the other side of the city, in Jerusalem's Ein Karem neighborhood. On April 13, 1948, a civilian convoy bringing medical supplies and personnel to Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus was attacked by Arab forces. 78 Jews, mainly doctors and nurses, were killed in the ambush.

Hecht Synagogue, Hebrew University
The Hecht Synagogue, a large noticeable building on the south-west corner of the campus, was erected by the family of Mayer Jacob "Chic" Hecht (1928–2006), a Republican United States Senator from Nevada and U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas. It is noted for the unique arrangement of the Torah ark and the panoramic view of the Old City from a huge window.

National Botanical Garden of Israel
The National Botanic Garden of Israel, also called the Land of Israel Botanic Garden, was founded on the grounds of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus by botanist Alexander Eig in 1931. This garden contains one of the largest collections of Israeli uncultivated plants. This was the first home of the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo. A cave in the garden has been identified as the Tomb of Nicanor (see above).

Jerusalem British War Cemetery
The Jerusalem British war cemetery is a military cemetery for fallen soldiers of the British Empire, later known as the Commonwealth of Nations, in World War I in Mandatory Palestine. The cemetery is located on the neck of land on the north end of the Mount of Olives and west of Mount Scopus.

2515 were buried in the cemetery fallen soldiers, of 2449 war dead, including 2218 British casualties. A total 100 fallen soldiers are unidentified.

A memorial was placed in the cemetery to 3300 service personnel killed in operations in Palestine and Egypt who have no known grave. In all, commemorated in this cemetery are 5815 service personnel of World War I. No casualties buried in the cemetery died after the war.

Kiryat Menachem Begin
Kiryat Menachem Begin, named after former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and also known as Kiryat HaMemshala, is a complex of government buildings in East Jerusalem located between Sheikh Jarrah in the north, adjacent to Mount Scopus in the east and Ammunition Hill in the west. It serves as home to several government offices, along with the main government complex in Givat Ram. It also includes the National Headquarters of the Israel Police.

Tabachnik Garden
Tabachnik Garden is a National Park located on the southern slopes of Mount Scopus, next to the Hebrew University. The park preserves some Jewish burial caves from the Second Temple period and it also contains two smaller cemeteries, the Bentwich Cemetery and one of the cemeteries of the American Colony. Inside the park there are two lookouts, one facing eastward towards the Dead Sea and the Judean Desert, the other westward towards the Temple Mount.

Jerusalem American Colony Cemetery
The American Colony Cemetery on Mount Scopus is the main cemetery of Jerusalem's American Colony, located next to the Hebrew University in the Tabachnik Garden. Among those buried there are Anna Spafford and Jacob Spafford (1864–1932), born in Ramallah as Jacob Eliahu into a Turkish Jewish family, adoptive son of Horatio and Anna Spafford and discoverer of the Siloam inscription.

Bentwich Cemetery
A small cemetery, dedicated to Herbert Bentwich and his family, is located beside the American Colony Cemetery in Tabachnik Garden.

Ammunition Hill
Ammunition Hill was a fortified Jordanian military post in the north-west side of Mount Scopus in Jerusalem that was in the northern part of Jordanian East Jerusalem. It was the site of one of the fiercest battles of the Six-Day War.

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Halliburton disappearance
I think the last known contact with Richard Halliburton's ship was March 23, not 28. -- Tetraminoe 00:59, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Oct 11
Does anyone know what the "Soviet Union attacks Poland" entry is about? Is this the wrong date for the Sept. 17th invasion or is this some other error? 198.112.236.6 21:09, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I deleted above entry 198.112.236.6 15:57, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

James Naismith
James Naismith was the first  to invent basketball. According to kenyan basketball federation, tony Mbatau managed to be the best basketballer of all times.

Where is the article?
Just where in the hell did the article for 1939 go? You only have half of January in there!! Draig goch20 10:33, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I have put the article of 07 February 2006 back on. Someone deleted the entire 1939 article and only left the January part of the article standing. This article was reconstructed by me on the 08 February 2006 which I think was an act of vandalism, this problem clearly has been sorted now. Draig goch20 12:37, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

And again ... the events are not listed any longer. 86.144.198.241 19:54, 29 December 2006 (UTC) (usually michaelritchie200 but not logged in)

I was attempting to recreate the events section from other wikipedia aritcles, mostly the dates of the year, but somehow my dates got swapped around on my listings. Therefore have deleted the work i did over the last week --Hammard 00:00, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Format
[See: Talk:1950. -Wikid77 18:30, 13 December 2006 (UTC)]

Nice list of things that happened in 1939
http://www.thehipp.org/ballyhoo_perspectives_1939.html —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Root Beers (talk • contribs) 22:20, 25 April 2007 (UTC).

Item for January 23rd on Dutch War Scare
As currently written, the item reads, 'The "Dutch War Scare' leads to a major change in British policies towards Europe."

What change could this possibly be? I am not a professional historian, but I am pretty sure one would find broad agreement throughout the field that there were no "major" changes in HMG's foreign policies regarding Europe between Munich (September of 1938) and Prague (March of 1939).

At Munich, HMG had clearly, publically, and practically demonstrated that British policy would be to work with Germany, Italy, and France to secure European peace, even to the detriment of previous security arrangements. As William Manchester has written, "On March 10, only five days before Hitler's Prague coup...(Secretary of State for War Baron Hoare-Belisha, speaking in Commons) "had predicted that if Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Chamberlain and Daladier were to work in tandem they could banish nightmares of war and burdens of armaments and thus 'in an incredibly short period of time transform the whole history of the world.'" (The Last Lion: Alone, p. 389). Thus, almost on the eve of Hitler's seizure of what was left of Czechoslovakia, HMG were very publically calling for a continuation of HMGs existing policies of securing peace through co-operation with Germany, Italy, and France. In fact, although Chamberlain's rhetoric began to change with his famous speech at Birmingham on March 17, where Chamberlain publically executed an "about face" (Manchester), the first material change in policy comes only with Chamberlain's unconditional guarantee of Polish independence of March 31, which for the first time publically committed HMG to ultimately break with Hitler unless he should back down.

Suggest this sentence be removed unless someone can explain what the "major" changes were that occurred in British European policy in January of 1939. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.137.156.15 (talk) 16:59, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Item for March 24, "Judea declares war on Germany"
Please review this item; I am confident those in responsible positions at Wikipedia will agree it does not belong in this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.66.81 (talk) 03:00, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Item for March 24, and item for April 15
Some weeks back, I posted a section on this talk page about an item for March 24 in the 1939 article, which reads, "Marks the seventh successive year of the world wide boycott of all German exports initiated by front page declarations in Britain and the U.S. 'Judea declares war on Germany'"

This is not true, as in America, Britain, France, and much of the rest of the world, one could still buy Mercedes automobiles (albeit with wooden wheels, to conserve rubber, as chronicled by Ralph Stein in his book "Great Cars"), Bosch radios and ignition parts, etc., right up to 1939. In addition, it is VERY poorly written, uncited (where is evidence of these "front page declarations" in British and American newspapers of any such boycott?), offensive and, in my own personal view, arguably hate speech.

However, I DID NOT REMOVE IT, as I did not want to be thought guilty of vandalism. Instead, I tried to bring it to the attention of those in authority by way of an item on the talk page, as I was CONFIDENT those who care about Wikipedia's credibility would not want such a thing in it.

Nothing happened.

Earlier this month, I added an item for April 15, about President's Roosevelt's letter to Adolf Hitler, inquiring if Hitler would be willing to guarantee the security of certain countries. This is a well known incident; it is recounted, among other places, in Shirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," Churchill's "The Gathering Storm," and Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series of training films.

Today I find that this item has already been removed, in less than two weeks!

I cannot understand why Wikipedia would refuse to do something about the one right away, or why the second, which I think fits in so well with not only the tone and intent of the 1939 article, but also with its style, was so promptly and completely removed. The juxtaposition of these two events should be especially worrisome to those familiar with the events of the Second World War. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.66.93 (talk) 15:34, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

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Frigate Bird

Frigate Bird or variation, may refer to:

 * Frigatebird (Fregatidae family): frigate bird seabirds
 * Frigate Bird (6 May 1962) a nuclear bomb explosion test, part of Operation Dominic
 * USS Frigate Bird, a U.S. Navy ship name

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Refer my remarks on other pages this page is perfect: year by topic in a top table and not in a bottom paragraph BozMo(talk)

--Zegoma beach 14:52, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC) F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (d. 1940) is listed as being born both on December 24 and September 24. --Zegoma beach 12:30, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC) fixed.

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