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Ive edited the Warrimoo page slightly because I think the case can be made that the ship really was in two different centuries at the same time: the 20th century article admits both 1900-1999 and 1901-2000 as valid definitions for a century .... it's just that the former is properly called the 1900s and the latter is properly called the 20th century. However, I didnt take a side in the article, I just left it open. — Soap — 19:55, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

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Oliver Brown (American activist)

Oliver Leon Brown (August 2, 1918 – June 20, 1961) was an African-American welder who was the plaintiff in the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case Oliver Brown, et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, et al.

Biography and Supreme Court case
He was recruited to be part of the Topeka NAACP legal action to desegregate the city's public elementary schools in 1950. At the time, Brown was a welder for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and was studying to become a minister. Attorney Charles Scott, who was his childhood friend, asked him to join the roster of 12 other parents who would become plaintiffs in the organization’s case against the Topeka Board of Education.

By the fall of 1950, the Topeka NAACP had assembled a group of 13 parents to serve as plaintiffs for the case that would eventually be filed under the name of one of the parents, Oliver Brown, becoming known as Oliver L. Brown et al. v. the Board of Education of Topeka (KS). In the Topeka NAACP case, parents involved were concerned that their children had to be bused many blocks away from their neighborhoods when there were schools nearby. However, those schools were segregated for white children only. African-American children were assigned to one of the only four segregated schools for them.

After an unsuccessful attempt in federal district court, the NAACP case was appealed to the United States Supreme Court where it was joined with cases from Delaware, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington, D.C..

After the initial arguments in early 1953, the high court suffered the loss of Chief Justice Fred Vinson who died suddenly. President Dwight Eisenhower then appointed former California Governor Earl Warren who set a schedule for the cases to be reargued in late 1953. After several months of oral arguments, led by attorney Thurgood Marshall who was Director/Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (and would later be a supreme court justice himself), on May 17, 1954, Chief Justice Warren announced the court’s landmark unanimous decision in favor of the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs included several hundred parents in addition to the thirteen families in the Topeka case.

This decision overturned the separate but equal doctrine that had been used as the standard in Civil Rights lawsuits since the Plessy v. Ferguson case in 1896, in effect declaring it unconstitutional to have separate public schools for Black and White students. The decision is considered a major milestone in the Civil Rights Movement.

Death and legacy
Brown was only 42 in 1961, when he died suddenly of a heart attack when he became ill on the Kansas Turnpike just outside of Lawrence, while riding with fellow pastor Maurice Lange en route to Topeka where his wife and daughters were visiting her parents.

In 1988, the nonprofit Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research was founded by Oliver Brown’s family along with Topeka community members to preserve the legacy of the Brown decision. His daughter Cheryl Brown Henderson is Founding President of the foundation. On October 26, 1992, after two years of work by the Brown Foundation, President George H. W. Bush signed the Brown v. The Board of Education National Historic Site Act, establishing the former Monroe Elementary School, one of the four formerly segregated African American elementary schools, as a national historic site.

Oliver and Leola’s eldest daughter Linda Brown Thompson died on March 25, 2018, at the age of 75. When she died, the media reported erroneously that she had been the center of the Brown case, when in fact the focus of the arguments was on behalf of numerous plaintiffs from the five cases consolidated by the United States Supreme Court.

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J. G. Jones

Jeffrey Glen Jones is an American comics artist who is known for his work on titles such as Wanted and Final Crisis.

Early life
Jones hails from Walker, Louisiana and attended Louisiana State University and the University at Albany, SUNY where he received his Master of Fine Arts degree.

Career
J. G. Jones made his debut in the comics industry in 1994 by drawing Dark Dominion for Defiant Comics. He is best known for his work as cover artist on various comic book series, including a stint on Brian K. Vaughan's Y: The Last Man and for DC Comics, the six-issue limited series Villains United written by Gail Simone, as well as all 52 covers for the maxi-series 52.

In 1999, Jones and writer Devin K. Grayson introduced the Yelena Belova character in the Black Widow limited series. The following year, Jones worked with writer Grant Morrison on the Marvel Boy limited series. Jones' other interior art credits include Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia written by Greg Rucka and Mark Millar's Wanted published by Top Cow Productions.

Jones was intended to be the sole artist on the Grant Morrison DC limited series Final Crisis. Due to delays, Jones was assisted by artists Carlos Pacheco, Marco Rudy, and Doug Mahnke for issues #4–6, and replaced for issue #7 by Mahnke. Jones noted that "Any problems completing the series are my own. I love Doug Mahnke’s art, and he would have probably been a better choice to draw this series in the first place."

Since then Jones has been mostly providing covers for DC Comics on titles such as Batman and Robin, Doc Savage, Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E. and Mister Terrific. Writer Brian Azzarello and Jones collaborated on the Before Watchmen: Comedian limited series in 2012–2013. Jones and writer Mark Waid produced Strange Fruit for Boom! Studios in July 2015.

Interior work

 * Dark Dominion #7–9: "Once a Hero!" (with Len Wein, Defiant Comics, 1994)
 * Rant #1–2 (with Jonathan Larsen, Boneyard Press, 1994–1995)
 * Fatale (with Jim Shooter and Jay Jay Jackson, Broadway Comics):
 * "Fatale" (in Powers That Be #1, 1995)
 * "Inherit the Earth" (in Fatale #1–6, 1996)
 * Shi: Rekishi #1–2 (with Christopher Golden, Crusade Comics, 1997)
 * Tomoe: Unforgettable Fire: "The Face You Had Before You Were Born" (with Tony Bedard, one-shot, Crusade Comics, 1997)
 * Shi: The Series #1–3, 5 (with Tony Bedard, Crusade Comics, 1997)
 * Shi: Black, White and Red #1–2 (with Thomas E. Sniegoski, Crusade Comics, 1998)
 * Painkiller Jane/Darkchylde: "Lost in a Dream" (with Brian Augustyn, one-shot, Event Comics, 1998)
 * Black Widow #1–3: "The Itsy-Bitsy Spider" (with Devin K. Grayson, Marvel Comics, 1999)
 * Webspinners: Tales of Spider-Man #12: "Perchance to Dream" (with Paul Jenkins, Marvel Comics, 1999)
 * Marvel Boy #1–6 (with Grant Morrison, Marvel Comics, 2000–2001)
 * Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia (with Greg Rucka, graphic novel, DC Comics, 2002)
 * Wanted (with Mark Millar, Top Cow, 2003–2005)
 * The Avengers #503 (with Brian Michael Bendis, among other artists, Marvel Comics, 2004)
 * 52 #16: "The Origin of Black Adam" (with Mark Waid, co-feature, DC Comics, 2006)
 * Final Crisis #1–6 (with Grant Morrison, Carlos Pacheco, and Doug Mahnke, DC Comics, 2008–2009)
 * DC Universe: Legacies #1: "Snapshot: Reflection!" (with Len Wein, co-feature, DC Comics, 2010)
 * Doc Savage #13–17 (script, with Qing Ping Mui (artist), DC Comics, 2011)
 * Before Watchmen: Comedian #1–6 (with Brian Azzarello, DC Comics, 2012–2013)
 * Batman Black and White vol. 2 #2 (with Dan DiDio, DC Comics, 2013)
 * Strange Fruit #1–4 (with Mark Waid, Boom! Studios, 2015)

Covers only

 * Shi: The Series #4, 6 (Crusade Comics, 1997–1998)
 * Warlock #1 (Marvel Comics, 1999)
 * Peter Parker: Spider-Man Annual '99 (Marvel Comics, 1999)
 * Aria/Angela #1 (Image Comics, 2000)
 * Gatecrasher: Ring of Fire #1–2 (Black Bull Comics, 2000)
 * Weather Woman #1 (CPM Manga, 2000)
 * Wildcats #13–17 (WildStorm, 2000–2001)
 * Just a Pilgrim #1 (Black Bull Comics, 2001)
 * Birds of Prey #31 (DC Comics, 2001)
 * Transmetropolitan #46–48 (Vertigo, 2001)
 * Codename: Knockout #3, 15–23 (Vertigo, 2001–2003)
 * Nightwing #59, 125 (DC Comics, 2001–2006)
 * Superboy #94 (DC Comics, 2002)
 * Just a Pilgrim: Garden of Eden #2 (Black Bull Comics, 2002)
 * Y: The Last Man #1–17 (Vertigo, 2002–2004)
 * The Resistance #1 (WildStorm, 2002)
 * Catwoman vol. 3 #12–16 (DC Comics, 2002–2003)
 * Captain Marvel #5 (Marvel Comics, 2003)
 * Captain America: What Price Glory? #2 (Marvel Comics, 2003)
 * The Avengers vol. 3 #65–71 (Marvel Comics, 2003)
 * Wonder Woman vol. 2 #200–203, 205–210, 212–213, 215–226 (DC Comics, 2004–2006)
 * Red Sonja #2, 14 (Dynamite Entertainment, 2005–2006)
 * Serenity #1 (Dark Horse Comics, 2005)
 * Villains United #1–6 (DC Comics, 2005)
 * Army of Darkness vs. Re-Animator #1 (Dynamite Entertainment, 2005)
 * Helios: In with the New #1 (Speakeasy Comics, 2005)
 * Captain Atom: Armageddon #2, 5, 8 (WildStorm, 2006)
 * 52 #1–52 (DC Comics, 2006–2007)
 * Savage Dragon #128 (Image Comics, 2006)
 * Snakes on a Plane #1 (WildStorm, 2006)
 * Deathblow #2 (WildStorm, 2007)
 * Justice League of America #4 (DC Comics, 2007)
 * Countdown to Final Crisis #23, 35 (DC Comics, 2007)
 * Potter's Field #1 (Boom! Studios, 2007)
 * Supernatural: Origins #6 (WildStorm, 2007)
 * Final Crisis: Requiem #1 (DC Comics, 2008)
 * Final Crisis #7 (DC Comics, 2009)
 * Batman #687 (DC Comics, 2009)
 * Batman and Robin #1, 22–26 (DC Comics, 2009–2011)
 * Batman: Streets of Gotham #1 (DC Comics, 2009)
 * Detective Comics #854 (DC Comics, 2009)
 * Gotham City Sirens #1 (DC Comics, 2009)
 * Red Robin #1 (DC Comics, 2009)
 * The Outsiders #19 (DC Comics, 2009)
 * The Shield #1 (DC Comics, 2009)
 * The Web #1 (DC Comics, 2009)
 * Batman/Doc Savage Special #1 (DC Comics, 2009)
 * First Wave #1–6 (DC Comics, 2010–2011)
 * Doc Savage #1–12 (DC Comics, 2010–2011)
 * Gen13 #37 (WildStorm, 2010)
 * First Wave Special #1 (DC Comics, 2011)
 * Brightest Day Aftermath: The Search #1 (DC Comics, 2011)
 * Green Lantern #67 (DC Comics, 2011)
 * Flashpoint: Hal Jordan #3 (DC Comics, 2011)
 * Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E. #1–7 (DC Comics, 2011–2012)
 * Mister Terrific #1–8 (DC Comics, 2011–2012)

Awards and nominations

 * 2006: Nominated for "Best Cover Artist" Eisner Award, for Codename: Knockout and Transmetropolitan
 * 2006: Nominated for "Best Penciller/Inker" Eisner Award, for Wanted

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Duke of Swabia

The Dukes of Swabia were the rulers of the Duchy of Swabia during the Middle Ages. Swabia was one of the five stem duchies of the medieval German kingdom, and its dukes were thus among the most powerful magnates of Germany. The most notable family to rule Swabia was the Hohenstaufen family, who held it, with a brief interruption, from 1079 until 1268. For much of that period, the Hohenstaufen were also Holy Roman Emperors. With the death of Conradin, the last Duke of Hohenstaufen, the duchy itself disintegrated although King Rudolf I attempted to revive it for his Habsburg family in the late 13th century.

Early dukes

 * Burchard I Hunfriding (d. 911), mentioned as marchio (margrave) in 903 and dux (duke) in 909
 * Erchanger Ahalolfing, dominant count in Alemannia after the execution of Burchard I, declared duke in 915, exiled September 916, executed January 917.
 * Burchard II (917–926, Hunfriding), recognized Henry the Fowler as king of Germany in 919 and was recognized by Henry as Duke of Swabia in return.
 * Hermann I (926–949, Conradine)
 * Liudolf (950–954, Ottonian)
 * Burchard III (954–973, Hunfriding)
 * Otto I (973–982, Ottonian)

Conradines

 * Conrad I (982–997)
 * Hermann II (997–1003)
 * Hermann III (1003–12)

House of Babenberg

 * Ernest I (1012–15)
 * Ernest II (1015–30)
 * Hermann IV (1030–38)

Miscellaneous houses

 * Henry I (1038–45, Salian), King of the Romans from 1039 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1046
 * Otto II (1045–48, Ezzonen)
 * Otto III (1048–57, Schweinfurt)
 * Rudolf I (1057–79, Rheinfelden)
 * Berthold I (1079–90, Rheinfelden)
 * Berthold II (1092–98, Zähringen)

House of Hohenstaufen, 1079–1268

 * Frederick I 1079–1105 ||Rauchbeinchronik Herzog Friedrich I. von Schwaben.png ||1050 son of Frederick of Büren and Hildegard of Egisheim-Dagsburg||Agnes of Germany 1089 11 children || 21 July 1105 aged 54 or 55
 * Frederick II the One-Eyed 1105–1147 ||Frederick II of Swabia.jpg ||1090 son of Frederick I and Agnes of Germany || Judith of Bavaria 1121 2 children Agnes of Saarbrücken c.1132 2 children || 6 April 1147 aged 56 or 57
 * Frederick III Barbarossa 1147–1152 ||Barbarossa.jpg ||1122 son of Frederick II and Judith of Bavaria || Adelheid of Vohburg 2 March 1147 Eger no children Beatrice of Burgundy 9 June 1156 Würzburg 12 children || 10 June 1190 aged 67 or 68
 * Frederick IV 1152–1167 ||Frederick IV of Swabia.jpg ||1145 son of Conrad III of Germany and Gertrude von Sulzbach || Gertrude of Bavaria 1166 no children || 19 August 1167 Rome aged 21 or 22
 * Frederick V 1167–1170 ||||16 July 1164 Pavia son of Frederick III and Beatrice of Burgundy || unmarried || 28 November 1170 aged 6
 * Frederick VI 1170–1191 ||FridrichSwabia.jpg ||February 1167 Modigliana son of Frederick III and Beatrice of Burgundy || unmarried || 20 January 1191 Acre aged 24
 * Conrad II 1191–1196 ||Vad-0321 052 Konrad von Schwaben.jpg ||February or March 1173 son of Frederick III and Beatrice of Burgundy || unmarried || 15 August 1196 Durlach aged 23
 * Philip 1196–1208 ||Vad-0321 040 Philipp von Schwaben.jpg ||August 1177 son of Frederick III and Beatrice of Burgundy ||Irene Angelina 25 May 1197 4 children ||21 June 1208 Bamberg aged 30
 * align="center" colspan="7"|Vacancy: 1208-1212
 * Frederick VII 1212–1216 || [[Image:Frederick II and eagle.jpg|100px|Frederick I]] ||26 December 1194 Jesi son of Henry I and Constance of Sicily||Constance of Aragon 15 August 1209 1 child Isabella II of Jerusalem 9 November 1225 2 children  Isabella of England 15 July 1235 4 children|| 13 December 1250 Torremaggiore aged 55
 * Henry II 1216–1235 || [[Image:Henry VII of Germany (1211-1242).JPG|100px|Henry (II)]] || 1211 Sicily son of Frederick I and Constance of Aragon ||Margaret 29 November 1225 2 children|| 12 February 1242 Martirano aged 30
 * Conrad III 1235–1254 || [[Image:Conrad IV of Germany.jpg|100px|Conrad I]] ||25 April 1228 Andria son of Frederick I and Isabella II of Jerusalem ||Elisabeth of Bavaria 1 September 1246 1 child|| 21 May 1254 Lavello aged 26
 * Conrad IV the Younger 1254–1268|| [[Image:Conradin.jpg|100px|Conrad II]] ||25 March 1252 Wolfstein son of Conrad I and Elisabeth of Bavaria ||never married||29 October 1268 Naples aged 16 (executed)
 * }
 * Philip 1196–1208 ||Vad-0321 040 Philipp von Schwaben.jpg ||August 1177 son of Frederick III and Beatrice of Burgundy ||Irene Angelina 25 May 1197 4 children ||21 June 1208 Bamberg aged 30
 * align="center" colspan="7"|Vacancy: 1208-1212
 * Frederick VII 1212–1216 || [[Image:Frederick II and eagle.jpg|100px|Frederick I]] ||26 December 1194 Jesi son of Henry I and Constance of Sicily||Constance of Aragon 15 August 1209 1 child Isabella II of Jerusalem 9 November 1225 2 children  Isabella of England 15 July 1235 4 children|| 13 December 1250 Torremaggiore aged 55
 * Henry II 1216–1235 || [[Image:Henry VII of Germany (1211-1242).JPG|100px|Henry (II)]] || 1211 Sicily son of Frederick I and Constance of Aragon ||Margaret 29 November 1225 2 children|| 12 February 1242 Martirano aged 30
 * Conrad III 1235–1254 || [[Image:Conrad IV of Germany.jpg|100px|Conrad I]] ||25 April 1228 Andria son of Frederick I and Isabella II of Jerusalem ||Elisabeth of Bavaria 1 September 1246 1 child|| 21 May 1254 Lavello aged 26
 * Conrad IV the Younger 1254–1268|| [[Image:Conradin.jpg|100px|Conrad II]] ||25 March 1252 Wolfstein son of Conrad I and Elisabeth of Bavaria ||never married||29 October 1268 Naples aged 16 (executed)
 * }
 * Conrad III 1235–1254 || [[Image:Conrad IV of Germany.jpg|100px|Conrad I]] ||25 April 1228 Andria son of Frederick I and Isabella II of Jerusalem ||Elisabeth of Bavaria 1 September 1246 1 child|| 21 May 1254 Lavello aged 26
 * Conrad IV the Younger 1254–1268|| [[Image:Conradin.jpg|100px|Conrad II]] ||25 March 1252 Wolfstein son of Conrad I and Elisabeth of Bavaria ||never married||29 October 1268 Naples aged 16 (executed)
 * }
 * Conrad IV the Younger 1254–1268|| [[Image:Conradin.jpg|100px|Conrad II]] ||25 March 1252 Wolfstein son of Conrad I and Elisabeth of Bavaria ||never married||29 October 1268 Naples aged 16 (executed)
 * }
 * }

House of Habsburg (1283–1309)

 * Rudolf (1283–90)
 * John (1290–1309)

Successor states
In the 13th century, the Duchy of Swabia disintegrated into numerous smaller states. Some of the more important immediate successor states were:

During the following century, several of these states were acquired by the County of Württemberg or the Duchy of Austria, as marked above. In 1803 Bavarian Swabia was annexed by Bavaria and shortly afterwards became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria.

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Puolanka

Puolanka (Puolanka, also Puolango) is a municipality in Finland located in the Kainuu region. The municipality has a population of 0 and covers an area of undefined km2 of which undefined km2 is water. The population density is undefined PD/km2. The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

The fir-tree topped line in the coat of arms of Puolanka refers to local forestry and the cattle bells to livestock management and past grazing in forest lands. The coat of arms was designed by Aake Kaarnama, and the Puolanka municipal council approved it at its meeting on 8 June 1962. The Ministry of the Interior approved the coat of arms for use on 29 August of the same year.

Puolanka has been called the "most pessimistic municipality in Finland". In 2019, the municipality gained worldwide publicity when the BBC published a video about Puolanka, describing it as the "most pessimistic town in the world". Pessimism has a long tradition in the Kainuu region, and the residents of Puolanka decided to make it their trademark, which is why the residents organize various events related to the topic every year.

History
The first permanent settlers in Puolanka came in the 1550s.

The municipality of Puolanka was established in the year of 1867. In that same year the Puolanka parish became independent from the Hyrynsalmi church to which it had previously belonged to administratively. The municipal council of Puolanka was formed in the year of 1916.

At its peak Puolanka had a population of about 7,520 in 1960. Towards the end of the 1960s, however, Puolanka's population began to decline, alike other municipalities within Kainuu.

Geography
Ranked one of the most beautiful waterfalls in Finland, the 24 m Hepoköngäs, is located 16 km from the center of Puolanka.

Villages
Villages within Puolanka are as follows:

 * Aittokylä
 * Auho
 * Joukokylä
 * Kivarinjärvi
 * Kotila
 * Kongasmäki
 * Leipivaara
 * Lylykylä
 * Naulaperä
 * Puokio
 * Puolanka
 * Rasinkylä
 * Suolijärvi
 * Vihajärvi
 * Väyrylä
 * Yli-Oterma
 * Törmänmäki

Notable individuals

 * Juha Sipilä, the Prime Minister of Finland 2015−2019
 * Kalle Määttä, volleyball player
 * Kaarina Mähönen, poet
 * Kari Hiltunen, sports journalist
 * Kimmo Saneri, writer
 * Lasse Väisänen, footballer
 * Louis Moilanen, giant
 * Markku Kukkoaho, sprinter
 * Santeri Haapanen, politician
 * Tauno Tarkkinen, writer
 * Tuulikki Pyykkönen, Olympic cross-country skier
 * Unto Väisänen, baseball player

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Kuru, Finland

Kuru is a former municipality of Finland, now part of the town of Ylöjärvi.

Kuru is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Pirkanmaa region. Kuru lies 50 km north of Tampere. The municipality had a population of 2,782 and covered an area of 820.48 km2 of which 103.53 km2 is water. The population density was 3.4 inhabitants per km2. The service industry is the primary employer for the area. Kuru was consolidated with the town of Ylöjärvi on January 1, 2009. The municipality was unilingually Finnish.

Approximately two-thirds of the Seitseminen national park is located in the municipality and represents the number one attraction for the area. Eco-tourism, nature conservation, and other nature related studies occur in Seitseminen. The park has vast forests, marshlands, and ridges of preserved land. The park is a total of 4000 km2.

The water from the streams and river in Kuru is so clean, it is drinkable without purification. The vast majority of Kuru is either water or forest. In fact, 550 km2, out of 820.48 km2, of the district is covered with forests. Popular activities include canoeing, swimming, fishing, hiking, camping, backpacking and other outdoor activities.

Kuru has vast natural resources including wood, water and stone. The stone is used for gravestones, building material, and memorial statues. The stone is also used for jewelry and souvenirs. The more popular variety of stone that comes from Kuru includes grey granite and "pallograniitti" (orbicular granite), a rare variety with decorative ring-shaped forms in it.

Kuru is also home to the forestry department of Tampere College (Tampereen Ammattiopisto in Finnish), where they host international wilderness guide, forestry and log house building courses.

People born in Kuru

 * Emanuel Kolkki (1869 – 1940)
 * Kalle Kaakko-oja (1875 – 1942)
 * Artturi Tienari (1907 – 1998)
 * Tauno Kovanen (1917–1986)
 * Seppo Lehto (born 1962)

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Frederick I, Duke of Swabia

Frederick I (c. 1050 – 1105) before 21 July was Duke of Swabia from 1079 to his death, the first ruler from the House of Hohenstaufen (Staufer).

Life
Frederick was the son of Frederick of Büren (c. 1020–1053), Count in the Riesgau and Swabian Count Palatine, with Hildegard of Egisheim-Dagsburg, a niece of Pope Leo IX, daughter of Otto II, Duke of Swabia and founder of the Abbey of Saint Faith in Schlettstadt, Alsace. When Frederick succeeded his father, he had Hohenstaufen Castle erected on the eponymous mountain in the Swabian Jura range, which became the ancestral seat of the dynasty. He also founded a Benedictine abbey at the site of former Lorch Castle about 1100. By his mother he ruled over large Alsatian estates around Schlettstadt and Hagenau.

When during the Investiture Controversy the Swabian duke Rudolf of Rheinfelden was elected anti-king to King Henry IV of Germany, Frederick remained a loyal supporter of the ruling Salian dynasty. In turn Henry vested him with the Swabian ducal dignity in 1079 and also gave him the hand of his seven-year-old daughter Agnes of Waiblingen. Contested by Rudolf's son Berthold of Rheinfelden and Berthold of Zähringen, Frederick only ruled over the northern parts of the Swabian duchy down to Ulm and the Danube River. Finally in 1098, he and Berthold of Zähringen reached a compromise, whereby his rival confined himself to the title of a "Duke of Zähringen".

In the last years of his reign, Frederick was able to expand the Hohenstaufen territories northwards, when he assumed the office of a Vogt (reeve) of Weissenburg Abbey and the Bishopric of Speyer in Rhenish Franconia.

Marriage and issue
About 1086/87, Frederick married Agnes, daughter of Emperor Henry IV. They had several sons and daughters, amongst whom were: After Frederick's death, Agnes secondly married the Babenberg margrave Leopold III of Austria in 1106. Both are buried in Klosterneuburg Monastery.
 * Frederick II (1090–1147), succeeded as Duke of Swabia in 1105, father of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa
 * Conrad III, King of Germany (1093–1152), elected King of the Romans in 1138
 * Berta of Boll (d. before 1142), married Adalbert of Ravenstein, Count of Elchingen, their daughter Liutgard married Conrad, Margrave of Meissen
 * Heilika, who married Frederick III of Pettendorf-Lengenfeld-Hopfenche, their daughter Heilika of Pettendorf-Lengenfeld married Otto IV, Count of Wittelsbach
 * Gertrud, married Hermann III of Stahleck, Count Palatine of the Rhine
 * Richildis, married Hugh I, Count of Roucy

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OpenML

OpenML  may refer to:
 * OpenML (Open Machine Learning), an open science online platform for machine learning, which holds open data, open algorithms and tasks
 * OpenML (Open Media Library), a free, cross-platform programming environment designed by the Khronos Group for capturing, transporting, processing, displaying, and synchronizing digital media (2D and 3D graphics, audio and video processing, I/O, and networking)

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Ikaalinen

Ikaalinen (Ikalis) is a city and municipality of Finland. It is part of the Pirkanmaa region, located 55 km northwest of Tampere. The town has a population of 0 and covers an area of undefined km2 of which undefined km2 is water. The population density is undefined PD/km2.

The municipalities next to it are Hämeenkyrö, Jämijärvi, Kankaanpää, Parkano, Sastamala and Ylöjärvi. The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

The Seitseminen national park is partly located in the municipality.

S. Albert Kivinen, a writer and associate professor of philosophy of the University of Helsinki, is a native of Ikaalinen and his story Keskiyön Mato Ikaalisissa ("The Midnight Worm in Ikaalinen") is set there.

Ikaalinen became an independent municipality in 1641. The associated market town was founded in 1858. The market town and the municipality were united in 1972 and Ikaalinen became a town in 1977.

The centre of Ikaalinen is on lake Kyrösjärvi near the highway 3 (E12).

Transport
The private coach company OnniBus route Helsinki—Seinäjoki—Vaasa has a stop at Ikaalinen.

Notable people

 * Sulo Aittoniemi, congressman
 * Outi Borgenström, sportsperson (orienteering)
 * Oskar Gripenberg, general
 * Edvard Gylling, politician (SDP, SKP), statistician
 * S. Albert Kivinen, philosopher
 * Jarmo Kujanpää, sportsperson (football)
 * Kalervo Kurkiala, chaplain (1931–38)
 * Matti Pitkänen, sportsperson (cross country skiing)
 * Krista Pärmäkoski, sportsperson (cross country skiing)
 * Samuli Samuelsson, sportsperson (sprinter)
 * Bertel Strömmer, architect

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List of sailing boat types

The following is a partial list of sailboat types and sailing classes, including keelboats, dinghies and multihull (catamarans and trimarans).

World Sailing Classes
Historically known as the IYRU (International Yacht Racing Union), the organization evolved into the ISAF (International Sailing Federation) in 1996, and as of December 2015 is now World Sailing.

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Queen & Country

Queen & Country is an American comic book published by Oni Press and written by Greg Rucka with various artists illustrating.

It was inspired by the British ITV television series The Sandbaggers (1978–1980), which was created and primarily written by Ian Mackintosh. Mackintosh is heavily praised in an essay by Rucka in Issue #1 of Queen & Country.

Publication history
The first series began in March 2001 and ran for 32 issues, finishing in August 2007.

Three Queen & Country: Declassified spin-off mini-series have also been published, the first two written by Rucka and the third by Antony Johnston under Rucka's supervision. They deal specifically with the past missions of various characters. Events of the first Declassified miniseries in particular influence what happens in later issues of the main series; it is best read before "Operation Stormfront".

Translated editions of the collected volumes are available in Polish, French and German, and several volumes are available in Spanish.

Plot
The series is centered on Tara Chace, an operative of the Special Operations Section of SIS, known as the Minders. It attempts to portray the bureaucracy and politics which the agents deal with realistically, as well as including the dangerous missions typical of the spy genre.

Other recurring characters in the series alongside Tara Chace include Director of Operations Paul Crocker, Deputy Chief of Service Donald Weldon, Chief of Service Frances Barclay (known as "C"), Mission Control Officer and Main Communications Officer Alexis and former Head of Special Section Tom Wallace.

Storylines

 * Operation: Broken Ground
 * (Queen & Country #1–4)
 * Written by Greg Rucka. Art by Steve Rolston.

 * Operation: Morningstar
 * (Queen & Country #5–7)
 * Written by Greg Rucka. Art by Brian Hurtt, Bryan Lee O'Malley, and Christine Norrie.

 * Operation: Crystal Ball
 * (Queen & Country #8–12)
 * Written by Greg Rucka. Art by Leandro Fernández.

 * Operation: Blackwall
 * Queen & Country #13–15)
 * Written by Greg Rucka. Art by Jason Shawn Alexander.

 * Operation: Stormfront
 * (Queen & Country #16–20)
 * Written by Greg Rucka. Art by Carla Speed McNeil.

 * Operation: Dandelion
 * (Queen & Country #21–24)
 * Written by Greg Rucka. Art by Mike Hawthorne.

 * Untitled
 * (Queen & Country #25)
 * Written by Greg Rucka. Art by Steve Rolston and Mike Norton.

 * Operation: Saddlebags
 * (Queen & Country #26–28)
 * Written by Greg Rucka. Art by Mike Norton and Steve Rolston.

 * Operation: Red Panda
 * (Queen & Country #29–32)
 * Written by Greg Rucka. Art by Chris Samnee.

Collected editions

 * Queen & Country:
 * Operation: Broken Ground (collects Queen & Country #1–4 and Oni Press Color Special 2001 #1, 120 pages, April 2002, ISBN 1-929998-21-X)
 * Operation: Morningstar (collects Queen & Country #5–7, 88 pages, October 2002, ISBN 1-929998-35-X)
 * Operation: Crystal Ball (collects Queen & Country #8–12, 152 pages, January 2003, ISBN 1-929998-49-X)
 * Operation: Blackwall (collects Queen & Country #13–15, 88 pages, November 2003, ISBN 1-929998-68-6)
 * Operation: Storm Front (collects Queen & Country #16–20, 168 pages, April 2004, ISBN 1-929998-84-8)
 * Operation: Dandelion (collects Queen & Country #21–24, 128 pages, August 2004, ISBN 1-929998-97-X)
 * Operation: Saddlebags (collects Queen & Country #25–28, 144 pages, May 2005, ISBN 1-932664-14-9)
 * Operation: Red Panda (collects Queen & Country #29–32, 144 pages, June 2007, ISBN 1-932664-65-3)
 * Queen & Country: Declassified:
 * Volume 1 (88 pages August 2003, ISBN 1-929998-58-9)
 * Volume 2 (96 pages May 2006, ISBN 1-932664-28-9)
 * Volume 3 (96 pages May 2006, ISBN 1-932664-35-1)
 * Queen & Country The Definitive Edition:
 * Volume 1 (collects Queen & Country #1–12 and Oni Press Color Special 2001 #1, 376 pages, November 2007, ISBN 1-932664-87-4)
 * Volume 2 (collects Queen & Country #13–24, 344 pages, April 2008, ISBN 1-932664-89-0)
 * Volume 3 (collects Queen & Country #25–32, Script-book #1, 408 pages, July 2008, ISBN 1-932664-96-3)
 * Volume 4 (collects Queen & Country: Declassified Volumes 1–3, 296 pages, April 2009, ISBN 1-934964-13-1)

Awards

 * 2002:
 * Won "Best New Series" Eisner Award
 * Nominated for "Best Continuing Series" Eisner Award
 * Nominated for "Best Serialized Story" Eisner Award, for Queen & Country #1–4: "Operation: Broken Ground"
 * 2003: Nominated for "Best Serialized Story" Eisner Award, for Queen & Country #8–12: "Operation: Crystal Ball"
 * 2004:
 * Nominated for "Best Continuing Series" Eisner Award
 * Nominated for "Best Serialized Story" Eisner Award, for Queen & Country #13–15: "Operation: Blackwall"

Novels
A Queen & Country prose novel written by Rucka, A Gentleman's Game, was published in 2004, also featuring Tara Chace and making reference to the events of the comic book series. A second Tara Chace novel, Private Wars, was published in 2005. The novels tie in to the comic series; issue 29 to 32 depicts events immediately after A Gentleman's Game. Private Wars takes place a few months after the end of the comic series and ends the first volume of the series. A third Queen & Country novel, The Last Run, was released in October 2010.

Scriptbook
A scriptbook, titled "Queen & Country Scriptbook vol. 1", is also available (ISBN 1929998929).

Film
A film adaptation is in development, but has been stranded in development hell for some time. On September 9, 2013, Elliot Page was reported to be in negotiations to star in the film, and in March 2014 Craig Viveiros was set to direct the film. In March 2018, Ridley Scott is in talks to direct the film the project. On 19 June 2018, Sylvia Hoeks was rumored to be Tara Chace. The project is in limbo due to the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney.

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Peter Wilhelm Lund

Peter Wilhelm Lund (14 June 1801 – 25 May 1880) was a Danish Brazilian paleontologist, zoologist, and archeologist. He spent most of his life working and living in Brazil. He is considered the father of Brazilian paleontology as well as archaeology.

He was the first to describe dozens of species of Pleistocene megafauna, including the saber-toothed cat Smilodon populator. He also made the then ground-breaking discovery that humans co-existed with long-extinct animal species, something which possibly prompted him to terminate his scientific work. His comprehensive collections are today found at the Danish Natural History Museum in Copenhagen.

Early life and education
Peter Wilhelm Lund was born into a wealthy family in Copenhagen. He showed an early interest in natural sciences and was working towards a career in medicine but following the death of his father, his passion for natural history prompted him instead to opt for that study at the University of Copenhagen. As a student, he wrote two prize-winning dissertations. One of them, published in German, won him international recognition.

First trip to Brazil and return to Europe
Due to growing tuberculosis, he traveled to Brazil in 1825 and spent the following three and a half years collecting specimens of plants, birds and insects in the area around Rio de Janeiro, and writing about ants, snails and birds of the region.

Back in Europe in 1829, he achieved a doctoral degree at the University of Kiel, traveled to Italy and later established himself in Paris, where he came under the influence of Georges Cuvier, professor of comparative anatomy at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle and the most influential naturalist and zoologist of the time.

In his Discours sur les révolutions de la surface du globe (1825), Cuvier theorized that the extinction of species was caused by natural catastrophes in certain regions of the world. When that happens, the fauna from other regions migrate to populate the now uninhabited area. This became known as catastrophism or the catastrophic theory, and would become the motto of Lund's scientific career.

Return to Brazil and turn to paleontology
In 1832 Lund returned to Brazil, never to return to Europe. He spent the first two years collecting mainly botanical specimens in the provinces of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Charles Darwin also passed through Rio in 1832, but it is unknown whether the two naturalists met.

In 1835, Lund was traveling inland through the province of Minas Gerais, and in Lagoa, an area characterised by a peculiar Karst geology, discovered several caves full of fossilized bones from extinct Ice Age megafauna species. He eventually settled in the small town of Lagoa Santa, and dedicated the next eight years to excavating, collecting, classifying and studying more than 20,000 bones of extinct species, including mastodons and ground sloths. With him was the Norwegian painter Peter Andreas Brandt who assisted him throughout his work as an illustrator. He was also assisted by the Danish botanist Eugen Warming from 1839 to 1859.

Lund was the first to describe dozens of species, among them the saber-toothed cat Smilodon populator. His exploration took place mainly in the region of Lagoa Santa, which is rich in caves and karst formations and nowadays comprises the northern part of Greater Belo Horizonte. He was also one of the first to recognize, appreciate, and record prehistoric rock and cave paintings in South America.

Then in 1843, Lund made a remarkable discovery. During a severe drought, he discovered, deep in a flooded cave, the fossilized skulls and bones of 30 humans. These individuals were found among the remains of long-extinct species, leading him to realize that humans and prehistoric animals had co-existed, something which was in frontal opposition to Cuvier's catastrophic theory.

Early retirement and late life
Only a year after his ground-breaking finds of human remains, Lund suddenly stopped the work in the caves, citing lack of resources to finance the excavations. He then donated his huge collection to the king and the people of Denmark. Alleging fragile health conditions, he decided to stay in Lagoa Santa, never to return to Europe. Whereas Lund possibly took badly to his own findings, Darwin embraced them with enthusiasm.

The next 35 years were spent exchanging letters with the curators of his collections in Copenhagen, as well as receiving the visits of young European naturalists. The complete study of his collections, E Museo Lundii, was published only in 1888.

While living in Lagoa Santa, he hosted several European naturalists, such as the Danish botanist Eugenius Warming. Lund never married and died in Lagoa Santa three weeks before reaching the age of 79.

Legacy
The cave where Lund made his discovery of "Lagoa Santa Man" is now protected by the 2004 ha Sumidouro State Park, created in 1980. The journal Lundiana is named in his honour, as is a town in Lagoa Santa. Lund is considered the "Father of Brazilian paleontology and archeology." His voluminous correspondence with Brazilian scientists and institutions is still uncollected.

A species of Brazilian lizard, Heterodactylus lundii, is named in his honor. Also a flowering genus of plants from Central America was named Lundia in his honour in 1838.

Cultural references

 * Danish writer Henrik Stangerup novel The Road to Lagoa Santa is a fictional account of Lund's life, focussing on his early and sudden retirement which is thought to have been motivated by religious doubts caused by his scientific findings.

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Oni Press

Oni Press is an American independent comic book and graphic novel publisher based in Portland, Oregon, best known for publishing such series as Scott Pilgrim and Rick and Morty. In 2019, it became an imprint label following the company's merger with Lion Forge Comics. The merged company, Oni–Lion Forge Publishing Group (OLFPG), is owned by Polarity. Oni Press has remained the "predominant name used for publishing comics" by OLFPG.

Overview
The company name derives from oni, the word for the ogre demons popular in Japanese folklore.

Oni Press used the term "real mainstream," coined by Stephen L. Holland of the UK comic shop Page 45, to suggest that the subject matter it publishes is more in line with the popular genres of other media, such as thrillers, romances and realistic drama. For the most part, Oni Press avoids publishing superhero titles, unless interesting creators approach these concepts from an unusual angle. However, at one point, Rich Johnston of All The Rage reported that Oni Press and Marvel Comics were creating a publishing deal for Oni creators to work on Marvel superhero characters, but the deal fell apart.

Oni Press publishes few comic books on an ongoing monthly basis - Marc Guggenheim's Resurrection, Antony Johnston and Christopher Mitten's Wasteland and Brian Hurrt and Cullen Bunn's Sixth Gun. Greg Rucka's Queen & Country was published monthly from 2001 to 2007. Most of its titles are either irregular recurring miniseries, often published in four to six monthly installments, or original graphic novels.

Oni Press material initially released as comic books is usually later collected into trade paperbacks. They have published well over 100 titles, with multiple books undergoing reprints due to sustained popularity. Several of their books have won the Eisner Award including: Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim, Rick Spear and Chuck BB's Black Metal, Hope Larson's Grey Horses, and Greg Rucka's Whiteout: Melt and Queen & Country, with many more receiving nominations.

History
It was founded in 1997 by Bob Schreck and Joe Nozemack with the goal of publishing comics and graphic novels they would want to read. Unsatisfied with the material that was dominating the industry, they believed firmly that sequential art could be used to tell virtually any story. Schreck left the company in 1999, leaving Oni Press owned by Nozemack and Jamie S. Rich. In 2004, Rich left the company; Oni Press was then owned by Nozemack, James Lucas Jones, and Charlie Chu.

Oni Press had a film and television production unit, Closed on Mondays, headed by Eric Gitter and located in Los Angeles, California. However, in 2015, because of creative differences originating from the geographical distance between offices, Oni and Gitter parted ways, and Oni established a new film and production arm, Oni Entertainment.

In 2016, the publisher launched Limerence Press, an imprint for erotic and sex-education comics, "focused on positive, diverse, and approachable stories that reflect a wide variety of emotional and intimate experiences".

Oni Press underwent a reorganization in January 2018, with Nozemack acting as founder and chief financial officer, Jones as publisher, Chu as vice president of creative & business development. and other staff also promoted. In January 2019, Sarah Gaydos was promoted to editor in chief. In March 2019, Oni was the 9th or 10th ranked publisher on Diamond's Direct Market market share chart, by unit share or dollar share.

Merger
In May 2019, Oni Press merged with Lion Forge Comics, becoming Oni–Lion Forge Publishing Group (OLFPG), a subsidiary of Polarity. Nozemack stepped down as president in an advisory role. Jones remained as publisher and president, and Chu remained as vice president of creative & business development. Multiple layoffs due to the merger were also reported. The company began emphasizing the Oni brand, with the Lion Forge name becoming "largely dormant". In June 2021, Gaydos stepped down as editor-in-chief. Jones became interim editor-in-chief. In June 2022, Jones stated that "OLFPG has a staff of roughly 30 and expects to add more" and that it "plans to publish 40 original graphic novels in 2022 (60, counting books delayed by supply chain issues), in addition to an extensive list of periodical comics," with Simon & Schuster as their book distributor.

Following the merger with Lion Forge, which had published the memoir Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, the company became involved in controversy and legal actions involving the book. In June 2022, Virginian politicians Tim Anderson and Tommy Altman sued Kobabe and OLFPG over Gender Queer under state law, alleging that the graphic novel was "obscene for unrestricted viewing by minors". OLFPG filed a "Demurrer and Motion to Dismiss" which arguing the plaintiffs misrepresent the nature of the book and further lacks standing to sue.

In June 2022, Jones and Chu were fired by Polarity, followed by publicity director Tara Lehmann leaving the company. In July, the company laid off senior VP of sales and marketing Alex Segura, sales manager Henry Barajas, senior editor Amanda Meadows, and editor Jasmine Amiri. Senior vice president of games and operations Steve Ellis and associate publisher Michelle Nguyen remained with the company. Additionally, Oni Press cancelled both their floor space and their panels at the upcoming San Diego Comic-Con. Also in July 2022, Christina "Steenz" Stewart – an Oni freelancer and former Lion Forge editor – alleged on social media that Oni Press wasn't paying creators their royalties, with several Oni creators responding with similar complaints.

In December 2022, Hunter Gorinson was appointed publisher and president of OLFPG. Sierra Hahn was then named the company's new editor-in-chief in February 2023.

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Talk:UK Championship

Article name
Considering that snooker isn't the only sport with a UK championship, wouldn't this page be better named "UK Championship (snooker)". For now, "UK Championship" can be redirected to the snooker tournament, and if more sports add pages about a UK championship, the "UK Championship" link can be made into a disambiguation page. Abigail 14:18, May 18, 2004 (UTC)

 * I wondered about that. I decided that, since there wasn't already a "UK Championship" in Wikipedia, I might as well use it without the "(snooker)" prefix. However, if you want to change it, please go ahead. --Auximines 14:42, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Done. Individual snooker player pages already had links to 'UK Championship (snooker)', and other snooker tournament link to 'Tournament name (snooker)' as well. Abigail 16:00, May 18, 2004 (UTC)
 * That actually was not a proper disambiguation. Article moved to UK Snooker Championship, the actual name of the event. The article has been stable at this name for some time now. —  SMcCandlish  [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 02:58, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Do we need two separate winners lists for the UK Championship?
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Snooker — Preceding unsigned comment added by Betty Logan (talk • contribs) 11:15, 9 May 2009

Possible additions/organization
As it stands everything is in the one giant "History" paragraph and it is hard to pull out the information you want. A section about format would be useful: qualifiers, number of frames per match/session, prize money for various finishes. Also perhaps a separate section about the venue: various moves, seating, number of tables, etc). Separating the founding and advance to ranking title, etc then a subsection for the memorable matches.  Television info could also be interesting, which channel, viewership (if available) maybe this could be added to the chart?    I am relatively new to the sport and don't feel expert enough to take it on myself.  Thanks.  -- InspectorTiger (talk) 16:23, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

 * just another thought, the article for Wimbledon Championships or other large tournament-format sporting events could be a good general model. -- InspectorTiger (talk) 16:33, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Most of the info you (like seating and number of tables) isn't available at all. Armbrust The Homunculus 17:05, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

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Sponsors in the table
At the start of 2015 the table of results looked like this The table was nicely designed and it was easy to visually scan the rows and read off the results. At some point since then the sponsors were added in and the venues were converted to rowspans, leaving the table looking like this. IMO opinion it looked like a dog's dinner. I don't think the sponsors are pertinent information for a historical overview of the tournament, and adding in the rowspans has turned the table into an ugly mess. It makes it much harder to read, and I suspect all the rowspans could well cause access issues for screenreaders. I reverted the table to its old format last month, but this edit has since been undone by. A similar thing has happened at Masters (snooker) too. I would like to get further input from the community. Do editors think that the sponsors are essential information for an overview, and do they really think the new version is an improvement over the old version? Betty Logan (talk) 19:36, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Requested move 1 January 2019

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

The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the pages at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 19:27, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

– To fix the ambiguous name. There are many UK championships in different sports, for example: UK Championship (IFSA), UK Championships in Athletics. Note, all other season articles already have the correct format like 2014 UK Championship (snooker). 46.211.67.181 (talk) 13:20, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * UK Championship → UK Championship (snooker)
 * 1984 UK Championship → 1984 UK Championship (snooker)
 * 2015 UK Championship → 2015 UK Championship (snooker)
 * 2016 UK Championship → 2016 UK Championship (snooker)
 * 2017 UK Championship → 2017 UK Championship (snooker)
 * 2018 UK Championship → 2018 UK Championship (snooker)
 * Oppose per WP:PRIMARYUSAGE. One example given were the UK Athletics Championships (Plural), providing a WP:NATURALDIS with that event. We already have UK Championships and a hatnote link there from UK Championship. The other example is from the International Federation of Strength Athletes, a minor event in a very minor sport. A google search of "UK Championship" is dominated by the snooker event. An event run by the World Cube Association appears but again very minor event. My preference is to rename all the events before 2015 instead (removing the (snooker) bit), with hatnotes to other events should that be necessary. Also not satisfactory to use the word "correct" in the argument, when surely it is the point of this discussion is to decide what is "correct".. Nigej (talk) 13:50, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * oppose - this is clearly the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for the UK championship. A move is irrelevant, as you would simply have UK Championship (disambiguation)  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 15:19, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

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Frederick II, Duke of Swabia

Frederick II (Friedrich II, 1090 – 6 April 1147), called the One-Eyed (der Einäugige), was Duke of Swabia from 1105 until his death, the second from the Hohenstaufen dynasty. His younger brother Conrad was elected King of the Romans in 1138.

Early career
Frederick II was the eldest son of Duke Frederick I of Swabia and his wife Agnes of Waiblingen, a daughter of the Salian emperor Henry IV. He succeeded his father in 1105 and together with his brother Conrad continued the extension and consolidation of the Hohenstaufen estates. Frederick had numerous castles erected along the Rhine river and in the Alsace region.

Frederick accompanied King Henry V on his campaign against King Coloman of Hungary in 1108. In 1110, he and Henry V embarked on an expedition to Italy, where in Rome Henry enforced his coronation by Pope Paschal II. In turn, the emperor appointed Conrad Duke of Franconia and both brothers German regents when he left for his second Italian campaign in 1116, who put down a revolt by Archbishop Adalbert of Mainz.

About 1120 Frederick married Judith, a daughter of Duke Henry IX of Bavaria and member of the powerful House of Welf. Their first son Frederick was born in 1122.

Salian war of succession
Upon the death of Emperor Henry V in 1125, the Salian dynasty became extinct. Frederick II, Henry's nephew, stood for election as King of the Romans with the support of his younger brother Conrad and several princely houses. However, he lost in the tumultuous round of elections, led by Archbishop Adalbert of Mainz, to the Saxon duke Lothair II. Frederick at first rendered homage to the new king, however, he refused the feudal oath and insisted on the inheritance of the Salian family estates along the Middle Rhine.

At the 1125 Hoftag diet in Regensburg, the king officially requested the surrender of the Salian possessions. After he imposed an Imperial ban on the Hohenstaufens, a conflict erupted between Frederick and his supporters, and Lothair: encouraged by Archbishop Adalbert and several princes, the king occupied Hohenstaufen lands in Upper Lorraine and Alsace. However, an attack by Welf forces on the Swabian core territory failed, like the siege of Nuremberg by Lothair in 1127. Frederick relieved the siege and moreover gained the support from his brother Conrad, who had just returned from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. During the fighting, Frederick lost an eye, whereafter he was no longer eligible as German king.

In December 1127 Conrad declared himself King of the Romans, while the next year Duke Frederick II occupied the Salian city of Speyer. The attempt of Duke Henry X of Bavaria to capture his brother-in-law Frederick during the negotiations failed. However, afterwards the supporters of Lothair won a number of victories both in Germany and in Italy. Speyer (1129), Nuremberg (1130) and Ulm (1134) were captured; moreover Frederick's consort Judith of Bavaria died in 1130. His second wife, Agnes of Saarbrücken, was a niece of his old enemy Adalbert of Mainz; Frederick married her about 1132.

After Lothair was crowned emperor in 1133, Frederick saw himself stuck between the Saxon and Bavarian forces. He eventually submitted to him in the spring of 1135 at Bamberg. Both were finally reconciled and Emperor Lothair renounced further attacks against the Hohenstaufens.

Last years
After Lothair's death in 1137 and the following election of Conrad as King of the Romans, Frederick supported his brother in the struggle with the Welfs. According to Otto of Freising, Frederick was "so faithful a knight to his sovereign and so helpful a friend to his uncle that by valor he supported the tottering honor of the realm, fighting manfully against its foes..."

Duke Frederick II died in 1147 at Alzey. He was buried at the Benedictine abbey of Walburg in Alsace. His son Frederick succeeded him as Swabian duke and was elected German king (as Frederick Barbarossa) in 1152.

Marriage and children
With Judith of Bavaria (1103- 22 February 1131), daughter of Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria: With Agnes of Saarbrücken (d. c. 1147), daughter of Frederick, Count of Saarbrücken:
 * Frederick III Barbarossa (1122–1190), duke of Swabia and Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick I
 * Bertha of Lorraine (1123–1195), married Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine
 * Conrad of Hohenstaufen (also spelled Konrad) (1134/1136-1195), Count Palatine of the Rhine
 * Jutta (1135–1191), married Louis II, Landgrave of Thuringia

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Atticus Kodiak

Atticus Kodiak is the fictional protagonist of a series of novels written by Greg Rucka. The series concerns Atticus's career as a professional bodyguard.

Keeper
First in the series (1996). Atticus is hired to protect a woman who will speak at an abortion conference.

Finder
Second in the series (1997). Atticus tries to protect the runaway daughter of his former commanding officer.

Smoker
Third in the series (1998). Atticus gets a chance to rehabilitate his reputation as a bodyguard when he is hired to protect a witness in a high-profile tobacco lawsuit.

Shooting At Midnight
Fourth in the series (1999). Atticus merely guest-stars as Rucka turns most of the narration duties over to Bridgett Logan, Atticus's ex-girlfriend. Bridgett must deal with the demons of her past when a close friend asks Bridgett to help her murder someone.

Critical Space
Fifth in the series (2001). While guarding a British Royal, Atticus is offered a job by the expert assassin known only as "Drama".

Patriot Acts
Sixth in the series (2007), the story involves the aftermath of the climax of Critical Space and follows Atticus and Drama over the next three years as they seek revenge for several attempts on their lives.

Walking Dead
Seventh entry in the series (2009). While living in hiding with Alena ("Drama" in earlier titles), Atticus witnesses the murder of a neighbor family and kidnapping of their daughter. In effort to find the missing girl, Atticus must infiltrate the seedy world of international human trafficking.

Atticus Kodiak
Born in San Francisco, Atticus was well-trained as a bodyguard in the Army's Executive Protection program, and he now relies on that training in his career as a personal security consultant (or bodyguard) in New York City. The series follows Atticus as he attempts to establish himself professionally and stabilize his often rocky personal life. This is difficult, however, since his profession and personal relationships are often intertwined.

Bridgett Logan
Atticus' most complicated romantic relationship is with Bridgett Logan, a private investigator. Bridie's tough exterior hides her emotional vulnerability and dangerous past. She is a devotee of Porsches, Life Savers, and Altoids, and she takes center stage in the novel Shooting At Midnight, which reveals Bridie's past as a heroin addict. When Bridgett feels obligated to help out a friend accused of murder, she finds that old habits are the hardest to break.

Natalie Trent
Natalie is a professional bodyguard specializing in sniper and counter-sniper work. Thanks to her father, Elliot Trent, she is very well-off, although she does not get along with him. Atticus acknowledges that she is the best bodyguard in the group, even better than himself.

Elliot Trent
The owner of Sentinel, a large Manhattan-based security firm. He is Natalie's father.

Erika Wyatt
Erika is the teenage daughter of Atticus' former commanding officer from his days in the Army. Atticus becomes her legal guardian, and she lives with him for several years before moving out to attend New York University (NYU). Atticus regards her as a sister, and his only family.

Robert Moore
Moore first appears as an operative of the SAS, but later leaves the service to become the personal bodyguard of a minor British Royal. He develops a close friendship with Atticus.

Scott Fowler
When Atticus requires contact with Federal authorities, he tends to contact Special Agent Scott Fowler, who Atticus's old friend used to call "Special Agent Dude."

"Drama"
"Drama" is the code-name for a highly talented female assassin who comes to respect Atticus' skills, character, and determination.

Other stories set in the world of Atticus Kodiak
There are no other stories overtly connected to the Kodiak series, other than the seven official novels. However, there are multiple stories that take place in the same fictional world by virtue of minor shared characters.

A Fistful of Rain
A Fistful of Rain (2003) stars Miriam "Mim" Bracca, a rock star with a troubled past, who returns home from a tour to have her life derailed by a stalking voyeur and a murder. Rucka has revealed "there's a very oblique link between Critical Space and Fistful - so oblique, in fact, just about everyone in the world missed it, I think. So the Kodiak universe is, in fact, the same universe as Mim Bracca's."

"Contact and Cover"
"Contact and Cover" (2008) is a short story starring Tracy Hoffman, one of the detectives from A Fistful of Rain. It was published in the Michael Connelly edited collection, The Blue Religion.

Stumptown
Stumptown is a modern-day Detective fiction comic book that follows the cases of Dex Parios, a P.I. in Portland, Oregon. The second storyline of the series has Dex working a case for Mim Bracca, the star of A Fistful of Rain, thereby establishing its setting as that of the world of Atticus Kodiak.

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Clionidae

The Clionidae are a family of sea angels, which are a group of pelagic marine gastropods.

They resemble angels, complete with flapping "wings", hence their common name. They are gelatinous, mostly transparent pteropods, and they only have shells in their embryonic stage. They are mostly very small, with the largest species (Clione limacina) reaching 5 cm.

External anatomy
The Clionidae use winglike flaps for rhythmical locomotion, as if flying in the sea. These "wings" are attached to the anterior part of the body. The posterior part is gelatinous and mostly transparent.

The orange visceral sac is confined to the anterior part.

Life habits
Mating is carried out ventrally for mutual fertilization. The following spring, this results in a free-floating, gelatinous egg mass.

Taxonomy
Clionidae d'Orbigny, 1851 is unfortunately also the name of a family of sponges in the order Hadromerida, class Demospongiae. Within the ICZN there has been a proposed emendation of spelling to Clionaidae for the sponge family. The ICZN has ruled the correct name of gastropod family is Clionidae Gray, 1847, with type genus Clione Pallas, 1774.

These two subfamilies have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
 * subfamily Clioninae Rafinesque, 1815 – synonyms: Fowlerininae Pruvot-Fol, 1926
 * subfamily Thliptodontinae, Kwietniewski, 1902 – synonyms: Pteroceanidae Meisenheimer, 1902; Cephalobranchiinae Pruvot-Fol, 1926

Genera
Genera within the family Clionidae include:

subfamily Clioninae
 * Clione Pallas, 1774 – type genus
 * Fowlerina Pelseneer, 1906

subfamily Thliptodontinae
 * Cephalobrachia Bonnevie, 1912
 * Thliptodon Boas, 1886

subfamily ?
 * Paedoclione Danforth, 1907 – with the only species Paedoclione doliiformis Danforth, 1907
 * Paraclione Tesch, 1903
 * Thalassopterus Kwietniewski, 1910 – with the only species Thalassopterus zancleus Kwietniewski, 1910

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John Rees (journalist)

John Herbert Rees is a British right-wing journalist and government informant resident in the United States. He was active in the Western Goals Foundation and the John Birch Society.

Biography
Rees was born in Britain. In the early 1960s, Rees worked in a business position for the London Daily Mirror, but was fired for misusing personal accounts, according to an FBI memo. Agents in the FBI office at the London U.S. Embassy also found that during 1962 Rees, who was married and had five children, was dating an FBI stenographer, who resigned. Rees moved to the United States in 1963 for a reporting job that fell through.

Rees became the lover of Peyton Place author Grace Metalious. Metalious, who had cirrhosis from heavy drinking, changed her will hours before her death at age 39 in 1964, and left her whole estate to Rees. There was a public furor, and Rees dropped claims to the estate, which was insolvent.

Rees remarried. He launched at a job training program in Newark, New Jersey, in 1967; it was partly funded by the United States Labor Department, which cut off funding when it determined Rees had overcharged the city. Rees became a police informant in Newark. He began his newsletter Information Digest in 1967. He also marketed his new organization called National Goals, "specializing in areas of education, training and law enforcement". He sought work with the FBI, which rebuffed him, determining in a 1968 internal memo that he was unethical. Rees went undercover in Chicago, covertly taping political meetings for testimony he gave to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). He married his third wife, Sheila Louise O'Connor, and they moved to Washington in 1971. He was a police informant in Washington. She became an office manager at the National Lawyers Guild, which was representing activists and antiwar groups; he gave internal Guild documents to the FBI. In 1975, Congressman Larry McDonald hired Rees to his office staff.

Rees traded information with police and informants, publishing some of it in Information Digest. Political Research Associates said Rees's network had better placed infiltrators among college activist campus groups than the FBI's agents. Ross Gelbspan wrote that the FBI began to work with Rees around 1980. Rees forwarded information to the Director of Intelligence at FBI headquarters, especially when there was a credible risk to students. From there it would be forwarded to field offices. These activities were part of a network of private right-wing groups that the FBI used to gather intelligence on cults active on campus, government critics and activists opposed to the Reagan Administration's foreign policy in Central America.

In 1976, an investigation by the New York State Assembly concluded that police had used reports published by Rees in Information Digest to assemble dossiers on many activists who had committed no crimes.

In 1979, Rees worked with McDonald and John K. Singlaub to create the Western Goals Foundation, where Rees's title was editor. Rees set up the foundation's computer database to track suspected radicals, and wrote many of the foundation's published reports about domestic subversives, terrorism and communist threats. People in law enforcement sometimes leaked derogatory intelligence to Western Goals, which Rees then published in newsletters. These in turn were entered into the Congressional Record by McDonald, which shielded him from libel. Western Goals would then cite McDonald's statements in its own public reports. Rees left Western Goals in 1983 after McDonald's death.

Rees founded the Maldon Institute, a nonprofit funded by the Scaife family.

Publishing
Rees was associated with Review of the News and American Opinion, published by the John Birch Society, with which Rees was an active collaborator.

Rees published Information Digest, a newsletter that touted reporting on "the operations and real capabilities of social movements and political groups". Annual subscriptions were $500. According to The Village Voice, copies circulated among intelligence officials and conservative politicians including Ronald Reagan. Rees was noted for criticizing Lyndon LaRouche and the LaRouche movement, which he wrote had "taken on the characteristics more of a political cult than a political party" and a cult-like "blind obedience."

Rees launched and managed another newsletter, International Reports: Early Warning. Rees was also an editor for Conservative Digest magazine.

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Fermanagh District Council

Fermanagh District Council  was a local council in Northern Ireland. It was created out of Fermanagh County Council and later merged with Omagh District Council in April 2015 under local government reorganisation to become Fermanagh and Omagh District Council.

The borders of the district were very similar to those of the traditional County Fermanagh, containing all of that county plus a small section of County Tyrone in the Dromore Road (Irvinestown ward) and Kilskeery Road areas. Council headquarters were in Enniskillen.

1973 to 1981
The elections of 1973 produced a dead heat with 10 Unionists and 10 Nationalists elected. For a while it looked as though Unionists might gain a majority due to an elected independent nationalist John Joe McCusker being ineligible, however in the end he held his seat. The deadlock raised the prospect of the British government having to intervene as both opposing blocs could not agree on the election of chairmen. Eventually however a compromise was reached for the next four years.

Nationalists gained control of the council in 1977 with an 11–9 advantage. However this came to an end with a Unionist gain in 1981 which restored the previous 10-10 balance.

The elections of this period saw many smaller parties winning seats. On the Nationalist side Unity equalled the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) with four seats in 1973 although this had declined to two seats in 1977. Their successors, the Irish Independence Party became the largest Nationalist party in terms of votes in 1981 and won four seats.

On the Unionist side, after a poor showing in 1973 when they failed to win any seats, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) failed to put up any candidates in 1977. This left the field clear for the United Ulster Unionist Party who counted this as their best area with three seats in 1977. The area was the political base of their leader Ernest Baird. However the UUUP had declined by 1981 and did not contest the elections of that year. (One of their former councillors had defected to the DUP and was re-elected as a DUP candidate.)

1984 boundary changes
Boundary changes came into effect for 1985. Previously the council had five electoral areas each of which elected four councillors. A change in legislation meant that it was no longer permitted to have four member electoral areas and thus despite an increase in the number of wards to 23 the number of electoral areas was reduced by one. From then on, Fermanagh District Council area consisted of four electoral areas: Enniskillen and Erne East, West and North. The council was therefore made up of 23 Councillors elected every four years.

1985 election
The area had been a major growth area for Sinn Féin in the four years proceeding the council elections of 1985 with the victories in Westminster by-elections of Bobby Sands and Owen Carron (although they were technically elected as Anti H-Block candidates with Sinn Féin backing). Carron was one of five assembly members elected for Sinn Féin in October 1982. The party was further boosted by the defection of sitting independent councillor JJ McCusker in 1984. A former SDLP councillor Tom Murray who had lost his seat as an independent in 1981 was also an SF candidate in 1985. Consequently, Sinn Féin made a major breakthrough winning eight seats in 1985, almost wiping out the Irish Independence party who lost three of their four seats. These gains gave Nationalists a 13–10 advantage over Unionists.

Enniskillen and the 1989-1993 elections
The Cenotaph bomb of 1987 had a significant and negative impact on the Sinn Féin vote as it took it 16 years to return to 1985 levels. In the 1989 elections their representation was halved to four seats. Crucially they lost two seats to the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) giving Unionists a one-seat majority on the council, which they retained in 1993.

The 1997 election
Nationalists were expected to regain control of the council in 1997 but ultimately could only gain one seat from Unionists. This left the council deadlocked with 11 Unionists and 11 Nationalists with an Independent Socialist (formerly Workers' Party) councillor, Davy Kettyles, holding the balance of power.

The 2001 and 2005 elections
Nationalists finally regained control in 2001 with 13 seats against nine Unionists and one Independent. They consolidated this lead in 2005 when the SDLP gained the seat vacated by the independent who did not stand again.

At the 2005 election the members elected were from the following political parties: nine Sinn Féin, five Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), five Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and four Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). The chairman of the council was Councillor Stephen Huggett from Sinn Féin and the vice-chairman of the council was Councillor Cyril Brownlee from the DUP.

Local government structure
The local government structure here actually pre-dated the setting up of the other 25 Local Councils in Northern Ireland in 1973 – Fermanagh County Council had merged with the district or borough councils in its area before 1973 and had created a model County Council which was seen as a good example of local pragmatic government.

In elections for the Westminster Parliament, Fermanagh is part of the Fermanagh & South Tyrone constituency.

Review of Public Administration
Under the Review of Public Administration (RPA) the council was due to merge with Omagh District Council in 2011 to form a single council for the enlarged area totalling 2829 km2 and a population of 105,479. The next election was due to take place in May 2009, but on 25 April 2008 Shaun Woodward, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland announced that the scheduled 2009 district council elections were to be postponed until the introduction of the eleven new councils in 2011.

Population
The area covered by Fermanagh District Council had a population of 61,805 residents according to the 2011 Northern Ireland census.

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Talk:Pinales

"merge Pinophyta" - done; there was no content not already in Pinophyta - MPF 14:44, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
 * I reverted your change. That proposal is silly. There is always a need to have articles on higher orders in taxonomy. Merging would only make sense if there was one class, one order, one family, and one genus. That much of the content is elsewhere is beside the point. Your proposal seems to be going in the direction of having just one article on everything about conifers, when there could and should be dozens - Marshman 17:17, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

Reason for removing vague
After [this Google Search|http://www.google.com/search?q=order+taxales&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&start=10&sa=N], I could not come up with definate dates. I therefore gave a disclaimer to wrap it up. Please post any contradictory evidence.Willy625 (talk) 03:10, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Article Split?
Should the scope of this article be split per the classification in Christenhusz (2011) -- Kev min  § 00:15, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

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Discussion of Gymnosperm Classification and Its History Needs to Be On The Gymnosperm Page
The discussion of the development of Gymnosperm classification here is very good (I had been looking for a treatment of this), but it is odd to find in on the page for Order Pinales rather than for clade Gymnosperm, a page that provides no information about the history of its classification, nor insight its current status.

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User:Byset

Entries I have originated:

Fleishman-Hillard

Omnicom Group

Ave Maria School of Law

If I do say so myself, some the material I wrote for the above entires was better than the stuff that has since replaced it -- one passage was replaced by dozens of bullet points, and the entry for Ave Maria School of Law was replaced in its entirety by marketing copy from its administration.

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Macula (planetary geology)

Macula (pl. maculae ) is the Latin word for 'spot'. It is used in planetary nomenclature to refer to unusually dark areas on the surface of a planet or moon. They are seen on the icy surfaces of Pluto, Jupiter's moon Europa, Saturn's moon Titan, Neptune's moon Triton, and Pluto's moon Charon. The term was adopted for planetary nomenclature when high resolution pictures of Europa revealed unusual new surface features.

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 * Lists of named maculae: on Europa, on Titan, on Triton

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Dan Gilvezan

Daniel John Gilvezan (born October 26, 1950) is an American actor, known for playing Peter Parker / Spider-Man in the 1981 animated series Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends and Bumblebee in the original 1984-1987 The Transformers series.

Early life and career
Gilvezan was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated from Webster University with a B.A. in drama and later earned a master's degree from The Catholic University of America. Soon afterwards he began touring with the National Players company in Washington D.C. From the mid-to-late 1970s, he appeared in plays in summer stock, dinner theater, and children's theater. In 1973 Gilvezan performed in Wayside Theatre's touring group along with Kathy Bates.

In 1980, while doing an on-camera commercial he met an agent from The Tisherman agency and signed on with them. His first voice-over role was as Spider-Man in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, which continued for three seasons.

In 1984, he voiced Bumblebee on Transformers. According to an interview in the Transformers Collectors Club magazine, Gilvezan auditioned for both the part of Spike Witwicky and the part of Bumblebee in The Transformers, but was only given the role of Bumblebee because the producers did not want the two characters to be played by the same person. Dan Gilvezan also voiced Outback, Hot Spot and Snapdragon on the show and reprised Bumblebee in the 1986 feature film The Transformers: The Movie.

Gilvezan also worked on Jem, providing a few guest roles on various episodes, though he did play (with a British accent) a recurring character called Sean Harrison, one of Kimber's many crushes, who almost proposed to her at the end of the second season.

Later, he voiced Slip Stream on G.I. Joe, Brick Bradley/Bugman on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for two episodes, as well as Dirk Courage in Spiral Zone. Gilvezan also played Cooler in Hanna-Barbera's Pound Puppies TV series, Questar on Dino-Riders, Rolf in The Legend of Prince Valiant and Henry Mitchell and Ruff the Dog on the short-lived The All-New Dennis the Menace series.

Gilvezan returned to the Spider-Man Universe to lend his voice to Miguel O'Hara/Spider-Man 2099 in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. In an interview with 2D-X.com, he stated "After a 25 year hiatus, I feel I finally have a grasp of the character. Seriously, the whole experience has been a delight." Gilvezan later reprised his role as Bumblebee in the video game Transformers: Devastation.

Gilvezan voiced Pat Dugan in the direct-to-video film Justice League: Gods and Monsters.

Gilvezan is also a published author, having written books such as Drowned in the Grenadine, a fictional story of a failed actor seeking to make a comeback, and Bumblebee and Me: Life as a G1 Transformer, an autobiographical recollection of his work on the original Transformers animated series and its effect on his life and career.

Television guest starring roles
He has also guest starred on many television shows, including The Bernie Mac Show, NYPD Blue, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Family Ties, ALF, thirtysomething, Punky Brewster, Archie Bunker's Place, Newhart, Who's the Boss?, Moonlighting, Normal, Ohio, Perfect Strangers, Sisters, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Step by Step, Evening Shade, Alice, Bette, Bones and Boston Legal.

Gilvezan played a reporter on two episodes of Hill Street Blues, appeared as Kent Beudine on several episodes of Diagnosis Murder and starred as Skip Seville on She-Wolf of London. Between 1981-1988, he appeared in commercials as the spokesperson for Jack in the Box restaurants, attempting to compare their menu items to those of McDonald's and other fast-food chains, to no avail; hence the slogan of "There's No Comparison" was used at the time.

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