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John H. Bankhead

John Hollis Bankhead (September 13, 1842 – March 1, 1920) was an American politician and Confederate Army soldier. A member of the Democratic Party, Bankhead served as U.S. Senator from the state of Alabama from 1907 until his death in 1920. Bankhead had additionally served in the United States House of Representatives, the Alabama Legislature, and as warden of the state penitentiary in Wetumpka.

Early life and military service
Bankhead was born on September 13, 1842, at Moscow, present-day Lamar County, Alabama (near present-day Sulligent), the son of Susan Fleming (Hollis) and James Greer Bankhead. His great-grandfather, James Bankhead (1738–1799) was born in Ulster and settled in South Carolina.

He was educated in the common schools and served in the Confederate States Army, during the Civil War, rising to the rank of captain, in the Alabama 16th Infantry, Company K.

Career
After the Civil War, Bankhead went on to serve as warden of the state penitentiary in Wetumpka. During this period, he was said to have taken part of the exploitation of inmates as cheap labor for industry as part of Alabama's convict-leasing system.

Bankhead was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from 1865 to 1867, and again in 1880 and 1881. In 1876 and 1877 he was a member of the State Senate. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1887, serving until 1907.

U.S. Senate
At age 65, John H. Bankhead was appointed, then elected, to serve out the remainder of the U.S. Senate term left by the death of John Tyler Morgan and later re-elected twice. He served from June 18, 1907, until his death in Washington on March 1, 1920.

Bankhead was a member of the Inland Waterways Commission in 1907, and was instrumental in enacting the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916, which became the first federal highway funding legislation. He was also a member of the Commission on Public Buildings and the Commission on Rivers and Harbors. He wrote several books relating to post roads.

Bankhead served as campaign manager for Oscar Underwood's 1912 presidential candidacy. During his Senate tenure, Bankhead opposed the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which mandated nationwide women's suffrage.

Following his death, B. B. Comer, a former governor of Alabama, was appointed to serve the rest of his term until November 2, 1920, when J. Thomas Heflin was elected to serve out the term.

Personal life
He married Tallulah James Brockman. She was of Revolutionary ancestry, her father's great-grandfather, Benjamin Kilgore, having been a captain of a South Carolina company in the War of the Revolution. She was the daughter of James H. Brockman, a native of Greenville District, South Carolina.

Her education was received in the fashionable schools of Tuskegee and Montgomery, Alabama. Their two elder sons, John Hollis and William Brockman, were practicing lawyers. The youngest, Henry McAuley, was a student at the University of Alabama. The elder daughter, Louise, married Representative William Hayne Perry, of Greenville, South Carolina, son of former South Carolina governor Benjamin Franklin Perry and the younger, Marie, was the wife of Thomas McAdory Owen, a historian by profession.

Legacy
United States Senator John H. Bankhead II and Speaker of the House William Brockman Bankhead were his sons, and actress Tallulah Bankhead was his granddaughter. The cross-country Bankhead Highway was named after him, as is Bankhead Lake on the Black Warrior River near Birmingham. Also, the Bankhead Tunnel on US 98 in Mobile, Alabama, is named after him.

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Talk:Eigenvalue

Just curious...does anyone know how eigenvalues and eigenvectors got their names? Decrypt3 02:20, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)

 * From de Gërmân, of course! The original was "Eigenwert". Graft 02:40, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * What does "Eigenwert" mean? Decrypt3 14:24, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)

 * I'd guess, 'own value'.

 * A better translation would be intrinsic value.

topic table
is there any reason for the "Topics in mathematics related to linear algebra" table to be at the top instead of the bottom? ✈ James C. 19:07, 2004 Aug 2 (UTC)

Geometric multiplicity
"The geometric multiplicity of λ is the number of factors t-λ of the minimal polynomial of A or equivalently the nullity of (λI-A)." This is untrue. The geometric multiplicity is defined as the nullity of (λI-A), which is not equivalent to "the number of factors t-λ of the minimal polynomial of A." Here's a counter example:

1 -3  3 3  -5  3 6  -6  4

The geometric multiplicity of λ=-2 is 2, while the minial polynomial is (t+2)(t-4). So the number of factors t-λ of the minimal polynomial is 1.

 * You're right. There is also a term for the number of factors in the minimal polynomial, which I've unfortunately forgotten; do you remember it? In any case, please do improve the article. -- Jitse Niesen 12:33, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for fixing it. The same mistake is repeated in Minimal polynomial. Unfortunately I've not studied about Jordan blocks yet, so I am not sure how to go about correcting it :). Can you change it too? Spikeballs 17:53, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)

Latent root
It's another name. I created the article, maybe you guys could mention it.

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Slurve

The slurve is a baseball pitch in which the pitcher throws a curve ball as if it were a slider. The pitch is gripped like a curve ball, but thrown with a slider velocity. The term is a portmanteau of slider and curve.

History
Johnny Sain of the Boston Braves was known to throw a slurve in the 1940s. On May 6, 1998, Kerry Wood of the Chicago Cubs utilized the slurve in a major-league record-tying 20 strikeout game. Los Angeles Dodgers, Yakult Swallows, and Seibu Lions pitcher Kazuhisa Ishii, despite his well-documented control problems, used a slurve almost exclusively against left-handers. Alfredo Aceves from the Boston Red Sox was also known to throw a slurve. Stephen Strasburg claims to throw a slurve, although experts still call his pitch a curveball. Hall of Fame relief pitcher Goose Gossage stated that learning how to throw a slurve changed his career in his Yankeeography. Both Cy Young and Walter Johnson had slurves in their arsenals and the former is the earliest known user of the pitch, having started his career in 1890.

Notable slurve pitchers

 * Alfredo Aceves
 * Dellin Betances
 * Jose Berrios
 * Dallas Braden
 * Yu Darvish
 * José Fernández
 * Corey Kluber
 * Aaron Loup
 * Dámaso Marte
 * Roberto Osuna
 * Michael Pineda
 * Jonathan Sánchez
 * Drew Smyly
 * Stephen Strasburg
 * Julio Urias
 * Kerry Wood

Concerns in pitching
Critics of the slurve call the pitch a sloppy slider because of its wide break. They claim that the slurve produces more home runs than a late-breaking slider. The usefulness of the slurve is debated. The slurve is also claimed to cause problems to a pitcher. In 1998, Kerry Wood claimed his elbow soreness was caused by throwing the slurve.

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John H. Bankhead II

John Hollis Bankhead II (July 8, 1872 – June 12, 1946) was a U.S. senator from the state of Alabama. Like his father, John H. Bankhead, he was elected three times to the Senate, and like his father, he died in office.

He served in the Senate from March 4, 1931, to his death on June 12, 1946. He was first elected to the Senate in 1930 by defeating J. Thomas Heflin, the man who succeeded his father. Though Bankhead won the election by 20 points, Heflin challenged the results for over a year. He served as chairman of the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation. After his death, Bankhead was succeeded by George R. Swift, who was appointed to fill his seat until a successor, John J. Sparkman, could be elected. Bankhead is remembered as a spokesman for farmers and against civil rights for African Americans.

Life and career
Bankhead was born on July 8, 1872, at the Bankhead plantation in Lamar County, Alabama, the son of Tallulah James Brockman and John Hollis Bankhead. After earning his law degree in 1893 and practicing law for ten with his brother William, Bankhead was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1903. After Alabama's grandfather clause, which disenfranchised most black voters, was declared unconstitutional, Bankhead was one of the drafters of Alabama's revised voting law effectively preventing most black voters from registering via a series of tests and poll taxes.

Following his controversial win over Heflin in 1930, the Senator from Alabama worked at the passage of various pieces of New Deal legislation to benefit cotton farmers, including the Subsistence Homestead Act of 1933, the Cotton Control Act of 1934 and the parity payment amendments to the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. After World War II began in Europe, Bankhead was an interventionist. He took a "pro-British" stance and favored President Franklin Roosevelt's Lend-Lease program. On October 23, 1941, Bankhead voted in favor of additional lend-lease funding to provide more funding to the British Army. On November 7, 1941, he voted in favor of legislation to amend several sections of the neutrality acts. This vote made it easier for the United States to provide direct military aid to the United Kingdom during World War II. In 1943, he sponsored legislation to exempt "substantially fulltime" farm workers from the draft during World War II. Bankhead was among twelve nominated at the 1944 Democratic National Convention to serve as Franklin D. Roosevelt's running mate in the presidential election that year. He was in third place, with 98 votes, when Bankhead made a surprise withdrawal of his candidacy in favor of his Senate colleague, Harry S. Truman, who was elected vice president and succeeded to the presidency in 1945.

On May 24, 1946, Senator Bankhead suffered a stroke while attending an evening Senate committee meeting. Three weeks later, he died at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. He was the brother of Speaker of the House William B. Bankhead, and the uncle of actress Tallulah Bankhead.

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The Image (1975 film)

The Image is a 1975 American adult drama that was re-released in an edited version in 1976. The film is also known by two other titles: The Punishment of Anne and The Mistress and the Slave and was directed by Radley Metzger. The film is based upon the classic 1956 sadomasochistic novel L'Image, written by Catherine Robbe-Grillet and published under the pseudonym of "Jean de Berg".

Premise
Jean, a middle-aged writer living in Paris, meets an old friend, Claire, and is soon drawn into her world of sadomasochism along with Claire's younger partner Anne.

Structure
The film is divided in 10 chapters, titles in white letters on a black background: • # An Evening at the X...'s

• # The Roses in Bagatelle Gardens

• # Too Much Water and Its Consequences

• # False Starts

• # The Photographs

• # An Expiatory Sacrifice

• # The Fitting Room

• # In the Bathroom

• # The Gothic Chamber

• # Everything Resolves Itself

Cast

 * Carl Parker as Jean
 * Marilyn Roberts as Claire
 * Mary Mendum (Rebecca Brooke) as Anne then Metzger's girlfriend
 * Valerie Marron as a Salesgirl

Reactions

 * "Anyone into sado-masochism will get obvious fulfillment by watching the surface physical thrills that Metzger provides. The true fulfillment for this viewer was delving deeper into the themes of dominance and submission that the characters were exploring in their relationships." – Boris Lugosi
 * "This is a must own for anyone interested in the fetishes portrayed (graphic oral sex, bondage, whipping, and urination), and also for those who would like to see what quality porn can look like."

Reception
The Image received mixed critical reviews. Buzz Burgess of DVDTalk gave the film four out of five stars for content, stating that "Metzger [...] has created a piece argued by some to be the best erotic film ever made." Charles Tatum, of eFilmCritic.com disliked the film, awarding it just two out of five stars, citing a lack of substance, "The Image is just that- pretty pictures of pretty people whipping each other during sexual sessions. Its infamy is understandable, but not deserved." Michael Den Boer praised the actor's performances, especially Brooke's, even implying that she carried the film with her portrayal of Anne. Although initially praised in Germany, the film became controversial later, and withdrawn from circulation.

Blu-ray release
In 2011, Synapse Films re-released The Image on Blu-ray and DVD. The original 35mm negatives were scanned to facilitate the high definition release. In addition to the visual remastering, the audio was also reworked for the re-release, adding DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 to the Blu-ray. Synapse also created new cover art for the re-release.

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Preaching to the Perverted (film)

Preaching to the Perverted is a 1997 British sex comedy-drama film written and directed by Stuart Urban.

The film features Guinevere Turner in her first starring role as Tanya Cheex, a New York dominatrix. Tom Bell plays Henry Harding MP and Christien Anholt plays Peter Emery. In addition, several well-known BDSM performance artists appear, including Chaos Clowns, Luci the Axle Grinder, also known as "Lucifire", Miss Kimberly, The Fetish Nun, Suzi Woodroffe, and Tutu.

The film was originally developed by the BBC, but they later dropped the script, believing it would never be suitable for broadcast on UK TV. However, in April 2004, the film was shown on terrestrial TV in the United Kingdom on BBC One.

The film was banned in the Republic of Ireland by then-film censor Sheamus Smith on 28 October 1997; he also banned the subsequent video release of the film. The trailer caused a mass recall of the rental VHS release of Donnie Brasco (which had been passed as an 18), because the trailer had not been classified. 3,300 copies of that cassette were withdrawn and replaced, with a potential fine of €1000 to stores providing it.

In 2013, the film became the first European feature film to be restored and remastered on crowd-funding site Kickstarter by its fans. The remastered Blu-ray became available in August 2013. The film also inspired the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe show Darkest Fantasy, based on the character Tanya's wedding fantasy.

Plot
Henry Harding MP, a British government minister on a moral crusade, hires an inexperienced young computer whiz kid Peter Emery, who works for a Christian computer company called Holy Hardware, to infiltrate the UK BDSM scene. Harding is set on putting a club called "House of Thwax" run by Mistress Tanya Cheex out of business, and is sure that Peter's secretly videotaped evidence of the club's activities will do the trick. However, the virginal Peter takes a liking to Tanya Cheex and finds himself falling for the Mistress. Amongst the locations used, Layer Marney Tower in Essex plays a pivotal role for a party scene.

Reviews
"Turner makes Sharon Stone look like a mother superior, fiendish cameos from Tom Bell, Ricky Tomlinson etc. ... put on your mask and enjoy the party. This ballsy British independent deserves respect". Empire Magazine, Jake Hamilton.

"A mesh of glamour and hilarity ... slick, with an excellent cast ... great dialogue". 'Dillie Tante' The Independent on Sunday.

 * "The film boasts excellent costumes, good acting and is a great vision of what goes on in a good fetish club. Highly recommended!" Secret Magazine, February 2003.

"Enjoyably offbeat" The Times 27 April 2004 (TV preview).

 * "a kind of high-tech, fast-paced, Moulin Rouge for the fetish world...no wonder it was banned in Ireland" Curve Magazine.
 * "Original setting ...sumptuous styling ... treat yourself and enjoy" i-D Magazine 1997.
 * "...the club scenes all look fabulous: intelligent use of colour and light." Erotic Review, December 2002.
 * "Those who actively participate in the S&M lifestyle may enjoy the lighthearted look at the underground fetish scene, but anyone looking for much more than an offbeat sex comedy is going to be woefully disappointed. Preaching to the Perverted lives up to its name by not being able to appeal to anyone but perverts." Qwipster's Movie Reviews, December 2003.

In 2015, The Guardian ranked the film among the top 10 BDSM-related movies. In a 2020 retrospective on depictions of BDSM in cinema, the BFI noted it as featuring a "rare example of a dominatrix presented as a fully fledged character" and that it "makes very explicit the vital importance of consent and boundaries in any sadomasochistic encounter or relationship".

Awards

 * Guinevere Turner - 1999 Best Actress Prize, Festival du Jeune Comedien
 * 2002 Audience Choice Award, CineKink Festival

Soundtrack
The CD contains:

 * 1) Magnus & Maya – Welcome to the House of Thwax
 * 2) Shimmon & Wolfson – Evil Queen
 * 3) Magnus & Maya – Journey Into Hell
 * 4) Rejuvination – Sycophantasy
 * 5) Magnus & Maya – Postman Always Thrice
 * 6) Mark Broom – The Alien Spoke
 * 7) Magnus & Maya – In Zerbra Suspension
 * 8) The Aloof – Mind
 * 9) Way Out West – Ajare
 * 10) Magnus & Maya – Enlightenment
 * 11) Magnus & Maya – Goodmorning Mistress
 * 12) Magnus & Maya – On Wasteland (Requiem Flagellum)
 * 13) Omni Trio – Who Are You
 * 14) Percy X – Aerobix
 * 15) Amethyst – Futura
 * 16) Magnus & Maya – Grindecontrol Transubmission
 * 17) Magnus & Maya – House of Thwax

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Talk:Germanenorden

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"Some say that the Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei (later the Nazi Party) when under the leadership of Adolf Hitler was a political front..." Would that be Dr. Alberich Some or Dr. Ernst Some? Wetman 02:30, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I don't understand the last sentence, it's not entirely clear, therefore I marked the article for cleanup. Kapil 03:41, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

" This group lead to the Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei (DAP) and ultimately the NSDAP or Nazi party." I don't think this is correct; some of the later NSDAP-leaders were members of the Thule-group, but I don't think the group was in any way connected with the DAP.

Purpose of a separate article?
The point, and usefulness, of the Ariosophy article is that it conveniently brings together all these minor and defunct Germanic mystical groups in a single place, since they are (1) closely interrelated and (2) mostly of little consequence, and that goes also for the Germanenorden in its original incarnation. I accept that there are good historical reasons for maintaining a separate article for the Thule Society on account of its (still somewhat tenuous) NSDAP connection, and one for the Armanen-Orden (an ongoing Heathen organisation whose article contains much additional information). However, this one would appear to have no good raison d'etre as it is barely more than replication of text from the Ariosophy article. Is there an intention to significantly expand it? If not, I propose simply reverting the page to a redirect. Gnostrat (talk) 00:10, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I think it should be a separate article and could uses expansion. I don't know how you say the Thule Society has a tenuous connection to the NSDAP. It spawned many of the top Nazis and althouth the two have divergences in ideology there is descendency in symbolism. Mamalujo (talk) 16:20, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Not "many of the top Nazis" - just two, as far as we know for certain. The TS did no more than catalyse the formation of a workers' group which evolved into the DAP, most of whose members probably knew nothing at all about the TS. But that's an argument for another page. Best of luck expanding this one, if you reckon you can find the sources. :) Gnostrat (talk) 20:57, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * "In fact, the DAP had a number of close links with the Thule Society. Hitler also had intimate ties with Thule members" -Hitler and Nazi Germany: a history p35, "The founding of the DAP took place in January 1919 on the initiative of the Munich branch of the Thule Society" -The rise and fall of Weimar democracy p156, "Both the DSP and NSDAP had their roots in the Thule Society and the Germanic Order" -The Development of the SA in Nurnberg, 1922-1934 p17, and Ian Kershaw in Hitler 1896-1936: hubris at p138-139 says the TS "membership list...reads like a Who's Who of early Nazi sympathizers and leading figures in Munich". I know this is a matter of some scholarly dispute, but many top scholars assert that the connection was far from tenuous. That alone is enough reason for a separate article. And yes it does need expanding. Mamalujo (talk) 00:04, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
 * The DAP is not the NSDAP. When Hitler took over the party, the original founders were marginalised. Few historians have studied these 'Aryan' circles, clubs and lodges to the depth of Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke: "[Hitler] was interested in a mass political party and impatient with the small conspiratory nature of the group. In December [1919] he drafted regulations for the committee giving it full authority and preventing any 'side government' by a 'circle or lodge'. This was aimed at Harrer [the Thulist founder of the original workers' circle], who bowed out of office in January 1920. The contemptuous attack of Hitler on 'völkisch wandering scholars' in Mein Kampf presumably echoes his quarrel with Harrer and the conspiratory lodge approach of groups like the Thule Society and the Germanenorden..." (The Occult Roots of Nazism, pp. 150-151). Drexler, the first chairman, also left the party. And the party programme was in any case adapted from the already-existing Austrian national-socialist party, not handed down from the TS.

 * Nobody is disputing your sources when they state that the TS had a hand in founding the DAP. The question is, how much survived through the historical process leading from the TS through the workers' ring to the DAP to the NSDAP under Hitler. Answer: very little. Hitler's "close links with Thule members" were actually with men like Eckart, Feder and Rosenberg (the latter also eventually marginalised: Hitler had little room for guardians of ideological purity when national-socialism was to be whatever he wished it to be). These had been guests of the Thule Society but never members.

 * I don't know which membership list Kershaw is referring to, but Goodrick-Clarke studied the actual lists (as distinct from pseudo-historical fantasy lists like Dietrich Bronder's) and neither Eckart nor Feder nor Rosenberg, nor Göring nor Himmler nor Haushofer appear there as members. G-C will only acknowledge Hess and Frank, but neither of the latter would have maintained their Thule links, as the TS soon became defunct. Otherwise, there would have been no point in Sebottendorff returning to Germany in 1933 intending to revive it.

 * In any case, we're talking about the Germanenorden here. The TS developed out of one branch of the GO after a schism. The original GO was a shambolic affair, riven with infighting and ineffectual for anything except the odd assassination. As well as being one step even further removed from the NSDAP than the TS was. I'm sure the Germanenorden section in the Ariosophy article can be expanded a bit if you want to include all the details of who fell out with whom and why. But the fact that an offshoot grew into the Thule Society (which already has an article) doesn't make the GO noteworthy enough in itself to warrant an article of its own IMO.

 * Nevertheless, if you think you can do something with it, fine. All I'm saying is that, for all that's worth adding to it, the effort might be better spent expanding the GO section in Ariosophy. Gnostrat (talk) 22:48, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

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