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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Winworld

Winworld was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was a failure to reach concensus. I count: 2 keep (though both are flagged as possible sockpuppets) 3 redirect 6 delete (one flagged as anonymous) Regardless of whether the you count the flagged votes (5 to 6) or not (3 to 5), the discussion did not reach the necessary concensus to delete. For now, the article (now a redirect) is kept. Rossami 21:43, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Ad for a site. 18 Google hits for WinWorld Abandonware -site:winworldabw.com -site:fishnet3000.net. Looks minor to me, delete -- Chris 73 | Talk 06:44, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like other '/delete' pages is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion or on the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete. The topic however is becoming increasingly hot as "no further support" for many companies simply means that the download links mysteriously disappear (remember people desperately searching for older versions of Novell NetWare Client suddenly not available any more?). So there should be a section in Abandonware which covers legal aspects of older "serious" software and provides links to repositories/museums, or even a separate article for non-supported (phased-out) Operating Systems and Applications. --Palapala 07:46, 2004 Jul 22 (UTC)
 * Keep. As the past user said, the topic is very hot, and WinWorld is quickly raising in rank. WinWorld is a repository/museum, did you click on the link?--Surfinshell23 07:56, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete; this site could / should be an external link in a relevant article. Wikipedia is not a website directory. Ianb 09:15, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. WinWorld is providing a excellent service to the public, as well a great forum community. -- DuffDude650
 * comment: users Surfinshell23 and DuffDude650: are you in any way connected with this site? I notice the only contributions from you both are the votes here. Ianb 13:14, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. WinWorld may be providing an excellent service for the community, but that doesn't make it notable. Would you expect to find your local mom-and-pop convenience store in an encyclopedia? - Kenwarren 13:47, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: Add a reference to this service to Abandonware.  (My dog provides an excellent pet service to me.) Geogre 14:02, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Reponse: This is not an entry to a website directory; this is an article that contains a weblink. Ianb, I had never seen the reason to register in my many years useage of Wikipedia. George, I don't totally see the connection there.--Surfinshell23 15:40, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Reduce content and merge the remainder with Abandonware and make this a redirect to Abandonware. If WinWorld is a very important site, then some people might enter "winworld" and will then find more information that they might like to know. If no-one ever uses the redirect, no harm is done. Generally a single website should not have its own article. Websites should normally be linked to articles for which they provide useful auxiliary information. Jallan 17:31, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Agree. Took the liberty of doing so.  Article is now a redirect.  Keep harmless redirect. Rossami 21:24, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Thank you. A link on the Abandonware page may be even more visibility for the site. Surfinshell23 01:41, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Sorry, Wikipedia isn't the place to get more visibility for your site. I took the link off the page. Rhobite 04:18, Jul 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * That someone is pleased that his or her website is linked to an article in Wikipedia is not a reason to remove a link. If it were, we would be removing almost all external links as presumably most creators of websites are pleased when linked to. The only question should be whether a link provides extra value for the readers of the article. I think this site does give reasonable extra value to readers of the article. Jallan 23:12, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * I vote to keep the redirect, and merge the links from the original article into the abandonware article. --ssd 16:46, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Also, I suspect we may have sockpuppets at work here (Surfinshell23 and DuffDude650), similar to the previous VfD.


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Invitation to an in-person meetup in Mohua / Golden Bay
Thinking about your summer break? Think about joining other Wikipedians and Wikimedians in Golden Bay / Mohua! Details are on the meetup page. There's heaps of interesting stuff to work on e.g. the oldest extant waka or New Zealand's oldest ongoing legal case. Or you may spend your time taking photos and then upload them.

Golden Bay is hard to get to and the airline flying into Tākaka uses small planes, so we are holding some seats from and to Wellington and we are offering attendees a $200 travel subsidy to help with costs.

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Agesiles

Agesiles or Arseiles (Greek: ΑΡϹΕΙΛΗϹ Arseilēs), who reigned around 20BC-1BC, is, with Sapadbizes, one of the first identified kings of the northern Indo-European Yuezhi tribes, that had invaded the Greco-Bactrian kingdom in the region of Bactria (modern-day northern Afghanistan) from around 125 BC. This king is known only from his coins, which are very rare. His name could be derived from the Tocharian word Arsal, "snake" or "viper".

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Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus

Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus (16 AD –64 AD) was a Roman senator who lived during the 1st century.

Life
He served as an ordinary consul in 53 with Quintus Haterius Antoninus as his colleague. Decimus was the second son born to Aemilia Lepida and Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus, a member of the Junii Silani, a family of Ancient Rome.

Through his maternal grandparents, the princess Julia the Younger and Lucius Aemilius Paullus, consul AD 1, Decimus was related to Emperor Augustus, his second wife, Scribonia, the statesman Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and the consul Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus (brother of the triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus).

Decimus married Julia Africana in 54 AD. Julia was the daughter of the consul Marcus Julius Africanus. They had one daughter named Junia Silana Torquata (b. 55).

Decimus allegedly boasted of his descent from Augustus, and as a result, Emperor Nero forced him to commit suicide.

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Talk:Callinectes sapidus

Disambiguation from other Blue Crabs, sorted biologically
There is at least one other "blue crab" eg. Portunus pelagicus, also known as the flower crab, blue crab, blue swimmer crab, blue manna crab or sand crab. So we need to disabmiguate - at the moment P. pelagicus is only available via biological name.

A possible solution would be to make Blue_crab the disambiguation page, noting the geographic choices and then direct people to the biologically correct page. To have Callinectes sapidus redirect to Blue crab seems to be back-to-front.

I'm happy to do the work, but wanted some input from the community before moving.

The same problem applies to sand crab (Ovalipes australiensis vs Hippoidea)or swimmer crab C. sapidus vs Liocarcinus depurator vs Liocarcinus marmoreus

 * Thoglette (talk) 03:08, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

 * Added an otheruses4 link to P. Pelagicus for now. Thoglette (talk) 00:44, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

The Evil Plan

 * 1) move current Blue Crab content to C. Sapidus, overwriting redirect (as move won't work)
 * 2) replace Blue Crab with the content below

Blue Crab can refer a number of species including: disambig
 * Callinectes sapidus found in the waters of the western Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico
 * Portunus pelagicus found in the intertidal estuaries of the Indian and Pacific Oceans (Asian coasts) and the Middle-Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea

 * Thoglette (talk) 13:18, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

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The actual crab?
Reading the article you get the idea that the only thing man knows about blue crabs is how to eat them; that's what 90% of this article is centered around. How about information on the actual animal, and not just the fact that people think they're tasty? 68.205.84.223 (talk) 21:36, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

OK, Mr. anonymous IP, how about now? Rkaufman13 (talk) 16:54, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

I would still like to see more included about the life cycle, ecological importance, identification etc of the blue crab. It's still a little human-uses heavy. Also, wouldn't it make more sense to include the 'why are blue crabs blue' part under the description of the animal itself, such as in a sub heading, rather than an entire section of its own? I will add a little bit about the ecological role, but I don't have a huge depth of knowledge about it, so I will keep it short. Foxi tails (talk) 17:56, 14 May 2009 (UTC)foxi_tails
 * I just added some details to the description section. I plan to expand the life cycle section soon since it is lacking much detail and doesn't distinguish patterns observed along the East Coast/Chesapeake from the Gulf of Mexico.

Even though I'm a crab-crazy Marylander, I would agree with Foxi tails. This SHOULD be about the species– not about how to eat them. There are a few "crab feast/boil" etc. pages where culinary aspects would be more apropos. I would propose a "Maryland Crab Feast" page since there is not one, as such, and it is most likely we Marylanders who can't stop rambling on about crabs and how we prepare them.--Psf11 (talk) 21:30, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

source of refereneces
Check out Beautiful Swimmers, a well-known book about Chesapeake blue crabs. It will be a valuable source of references and additions to harvesting techniques, among other things. The harvesting section does not discuss dredging, for instance. AJim (talk) 15:58, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

It seems to me that the cleanup carried out to remove a lot of the harvesting information has been over done. In particular there does not seem to be a sufficient description of this crab as a powerful swimmer, which is not an attribute that most people would think applies to a crab, and for which skill the crab is named. Anyone who cares to shine a light into the Chesapeake at night can see the crabs swimming near the surface for themselves. There is an excellent description of their swimming in Warner's book. The crabs literally migrate hundreds of miles, and they do not walk all that way. --AJim (talk) 05:16, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

The blue crab- I think it's the same total little devil as the Chesapeake lays claim to- is a major player in New Orleans cuisine. And having one chomp a toe in a tidal pool was a childhood rite of passage before our geography changed so much. There's absolutly no mention of this, despite crabbing and crab meat being a big part of a huge local fishing industry. Or former huge industry, the BP oil spill put the hurt on the western Gulf pretty badly. Even brackish water species like crabs can be oiled and toxic now; but there isn't a word about preferred habitat (salt or brackish?) life cycle, no science! And I'm talking about the Gulf of Mexico. And waters along it- crabbing in Lake Pontchartrain is common, as is same along roadsides. As for food and drink? Leaving out a thing of beauty such as Crab Sardou makes that a very hollow subject heading, then there's soft shell crab, soft shell crab po-boys, we can run neck to nose with the Cheasapeake any day on how to eat them. Our neck, lol. But I came to Wiki hoping to polish up before getting scathing about BP; I was amazed that there's no mention of Louisiana/ Gulf under blue crabs, and that there's no basic science to start it off. Here's hoping I'm signing correctly as I don't have a clue. Copying you,AJim. MissBike (talk) 5:04, 17 June 2011

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved per discussion below. - GTBacchus(talk) 20:13, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Blue crab → Callinectes sapidus — There are at least three blue crab articles that have about equal claim to this title. In particular, the European Portunus pelagicus is in the hatnote, but the Asian Portunus trituberculatus, the most widely fished species of crab in the world, is left out. Since the shelling of South Korea by North Korea is generating press on Portunus trituberculatus fishing disputes, people will be looking up "Blue crab" and getting the wrong species. After the move the Blue crab redirect will be made into a nice disambig page. Abductive (reasoning) 18:16, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

 * Support per nom. —innotata 16:39, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

 * Support. AshLin (talk) 16:47, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Any reasons? —   AjaxSmack   23:37, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Obviously, I agree with the logic of what is proposed above. AshLin (talk) 04:22, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose per WP:UCN (use common names) and WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. There's no ambiguity.  Portunus pelagicus and Portunus trituberculatus are not commonly called "blue crab".  On the other hand, the blue crab is a highly notable animal widely harvested and consumed in English-speaking countries and known by that name exclusively.  Let Google help you out (Web Images Books Scholar).  Every single one of the first page of hits are about only one species.  —   AjaxSmack   23:37, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
 * That's not even true. In the first page of Google Image results, there is a Malawi Blue Crab, Potamonautes orbitospinus, and on the second, a Christmas Island Blue Crab Cardisoma hirtipes. Also see for the name of the meat and what is called blue crab in the Philippines. The critter on this page is known as the Atlantic blue crab, by the way. Abductive  (reasoning) 01:49, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

 * Support per nom. --Epipelagic (talk) 07:51, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

 * Support per nom; I've just come from the Korean maritime border incidents page; the Blue Crab they are talking about isn't this one. Xyl 54 (talk) 00:14, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
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Male vs. Female
I feel that an image would be a great way to distinguish the difference between a male and a female blue crab. An image like this one would be great. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TravisBernard (talk • contribs) 23:21, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

On usage of "Blue crab" (or "Atlantic blue crab") vs. "C. Sapidus"
Having had my edits undone, I propose that the nomenclature of "blue crab" be used within the article. While the article title is perhaps ambiguous, the name within the article has already been disambiguated, its common name shortly following, therefore its usage within the article should not be ambiguous. Numerous other articles have the taxonomic name as the article head (see Fragaria vesca, while using the common English name within the article. If disambiguation is the main concern, then what of the lengthened English name of Atlantic blue crab or Chesapeake blue crab? Cheers Morgan Riley (talk) 14:42, 11 September 2012 (UTC) More examples, this time from other crab articles: Paralithodes platypus and Paralithodes camtschaticus. Morgan Riley (talk) 14:49, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Article Needs More on Decline of, and Efforts to Better Manage, Chesapeake Bay Crab Fisheries
This is a major story in the papers, running from the early 90s up to the present. News articles would be good sources. Also the impact on commercial crabbing communities like Smith Island, Maryland; Tangiers Island, Virgina; St. Marys County, Maryland; and of course the Maryland and Virginia Eastern Shore communities as well. 107.218.9.122 (talk) 23:29, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
 * This article contains very little about blue crab management in both the Chesapeake and in the Gulf of Mexico. I plan to add information about both areas, as the ecosystems and management practices are very different and information is plentiful in both the news and peer reviewed literature. Karkinos19 (talk) 21:14, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
 * There's no information on gear used in the industry. I'm adding a new section with a few details regarding the topic. Karkinos19 (talk) 20:53, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

male vs. female
I was trying to use the examples in this article to distinguish between male and female of this individual and it does not seem to match neither. Is this article's fault or this crab is abnormal? --Jarekt (talk) 17:11, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I'd say that crab fits the description "unusual". It looks like a female to me, but not the typical pattern that's shown in the article.   Lime in the Coconut   17:10, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
 * This crab is an immature female. After the female's terminal molt, their abdomen changes from triangular to dome-shaped in appearance. This is mentioned in the description section of the article. Karkinos19 (talk) 21:03, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Fishery Information Outdated or Lacking
Much of the information about the fishery appears to be outdated or incomplete. The history of the blue crab fishery is rich and fascinating, and has been well documented. I have access to some excellent blue crab resources and would like to add more historical information. Additionally, since blue crab landings have changed regionally in the past decade, I plan to update/add to the numbers so that they reflect the most recent publicly available landings data. Karkinos19 (talk) 21:24, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

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Dictdef? Neologism? Either way, it's a meaningless sentence, which nothing links to. —Stormie 06:52, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. - Kenwarren 13:42, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: Did they mean "sui generis" or just "eclectic?" No need for this elephantine term. Geogre 14:06, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Dicdef at best. Delete. -- Cyrius|✎ 06:03, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)


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Talk:Perfect

Untitled
this needs something about what "Perfect" means, so I'm making it a stub. Random topics I can think of to cover

 * perfect is impossible, or is it
 * perfect in sport (20/20/20/20/20 in ice skating) bulls eye
 * hype of perfection (see Gault Millau
 * perfection in Islam (only Allah) -> all carpets have a stitch wrong
 * provable systems?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mozzerati (talk • contribs) 07:00, 22 July 2004 (UTC)

Requested move 14 April 2020

 * 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 discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved per Xezbeth's note on Perfect (grammar) (which gets more traffic than Perfection) and on the Special:WhatLinksHere/Perfect results from Netoholic, which shows that editors are using it for several of the topics. --  JHunterJ (talk) 18:56, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Perfect (disambiguation) → Perfect – Readers are quite unlikely to want to see an article on Perfection when they search the term "Perfect" because they expect titles to be WP:NOUNs; it is far more likely that they are looking for one of the various media works with that title, and are best served with a disambiguation page upfront. King of ♥   ♦   ♣  ♠ 18:37, 14 April 2020 (UTC) —Relisting. buidhe 17:42, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Support: This seems to be consistent with other adjectives (or at least all the ones I thought of first). -- Fyrael (talk) 18:44, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * QUESTION: Does the proposed change entail changes of existing titles of pertinent articles? Nihil novi (talk) 03:24, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * No, Perfection will remain where it is. The redirect Perfect will be deleted and be replaced with the content of Perfect (disambiguation). -- King of ♥   ♦   ♣  ♠ 03:41, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose as this is an appropriate WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT and Special:WhatLinksHere/Perfect shows that many editors find the redirect quite useful (vs a lengthy construction like . Also, "perfect" can be a noun. -- Netoholic @ 05:06, 15 April 2020 (UTC) (edited)
 * Perfect being a noun kind of undermines your own argument though; Perfect (grammar) is the primary topic of "Perfect" as a noun. -- King of ♥   ♦   ♣  ♠ 05:34, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * No, the primary topic of Perfect is as the adjective form of Perfection - we don't just decide primary topics among nouns. -- Netoholic @ 05:53, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Can you support that statement? Primary redirects are usually for synonyms, which are still nouns. When I tried to check how we're handling other adjectives all the random ones I thought of were not being treated as primary. Do you have some examples of adjective primary redirects? -- Fyrael (talk) 14:41, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * It's also rather hard to make the case for Perfection as primary even without the adjective part. The |Perfect_(grammar)|Perfect_(1985_film)|Perfect_(2018_film)|Perfect_(Ed_Sheeran_song)|Perfect_(One_Direction_song) page views show at least 5 other topics with as many or more views, with the Ed Sheeran song having more than all other topics combined. Sure, Perfection has long term significance over most of them, but so does Perfect (grammar). It doesn't seem like a clear winner to me. -- Fyrael (talk) 14:58, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * WP:RPURPOSE lays out what makes an appropriate redirect, and "Adjectives or adverbs point to noun forms" is specifically listed. Page views are not the sole criteria for appropriate primary - in this case, the concept related to idealism is the obvious primary meaning of "Perfection / Perfect". In fact, seeing how many other topics are named after or because of this topic adds even more credence to it as being primary. -- Netoholic @ 19:31, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Claiming one topic is the "obvious primary meaning" is a completely empty statement. And no, the popularity of other topics absolutely does not make the name-origin topic more primary. If that were the case then the name originator would basically always be primary, the Amazons would be primary for "Amazon" (which they decidedly aren't), and we wouldn't see the directive "Being the original source of the name is also not determinative" at WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. You're correct that page views are not the sole criteria; they're one of the two most important criteria, with the other being long-term significance, as I addressed.
 * I agree that the content at RPURPOSE indicates adjectives can't be ruled out as primary redirects, so thank you for that link. That makes it just a matter of whether Perfection is primary over the entries here, which at this point I don't think is the case. -- Fyrael (talk) 21:30, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

 * Oppose Per Netoholic, this seems to be the appropriate primary redirect.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 04:57, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Support. Perfect (grammar) alone is prominent enough for there to be no clear primary topic. The other significant entries are just a bonus. —Xezbeth (talk) 21:09, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Support per NAD. cookie monster  (2020)  755  22:07, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * This vote is a total misinterpretation/misapplication of NAD... this redirect is obviously not a "dictionary entry", and WP:RPURPOSE gives clear guidance that parts of speech and adjective/adverb forms are completely appropriate as redirects. -- Netoholic @ 01:56, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Well if this vote is a total misinterpretation, you are free to disregard it, xD cheers,  cookie monster  (2020)  755  18:16, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I am retracting my feedback on this requested move based on the policy Netoholic provided. cookie monster  (2020)  755  21:31, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

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Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America

The Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America (Organización de Solidaridad de los Pueblos de Asia, África y América Latina), abbreviated as OSPAAAL, was a Cuban political movement with the stated purpose of fighting globalisation, imperialism, neoliberalism, and defending human rights. The OSPAAAL was founded in Havana in January 1966, after the Tricontinental Conference, a meeting of over 500 delegates and 200 observers from over 82 countries.

Acting as the "key bridge" to unite liberation struggles and movements in the three continents, OSPAAAL's main objective is the promotion of anti-imperialism. The Organization of American States (OAS) called OSPAAAL "the most dangerous threat that international communism has yet made against the inter-American system".

OSPAAAL's motto was "This great humanity has said: enough! And has started to move forward".

Until 2019, it published the magazine Tricontinental as their main transnational communication tool. After the closing of OSPAAAL by the Cuban Government, the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research seeks to continue the heritage of the Tricontinental conference and the organization. They "stand, in the words of Franz Fanon, with the wretched of the earth to create a world of human beings."

History and context
The OSPAAAL was born out of the Tricontinental Conference in Havana, which Mehdi Ben Barka was preparing before his October 1965 assassination. OSPAA gathered for the first time in Cairo, Egypt in 1957. 500 delegates from 35 countries represented their national liberation movements and parties rather than states. It was led by Ismaël Touré, the brother of Ahmed Sékou Touré, president of Guinea. Ismaël Touré presided the board responsible of the solidarity funds, assisted by two vice-chairmen: Mehdi Ben Barka of Morocco and Chu Tzu-chi of the People's Republic of China. At that time, AAPSO (Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organisation) was debating the inclusion of Cuba and the rest of the Caribbean and Latin America to the group, a question posed again in Cairo in June 1961 by the new commission, the Commission on Neocolonialism, which was presided by Ben Barka.

"We are following the heroic example of Comandante Ernesto 'Che' Guevara."

While the Casablanca Group, founded in 1961, gathered "progressive states" (Egypt, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Libya, and Morocco), the OSPAAL was an organization of movements, which aimed at creating national economic development plans for the newly independent states and to break national isolation through internationalism. In exile, Ben Barka resided there six months in 1964. Amílcar Cabral, Malcolm X, and Che Guevara lived in the city around that time. Henri Curiel was there organizing "solidarity networks," which trained African National Congress activists. (The ANC had been prohibited in 1960, and Curiel would be murdered in 1978). Ben Barka was going to create an anti-colonialist magazine titled The African Review, but he decided to enlarge the union to Latin America.

After the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961, Fidel Castro moved even closer to the Soviet Union. In February 1962, Cuba was expelled from the Organization of American States (OAS). On October 3, 1965, Ben Barka declared in a press conference prior to the Havana conference that the "two currents of the world revolution would be represented there: the current born with the October Revolution and the national liberation revolutions' currents."

The fourth congress of the OSPAA, in Accra from May 6 to May 9, 1965, finally agreed on including Latin America and to take in account the founding January 1966 conference in Havana. In July, Medhi Ben Barka, who was presiding the preparatory council, assured the support of the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union, and defined the objectives of the new organization, summed up as "total liberation:" aid to national liberation movements (in particular to the Palestinian movement), intensification of violent and peaceful struggles on all three continents, support to the Cuban Revolution, suppression of foreign military bases, support of the nuclear disarmament option, and opposition to apartheid and racial segregation. In September, Ben Barka went to Havana to prepare the opening up of the conference on January 3, 1966. However, on October 29, 1965, he was disappeared in Paris, allegedly abducted by Moroccan secret agents. The Havana Conference thus took place without him, and the OSPAAAL was officially founded.

Activities
OSPAAAL cultivated relationships with international trade unions and solidarity groups around the world. OSPAAAL had a working relationship with the Movement for Colonial Freedom (MCF) a London-based transnational solidarity group. Their communication with Barbara Haq, General Secretary of MCF, included sending posters and published materials in exchange for annual reports and publications from MCF.

"Due to the tension caused by US imperialism in Southeast Asia, the OSPAAAL Executive Secretariat urgently calls on the peoples and governments of the socialist countries, the progressive and peace- and justice-loving countries and the entire US people and their progressive leaders to reinforce their solidarity and support for the peoples of Viet Nam [sic], Laos and Cambodia, struggle vigorously for an end to the blockade of North Vietnamese ports and of all warlike acts by US air and naval forces against the Indochinese peoples"

As part of the campaign efforts of OSPAAAL the Executive Secretariat released official declarations about international anti-colonial struggles. Their strong opposition to US President Nixon’s military actions during the Vietnam War, such as the total blockade of the ports of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in Operation Pocket Money, lead to them to denounce him as ‘the unscrupulous assassin of millions of Vietnamese; he is as dangerous as the fascist Hitler of World War II’. Following on from the critique of US military action in Vietnam OSPAAAL also called for greater solidarity between countries around the world following victories against US forces in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.

Beyond solidarity with anti-colonial struggles on a nation-state level, OSPAAAL campaigned for individuals involved in independence and anti-imperialist activities. OSPAAAL on behalf of a member organization, the Puerto Rican Socialist Party, called for support for Puerto Rican independence fighter Humberto Pagán. Following his arrest in Canada, OSPAAAL called for ‘all revolutionary and progressive countries, parties and organisations to declare solidarity with Humberto Pagán militantly in every way possible’. Their aim was to highlight the perceived injustice of the court proceedings and to prevent the extradition of Pagán in fear for his safety were he to return to Puerto Rico. After refusing to grant an extradition order, and upon appeal to the Canadian Supreme Court, Humberto Pagán was cleared of all charges and the extradition request was denied.

Posters
"The poster was the response to a fundamental aim: that of supporting the struggle of the freedom movements. And this took place not only in many third-world countries; the horizons were soon extended to bring solidarity even to the United States... overcoming the frontiers represented by the triple ‘A’ in the organization’s name (Asia, Africa, Latin America), or simply reporting episodes of violence, brutality and cruelty by the rulers and military forces which underline their colonial and predatory anxieties in far-off lands such as Vietnam or South Africa."

From its foundation until the mid-1980s, OSPAAAL produced brightly coloured propaganda posters promoting their cause. Financial difficulty and ink shortages due to the US embargo against Cuba pushed the artists and printers to find ingenious solutions with unorthodox outcomes, although it ultimately forced the organization to stop producing these posters. However, these posters began to be printed again in 2000.

These posters, as they intended to be internationalist, usually had their message written in Spanish, English, French, and Arabic. As opposed to being put up on walls around Cuba, these posters were instead folded up and stapled into copies of Tricontinental, so that they could be distributed internationally. This allowed OSPAAAL to send its message to its subscribers around the world.

All OSPAAAL-Posters from the beginning until 2003 are documented and indexed in the book The Tricontinental Solidarity Poster. One American, Jane Norling, is among the artists who designed posters for OSPAAAL, and is one of eight women who contributed designs for 22 of the approximately 326 OSPAAAL posters.

Archival Collections

 * Guide to the OSPAAAL Poster Collection. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.

Other

 * Docspopuli.org: Comprehensive archive of OSPAAAL posters — created by librarian/archivist Lincoln Cushing.
 * The book about the revolutionary OSPAAAL poster – a look back at the liberation struggle Africa, Asia and Latin America


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Miki Fujitani

Miki Fujitani (藤谷 美紀) is a Japanese actress and former Idol Singer. In addition to her many live-action film and television roles, she had a prominent voice role as Kamiya Kaoru in the Rurouni Kenshin anime series, and as Chun-Li in Street Fighter II The Movie.

Live-action film

 * A love story to you (ja:ラブ・ストーリーを君に) (1988)
 * Another Way - D kikan joho (ja:アナザー・ウェイ ―D機関情報―) (1988)
 * Girl in the Glass (ガラスの中の少女) (1988)
 * Nozomi Witches (live-action, 1990)
 * Bloom in the Moonlight (1993)
 * Onna-Zakari (女ざかり) (1994) – Chie Minami
 * Goodbye for Tomorrow (あした) (1995)
 * Ah! Flower of Cheering (ja:嗚呼!!花の応援団) (Heisei version, 1996) – Yuki
 * Going West (ＧＯＩＮＧ ＷＥＳＴ　谰へ) (1997, directed by Kan Mukai) – Mirai Ito
 * Screwed (ja:ねじ式) (1998) – Kuniko
 * Yasha no mai (夜叉の舞い) (2000, directed by Ikuo Sekimoto) – Xiao Chun
 * Merdeka 17805 (2001) – Sanae Miyata
 * Kusa no ran (ja:草の乱) (2004) – Koma Inoue
 * Nihon no Aozora (ja:日本の青空) (2007) – Toshiko Suzuki
 * Fumikonoumi (ja:ふみ子の海) (2007) – Chiyo Awaji

Live-action television

 * 1980s
 * Bishōjo gakuen (美少女学園) (1987) - cast member
 * Kirari Bishojo (ja:キラリ!美少女) (1988) - cast member
 * Iemitsu to hikoza to isshintasuke - tenka no ichidaiji (家光と彦左と一心太助－天下の一大事) (1989)
 * Total Natural Color Variety - Kitano TV (ja:総天然色バラエティー 北野テレビ) (1989) - cast member
 * Little Boy Little Girl (ja:リトルボーイ・リトルガール) (1989)
 * Manga classics to read (ja:まんがで読む古典) (1989) – Episode series: Sarashina Nikki
 * 1990s
 * Rinrin to (ja:凛凛と) (1990)
 * Kanrishokukōkaku (管理職降格) (1990)
 * Anne of Green Gables (CX golden movie theater, 1990) – Anne (dub)
 * Kazunomiyasamaotome (和宮様御留) (1991)
 * Dotō no tenka tori saitō dōzan (怒涛の天下取り 斎藤道三) (1991)
 * Aniki ni kanpai (兄貴に乾杯) (1991)
 * Love You Forever (ja:君だけに愛を (テレビドラマ)) (1991) – Akane Murakami
 * Anne of Green Gables (sequel, CX golden movie theater, 1991) – Anne (dub)
 * Dangerous Job for a Schoolgirl (ja:女子高生!キケンなアルバイト) (1991) – Hazuki Sasayama
 * Really scary ghost story (ja:本当にあった怖い話) (1992) – Episode: "Kurizawa ghost (軽井沢の亡霊)
 * Bokunokanojo wa heian bijin (ボクの彼女は平安美人) (1992)
 * Wada ka no deka (ja:はだかの刑事) (1993) – Aki Yaguchi (Hiroki Matsukata's character's daughter)
 * Sakana no yō ni (魚のように) (1993)
 * Mori Ranmaru sengoku o kakenuketa wakashishi (ja:森蘭丸〜戦国を駆け抜けた若獅子〜) (1993)
 * Keyakitōrinohitobito (ja:欅通りの人びと) (1994) – Rumi Iwasaki
 * Musuko yo yomigaere! (息子よ甦れ!) (1995)
 * Nekoma ni kieta hanayome (猫魔に消えた花嫁) (1995)
 * Hallelujah House (ハレルヤハウス) (1995)
 * On'na-tachi no sensō (女たちの戦争) (1995)
 * Hāto ni S (ハートにＳ) (1995)
 * Hamidashi bengoshi tatsumi shirō, keiba-ba gyaru satsujin jiken! (はみだし弁護士・巽志郎、競馬場ギャル殺人事件！) (1996)
 * Udemakuri kangofu monogatari ⑤ (腕まくり看護婦物語⑤) (1996)
 * Himawari (ひまわり) (1996) – Aoi Kuroda
 * Mitsuhiko Asami series (浅見光彦シリーズ) (1996) – Maiko Tsuda – TBS series, Part 6: Otaru Murder (小樽殺人事件)
 * Inochi tsunaide (ja:命つないで) (1996) – Yuka Asakura
 * Kyōtogion-iri muko keiji jiken-bo (ja:京都祇園入り婿刑事事件簿) series (1997-2005) – Saeko Mimura – 12 episodes
 * Nagoya Marriage Story (ja:名古屋嫁入り物語) (1997) – Part 9 Kogena endan gowasanda (名古屋嫁入り物語9～こげな縁談ご破算だ)
 * Kurumaisu no kinmedaru (車椅子の金メダル) (1998) – Kazu Kitamura
 * Setsunai (ja:せつない) (1998) – Part 4: Promise (約束)
 * Asami Mitsuhiko series (浅見光彦シリーズ) (1998) – CX series Part 6 hyōhaku no gakujin (漂白の楽人)
 * Oar (櫂) (1999) – Yoshi Tomomi
 * Echigo Aidzu satsujin rūto (越後・会津殺人ルート) (1999)
 * Woman investigative reporter Saeko (女事件記者・冴子) (1999)
 * Murder Reception (殺人披露宴) (1999) – Kaoru Kotobuki
 * 2000s
 * Tsuiseki 6 (追跡６) (2000)
 * hagurekeijijunjōha (ja:はぐれ刑事純情派) (2000) – Season 13, Episode 3
 * Strangers in the City (ja:行きずりの街) (2000) – Masako Tezuka
 * Kariya oyako shirīzu (ja:狩矢父娘シリーズ) (2000–present) – Kazumi Kariya - 20 episodes
 * ai wa owaran bai (愛は終らんバイ) (2001)
 * Karakuri jiken jō (ja:からくり事件帖) (2001) – Okane Fukui – Episode 4 Ten'nyo no yōjinbō (天女の用心棒)
 * Infidelity Investigator Yumi Katayama (ja:不倫調査員・片山由美) (2002) – Machiko Mimura – Episode 3 Kyoto Geisha Murder (京都芸妓殺人事件!)
 * Eye of the Storm (ja:新・愛の嵐) (2002) – Hikaru Saegusa
 * Mi no keiji no ai no jiken-bo dai sakusen Shinano Tōkai-ji dōkyūsei renzoku satsujin jiken (みの刑事の愛の事件簿大作戦　信濃・東海路同級生連続殺人事件) (2003)
 * Misshitsu kara hajimaru koi (密室から始まる恋) (2003)
 * Kyōtochiken'noon'na (ja:京都地検の女) (2003) – Season 1, Episode 2
 * Mito Kōmon (ja:水戸黄門) (2003, 2011) – Episode 8
 * Burakkujakkuniyoroshiku (ja:ブラックジャックによろしく) (2004) – Noriko Kodama – Episode Dai shi geka-hen (第四外科編)
 * Tōkyōchikentokusōbu kyōjujiken (東京地検特捜部・教授事件) (2004)
 * Wakaba (ja:わかば) (2004) – Episodes 74-77
 * Keshōnoumi (化生の海) (CX, 2005) – Mitsuhiko Asami series 20th commemorabtion program
 * Tsugarukaikyō misuterī kōro (ja:津軽海峡ミステリー航路) (2005) – Episode 4
 * Keibuho narusawa ryō yabu dan (警部補　鳴沢了　破弾) (2005)
 * Inspector Tatsukawa series (ja:十津川警部シリーズ) (2005) – Episode 34 Kanazawa Kaga satsui no tabi (金沢加賀殺意の旅)
 * Seicho Matsumoto special - Black Sea of Trees (松本清張スペシャル　黒い樹海) (2005)
 * Muenzakakottōten (夢縁坂骨董店) (2005) - Episode 3
 * Mokuhi (黙秘) (2006)
 * Keishichō kuromame konbi (ja:警視庁黒豆コンビ) (2006) - Episode 2
 * Akita shinkansen Komachi renzoku satsujin (秋田新幹線こまち連続殺人) (2006)
 * yukemuri dokutā hana oka Mariko no onsen jiken-bo 3 (湯けむりﾄﾞｸﾀｰ華岡万里子の温泉事件簿３) (2007) – Asami Moriyama
 * Ofukuro sensei no shinryō nikki (おふくろ先生の診療日記) (2008) - Rieko Tachibana - Episode 1
 * Keishichō sōsaikka fukuhara keibu (警視庁捜査一課　福原警部) - Kazumi Tsukbaki (2009–11) - 3 episodes
 * 2010s
 * shindai tokkyū Kashiopea satsujin jiken (寝台特急カシオペア殺人事件) (2010) – Aki Oyama

Anime

 * Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (1994) – Chun-Li
 * Rurouni Kenshin (1996–98) – Kamiya Kaoru
 * Rurouni Kenshin: The Motion Picture (1997) – Kamiya Kaoru
 * Rurouni Kenshin: Reflection (2001–02) – Kamiya Kaoru
 * Rurouni Kenshin: New Kyoto Arc (2011–12) – Kamiya Kaoru

Dubbing

 * ER – Debbie (Mary McCormack)

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Joseph Harcourt Tombs

Sergeant Joseph Harcourt Tombs VC (23 March 1887 − 28 June 1966), born Frederick Griffith Tombs, who under the name Joseph Tombs, was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award of the British (Imperial) honours system. The VC is awarded for ‘most conspicuous bravery … in the presence of the enemy’.

VC action
Tombs was born in Birmingham and was a 28-year-old Lance-Corporal in the 1st Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment), British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 16 May 1915 near Rue du Bois, France, Lance-Corporal Tombs, on his own initiative, crawled out repeatedly under very heavy shell and machine-gun fire to bring in wounded men who were lying about 100 yards in front of our trenches. He rescued four men, one of whom he dragged back by means of a rifle sling placed round his own neck and the man's body.

Later life
He was promoted Corporal in the field (24 May 1915) and after the war, emigrated to Canada where he spent the rest of his life. On 25 May 1920, Tombs enlisted in the Canadian Army in Montréal, and served as a Private in The Royal Canadian Regiment. His attestation papers are held in The Royal Canadian Regiment Museum, Wolseley Barracks, London, Ontario). During the Second World War Tombs enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and served at the Flying School in Trenton, Ontario, Canada.  A 1952 operation to remove some of the shrapnel still embedded in his stomach was not completely successful, and in 1964 he suffered a stroke. His Victoria Cross is held by the Royal Regiment of Canada Foundation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Talk:Iou Kuroda

Iou vs. Iō
I wasn't sure if Kuroda's given name would be best romanized Iou or Iō. Depends on which romanization system you prefer. I also wondered if there should be a pronunciation guide since users unfamiliar with Japanese might not know how to pronounce his name: it's EE-oh, not EYE-oh. CES 07:12, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

It means 'sulfur', so many Americans would be more familiar with the pronounciation 'Iwo', from Iwo Jima. However that pronounciation isn't correct, either. Should we add something about what his name means?

Kasei Daiō
I'm not sure about this, but daiō is a word meaning King, but in the sense of demons, so isn't Kuroda Iō a pun in itself without having the reference to this robot thing? It just doesn't say what the relation between man and toy are so it didn't seem to make sense to me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.29.100.58 (talk) 12:48, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 火星大王 = Mars King (seen on the robot's box here and here). Anyway, where is the source about the origin of his nickname? X-Javier (talk) 12:33, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Japan Media Arts Festival
I can see in the Japan Media Arts Festival page that he won the Grand Prize... Something wrong? (i don't read japanese) X-Javier (talk) 12:51, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

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Pantologia

Pantologia is an English encyclopedia, published in 12 volumes, 8vo in 1813, with 370 plates (some coloured). Its full title page was A New Cyclopedia, comprehending a complete series of Essays, Treatises and Systems, alphabetically arranged, with a general dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Words: the whole representing a distinct Survey of Human Genius, Learning and Industry, illustrated with elegant engravings; those on Natural History being from original drawings by Edwards and others, and beautifully coloured after nature ...

History and editorship
The editors were John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, and Newton Bosworth, as well as other anonymous writers. Work had begun in 1802, by Gregory and Bosworth and an anonymous writer, who gave up after about a year. They were later joined by Good. The preface lists the subjects for which each editor was responsible. The appearance of rival works held up publication for some years. The work was published serially, and the dates on the plates indicate the first sections were published in 1808.

191 of the plates related to natural history, and the balance to miscellaneous subjects. A number of the latter, dealing with manufacture and inventions, were drawn by John Farey, Jr., and engraved by Wilson Lowry. The natural history drawings were mainly by Sydenham Edwards. A feature of the plates relating to engineering and manufacture was the use by Farey of the drawings of John Smeaton as the basis for his work.

Seven advantages over rivals
The editors claimed in the preface [ix] that the work had seven advantages over its rivals:
 * It explained English words as well as those of the arts and sciences, so avoiding the need to have a separate dictionary.
 * It appended English names to the Linneian ones in the natural history section, so helping non-scientific readers.
 * It had a more up to date arrangement of mineralogy, reflecting modern concepts of the field.
 * References were given at the ends of the more important articles.
 * The natural history plates were coloured.
 * To permit the greatest amount of text to be included, longer articles were in small print.
 * It included accounts of sports, games, recreations and pastimes, including the rules by which they were conducted.

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Pearl necklace

Pearl necklace may refer to:

 * A necklace made of pearls

Music

 * "Pearl Necklace" (song), a song by ZZ Top
 * "Pearl Necklace", a song by MorissonPoe featured on Perfect Dark Zero

Other uses

 * Pearl Necklace (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
 * Pearl necklace (sexual act)

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AD Navyplane

The AD Navyplane was designed by the British Admiralty's Air Department as a reconnaissance aircraft for use during World War I. Performance of the prototype was so disappointing that plans to produce it were cancelled almost immediately.

The Navyplane was designed by the Admiralty's Harold Bolas with the assistance of R.J. Mitchell of Supermarine. It was a pusher floatplane biplane with the pilot and observer being seated ahead of the wings in a streamlined lightweight nacelle mounted in the gap between the upper and lower sets of wings. A Smith Static radial engine and a pusher propeller were installed behind them.

Two examples were ordered in 1916 for the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). Serial numbers were allocated for seven Navyplanes (9095-'96, N.1070-'74) but just one prototype (9095) was completed. Tests of this Supermarine-built prototype commenced in August 1916 (flown by Lieutenant-Commander John Seddon) but proved seriously underpowered and unsatisfactory. The engine was replaced with an AR.1 rotary engine (which was later redesignated the BR.1 for Bentley Rotary 1) and retested in May 1917. However, even without a military load and observer, the Navyplane's performance still proved to be poor, and the design was abandoned on 27 August 1917, with no second prototype being produced.

Supermarine attempted to design an improved version to replace the Short 184, the design, the Supermarine Patrol Seaplane, being powered by a 200 hp (149 kW) Sunbeam engine. While contracts for six aircraft were placed, work was abandoned before a prototype was built, the Short 184 proving adequate in the patrol role.

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Shigeru Chiba

Masaharu Maeda (前田 正治), known by the stage name Shigeru Chiba (千葉 繁), is a Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator, talent and sound director from Kikuchi, Kumamoto. He is affiliated with the talent management firm 81 Produce.

He is most known for the roles of Yoshihiro Kira from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable, the narrator of Fist of the North Star, Megane from Urusei Yatsura, Rei Ichidō from High School! Kimengumi, Kazuma Kuwabara from YuYu Hakusho, Pilaf from Dragon Ball, Raditz and Garlic Jr. from Dragon Ball Z, Buggy the Clown from One Piece, Kefka Palazzo from Dissidia: Final Fantasy, and Kōichi Todome from Kerberos saga.

He was also the voice acting mentor to Megumi Hayashibara.

Career
Originally a stunt actor, Chiba also appeared in the Nikkatsu Roman Porno series of movies. He starred in the "Let's Make a Chiba Shigeru Promotion Film" project movie Kurenai no Gankyō, as well as the Mamoru Oshii films Cerberus, Hell's Watchdog and Talking Head. He plays both serious and gag roles.

TV
• Gatchaman II (1978)

• The Rose of Versailles (1979)

• Space Carrier Blue Noah (1979) (Michirō Tamura)

• Astro Boy (1980) (Pilat)

• Space Runaway Ideon (1980) (Gantsu Parkingson)

• The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1980) (Gusta)

• Dr. Slump (1981) (Tsun Tsukutsun, Niko-chan family servant, Time-kun, Donbe, Matsuyama)

• Ashita no Joe 2 (1981) (Mamoru Aoyama)

• Fang of the Sun Dougram (1981) (George Juldan)

• Urusei Yatsura (1981) (Megane)

• Miss Machiko (1981) (Kunio Yamagata)

• Magical Princess Minky Momo (1982) (Gajira)

• Armored Trooper Votoms (1983) (Vanilla Varta)

• Pāman (1983) (Sabu)

• Chikkun Takkun (1984) (Dr. Bell)

• Fist of the North Star (1984) (Narrator, Joker, Jakō, Kuro-Yasha, various characters)

• Magical Fairy Persia (1984) (Gera Gera)

• Kikōkai Garian (1984) (Red Windu)

• High School! Kimengumi (1985) (Rei Ichidō)

• Magical Star Magical Emi (1985) (Teranobu Kuniwake)

• Touch (1985) (Shingo Uesugi, Punch)

• Fire Tripper (1985) (Sukekichi)

• Area 88 (1985) (Escape Killer #1)

• Dragon Ball (1986) (Pilaf, Dolphin)

• Magical Idol Pastel Yumi (1986) (Kokkō)

• Maison Ikkoku (1986) (Yotsuya, Sōichirō-san (the dog))

• Saint Seiya (1986) (Spartan)

• Megazone 23 Part II (1986) (Lightning)

• Lupin III: The Plot of the Fuma Clan (1987) (Kazami)

• Dangaioh (1987) (Gil Burg)

• Original Dirty Pair OVA 5: Nobody Played There Anymore (1987) (Li)

• Hiatari Ryōkō! (1987) (Kenji Morimatsu, Shinichirō Ōta)

• The Three Musketeers Anime (1987) (Rochefort)

• Anpanman (1988) (Dr. Hiyari)

• Mashin Eiyūden Wataru (1988) (Death God)

• Osomatsu-kun (1988) (Honkan-san, Rerere no Oji-san, Nyarome)

• Sakigake!! Otokojuku (1988) (Onihige, Manjimaru)

• Alfred J. Kwak (1989) (Dolf)

• Dragon Ball Z (1989) (Raditz, Garlic Jr.)

• Jungle Emperor (1989) (Koko)

• Patlabor: The TV Series (1989) (Shigeo Shiba)

• Ranma ½ (1989) (Sasuke Sarugakure)

• Time Trouble Tondekeman (1989) (Tondekeman)

• Heisei Tensai Bakabon (1990) (Omawari-san, Rerere no Ojisan)

• Patlabor (1990) (Shigeo Shiba)

• Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1991) (E.J. Mackenzie)

• Kinnikuman: Scramble for the Throne (1991) (Kinniku Ataru, Kazuo Nakano)

• Marude Dameo (1991) (Sub-chan)

• Yokoyama Mitsuteru Sangokushi (1991) (Hua Xiong)

• Cooking Papa (1992) (Murakami-san)

• Salad Jūyūshi Tomatoman (1992) (Lord Kamakiri)

• YuYu Hakusho (1992) (Kazuma Kuwabara)

• Ai no Kusabi (1992) (Luke)

• Bastard! (1992) (Daiamon)

• Ghost Sweeper Mikami (1993) (Doctor Chaos)

• Ranma ½ series (1993-2008) (Sasuke)

• Omakase Scrappers (1994) (Nikkado, Jentoru)

• Tottemo! Luckyman (1994) (Doryoku Sugita, Doryokuman)

• Iria: Zeiram the Animation (1994) (Fujikuro)

• Kuma no Pūtarō (1995) (Babo-chan '95!! narration)

• Sailor Moon SuperS (1995) (Kurumiwario)

• Virtua Fighter (1995) (Lau Chan, Narrator)

• Dragon Ball GT (1996) (Pilaf)

• Ultraman: Super Fighter Legend (1996) (Ace Killer and Kanegon)

• Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro (4th series) (1996) (Nezumi Otoko)

• Midori no Makibaō (1996) (Chū Hyōei)

• Violinist of Hameln (1996) (Oboe)

• Dokkiri Doctor (1998) (Hajime Mizukoshi)

• Serial Experiments Lain (1998) (Office Worker)

• Yu-Gi-Oh! (1998) (Kokurano)

• Lupin III: Da Capo of Love: Fujiko's Unlucky Days (1999) (Nazarov)

• Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne (1999) (Officer Tōdaiji)

• One Piece (1999) (Buggy the Clown)

• Rerere no Tensai Bakabon (1999) (Omawari-san, Rerere no Ojisan)

• Galaxy Angel (2001) (Mr. God)

• Psychic Academy (2002) (Boo Velka Receptor Arba)

• Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (2003) (Hydrate)

• Zatch Bell! (2003) (Belgim E.O.)

• Beet the Vandel Buster (2004) (Merumondo)

• Black Jack (2004) (Doctor Ando)

• Bleach (2004) (Don Kanonji)

• Ojamajo Doremi Na-i-sho (2004) (Kazuya Yoshida's Father)

• The Law of Ueki (2005) (Gengorō Ueki)

• Inukami! (2006) (Kawarazaki Naoki)

• Kage Kara Mamoru! (2006) (Alien Captain)

• Spider Riders (2006) (Brutus)

• Dragon Ball Kai (2009) (Raditz, Grandpa Son Gohan)

• Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt (2010) (Corset)

• Nichijou (2011) (Soccer Ball)

• Gintama (2013) (Rotten Maizo)

• Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (2013) (Dr. Sakezō Sado, Ittetsu Katō)

• Magica Wars (2014) (Ebizō)

• Dragon Ball Super (2015) (Pilaf)

• Overlord (2015) (Sebas Tian (ep. 1-3, 5, 10, ))

• March Comes in like a Lion (2016-2018) (Someji Kawamoto)

• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable (2016) (Yoshihiro Kira)

• Time Bokan 24 (2016) (Narrator)

• The Laughing Salesman NEW (2017) (Yosuke Uchinaki)

• Granblue Fantasy The Animation (2017) (Yodalrarha (ep. 12))

• Overlord II (2018) (Sebas Tian (eps. 6-13))

• Overlord III (2018) (Sebas Tian)

• Detective Conan (2018) (Kanenori Wakita)

• Kiratto Pri Chan (2018) (Kenzaburou Aoba (ep. 15))

• Baki (2018) (Kunimatsu (eps. 20-21))

• The Helpful Fox Senko-san (2019) (Mr. Tanukiman (eps. 3-4))

• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (2019) (Jigoro Kuwajima)

• Natsunagu! (2020) (Shige Chiba)

• Listeners (2020) (Leo Marshall)

• Dorohedoro (2020) (Chidaruma)

• Jujutsu Kaisen (2020–23) (Jogo, Wasuke Itadori)

• Warlords of Sigrdrifa (2020) (Maintenance team leader)

• Hortensia Saga (2021) (Doctor Gref)

• The Heike Story (2021) (Emperor Go-Shirakawa)

• Boruto: Naruto Next Generations (2022) (Araumi Funato)

• Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department (2022) (Red-Caped General)

• Urusei Yatsura (2023) (Ryunosuke's father)

• High Card (2023) (Lucky Lunchman)

• Magical Destroyers (2023) (Chōgō-shi)

• Hyakushō Kizoku (2023) (Oyaji-dono)

• The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You (2023) (God of Love)

• A Playthrough of a Certain Dude's VRMMO Life (2023) (Black)

• Tales of Wedding Rings (2024) (Alabaster)

• NEET Kunoichi to Nazeka Dōsei Hajimemashita (TBA) (Narrator)

Film

 * Urusei Yatsura series (1983-1991) (Megane)
 * Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld (1984) (Errand Demon)
 * High School! Kimengumi (1986) (Rei Ichidō)
 * Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach! (1986) (Kibidango)
 * Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure (1988) (Pilaf)
 * Maison Ikkoku Kanketsuhen (1988) (Yotsuya, Soichiro-san (the dog))
 * My Neighbor Totoro (1988) (Kusakari-Otoko/ Mowing Man)
 * Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone (1989) (Nicky)
 * Patlabor: The Movie (1989) (Shigeo Shiba)
 * Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie (1993) (Kazuma Kuwabara)
 * Yu Yu Hakusho: Chapter of Underworld's Carnage - Bonds of Fire (1994) (Kazuma Kuwabara)
 * Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993) (Shigeo Shiba)
 * Ghost Sweeper Mikami (1994) (Doctor Chaos)
 * Ghost in the Shell (1995) (Janitor)
 * Mahojin Guru Guru (1996) (Hatton)
 * Metropolis (2001) (Acetylene Lamp)
 * Konjiki no Gash Bell!!: 101-Banme no Mamono (2004) (Mop Demon)
 * Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Movie 2: Attack of the Mecha-Vulcan (2005) (Dr. M2)
 * Doraemon: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum (2013) (Dr. Pepura)
 * Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2013) (Pilaf)
 * Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark (2014) (Dr. Sakezō Sado)
 * Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' (2015) (Pilaf)

Live action

 * Nikkatsu Roman Porno (1971-1988?)
 * Shiroi Kyotō (TV drama in 1978)
 * The Red Spectacles (1987) (Kōichi Todome)
 * StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops (1991) (Kōichi Todome)
 * Talking Head (1992) (I)
 * Sakigake!! Otokojuku Live-action film (2007) (Narration (Minmei Publishing)/Voice on loud speaker)
 * The Next Generation -Patlabor- (2014–15) (Shigeo Shiba)
 * Kurenai no Gankyō

Tokusatsu

 * Mirrorman (Invader) (1971-1972)
 * Dinosaur Corps Koseidon (Research Worker of the Time-Space Administration Bureau (Actor))
 * Mysterious girl Nile Thutmose (Geek Demon) (1978-1979)
 * X-Bomber (Bongo Heracles) (1980-1981)
 * Singing Great Ryūgū-jō (Bad Noodles) (1992)
 * Gosei Sentai Dairanger (Kabuki Novice (ep. 13 - 14)) (1993)
 * Yūgen Jikkō Three Sisters Shushutorian (Vending Machine) (ep. 21)) (1993)
 * Ninja Sentai Kakuranger (Chōchinkozō (ep. 41)) (1994)
 * Juukou B-Fighter (Schwartz) (1995-1996)
 * B-Robo Kabutack (Sharkler) (1997-1998)
 * Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (Sneak Brother Elder (ep. 8)) (2011)
 * Kamen Rider × Super Sentai × Space Sheriff: Super Hero Taisen Z (Kyoryuger Equipment) (2013)
 * Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger: Gaburincho of Music (Narration, voice of Kyoryuger Equipment) (2013)
 * Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger (Dr. Ulshade (Actor)/Kyoryu Violet (Voice), Narration, Kyoryuger Equipment) (2013-2014)
 * Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger vs. Go-Busters: The Great Dinosaur Battle! Farewell Our Eternal Friends (Kyoryuger Equipment) (2014)
 * Ultraman X (Hayato's Father) (2015-2016)

Radio

 * Hamidashi Kanezawa Ōkoku
 * Ōji Hiroi no Multi Tengoku

Other

 * Star Tours (Dak Ralter) (1987)
 * The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man the Ride (Hob Goblin) (1999)
 * Magic Lamp Theater (Bekiet) (2001)
 * SD Gundam Gashapon Wars (Narration (commercial)) (2005)

CD

 * Inferious Wakusei Senshi Gaiden Condition Green (Jasu Tamigan) (1990)
 * Roman Club (Udo Ayanokōji) (1996)
 * Yūkyū Gensōkyoku 2nd Album Drama CD: ensemble vol.1 (Marshall) (1998)
 * Aria (Old Postal Worker) (2005-2006)
 * Setō no Hanayome (Izumi) (2007)
 * Strange+ (Narrator, α) (2008)

Live Theatre

 * Sakura Taisen Kayō Show: Shin-pen Hakkenden (2002)
 * Burstman Live (performer, producer)

Other work

 * Tensai TV-kun: Mystery no Yakata (Count Brain Buster) (1993-1997)
 * Tensai TV-kun:Tensai TV-kun Wide (TK-kun) (1999)
 * Okā-san to Issho (Spoo and Gatarat) (Gatarat) (1999-2000)
 * Tensai TV-kun MAX: Mystery no Yakata (Miracle Man) (2006-2007, 2010)

Anime television

 * Delightful Moomin Family: Adventure Diary (1991)
 * Kuma no Pūtarō (1995)
 * Haunted Junction (1997)
 * Yoiko (1998)
 * Hoshin Engi (1999)
 * Sister Princess (2001)
 * Tantei Shounen Kageman (2001)
 * Sister Princess: RePure (2002)
 * Grandpa Danger (2004)
 * Kirarin Revolution (2006)

Anime OVA

 * Devilman Tanjōhen (1987)
 * Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai! (1989)
 * Go Nagai World (1991)
 * Kyūkyoku Chōjin R (1991)
 * Twin Signal (1995)
 * Tattoon Master (1996)
 * Amazing Nurse Nanako (1999)
 * Memories Off (2001)
 * Bizarre Cage (2003)
 * Memories Off 2nd (2003)
 * Guardian Hearts (2003)
 * Memories Off 3.5 (2004)
 * Guardian Hearts Power Up! (2005)

Video games

 * Blue Breaker: Ken yori mo Bishō wo (PC-FX) (1997)

Live action movies

 * Talking Head - Rei Maruwa (1992)

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AD Scout

The AD Scout (also known as the Sparrow) was designed by Harris Booth of the British Admiralty's Air Department as a fighter aircraft to defend Britain from Zeppelin bombers during World War I.

Design and development
The Scout was a very unconventional aircraft – a biplane with a fuselage pod mounted on the upper wing. A twin-rudder tail was attached by four booms, and it was provided with an extremely narrow-track undercarriage. The primary armament was intended to be a 2-pounder recoilless Davis Gun, but this was never fitted. Four prototypes were ordered in 1915, and two each were built by Hewlett & Blondeau and the Blackburn Aeroplane & Motor Company.

Operational history
Trials flown by pilots of the Royal Naval Air Service at Chingford proved the aircraft to be seriously overweight, fragile, sluggish, and difficult to handle, even on the ground. The project was abandoned, and all four prototypes were scrapped.

Operators

 * Royal Naval Air Service
 * Royal Naval Air Service

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AD Seaplane Type 1000

The AD Seaplane Type 1000 also known as the Admiralty Type 1000 and the AD.1 (from Air Department) was a British seaplane of the First World War designed to attack German warships. When it first flew, it was the largest British aircraft yet to take to the air.

Development
The design of the AD.1 was by Harris Booth of the Admiralty's Air Department just prior to World War I. It was the world's first aircraft designed from scratch as a torpedo bomber, one of the three planned versions of the design. The other two were a bomber and an aircraft armed with a recoilless Davis 12-pounder gun (approximately 76 mm calibre).

The aircraft was a float-equipped biplane of pod-and-boom design, with engines mounted at the front of both booms, as well as at the rear of the crew pod. Development began in 1915; it was completed and flown for the first time during the summer of 1916. It was found that the Davis gun would project a blast rearwards so the weapon was changed for a conventional 12-pounder 'Naval Landing Gun' though in practice a gun was never installed in the AD.1.

Service
Seven aircraft were ordered from J. Samuel White, but when the first one delivered was tested, it was found that its weight was higher than expected, its performance was unexpectedly poor and its undercarriage was not robust enough: based on these findings, the contract for the remaining six aircraft was cancelled. The sole example is known to have survived until 1916, probably at the Royal Naval Air Service's Seaplane Experimental Station, Felixstowe base.

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Talk:Joseph Harcourt Tombs

Nationality of Joseph Harcourt Tombs
The story that Tombs was born in Melbourne first appeared in the 1981 edition of The Register of the Victoria Cross. The same information is repeated in the 1988 and 1997 editions. Monuments to Courage states he was born 23 March 1888 Melbourne Victoria Australia. The entry includes the comment that Tombs was reportedly born in England but this was unsubstantiated after registry checks 1881-1895. However Registry checks in Australia for the same period do not reveal that he was Australian born. Tombs never publicly claimed Australian birth and no evidence has been found that he ever visited Australia. Furthermore Australia does not claim him as a VC recipient and he is not listed by the Australian War Memorial as having an association with Australia. ‘Valiant Men; Canada’s Victoria Cross and George Cross winners’ edited by John Swettenham and published in Toronto in 1973 states Tombs was born in Birmingham England on 23 March 1887. Since Tombs resided in Canada for 47 years until his death in 1966 and since there is no evidence of either his birth or presence in Australia I regard that Canadian claim as the best information that we have at present.

22 July 2004 Anthonys~enwiki talk contribs ... Evidence that Joseph Harcourt Tombs was English born
I wrote the section titled "Nationality of Joseph Harcourt Tombs' on 22 July 2004. Since 2004, consensus is Tombs was born in the UK. I incorrectly stated in 2004 that "Tombs never publicly claimed Australian birth" - see note 6 in the article. Anthony Staunton (talk) 13:59, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
 * 13 MARCH 2009. My name is ANDREW HARCOURT SHAW, my father was DUNCAN HARCOURT SHAW. Joseph Tombs was my great uncle (Grandmother's brother). I have inherited a few of Uncle Jo's momentos (Small VC medal + ribbon, official Army photo,& a siver hip flask which was presented to Uncle Jo in 1916 by music hall star ADA REEVE COTTON. The presentation took place at Uncle Jo's old school in Lincolnshire. It is generally believed within our family that Jo was NOT born in Australia, but in the UK (West Midlands or Lincolnshire). His 3 sisters of similar ages were all born in the UK! But he stated it was Australia - presumably when applying to the military - so that is what appears the World over. (A very common situation I am advised!)

I only met Jo once when I was a small child in the 1950's, when he stayed with us in Windsor, Berkshire. At the time he was over from Canada for a VC Anniversary event in Hyde Park, London.

I would be very interested to hear from anybody with any comments on the above! I can be contacted at: andrewhshaw@btinternet.com

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Olinthus Gregory

Olinthus Gilbert Gregory (29 January 1774 –2 February 1841) was an English mathematician, author, and editor.

Biography
He was born on 29 January 1774 at Yaxley in Huntingdonshire, the son of Robert, a shoemaker, and Ann, who also had three younger daughters: Harriet Euphrasia, Sophia (who died in 1783) and Marianna.

Having been educated by Richard Weston, a Leicester botanist, Olinthus published a treatise, Lessons, Astronomical and Philosophical in 1793. After moving to Cambridge in 1796, Gregory first acted as sub-editor on the Cambridge Intelligencer, and then opened a booksellers shop.

In 1802 he obtained an appointment as mathematical master at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich through the influence of Charles Hutton, to whose notice he had been brought by a manuscript on the Use of the Sliding Rule; and when Hutton resigned in 1807 Gregory succeeded him in the professorship.

Gregory combined his love of mathematics with an interest in music, but not in the melodious sense: music should be subject to rational principles. He proposed "the substitution of proper characters to denote the different kinds of musical time, instead of those vague indefinite ones, which are now in use." No more 3/2 time, or Adagio and Allegro; rather, some absolute rate, based on the swing of a precisely-calibrated pendulum. Each composition should be played at its pre-defined speed, no matter who was conducting. In discussing Gregory's ideas, Werrett draws attention to the environment at Woolwich in which he developed them, and the use of the metronome to maintain a consistent rhythm in military music.

Gregory favoured the establishment of a secular university in London. By the end of 1825 he was on a ten-man committee interviewing and selecting the teaching staff. His name was inscribed on the foundation stone of the new University, laid in Gower Street on 30 April 1827.

Failing health obliged him to retire in 1838, and he died at his home at Queen's Terrace, Woolwich on 2 February 1841. Gregory's library was sold on 17 & 18 March 1842 by Southgate & Son of 22 Fleet Street.

The esteem in which Dr Gregory was held can be judged from the following letter in 1841:

 * To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle.
 * Sir - I see by your paper of the 11th inst., that Doctor Olinthus Gregory, late Professor Mathematics, &c. &c.,
 * Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, has left his widow and family in any thing but affluent circumstances.
 * Now, I do trust, that out of the number of people who have experienced his exertions, as a Professor at
 * the Royal Military Academy, and also have benefitted by him as highly scientific individual, there may be
 * found some who will subscribe to the benefit of the widow and family of that excellent man.
 * I remain, sir,
 * C. D., M.P.,
 * One of Dr. O. G.'s pupils at the R.M.Ac., Woolwich
 * Edinburgh, Feb. 13.

Affiliations
Many in this list are cited in the University of St Andrews website.

 * Corresponding Associate of the Academy of Dijon
 * Honorary Member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York
 * Member of the New-York Historical Society
 * Member of the Literary and Philosophical, and the Antiquarian Societies of Newcastle upon Tyne
 * Member of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
 * Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers
 * Founder member, and later Secretary, of the Astronomical Society
 * Professor Mathematics in the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
 * Co-founder and first president of the Woolwich Institution for the Advancement of Literary, Scientific and Technical Knowledge

In 1802 Gregory was appointed editor of the Gentlemen's Diary, and from 1819 to 1840 editor of the Lady's Diary. From 1817, "he had the whole of the general superintendence of the almanacks published by the Stationers’ Company."

Family
Gregory married, first, Rebecca Marshall on 4 March 1798 in Yaxley, with whom he had a son James and a daughter Eliza; Rebecca died in June 1807. His second marriage was to Anne Beddome on 20 December 1809 at St Mary, Newington, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. Their elder son, Boswell Robert was accidentally drowned in the Thames at Woolwich in the summer of 1834, aged 21. Letitia Elizabeth Landon includes a poetical illustration, to a portrait by Richard Evans, commiserating with this event in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835. Their second son, Charles Hutton Gregory, who later became president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, was named after Charles Hutton, Gregory's patron.

Anne died in Paddington in 1855, aged 65, and was buried at St Nicholas, Plumstead.

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Soyuz 31

Soyuz 31 (Союз 31, Union 31) was a 1978 Soviet crewed space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the seventh mission to and sixth successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 31 crew were the second to visit the long-duration Soyuz 29 resident crew.

Soyuz 31 carried Valery Bykovsky and Sigmund Jähn, the first German cosmonaut, into space. They swapped Soyuz craft with the long-duration crew and returned to Earth in Soyuz 29, the resident crew returned to Earth in Soyuz 31.

Mission parameters

 * Mass: 6800 kg
 * Perigee: 196.8 km
 * Apogee: 259.9 km
 * Inclination: 51.64°
 * Period: 88.81 minutes

Mission highlights
Soyuz 31, the third Intercosmos flight, was launched 26 August 1978. Cosmonauts Bykovsky and Jähn were greeted by resident crew Vladimir Kovalyonok and Aleksandr Ivanchenkov when they docked at the aft port of the Salyut 6 space station the next day. The visitors brought with them fresh onions, garlic, lemons, apples and other food for the long-duration crew, then in space for more than two months.

The presence of the East German cosmonaut was seen as significant because of the presence of the MKF-6M camera on the space station, built by the Carl Zeiss works at Jena. Medical and biological experiments were carried out, including an audio experiment which tested sound and noise perception limits. An experiment called Berolina used the Splav furnace to process an ampoule of bismuth and antimonide with the material between two plates in the ampoule. The tree structure which resulted was four to six times larger than what had been produced on the ground. Another experiment tested using different photographic films on the station's interior. The Soyuz 31 crew swapped craft with the Soyuz 29 crew so as to supply the long-duration crew with a fresh craft. On September 2, the engines of Soyuz 29 were tested, 25 experiment containers with 100 experimental results were transferred, along with exposed film, and seat liners and centering weights were exchanged. The Soyuz 31 crew left in Soyuz 29 the next day and landed 140 km southeast of Dzhezkazgan.

The standard recovery procedure was changed with this flight, observers noted. In the past, the recovery of a civilian Salyut crew had been made on the orbit following the one which provided a nominal launch opportunity to Salyut. With this and subsequent flights, the landing occurred during the orbit which provided the nominal launch opportunity. The effect of this change was to have a landing window open some two to three days earlier than otherwise.

The crew on the station subsequently boarded the Soyuz 31 vehicle and redocked it to the forward port, thus freeing the aft port for a forthcoming Progress supply ship. They returned to Earth 2 November in the craft after setting a new space-endurance record of 139 days.

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Amigo Supermarkets

Amigo Supermarkets (Supermercados Amigo) is a chain of supermarkets located in Puerto Rico and owned by Pueblo.

History
In the 1920s, Supermercados Amigo was opened by Jose Marti Fuentes. During the company's formative years, it operated small supermarkets across the island; these would be located at small strip malls. Many towns in Puerto Rico had multiple Supermercados Amigo locations.

The transformation
After the Grand Union and Coop Supermarkets companies ceased operations in Puerto Rico, Amigo began plans to become a major player in Puerto Rico's supermarket industry. In 1989, they opened their first major store, located at Plaza del Carmen Mall, in Caguas. Subsequently, many other major stores were opened across Puerto Rico. A massive television campaign began, and their slogan, Amigo, lo mejor al mejor precio (Amigo, the best at the best prices) became a household phrase in Puerto Rico.

Economic problems
Amigo ran into serious economic problems in the 1990s, most of them having to do with employee salary. As a consequence, the company began losing money. There were several strikes, and these received wide media attention.

Walmart acquisition
In July 2002, American retail giant Walmart  purchased Supermercados Amigo,   in what became a controversial business move. Claims of unfair competition and monopoly were instantly made by smaller supermarkets, because Amigo would be backed by the strong assets of Walmart. As part of the agreement made in order for the purchase to take place, various supermarket locations had to be closed (specifically if there was a Walmart or Sam's Club nearby). The closed Amigos became part of a new (at the time) supermarkets company known as "SuperMax" and "Pitusa Markets".

The structure of the supermarkets themselves was not changed because of the purchase, the only exception being that now customers may pay for their purchases with their respective Sam's Club or Walmart Credit Cards.

In January 2016, Walmart announced it would close four Amigo stores (plus all three Super Ahorros stores) located throughout the island, as part of a larger wave of store closures.

2019 renovations
On November 5, 2019, Amigo Supermarkets announced a renovation plan on its stores nationwide that would cost $7.8 million US dollars.

Supermercados Pueblo acquisition
In July 2022, Walmart announced that it would sell the Amigo chain to Pueblo.

In June 2022, the closing of the last Amigo supermarket by Walmart was announced, this was located in Dorado and the sale of the remaining 11 Amigo Supermarkets to Pueblo Supermarkets was announced, the brand name will remain and the 1,100 employees They will keep their jobs. On August 26, 2022, the Amigo supermarkets closed their doors at 6pm to begin the transition of Matrix companies from Walmart to Pueblo, the possible reopening of the Amigo is scheduled for September 1.

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Juan Ramón de la Fuente

Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez (born 5 September 1951 in Mexico City) is a Mexican psychiatrist, academician and politician who served as Secretary of Health in the cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo (1994–1999) and as rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) from 1999 to 2007. He is currently a professor emeritus of Psychiatry at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Chairs the Board of the Aspen Institute Mexico. On 18 February 2019 he began his term as the Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations.

Education
De la Fuente graduated from Medical School of Medicine from the National Autonomous University in 1976 and trained in Psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, United States. When he returned to Mexico he founded the Clinical Research Unit of the Mexican Institute of Psychiatry and joined the Faculty of UNAM's School of Medicine, where he was appointed Dean in 1991. In 1995 he was also elected President of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and a few years later he was appointed Secretary of Health by President Zedillo. In 1999, he resigned his cabinet post to be appointed Rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and in 2003 he was reappointed for a second term. In 2008 he was elected President of the International Association of Universities at UNESCO and was called by Ban Ki-moon to be member of the Council of the United Nations University in Tokyo. He sits in several boards in México and abroad, such as El Universal, an influential newspaper in Mexico City. Also, in 2008 he was elected as President of the International Association of Universities.

Awards and recognition
He has written over two hundred papers and fourteen books, and has received numerous awards and honorary degrees such as the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Mayo Clinic, the Presidential Award for Excellence of the University of Texas and a Doctorate on Humane Letters from Arizona State University, amongst many others. He also received from President Vicente Fox the National Prize for Arts and Sciences (Mexico), the highest recognition of Mexico's Government. Dr. de la Fuente is one of the most respected figures in Mexican society.

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St Nicholas-at-Wade

St Nicholas-at-Wade (or St Nicholas) is both a village and a civil parish in the Thanet District of Kent, England. The parish had a recorded population of 782 at the 2001 Census, increasing to 852 at the 2011 census. The village of Sarre is part of the civil parish.

The village is best known locally for the local custom of Hoodening, a type of mumming, as well as for its prolific potato production. The village continues to play host to several folk groups, including Offcumduns Border Morris Dancers.

History
The name derives from its location on the western border of the Isle of Thanet (originally separated from the Kent mainland). Before the channels of the River Wantsum and River Stour silted up, one would have been able to 'wade' at this point, over a ford. In Roman times the channel was navigable and the site likely very busy with the Saxon Shore forts of Regulbium (Reculver) and Rutupiae (Richborough) both close by. Remains of Roman shipbuilding yards are said to have been found between St. Nicholas-at-Wade and the nearby village of Sarre

Village
The village can be entered from either the A299 (Thanet Way) or the A28 (Canterbury Road). These approaches to the village stand out with their colourful planters welcoming visitors. St John's Green at the A28 entry point displays several items including a 1919 restored cultivator in its original makers colours.

There are two public houses, 'The Bell' and 'The Sun'. There is also a post office, an antiques shop and a farm marketing office. One of the main potato suppliers in the country used to have its headquarters near St Nicholas Court in the northwest of the village, but the site closed in late 2015. Hedgend Industrial Estate is on the northern outskirts. There is the local St Nicholas CE Primary School.

The village hall (dating from 1930) houses weekly events including various dance classes, keep fit, Art groups and senior citizens coffee mornings and is also used as a polling station. There is a static caravan park at Frost Farm and a camping site at Streete Farm.

A sports field in Bell Meadow plays host to football and cricket matches, the cricket pavilion was constructed in the 1980s with the aid of Thanet District Council.

Churches
The 13th-century parish church of St Nicholas, after which the village and parish are named, was a chapel of ease for St Mary's Church at Reculver. The first rector is recorded as Adam de Brancestre in 1294. Built in flint, the church houses some fine 16th-century brasses, a carved oak pulpit dated 1615, and a coat of arms of King George III. The parish has twice been enlarged, firstly in medieval times, when it was separated from the parish of Reculver and joined with the little-known chapelry of All Saints, Shuart in 1310, and again in the mid-16th century, when it was joined with the parish of St Giles, Sarre. The church is currently part of the Wantsum Benefice.

St Nicholas Court has a fine example of a medieval underground chapel; however, little is known about the origins or past use of this building. The chapel is on private land but has been opened to visitors on some important local occasions.

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Tamiami Trail

The Tamiami Trail is the southernmost 284 mi of U.S. Highway 41 (US 41) from State Road 60 (SR 60) in Tampa to US 1 in Miami. A portion of the road also has the hidden designation of State Road 90 (SR 90).

The 163 mi north–south section (hidden SR 45) extends to Naples, whereupon it becomes an east–west road (hidden SR 90) crossing the Everglades (and forming part of the northern border of Everglades National Park). It becomes Southwest 8th Street in Miami-Dade County, famous as Calle Ocho in the Little Havana section of Miami (and site of the eponymous annual festival), before ending east of Miami Avenue as Southeast 8th Street at Brickell Avenue in Brickell, Downtown Miami.

Construction and early designations
The idea for a trans-peninsula highway that connected the west and east coasts of Florida originated in April 1915 at an informal meeting in Tallahassee between Francis W. Perry, then president of the Fort Myers Chamber of Commerce, and James F. Jaudon of Miami, after which they returned to their respective cities and began advocating for the construction of what was originally called the Miami to Marco Highway. At a subsequent meeting in Orlando, on June 10, 1915, of what became the Central Florida Highway Association, Perry introduced a resolution which was seconded by Tampa's E. P. Dickie, for the construction of the "Tamiami Trail", which was to run from Tampa through Riverview, Bradenton, Sarasota, Arcadia, Punta Gorda, Fort Myers, Estero, Bonita Springs, Naples, Marco, then east directly across the state to Miami. Perry traced the route of the proposed Tamiami Trail on a map and accorded the credit for coining the word "Tamiami" to Dickie, although D. C. Gillett, who was president of the Tampa Board of Trade, later claimed to have originally suggested the name.

On August 3, 1915, the Board of Commissioners of Dade County agreed to fund part of the survey for the road by providing their county engineer. Two days later a team surveyed the first 3.5 mi, and the work on the Tamiami Trail had officially begun. The team consisted of Hobart Crabtree (county engineer), James F. Jaudon, L. T. Highleyman, Van Cleve Hallowes, Wallace Culbertson, Walter Ludlam, J. T. Albritton, A. W. Frederick and one helper.

At the time, Lee County was a much larger county (Collier and Hendry Counties were created out of Lee County in 1923). In 1919, for financial reasons, Lee County was unable to complete its portion of the Tamiami Trail. Jaudon had already purchased 207,360 acre of land, mostly in Monroe County. His company, the Chevelier Corporation, came to the rescue and offered to build a link of the highway through its holdings in Monroe County if Dade and Lee counties would agree to re-route the Tamiami Trail through Monroe County. The proposal was accepted; the Chevelier Corporation began laying out a new route for the road and in 1921 began construction on the new segment of the Tamiami Trail. This segment is today known as Loop Road (located in Big Cypress National Preserve).

In 1922, the State of Florida ran out of construction funds for the east–west portion. The following year, Barron Collier, an advertising mogul who had recently diversified his holdings by investing in various types of businesses and millions of acres of southwest Florida wilderness, pledged that he would bankroll the completion of the Tamiami Trail; in return, the State legislature would establish a new county and name it after him.

So in 1923, Collier County was created out of the southern portion of Lee County. Almost immediately contention arose over the change of the route. The sponsors of the new county advocated for the original route, which was completely inside the boundaries of Collier County, and the State Road Department agreed with Collier County. Even so, the Board of County Commissioners of Dade County supported the Chevelier segment, since so much money had already been invested, and only a few miles of road were left to be completed.

Despite this protest, the State Road Department reinstated the original route of the Tamiami Trail to be completed, and the already completed portion of roadway in Monroe County was accepted as a "South Loop" of the Tamiami Trail. As construction of the north–south section resumed, Collier hired A. R. Richardson to be the head engineer of the Naples-to-Miami section. A few months later, A. W. Frederick replaced Richardson, who returned to the Everglades Drainage District.

The Tamiami Trail Blazers would launch an expedition leaving out of Fort Myers on April 4, 1923, with the goal of reaching Miami. The Blazers wanted to do this as a publicity stunt to try and get national attention. It would consist of a motorcade of 10 vehicles, a commissary truck, 7 Ford Model T's, an Elcar and a tractor, conveying  29 people (25 men and 4 women). The party consisted of members of Florida county boards, the road department, as well as several native guides, most likely Seminoles. When the expedition did not arrive on time, it was speculated they had become lost and likely died which drew national attention to the expedition. Planes were sent to try and find them and parties to rescue them would be dispatched from both coasts. The expedition did end up making it to Miami. The first 11 would come to Miami 19 days after it started and the rest would come a few days later, but the expedition did lose three of their vehicles. Construction started on the east–west stretch later that year, thanks to funding from Barron Collier.

In 1926, both the north–south section and the east–west stretch were designated U.S. highways. Although the Trail was intended to be one road, the two sections received two different numbers: as each section was completed, the north–south portion received US 41 signs, and the east–west stretch was designated US 94 upon completion (to comply with the route-numbering guidelines of AASHTO). In addition, both sections south of Fort Myers received the State Road 27 designation.

North of Fort Myers, it was designated State Road 5.

While a 1927 Rand McNally map indicated the southern terminus at Fort Myers, US 41 signs had already been erected on the completed segment (south to Naples) in late 1926; US 94 signs made their appearances when the final section was completed in April 1928. The Tamiami Trail took 13 years, cost $8 million (equivalent to $ in ), and used 2.6 million sticks of dynamite in its construction. The Tamiami Trail officially opened on April 26, 1928. To celebrate, a convoy of over 500 cars would leave out of Tampa on the morning of April 25 and arrive in Miami during the late part of the next day.

US 94

Upon the completion of the Tamiami Trail, U.S. Highway 94 (US 94) extended from the intersection of Ninth Street South and Fifth Avenue South in Naples (the southern terminus of US 41) to the intersection of South Eighth Street and Brickell Avenue (US 1) in Miami. At the time it was considered a major achievement of engineering that was the only route from Naples (and, by extension, from Tampa) to the southeastern coast of Florida.

In 1945, a restructuring of Florida's State Road system resulted in the removal of the SR 27 signs from US 94 and the assignment of the hidden Florida Department of Transportation designation State Road 90, which continues to be applied to the east–west stretch of highway to this day. The north-south section was assigned the designation State Road 45.

In 1949, the US 94 signage was replaced with US 41 signs, over a decade after AASHO modified its guidelines to discourage short (under 300 mi) U.S. Highways that are entirely within one state.

After US 94

In the 1950s, the newly configured US 41 was extended eastward and northward, first to downtown Miami along US 1 in 1950, then to Miami Beach along US 1 and SR A1A in 1953. In 1965, US 41 was rerouted as a bypass along unsigned SR 45A around Venice Gardens, while Business US 41 signs grace the 3 mi former alignment (which is still named Tamiami Trail).

This configuration of US 41 south of Tampa remained intact until the U.S. Highway was truncated to US 1 and Southwest Eighth Street in Miami in 2001—the historic eastern terminus of US 94, former SR 27, and current SR 90 (westbound US 41 and SR 90 now begin one block to the north, on Southwest Seventh Street, as the easternmost 2.7 mi of the U.S. Highway now lie along a one-way pair).

While US 41 and SR 90 have not significantly changed since the 1960s (aside from the widening to the east of SR 997 in Miami-Dade County in the 1970s and in 2002-2005), its importance to motorists of southeastern Florida has changed since the opening of Alligator Alley to the north in 1968. Since then, traffic on the Tamiami Trail across the Everglades has lessened significantly, while urban sections of the road are now often congested.

In 1968, the Dade County Port Authority began construction on what was to become the world's largest airport. The Miami Jetport was located 36 mi west of Miami, just across the Collier County line. It was to be a six-runway supersonic airport. The project would also transform the Tamiami Trail into a multi-lane expressway. Conservationists were worried about the impact an airport that size would have on the environment of the Everglades and Big Cypress. After several court hearings, a ban was placed upon further development. The widening of Tamiami Trail as a part of the Jetport had been stopped. One runway had already been completed; so the runway was allowed to be used as a flight training center. The runway remains today as a part of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport.

Also in 1968, construction of an extension of Interstate 75 (I-75) south from Tampa to Miami was started, with an eye toward routing the freeway along an upgraded Tamiami Trail from Naples to a soon-to-be completed SR 836 whereupon it would continue on the east–west highway to its intended terminus at an interchange with I-95. However, planners made the decision in 1973 to shift I-75's proposed route to instead cross the Everglades along Alligator Alley over environmental concerns related to upgrading the Tamiami Trail, which runs along the northern border of Everglades National Park. Additionally, Alligator Alley itself needed upgrading, as the then-narrow toll road was dangerous to both motorists and wildlife (most notably the Florida panther) alike, and SR 836, with its left exits and narrow lanes, was not being built to Interstate Highway standards, with the costs to upgrade it being too expensive. As a result, construction for a rerouted I-75 in southern Florida began in 1974, now with I-75 using Alligator Alley instead of US 41 to cross the peninsula. The configured Interstate would not be completed for another 19 years.

Since then, the Tamiami Trail has been designated a National Scenic Byway by the United States Department of Transportation for its unique scenery in the Everglades and the Big Cypress National Preserve.

Plans
In 1928, the Tamiami Trail was considered a feat of engineering, although there appears to have been minimal consideration of the potential damage to the Everglades by the roadway and the Tamiami Canal. Both have acted as a dam to block water flow from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay at the southern tip of the peninsula. As a result, the Everglades—the "River of Grass"—has had its water flow greatly diminished over the years, resulting in a devastating effect on the ecology of the region. In the 1990s, a few canals were filled and additional culverts were constructed under US 41 to help regulate water flow.

Yet, according to the United States Army Corps of Engineers, this was only a partial solution to the problems of the Everglades and the Tamiami Trail. In 2003, after considering a variety of plans involving the rebuilding of US 41/SR 90, the Corps recommended that a 3000 ft causeway be built near the Northeast Shark Slough northeast of Everglades National Park, all road fill removed that would otherwise be adjacent to the bridge, the 57 culverts that are already in place maintained, and the appropriate water flow rate maintained under the non-causeway portions of the Tamiami Trail crossing the Everglades. The proposed causeway is being called the Everglades Skyway by the Sierra Club, Audubon Society, World Wildlife Fund, and other organizations in an Internet-based effort to lobby Florida and United States government officials for project construction money. In December 2009, construction began on a 1 mi project to lift a portion of the road to allow the more natural water flow into the southern Everglades. At the Everglades Foundation's America's Everglades Summit held in mid-May 2010, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Interior, Thomas Strickland, revealed that the Interior Department's National Park Service released a draft Environmental Impact Statement recommending an additional 5.5 mi of bridging the Tamiami Trail. The Everglades Foundation is a group that supports the Tamiami Trail bridging and dedicated to Everglades restoration.

In 2013, Florida announced a $90 million commitment to elevate 2.6 mi of the road to allow natural drainage into the Everglades and Everglades National Park.

In June 2019, a $60 million grant was announced by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to Everglades National Park through the Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects program to complete the Tamiami Trail Next Steps project, intended to allow more north-to-south water flow into the Everglades. This grant matches a $43.5 million commitment by the State of Florida for the raising and reconstruction of the remaining 6.5 mi of the eastern Tamiami Trail roadway.

As of September 2020, the plan to complete and finish the Tamiami Trail has been approved for the final steps of the project. Through the Trump Administration, The Florida Department of Transportation, and Everglades National Park, they have been able to finalize these plans. This will help improve water flow within the wetlands and to restore many parts of the Tamiami Trail and the Everglades National Park as a whole. These plans to begin the final steps will start November 2020 and should be finished by the end of 2024.

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