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William J. Seymour

William Joseph Seymour (May 2, 1870 – September 28, 1922) was a Holiness Pentecostal preacher who initiated the Azusa Street Revival, an influential event in the rise of the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements, particularly Holiness Pentecostalism. He was the second of eight children born in an African-American family to emancipated slaves and raised Catholic in extreme poverty in Louisiana.

Seymour was a student of the early Pentecostal minister Charles Parham, and he adopted Parham's belief that speaking in tongues was the sign of receiving the baptism in the Holy Spirit. In 1906, Seymour moved to Los Angeles, California, where he preached the Pentecostal message and sparked the Azusa Street Revival. The revival drew large crowds of believers as well as media coverage that focused on the controversial religious practices as well as the racially integrated worship services, which violated the racial norms of the time. Seymour's leadership of the revival and publication of The Apostolic Faith newspaper launched him into prominence within the young Pentecostal movement. Seymour broke with Parham in 1906 over theological differences.

As the revival's influence extended beyond Los Angeles through evangelism and missionary work, Seymour was in the process of developing the revival into a larger organization called the Apostolic Faith Movement. This process was ultimately defeated by power struggles with other ministers, such as Florence Crawford and William Howard Durham, which ultimately damaged the unity of the early Pentecostal movement and led to a decrease in Seymour's influence. By 1914, the revival was past its peak, but Seymour continued to pastor the Apostolic Faith Mission he founded until his death. The revival acted as a catalyst for the spread of Pentecostal practices, such as speaking in tongues and integrated worship, throughout the world. It also played an important role in the history of most major Pentecostal denominations.

Early life
William Joseph Seymour was the second of eight children born to emancipated slaves Simon and Phyllis Salabar Seymour in Centerville, Louisiana. He was baptized as a child at the Church of the Assumption in Franklin, a Catholic parish. In 1884, when Seymour was fourteen years old, his parents built a house about a mile and a half from his birthplace adjacent to the New Providence Baptist Church in Centerville that the family likely attended while remaining Catholics.

While serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, Seymour's father contracted an illness from which he finally died in November 1891. The twenty-one-year-old William then became the primary provider for his family, growing subsistence crops with very limited income from other sources. The family was able to keep their property but lived at the poverty level.

Seymour grew up during a period of heightened racism that likely led to his decision to move north, away from the persecution endured by southern blacks around the turn of the century. In 1895, Seymour moved to Indianapolis, where he attended the Simpson Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church (and possibly other African American churches) and became a born-again Christian.

Early career
In Indianapolis, Seymour was introduced to the Holiness movement through Daniel S. Warner's "Evening Light Saints", a group whose distinctive beliefs included non-sectarianism, faith healing, foot washing, the imminent Second Coming of Christ, and separation from "the world" in actions, beliefs, and lifestyle, including not wearing jewelry or neckties. In the summer of 1900, Seymour returned to Louisiana and worked briefly as a farm hand.

In 1901, Seymour moved to Cincinnati, where he worked as a waiter and probably attended God's Bible School and Training Home, a school founded by holiness preacher Martin Wells Knapp. At Knapp's school, blacks and whites studied side by side. Knapp taught Premillennialism—that Jesus would return prior to a literal millennium—and also took seriously "special revelation" such as dreams and visions. While in Cincinnati, Seymour contracted smallpox and was blinded in his left eye. Seymour blamed his disability on his reluctance to answer God's call to the ministry.

Seymour moved to Houston in 1903. During the winter of 1904–1905, he was directed by a "special revelation to Jackson, Mississippi, to receive spiritual advice from a well-known colored clergyman". He probably met Charles Price Jones and Charles Harrison Mason, founders of what would become the Church of God in Christ. Between 1895 and 1905, Seymour also met other holiness leaders, including John Graham Lake and Charles Parham, who was leading a growing movement in the Midwest.

Parham's Apostolic Faith Movement emphasized speaking in tongues. Although speaking in tongues had occurred in some isolated religious circles as early as 1897, Parham began to practice it in 1900 and made the doctrine central to his theological system, believing it to be a sign that a Christian had received the baptism with the Holy Spirit. On January 1, 1901, Parham and some of his students were praying over Agnes Ozman when she began to speak in what was interpreted to be Chinese, a language Ozman never learned. Pentecostals identify Ozman as the first person in modern times to receive the gift of speaking in tongues as an answer to prayer for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Parham also spoke in tongues and went on to open a Bible school in Houston as his base of operations in 1905.

When Houston African American holiness leader Lucy F. Farrow took a position with Charles Parham's evangelistic team as his children's nanny, Farrow asked Seymour to pastor her church. In 1906, with Farrow's encouragement, Seymour joined Parham's newly founded Bible school. Though Seymour's attendance at Parham's school violated Texas Jim Crow laws, with Parham's permission, Seymour simply took a seat just outside the classroom door. Parham and Seymour shared pulpits and street corners on several occasions during the early weeks of 1906, with Parham only permitting Seymour to preach to blacks. During this time, Seymour continued praying that he would receive the baptism with the Holy Spirit. Though unsuccessful at the time, he remained committed to Parham's beliefs about speaking in tongues, but he rejected Parham's belief in the annihilation of the wicked and in the use of tongues in evangelism. Parham understood the gift of tongues to be xenoglossy, unlearned human languages to be used for evangelistic purposes.

Within a month of studying under Parham, Seymour received an invitation to pastor a holiness mission in Los Angeles founded by Julia Hutchins, who intended to become a missionary to Liberia. Although Parham believed Seymour unqualified because he had not yet been baptized in the Holy Spirit, Seymour went to Los Angeles anyway.

Origins of the revival
Seymour arrived in Los Angeles on February 22, 1906, and preached at Julia Hutchins's church two days later. Seymour argued that speaking in tongues was the evidence of having received the Holy Spirit, even though he had not experienced it himself. Hutchins and J. M. Roberts, president of the Southern California Holiness Association, rejected Seymour's position as contrary to accepted holiness views and had the church doors padlocked to keep Seymour out. Hutchins and the local holiness association called a special meeting at which they asked Seymour doctrinal questions. Among other things, the holiness leadership claimed that sanctification and the baptism of the Holy Spirit were the same thing, while Seymour remained unconvinced that the leaders themselves had been baptized in the Spirit. The association president removed Seymour from the pastorate, forbidding him to teach his doctrine of baptism in the Spirit in the holiness church. Nevertheless, he told Seymour that he was pleased Seymour was seeking baptism in the Spirit, adding, "When you receive it, please let me know because I am interested in receiving it too."

Speaking in tongues
Seymour stayed at the home of a friend, Edward Lee, and started a prayer meeting at Lee's house. When it grew too large for the house, it moved two blocks away to the home of another African American, Richard Asberry. (One attendee, Jennie Evans Moore, later married Seymour.) The prayer group accepted Seymour's teaching and prayed to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. To help him minister to these people as they sought the baptism of the Spirit, he contacted two friends in Houston: Lucy Farrow and Joseph Warren, who he invited to join them at the Asberry's home. The core group was made up of about 15 African Americans, including five children. Others joined them, including a former Baptist named Frank Bartleman, who would later publish a detailed account of the Azusa Street Revival. The size of the meetings at the Asberry's house continued to grow as word got out about the new teachings among the Los Angeles holiness sector. On Friday, April 6, 1906, the members of the meeting decided to add fasting to their discipline of regular prayer. They planned a ten-day fast, during which they would study Acts 2:1–4 and pray each evening until they had the same experience described in that text. On April 9, Edward Lee spoke in tongues after Seymour and the newly arrived Lucy Farrow laid hands on him in Lee's home. Overjoyed, the group walked to the Asberry's house for the evening meeting. Seymour took his text, as was expected, from Acts 2:4: "And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." He then went on to explain what had just happened to Edward Lee. No sooner had he completed the story, when someone else began to speak in tongues. Before the evening was over, several others, including Jennie Evans Moore, had spoken in tongues. Over the next three days, the Asberry home became the focus of attention among the various networks of Wesleyan holiness people. As Frank Bartleman observed, "The news spread like fire, naturally." The Azusa Street Revival had begun.

Move to Azusa Street and worldwide influence
Three days later, on April 12, after a long evening spent in prayer, Seymour himself received the baptism in the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues. By that time, the group was far too large for the Asberry's house; at one point the weight of the overflowing attendees caused the front porch to collapse, forcing Seymour to look for a new location. The group moved to an old African Methodist Episcopal church building at 312 Azusa Street in Los Angeles, and while legally incorporated as the Apostolic Faith Mission, it also became known as the Azusa Street Mission.

The revival quickly grew. Crowds of up to 1,500 packed into the small mission for the better part of three years. During the peak of the revival, meetings ran from mid-morning to midnight, seven days a week. Well-known names in the early Pentecostal movement like Parham, Lake, F. F. Bosworth, Thomas Hezmalhalch, and many others attended the revival and then took what they had received to the mission fields.

From the beginning, the movement was racially egalitarian. Blacks and whites worshiped together at the same altar, against the normal segregation of the day. Seymour claimed that the Holy Spirit was bringing people together across all social lines and boundaries to the revival. He not only rejected the existing racial barriers in favor of "unity in Christ", but he also rejected the then almost-universal barriers to women in any form of church leadership. Latinos soon began attending as well, after a Mexican-American worker received the Holy Spirit baptism on April 13, 1906.

Seymour was clearly the leader of the Azusa revival in the beginning. He delegated authority to twelve overseers, ordained ministers, and commissioned missionaries. He also began publishing a newspaper, The Apostolic Faith, in September 1906. Within one year, the circulation of Seymour's paper reached 40,000 issues. With the notable exception of Parham, who was uncomfortable with the mixing of races at Azusa, many other prominent holiness preachers, like G.B. Cashwell and C.H. Mason, made the pilgrimage to Los Angeles to preach and pray alongside Seymour.

The resulting movement became widely known as Pentecostalism, likening it to the manifestations of the Holy Spirit recorded as occurring in the first two chapters of the book of Acts, from the day of the Feast of Pentecost onwards. By the end of 1909, the movement had achieved geographical ubiquity. Every region of the United States had a Pentecostal presence, with additional missions planted in 50 nations worldwide.

Opposition
As with most new religious movements, the Azusa Street Revival was not without controversy. Newspapers published such titles as, "Religious Fanaticism Creates Wild Scene", "Holy Kickers Carry on Mad Orgies", "All Night Meetings in Azusa Street Church, Negroes and Whites Give Themselves Over to Strange Outbursts of Zeal", "Whites And Blacks Mix in a Religious Frenzy", "Wives Say They Left Husbands to Follow Preacher", "Disgusting Scenes at Azusa Street Church", and "Crazed Girls in Arms of Black Men."

In October 1906, Parham arrived at the Azusa Street Mission. After observing some ecstatic practices and racial mixing in worship, he went to the pulpit and began to preach that God was disgusted at the state of the revival. Seymour refused to back down from his doctrines, and Parham then denounced the Azusa revival as false. Parham launched a racially tinged assault on what he deemed fanaticism and religious anarchy and demanded reforms that included the outright dismissal of many of Seymour's key aides. He claimed that Seymour had corrupted the teaching of tongue-speech; Parham believed that the spoken tongues had to be a recognizable human language (xenoglossy), while Seymour's theology allowed for a divine language that could not be understood by human ears (glossolalia). Parham denounced these views as unscriptural. Parham also preached against the racial mixing of the revival. Seymour responded by recanting an earlier acknowledgement of Parham's authority and declaring the Holy Ghost to be the mission's only leader.

Parham became the most far-reaching challenge to Seymour's leadership. Seymour dismissed Parham from the mission, but he stayed in town long enough to establish a small, competing congregation just blocks from the mission. Parham also appealed to the press to recognize him as the leader of the movement. The Seymour-Parham breakup marked the beginning of the end of Parham's prominence in the movement; however, as it turned out, Azusa's days were also numbered. The peak of the revival spanned from 1906 through 1908.

Apostolic Faith publication
The revival at Azusa continued to grow until 1908. Parham and other evangelists such as Florence Crawford (Seymour's former State Director of the Pacific Coast Apostolic Faith Movement) began discrediting the movement through doctrinal differences. After breaking her relationship with Seymour in 1907, Crawford quickly formed an independent work in Portland, Oregon, under the same name Seymour used, Apostolic Faith Movement. She then began to undermine Seymour's undisputed leadership of the movement on the Pacific Coast. Seymour's marriage to Jennie Evans Moore on May 13, 1908, did not sit well with his secretary, Clara Lum, who had already begun showing allegiance to Crawford. Lum had arguably the most powerful position outside of Seymour in the movement because of her extensive experience and abilities, particularly as editor of the newspaper. Disapproving of Seymour's action, Lum resigned her post, stole the paper's mailing list and joined Crawford in Portland, where they began publishing The Apostolic Faith newspaper without Seymour.

Without possession of the mailing list, Seymour lost control of the newspaper, and his authority over the burgeoning Pentecostal revival began to slip. Lum and Crawford refused to give control of the paper back to Seymour when he and others went to Portland, and with no recourse left to him, he returned empty-handed to Los Angeles. The loss of the newsletter was a crippling blow to the Azusa revival. Seymour remained the pastor of the Apostolic Faith Mission until his death, but his significant contributions to the larger American Pentecostal movement were largely minimized by his contemporaries.

Seymour's last years
Another blow to Seymour's authority in the later movement was the split between Seymour and William Durham. During one of Seymour's revival tours in 1911, he asked Durham if he would serve as the visiting preacher while he was gone. Durham agreed, but his views on sanctification caused a schism in the church. Seymour was asked to return to Azusa immediately, while his wife Jennie padlocked Durham out of the mission. Durham began to attack Seymour publicly, launching a rhetoric campaign claiming that Seymour was no longer following the will of God and was not fit to be a leader. This did further harm to Seymour's ministry. Even after Durham's sudden death in 1912, the Pentecostal community in Los Angeles remained split.

Although his message had spread around the world, by 1914 Seymour's congregation on Azusa Street had shrunk to a small, local, Black American church. He continued as pastor until his death. On September 28, 1922, Seymour suffered two heart attacks and died in his wife's arms. He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in East Los Angeles, near influential Pentecostal preacher Francisco Olazábal. Jennie Seymour died on July 2, 1936, and was buried next to her husband.

Legacy and influence
Under Seymour's leadership, the Azusa Street Mission sent evangelists throughout the United States, spreading the Pentecostal message from Los Angeles all over the United States and resulting in many missions that modeled themselves after Azusa. By 1914, Pentecostalism had spread to almost every major U.S. city. All major American Pentecostal denominations can trace their origins to Azusa Street, including the Assemblies of God, the Church of God in Christ, the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee), the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, the United Pentecostal Church, and the Pentecostal Holiness Church.

The mission's doctrines quickly went around the world, with many of the missionaries spreading the new message having themselves been at the Azusa Street revival. By 1907, missionaries from Azusa Street had reached Mexico, Canada, Western Europe, the Middle East, West Africa, and parts of Asia. In the 21st century, estimates of worldwide Pentecostal membership range from 115 million to 400 million.

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CALD

CALD may refer to:

 * Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
 * Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats
 * Council of Australian Law Deans
 * Culturally and linguistically diverse, a term used in policy discourse related to multiculturalism in Australia
 * former NASDAQ symbol between 2000 and 2001 of Caldera Systems, Inc.
 * former NASDAQ symbol between 2001 and 2001 of Caldera International, Inc.
 * NASDAQ symbol since 2003 of CallidusCloud

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Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats

The Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD) is a regional organization of liberal democratic political parties in Asia.

History and details
The Council was created on 15 October 1993, in a meeting in Taipei, Taiwan. There are nine member parties, an associate member, and one party with observer status. Currently, many democrats in Asia have a relationship with CALD. CALD has also opened its membership to like-minded individuals, and regularly engages with non-member political parties from Japan and South Korea with which it shares the same democratic values. The Democratic Party of Japan is one of the examples.

For the convenience of particular members, they also accept individual members, like the situation in Hong Kong. The Democratic Party of Hong Kong is represented in CALD by Martin Lee and Sin Chung Kai. The third individual member of the CALD was Indonesia's ex-President Abdurrahman Wahid (1940–2009). Aung San Suu Kyi and Corazon Aquino (1933–2009) are honorary members of CALD.

The CALD has been sanctioned by the People's Republic of China for allegedly promoting Taiwanese independence. The council has called the sanctions unfortunate and said they would not undermine the advocacy work it is engaged in.

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William Creek, South Australia

William Creek, in the Outback region of the Australian state of South Australia, is an isolated township with a population of fewer than 20. It is located about half-way along the Oodnadatta Track, 210 km north-west of Marree and 166 km east of Coober Pedy.

Location
William Creek is the entry point from Coober Pedy to Lake Eyre in the Tirari Desert. William Creek offers the only petrol station between Marree, Coober Pedy and Oodnadatta on the Oodnadatta Track and has a campground, two motels and one of the world's most remote pubs. The world's largest cattle station is located in nearby Anna Creek Station and the Woomera Prohibited Area, is also nearby.

William Creek is a good halfway stop along the track, with accommodation and meals at the hotel as well as a well-maintained, if somewhat dusty campground. In the Memorial Park it is possible to see many diverse items although more sobering is the commemorative inscription to a young Austrian woman, who died in 1998 trying to walk back to William Creek from a 4WD vehicle bogged in the sand beside Lake Eyre. The first stage of the Black Arrow Rocket, Britain's only successful independent space launch was recovered from the surrounding Anna Creek Station and located in the memorial park for nearly 50 years but has been recently brought back to the UK by technology firm Skyrora.

William Creek is serviced twice weekly by the Coober Pedy Oodnadatta One Day Mail Run. The four-wheel-drive mail truck also carries some general freight and passengers.

History
William Creek is on the traditional lands of the Arabana people. In May 2012, the Federal Court granted the Arabana people native title to more than 68,000 square kilometres in the region.

The name William Creek was given to the area in November 1859 by explorer John McDouall Stuart during his expeditions in the area. William was the second son of John Chambers, a pioneer pastoralist of South Australia and a strong ally of Stuart.

A small settlement arose in 1889 as a result of the arrival of the Great Northern railway (later known as the Central Australia Railway. Although work on (which we now know as The Ghan) commenced in the 1878 near Port Augusta, it took a decade for the line to reach William Creek, in June 1889. Work on the line continued, ultimately linking Port Augusta to Oodnadatta which became the northern railhead until the late 1920s. As large work parties flowed into the area, a boarding house was established there in 1886 and James Jagoe's Eating house is recorded to be there in October 1886. In 1890, Henry Lane received a 'wine license' for the site and assume Jagoe's business and facilities. In 1911, Gilbert Reed describes a whistle-stop on a train journey to Oodnadatta; he eats at Paige's boarding house—the meal is goat, dressed up as mutton.

In 1896, William Creek became a repeater station on the Australian Overland Telegraph Line with William Charles Brennan (b. 1861–1918) as the first Station Master. It replaced nearby Strangways Springs which was decommissioned and reverted to pastoral lands.

Early tourists to the area were mesmerized by the vast expanses, the heat, the mound springs and the distances.

The town has always been small: never larger than a few cottages, a small school and a Hotel-store. The historic William Creek Hotel is listed on the South Australian Heritage Register.

Governance
William Creek is in the federal electoral division of Grey and the state electoral district of Stuart. It is in the 63% of South Australia that is unincorporated, i.e. outside the jurisdiction of local government council areas; an area of 625,000 km2, 2$1/undefined$ times that of the United Kingdom. The 4500 residents in this area – less than 0.2% of the state's population – receive municipal services from a state government agency, the Outback Communities Authority, in a hybrid management model involving local government and community self-management.

Near William Creek
Lake Eyre can be seen from several vantage points along the Oodnadatta Track and appears as a large, rather featureless, white saltpan. It is only from the air that its immensity can be appreciated. The curvature of the Earth can be seen on the horizon and beneath it is possible to identify the courses of the ancient rivers that still occasionally flow into the lake. Trevor Wright and the pilots from Wrightsair take up to five passengers for a 60-minute flight out of William Creek, passing over the spectacular Painted Hills to the west, then along the southern edge of the lake, pointing out the features beneath and explaining the topography. The Painted Hills are brilliantly coloured eroded sandstone ridges. These, and all of the country traversed in the one-hour flight, are part of Anna Creek Station. From the air the Track can be seen, stretching to the horizon in two directions.

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West Midlands Safari Park

West Midlands Safari Park is a safari park located in Bewdley in Worcestershire, England. It was opened under the name of West Midland Safari Park in Spring 1973.

The park holds over 165 species of exotic animals and features other attractions such as a small theme park. The park contains the largest groups of white lions, cheetahs, hippopotamuses and meerkats in the UK, as well as the largest lemur walk-through exhibit. It was also the first park in the UK to have the African big five game animals.

The park is a member of the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). The Dhole and Cheetah enclosures in the drive-through safari are part of a larger heathland Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), which the park is restoring.

History
The park was opened by founder Jimmy Chipperfield on 17 April 1973 and hosted a few former circus animals. The park also had a dolphin area where the sea lion theatre is today, but it was a travelling show and the dolphins were later returned to Margate. The 1970s also saw the park develop a "boat safari", although it was later removed. A narrow-gauge railway through parts of the park was constructed by Severn Lamb in 1979.

In 2004, the park featured its first new animal attraction in some time with the arrival of four African white lions in the Kingdom of the White Lions exhibit. The park was the first safari park in the UK to have all five African big game animals, although its leopards have since been moved to Scotland and the last remaining Cape buffalo left in 2022. It was also the first park or zoo in Europe to successfully breed white lion cubs and has made efforts to conserve the species.

In 2006, the managing directors of West Midland Safari Park officially opened the Ongava Research Centre on the Ongava Game Reserve near the Etosha National Park, their "sister park" in Namibia. The centre focuses on researching lions and rhinoceroses and carrying capacity of the reserves, which hold many rare animals. The centre has three full-time researchers who work closely with Save the Rhino and the University of Cape Town.

In June 2023 following public feedback, the drive through safari must be pre booked via an allocated time slot which is included in the admission when pre booked or can be booked at the main ticket office for free at the Lost City Plaza. You can only drive through the safari once per visit

On 8 February 2024 the safari announced it would be adding the 's' to Midland and renaming West Midlands Safari Park.

African Plain
The African Plain is home to the southern white rhino, common eland, ellipsen waterbuck, African forest buffalo, red lechwe, Burchell's zebra, Grevy's zebra, giraffe and Ankole cattle.

The Grasslands
The Grasslands section is home to Persian fallow deer and Barbary sheep.

This year, they also added the Blesbok to the park as well.

Wild Woods
Wild Woods is home to a group of dholes.

Wild Asia and Realm of the Indian Rhino
Wild Asia is home to banteng, blackbuck, Formosan sika deer, Philippine spotted deer and barasingha. The Realm of the Indian rhino is home to four Indian rhinoceroses.

On 8 September 2020, an Indian rhinoceros calf was born, a first for the park.

White Tiger Ridge
White Tiger Ridge was removed during a change in road layout in 2019. All tigers are now located in the Tiger Reserve located in the Eurasian Reserve.

Cheetah Plains
Cheetah Plains is the UK's largest drive-by Cheetah reserve.

African Wild Dog Reserve
The African Wild Dog Reserve is home to a group of African wild dogs.

Realm of the Lions
Realm of the Lions is a fully landscaped reserve and off-road track featuring a pride of African lions.

Kingdom of the White Lions
Kingdom of the White Lions is home to a pride of rare white lions.

Eurasian Reserve and Tiger Reserve
Eurasian Reserve is home to Javan banteng, nilgai and Père David's deer. The Tiger Reserve is home to Bengal tigers and endangered Sumatran tigers.

Elephant Valley
Elephant Valley is home to the safari's African elephants.

In 2021, the construction of a new elephant reserve was completed. Currently the park holds one elephant: That being Five, as Sutton had moved to a different park.

The Borderlands
Formerly the elephants' enclosure, Borderlands is home to a herd of Bactrian camels.

Conservation
West Midland Safari Park is known for its efforts in conservation. The park contains many animals that are on the IUCN's Endangered or Critically Endangered list.

In May 2014, the park's Elephant Valley became home to the first male African elephant successfully born as the result of artificial insemination in the UK.

Land of the Living Dinosaurs
This is the UK's largest animatronic dinosaur attraction, opened in 2015.

Ice Age
This is the UK's largest animatronic creator attraction to feature ice-age animals. It opened in 2018.

Discovery Trail
Discovery Trail consists of mostly indoor exhibits and includes animal encounters. Visitors can come near small exotic creatures while under the observation of staff members. Encounter animals include ferrets, lesser hedgehog tenrecs and long-tailed chinchillas.

Penguin Cove
Penguin Cove is home to Humboldt penguins. Their enclosure includes a pool with a semi-submerged beach, sculptures, penguin house and public viewing areas.

Lorikeet Landing
This new heated indoor exhibit is home to a flock of Rainbow lorikeets. A specially designed walkthrough enclosure includes eco-heating to maintain a temperature of 18°C.

Creepy Crawlies
Creepy Crawlies is the park's insect house and contains a small range of animals such as tarantulas, Goliath birdeater spiders, leafcutter ants, locusts, Madagascar hissing cockroaches and scorpions.

Reptile World
The park's reptile house was formerly named after the famous herpetologist Mark O'Shea, who occasionally performed during the reptile-encounter events. Reptiles in this exhibit include the alligator snapping turtle, American alligator, amethystine python, beaded lizard, black rat snake, Borneo short-tailed python, Cuban crocodile, Eastern diamondback rattlesnake, Egyptian cobra, frill-necked lizard, green anaconda, green and black poison dart frog, green tree python, Jamaican boa, king cobra, malagasy giant hognose snake, Nile crocodile, red-eyed crocodile skink, red-eyed treefrog, red-tailed green ratsnake, reticulated python, Saharan horned viper and western diamondback rattlesnake.

Sea Lion Theatre
The Sea Lion Theatre is a 525-seat venue that allows visitors to see the parks’ Californian sea lions performing tricks in a 25-minute show.

SeaQuarium
SeaQuarium is the park's aquarium, containing a wide variety of exotic fish. This is also the park's chain attraction. Some of the animals include Asian arowana, Bermuda blue angelfish, chocolate chip star, clownfish, common carp, emperor angelfish, gold-spotted spinefoot, honeycomb moray, long-spine porcupinefish, orangespine, unicornfish, orbicular batfish, pangas catfish, queen coris, red-bellied pacu, red-bellied piranha, Red Sea sailfin tang, redtail catfish, redtoothed triggerfish, reef stonefish, Siberian sturgeon, small-spotted catshark, snowflake moray, spotted sailfin suckermouth catfish, spotted unicornfish, tambaqui, Vlamingii tang, white-spotted puffer and zebra moray.

Twilight Cave
The Twilight Cave is a walkthrough exhibit containing free-flying Rodrigues fruit bats and Seba's leaf-nosed bats. Nocturnal exhibits within this area are home to night monkeys.

Goat Walk
The African Village is an interactive walkthrough area allowing visitors to see African village wildlife and a replica African village home. The Goat Walk contains a walkthrough area containing Cameroon sheep, pygmy goats and Somali sheep.

Meet the Meerkats
This exhibit is home to a large mob of meerkats.

Walking with Lemurs
This is the largest walkthrough lemur wood in the UK, with three lemur species: ring-tailed, white-fronted brown and red-bellied.

Hippo Lakes
A large number of lakes may be found in the amusement area. One of these has become home to the largest pod of hippos in the UK.

Ostriches
Further up the bank from the Goat Walk there is a group of ostriches. Addax were formerly held here.

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Stoddard-Hamilton Aircraft

Stoddard-Hamilton Aircraft, based in Arlington, Washington, was a designer and supplier of high-performance homebuilt aircraft kits, offering parts and plans to homebuilders. The company's popular Glasair aircraft series are low wing, two-seat (side by side) fiberglass designs.

The Glasair TD of 1979 was the first pre-molded composite aircraft kit on the general aviation market, introduced at the 1980 EAA Oshkosh Airshow. The company was started by Tom Hamilton and named, tongue in cheek, after the style of large aircraft manufacturers in the United States. Using Hamilton's middle and last name, the company was incorporated as Stoddard-Hamilton.

Retractable gear and up-engined models were later introduced, with the Glasair III Turbo capable of speeds in excess of 300 mph, and another model being fitted with a turboprop engine. In the mid-1990s, Glasair introduced the Glastar, a high-wing, short-field capable utility aircraft with two seats.

In 2001, Thomas W. Wathen purchased the assets of the Glasair from bankrupt Stoddard-Hamilton Aircraft. He combined New Glasair LLC with New GlaStar LLC and continued production of the Glasair and GlaStar kits at the Arlington factory, marketing them under the Glasair Aviation name.

Aircraft

 * SH-1 Prototype
 * Glasair I
 * Glasair II
 * Glasair III
 * Glastar
 * T-9 Stalker

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Chin music

Chin music is a slang term with several different meanings.

Street slang
In American slang, chin music is a term for idle talk. In the US it dates back at least a century — "There's too much chin music an' too little fightin' in this war, anyhow" is a quote from Stephen Crane's 1895 novel The Red Badge of Courage — and is recorded in Australian newspapers from as early as 1836. It can alternatively be used as a euphemism for punching someone in the jaw.

Baseball
In baseball slang, it means a pitch that is thrown near the batter's face. The pitcher's intent may be to cause the batter to move "back" such that it is more difficult to hit a future outside pitch, to frighten the batter into a poorer batting approach, to intimidate opposing batters, or to actually hit the batter with the pitch. If the umpire suspects the pitcher of either of the latter two intentions, he may eject the pitcher immediately or warn both teams that any similar pitch will result in automatic ejection. The pitcher's manager may also be ejected or warned if the umpire believes the manager ordered the beanball.

In the late 1800s, at baseball's inception, the phrase "chin music" was used to describe razzing or heckling from the fans. It began being used as a synonym for a brushback pitch around World War II.

Cricket
In cricket, chin music is a term for a bowling strategy where bouncers are aimed at the batsman's throat or chin. Rising rapidly off the pitch, the ball is difficult to play unless the batsman has quick footwork. If fended rather than avoided, it may yield a ballooned return catch to the bowler or to close-in fielders. This is a difficult ball to bowl, since a few inches on either side would present the batsman with a short ball that can be easily put away on either side of the pitch. It is not illegal in cricket, but the number of short deliveries allowed in an over is usually restricted, and bowlers who exceed this may get a warning from the umpire or may lead to a no ball, often given a free hit.

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Talk:Silent Holocaust (Judaism)

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I have removed a large amount of material from this article, because it was supported by non-reliable sources. These were opinion pieces, sometimes mis-labeled as being news articles. The various claims made ("many rabbis", "used by scholars" and so on) were not in any way shown by these sources.

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Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:35, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

Propose merge with Second Holocaust
The two articles are about largely they same thing, even if they refer to slightly different phrasings. SomethingForDeletion (talk) 19:26, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

 * Support: Contents seem pretty similar, though the section on abortion should be moved somewhere else. ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 21:04, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Support merge. Abortion content not relevant to Judaism shouldn't be on an article which is about the Jewish use of the term; may be worth mentioning at the Silent Holocaust disambiguation page. – GnocchiFan (talk) 16:09, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

 * Oppose because Silent Holocaust (Judaism) is mainly about the silent "killers" of assimilation and intermarriage by Jews such as in the USA, like "carbon monoxide" poisoning while Second Holocaust is mainly about threats to Israel's existence as a Jewish state and it is NOT "silent" as there are plenty of very NOISY wars about it as in the Arab–Israeli conflict. The two topics are very different phenomena. IZAK (talk) 02:21, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
 * oppose - These two concepts seem to describe almost opposite situations? albeit with similar results. There should be a "see also" or "not to be confused with" at the top, but no merge. Irtapil (talk) 21:28, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose in strongest possible way - if anything, it's this article that should be proposed for merge with Silent Holocaust (Judaism)-- ౪ Santa ౪ 99°  11:16, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Two separate and distinct concepts. Not appropriate for merging. Coretheapple (talk) 21:49, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree Second Holocaust has a broader scope. However, content on Silent Holocaust (Judaism) seems to match quite closely the scope of Jewish assimilation. The idea of this being silent is could be discussed with the context of assimilation, including assimilation by marriage. Klbrain (talk) 13:50, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Oppose merger. The term "Silent Holocaust (Judaism)" refers more specifically to Jewish assimilation, whereas "Second Holocaust" refers more specifically to the physical genocide (Murder) of the Jewish people. These are two different concepts.Davidbena (talk) 14:43, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * oppose, they are simply not the same thing. Josethewikier (talk) 06:04, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

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Rutan VariEze

The Rutan VariEze is a composite, canard aircraft designed by Burt Rutan. It is a high-performance homebuilt aircraft, hundreds of which have been constructed. The design later evolved into the Long-EZ and other, larger cabin canard aircraft. The VariEze is notable for popularizing the canard configuration and moldless glass cloth composite construction for homebuilt aircraft.

Overview
Work on the VariEze design, which grew out of Rutan's experience designing and building the VariViggen, began in 1974. The first prototype, designated Model 31 and registered N7EZ, first flew on May 21, 1975 after four months of construction. This aircraft used a Volkswagen engine conversion. Three months later it was shown at Oshkosh where Dick Rutan piloted it to an under 500 kg class distance record of 1638 mi. Rutan believed that by engaging in a program of breaking class records he could further fine-tune the design.

The aircraft was so popular at Oshkosh that Rutan redesigned the aircraft so that it could be sold as a set of plans. A second prototype, the Model 33, N4EZ, built using a larger wing, a Continental O-200 engine, and many other detail changes, was shown at Oshkosh in July 1976 and plans were offered for sale. Approximately 2000 aircraft were under construction by 1980, with about 300 flying by late 1980. Ultimately more VariEzes and Long-EZs (a derivative, slightly larger design) were constructed than any other homebuilt type of the time. The sale of plans ceased in 1985.

Rutan's stated goals for the design included reduced susceptibility to departure/spin and efficient long range cruise; these goals were achieved. The use of a canard configuration allowed a stall-resistant design, at the price of somewhat increased takeoff and landing speeds and distances relative to a similar conventional design with effective flaps. The holder of the CAFE Challenge aircraft efficiency prize briefly was Gary Hertzler, set using a VariEze.

The prototypes flew originally with elevons on the canard for both pitch and roll control but the design was changed to pitch control with the canard elevators and roll control with mid span wing ailerons after a few aircraft were built.

While the airplane was resistant to pitch departures, a few builders discovered a potential for a novel lateral departure mode resulting from one winglet stalling at large sideslip angles. An outer wing leading edge droop (and later vortilons on some examples) was added to alleviate this problem and rudder travel was reduced.

The design's stall resistance did not appear to translate to a lower accident rate than for other homebuilts; a review of the NTSB database from 1976 to 2005 shows 130 total accidents and 46 fatal accidents out of a fleet of about 800 (691 registered in 2005). Precise comparisons are difficult, however, because of the haphazard nature of data collection and analysis for accidents involving homebuilt airplanes.

The VariEze is subject to a 2.5g positive, 1.5g negative, maximum load factor limit applied after the discovery of problems with some VariEze wings.

In lieu of a parking brake, the nosewheel retracts and the nose rests on the ground. Referred to as kneeling, this eases access to the cockpit. Resting the nose on the ground also prevents the plane from tipping onto its rear when the pilot's seat is unoccupied.

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Talk:Bill Veeck

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A truly excellent article. Only change that I would think about making is a mention of his autobiography, Veeck as in Wreck, but I won't touch an article that good to change anything myself!

Rlquall 21 July 2004 17:55 UTC

What about Bill Giles?
This entry says "Veeck was the last owner to purchase a baseball franchise without an independent fortune," but I think the chairman/owner of the Phillies, Bill Giles, had to mortage his home when he bought the team in the early 1980s. Giles wasn't "poor" by any means but he definitely did not have an independent fortune.

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The best we can do for a photo is one of the hall of fame?

Date confusion - L.A. expansion versus selling White Sox
I'm a little confused - if Veeck was forced by ill health to sell his team in 1961, why ws he shortly afterward considering buying into another one. On the the other hand, the expansion occurred in 1961, but discussion about who would own it would have heppened in late 1960, so that is possible, but why would Veeck have considered being part-owner of an expansion team if he already owned the White Sox? What he already thinking of selling the? In which case, perhaps his ill health may have been exacerbated by all this wheeling and dealing.4.68.248.130 (talk) 19:27, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

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" ... Subsequently, the article was strongly challenged by the late historian Jules Tygiel, who refuted it point-by-point in an article in the 2006 issue of SABR's The Baseball Research Journal,[7] and in an appendix, entitled "Did Bill Veeck Lie About His Plan to Purchase the ’43 Phillies?", published in Paul Dickson's biography, Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick.[8]"

I question the need for "late." I suspect that Tygiel was recently deceased at the time this text was added., However, it's not as if the the refutation was published posthumously, so I see no need to single him out in an article wherein just about every other person mentioned is deceased. WHPratt (talk) 14:03, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Another son?
This is the obituary for my high school physics teacher, Bill Veeck III, who died too young. He was Bill Jr.'s oldest son. Why is he not listed with the other children? https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-01-30-8501060569-story.html DaKine (talk) 04:59, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

 * In Veeck's autobiography, he explains that he had his first marriage annulled (he mentioned Pauline Privilege, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_privilege) so that he could marry a Catholic woman within that Church. Perhaps he didn't refer to elements of that earlier marriage thereafter. WHPratt (talk) 17:21, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

Phillies transaction
Added material to clarify what the Tygiel rebuttal article concerned and what his conclusions were. Arnold Rothstein1921 (talk) 02:09, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

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Oodnadatta Track

The Oodnadatta Track is an unsealed 614 km outback road in the Australian state of South Australia, connecting Marla in the north-west via Oodnadatta to Marree in the south-east. Along the way, the track passes the settlements of Oodnadatta and William Creek, the southern lake of the Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre National Park, and mound springs known as Freeling Springs, Strangways Springs, and The Bubbler and Blanche Cup (Wabma Kadarbu Mound Springs).

Some maps show Oodnadatta Track as route D95, which, under the extended Australian alphanumeric road numbering system, belongs to a D road, a category distinct from a C road. However, the D95 is not signposted, as the Department for Infrastructure and Transport has a policy of not marking unsealed roads.

History
The track follows a traditional Australian Aboriginal trading route. Along the Track are numerous springs feeding water from the Great Artesian Basin, the most accessible examples being the mound springs near Coward Springs, now in the Wabma Kadarbu Mound Springs Conservation Park. Later, because of the availability of water, the route was chosen for the steam-train powered Central Australia Railway, the original route of The Ghan.

It was also the route taken by the explorer John McDouall Stuart on his third expedition in 1859. Remnants of the many railway sidings and bridges, the ruins of railway buildings, and Overland Telegraph Line repeater stations are located along the track – some of the best preserved are at the Coward Springs Campground – complete with a natural artesian spa and the abandoned Curdimurka railway siding.

Angle Pole (-27.50363°N, 135.41585°W) is the point near Oodnadatta where the direction of the Telegraph Line changed to a more northerly direction. It is near the Peake cattle station, also known as "The Peake", or Freeling Springs. The ruins of Peake telegraph station exist on the station today. Nearby Peake Creek was named after Edward John Peake by John McDouall Stuart in June 1859, hence Peake Station, which was acquired by Kidman Holdings in 1898.

The Track was named by Adam Plate of the Oodnadatta Progress Association in about 1980, to form a trilogy of unsealed tourist routes with the Birdsville and Strzelecki Tracks nearby. This Road has no major intersections.

Route
The Oodnadatta Track heads southeast from Marla to Oodnadatta, and then roughly follows the former Central Australia Railway further southeast, until meeting the sealed Outback Highway at Marree. The road's surface has been well maintained in recent years.

In dry weather, the track is passable to most vehicles and caravans. A four-wheel drive (4x4) vehicle gives a more comfortable journey, and is essential for driving the track during and after rain. Since the track is unsealed, the Government of South Australia recommends that users check whether it is open before departure.

Major junctions
Oodanadatta Track is entirely contained within the Outback Communities Authority local government area.

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/First Amendment to the United States Constitution/archive1

First Amendment to the United States Constitution
This is a self-nomination. I extended the previous article by adding Supreme Court decisions and the like. Unfortunately, I have been unable to find good images, so I included those of two Supreme Court Justices. -- Emsworth 21:37, 30 May 2004 (UTC)
 * I'll support, but I think something needs to be said about school vouchers, and I'm not sure exactly what the Supreme Court has said on that--I know that they're acceptable, but not the precise rationale or restrictions. Oh, and I added an image of the Constitution. Meelar 16:38, 31 May 2004 (UTC)
 * I didn't read the article in depth, but from my glossary reading it looks quite good. →Raul654 22:19, Jun 2, 2004 (UTC)
 * I'd support -- it's a damn good article -- but, as a non-US reader, it'd be nice for it to include the text. I didn't know much apart from the First Amendment covering freedom of speech; I'd certainly like to see the annotated text (like in Fourteenth Amendment), as I'm not even remotely acquainted with the actual words. OwenBlacker 12:04, Jun 3, 2004 (UTC)
 * The text has been added. I'm not sure, however, if it should be placed at the top or bottom. -- Emsworth 00:55, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * The top (where it is now) is nice. Sam [Spade] 17:39, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * I won't oppose, but I think the opening paragraphs assume far too much knowledge about the United States government. A bigger history section (right now the history is essentially limited to the second paragraph) and fewer mundane details (or at least hiding the mundane details at the bottom) would be better. Basically, instead of a legalistic description, I'd like to see an article on what the First Amendment really means to the United States.  What separates it from protections in other countries?  Why was it created (besides the tautological statement in the first paragraph)?   anthony (see warning)
 * I'll second anthony's comments; as a UK reader, I find it slightly inpenetrable. This may be as much my fault as the article's, and I can't make any concrete recommendations in that regard. I also agree that it focuses too much on how the text has been interpreted legally. Some history / context of why and how the ammendment came to be would be an improvement. — Matt 00:35, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * I don't see the concentration on legal history as a demerit; in fact, I think that the meaning of the amendment should be the primary concern of the article. I had intended to write articles on the various Amendments and Articles (I've finished Articles One to Seven and Amendments One to Four). It was my intention to have the history of the first ten Amendments together at Bill of Rights. Furthermore, all of the articles are to form a part of a series (see Template:USConstitution). -- Emsworth 00:38, Jun 10, 2004 (UTC)
 * True, but you don't want to have readers have to go through a whole series. I think a nice short section touching on the historical roots and implications (possibly involving links to separation of church and state and American exceptionalism) would go well. Meelar 13:24, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * I don't have a problem with an article which is concentrated on legal history, I just think something featured on the front page should have a broader appeal. anthony (see warning) 21:35, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * oppose. Obscure. Zw 07:07, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * not a legitimate reason. Few people know about James Bulger murder case. and even if legitimate, it is not obscure. --Jiang 08:09, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * I object to regularly featuring articles which are completely obscure and irrelevant to people who are not from the USA. Zw 08:47, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * To quote myself from the talk page "If people want to lodge...erm, "silly" complaints then I reserve the right to disregard them.". I believe that observation applies in this case. I do not intend give this objection any heed when promoting. →Raul654 04:25, Jun 14, 2004 (UTC)
 * I agree with Jiang on both counts. Anti-Americanism is not a reason to object to an article. --mav 09:42, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * I don't see how it's anti-American to not want articles which are completely irrelevant to people not from the USA featured on the front page. This is essentially the reasons behind my not-quite-opposition. anthony (see warning) 12:30, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * I don't think that an article's topic's relevance to a particular nation is relevant. I objected to Billboard below because, while billboards are internationally relevant, the article contains information on American billboards only. The very topic of this article, however, is American; what is being suggested is that the topic, not the article, is defective. Nevertheless, several articles concerned with only one particular nation have become featured: London congestion charge, History of the English penny, Origins of the American Civil War, Adoption in Rome, Poetry of the United States, Irish poetry, U.S. Electoral College, Peerage, and others. -- Emsworth 13:25, Jun 13, 2004 (UTC)
 * Agree with User:Jiang: "obscurity" isn't a criterion, as far as I'm aware. We already have History of the English penny, Heavy metal umlaut and All your base are belong to us featured. — Matt 13:00, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * Further, the notion that this is only relevant to the US is misguided. This was the acknowledged precedent of a similar measure in the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Similar influence can probably be found in dozens, if not hundreds, of other national constitutions. -- Jmabel 04:18, Jun 14, 2004 (UTC)
 * Object . The photograph of the Bill of Rights is not attributed.  How do we know that it's not a copyright violation? --TreyHarris 08:38, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * the Bill of Rights are over 200 years old...it's attributed now.
 * Thank you for attributing it, but you misunderstand my objection. I wasn't claiming the Bill of Rights was copyrighted!  I was saying that the photograph of same might be, and how could we know since it wasn't attributed?  Since the photograph was in color, it was likely to be copyrighted if not explicitly dedicated to the public domain.  Now that we know the photograph (as well as the document in the photograph) is from the U.S. government, I withdraw my objection. --TreyHarris 09:01, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * Object. Having read the article carefully after seeing the prior criticisms of Amero-centrism, I'm forced to renew my objection on different grounds.  While the idea brought up by some that the topic is too Amero-centric is laughable (and should not disqualify the article in any case, if we're serious about the philosophy that any article can gained featured status given enough effort), my disagreement of that idea does lead to my objection—namely, that the effect of the First Amendment on world political philosophy is not discussed at all in this article.  Americans are taught from as soon as they can read that the First Amendment is the shining example to the world of political freedom.  Is it?  If so, where's the discussion of the impact it's had on the world?  If not, what is the difference between First Amendment rights and analogous rights in other countries? This is a serious objection and a hard one to answer, I know, but I think it needs to be addressed to make the article complete. --TreyHarris 19:25, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * I don't think this is a serious objection.  The idea that the first amendment to the US constitution is of great importance for the rest of the world is rather peculiar.  If it needs to be dealt with at all, a mention of some of the earlier discussions and examples of the concept is all that is needed. Markalexander100 03:47, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * Neutral on article, but I disagree sharply with what Markalexander100 says here. The First Amendment is as important for its international influence as for its role in US law, and the article should certainly engage the issue. -- Jmabel 04:22, Jun 14, 2004 (UTC)
 * I think this says more about the US education system than about the first amendment. Lucky we non-Americans have Americans to tell us what we think is important. ;-) Markalexander100 05:25, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * I don't think it would be appropriate to speak in gushing tones about the First Amendment's international influence. I think that perhaps it might be more appropriate for there to be a comparison with foreign jurisdictions. -- Emsworth 16:58, Jun 14, 2004 (UTC)
 * Do a search on Amazon for books just whose title includes "First Amendment". (That, incidentally, destroys any claim that the First Amendment is obscure, with over 435 books in print written on the topic.) Click on a few of the histories that have "look inside the book" and take a look at the tables of contents.  The impact of the First Amendment on political thinkers outside the United States is always at least a chapter. --TreyHarris 04:35, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * Neutral. It’s pretty uninteresting. I never thought to made an article about Amendments... As a curiosity, it is socially important... an Amendment? Maybe Americans are interested in that. And some featured articles are also only interesting to American. There's even a nomination to a soap opera that showed for decades that I never heard of. And as far as I saw it was pretty boring. If that were in here (Portugal) I would sign a motion to take it off from TV. But maybe some people think that was fabulous. -Pedro 03:22, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * Importance. Well, let's see. The first written guarantee by a government to its people of freedom of speech, religion, etc. What would be a more important matter in the history of written constitutions? -- Jmabel 04:24, Jun 14, 2004 (UTC)
 * Not to criticize the article, which looks excellent from my limited skimming, but the Declaration of the Rights of Man was promulgated before the Bill of Rights (which only went into effect in 1791). Furthermore, some of the rights in the First Amendment were, I believe, already present in the English Bill of Rights. john k 05:34, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * I believe the sequence is
 * Bill of Rights drafted (along with two other amendments that were not ratified)
 * Declaration of the Rights of Man drafted and almost immediately approved
 * Two years later, Bill of Rights finally gets the state ratifications it needed to take effect.
 * But please correct me if this was a misimpression on my part. As for the "English Bill of Rights", it granted the freedom of speech only in Parliament. The only general right it granted that is generally associated with the First Amendment was the right of petition. -- Jmabel 18:15, Jun 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * Being interesting is not a criteria - only how well written and comprehensive it is. Everyone has different interests. Those interested in constitutional law will be interested here, those interested in sensationalist media stories will be interested in the James Bulger murder case. I could care less who James Bulger did. How is he important? --Jiang 06:11, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * I agree, since the standard of "interest" would be highly arbitrary. -- Emsworth 16:39, Jun 14, 2004 (UTC)
 * A new section has been added comparing the First Amendment's protections to certain other countries. -- Emsworth 20:17, Jun 14, 2004 (UTC)
 * Not bad, but does the first amendment really guarantee religious freedom? I thought the point of it was to protect the state establishments of religion from the federal government. anthony (see warning)
 * While Clarence Thomas took the same view in the recent case involving Michael Newdow, one cannot say that the First Amendment does not protect religious freedom. It explicitly precludes Congress from prohibiting the free exercise of religion. The state establishment-protection theory has not been clearly proven, I believe. Nevertheless, the theory became moot when the First Amendment was incorporated under the Fourteenth. -- Emsworth 12:58, Jun 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * I withdraw my objection. Thank you, Emsworth. --TreyHarris 06:25, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * Object. The opening paragraph mentions five rights, and we seem not to cover two of them at all: "the right to peaceably assemble and the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances (i.e. protest)." — Matt 14:39, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * I've added a section on the topic. -- Emsworth 15:47, Jun 17, 2004 (UTC)


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Talk:List of ships of the Soviet Navy

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I am editing Soviet Navy, so I have placed the 'inuse' tag there. However, I will leave this one open, so feel free to add stuff to it. -N328KF 17:02, 2004 Jul 21 (UTC)

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Blundell's School

Blundell's School is an independent co-educational boarding and day school in the English public school tradition, located in Tiverton, Devon. It was founded in 1604 under the will of Peter Blundell, one of the richest men in England at the time, and moved to its present site on the outskirts of the town in 1882.

While the full boarding fees are £45,750 per year, the school offers several scholarships and bursaries, and provides flexi-boarding. The school has 360 boys and 225 girls, including 117 boys and 85 girls in the Sixth Form, and is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.

History
Peter Blundell, one of the wealthiest merchants of Elizabethan England, died in 1601, having made his fortune principally in the cloth industry. His will set aside considerable money and land to establish a school in his home town "to maintain sound learning and true religion". Blundell asked his friend John Popham, Lord Chief Justice of England, to carry out his wishes, and appointed a number of local merchants and gentry as his first trustees (known as feoffees). The position of feoffee is no longer hereditary, but a number of notable local families have held the position for a considerable period: the first ancestor of the current chairman of the governors to hold that position was elected more than 250 years ago, and the Heathcoat-Amory family have a long tradition of service on the Governing Body, since Sir John Heathcoat-Amory was appointed in 1865.

The Old Blundell's School was built to be much larger and grander than any other in the West Country, with room for 150 scholars and accommodation for a master and an usher. The Grade 1 listed building is now in the care of the National Trust and the forecourt is usually open to visitors. One ex-Blundell's boy was the writer R. D. Blackmore, who in the novel Lorna Doone set the stage for a fight between John Ridd and Robin Snell on the Blundell's triangular lawn.

Peter Blundell's executors established links with Balliol College, Oxford, and with Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and large sums were settled to provide for scholarships for pupils of the school to attend those colleges.

The prep school St Aubyn's was moved to the Blundell's campus in 2000, taking over the day-boy house Milestones and the Sanatorium, and was renamed Blundell's Prep School. It has about 250 pupils aged from three years to eleven. The headmaster is Andy Southgate.

Rugby
Rugby is the main sport played at Blundell's in the Autumn and Spring terms. The earliest mention of "football" in the Blundellian was in 1861 and the first recorded "rugger" match played by boys at Blundell's was in 1868 against Tiverton Rugby Club, making the school one of the oldest anywhere formally to play the game. The Blundell's crest still hangs in the main room at Twickenham in recognition of this.

OBs Dave Lewis Gloucester Rugby, Matt Kvesic and Will Carrick-Smith Exeter Chiefs all currently play in the Aviva Premiership.

Sam Maunder, brother of Jack Maunder, plays for England U18 squad.

The Russell
One annual tradition is the school's cross-country run known as the Russell, named after Old Boy Jack Russell, a vicar and dog-breeder. It was first run in 1887, and 2009 saw the 129th run.

Southern Railway Schools Class
The School lent its name to the thirty-third steam locomotive (Engine 932) in the Southern Railway's Class V of which there were 40. This class was also known as the Schools Class because all 40 of the class were named after prominent English public schools. Blundell's, as it was called, was built in 1934. The locomotive bearing the school's name was withdrawn from service in January 1961. In 2009 Hornby produced a model of this particular Schools class locomotive. As the product photograph shows, while the name of this locomotive has been variously quoted as Blundells or Blundell's, the apostrophe does actually appear on the nameplate.

2024 attempted murder conviction
In 2024, a child who had been a pupil at the school was found guilty of attempted murder of two other students and one of the staff; he had been 16 at the time of the assaults in 2023. The Guardian said that "a troubling picture emerged of aspects of life at the 400-year-old school", with bullying, children having weapons and unrestricted access to their mobile telephones.

Old Blundellians
The first known society of former pupils, known as Old Blundellians (OBs), was established as early as 1725.

William Hogarth engraved the letterhead for the invitation to a dinner for former pupils of the School in 1725 and the Ticket for Tiverton School Feast in 1740, (image of print courtesy of Antiqueprints.com).

Notable former pupils include:

A–D

 * Robert Arundell, Governor of the Windward Islands and Barbados
 * Vernon Bartlett, journalist and politician
 * Edward Bellew, drainage inspector and winner of the Victoria Cross
 * Dominic Bess, England cricketer
 * R. D. Blackmore, author of Lorna Doone
 * Richard Bowring, Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge
 * William Buckland, geologist
 * William Edward Buckley, professor of Anglo-Saxon
 * George Bull, theologian and bishop
 * Giles Bullard, High Commissioner to the West Indies
 * Charles Campion, food critic
 * Bampfylde Moore Carew, rogue and imposter
 * Aelred Carlyle, missionary and monk
 * Frederick William Cuming, 1900 Olympic gold medal winner as part of the UK cricket team
 * Charles Cornwallis Chesney, soldier and military writer
 * George Tomkyns Chesney, soldier and novelist
 * Ben Collins, Formula 3 racing driver and the infamous Stig
 * John Conybeare, Bishop of Bristol and notable 18th-century theologian
 * Natalie Dew, actress
 * John Davis, Welsh cricketer
 * Edward Dayman, hymn writer

E–K

 * John Ebdon, writer
 * John Eliot, English statesman
 * Tristan Evans, Drummer & backing vocals for UK based band The Vamps
 * Charles Rossiter Forwood, lawyer and Attorney General of Fiji
 * Francis Fulford, Anglo-Catholic bishop of Montreal
 * John Gay, philosopher
 * Anthony Gifford, cricketer and educator
 * Michael Gilbert, writer of mysteries and thrillers
 * Douglas Gracey, Commander in Chief Pakistan Army 1948-51
 * Charles Harper, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of St. Helena 1925–1932
 * C. Brian Haselgrove mathematician best known for disproving the Pólya conjecture in 1958
 * Thomas Hayter, bishop of Norwich 1749–61, bishop of London 1761–62
 * Abraham Hayward, man of letters
 * Archibald Hill, Nobel Prize winner
 * David Gordon Hines, developer of co-operatives in Tanganyika and Uganda
 * Walter Hook, Tractarian vicar of Leeds
 * Ella Hunt, actress, dickinson, anna and the apocalypse, intruders
 * James Jeremie, academic and churchman
 * John Jeremie, governor of Sierra Leone
 * C. E. M. Joad, intellectual, broadcasting personality and fare dodger
 * Philip Keun, Special Operations Executive Captain and co-leader of the Jade-Amicol French resistance network.

L–R

 * Geoffrey Lampe, theologian and winner of the Military Cross
 * Wilfrid Le Gros Clark, surgeon, primatologist and paleoanthropologist who disproved Piltdown Man
 * Robin Lloyd-Jones, Author
 * Jeremy Lloyds, Test Cricket umpire
 * George Malcolm, army officer
 * Thomas Manton, Puritan clergyman
 * John Margetson, former British Ambassador to Vietnam, the United Nations, and the Netherlands.
 * Vic Marks, Somerset and England cricketer
 * Professor John Marrack, DSO, MC, Emeritus Professor of Chemical Pathology in the University of London
 * Claire Marshall, journalist
 * Michael Mates, former MP (constituency of East Hampshire)
 * Hugh Morris, England cricketer and current Managing Director of the England and Wales Cricket Board
 * Gordon Newton, Editor of the Financial Times
 * Christopher Ondaatje, author and donor to the Labour Party
 * William Pillar, Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Supplies
 * John de la Pole, 6th Baronet
 * Ben Rice, novelist
 * Jack Russell, Victorian hunting parson, dog breeder

S–Z

 * Peter Schidlof, Austrian-British violist and co-founder of the Amadeus Quartet
 * Edward Seymour, 16th Duke of Somerset
 * Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset
 * Percy Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset
 * Richard Sharp, England rugby captain
 * Richard Shore, cricketer
 * Frederick Spring, senior army officer
 * Trevor Spring, army officer
 * J. C. Squire, poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor
 * Donald Stokes, industrialist and peer
 * Jon Swain, award-winning writer, whose memoirs were portrayed in the film The Killing Fields
 * Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury
 * Clem Thomas, Wales Rugby Captain
 * Georgia "Toff" Toffolo, television and media personality
 * Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet, English civil servant, governor of Madras
 * Henry Hawkins Tremayne, creator of the Lost Gardens of Heligan
 * John Van der Kiste, author
 * Walter Walker, controversial soldier and writer
 * Arthur Graeme West, war poet
 * John Whiteley, Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff 1949–53
 * Cyril Wilkinson, Great Britain hockey player and Olympic Gold Medallist
 * Geoffrey Willans, humorist and co-author of Nigel Molesworth series
 * Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet, Lord Mayor of London, MP for the City of London and close friend of Queen Caroline
 * John Wyndham, author whose work included The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos

Headteachers
• 2018-present: Bart Wielenga

• 2013–2018: Nicola Huggett

• 2012–2013: Randall Thane

• 2004–2012: Ian Davenport

• 1992–2004: Jonathan Leigh

• 1980–1992: A.J.D. Rees

• 1971–1980: A. Clive S. Gimson

• 1959–1971: J.M. Stanton

• 1947–1959: J.S. Carter

• 1943–1947: R.L. Roberts

• 1934–1942: Neville Gorton

• 1930–1933: Alexander Wallace

• 1917–1930: Arthur Edwin Wynne

• 1874–1917: A.L. Francis

• 1847–1874: John Hughes

• 1834–1847: Henry Sanders

• 1823–1834: Alldersey Dicken

• 1797–1823: William Richards

• 1775–1797: Richard Keats, rector of Bideford and King's Nympton, father of Richard Goodwin Keats (1757–1834), Martha Keats (1753–1833) and of Lewis William Buck (1784–1858), MP.

• 1757–1775: Philip Atherton

• 1740–1757: William Daddo

• 1734–1740: Samuel Wesley

• 1733–1734: John Jones

• 1730–1733: Samual Smith

• 1698–1730: William Rayner

• 1684–1698: John Sanders

• 1669–1684: George Hume

• 1651–1669: Henry Batten

• 1648–1651: Henry Osborne

• 1604–1647: Samuel Butler

Notable former masters
Former masters of Blundell's have included:
 * Terry Barwell, cricketer
 * Manning Clark, historian
 * Neville Gorton, Bishop of Coventry
 * Malcolm Moss, politician
 * Grahame Parker, sportsman
 * C. Northcote Parkinson, naval historian and author of the bestselling book Parkinson's Law
 * Gilbert Phelps, writer and broadcaster
 * Lawrence Sail, poet
 * Willi Soukop, sculptor
 * Stephen Spender, poet and essayist
 * Mervyn Stockwood, missioner to the School and later Bishop of Southwark
 * Samuel Wesley (the Younger), poet and churchman

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Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah are Biblical figures.

Samson and Delilah may also refer to:

In music

 * Samson and Delilah (opera), an opera by Camille Saint-Saëns
 * Samson & Delilah (album), released in 2013 by V V Brown
 * "Samson and Delilah" (traditional song), a song most famously played by the Grateful Dead
 * Samson and Delilah (Middle of the Road song)

Films

 * Samson and Delilah (1922 film)
 * Samson and Delilah (1949 film)
 * Samson and Delilah (1984 film)
 * Samson and Delilah (1985 film), nominated for the 1984 BAFTA Award for Best Short Film
 * Samson and Delilah (1996 film)
 * Samson and Delilah (2009 film)

Art

 * There have been many depictions in art, some listed here
 * The subject is one of those commonly found in the Power of women trope in art and literature
 * Samson and Delilah (painting), a painting by Peter Paul Rubens
 * Samson and Delilah (van Dyck, London), a painting by Anthony van Dyck
 * Samson and Delilah (van Dyck, Vienna), a painting by Anthony van Dyck
 * Samson and Delilah (Guercino), a painting by Guercino

Other uses

 * Samson and Delilah (play), a 1911 play by Johannes Linnankoski
 * "Samson and Delilah" (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), an episode of the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
 * Samson and Delilah, the club mascots of the Sunderland A.F.C. English football club
 * "Samson and Delilah" is a short story by D. H. Lawrence in his short story collection England, My England and Other Stories

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Talk:List of lieutenant governors of Nova Scotia

Untitled
I have found a list of Acadian governors with slightly different information in it. The names and the dates are not the same. Here it is:

http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/yoyo/Text-75.htm

I am not certain if this list is accurate, so I didn't change anything in the wikipedia list. If somebody wants to confirm which list is more accurate...

-- Mathieugp 17:05, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

John Doucett
There is some question what his roles were in what years. Definitely 1717-20 he acted for Richard Phillips. Phillips was then in the Province for 3 years or so...Important? not so much but someone may want to check it out further..Stormbay 21:26, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Fractured resposibilities
If someone wants to make this table/article a document with some historical teeth, they need to do a narrative on how duties were split up at various times. It is not as linear as the table implies. (some happy editing for someone (-:  Stormbay 19:42, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Jonathan Belcher
OK, something needs to be done about the Jonathan Belcher link here. It directs to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Belcher who is actually his father (both had the same name).

 * You are correct! The Jonathan Belcher who served as L-Governor from 176o-63 was the acting governor for the absent Peregrine Thomas Hopson. I am one person who made a mistake since the fellow I linked was dead during that period...nice catch. I will fix the one link now and maybe build an article for the other. --Stormbay 16:51, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Name
It erks me that this article is still called the list of LIEUTENANT Governors when it includes Governors as will as LGs. This article should the title Viceroys of Nova Scotia, or Governors and Lieutenant Governors of Nova Scotia, or have the Governors in a separate article. WayeMason (talk) 20:58, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, you have expressed that opinion before, and that concern was not shared by others. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 18:45, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Numbering
I see the numbering of the post-Confederation 'lieutenant governors' has been changed. I hope this changes is correct. GoodDay (talk) 00:02, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Caulfeild
Per his DCB biography, and biographies of Samuel Vetch, Thomas Caulfeild was never commissioned governor of NS. Why is he listed as such here?  Magic ♪piano 20:42, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

 * While I'm at it, why isn't Sir Charles Hobby listed if Caulfeild is? He was an acting governor under Vetch's first term.  Magic ♪piano 20:45, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

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Confusion matrix

In the field of machine learning and specifically the problem of statistical classification, a confusion matrix, also known as error matrix, is a specific table layout that allows visualization of the performance of an algorithm, typically a supervised learning one; in unsupervised learning it is usually called a matching matrix.

Each row of the matrix represents the instances in an actual class while each column represents the instances in a predicted class, or vice versa – both variants are found in the literature. The diagonal of the matrix therefore represents all instances that are correctly predicted. The name stems from the fact that it makes it easy to see whether the system is confusing two classes (i.e. commonly mislabeling one as another).

It is a special kind of contingency table, with two dimensions ("actual" and "predicted"), and identical sets of "classes" in both dimensions (each combination of dimension and class is a variable in the contingency table).

Example
Given a sample of 12 individuals, 8 that have been diagnosed with cancer and 4 that are cancer-free, where individuals with cancer belong to class 1 (positive) and non-cancer individuals belong to class 0 (negative), we can display that data as follows: Assume that we have a classifier that distinguishes between individuals with and without cancer in some way, we can take the 12 individuals and run them through the classifier. The classifier then makes 9 accurate predictions and misses 3: 2 individuals with cancer wrongly predicted as being cancer-free (sample 1 and 2), and 1 person without cancer that is wrongly predicted to have cancer (sample 9). Notice, that if we compare the actual classification set to the predicted classification set, there are 4 different outcomes that could result in any particular column. One, if the actual classification is positive and the predicted classification is positive (1,1), this is called a true positive result because the positive sample was correctly identified by the classifier. Two, if the actual classification is positive and the predicted classification is negative (1,0), this is called a false negative result because the positive sample is incorrectly identified by the classifier as being negative. Third, if the actual classification is negative and the predicted classification is positive (0,1), this is called a false positive result because the negative sample is incorrectly identified by the classifier as being positive. Fourth, if the actual classification is negative and the predicted classification is negative (0,0), this is called a true negative result because the negative sample gets correctly identified by the classifier.

We can then perform the comparison between actual and predicted classifications and add this information to the table, making correct results appear in green so they are more easily identifiable. The template for any binary confusion matrix uses the four kinds of results discussed above (true positives, false negatives, false positives, and true negatives) along with the positive and negative classifications. The four outcomes can be formulated in a 2×2 confusion matrix, as follows:

The color convention of the three data tables above were picked to match this confusion matrix, in order to easily differentiate the data.

Now, we can simply total up each type of result, substitute into the template, and create a confusion matrix that will concisely summarize the results of testing the classifier:

In this confusion matrix, of the 8 samples with cancer, the system judged that 2 were cancer-free, and of the 4 samples without cancer, it predicted that 1 did have cancer. All correct predictions are located in the diagonal of the table (highlighted in green), so it is easy to visually inspect the table for prediction errors, as values outside the diagonal will represent them. By summing up the 2 rows of the confusion matrix, one can also deduce the total number of positive (P) and negative (N) samples in the original dataset, i.e. $$P=TP+FN$$ and $$N=FP+TN$$.

Table of confusion
In predictive analytics, a table of confusion (sometimes also called a confusion matrix) is a table with two rows and two columns that reports the number of true positives, false negatives, false positives, and true negatives. This allows more detailed analysis than simply observing the proportion of correct classifications (accuracy). Accuracy will yield misleading results if the data set is unbalanced; that is, when the numbers of observations in different classes vary greatly.

For example, if there were 95 cancer samples and only 5 non-cancer samples in the data, a particular classifier might classify all the observations as having cancer. The overall accuracy would be 95%, but in more detail the classifier would have a 100% recognition rate (sensitivity) for the cancer class but a 0% recognition rate for the non-cancer class. F1 score is even more unreliable in such cases, and here would yield over 97.4%, whereas informedness removes such bias and yields 0 as the probability of an informed decision for any form of guessing (here always guessing cancer).

According to Davide Chicco and Giuseppe Jurman, the most informative metric to evaluate a confusion matrix is the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC).

Other metrics can be included in a confusion matrix, each of them having their significance and use.

Confusion matrices with more than two categories
Confusion matrix is not limited to binary classification and can be used in multi-class classifiers as well. The confusion matrices discussed above have only two conditions: positive and negative. For example, the table below summarizes communication of a whistled language between two speakers, zero values omitted for clarity.

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Talk:Kenneth Halliwell

Comment
A random clean up, facts gleaned from internet. I am not familiar with the subject matter. This article is basically a complementary stub to Joe Orton. Ianb 17:11, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Merging into the Joe Orton article
against - the reasons for Orton's murder need contextualization and including Halliwell's relevant details there would be an extensive diversion, unless the Orton article grows substantially in length. Philip Cross 20:07, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

against - Halliwell is increasingly gaining interest as a writer and artist in his own right - the Evening Standard said, on the recent publication of Lord Cucumber and The Boy Hairdresser, "These works demand that we revise our opinion of Halliwell." Also, the Wiki article makes no mention of Halliwell's work as a collagist, or the exhibition he had in 1967. I will add this when I have time! Jmc29

against - A recent BBC drama about the comic actor Kenneth Williams featured both Orton and Halliwell and was careful to give them both distinct characters, with a great deal of pathos directed towards the latter. Halliwell is of definite interest as a person in his own right and not just a tragic footnote in Orton's story, with his influence on the latter defining himself as well as Orton. --Robirv 01:28, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

against - Kenneth Halliwell's murder of Joe Orton is well known. Even if Halliwell's works were not enough to ensure a separate entry, I think his role in Orton's life and death would be enough. I accessed this page by searching for Halliwell and would have been disappointed if I had been redirected to Orton's page.

against - Ditto - I came here looking for info about Halliwell. 84.69.20.57 23:01, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Worth his own page. Charles Matthews 07:47, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

against well said, all. 207.237.198.152 (talk) 04:51, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

A possible Halliwell and Orton image in a film
In the original 1967 Monterey Pop Festival I believe that Halliwell and Orton are capture in the audience during the performance of Country Joe and the Fish midway though the film. I do not know of any films that captured live images where the two authors are seen together therefore I am mention this possible sighting film here. I own a copy of the Criterion Collect of Films Directed by D.A. Pennebaker. The concert took place in June of 1967. My claim needs validation.The Budzone guy 00:52, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

They were both in Tangier in June 1967. I have Lahr's edit of Joe's diaries. I think he'd have mentioned it if they had taken a side trip to Monterey. Cross Reference (talk) 15:58, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Lead image
Should the lead image be cropped? Martinevans123 (talk) 13:36, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

Baldness
I think Halliwell turning bald at 20 should be mentioned - that's enough to screw you up on its own. Wolstan Dixie (talk) 13:39, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, the wig could also be mentioned. Do you have good source(s)? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 13:44, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:Kenneth Halliwell