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Hi. I can't help wondering why your user name is "Deus ex Machina", but it appears in your sig as "Deus ex Macina". It's none of my business, but I am intrigued. Cheers --  JackofOz 11:12, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Well I was going for a general Latin effect, considering there's no "ch" in Latin.. I dunno, I might be wrong about that, I'm no expert. Glad to see you're intrigued though, lol.  ^_^  DEVS EX MACINA  pray 18:43, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

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This is my only user box. I definitely don't know the whole story, but what I've seen so far resonates with me. –BozoTheScary 20:37, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Your edit
Hey DExM, there's not really a consensus at talk anymore (Re this edit). Some new concerns have been raised. Jump on in. R. Baley (talk) 05:25, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Dane in Brisbane
You don't have your email enabled....but did you ever know a "Corey" say 10-15 years ago? Shot info (talk) 06:59, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I can't remember.. considering I'm only 20, I'd have had to be a kid, so no I don't think I'm the person you're looking for. Sorry.  Though Dane is an uncommon name, Brisbane isn't that small, either!  And I enabled my email now too, thanks for reminding me.   DEVS EX MACINA  pray 23:09, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 * That's ok. The Dane I was knew would be in his mid to late thirties.  Do you get much "Hey Dane...your Great" etc. type BS?  Shot info (talk) 00:58, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

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I'm not sure you can stop that from happening in the first place. Normally reasonable people occasionally make bad calls. What you can do is set things up so that errors like that are rare and self-correcting. Remember that within 75 minutes I recognized the error and reversed the block with apologies, then promptly pledged improvements to prevent a similar mistake from happening again. Processes at Wikipedia are supposed to be preventative, not punitive, and publication of that report two days after I'd addressed the error on my own initiative was about as punitive as Wikipedia ever gets: the mainstream tech press coverage that resulted may do long term harm to my career. Is that really what you'd wish on a volunteer who makes a good faith error after two years' productive service to the site? Durova Charge! 07:44, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
 * It's not the fact that you made an error, it's the thinking that led to such an error that is the problem. The criteria you used to determine !! was in any way a harmful account could be applied to any other account on Wikipedia given a bit of leverage, and it is that mentality that is harmful to the encyclopedia.  I know you made an error and it perhaps harmed you more than it should have had, but the  backlash shouldn't have been about you, it should have been about this sort of.. overly punitive thinking.  I know talking tough about cracking down on trolls and SPAs is popular talk, as is - if you will forgive the analogy here, but I think it's relevant - talking tough about eliminating terrorists, but it's the methods and the mindset we must keep an eye on.  I don't wish harm on you.  I wish harm on the thinking that led you to that erroneous conclusion, and would have led you to more in the future had no-one picked up on it.

 * Giano's leaking of the correspondence was the precipitating factor, not any notification to any higher body or the mailing list itself. Had we not known the exact contents, we would have merely dismissed it as a bad block, but it wasn't JUST a bad block, it was a bad conclusion, a bad system, a bad sleuth, not necessarily entirely your fault.  You were, though, the most visible target, and it could have been handled better by everyone involved.  However, Giano's release was not the problem, and any policy which seeks to disable this kind of whistleblowing is harmful to the encyclopedia and our goals.    DEVS EX MACINA  pray 10:03, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree that my reasoning behind that block was seriously flawed. That particular instance was quite different from the kind of investigation I normally run.  Normally I depend on smoking guns, not circumstantial evidence, and within the first two hours I saw the whole chain of logical errors that had led me there.  I promptly pledged improvements that would have stopped the same mistake from happening again.  In other words, the lesson that you say justified Giano's action was something I had already both learned and articulated to the community on my own initiative.
 * What you got from seeing that particular report was an accurate view of small piece of information very much out of context. Get 99 blocks right and one wrong, and suddenly I'm "a bad sleuth".  Post one out-of-character message to an e-mail list about cyberstalking, and a meme takes on a life of its own about what that list was supposedly doing and what it was about.  One of your statements is absolutely on target, although probably in a different sense from what you intend.  I've been waiting for things to calm down enough that rational discussion can become possible.  Durova Charge! 18:09, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

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MfD Again (You voted before)

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David Hicks
I'd appreciate it if you could refrain from edit-warring on the lead. Your comments in edit summaries are hardly helping, either - we've been talking about this for a few days already, so your action in restoring the contested version again, and asking people to comment on the talk page without participating in the ongoing discussion yourself is not particularly impressive.

I've indicated why both versions are unsuitable; why don't you help by finding a wording that addresses the concerns raised? Put it up in the discussion forum and we can work from there. Until we get a new consensus, it's best IMHO to keep the version that has survived for a while. But we will change it. --Pete (talk) 03:29, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Fair point about me not participating in the discussion. However, I don't think you have satisfactorily explained why the changes to the lead should not be made, apart from vague concerns - and, if I may be frank, your own personal opinion.  The sources are adequate and the facts undeniable.   DEVS EX MACINA  pray 12:07, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

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Moving Burma to Myanmar - new 2015 poll
You participated in a Burma RM in the past so I'm informing you of another RM. I hope I didn't miss anyone. New move attempt of Burma>Myanmar Fyunck(click) (talk) 08:27, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

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IDKFA
On cheat code you wrote that IDKFA stands for "ID Kicks Fucking Ass". Do you have any reference to back this statement up? Fredrik | talk 16:45, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * Some controversy about this one. See  and   Richard W.M. Jones

Neither source looks particularly reliable to me. And in either case, I don't think the cheat code is all that famous... so I believe it should be removed from cheat code.

Welcome to Wikipedia, by the way! Fredrik | talk 21:38, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * Well, as a DOOM player, I think it's pretty well known. Anyway, it's your call ...  I'm very happy to be a Wikipedian but I'm still not sure if you can 'see' my responses to your questions on this page.

I'm a Doom player too, but I don't think I've heard of this one. And note that although the code may be generally accepted to mean something, this meaning may simply have been made up by some random person 10 years ago.

 * I sent an email to John Carmack. Let's see if he replies :-)

I can see the respones now that I've put this page on my watchlist. Fredrik | talk 00:04, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * See Talk:Cheat code

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We Love Katamari
Because, the linked content on Wikibooks doesn't belong on Wikibooks. The site is supposed to be for educationally valuable resources, textbooks and annoted public domain works, things which could be used in actual classroom environments - video game walkthroughs do not really align themselves to this goal. I don't see "P.S. game guides" at the end of "A collection of free educational textbooks and learning materials." Such content is to either be deleted outright or moved to other sites - there is no Wikimedia site for this content, try Wikicities. Janizary 16:52, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Fair use image
Just to let you know, the image of Jet Set Willy will be deleted soon because it's an orphaned fair use image. See Criteria for speedy deletion, Images/Media criteria #5 ('unused copyright images'). I thought I'd give you a heads up before I deleted it, since you're using it on your user page. // Pathoschild 02:10, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I've readded it to the Jet Set Willy page, so it's no longer orphaned. Richard W.M. Jones 10:44, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

 * No problem, then. // Pathoschild 14:14, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

3D Monster Maze
Thanks for your kind words. A lot of recent changes that you've seen are a result of comments and insights that followed putting it up at Featured article candidates/3D Monster Maze/archive2. You're welcome to add more ideas about what this article is missing yet to become an FA, and, of course, to take part in improving it towards that goal! As for your question about my involvement with the game other than playing, I must say that back then (when I encountered the game) I was just 10 years old, and just started my programming (on an Elektronika B3-34, a predecessor of Elektronika MK-61 first, and then in BASIC — first Sharp PC-1245, and than on that very ZX81 where I played The Game).

On the same occasion, let me thank you for your significant contributions to the ZX81 article!

Kind regards, BACbKA 13:20, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
 * P.S. I am confused a bit about your significant contributions claim now, btw. The above thanks was based on the assertion you made on your user page (and I am not retracting them as you probably know what you're saying); but what puzzles me is that the history of the ZX81 article doesn't list any "Jones" substring there — did you do anything as an anon? And, come to think of it, the only change you made to the Attribute clash was an anon vandalism revert... did you work from an anon IP/another login in one of these cases?

--BACbKA 21:05, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, the contributions were made from this IP address ... Richard W.M. Jones 21:20, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I thought so... btw I've read about a way to claim some anon edits (with admins' help, IIRC if you have your own login history attached to that IP as well) and have them moved to your history... --BACbKA 21:31, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Final cleanup/peer review before FAC resubmission
Hi again! Could you please have a quick look at that article's talk page again? In addition to your Sinclair interest, you would also be a great asset there as a native English speaker in the context of the 2nd-person transposition discussion... TIA, --BACbKA 22:10, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism by 80.98.152.142
It's no bot, they're changing their thinking. Can they be blocked pronto? — Graibeard 10:26, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm not an administrator.  This can be reported on Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism, but first we must give the user appropriate warnings on their talk page. It's manageable at present - I'm periodically monitoring the two known IP addresses and reverting as necessary.  Richard W.M. Jones 11:29, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Screenshots
I noticed Image:Tranzam-1.png and Image:Tranzam-2.png which you've said are GFDL images. However, as they're game screenshots, I don't think this is correct, so I'm changing them to "game-screenshot". I hope you do not mind. Thank-you. StuartBrady 21:21, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, you're absolutely right about those. Richard W.M. Jones 23:38, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks. BTW, there aren't any others that I've missed, are there? StuartBrady 23:49, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Not that I can find right now. But I am planning on adding a bunch more animated screenshots (see Image:JetSetWilly-ColdStore-Animated.gif) so when I do that I'll be careful to tag them right.  Richard W.M. Jones 10:01, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Grammar School at Leeds
The latest few edits to Grammar School at Leeds have added a lengthy quote from "Richard W.M. Jones" to the article (added by an anon IP). Is this you? And if so, in what capacity? (see ). └UkPaolo/talk┐ 19:22, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Nothing to do with me. See Talk:Grammar_School_at_Leeds. Richard W.M. Jones 20:54, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

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Redlinks
Hi, I noticed you reverted an edit on the Imagine Software page with the rationale "rv edit by User:207.112.74.225 since the whole point is that if the links are red they should be created". Per WP style guidelines, redlinks should only be created if the creating editor genuinely feels they will become a notable article, and if that editor is personally willing to create those articles in the near future. More info at WP:CONTEXT. To create the links in good faith in the first place is fair enough, but to revert a perfectly legitimate redlink cleanup indicates your willingness to create all those articles. As it stands it just makes it look like Imagine didn't create many notable games, potentially calling the notability of Imagine themselves into question. Deizio 04:48, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Fair 'nuff, although I would like to write an article about Jumping Jack (video game) at some point. Richard W.M. Jones 09:18, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Laputa robot image
I reverted your new-version of Image:Laputa-robot-ghibli.jpg, as, although it's a nice picture, and higher resolution, it's your own photograph of the same object, not actually the original uploader's picture. This is needlessly confusing, especially as he has this in a gallery in his user space. Could you upload your image under a new name to Commons instead, then the image links in the articles can be changed to point to that. Has the added benefit of being able to be used in other (language) projects without copying the picture across. --zippedmartin 21:50, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Cool, done that now. The new image is Image:Ghibli-Museum-Laputa-Robot.jpg. Richard W.M. Jones 10:44, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

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comma seperated, and delimited
I know you suggested merging them, but I disagree. Comma seperated files have a lot that's different from other simply delimited files. They should refer to each other certainly, but they are sperate formats.

And if anything merge it the other way. Make delimited the main article, because comma delimited could be a subset of that (although a larger subset - comma delimited is the only delimiter that can handle newlines in data fields, and that has a method of escaping the delimiter).

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link spam
i'm sorry....

I don't see how my link was link spam...

i was showing others the was to LOCAl organizations and groups like scouts.....

explorer scouts is part of scouting and this is our group from LOUTH

please review

www.louth.24ex.com

81.77.128.245 17:30, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello Mr. Jones, sorry, but there is is no reason to consider the link I added as linkspam. It just leads to another version of Snake like all the other external links. And I think my version is not the less interesting one... (By the way, I removed a link to a really commercial game site) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kolumbus7 (talk • contribs)

Poo
...Wow this MUST be the most vandalised page on WP... Come join us at Douche! Joyous! | Talk 11:09, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

POOP NUGGET!!!!!!! Chicken666 15:38, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

NBNS
lkcl 22sep2006 - richard, need your help: a page called NBNS has been incorrectly redirected to NBT. as explained on the talk page of NBNS, this is misleading. how do things get 'un-re-directed'? the page should be a very simple page saying 'NBNS stands for NetBIOS Naming Service, according to Internet RFCs 1001 and 1002. See NBT page for details.' nothing more.

it should NOT be redirected directly to NBT because then people will think that NetBIOS over TCP is the NetBIOS Naming Service.

 * Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NBNS&redirect=no and edit the page. Richard W.M. Jones 11:23, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

 * ok thanks done!

Combating Vandalism
Hi, I saw you left a message on a vandal's talk page. To get them blocked, just go to Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism and put their name (or IP) on the list. Wait a few minutes and bingo! no more trouble. Have fun editing wikipedia... Yandman 11:58, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks, you're right of course. Richard W.M. Jones 12:32, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Leave me alone
Leave me alone you insufferable prig. I am not in the mood for interventions from small minded nerds Get it? Have some consideration RuthieK 12:42, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 * User has been warned on his talk page. yandman  15:42, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Apparently I am allowed to blank my talk page. There is no definite "rule" to sya I can't. Read what it says on the relevant policy page ('many people blank their pages as soon as they have read the messages') and adminstrator William M. Connolley does it as well. Check his talk page recently. Did you take my advice and shave? ;o) RuthieK 23:32, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

 * You can blank messages from your talk page. It is considered "disruption" to remove warnings, however. And that gets you a block. So does making personal attacks. yandman  07:34, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

 * So it is OK to misrepresent rules. Because there was no warning before I started to have RWMJ telling me what I can and can't do. I think he should be warned for pestering people. On Wikipedia the facts are always the first victim - tight-arsed formalism gone wrong rules the waves. RuthieK 08:30, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

 * RWMJ was the one warning you, warnings which you disregarded. I agree that the formalities are a pain, but we need them to keep the playing field level. You should try the Anarchopedia if that's more your cup of tea. yandman  08:36, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

 * A 'warning' for what? A tiny piece of perceived speculation (where do the facts end and speculation begin?) tacked onto a fact? A warning? Prig is the word, seriously. But facts are the first victim. RuthieK 09:00, 11 October 2006 (UTC) I am still waiting for the substantive point to be answered. He made a comment which has somehow been reinterprested into a 'warning' because a 'warning' was retrospectively needed to justify him.(His actions constitute disruption.) He then started pestering me when I cleared messages from the page. I was entirely within my rights. And how was the warning disregarded??? Something creepy is going on here RuthieK 13:13, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

DiSC and DISC
I came across these as a random article and tried to remove the advertising. I found that I clashed with your edit. May I suggest the DISC Assessment becomes the main article, after suitable pruning. DiSC is a commercial name and therefore should be the redirect. JMcC 08:30, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for correcting this. Richard W.M. Jones 08:34, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Conker
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 * Yay, cheers! :-) Richard W.M. Jones 23:23, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

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 * Hello again Lkcl. I'm actually taking a short break from WP since I've just started a new job.  I'll be back in a month or two however. Richard W.M. Jones 18:38, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

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 * Since "editors" now just delete images without any notice, I've left the broken link as a symbol of the stupidity that goes on in Wikipedia. Richard W.M. Jones 09:47, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Conkers
Thank you for reverting the Conkers article,

I was seriously freaking out about erasing the section, and I was desperately trying to find a way to restore it. I even started to write what I remembered from the section on my own.... hehehe.

Sorry about that, and thanks again!

Herminio —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hermiquin (talk • contribs) 15:04, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

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Revert on /. page
Hello there! I've noticed you've reverted an anonymous addition here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slashdot&diff=next&oldid=209197539 The problem is that /. is still offline, and I guess this is notable enough to be mentioned. I'm sure that when it'll be up there will be a good explanation for this (they always had one! :) I could have reverted your revert, but I preferred to talk to you first, to see what you think about it? Thanks! --Vlad|-> 10:55, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Whatever ... seems it's back up now anyway. Richard W.M. Jones (talk) 21:28, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

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 * Did you see my second edit? I hope that is using the "Cite web" form ... Richard W.M. Jones (talk) 20:09, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

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George Engelmann

George Engelmann, also known as Georg Engelmann, (2 February 1809 – 4 February 1884) was a German-American botanist. He was instrumental in describing the flora of the west of North America, then very poorly known to Europeans; he was particularly active in the Rocky Mountains and northern Mexico, one of his constant companions being another German-American, the botanical illustrator Paulus Roetter.

Origins
George Engelmann was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the oldest of thirteen children, nine of whom reached maturity. His father, Julius Bernhardt Engelmann, was a member of a family from which for several successive generations were chosen ministers for the Reformed Church at Bacharach-on-the-Rhine. Julius was a graduate of the University of Halle, and was also educated for the ministry, but he devoted his life to education. He established a school for young women in Frankfurt, which was rare at the time. George Engelmann's mother, Julie Antoinette, was the only daughter of Antoinette André and George Oswald May. The latter, in his earlier years, was an artist of note at the Court of Weimar. Julie Antoinette was Julius Engelmann's coadjutor in the school for young women, and its success was largely due to her management and tact.

His cousin, Adolph Engelmann, was a colonel during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War.

Education
George Engelmann received his early education at the gymnasium in Frankfurt. According to himself, he first became interested in plants around age 15. He voluntarily devoted much of his time after school duties to studying history, modern languages, and drawing.

Assisted by a scholarship (founded by the “Reformed Congregation of Frankfurt”), in 1827 he began to study sciences at the University of Heidelberg, where he met Karl Schimper and Alexander Braun. With the latter especially an intimate friendship and correspondence were preserved unbroken until Braun's death in 1877. He also retained friendship with Schimper. However, that erratic genius abandoned botany despite obtaining a remarkable grasp of philosophical botany and laying the foundations of phyllotaxy.

In 1828 young Engelmann's studies at Heidelberg were interrupted by his having joined the students in a political demonstration. He thereupon left Heidelberg and entered the University of Berlin, where he stayed for two years. In 1831, he received the degree of MD from the University of Würzburg.

His dissertation for the medical degree, more related to botany than to medicine, was published at Frankfurt in 1832 under the title of De Antholysi Prodromus. It was devoted to morphology — mainly to the structure of monstrosities and aberrant forms of plants — and was illustrated by five plates of figures drawn and transferred to the lithographic stone by the author's own hand. Its subject was so directly in line with that of a treatise on the metamorphosis of plants by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe that it was heartily welcomed by the poet-philosopher, whose own life was then approaching its close. Having received Engelmann's treatise through his correspondent Marianne von Willemer, Goethe inquired after the young author, saying that Engelmann had completely apprehended Goethe's ideas concerning vegetable morphology, and had shown a peculiar genius for their development. So strong was his confidence in Engelmann's ability that he offered to give him his whole store of unpublished notes and sketches.

In 1832 Engelmann went to Paris, where he again became associated with Braun, and also with Louis Agassiz.

Emigration to United States
Wishing to visit America, he accepted a proposition from his uncles to become their agent for the purchase of lands in the United States. In September 1832, he sailed from Bremen for Baltimore, Maryland. In addition to his duties assessing land investment opportunities, he also spent time on botanical travels, first visiting Thomas Nuttall in Philadelphia. He then went to St. Louis, Missouri, and from there around to the adjacent states. He settled with his relatives and the lawyer Gustav Koerner on a farm in St. Clair County, Illinois near Belleville for three years.

For the purpose of forming a correct judgment of the lands of the new country to which he had come, he made many long, lonesome, and often adventurous horse-back journeys in Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas. He often suffered sickness and hardship upon those journeys, but he persevered until he finished all the business he had planned to do. He made much use of his scientific, as well as practical, knowledge in the prosecution of that business, doing mineralogical and geological work, but only the botanical notes which he then made were used in his subsequent scientific career.

Medical practice
Having completed his business engagement, in the autumn of 1835 Engelmann moved to St. Louis and established a medical practice. During the three years that had passed since he left his native land the slender means he brought with him became exhausted, and he began the practice of his profession in absolute poverty. To furnish an office he was even obliged to part with his gun and with the faithful horse which had carried him on so many long and lonesome journeys. At that time St. Louis was little more than a frontier trading post, but Engelmann had strong faith in its future greatness, and he lived to see it become one of the chief cities of the United States. In 1836 he founded a German newspaper called Das Westland, which contained valuable articles on life and manners in the United States, and gained a high reputation both in the United States and in Europe.

Four years were passed before he had laid the foundation of his medical practice and had earned the means of making a visit to his old German home. In 1840 he returned to Germany, where in Kreuznach he married his cousin Dorothea Horstmann on June 11. (Their son George Julius Engelmann became a noted gynecologist.) They soon returned to America. Upon reaching New York City, Engelmann for the first time met Asa Gray, already the most noted of American botanists, and the friendship between those two eminent men thus begun was broken only by death. This friendship is noteworthy because of the evidently beneficial effect which it had upon botanical science in America.

Upon his return to St. Louis with his young wife, Engelmann immediately resumed his medical practice. Then, and long afterward, a large proportion of the inhabitants of St. Louis were of French and German-speaking families, and his familiarity with those languages, as well as with the English, gave him great advantage in extending his practice. Because of this and of his great professional ability, as the years went on he acquired a financial competence that gave him an independence. Never, however, did he take advantage of his success in this respect to lessen his labors, for whenever his medical labors were relaxed his scientific work fully engrossed his attention.

The confidence he inspired in his medical clientele was such that as he grew older he could take long vacations and resume his practice almost at will. After 1869, he no longer kept a medical office and attended the few patients he saw in his study. Still, it was always difficult for him to refuse medical aid to those who sought it, and even up to the last year of his life there were old friends to whose families he was the only acceptable medical adviser and whose appeal for aid he could not refuse. Illustrating this fact, as well as Engelmann's energetic manner, his son relates the following incident: “It was a bitter, sleety winter night, when the ringing of the doorbell awoke me, and I heard an urgent call for father from the messenger of a patient. I would not arouse him, and proposed to go myself; but he had heard all, and, hurrying into his clothes, was ready to go in spite of my remonstrance 'What of the night?' he said, vexed at my interference, 'Am I already useless, to be cast aside? I would rather die in harness than rust out.' So I helped him down the icy steps, through the blinding sleet, into his carriage, and off on his mission of mercy.”

Botanical studies
Engelmann devoted himself to his medical practice, but in his later years made a specialty of botany. An 1842 monograph on dodders, a very difficult genus to examine, had established his reputation as a botanist.

He took several vacations from his medical practice and devoted them all to the gathering of data for his scientific work, the details of which were elaborated at his home. One of these vacations extended from 1856 to 1858, the greater part of the first summer having been spent in botanical work at the Harvard gardens and herbarium in companionship with Asa Gray. Then, with his wife and young son, he visited his native land and other parts of Europe, occupying his time with scientific observation and study. In 1868 Dr. Engelmann and his wife again visited Europe for a year, the son being then in Berlin pursuing his medical studies. These visits to Europe were also the occasions of frequent and familiar personal interviews with men whose names were well known to the scientific world, such as Joseph Dalton Hooker, Alexander Braun, De Bary, Virchow, and others.

In 1859, he published Cactaceae of the Boundary which studied cacti on the border of the United States and Mexico. He also made special studies of the pines, rushes, spurges, and other little-known and difficult groups, contributing numerous articles on them to the St. Louis Academy of Sciences, to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and to government reports. Material in his specialties collected by the federal government was sent to him for examination. He was one of the earliest to study the North American vines, and nearly all that is known scientifically of the American species and forms is due to his investigations. His first monograph on The Grape-Vines of Missouri was published in 1860, and his latest on this subject shortly before his death. His two major works on cacti remain important today.

He was a founder and longtime president of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences, and encouraged the wealthy St. Louis businessman Henry Shaw to develop his gardens to be of scientific as well as public use; "Shaw's Gardens" became the Missouri Botanical Garden. On a visit to England in 1857, he had consulted with William Jackson Hooker on the establishment of Shaw's gardens. He was also one of the original founders of the National Academy of Sciences. With Asa Gray and Ferdinand Lindheimer he edited the exsiccata-like series Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata.

Phylloxera
In 1861, Engelmann had published a pioneering paper in the United States examining plant diseases. It focussed on the grape. He also established an herbarium for 10 species of grape he had discovered.

He then played an important, but little known role in rescuing the French wine industry. In the 1870s French vineyards came under attack by a small insect, Phylloxera vastatrix, an aphid-like pest which sucks sap from the roots of grape vines. Growers observed that certain imported American vines resisted this pest, and the French government dispatched a scientist to St. Louis to consult with the Missouri state entomologist and with Engelmann, who had studied American grapes since the 1850s. Engelmann verified that certain living American species had resisted Phylloxera for nearly 40 years. In addition, Vitis riparia, a wild vine of the Mississippi Valley, did not cross pollinate with less resistant species, the cause of previous grafting failures. Engelmann arranged to have millions of shoots and seeds collected and sent to France, where the species proved to be very successful in providing rootstock.

Other fields
While botanical investigations constituted much the greater part of Dr. Engelmann's scientific work, he always had in hand data for other investigations. For example, he began meteorological observations when he first settled at St. Louis, and personally, or by proxy during his absence, he continued them without intermission until his death — a longer period, it is believed, than that of similar observations by any one man in America.

Engelmann often compared meteorological data with his friend and contemporary Augustus Fendler. The two also collaborated on horticultural experiments on cacti, and frequently corresponded on the matter of specimen collection.

Among the animals he studied were tapeworms (Taenia), the opossum, squirrels and mudpuppies (Menobranchus).

He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1862.

Later explorations
The death of his wife on January 29, 1879, greatly affected him. He turned to plants, seeking relief in study, but life and a continuance of its labors seemed to be almost hopeless. His condition changed but little during the remainder of the winter, but when in the spring C. S. Sargent came with the proposition that he should join him in a journey through the forests of the Pacific Coast region he accepted it. That journey, although a difficult one for a man of his age, was of great benefit to him physically. His shattered spirit also was much revived and, among his friends, he resumed and sustained his lifelong habit of cheerfulness of manner.

Legacy
He is commemorated in the names of several plants, including Engelmann Oak (Quercus engelmannii), Engelmann Spruce (Picea engelmannii), Apache Pine (Pinus engelmannii), Engelmann's quillwort or Appalachian quillwort (Isoetes engelmannii), and Engelmann's Prickly-pear (Opuntia engelmannii).

Engelmann's botanical collection, valuable as containing the original specimens from which many western plants have been named and described, was given to the Missouri Botanical Garden. This gift led to the founding of the Henry Shaw School of Botany as a department of Washington University in St. Louis, where an Engelmann professorship of botany has been established by Shaw in his honor.

Engelmann was interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.

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Whitening

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Komarno, Ukraine

Komarno (Комарно, Komarno, קאָמאַרנע) is a city located in Lviv Raion (district) of Lviv Oblast (region) in western Ukraine. Local government is administered by Komarno City Council. It hosts the administration of Komarno urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population is approximately

History
The village of Komarno was first mentioned in 1427. In 1471, Komarno got the Magdeburg rights. In the center of town is an old Polish Kostel (Catholic Church), as well as an old wooden Ukrainian Orthodox church complete with ancient icons. The river Vereshytsia flows through the town.

The Jewish Hasidic dynasty of Komarno originates from this town, and there was a sizable Jewish community in the town from the 16th century until World War II when they were murdered.

Komarno, which until the Partitions of Poland belonged to Ruthenian Voivodeship, received its town charter (Magdeburg rights) in 1471 from King Kazimierz Jagiellonczyk. The town was under protection of Voivode Stanislaw de Chodecz, who in 1473 founded here a Roman Catholic church. Komarno was a local center of textile industry. The town was divided into several districts, and remained in private hands of several voivodes. In 1590, it belonged to Jan Ostrorog, the voivode of Poznań, and in the 17th century, it was property of the House of Wiśniowiecki. Later on, Komarno belonged to the Ogiński family, and Lanckoroński family. In the 19th century, when it already was part of Austrian Galicia, the Lanckoroński family built here a palace. Last owner of Komarno was Countess Karolina Lanckorońska.

In 1648, during the Khmelnytsky Uprising, Komarno was besieged by the Cossack-Tatar forces. On 8 October 1672 the Battle of Komarno took place here, in which King Jan III Sobieski destroyed a 10,000 strong Tatar unit.

In 1918, Komarno returned to Poland, and by 1939, its population was app. 5,000. Until the Invasion of Poland, the town belonged to Lwów Voivodeship.

Prior to World War II, the town had a Jewish population of about 2,400. During World War II, the Jewish population was murdered in the town by Germans and their Ukrainian auxiliaries or sent to Belzec to be murdered there. Only a handful of Komarno's Jews survived the Holocaust.

Komarno has a former Roman Catholic church (1658), which in 1946 was turned by Soviet authorities into a warehouse. In 1992, Ukrainian government returned the complex to the faithful, but soon afterwards, it was handed over to the local Greek-Catholic community. Among people associated with Komarno are Jan Kilarski (mathematician), Countess Karolina Lanckoronska, linguist Roman Laskowski, historian Jozef Leszczynski, writer Karol Szajnocha.

Until 18 July 2020, Komarno belonged to Horodok Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Horodok Raion was merged into Lviv Raion.

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Erik Poppe

Erik Poppe (born 24 June 1960) is a Norwegian film director, producer and screenwriter.

Poppe is regarded as one of Scandinavia's most experienced and compelling film directors recognized for his work with actors and multi-pronged narratives. His movies are often built around ensemble casts, sharp writing, impressive camera work and an uncanny knack for rhythm and music in the editing.

He is best known for directing critically acclaimed films including Hawaii, Oslo (2004), A Thousand Times Good Night (2013), The King's Choice (2016) and Utøya: July 22.

Early life and education
Poppe was born on 24 June 1960 in Oslo to Aase and Per Frølich Poppe, who was a fashion designer in winter sport clothing. As a child he grew up in Portugal and Norway.

He started his career as a photographer for the newspaper Verdens Gang and Reuters, covering domestic news as well as international conflicts. Being hospitalized after an assignment in Colombia he decided to prepare leaving journalism and study filmmaking.

He graduated as a cinematographer at Dramatiska Institutet - University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden in 1991. He have conducted several artistic and directorial research programs between 2001 and 2010.

In 2015 Poppe concluded a PhD as a research fellow at the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme and as an Associated Professor at HIL, Lillehammer University College/ The Norwegian Film School. "The Subjective Objective" is an exploration on how to achieve increased emotionally outcome by the use of a highly personalized and strictly subjectively point of view in conscious narrative film. -Is it possible to achieve a stronger identification, empathy and a greater involvement for the spectator by applying a strict enforcement of the subjective point of view? -A point of view who never allows the filmmaker to show for the spectator more than the film's protagonist are seeing or experiencing at any time.

The project developed various measures for an increased empathy with the narrative's protagonist and discuss further elements to be considered for a stronger subjectivity.

The key artistic work made as part of the research was the feature movie A Thousand Times Good Night, a dramatization of his experiences as a conflict photographer in Democratic Republic of the Congo and Afghanistan.

Career
Erik Poppe worked as Director of Photography on several features, as well as EGGS (1995) by Bent Hamer. He was awarded with the Kodak Award at the Moscow International Film Festival and won the Cinematographer of the year award in Norway. By receiving the Kodak Award he announced his end of work as Director of Photography.

Oslo Trilogy
Troubled Water (2008, aka: deUSYNLIGE) is the third part of his multi-awarded Oslo Trilogy, after his directorial debut with SCHPAAA (1998, aka Bunch Of Five) and Hawaii, Oslo (2004).

Working on the research for Schpaaa; a terrifying look at multi-racial youth gangs in Norway and shot in the style of a documentary, he discovered realities he wanted to adapt into two more movies.

Hawaii-Oslo tells a story about a number of people whose fates intertwine, sometimes by accident, during the hottest day of the year in downtown Oslo. Troubled Water is a story about a young man released from prison after serving a sentence for an alleged murder of a child. All of the movies are shoot in the area of Groenland and Grunerloekka in downtown Oslo. "The place where we live so close to each other, and know so little about each other."

A Thousand Times Good Night (2013, aka: 1000 Times Good Night, Tusen Ganger God Natt) was Poppe's first English-language movie. The film is partly an autobiographical story based on Poppe experiences as a conflict photographer. Poppe switched the lead roles around making the French actress Juliette Binoche as his proxy, and Game of Throne's -Nicolaj Coster-Waldau playing the character based on Poppe's wife. A standing ovation greeted Montreal World Film Festival's world premiere of the film, which went on to earn the Jury's Special Grand Prix.

The King's Choice (2016) is based on the true the story about the three dramatic days in April 1940, when Haakon VII of Norway is presented with the monstrous ultimatum from the Germans: surrender or die. With German Air Force and soldiers hunting them down, the royal family is forced to flee from the capital. After three days of desperately trying to evade the Germans, King Haakon makes his final decision, one that may cost him, his family and many Norwegians their lives.

The film made records when it opened in Norway by late September 2016 and became the #1 box office hit of the year. The film was Norway's official entry in the best foreign language film category for the 2017 Oscars and made a shortlist nomination for the Oscars.

Per Fugelli (1943-2017) was a Norwegian doctor, a professor of social medicine and a forceful voice in the public sphere. Fugelli spent his life addressing questions of freedom and respect, campaigning for rights of the less fortunate.

Fugelli was diagnosed with cancer in 2009. In 2015 he said no to further treatment and allowed his close friend, director Erik Poppe to follow him as far as possible on this journey. The result is I DIE (Siste resept) a film about life and how to live it to the very end.

In June 2017 it was announced that Erik Poppe had worked for a year on developing a feature film about the 2011 terrorist attack on Utøya outside Oslo, Norway. The film, entitled U, begins 12 minutes before the first shot on Utøya as we meet Kaja (18), her little sister, and their friends at summer camp. When the shooting begins panic spreads, and over the next 72 minutes we follow Kaja in her escape – minute by minute. She becomes separated from her little sister, and in the search for her she finds other youngsters with different strategies for survival. Some make it, others do not. U July 22 (Utøya 22.juli) is a fictional account of events which will tell the story from the young people's perspective, based on a series of in-depth interviews conducted with survivors from Utøya. Some of them was on set behind the camera while filming took place in September 2017 to help give the narrative credibility.

Erik Poppe was also the key director for "Brigaden" (The Brigade) in 2002. A 26 episodes TV-drama for NRK (The Norwegian Broadcasting Corp). Brigaden received the Norwegian "Amanda" Price for the Best TV-drama in 2003.

Awards
Erik Poppe is the only director to have received the Norwegian National Film Critics' Award four times. Hawaii-Oslo in 2005, Troubled Water in 2009, A Thousand Times Good Night in 2014 and The Kings Choice in 2017 - all movies were also voted as last year's Best Feature.

When he received the price for best film in 2014 at The Amanda, he became historical by being the only director to have been nominated for all his feature movies (five movies) in the categories best film or/ and best director at the Amanda, Norway's national film prizes.

The King's Choice ("Kongens nei") was the Amanda jury's clear favorite at 2017's awards as well. Nominated for a record 13 Amandas — Norway's national film prizes — it snagged eight.

Poppe has participated in key festivals, and received prizes such as the Berlinale -Panorama (Schpaaa), The Vesuvio Prize at Napoli International Film Festival, Norwegian entries for best foreign language movie at Oscars, Festroia in Portugal for Best Directing, Silver Dolphin in Festroia, Nordic Ministerie Councils Award for The Best Nordic Feature, ecumenical awards.

Troubled Water made history at the Hamptons International Film Festival in 2008 by being the first feature to win both the festival's Golden Starfish for Best Narrative Feature and the Audience Award.

Poppe received the Special Golden Angel, the lifetime achievement award, for his work as Outstanding European Film Artist at the 2016 International Film Festival TOFIFEST in Poland.

Erik Poppe is co-owner of Paradox Film and the Paradox Group. A series of companies producing features.

On his career as a photojournalist: "All the actions I undertook back then were driven by the urge to draw attention to the horrors of war. I wanted for my pictures to grab you by the throat, when eating breakfast on a Saturday morning."

On working with feature movies: "You need to be honest, because this way your audience will be able to identify with the topic and the hero. My role, as an artist, is to prepare a text with open questions and hide the fact that I have an answer key. Questions will provoke audience to discuss the film and seek new perspectives. The film is supposed to make a difference, and maybe offer a therapeutic effect."

Filmography

 * Schpaaa (1998)
 * Brigaden (TV series 2002 about Norwegian firefighters)
 * Hawaii, Oslo (2004)
 * Troubled Water (2008)
 * A Thousand Times Good Night (2013)
 * The King's Choice (2016)
 * I die. Documentary about Professor Per Fugelli (2017)
 * Utøya: July 22 (2018)

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