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Eagle Squadrons
Why is there not a section for US manned for the Eagle squadron?

Also in in his autobiograohy "Make for the Hills" Sir Robert Thompson (counter-insurgency expert) wrote:
 * ''[At XIV army HQ in Burma] There were not only the usual liason offices but, uniquely, an American, or rather Texan, B25 squadron in the Group under RAF command. It consisted mainly of Texans who had originally joined the RAF and had been transfered to the USAAF after America came into the war. They had asked to remain under RAF command for the rest of the war.

I think that this must have been been 490 Bomb Squadron USAAF (the Bridge Busters). Should there be a section for this? Philip Baird Shearer 16:17, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Polish squadrons
Contrary to what David Newton wrote in the edit summary, the Polish squadrons were integral part of the Polish Air Forces (except for the Skalski's Circus and the Special Squadrons not listed here). They were formed by the Brits with British equipment and fought under British command, but nevertheless were part of the RAF only logistically. They were given RAF numbers for reasons of consistency but were part of Polish Air Forces, not RAF. That's why I believe they should be named the way they were named in history, not how they are referred to by some books. [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] 19:49, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)

 * Next time that you rv to the last version by yours truly, see talk page for explanation please check what you are reverting to. In doing that you removed the contribution I had added about the American Eagle Squadrons which had nothing to do with the changes you objected too.

 * BTW on putting the information back on Eagle squadrons the in I have also placed your Polish squadrons back into the numeric sequence that the list is in. See French squadrons for another example.

 * As there can be redirects on squadron names why not leave the names with the bureaucratic names that existed in this list and put in a #Redirect to the name you prefer rather than changing this list to nick names? Remember that unlike British Army regiments that these RAF units may be reformed with totally different functions eg No. 152 Squadron RAF. It seems silly to me to start an edit war over links to pages which do not exist! Philip Baird Shearer 09:57, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Sorry for the revert of your useful changes, I hadn't noticed them. As to the Polish squadrons - the problem is the same as with Tadeusz Kościuszko and his American nick-name Thaddeus Kosciusko: his name was never changed, but sometimes he is referred to by some Americanised spelling. The same is with those units: their full official names were those I listed. Sometimes the British authorities referred to them using other names, which does not change the fact that those were not the names of those units, those were just "nick-names". However, you are right that there is no point in quarrelling about empty links. I'll get back to it when I finally find some time to prepare the articles (they are on my to-do list). [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] 15:42, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)

 * To revive this slightly, I noticed that 663 was listed twice, once out of sequence (in the 300s) as a redlink, once in the correct place, as a bluelink. I also moved Skalksi's Circus out of the numeric list to others, and improved the see also at the start of sections so that it is obvious that these other exist in their logical places.  David Underdown (talk) 09:25, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Squadron codes
It would be good if there were an article on squadron letter codes (e.g. 1 Squadron: NA (Nov 1938 - Sep 1939) JX (Sep 1939 - Apr 1951)) - the whys and whens and hows. And a list of them. Jagdfeld (talk) 12:53, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Overlap
There is a very ugly overlap of the RAF box and the list of 1-50 when the contents box is not extended (many people have their preferences set to keep contents boxes unextended). If someone wants to find another way to place the RAF without the ugly overlap please do. Jagdfeld (talk) 14:15, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Roman numerals?
I'm a bit puzzled about what the criteria is for using the Roman form of the squadron number on this page (and the squadron articles). Squadron crests vary as to whether the number is shown in Arabic or Roman, but AFAIK, throughout the history of the RAF, the usual convention has been to write all squadron numbers in Arabic numerals, with one or two quasi-official exceptions (eg. No. XV Squadron RAF), and the current RAF website seems to follow this. Letdorf (talk) 14:19, 22 July 2008 (UTC).

In the absence of any evidence of hard and fast rules regarding the presentation of squadron numbers in either Roman or Arabic, I propose that all squadron numbers used on this page should be listed in Arabic numerals, for consistency and in accordance with popular convention. This would also apply to all squadron-specific articles. Letdorf (talk) 10:27, 22 September 2008 (UTC).

 * I believe it is just a vanity or one-upmanship thing the squadrons officially used arabic numerals but some squadrons like to use the roman version normally if it has been used on the squadron badge. MilborneOne (talk) 16:58, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

ATC squadrons
I'd like to make the point that Air Training Corps squadrons, like RAF Regiment squadrons, are numbered independently of RAF squadrons and have no formal connection to similarly-numbered RAF squadrons. Therefore, I don't think it's relevant to mention ATC squadrons in this article. However, there is a separate List of Air Training Corps squadrons article. Letdorf (talk) 18:04, 28 September 2008 (UTC).

FAA Squadrons
Surely the only FAA Squadrons that are appropriate to list here are ones formed before the transfer to the Navy in 1939 (ie. Nos. 712, 715, 718, 800-803, 810-814 and 820-825) - the others never actually having been RAF squadrons. This would also get rid of a lot of redlinks. Letdorf (talk) 18:16, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

 * Agree MilborneOne (talk) 18:54, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

 * Okay, have now deleted the post-RAF NASs and tried to make the commentary clearer, omitting details of non-RAF units. Letdorf (talk) 15:37, 26 October 2008 (UTC).

No, you should list ALL of them, or it's not an accurate listing, is it? Magus732 (talk) 20:06, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

 * It is an accurate listing of RAF squadrons which is what this article is. It is not a listing of squadrons under RN control (refer List of Fleet Air Arm aircraft squadrons). MilborneOne (talk) 20:12, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Ah, yes, I see... that makes more sense... Magus732 (talk) 20:17, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Current squadrons
I think there should be a section or page specifically for currently operational RAF squadrons, like other countries pages have. —Preceding unsigned comment added by George4405 (talk • contribs) 15:15, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

 * Template:RAF squadrons includes a "currently active squadrons" grouping. Letdorf (talk) 14:19, 27 December 2008 (UTC).

I don't think so...!
You're joking, right? If I want to know which of these is Coastal Command, I should look at over 200 pages to find the handful I want? Surely there's a source with a narrower list...? (I just hope it's easier to find than anything on this list.)  TREKphiler   hit me ♠  16:02, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

 * Not sure what (or to whom) your comment is addressed, do you have a problem with this page? MilborneOne (talk) 19:30, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I know this is a bit late in reply, but adding Command information is not helpful as many squadrons did not stay under the auspices of single commands throughout their lifetime. not to mention the many iterations of the Command structure. If you want to research a Command goto that article and start from there, usually they will have a list of squadrons attached.Petebutt (talk) 22:15, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Deletion of "Others"
Were these units not also flying squadrons? No.1 PRU was certainly a flying unit (later renumbered as 39 Sqn), I couldn't say for sure if the other ones listed were, but they certainly sound like flying units. Letdorf (talk) 22:39, 14 October 2009 (UTC).

Squadrons' Table
Instead of having a simple list containing only the squadrons' names, I think we should add basic info about the squadrons in a table. I was thinking of something like this:

If the badge column slows page loading, then we could remove it.--MaxEspinho (talk) 16:10, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

 * As this is a just a list and all the information is in the related article I cant see much point in what could become a five-hundred line table. Some squadrons had different roles and you could end up writing a history of each squadron in the table. Some squadrons also have multiple formation dates all of which would have to be added. Would this be of benefit to the reader. Would you come to this list to find a squadron motto or would you expect it in the article? I would think it would be better to make sure that squadron articles all have consistent infoboxes as a lot dont have all this information. The use of tables is normally discouraged in list articles but I am not against a table for the sake of it just the repeating of information from the articles. Like to see what other editors think. MilborneOne (talk) 16:31, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

 * OK I had another think and perhaps this might be a compromise for now, I have just removed the role as it can be subject to change and interpretation (which on wikipedia can be edit conflicts!) as 1 squadron was a fighter unit most of its life. Perhaps you could do one section and we can review it again. Comment welcome. MilborneOne (talk) 20:36, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

 * Removing the role section isn't a problem, but I think that we should add the complete name of each squadron No. 1 Squadron RAF and not only its number 1.--MaxEspinho (talk) 08:46, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

 * OK MilborneOne (talk) 11:52, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

 * There only seems to be 54 images in Category:Royal Air Force squadron crests at the moment, so a lot of entries won't have a badge. Compiling lists of active periods for all squadrons is going to be fun... Letdorf (talk) 13:40, 11 February 2010 (UTC).

 * I started uploading images of squadron badges yesterday, so at the moment there are 63 images in the category.--MaxEspinho (talk) 08:52, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

New additions
While I appreciate users are trying to improve the article I suspect the addition of loads of non-notable minor squadrons is not really needed. This is a list of aircraft squadrons not every squadron that ever operated an aircraft. Certainly the communications squadrons are not really notable for inclusion and I suspect some of the others are not notable. Can I suggest that some of these new additions need to be looked at for notability and encyclopedic value. MilborneOne (talk) 19:56, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Mmm, it seems that you are calling into question the utility of any list. A list is just that, and notability should be a minor concern, left for eventual articles which will cover the entries, either directly or by re-directs. To exclude theless notable entries start a new list titled List of Notable aircraft Squadrons of the RAFPetebutt (talk) 22:10, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

 * Creating an exhaustive list of flying squadrons would certainly be an impressive achievement. However, creating redlinks for units where the notability or even the availability of sources are questionable is possibly best avoided; to quote WP:REDLINK, In general, a red link should be allowed to remain in an article if it links to a term that could plausibly sustain an article, but for which there exists no candidate article, or article section, under any name. I'm not sure all of the more obscure units you have added could sustain a WP article.  Regards, Letdorf (talk) 13:11, 19 November 2010 (UTC).

heading
hey great list, i just tweaked the headers a little to give the page a more uniform look, and i thought maybe the headers would look better starting with the numbers first. eg; I think it would help the numbers to stand out whilst still being able to include the relevant text.Yellowxander (talk) 19:56, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * 1-299 (Regular RAF Squadrons)
 * 300-352 (Allied Manned Squadrons)
 * 400-499 (Article XV Squadrons)

 * Sounds OK, you can try it and see what it looks like. MilborneOne (talk) 20:01, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

 * Just did a test, on the page it looks fine but in the box at the top it looks pretty messy next to the other numbers. tried inverting the numbers into brackets and it didn't clarify it any further, so probably best not to change. I was wondering about changing "numbers" to "squadrons"?Yellowxander (talk) 20:14, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Aircraft types
Do we really need to list types flown by active squadrons, this is a complete list if all Squadrons not just the current ones so is probably undue weight. MilborneOne (talk) 18:41, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Squadron names
Users seem to be adding squadron names to the article but in most cases these name only relate to part of the history of the squadron, do they need to be mentioned differently ? MilborneOne (talk) 18:41, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

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John Lanchbery

John Arthur Lanchbery OBE (15 May 1923 – 27 February 2003) was an English-Australian composer and conductor, famous for his ballet arrangements. He served as the Principal Conductor of the Royal Ballet from 1959 to 1972, Principal Conductor of the Australian Ballet from 1972 to 1977, and Musical Director of the American Ballet Theatre from 1978 to 1980. He continued to conduct regularly for the Royal Ballet until 2001.

Lanchbery was widely considered (including by Nureyev) to be the greatest ballet conductor of his time, and to be ‘a conductor and music director of unmatched experience’ who was ‘directly responsible for raising the status and the standards of musical performance'. Maina Gielgud, Artistic Director of Australian Ballet, stated that "He [Lanchbery] is not only the finest conductor for dance of his generation and probably well beyond". One critic wrote that ‘the music was always on its best behaviour’ when Lanchbery was conducting. He was also famous for his re-adaptation of canonical works.

Early life
Lanchbery was born in London on 15 May 1923, where he began violin lessons and music composition when he was eight years of age. He was educated at Alleyn's School, where he formed a collaborative partnership with Peter Stanley Lyons who was later a famous chorister, and with Kenneth Spring who was the founder of the National Youth Theatre and whose composer mother encouraged Lanchbery's musical talent. Lanchbery was in 1942 awarded the Henry Smart Composition Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied under Sir Henry Wood until his studies were interrupted by the war, during which he served in the Royal Armoured Corps, after which Lanchbery returned to the RAM to study for two more years before he returned to Alleyn's School as a music master. He was declined the job of Alleyn's School's Director of Music, and subsequently worked for a music publisher.

Conductor of London Metropolitan Ballet and Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet: 1948–1959
Lanchbery was recommended to apply for the post of Conductor of the Metropolitan Ballet. He obtained the position and made his debut with them at Edinburgh in 1948. Two years later the orchestra collapsed for lack of funds. However, working with choreographer Celia Franca, Lanchbery wrote The Eve of St Agnes (the story was based on John Keats' poem of the same name), one of the first commissioned ballets to be shown on BBC television. He composed film scores for Eric Robinson before joining the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet (later the Royal Ballet touring company) in 1951, with whom he proceeded to orchestrate, in 1953, the first professional ballet choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan: Somnambulism whose music was composed with music by Stan Kenton. Lanchbery also orchestrated The House of Birds (La Casa de los Pájaros) in 1955, with original music by Federico Mompou.

Principal Conductor of Royal Ballet: 1959–1972
Lanchbery served as Principal Conductor of the Royal Ballet from 1959 from 1972. He arranged the music for the ballet La fille mal gardée, to choreography by Frederick Ashton, for the Royal Ballet in 1960. The pastiche score for Ashton's La fille mal gardée included music by Donizetti, Martini, Rossini, and Peter-Ludwig Hertel, as well as material composed by Lanchbery himself. The music for the famous Clog Dance, originally by Hertel, was used for many years as a theme tune for Home This Afternoon on BBC radio. In 1960 the dancer Rudolf Nureyev staged The Kingdom of the Shades scene from Marius Petipa's ballet La Bayadère for the Royal Ballet, and Lanchbery was commissioned to create a new arrangement of Ludwig Minkus's music. Eventually he would create a new version of the complete score.

In addition to the revenue from his recordings, Lanchbery had his income supplemented by the copyright he earned from his orchestral arrangements, which were used by ballet companies all over the world. With Ashton, he composed The Two Pigeons; A Month in the Country; The Dream; and one of the most critically acclaimed ballet versions of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

In 1966 Rudolf Nureyev asked Lanchbery to reorchestrate Ludwig Minkus's score for the ballet Don Quixote.

Although he resigned from the position of Director of the Royal Ballet in 1972, he continued to conduct regularly for the company until 2001.

Principal Conductor of Australian Ballet: 1972–1977
Notable successes for Lanchbery included the arrangement of the Liszt music for Kenneth MacMillan's stormy multi-act Mayerling, which premiered at Covent Garden in 1978, and the arrangement of the Franz Lehár score for the first full-length ballet production of The Merry Widow for the Australian Ballet in 1976. In 1971, he composed the music for the ballet film The Tales of Beatrix Potter. His sources were many and varied, including the operas of Michael William Balfe and Arthur Sullivan. He also arranged the music and conducted the orchestra for Nijinsky in 1980.

Lanchbery was the first to convert operas into ballets (The Tales of Hoffmann, The Merry Widow, Die Fledermaus), and he also wrote music for some British films of the 1950s, including Deadly Nightshade (1953) and Colonel March Investigates (1955). He was involved in The Turning Point (1977), starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Leslie Browne, and his score for Evil Under the Sun (1982) was based on songs by Cole Porter, a memorable rendition of "You're The Top" by Diana Rigg. He also wrote scores for two silent film classics: D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation and John Ford's The Iron Horse.

Director of American Ballet Theatre: 1978–1980
The American Ballet Theatre used 14 Lanchbery arrangements between 1962 and 2002: he was the Musical Director of the Company between 1978 and 2002. Their productions included his arrangement, for Natalia Makarova, Minkus's La Bayadère in 1980. Lanchbery arranged more than 30 pieces by Franz Liszt for Macmillan's Mayerling, which premiered at Covent Garden in 1978. Nureyev staged the full-length La Bayadère for the Paris Opera Ballet in 1992, which proved to be his final production before his death. Minkus's score was presented in its original orchestration for Nureyev's version, the parts having been obtained from the Mariinsky Theatre's library by Nureyev himself. Nureyev photo copied the score himself, which were poorly done with entire parts of the pages cut off. This required Nureyev to call upon Lanchbery to fix the passages of the score that were missing, but always staying true to Minkus's original intentions. Nureyev considered Lanchbery to be the greatest ballet conductor of his time.

Visiting conductor
In addition to London, Australia, and Sweden, Lanchbery was a guest conductor at many of the world's leading opera houses, including Paris, Stockholm, Rio de Janeiro, New York and Houston. He also toured Japan, Russia and China. He received honours from Russia and Sweden.

Honours
Lanchbery was the first non-Soviet conductor to receive the Bolshoi Medal. He also received the Carina Ari Medal and the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award, Britain's highest professional award. In 1990 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

Personal life
Lanchbery married a Sadler's Wells principal Elaine Fifield in 1951. They had a daughter, Margaret Lanchbery, and divorced in 1960: Elaine died in 1999. Lanchbery became an Australian citizen in 2002, making his home in Melbourne, where he died on 27 February 2003. He was survived by his daughter, Margaret, of Melbourne, and his companion, Thomas Han.

He was a member of the Garrick Club.

Works
Some of the most popular ballets are arrangements of works written for a different purpose. Perhaps the best-known is Alexander Glazunov's arrangement of Frédéric Chopin's piano music into the ballet Les Sylphides. Another famous example is La boutique fantasque, an arrangement of Gioachino Rossini's music by Ottorino Respighi in 1919. However, Lanchbery was the most successful and prolific arranger of music for ballet.

 * Title – original composer
 * The Tales of Beatrix Potter – Michael William Balfe and others, but also included much original music by Lanchbery
 * The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Hector Berlioz
 * A Month in the Country – Frédéric Chopin
 * Peer Gynt – Edvard Grieg (based on his Peer Gynt incidental music)
 * La fille mal gardée – Ferdinand Hérold
 * Somnambulism – Stan Kenton
 * The Merry Widow – Franz Lehár
 * Mayerling  – Franz Liszt
 * Dracula – Liszt
 * The Dream – Felix Mendelssohn
 * Don Quixote – Ludwig Minkus
 * ''La Bayadère – Minkus
 * Grand Pas Classique from Paquita – Minkus
 * House of Birds – Federico Mompou
 * The Tales of Hoffmann – Jacques Offenbach
 * Le Papillon – Offenbach
 * Cleopatra – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
 * Monotones – Erik Satie
 * Rosalinda – Johann Strauss II (based on Die Fledermaus)
 * Designs with Strings – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (based on his Piano Trio in A minor)
 * The Snow Maiden – Tchaikovsky

Lanchbery's works included supporting tertiary students: during a 1976 visit to Australia, Lanchbery conducted the 27th Intervarsity Choral Festival choir performing Rossini's Petite messe solennelle and Gaudeamus igitur in Hobart.

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LPMud

LPMud, abbreviated LP, is a family of multi-user dungeon (MUD) server software. Its first instance, the original LPMud game driver, was developed in 1989 by Lars Pensjö (the LP in LPMud). LPMud was innovative in its separation of the MUD infrastructure into a virtual machine (termed the driver) and a development framework written in the programming language LPC (termed the mudlib).

Development

Lars Pensjö had been an avid player of TinyMUD and AberMUD. He had wanted to create a world with the flexibility of TinyMUD and the style of AberMUD but did not want to have sole responsibility for creating and maintaining the game world. He once said, "I didn't think I would be able to design a good adventure. By allowing wizards coding rights, I thought others could help me with this." The result was the creation of a new, C-based, object-oriented programming language, LPC, that made it simple for people with minimal programming skills to add elements like rooms, weapons, and monsters to a virtual world.

To accomplish his goal, Lennart Augustsson convinced Pensjö to write what today would be called a virtual machine, the LPMud driver. The driver managed the interpretation of LPC code as well as providing basic operating system services to the LPC code. By virtue of this design, Pensjö made it more difficult for common programming errors like infinite loops and infinite recursion made by content builders to harm the overall stability of the server. His choice of an OO approach made it easy for new programmers to concentrate on the task of "building a room" rather than programming logic.

Pensjö created Genesis in April 1989 as the first implementation of the LPC language, and therefore the first LPMud, in which the developer (commonly known as a wizard within the MUD) could code their own objects.

Pensjö's work has been extended or reverse engineered in a number of projects:
 * LPMud 3.2, better known as the Amylaar driver, after its lead developer, Jörn "Amylaar" Rennecke
 * MudOS
 * DGD, Dworkin's Game Driver, a conceptual rather than code derivative of LPMud developed by Felix "Dworkin" Croes
 * SWLPC, Shattered World's fork of LPMud 2.4.5

Though an LPMud server can be used to implement nearly any style of game, LPMuds are often thought of as having certain common characteristics as a genre, such as a mixture of hack and slash with role-playing, quests as an element of advancement, and "guilds" as an alternative to character classes.

LPMud talkers
LPMud was used as the basis for the first Internet talker, Cat Chat, which opened in 1990.

TMI Mudlib
The TMI Mudlib from The Mud Institute was an attempt to create a framework driven mudlib for the MudOS LPMud driver. It consisted of many contributors to MudOS as well as people who became influential in the LPMud community. When TMI began work in 1992, a mudlib was generally packaged with both an LPMud driver and a complete world built on top of the mudlib. As a framework-driven mudlib, the goal of the TMI mudlib was to provide only examples for world objects and place the burden of building a working world on the game developers using TMI.

TMI implemented the first InterMUD communications network, when MudOS added network socket support in 1992.

In 1992, MIRE, a multi-user information system producing customised newspapers was built based on a modified TMI driver.

In 1993, the TMI-2 mudlib was used to create PangaeaMud, an academic research project designed as an interactive geologic database tool.

Notable MUDs based on TMI-derived mudlibs include The Two Towers set in Tolkien’s universe and Threshold.

Server software
MudOS is a major family of LPMud server software, implementing its own variant of the LPC (programming language). It first came into being on February 18, 1992. It pioneered important technical innovations in MUDs, including the network socket support that made InterMUD communications possible and LPC-to-C compilation.

FluffOS started as a collection of patches of last unreleased version of MudOS, FluffOS has evolved into an independent and enhanced project, providing a powerful platform for crafting interactive and immersive virtual worlds, it is the best choice of running LPMUD lib now, as well as creating new ones. For more information, you can visit the main website at FluffOS Official Website at.

Genocide was an important development testbed for MudOS from 1992 to 1994, but switched back to the main LPMud branch, citing speed concerns.

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Talk:Triple H

Intro
It is claimed that Hunter is "one of the greatest wrestlers of all time". Claimed by whom, and published by what source? How did this achieve Good Article status?

To add to this -> Why is the entire article written as if there was actual wrestling going on with fights "won" or "lost" when it is all a pre-determined show? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.237.215.104 (talk) 23:52, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

 * Firstly, in regard to his “one of the greatest of all time” status, Triple H is a 14 time World Champion. That in itself puts him well into that category. Many other professional wrestlers such as Ric Flair, Undertaker and even MJF have put him in their Mount Rushmore’s of professional wrestling.
 * secondly with the “win” and “loss” terminology, although professional wrestling is predetermined, the terminology loss and won still fit the bill as it’s describing the outcome of these matches. Predetermined or otherwise. 82.38.114.133 (talk) 03:23, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Move Proposal Triple H → Paul Levesque

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

The result of the move request was: not moved (non-admin closure) JuniperChill (talk) 23:11, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Triple H → Paul Levesque – Recent media appearances by Levesque have seen him be referred to as either Paul Levesque or Paul "Triple H" Levesque. There is clearly an effort as of late for him to not be referred to exclusively by his ring name and the article being titled by his wrestling name may not be WP:PRECISE enough. In more recent years, Levesque has been known more as an executive in professional wrestling versus as an in-ring performer under the name Triple H. We don't have Dwayne Johnson underneath his ring name of The Rock and I think that a change of title for Levesque for similar reasons would be consistent with wrestlers who have since become more notable for contributions outside the ring in capacities where they don't use their ring name. PaulRKil (talk) 20:48, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

 * Oppose. Dwayne Johnson is one of the biggest names in Hollywood while Paul Levesque's corporative leadership is relatively unknown to the general public compared to his wrestling work. The name did make recent mainstream headlines due his comments on Vince McMahon allegations and maybe one day it will notable enough, but for now Triple H is a far bigger name. BinaryBrainBug (talk) 22:36, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
 * PS: his X username and name are Triple H as well right now. BinaryBrainBug (talk) 22:44, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Oppose obviously not the WP:COMMONNAME — Czello (music) 22:45, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Oppose per WP:COMMONNAME. Johnson became one of the most known actors in the world. Also, he stills making appearences as Triple H. --HHH Pedrigree (talk) 08:41, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Oppose: recent references to him under his real name do not negate the decades that he's been established under his ring name. He is clearly far more notable as Triple H. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 18:03, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Oppose. If you show someone a picture of him, what are they most likely to say? Paul Levesque? Highly unlikely. It’s Triple H Jrock826 (talk) 00:20, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

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Robert Dale Owen

Robert Dale Owen (7 November 1801 – 24 June 1877) was a Scottish-born Welsh-American social reformer who was active in Indiana politics as member of the Democratic Party in the Indiana House of Representatives (1835–39 and 1851–53) and represented Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives (1843–47). As a member of Congress, Owen successfully pushed through the bill that established Smithsonian Institution and served on the Institution's first Board of Regents. Owen also served as a delegate to the Indiana Constitutional Convention in 1850 and was appointed as U.S. chargé d'affaires (1853–58) to Naples.

Owen was a knowledgeable exponent of the socialist doctrines of his father, Robert Owen, and managed the day-to-day operation of New Harmony, Indiana, the socialistic utopian community he helped establish with his father in 1825. Throughout his adult life, Robert Dale Owen wrote and published numerous pamphlets, speeches, books, and articles that described his personal and political views, including his belief in spiritualism. Owen co-edited the New-Harmony Gazette with Frances Wright in the late 1820s in Indiana and the Free Enquirer in the 1830s in New York City. Owen was an advocate of married women's property and divorce rights, and secured inclusion of an article in the Indiana Constitution of 1851 that provided tax-supported funding for a uniform system of free public schools and established the position of Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction. Owen is also noted for a series of open letters he wrote in 1862 that favored the abolition of slavery and supported general emancipation, as well as a suggestion that the federal government should provide assistance to freedmen.

Early life and education
Robert Dale Owen was born on 7 November 1801, in Glasgow, Scotland, to Ann (or Anne) Caroline Dale and Robert Owen. His mother was the daughter of David Dale, a Scottish textile manufacturer; his Welsh-born father became part-owner and manager of the New Lanark Mills, his father-in-law's textile mill at New Lanark, Scotland. Robert Dale was the eldest surviving son of eight children; his younger siblings (three brothers and three sister) were William, Ann (or Anne) Caroline, Jane Dale, David Dale, Richard Dale, and Mary.

Owen grew up in Braxfield, Scotland, and was privately tutored before he was sent at the age of sixteen to Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg's school at Hofwyl, Switzerland. The Swiss school exposed Owen to Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi's method of education. After completing his formal education, Owen returned to Scotland to join his father in the textile business at New Lanark.

Owen's father, a successful textile manufacturer and philanthropist, became a noted socialist reformer whose vision of social equality included, among other projects, the establishment of experimental utopian communities in the United States and the United Kingdom. Robert Dale Owen, who shared many of his father's views on social issues immigrated to the United States in 1825, became a U.S. citizen, and helped his father manage the socialistic community at New Harmony, Indiana. Owen's three surviving brothers (William, David, and Richard) and his sister, Jane, also immigrated to the United States and became residents of New Harmony.

Early career
Between 1825 and 1828, Owen managed the day-to-day operations of the socialistic community at New Harmony, Indiana, while his father returned to Britain to resume his social reform and philanthropic work in Europe. In addition to his other work, Owen and Frances Wright, a wealthy, Scottish philanthropist and radical reformer, published articles in the New-Harmony Gazette, the town's liberal weekly newspaper, and served as its co-editors. Established in 1825, the Gazette was one of Indiana's earliest newspapers; however, it ceased publications in February 1829.

After the New Harmony utopian community dissolved in 1827, Owen traveled in Europe before returning to the United States in 1829. During this period Owen wrote Moral Physiology; or, A Brief and Plain Treatise on the Population Question (1830), a controversial pamphlet on the topic of population control. It was one of the first books in the United States to advocate birth control, along with Dr. Charles Knowlton's Fruits of Philosophy. Knowlton and Owen were contemporaries and apparently knew each other. Content from Knowlton's book appears in Owen's, and the second edition of Knowlton's book includes some of Owen's content.

Owen moved to New York City, where he and Wright co-edited the weekly Free Enquirer until 1831–32. As they had done in the New Harmony Gazette, the Free Enquirer continued to express their radical views on a variety of subjects, including abolition of slavery, women's rights, universal suffrage, free public education, birth control, and religion. Owen returned to New Harmony, Indiana, in 1833, after he and Wright discontinued their editorship of the New York newspaper.

Marriage and family
Owen and Mary Jane Robinson were married before a justice of the peace on 12 April 1832, in New York City. After an extended trip to Europe, they relocated to New Harmony, Indiana. The couple had six children, two of whom died at an early age. Their surviving children were Florence (b. 1836), Julian Dale (b. 1837), Ernest (b. 1838), and Rosamond (b. 1843).

On June 23, 1876, five years after the death of his first wife, Owen married Lottie Walton Kellogg at Caldwell, New York; he died a year later.

Working Men's Party leader
During 1829–30, Owen became an active leader in the Working Men's Party in New York City. In contrast to Democratic Presidents Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk, Owen was opposed to slavery, although his partisanship distanced him from other leading abolitionists of the era.

Indiana legislator
After Owen's return to New Harmony, Indiana in 1833, he became active in state politics. Owen served in the Indiana House of Representatives (1835–38; 1851–53). He distinguished himself as an influential member of the Indiana General Assembly during his first term by securing appropriations for the state's tax-supported public school system. In addition, Owen was instrumental in introducing legislation and argued in support of widows and married women's property rights, but the bill was defeated. He also proposed laws granting women greater freedom of divorce.

In addition to serving in the state legislature, Owen was elected as a delegate from Posey County, Indiana, to the Indiana Constitutional Convention in 1850. At the convention, Owen initiated a proposal to include provisions for women's property rights in the state constitution. Although it was not approved, this early effort to protect women's rights led to later laws that were passed to secure women's property, divorce, and voting rights. One of Owen's lasting legacies was his authorship and efforts to secure the inclusion of an article in the Indiana Constitution of 1851 that provided state funding for a uniform system of common schools that are free and open to all and established the office of the state's superintendent of public instruction.

U.S. Congressman
After his first term in the Indiana legislature and two unsuccessful campaigns for election to the U.S. Congress in 1838 and in 1840, Owen was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1842. He served from 1843 to 1847 in the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses. Owen was chairman of the Committee on Roads and Canals during the Twenty-eighth Congress. He was also involved in the debates about the annexation of Texas and an Oregon boundary dispute in 1844 that led to the establishment of the U.S-British boundary at the 49th parallel north, the result of the Oregon Treaty (1846).

While serving as a member of Congress, Owen introduced and helped to secure passage of the bill that founded the Smithsonian Institution in 1846. Owen was appointed to the Smithsonian Institution's first Board of Regents and chaired its Building Committee, which oversaw the construction of the Smithsonian Institution Building in Washington, D.C., and recommended James Renwick Jr. as architect, James Dixson and Gilbert Cameron as the contractors, and the Seneca Quarry for its distinct, dark-red sandstone.

Owen, his brother David Dale Owen, and architect Robert Mills, were involved in developing preliminary plans for the Smithsonian Building. These early plans influenced Renwick's choice of the Romanesque Revival architectural style (sometimes referred to as Norman-style architecture) and his three-story design for the building, which was finally selected, although not without controversy. Owen's book Hints on Public Architecture (1849) argued the case for the suitability of Renwick's Romanesque Revival (Norman) architectural style for public buildings such as the Smithsonian "Castle," which he discussed in detail. Seven full-page illustrations and details of the building's architectural elements were prominently featured in the book, leading some to criticize Owen for his bias toward Renwick and his preference for Norman-style architecture over other popular styles.

U.S. diplomat
Owen was defeated in his bid for re-election to Congress in 1846; however, he remained active in public service and was once again elected to serve in the Indiana General Assembly. On 24 May 1853, while Owen was serving as a state legislator in Indiana, President Franklin Pierce appointed him as U.S. minister (Chargé d'Affaires and Minister Resident) to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies at Naples. Owen served in the diplomatic post until 20 September 1858, and then retired from political life, although he remained actively interested in public affairs and social reform issues.

Other political activities
During the American Civil War, Owen served in the Ordnance Commission to supply the Union Army; on 16 March 1863, he was appointed to the Freedman's Inquiry Commission. The commission was a predecessor to the Freedmen's Bureau.

In 1862 Owen wrote a series of open letters to U.S. government officials, including President Abraham Lincoln and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, to encourage them to support general emancipation. Owen's letter of 23 July 1862, was published in the New York Evening Post on 8 August 1862, and his letter of 12 September 1862, was published in the same newspaper on 22 September 1862. In another open letter that Owen wrote to President Lincoln on 17 September 1862, he urged the president to abolish slavery on moral grounds. Owen also believed that emancipation would weaken the Confederate forces and help the Union army win the war. On 23 September 1862, Lincoln issued a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation (as he had first resolved to do in mid-July ). In Emancipation is Peace, a pamphlet that Owen wrote in 1863, he confirmed his view that general emancipation was a means to end the war. In The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United States, a report that Owen wrote in 1864, he also suggested that the Union should provide assistance to freedmen.

Toward the end of his political career, Owen continued his effort to obtain federal voting rights for women. In 1865 he submitted an initial draft for a proposed Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would not restrict voting rights to males. However, Article XIV, Section 2, in the final version of the Amendment, which became part of the U.S. Constitution in 1868, was modified to limit suffrage to males who were U.S. citizens over the age of twenty-one.

Spiritualism
In The authenticity of the Bible (1833), Owen remarked :

"For a century and a half, then, after Jesus' death, we have no means whatever of substantiating even the existence of the Gospels, as now bound up in the New Testament. There is a perfect blank of 140 years; and a most serious one it is."

Like his father, Owen converted to Spiritualism and was the author of two books on the subject: Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World (1859) and The Debatable Land Between this World and the Next (1872).

Later years
Although he retired from active public service at the conclusion of his work as a member of the Freedman's commission on 15 May 1864, Owen continued his writing career. Major writing projects in retirement included Beyond the Breakers (1870), a novel; The Debatable Land Between this World and the Next (1871), one of his two books on spiritualism; and Threading My Way (1874), his autobiography. Owen also wrote several articles that were published in the Atlantic Monthly and Scribner's Monthly.

In 1875 Owen suffered a mental breakdown that was severe enough for him to be hospitalized at the Indiana Hospital for the Insane in Indianapolis, where he underwent three months of treatment. Owen recovered from the illness, was released from the hospital, and resumed writing. On 23 June 1876, a year before his death, Owen married Lottie Walton Kellogg at Caldwell, New York.

Death and legacy
On 24 June 1877, Owen died at his summer home at Crosbyville on Lake George, New York. Initially he was buried in the town of Lake George in Warren County, New York. Later, his remains were exhumed and interred at New Harmony, Indiana, beside his first wife, Mary Jane Owen.

One of Owen's most significant legacies in Indiana was to secure the inclusion of an article in the Indiana Constitution of 1851 that provided tax-supported funding for a uniform system of free public schools and established the position of Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction. His early efforts to protect women's rights were another of his political legacies. Although he was unsuccessful in adding provisions to protect women's rights to Indiana's state constitution of 1851, his efforts paved the way for others to follow. Eventually, Indiana laws granted women's property and voting rights, as well as greater freedom in divorce.

As a U.S. Congressman, Owen introduced federal legislation that founded the Smithsonian Institution in 1846. He was also a member of the Smithsonian Institution's first Board of Regents and its Building Committee. His vision for the Smithsonian Institution Building, along with the preliminary plans and suggestions made by his brother, David Dale Owen, and architect Robert Mills, influenced architect James Renwick Jr.'s design for the Romanesque Revival-style building in Washington, D.C.

Owen's impact on the issues of slavery and emancipation is less direct. In a series of open letters he wrote in 1862 and in publications that followed, Owen encouraged the abolition of slavery on moral grounds, supported general emancipation, and suggested that the federal government should provide assistance to freedmen. Some historians have concluded that these open letters and Civil War-era pamphlets "helped immeasurably to solidify public opinion" in favor of emancipation.

Honors and tributes
The town of Dale, Indiana, was named in Owen's honor.

In 1911, the women of Indiana dedicated a memorial to Owen on the grounds of the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis that included a bronze bust of the statesman created by New Castle, Indiana native Frances Goodwin. The bust of Owen disappeared in the early 1970s; only its pedestal remains.

Selected published works
Owen's published works included pamphlets, speeches, tracts, books, and numerous articles for periodicals and newspapers.
 * An Outline of the System of Education at New Lanark (1824)
 * Popular Tracts (1830)
 * Moral Physiology; or, A Brief and Plain Treatise on the Population Question (1830)
 * Discussion on the Existence of God, and The Authenticity of the Bible (1833), co-written with Origen Bacheler
 * Labor: Its History and its Prospects (1848), an address delivered at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1841; republished in 1851.
 * Hints on Public Architecture (1849)
 * Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World (1859)
 * The Policy of Emancipation: In Three Letters (1863)
 * Emancipation is Peace (1863)
 * The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race (1864)
 * Beyond the Breakers. A Story of the Present Day. Village Life in the West (1870), a novel that was initially published serially in Lippincott's Magazine in 1869.
 * The Debatable Land Between this World and the Next (1871)
 * Threading My Way: Twenty-Seven Years of Autobiography (1874)
 * "Touching Visitants from a Higher Life," published in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 35, number 207, January 1875, pages 57–69.

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Thank you very much for the great restoration! Do you this it has a chance as a featured picture? (I don't know that much about the process) --Ynhockey (Talk) 18:54, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
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 * There are three versions of that image: a low resolution courtesy copy, a high resolution (lossy) jpg copy, and this file, which is the original high resolution (lossless) version. MediaWiki apparently can't create thumbnaild for png files as big as this, and that's the only reason this image is orphaned. But hey, I'm not stopping anyone. -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 14:08, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

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I'm contacting everyone that participated in the last one, which ended earlier this month, to inform them of the new one. Articles for deletion/Aziz Shavershian (2nd nomination)  D r e a m Focus  13:48, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Please note that Wikipedia does have a policy that says that people notable for only one event are not notable forever.— Ryulong ( 竜龙 ) 20:12, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

 * We'll just have to agree to disagree. I think my WP:NTEMP beats your WP:1E. -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 21:00, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
 * More specifically, I think Wikipedia should do its best to keep the kind of content in that WP:1E tries to keep away. Wikipedia could really shine if it covered all sorts of ephemera, stuff no-one would remember if it weren't for Wikipedia. -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 21:03, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
 * NTEMP states "While notability itself is not temporary, from time to time re-assessment of the evidence of notability or suitability of existing articles may be requested by any user via a deletion discussion, or new evidence may arise for articles previously deemed unsuitable. Thus, articles may be proposed for deletion or recreated months or even years after being earlier considered. In particular, if reliable sources cover the person only in the context of a single event, and if that person otherwise remains, or is likely to remain, a low-profile individual, we should generally avoid having a biographical article on that individual." This seems to be a valid definition of what I am currently doing in regards to Shavershian. And your current beliefs are not held by the majority of the project. On this website, we have had to make WP:1E and WP:BLP1E to prevent articles on people who briefly appear in the media, but then fade away into obscurity. If no one is going to remember it unless we retain information on it, then it perhaps it never really made any actual impact on society or history such that we should cover it.— Ryulong ( 竜龙 ) 21:18, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I hear what you're saying, and there was no real need to copy-paste WP:NTEMP here. I still think the article should be kept (WP:1E doesn't apply here anyway), and furthermore even if it did, I think WP:1E itself should be removed. Last time I checked, I was entitled to my own opinion. I don't really understand why you're getting into this discussion. -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 21:34, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

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Discussing your picture at http://spinnen-forum.de/smf/index.php?topic=12297.0 we found out that your picture doesn't show a Tegenaria but a male Amaurobius similis (please see there). So we moved it to the correct name. Kind regards --Buachamer (talk) 05:21, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
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 * Done. - Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 07:45, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

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Kumaso

The Kumaso (熊襲) were a mythical people of ancient Japan mentioned in the Kojiki, believed to have lived in the south of Kyūshū until at least the Nara period. The last leader of the Kumaso, Torishi-Kaya was killed by Yamato Takeru in 397. The name of Kumamoto Prefecture originates from the Kumaso people.

hypothesis
Scholars, such as Kakubayashi Fumio, "although information is extremely limited" concluded that they were of Austronesian origin based on some linguistic and cultural evidence, theorising that the word kaya, present in personal names or titles, such as Torishi-Kaya, has the same root as Tagalog "kaya", meaning "ability; capability; competence; resources; wealth" and Malay and Indonesian "kaya", meaning "rich, wealthy, having wealth". The So present in Kumaso was also theorised to have the same origins as tsuo, tsau, thau, sau, tau, tao supposedly meaning "people" in Austronesian languages.

Overview
William George Aston, in his translation of the Nihongi, says Kumaso refers to two separate tribes, Kuma (meaning "bear") and So (written with the character for "attack" or "layer on"). In his translation of the Kojiki, Basil Hall Chamberlain records that the region is also known simply as So district, and elaborates on the Yamato-centric description of a "bear-like" people, based on their violent interactions or physical distinctiveness. (The people called tsuchigumo by the Yamato people provide a better-known example of the transformation of other tribes into legendary monsters. Tsuchigumo—the monstrous "ground spider" of legend—is speculated to refer originally to the native pit dwellings of that people.)

Geographically, Aston records that the Kumaso domain encompassed the historical provinces of Hyūga, Ōsumi, and Satsuma (contemporaneous with Aston's translation), or present-day Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures.

The last leader of the Kumaso, Torishi-Kaya, aka Brave of Kahakami, was assassinated in the winter of 397 by Prince Yamato Takeru of Yamato, who was disguised for this as a woman at a banquet.

Legacy
The word Kuma ('Bear') survives today as Kumamoto Prefecture ('source of the bear'), and Kuma District, Kumamoto. Kuma District is known for a distinct dialect, Kuma Dialect.

People of the Kumaso mentioned in the Nihongi

 * Torishi-Kaya (aka Brave of Kahakami): a leader of the Kumaso
 * Atsukaya: a leader of the Kumaso
 * Sakaya: a leader of the Kumaso
 * Ichi-fukaya: Emperor Keikō married her 82 AD and in the same year put her to death, since she was involved in the assassination which killed her father.
 * Ichi-kaya: younger sister of Ichi-fukaya

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Bapsi Sidhwa

Bapsi Sidhwa (بیپسی سدھوا; born 11 August 1938) is a Pakistani novelist of Gujarati Parsi Zoroastrian descent who writes in English and is a resident in the United States.

She is best known for her collaborative work with Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa wrote both the 1991 novel Ice Candy Man which served as the basis for Mehta's 1998 film Earth as well as the 2006 novel Water: A Novel on which Mehta's 2005 film Water is based. A documentary about Sidhwa's life called "Bapsi: Silences of My Life" is released on the official YouTube channel of " The Citize Archive of Pakistan" on 28 October 2022 with title " First Generation -Stories of partition: Bapsi Sidhwa".

Background
Sidhwa was born to Parsi Zoroastrian parents Peshotan and Tehmina Bhandara in Karachi, Bombay Presidency. Later, she moved with her family to Lahore, Punjab Province. She was two years old when she contracted polio (which has affected her throughout her life) and nine in 1947 at the time of Partition (facts which would shape the character Lenny in her novel Cracking India as well as the background for her novel). She received her BA from Kinnaird College for Women University in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1957.

She married at the age of 19 and moved to Bombay for five years before she divorced and remarried in Lahore with her present husband, Noshir, who is also a Zoroastrian. She had three children before beginning her career as an author. One of her children is Mohur Sidhwa, who is a candidate for state representative in Arizona.

She currently resides in Houston in the US. She describes herself as a "Punjabi-Parsi". Her first language is Gujarati, her second language is Urdu, and her third language is English. She can read and write best in English, but she is more comfortable talking in Gujarati or Urdu, and often translates literally from Gujarati or Urdu to English.

Teaching
She has previously taught at the University of Houston, Rice University, Columbia University, Mount Holyoke College, and Brandeis University.

Awards

 * Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe/Harvard (1986)
 * Visiting Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation Center, Bellagio, Italy, (1991)
 * Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) Award, (1991, Pakistan's highest national honor in the arts)
 * Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award (1994)
 * Mondello Prize (Premio Mondello for Foreign Authors) for Water (2007)
 * Inducted in the Zoroastrian Hall of Fame (2000)

Works
The city of Lahore, Pakistan, where she was brought up, is central to her four novels below:
 * Their Language of Love : published by Readings Lahore (2013, Pakistan.)
 * Jungle Wala Sahib (Translation) (Urdu) : Published by Readings Lahore (2012, Pakistan)
 * City of Sin and Splendour : Writings on Lahore (2006, US)
 * Water: A Novel (2006, US and Canada)
 * Bapsi Sidhwa Omnibus (2001, Pakistan)
 * An American Brat (1993, U.S.; 1995, India)
 * Cracking India (1991, U.S.; 1992, India; originally published as Ice Candy Man, 1988, England)
 * The Bride (1982, England; 1983;1984, India; published as The Pakistani Bride, 1990 US and 2008 US)
 * The Crow Eaters (1978, Pakistan; 1979 &1981, India; 1980, England; 1982, US)

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Victor S. K. Houston

Victor Stewart Kaleoaloha Houston (July 22, 1876 — July 31, 1959) was an American politician and naval officer who served in the United States Congress representing the Territory of Hawaii.

Education and naval career
Born in San Francisco, California, he was the son of United States Navy Rear Admiral Edwin Samuel Houston and Caroline Poor Kahikiola Brickwood, who was part Native Hawaiian.

Houston attended Real Schule in Dresden, Saxony then at the Cantonal College in Lausanne, Switzerland. He returned to the United States where he attended Force School in Washington, DC and then Werntz Preparatory School in Annapolis, Maryland. In 1897, Houston obtained a degree and commission as a naval officer from the United States Naval Academy. He retired from active service in the armed forces in 1926 with the rank of commander.

World War II service
With the attack of Honolulu on December 7, 1941, Houston was recalled up to duty as a naval officer, and remained in the Navy until March 1, 1945. He rose through the ranks to become a captain on June 9, 1943.

Politics
Houston moved to Hawaii in 1909 where he became active with the Hawaii Republican Party. From March 4, 1927 to March 3, 1933, Houston served several terms as a Congressional delegate for the territory to the United States House of Representatives. He lost a bid for reelection and retired from politics. He was also a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1928 and 1932.

Death
He died in Honolulu, Hawaii on July 31, 1959, just three weeks before statehood, and was buried in Oahu Cemetery.

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Headley Court

Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Headley Court (abbreviated to DMRC Headley Court, and more commonly known as Headley Court), formerly RAF Headley Court, was an 85 acre United Kingdom Ministry of Defence facility in Headley, near Epsom, Surrey, England. The site was sold by the MoD in 2018, upon purchase of Stanford Hall, and its conversion to the Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre.

It was used as a rehabilitation centre for injured members of the British Armed Forces between 1985 and 2018.

History and overview
Headley Court was an Elizabethan farm house bought by the Cunliffe family, from Tyrrell's Wood, Leatherhead. They later sold this farm house and built in 1899 the imposing mansion at the centre of Headley Court to the north, namely under Lord Cunliffe, who was Chairman of the Bank of England. Its architect was Edward Warren. During World War II, it was used as the Headquarters for the VII Corps and then for the Canadian Corps. During the war, nearby Headley Heath was used as a training ground for engineers building airstrips and trench systems then demolishing them again.

It was purchased after that war with money from the Royal Air Force Pilots and Crews Fund, a public collection as a tribute to the deeds, including the Battle of Britain efforts of the RAF. Since the war and until 2019, it was used as a Royal Air Force and Joint Services medical rehabilitation centre. which aimed to return all those service personnel injured or seriously ill to full fitness.

In November 2005, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall visited the centre. They met Major David Bradley of the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment who had been given a five per cent chance of survival, after coming under fire from a Rocket Propelled Grenade launcher (RPG) in Basra, southern Iraq in 2004. Other notable patients in 2006/2007 include Sgt Mark Sutcliffe, The Royal Anglian Regiment, Sgt Stuart Pearson, 3 PARA and many others.

In July 2014, the Minister of Defence, Philip Hammond, announced that the services provided by Headley Court would be transferred to a new centre to be developed at Stanford Hall. The opening of the new Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre by the Duke of Cambridge took place in June 2018. The centre at Headley Court ceased operations in September 2018 and the site was bought by Angle Property in May 2019. The plan was to redevelop the site including substantial new housing replacing many of the existing ancillary buildings.

In April 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the site was offered to the National Health Service and on 4 May 2020 it was re-opened as the NHS Seacole Centre (in tribute to Mary Seacole and the BAME contribution to the NHS), aimed at treatment of non-critical COVID-19 patients and rehabilitation of COVID-19 patients.

In 2024, work started to demolish all the more recent buildings, retaining the listed Mansion House, which will be the centre of a Retirement Community owned and operated by Audley.

Facilities
Rehabilitation staff averaged around 200 per year from all three services' medical and nursing branches, the longest established here being Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service. These comprised specialist medical officers, nurses, remedial instructors, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, a cognitive therapist, social workers, engineers, and administration support staff. Not only did the centre deal with patients with new physical disabilities but it also dealt with patients with post-traumatic stress disorder.

The rehabilitation areas of the unit consisted of hydrotherapy pools, gymnasiums, and workshops for prosthetics. The high, wooded countryside setting and grounds of the unit were welcomed by staff and those recovering; Headley Heath and the North Downs Way share the escarpment and there is a high concentration of woodland wildlife. The 28 bed Peter Long Ward had single showers and nursing staff on call 24 hours a day, internet access and a kitchen area with washing and drying facilities for clothing. A further large ward opened in September 2010 of 30 beds, rest areas and equipment. Headley Court was in need of further facilities, particularly a full size swimming pool, as patients had to share a leisure centre in Leatherhead. The charity Help for Heroes was set up in late 2007, with a first objective of raising money to build these facilities.

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