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Connaught Tunnel

The Connaught Tunnel is in southeastern British Columbia, on the Revelstoke–Donald segment. The 5.022 mi tunnel carries the Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) main line under Mount Macdonald in the Selkirk Mountains. The tunnel, opened by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) in 1916, replaced the previous routing over Rogers Pass.

Summit route deficiencies
Traffic restrictions imposed by a single track comprising 46 mi of 2.2 percent gradients, emerging competition, and snow-related costs, were negative factors. The 1910 Rogers Pass avalanche, and other avalanches on the pass, influenced but did not unduly pressure CP to consider alternatives; however, snow clearing and maintaining snow sheds was an ongoing burden.

Rarely assigning more than one pusher locomotive per train, trains over 1,016 tons had to be cut. Higher capacity locomotives had helped, but the next leap forward would not occur until the Selkirk locomotives emerged in 1929. In 1912, the average of eight trains (peaking at 11) per day in each direction was forecast to double over the next four years. The program to double-track much of the route through the mountains could create a bottleneck at Rogers Pass. Following the 1906–1908 recession, by 1912, passenger and freight volumes surpassed records. Whereas passenger train length could increase, freight could not, because of weight capacity limits. Furthermore, the former had priority, causing siding waits for the latter.

The opening of the Grand Trunk Pacific (GTP) posed a threat to CP's grain and Asian trade. Using a single locomotive, GTP could haul 2,041 tons from Edmonton to Prince Rupert, via Yellowhead Pass, four times the weight CP could haul across the mountains on its main line. The opening of the Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) via the Yellowhead to Vancouver, the premier destination, prompted greater alarm. The opening of the Panama Canal, which bypassed all North American rail routes, offered some compensation in that grain traffic destined for Europe could travel westward by rail.

Prior significant improvements in the mountains
In 1902, the 7 mi Ottertail Diversion, west from Field, eliminated the need for pushers. In 1887, after a 500 ft tunnel collapsed near Palliser, the temporary realignment around a bluff of the Kicking Horse River existed until the 694 ft Palliser Tunnel (1906). In 1909, the Spiral Tunnels replaced the Big Hill.

Routes
The three basic options within the Selkirks were to use the Big Bend, double-track the summit, or dig a tunnel. The Big Bend route was not a viable contender. Estimates indicated that a tunnel would be cheaper than snow sheds and operational costs for double-tracking the summit.

Tunnels
Three schemes were considered. In 1912, Thomas Kilpatrick, superintendent of the Mountain Subdivision, suggested a 7 mi tunnel, which would have shortened the line by 4.4 mi, reducing the pusher gradient by 13.8 mi on the east slope and 6.9 mi on the west one. This alignment would have eliminated the bridges at Mountain, Surprise, and Stoney creeks, but was rejected owing to perceived construction deadlines, and a route beneath the headwaters of the Illecillewaet River, vulnerable to leakage. The deadline and route fears proved suspect.

F.F. Busteed, general superintendent of the Pacific Division, proposed a 5.17 mi tunnel, which would have shortened the line by 3 mi, reducing the pusher gradient by 10.8 mi on the east slope and 6.2 mi on the west one. John G. Sullivan, chief engineer, recommended a 5.3 mi tunnel, similar to, but more expensive than, the Busteed one. All proposals eliminated the Loops on the west slope of the pass route.

Proposal and tender
The stated advantages were three-fold. Primarily, the tunnel lowered the grade; secondly, it shortened the distance; and thirdly, it bypassed an avalanche-prone zone.

The specified alignment would lower the track summit from 4342 ft to 3794 ft, shorten the line by 4.4 mi, reduce the pusher gradient by 9.6 mi on the east slope and 5.9 mi on the west one, and eliminate the Stoney, Surprise, and Mountain creek bridges. The tunnel grade would be 0.95% westward. At the west portal, the route required a diversion of the Illecillewaet River for about 1 mi. Let out to tender in April 1913, the bids received were unacceptably high. It was immediately retendered as a cost-plus contract, with bonus and penalty clauses. After negotiations with the lowest bidder, the contract was awarded to Foley, Welch and Stewart (FW&S) in July 1913.

Construction
The Rogers Pass article shows the summit route details. Only the crest and eastern slope of the tunnel route is underground.

The primary construction camp was near the western portal, a secondary one was near the eastern portal, and a minor one was at Bear Creek. The western portal one, housing 300, was approached either from Loop Spur or the government road from Glacier House. The eastern portal one, housing 200, had only rail access. Both comprised a police post, small hospital, general store, offices, apartments, bunkhouses, kitchen, dining hall, and lounge, with electric lighting and plumbing for water and sanitation.

Operating three shifts daily, a pioneer tunnel advanced from each end, from which cross cuts were made to the main tunnel so work could carry on at a number of headings simultaneously. Compressed air equipment, blasting, steam shovels, and narrow-gauge cars were used. At 23 ft high and 29 ft wide, the tunnel would accommodate double tracks. The western side involved penetrating thick mud, extremely hard rock, and finally softer rock. The highest point of the Selkirks track was just inside the western portal. Three steam shovels were based on the west side and one on the east. Death and injury were not uncommon. Mirroring the advance across the pass in the 1880s, concern for the health and safety of workers was not a priority. Beating world monthly tunneling records, the pioneer headings met in December 1915, and the main bores in July 1916.

The unacceptably high cost projection scrapped the electrification plan. Instead, ventilation fans were installed. East of the tunnel, the plan for double-tracking to Six-Mile Creek was amended to a level 2.8 mi single track connecting with the existing line at Stoney Creek. This reduced the pusher gradient on the east slope by 7.2 mi, 2.4 mi less than specified. However, it retained the substantial investment in the bridges at Mountain, Surprise, and Stoney creeks. The tunnel was completed 11 months ahead of schedule and below budget. One calculation of costs listed tunneling $4.91M, tunnel track $0.16M, approaches $0.86M, and ventilation $0.11M, totaling $6.04M, less the salvage value of the abandoned line $1.67M. Extending the concrete lining during 1919–1925 added a further $2.60M. The $8.64M total is in line with a different calculation of $8.45M. In all, the route was shortened by 4.3 mi.

Repairs, modifications, and emergencies

In 1919, 30 drums of gasoline and kerosene, used by the concrete mixers engaged in the lining operation, ignited. A tunnel watchman, who rushed some distance to the nearest telephone to alert Connaught station at the eastern portal, did not survive. His warning saved the westbound transcontinental, then at the station, from proceeding into the tunnel. Nine workers escaped on a handcar from the east portal, and one watchman staggered from the west portal.

To deal with crumbling rock in the roof, the concrete tunnel lining was extended from 7837 ft to 26512 ft. Prior to the 1925 completion of the project, falling rock killed or injured several workers.

In 1928, a locomotive boiler explosion killed three crew members near Glacier.

In 1929, two train crew died when their locomotive fell into the ravine when a girder collapsed on the Surprise Creek Bridge.

The 1931 flood sent 2,000 replacement ties through the tunnel and filled the west portal cutting to a 20 ft depth with 10000 to 12000 yd3 of mud and debris, which took five days to dig out.

Approved in 1958, the following year a single track down the center (replacing the double tracks) provided sufficient clearance for tri-deck automobile carriers.

In 1972 and 1976, the tunnel fans and housing sustained extensive damage on catching fire.

In 1977, soon after departing the Glacier siding (Mile 85.9), a westbound loaded 109-car coal train lost control, and broadcast a warning that they were travelling too fast to make the curves at Illecillewaet. On hearing the radio message, a 60-car eastbound freight accelerated to safely reach Illecillewaet siding (Mile 98.1), before three crew members stepped clear of their train. The runaway's three lead locomotives, 45 cars, a remote control locomotive, and the following 22 cars, were destroyed on derailing at Mile 94.4. The impact shifted a bridge from its footings and damaged a snow shed. The crew sustained minor injuries. The line remained closed for a week.

In 1985, a nearby rock slide derailed one of the four locomotives hauling a coal train.

The tunnel was deepened to clearances matched with the Mount Macdonald Tunnel in 1993 to accommodate double-stack container cars with future electrification. This first 24/7 work project undertaken by CP was a significant engineering challenge.

In 1997, eight cars of a train derailed in the vicinity.

In 2015, six cars of a westbound freight derailed on Stoney Creek Bridge. The train had diverted to the eastbound route because the Mount Macdonald Tunnel was being vented. The incident occurred when the train lost momentum on the steeper grade and stopped with the cars on the bridge. However, restarting on the curve caused the heavier cars at the front and rear of the train to lift the lighter middle cars from the track.

Operation
The first commercial train was December 1916, which traveled via Loop Spur, since the pass line remained in use until a few days later. The most northern part of the Loops between the two hillsides, which had been a long trestle, but likely infilled around 1906, needed to be breached by the new line.

Automatic block signalling came in the 1920s. To improve visibility on the 1929 introduction of the Selkirk locomotives, trains switched to the left-hand track before entering the tunnel. In 1950, multiple aspect signalling was installed. In 1954, diesel locomotives became standard.

Pusher units cut into westbound freight trains at Beavermouth, before disconnecting at Stoney Creek. On occasions, when pushers worked through to Glacier, crew were required to wear respirators, owing to the tunnel fumes. The tunnel blocked radio communication. The 1974 realignment west of Beavermouth moved the connection point to Rogers. After the 1988 opening of the Mount Macdonald Tunnel, westbound traffic primarily used that lower gradient route, with Connaught handling eastbound. During the pusher station's existence, six engineers, six maintenance workers, and nine locomotives were based at Rogers. Five-engine units were used on heavy trains carrying grain, coal, and potash. Four-engine units were used on other freights.

Notability
When opened, the tunnel ranked eighth in length:
 * 1) Simplon Tunnel (1906) 19.80 km
 * 2) Gotthard Tunnel (1882) 15.00 km
 * 3) Lötschberg Tunnel (1913) 14.61 km
 * 4) Fréjus Rail Tunnel (Mont Cenis) (1871) 13.64 km, extended (1881) 13.7 km
 * 5) Arlberg Railway Tunnel (1884) 10.6 km
 * 6) Ricken Tunnel (1910) 8.6 km
 * 7) Tauern Railway Tunnel (1909) 8.37 km
 * 8) Connaught Tunnel (1916) 8.08 km

However, it took the title from the Hoosac Tunnel (1875) 7.64 km as the longest railway tunnel in North America until displaced by the Moffat Tunnel (1928) 10.0 km in 1928.

Officially opened in July 1916 by the Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, the governor general, the Selkirk Tunnel was renamed the Connaught Tunnel weeks later.

In 2001, the tunnel was inducted into the North America Railway Hall of Fame.

When partway through the project, rock drillers J. A. McIlwee and Sons encountered an unexpected predominance of crumbly slate, FW&S dismissed the subcontractor, rather than negotiate a contract variance. After several appeals, including a hearing of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the courts awarded McIlwee about $576,000 for breach of contract. At the time, this was the largest single judgement obtained in a BC court.

W.J. Hackman (1928–1953) was the first child born in the tunnel. The birth occurred on the westbound CP No. 2. Passenger train. The next birth appears to have occurred in 1939.

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Talk:Salina, Utah

Site of massacre during WW2 ?
I found some links today regarding a massacre of German POW's in Salina, Utah. Should'nt this be noted in the article ?

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_3256256?rss

We already have an article on the topic: Utah prisoner of war massacre. Dimadick (talk) 12:14, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

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Talk:Political theatre

Scope
Theatrical performances, plays, and drama that explore the relationship between politics and art. Political theatre may include satire of current events or politicians, a dramatic illustration of the way a political issue affects a specific person or community, or a more subtle commentary on the issues of the day. Examples include Young@Heart's musical coalition-building, Vietnam protest theatre, and the plays of Bertolt Brecht.

Expansion needed
Bwithh 19:14, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Much more detail and categorization is needed. The references are somewhat haphazard at the moment.
 * The article mentions political theatre as part of main processes of the Athenian city-state but leaves out discussing the political significance of state-associated theatre in later times and modern day
 * The article suggest that all modern political theatre is marginalized as an "outsider" medium and a voice for "the people" and for the oppressed - this comes across as unbalanced - do only the state-oppressed make political theatre? For instance, what about state-funded political plays in Communist countries?
 * There needs to be mention of the major political theatre works in since the 1990s, especially the British trend for plays based on transcripts of real world events

Although subsequent contributions have made some gestures in the directions detailed above, all of these criticisms remain valid and the article still needs substantial work. DionysosProteus 16:02, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

NPOV removed
I have removed the NPOV tag, please cite specific sections / statements that need to be addressed. - RoyBoy 02:59, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Include Second Definition
There are at least two definitions of political theater. The other definition was removed March 2017. They should both be on this page or there should be a disambiguation. "Kabuki Dance" is more of a racial slur than a useful synonym. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.249.171.35 (talk) 15:20, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

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Georgia Day

Georgia Day is the holiday which the U.S. state of Georgia recognizes in honor of its colonial founding as the Province of Georgia. On February 12, 1733 [NS] James Oglethorpe landed the first settlers in the Anne, at what was to become Georgia's first city (and later the first state capital), Savannah. Not a public holiday, it was created by Georgia's General Assembly, which provided that Feb. 12, "the anniversary of the landing of the first colonists in Georgia under Oglethorpe"—be observed in the public schools as Georgia Day. The law was never repealed, but was not included in the code when it was officially compiled in 1981. Its official legal status is unclear.

Georgia Day is now observed on or around February 12 at the Georgia Day Parade hosted by the Georgia Historical Society as part of the Georgia History Festival.

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Errol

Errol may refer to:

People with the given name

 * Errol Barnett (born 1983), anchor and correspondent for CBS News
 * Errol Barrow (1920–1987), first Prime Minister of Barbados
 * Errol Brown (1943–2015), British-Jamaican songwriter, lead singer of Hot Chocolate
 * Errol Charles (born 1941), current acting Governor-General of Saint Lucia
 * Errol Étienne (born 1941), prominent Scottish artist
 * Errol Fuller (born 1947), English author on extinct animals
 * Errol Flynn (1909–1959), Australian-American film actor in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s
 * "Errol" (song), a 1981 song in honour of Flynn, on rock band Australian Crawl's album Sirocco
 * Erroll Garner (1921–1971), American jazz pianist and composer of "Misty"
 * Errol Gulden (born 2002), Australian rules footballer (Sydney Swans)
 * Errol John (1924–1988), Trinidadian actor and playwright
 * Errol Le Cain (1941–1989), British animator and illustrator
 * Errol Lloyd (born 1943), Jamaican-born artist and writer
 * Errol Mann (1941–2013), former American NFL placekicker, 1968–1978
 * Errol Morris (born 1948), American filmmaker and writer
 * Errol Musk (born 1946), South African engineer and father of Elon Musk
 * Errol Sawyer (1943–2020), American photographer
 * Errol Spence Jr. (born 1990), American professional boxer and world champion
 * Errol James Livingston Taber (1877–1947), Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada
 * Errol Tobias (born 1950), South African rugby union player
 * Errol Zimmerman (born 1986), Surinamese-Curaçaoan kickboxer

Fictional characters

 * Errol (Harry Potter), the Weasley family's owl in the fictional Harry Potter series
 * Errol, a swamp dragon in the Discworld novel Guards! Guards!
 * Errol, a character in the film Snatch
 * Errol, a character in the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episode "Love is a Many Splintered Thing"
 * Errol (originally spelt as Erol), an antagonist in Jak II and the main antagonist in Jak 3
 * Errol the Hamster, a British puppet that is often seen in many productions featuring Roland Rat

Places

 * Errol, Perth and Kinross, a village in Scotland
 * Errol, New Hampshire, a town in the United States

Other uses

 * Errol (album), an album by American rapper Haleek Maul

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Jharkhand Mukti Morcha

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (lit. Jharkhand Liberation Front; abbr. JMM) is a political party in the Indian state of Jharkhand which was founded by Binod Bihari Mahato. Shibu Soren is the president of the JMM. JMM is also an influential political party in the state of Odisha and parts of neighbouring of states. Its election symbol for Jharkhand is Bow and Arrow.

The party was officially created on the birthday of Birsa Munda, the 19th century tribal warrior of Jharkhand, who fought against the British rule in present-day Jharkhand. The State of Jharkhand also came into existence on Birsa Munda's birthday in 2000.

Formation
For almost six decades the movement to separate Jharkhand from Bihar had been attempting to gain a foothold. The Jharkhand Party gained political strength but commissions examining the demands for a separate Jharkhand State consistently rejected its demands. Before 1962, the Jharkhand Party held between 23 and 32 seats in the Bihar Legislative Assembly. In 1962, it won 20 seats. Jaipal Singh Munda merged the Jharkhand Party with the Indian National Congress in 1963 and became a minister in Vinodanand Jha's government in Bihar. But other members did not join the Congress.

In the 1967 general election, the party had a very poor showing with only eight Assembly seats. The party soon split into several splinter parties each claiming to be the real Jharkhand Party. These included the Jharkhand Party led by N. E. Horo, the Jharkhand Party led by Naren, and the All India Jharkhand Party led by Bagun Sumroi. There was also the Hul Jharkhand Party led by Justin Richard, which further fragmented and became the Bihar Progressive Hul Jharkhand Party led by Shibu Soren.

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha was founded by Soren, Binod Bihari Mahato and Marxist Co-ordination Committee leader A. K. Roy. The party was officially created on the birthday of Birsa Munda, a 19th-century tribal warrior from Jharkhand, who fought against British rule in the region.

On 4 February 1973, Mahato became president of the party and Soren became its general secretary. Prominent party leaders at that time included Roy, Nirmal Mahto and Tek Lal Mahto, among others.

Early years
In its early years, the JMM under Soren's leadership brought industrial and mining workers who were mainly non-tribals belonging to the Dalit and backward communities such as Surdis, Doms, Dusadh, Kurmi, Koiri, Gowala, and Teli into its fold. However Soren's association with the late politician Gyanranjan brought him close to the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. He won the Dumka Lok Sabha seat in 1972. Irked by Soren's association with the Indian National Congress, a few younger members of the JMM banded together in Jamshedpur and set up the All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU). This did not affect the growth of the JMM in the 1991 Indian general election, where the party won six seats.

Ram Dayal Munda reignited the movement for Jharkhand by unifying splinter groups among the tribals. Under his guidance the Jharkhand Coordination Committee was constituted in June 1987, comprising 48 organisations and group including the JMM factions. Due to Munda, Shibu Soren, Suraj Mandal, Simon Marandi, Shailendra Mahato, and AJSU leaders like Surya Singh Besra and Prabhakar Tirkey briefly shared a political platform, but the JMM pulled out of JCC as it felt that "the collective leadership was a farce". In 1988 and 1989, the JMM, AJSU and JPP successfully orchestrated so-called bandhs, economic blockades.

Jharkhand Yuva Morcha
Jharkhand Yuva Morcha (Jharkhand Youth Front) and Jharkhand Chhatra Morcha (Jharkhand Student Front), the youth and student wings of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, were constituted at a conference in Ranchi 16 October 1991.

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Talk:Heimdall

Geirrendour
Removed name "Geirrendour" here and in other articles as I can't find any trace of this form.

I have removed mention of "Norse society" as the ending indicates an intended Danish setting, not a Norse setting. I might have change it to "Scandinavian society", but that suggests a geographic limitation on the extent of the three races founded by Heimdall that probably wasn't thought about one way or the other by those who wrote or listened to such stories.

Removed information that Heimdall was a "light" god and "moon" god as can find no trace of either. He was a "white" god, but that may not be the same as a "light" god. "Moon god" is a strange POV identification for a god who lives at the end of the rainbow. If someone provide a source, then it is probably worth including, simply as an odd hypothesis.

There are a lot of poor links to this article.

Some just link back to Heimdall while others link to entries that give no more information than does the Heimdall entry. That is annoying to anyone who clicks on them. Such sub-stubs might belong in a mythological dictionary but I don't think such sub-stubs belong in any encyclopedia.

I'll wait about a week, but unless someone objects, I'm going to start changing these short Norse myth sub-stubs to REDIRECTs and emove the links to themfrom Heimdall and from other articles as I find them.

Jallan 00:37, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

this is almost a copy of this url.
http://www.thorshof.org/zheimdall.htm i think wiki should provide additional info before this can be considered wiki content. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.10.25.60 (talk • contribs) 14:38, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Hallinskíði
"Heimdall's nickname Hallinskíði ("The Literal Bent Stick") also appears as a kenning for "ram", perhaps referring to the bent horns on a ram's head."

The name might also refer to the Gjallarhorn which may have been what is known today as the Bukkehorn, an ancient Norwegian instrument made from the curved horn of a ram or goat, useful for communication and signaling as well as frightening away wild animals while herding sheep. If I or someone else can provide a source verifying this association it would make an interesting addition to the article. Cerdic 16:09, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Coming from the hometown of Henrik Ibsen, Skien, many years ago I stumbled upon a book (no longer in my posession) where Heimdallr is associated with an older (pre-viking era) deity known as Skiða. Skiða was in this book associated to a horse cult. It would be interesting if anyone could substantiate this information. --Xact (talk) 22:45, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

"Skíði" (also the germanic-scandianvian variations) is from the same family word as my romanian "găteje" or greek "caduceus". It means stick (or pole/branch/twig/wreath) of wood. Heimdallr is Hermes/Mercury, folks. Check the common characteristics: rooster and messenger/herald of the gods. Bigshotnews 01:16, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Burtgang
According to the Japanese wikipedia Heimdall's sword was called Burtgang, however there are no sources for this and searches have turned up very little. Anyone who is alittle more knowledgeable on the subject care to comment? ブルドガング —Preceding unsigned comment added by 諸行無常 (talk • contribs) 07:02, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Heimdall's sword was not called Burtgang, so I encourage anyone who edits the Japanese wikipedia to delete this information as fast as possible. –Holt T•C 18:40, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

- I would like to know the reason why User:Holt is so bombastic about this? Bortgang make sense in Norwegian. Bortgang in Norwegian give the meaning 'to die', literally: 'to go away'... It is still in use. This discourse on the Asatru points at two important questions: - 1) Is Asatru to be taken seriously as a living spirituality, albeit in various processes of reconstruction - in regard of re-encountering the oriental sources/influences of the Asatru (a.k.a. faith of Asia) - and in regard of the re-occurence of shamanic practices (i.e. entheogenic medicine) that has been supressed for centuries? - 2) In stead of saying that Heimdall's sword is not called Bortgang. It would be correct to say there are little or none known written sources telling that Heimdalls sword is called Bortgang. The question is regarding to what extent do written accounts have supremacy over what might be of oral transmissions. Is it not true that the old pre-christian spirituality of Scandinavia have survived among a variety of peoples of the east described already by Snorri Sturluson and evolved to this day among the Sakhya and Bön, the Tuvanese shamans and others unknown or unbound by the occidental epistemology. How oriental traditions are rendering the Norse spirituality is of uttermost interest as it should be beyond doubt that the Norse religion/shamanism/spirituality may provide a very fascinating field of research that may deconstruct the east-west dichotomy. --Xact (talk) 00:40, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

 * I agree that the user above you was overzealous in saying to undo "as fast as possible" that edit, but are you saying that asians have followed asatru in some kind of unbroken chain, in any degree? I would like to know where asians have followed asatru at all period; sourcing of that would be highly interesting to me as I would likely be want to throw such a convinced statement aside as ludicrous. 4.242.174.238 (talk) 10:30, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Just so we're clear, Xact's rant above is complete and total nonsense (trolling?), and Holt was quite right to call for the immediate removal of misinformation. bloodofox: (talk) 23:02, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

-dall
The main article states the unknown origin of the affix "dall" in the "Heimdall" name. In some central-norwegian dialects, "dall" or "dallj" usually means a worker or a even a slave or a lazy man of the countryside. This in addition to also meaning "a good portion of" butter (as in "smaer-dallj") or a decent portion of anything else related to cooking. The word is still being used by elders in parts of Norway.

An older meaning of the word can also be referring to a bowl with a lid on it, as suggested by for instance Bokmålsordboka (a norwegian web dictionary).

 * The meaning of -dallr I thought was of not so much dispute, as the word is still in use in Norway: 'å dolle'... which means to make beautiful or valuable. It is etymologically linked to english 'doll'. In spite of traditional understanding I believe -dall to have some connotation to valley (norwegian 'dal'), as it seems plausible to associate the meaning of dallr (beautiful) with the beauty of the valley. Heimdallr is thus simply meaning the beautifying spirit of origin, of home.. I associate the meaning of Heimdallr to the etruskan (?) Lares, being the deity of home, or locality per se.--Xact (talk) 23:04, 18 March 2009 (UTC)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xact (talk • contribs) 23:01, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

The icelandic language thus contains the word "dallur". —Preceding unsigned comment added by KibyNykraft1976 (talk • contribs) 23:02, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

 * While all this is interesting, simply have Wikipedia's policies on original research in mind. You are of course more than welcome to find reliable sources that count these etymologies as plausible explanations, and add that information to the article, properly sourced. –Holt (T•C) 23:12, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Grimm thinks the name has something to do with the heavens, pine-trees and mountains, implying that Heimdallr was originally a god of wooded mountain-tops (which links to Perkwunos rather directly). But Grimm is also aware that this is only speculation. There is no clear interpretation for the name. --dab (𒁳) 12:02, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Please move to Old Norse Heimdallr
Would someone please move this article to the Old Norse version (Heimdallr) rather than the current arbitrary choice between the two anglicizations (Heimdall, Heimdal)? bloodofox: (talk) 15:27, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

 * Okay, if no-one objects I'll move it later this week. Haukur (talk) 00:05, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

 * It's been more than a month and no objections so I moved it. Haukur (talk) 20:28, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
 * "Heimdallr" is no more "Old Norse" than "Heimdall." The -r suffix is a nominative case declension and has no meaning outside the context of a sentence.  guppyfinsoup  ( talk/contribs ) 07:30, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Recent Rewrite Status
I have recently rewritten this article and created or rewritten a few related to it (Gjallarhorn, Nine Mothers of Heimdallr, Himinbjörg, Heimdalargaldr) from scratch. Here's what the article currently needs: And likely some careful copyediting. Rígsþula also badly needs some well-referenced love (rewrite, anyone?). Enjoy! bloodofox: (talk) 22:19, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) A 'Theories and Interpetations' section mentioning the major theories on the god (the Yggdrasill connection, the ram connections)
 * 2) More in depth discussion in the etymology section

Whitest of the Gods
If there's no reliable source asserting that one of Heimdall's titles include "Whitest of the Gods" I suggest removal of this line. There's a lot of recent activity related to citation tags being added/removed. I suspect this title may have been added only because of fan outrage at the casting of a black actor for Marvel Comic's film version of Thor. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.66.17.115 (talk) 05:57, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
 * You have therefore not read the article. Go back and ctrl + f "whitest of the gods". You will then find multiple citations, including discussion on the matter. The lead section of the article is a summary of its contents (Manual of Style (lead section)). Said Marvel comics film controversy seems to have resulted from some sort of dubious joke on the part of the film makers. bloodofox: (talk) 06:20, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Possible typos in translation
Henry Adams Bellows translation:

Himingbjorg is the eight, and Heimdall there O'er men hold sway, it is said; In his well-built house does the warder of heaven The good mead gladly drink.[16]

Was the usage of "eight" and "sway" as opposed to the correct "eighth" and "sways" in the source or is it an error we have made when copying it here? --Khajidha (talk) 11:30, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

 * — Good eye. I've checked the translation and corrected it. :bloodofox: (talk) 19:09, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Original text
Would anyone be up for putting the real texts into the article? CecilWard (talk) 15:36, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
 * To be clear, are you requesting the normalized Old Norse for the stanzas quoted in the article? :bloodofox: (talk) 16:11, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Whitest of the gods
People keep tripping over this so we should try to provide more and clearer information. It's very clear that 'hvítastr' means "whitest" - the color of wheat and linen. But the connotations of describing someone as 'white' are different in the Old Norse context than they usually are in modern English. In English, 'white' is typically a racial designation. In Old Norse literature, white is the color of aristocratic beauty. I'll see about finding references that go into this. Haukur (talk) 21:07, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

Requested move 27 July 2021

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

The result of the move request was: moved. per discussion consensus. This was a hard one. We have, on one hand, the fact that more robust and good scholarly sources more often use the more traditional spelling. And it is true that google results are likely flawed, given that more traditional sources are so often left out. On the other side, we have COMMONNAME, naturalness, recognizability, and that this is the English language wikipedia, so we call Deutschland "Germany", Nippon "Japan", and, apparently, Nilfheimr "Nilfheim." It appears, from the discussion participants who have responded in past 4 weeks (and 2 relists, mass advertisements, etc), that the English spelling is what most editors prefer. Remember, we can always revisit this down the road. And another road worth considering is to make a broader discussion about all of these norse pages, trying to unify the style. Or trying to get consensus on a MOS entry. But as a closer of this particular discussion, I must operate by the evident consensus. Which, here, is in favor of the move. (non-admin closure) — Shibboleth ink  (♔ ♕) 21:33, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Heimdallr → Heimdall – Per WP:COMMONNAME. We should be using English not Old Norse.

 * Google results:
 * "Heimdall": 2,220,000
 * "Heimdallr": 408,000
 * "Heimdallur": 115,000
 * "Heimdal" brings up 3,970,000 results, but they're mostly related to places and companies.
 * Google Scholar results for English only:
 * "Heimdall": 2,080
 * "Heimdallr": 734
 * "Heimdallur": 44
 * "Heimdal" brings up 16,600 results, but it's mostly in the names of the authors.

Britannica uses Heimdall. MClay1 (talk) 03:39, 27 July 2021 (UTC) — Relisted. 2pou (talk) 17:38, 5 August 2021 (UTC) — Relisting.  Shibboleth ink  (♔ ♕) 23:52, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

To expand on that, they use common English versions for all the gods, as well as mentioning the Old Norse spelling. MClay1 (talk) 04:45, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

— Relisted to gain a more clear consensus given conflicting policies and sources. We want the outcome to be clear and robust. Shibboleth ink (♔ ♕) 23:56, 16 August 2021 (UTC) — advertised at WikiProject Mythology 23:56, 16 August 2021 (UTC) — advertised at WikiProject Religion 23:56, 16 August 2021 (UTC) Pinging past participants on the talk page to see if we can get some more opinions after the relistings. MClay1 (talk) 13:06, 19 August 2021 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Question has consistency with other articles been checked? In ictu oculi (talk) 15:53, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
 * We're not consistent at all. Asgard, Niflheim, Odin, Thor, Yggdrasil, and yet Álfheimr, Niðavellir, Týr. MClay1 (talk) 04:51, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Support Appears to be the most commonly used name in English-language reliable sources.--Yaksar (let's chat) 04:53, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Google stats are misleading: Sources like Simek's Handbook of Northern Mythology don't even appear. Many of those Google hits are likely referring to the Marvel films and related media, not the deity. It's common for academic treatment of these entities to use the non-anglicized form. I don't see the point of dropping the nominative -r in this case. :bloodofox: (talk) 05:27, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment. Well, the -r is just a case marker which plays no role in English grammar (uses syntax instead). The problem with retaining case markers is that you get mixed constructions like Heimdallr's instead of the more logical Heimdall's. OTOH, we tend to keep Latin case markers in names, like in Julius Caesar and Marcus Aurelius, and for Marcus, there is the possible alternative form Mark.--Berig (talk) 07:21, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Except for Thor and Odin, the Norse gods are commonly referred to in English works on Norse mythology and religion by their Old Norse names, including the -r on Heimdallr's name. I just checked two recent works, Christopher Abram's Myths of the Pagan North (Continuum, 2011) and John Lindow's Old Norse Mythology (Oxford, 2021); the former anglicizes Thor and Odin but not others (Heimdallr, also Njörðr, more of a mouthful), the latter anglicizes none of the names (Þórr, Óðinn, Heimdallr, Njǫrðr, though I had to hunt down the last, he's not in the index). Even though, as Berig says, it means we have strictly incorrect forms like "Heimdallr's", we stick English possessive endings on names from other inflected languages—"Caesar's", "Apollo's", and it's the convention in the field to use the Old Norse names rather than anglicize by omitting either diacritics or the -r or adopt modern Icelandic -ur. When I see "Heimdall" or "Balder" I think of the Marvel characters. Yngvadottir (talk) 08:08, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
 * The Marvel characters are named after the mythological characters. They didn't create new names – they used the common English names. MClay1 (talk) 04:45, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
 * No, they used anglicisations that, except for Thor and Odin, are not commonly used in scholarly works. (The extreme is the dwarf or troll Geirrodur, whose name is based on the giant Geirrøðr, but Hela is also not the form of Hel's name used in scholarly works. And I'm talking about survey works, not articles published in specialist journals.) Kirby was wonderful, and I suppose Stan Lee deserves credit too , but the Marvel versions are in many cases quite different, and I actually find it useful to have two separate spelling conventions so that I know who someone is referring to. I checked in case in Hemdallr's case, common scholarly usage had changed; it hasn't. Yngvadottir (talk) 07:04, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
 * WP:COMMONNAME does not require the common name to come solely from scholarly sources. Many reliable sources use the anglicisations, and since this is English Wikipedia, not Old Norse Wikipedia, that's what makes the most sense. Most readers are not scholars and using foreign language spellings (especially with foreign letters such as in some of the other article titles that should also change) makes the articles difficult to read. The anglicisations fit the Recognizability and Naturalness criteria for article titles. The mythological characters have been adapted into many works besides Marvel – we shouldn't be choosing a spelling that is deliberately different just to differentiate them. Hela is the exception in Marvel because "Hel" is too similar to "Hell", but that doesn't matter here. MClay1 (talk) 14:54, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I'd go further. The Marvel characters are not named after the mythological characters. They are the same character, being used in two different types of sources. The Marvel characters are cultural depictions of the Norse gods, similar to Cultural depictions of John F. Kennedy.--Khajidha (talk) 17:40, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose, if both Yngvadottir and Bloodofox oppose this there are very good reasons to do so. These two editors are among our experts on this.--Berig (talk) 08:20, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Support. Clear common name in English-language sources. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:26, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 16:35, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Support, Heimdall is the common name. J I P  | Talk 01:18, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Support, the English-language version should obviously be used. Ichthyovenator (talk) 18:24, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Support. This is the English Wikipedia, and if the vast majority of sources are using "Heimdall", we should reflect that. Sean Stephens (talk) 03:58, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Support Random House and Collins, Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities, Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses also use Heimdall. WP:USEENGLISH Redtigerxyz  Talk 13:16, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Support Per WP:COMMONNAME.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 05:23, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Support per common name.--Khajidha (talk) 13:14, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The better the source is, the more likely it is to use Heimdallr. Many of the Google scholar hits for Heimdall are for other things than the god. Of the first page of results, all but one result is for something else. Haukur (talk) 13:15, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

Old Norse pronunciation of "Heimdallr"
What's the source for the word-final "r" being pronounced as a voiced alveolar retracted sibilant? WP Ludicer (talk) 08:45, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

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Victoria Gotti

Victoria Gotti (born November 27, 1962) is an American writer and television personality, known for being the daughter of Gambino crime family Mafia boss John Gotti.

Early life
Victoria Gotti was born November 27, 1962, in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents are mob boss John Gotti and Victoria (DiGiorgio) Gotti, whose father was of Italian descent, and mother was of half Italian half Russian ancestry. Gotti was raised in a two-story house in Howard Beach, New York, with her four siblings, which include brother John A. Gotti, sister Angel, and her younger brother Frank, whom she referred to as her "little doll".

Writing
Victoria Gotti was a columnist at the New York Post and a reporter for WNYW, the New York City flagship station of the Fox Television Network.

In 1995, Gotti wrote her first book, Women and Mitral Valve Prolapse, which was inspired by and documented her own struggle with the illness. In 1997, she published her mystery novel The Senator's Daughter, followed by more: I'll Be Watching You (1998), Superstar (2000), and Hot Italian Dish (2006). She additionally wrote the memoirs This Family of Mine: What It Was Like Growing Up Gotti (2009).

Television
From August 2004 until December 2005, Gotti was the star of Growing Up Gotti, an American reality television series on the A&E Network, on which she starred with her three sons. In August 2005, days before the third-season premiere of Growing Up Gotti, Gotti stated that she had breast cancer. However, after being accused of faking her illness by various media outlets, she admitted soon after her initial announcement that she did have precancerous cells present in her breast, rather than an actual diagnosis.

In early 2012, Gotti appeared as one of 18 contestants on the American reality television series Celebrity Apprentice, which premiered on February 19. Gotti was eliminated in week 2 of the competition.

On September 22, 2013, Gotti made a guest appearance on The Real Housewives of New Jersey alongside cast member Teresa Giudice, appearing in the season 5 episode "Hair We Go Again". She appeared on the show again in the season 6 episode "Roses Are Red, Dina Is Blue", which premiered on August 24, 2014.

In December 2014, Gotti made a guest appearance in "Storm A-Brewin'", a fifth-season episode of the VH1 reality show Mob Wives. Despite having criticized the authenticity of that show in a 2012 radio interview, in which she characterized it as a "train wreck" and "not real", Gotti appeared in the episode for a scene in which cast member Angela Raiola seeks her advice on how to resolve her conflicts with her inner circle.

On February 9, 2019, Lifetime aired the documentary film Victoria Gotti: My Father's Daughter which stars Chelsea Frei as Victoria Gotti and Maurice Benard as John Gotti. Victoria Gotti serves as the narrator, co-writer, and executive producer of this film.

Personal life
In 1984, Agnello married Victoria despite her parents' disapproval. The couple had three sons, Carmine, John, and Frank. The family lived in a mansion in Old Westbury, New York, which was the filming location in 2004 for the reality television series Growing Up Gotti.

In 2003, while Agnello was in jail, Victoria Gotti divorced him on grounds of constructive abandonment.

In May 2009, foreclosure was approved on the $3.2 million mansion that Gotti was awarded as part of her divorce from Carmine Agnello.

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Talk:Monometer

I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away; I looked upon the rotting deck, And there the dead men lay.I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away; I looked upon the rotting deck, And there the dead men lay.I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away; I looked upon the rotting deck, And there the dead men lay.

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Beckton

Beckton is a suburb in east London, England, located 8 mi east of Charing Cross and part of the London Borough of Newham. Adjacent to the River Thames, the area consisted of unpopulated marshland known as the East Ham Levels in the parishes of Barking, East Ham, West Ham and Woolwich. The development of major industrial infrastructure in the 19th century to support the growing metropolis of London caused an increase in population with housing built in the area for workers of the Beckton Gas Works and Beckton Sewage Treatment Works. The area has a convoluted local government history and has formed part of Greater London since 1965. Between 1981 and 1995 it was within the London Docklands Development Corporation area, which caused the population to increase as new homes were built and the Docklands Light Railway was constructed.

Toponymy
Beckton is named after Simon Adams Beck, the governor of the Gas Light and Coke Company when work building Beckton Gas Works began in November 1868. The name New Beckton was used in 1881 for the workers estate at Cyprus.

Local government
Prior to industrialisation, the area that became Beckton was remote and unpopulated Thameside marshland, known as the East Ham Levels. Urban development took place in the south of the parish of East Ham, the part of the parish of Barking to the west of the River Roding and the part of Woolwich parish that was north of the River Thames. The western extremity was in the parish of West Ham. There was also a county boundary, with Barking, East Ham and West Ham in Essex and Woolwich in Kent. The whole area became part of the expanded Metropolitan Police District in 1840. Reflecting an increase in population and the need for more effective local government, local boards were formed for Woolwich in 1852, West Ham in 1856, East Ham in 1878 and Barking Town in 1882. The section in the detached part of Woolwich parish came within the Metropolitan Board of Works district in 1855 and in 1889 this area became the County of London under the control of the newly formed London County Council. The Barking Town and East Ham sections now came within the Essex County Council area, but West Ham instead formed a separate county borough because its population was high enough. East Ham was also elevated to this status in 1915. This continued until 1965 when the London Borough of Newham in Greater London was formed from territory that had been part of East Ham, West Ham, Barking and Woolwich. Beckton was within the London Docklands Development Corporation area from 1981 to 1995.

Beckton sewage works
Beckton Sewage treatment works were first established in 1864 as part of Joseph Bazalgette's scheme to remove sewage (and hence reduce disease) from London by creating two large sewers from the capital, one on each side of the Thames and known as the Southern and Northern Outfall Sewers. The Beckton sewage works (TQ448823), at the end of the northern outfall sewer, is Europe's 7th largest and is now managed by Thames Water. The outfall sewer has been landscaped and now also serves as the Greenway cycle track through east London.

The site was mooted in 2005 as the location for a desalination plant, but the proposal was rejected by Mayor Ken Livingstone as environmentally unacceptable. The scheme has been resurrected by the successive mayor, Boris Johnson, as part of a deal with Thames Water to reduce delays in fixing roadworks throughout London. The sewerage works has been expanded to handle the flow from the Thames Tideway Scheme.

Beckton gasworks
Situated north and east of the Royal Docks, the area was formerly heavily industrialised, and was the location of Beckton Gas Works, the largest gasworks in Europe, which served the capital. An adjacent by-products works also produced a wide variety of products including ink, dyes, mothballs, and fertilisers, all by-products of the process of turning coal to coke in the production of town gas. Britain converted from town gas to North Sea natural gas over the period 1966-77 and the Beckton gasworks were closed in 1976.

An extensive toxic spoil-heap from the Gasworks was known ironically as 'Beckton Alps'. Originally running from the Northern outfall sewer south to Winsor Terrace, this was landscaped in the 1980s. Part became a 25 m high Artificial ski slope for a time, opened by Diana, Princess of Wales, with a viewing platform at the summit and a Swiss-style bar at the foot. However, the site is now derelict.

Urban development
Beckton railway station opened in 1874 as the eastern terminus of a branch from Custom House.

Immediately after the Second World War, large numbers of prefabs were built in Beckton to house those made homeless by the war. The prefab-lined streets were all named after well-known generals and war heroes, but in the redevelopment of North Beckton in the 1980s, these were all swept away with the exception of Eisenhower Drive.

Containerisation during the 1960s, and the development of the docks at Tilbury, released all the land from the Thames up to the A13 which had been earmarked for a new, North Albert Dock. The original District Plan envisaged a large Council-owned estate, and major infrastructure works—including a huge drainage scheme with pumping stations—were put in place. However, following the creation of the London Docklands Development Corporation, much of the land was sold off resulting in today's blend of largely private housing.

In more recent times, industry has left the area, leaving huge areas of brownfield land, and Beckton has been redeveloped as part of the Docklands project. It now comprises mainly housing and several out-of-town shopping centres, and the architecture is mostly post-1982. Small areas of Victorian housing survive in Winsor Terrace, originally built as accommodation for Gas Light and Coke Company staff, and in the 'Nottingham' estate off Prince Regent Lane. It is served by local buses and Beckton DLR station, which acts as the terminus of the DLR's Beckton branch.

Beckton absorbed the localities of Cyprus and Winsor Park, which was built in the 1870s to house gasworks employees. Several original properties survive on Winsor Terrace, with two-up-two-downs for the workers and generously proportioned end-of-terrace houses for foremen. North Beckton, bordering the northern end of Woolwich Manor Way, was mostly built up in the late 1980s with a network of short streets, even shorter cul-de-sacs and dinky homes, many built as part of social housing schemes.

In the early 21st century, Beckton burgeons south and further east, towards Gallions Reach, being an essential part of the Thames Gateway. "Gallions Hotel", part of the Furlong City development by the lock that links the Royal Docks to the Thames, was formerly a rail terminus which connected with passenger ships leaving for all parts of the British Empire. Many colonial officials and their families spent their last night in Britain in the Gallions Hotel, which was mentioned by Rudyard Kipling in his novel, The Light That Failed.

In 2003, the largest Shopping Park in London, Gallions Reach was built. There are another three retail parks in the area; Beckton Triangle Retail Park, Beckton Gateway and Beckton Retail Park.

Geography
Its boundaries are the A13 trunk road to the north, Barking Creek to the east, the Royal Docks to the south, and Prince Regent Lane to the west. The area around Prince Regent Lane is also known as Custom House. Modern Beckton is divided into East Beckton, Mid Beckton, North Beckton, West Beckton, South Beckton and Cyprus (named after the British capture of Cyprus from the Ottoman Empire in 1878, which occurred as the original estate was being built).

Beckton is at the western end of the London Riverside redevelopment zone of the Thames Gateway. Transport for London is planning a new bridge, the Gallions Reach Crossing, which will connect Beckton to Thamesmead on the southern bank of the River Thames.

Demographics
Beckton is home to a significant Lithuanian community, which has led to the area being dubbed as Bektoniškės or "Little Lithuania". As many as 8,000 Lithuanians are estimated to have settled in Beckton following an increase in mobility for Lithuanian nationals across the European Union in 2007.

Transport
There are Docklands Light Railway services from Beckton Bus Station to Canning Town Bus Station, Stratford International Bus Station and Tower Gateway DLR Station. There are a number of stations serving Beckton DLR Station, Beckton Bus Station. The nearest Docklands Light Railway station is Beckton for Mid and North Beckton; Cyprus for Cyprus area; Beckton Park for South Beckton and Royal Albert for West Beckton. Beckton is near the London City Airport and Woolwich. Beckton is served by many Transport for London bus services connecting it with areas including Barking Station, Beckton Bus Station, Beckton DLR Station, Beckton Triangle Retail Park, Canning Town Station, Canning Town Bus Station, Canning Town DLR Station, Central London, Chadwell Heath TFL Station, Dagenham, East Ham, Gallions Reach Shopping Park, Ilford, London City Airport, Manor Park, North Woolwich, Royal Albert, Stratford and Wanstead

Buses

The area is served by TfL bus services 101, 104, 173, 262, 300, 366, 376, 474, 673, 678; and night bus N551.

Routes 101, 104, 173, 366, 376, 673 and 678 terminate inside the bus station while routes 262, 300, 474 and N551 go past the station.

Buses at this station go as far as Wanstead, Canning Town, Stratford, Goodmayes, East Ham, Manor Park, Plaistow, Royal Albert, Chadwell Heath, Upton Park, Barking, Ilford, Loxford Estate, Redbridge, Dagenham, Gallions Reach and North Woolwich.

Beckton bus station
Beckton is a London Buses bus station in the neighbourhood of Beckton, east London. The station is owned and maintained by Transport for London.

Culture and community
The Gasworks were still extant—although derelict—in the early 1980s, when Stanley Kubrick's team came scouting for an area that could double for the battle scenes in his 1987 film, Full Metal Jacket. The Gasworks rough concrete structures were painted with Vietnamese script, and then strategically dynamited so as to resemble war-torn Huế. Retail parks now cover most of the Gasworks site.

Other notable films shot in and around the Beckton area during the 1980s included the 1981 James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only, which featured extensive aerial views of the Gasworks in the pre-credit sequence. Beckton was also used as a location in Michael Radford's 1984 feature film adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four—the Gasworks served as the setting for Orwell's "Proletarian Zones".

The video for Loop's 1990 single 'Arc-lite' was filmed on the set of Full Metal Jacket, as was the video for the 1997 Oasis single, "D'You Know What I Mean?"

Andrew Birkin's 1990 film of Ian McEwan's novel, The Cement Garden, was also filmed in Beckton and starred Charlotte Gainsbourg. In several scenes of The Cement Garden, aircraft can be heard taxiing at the nearby London City Airport. Winsor House, which served as the backdrop to the film was later demolished and the Winsor House Hotel stands there now.

In the opening minutes of the 2007 Simon Pegg film Hot Fuzz, the Tate & Lyle factory, Silvertown, and the City Airport aprons can be seen through the window blinds of Building 1000.

Footballer Jermain Defoe was born in Beckton. Defoe has said Beckton has "made him the man he is today". On 13 February 2006 Jermain Defoe scored his 100th Premier League goal against Charlton. He celebrated making a "B" sign with his hands to commemorate Beckton.

On 14 May 2010 Beckton was the location of a terrorist attack on local Member of Parliament Stephen Timms. He was approached by 21-year-old Islamist Roshonara Choudhry during his constituency surgery at the Beckton Globe library and stabbed twice in an attempted assassination. Timms survived the attack and the perpetrator was jailed for life.

Education
The University of East London Docklands Campus is a campus of the University of East London (UEL) situated in the Docklands area of east London in the Cyprus area of Beckton. The campus opened in 1999. It is one of three UEL campuses, the others being the Stratford Campus and the new University Square Stratford location.

Kingsford Community School is a secondary school located close to Beckton DLR. It opened in September 2000, and educates full-time children from the ages of 11 to 16.

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The Quatermass Memoirs

The Quatermass Memoirs is a British radio drama-documentary, originally broadcast in 5 episodes on BBC Radio 3 in March 1996. Written by Nigel Kneale, it was born out of his Quatermass series of films and television serials, which had first been broadcast in the 1950s. The idea for the show appeared as BBC radio intended to create a season of programming looking back at the 1950s, and it was the final piece of writing Kneale completed relating to the character.

The show is centered on the character of Professor Bernard Quatermass who, albeit older than in the previous series, is "the same very concerned scientist" but worried about his previous decisions. Andrew Keir, who had played Quatermass in the 1967 film Quatermass and the Pit, was chosen to voice the character. Later, Nigel Kneale himself became dismissive of the serial, but critics gave the production relatively positive reviews.

Overview
The series mixes three different strands: a new monologue by Kneale in which he discusses the genesis and development of the Quatermass serials and their main character; archival material from the television productions, and from documentary and newsreel coverage of key events of the times in which they were made, such as the Cold War, the advent of nuclear weapons and the embryonic Space Race; and the dramatised strand, in which the Professor discloses his reasons for reclusion and discusses his demons with a persistent reporter who invades his hermitage (and ultimately becomes his friend). This third element is set several years after the events of the third serial, Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59), and shortly before those of the fourth and final serial, Quatermass (1979). Continuity is maintained with the 1979 serial by presenting Quatermass living in seclusion in the Scottish Highlands, while the final episode reveals that the social collapse foreshadowing the events of the final story has already begun.

Production
Kneale had brought Quatermass's story to a close in the 1979 serial Quatermass, and for many years saw no reason to revisit the character. However, in 1995 he was approached by BBC radio producer Paul Quinn with an idea for creating a drama-documentary about the character as part of a season of BBC radio programming looking back at the 1950s. Quinn told Dreamwatch magazine: "For many people who remember the seminal experience of hiding behind the sofa when the Quatermass serials came on the television, Quatermass was the 1950s. His adventures [...] have gone down in popular cultural history". Kneale was intrigued by the idea, and agreed to write new dramatic material of Quatermass relating his memories which Quinn could then combine with archive clips from the existing episodes of the various Quatermass television serials. Kneale saw the older Quatermass of this new serial as "the same very concerned scientist who is now, in retrospect, horribly worried about what he may have done to the world through his encounters with various lifeforms that were better not contacted". It was Kneale's first radio work since he had written the play You Must Listen for the BBC in 1952, and his first work for the BBC in any medium since the mid-1970s.

The programme was commissioned in July 1995, with the original working title of Quatermass and the Ultimate Conspiracy. When Quinn discovered that some of the soundtracks of the Quatermass episodes were considered to be of too poor a quality to use, the idea for the series was re-shaped to add the new elements of Kneale's monologue and archive news reports. Kneale, however, later denied that any of the news stories which The Quatermass Memoirs suggested had inspired parts of his work had ever been in his mind at the time. He said that he had used a degree of creative licence when "explaining" these apparent inspirations in his monologue sections.

A further problem for Quinn was that none of the actors who had played Quatermass for BBC Television in the 1950s were still alive. This was solved by employing Andrew Keir, who had played Quatermass in the Hammer Film Productions version of Quatermass and the Pit in 1967, a performance which Kneale had liked. Keir was happy to take the part, but somewhat concerned about only being used as a "link man" and not in a fully dramatic role. The clips that were used from the original BBC episodes were all carefully edited so that the actors playing Quatermass were never heard, and thus the differences between their voices and Keir's would not confuse the audience. Also in the cast were Emma Gregory as the journalist, Mandy, and Zulema Dene as Quatermass's housekeeper, Maire.

The five episodes, each of approximately twenty minutes, were broadcast across one week from 4 to 8 March 1996, as part of The Fifties season of programming. The serial was promoted in listings magazine Radio Times with an article by Kneale about Quatermass and his opinion of other science fiction programmes. Episode one was transmitted at 10.32pm on the Monday (originally scheduled for 10.05pm but delayed by a live concert broadcast beforehand); episode two at 9.30pm on the Tuesday; episode three 9.00pm on Wednesday, episode four 10.15pm on Thursday and episode five at 9.40pm on the Friday. The production was made and transmitted in stereo. It was Andrew Keir's final professional performance; he died the following year.

The digital radio station BBC7 repeated the series on several occasions from October 2003. In 2006 it was released on CD by BBC Audio as part of their Classic Radio Sci-Fi range, with cover artwork by Chris Achilleos.

Reception
Nigel Kneale himself was largely dismissive of the serial in the years following its broadcast: "God knows it wasn't a very important sort of thing. The BBC didn't care tuppence about what they were doing, because they really don't know what they're doing, certainly not in radio... [Andrew Keir] must have been pretty ill when this nonsense was going on".

Reviewing the first episodes of both The Quatermass Memoirs and In the Fifties—another programme running as part of The Fifties season—The Times's reviewer Peter Barnard was impressed. Despite thinking that such a season of programming was "a necessarily premature commemoration", he felt that both series had "demonstrated how radio's better moments often take conventional pegs and hang some original clothing on them".

The Independent's radio critic Robert Hanks was unimpressed with Kneale's script for the dramatic sections, but praised the performance of Andrew Keir in the title role: "Lesser actors would treat Kneale's downbeat script with a certain detachment, but Keir is prepared to charge even the most banal lines with a terror that's both a treat and a lesson". Hanks also felt that The Fifties season as a whole, as demonstrated by The Quatermass Memoirs, had a somewhat misleading focus: "You get the sense that a vogue for science fiction is being interpreted as the spirit of the Fifties, with emphasis being put on a handful of sci-fi films. If you really wanted to read the age through its movies, you'd have to include Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, late Ealing and early Norman Wisdom, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley. It's a lot to accommodate; perhaps sticking to terror is just less intimidating".

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List of hentai creators

The following are people who have created sexually explicit or pornographic manga or anime, collectively referred to as hentai.

Individuals
• Amy Yamada

• Benkyo Tamaoki

• Carnelian

• Gai Mizuki

• Gengoroh Tagame

• Henmaru Machino

• Hiroyuki Utatane

• Isutoshi

• Jiraiya

• Joe Phillips

• Johji Manabe

• Jun Maeda

• Keito Koume

• Kouta Hirano

• Masamune Shirow

• Meimu

• Nozomu Tamaki

• Oh! great

• Okama

• Projekt Melody

• Rei Hiroe

• Rin Shin

• Satoshi Urushihara

• Senno Knife

• Shōji Satō

• Takahiro

• Takeshi Matsu

• Teruo Kakuta

• Toshihiro Ono

• Toshiki Yui

• Toshio Maeda

• U-Jin

• Yasuomi Umetsu

• Yū Asagiri

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USS Dyer

USS Dyer (DD-84) was a Wickes-class destroyer built for the United States Navy during World War I.

Description
The Wickes class was an improved and faster version of the preceding Caldwell-class destroyer. Two different designs were prepared to the same specification that mainly differed in the turbines and boilers used. The ships built to the Bethlehem Steel design, built in the Fore River and Union Iron Works shipyards, mostly used Yarrow boilers that deteriorated badly during service and were mostly scrapped during the 1930s. The ships displaced 1202 - 1208 LT at standard load and 1295 - 1322 LT at deep load. They had an overall length of 314 ft, a beam of 30 ft and a draught of 9 ft. They had a crew of 6 officers and 108 enlisted men.

Performance differed radically between the ships of the class, often due to poor workmanship. The Wickes class was powered by two steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by four water-tube boilers. The turbines were designed to produce a total of 27000 shp intended to reach a speed of 35 kn. The ships carried 225 LT of fuel oil which was intended gave them a range of 2500 nmi at 20 kn.

The ships were armed with four 4-inch (102 mm) guns in single mounts and were fitted with two 1-pounder guns for anti-aircraft defense. Their primary weapon, though, was their torpedo battery of a dozen 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes in four triple mounts. In many ships a shortage of 1-pounders caused them to be replaced by 3-inch (76 mm) anti-aircraft (AA) guns. They also carried a pair of depth charge rails. A "Y-gun" depth charge thrower was added to many ships.

Construction and career
Dyer, named for Nehemiah Mayo Dyer was launched 13 April 1918 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts, sponsored by Miss Virginia Blackmur, and commissioned 1 July 1918. Assigned to U.S. patrol squadrons based on Gibraltar, Dyer sailed from New York 9 July 1918 with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt embarked for transportation to Plymouth, England. Arriving 21 July Dyer got underway 5 days later arriving Gibraltar on the 29th. On 4 August she began her service as escort for merchant convoys and Army transports between Gibraltar and Marseilles, France, making nine such voyages until the end of hostilities. Dyer departed Gibraltar 29 January 1919 for service with U.S. Naval Forces in the central and eastern Mediterranean, and called at Split and Kotor, Dalmatia (today in Croatia and in Montenegro), and Brindisi, Italy, Constantinople, Turkey, and Beirut, Lebanon, before arriving at Venice 5 February. Operating from Venice as flagship for the force, Dyer took part in relief activities in the Balkans and Middle East, carried passengers and supplies in the Adriatic and aided in the execution of the terms of the Austrian Armistice until 16 April, when she sailed for the United States. Dyer arrived at New York 14 June 1919 with two Members of Congress embarked.

Between 1 October 1919 and 31 October 1920, Dyer was in reserve, in reduced commission. She operated out of Charleston, South Carolina, until 3 April 1922 when she sailed to Philadelphia Navy Yard. Dyer was decommissioned there 7 June 1922 and sold 8 September 1936.

As of 2019, no other ships in the United States Navy have carried this name.

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Big Boss Man (disambiguation)

Big Boss Man (1963–2004) was a professional wrestler.

Big Boss Man may also refer to:

 * Big Boss Man (band), a British jazz/funk band
 * "Big Boss Man" (song), a blues song made famous by Jimmy Reed
 * Big Boss Man (Jimmy Reed album), 1968
 * Big Boss Man (The Kentucky Headhunters album), 2005

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East Flatbush, Brooklyn

East Flatbush is a residential neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. East Flatbush is bounded by Crown Heights and Empire Boulevard to the north; Brownsville and East 98th Street to the east; Flatlands, Canarsie and the Long Island Rail Road's Bay Ridge Branch to the south; and the neighborhood of Flatbush and New York Avenue to the west. East Flatbush is a predominantly African American neighborhood and has a population of 135,619 as of the 2010 United States census.

East Flatbush is part of Brooklyn Community District 17, and its primary ZIP Code is 11203. It is patrolled by the 67th Precinct of the New York City Police Department. Politically it is represented by the New York City Council's 40th, 41st, and 45th Districts.

Geography
As with many neighborhoods in Brooklyn, the borders of East Flatbush are subjective/porous, but its northern border is roughly at Empire Boulevard and East New York Avenue east of East 91st Street, its southern border is in the vicinity of the Long Island Rail Road Bay Ridge Branch, its eastern border is roughly at East 98th Street and its western border is roughly at Nostrand/New York Avenues.

East Flatbush is split up into three subsections. From west to east they are Erasmus, Farragut, and Remsen Village/Rugby.

Farragut
The central section of East Flatbush is called Farragut. Farragut is roughly bounded by Cortelyou Road and Holy Cross Cemetery to the north, Kings Highway to the east, Brooklyn Avenue on the west and the LIRR Bay Ridge Branch to the south. Farragut was originally part of the colonial Town of Flatbush, and was named for American Civil War Admiral David Farragut. The area was largely populated by Jews and Italians before 1950. By the 1990s, African Americans became a majority, along with many immigrants from the West Indies.

Farragut is adjacent to Paerdegat Woods, a formerly wooded area near Paerdegat Basin where real-estate developer Fred Trump constructed housing in the 1940s. Farragut also contains Flatbush Gardens (formerly named Vanderveer Estates), a 59-building complex erected in 1949. Vanderveer Estates was built on the site of the old Flatbush Water Works. The complex is one of the largest privately held working-class housing complexes in New York City, and owned in part by David Bistricer. Notable people who once lived in Vanderveer Estates include Barbra Streisand and Michael K. Williams.

Remsen Village
Remsen Village has been described as a "subsection of the larger East Flatbush neighborhood," with an estimated 60,000 residents. but is also sometimes considered its own neighborhood and also as "Rugby-Remsen Village". The origin of using the name Remsen Village seems to be in the mid-1990s, and it was referred as such through the 21st century. Remsen Village's population is over one third of that of Brooklyn Community Board 17, which consists entirely of East Flatbush and its subsections.

The name "Rugby" was described in 2016 by the New York Times as "the old name for the area." It persists as the name of a road in East Flatbush, as well as a library branch in eastern East Flatbush.

Demographics
East Flatbush is divided into three neighborhood tabulation areas (Erasmus, Farragut, and Remsen Village), which collectively comprise the population of the area. Based on data from the 2010 United States census, the combined population of East Flatbush's neighborhood tabulation areas was 135,619, a change of -9,740 (-7.2%) from the 145,359 counted in 2000. Covering an area of 1871.5 acres, the neighborhood had a population density of 72.5 PD/acre.

The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 1.3% (1,816) White, 88.7% (120,231) African American, 0.3% (366) Native American, 1.1% (1,480) Asian, 0% (45) Pacific Islander, 0.4% (523) from other races, and 1.6% (2,140) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.6% (9,018) of the population.

The entirety of Community Board 17 had 154,575 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 82.6 years. This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods. Most inhabitants are middle-aged adults and youth: 21% are between the ages of 0 and 17, 28% between 25 and 44, and 28% between 45 and 64. The ratio of college-aged and elderly residents was lower, at 9% and 15% respectively.

As of 2016, the median household income in Community District 17 was $49,349. In 2018, an estimated 19% of East Flatbush residents lived in poverty, compared to 21% in all of Brooklyn and 20% in all of New York City. One in eleven residents (9%) were unemployed, compared to 9% in the rest of both Brooklyn and New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 54% in East Flatbush, higher than the citywide and boroughwide rates of 52% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation,, East Flatbush is considered to be high-income and not gentrifying, relative to the rest of the city.

Ethnic groups and subsections
East Flatbush generally is very similar in nature to neighboring Flatbush, as both are predominantly West Indian and working class; however, Flatbush has a higher percentage of White and Asian residents than East Flatbush. The area was populated after World War II predominantly by immigrant Jews and Italians, then in the 1960s by African Americans, but most recently has seen many West Indian immigrants such as Guyanese, Haitians, Jamaicans, Saint Lucians, Trinidadians, Grenadians, Vincentians, Bajans, Panamanians and Dominicans groups coming to the area. Within its confines is the Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, which is located at 3620 Tilden Avenue. While some residents are affluent, East Flatbush is mostly populated by working-class Brooklynites. Similar to other eastern Brooklyn neighborhoods, blacks predominate East Flatbush. The area is 91.4% Black or African-American and 51% foreign born, the majority of whom are from the Caribbean. Considering this data, East Flatbush has been noted as being the single largest West Indian neighborhood in all of New York City and America as a whole.

According to the 2020 census data from New York City Department of City Planning, East Flatbush has been given three different names for three different sections, which are East Flatbush Erasmus to the west, East Flatbush Farragut to the east, and East Flatbush Rugby to the north. The Erasmus portion had between 30,000 and 39,999 Black residents and between 5,000 and 9,999 Hispanic residents, meanwhile each the White and Asian populations were under 5000 residents. The Rugby portion had 30,000 to 39,999 Black residents while each the Hispanic, White, and Asian populations were all under 5000 residents. The Farragut portion had 20,000 to 29,999 Black residents while each the Hispanic, White, and Asian population were also all under 5000 residents.

Little Caribbean and Little Haiti
Since the 1960s and especially through the 1970s, Caribbean immigrants have largely settled into East Flatbush, as well as in other surrounding areas such as Flatbush, and Crown Heights. Since 2017, the areas surrounding Nostrand and Church Avenues have been given the nickname, Little Caribbean. In addition to Little Caribbean, the south tip of the neighborhood has been given the name Little Haiti due to the high concentration of Haitians. Additionally, the Newkirk Avenue–Little Haiti station of the New York City Subway's was formally renamed from Newkirk Avenue in 2021.

Police and crime
The NYPD's 67th Precinct (known internally by NYPD officers as Fort Jah ) is located at 2820 Snyder Avenue. The 67th Precinct ranked 40th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010. , with a non-fatal assault rate of 80 per 100,000 people, East Flatbush's rate of violent crimes per capita is greater than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 597 per 100,000 people is higher than that of the city as a whole. The Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 79.9% between 1990 and 2018. The precinct reported 6 murders, 43 rapes, 246 robberies, 601 felony assaults, 225 burglaries, 586 grand larcenies, and 98 grand larcenies auto in 2018.

A drug epidemic ravaged East Flatbush during the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, mostly in Vanderveer Estates. The intersection of Foster Avenue and Nostrand Avenues was nicknamed "the Front Page" because of media attention to drug murders there. The intersection of Foster between New York Avenue and Brooklyn Avenue area to the south was called "the Back Page" because its many murders went unnoticed. The area around the Nostrand playground had various gangs: Crips, Gangster Disciples, Jamaicans (Shower Posse), Trinidadians and Grenadians particularly notorious for turf wars, shootouts, and pitbull fights. Crime is still somewhat of a problem in the neighborhood today as well.

Fire safety
The firehouse for the New York City Fire Department (FDNY)'s Engine Co. 310/Ladder Co. 174 is located at 5105 Snyder Avenue.

Health
, preterm births and births to teenage mothers are more common in East Flatbush than in other places citywide. In East Flatbush, there were 126 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 20.6 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide). East Flatbush has a high population of residents who are uninsured, or who receive healthcare through Medicaid. In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 15%, which is higher than the citywide rate of 12%.

The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in East Flatbush is 0.0078 mg/m3, lower than the citywide and boroughwide averages. Eight percent of East Flatbush residents are smokers, which is lower the city average of 14% of residents being smokers. In East Flatbush, 34% of residents are obese, 15% are diabetic, and 36% have high blood pressure—compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively. In addition, 22% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.

Eighty percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is lower than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 83% of residents described their health as "good", "very good", or "excellent", higher than the city's average of 78%. For every supermarket in East Flatbush, there are 21 bodegas.

East Flatbush is home to three major hospitals, Kings County Hospital, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, and Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center.

Transportation
East Flatbush does not have as much access to the New York City Subway as Flatbush. However, the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line has some stops located near the western border of East Flatbush, particularly Newkirk Avenue–Little Haiti, Beverly Road, and Church Avenue. Additionally, along the neighborhood's eastern border with Brownsville, the IRT New Lots Line has a station at the intersection of Sutter Avenue, Rutland Road, and East 98th Street.

MTA Regional Bus Operations' routes run north–south through East Flatbush, while the  run east–west. The B12 bus takes a serpentine route at the north end of the neighborhood, and the runs on Kings Highway at the southeast edge of East Flatbush. The B6 runs via Bay Pkwy, Avenue J, and Flatlands Av and although passing through several neighborhoods, makes a few stops in East Flatbush.

Education
East Flatbush generally has a lower ratio of college-educated residents than the rest of the city. While 30% of residents age 25 and older have a college education or higher, 15% have less than a high school education and 55% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 40% of Brooklynites and 38% of city residents have a college education or higher. The percentage of East Flatbush students excelling in math has been increasing, with math achievement rising from 32 percent in 2000 to 51 percent in 2011, though reading achievement within the same time period stayed steady at 42%.

East Flatbush's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is slightly higher than the rest of New York City. In East Flatbush, 23% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year, compared to the citywide average of 20% of students. Additionally, 78% of high school students in East Flatbush graduate on time, higher than the citywide average of 75% of students.

Schools
Schools located in East Flatbush include:
 * Cristo Rey High School, a Catholic college preparatory high school located at East 37 Street and Foster Avenue
 * Cultural Academy for the Arts and Sciences (CAAS)
 * Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School
 * It Takes A Village Academy (ITAVA)
 * Nazareth Regional High School, a co-educational private Catholic high school located at East 57th Street and Avenue D
 * St. Francis of Assisi School
 * The School for Human Rights
 * The School for Democracy and Leadership
 * High School for Public Service: Heroes of Tomorrow
 * P.S. 208K (Elsa Ebeling School), a public elementary school, located at East 48th Street and Avenue D
 * St. Catherine of Genoa/St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Academy
 * Meyer Levin Junior High School
 * SUNY Downstate Medical Center
 * PS 135 Sheldon A Brookner

The neighborhood was the home of the former General George W. Wingate and Gov. Samuel J. Tilden High Schools.

Libraries
The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) has two branches in East Flatbush. The Rugby branch is located at 1000 Utica Avenue and opened in 1957. It was closed for renovations in 2017 and reopened in 2021.

The East Flatbush Library is located at 9612 Church Avenue, between East 96th Street and Rockaway Parkway, and was opened in 1945. In September 2018, this library was also closed for renovations; it reopened in June 2023.

Notable places
In summer 2006, the New York City Department of Transportation co-named a portion of Church Avenue from Remsen Avenue to East 98th Street in East Flatbush as "Bob Marley Boulevard".

The former Congregation Beth Israel, now known as Mt. Zion Church of God 7th Day, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

Notable people
Notable current and former residents of East Flatbush include:

 * Roosevelt Chapman (born 1962), basketball player
 * Edwidge Danticat (born 1969), writer
 * Flatbush Zombies, hip-hop group
 * Fu-Schnickens, hip-hop group
 * Rudy Giuliani (born 1944), former mayor of New York City
 * Ira Glasser (born 1938), civil liberties defender and author
 * Jamie Hector (born 1975), actor
 * Jidenna (born 1985), "Wondaland Records" rapper/singer
 * Joey Badass (born 1995), rapper
 * Ivan Lee (born 1981), Olympic saber fencer
 * MC Lyte (born 1970), rapper
 * Romona Moore, murdered college student
 * James P. O'Neill (born 1958), NYC Police Commissioner
 * Rowdy Rebel (born 1991), rapper
 * Busta Rhymes (born 1972), rapper
 * Bobby Shmurda (born 1994), rapper
 * Shyne (born 1978 as Jamal Michael Barrow), rapper and politician
 * Barbra Streisand (born 1942), singer and actress
 * The Underachievers, rappers
 * Unlocking the Truth, heavy metal group
 * Michael K. Williams (born 1966), actor

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