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ūI read a very interesting twist on the Robin Hood legend. In it, Robin Hood was a twelve year old girl. Replete with the joust on the bridge and expert archery, the youg female Robin Hood was quite impressive. I found the book, called Robyn, at 1stbooks.com

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Unlike the previous man bear pigs writing states, Robin Hood's meeting with Little John went more this way: Robin Hood, recently outlawed and forming his outlaw band, was walking through Sherwood Forest when he came to a narrow bridge over a deep stream-hardly a river-about 5-6 feet deep and about 2-3 feet above the water. Just at that moment a tall stranger begins to cross from the other side. Neither will stand back and let the other pass first. To settle the matter, Robin and the stranger joust on the bridge with staves. After a good joust, the stranger wins the fight by knocking Robin Hood off the bridge and into the water. Afterwards Robin discovers that that the stranger, John Little, has come to Sherwood Forest to join him. Robin is glad to have such a strong fighter in his band and he re-names hm Little John.

should anyone wish to merge it in. --Tagishsimon

Today (November 22, 2005), I rewrote the section on the quarterstaff duel to conform with the more common versions of the legend - particularly the 17th ballad from which the tale originates. Little John also wins the duel in Howard Pyle's children's novel (in which, Robin has to show his archery prowess to impress John after losing out in quarterstaves), the 1950s Richard Greene TV series and the 1938 Errol Flynn movie.

The main instance where Robin wins the quarterstaff bout is in the 1991 Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves. And surely, it makes more sense that this be noted as the occasional exception rather than as the rule. -- Allen W. Wright

Dublin
I'm tempted to delete the section on Little John in Dublin. It's unsourced and seems to be rather messy of organization - hard to tell if someone just made it up or what. Can anyone provide some evidence to support this? Maybe it's a commonly known story in Ireland but surely it's referenced in a book or website if that's the case. 23skidoo 01:19, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

It's not a commonly known story, but I have heard it before. I recall it being mentioned in Robin Hood - The Shaping of the Legend by Jeffrey Sigman, and I believe also in Joseph Ritson's 1795 compilation of Robin Hood ballads. I think the article errs at present in saying that it is widely known. It's one Little John tale of many, certainly less common than the Derbyshire link. I don't know about the 12th century date, however. As that is more the time period assigned to Robin Hood in the later legend. -- Allen W. Wright, www.bolodoutlaw.com - 22 November 2005

http://www.chapters.eiretek.org/books/OldDub/chapter6.htm

Other references - Lil' John
Could someone who knows who Lil' John is tidy up the reference to him by pointing to him and citing a source for this "well documented fact" or otherwise remove this sentence. Thanks Tomcrocker (talk) 12:44, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Little John in the book forbidden forest by Michael cadnum
Any family information about little John? 100.37.151.108 (talk) 01:49, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Notable?
This should be notable... yet I am drawing blank in my WP:BEFORE. Ping User:TompaDompa, User:Daranios... Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 16:24, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hm. The sources I have available to me, beyond the regular Google-accessible ones, aren't ones I would expect to cover Robin Hood to the extent that they would be of any use here. At worst, I would merge/redirect this article to Merry Men. TompaDompa (talk) 16:36, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it's surprisingly difficult to find something for such a prominent character. Yet I do think that he's notable after all, based on this and this search, which yield at least, , (has an alphabetical list of characters further down, so one has to scroll to L), , and a few more. Daranios (talk) 16:10, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
 * @Daranios The first work looks solid (academic and in-depth). Second seems unreliable (Red Wheel/Weiser/Conari), third I cannot access, and fourth seems not SIGCOV-related. That said, the first source does strongly suggest this is notable and we would probably find something else if we looked hard enough, so I think we can leave this be. I'll see about adding some reception / analysis section based on the first source you found shortly. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 17:08, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

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Exclamation mark
Geogre - I've only ever seen the quote with a final exclamation mark. Perhaps this is because it was part of a publisher's blurb.

Reading and editing this page has made me want to read this book again - I'll have to get it back from my sister first though! Paul Tracy

 * Gotta meet that sister, then. :-) The reason I cut the exclamation point was just because it's terminal punctuation.  Inside the parenthesis, it would have ended the sentence.  Since we can always choose to quote all the words without the last punctuation mark, that's what I did.  A bit school marmish of me, I know.  I once taught that book to college freshmen.  My colleagues thought I was nuts, but one of my students who had been failing went from F's to A's thanks to that book.  She pointed out that the birth of the child in the hotel, with all the cowboys in from the woods and the pookah and Good Fairy, is a recollection of the Nativity, with the shepherds down from the hills.  An amazing observation, and no critic I've read had ever noticed it before. Geogre 23:50, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

O'Nolan's other novels
"While O'Nolan wrote other novels, none achieved either the level of complexity or playfulness of At Swim-Two-Birds, and thus his accomplishments have not been as recognized as those of his contemporaries. [citation needed]"

- says who? this is a rather sweeping statement, and a not terribly accurate one at that, given the tortuous complexity of The Third Policeman 82.26.165.174 20:54, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

- Well for what it's worth I'd agree absolutely with the original comment. The sheer scope of AS2B, the range of genres it pastiches and themes it mixes up is stunning. It is a far broader conception than TTP, which is really rather linear and based around a single joke. TobyJ

 * It so happens that I entirely disagree about the superiority of AS2B over TTP, which I think is a much more effective, subtle and mysterious novel than its predecessor. However, it's neither here nor there, as the original sentence contravenes WP: NPOV and also WP: Original research.  I am responsible for the major rewrite of the article on TTP and I have kept my private opinions out of it, quoting only primary and secondary literature on the subject.  Flann O'Brien articles on WP tend to be rather essayistic and POV in character and I will go through this one cutting any hints of same that I see.  Sorry, guys, everyone's entitled to an opinion - you just aren't allowed to use a WP article to voice it, unless you can find a source where some famous published person voices it for you. Lexo (talk) 12:53, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Yeah, well, a week later I retract the second part of that last sentence, having taken on board User:Geogre's reminder that sources are to be supplied for supporting things that are likely to be disputed. User:Jbmurray has restored the most useful of such comments, just before I was going to do so myself (honestly I was).  In the meantime, I still maintain that TTP is the better novel.  I certainly prefer it. Lexo (talk) 00:06, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

ἐξίσταται γὰρ πάντ' ἀπ' ἀλλήλων δίχα
Just a big thankyou to whomever added the Euripides reference - I've waited close on 40 years to know that! What a marvellous asset Wikipedia continues to be. TobyJ 11:49, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

 * It`s been a long, long time; but shouldn`t the translation be: for all things exist separated from each other? --328cia (talk) 04:36, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

 * I wish I knew. Unfortunately, my browser is refusing to properly support Greek text.  This is especially frustrating as I'm trying to learn classical Greek.  If anyone knows of a reason why an up-to-date version of Firefox should behave in this way, let me know. Lexo (talk) 23:37, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

 * That seems a reasonable translation; I just used the one from E.P. Coleridge, assuming that he knew better than me. :o) In the context of the passage, I think Coleridge's translation is nice. I hope classical Greek is going well for you, Lexo. And I'm delighted you found this useful, TobyJ. -- Cian Synnott 216.239.33.25 (talk) 11:19, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

 * Actually, I just rechecked, and existatai comes from existêmi which does mean to 'displace', 'change utterly'. -- Cian Synnott 216.239.33.25 (talk) 11:30, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

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First edition cover
This is not the cover of the first edition--at least not the edition that was available in Ireland in 1939 and not the one O'Nolan sent to Joyce. The book is now at the Poetry Collection of the University at Buffalo. Rc65 (talk) 19:04, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Major rewrite needed
This article is not in good shape. I have noticed that conscientious editors have been cutting the more glaring examples of WP: NPOV and WP:Original research violation, but what's left is not very impressive. The only genuinely useful bit of the whole article is the translation from Euripides, and no source is given for the translation. If the translation is by a WP contributor then it has to go, unfortunately, as that constitutes original research.

There are no sources at all, let alone in-line citations, and the intro bit is not good. I may be more qualified than some to edit an article about AS2B since I once adapted it for the Irish national theatre (in 1998 but I'm not allowed to say so in the article, as contributors are not allowed to pass judgment on their own notability.) It's not my favourite O'Brien novel by any means (that would be Third Policeman) but I am sure it deserves a better article than this. I will have a go at improving the piece. Lexo (talk) 13:03, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

 * You are absolutely incorrect. Please note that references are required for information that is likely to be disputed.  This does not mean "could have a question invented for."  A translation by a contributor is absolutely not "original research," as it is not research at all.  The translation is either correct or incorrect, but it is not incorrect for being done by a human being.  If I have a bit of Old English, must I not translate it?  I know the language well, and I translate quickly, but you would have me not only not translate it, but insist upon a copyrighted translation?  That's rather the opposite of the copy-left basis of Wikipedia.
 * A rewrite may be needed, but this is because the article has had three or four years of slow bits being added here and there, by Irish nationalists and anti-nationalists pruning and arguing this way and that. It is not because of references.  Wikipedia is not a regurgitation or clipping service, and it is not a sweaty palmed high school student's imaginings of a research paper.  We should cite sources for all statements that are controversial or little known or likely to be disputed, but jittery interruption of the text with the worst of all possible formats of citation (footnotes) is evil, and expecting a rewrite for them is an atrocity.  Geogre (talk) 13:11, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

 * I disagree. Lexo (talk) 22:27, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

 * To explain my rationale for reverting Geogre's edits: I too have a bit of Old English, but I am not going to start recklessly translating passages when I can perhaps find a more accurate existing translation. In this case, I concede that I wrongly mistrusted the citation on the Euripides quote.  I checked the source during my edit and realised that it was an accurate translation (my Greek is good enough to reassure me that it's at least not a flagrant mistranslation) and so all I did was move the ref to the end of the section where it belongs.  Regarding references, I agree that Wikipedia is not a clipping service but I would prefer it were a reliable clipping service than a forum for unreferenced belles-lettres.  (That's what Amazon reviews are for.)  I object to Geogre's choice of words ("atrocity"? "evil"?) to describe what I regard as a responsible and non-destructive edit of the article.  Before, it was a fan page; now, it's at least grounded in verifiable fact.  Finally, I discern irony in such a learned Swift scholar having an apparent contempt for footnotes. Lexo (talk) 01:13, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

 * I have expanded the article a fair bit and have done almost as much as I can do without actually rereading the novel. The Clune and Hurson volume contains a lot of useful material, not all of which I have exploited to the full.  There's also an article by Rüdiger Imhof in which he (as usual) attempts to play down O'Brien's Irishness and emphasise his internationalism, but I have no respect for Imhof's work (because I don't trust a critic of English-language literature who can't write English) so I'll leave it for somebody else to look at. Hope the article is more useful now. Lexo (talk) 15:31, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Things still to do
We need sources for the Dylan Thomas quote and the Anthony Burgess rating: anyone have any? Also, a brief section on adaptations into other media. There are three dramatic versions that I know of: one by Audrey Welsh for the Abbey Theatre in the early 1970s, one by a UK company called Ridiculusmus in the mid 1990s, and one by me, also for the Abbey (Peacock stage) in 1998. Obviously I would prefer not to write about myself. I have requested feedback to see what else is needed. Lexo (talk) 12:51, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Unreliability of Cronin biog
In the course of researching and sourcing this article I've found two mistakes in Anthony Cronin's biography. He gives the title of the story O'Brien published in Comhthrom Féinne as "Scenes from a novel"; in fact it was "Scenes in a novel". He also mistranslates the title of O'Brien's MA thesis (written in Irish) as "Nature in Irish Poetry"; in fact the title Nádúirfhilíocht na Gaedhilge means "Nature Poetry in Irish". I warn future editors of this article to treat Cronin with caution. If he can make mistakes as elementary as these, then his reliability surely has a question mark over it. Lexo (talk) 15:06, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

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Influence on Spike Milligan
Might be worth a mention if a proper source can be found. Many of the concepts in At Swim.. seem to have been incorporated, if not actually plagiarized by Milligan in both skits and his written work. Hanoi Road (talk) 14:18, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

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WEEI (AM)

WEEI (850 kHz) is a commercial sports gambling AM radio station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, serving Greater Boston and much of New England. Owned by Audacy, Inc., WEEI is the Boston affiliate for the Audacy-owned BetQL Network and Infinity Sports Network, serving as a gambling-focused brand extension of its main sports radio station in the market, WEEI-FM. The WEEI studios are located in Boston's Brighton neighborhood, while the station transmitter resides in the Boston suburb of Needham. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WEEI is available online via Audacy.

Historically, the station is perhaps best known by its former WHDH call letters, under which it operated from its establishment in 1929 until 1994; it then became the second home to WEEI following an intellectual property purchase. After WEEI's local programming was moved to 93.7 FM in 2011, the station became a full-time ESPN Radio affiliate in 2012, and a sports gambling-focused station in 2021.

Early years
Originally located in Gloucester, Massachusetts, WHDH was founded on June 20, 1929, by Ralph Matheson. It was a daytime-only station broadcasting at 830kHz (leaving the air at local sunset in Denver, about two hours after sunset in Boston, to protect the signal of KOA in the Colorado capital city). WHDH was Matheson's second station; he had started WEPS on November 26, 1926. Much of WEPS' programming consisted of broadcasts to, for, or about fisherman, given Gloucester's status as a major port for the fishing industry. The WHDH license was issued in December 1928, a month after WEPS was forced to share time with WKBE in Webster on 1200kHz; WEPS was sold to Alfred Kleindienst, owner of its share-time partner (which became WORC in Auburn, near Worcester, a year earlier), in February 1930, with WEPS being moved to Auburn and consolidated with WORC on May 5. Matheson kept WHDH, which moved its studios to Boston on November 6, 1930, though some programming had originated from Boston for some time beforehand, and the transmitter remained in Gloucester until a 1932 move to Saugus. With the move, WHDH broadened its programming, but still included some reports for fishermen. In subsequent decades, WHDH would claim WEPS' history as its own.

The 1941 North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement moved WHDH to 850kHz, and allowed the station to broadcast on a full-time basis. WHDH was able to increase power to 5,000 watts and go full-time, but not without protests from KOA, one of the dominant class A clear channel stations on 850 AM. For two years, from 1943 until 1945, WHDH was the local affiliate of the Blue Network, the former "NBC Blue", replacing WBZ as Blue affiliate; WHDH ceded the affiliation to WCOP after the Blue Network also chose to affiliate with Lawrence's WLAW (the facilities of which were subsequently sold to WNAC).

Purchase by the Herald-Traveler
In 1946, shortly after World War II, the Boston Herald-Traveler newspaper purchased WHDH, by this time again an independent station. In 1948, the station moved its transmitter site from Saugus to Needham, west of Boston, where the station would be able to increase power to 50,000 watts with a directional signal aimed east to protect KOA and other stations on 850. The station also expanded into FM broadcasting on March 31, 1948, with the sign-on of WHDH-FM (94.5 FM, now WJMN).

While not first in Boston to adopt a popular music and disc jockey format with hourly newscasts (WORL was the first), a combination of a powerful signal, top-notch personalities like Ray Dorey, Fred B. Cole, Bob Clayton, Norm Nathan, news anchor John Day, and a mid-morning women's show hosted by Christine Evans (also billing herself as Chris); along with live coverage of Boston Red Sox baseball, Boston Bruins hockey, and Boston Celtics basketball, made WHDH one of the most popular stations in the region in the post-World War II era. In the late 1950s, Jess Cain joined the station, first co-hosting the morning show with Dorey, then as solo host when Dorey moved over to television. Cain would remain at WHDH for 34 years. By the early 1960s, Hank Forbes and Alan Dary had joined Cain, Clayton, and Nathan on the WHDH staff.

In the 1950s and 1960s, WHDH, along with WBZ, had among the strongest lineup of personality disc jockeys in Boston radio history. While the two stations for the most part programmed different kinds of music, both had very talented air personalities who were "household names" in the Boston area.

Perhaps the station's best-known on-air personalities outside of Boston were the comedy team of Bob and Ray, who did a comedy-and-records show at WHDH before they departed for national fame in New York City. The station employed a popular MOR (what today would be called "adult standards") music format, which would also include soft rock songs by the end of the 1960s. The station also had specialty shows playing jazz and big band music.

Sports coverage
While WHDH was never "all sports", it was easily Boston's top sports station during the 1950s through the end of the 1960s. It referred to itself "The Voice of Sports", a sub-branding of the station's overall imaging as "The Sound of the City". For 30 consecutive years, from 1946 to 1975, WHDH was the flagship station of the Boston Red Sox, featuring play-by-play announcers such as Jim Britt, Ford C. Frick Award-winning Curt Gowdy, Ken Coleman, and Ned Martin. From 1946 to 1949, it also broadcast the Boston Braves, the city's National League baseball club (the Red Sox and Braves then only broadcast home games, thus the teams shared the same announcers and did not have schedule conflicts). After the Braves left WHDH for WNAC (the forerunner to WBIX and WRKO) in 1950, WHDH began broadcasting all Red Sox games, home and away.

The station also aired one of the first sports-oriented talk programs, although without telephone calls. "The Voice of Sports" was a Saturday night feature for years, usually hosted by Don Gillis and featuring sports reporters from the Herald-Traveler. It was a panel discussion program featuring lively debate about sports for an hour and represented the sum total of sports talk on Boston radio in that era. The title was also used for a sports talk program when telephone sports talk began to take hold in the early 1970s. It was an afternoon telephone sports talk hosted by Leo Egan which ended after the station was sold to John Blair Broadcasting.

During the winter months, WHDH and WHDH-FM were the flagship stations of the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association and the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League, employing such announcers as Johnny Most, Fred Cusick, and Bob Wilson. For a single season, Jim Laing was the announcer for Bruins games and brought candor to the job. He was fired for being too frank about a team that finished sixth in a six-team league. In the mid- and late 1960s, when both the Bruins and Celtics played, one of the teams (usually the one playing at home) was heard on AM; while the other (usually the team playing on the road) was heard on FM. WHDH also was the radio home of Harvard University football in the autumn, including 1968, the year of Harvard's famous 29-29 "win" against arch-rival Yale, considered one of the greatest college-football games ever played.

In addition, the original WHDH-TV (channel 5), which took to the air November 26, 1957, was the flagship station of the Red Sox television network from 1958 to 1971.

Impact from loss of television license
WHDH began to lose its valuable properties in 1969, when the Bruins and Celtics were wooed away by WBZ. Soon afterward, the Boston Herald-Traveler Corporation's license to operate channel 5 was revoked by the Federal Communications Commission, and was given to one of the groups of businessmen that challenged its license (Boston Broadcasters, Incorporated); on March 19, 1972, channel 5 became WCVB-TV. Stung by the loss of its highly profitable television station, the Herald-Traveler was put on the market, and acquired by the Hearst Corporation in June 1972; the Boston Herald-Traveler Corporation, left with just the radio stations, then changed its name to WHDH Corporation. Less than two years later, WHDH and its FM sister station (by this time called WCOZ) were sold to Blair Radio, a national radio station advertising representative; the deal marked Blair's entry into station ownership. WHDH then elected to not renew its contract with the Red Sox upon its expiration following the 1975 season, citing financial losses; the broadcasts moved to WMEX starting with the 1975 postseason. WHDH did not carry Sox games again until 1983, when it became an affiliate of the Campbell Sports Network, based out of WPLM and WPLM-FM in Plymouth; Campbell moved the broadcasts to WRKO following the 1985 season. The station's last major sports property was the New England Patriots during the late 1980s.

Blair modernized the WHDH format, bringing it from the adult standards-oriented MOR sound to more of an adult contemporary approach. Veteran disk jockeys were replaced by personalities with a top 40 background, such as former WRKO personality Tom Kennedy (the DJ, not the game-show host), Bob Raleigh from WPGC in Washington (owned by Richmond Bros., owners of WMEX), Sean Casey, who was formerly with WOR-FM in New York and Bill Silver, the well-known voice of per inquiry advertisements who put the phrase "but wait there's more" into the national lexicon. The music was carefully researched and became more contemporary to appeal to an adult demographic but without a rock and roll style presentation; for all intents and purposes, WHDH played top 40 without any hard rock and with more non-current material. By the early 1980s, WHDH began to focus even less on music and more on personality, while playing more music and having less talk than rival WBZ. Air talent then consisted of people such as Dave Supple, Tom Kennedy, Jim Sands (who did a popular Saturday-night oldies show), and Tom Doyle (who by the early 1980s was Cain's co-host).

By the mid-1980s, WHDH was moving toward more of a talk format and on August 22, 1988, the station dropped music abruptly; although the station had been playing more music than WBZ, that station would gradually phase out music over the next several years. During its talk radio days, programs hosted by Larry Glick (who moved from WBZ in 1987), Avi Nelson, David Brudnoy (who would later go to WRKO, and finally, to WBZ), among others, were featured. During this time, Blair, following a takeover by Reliance Capital Group, chose to sell its English-language broadcast stations to focus on the Spanish-language Telemundo television network; in March 1987, it reached a deal to sell its entire radio group to Sconnix Broadcasting. The deal separated WHDH from its longtime FM sister station (which had become WZOU), as Sconnix chose to spin off WZOU and retain its existing FM station in the Boston market, WBOS. In 1988, WHDH became an affiliate of the NBC Radio Network.

David Mugar era
On August 7, 1989, WHDH was sold to local businessman David G. Mugar, whose New England Television Corporation (NETV) owned CBS affiliate WNEV-TV (channel 7). (Sconnix sold WBOS a year earlier.) On March 12, 1990, WNEV's call letters became WHDH-TV to correspond with WHDH radio. Mugar was hoping to bring back a main competitor to WBZ radio and television, with a renewed emphasis on news and straight talk format with some political programming. Some sports programs remained, but news and talk were main priorities. Among the personalities to arrive in the early 1990s were mostly talents from within NETV, including television newscaster Ted O'Brien. WHDH also became the Boston affiliate for The Rush Limbaugh Show. The station also moved into channel 7's studios at Bulfinch Place (near Government Center) in downtown Boston. However, by 1992, NETV was in trouble due to increasing debt incurred by the channel 7 acquisition as well as declining advertising revenues, leading to speculation of a sale of WHDH radio; on December 1, the station was sold to Atlantic Radio, putting it under the same ownership as rival talk station WRKO. (Mugar would sell WHDH-TV to Sunbeam Television in 1993.)

Atlantic Radio made an attempt to distinguish WHDH and WRKO in 1993 by relaunching WHDH as an "information station", with the feature-oriented Boston This Morning premiering in the morning drive slot on March 8; nine months later, on December 16, it was replaced with News All Morning, a news block competing against WBZ. Conversely, the station began to air a talk show hosted by Boston Herald columnist and one-time WRKO midday host Howie Carr on October 4, 1993, airing in afternoon drive against WRKO's Jerry Williams. During this time, Atlantic transferred hourly CBS Radio Network newscasts from WRKO to WHDH; additionally, Atlantic merged with two other radio groups, Stoner Broadcasting Systems and Multi Market Communications, on November 1 to form American Radio Systems (ARS).

On August 15, 1994, American Radio Systems announced the purchase of WEEI (590 AM)'s intellectual property (call letters, programming, and staff) from Back Bay Broadcasters, who had acquired WEEI from the Boston Celtics back in March. ARS then announced plans to move WEEI to the stronger 850 AM, replacing WHDH. ARS concurrently moved the Rush Limbaugh and Howie Carr shows, in addition to the "Skyway Patrol" traffic report brand, from WHDH to WRKO. The Money Experts, a daily financial talk show also previously heard on WHDH, would move to WBNW, a new business talk station that would take over WEEI's old frequency. WHDH's final broadcast, on August 28, 1994, concluded at midnight with "Taps" and the sound of a flushing toilet; these were played by a disgruntled board operator who was laid off in the transition, and subsequently led to a formal apology from ARS.

SportsRadio 850
As part of this complex transaction, ARS changed the station's format to sports radio on August 29, 1994, rebranded the station "SportsRadio 850 WEEI", and reassigned on- and off-air personnel; the WHDH call sign was officially changed to WEEI on August 31. In effect, this new WEEI (850 AM) became the successor to the previous WEEI (590 AM), which had changed its call sign to WBNW on August 25, 1994.

WEEI simulcast with WBNW for a week before WBNW debuted its business news format. With the move to 850, WEEI retained Boston Celtics broadcasts, which ARS had acquired the rights to earlier in the year, and also inherited WHDH's rights to Boston College Eagles men's basketball; WEEI's existing rights to BC football were also carried over to 850 AM. Due to conflicts with BC basketball, Boston Bruins broadcasts, which WEEI had carried on 590 AM, remained on that frequency even after the launch of WBNW; the team had already announced its move to WBZ effective with the 1995–96 season. The new WEEI also continued WHDH's CBS Radio Network affiliation until early 1995, when it moved to WBZ. The move to the 850 frequency allowed WEEI to broadcast at 50,000 watts, as opposed to 5,000 watts on 590. ARS also moved Red Sox broadcasts to WEEI from WRKO starting in 1995, marking their return to the 850 kHz frequency. Conversely, Celtics broadcasts were moved to WRKO for the 1995–96 season; they returned to WEEI the following season.

Concurrent with the move to 850, WEEI ceased an affiliation with ESPN Radio; however, on September 11, 1995, it returned to the network to carry The Fabulous Sports Babe (in middays) in a schedule shuffle that also saw the merger of the Dale Arnold and Eddie Andelman shows into The A-Team and the launch of The Big Show. WEEI also added "Patriots Monday", featuring weekly appearances from New England Patriots players and coaches, in 1995; it moved to rival WNRB (the former WMEX) in 1999, but returned to WEEI in 2002, and was joined by the similar "Patriots Friday" (formerly aired on WAMG) in 2008. In March 1995, the station ceased carrying Sports Byline USA and One-on-One Sports in the overnight hours in favor of the Sports Fan Radio Network. The Fabulous Sports Babe left the WEEI lineup on October 3, 1997, with the station using its time slot to launch the locally-produced Dennis and Callahan on October 6. Dennis and Callahan became the station's morning show on September 7, 1999, after the station dropped Imus in the Morning in August due to declining ratings.

Westinghouse Electric Corporation, then-parent company of CBS Radio, announced its acquisition of American Radio Systems in September 1997. As the combined company would have controlled 59 percent of advertising revenues in the Boston market, as well as three of the top five radio stations, in April 1998 the Department of Justice ordered CBS to divest WEEI, WRKO, WAAF (now WKVB), and WEGQ (now WEEI-FM), as well as KSD and KLOU in St. Louis and WOCT in Baltimore, as a condition of its approval of the merger. In August 1998, Entercom announced plans to acquire the four Boston-area stations, along with WWTM (now WVEI), from CBS for $140 million.

WEEI again lost the Celtics broadcast rights in 2001, this time to WWZN (the former WNRB). Entercom reacquired the rights to the broadcasts in 2005; initially heard on WRKO, Celtics games moved back to WEEI in 2007 (though Celtics coaches and players appeared on WEEI regularly during WRKO's time as flagship). In April 2005, WEEI began streaming its broadcasts live online by way of a free membership at its official website; a previous stream was offered from 1997 until 2002. The exception is for Red Sox and Celtics games, as these are streamed only through the team and league websites as part of subscription packages. Around the same time, the station again lost ESPN Radio programming when the affiliation was acquired by WAMG and WLLH; the station then expanded an affiliation with Fox Sports Radio that began in 2002.

WEEI was awarded its first Marconi Award in September 2006 for sports station of the year. WEEI was also named large market station of the year.

The station had an ongoing feud with The Boston Globe. In 1999, the Globe's executive sports editor, Don Skwar, banned the newspaper's sports writers from appearing on the station's afternoon The Big Show after columnist Ron Borges used a racial slur while on the air in reference to New York Yankees pitcher Hideki Irabu. Two weeks later, the ban was extended to WEEI's Dennis and Callahan morning show. WEEI retaliated by banning Globe staffers from all its shows. Nevertheless, WEEI host Michael Holley is a former Globe columnist. The ban came to an end on August 4, 2009, when Bob Ryan appeared on The Big Show, with host Glenn Ordway stating that "we have all come to our senses".

ESPN on WEEI
In September 2009, The Boston Globe reported that ESPN Radio was in negotiations to clear some of its night and weekend programming on WEEI, with speculation suggesting that WEEI could subsequently move to one of Entercom's properties on the FM dial (such as the 93.7 FM facility then occupied by WMKK), with the AM 850 signal switching to ESPN Radio. The report followed WAMG's decision to end its ESPN Radio affiliation and go silent, along with the launch of an FM competitor, WBZ-FM, the previous month—the first serious threat to WEEI's dominance in Boston sports radio. Entercom confirmed on October 7, 2009, that ESPN Radio programming would return to WEEI effective November 2 (though most programming would remain local). WEEI began to carry ESPN Radio's overnight programming, including AllNight with Jason Smith, and some weekend programming. As late as December 2010, station management continued to deny occasional reports of a move of WEEI's programming to WMKK. Ultimately, WEEI began to simulcast on 93.7 FM on September 12, 2011, a decision that came after WBZ-FM began outrating WEEI in three key demographics, even when its ratings were combined with those of Boston-area listeners of its simulcast on 103.7 FM in Providence, Rhode Island.

On September 18, 2012, Entercom and announced that AM 850 would become "ESPN on WEEI", a full-time affiliate of ESPN Radio. The simulcast of WEEI and WEEI-FM was split on October 4, 2012; the existing local programming and sports broadcasts remained on WEEI-FM, while AM 850 aired a redirection loop for one day before joining ESPN Radio on October 5. ESPN Radio's morning show, Mike and Mike, marked its new affiliate with a live broadcast from Gillette Stadium. While the bulk of the station's programming after the change came from the national ESPN Radio schedule, WEEI indicated that it might also air some locally produced weekend long-form specialty programs that do not necessarily fit on WEEI-FM. WEEI also aired Boston Celtics games that conflicted with Boston Red Sox games on WEEI-FM through the 2012–2013 season; if the conflict involved a Celtics playoff game, the Celtics aired on WEEI-FM and the Red Sox game was on WEEI.

Sports betting
In October 2021, WEEI dropped ESPN Radio in favor of sports betting programming from the Audacy-owned BetQL Network. The station also carries some programming from CBS Sports Radio. Unlike the other Audacy stations with a sports betting format, which brand as "The Bet", WEEI continues to brand using its call sign.

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KVCX

KVCX is a Christian radio station licensed to Gregory, South Dakota, broadcasting on 101.5 MHz FM, and serving southern South Dakota and northern Nebraska. The station is owned by VCY America, Inc.

Programming
KVCX's programming includes Christian Talk and Teaching programming including; Crosstalk, Worldview Weekend with Brannon Howse, Grace to You with John MacArthur, In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley, Love Worth Finding with Adrian Rogers, Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Leigh DeMoss, The Alternative with Tony Evans, Liberty Council's Faith and Freedom Report, Thru the Bible with J. Vernon McGee, Joni and Friends, Unshackled!, and Moody Radio's Stories of Great Christians.

KVCX also airs a variety of vocal and instrumental traditional Christian Music, as well as children's programming such as Ranger Bill.

History
The station began broadcasting on May 8, 1982, and held the call sign KKSD. KKSD aired country music and farm programming. In 1987, the station was sold to Wisconsin Voice of Christian Youth for $255,000. The station adopted its current Christian format, and its call sign was changed to KVCX.

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Red Sox Nation

Red Sox Nation is a term used for fans of the Boston Red Sox. The phrase was coined by Boston Globe feature writer Nathan Cobb in an October 20, 1986, article about split allegiances among fans in Connecticut during the 1986 World Series between the Red Sox and the New York Mets.

Red Sox fandom
Red Sox fans were once described by Dennis Eckersley as the "ultimate manic-depressive fanbase." For all the excitement over the quality of play by the Red Sox, there is often a twinge of pessimism about the team, as the team's failures are typically blown out of proportion. Boston Globe columnist Charlie Pierce, among others, has attributed the self-perpetuating fatalism of the Nation to the intellectual legacy of the Puritans who settled Boston and instilled in the region's inhabitants a deep-seated Calvinist determinism. In 2010, Forbes magazine rated Red Sox Nation as the best fans in American sports, citing points such as road attendance and overall devotion to the team. However, in 2011 GQ magazine also ranked Red Sox fans the 6th worst in the United States - and 2nd worst in Major League Baseball behind only the Philadelphia Phillies - labeling them "insufferable hypocrites".

"Official" Red Sox Nation
In 2004 the Boston Red Sox began offering official citizenship in Red Sox Nation. For a small fee, fans received a membership card with the words "Official Red Sox Nation Citizen" and access to additional Red Sox merchandise offers and newsletters.

President
In the summer of 2007, the Red Sox fan site on MLB.com offered "official" citizens of RSN the chance to register as candidates to become the first president of Red Sox Nation, for the 2008 season. A broad field of self-proclaimed candidates was whittled down (internally, by operators of the website) to 25, then an open-to-all online "primary" was held in August that resulted in 10 final candidates. For most of September, the ten were provided with weblogs on the website to mount their campaigns. On September 27, Tim Russert of NBC moderated a debate among six of the candidates in a hall at Boston University (three were no-shows, and Doris Kearns Goodwin withdrew from the race). The final election, also open to the public at the same website, was held from September 28 through October 2, 2007. The winner was Jerry Remy, a former Red Sox player and then broadcast color commentator. The following day, Remy threw out the first pitch in the opening game of the Red Sox' playoff series.

Governors
Following Jerry Remy's election as president of Red Sox Nation, he and his vice president "Regular Rob" Crawford developed a "Red Sox Nation Five-Point Plan" to guide their first year in office. The first point of the plan called for the creation of governors to represent members of Red Sox Nation in their home states. Beginning with the six New England states, nominations were accepted through redsox.com, and from these nominations the president and vice president appointed representatives for each state. Governors were responsible for better connecting members of Red Sox Nation within their home state to the team, as well as organizing viewing parties for Red Sox Nation members in their states and collecting feedback from their constituency. Since its inaugural season, the Governor's program has thus been disbanded.

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Bromham, Wiltshire

Bromham is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is 3+1/2 mi northwest of Devizes and the same distance east of Melksham.

Besides the main village of Bromham, the parish includes six other settlements: St Edith's Marsh, Westbrook, Hawkstreet, Netherstreet, Roughmoor and Chittoe. These are sub-villages and hamlets all within 2 mi of the main village centre, thus 'greater Bromham' is geographically extensive for a village of its size. It stands 1½ miles north of the Kennet and Avon Canal and 1¾ of a mile south of the Roman road leading to Bath, Somerset.

History
In Anglo-Saxon times the manor was held, in the reign of Edward the Confessor, by Earl Harold Godwinson. Under the Normans there were two manors covering Bromham. Bromham Hall, later called Bromham House, the manor house of Bromham Roches, stood to the east of the Devizes road; it was burnt by royalist troops in May 1645, during the civil war.

Chittoe
The small village of Chittoe is about 1 mi north of Bromham. The area was a detached tithing of the ancient parish of Bishops Cannings until 1883 when Chittoe became a separate civil parish, taking some land from Bromham; in 1934 the parish was merged into Bromham.

Parish church
The Church of England parish church of St. Nicholas, in the centre of the village, is from the 13th century and is a Grade I listed building. The church has fragments of its 12th century predecessor, and was extended in the 14th and 15th centuries. The tall spire is from the 15th century. Towards the end of that century an ornate south chapel was added by Sir Roger Tocotes and Sir Richard Beauchamp; Pevsner describes it as "the feature which makes a visit to the church memorable". In the 16th and 17th centuries several members of the Bayntun family were buried or commemorated in the chapel, thus it became known as the Bayntun chapel.

The churchyard has the grave of Irish poet Thomas Moore, who had long resided at Sloperton Cottage, north of Bromham.

Today the parish is part of the Bromham, Chittoe and Sandy Lane benefice, which also covers St Matthew's Church at Rowde and the small wooden church of St Mary and St Nicholas at Sandy Lane.

Nonconformity
Bromham Methodist Church was built in 1799, on Church Hill below the parish church and enlarged in 1815 and 1880. As of 2016 the church is still in use.

A Baptist chapel was built at Bromham in 1873, replacing an earlier building of 1828. The chapel closed during the Second World War and is now a private house.

Chittoe
Primitive Methodists built a chapel in the centre of Chittoe in 1840. Enthusiastic singing by the Methodists could be heard from within the Anglican church after it was built nearby, so in 1882 the chapel was dismantled and rebuilt at Chittoe Heath, not far from the Devizes road (now the A342). A schoolroom was added at the rear of the chapel in 1914. As of 2016 the chapel is still in use and is served by the minister of Melksham United Church.

The Church of St Mary, Chittoe, was built in 1845 to designs of T. H. Wyatt. A district (which included Westbrook) was created for it the next year. Previously, the hamlet had been a detached part of the parish of Bishops Cannings and villagers had to travel to the church there for marriages and burials, using a trackway called the "Burying Road". For burials this requirement was relaxed at the end of the 18th century, but weddings were still conducted at Cannings until the new church was brought into use. Chittoe parish was enlarged in 1864 to include Sandy Lane, taking areas from Derry Hill and Bromham parishes.

In 1980 the church was declared redundant, and its parish and benefice were united with Bromham; subsequently the church and vicarage at Chittoe were converted to private residences.

Notable buildings
The parish has three Grade II* listed houses. Battle House, named for the manor of Bromham Battle, held by Battle Abbey, is partly 15th century, largely rebuilt c. 1760; it was the home of the historian Sir William Napier between 1826 and 1831.

Spye Arch, at the top of Bowden Hill, once served as gatehouse to Spye Park, a seat of the Bayntun family. It had originally been constructed in the 16th century as the gatehouse of the Cistercian Stanley Abbey, which stood near the eastern edge of the parish, towards Chippenham; the Abbot's Wood that appears as a block of woodland in Andrews' and Dury's Map of Wiltshire, 1773, survives as a narrow wooded strip south of the village.

Nonsuch House, north of Bromham village on the road from Melksham, is from the early 18th century.

Notable people
The noted antiquary, author and Somerset historian the Rev. John Collinson was born in Bromham on 19 July 1757. His father, John Collinson, was at the time curate of the parish church of St. Nicholas.

Reginald St John Battersby was vicar of Chittoe from 1934 until his retirement in 1972. He had lost a leg while serving as a young officer in the First World War; in the Second World War he organised the Chittoe branch of the Home Guard.

Local government
Bromham is a civil parish with an elected parish council and is in the area of Wiltshire Council, a unitary authority. The councils are responsible for different aspects of local government.

The village falls in 'Bromham, Rowde and Potterne' electoral ward. The ward starts in the north at Bromham and extends south to Rowde and eventually Potterne whilst avoiding Devizes. The population of the ward taken at the 2011 census was 4,850.

Education
St. Nicholas Church of England Primary School is in the village. For secondary education, Bromham is in the catchment area of Kingsbury Green Academy in Calne.

For many years there were two schools in the village. The first school opened in 1832 and moved into a new building (still the site of the present school) near the church in 1867, becoming a National School. Children of all ages attended until 1938, when older pupils transferred to Calne; the school became Voluntary controlled in 1948. The building was extended in the 1960s and again in 2004.

A Nonconformist school was established in 1843, and in the 1860s became a British School in a new building to the east of the village, near the Devizes road. The building was enlarged in 1901, then was transferred to Wiltshire County Council in 1907 and was known as Bromham County School. Pupil numbers declined until two schools were no longer necessary, resulting in closure of the county school in 1984. Its building is now a private house.

Amenities
Bromham has a village shop and a family butcher's shop.

The village has two playing fields. The Pound Playing Field has the village's tennis court, a grassed football pitch, a play park and a hardcourt basketball and five-a-side football area. The Social Centre Playing Fields include Bromham F.C.'s football pitch and a smaller pitch that is used by the youth team. Just by the car park of the Social Centre is another children's play park which is overlooked by the Millennium Cross: a tall stone cross erected in 2000 and recording the village's Christian heritage.

Bromham Football Club was founded in 1897 by Harry Amor and Arthur Powney.

There is a bowls club that meet every week at the Social Centre to play indoor bowls on special mats that turn the dance floor into a bowls green.

At the Pound Playing Field there is a tennis court available to hire.

Bromham was served by the Great Western Railway at Bromham and Rowde railway station from 1909 until the station closed in 1955.

Carnival
Bromham Carnival is held each June for two weeks. It comprises village-wide events, opening with the choosing of the Carnival Queen, Butterfly Princess, Princess and Prince. The events then continue including quizzes, bingo, treasure hunts and much more. On the final Saturday of the two weeks the carnival procession is held, commencing usually at 2.00pm from the Pound Playing Field and winding its way through the village to the Social Centre Playing Field where activities and shows take place throughout the afternoon. For the past few years, the carnival has been followed by the locally organised show: "Bromfest". Bands from the local area play from 5.00pm through until 12 midnight and mark the end of the carnival period.

Twinnings
Bromham is twinned with:
 * 🇮🇪 – Avoca, Ireland (filming location for the 1990s BBC series Ballykissangel)
 * 🇫🇷 – Ingrandes-sur-Loire, France

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Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas

Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas was a major cartographic work (general atlas) published in several German and foreign editions 1881–1937. It was named after Richard Andree (1835–1912) and published by Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld and Leipzig, Germany.

By using chromolithography, rather than copper plate engraving, but reproducing the maps from zinc plates that were etched in relief (just like letterpress printing), V & K was able to offer detailed maps at a much lower price than competing works, such as the 7th and 8th editions of Stielers Handatlas. The 1937 edition of Andrees Handatlas was printed using offset printing.

Editions
The first edition appeared in 1881. The 4th and 5th editions were edited by Carl Paul Albert (1851-1912); the 6th through 8th editions, by Ernst Ambrosius;  and the final edition, by Konrad Frenzel. Cartographers were G. Jungk (†1932), R. Kocher, E. Umbreit (†1904), T. Adolph (†1930), H. Mielisch (†1925), and K. Tänzler (†1944) although production of a number of maps was contracted out to geographical institutes like Peip, Wagner & Debes, Sternkopf, Sulzer.

Editions for other countries were also issued:
 * Österreichisch-Ungarischer (Austrian-Hungarian) editions were published in Vienna in 1881, 1889, 1893, 1903, and 1913.
 * Four editions of Andree's Stora Handatlas were published in Stockholm (1881, 96 pages of maps; 1899, second edition (andra), 130 large maps and 140 inset maps; 1907, third edition (tredje), 143 large maps and 163 inset maps), with additional maps of Scandinavia; and 1924. The verso text and the introductory material was in Swedish.
 * The maps of Andree's atlas were used for Cassell's Universal Atlas, which was published in London in 1891-1893 using maps printed in Leipzig in English; and for the Times Atlas of 1895-1900.
 * French editions were published from 1882 onwards.
 * Italian editions were published in 1899 and 1915.
 * Danish editions were published in 1882 and, after the Schleswig plebiscite, 1923.
 * Norwegian editions were published in 1882 and 1923.
 * A Finnish edition was published in 1899.

Editions of a Geographisches Handbuch (Geographical Handbook) for Andrees Handatlas were issued in 1882, 1894 (1st edition), 1895 (2nd edition), 1898-1899 (3rd), 1902 (4th) and 1909 (5th).

Other well-known titles of Velhagen & Klasing were Putzgers (after F.W. Putzger, †1913) Historischer Schulatlas (Historical School Atlas; 1877, as Historischer Weltatlas or Historical Worldatlas; 100th ed. 1979), Grosser Volksatlas (Large Peoples Atlas, 1935) and Grosser Wehratlas (Large Military Atlas, 1937). Founded 1835, the firm was taken over by F. Cornelsen in 1954, and is now fully merged into that company.

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Joe-Max Moore

Joe-Max Moore (born February 23, 1971) is an American former soccer player. He played professionally for clubs in Germany, England and the United States. He finished his career with the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer. In addition to his club career, Moore earned 100 caps, scoring 24 goals, for the U.S. national team between 1992 and 2002. During those years, he was part of U.S. teams at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1994, 1998 and 2002 FIFA World Cups.

On April 4, 2013, Moore was elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame.

Early life
Moore was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Corey Moore, and Tulsa oil man and business man, Carl Moore. Moore's father also happened to be a part-owner of the Tulsa Roughnecks of the North American Soccer League. He moved to Irvine, California when he was 14, and played boys' soccer at Mission Viejo High School where he was a four-year starter. Heavily recruited out of high school, he chose to play NCAA soccer at UCLA. While at UCLA, he played with future national team teammates Brad Friedel, Chris Henderson and Cobi Jones. As a freshman, he scored 11 goals, assisted on ten others and was named to the Soccer America Magazine's All-Freshman team. That year, UCLA won the NCAA championship, defeating Rutgers in penalty kicks. As a sophomore, he earned second team All-American honors and was a first team All-American as a junior. That season, his final year with UCLA, he led the team in scoring. At the end of his three-year collegiate career, he had scored a total of 38 goals and assisted on 24 others in 65 games.

Moore was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame on October 11, 2014.

Years in Germany
In July 1994, USSF loaned Moore to German Second Division club 1. FC Saarbrücken. At the time, Moore was a part of the U.S. team at the 1994 FIFA World Cup, but did not appear in any matches. With a lull in national team games following the World Cup, USSF decided to move several players overseas. Saarbrücken would end up buying Moore's contract from USSF for $250,000. In Moore's single season with Saarbrücken, he played 25 games, leading the club with 13 goals. At the end of the season, Saarbrücken transferred Moore to fellow Second Division club 1. FC Nürnberg. He again led his team in scoring with eight goals.

New England Revolution
In 1996, Major League Soccer (MLS) was in the process of building teams for its upcoming first season. As part of that process, MLS attempted to ensure an initial equitable distribution of talent across each of its teams. It did this by allocating known players to each team. MLS allocated Giuseppe Galderisi to the New England Revolution. However, he showed up injured and played poorly through his first four games, so MLS replaced him with Moore on the Revolution roster on July 24, 1996.

Moore had an exceptional four-year tour with the Revolution. Aside from an injury marred 1997 season, in which he only played 11 games, scoring four goals, he consistently produced for the club. During these years, he became the club's all-time leading scorer and made the 1999 MLS All Star team. His success with the Revs led him to pursue a return to Europe, this time with Everton in the English Premiership.

Emelec
In November–December 1997, Moore spent a month on loan from the Revs to Emelec of the Ecuadorian First Division following the end of the MLS season where he yearned to be close to his family recently residing in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was not the only MLS player with Emelec, as Alexi Lalas joined him during the loan.

Everton
In November 1999, Moore went to Everton, in the English Premiership, after he impressed the Everton staff during a seven-day October tryout. At the time, Moore did not have permission from MLS to work out with any team but the Revolution. Despite this, MLS placed no barriers in the way of Moore's free transfer. The contract with Everton, good for three and a half years, would pay Moore approximately $600,000 per season.

Moore initially had outstanding success with Everton, scoring five goals in his first five first-team games. However, he slowly became less and less effective. The final straw came at the end of 2002. Moore had suffered a knee injury in the U.S. game against Portugal at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and did not play for Everton in the next season. On December 12, 2002, his contract with Everton terminated "by mutual consent".

Return to the Revolution
When he returned to New England from Everton in 2003, he was a much changed player. He had suffered from several injuries while in England which hampered his playing time when he came back to the Revs. However, he still managed to score four goals in 16 games during the 2003 season. In 2004, his last season with the team, he played in only three games, failing to score a goal, before spraining ligaments in his knee. He was out for most of the rest of the season, but planned to return for the 2005 season. However, he re-injured his knee during a January 2005 pre-season mini-camp.

Moore had reconstructive surgery on his right knee for a damaged medial collateral ligament on January 25, 2005. Two days later, he announced his retirement from professional soccer, saying, "After numerous attempts to strengthen and stabilize my knee through rehab, it became clear that I had no alternative but to have reconstructive surgery. Considering my age and the recovery time necessary, I have decided to end my playing career."

In his six years in MLS, Moore scored 41 goals and added 35 assists for 111 points, the assists and points being Rev records through the 2004 season. However, Taylor Twellman has since passed Moore on the Rev's points lists.

National team
While in college, he began playing for the national team. In 1989, he was part of the U.S. U-20 team which placed fifth at the 1989 FIFA U-20 World Cup. In 1991, he scored the winning goal against Mexico in the Pan American Games championship game. In 1992, he was a member of the U.S. Olympic team which went 1–1–1 and failed to make the second round.

After the 1992 college season ended, Moore signed with the U.S. national team. Beginning in 1988, the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) had begun to sign top U.S. players to contracts, making the U.S. national team a de facto professional club. USSF would then loan out U.S. players to club team, recalling them for national team games. Moore chose to not return to UCLA for his senior year and joined USSF as a full-time national team player.

Moore's first appearance for the US national team came against Canada on September 3, 1992. He was part of the U.S. roster for the 1994 but didn't appear in a match and also the 1998, 2002 FIFA World Cup rosters, appearing in both tournaments. Moore became the sixth U.S. player to earn 100 caps, doing so against Poland in the team's 2002 World Cup group finale.

His 24 goals for the U.S. rank him sixth in national history, behind Landon Donovan, Clint Dempsey, Eric Wynalda, Brian McBride and Jozy Altidore. On January 27, 2006, Moore was inducted into the Oklahoma Soccer Hall of Fame.

Year-by-Year National Team Appearances/Goals

 * As of match played June 14, 2002.

Charitable activities
Moore was to appear in a charity match for Hollywood United FC against Los Angeles Galaxy on November 4, 2007. Proceeds were to go the American Red Cross and The Salvation Army to benefit those affected by the wildfires in Southern California.

Popular culture
A non-alcoholic drink has been named after Moore. In the spirit of the Arnold Palmer, the Joe-Max Moore is simply half Sprite and half Fanta Orange mixed in the same glass. The concoction was invented at the 2022 Jefferson Cup soccer tournament in and around Richmond, Virginia by players participating in the tournament. Its origin is credited to Jack Martin, a standout midfielder from Massachusetts, who was the first to create one at a soda fountain. By the end of the tournament the drink was being consumed almost exclusively by players at mealtimes, and has continued to spread up and down the east coast.

Honors
individual

 * MLS All-Star: 1999

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Central Hawke's Bay District

Central Hawke's Bay District is in the Hawke's Bay Region in the North Island of New Zealand. Formed in 1989, it covers an area of 3,333 square kilometres, from Pukehou in the north to Takapau in the south, and from the western Ruahine Range to the Pacific coast in the east. It has a population of up from 14,142 in the 2018 census and 12,717 in the 2013 census.

Geography
The two main towns are Waipukurau (population ) and Waipawa, which are just 7 km apart. Smaller townships include Ōtāne, Takapau, Tikokino and Ongaonga. There are also several small beach communities, including Kairakau, Pourerere, Aramoana, Blackhead and Pōrangahau.

There is a marae in each of the four corners of the district, at Pukehou, Kairakau, Pōrangahau and Takapau.

Local government
The district is administered by the Central Hawke's Bay District Council, which was formed through the 1989 local government reforms by amalgamating Waipukurau District Council and the Waipawa District Council. The district is divided into two wards: Ruataniwha is an urban ward based on the towns of Waipukurau and Waipawa; Aramoana-Ruahine is a largely rural ward. The council seat is in Waipawa.

Demographics
Central Hawke's Bay District covers 3333.00 km2 and had an estimated population of as of  with a population density of  people per km2.

Central Hawke's Bay District had a population of 15,480 in the 2023 New Zealand census, an increase of 1,338 people (9.5%) since the 2018 census, and an increase of 2,763 people (21.7%) since the 2013 census. There were 6,936 dwellings. The median age was 43.5 years (compared with 38.1 years nationally). There were 3,150 people (20.3%) aged under 15 years, 2,181 (14.1%) aged 15 to 29, 6,864 (44.3%) aged 30 to 64, and 3,294 (21.3%) aged 65 or older.

Ethnicities were 83.9% European/Pākehā, 25.2% Māori, 3.1% Pasifika, 2.9% Asian, 0.4% Middle Eastern, Latin American and African New Zealanders, and 1.3% other. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.

Central Hawke's Bay District had a population of 14,142 at the 2018 New Zealand census. There were 5,418 households, comprising 7,014 males and 7,125 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.98 males per female.

The percentage of people born overseas was 12.1, compared with 27.1% nationally.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 50.8% had no religion, 37.2% were Christian, 2.2% had Māori religious beliefs, 0.2% were Hindu, 0.1% were Muslim, 0.3% were Buddhist and 1.6% had other religions.

Of those at least 15 years old, 1,482 (13.2%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 2,631 (23.5%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $29,000, compared with $31,800 nationally. 1,128 people (10.1%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 5,640 (50.4%) people were employed full-time, 1,746 (15.6%) were part-time, and 330 (2.9%) were unemployed.

Transportation
State Highway 2 runs through the centre of Central Hawke's Bay, leading south to Palmerston North (108 km) and the Wairarapa and north to Hastings (50 km) and Napier. It is 70 kilometres to Napier Port and 75 kilometres to Napier Airport. The Palmerston North – Gisborne railway line runs through the district, with one station at Waipukurau. This line connects to the Wairarapa Line at Woodville, and continues through the Manawatū Gorge to Palmerston North.

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Talk:Lois Hole

Coat of arms
Should this page show or mention her coat of arms? (See page on division of the field.) -- Daniel C. Boyer 19:34, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

By all means, if we can find the blazon, and an image we can use. For reference, the arms are here, though we cannot use this image. - Montréalais 18:04, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Personal Education and Involvement in Education
It mentions she attended [Strathcona], can this be checked? SCHS did not open its doors until 1955. and is possible she attended Old Scona instead. Sconite 03:39, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Date of birth
Lois Hole's date of birth is given, variously, as 19 January 1929 and 29 January 1929. Which is correct, if either? And what source states this? I haven't been able to confirm either. Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 19:07, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Resolved. She was born on January 30, 1929 as per the Office of the Lieutenant Governor in Alberta (see article). Mystery solved. Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 17:02, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Spelling of family name
Sources spell Lois Hole's family name alternately as Veregin and Verigin, but "e" seems more often. Digging into a few primary sources, I saw the "e" rather than the "i" being used consistently in sources closest to the family themselves: I consulted the Henderson's Edmonton city directories from the 1950s and her mother's obituary. I also saw the "e" used in the introduction to her collected speeches, Lois Hole Speaks. Timesoup (talk) 23:52, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

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Election Day (United States)

Election Day in the United States is the annual day for general elections of federal public officials. It is statutorily set by the U.S. government as "the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November", i.e. the Tuesday that occurs within November 2 to November 8.

For federal offices (president, vice president, and United States Congress) and most gubernatorial offices (all except for Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, and Virginia), Election Day occurs only in even-numbered years. Presidential elections are held every four years, in years divisible by four, in which electors for president and vice president are chosen according to the method determined by each state. Elections to the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate are held every two years; all representatives are elected to serve two-year terms and are up for election every two years, while senators serve six-year terms, staggered so that one third of senators are elected in any given general election. General elections in which presidential candidates are not on the ballot are referred to as midterm elections. Terms for those elected begin in January the following year; the president and vice president are inaugurated (sworn in) on Inauguration Day, which is usually January 20.

Many state and local government offices are also elected on Election Day as a matter of convenience and cost saving, although a handful of states hold elections for state offices (such as governor) during odd-numbered off years, or during other even-numbered midterm years, and may hold special elections for offices that have become vacant. Congress has mandated a uniform date for presidential and congressional ( and ) elections, though early voting is nonetheless authorized in many states, and states also have mail voting procedures.

The fact that Election Day falls on a Tuesday has become controversial in recent decades, as many people might be unable to vote because they have to work. It is a public holiday in some states, including Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, West Virginia, as well as the territory of the Northern Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico. Some other states require that workers be permitted to take time off with pay. California requires that employees otherwise unable to vote must be allowed two hours off with pay, at the beginning or end of a shift. A federal holiday called Democracy Day, to coincide with Election Day, has been proposed, and some have proposed moving election day to the weekend. Other movements in the IT and automotive industries encourage employers to voluntarily give their employees paid time off on Election Day.

History
By 1792, federal law permitted each state legislature to choose Presidential electors any time within a 34-day period before the first Wednesday in December. A November election was convenient because the harvest would have been completed but the most severe winter weather, impeding transportation, would not yet have arrived, while the new election results also would roughly conform to a new year. Tuesday was chosen as Election Day so that voters could attend church on Sunday, travel to the polling location (usually in the county seat) on Monday, and vote before Wednesday, which was usually when farmers would sell their produce at the market. Originally, states varied considerably in the method of choosing electors. Gradually, states converged on selection by some form of popular vote.

Development of the Morse electric telegraph, funded by Congress in 1843 and successfully tested in 1844, was a technological change that clearly augured an imminent future of instant communication nationwide. To prevent information from one state from influencing Presidential electoral outcomes in another, Congress responded in 1845 by mandating a uniform national date for choosing Presidential electors. Congress chose the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November to harmonize current electoral practice with the existing 34-day window in federal law, as the span between Election Day and the first Wednesday in December is always 29 days. The effect is to constrain Election Day to the week between November 2 and 8 inclusive. November 1 was avoided because it falls on All Saints' Day and business owners would generally do bookkeeping for previous month on the first day of the month. Beginning with Presidential elections, states gradually brought most elections into conformity with this date.

The Twentieth Amendment, passed in 1933, changed the beginning and end date for the terms of the President, Vice President, Congressmen, and Senators. It did not affect the timing of Election Day.

Scheduling issues
The majority of the electorate have to attend work on Tuesdays. This has led activists to promote alternatives to increase voter turnout. Alternative solutions include making Election Day a federal holiday or merging it with Veterans Day, observed annually on November 11, allowing voting over multiple days, mandating paid time off to vote, encouraging voters to vote early or vote by postal voting, and encouraging states to promote flexible voting.

Holiday and paid leave
Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, and the territory of Puerto Rico have declared Election Day a civic holiday. Some other states require that workers be permitted to take time off from employment without loss of pay. California Elections Code Section 14000 and New York State Election Law provide that employees without sufficient time to vote must be allowed two hours off with pay, at the beginning or end of a shift.

Some employers allow their employees to begin later or leave their workplace early on Election Day to allow them the opportunity to get to their precinct and vote. The United Auto Workers union has negotiated making Election Day a holiday for workers of U.S. domestic auto manufacturers. In January 2019, Sandusky, Ohio became the first city in the country to make Election Day a paid holiday for city employees by eliminating Columbus Day.

On April 12, 2020, the Governor of Virginia Ralph Northam signed legislation that established Election Day as a holiday. On June 16, 2020, the Governor of Illinois J. B. Pritzker signed legislation that established Election Day as a holiday.

Democratic Representative John Conyers of Michigan proposed H.R. 63 – Democracy Day Act of 2005 for the Tuesday after the first Monday in November of every even-numbered year, to be a legal public holiday called Democracy Day. The purpose of the holiday was to increase voter turnout by giving citizens more time to vote, as well as to allow for the opening of more polling stations with more workers while raising awareness of the importance of voting and civic participation. The bill was reintroduced on November 12, 2014, and again on September 25, 2018, by independent Senator Bernie Sanders. It has never been enacted.

Early and postal voting
Most states allow early voting, letting voters cast their ballots before Election Day. Early voting periods vary from 4 to 50 days prior to Election Day. Unconditional early voting in person is allowed in 32 states and in D.C. In the 2008 presidential election, 30% of votes were early votes.

Also, all states have some kind of absentee ballot system. Unconditional absentee voting by mail is allowed in 27 states and D.C. and with an excuse in another 21 states. Unconditional permanent absentee voting is allowed in seven states and in D.C. In Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah and Washington, all major elections are by postal voting with ballot papers sent to voters several weeks before Election Day.

In 29 states, postal votes must be received on or before Election Day. Other states have later deadlines, with California election law allowing mailed in ballots to arrive at the elections office up to 17 days after Election Day. Some states, like Texas, give overseas and military voters extra time to mail in their ballots.

Election Day on weekends
Louisiana, to date, is the only U.S. state to hold de facto general elections on a Saturday. The state's statewide elections are held on odd years, with the primary (first round) in October and the runoff (general election) in November. The state's unique primary method, a variation of the nonpartisan blanket primary, only requires a further runoff to be held for those offices for which neither of the top two candidates receive an absolute majority of the vote.

Currently, primaries for U.S. House and U.S. Senate elections in Louisiana are held on the federal Election Day, with runoffs in December if necessary. Starting in 2026, Louisiana will revert to closed party primaries in Congressional elections, with the winners meeting in the general election on Election Day. Unaffiliated voters may vote in the primary of their choosing. It is unclear whether a candidate will be required to attain a majority of votes in the first round of the party primary to avoid a runoff, or a candidate can advance with a plurality.

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Paint thinner

A paint thinner is a solvent used to thin oil-based paints. Solvents labeled "paint thinner" are usually mineral spirits having a flash point at about 40 °C (104 °F), the same as some popular brands of charcoal starter.

Common solvents historically used as paint thinners include:
 * Mineral spirits (North America) / White spirit (United Kingdom and Ireland)
 * Acetone
 * Turpentine
 * Naphtha
 * Toluene
 * Lacquer thinner
 * Methyl ethyl ketone (MEK)
 * Dimethylformamide (DMF)
 * Glycol ethers, such as 2-Butoxyethanol

Less common solvents used as paint thinner include:
 * Ethylbenzene
 * Xylene
 * n-Butyl acetate
 * Butanol

Health concerns
Exposure to vapors created by paint containing thinner or its cleanup may be hazardous. The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists has established threshold limit values (TLVs) for most of these compounds. TLV is defined as the maximum concentration in air which can be breathed by a normal person (i.e., excluding children, pregnant women, etc.) in the course of 40 hours per week (a typical American work week), day after day through their work life without long-term ill effects.

In underdeveloped countries, workers commonly experience much higher exposure to these chemicals with consequent damage to their health.

Addiction
Paint thinners are often used as an inhalant, due to its accessibility and legality as a drug. Many teenagers become addicted to thinner and due to lack of knowledge, parents and caregivers do not notice it or give it much attention.

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