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Without a Paddle

Without a Paddle is a 2004 American adventure comedy film directed by Steven Brill, written by Jay Leggett and Mitch Rouse, and based on a story by Harris Goldberg, Tom Nursall, and Fred Wolf. The film stars Seth Green, Matthew Lillard, Dax Shepard, Ethan Suplee, Abraham Benrubi, Rachel Blanchard, Christina Moore, Bonnie Somerville, Ray Baker, and Burt Reynolds. It tells the story of three reunited childhood friends going on a trip up a remote river in order to search for the loot of long-lost airplane hijacker D. B. Cooper.

A direct-to-video sequel, entitled Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling, was released in January 2009.

Plot
Twelve years after graduating from high school, three friends, Jerry, Dan, and Tom, learn that their childhood friend Billy has died in a parasailing accident. After the funeral, they revisit the group's old tree house and find a map leading to D. B. Cooper's lost treasure, which Billy had apparently been working on for his entire life. Dan takes annual leave from his job as a doctor and joins Jerry and Tom on a camping trip to find the treasure.

Canoeing down the river, they eventually stop on the riverbank for the night. They realize that they forgot to bring food, so Tom goes out to catch some fish. However, the activity attracts a grizzly bear, which chases them. When Dan falls, the bear seemingly treats him like a cub until he breaks free, following the others up a tree. In the morning, they find all of their gear has been ripped up and completely destroyed by the bear.

The trio take off into the river but are unable to read the damaged map, causing them to go the wrong way. They go over a waterfall, and although they survive, their canoe is destroyed. Venturing into the woods with a compass, they find themselves at a pot farm, where rednecks Dennis and Elwood mistake them for thieves and start shooting at them. They escape, burning the pot garden down in the process. This enrages Dennis and Elwood, who decide to hunt them down and kill them.

Later, far into the forest, the trio meet hippie girls Flower and Butterfly, who treat them in their tree. Using a radio, the farmers find them, but the women drop paper bags full of feces at the farmers to distract them while the trio escape. They are saved from the thunderstorm by a mountain man, who takes them to his hut and provides them with clothes. He later reveals himself to be Del Knox, Cooper's partner, before his death.

The next morning, the farmers find them, shooting the hut. The trio escape while Del distracts the farmers by shooting at the two with his dual wield revolvers. The trio stumbles upon the site of Cooper's crash landing, discovering his skeleton and the suitcase he used to hold the ransom money down an old mine shaft. They realize he burned his share of the money, attempting to survive.

As Dan crawls through a small tunnel to find a way out, the farmers find Tom and Jerry, and a fistfight ensues. Eventually, Sheriff Briggs, who had earlier helped the trio, intervenes. He then reveals himself to be the farmers' employer. Jerry arms a grenade taken from Dennis and throws it at the pot dealers. It explodes, causing a tree to fall on the farmers and the sheriff, who are soon arrested.

In the closing scenes, Del gives Tom, Jerry, and Dan what's left of D. B.'s non-burnt money ($100,000), but Jerry and Dan decide Tom needs it more than they do, so they let Tom keep it, while Del gives D. B. a proper funeral. Jerry proposes to his girlfriend Denise, Dan starts a relationship with Flower, and Tom becomes a camp counselor for a children's summer camp, where he tells his troop an exaggerated version of the trip.

Cast

 * Seth Green as Dan Mott
 * Jarred Rumbold as young Dan
 * Matthew Lillard as Jerry Conlaine
 * Andrew Hampton as young Jerry
 * Dax Shepard as Tom Marshall
 * Matthew Price as young Tom
 * Burt Reynolds as Del Knox
 * Bonnie Somerville as Denise
 * Ethan Suplee as Elwood
 * Ray Baker as Hank Briggs
 * Abraham Benrubi as Dennis
 * Rachel Blanchard as Flower
 * Christina Moore as Butterfly
 * Antony Starr as Billy Newwood
 * Carl Snell as young Billy
 * Liddy Holloway as Bonnie Newwood
 * Scott Adsit as Greasy man
 * Danielle Cormack as Toni
 * Bart the Bear 2 as Grizzly bear
 * Frank Welker as Grizzly bear (vocal effects)
 * Eva Longoria as Grizzly bear

Box office
Without a Paddle ranked second in its opening weekend behind fellow newcomer Exorcist: The Beginning, earning $13,528,946. It ultimately grossed $58,169,327 in North America and $14,859,863 internationally, for a worldwide total of $73,029,190.

Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 14% based on 126 reviews, with an average rating of 3.9/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Without a Paddle has a few laughs, but not enough to sustain its running time." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 29 out of 100 based on 27 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews." Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.

Dennis Harvey of Variety called it "an unstable—if mostly painless—mix of low comedy, stabs at higher silliness, and schmaltz."

Entertainment Weekly's Scott Brown was more positive and wrote: "There are some genuinely clever moments of physical comedy, and the inevitable crudeness is offset by winning whimsy. Without has all the freshness of moldering Playboys stashed under a mattress, but it evokes what few boys-will-be-boys larks can: chumminess."

Sequel
A sequel to the film, titled Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling, was released direct-to-video on January 13, 2009. None of the cast and crew from the first film returned.

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Talk:Wild rose

Which wild rose? The "wild rose" that was officially adopted by Alberta in 1930 is Rosa acicularis. If that's the rose you want, this entry should be redirected. Wetman 06:22, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * This is probably become a disambig for all the species that might be meant by different people saying "wild rose". Stan 13:05, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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bounded on the west by Roncesvalles Avenue Although I understand what is trying to be said, this is sort of a geographical impossibility. Roncesvalles *ends* at Queen... hmm.... Krupo 06:24, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)

"and former old dive hotels The Drake and The Gladstone being recently bought out and renovated to attract the arts community"

"on the east by Dufferin Street"

The Drake and the Gladstone are actually east of Dufferin St., making the whole issue of "Where is Parkdale?" that much more confusing. Most would classify those hotels as "West Queen West", but the character of Parkdale is changing, so I don't really have a suggestion here. Pyrotix 04:06, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

^ I'd allow it on the basis that neighbourhood boundaries are rough designations, and tend to overlap.

Is Camden Blues actually a Notable Person? Wikipedia isn't MySpace, and the number of local artists in Parkdale is too many to list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.245.220.223 (talk) 16:38, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Boundaries
The boundaries of the old Parkdale village still fit. I have indicated those in the article. Since the Parkdale Station was at Gladstone and Queen that intersection should be included in the boundaries of Parkdale, and that would include the Gladstone Hotel, but not the Drake. While most people who live along Roncesvalles consider this to be Roncesvalles Village, there is no exact division, it overlaps certainly. A proper map graphic is sorely needed. Alaney2k 16:29, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

NPOV dispute
Since nobody indicated any reason as to why the article is written from a non-neutral perspective, I've removed the tag. If you feel that the article is using non-neutral language, please feel free to discuss. Or even better, fix it. Ivanvector (talk) 22:29, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Gentrification and recent change
I think there needs to be a bit more of a focus on the gentrification of the neighbourhood. This is happening fast, and will eventually threaten the new immigrants who won't be able to afford increased prices in the neighbourhood. You can already see the divide: go in to any of the hipster coffee shops and it's all the hipsters who have the means to drop 5$ on a latte, while the new immigrants flock to the dwindling budget coffee shops in the neighbourhood. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.196.142.209 (talk) 22:33, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

 * As a current resident of Parkdale, and being born and raised in Toronto, I feel there is obvious gentrification in the area. It may be worth while to add some notes on the topic (which I will do in the future). What is interesting about the gentrification of Parkdale is that it has been noted as municipally-managed gentrification and the increase in prices did/does not really have to do with those hipsters so much as the Tenant Protection Act imposed by the Ontario Conservatives in the late 90's. This act introduce Vacancy Decontrol--the elimination of rent control on vacant units. As for the "the divide," my parents are immigrants yet would gladly go to a hipster coffee shop for a proper americano. C. Granados-Ocon (talk) 02:49, 16 September 2011 (UTC)C. Granados-Ocon

Parkdale in Popular Media
It could be added that Metric wrote a song about Parkdale in their 2001 album Grow Up and Blow Away. Exor314 (talk) 17:44, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

For which claim in the statement about the Black Lungs song is the "citation needed"? That they recorded a song named "Stay Out of Parkdale"? That the song describes "various things wrong with the neighborhood"? Or does this go back to the statement that was in place when the citation was requested in April 2011, which claimed "Parkdale was brought to fame in 2010" by the song? Essenoh (talk) 00:59, 21 June 2014 (UTC) The statement has been removed by another user. Essenoh (talk) 01:41, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

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Mount Stromlo Observatory

Mount Stromlo Observatory located just outside Canberra, Australia, is part of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University (ANU). Australia's oldest telescope and several others at the observatory were destroyed by bushfire in 2003.

History
The observatory was established in 1924 as The Commonwealth Solar Observatory. The Mount Stromlo site had already been used for observations in the previous decade, a small observatory being established there by Pietro Baracchi using the Oddie telescope located there in 1911. The dome built to house the Oddie telescope was the first Commonwealth building constructed in the newly established Australian Capital Territory. In 1911 a delegation for an Australian Solar Observatory went to London seeking Commonwealth assistance. The League of the Empire sought subscriptions to assist raising funds. Survey work to determine the site's suitability had begun as soon as the idea of a new Capital was established. By 1909 the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science was assisted in this effort by Hugh Mahon (Minister for Home Affairs). Until World War II, the observatory specialised in solar and atmospheric observations. During the war the workshops contributed to the war effort by producing gun sights, and other optical equipment. After the war, the observatory shifted direction to stellar and galactic astronomy and was renamed The Commonwealth Observatory. Dr R. Wooley Director of the Observatory, worked to gain support for a larger reflector, arguing that the southern hemisphere should attempt to compete with the effectiveness of American telescopes. The ANU was established in 1946 in nearby Canberra and joint staff appointments and graduate studies were almost immediately undertaken. A formal amalgamation took place in 1957, with Mount Stromlo Observatory becoming part of the Department of Astronomy in the Research School of Physical Sciences at ANU, leading eventually to the formation of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics in 1986. On 18 January 2003, the devastating Canberra firestorm hit Mount Stromlo (which was surrounded by a plantation pine forest), destroying five telescopes, workshops, seven homes, and the heritage-listed administration building. The only telescope to escape the fires was the 1886 15-centimetre Farnham telescope. Relics from the fire are preserved in the collection of the National Museum of Australia. They include a melted telescope mirror and a piece of melted optical glass (flint). The latter has pieces of charcoal and wire fused into it from the fierce heat of the fire.

Redevelopment is completed and the Observatory is now a major partner in the construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope. The current observatory director is Matthew Colless.

The director's residence, destroyed in the 2003 fire, was rebuilt and opened to the public as a memorial in 2015.

In 2023, the Quantum Optical Ground Station was launched. It allows for terabit-per-second communication using adaptive optics and lasers.

Research
The MACHO project detected the first instance of the gravitational lensing of one star by another, known as gravitational microlensing, in 1993 (Alcock et al. 1993; Paczynski 1996). This discovery was made by repeated imaging of the Magellanic Clouds with the refurbished 50-inch Great Melbourne Telescope which was equipped with a mosaic of eight 2048 by 2048 pixel CCDs. The camera was constructed by the Centre for Particle Astrophysics in California (CFPA), and at the time was the largest digital camera ever built (Frame & Faulkner 2003). Observations began in July 1992 and the project concluded in December 1999. In total, the MACHO project made over 200 billion stellar measurements, with the data processed both at the observatory and at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Brian Schmidt organised an international collaboration, known as the High-z Supernova Search Team, to study the rate of change of the Cosmic Expansion using type Ia supernovae. In 1998, the team reach the conclusion that the cosmic expansion was accelerating, contrary to expectations. This universal acceleration implies the existence of dark energy and was named the top science breakthrough of 1998 by Science magazine. In 2011, Brian P. Schmidt shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess for such observations which provided evidence for the accelerating Universe.

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, co-led by Matthew Colless, undertook the largest galaxy redshift survey of its time, and was conducted at the Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO) with the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope between 1997 and 11 April 2002. In total, the survey measured more than 245,000 galaxies, providing, along with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the definitive measurements of large scale structure in the low-redshift Universe.

Advanced instrumentation
The instrumentation group at Mount Stromlo Observatory has built two instruments for the Gemini Telescope. This includes the near infrared integral field spectrometer, NIFS, deployed on Gemini-North, and the adaptive optics imager for Gemini-South, GSAOI. NIFS, when nearly completed, was destroyed in the bushfires of 18 January 2003, and rebuilt.

A new rapid survey telescope, SkyMapper, was completed in 2014. SkyMapper resides at the ANU's other observatory (Siding Spring) and can be operated remotely from Mount Stromlo.

Mount Stromlo hosts a DORIS (geodesy) earth station installed by France's CNES.

Location
Mount Stromlo Observatory is located at an altitude of 770 metres above sea level on Mount Stromlo. Situated west of the centre of Canberra, near the district of Weston Creek. Canberra's main water supply treatment plant is located nearby.

Engineering heritage award
The observatory received an Engineering Heritage International Marker from Engineers Australia as part of its Engineering Heritage Recognition Program.

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License as lawyer
The article talks about his receiving his law license and being certified to practice law as two different things. There is no such distinction in any US jurisdiction that I am aware of. An explanation or link to one would be helpful, assuming this is not an error.Bill (talk) 05:23, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

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Guzmán

Guzmán or de Guzmán ( or ) is a Spanish surname. The Portuguese language equivalent is Gusmão.

Origins
The surname is of toponymic origin, de Guzmán ("of Guzmán"), deriving from the village of Guzmán (es) in the region of Burgos. The earliest individual documented using this surname was Rodrigo Muñoz de Guzmán, who first appears in a document from 1134 and was the founder of the noble House of Guzmán.

In the Philippines, Canada and the United States the name usually becomes Guzman (without acute accent), while the Portuguese form of the name is Gusmão.

People with the surname
People with this surname include:

A–D

 * Abimael Guzmán (1934–2021), Peruvian founder of the communist group Shining Path
 * Adriana Guzmán (born 1992), Mexican tennis player
 * Alejandra Guzmán (born 1968), Mexican singer
 * Aleth Guzman-Nageotte (1904–1978), French sculptor and numismatist
 * Alonso Pérez de Guzmán "el Bueno" (1256–1309), Spanish nobleman
 * Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia (1550–1615), commander-in-chief of the Spanish Armada
 * Juan Pérez de Guzmán, 1ºth Duke of Medina Sidonia, (1494+), commander of army of Andalusia in Spain.
 * Ángel Guzmán (born 1981), Venezuelan baseball pitcher
 * Antonia García de Videgain born Antonia García F. de Guzmán, (1850-1924), actress and singer.
 * Antonio Guzmán (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
 * Antonio Guzmán Blanco (1829–1899), president of Venezuela
 * Antonio Guzmán Fernández (1911–1982), president of the Dominican Republic
 * Antonio Guzmán Núñez (born 1953), Spanish footballer
 * Antonio Jose Guzman (born 1971), Dutch Panamanian artist
 * Agustín Guzmán (died 1849), Commander in Chief of Los Altos
 * Augusto Ibáñez Guzmán (1958 - 2018), Colombian lawyer and academic
 * Black Guzmán (1916–1973), Mexican professional wrestler
 * Coco Guzmán (born 1979), Spanish visual artist
 * Cristian Guzmán (born 1978), Dominican baseball shortstop
 * Daniel Guzmán (born 1965), Mexican football player and manager
 * David Guzmán (born 1990), Costa Rican footballer
 * Del de Guzman (born 1963), Filipino politician
 * Delfina Guzmán (born 1928), Chilean actress
 * Domingo Guzmán (born 1975), Dominican baseball pitcher
 * Saint Dominic de Guzmán (1170–1221), Castilian priest and founder of the Dominican Order

E–H

 * EA Guzman (born 1989), Filipino actor
 * Efraín Guzmán (c. 1937–2002), Colombian guerrilla leader
 * Eleanor de Guzmán (1310–1351), Castilian royal mistress
 * Elizabeth Guzman, Elected official in Virginia, U.S.
 * Enrique Guzmán (born 1943), Mexican singer
 * Éver Guzmán (born 1988), Mexican footballer
 * Fernando Guzmán Solórzano (1812–1891), President of Nicaragua (1867–1871)
 * Felipe S. Guzmán (1879–1932), President of Bolivia (1925–1926)
 * Federica Guzmán, (born 1981) Venezuelan TV Host, model and beauty pageant titleholder
 * Fernán Pérez de Guzmán (1376–1458), Castilian nobleman, historian and genealogist
 * Francisco de Tello de Guzmán (died 1603), Spanish Governor of the Philippines
 * Freddy Guzmán (born 1981), Dominican baseball outfielder
 * Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares (1587–1645), Spanish court favorite and minister
 * Gastón Guzmán (1932–2016), Mexican mycologist and anthropologist
 * Guillermo Guzmán (born 1964), Mexican hammer throwewr
 * Gonzalo Nuño de Guzmán (-1539), Spanish governor of Cuba
 * Hulda Guzmán (born 1984), Dominican figurative painter

J

 * Jack Guzman (born 1975), Colombian-born American actor
 * Jaime Guzmán (1946–1991), Chilean lawyer and senator, founder of the Independent Democratic Union
 * Javier Guzmán (1945–2014), Mexican football defender
 * Jered Guzman (born 1981), American pair skater
 * Jesús Guzmán (born 1984), Venezuelan baseball player
 * JM de Guzman (born 1988), Filipino actor
 * Joan Guzmán (born 1976), Dominican boxer in super featherweight division
 * Joaquín Guzmán, nicknamed 'El Chapo' (born 1954 or 1957), Mexican drug trafficker
 * Joaquín Eufrasio Guzmán (1801–1875), politician and President of El Salvador
 * Joel Guzmán (born 1984), Dominican baseball player
 * Jonathan de Guzmán (born 1987), Canadian-born footballer, playing for Dutch national team
 * Jorge Guzmán (born 1963), Mexican professional wrestler better known as El Hijo del Santo
 * José Guzmán (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
 * José Guzmán (born 1963), Puerto Rican baseball player
 * José Guzmán (boxer) (born 1963), Venezuelan boxer
 * José Guzmán Santos (born 1947), Mexican politician
 * José Florencio Guzmán (1929–2017), Chilean politician
 * José de Guzmán, 1st Viscount of San Rafael de la Angostura (1740–1792), Dominican cattle rancher, colonizer and nobleman
 * José de Guzmán Benítez (1857–1921), Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
 * Josep Maria Guzmán (born 1984), Spanish basketball player
 * Juan Guzmán (disambiguation), multiple people, including
 * Juan Guzmán (baseball) (born 1966), Dominican baseball pitcher
 * Juan José Guzmán (1800–1847), President of El Salvador, 1842–1844
 * Juan Pablo Guzmán (born 1981), Argentinian tennis player
 * Juan Reynoso Guzmán (born 1969), Peruvian football defender
 * Juan de Guzmán (died 1569), post-Conquest tlatoani (ruler) of the state of Coyoacan in the Valley of Mexico
 * Juan Guzmán Tapia (1939–2021), Chilean judge
 * Juan Guzman (soccer) (born 1988), American soccer player
 * Juan Guzmán (photographer) (1911–1982), German born Mexican photographer
 * Juan Guzman (boxer) (1951–2021), Dominican boxer
 * Julian de Guzman (born 1981), Canadian soccer player

K–W

 * Karel Guzmán (born 1995), Cuban basketball player
 * Klarisse de Guzman (born 1991), runner-up of The Voice of the Philippines (season 1) in 2013
 * Lucía Guzmán, American politician from Colorado
 * Leody de Guzman (born 1959), Filipino labor leader and activist
 * Luis Guzmán (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
 * Luis Guzmán (born 1956), Puerto Rican actor
 * Luis Enríquez de Guzmán, 9th Count of Alba de Liste (born c. 1605), viceroy of New Spain and Peru
 * Luis Muñoz de Guzmán (1735–1808), Spanish colonial administrator
 * Luis Roberto Guzmán (born 1966), Puerto Rican actor
 * Luisa de Guzmán (1613–1666), Spanish noblewoman
 * Manuel Guzmán (born 1969), Puerto Rican swimmer
 * Martha Guzmán Partida, Mexican mathematician
 * Melvyn Guzmán-Morales, American Academic Weapon
 * Nahuel Guzmán (born 1986), Argentine football goaltender
 * Noel Guzmán Boffil Rojas (1954–2021), Cuban painter
 * Nuño de Guzmán (c. 1490–1558), Spanish conquistador
 * Ovidio Guzmán López (born 1990), Mexican drug lord
 * Pancho Guzmán (born 1946), Ecuadorian tennis player
 * Patricio Guzmán (born 1941), Chilean documentary film maker
 * Pedro Guzman (also Peter Guzman), US citizen illegally deported to Mexico in 2007
 * Ralph Guzman (born 1980), Filipino news correspondent
 * Ramon Guzman (born 1982), American player of Canadian football
 * Ramón Guzmán, (1907–1954), Spanish football player and manager
 * Raúl González Guzmán (born 1985), Venezuelan footballer
 * Rigoberto Guzmán (1932–2014), Salvadoran football player and manager
 * Rodolfo Guzmán (1917–1984), Mexican professional wrestler and actor better known as Santo
 * Ronald Guzmán (born 1994), Dominican baseball player
 * Ryan Guzman (born 1987), American actor
 * Suzanna Guzmán, American opera singer
 * Tomás Guzmán (born 1982), Paraguayan footballer
 * Vanessa Guzmán (born 1976), Mexican actress and model
 * Víctor Guzmán (born 1995), Mexican footballer
 * Violeta Guzmán (born 1977), Mexican hammer thrower
 * Virginia Guzmán (born 1943), Chilean academic and policy advisor
 * Viviana Guzmán (born 1982), Chilean flautist
 * William Guzmán (born 1994), Mexican footballer

People with the given name
Guzmán has also rarely been used as a given name. Notable people with the given name Guzmán include:

 * Guzmán Casaseca (born 1984), Spanish football midfielder
 * Guzmán Pereira (born 1991), Uruguayan football midfielder

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Cirrus SR20

The Cirrus SR20 is an American piston-engined, four- or five-seat composite monoplane built since 1999 by Cirrus Aircraft of Duluth, Minnesota. The aircraft is the company's earliest type-certified model, earning certification in 1998.

It was the first production general aviation (GA) aircraft equipped with a parachute to lower the airplane safely to the ground after a loss of control, structural failure, or midair collision. The SR series was also the first mass-manufactured light aircraft with all-composite construction and flat-panel avionics.

The SR20 was developed into the Cirrus SR22, which was introduced in 2001 and is the most-produced GA aircraft of the 21st century.

Design and development

The SR20 mock-up was unveiled in 1994. The aircraft first flew on 21 March 1995 and FAA certification was achieved on 23 October 1998. At the time of the airplane's release, the GA industry was struggling; the SR20 was one of the first of its kind to earn FAA Part 23 certification in several years. Over a thousand SR20s have been sold since deliveries began in July 1999. From 1999 to 2015, more than 6,000 SR-series aircraft had been delivered, something that no other aviation company had accomplished for the last half-century.

One of the major selling points for the SR20 is its Garmin Cirrus Perspective avionics suite with dual 10 in or 12 in screens: one primary flight display (PFD) and one multifunction display (MFD), first introduced by the company in May 2008. This provides all standard communication, navigation (GPS and conventional VHF), and surveillance (Mode S transponder) functions. Other avionics features include in-flight weather information and TCAS-like traffic information.

SR20s made from 1999 to 2003 were equipped with traditional analog instruments and a 10" MFD. In July 2003, Cirrus made Avidyne Entegra PFDs standard on the SR20 and faster SR22, pioneering the use of glass cockpits in the light aircraft GA industry.

The SR-series remains the only airplane in its class to include side-stick flight controls that combine aspects of a traditional yoke handle (this has been referred to in the industry as a "side yoke").

The SR20 and SR22 are equipped with the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS), a large parachute that can be deployed in an emergency to lower the entire aircraft to the ground safely.

On 1 June 2004, the SR20 became the first aircraft to achieve the new European Aviation Safety Agency certificate for aircraft imported into the European Union.

In 2004, Cirrus introduced the SR20 G2 (Generation 2) and in 2008, the SR20 G3 (Generation 3). Both were defined by airframe modifications, G2 by fuselage and G3 by wing/landing gear changes.

In 2012, "60/40 flex seating" was introduced, allowing up to three passengers in the rear with a split fold-down seat arrangement. This five-seat configuration was optional in 2012, but became standard equipment for 2013 SR20 models.

In 2016, Cirrus introduced enhancements to the SR series, including Bluetooth wireless connectivity, a remote keyless entry, a convenience lighting system, and a new easy-access door latch, among other interior and exterior improvements.

In 2017, the company introduced the SR20 G6 (Generation 6), with several upgrades to the avionics, new navigation lights, and an increased useful load.

In September 2019, Cirrus unveiled the TRAC, a training-oriented version of the SR20, with a simplified interior, more durable seat material, backseat radio transmit switch to allow an observer to communicate with air traffic control, electronic stability and protection system, integrated engine indication and crew alerting/warning systems, and simulated retractable landing gear controls and position lights to allow cadets and instructors to feign landing-gear operation and failures during instructional flights (the actual landing gear remains permanently fixed).

In January 2020, the company introduced a new mobile application for the SR series, called "Cirrus IQ", which enables remote aircraft communication including access to preflight status information such as fuel and oxygen levels, battery voltage, oil temperature, aircraft location, and flight hours. Upgrades also included a new stabilized approach-advisory system for the flight deck. In January 2022, speed and aesthetic improvements were added to the G6 SR-series, with a 9 kn increased cruise speed, upgrades to the mobile IQ app, USB-A and USB-C charging ports and more.

In January 2024, the company announced the SR20 G7 (Generation 7), with a major overhaul to the interior and avionics, making it more comparable to the cockpit of a Cirrus Vision Jet, as well as safety and engine-start improvements and an automatic fuel selection system.

Operational history
In 2011, the accident records of the SR20 and -22 were the subject of a detailed examination by Aviation Consumer magazine. The review concluded that the series has an overall accident record that is better than average for light aircraft, exceeded only by the Diamond DA40 and DA42. However, its fatal accident rate is much worse at 1.6/100,000 hours, placing it higher than the U.S. general aviation rate of 1.2 and higher than the Diamond DA40 (0.35), Cessna 172 (0.45), Diamond DA42 (0.54), Cessna 182 (0.69), and Cessna 400 (1.0), despite the Cirrus's CAPS.

By 2014, the accident rate had been dramatically reduced, with a 2013 fatal rate of 1.01 per 100,000 flight hours. This was attributed to better training, particularly in when to deploy the ballistic parachute system.

By 2015, the accident rate had continued to decrease, with a 2014 fatal rate of 0.42 per 100,000 flight hours, making it one of the best safety records in the industry. This marked the fewest fatalities in a single year for Cirrus since 2001, and the first year where the number of CAPS deployments (12) exceeded the number of fatal accidents (3).

As of September 2018, the SR-series has had its parachute system deployed 79 times, with 163 survivors.

Variants

 * SR20
 * Original version produced from 1999

 * SR20 G2
 * Improved variant introduced in 2004, including Avidyne Entegra avionics

 * SRV
 * Introduced at the 2003 EAA AirVenture Convention and brought to market in 2004, the Cirrus SRV was a VFR-only version of the SR20 for the low-end private ownership and flight-training market. As such, it omitted some standard equipment available on the SR20 such as wheel fairings. For 2008, the SRV model was updated to G3 configuration, with the SR22 wing. Cirrus discontinued the SRV for the 2010 model year.

 * SR20 G3
 * Introduced in 2007, the G3 has a lighter wing of greater area, incorporating a carbon-fiber spar. The new wing increased the SR20's cruise speed by 6 - 7 kn. The G3 also added a 50 lb increased useful load by increasing the take-off weight to 3050 lb, a redesigned main landing gear that is 2 inches (5 cm) taller, giving greater propeller and tail clearance, improved aircraft handling due to increased dihedral, improved aerodynamics including new wing root fairings, LED recognition lights, improved heat and ventilation, dual-redundant GPS WAAS-certified Garmin GNS 430W comm-navigators (that include a VHF radio and a VOR/LOC/ILS receiver) and an S-Tec Autopilot.

 * T-53A
 * In 2011, the SR20 was selected for cadet flight training with the 557th Flying Training Squadron at the United States Air Force Academy and given an Air Force model/design/series (MDS) designation as the T-53A. Twenty-five examples were to be purchased to replace the academy's current stock of 20 leased T-52As by May 2012, and included new features such as Cirrus Perspective avionics (by Garmin) as well as airbag seat belts.

 * SR20 G6
 * Introduced in January 2017, the G6 model adds a Lycoming IO-390 engine of 215 hp, an enhanced "Perspective-Plus" flight deck with a 10-times faster instrument processing speed, new LED wingtip lights and a useful load increase of 150 lb.

 * TRAC
 * Introduced in September 2019, the TRAC is a flight-training version with a simplified, more durable interior, IO-390 engine, Perspective+ flight deck, rear seat push-to-talk functionality, and simulated landing gear controls.

 * SR20 G7
 * On 11 January 2024, Cirrus announced the G7 of the SR series, including a redesigned interior, Cirrus Perspective Touch+ flight deck with 35% larger instrument touch screens, a contextualized 3D taxi guide, stick shaker functions for the side-yokes to warn of an approaching stall condition, a new flap airspeed protection system, an automatic fuel selection system, a pushbutton engine start interface, an updated automated flight control system (AFCS), and a lower glareshield for better forward visibility, in addition to other improvements to the cockpit.

Civil
The SR20 is popular with many flying schools and is operated by private individuals and companies. The largest operators are Civil Aviation Flight University of China with 40 aircraft, Aerosim Flight Academy with 34, Western Michigan University with 29, Lufthansa Flight Training and United Aviate Academy both with 25, and Purdue University with 16.

Military

 * French Air and Space Force and Navy Academies (operated by Cassidian) – 23 aircraft (mixed fleet of 16 SR20s and 7 SR22s)
 * French Air and Space Force and Navy Academies (operated by Cassidian) – 23 aircraft (mixed fleet of 16 SR20s and 7 SR22s)

 * United States Air Force Academy – 25 T-53A aircraft (version of SR20)
 * United States Air Force Academy – 25 T-53A aircraft (version of SR20)

Accidents and incidents
Between 1999 and September 2022, the SR20 was involved in 40 known fatal accidents. Listed below are some of the most notable ones.

 * On March 23, 1999, Duluth native Scott D. Anderson was killed in a plane crash while flight-testing the first production model SR20 before it went on sale. Anderson was a pilot, author, engineer, and adventurer who served as chief test pilot at Cirrus in the mid- to late 1990s, performing all the in-flight test deployments of the CAPS. His plane, which had not yet been equipped with CAPS, experienced an aileron jam during experimental stress-testing and went down in a field near the Duluth International Airport. Anderson was posthumously inducted into the Minnesota Aviation Hall of Fame in 2010.

 * On October 11, 2006, New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and certified flight instructor Tyler Stanger were killed in the 2006 New York City plane crash when their SR20 crashed into the Belaire Apartments located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The aircraft struck the north side of the building, causing a fire in several apartments. The accident resulted from a combination of high winds and pilot error.

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Goldwing

Goldwing may refer to:

 * Honda Gold Wing, a Japanese motorcycle
 * Goldwing Ltd Goldwing, an American ultralight aircraft design
 * American Goldwing, a 2011 album by Blitzen Trapper
 * "Goldwing", a song by Billie Eilish from the album Happier Than Ever (2021)

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multi-linking
What's with your recent multi-linking of the same terms over and over in Conservatism? Normally, we link a term only the first time it is mentioned in an article; there are exceptions (e.g. when it's been several paragraphs since the last mention of an obscure term, or in an Infobox and the main body of the article, etc.) but your recent change seems totally overboard. I could just revert it, but I'd rather call this to your attention so you don't keep doing this.

I'm guessing from the empty talk page that you are new to this. I don't mean to bite you, and do feel free to ping me back if you have any questions. -- Jmabel 06:34, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)

 * Yes, the revised version is fine. By the way, when you leave a comment on a talk page, if you follow it with four tildes ( ~ ) that will automatically turn into your user name & a time stamp when you save. Highly recommended. -- Jmabel 03:56, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)

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North Pole, New York

North Pole is a small hamlet located in the town of Wilmington within Essex County, New York, United States, in the Adirondack Mountains.

Geography
North Pole is located in Adirondack Park at the northern edge of Essex County 44.3°N, -74°W near Whiteface Mountain, 12 miles (19 km) from Lake Placid and approximately 30 miles (48 km) from Plattsburgh.

Fitting with the name of the hamlet, North Pole is one of the best places in the Northeast for snow. According to historical weather data that has been gathered at Tupper Lake every year since 1948, there's a 96% chance of some amount of snow for Christmas.

Demographics
The United States Census Bureau treated North Pole as part of a larger area including Lake Placid, NY for its 2000 census figures. Out of 8,098 people in the region, 1,444 are under 18, 1,072 are age 65 or over, 87% are White and 10.7% are African American.

North Pole does not have its own bank, school, library, fire department, newspaper, police station or community organizations and most local businesses have closed their doors. North Pole has a small community postal station at 201 Main St, which is open only on a seasonal basis.

Media
In 1954, Burlington/Plattsburgh-market NBC affiliate WPTZ (channel 5) was licensed to North Pole at the time of its sign-on (as WIRI). In 1999 the station petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to reallocate its broadcast frequency (now on digital channel 14) to Plattsburgh, on the grounds that the hamlet has always been small and continues to lose population, with only four houses remaining near North Pole's main crossroads.

While the station's studios were built on Television Drive in Plattsburgh, that lakeside city is low-lying ground relative to the surrounding Adirondack Mountains. The station's analog broadcast transmitter had therefore been situated upon a mountaintop near North Pole, operating from this location until 2009. While WPTZ's digital UHF TV transmitter facilities are now located atop Mount Mansfield, Vermont, alongside WCAX-TV and other broadcasters in the region, the station's license (and therefore the on-air station ID) remained in North Pole until January 5, 2011, when the FCC approved WPTZ's request and formally moved its license to Plattsburgh.

Tourism

North Pole, New York's main attraction is the amusement park Santa's Workshop on Whiteface Mountain Memorial Highway, Route 431.

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Thek was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was transwiki to Wiktionary. As of 17:28, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC), this article is still in the queue to be moved. Rossami (talk)

 * Transwiki to Wiktionary. A Bengali language dicdef at best, and clearly idiosyncratic. -- Jmabel 06:39, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-English dictdef, possible nonsense.   — Gwalla | Talk 17:47, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Thek is the name of a superold race of superintelligent superpowerful rocks in the Planet Pirates universe of Anne McCaffrey. Who knew it was a non-notable Bengali word? 132.205.15.4 03:11, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to wiktionary. Doesn't warrant complete encyclopedia article. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 08:11, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)

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North Sydney railway station

North Sydney railway station is located on the North Shore line, serving the Sydney suburb of North Sydney. It is served by Sydney Trains T1 North Shore Line and T9 Northern Line services.

History
North Sydney station opened on 20 March 1932 at the same time as the North Shore line over the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Prior to the bridge's opening, North Shore line trains had diverged from the current line at Waverton to the original Milsons Point station at Lavender Bay.

The station was built in a rock cutting with a street level overhead concourse above the platforms. The station has four platforms which correspond with the four railway tracks that were designed to cross the Sydney Harbour Bridge. At the Waverton end of the station there are four tunnels which have been cut into the rock. Unused tunnel stubs of 260 metres for proposed lines to Newport and Northbridge were cut at the same time with Chief Design Engineer John Bradfield calculating that without these, later construction of these lines would interfere with the North Shore line.

From 1932 until 1958, two of the rail tracks designed for the bridge were used by trams, the latter being diverted onto Blue Street just before they would have entered North Sydney Station. After 1958 the tram tracks were removed from the Sydney Harbour Bridge and replaced by the Cahill Expressway.

Beginning in 1968 when the North Sydney Travelodge was built, the air rights over the station have progressively been redeveloped. In December 1972, the awning over platforms 3 and 4 was demolished. The station became totally enclosed with the opening of Zurich Insurance House in 1984.

Upgrade
Between April 2006 and December 2008, the station was upgraded to handle extra traffic expected with the opening of the Epping to Chatswood line in 2009. The work included an expanded concourse and the installation of escalators and lifts.

Platforms and services
The four platforms at North Sydney can have different usages, but the outer platforms are generally the only ones used in off-peak; the middle platforms generally serve terminating trains arriving from the city. Because the four platforms at North Sydney serve a double track railway to the north and south of the station, it has significant capacity for terminating traffic.

The line north through the tunnel from Platform 3 was not laid until 1992 and commissioned in August 1993. The tunnel roads serving platforms 2 and 3 both have a 10 km/h speed limit and are occasionally used by passenger services.

Transport links
CDC NSW operates two bus routes via North Sydney Station, under contract to Transport for NSW:
 * 612X: to Castle Hill via St Leonards, Epping Rd, Gore Hill Technology Park and M2
 * 602X: to Bella Vista Station via M2, T-way, Epping Rd and Gore Hill Technology Park

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Vasyl Ivanchuk

Vasyl Mykhailovych Ivanchuk (Василь Михайлович Іванчук; born March 18, 1969), is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1988. A leading chess player since 1988, Ivanchuk has been ranked at No. 2 on the FIDE world rankings three times (July 1991, July 1992, October 2007).

Ivanchuk has won Linares, Wijk aan Zee, Tal Memorial, Gibraltar Masters and M-Tel Masters titles. He has also won the World Blitz Championship in 2007 and the World Rapid Championship in 2016.

Early years
Ivanchuk was born in Kopychyntsi, Ukraine. He won the 1987 European Junior Chess Championship in Groningen and first achieved international notice by winning the 1988 New York Open scoring 7½/9 points, ahead of a field of grandmasters. He tied for first place in the 1988 World Junior Chess Championship at Adelaide, but lost the title on tiebreak to Joël Lautier. He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1988, and entered the world top 10 the same year.

Reaches world elite
Ivanchuk attained chess world fame in 1991 at the age of 21 when he won the Linares tournament. Fourteen players participated, eight of them, including World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, rated in the top ten in the world, and another two among the world's top 50 players. Ivanchuk beat Kasparov by a half point, defeating Kasparov in their head-to-head game.

It was widely believed that Ivanchuk might become world champion. He came close in 2002, when he reached the final of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002. Ivanchuk consistently ranked among the top 10 from July 1988 to October 2002 and among the top 20 up to June 2009, but Mark Crowther's The Week in Chess said his erratic play was due to "poor temperament." His results saw him drop as low as 30th in July 2009, but he returned to the top ten in the next list. His inability to become world champion despite his immense talent and longevity has been attributed to his admittedly poor nerves, demonstrated by blunders such as at the 1994 London Grand Prix blitz, when he failed to complete a strong attack on Viswanathan Anand with a mate in one despite having 0:54 left on the clock. Ivanchuk's nerves were notably exposed during the high-tension atmosphere of World Championship match-format tournaments, such as in 2002 where he was heavily favored in the FIDE championship final after having defeated defending champion Anand in the semifinals, only to lose to countryman Ruslan Ponomariov in a major upset, denying him the championship. Subsequent match-play tournaments in World Championship cycles saw Ivanchuk consistently underperform; in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004, Chess World Cup 2005, Chess World Cup 2007, and Chess World Cup 2009, he failed to advance past the third round despite being seeded No. 5, No. 1, No. 1 and No. 6 respectively in those events.

Ivanchuk's world championship aspirations were also dampened by the title split from 1993 to 2006. Due to obligations with FIDE, Ivanchuk and Anand did not participate in the 2002 Dortmund Candidates tournament for the Classical World Chess Championship 2004. He was then narrowly excluded, on the basis of rating, from the rival FIDE World Chess Championship 2005. While he won one of the events of the FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2010, his overall performance was not enough to qualify him for the World Chess Championship 2012 candidates tournament.

Since 2013
Ivanchuk played in the 2013 Candidates Tournament, which took place in London, from 15 March to 1 April. He finished seventh, with a score of +3−5=6. The tournament was notable for his unusually poor time management (he lost two games on time), as well as his major impact on the leaderboard despite being a tail ender: he managed to defeat both leaders Magnus Carlsen (round 12) and Vladimir Kramnik (round 14), resulting in Carlsen qualifying for the World Chess Championship by tiebreak.

In 2016, Ivanchuk won the World Rapid Chess Championship in Doha, Qatar, with a score of 11/15. He defeated Carlsen, among many others.

In July 2016, Ivanchuk began playing checkers and has achieved a certain level of success. In the World Draughts Federation's database, he achieved his peak rating of 1997 in July 2019, and his peak ranking at No. 1089 in October 2021.

Playing style
Ivanchuk is regarded by his peers and many observers as a chess genius. Kasparov explained in an interview that Ivanchuk had a level equivalent to that of a world champion although he had never been one.

Ivanchuk has a phenomenal photographic memory which allowed him to have an extremely developed opening repertoire even before the advent of computers. He is able to play a very large number of openings at a very high level which makes it difficult to prepare against him. This was explained to him by his coach when he was young and led to a funny anecdote against Alexey Suetin.

Moreover, Ivanchuk has a very imaginative game with many new ideas that mixes imagination, technique, ingenuity, maturity of style and fighting spirit.

Assessment and personality
In 2013, Gawain Jones called Ivanchuk "possibly the most talented [player] ever". When asked in 2012 to name chess players she considered geniuses, Judit Polgár named only Ivanchuk, Carlsen and Anand.

Anand has called Ivanchuk the most eccentric player in the chess world, and has said:

He's someone who is very intelligent ... but you never know which mood he is going to be in. Some days he will treat you like his long-lost brother. The next day he ignores you completely.

The players have a word for him. They say he lives on "Planet Ivanchuk". [Laughs] ... I have seen him totally drunk and singing Ukrainian poetry and then the next day I have seen him give an impressive talk.

His playing style is unpredictable and highly original, making him more dangerous but sometimes leading to quick losses as well.

From the Mammoth Book of The World Greatest Chess Games: "If he were able to make the most of his talent, he would surely be a real contender for the World No. 1 spot, but he is a highly emotional player, who takes losses badly, tends to rush critical decisions when under pressure and sometimes lacks motivation."

Ivanchuk played board 1 for Ukraine in the 2008 Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany. Going into the last round, Ukraine was second with decent chances of placing first, and only a strong loss against a 10th-seeded U.S. would leave them without a medal. Ivanchuk was chosen to be tested for illegal substances in his system immediately after the last round.

In a major upset, the U.S. defeated Ukraine 3½ to ½ with Ivanchuk losing his game against Gata Kamsky, causing Ukraine to fall to fourth and miss out on a medal. Ivanchuk was so distraught after the game that he was seen "kicking a large concrete pillar". He refused to take a doping test and stormed out, risking punishment under FIDE rules and forfeiting his games in the event as had happened in the 2004 Chess Olympiad in Majorca. Ivanchuk was cleared when it emerged that he had not been warned of the test, and that in his distraught frame of mind, he had not fully understood the arbiter's request.

After a string of unsuccessful performances culminated in his elimination at the early stages of the 2009 World Cup, Ivanchuk announced, in a highly emotional interview, his retirement from professional chess, but he soon reversed that decision.

Notable tournament victories

 * Lviv 1987, 11½/17 1st
 * New York Open 1988, 1st
 * Debrecen 1988, 10 8/11 1st
 * Linares 1989, 7/10 1st
 * Yerevan 1989, 8½/11 1st
 * Biel 1989, 9/14 1–2
 * Tilburg 1990, 8½/14 1–2
 * Linares 1991, 9½/13 1st
 * Reykjavik 10½/15, 1–2
 * Munich 1994, 7½/11 1st
 * Linares 1995, 10/13 1st
 * Horgen GER 1995, 7/10 1–2
 * Wijk aan Zee 1996, 9/13 1st
 * Belgrade 1997 6/9, 1–2
 * Tallinn 2000 6/7, 1st
 * Montecatini Terme 2000, 5/7 1st
 * Malmö 2003, 13 7/9 1st
 * European Individual Chess Championship 2004
 * European Rapid Chess Championship 2004
 * La Habana 2005, 9½/12 1st
 * Barcelona 2005, 4/5 1–2
 * Canadian Open Chess Championship 2005, Joint 1st
 * Tallinn 2006, 7/9 1–3
 * Odesa 2006, 7/9 1st
 * Mérida 2006, 1st
 * Odesa 2007, 7/9 1st
 * La Habana 2007, 7½/9 1st
 * Foros 2007, 7½/11 1st
 * FIDE World Blitz Chess Champion 2007
 * Montreal International 2007
 * M-Tel Masters, Sofia 2008 8/10 2008, 1st
 * Tal Memorial, Moscow 2008, 6/9 1st
 * Tal Memorial (Blitz), Moscow 2008, 1st
 * Linares 2009 8/14, Joint 1st (Alexander Grischuk declared winner because of higher number of wins)
 * Bazna 2009, 7/10 1st
 * Jermuk 2009, 8½/13 1st
 * Amber Rapid 2010, 8/11 Joint 1st (with Magnus Carlsen)
 * Amber Overall 2010, Joint 1st (with Magnus Carlsen)
 * Capablanca Memorial Havana 2010, 7/10 1st
 * Cap d'Agde Rapid 2010, 1st
 * Gibraltar 2011, 9/10 1st
 * Capablanca Memorial Havana 2011, 6½/10 1st
 * Grand Slam Bilbao – São Paulo 2011, Joint 1st (Magnus Carlsen wins the tie-break blitz games)
 * Capablanca Memorial Havana, Cuba 2012, 6½/10, 1st.
 * World Rapid Championship 2016, 1st

Team chess performances
Ivanchuk has often been at his best in international team competitions. He has played in 14 Chess Olympiads, twice for the Soviet Union (1988 and 1990), and twelve times for Ukraine, after the Soviet Union split up in 1991. He has won a total of thirteen medals, and has been on four gold-medal winning teams (USSR in 1988 and 1990, Ukraine in 2004 and 2010). In 162 games, Ivanchuk has scored (+63 =87 -12), for 65.7 per cent. His detailed Olympiad records are as follows:

 * Thessaloniki 1988, USSR 2nd reserve, 6½/9 (+4 −0 =5), team gold
 * Novi Sad 1990, USSR board 1, 7/10 (+5 −1 =4), team gold, board bronze
 * Manila 1992, Ukraine board 1, 8½/13 (+6 −1 =5)
 * Moscow 1994, Ukraine board 1, 9½/14 (+5 −0 =9)
 * Yerevan 1996, Ukraine board 1, 8½/11 (+6 −0 =5), team silver, board silver, perf. bronze
 * Elista 1998, Ukraine board 1, 7/11 (+3 −0 =8), team bronze
 * Istanbul 2000, Ukraine board 1, 9/14 (+4 −0 =10), team bronze
 * Bled 2002, Ukraine board 2, 9/14 (+4 −0 =10)
 * Calvià 2004, Ukraine board 1, 9½/13 (+6 −0 =7), team gold, board bronze
 * Turin 2006, Ukraine board 1, 8/13 (+4 −1 =8)
 * Dresden 2008, Ukraine board 1, 6/11 (+3 −2 =6)
 * Khanty-Mansiysk 2010, Ukraine board 1, 8/10 (+7 −1 =2), team gold, board gold
 * Istanbul 2012, Ukraine board 1, 6/10 (+4 –2 =4), team bronze
 * Tromsø 2014, Ukraine board 1, 4/9 (+2 –3 =4)

Notable games
At round one of Linares in 1991, the 21-year-old Ivanchuk gave up both his bishops for knights and then boxed Kasparov, then world champion, into complete passivity.
 * Ivanchuk vs Kasparov, Linares 1991

Personal life
Ivanchuk used to be married to Russian Woman Grandmaster Alisa Galliamova.

On November 18, 2006, he married for the second time.

In 2011, Ivanchuk and his second wife were mugged the day they were set to leave from São Paulo, Brazil, on a plane bound for Spain to finish the second half of the Bilbao Grand Slam Masters. Ivanchuk threatened to withdraw from the tournament altogether, but his wife convinced him to continue. He had been leading in the tournament before this event, but did not play as well in the second half of the tournament.

Awards and honors

 * Ukraine-20-ribbon.png 20 Years of Independence of Ukraine Medal
 * Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise 4th and 5th Class of Ukraine.png Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (5th class)
 * Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise 4th and 5th Class of Ukraine.png Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (4th class)
 * Order of Merit 2nd Class of Ukraine.png Order of Merit (2nd class)
 * Order of Merit 1st Class of Ukraine.png Order of Merit (1st class)

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List of live-action films based on cartoons and comics

This is a list of live action theatrical, television, or direct-to-video/DVD films that were based on cartoons and comics:

0-9

 * 101 Dalmatians (1996)
 * 102 Dalmatians (2000)

A

 * The Addams Family (1991)
 * Addams Family Values (1993)
 * Addams Family Reunion (1998)
 * Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)
 * The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000)
 * Æon Flux (2005)
 * Aladdin (2019)
 * Alice in Wonderland (2010)
 * Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
 * Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
 * Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)
 * Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)
 * Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)
 * Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)
 * The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
 * The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
 * American Splendor (2003)
 * Annie (1982)
 * Annie (1999)
 * Annie (2014)
 * Antique (2008)
 * Ant-Man (2015)
 * Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
 * Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
 * Aquaman (2018)
 * Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023)
 * Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again (1990)
 * The Archies (2023)
 * Assassination Classroom (2015)
 * Assassination Classroom: Graduation (2016)
 * Asterix film series (1967-2023)
 * Atom Man vs. Superman (1950)
 * Atomic Blonde (2017)
 * Attack on Titan (2015)
 * Asura Girl: Blood-C Another Story (2017)
 * The Avengers (2012)
 * Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
 * Avengers: Endgame (2019)
 * Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
 * Avengers 5 (2026)
 * Avengers: Secret Wars (2027)

B

 * Baby Huey's Great Easter Adventure (1999)
 * Batman (1943)
 * Batman (1966)
 * Batman (1989)
 * The Batman (2022)
 * The Batman – Part II (2026)
 * Batman & Robin (1949)
 * Batman & Robin (1997)
 * Batman Begins (2005)
 * Batman Forever (1995)
 * Batman Returns (1992)
 * Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
 * Barbie (2023)
 * Beauty and the Beast (2017)
 * Ben 10: Race Against Time (2007)
 * Ben 10: Alien Swarm (2009)
 * Der bewegte Mann (1994)
 * Birds of Prey (2020)
 * Blackhawk (1952)
 * Black Adam (2022)
 * Blue Beetle (2023)
 * Blue’s Big City Adventure (2022)
 * Black Butler (2014)
 * Black Panther (2018)
 * Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
 * Black Widow (2021)
 * Blade (1998)
 * Blade II (2002)
 * Blade: Trinity (2004)
 * Blade (2025)
 * Bleach (2018)
 * Blondie film series
 * Bloodshot (2020)
 * Boris and Natasha: The Movie (1992)
 * Buck Rogers (1939)
 * Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
 * Bumblebee (2018)

C

 * Captain America (1944)
 * Captain America (1979)
 * Captain America (1990)
 * Captain America II: Death Too Soon (1979)
 * Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
 * Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
 * Captain America: Civil War (2016)
 * Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
 * Captain Marvel (2019)
 * Casper (1995)
 * Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997)
 * Casper Meets Wendy (1998)
 * Casshern (2004)
 * Catwoman (2004)
 * Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2006)
 * Charlotte's Web (2006)
 * Christopher Robin (2018)
 * Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)
 * Cinderella (2015)
 * Clifford The Big Red Dog (2021)
 * Clifford The Big Red Dog 2 (TBA)
 * Congo Bill (1948)
 * Coyote vs. Acme (2024)
 * Constantine (2005)
 * The Crow film series
 * Cruella (2021)

D

 * Daphne & Velma (2018)
 * Daredevil (2003)
 * Dariya Dil (1988)
 * The Dark Knight (2008)
 * The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
 * Dark Phoenix (2019)
 * Dasepo Naughty Girls (2006)
 * Deadpool (2016)
 * Deadpool 2 (2018)
 * Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
 * Death Note (2006)
 * Death Note 2: The Last Name (2006)
 * Death Note: Light Up the New World (2016)
 * Death Note (2017)
 * The Death of the Incredible Hulk (1990)
 * Dennis the Menace (1987)
 * Dennis the Menace (1993)
 * Dennis the Menace Strikes Again
 * Dungeons & Dragons film series
 * 3 Dev Adam (1973)
 * Diabolik (1974)
 * Dick Tracy (1937)
 * Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc. (1941)
 * Dick Tracy (1945)
 * Dick Tracy (1990)
 * Dondi (1961)
 * Dr. Strange (TV, 1978)
 * Doctor Strange (2016)
 * Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
 * Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019)
 * Dragonball: Evolution (2009)
 * Dredd (2012)
 * Dudley Do-Right (1999)
 * Dumbo (2019)

E

 * Elektra (2005)
 * Eternals (2021)
 * El Muerto (TBA)

F

 * The Fairly OddParents film series
 * Fantastic Four (2005)
 * Fantastic Four (2015)
 * The Fantastic Four (2025)
 * Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
 * Fat Albert (2004)
 * Fatty Finn (1980)
 * Fireman Sam in Action (1996)
 * The Flash (2023)
 * Flash Gordon (1936)
 * Flash Gordon (1980)
 * Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938)
 * Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)
 * The Flintstones (1994)
 * The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)
 * Fullmetal Alchemist (2017)

G

 * Garfield (2004)
 * Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006)
 * Gatchaman (2013)
 * Generation X (TV, 1996)
 * Gen V (2023)
 * George of the Jungle (1997)
 * George of the Jungle 2 (direct-to-video, 2003)
 * Green Lantern (2011)
 * Green Lantern Corps (TBA)
 * Ghost in the Shell (2017)
 * Ghost Rider (2007)
 * Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011)
 * Ghost World (2001)
 * G.I. Joe film series
 * Gintama (2017)
 * Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
 * Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
 * Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)

H

 * Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977)
 * Hellboy (2004)
 * Hellboy (2019)
 * Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (2008)
 * Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024)
 * The Hunchback of Notre Dame (2024)
 * How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
 * Howard the Duck (1986)
 * Hulk (2003)
 * How to Train Your Dragon (2025)

I

 * The Incredible Hulk (2008)
 * The Incredible Hulk Returns (TV, 1988)
 * Initial D (2005)
 * Iron Man (2008)
 * Iron Man 2 (2010)
 * Iron Man 3 (2013)
 * Inspector Gadget (1999)
 * Inspector Gadget 2 (direct-to-video, 2003)

J

 * Jem and the Holograms (2015)
 * Joker (2019)
 * Joker: Folie a Deux (2024)
 * Jonah Hex (2010)
 * Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
 * Judge Dredd (1995)
 * The Jungle Book (2016)
 * The Jungle Book 2 (TBA)
 * Justice League (2017)
 * Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
 * Justice League of America (1997)

K

 * Kingsman film series
 * Kick-Ass (2010)
 * Kick-Ass 2 (2013)
 * Kim Possible (2019)
 * The Kitchen (2019)
 * Kite (2014)
 * Kraven the Hunter (2024)

L

 * L: Change the World (2008)
 * Lady and the Tramp (2019)
 * The Last Airbender (2010)
 * The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
 * Li'l Abner (1940)
 * Li'l Abner (1959)
 * Little Orphan Annie (1932)
 * Little Orphan Annie (1938)
 * Lilo & Stitch (2024)
 * The Little Mermaid (2023)
 * The Lion King (2019)
 * Logan (2017)
 * A Loud House Christmas (2021)
 * Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
 * Lupin III: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy (1974)
 * Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022)

M

 * Madame Web (2024)
 * Madeline (1998)
 * Maleficent (2014)
 * Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)
 * Maleficent 3 (2025)
 * Man of Steel (2013)
 * Man-Thing (2005)
 * Marmaduke (2010)
 * The Marvels (2023)
 * The Mask (1994)
 * Masters of the Universe (1987)
 * Max Steel (2016)
 * The Mean One (2022)
 * Men in Black film series
 * Mickey's Mouse Trap (2024)
 * Monster High: The Movie (2022)
 * Morbius (2022)
 * Mr. Magoo (1997)
 * Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)
 * Mulan (2020)
 * Mutt and Jeff series (1911-1913)

N

 * The New Mutants (2020)
 * Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (1998)
 * Nicky Larson et le Parfum de Cupidon (2019)

O

 * Office Space (1999)
 * Old Bill and Son (1941)
 * Once Upon A Deadpool (2018)
 * One Piece (2023)

P

 * Painkiller Jane (2005)
 * Peter Pan & Wendy (2023)
 * The Phantom (1943)
 * The Phantom (1996)
 * Paddington (2014)
 * Paddington 2 (2017)
 * Paddington in Peru (2024)
 * Pinocchio (2022)
 * Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019)
 * Popeye (1980)
 * The Punisher (1989)
 * The Punisher (2004)
 * Punisher: War Zone (2008)

R

 * Red (2010)
 * Red 2 (2013)
 * The Return of Swamp Thing (1989)
 * Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
 * The Rocketeer (1991)

S

 * Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996)
 * Sabrina Goes to Rome (1998)
 * Sabrina Down Under (1999)
 * The Sad Sack (1957)
 * Scooby-Doo film series
 * Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
 * The Shadow (1940)
 * The Shadow (1994)
 * Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
 * Shang-Chi 2 (2024)
 * Shazam! (2019)
 * Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)
 * Sin City (2005)
 * Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)
 * Skippy (1931)
 * Slumberland (2022)
 * The Smurfs (2011)
 * The Smurfs 2 (2013)
 * Snake Eyes (2021)
 * Son of the Mask (2005)
 * Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
 * Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)
 * Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024)
 * Space Battleship Yamato (2010)
 * Space Jam (1996)
 * Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
 * Sparks (2013)
 * Spawn (1997)
 * Speed Racer (2008)
 * Spider-Man (1977)
 * Spider-Man (1978)
 * Spider-Man (2002)
 * Spider-Man 2 (2004)
 * Spider-Man 3 (2007)
 * Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
 * Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
 * Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
 * The Spirit (2008)
 * SpongeBob SquarePants film series
 * Steel (1997)
 * Stuart Little (1999)
 * Stuart Little 2 (2002)
 * The Swan Princess film series
 * Snow White (2025)
 * The Suicide Squad (2021)
 * Suicide Squad (2016)
 * Superman (1948)
 * Superman (1978)
 * Superman (1980)
 * Superman II (1980)
 * Superman III (1983)
 * Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
 * Superman Returns (2006)
 * Superman and the Mole Men (1951)
 * Superman (2025)
 * Supergirl (1984)
 * Swamp Thing (1982)

T

 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)
 * Thor (2011)
 * Thor: The Dark World (2013)
 * Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
 * Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
 * Thunderbolts* (2025)
 * Timecop (1994)
 * Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (2003)
 * Tintin and the Golden Fleece (1961)
 * Tintin and the Blue Oranges (1964)
 * Tom and Jerry (2021)
 * Transformers film series
 * The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989)
 * The Boys (2019-present)

U

 * Underdog (2007)

V

 * V for Vendetta (2005)
 * Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
 * Venom (2018)
 * Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
 * Venom: The Last Dance (2024)
 * Vicky the Viking (2009)
 * Vicky and the Treasure of the Gods (2011)

W

 * Watchmen (2009)
 * Werewolf by Night (2022)
 * Werner film series (1990-2011)
 * Whiteout (2009)
 * Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
 * Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)
 * The Wolverine (2013)
 * Wonder Woman (1974)
 * Wonder Woman (2017)
 * Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
 * Wonka (2023)
 * Woody Woodpecker (2017)
 * Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp (2024)

X

 * X-Men film series

Y

 * Yatterman (2009)
 * Yogi Bear (2010)
 * Yo-Kai Watch: Soratobu Kujira to Double no Sekai no Daiboken da Nyan! (2016)
 * Yor, the Hunter from the Future (1983)


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Mr. Magoo

J. Quincy Magoo, better known as Mr. Magoo, is a fictional cartoon character created at the UPA animation studio in 1949. Voiced by Jim Backus, Mr. Magoo is an elderly, wealthy, short-statured retiree who gets into a series of comical situations as a result of his extreme near-sightedness, compounded by his stubborn refusal to admit the problem. However, through uncanny streaks of luck, the situation always seems to work itself out for him, leaving him no worse than before. Bystanders consequently tend to think that he is a lunatic, rather than just being near-sighted. In later cartoons, he is also an actor, and generally a competent one, except for his visual impairment.

Magoo episodes were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film four times, and received the award twice, for When Magoo Flew (1954) and Magoo's Puddle Jumper (1956).

In 2002, TV Guide ranked Mr. Magoo number 29 on its "50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time" list.

History
Mr. Magoo's first appearance was in the theatrical short cartoon "The Ragtime Bear" (1949), scripted by Millard Kaufman. His creation was a collaborative effort; animation director John Hubley is said to have partly based the character on his uncle Harry Woodruff, and W. C. Fields was another source of inspiration. Columbia was reluctant to release the short, but did so, only because it included a bear. However, audiences quickly realized that the real star was Magoo, one of the few "human" cartoon characters ever produced in Hollywood at the time. The short became a box-office success.

The Magoo character was originally conceived as a mean-spirited reactionary. Hubley, who had created Magoo, handed the series completely over to creative director Pete Burness. Under Burness, Magoo won two Academy Awards for the studio with When Magoo Flew (1954) and Magoo's Puddle Jumper (1956). Burness scrubbed Magoo of his meanness and left only a few strange comments that made him appear senile or somewhat mad. At the same time, art director Sterling Sturtevant, one of the few women working in animation at the time, redesigned the character's appearance. Magoo was frequently accompanied in his on-screen escapades with his nephew Waldo, voiced at various times by either Jerry Hausner or Daws Butler.

In 1957, the record album Magoo in Hi-Fi was released. Side 1 consisted of a dialogue between Magoo and Waldo taking place while Magoo was attempting to set up his new sound system. Music on the album was composed and conducted by Dennis Farnon and his orchestra. Side 2, "The Mother Magoo Suite", was a series of musical pieces which included two solos by Marni Nixon.

In 1959, Mr. Magoo starred in 1001 Arabian Nights, directed by Jack Kinney, UPA's first feature-length production.

In 1994, a Sega Mega Drive game starring Mr. Magoo was in development and planned to be published by Millennium Interactive but never released.

In 1997, the live-action comedy film Mr. Magoo, produced by Walt Disney Pictures and starring Leslie Nielsen as the title character, was released in December, earning bad reviews from critics.

In 2010, a direct-to-video action-comedy film based on the character, Kung Fu Magoo, was released on DVD on May 11, 2010. It features the voices of Jim Conroy, Chris Parnell, Dylan and Cole Sprouse, and Alyson Stoner. The film is a Mexican–American co-production, produced by Classic Media, Ánima Estudios, and Santo Domingo Films. The film was directed by Andrés Couturier. His most recent appearance was in DreamWorks Animation's The Boss Baby, where he briefly appears on the cover of a comic book.

On television and in popular culture
In the 1960s, UPA turned its attention to television, and began producing the series Mister Magoo for the character. Because UPA had shut down its animation studio in 1959, the animation for these cartoons was done by Jack Kinney Productions and Larry Harmon Pictures. The cartoons suffered from varying character designs and choppier animation, due to rushed production schedules. Magoo's nephew Waldo (voiced, as in most of the theatrical cartoons, by Jerry Hausner) was seldom seen with his uncle, now appearing in his own episodes, introduced by a brief phone conversation from Magoo's point of view, which acted as a teaser. The Waldo episodes also featured a slick-talking con man named Prezly, and always ended with a return to Magoo saying, "Oh, that Waldo and Prezly. What'll they be up to next? Hee hee hee!"

Magoo's houseboy Cholly (i.e., "Charlie") took up a lot of Waldo's slack. Cholly was an Asian stereotype with huge buck teeth and fractured English pronunciation.

Still other cartoons featured Tycoon Magoo, voiced by Mel Blanc, and his bumbling assistant Worcestershire.

During the UPA television era came Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol, an abbreviated but largely faithful retelling of Charles Dickens' tale. It was the first ever animated Christmas special made for television and the first hour-long animated TV special and is considered to be a holiday classic of the 1960s, ranking alongside A Charlie Brown Christmas and How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. The special inspired the production of an animated TV series titled The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo, which placed Magoo as an actor in other well-known stories. After an introduction in Magoo's backstage dressing room, Magoo was depicted in such roles as The Count of Monte Cristo, Merlin in an upbeat retelling of the story of King Arthur, Friar Tuck in Robin Hood, and Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

In 1970, Mr. Magoo starred as Uncle Sam in the TV special Uncle Sam Magoo.

In the late 1970s, Mr. Magoo appeared in a new Saturday morning CBS television series called What's New, Mr. Magoo? This series was made under license by the DePatie–Freleng studio, as UPA had by this time ceased in-house cartoon production.

Mr. Magoo was planned to have a cameo in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but was later dropped for unknown reasons.

Nickelodeon's Weinerville anthologizes most of his shorts.

In 1997, Mr. Magoo was portrayed by Leslie Nielsen in a live-action Mr. Magoo feature film. It failed to find critical or popular success, and some support groups for the disabled, including the National Federation of the Blind, protested it on behalf of the blind and sight-impaired.

A Mexican-U.S. animated feature, Kung-Fu Magoo, was released as a direct-to-DVD release in 2010 and made its TV debut on Disney XD in 2011.

Mr. Magoo helped advertise the General Electric line of products throughout the 1950s and 1960s, sometimes under the name J. Quincy Magoo. In 2005, Mr. Magoo became the spokesman of the optical retail store Sterling Optical. Magoo also was featured in a series of commercials for Stag Beer in the 1960s. Also in the 1960s, the Polaner company sold its line of preserves in jars decorated with images of Mr. Magoo which, when empty, could then be used as drinking glasses.

ASI Entertainment has used Mr. Magoo cartoons to "warm up" audiences when testing television comedy pilots.

Mr. Magoo is an alumnus of Rutgers University, Class of 1928. The reason behind this is that his creators wanted him to be "a college alumnus who was still fired up with the old school spirit [and they felt] Rutgers was the embodiment of the 'old school tie' in America.". He was definitely in a fraternity, since he would often shout out, "Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Rho – Rutgers, Rutgers, Go – Go – Go!"

In 2012, Mr. Magoo appeared in MetLife's "Everyone" commercial during Super Bowl XLVI.

Another television series, simply titled Mr. Magoo, began airing in 2018. Produced by the company Xilam, this series depicts a younger looking Magoo and his pet dog named Mr. Cat (because it meows), who replaces McBarker, the dog depicted in earlier cartoons.

Characters

 * Mr. Quincy Magoo (voiced by Jim Backus) – An elderly man whose eyesight is failing, although he either does not know it or is too stubborn to admit it and/or do anything about it.
 * Waldo (voiced by Jerry Hausner from 1949 to 1955 and in the 1960s series, Daws Butler from 1956 to 1959 and on the 1957 record album Magoo in Hi-Fi, and Casey Kasem in the 1970s series) – Mr. Magoo's nephew.
 * Bowser - Mr. Magoo's dog (actually a Siamese cat) in the 1960s cartoons.
 * McBarker (voiced by Bob Ogle) – Mr. Magoo's dog in the 1970s cartoon series What's New, Mr. Magoo? A talking white Bulldog, he shares his owner's facial features and poor eyesight.
 * Mother Magoo (voiced first by Henny Backus in "Meet Mother Magoo" (1956), then June Foray) – Mr. Magoo's "Momma", Linda.
 * Grandma "Granny" Magoo.
 * Charlie (voiced by Benny Rubin) – Mr. Magoo's houseboy. Charlie's depiction as an Asian stereotype was controversial. The character was prone to unusual misuses of English, such as referring to himself in the third person as "Cholly", and calling Mr. Magoo "Missuh Magloo" and "Bloss" instead of "Boss". In the late 1960s, episodes featuring Charlie were dropped from the series and his character was never seen, referred to or even mentioned again. A version of the series that runs on the Christian network KTV retains Charlie, but dubs over his ethnic-sounding voice track.
 * Prezly (voiced by Daws Butler) – Waldo's "partner in crime" in the 1960s cartoons.
 * Wheeler and Dealer – Two children Mr. Magoo occasionally babysits in The Mister Magoo Show (1960–1961).
 * Tycoon Magoo (voiced by Mel Blanc) – Mr. Magoo's rich uncle. His catchphrase is "Worcestershire, get in here!"
 * Worcestershire (voiced by Mel Blanc) – Tycoon Magoo's butler, who is always trying to prevent Mr. Magoo from ruining Tycoon Magoo's property.
 * Additional character voices were provided by Paul Frees, Frank Nelson and Mel Blanc, among others.

Theatrical cartoon shorts
The following Mr. Magoo cartoons were either nominees for, or recipients of, the Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons):
 * 1950: "Trouble Indemnity"
 * 1952: "Pink and Blue Blues"
 * 1954: "When Magoo Flew" (winner)
 * 1956: "Magoo's Puddle Jumper" (winner)

Home media
On February 8, 2005, Sony BMG Music Entertainment’s former kids and family entertainment division, Sony Wonder (under license from Classic Media) released The Mr. Magoo Show: Complete DVD Collection. This four-disc set featured all 26 uncut episodes of the 1960 series, digitally remastered from original film prints and presented in its original broadcast presentation and order, as well as bonus features. This release has been discontinued and is now out of print.

On November 8, 2011, Shout! Factory (under license from Classic Media) released Mr. Magoo: The Television Collection 1960–1977 on DVD in Region 1. This 11-disc collection contains all the episodes from all three Mr. Magoo television series, including all 26 episodes of The Mister Magoo Show, all 26 episodes of The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo, all 16 episodes of What's New, Mister Magoo?, and the prime-time TV special Uncle Sam Magoo, as well as several bonus features.

On December 6, 2011, Sony released the feature film 1001 Arabian Nights on DVD through their Screen Classics manufactured-on-demand (MOD) program, now available through a licensing deal through the Warner Archive Collection.

In 2011, animation historian Jerry Beck announced the release of a Shout! Factory boxed set of the Mr. Magoo theatrical (UPA) shorts, under license from Sony. Originally scheduled for release in 2012, the set was pushed back for two years as Sony remastered some of the cartoons from higher quality sources, including newly discovered elements. The four-disc Mr. Magoo Theatrical Collection, containing all 53 of the Mr. Magoo theatrical shorts distributed by Columbia through 1959, and the 1959 theatrical film 1001 Arabian Nights, was released on April 22, 2014.

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Fort Burgoyne

Fort Burgoyne, originally known as Castle Hill Fort, was built in the 1860s as one of the Palmerston forts around Dover in southeast England. It was built to a polygonal system with detached eastern and western redoubts, to guard the high ground northeast of the strategic port of Dover, just north of Dover Castle. The fort is named after the 19th century Field Marshal Sir John Fox Burgoyne, Inspector-General of Fortifications and son of the John Burgoyne who fought in the American Revolutionary War.

After the First World War Fort Burgoyne was used as a military depot or store for Connaught Barracks. Until recently the central part of the fort was still owned by the Ministry of Defence, forming part of the Connaught Barracks site, which is now being redeveloped for housing.

In 2014, Fort Burgoyne and a total of 42 Hectares of land was acquired by the Land Trust. Since acquiring the site the Trust has spent over £2.5 million on priority works (informed by a Coastal Revival Fund grant aided condition survey) to stabilise the site together with transforming the West Wing Battery of the site from condition of derelict buildings and structures lost in woodland to an informal recreation space for the community opened in 2023.

As part of the Trust's long term aspiration to see the Fort become a vibrant business and community space in 2023 a project was completed providing opportunities for businesses to become the first tenants on site.

Community Participation
Since acquiring the Fort, the Land Trust has sought to promote public engagement and participation with the site. While the condition of Fort Burgoyne is such that access to the site is for events only, building a relationship with the community is seen as vital for the future success of the site.

In partnership with White Cliffs Countryside Partnership, the Fort hosts a weekly volunteer group, education visits, and children's activities. The Land Trust 'Green Angels' training programme also runs a number of courses on site annually.

As part of the West Wing Battery transformation project, a 2 week community archaeology dig was undertaken to inform proposals for landscaping works.

The Fort has hosted Dover Armed Forces Weekend in 2022 and 2023 together with community events on fields surrounding the main Fort area. An annual wildlife family funday provides an opportunity for visitors to witness both the historic and wildlife value of Fort Burgoyne.

On the 29 February 2020, Fort Burgoyne was opened to the public for a day. The event was called Waking the Giant and was run by Albion Inc, as part of a commission for Pioneering Places East Kent funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund and Arts Council Great Places programme to map out the future uses of the fort. The event featured: The Museum Of British Folklore, Weaving & Knitting by Robert George Sanders & Katherine Woodward, Blacksmithing by Michael Hart, Ceramics by Ceramic Art Dover & Keith Brymer-Jones, A showing of the film Fortopia By Matt Rowe, a demo of the virtual reality game Escape created by Jake Price, A presentation of future fort use by Central St. Martins, A Makers Market by Future Foundry and Food & Drink by The White Cliffs & Real Deal Roasters.

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