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Red Funnel

Red Funnel, the trading name of the Southampton Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Company Limited, is a ferry company that carries passengers, vehicles and freight on routes between the English mainland and the Isle of Wight. High-speed foot passenger catamarans, known as Red Jets, run between Southampton and Cowes, while vehicle ferries run between Southampton and East Cowes. It also runs the ferry between Southampton and Hythe.

Red Funnel's main competitor is Wightlink whose services operate from Portsmouth to Fishbourne and Ryde, and from Lymington to Yarmouth. The other major Solent ferry company, Hovertravel, operates between Southsea and Ryde. Both provide a frequent service to the Isle of Wight, but neither normally serve Southampton, Cowes or East Cowes.

History
The origins of Red Funnel date back to 1820, when the Isle of Wight Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was established by Cowes interests to operate the first steamer service from there to Southampton. In 1826, the Isle of Wight Steam Packet Company was formed in Southampton, and by the following year the two companies had started co-ordinating their operations. In 1860, the Southampton, Isle of Wight & Portsmouth Improved Steamboat Company was created to compete with the two established operators, and the threat posed caused the two older companies to merge. They subsequently acquired the assets of the Improved Steamboat Company in 1865.

Formed in 1861, and called The Southampton Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Company Limited, the merged company's name remains the longest for a registered company in the United Kingdom. The trading name Red Funnel Steamers was adopted in 1935 when all the company's ships had black-topped red funnels, and later shortened to the current Red Funnel. The 1861 name remains the company's formal name.

The company originally operated a paddle steamer ferry service between Cowes, Isle of Wight and Southampton. During its history the company has operated other routes connecting the Isle of Wight and the English mainland, together with a sizable excursion steamer business along the South Coast of England including day trips from the Isle of Wight to France, but today services are concentrated on two routes. In 1931 it introduced its first diesel ferry, the MV Medina. Ferries have steadily increased in size to the current Scottish-built Raptor class operated between East Cowes and Town Quay in Southampton. Between 1969 and the 1990, the company also ran Italian-built hydrofoils between Town Quay and Cowes. This route is now served by high-speed, passenger-only catamarans.

In 1867 Red Funnel instituted a service crossing the River Medina between Cowes and East Cowes. This service was operated by a series of small launches over the years. The service ceased on the outbreak of war in 1939 when the vessels involved were requisitioned by the Admiralty. In 1868 the company took over the Cowes Floating Bridge Company and operated the floating bridge until 1901.

In 1885 the company bought the New Southampton Steam Towing Company and operated tugs and tenders, later under the subsidiary Red Funnel Towage. In 2002 Red Funnel Towage was sold to the Adelaide Steamship Company, later passing to Svitzer Marine.

In 1946 Red Funnel acquired a controlling interest in Cosens & Co Ltd, a rival pleasure steamer operator based in Weymouth. This enabled the combined company to coordinate their excursions and also gave Red Funnel access to the Cosens' marine engineering and ship repair facilities. Excursions came to end in 1966 but the engineering side continued until sold off in 1990 to a management buy-out.

In 2001 the company was sold to JP Morgan Partners by Associated British Ports Holdings, which had acquired the company in 1989 as a white knight to fend off a hostile takeover by Sally Lines. In 2004 the company was sold again in a management buy-out backed by the Bank of Scotland for £60 million. On 12 April 2007, the owners of Red Funnel (who include HBOS) announced that they were considering selling Red Funnel. In June of the same year, the company was sold to the Prudential's infrastructure specialist, Infracapital, in a deal valuing the business at more than £200m.

In 2014, plans came to light for the relocation of Red Funnel's Southampton terminal, as part of the redevelopment of the derelict Royal Pier. The plans would include relocating the vehicle and foot passenger terminals to a new site at Trafalgar Dry Dock, also known as Pier 50. Plans were approved in 2016, and Red Funnel was supposed to relocate at the end of 2017. However, Southampton City Council terminated the deal to relocate the Royal Pier in August 2019, with the impact on the project to relocate the Red Funnel terminals unclear.

In 2017 the company was sold to a consortium, including West Midlands Pension Fund and the Workplace Safety & Insurance Board. In the same year, construction work began on renovating and enlarging the terminal at East Cowes, the first phase of which was completed in August 2018.

In July 2022, Unite members at Red Funnel went on strike over pay, causing the company to have to run a reduced timetable. According to Red Funnel, this was the first strike at the firm since 1966. The strikes were suspended in August 2022 after the company proposed a new pay agreement.

On 7 September 2023, Red Funnel announced the acquisition of Blue Funnel Ferries which operates the Hythe Ferry service. Blue Funnel Ferries will be renamed the Hythe and Southampton Ferry Company Limited.

The House Flag
Red Funnel's house flag was adopted in 1861. The design was inspired by the names of the company's early paddle-steamers, Sapphire, Emerald, Ruby and Pearl. A simple rhyme was the guide to flying it correctly: ""Blue to mast, green to fly, Red on deck, white to sky.""

Red Funnel Vehicle Ferry
Between Southampton and East Cowes, Red Funnel runs four vehicle ferries. The crossing takes roughly an hour. The crossings are, for the most part, run on an hourly basis.

Red Jet Hi-Speed
Between Southampton and Cowes, Red Funnel run two High Speed ferries, roughly taking 28 minutes to cross the Solent. The peak frequency is roughly every 35 minutes.

Hythe Ferry
Between Southampton and Hythe, Red Funnel runs an hourly service, which is run by one passenger ferry, which is not yet in a Red Funnel livery. This service connects to the Hythe Pier.

Fleet History
The first three vessels were built by Ferguson Shipbuilders of Port Glasgow, and entered service between 1994 and 1996. Between 2003 and 2005 the ferries were refitted and extended both in length and height by Remontowa S.A. in Gdańsk, Poland. This was following a corporate decision driven by Tom Docherty to maximise summer operating capacity taking the previous capacity from around 100 CEUs to 213 CEU.

During 2014 Red Falcon underwent a £2.2 million refurbishment, which saw the interior and facilities replaced with a bright and new modern look. Due to success and increase of passengers on their services during 2014, it was confirmed that Red Osprey would also receive a £2.2 million refurbishment. Like her sister ship, the Red Osprey was refitted and relaunched almost exactly a year later. After a delay of three years, the Red Eagle was refitted at the end of 2017.

In 2016, Red Funnel took delivery of a new 40-metre high-speed catamaran constructed in East Cowes by Shemara Refit LLP. Named by the Princess Royal on 4 July 2016, Red Jet 6 entered service later in the summer. Red Jet 7 was built by Wight Shipyard in East Cowes. Red Jet 7 was lowered into the River Medina at East Cowes on 6 June 2018, and was christened during a launching ceremony on 24 July 2018.

In February 2018, Red Funnel announced plans to introduce a new freight only ferry into the fleet, to coincide with the refurbishment of their facilities on both sides of the Solent. It was built at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, and was designed to have similar dimensions to Red Funnel's Raptor-class fleet, allowing it to load and unload at the same linkspan used by the other ferries. Construction of the new ferry began on 31 May 2018 with a formal keel laying ceremony. During this event, the ship's name was announced to be Red Kestrel, placing its name in line with those of the rest of Red Funnel's RO-RO ferry fleet. She entered service in May 2019.

Future fleet
In July 2024, it was announced that Red Funnel would order a new, all electric, Artemis eFoiler hydrofoil boat, to run on the Red Jet route of Southampton to Cowes. The vessel would carry 150 passengers and be capable of charging in less than 60 minutes. It is scheduled to enter service by late 2025.

Incidents

 * On 9 March 1997 Red Falcon, inbound from Cowes, collided in Southampton Water with the outbound trailing suction hopper dredger Volvox Hansa in fog. Both ships' masters were held to blame.

 * On 10 March 2006 the car ferry Red Falcon, collided with the linkspan at the Southampton Town Quay terminal. Eight passengers and one crew member were injured and significant damage was caused to the Southampton end of the Red Falcon and to the linkspan. The collision caused a 5 m hole above the waterline and buckling of the car deck doors.

 * Red Eagle collided with Humber Energy in the Thorne Channel, near Southampton Water, on the evening of 21 December 2006. Coastguards said nobody was injured and neither vessel was badly damaged. Richard Pellew, of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, said: "Having examined the minor damage sustained to the Red Eagle we are advising Red Funnel on the repair work the ferry needs before it can resume normal service."

 * On 5 November 2016 a man on a personal water craft collided with Red Jet 4. No one was injured and no damage was caused.
 * Red Eagle was involved in a collision in thick fog on 27 September 2018. It was reported that the ferry had ploughed through the moorings of three yachts and a channel marker was struck. The following month, the Red Falcon also hit several yachts at East Cowes in thick fog, sinking one of them. The vessel grounded in the incident with forty passengers aboard and was not refloated until three hours later. The sunken yacht, Greylag, was recovered the following day.

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Charles Davenant

Charles Davenant (1656 – 1714) was an English economist, Tory politician and pamphleteer who sat in the Parliament of England representing the parliamentary constituencies of St Ives and Great Bedwyn.

Life
He was born in London as the eldest son of Sir William Davenant, the poet. He was educated at Cheam grammar school and Balliol College, Oxford, but left the university without taking a degree. He became manager of his father's theatre. Having taken the degree of LL.D., he became a member of Doctors' Commons.

In 1678 Davenant was appointed Commissioner of the Excise, earning £500 per year ; taxes were collected using the "farming system". In 1683 when Britain ended the tax farming system, Davenant received £1000 per year as Commissioner. In 1685 he was elected to Parliament as M.P. for St Ives. However, the revolution of 1688 saw James II exiled to France and William of Orange installed as king by Parliament. In 1689 Davenant lost his position as Commissioner of the Excise, and his loan to James II was nullified.

In 1692 he applied for Controller of the Excise, with Godolphin's support, but did not get the position. He applied again in 1694 and again failed to get the position, probably due to objections by Charles Montagu, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. In 1696 his friends in government, Shrewsbury and Godolphin, were under political attack. Godolphin resigned shortly afterward, and Davenant lost his main supporter for appointment to a public office.

In 1698 Davenant returned to Parliament as a representative of Great Bedwyn; he became associated with the Tory party, which replaced the Whig Junto as the majority in Parliament. Davenant was linked to French agents in March 1701, and it was suspected, but not proved, that the French government tried to bribe him to promote their interests and to provide intelligence if England declared war on France. There is evidence that a French agent recommended bribing Davenant, but there is no evidence that "a bribe was ever actually offered or accepted." The link with the French tarnished Davenant's public and political reputation.

In 1702 Queen Anne assumed the throne. The Junto Pembroke Ministry was removed from power, and Davenant's friends—Godolphin, Nottingham, and Harley—were placed in positions of power in the Coalition Ministry. In September 1702 Davenant was appointed to the Secretaryship of a commission to negotiate for the union of Scotland and England. In June 1703 he was appointed Inspector General of the Imports and Exports.

Davenant visited Holland in Autumn 1705, to research wartime traffic with France.

In 1710 Godolphin lost his office, which removed one of Davenant's supporters from power and threatened his position as Inspector General of the Imports and Exports. Davenant wrote Sir Thomas Double at Court and New Dialogues upon the Present Posture of Affairs to make amends with the Tory party, which was likely to be returning to power. Sir Thomas Double at Court reversed Davenant's argument for moderation in his 1703 Essays upon Peace at Home and War Abroad; and New Dialogues upon the Present Posture of Affairs repeated the attacks on the methods of financing public spending that he had been stating since 1689. He also reversed his stance from Memorial Concerning the Free Trade now Tolerated between France and Holland and argued that the Dutch were benefitting from trade with France while "Britain bore the burden of the war."

Davenant died in 1714 in London.

Works
At the age of nineteen he composed a tragedy, Circe. As an economist, Davenant was a strong supporter of the mercantile theory, and in his economic pamphlets (as distinct from his political writings) he takes up an eclectic position, recommending governmental restrictions on colonial commerce, but freedom of exchange at home.

Of his writings, a complete edition of which was published in London in 1771, the following are the more important:
 * An Essay on the East India Trade (1697)
 * Two Discourses on the Public Revenues and Trade of England (1698)
 * An Essay on the probable means of making the people gainers in the balance of Trade (1699)
 * A Discourse on Grants and Resumptions and Essays on the Balance of Power (1701)

In late 1694 he published An Essay on the Ways and Means of supplying the War, "a reasoned criticism of the methods used to finance the war with France which England had been waging since 1689. It attacked long-term borrowing as detrimental to trade, and land taxation as inequitable, because of its uneven incidence across the country."

In November 1695 he wrote and read Memorial Concerning the Coyn of England to the Privy Council. This work, commissioned by the Lords Justices, was an argument against the majority party's proposal that England's coins should be devalued to pay for the war with France.

In 1696 he published A Memorial Concerning a Council of Trade, which promoted his idea that trade should be protected, and A Memorial Concerning Credit and the Means and Methods whereby it may be Restored, generally viewed as an attempt to curry favour with the party in power to gain a post in the Excise department. In October 1696 he published Essay on Publick Virtue, a diatribe against the ruling Whig Junto. In 1696, also, he published Essay on the East India Trade in which he "opposed the protection of English Textiles against Indian competition on the grounds that commerce with East India improved Britain's balance of trade, and he refuted the arguments of the protectionists with further applications of the balance of trade concept."

In 1697 he published Discourses on the Publick Revenues and on the Trade of England, part 1, which contained strong objections to long-term borrowing as a way to fund government expenditures and advocated paying back the debt incurred during the war as soon as possible. The basis for Davenant's argument was that "high taxation for debt service was a burden on trade, industry, and land." Davenant still believed that land tax was unfair because it placed the heaviest burden of generating public income on the landed gentry, and that the long-term result would be that the gentry would be forced to sell their land to "monied men and usurers" to pay the taxes.

In 1698 he published Discourses on the Publick Revenues and on the Trade of England part 2, which described "in a more sustained and complete form the idea of the 'general' balance of trade." There is a likely possibility that this pamphlet was also intended to keep his name before the officials of the East India Company as someone who was sympathetic to their business because he was trying to get them to hire him as an agent.

In early 1699 he published An Essay on the probable Methods of making a People Gainers in the Balance of Trade. It quoted Gregory King's calculation of the value and size of the "natural resources of England." The last section contained an attack on the actions and policies of the Junto party and was more of a political rant than an exposition of economic ideas. At the end of 1699 he published A Discourse of Grants and Resumptions, which discussed the practice of the king and queen of England granting "forfeited Irish Estates" to friends and political allies of the Junto party. Davenant's writings begin to shift away from purely economic discussions to political commentary designed to curry favour with the ruling party to secure employment. In 1701 he published Essays upon I The Balance of Power II The Right of Making War, Peace, and Alliances III Universal Monarchy, "a highly partisan attack on William III's foreign policy."

In August 1701 Davenant published The True Picture of a Modern Whig, an attempt to counter the Whig party's push to dissolve the Tory party Parliament by "defending Tory views and exposing Whig motives." His Tom Double Returned out of the Country, also published 1701, explained all of Davenant's ideas on trade and public finance and the underlying reasoning behind them. His main concern was that the Whig party would restart the war with France and put the country further into debt, which would in turn require greater taxation of land owners. The land owners would be bankrupted, and the people who had made money off the war would be able to buy the land and usurp the political power of the gentry.

His Essays upon Peace at Home and War Abroad, published November 1703, "promoted 'moderation' and the anti-party attitude favoured by the Queen and Harley." This pamphlet angered his friends in the Tory party because it was in opposition to the policies the party was pushing at the time. Before 1702, he was the leading promoter of party ideas. With this essay, he was falling out of favour and gaining a reputation for promoting whatever idea benefits him the most personally.

In 1704 Davenant proposed compiling trade numbers for the previous 25 years. The cost of clerks to do the actual tabulation was the primary reason for denial of his request. He wrote, but did not publish, Memorial Concerning the Free Trade now Tolerated between France and Holland. The goal was to find support for the current policy of permitting trade between France and Holland. Davenant displayed a favourable opinion of the Dutch in this pamphlet, which contrasts with the position taken in nearly all his other pamphlets.

In 1709 Davenant published Reflections upon the Constitution and Management of Trade to Africa, in which he "reverted to his normal attitude of suspicion and outright hostility towards the Dutch." This pamphlet advocated renewing the Royal African Company's monopoly on English trade with Africa on the basis that the Dutch competition "necessitated the maintenance of forts, which only a joint-stock company could afford." Waddell states that there had been close collaboration between the company and Davenant and that he may have been compensated for writing it. He did go to great lengths to publish the pamphlet anonymously, and was apparently in a difficult financial position; Waddell therefore suggests that this was a work-for-hire and not necessarily something which Davenant actually supported.

In 1712 Davenant published two Reports to the … Commissioners for … Public Accounts. Although these reports contained a large amount of statistical data, they continued the theme from "New Dialogues upon the Present Posture of Affairs" that Holland benefitted from trade with France while Britain took on heavy debt during the war with France and that trade with France "was or could be advantageous to England." This coincided with Jonathan Swift's Conduct of the Allies and provided the economic basis for peace and a commercial treaty with France.

There is some question whether the Law of Demand was developed by Gregory King and then used in some of Charles Davenant's writings or whether King and Davenant jointly developed the idea based on King's statistical work and published their theory in Davenant's pamphlets. King does not describe a formal definition of the law in his journal, which is the primary source of his writings, and Davenant does not seem to be an innovative thinker and often wrote pamphlets to promote ideas or policies that would be beneficial to his personal economic or political status; therefore, it seems likely Davenant extended King's work to prove his claims that borrowing to fund the war was bad for England's economy and that excise taxes were the appropriate way to fund the government.

Davenant is also credited with being the first to discuss the concept of Balance of Trade as being an important part of the financial health of a country. The foundation of the idea is that importing more goods than were exported would create an outflow of currency. He proposed in An Essay on Ways and Means of Supplying the War in 1695 that "export surplus was the best way to finance the war" as opposed to taking on long-term debt and increasing taxes on landowners.

In 1696, Davenant wrote Essay on the East-India Trade, which continued the argument that imports should not be restricted because England was a net exporter of the goods imported from India. The restriction of imports would prevent re-exporting the goods to the rest of Europe, and that would decrease the total income of the government. He also expressed a great dislike and distrust of the Dutch government for most of his life, and feared that if Britain did not supply Indian imports the Dutch would supply Europe instead. He did seem to be the first to understand the basic concepts of consumer demand and perfect competition, even though bias against the Dutch stems more from fear of a political challenger to England than fear of losing the competitive advantage of England's monopoly in India.

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A 31-year-old lab technician; article doesn't establish notability. — Bill 13:35, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not a biographical dictionary. —No-One Jones (m) 14:04, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * P.S. I've worked up a boilerplate message to send to users who appear to be creating autobiographical articles. I encourage everyone to use it in cases like this. —No-One Jones (m) 14:23, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Is there a Wiki-ography? We could move all the questionable bio's that show up on VfD there if there was... (Like Bush and Kerry family members, or insignificant minor royalty who die before they are born)132.205.15.4 19:33, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. A nobody. --Farside 14:06, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: Vanity, and we didn't need to know her boyfriend's name or the pet name he uses for her. Geogre 14:23, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I've speed deleted it. The sole author (User:65.93.206.37) blanked it after this vfd listing; this is an unambiguous expression of the desire to have it removed. Wile E. Heresiarch 23:12, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Undelete. anthony 警告 13:43, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete - unverifiable, blanked by author. -- Cyrius|✎ 23:59, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I just listed this on VfD, and this disscussion showed up. Apparently, someone recreated the page. I'll remove this listing from VfD and add a speedy notice. -- Scott Burley 08:44, Nov 6, 2004 (UTC)


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Cello concerto

A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.

These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike instruments such as the violin, the cello had to face harsh competition from the older, well-established viola da gamba. As a result, few important cello concertos were written before the 19th century – with the notable exceptions of those by Vivaldi, C.P.E. Bach, Haydn and Boccherini. Its full recognition as a solo instrument came during the Romantic era with the concertos of Schumann, Saint-Saëns, Lalo and Dvořák. From then on, cello concertos have become more and more frequent. Twentieth-century composers have made the cello a standard concerto instrument, along with the already-rooted piano and violin concertos; among the most notable concertos of the first half of the century are those of Elgar, Prokofiev, Barber and Hindemith. Many post-World War II composers (Shostakovich, Walton, Ligeti, Britten, Dutilleux, Lutoslawski and Penderecki among others) have written at least one.

One special consideration composers must take with the cello (as well as all instruments with a low range) is with the issue of projection. Unlike instruments like the violin, whose high range projects fairly easily above the orchestra, the cello's lower notes can be easily lost when the cello is not playing a solo or near solo. Because of this, composers have had to deliberately pare down the orchestral component of cello concertos while the cello is playing in the lower registers.

Selected list of cello concertos
Cello concertos near the center of the "repertoire". The original list of cello concertos has been moved to List of compositions for cello and orchestra.

 * Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
 * Cello Concerto in A minor (Wq 170)
 * Cello Concerto in B-flat major (Wq 171)
 * Cello Concerto in A major (Wq 172)
 * Samuel Barber
 * Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 22 (1945)
 * Luigi Boccherini
 * Cello Concertos 1-12 including:
 * Cello Concerto in D major, G. 479
 * Cello Concerto in B-Flat major, G. 482
 * Fritz Brun
 * Cello Concerto in D minor (1947)
 * Elliott Carter
 * Cello Concerto
 * Frederick Delius
 * Cello Concerto (1921)
 * Antonín Dvořák
 * Cello Concerto No. 1 in A major, Op. posth
 * Cello Concerto No. 2 in B minor, Opus. 104 (1894–1895)
 * Edward Elgar
 * Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 (1918–1919)
 * Gerald Finzi
 * Cello Concerto, Op. 40 (1955)
 * Philip Glass
 * Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 1 (2001)
 * Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 2 Naqoyqatsi (2002/2012)
 * Joseph Haydn
 * Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major
 * Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major
 * Cello Concerto No. 3 in C major (lost)
 * Cello Concerto No. 4 in D major (spurious, written by Giovanni Battista Costanzi)
 * Cello Concerto No. 5 in C major (spurious, written by David Popper)
 * Cello Concerto in G minor (doubtful, lost)
 * Paul Hindemith
 * Cello Concerto in E-flat major, Op. 3 (1916)
 * Kammermusik No. 3 for cello and 10 instruments, Op. 36/2 (1925)
 * Cello Concerto in G (1940)
 * Arthur Honegger
 * Cello Concerto (1934)
 * Dmitri Kabalevsky
 * Cello Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 49 (1949)
 * Cello Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 77 (1964)
 * Aram Khachaturian
 * Cello Concerto in E minor (1946)
 * Concerto-Rhapsody in D minor (1963)
 * Erich Wolfgang Korngold
 * Cello Concerto in C major, Op. 37 (1950)
 * Milan Kymlicka
 * Cello Concerto
 * Édouard Lalo
 * Cello Concerto in D minor (1876)
 * György Ligeti
 * Cello Concerto (1966)
 * Witold Lutosławski
 * Cello Concerto (1969–70)
 * Bohuslav Martinu (1890 - 1959)
 * Cello Concerto No. 1 (1924)
 * Cello Concerto No. 2 (1945)

 * Peter Mennin
 * Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1956)
 * Georg Matthias Monn (1717 - 1750)
 * Cello Concerto in G minor
 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * Cello Concerto, K. 206a (1775, lost)
 * Nikolai Myaskovsky
 * Cello Concerto in C minor, Op. 66 (1944)
 * Arvo Pärt
 * Pro et Contra, concerto for cello and orchestra (1966)
 * Krzysztof Penderecki
 * Cello Concerto No. 1 (1972)
 * Cello Concerto No. 2 (1982)
 * David Popper
 * Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 8 (1865)
 * Concerto No. 2 in E minor, Op. 24 (1862)
 * Concerto No. 3 in G major, Op. 59 (1888)
 * Concerto No. 4 in B minor, Op. 72 (1900)
 * Concerto in C major, WoO (1894, mis-attributed to Joseph Haydn)
 * Sergei Prokofiev
 * Cello Concerto, Op. 58
 * Symphony-Concerto, Op. 125 (revision of Op. 58)
 * Cello Concertino in G minor, Op. 132 (incomplete) (1952)
 * Behzad Ranjbaran
 * Cello Concerto (1998)
 * Einojuhani Rautavaara
 * Cello Concerto No. 1 (1968)
 * Cello Concerto No. 2 Towards the Horizon (2010)
 * Camille Saint-Saëns
 * Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33 (1872)
 * Cello Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 119 (1902)
 * Robert Schumann
 * Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129 (1850)
 * Alfred Schnittke
 * Cello Concerto No. 1 (1985/1986)
 * Cello Concerto No. 2 (1990)
 * Dmitri Shostakovich
 * Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107 (1959)
 * Cello Concerto No. 2 in G major/minor, Op. 126 (1966)
 * Carl Stamitz (1745-1801)
 * Cello Concertos 1-3
 * Arthur Sullivan
 * Cello Concerto (1866)
 * Giuseppe Tartini
 * Cello Concerto in A major
 * Cello Concerto in D major
 * Henri Vieuxtemps
 * Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 46 (1877)
 * Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 50 (1879)
 * Heitor Villa-Lobos
 * Cello Concerto No. 1 (1915)
 * Cello Concerto No. 2 (1953)
 * Antonio Vivaldi
 * At least 25 Cello Concertos (RV 398-399 / 400-408 / 410-424)
 * William Walton
 * Cello Concerto (1956)
 * Mieczysław Weinberg
 * Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1948)
 * John Williams
 * Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1994)
 * Heartwood: Lyric Sketches for Cello and Orchestra (2002)
 * Isang Yun
 * Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1975/76)
 * Maury Yeston
 * Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1966/67)

Selected list of other concertante works

 * Ludwig van Beethoven
 * Triple Concerto for Piano, Violin and Cello in C major Op. 56 (1803)
 * Howard Blake
 * Diversions for cello and orchestra (1985)
 * Ernest Bloch
 * Schelomo, Rhapsodie Hebraïque for violoncelle et grand orchestre (1916)
 * Johannes Brahms
 * Double Concerto in A minor for Violin and Cello, Op. 102 (1887)
 * Frank Bridge
 * Oration
 * Benjamin Britten
 * Cello Symphony Op. 68 (1963)
 * Max Bruch
 * Kol Nidrei Op. 47 (1880)
 * Henri Dutilleux
 * Tout un monde lointain... (1970)
 * Antonín Dvořák
 * Rondo in G minor, Op. 94, 1893
 * Silent Woods, Op. 68, B. 182 (transcribed from Op. 68, no. 5 for piano four hands)
 * Gabriel Fauré
 * Elégie for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 24

 * Sofia Gubaidulina
 * The Canticle of the Sun (1996)
 * Joseph Haydn
 * Sinfonia Concertante for Oboe, Bassoon, Violin & Cello, Hob. I/105 (1792)
 * Olivier Messiaen
 * Concert à quatre for Piano, Cello, Flute and Oboe (1990–1992)
 * Michael Nyman
 * Double Concerto for Saxophone, Cello and Orchestra (1997)
 * Richard Strauss
 * Don Quixote, Op. 35 (1897)
 * Toru Takemitsu
 * Scene: for cello and string orchestra (1958)
 * Quatrain for clarinet, violin, cello, piano and orchestra (1975)
 * Orion and Pleiades for Cello and Orchestra (1984)
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
 * Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33 (1876-1877)
 * Antonio Vivaldi
 * Double Concerto for Violoncello, Bassoon and Strings in E minor, RV 409
 * Double Concerto for 2 Violoncellos in G minor, RV 531
 * John Williams
 * Highwood's Ghost for Cello, Harp, and Orchestra (2018)

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merge from What Wikipedia is not?
I propose copying to this page the much longer, better-developed list of things falling under the "Wikipedia is not a soapbox" sub-heading on What Wikipedia is not. This page needs fleshing out. Comments? -- Rbellin|Talk 04:22, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * I went ahead and copied the list over. Please comment or revert if necessary. -- Rbellin|Talk 22:16, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Requests for arbitration/RFC
An important policy discussion has started concerning ways in which our content-related polices, such as NPOV, No original research and Verifiability could be better enforced. I've made a proposal to give the Arbitration Committee the ability to consult Wikipedia users who are knowledgeable in  subject-areas that apply to cases before them. Such consultation is needed due to the fact that the ArbCom does not by itself have the requisite knowledge to easily tell what is NPOV, original research, or a fringe idea in every field. Please read my proposal at Requests for arbitration/RFC and comment. Thank you! --mav 02:48, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)


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User:Tookr/Sandbox

Well, this is my sandbox. Nothing really interesting here - just some things I want to try out before they go "live" on the wiki.

 * /Brisbane railway station test page

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Erin Cahill

Erin Jessica Cahill (born January 4, 1980) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Jen Scotts in Power Rangers Time Force, Ted Mosby's sister Heather in How I Met Your Mother, and Kendra Burke in Saving Grace. She had a recurring role as Felicity in the ABC series Red Widow. She is also noted to be the first lead female character for the Call of Duty franchise, as Chloe 'Karma' Lynch in Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Rebecca Chambers in Resident Evil: Vendetta. Since 2016, Cahill has worked primarily in television movies for Lifetime and Hallmark.

Early life
Cahill was born in Stafford, Virginia. She began acting in her mother's local high school productions at age four, and started singing and dancing lessons at age eight. She was Miss Pre-Teen Virginia in 1991 and the first runner-up for Miss Junior America. She continued to act into her high school years at Brooke Point High School, where she served as the president of many clubs, including the Honor Thespians group. As a junior, Cahill was the only one of her year to garner perfect scores in all phases of her audition to the Governor's School for the Arts in drama. At age 16, she also won Overall Actor in the Actors, Models, Talent for Christ competition. She was further selected into the Barton and Williams Dance Company, winning both company and individual awards. Following high school graduation in 1998, she attended Marymount Manhattan College in New York on an academic and performing arts scholarship. She left college at age 19 to pursue a full-time acting career in Los Angeles.

Career
Cahill was cast as Jen Scotts, the Pink Time Force Ranger, in Power Rangers Time Force. She started her guest starring roles in 2003 with Crossing Jordan and General Hospital. In 2006, she starred in the short-lived Fox series Free Ride. Her first big guest star came the following year in 2007 as a 20th-century suffragette in the Cold Case episode "Torn". Since then, she has worked in numerous films and television shows such as Supernatural, CSI: Miami, The Mentalist, Castle, Ghost Whisperer, Grey's Anatomy, and House. She has appeared in commercials for Bank of America, TJ Maxx, Hyundai, Applebee's, Redfin, Tampax, Lean Cuisine, Honda, and Land Rover Discovery Sport.

In 2013, Cahill's projects included the short film The Ventriloquist, voice and motion-capture credits as Chloe "Karma" Lynch in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, and a guest role as Lena Gilbert in FOX's Sleepy Hollow.

The following year, Cahill guest-starred on NCIS: Los Angeles and made a brief appearance on Garfunkel and Oates.

Cahill's international commercial for Land Rover Discovery Sport ran in 2015. She has also appeared in commercials for Redfin.

Charity work
Cahill co-founded Charitable Living, which services the local community with fundraisers and days of volunteering. In May 2015, Cahill joined non-profit group BuildOn and traveled to Malawi to promote education and build schools.

Personal life
In September 2016, Cahill married Welsh musician Paul Freeman in a ceremony on the Cote d'Azur, France.

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Talk:Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe

List of Marvel Comics characters
Is it wise to duplicate what is effectively the List of Marvel Comics characters at the end of this article? It basically guarantees that the list will quickly become out of date and inconsistent. I'd prefer just a link to the other page; but I don't want to simply blow away someone else's hard work. -- Metahacker 13:38, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I agree that the list is essentially useless, and unless anyone objects I'll copy any non-duplicated entries to the other list and then remove it from this article. -Sean Curtin 05:46, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)

Appendix?
We should really mention the oft-mentioned-but-never-published Appendix. DS 23:12, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Issue Order
Just one small correction... the X-Men 2004 issue was the first of the current crop of Handbooks to be released. Spider-Man 2004 was the second. Comixfan 08:55, 21 April 2005

Contents
I would like to split up the contents from

1 Origins 2 Bibliography of Official Handbook series 2.1 Official Marvel Handbooks of the Marvel Universe Series: 2.2 Official Marvel Handbooks of the Marvel Universe One-Shots: 2.3 Official Marvel Indexes: 2.4 Other informative Marvel titles: 3 See also 4 External links

to

1 Origins 2 Bibliography of Official Handbook series 2.1 Official Marvel Handbooks of the Marvel Universe Vol. I: 2.2 Official Marvel Handbooks of the Marvel Universe Vol. II (Deluxe Edition) 2.2.1 Original Series: 2.2.2 Trade Paperbacks: 2.2.3 Update '89: 2.3 Official Marvel Handbooks of the Marvel Universe Vol. III (Master Edtion): 2.4 Official Marvel Handbooks of the Marvel Universe (Vol. IV) 2.4.1 2004 One-Shots: 2.4.2 2005 One-Shots: 2.4.3 2006 Series: 2.5 Gamer's Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Marvel Super Heroes RPG) 3 Official Marvel Indexes 4 Other informative Marvel titles 5 See also 6 External links

Weapon X (de) 22:41, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Format for dead (red) named links
Hi Grey Shadow,

thanks for your help on the handbook article! I have a question to you regarding the dead (red) wiki-links:

I began linking all characters mentioned in the bibligraphy section to their own article. Though not all characters have an article yet, it seemes fitting to me, to link them all. But how linking to an article that still doesn't exist?

1. So I began to link the names only by adding brackets (""...""), then looking if they all fit. If they were ambigeous then I added " (comics)|" or even " (Marvel comics)|". So also every dead link only has " (comics)" at the end if it will be definitely ambigous if someone creates that article (or the article without any extention, mostly a disambigeous page, already exists). Otherwise there will be only the brackets.

2. The dead links you added are always with extention (" (comics)|..." or " (Marvel comics)|..."). I "fixed" some of them earlier, because I think all dead links should be at the same format. Now you added so much more (thanks!), so I want to reach a "convention" for the site on how the format should be, before I'll edit the article again.

So there are two methodes (1. and 2., see above) on how to handle the format of dead links. Pro for the first: It's cleaner!

Pro for the second: It's more likely that a new article about e.g. "Zaran" will be named only "Zaran" and therefore the link of the first methode won't fit. (Of course there could also be new articles WITH extentions (although not nesseccary), but that's more unlikely).

Now what do you think?

Greetings

Weapon X (de) 11:23, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi Weapon X (de),

 * I'm happy to go with option one.

 * I think that I added the (comics) to some of the named links as I was just continuing on from the previous entry and was distracted by something here while I was editing.

 * I'll see if I can find some information to allow me to write something for some of the redlinks after more sections are done.

 * Does that make sense to you? Grey Shadow 12:17, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

 * That's fine with me! Thanks! Weapon X (de) 13:16, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Older ones viables for Wikipedia?
With all these new OHotMU guides that have been coming out, is there any chance of Marvel releasing/relaxing the rights to the 20+ year old handbooks (and thus allow them to be used for places like Wikipedia)? MarvelDirectory.com has been copying from them for years, and to my knowledge has never received any sort of cease-and-desist order -- is that precedent enough for Wikipedia to use them? Dr Archeville 19:58, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Sorry to dissapoint you, Dr Archeville, but I don't think that Marvel will release rights of anything! As for MarvelDirectory.com beeing a precedent, I don't think either. Wikipedia has strong rules about showing copyrighted material and even where (under circumstances) it may be allowed to show copyrighted material, Wikipedia wishes for non-copyrightet material, if available. In regard to the Official Handbooks, it was decided that these books or even pages of the books aren't allowed to be published on Wikipedia, the only exceptions I know, beeing pictures (section of page) to identify characters etc. or covers of handbooks to identify a particular issue.
 * Weapon X (de) 20:34, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Pictures would also be dissallowed for identifying characters. I think there's a little wiggle room with the covers, since they're not in an article that contains the part and parcel content of the handbook, but one to explain what the handbook is. That said, I think keeping one image per 'volume' should be okay. We may need a ruling :P -- Ipstenu ( talk | contribs ) 15:58, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Comics B-Class Assesment required / C-Class rated for Comics Project
This article needs the B-Class checklist filled in to remain a B-Class article for the Comics WikiProject. If the checklist is not filled in by 7th August this article will be re-assessed as C-Class. The checklist should be filled out referencing the guidance given at Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment/B-Class criteria. For further details please contact the Comics WikiProject. Comics-awb (talk) 17:12, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * As this B-Class article has yet to receive a review, it has been rated as C-Class. If you disagree and would like to request an assesment, please visit WikiProject_Comics/Assessment and list the article. Hiding T 16:38, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Consolidation of tables for the 4th volume of handbooks
Because of the long (and still ongoing) run of the current volume of handbooks (9 years now), the overview of this volume is getting more and more confusing and unclear. I want to make three major tables out of the many little tables: It maybe seemes like a break to the coherence of the tables for the first 3 volumes, but that's not really the case, in my eyes. We put all the one-shots of one year in one table (although they aren't recognizable as a series by means of numbers), so why dont we've put all the normal comic book sized handbook of volume 4 in one big table, regardless the year? An extra year-column at start would do the trick! (If it doesnt, we could use different background colours for the different series like in List of Marvel RPG supplements.) With these three tables we would have a clear overview of the handbooks of the 4th volume again! And the biggest table would be only around 2/3 of the table for the 3rd volume...
 * one for the normal comic book sized ones (maybe splittet in two tables for one-shots and ongoing series)
 * one for trade paperbacks
 * one for hardcovers

Any objections? -- Weapon X (de) (talk) 01:22, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

 * I now consolidated the 4th volume handbooks into two tables and want to do the same with the 2nd volume handbooks...
 * But one thing I havn't found out yet: How can I vertically align the series-row entries? (valign="center" doesn't work) -- Weapon X (de) (talk) 04:06, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

 * I consolidated also the tables for the 2nd volume and added a table for the 1st and 3rd volume reprints. -- Weapon X (de) (talk) 21:09, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

What's the wikipedia position on OHotMU?
I've had an edit reverted because an uncited statement about a character's powers was contradicted by OHotMU's cold hard facts. Quicksilver if anyone can be bothered to go fight on this one. I would happily agree that the handbook doesn't always seem to tie in with the impression from reading the comics, but should we disregard it entirely? OHotMU says that he can run at 175mph, though other sources say... seems a perfectly reasonable way of presenting things. AITA?Nickpheas (talk) 11:00, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I have seen it said that we do not generally quote statistics from the OHOTMU but I can't remember who said it... maybe User:Argento Surfer or User:Tenebrae? 2601:249:8A00:2500:BD0E:51B8:2D5B:EB (talk) 11:58, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Per WP:OHOTMU (from the Manual of Style for comics), "Consensus at the WikiProject is that the use of statistics sourced from in universe material and reference works, such as the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, Who's Who in the DC Universe or roleplaying game resources is discouraged. These statistics constitute fictional facts." Argento Surfer (talk) 13:26, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. Seems a bit of an extremist position TBH, but that's where we are. Yes, these are fictional facts, but the only alternatives are facts within the fiction - If a bystander sees a blur going my and says "OMG, he must have been going at a thousand miles an hour" then that would be every bit as fictional.Nickpheas (talk) 13:37, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
 * The idea is that Quicksilver's top speed isn't defined by any official book. It's defined by what the current writer needs it to be. Argento Surfer (talk) 14:47, 25 February 2020 (UTC)


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Category:Electric guitars

Electric guitars are a type of guitar which use an instrument amplifier.

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South Windsor

South Windsor may refer to:

 * South Windsor, Connecticut, a town in Connecticut, USA
 * South Windsor, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia
 * South Windsor, Maine, in Kennebec County, USA

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Agios Georgios, Pyrgos

Agios Georgios (Άγιος Γεώργιος, named for Saint George) is a community in the municipality of Pyrgos, Elis, Greece. It is situated at the foot of low hills, 3 km north of the centre of Pyrgos, 2 km northeast of Lasteika and 2 km southeast of Prasino, in the municipal unit Iardanos. Settlement in the village started between 1900 and 1920. It has a soccer (football) club named Nikiforos.

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South Woodbury

South Woodbury may refer to:

 * South Woodbury, Ohio
 * South Woodbury Township, Pennsylvania

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USS Elliot (DD-146)

USS Elliot (DD-146) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II, first reclassified as DMS-4, and later reclassified as AG-104.

Namesake
Richard McCall Elliot Jr. was born on 12 April 1888 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy on 10 July 1909. Lieutenant commander Elliot was killed aboard USS Manley (DD-74) on 19 March 1918 when her depth charges exploded in collision with a British ship in the convoy Manley was escorting.

Construction and commissioning
Elliot was launched on 4 July 1918 by William Cramp & Sons at Philadelphia, sponsored by Mrs. R. M. Elliot, widow of Lieutenant Commander Elliot. The destroyer was commissioned on 25 January 1919.

Service history
After training in the Caribbean Sea, Elliot sailed from New York on 28 April 1919 to the Azores; Gibraltar; Malta; and Split, returning to Philadelphia on 4 June. Reassigned to the Pacific Fleet, she joined Destroyer Division 13 in New York Harbor in welcoming USS George Washington (1908) carrying President Woodrow Wilson back from the peace conference at Paris, then departed for the west coast, arriving at San Diego on 7 August where she was reviewed by Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels.

Elliot maneuvered offshore with the fleet until 25 March 1920 when she departed for the Far East. In June, she took Admiral Albert Cleaves, Commander-in-Chief, Asiatic Fleet, aboard and sailed up the Yangtze to investigate the murder of an American missionary, William A. Reimert. She stood by in China during civil disturbances which threatened American lives and property. In September, she visited Port Arthur and Dalian on intelligence duty, and then returned to her base at Cavite for overhaul. Elliot went home to San Francisco in late 1921. In October, she arrived at San Diego to lie in reserve until being decommissioned on 22 May 1922.

Recommissioned on 8 February 1930, Elliot ranged the west coast with Destroyer Division 11 as plane guard in battle practice and major fleet problems. In early 1934, she sailed for the east coast and a two-ocean fleet problem.

Elliot was assigned new duty in 1935 when she became high-speed towing vessel for fleet targets. From 1937, she was also continuously available for training and experimental services. In 1940, she accompanied the Eclipse Expedition to Muleje, Baja California, and then was assigned to Pearl Harbor. She was converted to a high-speed minesweeper, and reclassified DMS-4 on 19 November 1940.

World War II
In exercises with Mine Division 6, Elliot often got as far as Hawaii. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, she was returning to her base with TF 3 from Johnston Island, and at once began anti-submarine patrol duties there.

Elliot continued to patrol in Hawaii until 11 July 1942, when she sailed for the Aleutians. She joined TG 8.6 for bombardment of Kiska on 7 August, and then took up patrol and escort work. In May 1943, she swept mines before and during invasion of Attu.

Reporting to Operational Training Command at San Francisco in June, Elliot served at San Diego, towing targets and serving as a training ship until 13 August 1944. Sailing to Pearl Harbor, she had similar duty until 22 July 1945, and then she returned to San Pedro for inactivation. She had been reclassified AG-104 on 5 June 1945. Elliot was decommissioned on 12 October 1945, and sold for scrap on 29 January 1946.

Awards
Elliot received one battle star for World War II service.

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Montague, Texas

Montague is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Montague County, Texas, United States. It is the county seat of Montague County and had an estimated population of 400 in 2000, according to the Handbook of Texas. Its population was 304 as of the 2010 census.

Geography
Montague is located at 33.66472°N, -97.72056°W (33.6648266, -97.7205857), near the intersection of State Highways 59 and 175 in central Montague County.

The community is situated approximately 80 mi northwest of Fort Worth, 60 mi southeast of Wichita Falls, and 11 mi northeast of Bowie.

History
Montague was established in 1858 on 160 acre of land donated by the state of Texas. The community was named for Daniel Montague, an early surveyor. A post office opened in 1860.

By 1880, an estimated 400 residents lived in the community. They supported five businesses, three churches, a school, and the only flour and grist mills in the county. Montague was incorporated in 1886. That year W.A. Morris and C.C. White tried to raise funds to construct an independent rail line to connect Montague with Bowie, but they were unable to gain a sufficient amount. Bypassed by the railroad, the community suffered isolation and lack of growth. Residents of the town voted to dis-incorporate the community in 1900.

In 1915, an estimated 300 people lived in Montague. That figure reached a low of 284 in 1947. As highways were constructed following World War II, and more people and freight traveled by automobiles and trucks, a modest recovery began. The community began growing again by the 1970s. In 1990 and 2000, around 400 residents lived in the community.

2020 census
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 261 people, 90 households, and 60 families residing in the CDP.

Education
Public education in Montague is provided by the Montague Independent School District, which serves students in grades pre-kindergarten through eight. Ninth through twelfth graders attend high school in nearby Nocona or Bowie.

Climate
The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Montague has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.

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Great End

Great End is the most northerly mountain in the Scafell chain, in the English Lake District. From the south it is simply a lump continuing this chain. From the north, however, it appears as an immense mountain, with an imposing north face rising above Sprinkling Tarn (lake). This is a popular location for wild camping, and the north face attracts many climbers.

Alfred Wainwright wrote of Great End in his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells: "This is the true Lakeland of the fellwalker, the sort of terrain that calls him back time after time, the sort of memory that haunts his long winter exile. It is not the pretty places – the flowery lanes of Grasmere or Derwentwater's wooded bays – that keep him restless in his bed; it is the magnificent ones. Places like Great End..."

Topography
The imposing north-eastern cliffs, riven by gullies, rise some 600 ft from the Esk Hause path. Their orientation ensures that the sun rarely reaches them, the gullies often retaining snow well into the spring. From the left when viewed from below the principal fissures are South East Gully, Central Gully and Cust's Gully (see below). To the west of the cliffs a ridge descends more gradually in the general direction of Sty Head. This is known as The Band, and it too sports a harsh gash across its features. On the western side of The Band is the deep ravine of Skew Gill, a tributary of Wasdale-bound Lingmell Beck. At the base of The Band the ridge continues as the complex top of Seathwaite Fell, replete with numerous tarns. The largest is Sprinkling Tarn with its beautifully indented shoreline providing perfect foreground for views of the cliff.

Sty Head is one of the focal points of the District for walkers. The name strictly applies to the col between Great End and Great Gable at a height of 1560 ft, but is now more generally given to the path which crosses it. This connects two of the most popular starting points for walks in the high fells, Wasdale Head and Seathwaite. Sty Head is also a walker's crossroads with other paths leading direct up Great Gable and following the outflow of Sprinkling Tarn up to Esk Hause.

Westward from the summit Great End makes a rocky descent toward the arms of Lingmell Beck. This flank is crossed by the Corridor Route, the popular path to Scafell Pike from Sty Head. Above the path are the subsidiary top of Round How (a Nuttall) and the tiny, beautifully clear tarn of Lambfoot Dub.

The southward ridge to the Scafells crosses a shallow saddle and then climbs over Ill Crag and Broad Crag, a well-blazoned path leading across the stony terrain to the summit of Scafell Pike. To the east of the first depression is Calf Cove, its easy slopes leading down to Esk Hause.

The summit has two cairns of very similar height, that to the north-west being nearer to the cliff edge and having the better view. Northwards along Borrowdale the vista is unsurpassed, but the whole panorama is excellent. The heads of the gullies can also be approached for startling views down the face.

Geology
The summit is formed by the laminated volcaniclastic claystone and siltstone of the Esk Pike Formation overlying the dacitic welded lapilli-tuff of the Lincomb Tarns Formation. The latter is revealed in the great north front.

Ascents
Great End may be ascended from Sty Head Tarn via The Band (not to be confused with the more famous Band on Bowfell), from Wasdale Head along Lingmell Gill and Spouthead Gill, from Borrowdale via Grains Gill, from Great Langdale via Rossett Gill and Esk Hause, or from Eskdale. As an intermediate objective Great End may easily be climbed from the main path between Esk Hause and Scafell Pike, requiring only a detour of some 400 m.

Cust's Gully
Cust's Gully at the western end of Great End's cliffs is named after 19th-century pioneer climber and sketcher Arthur Cust, a classical scholar from Yorkshire also known for his watercolour sketches of the Matterhorn and Mont Blanc. Cust's Gully is a Grade 1 rock climb, but a difficult obstacle for walkers ascending from Sprinkling Tarn. Cust's first winter ascent of the gully was recorded in 1880, although he is thought to have ascended it earlier.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stass Allie

Stass Allie 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 no consensus, but strong support for merge, which I did. Cool Hand Luke  20:11, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Fancruft. — Bill 13:48, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: She did all this?  Was it perchance a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away?  I would say it's unverifiable, if I were in a joking mood.  Fancruft. Geogre 14:25, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge. She only deserves a small mention on an article about Adi Gallia which she has or I guess we could just merge her into the Minor characters in Star Wars article. NeoJustin 17:09 Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, although I suppose a merge would be okay. Even if this were a Star Wars wiki, this article would at best deserve to be merged and redirectedt to an article on Adi Gallia. [[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 18:08, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fancruft. --Improv 20:51, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge, redirect agree w/ NeoJustin — siro  χ  o  22:31, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: fancruft. Wile E. Heresiarch 23:13, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge & Redirect This one at least sounds more or less important. --Asmodai 00:00, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)
 * Ack. Extended universe stuff.  Must be from recent books; I've never heard of her, and I was a hardcore fan for a while.  Pretty trivial if you ask me; no real reason to preserve the content anywhere.  Do people realize how many minor characters there are in the Star Wars universe? Minor characters in Star Wars is going to get huge if we just keep dumping material there. Isomorphic 00:59, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * So? People going to that page know what to expect... GWO
 * Delete. Fancruft. Indrian 01:02, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep and redirect Mark Richards 18:13, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Cyanogen chloride

Cyanogen chloride is a highly toxic chemical compound with the formula CNCl. This linear, triatomic pseudohalogen is an easily condensed colorless gas. More commonly encountered in the laboratory is the related compound cyanogen bromide, a room-temperature solid that is widely used in biochemical analysis and preparation.

Synthesis, basic properties, structure
Cyanogen chloride is a molecule with the connectivity Cl\sC\tN. Carbon and chlorine are linked by a single bond, and carbon and nitrogen by a triple bond. It is a linear molecule, as are the related cyanogen halides (NCF, NCBr, NCI). Cyanogen chloride is produced by the oxidation of sodium cyanide with chlorine. This reaction proceeds via the intermediate cyanogen ((CN)2).

The compound trimerizes in the presence of acid to the heterocycle called cyanuric chloride.

Cyanogen chloride is slowly hydrolyzed by water at neutral pH to release cyanate and chloride ions:

Applications in synthesis
Cyanogen chloride is a precursor to the sulfonyl cyanides and chlorosulfonyl isocyanate, a useful reagent in organic synthesis.

Further chlorination gives the isocyanide dichloride.

Safety
Also known as CK, cyanogen chloride is a highly toxic blood agent, and was once proposed for use in chemical warfare. It causes immediate injury upon contact with the eyes or respiratory organs. Symptoms of exposure may include drowsiness, rhinorrhea (runny nose), sore throat, coughing, confusion, nausea, vomiting, edema, loss of consciousness, convulsions, paralysis, and death. It is especially dangerous because it is capable of penetrating the filters in gas masks, according to United States analysts. CK is unstable due to polymerization, sometimes with explosive violence.

Chemical weapon
Cyanogen chloride is listed in schedule 3 of the Chemical Weapons Convention: all production must be reported to the OPCW.

By 1945, the U.S. Army's Chemical Warfare Service developed chemical warfare rockets intended for the new M9 and M9A1 Bazookas. An M26 Gas Rocket was adapted to fire cyanogen chloride-filled warheads for these rocket launchers. As it was capable of penetrating the protective filter barriers in some gas masks, it was seen as an effective agent against Japanese forces (particularly those hiding in caves or bunkers) because their standard issue gas masks lacked the barriers that would provide protection against cyanogen chloride. The US added the weapon to its arsenal, and considered using it, along with hydrogen cyanide, as part of Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan, but President Harry Truman decided against it, instead using the atomic bombs developed by the secret Manhattan Project. The CK rocket was never deployed or issued to combat personnel.

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Talk:Irish grid reference system

Questions

 * Is there a direct relationship between lat/long and the grid system? If I have a gps which give info in lat/long how do I/can I translate this into a grid reference? [preceding anon edit on 11:18, 18 April 2007 by 62.173.102.55]
 * Most GPSs have the means to change from DMSDMS units to any one of a number of national grids, Irish included. I suggest you rtfm to find this as the mathematics are rather too difficult to do on the back of an envelope. --Red King 19:43, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Is Irish National Grid Reference System the correct title, given that the system is used not only through the Irish Republic but also in Northern Ireland too?. It is actually an international, or at least transnational, system. -- Chris j wood 13:53, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Yes. The system is used throughout Ireland, hence "Irish". It's technically international in the sense that it transcends state boundaries (being used both in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland). However, even in Northern Ireland, I doubt you would find many who would consider for example, a trip to the Republic or vice-versa, an international trip. In the same way the Irish rugby team is not a transnational team - it's representing the apolitical Irish nation. In summary, yes, Ireland and Irish are ambiguous terms, but entirely appropriate here. zoney ♣ talk 12:58, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Was the Irish National Grid Reference System really devised by the Ordnance Survey. Certainly that organisation does not now operate in either the Irish Republic or Northern Ireland (which both have their own government mapping organisations). And given that pre-independance Ireland had its own separate civil service, it seems unlikely that they ever did. -- Chris j wood 13:53, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I don't know. It could have been the Ordnance Survey of Ireland (OSI), were they all-island before partition? zoney ♣ talk 12:58, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * It's a little confusing that the grid is described as having 25 squares, but the map shows only 20. Also, why was "I" chosen to be the dropped letter? (D'oh! because it looks like the numeral one).--Malcohol 13:37, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * E, K, P, U and Z are sometimes shown along the right side of the grid, but they're not on any maps - maps covering those areas are on the UK grid system, the OSI and OSNI don't make maps covering them, so they're out of use. --Kiand 19:30, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

 * How do you translate from the Irish National Grid to the extended British National Grid? They both use 100km squares so I assume it is a simple rotation followed by a translation. (anon)
 * Yes, rotation to realign grid north to true north and a slight jiggle for best fit. It's here somewhere, I've definitely seen a graphic with both on it, with a formula --Red King 17:59, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

 * should there be some mention of ITM (Irish Transverse Mercator) grid adopted by OSi and OSNI in 2001? - DGW 18/4/07.

http://www.irishscientist.ie/2001/contents.asp?contentxml=01p66.xml&contentxsl=IS01pages.xsl

http://www.osi.ie/pdf/itm_paper1.pdf

This article should be called Irish grid reference system
According to the OSi web site here this article should be called Irish grid reference system (not Irish national grid reference system). I propose a title change. If anyone has any input regarding the title please share it now--Trounce 09:40, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

 * It seems user Ludraman created this article as an "equivalent" to the British national grid article.It looks like user Ludraman simply swapped the "British" part of the title with "Irish". However, that wasn't the correct name for the grid system.--Trounce 09:57, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

 * For the record I re-titled the article.--Trounce 18:53, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Overlap - image?
I think a map showing the Irish and British systems, and where they overlap, would be useful. The 100km square boundaries should be adequate. I might be able to do this; I'd just need an outline map of the British Isles in a GIS-suitable format. 86.21.227.237 (talk) 14:37, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Upgrade required
Ireland has a new grid reference system based on ITM. Users are being urged to upgrade from the system described on this page. Both systems are in use at present and this article needs fairly major work to reflect these changes. Unfortunately I cannot undertake this at present. Could someone add an appropriate banner to the head of the article?
 * Peter Mercator (talk) 14:24, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

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Blood agent

A blood agent is a toxic chemical agent that affects the body by being absorbed into the blood. Blood agents are fast-acting, potentially lethal poisons that typically manifest at room temperature as volatile colorless gases with a faint odor. They are either cyanide- or arsenic-based.

Exposure
Blood agents work through inhalation or ingestion. As chemical weapons, blood agents are typically disseminated as aerosols and take effect through inhalation. Due to their volatility, they are more toxic in confined areas than in open areas.

Cyanide compounds occur in small amounts in the natural environment and in cigarette smoke. They are also used in several industrial processes and as pesticides. Cyanides are released when synthetic fabrics or polyurethane burn, and may thus contribute to fire-related deaths. Arsine gas, formed when arsenic encounters an acid, is used as a pesticide and in the semiconductor industry; most exposures to it occur accidentally in the workplace.

Symptoms
The symptoms of blood agent poisoning depend on concentration and duration.

Cyanide-based blood agents irritate the eyes and the respiratory tract, while arsine is nonirritating. Hydrogen cyanide has a faint, bitter, almond odor that only about half of all people can smell. Arsine has a very faint garlic odor detectable only at greater than fatal concentrations.

Exposure to small amounts of cyanide has no effect. Higher concentrations cause dizziness, weakness and nausea, which cease with the exposure, but long-time exposure can cause mild symptoms followed by permanent brain damage and muscle paralysis. Moderate exposure causes stronger and longer-lasting symptoms, including headache, that can be followed by convulsions and coma. Stronger or longer exposure will also lead to convulsions and coma. Very strong exposure causes severe toxic effects within seconds, and rapid death.

The blood of people killed by blood agents is bright red, because the agents inhibit the use of the oxygen in it by the body's cells. Cyanide poisoning can be detected by the presence of thiocyanate or cyanide in the blood, a smell of bitter almonds, or respiratory tract inflammations and congestions in the case of cyanogen chloride poisoning. There is no specific test for arsine poisoning, but it may leave a garlic smell on the victim's breath.

Effects
At sufficient concentrations, blood agents can quickly saturate the blood and cause death in a matter of minutes or seconds. They cause powerful gasping for breath, violent convulsions and a painful death that can take several minutes. The immediate cause of death is usually respiratory failure.

Blood agents work at the cellular level by preventing the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the blood and the body's cells. This causes the cells to suffocate from lack of oxygen. Cyanide-based agents do so by interrupting the electron transport chain in the inner membranes of mitochondria. Arsine damages the red blood cells which deliver oxygen throughout the body.

Detection and countermeasures
Chemical detection methods, in the form of kits or testing strips, exist for hydrogen cyanide. Ordinary clothing provides some protection, but proper protective clothing and masks are recommended. Mask filters containing only charcoal are ineffective, and effective filters are quickly saturated.

Due to their high volatility, cyanide agents generally need no decontamination. In enclosed areas, fire extinguishers spraying sodium carbonate can decontaminate hydrogen cyanide, but the resulting metal salts remain poisonous on contact. Liquid hydrogen cyanide can be flushed with water.

Cyanide poisoning can be treated with antidotes.

List of blood agents
The information in the following table, which lists blood agents of military significance, is taken from Ledgard. The values given are on a scale from 1 to 10.

Sodium cyanide and potassium cyanide, colorless crystalline compounds similar in appearance to sugar, also act as blood agents. Carbon monoxide could technically be called a blood agent because it binds with oxygen-carrying hemoglobin in the blood (see carbon monoxide poisoning), but its high volatility makes it impractical as a chemical warfare agent.

One of the earliest proposed chemical weapons, cacodyl oxide, or Cadet's fuming liquid, also displays properties of a blood agent (as well as those of a malodorant). It was proposed as a chemical weapon in the British Empire during the Crimean War, along with the significantly more potent blood agent, cacodyl cyanide.

Use
The most significant practical application of blood agents was the use of hydrogen cyanide (Zyklon B) in gas chambers by Nazi Germany to commit the mass murder of Jews and others in the course of the Holocaust. This resulted in the largest death toll as a result of the use of chemical agents to date.

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Catstye Cam

Catstye Cam is a fell in the English Lake District. It is an outlier of Helvellyn in the Eastern Fells.

Name
The name of the fell is also given as 'Catstycam', a spelling preferred by Alfred Wainwright in his influential Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells. A third variant, 'Catchedicam', is also quoted by him. Other guidebooks such as Collins Landranger and Birkett follow Wainwright with 'Catstycam', although the maps of the Ordnance Survey always use 'Catstye Cam'.

Topography
The Helvellyn range runs broadly north to south for about 7 miles, remaining above 2000 ft throughout its length. Helvellyn itself sits near the centre of this ridge and displays the characteristic form of many of these fells, namely smooth grassy slopes to the west and shattered rock to the east. Helvellyn sends out two eastward arêtes, razor-thin ridges between deep mountain corries. The southerly spur is Striding Edge, easily the most famous ridge in the district, and its northern partner is Swirral Edge. From the summit plateau of Helvellyn a rough slope drops to the start of Swirral Edge, and this narrow ridge curves gracefully down and then back up over half a mile, terminating at Catstye Cam.

Taking on the classic mountain shape of a pyramid, Catstye Cam draws the eye in any view where the overtopping bulk of Helvellyn is hidden behind. As Wainwright said "If Catstycam stood alone, remote from its fellows, it would be one of the finest peaks in Lakeland. It has nearly, but not quite, the perfect mountain form with true simplicity in its soaring lines, and a small pointed top, a real summit that falls away on all sides". Even with the connection to Helvellyn, Catstye Cam still has a prominence of over 200 ft due to the pronounced bow of Swirral Edge. High Spying How on Striding Edge, by comparison, is nothing but a rock turret, an independent peak in almost no-one's estimation.

East of the summit the ridge declines quickly to Red Tarn Beck, whilst there is a third ridge to the north west, giving Catstye Cam a triangular plan. To the north, between the two descending ridges, is an area of crag. The other two faces are steep but smooth.

South of Catstye Cam, nestling between the encircling arms of Helvellyn's two edges, is Red Tarn. This pool is named for the colour of the surrounding screes rather than its water, and contains brown trout and schelly, a fresh-water herring. The depth of Red Tarn is now about 80 ft, although in the mid-19th century it was dammed with boulders to increase capacity. This was carried out to provide additional water to the Greenside Mine in Glenridding, the water race still visible as it crosses the slope of Birkhouse Moor.

A second tarn once existed in Brown Cove to the north at Catstye Cam, but this is now reduced to a couple of small pools widening the stream. Brown Cove Tarn was another creation of the Greenside mine, a stone faced dam being built in about 1860. The dam is still in place but water now leaks through the base, the extended tarn-bed a smooth patch of luxuriant turf. A water leat passing beneath the north face of Catstye Cam to Red Tarn Beck can still be traced although it is now in ruins. Water from Brown Cove and Red Tarn unites at the base of the east ridge to form Glenridding Beck, flowing on through the village to Ullswater.

Geology
The principal rock type is the dacitic lapilli-tuff of the Helvellyn Formation.

Summit
The summit of Catstye Cam is small and neat, bearing only a tiny cairn. The view is extensive and even the looming Helvellyn only adds to the drama by showing its eastern face in close detail. Striding Edge is also seen in profile across Red Tarn, lines of pilgrims frequently queueing at the bottlenecks. By contrast Catstye Cam is often almost completely deserted.

Ascents
Catstye Cam is normally climbed from Glenridding, either by its east or north west ridges. Both are steep, but there are no technical difficulties. A fair path also climbs via Red Tarn to the midpoint of Swirral Edge, from where a brief detour back to the summit can be made. By far the best option is a circular tour via Striding and Swirral Edges. This takes in Birkhouse Moor, Helvellyn and Catstye Cam, one of the most breathtaking walks in the country.

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Todo
Sounding Rockets are often used for purposes other than justthis page should be shifted out of the Weather Measurements listings??
 * If you know of other projects this would be important to, add their tags to the top. There's no rule that says there should just be one tag per article.  Thegreatdr 02:21, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Reza
".....instruments from 50 to 1,500 kilometers....." Are you sure this is 1,500 Km, this sounds to high, I think it is perhaps 150 Km. Reza 16:51, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
 * It is 1500 km: for instance, a Black Brant XII was launched to over 1400 km a few days ago. --AndersIE (talk) 08:00, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

"The rockets are used to carry instruments from 30 to 90 miles (48 to 145 km)[1] above the surface of the Earth, /.../"
 * AFAIK, Esrange has launched sounding rockets to over 700 km (heard from people associated with Esrange), i.e. well over e.g. ISS, using the Maxus (rocket). Sounding rockets going up to 1500 km (not 150 km) sounds right but I do not have any immediate source. --Erik J (talk) 08:36, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Without Instruments
"Sounding rockets" have been used without instrumentation simply to make smoke trails for researching shock waves, etc. Current edit ignores this use of the term. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.242.118.143 (talk) 02:15, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

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Merging Rocketsonde into Sounding rocket
Basically a Rocketsonde is a subset of a Sounding rocket. I propose the merge here as there is no need for a separate article. Pierre cb (talk) 12:46, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Sure, maybe there should be a "types" section in this article or somesuch. -- Beland (talk) 15:39, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

See Also links
The manual of style recommends against linking to article names that are already linked in the article. Manual_of_Style/Layout. Here come the Suns (talk) 23:31, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Since there was no resume on your prior edit, there was no way to know what you were doing and thus it looked like a vandalism. Pierre cb (talk) 02:53, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
 * No problem, we cleared it up. Here come the Suns (talk) 03:47, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

The units of measurement
The units of measurement were given as the miles/pounds first, km/kg second. I have corrected it, albeit without using conversion templates. Also, should it be written as miles or mi? And should those ridiculous American units even be used? They clutter so much space, including them makes it hard to read.--Adûnâi (talk) 03:01, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

Technical challenges and Biological sounding rockets
I think a section is needed which elucidates some of the technical challenges faced by sounding rockets, as well as a subsection about the unique technical challenges associated with performing biological experiments on a sounding rocket.

I don't have time to write this section now, but I found a source that I believe will be helpful to whoever chooses to take on this task. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2011ESASP.700...63D

— QuintessentialAnomaly [talk] 08:29, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Infobox ship
BilCat and Whpq, I think that forking the "Infobox ship class" template to "Infobox rocket class" may be appropriate here, but I doubt it's usefulness if it is only used in half a dozen articles and the potential to break the complicated template in the future. That's why I prefer to use a ship infobox rather than doing so, it is just plain easier. Cheers, CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 03:40, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

 * An article like this doesn't need an infobox, as it's far too general a topic. BilCat (talk) 03:47, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I won't add the infobox back again. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 03:54, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I concur. Not every article needs an infobox.  Whpq (talk) 03:57, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

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Travis Howard Library seems to serve absolutely no purpose - Wikipedia is not for listing people personal collections, or those of public libraries...

Kiand is correct: this kind of personal information does not belong in the article namespace. I've moved the page to User:Travis Howard/Library. —No-One Jones (m) 14:11, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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User:Tookr/Sandbox/Brisbane Railway Station Template

hmm... on second thoughts, I'll wait until extended template syntax is available (including cool conditionals)