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Talk:Russian jokes

What this article is about
–Gnomz007(?) 02:51, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

I apopogize for trimming others contributions regularly. I follow the natural rules here. mikka (t) 18:26, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * This is not a joke repository. 2-3 example per topic is enough.
 * A joke must be of significantly Russian or Soviet relevance. Some jokes about wives, sex, stupid people, etc. may be told in any context. While they may be very funny, they do not contribute to understanding of Russian life, mentality, and history, which should be the primary purpose of the article.
 * The noted jokes must be of cultural significance or otherwise notable. According to wikipedia rules, they must be cited in reputable sources, which critically discuss the topic in question, namely, Russian humor, not just taken from joke colleciotns.

The article was written long time ago when citation rules were not strictly observed. However addition of new material must follow the rules. `'Míkka>t 18:03, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

 * What about adding those jokes to wikiquote or wikibook? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 20:15, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Themes in Russian Soviet Jokes
Analyzing comedy generally kills the humor. But wikipedia is not about delivering humor. I recommend that someone use the jokes as examples of specific themes in Russian or Soviet humor. The jokes themselves do not need to be encyclopedic. But it would be nice try to classify them. Of course, these classes will likely map on to those from other countries. Humor, I believe, like music is universal. Bon appetit. Codwiki (talk) 10:37, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Rzhevsky and mat (mistake, maybe) + mistake in joke description
Article says that "Rzhevsky, with all his vulgarity, does not use heavy mat". In Moscow most versions of Rzhevsky jokes I've heard are involving heavy mat. Actually, some of jokes are based on mat used by Rzhevsky in inapproriate situations and girls from high society, who don't even know about such words exist.

Plus - in "the ultimate Hussar joke" the word, which should not be said by hussars is "pizda" (eng. "vagina"), not "arse". At least in most regions of Russia. "To vagina" ("в пизду") is most popular rude and pretending to be humorous answer to question "Where to", asked by women. Arse could do the trick too, but it's not rude enough for hussars. Maybe, in some small ethnical or social groups it's "arse" like in article - I don't know.

I think, it'll be good if somebody with better English than my corrects the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.110.134.22 (talk) 11:27, 28 September 2012
 * It looks like modern generation lost feeling of mat (or its perception changed), as well as the "state of the mind" of poruchik Rzvevsky. There is a gradation in increasing of severity/rudeness of an expression of, e.g., the analogs of "go to hell": "go to devil" -> "go into arse" -> "go onto хуй" -> "go into pizda". (By the way only people with modern sick (I's day, Russophobic :-) mind interpret expressions "go into arse", "go onto хуй" as something belonging only to certain you known which ethnic or social groups. I strongly object this deprivation of Russian people of their true iskonny heritage ispokon vekov). One has to understand that the word "zhopa" is kind of "inherently funny word". (If one needs a rude equivalent, you use the word "sraka", which is even more ugly than 'pizda') You have to really understand the Hussar state of the mind in the discussed joke, at the moment when they were ordered to shut up. Think about it: the question about an extra candle was a perfect opportunity, but not for an insult (then "pizda" would do), but for a joke! What had happened today with deep and exquisite Russian culture used to be? Now people don't even know the difference between 'pizda' and 'zhopa'. Tletvornoe vliyanie Zapada... - Altenmann >t 07:47, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Ukrainian/black joke

 * A Ukrainian and a black person sit in a couchette car. Ukrainian takes out a piece of salo and starts eating it. The black person looks at him. Ukrainian asks: "What, do you want salo?". The black nods his head in agreement. "Ah, that's regular salo, write to your parents so they send you some too."

I strongly object inclusion of this "joke" in article. First, it is not funny at all. There's no pun and therefore it can't serve as an example of Russian humour. There's already a better example of a joke concerning salo; therefore, addition of this joke serves no reason. Second, Wikipedia is not a collection of anecdotes. The article already violates it too much, and now it even includes tasteless jokes about races. The very addition of this joke should have been reverted in first place, not the deletion of it. I am ready to appeal for a third opinion if needed. Garret Beaumain (talk) 20:06, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Please show me where you see the jab at the black race. The joke pokes fun at the stereotype that "Ukrainians are stingy", and the black man is "the foreigner". Moreover, considering the harshness of the Soviet regime at the time, the only people who could be seen as "obviously foreigners" in the USSR were African exchange students at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (then known as the Patrice Lumumba university).
 * As for the lack of pun, it's your personal view and as such, cannot be held as a measuring standard for Wikipedia, since one of its main principles is neutrality. Hearfourmewesique (talk) 20:23, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
 * The first part of the joke is missing. A black person should give a Ukrainian a banana to start with. The pun is partly that a banana is exotic with salo being regular. --194.44.219.225 (talk) 08:36, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
 * And the punchline isn't right too. The joke should look like this (I still doubt how to translate the punchline idiom properly):
 * A Ukrainian and a black person sit in a couchette car. The black person takes out bananas and starts eating them. Ukrainian asks the black person to give him a banana for tasting. The black person kindly does so. Shortly after Ukrainian takes out a piece of salo and starts eating it. The black person in turn asks a bit of it for tasting. Ukrainian answers: "Why on Earth one needs to taste salo? Salo is always the same salo, even in Africa".
 * notion of black man eating bananas is racist, unnecessary inclusion of race. as this is for examples of ukranian/russian humor, change to something generic/ a man sharing an apple, ex?Therealjendavis (talk) 19:41, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
 * "notion of black man eating bananas is racist" -- oh, another snowflake imposing their standards onto other cultures. "unnecessary inclusion" -- this joke is told in exactly that way, and actually makes fun of perceived attachment of Ukranians to salo and also their perceived greediness, not of the black (who is of course called "negro" by Russian natives, the horror!). Will you also censor articles about Third Reich? Or, even better, about some 18-century American who held views deemed racist *now*, but that were considered completely normal back then? Also, a good third of such jokes is *supposed* to be somewhat offensive, and normally they are littered with words such as "khokly", "pendosy" and what not. If you say such things must be omitted, it oddly reminds of that "the arse exists, but the word doesn't!", which you can look up in the article. --194.166.181.85 (talk) 23:19, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

you are not a camel
I work with a 50ish guy who grew up in the sov union he says proove you are not a camel comes from a skit, where a man needs a piece of paper signed, and the official keeps asking for mroe and more documents, which the man has, finally the official asks for the document prooving the man is not a camel,which the man doesn't ahve — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.195.10.169 (talk) 14:19, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
 * "Smth is the same smth, even in Africa" ([Сало] - оно и в Африке [сало]) is popular russian idiom for something regular, ordinary or standard. Rachelier (talk) 16:10, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately I failed to find any reliable reference about Сало - оно и в Африке сало, which is clearly a well-known expression. At the moment I am removing this joke, since there is another one about salo. - Altenmann >t 06:53, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

"a seven-foot-note"
Someone, I haven't bothered to dig up who, left the following in a source comment following the "lean, ringing, and transparent" joke. It rather belongs here:
 * this joke deserves a footnote; actually, a seven-foot-note: each tiny piece from the joke is a holographic reflection of the morose reality of the Soviet era. Unfortunately deciphering it here would be original research. However I cannot help comment on being "lazy, gluttony, and deceiving". It reflects two very different pieces of reality. From one hand, the negative depiction of gulag inmates was typical of leftist Western authors who insisted that Soviet political prisoners deserved their fate. On the opposite hand, what looks like a negative depiction from a "normal" point of view, in fact is the basics from the gulag survival guide ("Gulag Survival 101"): work less, eat what you manage to, and "anything you say may be used against you"

copied over by 4pq1injbok (talk) 22:29, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

 * I don't understand this joke at all. What have "lean, ringing, and transparent" got to do with anything? Equinox ◑ 10:18, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Here's a good one
Two old ladies meet and have a conversation. - You know, I stopped using foul language. - And I became an atheist. - Are you fucking me?! - I swear to god!

Why these jokes?
Why some jokes are quoted here and the other ones aren't? I would expect some logical basis. Maybe the jokes shoud be moved to Wikisources?Xx236 (talk) 07:19, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
 * What do you mean by "quoted"? -M.Altenmann >t 04:12, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Wikisource is for documents. -M.Altenmann >t
 * Why some jokes are published in the article? It's non-neutral, biased.
 * Wikisource is for fiction, too.Xx236 (talk) 05:51, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
 * biased, how is that? -M.Altenmann >t 06:34, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Published fiction. a book is a document. If you find published free joke collections, go ahead. -M.Altenmann >t 06:35, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Editors who choose the jokes create the image of the historical period and of the jokes as the subject. It'a a bias, even if the editors aren't aware of their policy. They select more abstract or more disgusting jokes, radical anti-Communist or satyric. It's OR. A Wikipecia editor should be aware the difference between neutral presentation of existing knowledge vs. OR.
 * Are all the jokes Russian? The same jokes were frequently told in all Warsaw pact countries. Xx236 (talk) 06:59, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree. Constantinehuk (talk) 13:10, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

seemed to consist of khuyevina, pizd'ulina, and a poyeben' connecting them together, with all three parts being completely interchangeable
This joke is not about rockets, but about Russian language and especially Russian mat. As Russian mother-language speaker I know that every single Russian word has heavy load of variations, most of which carrys a little or none meaning but are required in ANY word conjunction. Here is some examples: a word Keyboard (клавиатура) belongs to "female-gender" branch of rules and together with "male gender" plurals in these to branches are encoded by letter -Ы аt the very end (after suffixes); but Programming word (программирование) has "middle gender" branch of rules, therefore plural form is transmitted with -Я ending which more often is using with "female" words. That "middle gender" is not agender because using some usual words about somebody "incorrectly" in middle gender is a common way for hate speech on that special somebody. But mat words unleash a world of simpler ways for calling any things and movements and feelings and, of cource, name-callings, with respect to gender (male or female) or not (middle). Words khuyevina, pizd'ulina, and a poyeben' are all female (like most of the technical stuff), that's why these three are common in technical stuff (only when women are out of hearing). A khuievina, like any instance of Hui, must be something bulb, like rocket or anything else. A pizdulina must be something you can grab, maybe something costy or just with hole, as instance of Pizda. Poyeben is something you do not understand, since middle gender means disrespect, any well-known thing or good learned stuff can not continue being poeben any more. So, khuievina and pizdulina, are not interchangable but compatible, and both of them may or may not be a part of poeben which is singular. Any rocket and any its part may be a khuievina and/or a pizdulina as well as being poeben. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.169.93.227 (talk) 08:40, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

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Sholem Aleichem, a famous Rabinovich
I sugges to remove this phrase because it is offensive to the writer.--Reciprocist (talk) 20:06, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

YouTube video
about this edit ― diff. 1) I think it is necessary to start with the fact that all Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable sources - WP:RS 2) Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information - WP:INDISCRIMINATE 3) YouTube generally is not a reliable source. See WP:RSPYT. 4) In your edit summary you say: "I've added a transcript as well. You could also just Google it." But the problem is not that I am questioning video-text integrity, I am questioning the reliability of this YouTube video and the justification for including text from this video in this encyclopedic article. Based on the information above, I would like to ask you a couple of questions: 1) Do you think that this particular YouTube video is a reliable source? Why? 2) The video lasts 2 hours. Of all the 2 hours, why did you choose this particular speech part to add to the article? 3) Is there any secondary reliable source that discuss the same part of the text you added?-- Renat 15:02, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

"Generally" is a key word. YouTube isn't magically tainted somehow. A CNN clip on YouTube is just as reliable as one on cnn.com. So I think that the question is fundamentally flawed; the real question is about the source, not the platform.

Also, there's no such thing as a "source" without a fact that you are trying to prove using that source. Talk about sources must always include an explicit statement of what facts need to be proven.

0. So, first off:

 * A. The "source" in this case is the comedian who's performing. YouTube the corporation has absolutely nothing to do with it, and it wouldn't be any more or less reliable if it were published somewhere else.

 * B. The article claims that the text cited is
 * a joke
 * funny
 * comprehensible to a native Russian speaker
 * consisting entirely of хуй derived terms.

Do you agree?

1. Part d is self-evident from the transcription.

The video is
 * 1) a Russian comedian
 * 2) performing, more or less verbatim, the text cited in the article
 * 3) to a lot of laughter
 * 4) with commentary from other comedians about the cultural context of the joke.

This proves the rest of it.

2. I specifically linked to, and cited in text, the timestamp where the content in this paragraph is used. I make no claims about the rest of the show. You can't expect any reference to be exclusively about one thing, let alone a reference for a joke.

3. … it's a joke. Be realistic.

Do you seriously need more than a Russian comic using it on broadcast TV to prove the facts I enumerated at #0.B above?

Are there some other facts you think need to be proven, other than the ones I listed in #0.B?

FWIW, the version he uses is even more elaborated than the one quoted in the article — and the one quoted has lots of variants easily Googled.

I'm not aware of any secondary sources abstractly analyzing the linguistics of Russian jokes, any more than I know ones for the linguistics of English jokes. They might exist, but it's pretty esoteric, and won't be comprehensive.

Language Hat *might* have something — I know they've had articles on Russian mat before — but that's only a guess. — Sai ¿? ✍ 15:34, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
 * ""Generally" is a key word. YouTube isn't magically tainted somehow. A CNN clip on YouTube is just as reliable as one on cnn.com. So I think that the question is fundamentally flawed; the real question is about the source, not the platform." This video is not from CNN. So could you please tell me why is this video a reliable source? "Also, there's no such thing as a "source" without a fact that you are trying to prove using that source. Talk about sources must always include an explicit statement of what facts need to be proven." Please, read my first sentence in this thread. I specifically wrote at the beginning: "about this edit" and gave you the diff link. I am discussing the text in that particular edit I gave here. "The "source" in this case is the comedian who's performing." Comedian who? Nikita Dzhigurda? It doesn't look like he is a subject matter expert. Why do you think he is a reliable source? "The article claims that the text cited is a. a joke b. funny c. comprehensible to a native Russian speaker d. consisting entirely of хуй derived terms." When you say "the article" you mean this Wikipedia article? The article can not claim anything. The source can. It returns us back to the question of reliablity of the source. "Part d is self-evident from the transcription." Please, read 4th point of my starting comment here. I am not questioning integrity. "The video is 1. a Russian comedian 2. performing, more or less verbatim, the text cited in the article 3. to a lot of laughter 4. with commentary from other comedians about the cultural context of the joke." I am not sure if you understand what I asked you. You need to explain why is this comedian a reliable source. There are many Russian comedians. It is technically impossible to list all jokes from all comedians. "This proves the rest of it." I am sorry, but at this point it proves nothing. P.S. Please, read this Indentation.- Renat 16:31, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Please first respond to my part 0.B. What fact, exactly, are you trying to source? A comedian is an expert on comedy, and that paragraph is about humor. Do you question the existence of the anecdote? Dzhigurda proved it by example. Do you question that it's composed of хуй-compounds? Any Russian speaker can confirm that. (I am one, and do.) So… what fact needs better sourcing? — Sai ¿? ✍ 18:08, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
 * "What fact, exactly, are you trying to source?" The text that you added in this edit. First of all, I don't see why Nikita Dzhigurda is a comedian. Just because someone is joking doesn't make him a comedian. You need RS to call someone a comedian. Second, being a comedian doesn't mean being a RS. According to Cambridge dictionary, "Comedian - a person whose job is to make people laugh by telling jokes and funny stories or by copying the behaviour or speech of famous people". So I don't see why comedians are RS for this encyclopedic article. Linguists and historians are RS (generally). Comedians - no.-- Renat 02:07, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

 * This article purports to show a few (two or three) examples of each of the various varieties of Russian jokes, not to be a dissertation about specifically Russian humor (which, like Bergson's Laughter, would be boring, and possibly even pompous). IMHO this article reaches its goal if each joke (a) makes us laugh or at least smile, and (b) is recognized by Russians as being of a kind which is frequently told in Russia. Sources are welcome, but I would expect them to come from collections of jokes originally published in Russian or from Russian-language jokester performances, not from academic essays or doctoral dissertations. — Tonymec (talk) 12:55, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Please, read WP:SOURCETYPES. "Many Wikipedia articles rely on scholarly material. When available, academic and peer-reviewed publications, scholarly monographs, and textbooks are usually the most reliable sources." And I see no reason why this article needs to be different. And anyway, this is not what we are discussing here. We are discussing the reliability of a particular YouTube video.-- Renat 16:11, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

 * I've watched the video, and (being native Russian) I seriously question that what Dzhigurda has performed there is a joke. It's not that I'm offended or anything, in fact I find the original joke funny. but Dzhigurda's performance is just a continuous flow of obscenities. Some people *might* find it funny, but that's not a joke. I would also question authenticity of the audience's laughter. And I agree that this source is not reliable. Shcha (talk) 17:48, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

"Work robes"?
The "work robes" mentioned here, as part of a joke, sounds very awkward and strange in English. I think it should be "coveralls" or "overalls" instead of "work robes". However, I don't know Russian humour, so I'm leaving it alone in case the awkwardness is part of the joke. TooManyFingers (talk) 23:52, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Removed as unreferenced. I did hear it in several variants but didnt read. - Altenmann >talk 02:28, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

A few examples for the article
I would like to offer a few examples for the article at the authors' discretion. They are quite famous in Russia, this is easy to verify with the help of Google.

Rabinovich sells watermelons at the market place, in front of him is a price tag: "One watermelon — three rubles. Three watermelons — ten rubles." A man comes up, buys one watermelon and leaves. A couple of minutes later he returns, buys the watermelon again and leaves. In a couple more minutes later he buys a watermelon again and tells Rabinovich: — Look, I bought three watermelons from you, but only paid nine rubles. You don't know how to trade! — and leaves.

Rabinovich looks after him and says: — It’s always like this — they buy three watermelons each, and then teach me commerce. The last phrase became a meme/saying in Russia.

A few examples about Stierlitz. Stierlitz crossed the border without being noticed. He learned about this from the morning newspapers.

Müller was driving at a speed of 80 km/h. Stierlitz ran alongside, pretending to be taking a walk.

Stierlitz gave the dog gasoline to drink. The dog walked a few meters and fell. “Gasoline is out,” thought Stierlitz.

An attempt to translate a joke about Stierlitz with a play on words. Müller stood on the roof. When Stierlitz passed below, Müller threw a brick at him. — These are the time! — Stierlitz thought. — These are the second time! — Müller thought, and threw another brick.

But most of the plays on words can only be translated with explanations. The surname of the actor who played Müller — “Bronevoy” — literally translates as “armored”. "Stierlitz shot Müller in the head. The bullet bounced off. “Bronevoy,” thought Stierlitz."

178.187.38.247 (talk) 01:15, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Sorry, there are tens of thousands of RUssain jokes. In encyclopedia only notable jokes (i.e., discussed, not just published) are added. - Altenmann >talk 01:22, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure I understood the criteria you explained. It seemed to me that I gave notable examples - they are notable for their long-standing popularity. They are not “just published”. 178.187.38.247 (talk) 01:31, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I was in a hurry and not clear: they must be discussed in porlised reliable sources (see WP:RS) which explain the merits of the discussed jokes. I am sure your jokes are published in many jokebooks, but for Wikipedia purposes, a joke must be discussed, e.g., in an article about folklore or singled out in some other way. - Altenmann >talk 05:44, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

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Bret Michaels

Bret Michael Sychak (born March 15, 1963), known professionally as Bret Michaels, is an American singer and musician. He is the frontman of rock band Poison who has sold over 65 million albums worldwide and 30 million records in the United States. The band has also charted 10 singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, including six Top 10 singles and a number-one single, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn".

Besides his career as frontman, he has several solo albums to his credit, including the soundtrack album to the 1998 film A Letter from Death Row in which Michaels starred, wrote and directed, and a rock album, Songs of Life, in 2003. Michaels has appeared in several films and TV shows, including as a judge on the talent show Nashville Star which led to his country influenced rock album Freedom of Sound in 2005. He starred in the hit VH1 reality show Rock of Love with Bret Michaels and its sequels, which inspired his successful solo album Rock My World. He was also the winning contestant on NBC's reality show Celebrity Apprentice 3 and also featured in his own reality docuseries Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It, which inspired his highest-charting album as a solo artist, Custom Built, reaching No. 1 on Billboard's Hard Rock chart. He is also known for hosting on the Travel Channel. In 2006, Hit Parader ranked Michaels at No. 40 on their list of greatest heavy metal singers of all-time.

Early life
Michaels was born Bret Michael Sychak on March 15, 1963, to Wally and Marjorie Sychak, north of Pittsburgh in the town of Chicora, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. He attended Mechanicsburg Area Senior High School. He has two sisters, Michelle and Nicole. He claims that his parents had originally intended for him to have the middle name "Maverick", after the title character in the popular James Garner TV Western series Maverick. He is of Carpatho-Rusyn (from his paternal grandfather), Irish, English, German, and Swiss descent. Bret's great-uncle Nick Sychak fought at Omaha Beach in the Invasion of Normandy and was killed in action in France in 1944.

At the age of 6, Michaels fell ill, and during a three-week stay in the hospital, he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.

Music career
Michaels began playing the guitar as a teenager, forming a band with drummer Rikki Rockett, bass player Bobby Dall and guitarist David Besselman. Shortly thereafter, Besselman left the band due to creative differences and in 1983 the band hired Matt Smith to form a new band named Paris in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. In early 1984 the band tired of playing the Pennsylvania bar circuit, changed their name to Poison and moved west to Los Angeles to seek fame on the Sunset Boulevard scene. That same year, Michaels met 16-year-old Tracy Lewis, who would become both his girlfriend and the muse for one of his most memorable songs. Eventually, Matt Smith tired of the band's struggle to find fame and returned home. He was replaced by C.C. DeVille, who would become both Michaels' friend and a source of conflict.

1980s–1990s
Local publicity about the band eventually led to a record deal with Enigma Records, and their first album, Look What the Cat Dragged In. The album was not a great success until 1987, when Michaels convinced the band to film a video for their song, "Talk Dirty to Me". The album went platinum, and the band became famous. In March of that year, Poison headlined a show at Madison Square Garden. Michaels took his insulin injection before the show but was so nervous about performing that he neglected to eat. Several songs into Poison's set, Michaels went into insulin shock and collapsed onstage. When subsequent media reports alleged that Michaels collapsed due to a drug overdose, Michaels publicly announced that he was a diabetic.

1987 also saw the dissolution of his relationship with Lewis, who felt that fame had changed him. Though Michaels contends that Lewis was unfaithful to him, Lewis (now Lewis Crosby) insists that it was Michaels who was unfaithful. Michaels was inspired by the breakup to write "Every Rose Has Its Thorn", explaining that the rose represented his fame and success, whereas the loss of his relationship represented the thorn. The song was released as a power ballad single in December 1988, and is regarded as "the ultimate '80s anthem about heartbreak".

Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Poison became one of the biggest glam metal bands in the world, recording their second album, the multi-platinum selling Open Up and Say... Ahh!, and their third album, the multi-platinum selling Flesh & Blood. However, their lives were characterized by the escalating tension between Michaels and DeVille that derived from their mutual drug use, which came to a head during their 1990/91 "Flesh and Blood" world tour. Also cited is the spectacle of DeVille's behavior during the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards. After getting into a fistfight with Michaels, DeVille left the band, and descended further into addiction. Poison went on with new guitarist Richie Kotzen recording the Gold album Native Tongue and then with guitarist Blues Saraceno recording the album Crack a Smile... and More!. In the mid-1990s, after a night of partying, Michaels came close to dying when he crashed his Ferrari into a telephone pole. He incurred serious injury, including broken ribs, a disfigured nose, and lost teeth. In 1999, The band reunited with original guitarist, C.C. Deville. Poison went on a successful greatest hits reunion tour. In the next decade, Bret Michaels would split his time between Poison and a successful solo career.

2000s
Michaels recorded his soundtrack album in 1998 titled A Letter from Death Row which was the soundtrack to the same-titled movie he directed, wrote, and starred in. In 2000 Michaels released a country demos ep and also released the album "Show Me Your Hits" which featured re-recorded Poison classics.The album featured Michaels performing Poison hits in a new way and also featured other artists with Michaels on selected tracks. In 2001 Michaels released a unique storytellers CD titled Ballads, Blues & Stories which featured Poison and Michaels solo tracks along with recorded stories about each song.

In 2003, Michaels released a brand new studio album Songs of Life which featured the singles "Raine" (dedicated to his daughter) and "Bittersweet". Michaels also released his first solo music video for the single "Raine" which was directed by award-winning director Shane Stanley. The album also featured a music video for "Menace to Society" and a 9/11 tribute "One More Day".

Michaels served as a judge on the 2005 season of the reality television singing competition Nashville Star and released a country rock album in the same year called Freedom of Sound. The album features the singles "Right Now, Right Here", "Open Road" which Michaels performed live on the show and the hit single "All I Ever Needed" (featuring Jessica Andrews) which appeared on Billboard's "Hot Country Songs" chart, with its best position being number 45. The song also featured a music video which appeared on Billboard's "Hot Videoclip Tracks" chart in 2008.

Michaels released a best of album called Rock My World in June 2008 which featured music from his reality television series Rock of Love including the new singles "Go That Far" (Rock of Love theme), "Fallen" and "Start Again", the first two singles also featuring music videos with clips from the series. The album charted at No. 40 on the Billboard 200, No. 4 on the Top Independent Albums, No. 4 on the Top Hard Rock Albums and No. 16 on the Top Rock Albums chart. In December 2008, Michaels released a single version of "Driven" (rock mix) which also featured a music video with preview clips for the third season of Rock of Love, titled Rock of Love Bus. Michaels also re released the "Fallen" single with acoustic, piano and demo versions included.

Michaels released a 30-minute DVD from Time Life in 2008 called Hard & Heavy Confidential featuring Bret Michaels which included acoustic versions of "All I Ever Needed", "Driven", "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" and "Something to Believe In", it also included in depth interviews. The DVD was included in the Hard & Heavy CD/DVD collection from (Time Life) advertised on TV by Bret Michaels. The same four acoustic performances were also released on CD titled "Bret Michaels Acoustic Sessions".

2010–2014
In 2010, Michaels released a new single called "Nothing to Lose" from his upcoming new studio album, Custom Built. The song featured the guest vocals of Miley Cyrus and was the most added song to radio the week of its release, topping both Bon Jovi and Nickelback. In April 2010, he released the second single "Lie to Me" and in May 2010 released the third single, "Wasted Time".

Michaels performed on the American Idol season 9 finale on May 26 against his doctor's recommendation. Michaels also performed a duet of "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" with Miley Cyrus on the June 18, 2010 episode Good Morning America.

On July 6, 2010, Michaels released his new album Custom Built. The album became Michaels' highest charting solo album to date peaking at No. 1 on both the Top Independent Albums and Top Hard Rock Albums chart and also charting at No. 4 on the Top Rock Albums and No. 14 on the Billboard 200.

On August 4, 2010, Michaels appeared in the fifth season of America's Got Talent and performed "Every Rose Has Its Thorn", accompanying himself on acoustic folk guitar.

Despite not being released as a single, a music video was produced for "Riding Against the Wind" a song from Michaels' latest album "Custom Built" that also doubles as the theme song for his new VH1 reality show Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It. The music video was released on October 7, 2010, exclusively at Billboard's and contains footage from the series, which officially premieres on VH1 on October 18, 2010. Michaels also released a music video for the cover of Sublime's song "What I Got", which is the fourth single from "Custom Built". The music video is a special tribute to his fans and was released on Thanksgiving.

In early 2011 Michaels recorded a new song "Hit and Roll" for Top Gear (U.S. TV series) which also included a music video featured on the series and the promo commercials.

On December 31, 2011, Michaels celebrated the new year with a New Year’s Eve concert from the "Get Your Rock On" solo tour. The concert took place in Springfield, IL at the Prairie Capital Convention Center. To make the night complete, this New Year's Eve bash will be featured and well documented in the music video for the new single "Get Your Rock On" from Bret's upcoming new album. The single "Get Your Rock On (featuring Phil Collen & Sal Costa)" was released January 9, 2012.

In conjunction with his new single Michaels also released an alternate version titled "Get Your Ride On (featuring Phil Collen)" on January 10, 2012. The song will also serve as Monster Energy AMA Supercross Opener all season on Speed with an exclusive video that premiered on SPEED TV January 7, 2012. The video will be customized for each race throughout the season.

Michaels toured with Def Leppard and Lita Ford in 2012. In August 2012 Michaels released a new single "They Don't Make An App For That (The App Song)" through Michaels' official Bret Michaels App. The song is a fun, tongue-in-cheek country crossover tune that takes on today’s social media culture. "The App Song" features a teaser video.

In January 2013, Michaels released a new single "You Know You Want It (Featuring Peter Keys)" from his upcoming new album titled "Jammin' With Friends". The new album features collaborations with some of the top artists and players in music from a variety of genres and generations. The album was released June 25, 2013 and charted at No. 13 on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart, #23 on the Top Independent Albums chart, #29 on the Top Rock Albums chart and #80 on The Billboard 200.

On April 1, 2014, Michaels released his new solo single, "A Beautiful Soul", with a music video being released on April 2. Michaels announced that he will perform the track live on the April 2 edition of "Oprah's Lifeclass" which will be taped live on Oprah's website.

2015–present
On April 7, 2015, Michaels released a new song titled "Girls on Bars", making it the second year in a row he released a new song during the month of April. The song was co-written with Grammy award-winning songwriter of the year, Luke Laird. "Girls on Bars” boasted the highest number of views of any debut single ever on CMT.

On April 9, 2015, Michaels announced his new solo album titled True Grit. The album features 21 new and classic hits. The compilation was released digitally May 5, 2015 and Michaels released the video for the new single "Girls On Bars" on May 12. The album is on physical release as a cd exclusively via his website.

In May 2017, Bret Michaels released a brand-new single which is a tribute to his youngest daughter, Jorja Bleu, in honor of her 12th birthday. The song titled "Jorja Bleu" features a music video which was posted at Michaels’ official YouTube channel and is a sequel to his 2003 single "Raine" which is titled after his oldest daughter.

In 2019, Michaels released an official music video for his new single "Unbroken", which was co written with his 13-year-old daughter, Jorja Bleu. The song is about mental and physical strength over adversity.

In May 2020, he released his autobiography, Bret Michaels: Auto-Scrap-ography Volume 1: My Life in Pictures & Stories which is the first in a series of trilogies. The book was initially set to be released in 2010 and titled Roses & Thorns, but kept being pushed back to include more content. In 2019 Michaels announced its release in 2020 and it would be titled Unbroken: My life in Pictures & Stories to coincide with his single release "Unbroken". More recently, he had signed a deal with the United Talent Agency.

In December 2022, Michaels announced the 2023 Parti-Gras Tour which performed between July 13 and August 6, 2023. Along with Michaels, the tour included Jefferson Starship and Night Ranger with appearances by Steve Augeri and Mark McGrath.

In January 2023, Michaels released his new solo single, "Back in the Day", a throwback road-trip anthem featuring the exclusive world premiere of the video for the song on January 18.

Rock of Love
Michaels starred in the reality television dating competition series Rock of Love with Bret Michaels, the first season of which premiered in July 2007. Jes Rickleff was the winner of Season One. However, she announced during the October 2007 reunion show that she and Michaels were not right for each other and told runner-up Heather he was all hers and that he should have chosen Heather. The first season was released on DVD in early 2008.

The show's second season premiered on January 13, 2008. On April 13, 2008, Michaels selected Ambre Lake as his "Rock of Love". After the show the two maintained a relationship, but parted ways after just a few months due to personal commitments, but they remain good friends.

A third season, Rock of Love Bus, premiered on January 4, 2009, to ratings which represented a series high for VH1. Michaels chose Penthouse Pet Taya Parker as the winner. When asked about a fourth season of Rock of Love, Michaels said "Now they want me to come back for a fourth 'Rock of Love.' I feel that it should be something that changes up, but I still want that fun element. What you see is what you get with me."

Television and film appearances
Michaels and actor Charlie Sheen established a film production company, Sheen/Michaels Entertainment, which produced the movie A Letter from Death Row (1998), in which Michaels wrote, directed and starred, and for which he released a soundtrack album. They also produced No Code of Conduct that same year, which Michaels also directed and acted in. Their company also produced the feature film Free Money, starring Marlon Brando and Mira Sorvino, and the surfer movie In God's Hands in which Michaels also had a small acting role.

Michaels appeared in the CBS sitcom Yes, Dear, Season 1, Episode 6, titled Greg's Big Day, first aired November 6, 2000. He also appeared as himself in three episodes of The Chris Isaak Show from 2001 to 2004.

On May 1, 2008, Michaels appeared on a special celebrity edition of Don't Forget the Lyrics!, on which he raised $200,000 to donate to charity.

In 2010, Michaels was the winning contestant on the NBC reality television series Celebrity Apprentice 3 on NBC.

Michaels stars in a series named Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It, which depicts his life at home with his daughters and their mother. Filming of the series began before Michaels' health troubles, and filming was suspended after his hospitalization. VH1 aired a preview of the series on May 31, 2010, and the series aired in fall 2010.

Michaels hosted the Miss Universe 2010 pageant along with Natalie Morales on August 23, 2010.

In 2020, Michaels competed in the third season of The Masked Singer as "Banana". He ended up in seventh place on April 22, 2020.

In 2023, Michaels appeared as a guest on the tenth season of Impractical Jokers. He participated in the punishment for Murr.

In other media
Michaels was portrayed as a guest singer in the video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, which features him singing "Go That Far" from his solo career, and Poison's "Talk Dirty to Me".

Charity work
Michaels and his band visited troops at Al Asad Air Base on October 6, 2007, while on a tour of U.S. bases in Iraq in support of Armed Forces Entertainment.

Bret Michaels has done extensive work for Operation Homefront- a charity that provides emergency financial and other assistance to the families of service members and wounded warriors.

He earned $640,000 for the American Diabetes Association for competing in and ultimately winning Celebrity Apprentice 3.

In June, 2014, while on a national tour date in Omaha, Nebraska, Michaels became aware of a series of tornadoes that hit the Nebraska town of Pilger. He, his band, and crew, went to Pilger to see the damage and assist with clean-up. When his tour came near the area again in August, 2014, he hosted a fundraising performance in Norfolk, Nebraska, to help tornado victims in the area.

Personal life
While filming the finale of his reality show, Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It, Michaels proposed to Kristi Lynn Gibson, his on-again, off-again companion of 16 years. In July 2012, he announced that he and Gibson had separated. The pair have two daughters together.

Michaels has a line of pet clothing and accessories called Pets Rock, sold at PetSmart. In October 2023, he adopted a husky named Bret Michaels from the Nebraska Humane Society, after reading a story about the dog providing a blood transfusion to a sick kitten.

On May 20, 2010, it was reported on his official website that Michaels had been "readmitted to the hospital the week after suffering numbness on the left side of his body". While conducting diagnostic tests it was found that Michaels has a "patent foramen ovale (PFO), a hole in the heart". It was further reported that his condition is "operable and treatable" and his doctors believe they "have diagnosed the problem that caused the transient ischemic attack (TIA) or warning stroke", but that they "feel it is highly unlikely this is connected to the brain hemorrhage he suffered just a few weeks earlier". On October 11, 2011, Michaels commented on his 2010 health scare with the following: "2010 was, without question, a roller coaster year for me. But when you have an amazing family, and you still have a lot of music left to make, and you have such incredible and supportive fans behind you, you’re going to fight until the very last breath before you throw in that towel."

Lawsuit with Tony Awards and CBS
Michaels was injured during his opening performance at the 63rd Tony Awards on June 7, 2009. As he was ending his performance with Poison and exiting to the stage rear, a large portion of the descending set struck him on the head and knocked him down. The initial injury reported was a broken nose. However, the hemorrhage incident in 2010 prompted Michaels to file a lawsuit for unspecified damages against the Tony Awards and CBS claiming the incident caused the hemorrhage. On May 14, 2012, the parties announced that they had agreed to settle the lawsuit for an undisclosed amount. Michaels thanked the Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix for saving his life and career.

Discography

 * Studio albums
 * Songs of Life (2003)
 * Freedom of Sound (2005)
 * Custom Built (2010)
 * Jammin' with Friends (2013)

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National parks of Greece

Greece is characterized by an extremely fragmented, rugged landscape hosting a great diversity of ecosystems and an outstanding biodiversity. Almost 5% of its extensive coastline consists of ecologically sensitive wetlands. Two thirds of the total population live no further than 2 km from the coast and most of the important urban centers are coastal, while almost all of the tourist infrastructure is divided among islands and the coastal mainland.

Greek climate
Greece's climate is divided into three classes: A Mediterranean climate features mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers. Temperatures rarely reach extremes, although snowfalls do occur occasionally even in Athens, Cyclades or Crete during the winter. An alpine climate is found primarily in Western Greece (Epirus, Central Greece, Thessaly, Western Macedonia as well as central parts of the Peloponnese like Achaea, Arkadia and parts of Lakonia where the Alpine range pass by). A temperate climate is found in Central and Eastern Macedonia as well as in Thrace at places like Komotini, Xanthi and northern Evros; with cold, damp winters and hot, dry summers.

History and legislation
The tradition of protected areas in Greece dates back to Ancient Greek times and the Altis and sacred grove at Olympia, amongst other sanctuaries. In more recent times, the country's climatic and biological diversity, along with the rich flora and fauna that comes with it, made the need for the creation of national parks obvious as early as 1937, when the government of Ioannis Metaxas first issued a law that established national parks in Greece, Law 856/1937 On National Woodland Parks, itself building on the "protected forests" of the Forest Code of 1929. In 1938, the first national park was established, centred on Mount Olympus, followed later in the same year by a second, centred on Mount Parnassus. In 1986, the legal framework was overhauled by Law 1650/1986, Article 19 of which provides for the following types of protected area:
 * Absolute Nature Reserves Areas
 * Nature Reserve Areas
 * National Parks
 * Protected Natural Formations, Protected Landscapes and Landscape Elements
 * Eco-development Areas

Among the National Parks, according to Article 19 Section 3, where a National Park (εθνικό πάρκο) has a predominantly marine or forested character, it may become a National Marine Park (θαλάσσιο πάρκο) or National Woodland Park (εθνικός δρυμός).

List of national parks
According to the World Database on Protected Areas, as of May 2022, there are 10 National Woodland Parks (εθνικοί δρυμοί), 2 National Marine Parks (θαλάσσια πάρκα), and 15 National Parks (εθνικά πάρκα).

Layout
Each national park consists of a core and the area surrounding it. According to Greek Law the core cannot be smaller than 15000000 m2, with the exception of marine national parks. The surrounding area must be larger than, or at least equal to, the size of the core.

In the core of the national park, only scientific research, mild recreational activities, and the acquiring of environment related information are permitted. The creation of menageries, fish farms, the building of roads, outposts, camping and hiking infrastructures, along with woodcutting infrastructures and pastures are permitted in the surrounding area of the national park.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arroganse

Arroganse 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 DELETE

Blatant advertising. Original listed for speedy deletion by Jpgordon, but (unfortunately) does not meet the criteria for speedy deletion. • Benc • 23:28, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete advertising. Fire Star 23:46, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Eugh 163.1.141.7 00:53, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Arroganse is a not entirely uncommon misspelling of arrogance. Arrogance redirects to pride; arroganse should as well.  -Sean Curtin 00:25, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * Good point; the article should be recreated as a redirect after deletion. • Benc • 04:03, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: Just an ad, only an ad, for an ISP. Boo and hiss and delete with many claws. Geogre 01:28, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wile E. Heresiarch 01:54, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. One-line advert. jni 04:51, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Spam. Delete. - Mike Rosoft 15:23, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Talk:Missouri Executive Order 44

Requested move 8 November 2023

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

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Reading Beans (talk) 03:41, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Missouri Executive Order 44 → Mormon Extermination Order – I believe the title "Mormon Extermination Order" better fulfills the criteria outlined in Article titles.
 * 1) Recognizability and Naturalness: The use of the term "Mormon Extermination Order" extends beyond academic circles and has permeated popular culture, literature, and media. Moving would make it easier for readers to find and access the article, since it is a more intuitive and recognizable term
 * 2) Precision: "Mormon Extermination Order" accurately describes the content and significance of the historical event. The order called for the expulsion, or extermination, of Mormons in Missouri.
 * 3) Concision: The title "Missouri Executive Order 44" does not clearly distinguish the article from other executive orders issued in Missouri, none of which are notable enough for an article. "Mormon Extermination Order" specifically identifies the historical setting the event took place in. Gottagitgud (talk) 21:47, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Gottagitgud (talk) 00:23, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

 * As explained in my closing comment, you should file a new WP:RM. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 18:48, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

 * Oppose move, Keep article at title "Missouri Executive Order 44". Setting aside that a previous consensus resulted in the move to Missouri Executive Order 44...,
 * Missouri Executive Order 44 was the official title of the legislation
 * A previous revision of this page noted, "relatively few people were killed as a direct result of its issuance". Calling it an extermination order when there wasn't a mass extermination is misleading. p  b  p  19:08, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Furthermore, let me state that some of the rationale by Gottagitgud is in error. He cites "precision"...but there was no mass extermination of Mormons carried out.  Calling it an extermination order suggests a genocide that...well, just didn't happen.  As for "concision", if other executive orders issued in Missouri are not notable enough for an article, then they shouldn't have any bearing on the title of this one  p  b  p  19:14, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
 * When the militia captured Far West, they issued a warning that violence could escalate if the Mormons did not surrender. However, the Mormons chose to surrender immediately and organized their own voluntary withdrawal from the state. As a result, there was little need for violence to enforce the order. The Mormons complied with the order, rather than confronting the military.
 * The designation of 'extermination order' stems from the original wording used by Governor Boggs. Yes, the language is strong and alarming. But 'extermination' does not necessarily imply mass killing. The word 'extermination' comes from the Latin term extermino, meaning to expel or exile. The order did result in the forced relocation of around 15,000 people from the state. Gottagitgud (talk) 20:54, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Weak support per WP:POVNAME. We have Boston Massacre and Great Leap Forward and Alexander the Great because those are the common names used to refer to those topics, despite those not being very neutral or accurate names. I suspect practically no one refers to this topic colloquially as "Missouri Executive Order 44". And the fact that there was no mass slaughter does not mean there wasn't an order. The noun here is 'order', not 'extermination', and the plain text of the order says the Mormons "must be exterminated or driven from the state if necessary for the public peace", so calling it an extermination order is not much of a stretch. The RM in 2010 was about the title being vague, not about it being NPOV. At the time, it had the completely vague title of, which doesn't indicate what the topic is. — BarrelProof (talk) 04:06, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The proposed title is a severe misnomer: "it was implemented by the state militia to forcefully displace the Mormons from their lands in Missouri. In response to the order, the Mormons surrendered and subsequently sought refuge in Nauvoo, Illinois." It was not an etermination of Mormons. Rationale #1 fails, because a misnomer is not natural, and the "easier for readers to find" argument doesn't pertain when the desired title already redirects to the article. "Recognizability" could be an argument to make, if it were proven that a majority of independent reliable sources were using the term, but no such evidence has been offered. Rationale #2 really obviously fails, because a misnomer cannot be precise (in the sense WP:AT policy means), by definition. Rationale #3 is irrelevant, because the desired title isn't appropriate for other reasons, and the proposed name is only one character shorter anyway, which is too trivial to care about. WP only uses misnomers as article titles in the rare case that it is the WP:COMMONNAME, and even then we sometimes still don't do it, if we consider the potential for reader confusion too great (e.g. horned lizard is that that article not at horny toad despite the latter being overwhelmingly the more common name in everyday English). I would argue that is the case here, since the title very strongly implies an actual extermination of Mormons, which did not take place.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  20:41, 10 November 2023 (UTC)PS: None of BarrelProof's examples are misnomers. Exactly how many deaths to requires to make a "massacre" is subjective and undefined; the GLF was certainly "great" in several senses of that term (e.g. "large/strong in impact") and was "forward" at least some senses as well (toward a consolidated nation-state, toward a lasting presence on the world stage of modernity). AtG was demonstrably "great" in the sense of being the most successful military commander and land-conqueror of his period. None of them are objectively disprovable, but it is obviously provable that the Mormons were not exterminated in Missouri, but forced to relocate (and, yes, there were some killed, so maybe it was a "massacre" in the Boston sense, but that's not under discussion here). PPS: I have no idea why WP:MISNOMER is red-linked. We need to address that somehow, since this sort of thing comes up periodically.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  20:50, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

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Thale

Thale is a town in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt in central Germany. Located at the steep northeastern rim of the Harz mountain range, it is known for the scenic Bode Gorge stretching above the town centre.

Geography
The town is situated on the river Bode, approximately 8 km west of Quedlinburg. Served by Transdev Sachsen-Anhalt trains, Thale Hauptbahnhof is the terminus of the Magdeburg–Thale railway line. The town has access to the Bundesstraße 6n highway.

Divisions
The town Thale consists of Thale proper and the following Ortschaften or municipal divisions:

 * Allrode
 * Altenbrak (incl. Alsmfeld and Wendefurth)
 * Friedrichsbrunn
 * Neinstedt
 * Stecklenberg
 * Treseburg
 * Warnstedt
 * Weddersleben
 * Westerhausen

History

The settlement of Thale probably emerged at the beginning of the 10th century. It was documented in 936 in connexion with the neighbouring Wendhusen Abbey, which had been founded around 825 AD as a chapter of canonesses (Kanonissenstift). Established by an Eastphalian comital family and based on the model of Herford Abbey, it was one of the first monasteries in the medieval Duchy of Saxony. After Queen Dowager Matilda, wife of the late King Henry the Fowler, tried in vain to relocate the convent in 936, it came under the guardianship of the newly established Quedlinburg chapter.

The adjacent village was first mentioned in a 1231 deed as Dat Dorp to dem Dale (from 1288 it was given the Latinised description de valle, and from 1303 as von Thale). In the late Middle Ages, the estates were held by the Saxon Counts of Regenstein, vassals of the Halberstadt prince-bishops. The monastery premises were stormed and devastated in 1525 during the German Peasants' War.

From 1445 the records show that there had been an ironworks in Thale. It was rebuilt from 1648 onwards after the devastations of the Thirty Years' War as the Berghaus zum Wilden Mann, but was fully destroyed in 1670. After the secularised Halberstadt territories were incorporated by Brandenburg-Prussia, a small hammer mill was established in 1686 out of which a new ironworks later developed that benefited especially from its proximity to the ore deposits and the availability of wood. It lasted until 1714. In 1740 a business was opened again. For a short time this ironworks was owned by the Prussian king Frederick the Great. Part of the Prussian Province of Saxony since 1815, the first wrought-iron wagon axle to be made in the German lands was manufactured here in 1831. In 1835 the oldest sheet steel enamel works in Europe was founded in Thale. Following the town's connexion to the railway network in 1862 with a line to Berlin the place flourished as did the number of workers. Whilst the iron industry had only 350 workers in 1872, by 1905 there were as many as 4,400. In particular, the production of enamel contributed to Thale's international renown; in its heyday Thale produced no less than 10% of the world's production. In 1910 Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg and Clara Zetkin spoke to Thale's workers. From 1916 steel helmets were produced in Thale. In the World War II Thale had the monopoly on this product (from 1934).

Tourism blossomed from the 19th century onwards in connexion with the radon rich water of the Hubertus Spring, which had been opened up in 1836. As a result, various literary figures visited the place, including Heinrich Heine (Die Harzreise) and Theodor Fontane and especially the Bode Gorge. In addition tourists from Berlin enjoyed the summer resort of Thale. This encouraged the connexion of Thale in 1862 to the railway line from Wegeleben. In 1909 a branch line from Blankenburg (Harz) followed. In 1922 the resort was given town rights. From 12 to 14 June 2009 Thale was the venue for the Saxony-Anhalt Day held under the motto Thale sagenhaft ("Legendary Thale"), and attracted around 200,000 visitors.

Incorporation of other municipalities
Warnstedt was incorporated in 2003. In 2009 a total of seven municipalities were incorporated on four separate dates. Westerhausen was added in 2010. Allrode became a part of the town of Thale in 2011.

The changes in area are shown in a separate table.

 * Area of the town of Thale

Population growth
The growth of population (from 1995 censuses were taken every 31 December):

Town council
(according to the official result of the elections for the Thale town council on 7 June 2009; Voter participation: 42.88%, Changes from the previous election in brackets)

 * CDU – 59.2%, 17 seats (unchanged)
 * Die Linke – 13.3%, 4 seats (unchanged)
 * FDP – 8.2%, 2 seats (+1)
 * SPD – 7.4%, 2 seats (-1)
 * GRÜNE Bürger Fraktion – 4.9%, 3 seats (+3)
 * Wählergruppen – 4.1%, 1 seat (-1)
 * Einzelbewerber – 2.9%, 0 seats (-1)

Coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on 11 July 1996 by the Magdeburg Regional Council (Regierungspräsidium).

Partnerships
Since 1990 Thale has had a town partnership with Seesen (Lower Saxony) on the northwest edge of the Harz and, since 1998, with the French town of Juvisy-sur-Orge, 18 km from Paris, as well as Tillabéri in Niger, northwest of the River Niger.

Museums

 * Wendhusen Abbey which specialises in the theme of "canoness chapters" (Kanonissenstifte)
 * Thale Smelting Museum
 * Walpurgis Hall

Buildings

 * The former Wendhusen Abbey, dating to the Carolingian period
 * The Hotel Zehnpfund, built in 1863 and once the biggest summer hotel in Germany
 * St. Peter's Church, completed in 1906
 * The Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart (Herz-Jesu-Kirche), completed in 1910 and 1911
 * The prominent windmill in the village of Warnstedt

Other cultural sites

 * Hexentanzplatz ("Witches' Dancefloor")
 * Harz Mountain Theatre, Thale
 * Wildlife park (Tierpark)
 * Sommerrodelbahn
 * Bau-Spiel-Haus
 * Funpark
 * Central Theater (cinema)
 * Homburg Watchtower (Homburgswarte)

Natural monuments

 * Bode Gorge - Thale is the gateway to the Bode Gorge which is overlooked by the Hexentanzplatz ("Witches' Dancefloor"), accessible on the Bode Gorge Gondola Lift, and the Roßtrappe, to which a chair lift runs. At the Hexentanzplatz is a large open-air theatre and a zoo.
 * Teufelsmauer - near the villages of Weddersleben and Warnstedt lies the Teufelsmauer, one of the oldest nature reserves in Germany.
 * Harz Witches' Path - The Harz Witches' Path (Harzer Hexenstieg), a long-distance footpath, runs from Thale for just under 100 km across the Harz to Osterode, passing various sights along the way including the Brocken, Torfhaus, Dammgraben and the Upper Harz Ponds.

Media
Thale is the setting of Theodor Fontane's novel Cécile. Fontane stayed in Thale a number of times between 1868 and 1884.

Sons and daughters of the city

 * Bernhard Rensch (1900–1990), evolutionary biologist, zoologist, behavioral researcher, neurophysiologist and philosopher
 * Albrecht Becker (1906–2002), production designer, photographer and actor
 * Harald Duschek (born 1956), ski jumper
 * Volker Herold (born 1959), actor

Personalities associated with Thale

 * Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold Pfeil (1783–1859), forestry scholar, spent time relaxing and hunting in the forest near Thale
 * Theodor Fontane (1819–1898) stayed in Thale 1868, 1877, 1881, 1882, 1883 and 1884, wrote the novel playing in Thale Cécile
 * Karl Bonhoeffer (1868–1948), psychiatrist, neurologist, medical expert, married to Paula von Hase, had a summer house in Friedrichsbrunn since 1913
 * Hans Schemm (1891–1935), NSDAP-Gauleiter, directed the bacteriological-chemical laboratory Hubertusbad until 1921
 * Axel von dem Bussche (1919–1993), officer and resistance fighter, knight-owner in Thale
 * Werner Oberländer (1921–2002), footballer at Stahl Thale and Eintracht Braunschweig, with both clubs he played at the highest level of football
 * Gojko Mitić (born 1940), actor, played various roles in the Harz mountain theater
 * Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003), Nazi film director and actress, attended girls' boarding school in the village

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Silent Fall is a 1994 American psychological thriller film directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Linda Hamilton, John Lithgow, J. T. Walsh, and Liv Tyler in her debut role. The plot focuses on a boy with autism who is the only witness to the savage double murder of his parents.

Plot
Timothy "Tim" Warden, an autistic boy, has supposedly witnessed his parents' ruthless murder. Jake Rainer, a former child psychiatrist turned therapist, is called on to probe the child's mind in order to solve the case.

The psychological drama is provided by the fact that not even Jake can entice Tim to communicate what he has or has not seen regarding the crime. Tim's sister, Sylvie, is protective of him. She eventually warms to Jake's efforts, but is concerned when she learns he was implicated in the suicide of another young child who was under his care.

Jake gradually befriends Tim. At first, Jake thinks that Tim is trying to communicate by cutting up playing cards, but Sylvie reveals that Tim is good at mimicking voices. Jake is able to trigger Tim's memory so that Tim mimics the voices he heard on the night of the murder by using the trigger phrase "God Damn," which were the first words Tim heard from the murder. He attempts to piece together the chronology of the murder, suspecting that Tim interrupted a fight between his parents and an intruder.

Sheriff Mitch Rivers threatens to use drugs to get Tim to talk about the murder and Dr. Rene Harlinger successfully hypnotizes Tim into breaking down a locked door. The police chief, seeing this as proof of Tim's strength, concludes that Tim was the murderer, after finding photographs showing that Tim's father was molesting him.

That night, Sylvie plans to take Tim away and attempts to convince Jake to run away with them. She fails, and instead panickedly paralyzes Jake and throws him into an icy lake to drown him. Tim mimics the police chief's voice through the phone to lure Sylvie to the police station and pulls Jake out of the lake while she is away.

Sylvie returns and Jake reveals that he has solved the mystery by examining Tim's cut up playing cards. It was actually Sylvie who killed her parents because her father had raped her repeatedly and was trying to do the same to Tim, and her mother was aware of the abuse and stayed silent the entire time. Sylvie tearfully tries to kill Jake again to stop other people from learning about her secret, but is persuaded not to do so by Tim who speaks with his own voice for the first time.

Jake, his wife Karen, and Tim go out for trick-or-treating on Halloween. Tim has gradually improved and now can speak in his own voice as well as smile. Jake's conversation with his wife reveals that Sylvie will be moved to a mental hospital with minimum security in the near future.

Production
Akiva Goldsman wrote the screenplay under the title of Indian Summer which was acquired by Morgan Creek Entertainment for $500,000 in February of 1991. In August 1993, it was announced Richard Dreyfuss had signed on to star in the film. In September 1993, it was reported that Dreyfuss had missed the first day of filming as he was invited by the White House to attend the signing of the Oslo I Accord.

To prepare for his role, Ben Faulkner visited and observed autistic children at the Linwood Center in Ellicott City, Maryland. Faulkner claims he was unaware of what autism was prior to the making of the film.

A majority of the film was shot in and around Baltimore.

Box office
Produced on a budget of $30 million, the film grossed $3,180,674 in the United States and Canada. It opened on 1,251 screens with a opening weekend gross of $1.5 million and finishing in tenth place at the US box office but by its third weekend it was only on 256 screens and its gross had reduced by 90% to finish 40th. It dropped a further 93% by its fourth weekend, finishing 74th.

Critical response
Silent Fall received largely negative reviews from critics, as it holds a 26% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 19 reviews.

Peter Rainer of the Los Angeles Times deemed it "a so-so thriller with a first-rate atmosphere. Director Bruce Beresford is working from a by-the-book script by Akiva Goldsman that piles up the preposterousness. As a murder mystery it’s schematic and too easy to figure out." Critic Roger Ebert gave the film 1.5 stars out of 4, similarly criticizing the film for its "torturously constructed plot... the solution to the mystery has been right there all along."

Caryn James of The New York Times criticized the screenplay and dialogue, noting that the actors "do the best they can," adding that the film "takes a lurid turn that includes enough fodder for several tabloid television shows and a few Stephen King novels. Using autism as a plot device may seem callous, but it pales next to the sordid twists that turn up at the end."

Year-end lists

 * Dishonorable mention – Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News

Awards and nominations

 * 45th Berlin International Film Festival – nominated for the Golden Bear award.

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