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Hilltop Hoods

Hilltop Hoods is an Australian hip hop group that formed in 1996 in Blackwood, Adelaide, South Australia. They are regarded as pioneers of the "larrikin-like" style of Australian hip hop. The group was founded by Suffa (Matthew David Lambert) and Pressure (Daniel Howe Smith), who were joined by DJ Debris (Barry John M. Francis) after fellow founder, DJ Next (Ben John Hare), left in 1999. The group released its first extended play, Back Once Again, in 1997 and have subsequently released eight studio albums, two "restrung" albums and three DVDs.

Six of their eight albums have peaked at number one on the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) Albums Charts, recently setting the record for most No. 1 Albums by an Australian band or group: The Hard Road (2006), State of the Art (2009), Drinking from the Sun (2012), Walking Under Stars (2014), Drinking from the Sun, Walking Under Stars Restrung (2016) and The Great Expanse (2019). Three tracks have reached the top 10 on the ARIA Singles Chart—"Chase That Feeling" (2009), "I Love It", featuring Sia (2011) and "Higher", featuring James Chatburn (2015) — while a further two tracks — "Cosby Sweater" (2014) and "1955" (2016) — reached the top 5. "1955", featuring Montaigne & Tom Thum, peaked at number 2 in the Australian charts.

Hilltop Hoods have toured both in Australia and overseas, including playing at music festivals: T in the Park, Oxegen, the Big Day Out, Clipsal 500, Southbound, The Great Escape, Splendour in the Grass, Bassinthegrass, Groovin' The Moo, Falls Festival, Pyramid Rock Festival, Rollercoaster, Come Together Festival and Make Poverty History.

The band hold the record for the most recurrent artist in the history of the Triple J Hottest 100, with 23 songs voted into the annual countdowns since their first appearance in 2003. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2006 they won "Best Independent Release" and "Best Urban Album" for The Hard Road. In 2007, they won "Best Urban Album" for their remix album, The Hard Road: Restrung (2007). They won the same category in 2009 for State of the Art and in 2012 for Drinking from the Sun. In 2009, Debris also won "Engineer of the Year" for his work on State of the Art. The band received their seventh ARIA award in 2014 when Walking Under Stars won in the Best Urban Album category at the 28th ARIA Awards.

1987–2001: Formation and early years
Two of Hilltop Hoods' founders first met in early 1990s when MC Suffa (aka Matthew David Lambert) and Pressure (Daniel Howe Smith) attended Blackwood High School in Eden Hills – a suburb of Adelaide. In 1996 they joined up with DJ Next (Ben John Hare) through a mutual friend and formed an Australian hip hop group. Their name was supplied by fellow local MC Flak (from Cross Bred Mongrels) – the suburb of Blackwood is known by locals as the Hilltop. The band's influences include American hip hop artists: Notorious B.I.G., KRS-One, Gang Starr, Wu-Tang Clan and Public Enemy.

At live shows DJ Next was the group's DJ, for recording he contributed audio engineering and all the scratching/turntablism on their early works. He regularly competed in the local DMC World DJ Championships (DMC) tournaments, winning the South Australian DMC championships multiple times. Hilltop Hoods recorded a demo, Highlanders, which was released on cassette tape only. As well as Pressure and Suffa on vocals, the group included MC Summit aka DJ Sum-1, but he did not appear on later Hilltop Hoods work.

The group's first official release, in 1997, was a vinyl-only, seven-track extended play, Back Once Again. Production was handled by DJ Debris (Barry John M Francis), turntablism and audio engineering by DJ Next, vocals by Pressure and Suffa. The third track, "Shades of Grey", features Debris with a verse, and was co-written by Francis, Hare, Lambert and Smith. Fifth track, "Mankind Must Suffa" also features a guest verse from Quromystix (aka Quro, Andrew Michael Bradley) – a member of Finger Lickin' Good and later the Fuglemen. "Mankind Must Suffa" is credited to Lambert, Smith, Francis and Bradley. Back Once Again is out of print and unavailable for retail purchase.

The group's debut studio album, A Matter of Time, was released in 1999 on CD only. As with Back Once Again, it is now unavailable for retail purchase. All scratching/turntablism is performed by DJ Next, a track, "Let Me Show You", has no vocals – solely showcasing his turntable skills. American MC Bukue One (Tion Torrence) appears for a guest verse on "Deaf Can Hear". The track is credited to Lambert, Smith, Francis, Hare and Torrence. The album was released independently but with financial assistance from Arts SA – the band were inspired, in 2005, to set up their own Hilltop Hoods Initiative, to help local artists. After the album appeared, DJ Next left the group and moved to Melbourne. In 2004 he moved to London. In 1999 Debris, who was also a member of the Cross Bred Mongrels, replaced Next and became the Hilltop Hoods' full-time DJ.

Hilltop Hoods founded the Certified Wise Crew – a hip-hop collaborative – with local groups Terra Firma, Cross Bred Mongrels and After Hours. Certified Wise Crew has since expanded to include MCs Trauma, Blockade, Kolaps, Flea, with Vents and Funkoars joining in later years. Hilltop Hoods received two nominations for the Hip Hop Act of the Year Award at the Australian Dance Music Awards and again at the 3D World Music Awards in 2001 and 2002. In 2001 the group's second album, Left Foot, Right Foot, was released with Lambert, Francis and M. Veraquth producing.

2003–2007: The Calling and The Hard Road
On 22 September 2003, Hilltop Hoods released their third album, The Calling, which became a commercial breakthrough. In an interview after the release of their fourth album, Suffa revealed that The Calling was recorded on his mother's computer and the simplicity of their 'studio' is the reason why some of the music on the album is in monaural ('mono') sound.

The Calling entered the ARIA Albums Chart in March 2004 and reached No. 53 before exiting the top 100 in September of the same year. By December 2006 it was certified platinum for shipment of 70,000 units, becoming the first Australian hip hop album to achieve platinum status. In March 2012, it re-entered the chart and peaked at No. 50 – eight-and-a-half years after its first release. It featured two singles, "The Nosebleed Section" and "Dumb Enough", which were listed in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2003. "The Nosebleed Section" was ranked No. 17 in the Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time in 2009. Hilltop Hoods' chart and commercial success was a turning point in the Australian Hip Hop scene because it demonstrated widespread support for the genre that reached beyond an underground fan base.

On 1 April 2006, the group followed with their fourth album, The Hard Road, which peaked at number one. It was the first Australian hip hop album to do so. It was certified gold within a week of being released. Its lead single, "Clown Prince", reached the top 30 on the related ARIA Singles Chart. It featured guest verses from New York rapper, Omni, and British MCs, Mystro and Braintax. The Hilltop Hoods received the inaugural Australian Independent Record (AIR) Award for Independent Artist of the Year and Best Performing Independent Album for The Hard Road in 2006. The track, "The Blue Blooded", is a collaboration with Australian MCs: Funkoars, Hau from Koolism, Mortar, Vents, Drapht, Muph & Plutonic, Pegz and Robby Balboa. On 27 April of the same year, Hilltop Hoods performed at the Bass in the Grass music festival in Darwin alongside fellow hip hop group, The Herd. That same day they issued a second single, the title track from the album. Its video includes fellow members from the Certified Wise Crew – Cross Bred Mongrels, Terrafirma and Funkoars.

Following the success of The Hard Road Tour in early 2006, the Hilltop Hoods began their second national tour for the year, The Stopping All Stations Tour, which visited more regional areas of Australia as well as the capital cities. They were supported by Koolism and Mystro. Late that year, Hilltop Hoods released their third single from the album, "What a Great Night". The video shows the group at a club with camera shots panning up and down to reveal a new location. It used special effects and is one of the most expensive video clips for an Australian hip hop group, mirroring the group's rise in success and popularity. Also late in the year the band won the J Award for best album of the year from Triple J. They performed the Homebake Festival and Falls Festival before the end of the year. The Hard Road received the AIR Award for Best Independent Hip Hop/Urban Release in 2007.

2007–2009: The Hard Road Restrung and State of the Art
On 12 May 2007, Hilltop Hoods released their next album The Hard Road: Restrung which is a remix of their previous studio album, The Hard Road, featuring the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Okwerdz. It peaked at No. 8 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Like its predecessor The Hard Road, it took out "Best Urban Release" at the ARIA Awards of 2007, with the group going back-to-back in the category. The lead single from the album "Recapturing the Vibe Restrung", its video clip was on high rotation on rage and jtv. That year the group performed at the Southbound Festival (WA), The Great Escape at Newington Armory over Easter, and embarked on a UK tour with a Sydney-based string quartet. They finished the year by headlining the Pyramid Rock Festival on Victoria's Phillip Island over New Year's Eve 2007. In 2008 they performed at the Big Day Out festivals, at Glastonbury Festival and Islington Academy in London. In December their DVD, The City of Light, was released and was nominated as Best Music DVD at the 2008 ARIA Awards.

Hilltop Hoods left their longtime home of Obese Records to start their own label, Golden Era Records, to release their future material. In November 2008 Pressure announced on Triple J's breakfast program that the next studio album, State of the Art, would be recorded with session musicians: "We realised with this one after doing Restrung and having an orchestra that we were a bit less limited. So we're going to have some session musos come in on this one and stuff like that". The album was released on 12 June, with the lead single, "Chase That Feeling", issued as a digital download on 8 May, and featured a return guest appearance by a quartet from the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. The album debuted at number one on the albums chart while "Chase That Feeling" peaked at No. 8 on the related singles chart. By 2010 State of the Art was certified 2× platinum for shipment of 140,000 units.

In early 2009 the Hilltop Hoods performed at the Groovin the Moo festival in Townsville, Maitland and Bendigo. They also performed at Triple J's One Night Stand in Sale, Victoria on 30 May, and at Fat as Butter festival in Newcastle on 25 October where they played several of the tracks from the album. To promote its release the band started a national tour starting on 18 July and performed at most major cities including state capitals. The second national tour that year followed on 11 November with support provided by Vents.

2010–2017: Drinking from the Sun and Walking Under Stars
On 28 July 2010, Hilltop Hoods completed work on a zombie movie, Parade of the Dead, that the group wrote, filmed, and starred in. Using the title from a State of the Art track, it was released on 22 October with the eponymous single. Filmed mostly in Adelaide, the former Adelaide Gaol was used as a "key location".

In late November 2011, the band premiered the single, "I Love It", on the Triple J breakfast show. Featuring Sia, the song peaked at No. 6 on the ARIA chart and was the lead single from their sixth album, Drinking from the Sun, which was released on 9 March 2012. During December 2011, they supported Eminem and Lil Wayne during the Australian leg of Eminem's world tour. The song has since been certified 4× Platinum by ARIA, denoting sales of more than 280,000 units.

Three music videos for "I Love It" were published online in December 2011 by DJ Debris. Three versions were commissioned by the band, involving three different directors: Nash Edgerton of Blue Tongue Films; the Animal Logic animation company; and independent Melbourne, Australia, film-maker Carl Allison.

In January 2012, the group "leaked" a song from the sixth album following the emergence of interest on their Facebook page: "Let's have some fun. If we get 5000 likes on this post we're going to leak a track off Drinking from the Sun"—they received more than 7,500 likes within 10 minutes. Surprised with the magnitude of the response, the band subsequently posted: "Wow. Give me a minute." and posted a link to a new track, "Rattling the Keys to the Kingdom", on YouTube shortly afterward. "Rattling the Keys to the Kingdom" was certified Gold by ARIA in 2018.

Drinking from the Sun became their third number-one album in Australia and also charted on the New Zealand Albums Chart top 40. In mid-April 2012, the music video for "Speaking in Tongues", the album's second single, was published online. Directed by Toby Grimes, the video features Chali 2na and graffiti murals from Brisbane, Australia, artist Sofles.

On 10 May 2012, Hilltop Hoods issued a new EP, The Good Life in the Sun, to celebrate the launch of the 'Speaking in Tongues Tour', which includes tracks from Drinking from the Sun remixed by Suffa. The post contained a link to their website where the EP can be downloaded for free. In July 2012, the video for the third single, "Shredding the Balloon", was published on the band's YouTube channel. Directed by Selina Miles of Unity Sound and Visual, the video had received nearly 1.5 million views as of 1 October 2014. The single was released on 20 July 2012.

In August 2012, Triple J uploaded video footage of the group's tribute to Beastie Boys' member, Adam "MCA" Yauch, who died in May 2012. The group selected "So What'cha Want", from Beastie Boys' album, Check Your Head.

In late September, the music video for "Rattling the Keys to the Kingdom" was published online. It featured numerous Australian hip-hop artists, including Drapht, Urthboy, Def Wish Cast, Dazastah, Layla, Maya Jupiter and Hunter. The band explained in the production notes for the video:

Not only did we want to do something unifying, we also wanted to use the platform we have to promote artists that we think deserve more exposure. Of course, not everyone involved in the filmclip needs exposure, as many of the artists involved have huge followings in their own right. But having these artists involved in the filmclip just further serves to unify and consolidate the scene ... We need to point out that this is by no means a representation of every relevant artist involved in the culture past or present. It's more a cross-section of who we have contact with, who was available and so on.

In November 2012, Hilltop Hoods performed a live show on UStream and announced that the title of the group's next album would be Walking Under Stars—this was then confirmed on the official Hilltop Hoods Twitter and Facebook pages, following their Best Urban Album win at the 2012 ARIA Awards ceremony. The band's Facebook post read:

So it's now one year to the day since we dropped 'I Love It' and started the 'Drinking from the Sun' journey. Thanks to everyone that's supported us over the last 12 months, it's been amazing. We hope you join us late next year for 'Walking Under Stars'. Thankyou, Suffa, Pressure & Debris

The announcement corresponds with a sample on Drinking from the Sun that refers to a band writing with the clear intention of formulating enough material for two albums: "They were recording enough for two albums; that was premeditated." The sample appears on the track, "The Thirst Pt. 3 (Interlude)".

In April 2013, the Hilltop Hoods stated that the development of Walking Under Stars was "well underway", with the trio calling the album Drinking from the Sun "part two"—the latter received a double platinum sales certification in the same month. Additionally, American clothing company Zoo York announced a partnership with the Hilltop Hoods in April 2013, in preparation for the brand's 20th-anniversary celebrations in 2014. Lambert explained: "We've always been fans of Zoo York, they understand hip hop culture, and that's why we can't wait to work with them."

On 21 June 2014—after the band successfully received the 20,000 likes they requested for a Facebook post—the first preview of Walking Under Stars, titled "The Art of the Handshake", was uploaded to the band's SoundCloud profile —the song is the fourth on the album's track-list. Lambert revealed on 6 August that the song was inspired by the Notes to Self song "All of the Above", which reminded him of "the ridiculous handshakes" of his youth. As part of the songwriting process, Lambert spent a day researching the status of the handshake in countries such as Sweden and India.

The album's first official single, "Won't Let You Down"—featuring Irish singer Maverick Sabre—was released on 27 June 2014. Writing for the Faster Louder website, Matt Shea revealed in early August that the first single was met with a mixed reaction from existing fans of the band: "While many loved it, plenty of Hoods fans at the very least declared it a radio friendly single that had little to do with hip-hop. Others outright disliked it." Lambert explained in media interviews during the week prior to the album's release that the song was recorded at the Red Bull Studios in both London, UK and New York City, US, while the lyrical content is about the partners of the band members and the difficulties of being in a relationship with touring musicians. The single's musical content features Italian singer Zucchero Fornaciari singing a rendition of Ph.D's hit "I Won't Let You Down".

During the band's performance at the 2014 Splendour in the Grass festival, held from 25 to 27 July in Byron Bay, Australia, Lambert exclaimed to the audience prior to the song "Speaking in Tongues", from the Drinking from the Sun album:

The Hilltop Hoods do not give a fuck what race you are! The Hilltop Hoods do not give a fuck what religion you are! The Hilltop Hoods do not give a fuck what sex you are! The Hilltop Hoods do not give a fuck what sexuality you are! We are one people under the music!

Lambert explained that his announcement, a reaffirmation of the sentiment in "Speaking in Tongues", is "very important" to the band.

The band announced the release date for Walking Under Stars as 8 August 2014 in mid-July and, while the album is a Golden Era Records recording, Universal Music Australia acquired the exclusive licensing rights for the domestic market—Universal will also use the license to distribute the album in Canada, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Benelux, while Golden Era continues its partnership with Fontana for the US release. Walking Under Stars was conceived before Drinking From the Sun was written and Lambert referred to the former as "a companion piece" in an August 2014 interview. Lambert also explained that "I'm a Ghost" is four-years-old, while a segment of "Brainbox" originally appeared on the 2012 Golden Era mixtape.

Similar to the band's previous album releases, numerous collaborators appear on Walking Under Stars. Lambert explained on 5 August that "we [Hilltop Hoods] try to do it in the same room" when guest artists record and, for the seventh studio album, the band worked with Sabre, New Zealand soul singer Aaradhna, Brother Ali, Dan Sultan, Drapht, Canadian voice-over artist Dave Pettitt and One Above, the Adelaide producer who also worked on Drinking from the Sun. Lambert explained to TheMusic.com.au website that Sultan is a "gifted" artist who the band loves "as a person as well", and "it was really good to work with [Brother] Ali, who's an artist that we admire so much."

Walking Under Stars debuted in the number-one position of the ARIA album charts during the week beginning 11 August 2014, providing the band with their fourth chart-topping album since The Hard Road in April 2006. As of 16 August 2014, the Hilltop Hoods have garnered a total of six weeks at the top of the ARIA charts from four number-one albums, three of which are Golden Era Records releases. During the promotion for a national Australian tour in late August 2014, the band revealed that a secret release will "manifest itself" in 2015 and will be the culmination of a multi-album creative project that began with Drinking From The Sun.

"Won't Let You Down" was performed live on the Australian AFL Footy Show television program on 7 August 2014, during an episode that was filmed in Adelaide. The music video for "Won't Let You Down" was published on the Hilltop Hoods YouTube channel on 19 August 2014. Directed by Richard Coburn of the Kojo production company, the video features a narrative in which manufactured pigs heads are used.

The music video for the "Cosby Sweater" single was released on the Hilltop Hoods YouTube channel while the group was engaged in the third stage of their 2014 world tour in North America. Published on 15 September, the video was again directed by Coburn and also features Golden Era artists Briggs, K21 and Trials. The single became the group's first top 5 ARIA single on 15 November 2014, during the fourth, Australian stage of the world tour, on the same date as the group's Melbourne performance at the Rod Laver Arena. "Cosby Sweater" was also performed at the 28th ARIA Awards ceremony on 26 November 2014, where the band also won the Best Urban Album award.

On 30 April 2016, Hilltop Hoods performed their final concert of the 'Drinking from the Sun, Walking Under the Stars' at Perth Arena.I

2018–present: The Great Expanse
On 13 July 2018, Hilltop Hoods released single "Clark Griswold" with Adrian Eagle, an ode to the character from the National Lampoon's Vacation movies.

On 23 November 2018, Hilltop Hoods released the single "Leave Me Lonely" and announced their forthcoming 2019 album The Great Expanse. The album, which features platinum single "Leave Me Lonely," gold selling ARIA Award-winning single "Clark Griswold" ft. Adrian Eagle, and new single "Exit Sign" ft. Illy and Ecca Vandal, was released on 22 February 2019 and debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Charts. The chart debut made it the group's sixth number one, setting a new ARIA record for most No. 1 Albums by an Australian band or group.

In March 2022, the Hilltop Hoods have released a new single with US soul singer Eamon "Show Business".

On 15 May 2022, Hilltop Hoods celebrated the 15th anniversary of The Hard Road Restrung with a post on their official Facebook & Instagram pages, and announced they were working on a third installment in their 'restrung' releases, following The Hard Road Restrung (2007) and Drinking from the Sun and Walking Under Stars Restrung (2016). Accompanying photos of both of their previous restrung album covers, was an image containing songs for the third installment.

In 2022, Hilltop Hoods reunited with Montaigne and Tom Thum and released the song "A Whole Day's Night" on 26 August 2022.

Touring
Hilltop Hoods have toured both in Australia and overseas, including playing at music festivals: T in the Park, Oxegen, the Big Day Out, Adelaide 500, Southbound, The Great Escape, Splendour in the Grass, Bassinthegrass, Groovin' The Moo, Falls Festival, Pyramid Rock Festival, Rollercoaster, Come Together Festival and Make Poverty History.

On 8 December 2012, the Hilltop Hoods were one of two headlines acts (the other was American band, Blondie) for the 2012 "Global Edition" of the popular Australian music, film, comedy and arts festival, Homebake.

A North American "Drinking From The Sun" tour was announced in late February 2013 and the band revealed that it would perform in American cities such as Seattle (the tour's debut location), New York and San Francisco, and the Canadian cities, Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary and Toronto; the tour was scheduled to end in Los Angeles on 9 May 2013. However, on 23 February 2013, the hip hop group announced the indefinite postponement of the entire tour due to a "serious family matter". The Hilltop Hoods were also one of the bands on the "Concerts" roster for the V8 Clipsal 500 Adelaide car racing event, held between 28 February 2013 and 3 March 2013—other Australian hip hop artists, such as Drapht and Vents, also performed at the event.

The group performed at the 2014 occurrence of the Australian festival Splendour in the Grass, performing alongside other musicians, such as Illy, Outkast, and Lily Allen. The band announced an August–September 2014 North American tour in June 2014—including dates in Vancouver and Toronto, Canada, and San Francisco, US—with Minnesota, US, artist Sims, from Doomtree.

In late August 2014, the "Cosby Sweater Australian Tour" was announced in support of the Walking Under Stars album release. The domestic tour run from October to December 2014, and the support acts were Thundamentals and K21.

Their latest national tour was in 2016. This was the "Drinking from the sun and Walking Under Stars Australian Sympthony Orchestra tour" This was the tour that followed the release of the new album which was the 2 most recent albums remastered using the orchestra.

In February 2019, the group supported Eminem's concert tour around Australia and New Zealand, performing to audiences in venues such as ANZ Stadium in Sydney and the MCG in Melbourne.

Hilltop Hoods undertook a national tour in late 2022, commencing in Brisbane on 27 August, with performances in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and concluding in Adelaide. A further tour of New Zealand was undertaken in September 2023.

Members
Current members
 * Suffa (Matthew David Lambert) – vocals, engineering, mixing, producing (1996–present)
 * Pressure (Daniel Howe Smith) – vocals (1996–present)
 * DJ Debris (Barry John M Francis) – producing, engineering, turntablism (1999–present)

Former members
 * DJ Next (Ben John Hare) – audio engineering, DJing, turntablism, scratching (1996–1999)
 * MC Summit aka DJ Sum-1 – vocals (ca. 1996)

Discography

 * A Matter of Time (1999)
 * Left Foot, Right Foot (2001)
 * The Calling (2003)
 * The Hard Road (2006)
 * State of the Art (2009)
 * Drinking from the Sun (2012)
 * Walking Under Stars (2014)
 * The Great Expanse (2019)

Awards and nominations
Hilltop Hoods received nominations for the 'Best Hip Hop Act' in 2001 and 2002 at the 3D World Dance Music Awards, they won the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) Award for 'Best Up-coming Group' as well as receiving number-one positions in independent charts all around Australia.

In December 2020, the Hilltop Hoods were listed at number 27 in Rolling Stone Australia's "50 Greatest Australian Artists of All Time" issue.

AIR Awards
The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known informally as AIR Awards) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector.

 * rowspan="3" | 2006
 * The Hard Road
 * Best Performing Independent Album
 * Won
 * "Clown Prince"
 * Best Performing Independent Single
 * Nominated
 * themselves
 * Independent Artist of the Year
 * Won
 * rowspan="3" | 2007
 * rowspan="2" |The Hard Road Restrung
 * Best Independent Album
 * Nominated
 * Best Independent Dance/Electronic Album
 * Nominated
 * themselves
 * Independent Artist of the Year
 * Nominated
 * Best Independent Dance/Electronic Album
 * Nominated
 * themselves
 * Independent Artist of the Year
 * Nominated
 * Nominated

APRA Awards
The APRA Awards are presented annually from 1982 by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), "honouring composers and songwriters".

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 * rowspan="1"| 2010
 * rowspan="1"| "Still Standing"
 * Urban Work of the Year
 * Won
 * rowspan="1"| 2011
 * rowspan="1"| "Light You Burned"
 * Urban Work of the Year
 * Nominated
 * 2012
 * "I Love It" (featuring Sia)
 * Song of the Year
 * rowspan="3"| 2013
 * rowspan="2"| "I Love It" (featuring Sia)
 * Most Played Australian Work
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="3"|
 * rowspan="2"| Urban Work of the Year
 * Won
 * "Speaking in Tongues"
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="2"| 2015
 * "Cosby Sweater"
 * Song of the Year
 * "Won't Let You Down" (featuring Maverick Sabre)
 * Urban Work of the Year
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="4"| 2020
 * rowspan="2"| "Exit Sign" by Hilltop Hoods featuring Illy and Ecca Vandal
 * Song of the Year
 * rowspan="2"| Urban Work of the Year
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="3"|
 * "Leave Me Lonely"
 * Won
 * Hilltop Hoods (Barry Francis p.k.a. DJ Debris, Matthew Lambert p.k.a. Suffa, Daniel Smith p.k.a. MC Pressure)
 * Songwriter of the Year
 * Won
 * 2021
 * "I'm Good"
 * Song of the Year
 * 2023
 * "Show Business" (feat. Eamon)
 * Most Performed Hip Hop/ Rap Work of the Year
 * Nominated
 * Song of the Year
 * rowspan="2"| Urban Work of the Year
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="3"|
 * "Leave Me Lonely"
 * Won
 * Hilltop Hoods (Barry Francis p.k.a. DJ Debris, Matthew Lambert p.k.a. Suffa, Daniel Smith p.k.a. MC Pressure)
 * Songwriter of the Year
 * Won
 * 2021
 * "I'm Good"
 * Song of the Year
 * 2023
 * "Show Business" (feat. Eamon)
 * Most Performed Hip Hop/ Rap Work of the Year
 * Nominated
 * "I'm Good"
 * Song of the Year
 * 2023
 * "Show Business" (feat. Eamon)
 * Most Performed Hip Hop/ Rap Work of the Year
 * Nominated
 * "Show Business" (feat. Eamon)
 * Most Performed Hip Hop/ Rap Work of the Year
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="1"| "Laced Up"
 * Most Performed Hip Hop/Rap Work
 * Nominated
 * }
 * }
 * }

ARIA Awards
In 2006 Hilltop Hoods were nominated for five ARIA Awards – the first ever for an Australian hip hop group – winning in two categories: 'Best Urban Release' and 'Best Independent Release'. The following year they won 'Best Urban Release' at the ARIA Awards for The Hard Road: Restrung. The album was also nominated for 'Best Independent Release' and 'Best Cover Art' by John Engelhardt. The DVD City of Light was nominated as 'Best Music DVD' at the 2008 ARIA awards. At the 2009 ARIA Awards they won 'Best Urban Album' for a third time – for State of the Art and DJ Debris won an award for 'Engineer of the Year' for his work on that album. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2012, Hilltop Hoods won its fourth award in the 'Best Urban Album' category for Drinking from the Sun; as of November 2012, the group has won six awards from twenty nominations.

At the 2012 ARIA Awards, established Aboriginal Australian band, Yothu Yindu, was inducted into the Hall of Fame. A photograph of Suffa holding the award in the presence of the band was posted on the Hilltop Hoods' Instagram profile, accompanied by the following comment: "A memory I'll take to the grave. Meeting Yothu Yindi and having them let me hold their Hall of Fame ARIA. What a beautiful induction."

The band was nominated in three ARIA categories in 2014: Best Group, Best Urban Album, and Engineer of the Year. In an October 2014 radio interview, Smith said that the band does not expect to win an award, but wishes the best for the winners; however, the Best Urban Album award was given to the band on 26 November 2014, providing the band with their seventh ARIA award. As from November 2020 they have won ten awards from thirty-six nominations.

!Ref.
 * rowspan="5" | 2006 || rowspan="3" | The Hard Road || Best Independent Release || Won ||rowspan="5"|
 * Best Urban Album || Won
 * Breakthrough Artist – Album || Nominated
 * "Clown Prince" || Breakthrough Artist – Single || Nominated
 * The Calling Live || Best Music DVD || Nominated
 * rowspan="3" | 2007 || rowspan="2" | The Hard Road: Restrung || Best Independent Release || Nominated ||rowspan="3"|
 * Best Urban Album || Won
 * The Hard Road: Restrung – John Engelhardt || Best Cover Art || Nominated
 * 2008 || The City of Light || Best Music DVD || Nominated ||
 * rowspan="6" | 2009 || rowspan="3" | State of the Art || Highest Selling Album || Nominated || rowspan="6"|
 * Best Urban Album || Won
 * Best Group || Nominated
 * "Chase That Feeling" || Single of the Year || Nominated
 * State of the Art – Suffa || Producer of the Year || Nominated
 * State of the Art – DJ Debris || Engineer of the Year || Won
 * rowspan="5" | 2012 || rowspan="2" | Drinking from the Sun || Best Group || Nominated || rowspan="5"|
 * Best Urban Album || Won
 * "I Love It" (featuring Sia) || Song of the Year || Nominated
 * "I Love It" (featuring Sia) – Animal Logic || Best Video || Nominated
 * Drinking From The Sun || Best Australian Live Act || Nominated
 * rowspan="3" | 2014 || rowspan="3" | Walking Under Stars || Engineer of the Year || Nominated || rowspan="3"|
 * Best Urban Album || Won
 * Best Group || Nominated
 * 2015 || Cosby Sweater Australian Tour || Best Australian Live Act || Nominated ||
 * rowspan="3" | 2016 || rowspan="2" | "1955" (featuring Montaigne and Thom Thum)|| Song of the Year || Nominated ||rowspan="3"|
 * Best Video || Nominated
 * The Restrung Tour || Best Australian Live Act || Won
 * 2018 || "Clark Griswold" (featuring Adrian Eagle) || Best Urban Release || Won ||
 * rowspan="7" | 2019 || rowspan="3" | The Great Expanse || Album of the Year || Nominated ||rowspan="7"|
 * Best Group || Nominated
 * Best Hip Hop Release || Nominated
 * "Leave Me Lonely" || Song of the Year || Nominated
 * "Exit Sign" (featuring Illy and Ecca Vandal) || Best Video || Nominated
 * The Great Expanse World Tour || Best Australian Live Act || Won
 * Plutonic Lab for Hilltop Hoods' The Great Expanse || Engineer of the Year || Nominated
 * 2020 || "Exit Sign" (featuring Illy and Ecca Vandal) || Song of the Year || Nominated ||
 * "I Love It" (featuring Sia) – Animal Logic || Best Video || Nominated
 * Drinking From The Sun || Best Australian Live Act || Nominated
 * rowspan="3" | 2014 || rowspan="3" | Walking Under Stars || Engineer of the Year || Nominated || rowspan="3"|
 * Best Urban Album || Won
 * Best Group || Nominated
 * 2015 || Cosby Sweater Australian Tour || Best Australian Live Act || Nominated ||
 * rowspan="3" | 2016 || rowspan="2" | "1955" (featuring Montaigne and Thom Thum)|| Song of the Year || Nominated ||rowspan="3"|
 * Best Video || Nominated
 * The Restrung Tour || Best Australian Live Act || Won
 * 2018 || "Clark Griswold" (featuring Adrian Eagle) || Best Urban Release || Won ||
 * rowspan="7" | 2019 || rowspan="3" | The Great Expanse || Album of the Year || Nominated ||rowspan="7"|
 * Best Group || Nominated
 * Best Hip Hop Release || Nominated
 * "Leave Me Lonely" || Song of the Year || Nominated
 * "Exit Sign" (featuring Illy and Ecca Vandal) || Best Video || Nominated
 * The Great Expanse World Tour || Best Australian Live Act || Won
 * Plutonic Lab for Hilltop Hoods' The Great Expanse || Engineer of the Year || Nominated
 * 2020 || "Exit Sign" (featuring Illy and Ecca Vandal) || Song of the Year || Nominated ||
 * 2018 || "Clark Griswold" (featuring Adrian Eagle) || Best Urban Release || Won ||
 * rowspan="7" | 2019 || rowspan="3" | The Great Expanse || Album of the Year || Nominated ||rowspan="7"|
 * Best Group || Nominated
 * Best Hip Hop Release || Nominated
 * "Leave Me Lonely" || Song of the Year || Nominated
 * "Exit Sign" (featuring Illy and Ecca Vandal) || Best Video || Nominated
 * The Great Expanse World Tour || Best Australian Live Act || Won
 * Plutonic Lab for Hilltop Hoods' The Great Expanse || Engineer of the Year || Nominated
 * 2020 || "Exit Sign" (featuring Illy and Ecca Vandal) || Song of the Year || Nominated ||
 * "Leave Me Lonely" || Song of the Year || Nominated
 * "Exit Sign" (featuring Illy and Ecca Vandal) || Best Video || Nominated
 * The Great Expanse World Tour || Best Australian Live Act || Won
 * Plutonic Lab for Hilltop Hoods' The Great Expanse || Engineer of the Year || Nominated
 * 2020 || "Exit Sign" (featuring Illy and Ecca Vandal) || Song of the Year || Nominated ||
 * Plutonic Lab for Hilltop Hoods' The Great Expanse || Engineer of the Year || Nominated
 * 2020 || "Exit Sign" (featuring Illy and Ecca Vandal) || Song of the Year || Nominated ||
 * 2020 || "Exit Sign" (featuring Illy and Ecca Vandal) || Song of the Year || Nominated ||
 * 2020 || "Exit Sign" (featuring Illy and Ecca Vandal) || Song of the Year || Nominated ||

Fowler's Live Music Awards
The Fowler's Live Music Awards took place from 2012 to 2014 to "recognise success and achievement over the past 12 months [and] celebrate the great diversity of original live music" in South Australia. Since 2015 they're known as the South Australian Music Awards. (wins only)
 * 2012
 * Hilltop Hoods
 * Best Hip Hop Artist
 * Won
 * Won

J Awards
The J Awards are an annual series of Australian music awards that were established by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's youth-focused radio station Triple J. They commenced in 2005.

 * 2014
 * Walking Under Stars
 * Australian Album of the Year
 * Nominated
 * 2019
 * A Great Expanse
 * Australian Album of the Year
 * Nominated
 * Australian Album of the Year
 * Nominated

National Live Music Awards
The National Live Music Awards (NLMAs) are a broad recognition of Australia's diverse live industry, celebrating the success of the Australian live scene. The awards commenced in 2016.

 * 2019
 * Hilltop Hoods
 * Live Hip Hop Act of the Year
 * Nominated
 * Nominated

Hilltop Hoods Initiative
In 2005 the annual "Hilltop Hoods Initiative" was established in association with Arts SA, made possible by a donation from the Hilltop Hoods. Valued at A$10,000 (originally $3000), the Hilltop Hoods initiative helped young and emerging South Australian hip-hop artists to manufacture and distribute a CD. The initiative also included two mentorship sessions with Hilltop Hoods' former manager, PJ Murton. It acknowledges the important role South Australian government assistance played in the development of the careers of the Hilltop Hoods. In 2009, the initiative became a national grant available to entry for any emerging Australian hip-hop artist who have not issued a professional album.

In a Hilltop Hoods newsletter, released on 4 December 2012, the group communicated the following announcement:

In 2013 The Hilltop Hoods and APRA are teaming up again to give a career changing $10K to the most impressive emerging Hip Hop/Soul act in Australia. Aimed at helping fund the manufacturing and marketing of an album release, the grant is open to any act who hasn't yet released anything professionally. Applications will open in early 2013 along with details on how to enter. Recipients are:
 * General Knowledge, a three-piece group (2006)
 * Subsketch, a solo artist (2007)
 * Jimblah, a solo artist (2008)
 * K21, a solo artist (2009)
 * 1/6, a solo artist (2010)
 * Koolta, a solo artist (2011)
 * Run for Your Life, a musical collective (2012)
 * Chelsea Jane (2013), Gold Coast, Queensland artist
 * I AM D (2014), Brisbane, Queensland solo artist
 * Sarah Connor, a solo artist (2015)
 * Astro Travellers, a seven-piece group (2016)
 * MC Sinks, a solo artist from Melbourne, Victoria. (2017).

Hilltop Hoods Remix Shoe
The Hilltop Hoods and DC Shoes collaborated on the production of a limited-edition shoe called "The Hilltop Hoods Remix Shoe"—it was released in stores on 1 February 2008. They are the first Australian music group to design and release their own signature-model shoe. Illustration and Design by John Engelhardt injected its unique style

Golden Era Records
Following its departure from the Obese record label, the group launched its own label in 2009, entitled Golden Era Records. The label's title is described by the band on the label website:

To some people the golden era of Hip Hop was '94. Ask someone a little older and they'll tell you Hip Hop's renaissance was back in '88. Ask one of our revered pioneers and they'll tell you that the golden era came and went three decades ago, before most of today's Hip Hop heads were born. Whatever the case these so-called golden eras weren't only defined by the music or the fashion – they were characterised by something less tangible – an atmosphere, a movement.

This label wasn't established to release throw-back records; instead we hope to make music that throws you back to the way you felt during the golden era of Hip Hop.

Whatever year that was for you.

The label is based in Stirling, South Australia, and, as of December 2012, its roster consists of the Hilltop Hoods, Briggs, Funkoars, Vents, Adfu, K21, and most recently, Shadow.

In January 2012, Fontana, an independent marketing, sales and distribution company under the Universal Music Group umbrella, signed an exclusive agreement with Golden Era Records for the American release of Drinking From The Sun, as well as back catalogue titles.

Charity
The CanTeen youth cancer charity announced that the 2-CD fundraising album Australian Hip Hop Supports CanTeen had raised over AU$122,000 as of 15 October 2014. Released in late 2013, the album features contributions from Hilltop Hoods, as well as numerous other Australian hip-hop artists. The initiative was originally conceived of by Robert Hunter, an MC who rapped under the name "Hunter" (SBX), who died from cancer prior to the release of the album.

Through the Dark interactive film
On 11 November 2016 Hilltop Hoods released an interactive film called Through the Dark, which featured their song of the same name. The interactive film project was a collaboration with Google Play Music and was directed by Mike Daly.

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Adolf Østbye

Adolf Østbye (February 1868 – September 5, 1907) was a revue artist and barber who became the first Norwegian recording artist. The earliest playable Norwegian phonograph cylinder dates from 1889.

During the years 1889–1904, Østbye made a series of cylinders, announced "Østbye Record". Several of these are made with cooperation with the Norwegian Pathé manager, William Farre.

The first recording in Norway
In December 1904, Østbye was the first to make a gramophone record. The record was "Parodi paa Terje Vigen". (Actually, Edvard Grieg 1843–1907, was the first Norwegian to make gramophone records, he did nine records in Paris during the spring 1903.) The Norwegian recording sessions were held at the Grand Hotel, Kristiania.

Østbye recorded several cylinders and gramophone records. He mainly recorded for Pathé and The Gramophone Company (HMV) – whose masters were released as Victor records in the US, as well as Columbia cylinders and records. Many of these sold very well, and the most popular title "Bal i Hallingdal" together with Carl Mathisen (September 25, 1870 Holmsbu, Norway – 1933 Ray, North Dakota, US) at accordion remained in the HMV catalogues until the late 1930s.

Østbye also began to start up his own record company, "Ekko - Kristiania" during 1906–07. These plans were cut short by his illness in 1907. Only two Ekko records are reported to exist today. These records seem to be earlier Pathé and "Østbyes record"s that have been transferred. The reason for this might be that Østbye, at the time, was too ill to record "live". He died in Kristiania (Oslo), aged 39.

On several record labels, Østbyes last name has also been spelled: Östby(e), Østby(e) and Ostby(e).

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User:Wikigs~enwiki

Proposal: Associative Wiktionary
The goal of the Associative Wiktionary proposal is to convert Wictionary to associative one.

It means that we shall add multilingual associations to every word entry of Wiktionary.

Multilingual association - beautiful sensible sparkling phrase or sentence which combines words of several languages.

Examples of multilingual associations:

listen (English) леса сон /lesa son/ (dream of forest, Russian)

dog polite (English) не лает /ne laet/ (does not bark, Russian)

fair фея /feya/ (fay, Russian), фея yafeyfiya (beautiful, Hebrew)

know how say (English) ni2 hao3 (hello, Chinese)

zusammen (together, German) на экзамен (to exam, Russian)

xue2 sheng (student, Chinese) - sure handshake (English)

Ohayoo Gozaimasu (good morning, Japanese), go (English) йогой (yoga) заниматься (to make, Russian)

каждому (to everybody) скажите (say, Russian) - Hajimemashite (nice to meet you, Japanese)

malheureuse (unhappy, French) - мало роз (has not enough roses, Russian)

было мало (was not enough, Russian), но (but) molto bello (very good, Italian)

tout a coup (suddenly, French) cop (English) тут как тут /tut kak tut/ (here, Russian)

zloi(unkind, Russian) lawyer, ready for (English) redifa (chase, Hebrew)

Reasons to do the Wictionary an associative
 * At present the languages coexist almost independently. Amount of links between words of different languages is much less than amount of connections inside a language. Each language as though exists in its own plane presenting its own reflection of the world.

Creation of numerous links between languages will convert the structure of many parallel language planes to 3-dimensional structure which will be much richer than any individual language.

 * Associative dictionary helps to learn languages fast.

 * Common language helps different people to understand each other.

 * Gives new opportunities for creative work. This is like poetry using not one but many languages. It also can be considered as a multilingual game.

 * Will help to save weak languages connecting them to stronger ones.

Development of associative Wictionary requires participation of many people speaking in different languages.

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Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry

The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment of the United Kingdom's Territorial Army. It served in the armoured replacement role, providing replacement tank crews for regular armoured regiments.

History
The regiment was formed in November 1992 by the amalgamation of The Queen's Own Mercian Yeomanry and The Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry as part of the Options for Change. In 1999, it absorbed a squadron from The Queen's Own Yeomanry, bringing it to a strength of four squadrons plus the headquarters squadron.

In October 2006, the RMLY became a single cap badge regiment, when the individual cap badges of each squadron were replaced by the newly designed RMLY cap badge. This incorporated the Mercian Eagle from the Queen's Own Mercian Yeomanry with the Red Rose from the Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry. This was also the point at which H-Det joined the regiment, to provide a Recce troop. H-Detachment was renamed Manoeuvre and Support Squadron in 2011, when it was given Squadron status; it still consisted of the Recce troop, but now also housed the "hoop" (communications for the squadron).

In July 2013, it was announced that the RMLY would be restructured under the Army 2020 plan. A Squadron and B Squadron resubordinated to The Royal Yeomanry, while C Squadron and D Squadron resubordinated to The Queen's Own Yeomanry. The regiment was disbanded in April 2014.

Organisation
The RMLY consisted of a Recce Troop, a Command Troop (within the detachment based in Hereford) and four sabre squadrons. Each of the sabre squadrons perpetuates a historic Yeomanry regiment, which is reflected in their subtitles:

 * A (Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry) Squadron
 * B (Shropshire Yeomanry) Squadron
 * C (Cheshire Yeomanry) Squadron
 * D (Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry) Squadron
 * Manoeuvre and Support Squadron (Hereford) - The Herefordshire (Light Infantry) Squadron

Lineage
(1992) (1973) South Salopian Yeomanry (1795) renamed The Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry (1971) 4th Volunteer Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment) (1888) 7th Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment) (1908) 40th (The King's) Royal Tank Regiment (1938) 22nd Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps (1882) 6th Volunteer Battalion, The Manchester Regiment (1888) 10th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment (1908) 41st (Oldham) Royal Tank Regiment (1938)
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 * rowspan="14" style="width:20%; "|The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry
 * rowspan="4" style="width:20%; "|The Mercian Yeomanry (1971) renamed The Queen's Own Mercian Yeomanry
 * rowspan="2" style="width:20%; "|The Queen's Own Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry (1956)
 * colspan="2" style="width:20%; "|The Warwickshire Yeomanry (1794)
 * colspan="2" style="width:20%; text-align:center;"|The Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars (1831)
 * colspan="3" style="width:20%; text-align:center;"|The Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment) (1794)
 * style="width:20%; text-align:center;"|The Shropshire Yeomanry (1872)
 * colspan="2" style="width:20%; text-align:center;"|North Salopian Yeomanry (1795)
 * style="width:20%; text-align:center;"|The Shropshire Yeomanry (1872)
 * colspan="2" style="width:20%; text-align:center;"|North Salopian Yeomanry (1795)
 * colspan="2" style="width:20%; text-align:center;"|North Salopian Yeomanry (1795)
 * rowspan="3" style="width:20%; text-align:center;"|The Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry (Royal Tank Regiment) (1967)
 * rowspan="3" style="width:20%; text-align:center;"|The Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry (Royal Tank Regiment) (1967)
 * colspan="3" style="width:20%; text-align:center;"|The Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry (1797)
 * rowspan="2" style="width:20%; text-align:center;"|The 40th/41st Royal Tank Regiment (1956)
 * style="width:20%; text-align:center;"|15th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps (1860)
 * style="width:20%; text-align:center;"|15th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps (1860)
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 * style="width:20%; text-align:center;"|

Order of precedence
For the purposes of parading, the Regiments of the British Army are listed according to an order of precedence. This is the order in which the various corps of the army parade, from right to left, with the unit at the extreme right being the most senior.

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O (German magazine)

O was an international fetish magazine published in Germany. The name comes from the French sadomasochistic novel Story of O.

History and profile
O was started in 1989 as a successor to the German version of Skin Two magazine, Skin Two Germany. The magazine was owned by Techcom GmbH from its start to 1994 when it was acquired by Ronald Brockmeyer.

It was published in German and English. It was first published by Peter W. Czernich (No. 1 - 24). During this period it was subtitled as the Art of Fetish, Fashion and Fantasy. The last issues, O No. 25 (which was designed by David Sparks, who went on to publish his own magazine Mirror Mirror, a fetish who's- who) and 26, were published by Ronald Brockmeyer. Its subtitle was changed to the Art, the Fashion, the Fantasy.

The magazine was notably in a trademark dispute with Oprah Winfrey and Hearst Magazines over their O: The Oprah Magazine title.

O magazine ceased publication in 1994 and was followed by Marquis magazine.

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Talk:Endocrine surgery

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 * Endocrine surgery from according to the edit summary.  Made it easy to find! - Lucky 6.9 15:45, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Hormonal therapy from . Same new user who posted the "Endocrine surgery" entry.  Both are from a .gov website, but I'm not certain they're public domain.  Just being safe. - Lucky 6.9 15:56, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * There's no obvious copyright notice on training.seer.cancer.gov or www.seer.cancer.gov; the NCI's Web site is PD according to, but proper attribution should be made. I think this stuff is probably OK. --rbrwrˆ

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Leung Jan

Leung Jan (born Leung Tak-wing; 1826–1901) was a Chinese martial artist and Wing Chun practitioner from Heshan, Guangdong. He was known in Foshan as Mr. Jan of Foshan and King of Wing Chun Kuen.

Leung Jan is one of the earliest well-documented practitioners of Wing Chun, which was mainly passed down verbally from teacher to student prior to Leung Jan.

Background
Leung Jan was born Leung Tak-wing in 1826 in Heshan, Guangdong. He had an elder brother, Leung Tak-nam, who would later become a successful businessman. His father later moved to Kuai Zi, Foshan and there Leung helped run a traditional Chinese medicine Dit Da clinic. At the age of 18, he was trained by Leung Yee-tai in Southern Shaolin skills. Yee-tai later introduced Jan to his partner Wong Wah-bo, who was also a Gulao (古勞) resident like Jan. Wong taught Jan the entire Wing Chun skill set.

From 1870 onwards, under the nickname Leung Jan, he succeed his father medical business and work within the Wing Sang Tong (榮生堂), also known as Jan Sang Tong, in Foshan and would occasionally take in students to train them in Wing Chun privately. His name eventually became well known due to his wins in competitive bouts and he was respected by other martial artists. He was called Mr. Jan of Foshan (佛山贊先生). He later became a government official and was known as King of Wing Chun Kuen (詠春拳王). His training and medical hall was looked after by his student Lee Wah (李華), nicknamed Woodman Wah (木人華).

Personal life
Leung had three wives, nine sons and eight daughters. His first wife Ms. Wong (黃氏), bore him no children. His second wife Ms. Cheng (鄭氏), bore him seven sons. His third wife Ms. Poon (潘氏), bore him two sons.

His nine sons were:
 * 1st: Leung Yuen-fuk (梁元福), courtesy name Yan-wah (恩華) – with Ms. Poon, learned Wing Chun from his father, and on later years went to Vietnam with him to do business there, he had a son, and died at the age of 24.
 * 2nd: Leung Bik-wo (梁璧和), courtesy name Tai-wah (態華) – with Ms. Cheng, born in 1845, learned Wing Chun from his father and grand-teacher Wong Wah-bo, later moved to Hong Kong with a friend to set up a clothing business there. He had two sons. He further trained Ip Man in 1909 and died in 1911 at the age of 65.
 * 3rd: Leung Chi-yin (梁賜賢), courtesy name Hin-wah (憲華) – with Ms. Poon, he had no children.
 * 4th: Leung Yu-chun (梁遇春), courtesy name Mou-wah (懋華) – with Ms. Cheng, born during the Tongzhi period in Year 9, April 12, he was more verse into his father's medical practices and medical ethics, but later switched to business, he had six sons and three daughters and died at age 54.
 * 5th: Leung Chung-wah (梁忠華) – with Ms. Cheng, died prematurely.
 * 6th: Leung Shu-wah (梁恕華) – with Ms. Cheng, died prematurely.
 * 7th: Leung Ko-peng (梁高明), courtesy name Yue-wah (愈華) – with Ms. Cheng, born during the Tongzhi period, year of Wuchen, he had two sons.
 * 8th: Leung Nim-wah (梁念華) – with Ms. Cheng, died prematurely.
 * 9th: Leung Pak-jau (梁百就), courtesy name Sai-wun (世煥) – with Ms. Cheng, due to death of his mother, he was supposed to be sent to a wet nurse for breast-feeding, however along the way he was abducted and was sold to a new family.

There is currently no available historical information on any of Leung's eight daughters.

Later life and death
In 1888, his physical health began to decline and his five remaining sons had since left Foshan to make a living and they had no intention to take over his training and medical hall. Notably, Leung Yuen moved to Vietnam, while Leung Bik moved to Hong Kong.

While searching for a successor, Leung took in a money changer Chan Wah-shun as his student. Leung later often went back and forth between Foshan and his hometown Gulao Village, and Chan continued to be trained by Lee. Leung also taught Chan in Dit Da. Chan eventually closed his money changing business and helped run a Dit Da clinic.

After the death of Lee Wah on the following year in 1889, Chan took over the operations of the training and medical hall, while Leung continued to go back and forth between Foshan and Gulao. Wing Sang Tong was later renamed to Hang Chai Tong (杏濟堂).

Around the age of 70, Leung retired permanently back to his hometown, there he taught a group of four youths, including his nephew Wong Wah-sum, a modified form of Wing Chun which focused on side-facing positions (known as Kulo village Pin Sun Wing Chun in present day). Leung died in 1901.

In popular culture
In the 1978 film Descendants of Wing Chun, he was portrayed by Melvin Wong.

He was portrayed by Bryan Leung in the 1978 film Warriors Two as the master role as a more disciplined and older man. He takes up the student Chan Wah-shun alongside a few other ones he is already training, but is caught up in an elaborate scheme by Foshan's new mayor. The mayor plans to remove all top martial artists from the town, so he may rule with an iron fist. Putting both Cashier Wah (Chan Wah-shun), and Leung Jan himself on the mayor's hit list.

In the 1981 TVB television drama series Kung Fu Master of Fat Shan, he was portrayed by Kwan Hoi-san.

Leung Jan, as an already somewhat skilled martial artist, is featured in a student role in the 1981 film The Prodigal Son. In this fictional tale of his life, Yuen Biao as Leung Jan, is a young man determined to learn real martial arts after a humiliating defeat by undercover Wing Chun master Leung Yee-tai who is a seemingly harmless man, despite Leung Jan being known as Foshan's "kung fu king".

Leung was portrayed by Yuen Biao again in the Hong Kong TV series Real Kung Fu, which aired on TVB in 2005, along with Wing Chun a year later or two from 2006 to 2007.

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Talk:Hormonal therapy

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 * Endocrine surgery from according to the edit summary.  Made it easy to find! - Lucky 6.9 15:45, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Hormonal therapy from . Same new user who posted the "Endocrine surgery" entry.  Both are from a .gov website, but I'm not certain they're public domain.  Just being safe. - Lucky 6.9 15:56, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * There's no obvious copyright notice on training.seer.cancer.gov or www.seer.cancer.gov; the NCI's Web site is PD according to, but proper attribution should be made. I think this stuff is probably OK. --rbrwrˆ

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Queen's Own Yeomanry

The Queen's Own Yeomanry (QOY) is one of the Army Reserve light armoured reconnaissance regiments.

History
The Queens Own Yeomanry was initially formed on 1 April 1971 as the 2nd Armoured Car Regiment from five of the yeomanry units across the North and Middle of England and South West Scotland. During the Cold War The Queen's Own Yeomanry was a British Army of the Rhine Regiment with an Armoured Reconnaissance role in Germany. With the Strategic Defence Review in 1999 the geographical locations of the regiment changed to encompass East Scotland and Northern Ireland. Soldiers from the regiment have served both in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Under Army 2020, three squadrons transferred to the Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry and it gained two squadrons from the Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry. The unit is paired with the Light Dragoons and uses the Jackal 1.

Recruitment
The regiment recruits its soldiers mainly from the following counties: Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, County Durham, Lancashire, Cheshire, Northumberland and Merseyside.

Organisation
The Regiment is part of 4th Infantry Brigade and Headquarters North East. It is part of the Royal Armoured Corps and consists of four squadrons:
 * A (Yorkshire Yeomanry) Squadron
 * B (The Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry) Squadron
 * C (Cheshire Yeomanry (The Earl of Chester's)) Squadron
 * D (Northumberland Hussars) Squadron

Order of precedence
For the purposes of parading, the Regiments of the British Army are listed according to an order of precedence. This is the order in which the various corps of the army parade, from right to left, with the unit at the extreme right being the most senior.

Guidon

The Guidon, which is awarded by The Queen, is a flag of crimson silk damask embroidered and fringed with gold with the Regimental Battle Honours emblazoned upon it and the Regimental emblem embroidered in the centre. On 22 September 2007 Prince Charles, in his capacity as Royal Honorary Colonel of The Queen's Own Yeomanry, presented a new Guidon to the Regiment in an hour-long ceremony in the grounds of Alnwick Castle. This was the first Guidon the QOY has received since its formation.

Armoured Vehicles
In late 2013, with the phasing out of CVR(T) across the British Army, the regiment was re-equipped with the Land Rover Defender-based RWMIK, a light armoured vehicle, equipped with the General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) and the Browning .50 Heavy Machine Gun (HMG), as well as individual BOWMAN digital battlefield communications systems and specialised surveillance optics, including thermal imaging. In 2018 the regiment re-equipped with Jackal 1's to harmonise vehicles with its sister regiment, The Light Dragoons.

Badges
The whole Regiment wears a variation of the running fox cap badge of the old East Riding Yeomanry. However, each of the Squadrons wears its own collar badges and buttons.

Stable Belt and Shoulder Flash
The Regimental Stable Belt or shoulder flashes are worn to show a soldier or officer is serving with the QOY in various forms of dress. The colour of both is Prussian blue with two horizontal stripes of cavalry gold (yellow):

Freedoms
The regiment has received the Freedom of several locations throughout its history; these include:
 * 🏴 1971: Newcastle upon Tyne (Originally Granted to the Northumberland Hussars on 8 January 1969).
 * 🏴 3 December 2009: York.
 * 🏴 3 May 2014: South Ayrshire.
 * 🏴 12 October 2019: On 12 October 2019, C (The Duke of Chester's Cheshire Hussars (Yeomanry)) Squadron was granted the freedom of the city of Chester following the 225th anniversary of the yeomanry and 80th anniversary of the Royal Armoured Corps. The squadron was last awarded the honour in 1996 and their bi-centenary in 1997.

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Bettarazuke

Bettarazuke (べったら漬) is a type of pickled daikon popular in Tokyo, a sort of tsukemono. It is made by pickling daikon with sugar, salt, and sake without filtering koji. The name bettarazuke is taken from the stickiness of koji left over from the pickling process. Bettarazuke has a crisp sweet taste. Bettarazuke has similar figure to takuan, but bettarazuke contains a lot of moisture because it doesn't need sun-drying process.

On the night of every October 19 in the area around Takarada Ebisu shrine, Bettara Ichi (literally, "bettara fair") is held to sell the year's freshly pickled bettarazuke.

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Santa Marina del Sil

The little village of Santa Marina del Sil is situated by the river Sil, 7 km from the town of Congosto in Spain, and 15 km from the town of Ponferrada, in the province of León, in Spain. Its name refers to Saint Marina.

The village has 85 inhabitants and is located near the Sil river, a tributary of the river Miño.

It is well known for the summer party of La Carpa, during July. This is a famous fishing contest held on the river very near the village. An inhabitant of the village, Angel González, was the founder of the CIT (Centro de Iniciativas Turísticas, Touristic Initiative Center), that organizes the contest.

The inhabitants of the town are traditionally employed in coal mining and chestnut harvesting. By now most of them are working in the town of Ponferrada, Toreno or are retired.

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Talk:Internet relationship

Post name-change
I see that the name has been changed and that is fine with me. You should note that in Psychology, the term relationship (or interpersonal relationship) is used broadly to include both romantic and non-romantic relationships. So the title seems appropriate. However, the intro paragraph is still talking about 'friendships', so it no longer fits the heading. I suggest that the page remain as is (not be merged with another page) and both types of internet relationships are covered.Lord Spring Onion (talk) 10:23, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Comment
This article looks good, but is written a bit too much like an essay, rather than an encyclopedia article, I'll make a few copy edits to show how it should be changed and hopefully you can do the rest. SmartSE (talk) 12:27, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

 * This morning I put in some subheadings to give you some idea for how the info could be broken up into sections, and I also reworked some of the prose to make it clearer and a little more concise.

 * I do agree with Smartse that this article still reads far too much like an essay, and not nearly enough like an encyclopedia entry, which is what it is supposed to be. An encyclopedia entry consists of setting out useful, well-organized information for the reader to easily access, in a clear and usable form, based on reliable sources. An essay on the other hand is a flowing and sometimes elegant discussion on the theme of the topic. They are not the same thing at all. If you need me to explain this a bit more, let me know. Invertzoo (talk) 13:28, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree that the text of this article could stand some copyediting to tighten it into an encyclopedic style. One maxim of technical writing that I've taken to heart is "write as if your audience doesn't have time to read every single thing you say." To that end, terse, telegraphic sentences seem to work well. The atmosphere here is meant to be helpful, not harsh, and I hope it can be seen in that light. __ Just plain Bill (talk) 17:03, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Copyediting "Weakening of social ties" section
Did a little trimming, and removed the following paragraph:
 * However, the question must remain, not whether the internet holds a positive or a negative impact for its users but instead lies within whether the internet disintegrates or develops our social skills needed for the physical world or as it is more commonly known by internet users, "real life" or "meatspace". Can the Internet cure people who ail from insufficient social skills i.e. containing greater social anxieties or maintain smaller social groups.

There is a nugget of information in there, but I'm not sure how best to present it. It seems to be saying that it is less useful to ask if the net is a good or bad influence (I reserve the word "impact" for times when something is actually being hit) and more useful to see things in terms of growth or degradation of users' social skill sets. That is worth one well-crafted sentence, at most. __ Just plain Bill (talk) 17:00, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

The effects... (changes)
Hi, Thank you for your feedback. I've made quite a few edits to the writing today. Does this sound any better or am I just not grasping this at all. Kate Carter-Rigg (talk) 17:55, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes that section is now a lot better than it was! Well done! Invertzoo (talk) 18:12, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
 * It looks a lot more like an encyclopedia article now. A few days have seen a mighty improvement. __ Just plain Bill (talk) 15:00, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi, you have a great article. I am doing an assignment for class and was interested in the same topic. I added a few sections and a couple sentences in pre-existing sections. I hope you don't mind! I wanted to make sure it is okay I continue to make edits and add information. I won't delete any of your sections! Thank you Eewalsh (talk) 13:42, 11 April 2012 (UTC)Eewalsh

Plagiarism
... from this site; removed. I'll begin checking the rest. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 21:46, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Links
Hey, I just noticed that under "Personal" you may not need both links to youtube right next to each other, one is probably enough Jillgeib (talk) 13:38, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you! I keep forgetting whether or not I should link words after I have already linked them before in the article. Do you know if the word should only be linked once? I have looked at a few other wikipedia articles and some contain only one link for the word and others have the word linked a few times throughout the article. Thanks for the editing feedback! Eewalsh (talk) 14:29, 24 April 2012 (UTC)Eewalsh

Where internet relationships start, and possible dangers
OK so I looked over your page quickly and I think you could maybe add a section on where Internet Relationships start, for example, over facebook or eharmony and the effectiveness of these websites. Also you could maybe talk about how internet relationships can be dangerous and how people can be manipulated over these websites... I'll go over it again but these were some of the first additions that came to my mind when looking over it. (Bemurrayy (talk) 13:46, 18 April 2012 (UTC))
 * Thanks for your comment. Please be aware, when saying "your page," that no editor or group of editors owns any Wikipedia article. I've seen similar language in other places around this article; not pointing any finger of blame, but trying to make people aware of a vital bit of Wikipedia culture. __ Just plain Bill (talk) 14:11, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Bemurrayy ! I will try to create a subsection for the "personal" section and include where/ why these relationships start online and I could definitely use the sources I have to include the dangers. Thanks for the advice! Eewalsh (talk) 14:31, 24 April 2012 (UTC)Eewalsh

weighted
I added cleanup because this article weight too much towards internet romance. SYSS Mouse (talk) 17:11, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

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Herman van Veen

Hermannus Jantinus van Veen (born 14 March 1945) is a Dutch stage performer, actor, author, singer-songwriter and musician. He worked with accompanists Laurens van Rooyen and Erik van der Wurff, both of whom were pianists and composers.

In addition to performing internationally, van Veen is famous as the creator of Alfred J. Kwak (1976). The original one-man theatre show was adapted as a Dutch-German-Japanese cartoon (1989), which was broadcast internationally. In addition to creating the show's story, van Veen also wrote, composed and performed most of the show's music.

He also performed the voice-overs for the characters Johan Sebastian Kwak, Krabnagel de Kater and Professor Paljas (Professor Buffon) in the Dutch and German versions of Alfred J. Kwak.

Albums

 * Herman van Veen (II) (1969) NLD No. 6
 * Carré Amsterdam (1971) NLD No. 2
 * Carré III - Amsterdam (1976) NLD No. 14
 * Overblijven (1977)	NLD No. 7
 * Op handen	(1978)	NLD No. 23
 * De wonderlijke avonturen van... (1979)	NLD No. 8
 * Carré IV - Een voorstelling (1979) NLD No. 24
 * Uit elkaar (1979) NLD No. 41
 * Kerstliederen (1979) NLD No. 8
 * Iets van een clown	(1981) NLD No. 10
 * Zolang de voorraad strekt (1982) NLD No. 49
 * Signalen (1984)	NLD No. 2
 * De wisselaars (1985) NLD No. 32
 * Anne (1986) NLD No. 10
 * Carre V - De zaal is er (1987) NLD No. 31
 * In vogelvlucht - 20 jaar zijn mooiste liedjes (1987) NLD No. 3, BEL No. 39
 * De Clowns (1988) NLD No. 73
 * Rode wangen (1989)	NLD No. 72
 * Blauwe plekken (1990) NLD No. 15
 * Alfred Jodocus Kwak (1990) NLD No. 32
 * In vogelvlucht 2 - Zijn mooiste liedjes (1991) NLD No. 26
 * You Take My Breath Away - Herman van Veen Sings Popclassics (1992) NLD No. 73
 * Voor wie anders (1993) NLD No. 63
 * Stille nacht (with Ton Koopman) (1994) NLD No. 27
 * Sarah (1996) NLD No. 21
 * De Voetbalsupporter (1996) NLD No. 73
 * Carré 7 - Alles in de wind (1997) NLD No. 85
 * Nu en dan - 30 jaar Herman van Veen (1998) NLD No. 11
 * Je zoenen zijn zoeter (with The Rosenberg Trio) (1999) NLD No. 16
 * Carré 8 (2000) NLD No. 78
 * Er was eens... Herman van Veen zingt en vertelt een kerstverhaal (2001) NLD No. 60
 * Andere namen (2003) NLD No. 12, BEL No. 36
 * Vaders (2005) NLD No. 19, BEL No. 52
 * Chapeau (with Edith Leerkes) (2007) NLD No. 70
 * Nederlanders (2007) NLD No. 24
 * 100 (2009) NLD No. 7, BEL No. 70
 * Vandaag (2012) NLD No. 28
 * Kersvers (2014) NLD No. 2, BEL No. 39
 * 10 keer Herman van Veen - Een keuze (2016) NLD No. 94
 * Vallen of springen (2017) NLD No.15, BEL No. 62
 * Dat kun je wel zien dat is hij (2021) NLD No. 18
 * Dat kun je wel zien - live in Carré (2022)
 * Moeders (2022), featuring Edith Leerkes

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Talk:Chronology of Jesus

Hour of Death - contradiction or not?
In the first sentence of the Scholarly Debate section, I am removing the second part of the sentence (bold)

The estimation of the hour of the death of Jesus based on the New Testament accounts has been the subject of debate among scholars for centuries, since there was a clear contradiction between the accounts in the Synoptic Gospels and that in the Gospel of John.[156]

This statement is factually wrong and disagrees with the source cited further above which states

all four Gospels agree that Jesus died a few hours before the commencement of the Jewish Sabbath, i.e. he died before nightfall on a Friday (Matt 27:62; 28:1; Mark 15:42; Luke 23:54; John 19:31, 42).

I speculate that some Wikipedia editor wanted to say that the date of Jesus' death appears discrepant in the gospels (Nisan 14 vs Nisan 15), but then confused it with the hour of Jesus' death where there is no discrepancy. But since I cannot be certain what the editor had in mind, it is best to delete the mistake and then hope the editor will return to this sentence and rewrite it correctly. 31.49.196.235 (talk) 09:52, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

 * 'Death' is final. Rabbi Jesus son of Joseph miraculously survived his Crucifixion - the Messiah/Christ had a near-death experience. 2603:3020:BF5:4000:90C:BE82:69D0:3A2C (talk) 16:59, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

Not RS
I searched the book on Google, it does not seem to exist. No luck either for the names of the author + the word Bible. tgeorgescu (talk) 06:25, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

 * What’s wrong with you 24.101.252.203 (talk) 20:35, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

The icon shown does not depict the life of Christ
An icon is shown at the top of this article, with a caption indicating that it's an icon of the life of Christ. In fact, it's an icon of the Church of Christ -- as can be seen from the Slavonic title at the top of the icon and the English name of the jpeg file itself. The vignettes within the icon appear to show events in the lives of important saints, including several who were crucified upside down. Christ was of course not crucified upside down or multiple times. The resolution of the image is unfortunately too low to read the Slavonic captions on the vignettes. Bottom line, it's a fine icon, but clearly doesn't depict the life of Christ. I would suggest replacing it with the following file: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cycle_of_icons_depicting_the_life_of_Jesus,_Arkhangelsk.jpg Ps8v9 (talk) 01:55, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Agreed on the old one, which has been there for years. I have replaced it with a large multi-scene Passion which expand very well. Johnbod (talk) 02:14, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Excellent, thank you! Ps8v9 (talk) 02:20, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
 * does everyone miss Jesus 24.101.252.203 (talk) 20:35, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
 * is everyone jealous by Jesus 24.101.252.203 (talk) 20:36, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:O (German magazine)

Title
The article was moved from «O» to O (German magazine) on the grounds that German quotation marks are not part of the title. However, at the reference in the article there is an image of a magazine cover which shows clearly that the title includes the guillemets. In fact these are French quotation marks, presumably alluding to the French-langage Histoire d'O after which the magazine was apparently named. When they are used in German they are reversed: »O«. However German quotation marks are more commonly: „O“. So there are two reasons to believe that the marks are part of the title. I suggest that the original title was correct and propose to reverse the move. Rhomb (talk) 12:30, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * You are right indeed. My mistake. — The Man in Question (in question)  05:29, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
 * No problem, thanks for reverting the move. Rhomb (talk) 17:21, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Last issue seems to be at least #28
See this item for sale on ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160639109019 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.105.60.169 (talk) 07:59, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Requested move 26 December 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: Moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Adumbrativus (talk) 05:41, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

«O» → O (German magazine) – or per MOS:TM. We shouldn't try to imitate logos, but rather should look to independent reliable sources written in English. — BarrelProof (talk) 04:27, 26 December 2023 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support per nom based on use in the references. Note that the punctuation marks are a type of quotation mark (Guillemet). SilverLocust 💬 23:57, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

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Please stop the vandalism, or you will get blocked. andy 09:37, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Matsumaezuke

Matsumaezuke (松前漬け) is a pickled dish of dried squid and kelp, native to Hokkaidō, Japan, named in reference to the Matsumae clan which once governed the region, then known as Ezo.

It is made from dried and preserved seafood products from Hokkaidō. Surume (dried squid) and konbu are cut into thin strips with scissors, Kazunoko (herring roe) are broken up into small bits, with other ingredients added depending on recipe. The ingredients are cured in sweet soy sauce, or marinade of sake, soy sauce and mirin, for several days.

History
There are conflicting claims as to the evolution of the dish.

According to the publication from the ex-MITI governmental research body (1987), matsumaezuke developed naturally within the Matsumae domain in Ezo (Ainu country), among the immigrating wajin populace (non-native mainland Japanese), using dried squid (surume) and kombu kelp, which were the locally abundant trade commodities. It can probably be dated to around the Kansei era (1789-1801), when kitamae ships began to bring readily available supplies of soy sauce, etc., into the area. The name "Matsumae zuke" did not originate then, and the dish was simply called kobuika (こぶいか) or ika no shōyu zuke (いかの醤油漬). The "Matsumaezuke" nickname was coined in the Shōwa era, and though originally a squid and kelp only preserve, a type adding kazunoko (herring roe) began to circulate around Showa 3 (1929).

The same government research body in earlier published books provided a different account, stating that the matsumaezuke, "as a chinmi whose recipe was held as secret 'not to leave its gates', was endeared to the successive daimyo lords of the Matsumae feudal clan".

Alternately, Yamagata-ya of Hakodate which lays claim to ganso (元祖) matsumae zuke explains that this was something "made at home in the southern Hokkaido region, as a salted pickle overnight", but the company founder changed it to a soy sauce pickling recipe and marketed as a product in Showa 13 (1938). The item would eventually gain name recognition nationwide.

In the 1950s, Japan's herring fisheries collapsed, and with the scarcity, and by the mid 1960s and thereafter, kazunoko became more of an "expensive delicacy" item nicknamed "yellow diamond", though it continues to be used.

As for the naming, it has been observed that the Hokkaido produce which is ma-kombu (sweet kelp) went by the nickname Matsumae kombu (松前昆布) (or simply Matsumae (まつまえ) ) and consequently this and other dishes which used kelp often had "Matsumae~" prefixed upon its name (e.g. Matsumaezushi, Matumaeni, Matsumaemushi, Matsumaemaki).

Recipe
A soy sauce on the sweet-side, or a marinade blending soy sauce with (sweet) mirin are said to be used.

Nowadays, there a Matsumae zuke sets or kits (precut squid and kelp) available for easy preparation, but to create from scratch, below is a home-cooking recipe published in newspaper:

 * The kazunoko must be soaked in dilute saltwater beforehand, overnight.
 * The dried squid and kombu should be cleaned by sponging off any debris using wet cloth (paper towel dampened with sake), then cut into fine ribbons using kitchen scissors. The kazunoko are broken up into bits before adding. If carrots are used they should be julienned.
 * Moisten and soften the cut squid, and blend with other ingredients in a marinade made from sake, soy sauce, and mirin heated to boil and cooled off.
 * Keep refrigerated, stirring several times per day. Ready to serve after about 3 days.

Although use of carrots is not universal, some dictionary references list carrot or or daikon radish. {{Refn|Okuyma lists"kelp, dried squid, daikon, kazunoko, yuzu peel" as an ingredient. A tai (sea bream, in sashimi form) is sometimes blended. .

In addition to the flavor and texture, the kombu adds a slimy viscosity considered desirable and healthy, and though traditionally high quality ma-kombu is to be used a suggested trending alternative is to admix a more {{linktext|mucusy}} species of kelp known as {{illm|Saccharina sculpera|ja|ガゴメコンブ|lt=gagome}}.{{efn|This is also sold precut as kizami kombu (gagome type), or under such trade names as natto kombu. }}

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