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Joy Cowley

Cassia Joy Cowley (Summers; born 7 August 1936) is a New Zealand author best known for her children's fiction, including the popular series of books Mrs. Wishy-Washy.

Writing career
Cowley started out writing novels for adults, and her first book, Nest in a Falling Tree (1967), was adapted for the screen by Roald Dahl. It became the 1971 film The Night Digger. Following its success in the United States, Cowley wrote several other novels, including Man of Straw (1972), Of Men and Angels (1972), The Mandrake Root (1975), and The Growing Season (1979). Typical themes of these works were marital infidelity, mental illness, and death, as experienced within families. Cowley has also published several collections of short stories, including Two of a Kind (with Mona Williams, 1984) and Heart Attack and Other Stories (1985). Today she is best known for children's books, such as The Silent One (1981), which was made into a 1985 film. Others include Bow Down Shadrach (1991) and its sequel, Gladly, Here I Come (1994).

Cowley has written forty-one picture books, such as The Duck in the Gun (1969), The Terrible Taniwha of Timberditch (1982), Salmagundi (1985), and The Cheese Trap (1995). The Duck in the Gun and Salmagundi are explicitly anti-war books. She has been actively involved in teaching early reading skills and helping those with reading difficulties, in which capacity she has written approximately 500 basal readers (termed reading books in New Zealand).

Honours and awards
In 1990, Cowley was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal, and in the 1992 New Year Honours she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to children's literature. The following year she was granted an Honorary Doctorate of Letters (D.Litt.) from Massey University, and was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal.

In 1993, Cowley became the third recipient of the Margaret Mahy Award, whose winners present and publish a lecture concerning children's literature or literacy. Cowley's lecture was titled Influences. The award is presented by the Storylines Childrens Literature Charitable Trust, who established the Joy Cowley Award in 2002, in recognition of the "exceptional contribution Joy Cowley makes to both children's literature and literacy in New Zealand and internationally". In 2004, she became a patron of the Storylines Childrens Literature Foundation, and she is one of Storylines' trustees. At least one of her books has been on the Storylines Notable Books List every year since it was established in 2000, other than 2009 and 2011 (in 2012 she was given a "special mention").

In 2002, she was awarded the Roberta Long Medal, presented by the University of Alabama at Birmingham for culturally diverse children's literature. In 2004, she was awarded the A. W. Reed Award for Contribution to New Zealand Literature, and in 2010, she won the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in the Fiction category.

Cowley has won the overall Book of the Year award three times at the various incarnations of the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards: first for The Silent One in 1982; then for Hunter in 2006; and finally for Snake and Lizard in 2008. The latter two books were entered into the Junior Fiction category, in which she also won the category award for her books Ticket to the Sky Dance in 1998, Starbright and the Dream Eater in 1999, and Shadrach Girl in 2001. She won the Children's Choice award in this category for Friends: Snake and Lizard in 2010.

She won the now defunct Fiction category in 1992 for Bow Down Shadrach, and the Picture Book category in 2002 for Brodie. An additional five of her books have been short-listed as finalists in the Picture Book category at the awards, and an additional three in the Junior Fiction category.

Cowley's book The Video Shop Sparrow was included in the 2000 White Ravens List, administered by the International Youth Library, and five of her books have been finalists for the Esther Glen Award from 1995 to 2010. She won Best Script Television Drama at the 1994 TV Guide Television Awards for Mother Tongue, a 52-minute film shot in 1992, and set in 1953, about an 18-year-old couple who fall in love – although the woman (played by Sarah Smuts-Kennedy) is Catholic, and the man (played by Craig Parker) is Jewish.

In the 2005 Queen’s Birthday Honours, Cowley was appointed a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (DCNZM), for services to children's literature. In 2009, when the New Zealand government restored titular honours, Cowley declined redesignation as a dame.

Cowley was made a Member of the Order of New Zealand (ONZ), for services to New Zealand, in the 2018 New Year Honours. In 2020, she received an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Award, limited to 20 living people.

Personal life
Cowley has been married three times, first at twenty years old to dairy farmer Ted Cowley, with whom she had four children. After their marriage ended in 1967, Cowley married Malcolm Mason, a Wellington writer and accountant who died in 1985.

In 1989, Cowley married Terry Coles, a former Catholic priest. She lived with him, and an assortment of animals, for many years in the Marlborough Sounds, but in 2004 they moved to a wharf apartment in Wellington so Coles could be nearer medical services. As Coles' health deteriorated, Wellington's stairs and traffic became too much for him, and the couple moved again to Featherston, where Cowley now lives. She has 13 grandchildren and still writes full-time. Coles died in September 2022.

Recent publications

 * 1986 – Turnips For Dinner, illustrated by Jan van der Voo, 16pp., ISBN 0-87449-368-4
 * 1986 – The King's Pudding, illustrated by Martin Bailey, 16pp., ISBN 0-87449-370-6
 * 2007 – Snake and Lizard, illustrated by Gavin Bishop, 102pp.,(Gecko Press), ISBN 978-0-9582787-3-7
 * 2009 – Friends: Snake and Lizard, illustrated by Gavin Bishop, 144pp.,(Gecko Press), ISBN 978-1-877467-25-7
 * 2010 – The Fierce Little Woman and the Wicked Pirate, 40pp.,(Gecko Press), ISBN 9781877467400
 * 2011 – Stories of the Wild West Gang, 362pp.,(Gecko Press), ISBN 978-1-877467-85-1
 * 2013 – Dunger, 156pp.,(Gecko Press), ISBN 978-1-877579-46-2
 * 2014 – Speed of Light, 208pp.,(Gecko Press), ISBN 978-1-877579-93-6
 * 2015 – The Bakehouse, 140pp.,(Gecko Press), ISBN 978-1-776570-07-2
 * 2016 – The Road to Ratenburg, 200pp.,(Gecko Press) ISBN 978-1-776570-75-1
 * 2017 – Helper and Helper, 128pp.,(Gecko Press) ISBN 978-1-776571-05-5
 * 2018 -  Snake and Lizard Anniversary Edition, illustrated by Gavin Bishop, 102pp.,(Gecko Press) ISBN 978-1-877467-25-7

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AIB International

The American Institute of Baking, now known as AIB International, was founded in 1919 as a technology and information transfer center for bakers and food processors.

Organization

Staff includes experts in the fields of baking production, experimental baking, cereal science, nutrition, food safety, and hygiene. AIB is headquartered in Manhattan, Kansas.

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Sliver (song)

"Sliver" is a song by the American rock band Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic. It was first released as a non-album single by the band's then record label, Sub Pop, in September 1990. The same recording was re-released on the compilation album Incesticide by DGC in December 1992, and a new music video, directed by Kevin Kerslake, was released in May 1993.

Described as featuring some of Cobain's most straightforward lyrics, "Sliver" is a semi-autobiographical, first-person account of a child who is forced to spend a day at his grandparents' house, insists on being taken home, falls asleep, and finally wakes up in his "mother's arms." It was recorded shortly before the addition of the band's final drummer, Dave Grohl, and features drums by Dan Peters, of the Seattle rock band, Mudhoney.

Cobain saw the song as an important indicator of Nirvana's musical direction, as the band moved away from the heavier grunge sound of their 1989 debut album, Bleach, towards to more commercial music of their 1991 major label debut, Nevermind.

Early history
"Sliver" was written in 1990. According to the 1993 biography Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad, the song was written during a rehearsal with Dan Peters, who briefly played the drums with Nirvana while the future of his band, Mudhoney, was uncertain. According to Azerrad, the lyrics to "Sliver" were written shortly before they were recorded, although an acoustic demo of the song, first released on Nirvana box set With the Lights Out in November 2004, suggests that Cobain had written some of the lyrics before entering the studio to record the vocals. "I decided I wanted to write the most ridiculous pop song I had ever written," Cobain explained to Azerrad, in order "to prepare people for the next album," which became their 1991 release, Nevermind.

"Sliver" single

The studio version of "Sliver" was recorded by Jack Endino at Reciprocal Recording in Seattle, Washington. Most of the instruments were recorded on July 11, 1990, during a studio break by the Sub Pop band, TAD "We called Tad up and asked if we could come over and record the song," Cobain recalled in a Melody Maker interview with journalist Push in December 1990. "We used their instruments while they sat around eating. But that's nothing new...the key to a successful album is to get the fuck out of the studio before you're sick of the songs." With Peters on drums, the band recorded the song's music in less than an hour. Two weeks later, on July 24, Cobain returned to the studio and recorded his vocals as well as an additional guitar with Endino, who then mixed the track.

Cobain was pleased with the recording, telling Azerrad, "It has a massive naïveté to it. It was done so fast and raw and perfect that I don't think we could capture that again if we decided to rerecord it. It's just one of those recordings that happened and you can't try to reproduce it.

Unlike most Nirvana songs, "Sliver" was recorded in the studio before it had ever been played live. Its live debut was on September 22, 1990, at the Motor Sports International Garage in Seattle, the only show that Peters ever played with the band. "Sliver" also represents Peters' only appearance on a Nirvana studio recording. Cobain was happy with the time Peters spent with Nirvana, telling Azerrad, "The chemistry was definitely there...We could have ended up writing some really good songs together." As Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic explained, however, "If Dan were to have joined our band it would've been certain that Mudhoney was finished, and we didn't want to be responsible for that."

Post-"Sliver" single
In December 1992, a live version of "Sliver," recorded at Del Mar Fairgrounds in Del Mar, California, on December 28, 1991, was released as a B-side on the fourth and final Nevermind single, "In Bloom."

The same month, the studio version of "Sliver" appeared on Incesticide, a rarities compilation released in the wake of the surprising success of the band's major label debut, Nevermind. A music video was filmed for the song in March 1993 and first aired in May 1993. It was the only music video released from the album.

The final live performance of "Sliver" was at Nirvana's last concert, at Terminal Eins in Munich, Germany, on March 1, 1994.

Music

In an October 1990 interview in London, England, Cobain told Rupert Brankin-Frisby of Vice Lizard that the song "was inspired by 'cutie' bands like the Vaselines, Beat Happening and Half Japanese." In a 1992 advertisement for Incesticide, he described it as "an experiment in dynamics and simplicity inspired by Half Japanese, ELP, and ELO."

Lyrics
According to Azerrad, "Sliver" contained the most literal lyrics that Cobain ever wrote, telling a story of a boy who was left with his grandparents for the day by his parents, had a difficult time eating dinner and playing, and insisted on being taken home until finally falling asleep after eating ice-cream and watching television, and later waking up in his mother's arms. Despite the straightforward lyrics, the song was given an intentionally confusing title, with Cobain explaining, "I had a feeling if I called it 'Sliver,' most people would call it 'Silver.'"

Release
The "Sliver" single was first released on 7-inch vinyl in the US in 1990 by Sub Pop. The initial run of 3,000 copies was pressed on black, marbled blue, or clear pink vinyl. It was released on CD single, 7-inch vinyl and 12-inch vinyl in the UK in 1991 on the Tupelo record label, and peaked at number 90 on the UK Singles Chart. Noted music photographer Charles Peterson provided black and white photography. The single charted at number 23 in Ireland in 1992, due to the success of the band's second album, Nevermind, released in September 1991.

Following its re-release on Incesticide in December 1992, the song was sent to radio and reached number 19 on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart in early 1993. The "Sliver" single re-charted at number 77 on the UK Singles Chart in December 1992, due to the release of Incesticide.

The Incesticide and CD single versions omitted a phone conversation between a hungover Novoselic and Sub Pop co-founder Jonathan Poneman that appears at the end of the song in the vinyl single. The exchange, which ended with a confused-sounding Novoselic advising Poneman to call back later that day, was accidentally recorded on Novoselic's answering machine.

The single was re-released on silver 7-inch vinyl on 26 March 2021 by Jackpot Records and it is limited to 1,000 copies.

Critical reception
Reviewing the single in a 1990 issue of Melody Maker, Everett True wrote, "Sure, the vocals are lazily throat splitting, the guitars belligerently grungy, the bass up and out of place . . . but check the melodies, damn fools, check the melodies. The only reason this isn't 'Single Of The Week' is because three even mightier singles were released this week."

Legacy
In a July 2018 retrospective review of Incesticide, Jenny Pelly of Pitchfork wrote that "Sliver" was "a hilarious caricature" of a pop song that featured "the exaggerated naivete and cool simplicity of Olympia bands that Cobain loved, like Beat Happening and the Go Team.

In 2011, NME ranked the song at number nine on their list of the 10 best Nirvana songs. In 2015, Rolling Stone placed it at number three on their ranking of 102 Nirvana songs. In 2020, it was ranked at number one on Kerrang!'s "The 20 Greatest Nirvana Songs - Ranked" list, with Sam Law calling it "a finely-balanced moment in time, powered by the frontman’s tortured intelligence but not yet corrupted by the anguish and addiction that would eventually spell his demise." In 2023, Stephen Thomas Erlewine ranked it seventh in the A.V. Club's "Essential Nirvana: Their 30 greatest songs, ranked" list.

Rivers Cuomo, of the American alternative rock band Weezer, named "Sliver" as the song that made the biggest impact on his life in his early 20s, and shared his memory of hearing it for the first time in a 2015 Pitchfork interview: "It was just one of those things where, by the time it got through the first chorus, I was just running around the store ... [It] had the simplicity of the Velvet Underground in the structure and the chords ... [and] the melody and the major chord progression of the pop music I love, like ABBA, but also this sense of destructiveness ... and it came out in this new hybrid style."

In 2022, Paris Jackson paid homage to the music video for "Sliver" with the music video for her song "Lighthouse" which was filmed in a similar setting and also included a picture of Kurt Cobain.

Music video
The music video for "Sliver" was not filmed until March 1993. This meant that when the song featured on ITV's The Chart Show indie chart in February 1991 in the UK that only the single's cover art was shown with the audio of the song playing over it.

The song's music video was directed by Kevin Kerslake, who had also directed three previous videos for the band, "Come As You Are," "Lithium" and "In Bloom." The video starts with Cobain's infant daughter Frances Bean Cobain dancing to the song's bassline, held by Kurt from behind while his arms were sticking out of two holes he cut through a piece of cardboard, then switches to the band performing the song in Cobain's garage. The video shows Dave Grohl on drums, although he does not appear on the track. Cobain does not play the guitar in the video, only singing into a microphone while wearing a red and black striped mohair sweater his wife, Courtney Love, had bought for him from a fan after a Nirvana show in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Cobain's garage itself had been decorated with toys, posters and artifacts he had collected over several years, and kept in storage since before Nevermind was recorded in May 1991. Among the items featured in the video is a Chim-Chim toy which had been given to Cobain by the Japanese rock band Shonen Knife as a present.

The video was accepted by MTV in May, but frames featuring the logos of the magazines Maximumrockandroll and Better Homes and Gardens had to be removed due to the network's rules on product placement. It was also played on MTV Europe. It was also played on The Afternoon Show in Australia.

Track listings
Standard edition
 * 1) "Sliver" (Cobain, Novoselic) – 2:16
 * 2) "Dive" (Cobain, Novoselic) – 3:55

1991 UK 12 inch single "About a Girl"

1991 UK CD single "About a Girl""Spank Thru"

Other releases

 * The solo acoustic demo that originally appeared on With the Lights Out was re-released on the compilation album, Sliver: The Best of the Box, in November 2005.

 * A live version, recorded at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle on October 31, 1991, appeared on the live video, Live at the Paramount, in September 2011.

 * A live version, recorded at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on November 25, 1991, appeared on the live video, Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!, in November 1994. The full show was released on CD and Blu-ray in November 2021, on the 30th-anniversary "Deluxe" and "Super Deluxe" versions of Nevermind.

 * The 30th-anniversary "Deluxe" and "Super Deluxe" versions of Nevermind featured three other live versions of "Sliver." In addition to the full Del Mar show, the set included the band's complete performances at The Palace in Melbourne, Australia on February 2, 1992, and the Nakano Sunplaza in Tokyo, Japan on February 19, 1992, both of which featured versions of the song.

 * A live version, recorded at the 1992 Reading Festival in Reading, England on August 30, 1992, appeared on Live at Reading, released in November 2009 on CD and DVD.

 * A live version, recorded at the Springfield Civic Center in Springfield, Massachusetts on November 10, 1993, appeared on the live compilation, From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, released in November 1996.

 * A live version, recorded at Pier 48, in Seattle on December 13, 1993, was released on the live video Live and Loud in September 2013.

 * Two live versions, from the band's shows at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California on December 30, 1993, and at the Seattle Center Arena in Seattle on January 7, 1994, appeared on the 30th anniversary "Super Deluxe" reissue of Nirvana's final album, In Utero, released in October 2023.

Personnel
Adapted from the single liner notes.
 * Kurt Cobain – vocals, guitar
 * Krist Novoselic – bass guitar
 * Chad Channing – drums (on "Dive")
 * Dan Peters – drums ("Sliver")
 * Jack Endino – recording ("Sliver"), mixing engineer, producer
 * Butch Vig – recording ("Dive")
 * Michael Lasine – color photo
 * Charles Peterson – B&W photo
 * Jane Higgins – design
 * Jon Poneman – phone call

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Talk:F-Zero GX/Archive 1

Optical disc
1.5 ... "megabyte" optical disc? Shouldn't that be gigabyte?

Wouldn't this be considered a third party game? BluesX 01:31, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

No, this is a second party game. Second party means that, in this case, the nintendo-liscenced f-zero series was instead leased out for amusement vision to develop under supervision from nintendo. It's the mid-way between first-party (most nintendo games) and third party games (games made entirely by external companies for the system)

"Snaking" glitch?
Through the MKDS game boards I've heard that this game has a glitch, that you can "snake" faster due a flaw in the physics engine or something like that. Could someone confirm? And add a section about it? - Hbdragon88 20:39, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

You *CANT* call it a flaw - The dedwsign of the physics engine favors high acceleration cars on power turns over high max-speed cars. And of course, high mass is the best. The result: the Snaking (or Dakou) technique. The player uses a power turn left, then right, then left, then right on a relatively broad, straight road. The result - speeds faster than most cars can achieve with boosters well before the boost becomes available.

You can consider this a DEFINITE confirmation. Read up on details on the "Cheats/Glitches" section on GameFaqs for a better description. I've personally used this ineffectively before - and seen it used VERY effectively.

Actually F-Zero is a 1st party game. It was made by Nintendo. It'd have to be made by another company like HAL Laboratories and stay with Nintendo for it to be a 2nd party. Otherwise The Legend of Zelda would then have to be a 2nd party due to the combination of Nintendo and Capcom making a few Zelda games; Oracle of Ages/Seasons, Four Swords [Adventures}, etc. F-Zero was never placed on any other gaming system let alone an arcade. Mr. M-

Maybe you should read the first paragraph there again. Falcon 03:29, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Sonic Oval = Hedgehog Reference?
I've never played that course, but is it SEGA-ish in any way? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.221.167.1 (talk • contribs)

You mean actual hints on the circuit to the Sonic the Hedgehog series? If that's what you mean, then no. For example, there's another circuit called "Mobius Ring". This is because the circuit is a Möbius strip, however Amusement Vision could've made both of these a coincidence on purpose. Falcon 00:58, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I know I'm a little late on the draw, here, but... To my knowledge, Amusement Vision is a Japanese studio. The name "Mobius" has never been in a single Sega of Japan/Sonic Team Sonic game, and has actually only made appearances in DiC "Sonic The Hedgehog" TV series, Archie comics, and some very old English-translation instruction manuals, so I believe we can probably safely assume that a connection is unlikely. As for the Sonic Oval, well--Who knows? I don't recall noticing any specific Sonic references or cameos, but it has been a while. --Matt S. 16:03, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Furthermore, the 'Sonic Oval' course is the only course which is a *PERFECT* circle. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.58.209.23 (talk • contribs)

Its not a circle at all. Sonic references or cameos? Actually, there are chaos in F-Zero GX. FullMetal Falcon 00:18, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Videos
Funny, no one's mentioned the pilot bonus videos that are unlocked fort he character whenever you beat any cup on Master... --Red Pooka 17:08, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, its also funny how I'm basically the only main F-Zero series editor. So why don't you help, then? FullMetal Falcon 22:21, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Then can you tell me how to hook up a NGC to a PC, and also be able to see what is happening in the game on your monitor so you could take screenshots? Then I'd be glad to help. --Red Pooka 22:57, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

GA stuff
Hi! This is a good start, but not a "good article," yet. For one, nothing in the middle section appears to be sourced. That's a problem. There's a lot of soemwhat clunky prose of questionable relevance ("It is said to be the one of the best racing games to date. When games release too close together, one cannibalize another or each others sales. F-Zero GX and Soul Calibur 2 are perfect examples. They were essentially released at the same time. [1] It is believed F-Zero X was in the same situation with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time."), and the sources don't reference anything that isn't an online source, which is technically a violation of our reliable source guidelines. Get some printed sources, clean up the prose, and get some more referencing done, and this has a good shot of passing next time. Good luck! --badlydrawnjeff talk 00:18, 19 October 2006 (UTC).

More GA stuff

 * OMG, majorly redundant lead: "Despite being ranked as one of the best futuristic racing games to date, F-Zero GX suffered in sales. This was caused because of it's close release to Soul Calibur II. When game releases are too close together, they may cannibalize each other's sales. F-Zero GX and Soul Calibur 2 are a perfect example of this since they were essentially released at the same time.
 * Find more to say in the lead than just what's in the infobox.
 * "As with all F-Zero games, GX is a futuristic racing game." : Complete duh sentence, and redundent to lead.
 * "The game is noteworthy for its intense action, high level of difficulty and for its very high sense of speed - which is accomplished partly by the visuals and detail in the tracks." : But how does that accomplish it?
 * Review section is heavily bias towards English reviews. Find out what Famitsu gave it to counteract this.
 * I don't much like the tracks being listed under Circuits. It feels to listy.
 * Comment: Its a racing game after all - then what should be done? What F-Zero X has?

 * Needs more categories. For instance, missing any cat from Category:Computer and video game genres.
 * Comment: They were moved to prevent redundancy. Most now cover the series as a whole.

Those are my comments --SeizureDog 12:24, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 * "F-Zero" is not always in italics, and needs to be.

Good Article nominations successful

 * GA review (see here for criteria)

After having gone over this article both today and yesterday, I've decided to pass this article under the criteria listed under WP:GA?. A few suggestions for further improvement: Good work people and keep the article up to its current good standard! Mouse Nightshirt 15:13, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) It is reasonably well written.
 * a (prose): b (MoS):
 * 1) It is factually accurate and verifiable.
 * a (references): b (citations to reliable sources):  c (OR):
 * 1) It is broad in its coverage.
 * a (major aspects): b (focused):
 * 1) It follows the neutral point of view policy.
 * a (fair representation): b (all significant views):
 * 1) It is stable.
 * 2) It contains images, where possible, to illustrate the topic.
 * a (tagged and captioned): b lack of images (does not in itself exclude GA):  c (non-free images have fair use rationales):
 * 1) Overall:
 * a Pass/Fail:
 * a Pass/Fail:
 * To cement criteria 4.b, include any criticisms of the game. I had a look through google and the reviews and couldn't find any consistent major criticisms that urgently need referred to here, so have given the benefit of the doubt on this point.
 * Remove "In fact" from the 3rd paragraph in the lead - it is not required.
 * After thoroughly looking through references, the statement, "The game is noteworthy for its visuals, intense action, high level of difficulty and for its very high sense of speed", is verified - however try and link it to a specific reference or references, and place them beside the statement.
 * F-Zero should be italicized in the "Techniques" section.
 * Another image may help illustrate the article, for example, a pilot choice screen, or something illustrative of a point in the article.

Pokemon Reference?
Ruby, Saphire, Emerald, and Diamond? Doesn't that sound like a reference to the pokemon games? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by EL BBC (talk) 20:55, 8 March 2007 (UTC).

Yes, but it is not known (or at least acknowledged) by the media if it is just coincidence.  FMF |  contact  23:18, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Probably not, since Diamond came out after this game was released.--ZXCVBNM 20:07, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm going to remove those levels.
If anyone objects, rv. and discuss. - A Link to the Past (talk) 17:47, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Featured!
Good job, all... I was randomly investigating this game and discovered that it's featured. Good stuff. Paul Haymon 01:20, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:El Dorado Kansas

Ouch! That is shockingly accurate.

For those with an appetite for more of the sordid details, check out: http://eldoradokansasblog.blogspot.com/ and http://www.acityofcharacter.com/If you want to read lies!

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Blount (on acityofcharacter.com) was the first to publicly label El Dorado the most corrupt town in Kansas. He is such a small man!

What happened to the video clips that were up on www.acityofcharacter.com? The video of the evening news covering this crap was cool! Especially when it showed Blount's site and “Most corrupt town in Kansas” title.

Connie is gonna blow a gasket when she sees that someone posted her price for the world to see :)

But Jerry already did that, didn't he? (check out http://www.acityofcharacter.com/moneytrails.html)

I made some small edits to the article
The article was factually accurate, but some of the wording was unnecessarily controversial. I changed a few words, and added a few lines of explanation

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:U.S. Northern wikipedians' notice board

U.S. Northern wikipedians' notice board and U.S. Northern wikipedians' notice board/USNCOTW
 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was clear keep.

U.S. Northern wikipedians' notice board and U.S. Northern wikipedians' notice board/USNCOTW
Was created in response to U.S. Southern wikipedians' notice board/USSCOTW but serves no cohesive purpose. D AVODD  [[User_talk:Davodd|« TALK »]] 02:53, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Unless projects in the WP namespace are actively harming the site, what is the use in deleting them? Rhobite 04:40, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * Concur. -- Jmabel | Talk 07:41, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * keep--[[User:Plato|Comrade Nick @  )---^-- ]] 10:38, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Serves the purpose of helping get articles not about the South. Rmhermen 16:15, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * Outside our jurisdiction? --Improv 16:29, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * keep. NeoJustin 16:44 Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. That said, Northerners and other interested parties are encouraged to visit the general U.S. notice board, until there is a larger group of interested contributors there and that COTW takes off.  +sj +  16:47, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Of course, it seems to be more or less defunct, and I like the U.S.-wide version better, but the Northern states of the U.S. are precisely as notable as the Southern states (although I think it's fair to say that being Northern is not a vital part of most Northerners' identities, whereas it is a really big deal to be Southern). [[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 18:23, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Mistakenly nominated? Keep — siro  χ  o  22:42, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * You know it was the darn Irish that started this mess.... ;-) func(talk) 22:56, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep! What is this doing on VfD? - Ta bu shi da yu 00:31, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. I don't see how this is fundamentally different than any other CotW. Tuf-Kat 01:53, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. What is this doing here?   — Gwalla | Talk 03:11, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment - I find it cruel irony that either of these US boards exist, since one of the purposes of the other regional boards is to encourage the creation and expansion of less US-centralised articles! -- Chuq 00:10, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
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 * Keep - stop deletion trolling. The Recycling Troll 18:04, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Move to Yankee wikipedians' notice board :) -- Cyrius|✎ 21:13, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Stanley Haidasz

Stanley Haidasz, (March 4, 1923 – August 6, 2009) was a Canadian politician and physician.

Life and career
Haidasz was born to Polish parents who immigrated to Canada in 1910 from Stanislawów. He studied medicine. After graduating from the University of Toronto in 1951, he did post-graduate work in cardiology at the University of Chicago.

Haidasz entered politics when he ran in the 1957 election, and became the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for the Toronto riding of Trinity. He was defeated in the 1958 election in which John Diefenbaker led the Progressive Conservative Party to a landslide victory.

Haidasz returned to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1962 election, now representing the Toronto riding of Parkdale. He retained his seat through five succeeding elections until 1978 when he became the first Canadian of Polish descent to be appointed to the Senate of Canada. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau recommended his appointment to the Senate to Governor General Jules Léger.

In 1964, he served as head of Canada's delegation to the World Food Program in Geneva, and as a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly.

He served as parliamentary secretary to a number of ministers in the 1960s. In 1972, he was appointed to the Cabinet as Canada's first Minister of State for multiculturalism and served in that position until 1974.

During his career, Haidasz was instrumental in the passage of Medicare, the Canada Pension Plan and Income Supplement, the Clean Air Act and other legislation. He also initiated the Anti-Smoking Tobacco Bill.

He retired from the Senate in 1998 upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.

He was awarded a Commander Cross with Star of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland in 1998.

Books about Stanley Haidasz

 * Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm "Senator Haidasz", Toronto 1983,ISBN 0-919786-10-3;
 * Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm "Kanadyjski senator", Warszawa 1989, ISBN 83-7021-023-6;
 * Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm "Amerykanie z wyboru inni", Warszawa 1998, ISBN 83-900358-7-1;
 * Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm "The Roots Are Polish" Toronto 2004, ISBN 0-920517-05-6;
 * Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm "Senator Stanley Haidasz A Statesman for All Canadians'', Montreal 2014, ISBN 978-0-9868851-1-2.

Archives
There is a Stanley Haidasz fonds at Library and Archives Canada.

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Talk:Galaxy Express 999

Pronunciation
Why is the partial transliteration "Ginga Tetsudô Three-Nine" and not "999"? A-giau 02:55, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * I once dated an exchange student who corrected me forcefully on that point when I referred to it as "Galaxy Express Nine-Ninety-Nine." She insisted it was "Three-Nines" (or, "Surii-nainsu" to replicate her pronunciation), so we adapted her usage. Mikailborg 16:11, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * The Japanese opening song to the original anime series (performed by Godiego), has the chorus sung in English, and they clearly say "Galaxy Express Three-Nine" in that. God knows why 0_o --Zilog Jones 21:08, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I've heard that the use of "three-nine" instead of reading/saying out "999" fully is based on railway personnel-speak, ala military/radio shortcut lingo. By the way, the original opening song to the series was performed by Isao Sasaki...Don't think the Godiego song was even used until one of the later TV specials prior to the movie.

I've seen the Japanese version and there are clearly saying English Three-nine. It isn't even pronounced like 'Surii-nainsu', they actually get the English pronunciation right.Alexander 08:20, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Isn't "Kyū～Kyū～Kyū" literally nine-nine-nine? So is it Three-Nine or Nine-Nine-Nine? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.245.238.249 (talk) 18:34, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Music and Nietzsche

 * Another good question is whatever happened to the lyricized version of the second movement of "Taking Off"? This was part of that 1981 version that everybody loathes so much (I loathe it too), and it may very well be the only thing about it worth preserving unless somebody wants a good chuckle over the awful bits... like Tetsuro being renamed "Joey Hanacabana Smith" (don't hold me to that spelling), and a John Wayne-ish voice for Capt. Harlock.  Anyway, my suspicion is that the second movement of "Taking Off" (which was originally instrumental-only) had the lyrics added by the American studio, and was then dropped in place of the first movement as if to erase the Japanese-ness of it--come to think about it, many of the version differences seem to have been centered on erase the Japanese-ness of the film.  Even so, the American version of "Taking Off" was still really good by itself and I've been looking everywhere for a high-quality copy of that particular version it. Sweetfreek 06:47, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't know why someone has removed the Nietzsche reference, I thought it was a welcome addition to the article and makes a lot of sense --86.18.156.77 15:01, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

English rights
Does anyone know WHY GE999 is out of print? Is it a rights issue? This would be useful information for the article.

Viz hasn't given a solid reason as to why the GE999 movies are out of print, but I'd guess the usual answer that older anime simply doesn't sell well would be a major point. Leiji Matsumoto-based anime in general also has a tougher time in the modern market most likely due to his unique art-style, which has been known to put off people used to modern-day cookie cutter designs. There's also the fact that there are very few older properties from Toei, especially ones popular in Japan, that are currently licensed in English. The cost may simply be too probitive.81.159.240.109 15:14, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Glass no Clare & Specials
Does anyone have any information on the four TV specials and the featurette, 'Glass no Clare'? I can't find any details on these anywhere. --Mantrid2001 09:45, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Musical
Can anyone verify the existence of a Japanese musical based on GE999? --Bart weisser (talk) 06:15, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Escape from CyberCity
It might be worth mentioning that animations from this game were used in the idiotic/impossibly hard Phillips CD-i game "Escape from CyberCity". See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQxnGMC-2ZU&feature=related for a video about the game. Doregasm (talk) 08:59, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

space trains
I think we should explain that space trains are actually high technology spacecraft that are built to cosmetically resemble steam trains, although obviously the wheels and suspension are functional to enable them to use railways as landing pads — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vmaldia (talk • contribs) 13:08, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

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Problems with description and summary
"their minds (but not their emotions)"

Not only is this flat wrong, it misses the entire point of the story! Did the editor who added this even watch the series? The first time we see a robot crying is in episode two.

In general the plot summary leans very heavily toward the movie at the expense of the TV series. (e.g. Tetsuro in the series is not an urchin.) I'm not sure how to go about fixing thishaving separate sections for the movie and series would be somewhat redundant but just pointing out each difference would be pretty distracting.173.206.251.69 (talk) 13:55, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

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steam locomotive figure
I feel the figure caption should clearly state that the locomotive was intentionally fitted with a 'non original' Galaxy Express 999 prop. 193.71.191.79 (talk) 08:43, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Maurice Maeterlinck's "The Blue Bird"
The omission of the influence of Maurice Maeterlinck's "The Blue Bird" is surprising and disappointing. Galaxy Express 999 is essentially a retelling of the classic play. Maetel's name is a literally taken from the character Mytyl, and Tetsuro is a stand in for Mytyl's little brother, Tyltyl. Miyazawa's novel was merely the inspiration for the train that takes them to meet the various "Luxuries" that teach Tetsuro (like Tyltyl) the true meaning of happiness.Rachel Thorn (talk) 15:42, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

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Cup of Jamshid

The Cup of Jamshid (, jām-e Jam) is a cup of divination, which in Persian mythology was long possessed by the rulers of ancient Greater Iran. Its name is associated with Jamshid (Jam in New Persian), a mythological figure of Greater Iranian culture and tradition. The cup has also been called Jam-e Jahan nama, Jam-e Jahan Ara, Jam-e Giti nama, and Jam-e Kei-khosrow. The latter refers to Kaei Husravah in the Avesta, and Sushrava in the Vedas.

The cup has been the subject of many Persian poems and stories. Many authors ascribed the success of the Persian Empire to the possession of this artifact. It appears extensively in Persian literature.

The cup ("Jām") was said to be filled with an elixir of immortality and was used in scrying. As mentioned by Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, it was believed that all seven heavens of the universe could be observed by looking into it (از هفت فلک در او مشاهده و معاینه کردی). It was believed to have been discovered in Persepolis in ancient times. The whole world was said to be reflected in it, and divinations within the cup were said to reveal deep truths. Sometimes, especially in popular depictions such as The Heroic Legend of Arslan, the cup has been visualized as a crystal ball. Helen Zimmern's English translation of the Shahnameh uses the term "crystal globe".

The seven-ringed Cupp of Jamshid is spoken of in the classic poem Rubaiyat by the 11th century Persian Omar Khayyam. See the 5th verse in the 5th translation by Edward Fitzgerald:"Iram indeed is gone with all its Rose, And Jamshyd's Sev'n-ring'd Cup where no one knows; But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields, And still a Garden by the Water blows."

It also finds mention in the Sawāneḥ, authored by Persian Sufi mystic Ahmad Ghazali :"As long as the world-displaying goblet is in my hand, the wheel of heaven on high lowers itself before me / As long as the Kaʿba of non-being is the qebla of my being, the most sober man in the world is intoxicated by me."In 20th century literature, the cup was mentioned in by the poet, philosopher, and one of the founder fathers of Pakistan, Allama Muhammad Iqbal in his poem Tasvīr-i Dard "The Portrait of Anguish": Urdu(romanized): "Agar Dekha Bhi Uss Ne Sare Aalam Ko To Kya Dekha? Nazar Ayi Na Kuch Apni Haqiqat Jaam Se Jam Ko".

English(translated): Even if he viewed the whole world, what did he see? Jam could not see his own reality in the wine cup

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pastry case

Pastry case
A POV recipe?!? Niteowlneils 02:57, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * D And Cornish pasties are crimped on top, silly. Chris 04:02, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to Wikisource if useful. --Slowking Man 07:20, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. utcursch 07:27, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to the cookbook on Wikibooks.
 * Transwiki to WikiCookbook. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 21:20, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * Remember to NPOV it first. Chris
 * Transwiki to WikiCookBook. - Ta bu shi da yu 07:52, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)


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Talk:Alapalooza

Someone left the cake out in the rain
'some also believe it to be a parody of "Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain" by Barry Manilow' Does this song actually exist, or has this person just confused Barry Manilow with Richard Harris? LeeWilson 15:03, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

No such song actually exists. User:TheLazenby

Proposed Mergers
Given that Achy Breaky Song was released as a single, its probably not a good candidate for a merger, since singles are generally given their own article. Expanding it would be a better solution. If there are good reasons for the merger, then repropose it and put them on their relevant discussion pages. Orchid Righteous 14:40, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Traffic Jam
Definitely NOT a style parody of "Freeze Frame", though FF is similar to "Let's Go Crazy." Al's song is very similar to LGC, enough that it seems he snuck in an unnoticed Prince parody, since Prince was always against being spoofed by Al.

She Never Told Me She Was A Mime
This saxophone driven song isn't even remotely similar to Aerosmith's "Dude Looks like a Lady", much less is it a style parody of that work. Without a clearly audible musical link (as with "Trigger Happy" - which is undenaibly a Beach Boys style parody), or a verifiable statement from the author to confirm the accuracy of this statement, the assertion that "She Never Told Me She was a Mime" is a style parody of "Dude Looks like a Lady" appears to reflect the author's own theory, and not any evidence. As such, this statement should be removed.

Talk Soup and Waffle King
They can't both be style parodies of Sledgehammer...I seriously doubt Al would do two style parodies of the same song on the same album. My doubts aren't evidence, of course. If I had to pick one, I'd say that Talk Soup has the musical link. I won't even venture a guess as to what Waffle King might otherwise be a style parody of, if anything, however. Is there a verifiable statement from Al on this issue? Toddrunner 13:42, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Both songs seem to "style-parody" late 80's/early 90's Peter Gabriel at large. Therefore, it's possible that both songs sound similar to both "Sledgehammer" and "Steam". Although, to examine them closely, "Steam" actually has less in common with either Al song than "Slegehammer", which--at at the duration point of 3:10 into the song--expires the final chorus and begins an extended outro. This effectively renders two distinct musical segments. "Waffle King" more clearly resembles the verse/chorus segment of "Sledgehammer" (due most noticeably to the flute-synth flourish, as well as the abbreviated, upper-registered, crescendo-esque chord changes) while "Talk Soup's" descending sax lines and female backing vocals more closely resemble "Sledgehammer's" outro segment. (It might also be worth mentioning that "Talk Soup" and "Sledgehammer" share a virtually identical snare-emphasis on the backbeat, which is possibly the most glaring similarity "Sledgehammer" shares with either song.) Therefore, while I agree with Toddrunner's sentiment that it seems odd for Al to do two style-parodies of the same song, it seems as if "Sledgehammer" is sufficiently dynamic enough that Al has done exactly that. Although, in Al's defense (should one presume that this action calls for defending), "Talk Soup's" faster tempo and more upbeat, melodic sax and backing vox lines seem to make it a less specific, less singular style parody than "Waffle King" (despite the aforementioned back-beat). The article mentions "Dirty Laundry" by Don Henley as an influence (a relationship probably more atmospheric than musical--perhaps evoked by the lyrical topic) but its more upbeat, busier melody are more reminiscent of Huey Lewis and the News.

Quite possibly, Al may have been influenced by the 1991 novel American Psycho, wherein the 'prantagonist' discusses the music he enjoys with his pending murder victims--most notably Genesis and Huey Lewis and the News. Phil Collins is discussed at great length as being the more commercially accessible presence in Genesis, while Peter Gabriel is never mentioned. The fact that Al wrote two songs in "style parody" tribute to one Peter Gabriel song (one of which sharing an influence with Huey Lewis) may be his way of promoting Peter Gabriel's legacy as being more influential than Phil Collins while being equally worthy of mainstream commercial success. This is, of course, a modest stretch, but would be worth addressing with with Al. R.Carey174.57.24.142 (talk) 00:28, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

@R.Carey, Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry" was more the direct influence for Al's "When I Was Your Age" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.105.96.171 (talk) 20:31, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Livin' in the Fridge
I've seen a part of a supposed music video of Livin' in the Fridge but never the whole thing. Can someone please explain this? Starhood` 20:22, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

 * The music video was a short segment made for the 'Weird Al' Show. There was also one for Lasagna. I created a wiki page for "Living in the Firdge."--Gen. Quon 18:41, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Waffle King = "Sledgehammer" Talk Soup = "Superstition"
"Waffle King" is an obvious style parody of "Sledgehammer" because at roughly 0:31 there is a sound similar to that used in the "Sledgehammer's" 'musical intermission'. Kind of hard to explain the sound. Listen for yourself if you'd like.

"Talk Soup" is a obvious style parody of "Superstition" by Stevie Wonder as it uses the same trumpet line throughout the song.

Please stop changing these. It is highly unlikely that Yankovic would record two Peter Gabriel style parodies, or visa versa.--Gen. Quon (talk) 14:41, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

"Waffle King" is very obviously, musically, a parody of "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel. The "sound" you are refering to is a kind of panpipe. The full album version of "Sledgehammer" starts with the sound and it appears throughout the chorus. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.203.191.247 (talk) 15:10, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

I agree with the "Waffle King" comments. I think it should be added to the article. Freddicus (talk) 18:04, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

 * I disagree in part, "Waffle King" is also a musical parody of "Close (to the Edit)" by The Art of Noise. In fact it directly samples "Close (to the edit)", specifically the "dum dum dum do dum" vocal beat that begins at 0:06. Walterego (talk) 09:36, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, there are similarities, and yes I recall a website claimed he sampled that, but the fact remains a) He's never confirmed a sample b) He never gave credit for a sample and c) the parts are similar, but not identical.--99.179.75.218 (talk) 21:36, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreed, the parts are similar, but not the same. I agree with mentioning the similarity, but it isn't a direct sample.--76.246.176.32 (talk) 02:14, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Scent?
How does the center of the CD represent scent?

 * Somebody proposed that all of the CD's after Alapalooza represent 1 of the 5 scents. This can't be right because there are only four CD's with Al on the CD itself. (Alapalooza, Bad Hair Day, Running With Scissors, & Poodle Hat). I think it's just someone P.O.V. because I've never heard this claim before. And since there isn't a source, I'm going to remove it if no one responds.Gen. Quon 21:26, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
 * It's something that someone brought up while on line during a meet and greet. I left before Al presumably gave an answer, but I found it of interest. The double-sided disc is what prevents Al from appearing on the Straight Outta Lynwood disc. It's fair to remove it per your reasons. Hopefully, one day Al can back it up with a fair source. Socby19 05:25, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Young Dumb and Ugly
For the longest while it has been established the "YD&U" was an "AC/DC" style parody. However, every once and while someone will change it to Aerosmith, Led Zepplin, Metallica, KISS, and now Guns 'N Roses. I understand there might be simiarities, but I doubt it is a Guns 'N Roses knock-off. I don't mean to sound mean, but we can't have everyone changing the style parody to what they think it is.--Gen. Quon (talk) 03:02, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * NOW we get an explanation as to the GNR reference removal. --Ryanasaurus0077 (talk) 23:06, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

album discontinued
I removed the line regarding the album being discontinued as of August 2009. I don't see any evidence of this one any websites. in fact, Al's site shows that all of his albums are available for sale. there is a similar comment posted on pages for some of Al's other albums. Lawnboy1977 (talk) 00:29, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Easter Egg?
Apparently there's a "circular link" (a link that goes to the same page it's on, refreshing the page) on here. Click on the wikilink to "Achy Breaky Song" and the page linked to redirects here. TheGreenMartian (talk) 22:23, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

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USS Puffer (SS-268)

USS Puffer (SS-268), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the puffer.

Construction and commissioning
Puffer was laid down by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on 16 February 1942; launched on 21 November 1942, sponsored by Mrs. Ruth B. Lyons, granddaughter of the oldest employee at Manitowoc Shipbuilding, Christian Jacobson, Sr.; and commissioned on 27 April 1943, Lieutenant Commander Marvin John Jensen in command.

Service history
Puffer was transported down the Mississippi to New Orleans on a special floating drydock, having periscope shears re-installed en route. After receiving torpedoes and ammunition, she exercised off Panama for a month, and then headed across the Pacific to Australia. Puffer arrived there in early September 1943.

First and second war patrols, September 1943 – January 1944
Puffer′s first war patrol, to intercept Japanese commerce in the Makassar Strait–Celebes Sea area, 7 September to 17 October, resulted in several damaged ships but no sinkings. On October 9, after damaging a merchantman (Kumagawa Maru), she endured a nearly 38-hour depth charging from 2 Japanese sub chasers and was slightly damaged. On 24 November Puffer departed on her second patrol, in the Sulu Sea and the approaches to Manila. On 13 December, she made a successful attack on freighter Teiko Maru (ex-Vichy French steamship D'Artagnan). On 20 December she sank the old 820-ton escorting destroyer IJN Fuyō, and on 1 January 1944, 6,707-ton freighter Ryuyo Maru, before putting into Fremantle for refit 12 January.

Third and fourth war patrols, February – June 1944
Puffer departed for her third war patrol, in the South China Sea, 4 February. On 22 February, she sank the 15,105-ton transport Teikyo Maru. Returning to Fremantle 4 April, she departed again on her fourth war patrol on 30 April for Madoera Straits, Makassar Straits and the Sulu Sea. She acted as life guard for the first Allied carrier strike on Soerabaia, sank 3,181-ton freighter Shinryu Maru 18 May, then on 5 June, attacked three tankers, sinking 2,166-ton Ashizuri and 2,500-ton Takasaki. She ended this most successful patrol, for which she received the Navy Unit Commendation, at Fremantle 21 June.

Fifth war patrol, July 1944 – ~ 1944
On 14 July Puffer departed for her fifth war patrol, in Makassar Straits, the Celebes, Sulu, and South China Seas. She made contact with a submarine tender screened by five escorts on 21 July, spending three days following the group and using all but nine torpedoes to sink the tender.

Twenty-three days later, on 12 August, she made contact with a ten large vessels and their escorts. Five of the remaining nine torpedoes sank the 5,113-ton tanker Teikon Maru and a large freighter, with enough damage to beach another tanker. She completed the patrol at Pearl Harbor, whence she continued on to Mare Island for overhaul.

Sixth and seventh war patrols, December 1944 – ~ 1945
Following refresher training at Hawaii, Puffer got underway on her sixth war patrol 16 December. Operating in the Nansei Shoto area, she sank Coast Defense Vessel No. 42 on 10 January 1945; and, prior to her arrival at Guam, 17 January, damaged a destroyer, three freighters, and a tanker.

By 11 February, Puffer was underway again for her seventh war patrol, and following patrols in Luzon Straits and the South China Sea, where she bombarded Pratas Island, she made an anti-shipping sweep of the Wake Island area.

Eighth and ninth war patrols, May 1945 – ~ 1945
Refitted at Midway she departed 20 May en route to the South China and Java Seas to conduct her eighth war patrol. In a surface sweep of the northern Bali coast, Puffer destroyed by gunfire two Japanese sea trucks and six landing craft on 5 July, and inflicted extensive damage to harbor installations at Chelukan Bawang and Buleleng, Bali. A brief respite at Fremantle followed, whence she headed north for her ninth and last war patrol, in the Java Sea.

Post-World War II service
Completing her ninth patrol with the cessation of hostilities in mid-August 1945, Puffer headed for Subic Bay, thence to the United States, reaching San Francisco 15 October. With the new year, 1946, Puffer returned to Hawaii where she trained officers and men in submarine warfare until returning to San Francisco, 19 March, for inactivation.

Decommissioning and disposal
Puffer decommissioned 28 June 1946, and was berthed at Mare Island as a unit of the Pacific Reserve Fleet. At the end of the year Puffer was ordered activated and assigned to the 13th Naval District for training Naval Reservists. Employed in that status, at Seattle, until relieved by USS Bowfin (SS-287) 10 June 1960, Puffer was placed out of service and sold for scrapping to the Zidell Corporation, Portland, Oregon, on 4 November 1960.

Honors and awards
Puffer earned 9 battle stars for World War II service in the Pacific Theater, with a total tonnage of 36,392 tons (eight ships).

 * Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with nine battle stars
 * World War II Victory Medal ribbon.svg World War II Victory Medal
 * Phliber rib.svg Philippine Liberation Medal
 * U.S. Navy Unit Commendation ribbon.svg Navy Unit Commendation

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Talk:Roy Jones Jr.

Add category
Please add category. 178.93.134.49 (talk) 12:07, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Done. Monty  845  13:04, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Please add Jones Jr. as trainer for Jessie Vargas, cornerman for Jean Pascal and also as a commentator for HBO Boxing. Thank you Qadeer.ali1989 (talk) 20:34, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 June 2015
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 * as you have not requested a change. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. --I am  k6ka  Talk to me!   See what I have done  23:09, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 August 2015
On 19 August 2015, Roy Jones met with Vladimir Putin in Sevastopol, Autonomous Republic of Crimea to ask for a dual Russian-American citizenship. He explained that he often visits Russia for business activity, and a passport would avoid inconvenient rides. He was then placed on the Ukrainian black list of “traitors”, “separatists” and “terrorists”. Ukrainian MP and Interior Minister’s top adviser Anton Gerashchenko also said he wants to open a “criminal case” against the athlete-turned-rapper and actor under Article 332-1 for illegally entering the “territory of Ukraine”.

68.47.165.51 (talk) 14:15, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

 * Where does this need to be added to the page? Mdann52 (talk) 13:11, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

 * Yellow check.svg Partly done: first sentence only.  —  Jeff G. ツ  (talk)   01:33, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 September 2015
why is there an excuse for every big fight that Roy Jones won? He did not weigh 180 at middle weight when he beat Hopkins. he destroyed James Tony regardless of weight excuses. he timed Calzaghe perfectly for the knockdown, it was not an "accidental forearm".

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Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. Bazj (talk) 14:51, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

New category
Please add category. 91.124.177.187 (talk) 11:20, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done  —  Jeff G. ツ  (talk)   13:44, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 11 February 2016
The last sentence of the first paragraph says 'meal' instead of Medal, when discussing his silver medal at the olympics.

94.30.1.206 (talk) 16:59, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ – Typo fixed. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 17:25, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

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Rationale for my now-reverted Edit tighten up lede
Edit summary explained it was a tighten up. The lede is much too detailed and wordily repetitive, doubtless as the result of a series of driveby edits. The lede should be a summary of the main points contained in main body of the article where the whole thing is gone into and where the refs are put. Lede should be a précis not specific, which is why it is not supposed to have refs. I think Jones is a professional boxer by definition if he is being paid to box, exhibition or not. The begining of the main article is cluttered with extreme detail of amateur results in a laundry list, which is something I have never seen on a pro boxer's Wiki article. Its back to front to do that, such a list should be at the end and probably only the Olympic and pro career details are appropriate. I also added something topically relevant about Jones Tyson which will encourage reading of the main article, if anyone has the stamina to get through it as it is, which I doubt. But you curate it in its current state so that people coming here because he is in the news will quickly hit the back button and go elsewhere for readable info on Jones if you wish.Overagainst (talk) 21:30, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Neither boxer holds a professional licence, which is why it's an exhibition match (they've signed a contract to say they basically won't punch each other too hard which is why the athletic commission agreed to sanction it). It won't show up on any official or highly regarded records/stats, like Mayweather's fancy dance with the Japanese dude.

 * The 'Early life' and 'Amateur career' sections are inline with MOS:BOXING (1. Early life 2. Amateur career, 3. Professional career). Almost all boxers with a substantial amateur career (senior level national and international competitions) are usually detailed in one way or another. I personally don't like the format here (I prefer them written out in prose) but that's leaning to WP:IDONTLIKEIT. Regardless, they detail major amateur competitions so are rightly there.

 * I somewhat agree with the lead being too detailed, but it still does summarise the highlights and most significant aspects of his career. I don't know how other BLPs do it (I'm somewhat of an SPA and only stick to boxing) but it's fairly common for legendary boxers such as Jones (e.g. Ali, Foreman, Tyson, Holyfield, Mayweather). I suppose it's kind of difficult to briefly summarise an individual's significant achievements when there's so many. I'm not sure if the exhibition match should be there, but I wouldn't necessarily oppose it. – 2 . O . Boxing  22:11, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * For what it is worth I thought that User:Overagainst version was superior to what was there previously and good example of what 'being bold' can produce. Unfortunately it seems like User:Squared.Circle.Boxing seems to claim WP:OWNERSHIP over many boxing articles and doesn't like it when other editors contribute to what he sees as 'his articles'. A really unfortunate attitude to have. --HuntGroup (talk) 10:32, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Stop being weird, stop with the WP:STALKING, stop with the WP:ASPERSIONS, and stop with the WP:NPA. That kind of behaviour never ends well, poppet. – 2 . O . Boxing  10:37, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Stop being so passive aggressive and bullying. This is becoming a really worrying trend and a disturbing pattern of behaviour. Start playing the ball instead of the ball or I shall be forced to report your weird behaviour. --HuntGroup (talk) 10:39, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

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Talk:Shrinkage

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Um, where did the penis shrinkage come from??? Is this really appropriate?
 * My money's on Seinfeld. I'm surprised it doesn't mention it.  Azure Haights 20:37, Oct 31, 2004 (UTC)
 * It's covered as one (slang) definition under shrinkage. -A876 (talk) 18:49, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

What about clothes? Is there any articles about why clothes shrink in the wash? And if there is, why isn't there a link here?
 * (It's in there, at Shrinkage (fabric).) -A876 (talk) 18:49, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Splitting the page

 * I oppose this move to split the pages, as nothing extra is needed for any of the sections and this will just be needlessly creating three sub-stubs. Harr o 5 06:53, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. [To rephrase Harro5:] The article already functions as a disambiguation page.  If the three sections were really long, then it would make sense to split the article.  But they are not.  If the article were split, it would result in a disambiguation page and three VERY short articles - and the point of that would be?  John Broughton 12:40, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose per John Broughton. - Che Nuevara:  Join  the   Revolution 12:42, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Ugh! I ask to merge things that actually belong together, everyone opposes me. I ask to split things that have nothing to do with each other other than the name, everyone opposes me. I don't get you people. This is an encyclopedia, not a dictionary. —Keenan Pepper 15:46, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Support: People are more likely to expand upon articles if they are seperate stubs. Also, it just makes it easier for people who are looking for something.

Article?
German Wikipedia has a nice article on shrinkage at Schwindung. -A876 (talk) 18:49, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

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Disambiguations
Nice work with the hurricane disambiguations. I added hurricane disambig to just about all of those articles, but I've hardly looked at them since...they need a good cleanup. You may want to go over to Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Tropical cyclones to explain what your overall plan is and get some feedback on it. Jdorje 06:25, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Thank you for your comment. I went to Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Tropical cyclones and wrote my comment about disambiguations and some typhoons (I think Maemi is a notable storm). --HERB 13:39, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

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For category talk pages, use to avoid classification of the page. See Category:Unassessed hurricane articles. Jdorje 03:14, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Sorry. I've done the work to avoid classification of category talk pages of typhoon seasons. HERB 05:12, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Please read WP:MOSDAB. Thanks Stephenb (Talk) 09:29, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Typhoon Babe
Your article on Typhoon Babe is currently a Start-Class hurricane article, and is being proposed for a merge. If you wish to to keep the article, you should state your thoughts on the article's talk page, or consider expanding the article. Hurricanehink ( talk ) 20:08, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Hurricane Gustav
There is no reason to bold certain hurricanes. It implies that some are of more importance than others. And the recency of a hurricane also does not require bolding. See WP:RECENT. Ward3001 (talk) 00:02, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Laying pipes
Hi HERB

You may have noticed I undid a few piped links you have created. Like

While piping is often using when dealing with disambiguation pages, or the occasioanl hidden pipe - when dealing with listed items that may eventually go on to develop into individual articles, it can make sense to leave them as unpiped links to REDIRECTS.

Cyclone Wanda clicks through to Cyclone_Wanda anyway. Nothing else is really known as "Cyclone Wanda", and perhaps one day there will be enough information that Cyclone Wanda can be developed into its own page. If all the Cyclone Wanda links are piped links, that means some other editor (or yourself) will have to go back and undo each and everyone of those pipes. Not only have you spent more energy actually creating pipes, but there is a potential to create futher work for wikipedians. And wikipedians don't like extra work (or do they?)

Just so you know I'm not just taliking out my ass, there is a dot point at WP:PIPE that mentions this. Linking to redirects is a useful tool. Redirects are there for reasons beyond helping redirect searches.--ZayZayEM (talk) 01:13, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: See also links
You've been changing the See also section in a lot of pages. Those links you've provided are also all redirects, but much longer than the ones replaced. (Also if they didn't have en dashes before, they should now or they will probably be moved by someone anyway.) Besides, I don't think you're supposed to have hidden wikilinks anymore.

I found it here: Piped links. Those should become articles in the future so it is better to use redirects (the shorter ones). Potapych (talk) 15:38, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Piped links are allowed. –Juliancolton Happy Holidays 16:15, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for comments
Thank you for comments. I learned some Wikipedia rules from some Wikipedians: disambiguations, piped links, etc. I'll study them more.--HERB (talk) 12:07, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

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Typhoon Designations
I've reverted your addition of designations to several typhoon articles as I'm currently trying to phase those out. Aside from the Philippine name, the JMA and JTWC #'s are almost entirely unnecessary within the article, and only the JTWC # warrants a brief mention in the meteo history. It's about the same as adding "(NHC Designation 01L)" to Hurricane Arthur's article. This is only for the English wiki, however, as in Japan the storms are referred to by number rather than their international name for some reason. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 11:04, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
 * But there are descriptions of designations in many other typhoon articles.--HERB (talk) 11:11, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Hence the "trying to phase out" part :) Cyclonebiskit (talk) 11:19, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Japanese people always use international designation (for example, 1408). So we want information of international designation.--HERB (talk) 14:33, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Typhoon Designations
The numbers are only used by Japan and nowhere else. This is the English Wikipedia where the main use is the international names. Therefore, the numbers belong on the Japanese Wikipedia and not the English Wikipedia. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 13:48, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
 * English Wikipedia and other language Wikipedia are for people of ALL the world. So please do not remove international designation !!--HERB (talk) 15:16, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

Haiyan
You seem not to appreciate how disambiguation pages work. They are only meant to be aids in searching, not places for content. So unexplained codes (e.g. "T0121, 25W, Maring", none of which means anything to me) and details about retirement of the name don't belong. They really need explaining (what are the codes?, what season where?) but the disambiguation page is definitely not the place for such explanation, that should appear in the articles. Nor should it contain additional links to any explanation; there should be one link for each entry, one entry for each article linked.-- JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 23:27, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

Re: Typhoons
The numbers are different between every country. They're not only using the JMA designation. They're only used within Japan and nowhere else. As for their use in the annual report, I can say the same about every agency. Most warning centers list their internal numbers within storm reports, it has no weight on the situation. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 14:22, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
 * That's all fine and dandy. We know they exist, yes. But are they useful to us? No, not at all. They're known almost entirely by their International Names which are issued by the JMA. The internal designations have no use on Wikipedia when people are searching for the storm by its name, not number. A quick google search will show just how useless they are. Searching "typhoon 1409" yields 189 hits while "typhoon rammasun" gives 3,610,000 hits. They're not used by English speakers, thus they have no use on the English Wikipedia. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 14:34, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I think international encyclopedia - Wikipedia should not neglect the minority.--HERB (talk) 14:39, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
 * This is the English Wikipedia, however. The numbers are perfectly fine to be used on the Japanese Wikipedia, but the vast majority of users on this Wiki have no knowledge/need for them. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 14:42, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Indeed, this is the English Wikipedia. But English Wikipedia is regarded as the international Wikipedia, because English is the most major language. So I want wikipedians to write various information about typhoons in English Wikipedia.--HERB (talk) 14:50, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
 * came up with a reasonable compromise, in my opinion. You can keep the international designation, but only as a brief mention in the meteorological history of articles when the storms are named, not in the lead. It would be something along the lines of "the JMA assigned designated the storm as Tropical Storm Rammasun (1409)" or such. This would be the only mention of the number since, as I've stated many times, it's essentially useless on the English Wiki, but I'm honestly tired of fighting you over this and I just want this to be over with. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 15:15, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Just confirming what CB said. I agree there is no real point to the number, just as there's no need to include AL02009 or whatever in Atlantic articles. Since most basins number TD's, then we usually mention it in prose what number storm it was (like TD 2 or whatever), so that if we want to include the number in the WPAC, it's best to do it in the MH, not in the lead. There, it just clutters the opening and would likely overwhelm the reader. The reader doesn't really know or care what those numbers are, just what the typhoon is named, since this is the English wiki. ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 19:24, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
 * ,, thank you for your advice. First, I updated Typhoon Rammasun (2014): described JMA designation not in the lead but in the Meteorological history.--HERB (talk) 09:10, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Hello, HERB. I agree with here. But, I was thinking you can put the JMA's designation for only important and notable storms like Haiyan, Thelma, Tip etc.  Typhoon2013  (talk) 06:07, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

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The Happy Hooker

The Happy Hooker: My Own Story is a best-selling memoir by Xaviera Hollander, a call girl, published in 1971. It sold over 20 million copies. Robin Moore, who took Hollander's dictations of the book's contents, came up with the title, while Yvonne Dunleavy ghostwrote it. In an interview published in 2019, Hollander said Dunleavy "was the one who wrote the book. They taped me, simply asking questions about my life and had the chapters spewed out in about three months. She wrote it, he edited it. He tried in vain to write a chapter, it was a piece of shit".

Adaptations
Hollander's book inspired a series of movies, starting with The Happy Hooker (1975), which starred Lynn Redgrave. The film was followed by two sequels: The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington (1977) and The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1980). In the sequels the role of Hollander was played by Joey Heatherton and Martine Beswick respectively.

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Charles Singer

Charles Joseph Singer (2 November 1876 – 10 June 1960) was a British historian of science, technology, and medicine. He served as medical officer in the British Army.

Early years
Singer was born in Camberwell in London, where his father Simeon Singer was a rabbi and Hebraist. He was educated at City of London School, University College London, and Magdalen College, Oxford (Zoology 1896–99, Honorary Fellow 1953). Trained in zoology and medicine, he qualified for medical practice in 1903. He was appointed medical officer on an expedition led by Sir John Harrington to the border region between Abyssinia and Sudan on the same day his medical qualification was announced. He returned to England and took a position at Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, and in 1907 left for Singapore. Forced to return to England on his father's death in 1908, he held positions at various hospitals in London until he moved to Oxford in 1914 to work with Sir William Osler, then Regius Professor of Medicine at the university.

Later years
Singer was married in July 1910 to Dorothea Waley Cohen, distinguished in her own right as an historian of the Medieval period. She provided valuable assistance in his publications for the remainder of his life. In the period leading up to World War I, Singer published several monographs, for which he was awarded the D.Litt. degree by Oxford.

Singer accepted a commission as medical officer in the British Army in 1916, first as a pathologist and then as part of an archaeological expedition. At war's end, he returned to Oxford to lecture on the history of biology. In 1920 he was appointed to a lectureship in the history of medicine at University College of the University of London. He became president of the History of Medicine Society at the Royal Society of Medicine in London, in 1920. His reputation extended beyond England, and in 1929 he accepted an invitation to lecture at Johns Hopkins University the following year. Johns Hopkins was also interested in offering him a permanent post, but their delay allowed the University of London to award him an honorary chair, which he accepted. By the time Johns Hopkins made their formal offer, he was satisfied with his position in London and declined their offer. The Singers spent time in Berkeley where Charles spent three months as a visiting lecturer at the University of California, after which they returned home to London. He was invited again by the University of California at Berkeley to lecture in 1932, an occasion that the Singers used to circle the globe going westward, spending about sixteen months away from England. On their return, Singer resumed his post at UCL, where he remained until his retirement in 1942. His last great publication before retirement was A Short History of Scientific Ideas to 1900.

Singer was one of the two contributors to the revised and updated version for Encyclopædia Britannica of the bulk of Thomas Clifford Allbutt's article Medicine which had been in the 11th edition. As revised for the 14th edition Singer's part was Medicine, History of (in volume 15), which followed after Sir Humphry Rolleston's Medicine, General.

Retirement was not idle for the Singers. Charles continued research into various topics and published several noteworthy books, including editing the monumental A History of Technology, which was released in five volumes between 1954 and 1958, Galen on Anatomical Procedures, and A History of Biology. Numerous articles were also published in this period, some of which remain important. He died in Par, Cornwall.

Award and recognitions
Charles Singer's life was complemented by numerous awards, honors, and positions of leadership. Among these were an honorary degree (D.Sc.) from Oxford, and terms of presidency of several societies, including the British Society for the History of Science (1946–1948) and the International Union for the History of Science (1947). He was also a member of the International Society for the History of Medicine. He and his wife were co-awarded the Sarton Medal from the History of Science Society in 1956. He was elected an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1958.

Partial bibliography

 * Studies in the history and method of science (1917)
 * Greek Biology and Greek Medicine, Chapters in the History of Science, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922.
 * From Magic to Science: Essays on the Scientific Twilight (1928)
 * A Short History of Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 1928.
 * A Short History of Science to the Nineteenth Century (1941)
 * As editor, A History of Technology (5 vols, between 1954 and 1958), together with Eric John Holmyard and A. R. Hall.
 * Galen on Anatomical Procedures (1956)
 * A History of Biology to About the Year 1900 (1959)

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HMS Lancaster

There have been six ships of the Royal Navy named HMS Lancaster:

 * HMS Lancaster (1694) was an 80-gun first rate built in 1694, then rebuilt and relaunched in 1722, and rebuilt for a third time to a 66-gun third rate in 1749.
 * HMS Lancaster (1797) was an East Indiaman, fitted out as a third rate 64-gun ship in 1797.
 * HMS Lancaster (1823) was a frigate of 1823, scrapped in 1864.
 * HMS Lancaster (1902) was a Monmouth-class cruiser of 1902 which paid off in 1919.
 * HMS Lancaster (G05), formerly USS Philip (DD-76), was a Wickes-class destroyer transferred as part of the 1940 Destroyers for Bases Agreement.
 * HMS Lancaster (F229), a Type 23 frigate commissioned in 1992 and currently in service.

Battle honours
Ships that have borne the name Lancaster for the Royal Navy have earned the following battle honours;

 * Louisburg 1758
 * Camperdown 1797
 * Atlantic 1941
 * Arctic 1942
 * North Sea 1943–45

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Category:IBM PC compatibles

This category, IBM PC compatibles, includes articles having to do with IBM PC compatible computers as well as related hardware and software. While many of the articles do not exclusively pertain to PCs, they are most commonly encountered in that area of computing.

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