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Hiroshi

Hiroshi (ひろし, ヒロシ) is a common masculine Japanese given name. It can also be transliterated as Hirosi.

Possible writings
Hiroshi can be written using different kanji characters. Here are some examples:

 * 浩, "wide expanse, abundance, vigorous"
 * 弘, "vast, broad, wide"
 * 宏, "wide, large"
 * 寛, "tolerant, leniency, generosity, relax"
 * 洋, "ocean, sea, foreign, Western style"
 * 博, "large, wide, wise"
 * 大, "large, big"
 * 広志, "wide, broad, spacious" and "intention, plan, resolve, aspire, hopes"
 * 博司, "large, wide, wise" and "director, official, govt office, rule, administer"
 * 博史, "large, wide, wise" and "history, chronicle"

People with the name

 * Hiroshi (owarai) (ヒロシ), Japanese comedian
 * Hiroshi Abe (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Abe (actor) (阿部 寛), Japanese actor
 * Hiroshi Abe (astronomer) (安部 裕史), Japanese astronomer
 * Hiroshi Abe (war criminal) (born 1922), Japanese soldier
 * Hiroshi Ando (安藤 尋), Japanese screenwriter and film director
 * Hiroshi Arakawa (荒川 博), Japanese baseball player
 * Hiroshi Aramata (荒俣 宏), Japanese author, polymath, critic, translator
 * Hiroshi Fujioka (藤岡 弘), Japanese actor
 * Hiroshi Fujiwara (藤原 ヒロシ), Japanese musician, trendsetter, producer, and designer
 * Hiroshi Hanawa (花輪 博), Japanese handball player
 * Hiroshi Hara (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Hashimoto (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Honda (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Hori (堀 寛), Japanese ice hockey player
 * Hiroshi Ibusuki (指宿 洋史), Japanese footballer
 * Hiroshi Inaba (稲葉 博志), Japanese bobsledder
 * Hiroshi Inagaki (稲垣 浩), Japanese film director
 * Hiroshi Ichihara (市原 大嗣), Japanese footballer
 * Hiroshi Inomata (猪俣 弘司), Japanese diplomat
 * Hiroshi Inose (猪瀬 博), Japanese electrical engineer
 * Hiroshi Inoue (entomologist) (井上 寛), Japanese lepidopterist
 * Hiroshi Inoue (bryologist) (井上 浩), Japanese bryologist
 * Hiroshi Itagaki (板垣 宏志), Japanese ski jumper
 * Hiroshi Ito (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Itsuki (五木 ひろし), Japanese enka singer
 * Hiroshi Iwata (岩田 寛), Japanese golfer
 * Hiroshi Kaino (甲斐野 央), Japanese professional baseball player
 * Hiroshi Kajiyama (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Kamiya (神谷 浩史), Japanese voice actor
 * Hiroshi Kamiya (shogi) (神谷 広志), Japanese shogi player
 * Hiroshi Kashiwagi (1922–2019), American poet, playwright and actor
 * Hiroshi Kato (加藤 寛), Japanese footballer and manager
 * Hiroshi Kato (aikido) (加藤 弘), Japanese aikidoka
 * Hiroshi Katsuno (勝野 洋), Japanese actor
 * Hiroshi Kawaguchi (actor) (川口 浩), Japanese actor
 * Hiroshi Kawaguchi (composer) (川口 博史), Japanese video game composer
 * Hiroshi Kawashima (川島 郭志), Japanese boxer
 * Hiroshi Kimura (木村 宏), Japanese businessman
 * Hiroshi Kitadani (きただに ひろし), Japanese singer
 * Hiroshi Kobayashi (shogi, born 1962) (小林 宏), Japanese shogi player
 * Hiroshi Kobayashi (shogi, born 1976), Japanese shogi player
 * Hiroshi Kume (久米 宏), Japanese announcer and television presenter
 * Hiroshi Lockheimer, a Japanese German software engineer and one of the founding members of the Android team at Google
 * Hiroshi Machii (待井 寛), Japanese freestyle skier
 * Hiroshi Masuoka (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Matsumoto (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Matsunobu (松延 博), Japanese gymnast
 * Hiroshi Matsuura (松浦 浩史), Japanese ice hockey player
 * Hiroshi Mikami (三上 博史), Japanese actor
 * Hiroshi Mikitani (三木谷 浩史), President and CEO of Rakuten
 * Hiroshi Mitsuzuka (三塚 博), Japanese politician
 * Hiroshi Miura (三浦 広司), Japanese swimmer
 * Hiroshi Miyamoto (宮本 広志), Japanese shogi player
 * Hiroshi Miyauchi (宮内 洋), Japanese actor
 * Hiroshi H. Miyamura (1925–2022), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
 * Hiroshi Mori (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Morie (森江 博), better known as Heath, Japanese musician
 * Hiroshi Moriyasu (森保 洋), Japanese footballer
 * Hiroshi Murakami (村上 寛), Japanese jazz drummer
 * Hiroshi Nagano (長野 博) Japanese singer, a member of boy band V6
 * 長沼 洋 (Hiroshi Naganuma), Japanese shogi player
 * Hiroshi Nagashima (長島 浩), Japanese boxer
 * Hiroshi Nakada (中田 宏), Mayor of Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
 * Hiroshi Nanami (名波 浩), Japanese football player
 * Hiroshi Narahara (奈良原 浩), Japanese baseball player
 * Hiroshi Neko (猫 ひろし), Japanese comedian
 * Hiroshi Nishikiori (錦織博), Japanese director
 * Hiroshi Ogawa (小川 博), Japanese former baseball player and convicted murderer
 * Hiroshi Okamura岡村 博, Japanese mathematician
 * Hiroshi Okazaki (岡崎 洋), Japanese shogi player
 * Hirosi Ooguri (大栗 博司), Japanese theoretical physicist
 * Hiroshi Ōnogi (大野木 寛), Japanese screenwriter and novelist
 * Hiroshi Ōshima, Japanese general and diplomat
 * Hiroshi Ōtake (大竹 宏), Japanese voice actor
 * Hiroshi Saito (basketball) (斎藤 博), Japanese basketball player
 * Hiroshi Saito (diplomat) (斎藤 博), Japanese diplomat
 * Hiroshi Saito (footballer) (斉藤 浩史), Japanese footballer
 * Hiroshi Saitō (governor) (斎藤 弘), Japanese politician from Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture
 * Hiroshi Saito (mathematician) (斎藤 裕), Japanese mathematician
 * Hiroshi Saitō (mayor) (斉藤 博), Japanese politician from Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture
 * Hiroshi Saito (pentathlete) (才藤 浩), Japanese modern pentathlete
 * Hiroshi Saito (rower) (斎藤 宏), Japanese rower
 * Hiroshi Sakamoto (坂本 弘), Japanese swimmer
 * Hiroshi Sasagawa (笹川 ひろし), Japanese director of several anime and manga series
 * Hiroshi Sato (佐藤 浩), Japanese footballer
 * Hiroshi Sato (curler) (佐藤 浩), Japanese curler and curling coach
 * Hiroshi Seko (瀬古浩司), Japanese screenwriter
 * Hiroshi Shibutani (渋谷 浩), Japanese table tennis player
 * Hiroshi Shimozaki (下崎 紘史), Japanese voice actor
 * Hiroshi Shirokuma (白熊 寛嗣), Japanese voice actor
 * Hiroshi Shima (島 比呂志), pen name of Kaoru Kishiue, Japanese writer
 * Hiroshi Shimizu (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Suzuki (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Tachi (舘 ひろし), Japanese actor
 * Hiroshi Takahashi (architect) (高橋 ヒロシ), Japanese architect
 * Hiroshi Takahashi (artist) (高橋 ヒロシ), Japanese manga artist
 * Hiroshi Takahashi (table tennis) (高橋 浩), Japanese table tennis player
 * Hiroshi Takemura (竹村 拓), Japanese voice actor
 * Hiroshi Takeya, a professor and physician in Japan
 * Hiroshi Tamaki (玉置 宏), Japanese television presenter
 * Hiroshi Tamaki (玉木 宏), Japanese actor
 * Hiroshi Tanahashi (棚橋弘至, born 1976), Japanese professional wrestler
 * Hiroshi Tanaka (figure skater) (田中 衆史), Japanese figure skater and coach
 * Hiroshi Tanaka (athlete) (田中 弘), Japanese high jumper
 * Hiroshi Teshigahara (勅使河原 宏), Japanese filmmaker
 * Hiroshi Toriba (鳥羽 博司), Japanese rower
 * Hiroshi Tsuburaya (円谷 浩), Japanese actor
 * Hiroshi Udagawa (宇田川 洋), Japanese archaeologist and anthropologist
 * Hiroshi Wajima (輪島 大士), former Yokozuna in sumo
 * Hiroshi Watanabe (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Hiroshi Yamada (山田 宏), Japanese politician
 * Baron Yamakawa Hiroshi (山川 浩), samurai, politician and educator
 * Hiroshi Yamamoto (archer) (山本 博), Japanese archer
 * Hiroshi Yamamoto (politician) (山本 博司), Japanese politician
 * Hiroshi Yamamoto (shogi), Japanese shogi player
 * Hiroshi Yamamura (山村 浩), Japanese naval officer
 * Hiroshi Yamao (山尾 裕), Japanese cyclist
 * Hiroshi Yamato (ヒロシ), Japanese professional wrestler
 * Hiroshi Yamauchi (山内 溥), former president of Nintendo
 * Hiroshi Yamazaki (山崎 博), Japanese photographer
 * Hiroshi Yamazaki (weightlifter) (山崎 弘), Japanese weightlifter
 * Hiroshi Yoshikawa (吉川 洋), Japanese economist
 * Hiroshi Yoshimura (吉村弘), Japanese musician and composer
 * Hiroshi Yuki (結城 浩), Japanese author (of books such as Math Girls) and computer programmer

People with the surname

 * Sandro Hiroshi, Japanese-Brazilian footballer

Fictional characters

 * Hiroshi (Gaeru), the protagonist of Dokonjō Gaeru
 * Hiroshi (Pokémon), known in English as Ritchie, a character in the Pokémon anime
 * Hiroshi (Ranma), a character in Ranma ½, one of Ranma's two friends, the other being Daisuke
 * Hiroshi (Sesame Street), an aspiring artist on Sesame Street played by Gedde Watanabe in the late 1980s/Early 1990s
 * Hiroshi, the main protagonist of the survival horror game Ao Oni
 * Hiroshi, a character in Durarara!
 * Hiroshi Abe, a character in Shonan Junai Gumi
 * Hiroshi Agasa (Herschel Agasa in the English anime), in Case Closed: Detective Conan
 * Hiroshi Akiba, a character from the manga Inubaka
 * Hiroshi Fukuda, a character in Kuroko no Basuke
 * Hiroshi Fumihiro, from Initial D
 * Hiroshi Hayashi, a character in Yakuza
 * Hiroshi Hirai, a character in Denshi Sentai Denziman
 * Hiroshi Hoshizora, a character from the anime Smile PreCure!
 * Hiroshi Ichikawa, a character from Wild Strikers
 * Hiroshi Ichikawa, a character in the Manga and anime Kaibutsu-kun
 * Hiroshi Kochatani, a character in Great Teacher Onizuka
 * Hiroshi Kubo, a character from the novel Shiosai
 * Hiroshi Kuronaga, Boy #9 in Battle Royale
 * Hiroshi Matsumoto, a character in Miss Machiko
 * Hiroshi Morenos, a character from the anime Michiko & Hatchin
 * Hiroshi Mochizuki, a character in Kamen Rider ZO
 * Hiroshi Nakano, a character in the Manga and anime Gravitation
 * Hiroshi Nitta, a character in Denjin Zaborger
 * Hiroshi Nohara (born c. 1960), father of the protagonist, Shinnosuke, in Crayon Shin-chan
 * Hiroshi Sakura, the father of the protagonist, Momoko Maruko, in Chibi Maruko-chan
 * Hiroshi Sato, Superior businessman, Equalist sympathizer, and father to Asami Sato in The Legend of Korra
 * Hiroshi Uchiyamada, a character in Great Teacher Onizuka
 * Hiroshi Udagawa, a fictional businessman in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
 * Hiroshi Yushima, a character in Digimon Savers

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Haspe–Voerde–Breckerfeld Light Railway

The Haspe–Voerde–Breckerfeld Light Railway (Kleinbahn Haspe-Voerde-Breckerfeld) was a narrow-gauge railway linking the towns of Breckerfeld and Voerde with the Elberfeld–Dortmund railway at Haspe. Construction lasted from 1901 to 1906. The original owners were:

 * The country of Prussia
 * The Provinzialverband of Westphalia
 * Voerde, formerly a municipality; now belongs to Ennepetal

This narrow-gauge railway was 18.39 km (11.43 mi) long and ran 2.4 km (1.5 mi) over publicly owned roads. The majority of the span was sub-graded. The line's most important role was the provision of goods services in the valley of Hasperbach and from the Breckerfeld plateau. For this purpose, standard gauge freight wagons were put onto narrow gauge transporter wagons. One of the locomotives is now in display in a museum railway in Switzerland.

After World War I, the company went into financial crisis and had to suspend passenger services in 1921 due to the economic downturn. The assets were bought by the streetcar company of the city of Hagen in 1927. The railway was then electrified, using 1200 V DC, and passenger and freight services were opened again. In 1954 freight services were suspended, and in 1963 the last passenger service was stopped.

Today only the station at Breckerfeld, the viaduct below the Haspe dam, the locomotive shed and the transformer works at Hagen-Haspe by the shooting range are left. The trackbed is now largely used as a walking route and cycle path. The inclines do not exceed 3% at any point, so it is a very comfortable route for those cycling from the Ruhrgebiet into the Sauerland.

The route of the Kleinbahn was one of the most picturesque rural railway lines in Germany. It runs out of the narrow valley of the Hasperbach with a horseshoe curve near the Haspe Dam and a reversing station at Voerde onto the broad plateau of Breckerfeld, that dominates the surrounding area at a height of 350 m above sea level.

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Wheaton College (Massachusetts)

Wheaton College is a private liberal arts college in Norton, Massachusetts. Wheaton was founded in 1834 as a female seminary. The trustees officially changed the name of the Wheaton Female Seminary to Wheaton College in 1912 after receiving a college charter from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It remained one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States until men began to be admitted in 1988. It enrolls 1,669 undergraduate students.

History
In 1834, Eliza Wheaton Strong, the daughter of Laban Wheaton, died at the age of thirty-nine. Eliza Baylies Chapin Wheaton, his daughter-in-law and a founder of the Trinitarian Congregational Church of Norton, persuaded him to memorialize his daughter by founding a female seminary.

The family called upon noted women's educator Mary Lyon for assistance in establishing the seminary. Lyon created the first curriculum with the goal that it be equal in quality to those of men's colleges. She also provided the first principal, Eunice Caldwell. Wheaton Female Seminary opened in Norton, Massachusetts on 22 April 1835, with 50 students and three teachers.

Lyon and Caldwell left Wheaton to open Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1837 (now Mount Holyoke College). After their departure, Wheaton endured a period of fluctuating enrollment and frequent changes in leadership until 1850, when Caroline Cutler Metcalf was recruited as the new principal. Metcalf made the hiring of outstanding faculty her top priority, bringing in educators who encouraged students to discuss ideas rather than to memorize facts. The most notable additions to the faculty were Lucy Larcom, who introduced the study of English Literature and founded the student literary magazine The Rushlight; and Mary Jane Cragin, who used innovative techniques to teach geometry and made mathematics the favorite study of many students.

Metcalf retired in 1876. A. Ellen Stanton, a teacher of French since 1871, served as principal from 1880 to 1897. She led the seminary during a difficult time, when it faced competition from increasing numbers of public high schools and colleges granting bachelor's degrees to women.

In 1897, at the suggestion of Eliza Baylies Wheaton, the trustees hired Samuel Valentine Cole as the seminary's first male president. Preparing to seek a charter as a four-year college, Cole began a program of revitalization that included expanding and strengthening the curriculum, increasing the number and quality of the faculty, and adding six new buildings.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts granted Wheaton a college charter in 1912, and the trustees changed the name of the school to Wheaton College. The Student Government Association was organized to represent the "consensus of opinion of the whole student body", and to encourage individual responsibility, integrity, and self-government. Wheaton received authorization to establish a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in 1932, twenty years after achieving college status.

Cole died unexpectedly in 1925 after a brief illness. During his career as president, Cole oversaw the expansion of the campus from three to 27 buildings, the growth of enrollment from 50 to 414, and the establishment of an endowment. On the campus, Cole Memorial Chapel is named after him. Its approximate geographical coordinates are: 41.96723°N, -71.18431°W.

John Edgar Park, who became president in 1926, continued Cole's building program, and saw the college through the Great Depression, the celebration of its centennial in 1935 and World War II. He retired in 1944, and was succeeded by Dartmouth College Professor of History Alexander Howard Meneely. During his tenure, the trustees voted to expand the size of the college from 525 to 800 to 1000 students, and construction of "new campus" began in 1957.

Meneely died in 1961 after a long illness and was succeeded in 1962 by William C.H. Prentice, a psychology professor and administrator at Swarthmore College. In the early 1960s, Wheaton successfully completed its first endowment campaign. The development of new campus continued, and student enrollment grew to 1,200. Wheaton students and faculty joined in nationwide campus protests against United States actions in Indochina in 1970.

In 1975, Wheaton inaugurated its first woman president, Alice Frey Emerson, dean of students at the University of Pennsylvania. During her tenure, Wheaton achieved national recognition as a pioneer in the development of a gender-balanced curriculum. Emerson would go on to receive the Valeria Knapp Award from The College Club of Boston in 1987 for establishing the Global Awareness Program at Wheaton College. Wheaton celebrated its Sesquicentennial in 1984/85 with a year-long series of symposia, concerts, dance performances, art and history exhibits, and an endowment and capital campaign. In 1987, the trustees voted to admit men to Wheaton. The first coeducational class was enrolled in September 1988.

Dale Rogers Marshall, Academic Dean at Wellesley College, was inaugurated as Wheaton's sixth president in 1992. She led the college in "The Campaign for Wheaton", to build endowed and current funds for faculty development, student scholarships, and academic programs and facilities. Enrollment growth encouraged the construction of the first new residence halls since 1964 (Gebbie, Keefe and Beard residence halls), the improvement of classroom buildings and the renovation and expansion of the college's arts' facilities.

Wheaton's Board of Trustees appointed Ronald A. Crutcher as the seventh president of the college on March 23, 2004. Crutcher came to Wheaton from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he served as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and professor of music. During his tenure, he ran the most successful funding campaigns in Wheaton's history, funding the new $37M Mars Science Center, more than $53M in new scholarship endowments, as well as new athletic facilities, faculty-mentored research, and career services.[1]

Dennis M. Hanno was appointed as the eighth president in 2014 and served until 2021. Hanno accentuated Wheaton's emphasis on diversity and a student-centered approach to education. He advocated and implemented programs to apply liberal arts teachings to social entrepreneurship and making the world a better place. One of his initiatives offers a full scholarship to one refugee student each year, with preference for students from countries subject to immigration restrictions proposed by Donald Trump in 2016.

Wheaton's current president is Michaele Whelan.

Presidents
The following is a list of Wheaton College presidents with the years of their presidential tenures.

 * Samuel Valentine Cole (1912–1925)
 * George Thomas Smart, Acting President (1925–1926)
 * John Edgar Park (1926–1944)
 * A. Howard Meneely (1944–1961)
 * Elizabeth Stoffregen May, Acting President (1961–1962)
 * William Courtney Hamilton Prentice (1962–1975)
 * Alice Frey Emerson (1975–1991)
 * Hannah Goldberg, Acting President (1991–1992)
 * Dale Rogers Marshall (1992–2004)
 * Ronald Crutcher (2004–2014)
 * Dennis M. Hanno (2014–2021)
 * Michaele Whelan (2022–present)

Academics
Wheaton offers a liberal arts education leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree in more than 100 majors and minors. Students are permitted to work with faculty members to design self-declared majors. Wheaton College is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education. The most popular majors, based on 2021 graduates, were:
 * Business Administration and Management (53)
 * Psychology (47)
 * Biology/Biological Sciences (29)
 * Neuroscience (26)
 * Film/Cinema/Media Studies (20)
 * Political Science and Government (19)
 * Computer Science (18)
 * English Language & Literature (18)

Foundations courses focus on writing, quantitative analysis, foreign language study and non-Western perspectives. In their first semester at Wheaton, all freshmen take a First Year Seminar in which they explore contemporary issues and gain academic skills needed for college-level study. The major concentration and elective courses are also central to the Wheaton Compass Curriculum, which culminates in a senior capstone experience—a thesis, research project, seminar or creative project.

Partnerships with other schools
The course selection is extended further through the college's cross-registration programs with Brown University and nine local colleges involved in SACHEM (Southeastern Association for Cooperation in Higher Education in Massachusetts). Wheaton also offers dual-degree programs, enabling its undergraduates to begin graduate-level study in studio art, communications, engineering, business, theology and optometry.

Among several study abroad opportunities unique to Wheaton is its partnership with Royal Thimphu College in Bhutan.

Interdisciplinary study
Students must take either three linked courses or two sets of two-course connections. These courses are intended to encourage students to explore and think beyond their primary academic interests. For instance, the connection entitled "Communication through Art and Mathematics" links Arts 298 (Graphic Design I) with Math 127 (Advertising Math). Although students may complete one of the numerous pre-designed connections, students are encouraged to consider proposing their own.

In 2014, the college won a $500,000 grant from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation to fund the IMAGINE Network, "an interdisciplinary, campus-wide collaboratory connecting spaces, people, resources and ideas." While much of that grant was used in development of new interdisciplinary facilities, it also supports several interdisciplinary research groups each semester, and supports students and faculty in developing the next generation of liberal arts curriculum.

Hands-on learning
Wheaton's Semester in the City program places students in internships around Boston where they work while taking two related courses for the duration of the semester, to offer a more real-world living-working-learning experience. Wheaton guarantees funding for students pursuing unpaid extracurricular experiences, including internships, research, or any suitable experiential learning opportunity. The Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities (WIIH) develops and exposes programming exploring liberal arts education's weight in the ever-changing and increasingly complex "real world."

Much of this emphasis was initiated by college president Dennis M. Hanno, who took some inspiration from Babson College, where he was a Senior Vice President and Provost. One of his primary efforts in this area is WIN, short for Wheaton Innovates, which prepares students to launch social enterprises, applying liberal arts skill sets to create social change. That's included a new partnership with MassChallenge to partner students with startups, and led to a $10M commitment by the Diana Davis Spencer Foundation to continue expansion of social entrepreneurship programs starting in 2018.

Arts
In 2003, the Evelyn Danzig Haas '39 Visiting Artists Program was initiated; the program brings writers, musicians, actors, directors, dancers and artists to campus for short-term residencies to share their work through lectures, master classes, concerts and exhibitions. Arts in the City complements the visiting artists program by taking students and faculty members on trips to Boston, Providence and elsewhere to explore the arts and cultural offerings of the region.

Wheaton also has an extensive Permanent Collection of artworks which are often implemented in classes and student projects, including in some innovative learning experiences, like a semi-annual student-curated exhibition and student-driven provenance research.

College galleries often exhibit work from the Permanent Collection, but also notable visiting artist. During the 2016–2017 school year, there was a student-curated show, a show of student work, and an installation by Judy Pfaff.

Scholarships and fellowships
Wheaton prioritizes scholarships and fellowships both at the college and for its alumni. In 2016, Wheaton ranked tenth in its number of Fulbright scholars and was recognized as a top producer for 11 consecutive years. Since 2000, Wheaton students have received over 200 external scholarships, including 3 Rhodes Scholarships.

Wheaton itself provides substantial scholarships opportunities for current and prospective students. From 2004 to 2014, Wheaton added $53M in scholarships for students, and guarantees funding for internships and experiential learning opportunities. Support for the most academically curious students extends beyond financial funding to include the cohort-based May Fellows program and the Beard Hall living-learning community.

Wheaton also has a chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.

Architecture
Austin House, designed by The Architects Collaborative, sits at the edge of campus and serves as housing for guest speakers, artists, etc. It won Architectural Record's "House of the Year" in 1962, and remains an important example of mid-century modernism.

In 1938, Wheaton sponsored a competition to build a new arts center, cosponsored by Museum of Modern Art and Architectural Forum. They fielded proposals from some of the most famous architects of that era, including Louis Kahn and Walter Gropius, the latter of which took second prize. First prize went to two relatively unknown architects, Caleb Hornbostel and Richard Bennett, and while never actually built, accelerated the college's embrace of modernist architecture. In 1962, Watson Fine Arts was finally built in the Brutalist International Style.

Student living

Wheaton students live in a variety of ways. There are 18 traditional residence halls; some, like Meadows and Beard, were built in the 2000s, while others date back to the late 1800s. Most have single and double rooms, with two buildings dedicated to suites of 3-6 people.

There's also a rich history of "Theme Houses," bringing together a number of students with shared interests or purpose. In the 2017–2018 year, there were 17 theme houses on campus. They range from Farm House, which is an active farm, to the United World College Davis House, to the Feminist Perspective House.

Recent facilities developments

Wheaton's 2014 Sherman Fairchild Foundation grant supported development of a network of interdisciplinary creative spaces around campus, including a Makerspace called Lab 213 (housing 3D printers, Laser cutters, five-axis CNC milling equipment, electronics workspace), the HATCH Lab (digital classroom with virtual reality and eye tracking tools for digital humanities), and a Fiberspace (with digital jacquard loom, sewing machines, and other fibers and textiles tools).

Also included in that network are Arts spaces like the Wheaton Sculpture Studio (wood and metal working, ceramics, molding and casting, etc.), WCCS Student-run recording studio, Machine Shop for precision fabrication, and an experimental theater and dance studio.

In 2011, Wheaton completed its new Mars Science Center, a Gold LEED certified building housing the majority of the schools science classrooms and research (including greenhouses and observatory). It's also connected by underground passages to the old science center and library.

In 2000, Wheaton also expanded its Arts facilities.

The school has been pursuing infrastructure projects outside academics, too. In 2016, Wheaton renovated its dining halls, including Emerson Dining Hall, the Hood Cafe, and the Davis Spencer Cafe. They also rebuilt Chase Dining Hall. The next year, they erected solar panels on the roof of the old science center and in fields nearby.

Athletics
Wheaton fields 21 varsity NCAA Division III teams, nine for men and 12 for women, in addition to 14 club sports programs and a variety of intramural activities.

Reputation
In 2018, The Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education ranked Wheaton among the Top 40 U.S. Colleges for liberal arts. For 2015, U.S. News & World Report ranked it 69th in Best National Liberal Arts Colleges, and top 50 by high school counselor rankings. Kiplinger notes Wheaton as a "Best Value School", and College Raptor and College Recruiter independently identify Wheaton as a "hidden gem." The Princeton Review also recognizes Wheaton as a standout Northeastern college, one of the 373 best colleges in the United States and among the Top 200 Colleges That Pay You Back. Since 2000, over 250 prestigious scholarships have gone to Wheaton students, including 3 Rhodes Scholarships. In 2011 Newsweek/The Daily Beast placed Wheaton at number 19 of 25 in their "Braniacs" schools ranking.

Niche ranked Wheaton sixth for most liberal colleges in 2018, and the college does generally have a reputation for liberalism. College leadership has spoken out at numerous occasions against the Trump presidency, in favor of remaining signed on to the Paris Climate Accord and establishing a scholarship for refugees adversely affected by Trump's immigration policies. The school is not to be confused with the much more conservative Wheaton College (Illinois), and college leadership has at times publicly denounced the other institution's regressive stances and actions to make that clear.

Publications and media

 * Wheaton Magazine: College magazine
 * The Wheaton Wire: Weekly student newspaper
 * Nike: college yearbook
 * Rushlight: Student arts & literary magazine since 1855
 * Babe Lincoln: semesterly magazine
 * The Underwire: Alternative/underground newspaper (2005-2006)
 * WCCS: free-format student-run radio station

Films
The following films have been filmed, at least in part, on the Wheaton campus or feature Wheaton students.

 * Soul Man (1986)
 * Metropolitan (1990)
 * Prozac Nation (2001)
 * Legally Blonde (2001)
 * Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
 * Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
 * Don't Look Up (2021)
 * Challengers (2024)

Faculty

 * Susanne Woods, literary scholar and provost of Wheaton College (1999-2006)

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Donald Wilber

Donald Newton Wilber (November 14, 1907, Wisconsin – February 2, 1997, Princeton, New Jersey ), American writer and spy.

Wilber, along with MI6 agent Norman Darbyshire was one of the two principal architects of the MI6-CIA project "Operation Ajax" (or "Operation Boot" as it was called by the British), a successful plot to overthrow the government of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq. The plot replaced Iran's first democratically elected Prime Minister with General Fazlollah Zahedi; the government fell back into the hands of its disempowered Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who had supported the coup.

Wilber served as a United States intelligence officer with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), and was an active participant in the power struggles of nations, especially during the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union in Iran after World War II.

In addition to orchestrating the coup in Iran, in his spare time, Wilber wrote histories, travelogues and commentaries on Iran, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. He was considered an authority on ancient Persia.

Background
Wilber studied the ancient and modern Middle East. He received his A.B. (1929), M.F.A., and Ph.D. (1949) from Princeton University, where he was the first student to receive a doctorate in architectural history.

In 1939 Wilber married Margaret Patterson Surre; they had two daughters, Sara Wilber Cohen and Margaret Newton Wilber, who later changed her name to Valentine Margaret Wilber.

His book, Iran, Past and Present, was published in nine editions. Wilber collected oriental rugs and was president of the Princeton Rug Society for many years. He spent forty years in the Middle East.

His memoir, which partially recounts his role in the coup, is Adventures in the Middle East: Excursions and Incursions.

Publications
Wilber is the author of articles and books, including:

 * The Islamic Architecture of Iran and Turan: The Timurid Period (with Lisa Golombek, Princeton University Press, 2 vols.)
 * Iran, Past and Present (Princeton University Press)
 * The Architecture of Islamic Iran: The Il Khanid Period (Princeton University Press)
 * Persian Gardens and Garden Pavilions (Dumbarton Oaks)
 * Pakistan Yesterday and Today (Holt, Rinehart and Winston)
 * Persepolis: The Archaeology of Parsa, Seat of the Persian Kings (The Darwin Press, Inc.)
 * The Land and People of Ceylon (J. B. Lippincott Company)
 * Contemporary Iran (Frederick A. Praeger)
 * Adventures in the Middle East: Excursions and Incursions (The Darwin Press, Inc.)
 * Afghanistan: Its people, its society, its culture (HRAF PRESS)

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Positive bias
Please create a redirect page titled "Positive bias" that points to this article. Or explain to me how to create such a page. Xeno Lovegood (talk) 07:01, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

 * We shouldn't do that because "Positive bias" is not another name for confirmation bias, and there are other effects that "Positive bias" might mean. Take a look at Positivity bias, Optimism bias, Overconfidence effect and related terms. I've never encountered the term "positive bias": could you tell us in which sources you have found that term, and what was the context? MartinPoulter (talk) 13:23, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

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Thrombectomy

Mechanical thrombectomy, or simply thrombectomy, is the removal of a blood clot (thrombus) from a blood vessel, often and especially endovascularly as an interventional radiology procedure called endovascular thrombectomy (EVT). It thus contrasts with thrombolysis (clot dissolution) by thrombolytic medications (e.g., alteplase, reteplase), as either alternative or complement thereto. It is commonly performed in the cerebral arteries (interventional neuroradiology) as treatment to reverse the ischemia in some ischemic strokes (i.e., those in which the blockage is a suitable candidate for such retrieval). Open vascular surgery versions of thrombectomy also exist. The effectiveness of thrombectomy for strokes was confirmed in several randomised clinical trials conducted at various medical centers throughout the United States, as reported in a seminal multistudy report in 2015.

Applications in brain
Ischemic stroke represents the fifth most common cause of death in the western world and the number one cause of long-term disability. Until recent times, systemic intravenous fibrinolysis was the only evidence-based therapy for patients with acute onset of stroke due to large vessel occlusion.

In 2015, the results of five trials from different countries were published in the New England Journal of Medicine, demonstrating the safety and efficacy of mechanical thrombectomy with stent-retrievers in improving outcomes and reducing mortality for patients who present within six hours from their time last known well. It is now a widespread procedure performed in many hospitals around the globe, especially comprehensive stroke centers, although many other hospitals are not yet able to supply the service enough to meet the need. Large obstacles to making EVT more widely available are both systematic hurdles at the prehospital stages and the intrahospital barrier of a scarcity of interventional neuroradiologists. They concern TTR (time to reperfusion), which is the same underlying problem as the golden hour in general, albeit several hours in the case of TTR: that is, EVT performed within 2 or 3 hours can help vastly, whereas EVT performed after 6 to 12 hours is often (although not always) too late to prevent the permanent sequelae of the ischemia. In this respect, the dissemination of EVT into clinical practice shows how translational medicine has various layers, some easier to solve and some harder: it was in some respects straightforward to develop the technology of EVT in the 2000s and 2010s (that is, the catheter tips and procedures), but it is not easy to revamp the standard of care in prehospital settings (such as awareness among family members and bystanders, optimal techniques for emergency medical services, and so on), which deployment of timely EVT requires.

In 2018 the DAWN and DEFUSE-3 trials were published. These trials showed that mechanical thrombectomy is a safe and effective treatment for individuals who have an acute ischemic stroke, even (in some cases) out to 24 hours after symptom onset.

Stent-retriever thrombectomy
The procedure can be performed with general anesthesia or under conscious sedation in an angiographic room. A system of coaxial catheters is pushed inside the arterial circulation, usually through a percutaneous access to the right femoral artery. A microcatheter is finally positioned beyond the occluded segment and a stent-retriever is deployed to catch the thrombus; finally, the stent is pulled out from the artery, usually under continuous aspiration in the larger catheters.

Direct aspiration
A different technique for mechanical thrombectomy in the brain is direct aspiration. It is performed by pushing a large soft aspiration catheter into the occluded vessel and applying direct aspiration to retrieve the thrombus; it can be combined with the stent-retriever technique to achieve higher recanalization rates, but the complexity of the procedure increases.

Direct aspiration has not been studied as thoroughly as stent-retriever thrombectomy, but it is still widely performed because of its relative simplicity and low cost.

Delivery
Patients in London who suffered stroke were found to be much more likely to get thrombectomy in 2022 than those in other parts of England. 42% of thrombectomy units only operated during office hours and Monday to Friday, largely due to a shortage of neurointerventionalists.

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Breckerfeld

Breckerfeld is a town in the district of Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, (Germany). It is located in the southeasternmost part of the Ruhr area in northern Sauerland. The town is a member of Regionalverband Ruhr (association).

Geography
Breckerfeld is a rural community in a hilly area. The weather around the city is generally cool with a substantial amount of rain. The town consists of two administrative parts: Breckerfeld proper and Waldbauer.

History
Breckerfeld has had town rights since 1396 and was a member of the Hanseatic League. From 1907 until 1963 the Haspe–Voerde–Breckerfeld Light Railway connected Breckerfeld with the Elberfeld–Dortmund railway at Haspe. In 1970, the independent municipality of Dahl joined the town of Breckerfeld. In 1975, the federal parliament decided to reorganize this area into falling within the boundaries of the nearby district-free city, Hagen.

Nena, one of Germany's most successful pop-singers, spent the first several years of her life in Breckerfeld.

Politics
The current mayor of Breckerfeld is André Dalhaus of the CDU. In the most recent mayoral election on 13 September 2020, he was elected unopposed with 88% of votes in favour and 12% against.

Local council
The Breckerfeld municipal council governs the city alongside the Mayor. The most recent council election was held on 13 September 2020, and the results were as follows:

! colspan=2| Party ! Votes ! % ! +/- ! Seats ! +/- ! colspan=2| Valid votes ! 4,344 ! 98.6 ! ! ! ! colspan=2| Invalid votes ! 60 ! 1.4 ! ! ! ! colspan=2| Total ! 4,404 ! 100.0 ! ! 30 ! ±0 ! colspan=2| Electorate/voter turnout ! 7,400 ! 59.5 ! ! !
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 * align=left| Christian Democratic Union (CDU)
 * 2,106
 * 48.5
 * 1.4
 * 15
 * 1
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 * align=left| Social Democratic Party (SPD)
 * 764
 * 17.6
 * 6.5
 * 5
 * 2
 * bgcolor=|
 * align=left| Alliance 90/The Greens (Grüne)
 * 744
 * 17.1
 * 4.7
 * 5
 * 1
 * align=left| Voters' Association Breckerfeld
 * 422
 * 9.7
 * 1.3
 * 3
 * ±0
 * bgcolor=|
 * align=left| Free Democratic Party (FDP)
 * 308
 * 7.1
 * 1.6
 * 2
 * ±0
 * align=left| Free Democratic Party (FDP)
 * 308
 * 7.1
 * 1.6
 * 2
 * ±0
 * colspan=7| Source: Hansestadt Breckerfeld
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Twin cities

 * 🇫🇷 Gençay, Vienne, France

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I can't find a dependable reference for a Confederate ship, presumably the CSS Oregon. Can anyone help me here? Did such a ship exist?

Any why would the Confederates name a ship for a Union state? I'm confused.

dino 01:52, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Animerica Extra

Animerica Extra was a monthly manga magazine published in by Viz Media. Established as a companion to the anime news and review magazine Animerica, Animerica Extra primarily published English-language translations of Japanese manga. The magazine shifted towards publishing shōjo manga (girls' manga) in 2003, before ceasing publication in 2004.

History
Animerica Extra was conceived as a sister publication to Animerica, Viz's general interest anime and manga magazine. Amid the anime boom of the 1990s, Animerica Extra and the Viz manga magazines Manga Vizion and Pulp were among the first English-language manga magazines to publish manga titles aimed at demographics outside of children's manga, and have been noted as being "instrumental in disseminating manga culture" in North America. The magazine principally published English-language translations of manga, though it published non-manga content such as the short stories of Mitsuru Adachi, and feature stories on manga, anime, and Japanese culture. Certain issues featured original cover artwork by manga artists, including Haruhiko Mikimoto and Chiho Saito.

Sales for the magazine were initially strong; in August 2001, ICv2 reported that Animerica Extra had grown its circulation month-over-month for over a year, and cited the magazine's growth as proof of uncaptured potential in the American shōjo market. Animerica Extra's readership was roughly 70 percent female; ICv2 additionally noted that retailers such as Mile High Comics were able to capitalize on the success of Animerica Extra to attract female customers to comic book stores. Following the cancellation of Pulp in 2002, the magazine's serialization of Banana Fish continued in Animerica Extra. In July 2003, the magazine began publishing shōjo manga exclusively and began printing certain manga in its original right-to-left format, as opposed to the flipped artwork it had previously published.

In December 2004, Animerica Extra ceased publication. The magazine was replaced by the manga magazine Shojo Beat, which was published by Viz from July 2005 until July 2009.

Serializations
The following titles were serialized in Animerica Extra:

 * Banana Fish by Akimi Yoshida
 * Chicago by Yumi Tamura
 * Fushigi Yūgi by Yuu Watase
 * Maison Ikkoku by Rumiko Takahashi
 * Marionette Generation by Haruhiko Mikimoto
 * Revolutionary Girl Utena by Chiho Saito and Be-Papas
 * Short Program by Mitsuru Adachi
 * Steam Detectives by Kia Asamiya
 * Video Girl Ai by Masakazu Katsura
 * Wild Com. by Yumi Tamura
 * X/1999 by Clamp

Titles serialized in Animerica Extra were also published as collected editions by Viz.

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