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Jonathan Coachman

Jonathan William Coachman (born August 12, 1973), also known as "The Coach", is an American sports analyst and former professional wrestling personality best known for his time with WWE.

Early life
Before embarking on an announcing career in professional wrestling, Coachman was a high school basketball player. After two state basketball championships at McPherson High School in McPherson, Kansas, Coachman moved across town to continue playing for McPherson College. While at McPherson, Coachman's interests included participating in theatre, serving as the sports editor for the school newspaper, and doing play-by-play and color commentary for the local football and basketball radio broadcasts. Coachman was also a sports reporter/anchor at KAKE in Wichita, Kansas, and also lived for a time in Newton Falls, Ohio, frequently attending Youngstown State Penguins basketball games.

Coachman also starred in many instructional videos used for technical education classrooms of middle schools and high schools. One set of videos featured "Coach" instructing people on flight navigation and the basics of airplanes. He also had a "boyfriend-in-a-box" modeled after him during college. Coachman also worked for local Kansas City news station KMBC-TV, where he was a correspondent for Larry King Live's coverage of Owen Hart's death in May 1999.

Backstage interviewer (1999–2003)
Coachman began his World Wrestling Federation (WWF) career as an interviewer on Smackdown, January 13, 2000, commentator, and presenter. Coachman was also involved in occasional segments with The Rock, in which The Rock attempted to humiliate Coachman in any form possible, whether it was forcing him to sing, dance, or smile for the camera. The Rock also accused Coachman of performing rather lewd activities with farm animals.

During winter of 2001, Coachman was pressed into service as a sideline reporter for regional telecasts of the WWF-owned XFL, initially serving on the same broadcast team as WWF commentators Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler.

Commentator and Assistant to Eric Bischoff (2003–2006)
The Coach made a heel turn against Shane McMahon on August 24, 2003, at SummerSlam. After this he would have an on-screen role as the "lackey" to then General Manager of Raw, Eric Bischoff. Coachman continued to work as a heel and later teamed up with his fellow WWE Heat announcer Al Snow in a storyline feud against the Raw announce team, Jerry Lawler and Jim Ross. This feud would even see the pair win the right to announce the main show from Ross and Lawler at one point. Later, Coachman achieved a singles victory on pay-per-view at Backlash, in 2004 by defeating Tajiri (albeit with the assistance of Garrison Cade). Coachman would go on to host the 2004 and 2005 Raw Diva Searches. Later, Coach would gain his own column in the now defunct Raw Magazine ("Coach's Corner") and his own webcast on WWE.com ("CoachCast"). Coachman was officially added as the third member to the Raw broadcast team and signed a multi-year contract with WWE in 2005.

During October 2005, Coach was involved in an angle involving the McMahon Family publicly firing Jim Ross due to the actions of Ross's friend, Steve Austin. The firing of Ross gave Coach the position of lead announcer on Raw. The storyline would culminate in a match at Taboo Tuesday where Austin faced Coach in a match with both Austin's and Ross's jobs on the line. Though the match was originally scheduled to be Austin versus the Coach, Austin refused to participate because of issues he had with the storyline (the original story was said to have called for Austin to lose following a run-in by the returning Mark Henry). World Heavyweight Champion Batista was renamed the opponent to play up the SmackDown! vs. Raw storylines. On the October 31, 2005 edition of Raw, Batista came out and accepted the match only to be attacked by Coach's backup, the returning Goldust and Vader. At Taboo Tuesday, Batista faced off against Coach in a Street Fight. Vader and Goldust tried to interfere in the match, but Batista won. However, no mention of the Jim Ross stipulation was ever mentioned after the match.

Former ECW announcer Joey Styles soon replaced Coach in a move that became permanent despite Coach's on-air protestations that Styles' presence was temporary. Coach retained a prominent role on the Raw announcing team as the heel representative of a three-man booth with Styles, the play-by-play man, and Jerry "The King" Lawler, the babyface color commentator.

On the January 23, 2006 edition of Raw, Coach defeated Lawler to win the last Raw spot in the Royal Rumble match via interference from the debuting Spirit Squad. Coachman would enter seventh during the match only to be eliminated almost immediately by The Big Show.

Executive Assistant and Interim General Manager (2006–2007)
During the April 24 edition of Raw, after Coachman hosted a Divas bikini contest, Viscera came down to the ring and performed the Viscagra on Coachman. During the commercial break of that show, still in the ring, he quit in protest of his treatment on Raw. On the May 29 edition of Raw, it was revealed that Mr. McMahon had hired Coachman under the new position of McMahon's Executive Assistant; to aid McMahon in the daily running of the Raw brand, and actually acted as the General Manager when the McMahons were absent. While Executive Assistant, Coachman, along with the McMahons, feuded with the reformed D-Generation X and also had issues with John Cena. On June 18, 2007, Coachman was officially named Interim General Manager of Raw by the McMahon Family following the kayfabe death of Vince McMahon in a limo explosion.

On the August 6, 2007 edition of Raw, William Regal became the new General Manager on the Raw brand after winning a battle royal featuring other participants from the Raw roster. As a result, Coachman was removed from his position as Interim General Manager and became Regal's new assistant. However, following a kayfabe assault by John Cena on Regal during the September 3 edition of Raw, Regal had to be temporarily relieved of his duties as General Manager at which point Coachman was once again named interim General Manager of Raw until Regal was fit to resume his role. On the October 1 edition of Raw, Regal returned as General Manager which resulted in Coachman being once again demoted to his prior rank.

On the December 3, 2007 edition of Raw, Coach was in a No DQ Handicap match with Carlito against Hornswoggle, with whom he had been having problems. However, Hornswoggle had paid the APA to protect him during the match. Coachman was pinned by Hornswoggle after a Clothesline from Hell and a Tadpole Splash.

A rivalry ensued and one night Coachman chased Hornswoggle all over the backstage area, and it eventually moved to the arena, where Hornswoggle performed his "hide under the ring" trick to get away. Coachman moved to the other side of the ring and pulled out a detonator, much to the surprise of Jim Ross. He attempted to activate the detonator twice, but nothing happened. He then moved under the ring to check the explosives, and Hornswoggle came out from under the ring, and successfully detonated the explosives, causing smoke to appear from under the ring, and the cameras to make TV screens change color, from gray to rainbow, and according to JR, the building shook. Coachman was charred and unable to move.

SmackDown commentator and departure (2008)
On the January 4, 2008 episode of SmackDown!, Coachman would replace John "Bradshaw" Layfield, who rejoined Raw the previous week, on commentary alongside Michael Cole. Later that year in June, Coachman's contract expired after he decided not to renew it.

Part-time appearances (2016–2018)
On March 25, 2016, Coachman made a special appearance during WWE's live event held at Madison Square Garden. On the March 28 episode of Raw, Coachman returned to WWE TV for the first time in almost 8 years, cutting a promo with The New Day. Coachman would also announce that SportsCenter would be live leading up to WrestleMania 32 on April 3. On the January 22, 2018, episode of Raw 25 Years, Coachman would appear in a backstage segment with Raw general manager Kurt Angle and other past WWE talent, Harvey Wippleman, The Brooklyn Brawler, Theodore Long, Brother Love and The Boogeyman.

Raw commentator and Pre-show host (2018–21)
On January 29, 2018, Coachman re-signed with WWE, joining the Raw commentary team alongside Michael Cole and Corey Graves, replacing Booker T as color commentator. On September 10, Coachman would leave the Raw commentary team, being replaced by Renee Young, with Coachman becoming the new pre-show panel host for pay-per-views.

Coachman also served as pregame host for the 2020 incarnation of the XFL. Coachman left WWE and the XFL in 2021, stating that he had expected to be reimbursed for his travel expenses but never was due to the XFL's bankruptcy.

ESPN (2008–2017)
In 2008, Coachman left WWE to begin a career with ESPN. Starting in mid-2015, Coachman began presenting highlights of WWE's best moments of the week on ESPN and having weekly sitdown interviews with WWE wrestlers on SportsCenter. In October 2017, Coachman announced via his Periscope that his contract at ESPN had expired, thus confirming his departure from the network.

NBC Sports Group (2018–2021)
As WWE has a television deal with NBCUniversal, in 2018, he was named play-by-play announcer for the NBC-owned World Long Drive Championship. Coachman is also a commentator for PGA Tour Live, which is an NBC Sports Gold subscription service providing additional coverage of golf tournaments.

CBS Sports
As of 2021, Coachman was employed by CBS Sports.

PFL
Coachman is also an analyst for Mixed Martial Arts promotion Professional Fighters League.

Personal life
Coachman and his ex-wife Amy have two children. Amy is a former college athlete, and a personal trainer.

Other media
In addition to his WWE assignments, Coachman called various sports events on College Sports Television, a cable and satellite network owned by CBS, including football, basketball, baseball and softball. He also called college basketball for CN8. In addition, Coachman served as the part-time play-by-play announcer for the WNBA's New York Liberty on the MSG Network, as well as the studio host for New York Knicks games. He also hosted the weekly MSG program MSG, NY.

In 2009, Coachman signed with ESPN as anchor of SportsCenter. In 2012, he became the host of Coach & Company, a nationally syndicated radio program that airs on ESPN Radio.

Coachman also lends his voice talents to the video games Black College Football Xperience: The Doug Williams Edition, Madden NFL 19, Madden NFL 20, Madden NFL 21 and Madden 24.

Awards and accomplishments

 * Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
 * Worst Television Announcer (2003, 2005, 2018)

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Laholm

Laholm is a town and the seat of Laholm Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, with 6,527 inhabitants in 2015.

Laholm is, despite its small population, for historical reasons often still referred to as a city.

The town is located at the estuary of the river Lagan in the Bay of Laholm.

History
Laholm is one of Sweden's oldest cities, and it is the oldest city in the province of Halland. The first charter was granted in the 13th century, in what was then a part of Denmark and Høx Herred. The church was founded in 1225. During the wars between Sweden and Denmark in the 16th and 17th century, Laholm was burnt down several times. In 1645, as Halland became land owned by the Monarch of Sweden, the town had 330 inhabitants, growing to about 866 about hundred years later. In the middle of the 19th century the population reached the 1,000 mark, doubled in the early 20th century and reaching 3,000 around 1950. The local government reform of 1971 made the town the seat of Laholm Municipality which has over 25,000 inhabitants.

Of interest is still the old street structure, intact from medieval times and the Laholm church.

The town's and commune's coat of arms dates back to the Middle Ages, but was granted by royal warrant only in the 1940s. It shows three silver salmon with red fins on a blue background, owing to the importance of salmon fishing in the area. The arms is very nearly identical to that of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in London, whose arms also go back a long way.

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Varberg

Varberg  is a locality and the seat of Varberg Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, with 35,782 inhabitants in 2019.

Varberg and all of Halland are well known for their "typical west coast" sandy beaches. In Varberg the coast changes from wide sandy beaches to rocky terrain that continues north into the Bohuslän archipelago and as far as the North Cape. Varberg is ranked as one of Sweden’s most beautiful cities.

Geography
Varberg is located on the Swedish west coast and is a popular beach and surfing destination for both Sweden and Europe. It has a main landmark in the large Fortress and Castle of Varberg. Through centuries many wars between Denmark and Sweden were fought here before Southern Sweden, including Varberg, became permanently Swedish in 1658 through the Treaty of Roskilde. It is a small town with architecture mainly from the turn of the century and has several green parks such as the Society Park (Societetsparken) and the English Park. The green parks were however not always there. In fact in the 19th century the town was largely without trees and green areas, being instead characterised by bald rocks and sand. The Swedish authoritative author and bishop Esaias Tegnér described it in 1826 as the least appealing place in Sweden, which has later been used in the marketing of Varberg. Today this has changed and its sandy beaches are a popular destination. Another main draw of Varberg is its natural surroundings. The landscape further inland has rolling hills with lakes and forests in contrast to the flatter coastal areas.

Climate
Varberg has an oceanic climate that although moderate by Swedish standards, still retains quite large seasonal variation. Summers are in general cooler than both in Halmstad and Gothenburg, with highs being moderated by the marine airflow. Although this moderation occurs, some summer days can be very warm, and some winter nights see severe frosts. The highest recorded temperature since 1901 is 33.6°C (92.5°F) on July 31, 2018 and the lowest is -25.5°C (-13.9°F) in January 1942.

History

A fortress called Varberg (at that time written Wardbergh, "watch hill") was erected in the 1280s as part of a chain of military establishments along the coast, in what was then Danish territory. In the middle of the 14th century, the old settlement "Getakärr" 1 km north of the fortress took its new name from the fortress. The town was moved 5 km northwards around the year 1400. It was destroyed during the Kalmar War (1611-1612) and rebuilt near the fortress. In 1645 Halland passed from Denmark to Sweden by the Treaty of Brömsebro for a period of 30 years. It had at that time about 600 inhabitants. The transfer was made permanent by the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658. The town was moved again after a fire in 1666 to where the city centre is located today. The city was devastated by a huge fire in 1863 and was subsequently rebuilt with stone or brick houses. In 1890 the population figure had passed 4,000 and with industrialization it reached 8,500 in 1930. The local government reform of 1971 made Varberg the seat of the much larger Varberg Municipality, with a current population of close to 56,000 inhabitants. Although several houses were torn down in the 1970s, most of the city center still remains intact.

Sights
Varberg's fortress is its most notable historical building, mostly because of its size as it has no architectural uniformity. It was first built as a castle in 1280, with new parts being built in successions.

Near Varberg there is the VLF transmitter Grimeton, an interesting radio-technical facility and classified by UNESCO to be a World Cultural Heritage site. It can be visited during the summer. Bexell Cottage is also located in the area.

Komedianten is a cultural and performing arts centre, built between 2010-2012.

Sports

The following sports clubs are located in Varberg:
 * Varbergs BoIS FC
 * Varbergs GIF FK
 * Lilla Träslövs FF
 * Varberg Vipers

Multiple locations in and around Varberg offer great conditions for watersports. Apelviken (Apple Bay Beach), located in the south of Varberg, has many facilities and rental spots for windsurfing, standup paddleboarding, kitesurfing and other sports.

Transportation
Varberg Airport, ICAO code ESGV, is located northwest of the town of Varberg.

European cooperation

 * Varberg is a member city of Eurotowns network

Notable people

 * Ingemund Bengtsson, social democratic politician and Speaker of the Riksdag
 * Niclas Eliasson, footballer
 * Sophie Gustafson, golfer
 * Kamchatka, hard rock band
 * Andy LaRocque, guitarist, songwriter, producer
 * Dick Lövgren, bass guitarist for Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah
 * Sven Nylander, 400m hurdler
 * Gösta Pettersson, biochemist
 * Mathilda Ranch, early Varberg photographer
 * Stefan Selaković, footballer
 * Margareta Svensson, singer, performer, television personality
 * Otto Torell, Swedish naturalist and geologist
 * Dafina Zeqiri, singer

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Kungsbacka

Kungsbacka is a locality and the seat of Kungsbacka Municipality in Halland County, Sweden, with 19,057 inhabitants in 2010. It is a part of Greater Gothenburg Metropolitan Area.

It is one of the most affluent parts of Sweden, in part due to its simultaneous proximity to the countryside and the large city of Gothenburg. Its mayor since 2020 is Lisa Andersson.

History
The first records referring to Kungsbacka as a town date from the 15th century, when it was part of Denmark. By the time it was recognised as part of Sweden (1658), the river running through the town, on which some transportation of goods took place, was almost completely overgrown and despite pleas to restore its function, this did not occur. Some trade still took place from the coast, but the town's significance as a place of naval commerce declined over the centuries. Today, it is home to over 2,000 enterprises, and the river still runs through it.

A devastating fire in 1846 destroyed the town centre, sparing only a little red wooden cabin which still stands today. In late 2006 and early 2014 other fires affected the town centre, and construction work is ongoing to restore the loss of wooden buildings.

The town remained small until the 1960s. The municipal reform of 1971 made it the seat of the much larger Kungsbacka Municipality. The town began to grow as a part of Metropolitan Gothenburg. It is the southern terminus of the Gothenburg commuter rail system, situated 28 km from central Gothenburg.

Sister cities
The following cities are twinned with Kungsbacka:
 * 🇫🇮 Saarijärvi, Central Finland, Finland
 * 🇨🇴 Neiva, Huila, Colombia

Notable people

 * Bengt Andersson, football player
 * Jonny Andersson, International motorcycle trials rider
 * Torsten Billman 1909-1989. Artist, woodcut engraver and mural painter
 * Lasse Brandeby, comic actor
 * Christian Folin (born 1991), ice hockey player for Frölunder HC
 * Lars Gathenhielm, 1689-1718. Pirate
 * Calle Johansson, ice hockey player
 * Fredrik Jacobson, golfer
 * Hasse Jeppson 1925-2013. Football player. Sweden squad - 1950 FIFA World Cup, Third Place
 * Niklas Rubin, ice hockey goaltender
 * Omar Rudberg, Singer in FO&O
 * Ulrik Munther, Singer
 * Fridolina Rolfö, football player
 * Alexander Jeremejeff, professional footballer for Panathinaikos
 * Erik Persson, swedish 2016 Olympic and 2020 Olympic swimmer

Sports
The following sports clubs are located in Kungsbacka:

 * Varla IBK Floorball
 * Kungsbacka IF
 * Tölö IF
 * HK Aranäs
 * Kungsbacka Broncos Rugby league Club

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Halmstad

Halmstad is a port, university, industrial and recreational city at the mouth of the Nissan river, in the province of Halland on the Swedish west coast. Halmstad is the seat of Halmstad Municipality and the capital of Halland County. The city had a population of 71,422 in 2020, out of a municipal total of over 100,000. Halmstad is Sweden's 19th-largest city by population and located about midway between Gothenburg (the second most populous) and Malmö (the third).

History
Halmstad, at the time part of the Kingdom of Denmark, received its first city charter in 1307, and the city celebrated its 700th anniversary in 2007. The oldest remains of that first town are to be found at "Övraby" upstream on Nissan, just south of and quite close to the present day regiment buildings. The remains of the church can still be seen today between a defunct brick industry and a former landfill.

In the 1320s the town moved to the present day town centre. At this time there were two monasteries in the town and during the 15th century the St. Nikolai church was built. Halland was the object of numerous battles, sieges and occupations by Swedish troops.

During the Kalmar Union, a Nordic Union between Sweden, Norway and Denmark which lasted between 1397 and 1523, it was in Halmstad that the Union King was to be finally selected.

At the end of the 16th century Christian IV of Denmark ordered the fortification of Halmstad and in the beginning of the 17th century to build a crescent-shaped fort with Nissan as part of the defences.

1619 is an important date in the history of Halmstad. In March of that year, King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden and Christian IV met at the castle. Over a period of a week they celebrated the payment in full of the Älvsborg ransom. August of the same year saw the destruction of Halmstad by fire.

Halland became part of Sweden for a period of thirty years when peace was declared at the Treaty of Brömsebro in 1645 and Danish rule ended. The Treaty of Roskilde in 1658 made this acquisition permanent. Sweden defeated Denmark in the Battle of Fyllebro which took place in 1676 just outside Halmstad. In 1678, a parliamentary meeting (Riksdag) was held in Halmstad.

The Riksdag decided in 1734 that the city's fortifications would be demolished. Some residues of fortifications have been preserved, including one of the four city gates, Norre Port. For a period, the old fortifications were used for tobacco cultivation.

The city's first major industry, Wallbergs Factory AB was built in 1823. The brewery Appeltofftska (now Krönleins) was founded in 1836 and brewery Östra Bryggeriet in 1846. AB Malcus Holmquist, also called Malcus, was formed in 1902. Nordiskafilt AB started in 1904 and Halmstads Järnverk in 1916. Lundgren's foundry started in 1917 and Waco in 1918.

A large rebuilding of Halmstad's port was conducted in 1837–1840. The Halländska steamship company was formed in Halmstad in 1850 and started traffic between Gothenburg and Copenhagen, which was soon expanded with several connections. The first railway line, Halmstad—Värnamo, opened in 1877.

Halmstad was continually industrialized at the end of the 19th century. The city grew from 12,000 to 15,000 inhabitants during the 1890s. Every year, 1,000 people moved to Halmstad and 800—900 moved away.

Halmstad's first union was formed in 1885 by tailor workers. The first May Day demonstration in Sweden was held in Halmstad in 1897.

After expanding in 1967, Halmstad become central town in 1971 in Halmstad's municipality. The population grew from 48,800 in 1990 to 58,577 in 2010.

Climate
Halmstad has the south Scandinavian climate of a relatively rainy environment with warm summers and winters around the freezing point. The local climate is defined as an oceanic climate (Cfb) with some continental influence.

Primary education

 * Some of these schools might also have secondary education

Secondary education

 * Kattegattgymnasiet
 * Sturegymnasiet
 * Sannarpsgymnasiet

Tertiary education
Founded in 1983, Halmstad University is a public higher education institution offering bachelor's and master's programs in various fields of study. In addition, it conducts Ph.D. programs in three fields of research: Information Technology, Innovation Science and Health Science. Halmstad University has more than 9 000 students, including 245 exchange students (2013) and 163 international programme students (2013).

Transportation
Halmstad is located along the West Coast Line and at the beginning of the Halmstad-Nässjö railway line. Regional trains are operated under the brands Øresundståg to Gothenburg and Copenhagen, Pågatågen to Helsingborg and Krösatågen to Nässjö and Jönköping. State operator SJ operates high-speed trains to Gothenburg, Malmö and Stockholm, with private operator MTRX operating additional trains to Stockholm in the summer.

Halmstad is the starting point for national roads 25 and 26, and is situated along the E6/E20 motorways.

Event host
In September 2007 the city hosted the Solheim Cup, which was played at the Halmstad Golfklubb. In 2011 Halmstad was the final port of the Tall Ships' Races. Halmstad also hosted the 2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships.

Local sportsteams

 * American Football
 * Halmstad Eagles
 * Association football
 * Halmstads BK
 * IS Halmia
 * Alets IK
 * BK Astrio
 * IF Centern
 * IF Leikin
 * Snöstorp/Nyhem FF
 * IS Örnia
 * Badminton
 * Halmstad Badmintonklubb
 * Bowling
 * BK 91:an Halmstad
 * BK Hallandia
 * BK Nyhem
 * BK Pantern
 * BK Safir
 * BS Tylön
 * Halmia BS
 * IF Tre Hjärtan
 * Team Halmstad BF
 * Dancing
 * Laxbuggarna
 * Fencing
 * Halmstads Fäktsällskap
 * Figure skating
 * Halmstads konståkningsklubb
 * Golf
 * Halmstad GK
 * Bäckavattnets GK
 * Garnisonen GK
 * Holms GK
 * Ringenäs GK
 * Haverdals GK
 * Gymnastics
 * Halmstad Frigymnaster
 * Halmstad Kvinnliga GF
 * Halmstad Rytmiska GF
 * Nissaflickorna
 * Ice hockey
 * Halmstad Hammers HC
 * Halmstad Ungdom HC
 * Sannarps HC
 * Swimming
 * SK Laxen
 * Table tennis
 * Halmstad BTK
 * Team handball
 * HK Drott
 * Halmstads HP
 * Tennis
 * Söndrums TK
 * Track & Field
 * IFK Halmstad
 * Cricket
 * Halmstad Cricket club

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Falkenberg

Falkenberg is a locality and the seat of Falkenberg Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, with 27,813 inhabitants in 2019 (out of a municipal total of about 45,000). It is located at the mouth of river Ätran. The name consists of the Swedish words for falcon (falk) and mountain (berg). Falkenberg is a popular tourist destination in the summers, and the main beach of the town is Skrea strand.

History
In the early part of the 13th century the Danish king built a fort on the east shore of the river Ätran, which eventually would give the town its name. Halland was at that time part of Denmark. It is known that falconry was pursued in the area. However, in Hallandia antiqua et hodierna, that specified a location ("mountain") where the falconry should have taken place, and which should have given name to the town, has later been shown to be incorrect.

The area north of Ätran was from time to time Norwegian or Swedish. It was on this side that a market town developed. At around 1300 a church was built. From the 14th century until the Northern Seven Years' War (1563—1570) a second town, Ny-Falkenberg (New Falkenberg) was located close to the town. The fort was destroyed by Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson's troops in 1434. The town gained market rights at the latest in 1558.

Along with the rest of the Halland, Falkenberg was to be temporarily Swedish in accordance with the Treaty of Brömsebro (1645). The Treaty of Roskilde thirteen years later made the province permanently Swedish. For a long period it struggled to keep its privileges with regard to trade and jurisdiction from the Danish time. Also like the rest of the county, it only started to slowly industrialise in the late 19th century. The city of Falkenberg was transformed at the municipal reform in 1862 to a city municipality with smaller parts in surrounding country municipalities. In 1908, Herting was incorporated from Skrea Country Mommun, 1937 Arvidstorp from Stafsinge Country Commun and 1950 a small area from Vinberg's country municipality. In 1971, Falkenberg's city in Falkenberg's municipality and the resort is since its central town in the municipality.

In the 20th century it has gained a reputation as a seaside resort.

Communications
Falkenberg is located along a traditional trade route along the Swedish west coast, about 45 km northwest of Halmstad, and 105 km south of Gothenburg. These transport needs are currently catered by European route E6, which runs as a dual carriageway just outside the town, and the West Coast Railway Line. County road 150 and County road 154 connect to Torup and Svenljunga. Falkenberg railway operated from the 1890s to the 1950s. The town has seven bus routes.

Sport
The town hosts several teams at national level. The football team, Falkenbergs FF, has since the late 1980s established itself in the second division (currently Superettan). The table tennis team, Falkenbergs BTK, has won ten national championships, as well as one European championship. In the early 2000s, Falkenbergs VBK developed to become one of the best volleyball teams in the country and accordingly won the national championship 2007. BK Falkarna has played ten seasons in the top bowling league.

Other sports clubs located in Falkenberg include:

 * Skrea IF
 * Arvidstorps IK
 * Vinbergs IF
 * Stafsinge IF
 * Rinia IF
 * IF Böljan

Sport venues in the town include Falkenbergs IP, hosting Falkenbergs Idrottsklubb and IF Böljan, Falcon Alkoholfri Arena hosting Falkenbergs FF, Falkenberg Sports Centre, hosting Falkenbergs VBK and Klitterbadet, a bath house.

Buildings

 * Falkenberg Church
 * Falkenberg Town Hall
 * Falkenberg Old Town Hall
 * Falkhallen
 * Saint Lawrence church

Notable people

 * Annika Andersson, comedian
 * Per-Gunnar Andersson, racing driver
 * Bo Andersson, businessman
 * Rutger Backe, footballer
 * Zulmir Bečević, author
 * Emma Bengtsson, chef
 * Stellan Bengtsson, table tennis player
 * Nina Björk, author, journalist, feminist
 * Ulf "Tickan" Carlsson, table tennis player
 * Walter Dickson, author
 * Jojje Jönsson, actor
 * Erik "Spänst" Svensson, athlete
 * Frida Svensson, rower
 * Hans Svensson, rower
 * Carl-Johan Vallgren, author
 * Jan Widströmer, artist
 * Pär Zetterberg, football player
 * Leif "Gusten" Gustafsson, motorcycle racer
 * Jesper Karlsson, football player
 * Niclas Eliasson, football player
 * Olivia Schough, football player

Music groups

 * Ablaze My Sorrow, death metal band
 * By Night, death metal/extreme metal band
 * Sonic Syndicate, melodic death metal/melodic metalcore band
 * Vains of Jenna, rock band

Sister cities

 * 🇵🇱 Gniezno, Poland

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About Nikola Boskovic
There's a page at http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/MATHPHYS/veselic/rudjer/ that has an image http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/MATHPHYS/veselic/rudjer/kuca.jpg obviously scanned from a book written in Serbian (or Croatian, can't tell) that has a caption that says "Prema predaji u Orahovu Dolu rodna kuća Nikole Boškovića, Ruđina oca", which means "According to legend in Orahov Do is the birth house of Nikola Bošković, Ruđo's father" (emphasis mine).

The old talk page about Rudjer Boscovich at Talk:Rudjer Josip Boscovich has the whole story about why we talk about Nikola Bošković... --Joy [shallot]   15:07, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)

About Vojislav Seselj
There has also been some ambiguity as to whether the Šešelj family is originally Serb or Croat, because modern-day Šešeljs exist in branches that are both one and the other. This is particularly amusing given that Vojislav Seselj is a die-hard Serbian nationalist. Vuk Drašković, another such person, once publically accused VS of being a Croat, after which VS took offence and immediately took the press to Popovo Polje to show them the Serb Orthodox church he was christened in, and his christendom certificate. Either way, this way lies madness... --Joy [shallot]   15:50, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

He simply is a serbianized Croat — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.60.110.7 (talk) 13:49, 5 December 2012 (UTC) Ancestry of Rudjer Boskovic HolyRomanEmperor 14:41, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

'Hiding' the fact that Rascia is Serbia
1. The monasteries are not Byzantine but Serbian. They were built and payed for by the Serbian Orthodox kings. Those are Serbian Orthodox monasteries.

2. Rascia is the Latin name for Raska, medieval name of one of the Serbian lands. By the XVI c. that state was no more, so to translate Latin "Rascia" with anything but "Serbia" is a historic anachronism ("Serbia" being a geographical area, not a state). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.20.104.30 (talk) 06:26, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

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Grand Puba

Maxwell Dixon (born March 4, 1966), known professionally as Grand Puba, is an American rapper and record producer, best known as one of the members of the group Brand Nubian from New Rochelle, New York. He was formerly a member of Masters of Ceremony .

Early life
Puba was born on March 4, 1966 in New Rochelle, New York. During the late 1970's, Puba first got into hip hop after purchasing cassettes of his favorite artists such as The Cold Crush Brothers, T-Connection and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Puba attended the Remington Boys Club in New Rochelle. While at his club for boys, a DJ by the name of Grand Mixer DXT would send out cassette tapes at his club, to where Puba would learn to rap and write rhymes. His first cousin by the name of Dr. Who (Tod Dixon), that would later form a group with Puba as Masters of Ceremony, would bang on tables, spitting rhymes with each other. Puba himself was also a breakdancer. He began making beats on cassettes of his own, around in New Rochelle where he grew up. When he was finally known, he started DJing at clubs after his popularity grew. His first rap group was called the "Tray Bag MC's".

Career
He made his debut as Grand Puba Maxwell with the group Masters of Ceremony in 1985. It's album Dynamite (1988) was hailed by critics, but because of lack of sales the group soon disbanded and Puba became the lead emcee of Brand Nubian after working out a deal with A&R Dante Ross and signing to Elektra Records. After their debut album One for All (1990) — covering areas from reggae-influenced hip hop music to new jack swing — Puba left the group after disputes and began a solo career. He released his first solo album Reel to Reel on Elektra Records in 1992, alongside with DJ Stud Doogie and DJ Alamo who was previously a member with Brand Nubian. In 1992 Sean "Puffy" Combs tapped Grand Puba to collaborate with up & coming R&B singer Mary J. Blige on her debut album "What's the 411" The title song in which Puba co-wrote was the first time Blige incorporated her own rap technique which proved to be very successful. This was a rap/r&b hit record that went to number one on the R&B charts in the early spring of 1993. He released his second album 2000 in 1995. Around 1997 he rejoined the group, recording a few tracks for various soundtracks leading up to the full-length album Foundation in 1998. Puba's states in an interview with Billboard, saying "I never did go, i just wanted that experience and it was a good thing". In 1999, Grand Puba and Sadat X performed on the track "Once Again" on Handsome Boy Modeling School's concept album So... How's Your Girl?. After following Brand Nubian's 2004 record Fire in the Hole, Grand Puba appeared on tracks with Beanie Sigel ("Bread and Butter", also featuring groupmate Sadat X), Missy Elliott ("My Struggles", featuring his onetime collaborator Mary J. Blige), and Ugly Duckling ("Something's Going Down Tonight").

He released his third album Understand This in 2001 on Koch Records.

In 2009, Grand Puba released his fourth solo album, Retroactive, featuring production from Q-Tip, Large Professor, Kid Capri as well as fellow Brand Nubians. Puba also appeared on the heavy posse cut "Fresh" together with Cormega, KRS-One, Big Daddy Kane, DJ Red Alert and PMD.

In 2016, he released his fifth album Black from the Future.

Personal life
Puba's son, Sonny Dixon, who goes by the name,”Stunna Gang” is also a rapper.

Solo

 * Reel to Reel (1992)
 * 2000 (1995)
 * Understand This (2001)
 * Retroactive (2009)
 * Black from the Future (2016)

with Masters of Ceremony

 * Dynamite (1988)

with Brand Nubian

 * One for All (1990)
 * Foundation (1998)
 * Fire in the Hole (2004)
 * Time's Runnin' Out (2007)
 * ''Vamp Bikers with Grandmaster Melle Mel Grand Master Caz and Grand Wizard Theodore Directed by Eric Spade Rivas

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Hensley

Hensley may refer to:

People with the surname:
 * Hensley (surname)

People with the first name:
 * Hensley Hancuff (born 2000), American soccer player, female goalkeeper
 * Hensley Henson (1863–1947), English bishop
 * Hensley Koeiman (born 1956), Curaçaoan politician
 * Hensley Meulens (born 1967), Dutch baseball player
 * Hensley Anthony Neville (1957–1992), Singaporean convicted murderer
 * Hensley Paulina (born 1993), Dutch sprinter
 * Hensley Sapenter (born 1939), American football player

Companies with the name:
 * Hensley & Co., a beer distributor in Arizona

In places:
 * Hensley, Arkansas

Other:
 * Hensley-Gusman House

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August Cieszkowski

Count August Dołęga Cieszkowski (12 September 1814 – 12 March 1894) was a Polish philosopher, economist and social and political activist. His Hegelian philosophy influenced the young Karl Marx and action theorists.

Biography
Cieszkowski was born in Nowa Sucha, in the Duchy of Warsaw. He studied at the Jagiellonian University and in then, from 1832, at the University of Berlin where he became interested in Hegelianism through the lectures of Karl Ludwig Michelet, who became a lifelong friend. He gained his doctorate in philosophy from Heidelberg University in 1838. After his studies he travelled around Europe, visiting France, England and Italy before returning to Poland in 1840 and settling permanently in Wierzenica, near Poznań, in 1843.

Cieszkowski co-founded the Polish League (Liga Polska) in 1848. He was a member of the Prussian National Assembly (1848–1855) and a political activist. He (unsuccessfully) endeavoured to start a university in Poznań and co-founded the Poznań Society of Friends of Arts and Sciences (PTPN) in 1857, being elected to its presidency three times (1857–1858, 1861–1868, 1885). It was the most important cultural and scientific society in Poland until the creation of Kraków's Academy of Learning (Akademia Umiejętności) in 1871–73. In 1870 he founded the Halina School of Agriculture in Żabikowo, named after his wife Halina, who had died in 1861. In 1873 it became affiliated to the Kraków Academy of Learning, established in 1872.

Philosophical work
Cieszkowski coined the term historiosophy in his 1838 work Prolegomena zur Historiosophie (Prolegomena to a Historiosophy), a revision of the Hegelian philosophy of history. He adopted a threefold division of human history from medieval millenarians such as Joachim of Fiore (c. 1135 – 1202) and mixed it with Hegelian categories and concepts. He is arguably the creator of the "philosophy of action".

 * Cieszkowki's first period of history was that of antiquity.
 * The second period was the Christian era, which represented the birth of reflectiveness, a turning inwards and upwards from natural sensual immediacy toward the universal and abstract. The spirit existed "for itself" (für sich). This period was marked by an intolerable duality between the opposed worlds of the God and temporal existence, spirit and matter, action and thought. The Hegelian philosophy of spirit, thought and universality at the expense of will, matter and particularly the (Hegelian) spirit had not yet experienced the division of mind and body and living in a primal pre-reflective unity with nature, mainly expressing itself through art. The spirit was "in itself" (an sich) in Hegelian jargon. The existence represented the apotheosis and supreme manifestation of this period of history.
 * The third period of history was the "post-Hegelian" era in which the dualisms of the last were overcome and superseded. The one-sided emphasis on thought in the Christian era would be overcome and the spirit would assimilate nature to itself as well. Thus philosophy would come to an end as the synthesising and self-actualising activity of the spirit now took the form of creative practical activity. This final stage of the development of spirit represents the ultimate synthesis of opposites: God and world, necessity and freedom, desire and duty, Heaven and Earth are all as one.

Cieszkowski's later works, Gott und Paligenesie (God and Palingenesis) (1842) and Ojcze Nasz (Our Father, 1848–1906, four volumes), reformulate his triad in much more explicitly religious terms. The three eras are expressed as those of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. He stresses the role of the Catholic Church and accords a significant world-transforming role to the Slavs (a common theme in the Messianistic philosophy current in Poland at the time) in the process through which the Holy Spirit would emerge.

Cieszkowski's belief in a personal God, it has been argued, disqualifies him as one of the Left Hegelians, differentiated from Hegel's more orthodox followers by their generally critical attitude to religion and Christianity. The Left certainly did not count him as one of their own, even though some of its members soon took up the idea of the unity of philosophy of action. On the other hand, Cieszkowski did incorporate an elaborate system of social reforms into his philosophy and was strongly influenced by the French socialist tradition, which was often overtly religious, and thus did not share the characteristic political conservatism of the "Right Hegelians".

Legacy
Cieszkowski exerted a significant (and reciprocated) influence on Polish Romantic poet, playwright and Gothic novelist Zygmunt Krasiński, whom he met in Milan in 1839 and became close friends with (Józef Kallenbach published (in Polish) two volumes of their correspondence in 1912). He also influenced the poet Cyprian Norwid, philosopher Bronisław Trentowski and philosopher, art historian and proto-psychologist Józef Kremer. He is arguably the creator of the "philosophy of action." His most important philosophical legacy is probably his influence on the young Karl Marx, via German communist and Young Hegelian Moses Hess. The latter adopted Cieszkowski's idea of that the dualism between consciousness and action would collapse in the latter part of the history of humanity, though he believed the synthesis had occurred on various occasions throughout history and located the transition to the 'third age' at the Reformation instead of the philosophy of Hegel. Scholars David McLellan and Shlomo Avineri argue that Marx, who was a friend of and collaborator with Hess from a few years from 1841 onwards, owes various aspects of his thought on alienation and the nature of and transition to communist society to Cieszkowski, including that the dualism between consciousness and action would collapse in revolutionary praxis. (Cieszkowski was one of the earliest philosophers to use the term praxis as meaning "action oriented towards changing society" in his Prolegomena zur Historiosophie).

The University of Life Sciences in Poznań was named the August Cieszkowski Agricultural University of Poznań from 1996 until 11 April 2008, when it gained official university status, in recognition of Cieszkowski's contributions to agricultural science and education in the region.

Works

 * Prolegomena zur Historiosophie (Prolegomena to a Historiosophy) (1838)
 * Gott und Palingenesie (God and Palingenesis) (1842)
 * Ojcze Nasz (Our Father) (1848)

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Michael Fox

Michael Fox may refer to:

Entertainment

 * Michael Fox (American actor) (1921–1996), American character actor
 * Michael Fox (British actor) (born 1989), British actor
 * Michael J. Fox (born 1961), Canadian-American actor

Law and politics

 * Michael Fox (judge) (1921–2007), English barrister and Court of Appeal judge
 * Michael Fox (lawyer) (1934–2009), British-born Israeli lawyer
 * Michael A. Fox, member of the Ohio House of Representatives
 * Mike Fox (politician), member of the Montana Senate

Religion and philosophy

 * Michael Allen Fox (born 1940), American/Canadian/Australian philosopher
 * Michael Fox (priest) (born 1942), British priest
 * Michael V. Fox, American Bible scholar

Sports

 * Mike Fox (American football) (born 1967), American football player formerly with the New York Giants
 * Mike Fox (baseball), retired baseball coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels
 * Mike Fox (soccer) (born 1961), American soccer player
 * Mike Fox (horse), Canadian racehorse

Other people

 * Michael D. Fox, American neurologist
 * Michael Fox (unionist) (died 1978), Scottish-born American labor union leader

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Herington

Herington is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 * Jon Herington (born 1954), American musician
 * Leigh Herington, American politician
 * Marieve Herington, Canadian actress and singer

Fictional characters:
 * Tjokkie Herington, character in the South African films Heel Against the Head and Running Riot

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Maxi Priest

Max Alfred Elliott (born 10 June 1961), known by his stage name Maxi Priest, is a British reggae vocalist of Jamaican descent. He is best known for singing reggae music with an R&B influence, otherwise known as reggae fusion. He was one of the first international artists to have success in this genre, and one of the most successful reggae fusion acts of all time.

Early life
Maxi Priest was born in Lewisham, London, the second youngest of nine siblings. His parents had moved to England from Jamaica to provide more opportunity for their family and he grew up listening to gospel, reggae, R&B, funk and soul music. He first learned to sing in church, encouraged by his mother, who was a Pentecostal missionary.

Priest grew up listening to Jamaican artists such as Dennis Brown, John Holt, Ken Boothe and Gregory Isaacs as well as singers like Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Cat Stevens, Steve Winwood, the Beatles, Phil Collins and Frank Sinatra.

As a teenager, he lifted speaker boxes for the Jah Shaka and Negus Negast sound-systems. He was a founder member of Saxon Studio International, and it was with Saxon that Maxi began performing at neighbourhood youth clubs and house parties.

His music is sometimes influenced by R&B, which he blends with reggae. Priest lost his cousin, named Jacob Miller, in a car crash on 23 March 1980. Miller was the frontman in the popular reggae group Inner Circle, as well as a reggae icon who had worked with King Tubby and Augustus Pablo.

Two of Priest's sons are also singers; Marvin Priest (born Marvin Cornell Elliott) and Ryan Elliott, who was in the 1990s boy band, Ultimate Kaos.

Career
Priest's musical career began with him singing on the South London reggae soundsystem Saxon Studio International, after which some independent single releases followed, such as his groundbreaking release with conscious dancehall toaster Papa Levi, Sensi and Mi God-Mi King, Love In The Ghetto and In-A-Mi-Yard, backed by CAUTION and released on the Level Vibes label in a discomix vocal and dub style. Maxi Priest's early discomix releases secured his reputation with both the dancehall and roots reggae sound system audiences. His first major album, Maxi (titled Maxi Priest in the US and Canada), was released in 1988, and, along with his cover of Cat Stevens' "Wild World" ( which he recorded with Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare) established him as one of the top British reggae singers.

He is one of only two British reggae acts (along with UB40) to have an American Billboard number one: "Close to You" in 1990. A duet with Roberta Flack, "Set the Night to Music", reached the American Top Ten in 1991. His duet with Shaggy in 1996, "That Girl", was also a hit in the United States, peaking at number twenty.

In the latter half of his recording career, Priest favoured working alongside other artists, both established and up-and-coming. He has worked with Sly and Robbie,Drummie Zeb of Aswad, Shaggy, Beres Hammond, Jazzie B, Apache Indian, Roberta Flack, Shurwayne Winchester, Shabba Ranks, Robin Trower, and Lee Ritenour.

It was reported in some newspapers in the Birmingham area, including the Birmingham Mail on 13 March 2008, that Priest would be replacing Ali Campbell as the new lead singer of UB40, and that he had recorded a cover of Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" with the band, based on information from "an unnamed source close to the band". Priest had joined UB40 on tour in 2007, culminating in sold-out shows at the National Exhibition Centre in Solihull in December. Another local newspaper, the Express & Star that had reported that Priest would be the new UB40 frontman, included a statement from band spokesman Gerard Franklyn which contradicted the claim, stating: "Maxi is collaborating with the band to record material but he won't be the new lead singer, that will be Duncan Campbell, the brother of Ali and Robin Campbell. He will only be appearing with them for this new recording."

In 2012, Priest recorded a cover of Japanese band L'Arc-en-Ciel's song "Vivid Colors" for the band's English-language tribute album.

In 2013, Priest recorded a remix version of the Hindi song "Kabhi Jo Baadal Barse" originally sung by Arijit Singh. It was remixed by British Indian producer Rishi Rich.

His 2014 album Easy to Love entered the Billboard Top Reggae Albums Chart at number two.

Sport
Priest played for non-League football club Southall, his son Marvin's team, in March 2003 when they needed players to fulfil a fixture due to an injury crisis at the club. Southall lost 3–0 to Feltham.

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Taiko: Drum Master

Taiko: Drum Master, also known as Taiko no Tatsujin: Taiko Drum Master (太鼓の達人 TAIKO DRUM MASTER) in Japan, is a rhythm game developed and published by Namco for the Sony PlayStation 2 as part of the popular Japanese video game franchise Taiko no Tatsujin. It was released in North America in 2004, and Japan in 2005.

The game was notable for being the only Taiko no Tatsujin title to release in North America, until the releases of Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum 'n' Fun! and Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum Session! in 2018. The songs featured in Taiko: Drum Master were all in English and mostly taken from various Western artists, even in the Japanese release.

Gameplay
Symbols moving horizontally along a timeline show what to hit and when. Home versions distinguish single and double strikes, unlike the arcade versions of this franchise which register hard and soft strikes. A drum simulating the taiko is played in time with music.

Successful play builds up a life meter. If the meter is past a certain point by the end of the song, the song is passed.

In the Japanese version, subtitles under the symbols give the pronunciation of the sounds (e.g. "do don do don") using a traditional system called kuchi shoga (口唱歌).

Despite the game's appearance, players may find the game challenging to master. Players need to accomplish at least a 65% clearance of a song which is determined by the tamashi gauge to pass, and can become challenging on harder difficulties as players progress.

Pop and rock

 * 1) "ABC" by The Jackson Five
 * 2) "American Girls" - by Counting Crows
 * 3) "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" - by Jet
 * 4) "Girls and Boys" - by Good Charlotte
 * 5) "I'm a Believer" - by The Monkees
 * 6) "Killer Queen" - by Queen
 * 7) "Lady Marmalade" - by Labelle
 * 8) "Love Shack" - by The B-52s
 * 9) "Material Girl" - by Madonna
 * 10) "My Sharona" - by The Knack
 * 11) "Slide" - by The Goo Goo Dolls
 * 12) "That's the Way (I Like It)" - by KC and the Sunshine Band
 * 13) "The Impression That I Get" - by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
 * 14) "Toxic" - by Britney Spears
 * 15) "Tubthumping" - by Chumbawamba
 * 16) "Walking on Sunshine" - by Katrina and the Waves

Anime/TV

 * 1) "Dragon Ball Z Theme" (Rock the Dragon) - by Shuki Levy
 * 2) "Jimmy Neutron Theme" - by Bowling for Soup

Classical

 * 1) "Beethoven's Symphony No. 5" (Beethoven)
 * 2) "Carmen Prelude" (Bizet)
 * 3) "Foster's Medley" (a medley of songs by Foster including "Oh! Susannah", "Kentucky Home", and "Camptown Races")
 * 4) "Hungarian Dances No. 5" (Brahms)
 * 5) "Symphony No. 25 in G Minor" (Mozart)
 * 6) "William Tell Overture" (Rossini)

NAMCO Original

 * "Don Rangers" (heard in a small portion from a cutscene in Katamari Damacy) (10 crowns to unlock)
 * "Brave Sword, Braver Soul" (from the arcade fighting game Soulcalibur II)
 * "Dragon Spirit" (medley of music from the Namco arcade game of the same name)
 * "Katamari on the Rocks" (theme song from the PlayStation 2 game Katamari Damacy)
 * "Ridge Racer" (from the Namco racing game of the same name) (15 crowns to unlock)
 * "Taiko March" (combination of several songs from Namco titles including Sky Kid, The Tower of Druaga, and The Legend of Valkyrie) (5 crowns to unlock)
 * "The Genji and the Heike Clans" (from the Japanese arcade game Genpei Tōma Den) (20 crowns to unlock)

Pop

 * I'm A Slave 4 U - Britney Spears
 * I Was Born To Love You	- Queen
 * American Girls	- Counting Crows
 * We Will Rock You - Queen
 * ABC - Jackson 5
 * Girls and Boys - by Good Charlotte
 * Killer Queen - Queen
 * The Impression That I Get - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
 * That's The Way (I Like It) - KC & The Sunshine Band
 * The Loco-Motion - Carole King
 * Slide
 * September - Earth, Wind, & Fire
 * "Tubthumping" - by Chumbawamba
 * Material Girl - Madonna
 * You Can't Hurry Love
 * Love Shack" - by The B-52s
 * "Lady Marmalade" - by Labelle
 * Walking on Sunshine - by Katrina and the Waves

Children's Song

 * Alphabet Song

Classical

 * 1) "Beethoven's Symphony No. 5" (Beethoven)
 * 2) "Carmen Prelude" (Bizet)
 * 3) "Foster's Medley" (A medley of songs by Foster including Oh! Susannah, Kentucky Home, and Camptown Races)
 * 4) "Hungarian Dances No. 5" (Brahms)
 * 5) "Symphony No. 25 in G Minor" (Mozart)
 * 6) "William Tell Overture" (Rossini)

NAMCO Original

 * Brave Sword, Braver Soul
 * The Genji and the Heike Clans
 * Ridge Racer
 * Taiko March
 * Mojipittan Medley (a medley of songs from the Namco game of the same name)
 * Dragon Spirit
 * Saitama 2000

Bonus

 * The bundle with the game comes with a Taiko controller with plastic drumsticks where players plug into the PS2 console.
 * The Oni (Extreme) difficulty is unlocked by clearing 25 songs.

Reception
The PlayStation 2 version of Taiko: Drum Master received "generally favorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

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Heron Lake

Heron Lake can refer to:

 * Heron Lake, Minnesota, a small city in the United States
 * Heron Lake (Jackson County, Minnesota)
 * Heron Lake (New Mexico), a reservoir in Rio Arriba County

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White Oak Lake State Park

White Oak Lake State Park is a state park in the southwest of the U.S. state of Arkansas, a few miles from Bluff City. The reservoir sits surrounded by tall pine trees, giving it a rich, wooded beauty. The state park offers camping facilities, hiking and mountain biking trails, boat and bicycle rentals, as well as playground facilities.

Because White Oak Lake was created in a woodland area, the lake features many submerged dead trees. These serve as excellent cover for bass, crappie, and bream, all of which are reasonably abundant in the lake. Catfish also thrive at the lake.

The park features hiking trails of easy to moderate difficulty, of which the Beech Ridge and Silver Maples trails give a good understanding of the "West Gulf Coastal Plain forest" setting. Deer and heron sightings are common at the park, while some bald eagles winter there.

White Oak Lake is reasonably popular with local residents, but its location in a part of Arkansas with few tourists keeps it from undue crowding or traffic. White Oak Lake is near the Poison Springs Battleground State Park, a Civil War battlefield.

Completed in 1961, the lake is 19 miles southeast of Prescott, and 15 miles northwest of Camden, off State Highways 387 and 24. It is the second largest lake created by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, at 1656 acre.

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Indigenous church mission theory

Indigenous churches are churches suited to local culture and led by local Christians. There have been two main Protestant strategies proposed for the creation of indigenous churches:

 * 1) Indigenization: Foreign missionaries create well-organized churches and then hand them over to local converts. The foreign mission is generally seen as a scaffolding which must be removed once the fellowship of believers is functioning properly. Missionaries provide teaching, pastoral care, sacraments, buildings, finance and authority, and train local converts to take over these responsibilities. Thus the church becomes indigenous. It becomes self-supporting, self-propagating and self-governing.
 * 2) Indigeneity: Foreign missionaries do not create churches, but simply help local converts develop their own spiritual gifts and leadership abilities and gradually develop their own churches. Missionaries provide teaching and pastoral care alone. The church is thus indigenous from the start. It has always been self-supporting, self-propagating and self-governing.

Nineteenth century
Henry Venn (Anglican, Church Missionary Society) (1796–1873) and Rufus Anderson (Congregationalist, American Board) (1796–1880) simultaneously developed a strategy of Indigenization in response to the extreme paternalism exercised by western missionaries of the early 19th century, particularly in Asia. They perceived that "rice" Christians were completely dependent on missionaries and loyal to the church only as long as they were receiving free food. In exchange, missionaries expected complete loyalty from the "natives" and resisted giving up authority and control. The system was thought to foster an unhealthy parent–child relationship between the missionaries and national believers.

Anthony Norris Groves (1795–1853) attempted to avoid this problem in pioneer areas by guarding against any form of dependency from the start. He chose to represent no foreign denomination or missionary society, and he encouraged full co-operation between all Protestant missionaries for the encouragement of indigenous initiatives. He predated Roland Allen by eighty years as an advocate of Indigeneity rather than Indigenization. Looking directly to God for guidance and provision, he was a formative influence on Hudson Taylor and the "faith mission" movement, but the direct influence of his indigenous strategy is more evident in the remarkable movements associated with Bakht Singh in India and Watchman Nee in China. Nee, however, eschewed the label indigenous, saying that the organizing principle of a church was locality and not nationality, so that all believers in a given city were members of the church in that city regardless of national origin.

John Ross (1848-1915), a Scottish missionary to Manchuria, established indigenous churches along the lines of the three-self principles among those of Korean descent beginning from 1874.

John Livingstone Nevius (1829–1893) served as a Presbyterian missionary to the Shandong province in China and later in Korea in the late 1800s. After questioning the methods of western missionaries of his time, he wrote a book published in 1886, The Planting and Development of Missionary Churches, which called for discarding old-style missions and the adoption of his new plan to foster independent, self-supporting local churches. He criticized the missionaries' practice of paying national workers out of mission funds, believing the healthy local church should be able to support its own local workers.

Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) was a Protestant missionary from England to China and founder of the China Inland Mission. He became disillusioned with other Protestant missionaries in China that lived in compounds and employed indigenous people as servants. Taylor subsequently learned local dialects, adopted local dress, and went up and down rivers in China preaching. He sought to distance himself from any paternal organizations or denominations in favour of "faith missions" which relied on the support of nationals and individuals. He also sought to train indigenous leaders to lead churches and mission stations in China, rather than have them run by foreigners.

Dixon Edward Hoste (1861–1946) succeeded Hudson Taylor as director of the China Inland Mission. Hoste is credited with making the Chinese churches apply the three-self principle of self-government, self-support, and self-propagation. This threefold motto was later adopted by the Three-Self Patriotic Movement after missionaries were expelled from China.

Twentieth century
Roland Allen (1868–1947) also attempted to apply indigenous church principles to the missions of his day. After serving as an Anglican missionary in China from 1895 to 1903, he returned to England and spent 40 years writing about missions principles. Two of his books, Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours? (1912) and The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church: And Causes that Hinder It, are still in print.

Alice Luce (1873–1955), first an Anglican missionary in India, and subsequently an Assemblies of God missionary among Hispanics along the US–Mexico border, was influenced by Allen's theory of missions and in 1921 she wrote a series of articles, "Paul's Missionary Methods", for the Pentecostal Evangel. Due to her advocacy, indigenous church principles became normative for Assemblies of God missions during the early part of the 20th century.

Nicolás Zamora (1875–1914) founded on 28 February 1909 the first Indigenous Evangelical Church in the Philippines. Behind the founding of the IEMELIF, nationalist and subsequent independence movements. Filipinos wanted full autonomy, including in the realm of religion, as the 333 years of Spanish rule were marked by the Catholic Church's control over both temporal and spiritual affairs. His vision and motivation was faith in God's providence, and belief that the Filipino was capable of erecting a self-sustaining, autonomous, and self-propagating evangelical church. In 1903, he was assigned to be a pastor at Knox Memorial Church becoming the first Filipino Protestant pastor. Zamora took up law at the University of Santo Tomas where he honed his skills in debate and oration, then entered a seminary in Shanghai.

Many speakers at the 1910 World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh emphasized indigenization of churches raised up by mission work, including the lone native Chinese attendee, Cheng Jingyi, who later became the general secretary of the National Christian Council of China and the first moderator of the Church of Christ in China.

John Wesley Haley (1878–1951), Free Methodist Church in Canada missionary to South Africa 1902–1909, 1917–1934, and Ruanda-Urundi 1934–1946. Haley left South Africa after several decades of ministry disillusioned with traditional mission practice and initiated new ministry in Burundi following the indigenous mission approach, involving Burundian converts in the leadership, decision-making process "from the beginning". He felt a special kinship with the work of Nevius and Allen, despite limited understanding from his mission board.

Melvin Hodges (1909–1988), an Assemblies of God missionary to Nicaragua, again popularized the idea in the 1950s with his book, On the Mission Field: The Indigenous Church. He defined the indigenous church as "a native church ... which shares the life of the country in which it is planted and finds itself ready to govern itself, support itself, and reproduce itself." Hodges believed that foreign money creates dependence and establishes paternalistic patterns within mission movements, leading to an unhealthy, anemic church. His experience as a missionary no doubt influenced his presentation of the three-self principle. He emphasized the need for flexibility and tailoring the principles to fit the need of the local believers.

In his book Transforming Mission, David Bosch (1929–1992), a Dutch Reformed Afrikaner missiologist, echoed Paul G. Hiebert's suggestion that a fourth "self" needed to be added to the Venn–Anderson framework: "self-theologizing". Though much self-theologizing had already taken place in mission churches, much of it has been left unnoticed or considered syncretistic. Bosch suggested that in order to not fall into the two extremes of syncretism or "Babylonian captivity", self-theologizing must be in dialogue with the universal invisible church. Only then would a truly indigenous church exist.

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Shabba Ranks

Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon OD (born 17 January 1966), better known by his stage name Shabba Ranks, is a Jamaican dancehall musician. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was one of the most popular Jamaican musicians in the world. Throughout his prominence in his home country as a dancehall artist, he gained popularity in North America with his studio album Just Reality in 1990. He released other studio albums, including As Raw as Ever and X-tra Naked, which both won a Grammy Award as Best Reggae Album in 1992 and 1993, respectively. He is notoriously popular for "Mr. Loverman" and "Ting-A-Ling", which were globally acclaimed and deemed his signature songs.

Early life
Shabba Ranks was born in Sturge Town, Saint Ann, Jamaica, and raised in Seaview Gardens, Kingston.

His father, Ivan Gordon, was a mason who died in 1990. His mother, Constance "Mama Christie" Christie, remained in Seaview after Shabba's success, feeding the community with money sent from her son after his emigration. She was the subject of the 2015 hit song "Shabba Madda Pot" from the dancehall artist Dexta Daps.

Career
He gained his fame mainly by toasting (or rapping) rather than singing, like some of his dancehall contemporaries in Jamaica. He was a protégé of DJ Josey Wales. His original stage name was Co-Pilot. His international career started in the late 1980s, along with a number of fellow Jamaicans including reggae singers Cocoa Tea and Crystal. Ranks also worked with Chuck Berry and American rappers KRS-One and Chubb Rock.

He secured a recording contract with Epic Records in 1989.

The stylistic origins of the genre reggaeton can be traced back to the 1990 song "Dem Bow", from Ranks' album Just Reality. Produced by Bobby "Digital" Dixon, the Dem Bow riddim became so popular in Puerto Rican freestyle sessions that early Puerto Rican reggaeton was simply known as "Dembow". The Dem Bow riddim is an integral and inseparable part of reggaeton, so much so that it has become its defining characteristic.

His biggest hit single outside of Jamaica was the reggae fusion smash "Mr. Loverman". Other big tracks include "Housecall" with Maxi Priest, "Slow and Sexy" with Johnny Gill, "Respect", "Pirates Anthem", "Trailer Load a Girls", "Wicked inna Bed", "Caan Dun", and "Ting A Ling". He won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 1992 for As Raw as Ever and in 1993 for X-tra Naked.

In 1993, Ranks scored another hit in the Addams Family Values soundtrack to which he contributed a rap/reggae version of the Sly and the Family Stone hit "Family Affair". His third album for Epic, A Mi Shabba, was released in 1995. He was dropped by the label in 1996. Epic went on to release a greatest hits album, entitled Shabba Ranks and Friends in 1999.

Ranks made a partial comeback in 2007 when he appeared on a song called "Clear the Air" by Busta Rhymes, which also featured Akon. Shabba released a single on Big Ship's Pepper Riddim called "None A Dem", in April 2011. In 2012, Shabba was featured on Tech N9ne's EP E.B.A.H. on the track "Boy Toy". In 2013, Shabba was also mentioned in A$AP Ferg's song "Shabba," and has a cameo near the end of the music video. He was featured in the remix alongside Migos and Busta Rhymes on 23 November 2013. In August 2013, he was reportedly working on a new album.

Controversy
Ranks has been controversial for homophobia, particularly violent attitudes towards homosexuals. The 1990 song "Wicked in Bed" includes lyrics about shooting gay men.

In 1992, during an appearance on Channel 4 music show The Word, he was asked to give his thoughts on the subject of the hit song, "Boom Bye Bye", by Buju Banton. Shabba held a copy of a Bible which he carried with him and stated that the "word of God" advocated the "crucifixion of homosexuals". He also alluded that he advocates the progression of the Jamaican people and freedom of speech but did not conclude that being against homosexuality would be in question of exclusion, according to bible laws. He was condemned for his comments by presenter Mark Lamarr, who said, "That's absolute crap and you know it." Following these comments, Ranks was dropped from a Bobby Brown concert as a performer and faced altercations with his label, Sony Music. Ranks subsequently apologized, after realizing that his comments might advocate "the killing of gays and lesbians and any human being in retrospect".

Personal life
Ranks and his wife, Michelle, have two sons Rexton Jr and Jahwon. He currently resides in New York City.

Videos and DVDs

 * 2002: Shabba Ranks: Dancehall Ruff – Best of Shabba Ranks (DVD)
 * 2001: The Return of Shabba Ranks (DVD)
 * 1994: Darker Side of Black
 * 1992: Shabba Ranks: Naked and Ready
 * 1992: Shabba Ranks: Fresh & Wild
 * 1992: Shabba Ranks vs. Ninja Man: Super Clash Round
 * 1990: Reggae Showdown, Vol. 4: Shabba at Showdown (DVD)
 * 1987: Prince Jammy

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Erkrath

Erkrath is a town in the district of Mettmann, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Geography
Erkrath is situated on the river Düssel, directly east of Düsseldorf and west of Wuppertal, close to the famous Neandertal. It has two stations, Erkrath station, which is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 8, and Erkrath Nord station, which is served by S-Bahn line S 28, both at 20-minute intervals.

History
In that part of Neandertal, which is located in Erkrath, in the summer of 1856, quarry workers discovered the fossilised remains of what became known as the Neanderthal man or Homo neanderthalensis in Feldhof cave. The name Erkrath was first mentioned in 1148. Erkrath received town rights in 1966. In 1975, the municipality of Hochdahl was incorporated into Erkrath. As well its former borough Unterbach was incorporated into Düsseldorf. Only a part of Unterbach called Unterfeldhaus remained as now a borough of its own with Erkrath. Erkrath today has three local parts: Erkrath, Hochdahl and Unterfeldhaus.

Mayors

 * Johann Kaiser (1898–1907) (the old town hall was built in 1899)
 * Franz Zahren (1907–1930)
 * Werner Hallauer (1930–1935)
 * Heinrich Rasche (1935–1945), NSDAP, later FDP
 * Wilhelm Broch (1945–1946)
 * August Westerholz (1946), SPD
 * Hermann Moritz (1946–1949), CDU
 * Alex Bendt (1949–1954), SPD
 * Gertrud Thomé (later: Küpper) (1954–1956), CDU
 * Alex Bendt (1956–1961), SPD
 * Gertrud Küpper (geb. Thomé) (1961–1963), CDU
 * Johannes van Oost (1963–1964),
 * Gertrud Küpper (geb. Thomé) (1964–1972), CDU
 * Hans Weyer (1972–1974), SPD
 * Aloys Kiefer (1975–1983), CDU
 * Gloria Ziller (1983–1989), CDU
 * Rudolf Unger (1989–1999), SPD
 * Arno Werner (1999–2015), CDU
 * Christoph Schultz (since 2015), CDU

Twin towns – sister cities
Erkrath is twinned with:
 * 🏴 West Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

Notable people

 * Klaus Allofs (born 1956), German footballer, manager of VfL Wolfsburg, lived for a long time in Erkrath-Unterfeldhaus
 * Thomas Allofs (born 1959), German footballer, lives in Erkrath-Unterfeldhaus and runs a disposal company in Düsseldorf
 * Heiner Baltes (born 1949), German footballer
 * Johann Heinrich Bongard (1779–1857), eye and wound surgeon and royal Prussian Hofrat, first author of a publication on the Neandertal
 * Klaus Hänsch (born 1938), former President of the European Parliament
 * Friedrich Hünermann (1886–1969), Catholic theologian and auxiliary bishop in Aachen
 * Werner Koch (born 1961), German developer of Free Software and founder of the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG), lives in Hochdahl
 * Manfred Lahnstein (born 1937) politician (SPD), former Federal Finance Minister and Member of the Management Board and Supervisory Board of Bertelsmann AG
 * Flemming Lund (born 1952), Danish footballer for Fortuna Düsseldorf and Rot-Weiss Essen, lived in Hochdahl
 * Joachim Neander (c. 1650–1680) German pastor, church poet and composer, first author about the Neandertal
 * Aleksandar Ristić (born 1944), footballer and coach (among others Fortuna Düsseldorf), lived in Erkrath at this time
 * Karl Sudhoff (1853–1938), founder of the medical history as a scientific discipline in Germany, was from 1885 to 1905 doctor of the Hochdahl iron foundry and Armenian physician, later also councilor of Hochdahl-Millrath
 * Toni Turek (1919–1984), national goalkeeper and world champion of Bern 1954, lived during his years with Fortuna Düsseldorf and his world title in Erkrath. 50 years after Bern the Erkrath Stadium was named after him ("Toni-Turek-Stadion", Freiheitsstraße 46).
 * Karl Wenders (1841–1905), mayor of Neuss, Member of Reichstag and member of Landtag

title: Erkrath