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Ned Buntline

Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr. (March 20, 1821 – July 16, 1886), known by his pseudonym Ned Buntline, was an American publisher, journalist, and writer.

Early life and military service
Judson was born on March 20, 1821 in Harpersfield, New York. He moved with his parents to Bethany, Pennsylvania in 1826, then to Philadelphia in 1834. His father Levi Carroll Judson was a lawyer and wanted his son to be a clergyman.

In November 1834, Judson ran away to sea as a soldier, and the next year he shipped on board a Navy vessel. A number of years later, he rescued the crew of a boat that had been run down by a Fulton Ferry in New York's East River. As a result, he received a commission as a midshipman in the Navy from President Martin Van Buren on February 10, 1838, and he was assigned to the USS Levant. He later served on the USS Constellation and the USS Boston.

As a seaman, he served in the Seminole Wars, but he saw little combat, and he resigned after four years. During the Civil War, he enlisted in the First New York Mounted Rifles and rose to the rank of sergeant before he was dishonorably discharged for drunkenness.

Early literary efforts
Judson's first publication was an adventure story in The Knickerbocker in 1838. He spent several years in the East starting up newspapers and story papers, only to have most of them fail. An early success that helped launch his fame was The Mysteries and Miseries of New York, a gritty serial story of the Bowery and slums of New York City. He was an opinionated man and strongly advocated nativism and temperance; he also became a leader in the Know Nothing movement. In 1844, he adopted the pen name "Ned Buntline". "Buntline" is the nautical term for a rope at the bottom of a square sail.

In 1841, Buntline's father, Levi Carroll Judson, his wife, and his daughter moved to Pittsburgh, where Levi set up a law practice and his wife and daughter Irene opened a select school in the basement of the First Baptist Church. Here, the Judson and Allen families became acquainted. Rebecca Allen and Irene Judson were teaching at the time and became social friends. Through this connection, William and George Allen, Rebecca's brothers, became friends with Buntline when he arrived in Pittsburgh in December 1843, ostensibly to study law with his father, but in reality to start a literary magazine. Buntline published just two issues of Ned Buntline's Magazine in Pittsburgh in 1844 before it failed.

William and George were a co-owners of the steamboat Cicero and they invited Ned to go along on a January 1844 voyage to Cincinnati. On this cruise, Buntline told the Allen brothers of his recent marriage in St. Augustine, Florida, to Seberina Escudero, whom he described to the two brothers in glowing terms. Escudero joined her husband in Pittsburgh in May 1844. In August 1844, Buntline and Escudero relocated to Cincinnati, where Ned partnered with Lucius Hine and Hudson Kidd in an effort to purchase the Western Literary Journal. This magazine also failed.

Estranged from his family and in financial straits, Buntline borrowed money from the Allen brothers and pawned his wife's jewelry to meet living expenses. In October, William Allen hired Buntline as a hand on his steamboat, where Ned accepted a counterfeit $10 note and lost a barrel of whiskey. While her husband was steam-boating, Escudero was sewing shirts in Cincinnati for 12 1/2 cents each. In October 1844, the Knickerbocker published an article of Ned's titled "Running the Blockade" in which the hero of the story was William Allen. In January 1845 with the assistance of the Allen brothers, Buntline relocated to Nashville, where Hudson Kidd secured temporary living quarters for Escudero while her husband went off to St. Louis for a time. By January 1846, she was living in the Gower House in Smithland, Kentucky.

Buntline started a third magazine, Buntline's Own, at this time. It was usually said to have been published in Nashville, but the Allen brothers' journals suggest that the early issues at least were printed in Smithland. George Allen's journal of January 25, 1846, said that upon his return to Smithland, he went to visit Escudero and learned that she had died there days earlier. William Allen later stated she was buried in Smithland.

In 1845, his Cincinnati venture, Western Literary Journal and Monthly Magazine, was facing bankruptcy, and he fled from Ohio. In Eddyville, Kentucky, he collected a $600 bounty for single-handedly capturing two murderers. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and used the money to start a magazine, Ned Buntline's Own.

Judson had a romance with the teenaged wife of Robert Porterfield in Nashville in 1846. On 14 March 1846, Porterfield challenged Judson to a duel, and Judson killed him. At his trial for murder, Judson was shot and wounded by Porterfield's brother, and during the chaos, escaped from custody. He was subsequently captured by a lynch mob and hanged from an awning, but was rescued by friends. A Tennessee grand jury refused to indict him for murder.

In 1847, the Boston publisher and dime-novel author Maturin Murray Ballou paid Judson $100 to write The Black Avenger of the Spanish Main: or, The Fiend of Blood, a melodramatic and violent pirate novel. This was followed the same year with The Red Revenger; Or, The Pirate King of the Floridas. Buntline moved Ned Buntline's Own to New York City in 1848.

Through his columns and his association with New York City's notorious gangs of the early 19th century, Buntline was one of the instigators of the Astor Place Riot, which left 23 people dead. He was fined $250 and sentenced to a year's imprisonment in September 1849.

After his release, he devoted himself to writing sensational stories for weekly newspapers, and his income purportedly amounted to $20,000 a year. In 1852 he was involved in a nativist riot in St. Louis, while he was a member of the Know Nothing Party. He eluded the authorities but was arrested in 1872 while touring and promoting his play in the city.

Although a heavy drinker, he traveled around the country giving lectures about temperance. He was an ardent Republican until the election of 1884, when he refused to support James G. Blaine. On one of his temperance lecture tours, he met William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody.

Buffalo Bill
Buntline was traveling through Nebraska when he heard that Wild Bill Hickok was in Fort McPherson. Buntline had read a popular article about Hickok and hoped to interview him and write a dime novel about him. He found Hickok in a saloon and rushed up to him, saying, "There's my man! I want you!" By this time in his life, Hickok had an aversion to surprises. He threatened Buntline with a gun and ordered him out of town in 24 hours. Buntline took him at his word and left the saloon. Still looking to get information on his subject, Buntline took to finding Hickok's friends. This is likely how he first met Buffalo Bill. Buntline took a train in 1869 from California to Nebraska, where he had been lecturing on the virtues of temperance. There, he met William Cody, who was with a group of men who had recently participated in a battle against the Sioux and Cheyenne.

Traveling with the gregarious Cody, Buntline became friends with him and later claimed that he created the nickname "Buffalo Bill" for the hero of his serial novel Buffalo Bill, the King of the Border Men, published in the New York Weekly beginning 23 December 1869.

Originally, Buntline was going to cast Cody as a sidekick of "Wild Bill" Hickok, but he found Cody's character more interesting than Hickok's. Buntline presented Cody as a "compendium of cliches"; however, this did not stop the New York playwright Frank Meader from using Buntline's novel as the basis of a play about Cody's life in 1872. In the same year, Buntline and James Gordon Bennett Jr. invited Cody to New York City, where Cody saw the play at the Bowery Theater. In December of that year, Buntline also wrote a Buffalo Bill play, Scouts of the Prairie, which was performed by Cody himself, Texas Jack Omohundro, the Italian ballerina Giuseppina Morlacchi, and Buntline.

For some time, 6-year-old Carlos Montezuma also was featured in the show as "Atzeka, the Apache-child of Cochise", being the only genuine American Indian on stage, while his adoptive father, the Italian photographer Carlo Gentile, was hired to produce and sell promotional cartes de visite of the cast members.

Cody at first was a reluctant actor, but came to enjoy the spotlight. Scouts of the Prairie opened in Chicago in December 1872 and starred Cody. It was panned by critics, but was a success nonetheless. It was performed to packed theaters across the country for years. Cody served as a scout for the Army in the summer; when campaigning stopped for the winter, he would head to the stage. Buntline's play served as training for Cody's later Wild West show.

Later work and death
Buntline continued to write dime novels, but none was as successful as his earlier work. Later in life, he embellished his military career, claiming to have been chief of scouts in the Indian Wars with the rank of colonel, and to have received 20 wounds in battle. He also used these pseudonyms: Captain Hal Decker, Scout Jack Ford, and Edward Minturn. He settled into his home in Stamford, New York, where he died of congestive heart failure on July 18, 1886. He was once one of the wealthiest authors in America, but his wife had to sell his home the "Eagle's Nest" to pay his debts.

Buntline's novels may have had unintended consequences. Some readers became thrilled with the exploits of western outlaws, and the novels glamorized crime in their eyes. Female bandits Little Britches and Cattle Annie, for instance, read dime novels, which allegedly aroused their interest in the Bill Doolin gang and may have propelled them into a life of crime.

The Buntline Special
Stuart N. Lake wrote in Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal (1931) that Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Bill Tilghman, Charlie Bassett, and Neal Brown each received a Colt Single Action Army revolver as a gift from Buntline in thanks for their help in contributing local color to his Western yarns. The revolvers were said to be chambered in .45 Colt with 12-inch barrels, removable shoulder stocks, standard sights, and wooden grips into which the name "Ned" was ornately carved. These revolvers came to be known collectively as the Buntline Special. According to Lake, Earp kept his at the original 12-inch length, but the four other recipients cut their barrels down to 7½ inches. Modern researchers have not found any evidence in secondary sources or primary documents of the guns' existence prior to the publication of Lake's book.

Lake expended much effort trying to track these guns through the Colt company, Masterson, and Earp's contacts in Alaska. Researchers have not found any record of an order received by Colt, and Buntline's alleged connection with Earp has been largely discredited by William B. Shillinberg, who presented a detailed case to confute the Buntline Special legend.

Massad Ayoob stated in Greatest Handguns of the World that "historians debate whether Wyatt Earp owned a 'Buntline Special' (author is inclined to believe that he did), but Colt manufactured many in the latter half of the 20th century".

Portrayals in popular culture
Dick Elliott played "Major Ned Buntline" in the 1935 film Annie Oakley with Barbara Stanwyck in the title role. Thomas Mitchell played him in the 1944 film Buffalo Bill. Lloyd Corrigan played him in six episodes of the ABC Western series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp from 1955 to 1958. Burt Lancaster played him (referred to as "the Legend Maker") in Robert Altman's 1976 film Buffalo Bill and the Indians.

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Palmares Paulista

Palmares Paulista is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The city has a population of 13,486 inhabitants and an area of 82.1 km².

Palmares Paulista belongs to the Mesoregion of São José do Rio Preto.

Media
In telecommunications, the city was served by Telecomunicações de São Paulo. In July 1998, this company was acquired by Telefónica, which adopted the Vivo brand in 2012. The company is currently an operator of cell phones, fixed lines, internet (fiber optics/4G) and television (satellite and cable).

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Talk:Nuclear salt-water rocket

Unclear description/use of language as to function
This article at the start seems to indicate that the nuclear salt is contained and separate from a solution pumped into the reaction chamber, but further down seems to indicate that the nuclear salt itself is being pumped out of the system as propellant. The overall language is unclear and the reader is left somewhat confused as to whether the nuclear-salt is simply a stationary mass in the rocket frame heating a solution propellant, or if the salt itself is a propellant and exits the vehible. Suggest clearer language and also a supporting diagram would make a tremendous explanatory difference. 76.182.84.243 (talk) 16:06, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

"Orthodox"
Why talk about "Orthodox chemical rockets"? Should it not simply be "Chemical Rockets"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MrDeconstructo (talk • contribs) 08:29, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

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How would a engine using such a fuel work? -- angel'o'sphere

Within the propellant tanks, neutron density of the fuel would be low due to the geometry/neutron absorptive materials of the tank walls, so temperature would be low too and thus the fuel would remain liquid.. However when injected into the reaction chamber, the neutron density (and therefore temperature) of the fuel would rise sharply and therefore the water would more or less instantly change to high pressure steam which would exit through a nozzle at high velocity and thus propel the craft. Of course you then have radioactive steam floating about so you don't want to try this at home ! -- Derek Ross | Talk 16:36, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)

Except that the radioactive steam should be travelling quickly enough that it's not bound by the Sun's gravity well, and should leave the Solar system in time. Just make sure you're not pointing towards Earth (or another inhabited body) when you fire that rocket... Wtrmute 14:34, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Come on guys, this radioactive steam will have velocity of several tens of km/s (or else why bother with it at all? - go for chemical or ion engines then) and will most likely leave solar system. And even if it doesn't, it will be extremely diluted and not present any danger at all.
 * Even if engine is pointed to Earth, exhaust plume some divergence (let's say 5 degrees). Should be absolutely safe unless you are on LEO.
 * IOW: the only moderately unsafe way to fire this thing is to fire it in LEO with plume directed to Earth (which doesn't make much sense from orbital dynamics POV anyway).

Thats fine if you only launch one such vehicle, but if you started to extensively use them in Earth Orbit, even above LEO, you might get a cumalative effect, even with minor contamination from each individual ignition Spiz101 (talk) 01:40, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

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Citation for this article is "Entering Space", Robert Zubrin ISBN 1585420360 68.3.12.199 (talk) 21:38, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Environmental damage
"such engines could not be used on the surface of a planet without terrible environmental damage occurring." Would it be worse than all the open air nuclear bomb tests? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.194.250.115 (talk) 16:15, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Not necessarily. The largest volume of radioactive material from a nuclear bomb test is the fallout, the soil and water that are made radioactive and thrown high into the air. By contrast, this scheme would not necessarily eject very much radioactive material per period of time. It could probably be tested intially on Earth with just a few grams of material ejected. Further, since it would be an ionized gas, IIRC, it may be possible to capture some of it back magnetically. But even a test that directly emitted only a gram of radioactive material would draw protests, I'm sure. Perhaps it could be tested in some huge cavern. Testing it in LEO would be much less problematic, I'd think, because the gases would be dispersed before reaching lower altitudes. But such tests could wreak havoc on the Van Allen belts, not to mention nearby satellites or space stations. This is the first I've heard of nuclear salt-water rockets. It's a much more elegant concept than the Orion Project.   Will Beback    talk    10:17, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

 * These engines, like most nuclear reactors, don't scale down. You can't test at a few grams scale, because the engine won't run.  Capturing the exhaust might be possible, but would definitely be difficult.  Testing in orbit or on the moon would work well -- the exhaust is fast enough that it could easily be ejected out of Earth orbit by aiming it in the right direction.  The vast majority of the radioactive exhaust would never hit the Earth or the atmosphere.  I'm not certain what such a test would do to the van Allen belts if aimed such that the exhaust escaped orbit. Evand (talk) 16:10, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

 * It's hard to tell from the paper how much material would be needed to initate a reaction. I doubt it's more than a couple of kilograms. Even if all of that were released it'd still be far less radioactive material than even one of the above ground tests from the 1950s. And if the engine were pointed towards space then some of the gas may escape the atmosphere entirely. By comparison, one of the first hydrogen bomb tests left a crater "6,500 feet (2,000 m) in diameter and 250 feet (75 m) in depth", which created a mushroom cloud that reached a height of "130,000 feet (40 km) and 62 miles (100 km) in diameter". "[T]he cloud contaminated more than seven thousand miles of the surrounding Pacific Ocean..." A much smaller test displaced "12 million tons of earth "    Will Beback    talk    19:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

 * Want to get this funded? Stop thinking "rocket" and start thinking "death ray."  A full scale version, assuming it could be kept in a state of controlled criticality, would be a highly lethal and effective weapon, shooting a narrowly focused blast of radioactive plasma at tens of miles per second.  Now watch the Pentagon R&D money roll in.  The fact that it's also a powerful and efficient rocket engine remains to be taken advantage of at a later date once they have a version that can be turned on without turning the test facility into a trinitite-lined crater a mile across.  Say, if this works, could I get a commission for the sale?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.61.164.169 (talk) 07:18, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

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Palmeira

Palmeira may refer to:

Cape Verde

 * Palmeira, Cape Verde, a village on the island of Sal

Brazil

 * Palmeira, Paraná, a municipality in the State of Paraná
 * Palmeira das Missões, a municipality in the State of Rio Grande do Sul
 * Palmeira, Santa Catarina, a municipality in the State of Santa Catarina
 * Palmeira d'Oeste, a municipality in the State of São Paulo

Mozambique

 * Palmeira, Mozambique, a locality in the Manhiça District

Portugal

 * Palmeira (Braga), a civil parish in the municipality of Braga
 * Palmeira (Santo Tirso), a civil parish in the municipality of Santo Tirso

Spain

 * Palmeira, Galicia, a parish in the municipality of Ribeira, Galicia

Other meanings

 * Palmeira Futebol Clube da Una, a Brazilian football (soccer) club

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Burns Fellowship

Burns Fellowship or Burns Fellow may refer to:

 * Arthur F. Burns Fellowship, organized by the International Center for Journalists; awardees include Anne Gellinek
 * Robert Burns Fellowship, University of Otago, a New Zealand literary fellowship

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Talk:Phoenix Command

So... is the article supposed to make sense? -- Kizor 23:43, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Added some stuff to contextualise the previous content, it might make a little more sense now, although I only vaguely get it myself despite having most of the game manuals and having used them rather a lot. -- Sfnhltb 21:35, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

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Palmeira d'Oeste

Palmeira d'Oeste is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The city has a population of 9,227 inhabitants and an area of 319.2 km2.

Palmeira d'Oeste belongs to the Mesoregion of São José do Rio Preto.

Media
In telecommunications, the city was served by Telecomunicações de São Paulo. In July 1998, this company was acquired by Telefónica, which adopted the Vivo brand in 2012. The company is currently an operator of cell phones, fixed lines, internet (fiber optics/4G) and television (satellite and cable).

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Palmital, São Paulo

Palmital is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The population is 22,272 (2020 est.) in an area of 548 km2. Its altitude is 508m. Its economy is based on agriculture and cattle raising. The town is known for having the biggest carnaval festivities of the area.

Media
In telecommunications, the city was served by Telecomunicações de São Paulo. In July 1998, this company was acquired by Telefónica, which adopted the Vivo brand in 2012. The company is currently an operator of cell phones, fixed lines, internet (fiber optics/4G) and television (satellite and cable).

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Panorama, São Paulo

Panorama is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 15,862 (2020 est.) in an area of 356 km2. The elevation is 276 m.

Media
In telecommunications, the city was served by Telecomunicações de São Paulo. In July 1998, this company was acquired by Telefónica, which adopted the Vivo brand in 2012. The company is currently an operator of cell phones, fixed lines, internet (fiber optics/4G) and television (satellite and cable).

Religion
Christianity is present in the city as follows:

Catholic Church
The Catholic church in the municipality is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Marília.

Protestant Church
The most diverse evangelical beliefs are present in the city, mainly Pentecostal, including the Assemblies of God in Brazil (the largest evangelical church in the country), Christian Congregation in Brazil, among others. These denominations are growing more and more throughout Brazil.

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Richard Avenarius

Richard Ludwig Heinrich Avenarius (19 November 1843 – 18 August 1896) was a German-Swiss philosopher. He formulated the radical positivist doctrine of "empirical criticism" or empirio-criticism.

Life
Avenarius attended the Nicolaischule in Leipzig and studied at the University of Zurich, Berlin, and the University of Leipzig. At the University of Leipzig, he received the Doctor of Philosophy in 1868 with his thesis on Baruch Spinoza and his pantheism, obtained the habilitation in 1876 and taught there as Privatdozent. One year later, he became professor at the University of Zurich. He died in Zürich in 1896.

Work
Avenarius believed that scientific philosophy must be concerned with purely descriptive definitions of experience, which must be free of both metaphysics and materialism. His opposition to the materialist assertions of Carl Vogt resulted in an attack upon empirio-criticism by Vladimir Lenin in the latter's Materialism and Empirio-criticism.

Avenarius' principal works are the famously difficult Kritik der reinen Erfahrung (Critique of Pure Experience, 1888–1890) and Der menschliche Weltbegriff (The Human Concept of the World, 1891) which influenced Ernst Mach, Ber Borochov and, to a lesser extent, William James.

He taught Anatoly Lunacharsky and was also influential on Alexander Bogdanov and Nikolai Valentinov.

Family
Avenarius was the second son of the German publisher Eduard Avenarius and Cäcilie née Geyer, a daughter of the actor and painter Ludwig Geyer and a (step-)sister of Richard Wagner. However, there is speculation that her father was the biological father of Richard Wagner too. Richard Avenarius's brother, Ferdinand Avenarius, led the cultural organization Dürerbund and belonged to the initiators of a culture reform movement in Germany. Wagner was Avenarius's godfather.

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SNHU Arena

The SNHU Arena (Southern New Hampshire University Arena) is an indoor events arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, and seats 9,852 for ice hockey, 11,140 for basketball and up to 11,770 for concerts.

The facility was originally known during construction as Manchester Civic Arena, and this name still appears on most of the directional signs around town. Its naming rights were sold prior to opening in 2001 and was called Verizon Wireless Arena.

On February 2, 2016, Southern New Hampshire University announced that it had purchased the naming rights from the then SMG (property management). The specific amount of money involved was never revealed, but it is known that the deal provides for student internships at the arena, and that the school will be able to use the arena for its own sporting and other events. The partnership between SMG and the university will run for a period of at least ten years after the arena officially changed its name on September 1, 2016.

In October 2019, SMG property management company merged with AEG Facilities, creating ASM Global.

The arena contains 542 club seats, 34 luxury suites, and five party suites.

Design
The SNHU Arena is located in downtown Manchester on Elm Street (U.S. Route 3) at the corner of Lake Avenue. The arena was built on the site of a former Zayre's department store and is located on an irregular block, surrounded by Elm Street (west), Lake Avenue (north), Chestnut Street (east) and Auburn Street (south), with Cedar (north) and Willow (east) streets taking a corner off the southwestern corner of the block.

The arena's exterior includes its notable curved blue roof, which helps heavy New Hampshire snowfall to slide off. The top half of the arena's facade is a steel oval, the western side of which is lit during events and is visible from the west side of the city and from Interstate 293. The lower half of the building is red brick (similar to that found on Manchester's iconic mills). The main entrance on the western side of the arena is entirely glass.

The floor of the arena is at ground level in the west side of the building. The Manchester Monarchs Pro Shop was formerly located at the entrance. The main concourse is on the second floor, and wraps around the entire arena: the concessions are all on that concourse aside from a bar on the third floor. There are two levels of seating: loge seats around three sides of the area and a balcony around all four sides. The arena has several luxury boxes, with a second level of boxes on the east and west sides of the interior. The arena has a standard four-sided scoreboard along with several video ribbons, located along the facades of the end zone upper decks. The arena floor level is expandable for larger events by movable seats, and events using an end zone staging area typically use the eastern end zone for the stage.

There are only a handful of onsite parking spaces, all of which are reserved for the handicapped: most patrons park on the street or in one of several large parking lots in downtown Manchester.

Minor league ice hockey
The arena was home to two iterations of the Manchester Monarchs, one from 2001 to 2015 in the American Hockey League and another from 2015 to 2019 in the ECHL. Both the AHL and ECHL Monarchs franchises were Los Angeles Kings farm teams. After the 2014–2015 season, Manchester and Ontario, California, were two of several markets affected by a "franchise swap" between the ECHL and AHL. The AHL Monarchs franchise moved to Southern California, and the ECHL's Ontario Reign moved to Manchester. The AHL Monarchs and ECHL Reign were both owned by the same company who owned the Kings. A year later, after the 2015–2016 season, the Kings sold the newly relocated ECHL Monarchs to an entity known as PPI Sports LLC. PPI was unable to make the team profitable at the ECHL level, and abruptly closed down the team at the end of the 2019 season after failing to find another buyer. The arena is actively seeking a new tenant.

The AHL Monarchs won the Calder Cup at the end of their last season before moving to Ontario, California.

The arena has hosted the 2005 AHL All-Star Game.

Boxing
On November 19, 2021, SNHU Arena was the site of Demetrius Andrade vs Jason Quigley, a fight on Matchroom Boxing. This was SNHU Arena's first boxing fight.

Indoor football
From 2004 to 2009, the arena was the home of the Manchester Wolves of the now disbanded AF2, the Arena Football League's minor league.

In 2016, a women's team, the New England Liberty of the Legends Football League, played their home games at the arena, although the Liberty played only one home game during their existence. The Liberty's LFL schedule was only four games long. After losing their first two games on the road, the Liberty lost their first home game 77–7 to the Chicago Bliss, and subsequently opted to forfeit their second and final regular season home game.

Basketball
The Boston Celtics of the NBA sometimes play preseason games at the arena. The Harlem Globetrotters will occasionally go to the arena.

Collegiate
The University of New Hampshire men's hockey team occasionally plays some home games at the arena, annually for several years against Dartmouth College in the Battle for the Riverstone Cup, and against the University of Maine Black Bears in the Border War. UNH has not scheduled any games at the arena since the 2015–2016 season, when UNH beat Maine 7–0 on December 30, 2015.

Since 2004, Manchester has been a regular site in the rotation for the Regional tournaments, hosting almost every two years. UNH has been the host institution for the Northeast Regional in 2004, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019. UNH played regional tournament games in Manchester every one of those years except 2017 and 2019, when the Wildcats failed to qualify for the national championship. UNH is slated to be a Regional host again in 2021.

Even though the institution's name is on the facility, none of SNHU's athletic programs play any home games at the arena.

Professional wrestling
The World Wrestling Entertainment has held events at the arena almost every year since 2002, including a pay per view WWE Backlash show in 2005. The most recent WWE event at the arena was on July 9, 2019, when Manchester hosted the weekly WWE Smackdown and WWE 205 series. WWE held a live event on June 4, 2023, with Seth "Freakin" Rollins defending the World Heavyweight Championship vs The Miz

Other
State high school basketball and hockey championships have been held in the arena.

The Professional Bull Riders Unleashed the Beast tour has made a few stops at the arena since 2020, when Jess Lockwood won the inaugural event in January 2020.

Concerts
SNHU Arena is one of New Hampshire's biggest concert venues, after Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion. SNHU Arena has hosted many concerts concerts by major performers, many of whom have visited the Manchester venue on multiple occasions. Both Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and Boston Pops Orchestra have performed several times at SHNU Arena, with both groups frequently visiting in December to put on holiday-oriented performances.

On October 26, 2010, Vermont jam band Phish played a ripper of a show here, later released as a part of their Live Phish series.

Other events
Hillary Clinton appeared at the arena in June 2007, to speak at the Manchester Central High School graduation.

In December 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and TV icon Oprah Winfrey appeared at a campaign rally at the arena, drawing over 8,000 people. Obama also appeared at the arena in May 2007 to speak at the Southern New Hampshire University commencement.

Adam Sandler, a Manchester native, has given three graduation speeches at the arena: in both 2003 and 2010 he addressed the graduates of his alma mater Manchester Central High School, and he also spoke at the 2008 Manchester Memorial High School graduation.

2012 Republican presidential nominee Gov. Mitt Romney delivered his final speech before election day at the arena on November 5, 2012. The event drew nearly 18,000 people and was the largest political event in New Hampshire's history. Overflow supporters were forced to watch the speech on large outdoor televisions because the arena ran out of space. The event included a concert performed by Kid Rock in support of Gov. Romney.

The night before the 2016 New Hampshire Presidential Primary, on February 8, 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump closed out his New Hampshire campaign with an evening rally at the Verizon Wireless Arena. The night before the general election, on November 7, 2016, Republican presidential nominee Trump returned to the newly renamed SNHU Arena to address a raucous overflow crowd, beginning his speech by saying "there are thousands of people outside trying to get in." Trump rallies for the 2020 election were held at the arena on August 15, 2019, and on February 10, 2020. Both drew large crowds.

The New Hampshire Democratic Party held its annual convention at the arena in the 2015 and plans to do so again in September 2019.

The FIRST Robotics Competition holds its regional competition, the BAE Systems Granite State Regional, in the arena every year.

JoJo Siwa's D.R.E.A.M. tour made a stop at SNHU Arena on February 22, 2022.

On March 6, 2022, SNHU Arena hosted Journey, with special guest Toto.

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Eric Prydz

Eric Sheridan Prydz (, ; born 19 July 1976), also known by his many aliases including Pryda and Cirez D, is a Swedish DJ and music producer. He rose to fame with his 2004 hit single "Call on Me", and saw continued chart success with "Proper Education" in 2007, "Pjanoo" in 2008, and "Opus" in 2015. In 2016, he released his debut studio album, Opus.

In 2017, he won DJ of the Year at the Electronic Music Awards and was also nominated for Live Act of the Year.

2004–2008: "Call on Me" and Swedish House Mafia
Prydz is perhaps best known for his 2004 hit single "Call on Me". It topped the UK singles chart for five weeks and was number one on the German Top 100 for six consecutive weeks. Although this track made him immensely popular, Prydz has stopped playing it in his shows in an attempt to distance himself from it. In some respects he has succeeded, and with his newer songs, Prydz has gained recognition from both underground and mainstream fans. In 2006, he released a remixed version of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2", titled "Proper Education", with a video.

In 2008, Prydz released the critically acclaimed single "Pjanoo", which topped the UK Dance Chart.

Together with Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso and Steve Angello, Prydz formed a group of DJs that informally referred to themselves as the Swedish House Mafia. When the group with the same name officially formed in late 2008, Prydz decided not to join his friends. He has collaborated with Axwell under the name Axer and with Angello as A&P Project.

2009–2013: Eric Prydz Presents Pryda
In 2009, Prydz released "Miami to Atlanta", where the "Pryda snare" was first used. The Pryda snare is a popular technique in house and trance music consisting of using a compressed and sustained snare sample at the end of a bar. Commonly used to mark progressions in a song structure, it has been widely sampled in the electronic dance music world, notably by producers such as Martin Garrix, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, and W&W.

On 21 May 2012, Prydz released his debut artist album, Eric Prydz Presents Pryda, as a 3-disc album on Virgin Records (Astralwerks in the USA). Disc 1 is made up of new unreleased Pryda productions, which some fans may have heard as works in progress (including Shadows, Agag, Mighty Love, Allein and the intro edit of Pjanoo). Discs 2 and 3 bring together many of the classic tracks from the Pryda catalogue, sequenced and continuously mixed by the man himself, including some of his special re-edits.

The Ministry of Sound club in London hosted the launch of Eric Prydz Presents Pryda on 14 April 2012, where Prydz played some of the tracks from the album. Inserting the CD in a computer and visiting Prydz's Facebook page provides access to a download of 'Tijuana', a track previously known as 'Space Miami ID' in .WAV format.

His 2013 Essential Mix was named Essential Mix of the Year by Pete Tong.

2014–present: PR(10)DA, PR(15)DA EPs and Opus

2014 was the 10th year of Prydz's label Pryda Recordings, and as a result, on 9 January 2014, Prydz announced a special upcoming artist album which was initially due for release later that year. On 4 May 2015, Prydz announced PR(10)DA, a collection of unreleased tracks from January 2004 to December 2014. PR(10)DA was released over three EPs, leading up to an album release in February 2016.

On 19 May 2014, Prydz announced via social media the third installment of his concert, Eric Prydz in Concert, titled EPIC 3.0. Promising the 'world's largest indoor hologram', new music, and new visuals, the show was to be held at Madison Square Garden during the Fall. Prydz performed his EPIC 3.0 show on 27 September 2014, playing a large range of new and unreleased material. The show incorporated a 20m, 4K hologram, and 32 lasers.

On 4 July 2015, Prydz was the first DJ with a set featured as a "One Mix" on Beats 1, the worldwide radio station on Apple Music.

On 5 February 2016, Prydz released his debut studio album Opus.

On 28 June 2016, Prydz collaborated with Luke Versalko from Mashable to produce a short documentary that details the making of his Epic 4.0 show. In June 2016, he also appeared on Insomniacs Night Owl Radio.

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Prydz' Pryda alias, on 10 April 2019 he announced the release of PR(15)DA, a collection of 27 songs.

On 19 July 2019, Prydz announced EPIC 6.0. This instalment of his EPIC series involved a multi-story eight-meter-wide transparent LED holosphere, which surrounded Prydz during his performance at Tomorrowland festival. The sphere was made up of seventy-two interlocking handmade panels, which contained over 2.4 million LEDs to illuminate with galaxies, darts of electricity, and alien planets.

Prydz presented a HOLO performance at the 22nd Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April 2023.

Aside from producing music, Prydz also runs the record labels Pryda, Pryda Friends, Pryda Presents and Mouseville, which release most of his own music. On Pryda, he releases music as Pryda. On Mouseville Records, started in 2002, he releases techno tracks as Cirez D.

Personal life
Prydz has a fear of flying, which means he mainly tours on a bus. He moved from London to Los Angeles in 2012, where he lived until his return to Sweden in 2021 after getting divorced from his former wife Sofie, with whom he has two children.

Discography
Studio albums
 * Opus (2016)

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Paraguaçu

Paraguaçu is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The population is 21,605 (2020 est.) in an area of 424 km². The elevation of the municipal seat is 825 m. It became a municipality in 1911.

Paraguaçu is part of the IBGE statistical microregion of Alfenas. It is 25 km west of Alfenas, to which it is linked by highway BR-491. Distances to other cities are:
 * São Paulo: 315 km
 * Belo Horizonte: 330 km
 * Rio de Janeiro: 427 km

Neighboring municipalities are Campos Gerais, Três Pontas, Eloi Mendes, Cordislândia, Machado, Alfenas and Fama.

The climate is mainly mild with rains in the months of September to April. The average annual rainfall is 1,200 millimeters. The average annual temperature is 21 °C, the average minimum is 13 °C, and the average maximum is 28 °C. The main economic activities are agriculture and livestock raising, with production of coffee and dairy products. There are also textile industries. The main crops are coffee (7,000 ha. in 2006), maize (5,500 ha.) and modest production of potatoes, rice, and beans.

In 2006 there were 685 rural properties with a total agricultural area of 20,977 ha. of which about half was planted in crops. The landholding system can be characterized as minifundio.

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