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Team America

Team America may refer to:
 * Team America: World Police, a 2004 movie created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone
 * Team America (soccer), a short-lived soccer team in the North American Soccer League for the 1983 season
 * Team America, a Marvel Comics superhero team, later known as the Thunderiders
 * Team America PAC, a political action committee; founded by Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado
 * Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC), an American model rocketry competition for high school students

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Notorious (Duran Duran album)

Notorious is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Duran Duran, released on 18 November 1986 by EMI Records. Produced by the band with Nile Rodgers, its musical style differed from the band's previous albums with a funk rock sound. It is the first album to feature the band as a trio with singer Simon Le Bon, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and bassist John Taylor as drummer Roger Taylor and guitarist Andy Taylor both left by the time the album was released. Andy Taylor would later be replaced by former Missing Persons guitarist Warren Curcurullo, who completed recording parts of the album in addition to Rodgers and session drummer Steve Ferrone.

Notorious peaked at number 16 on the UK Album Charts and number 12 on the Billboard 200. It has been certified platinum and sold over 1,000,000 copies worldwide. The album yielded three singles: "Notorious", "Skin Trade", and "Meet El Presidente"; "Notorious" was a worldwide success, as it reached number seven and number two in the UK Singles Charts and the Billboard Hot 100, respectively. Despite being a commercial failure selling fewer copies than their previous releases, it received positive reviews from critics, who praised the band's maturity and production.

Background and recording
Following the success of their previous album Seven and the Ragged Tiger and its subsequent world tour, Duran Duran planned to take a break for a year but all the band members ended up working on two side projects: the Power Station and Arcadia which were both moderate successes. The band would regroup in 1985 to record the song "A View to a Kill" for the James Bond film of the same name and performed at the Live Aid charity concert in July of the same year, which proved to be the last time all original members played together.

By the time it came to record the new album at the beginning of 1986, drummer Roger Taylor had quit the group, citing exhaustion and overwhelmed with the band's success. The remaining three members would continue to work on the album, with producer Nile Rodgers of Chic also contributing to guitar and drummer Steve Ferrone who worked with the Average White Band, Chaka Khan and Scritti Politti.

Andy Taylor's departure and Warren Cuccurullo
Guitarist Andy Taylor was expected to record with the band in early stages of the album. He did not show up when the sessions began and tensions arose when the band realized the guitarist was in Los Angeles planning his own solo career and was not satisfied with the musical direction the band members were going for. The recording sessions would be interrupted by a legal battle between both parties. After several months however, the band agreed to let him go but Taylor would play on several tracks before his departure. Andy would write in his autobiography, Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran about his final studio session. "I plugged in my guitar, played a few tracks with the engineer in order to honour my contractual obligations and then left to phone my lawyer. It was over."

In a 1986 interview, Andy Taylor stated “When I got to the studio, they had already started. It didn’t matter. I just didn’t want to be in the band anymore. They were playing this dance and R&B style of music and I wanted to play rock ‘n’ roll. I left on good terms with them. I don’t feel any hostility.” Keyboardist Nick Rhodes reflected on the circumstances saying, "When John went on the Power Station tour with him, he felt they were growing up. I went over to Los Angeles in January to see Andy to talk about the new album and try out new ideas. It was very uneasy. Anyway, it doesn't matter. I think the fact was we came to do the album the three of us really wanted to do and he didn't. He wanted to make a solo record. I just wish he told us a bit earlier.

During the sessions, Taylor began hanging out with members of American rock band Missing Persons which had broken up. Guitarist Warren Cuccurullo would eventually contact the band several times, being initially rebuffed. When the album reached the mixing stage, the band would invite Warren over and was hired as a replacement, in which he contributed on several tracks on the album. Cuccurullo would eventually become a full-time member of the band in 1989 after their tour supporting their follow-up album Big Thing.

Music
Given the experience the band members had on their side projects, there was a massive change in the musical style of Duran Duran. The sound of Notorious was an obvious direction, especially due to the fact that the band's last two hit singles "The Wild Boys" and the James Bond theme "A View to a Kill" were "edgier" but were worldwide successes nevertheless. The band wanted to distance themselves away from their synthpop approach and explore a "funkier urban" sound. Rhodes mentioned that the band wanted to focus more on their music and less on their image. “On the last tour, the audience was too loud in some places,” Rhodes said. “The screaming little girls tend to make their way to the front of the stage and make a lot of noise. We like the young fans. But it would be nice if they were a little quieter.”

Rhodes further elaborated on the musical change saying, "I think Notorious is quite typical on some of the dance tracks on the album, but it's certainly nothing like any of the old stuff", while lead singer Simon Le Bon stated that the involvement of Nile Rodgers helped with the musical direction the band was looking for. Bassist John Taylor and the rest of the band were also influenced by disco band Chic, in which Rodgers was the guitarist. The band also commented that the writing process was easier, in comparison with the tense recording sessions of Seven and the Ragged Tiger. "John, particularly has had a very funky nerve," said Le Bon. "He was the one who really pushed to get Nile. Nick would probably declare that he did. I was just happy to get along with anybody just to get some music down."

Lyrics
Similar to their previous works, the lyrical content on Notorious focused on certain topics. Due to the band's determination to move to a more sophisticated style, the results were more mature such as the negative aspects of the press ("Notorious"), work exploitation ("Skin Trade"), band tensions ("Vertigo (Do The Demolition)", manipulation ("So Misled"), and political intrigue ("Meet El Presidente"). The band named several tracks after several Alfred Hitchcock films. Not only were the album and title track named after the film Notorious, there were Vertigo and Rope, the original title for "Hold Me".

Rhodes and Le Bon said that the writing for the album was easier in comparison to the tension and hysteria-filled sessions of Seven and the Ragged Tiger. Nile Rodgers said of composing the title track, "The idea for 'Notorious' is basically James Brown soul-power. That's when I started to groove and started playing along with it. And Nick Rhodes said, 'Wow! A D-minor 6th. That's such a great chord. We got to write that into a song."

Release and promotion
The evolving sound and mature direction of Duran Duran was seen as a major turning point in the band's commercial prospects. Several other factors regarding the lackluster performance of Notorious included the band members dismissing their managers, the Berrow brothers and acting as their own management. In June 1986, EMI fired its president and went through a reconstruction with the label losing interest in the band in favor of new artists. This, combined with the hiatus the band took would alienate much of the band's core fanbase as the mature approach would leave behind the light synthpop of their earlier releases.

Notorious was released on November 18, 1986. The album would peak at number 16 in the UK Album Charts and number 12 on the Billboard 200. It would be certified platinum on January 20, 1987 and has since sold over 1,000,000 copies worldwide. Despite this, Notorious was seen as a commercial failure because it did not replicate the same success as their previous albums. The lead single, "Notorious", was a commercial success, reaching number 7 in the UK Singles Charts and number 2 in the Billboard Hot 100 and saw heavy rotation on MTV. "Skin Trade", the album's second single, stalled at number 22 in the UK and at number 39 on the American Top 40, a first for the band since their early releases. The third single, "Meet El Presidente", was remixed to capitalize on the growing "Miami dance" scene, but it only reached number 24 in the UK and failed to chart in the US. The commercial underperformance of both the album and its subsequent singles would ultimately shadow Duran Duran for years to come until the success of 1993's "Ordinary World".

Critical reception
The reviews Notorious would receive were mostly positive, with some praising the band's newfound maturity and improved songwriting. Jon Pareles of the New York Times wrote, "Duran Duran's newfound disillusionment may mark a step toward maturity...they managed to catch a trend on the upswing, perhaps Notorious suggests that for late 1980s grit and pessimism is coming into style." William Shaw of Smash Hits also praised the album calling it, "the best LP Duran Duran recorded. They've tended to fill in all that space between the singles with somewhat drivelly that never quite make up their mind where they're ging. But on Notorious, blimey! Duran Duran seem to have found themselves."

Rolling Stone reviewer Mark Coleman wrote, "Notorious is by far the group's most consistently listenable work. But while it doesn't plunge to past depths, neither does it scale the giddy heights of irresistible hit singles like "The Reflex." The Los Angeles Times gave the album a positive review. Reviewer Chris Williams said of the production, "Nile Rodgers, is no miracle worker--he doesn’t leave a stamp on his production efforts with meager artists so much as the veneer of an airbrush--but his studio prowess is punchy enough to make the usual ponderous material a tad easier to swallow. Nick Rhodes’ omnipresent layers of synthesizers have more character and variety this time around."

Some critics were mixed with the songwriting. In a negative review, AllMusic criticized the songwriting. The reviewer Mike DeGagne would write, "Beneath Duran Duran's attempts at trying to sound musically devious, mysterious, and slightly seductive, the tracks fail to bear enough weight in order to be effective all the way through. It's easy to see why the band would choose such a route at this point in their career, but moderate doses of pop enthusiasm would have made Notorious a fuller and more enjoyable package. The provocative, nightclub brand of martini-sipping pop that does surface is meritorious to a certain extent, felt mostly in the album's two biggest tracks." PopMatters was also less enthusiastic; writer John Bergstrom wrote that the songwriting "isn’t always as consistent as the production. It also showcases Duran Duran’s, and Rhodes’ in particular, underrated ability to summon a satisfyingly ethereal atmosphere. Other tracks, though, suffer from lack of distinction. Duran Duran always struggled to supplement their singles with strong album material, and Notorious does at times reveal the stress and tension of the period in unflattering ways."

Personnel
Duran Duran
 * Simon Le Bon – vocals
 * Nick Rhodes – keyboards
 * John Taylor – bass guitars

Technical
 * Daniel Abraham – engineering, mixing
 * Nile Rodgers – production
 * Duran Duran – production
 * Bob Ludwig – mastering

Artwork
 * John Swannell – photography
 * Christy Turlington – cover model
 * Frank Olinsky – design

Additional musicians
 * Steve Ferrone – drums
 * Andy Taylor – guitars (tracks 2, 4, 5, & 6)
 * Nile Rodgers – guitars (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, & 10)
 * Warren Cuccurullo – guitars (tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, & 10)
 * Mac Gollehon – horns
 * Jimmy Maelen – percussion
 * The Borneo Horns – horns
 * Curtis King Jr. – additional vocals
 * Brenda White-King – additional vocals
 * Tessa Niles – additional vocals
 * Cindy Mizelle – additional vocals

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John Flynn (minister)

John Flynn (25 November 1880 – 5 May 1951) was an Australian Presbyterian minister who founded the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) which later separated into Frontier Services and the Presbyterian Inland Mission, as well as founding what became the Royal Flying Doctor Service, the world's first air ambulance.

Early life
Flynn was born at Moliagul, central Victoria on 25 November, 1880. The third child of Thomas and Rosetta, John was raised in Sydney by his mother's sister after his mother died during childbirth. When he was five, John was reunited with his family at Snake Gully, near Ballarat. The Flynn family later moved to Sunshine in Melbourne's western suburbs.Educated at Snake Valley, Sunshine and Braybrook primary schools, he matriculated from University High School in Parkville in Melbourne, aged 18. Unable to finance a university course, he became a pupil-teacher with the Victorian Education Department and developed interests in photography and first aid. In 1903 he began training for the ministry through an extra-mural course for 'student lay pastors', serving meanwhile in pioneering districts of Beech Forest and Buchan. His next four years in theological college were interspersed with two periods on a shearers' mission and the publication of his Bushman's Companion (1910).

Ministry
Always thinking of the needs of those in isolated communities, in September 1910 Flynn published The Bushman's Companion which was distributed free throughout inland Australia. He took up the opportunity to succeed E. E. Baldwin as the Smith of Dunesk Missioner at Beltana, a tiny settlement 500 kilometres north of Adelaide. He was ordained in Adelaide for this work in January 1911. The missioners visited the station properties in a wide radius of Beltana, and their practical and spiritual service was valued in the isolated localities. Flynn used it as an opportunity to look at the potential for something bigger. By 1912, after writing a report for his church superiors on the difficulties of ministering to such a widely scattered population, Flynn was made the first superintendent of the Australian Inland Mission which became Frontier Services. Flynn's vision was to establish a 'Mantle of Safety' for the people of Outback Australia. As well as tending to spiritual matters, Flynn quickly established the need for medical care for residents of the vast Australian outback, and established a number of bush hospitals.

By 1917, Flynn was already considering the possibility of new technology, such as radio and aircraft, to assist in providing a more useful acute medical service, and then received a letter from an Australian pilot serving in World War I, Clifford Peel, who had heard of Flynn's speculations and outlined the capabilities and costs of then-available planes. This material was published in the church's magazine, the start of Flynn turning his considerable fund-raising talents to the task of establishing a flying medical service. The first flight of the Aerial Medical Service was in 1928 from Cloncurry, Queensland. A museum commemorating the founding of the Royal Flying Doctor Service is located at John Flynn Place in Cloncurry.

Marriage
Flynn married the secretary of the AIM, Jean Blanch Baird, on 7 May 1932 at the Presbyterian Church in Ashfield, Sydney. He was 51 years old and the marriage reportedly came as a surprise even to his close friends.

Death
He retired and died in Sydney on 5 May 1951. He was 70 years old. He was cremated and his remains were placed under a large boulder from the Devils Marbles. The Northern Territory Department of Public Works had taken the rock from a site sacred to its traditional owners, but after many years of negotiations the rock was returned to its original location in 1998. It was replaced with one acceptable to the Aboriginal people, both of the original rock's home and the people on whose land his grave lies.

The land adjoining the grave site was proclaimed as a reserve on 21 March 1957 and became a historical reserve known as the John Flynn's Grave Historical Reserve  on 30 June 1978.

His widow Jean died at the Pitt Wood Presbyterian nursing home in Ashfield, Sydney, New South Wales on 27 August 1976.

Awards
Flynn was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1933.

Legacy
The work of the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) is continued today through the Uniting Church of Australia's Frontier Services and the Presbyterian Church of Australia's Presbyterian Inland Mission. The Royal Flying Doctor Services still continues to deliver Flynn's vision of a 'Mantle of Safety' to the people of outback Australia.

Commemoration
Flynn is featured on the reverse of the polymer Australian twenty-dollar note.

Flynn's name has also been adopted in commemoration of him, including:
 * The Alice Springs suburb of Flynn
 * The Canberra suburb of Flynn
 * The federal electorate of Flynn in Queensland was created by the Australian Electoral Commission in 2006.
 * Qantas has announced that they intend naming one of their Airbus A380s after Flynn in recognition of his contribution to the aviation industry and particularly to his achievement of founding the Royal Australian Flying Doctors Service.
 * The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine has also created a John Flynn Placement Program, which is a scholarship for medical students wanting to experience medical practice in the outbackJohn Flynn Memorial Church, Alice Springs, 2015.JPG
 * The John Flynn Memorial Uniting Church in Alice Springs was officially opened by Governor-General William Slim on Sunday 6 May 1956.
 * The John Flynn Private Hospital located on the Gold Coast, Queensland

Books about Flynn include:
 * Ion Idriess wrote Flynn of the Inland in 1932. The book told of Flynn's life and the establishment and running of the Australian Inland Mission.
 * Barry Brown, John Flynn and the Flying Doctor Service, 1960
 * Allan Drummond, John Flynn, 2012
 * Rudolph Ivan, John Flynn of Flying Doctors and Frontier Faith, 1996
 * Brian C.Peachment, Aeroplanes or a Grave: The Story of John Flynn and the Flying Doctor Service
 * W.Scott McPheat, John Flynn - Apostle to the Inland, 1963
 * W.Scott McPheat, John Flynn : Vision of the Inland, 1976
 * Everald Compton 'John Flynn : The man on the 20 dollar notes 2016

A memorial was built in 1952 at the intersection of the Barkly and Stuart Highways about 24 km north of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory of Australia. It was dedicated on 27 August 1953 by the Governor General, Sir William Slim. The land around the memorial was proclaimed on 4 April 1957 and was proclaimed as the John Flynn Historical Reserve on 30 June 1978.

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Talk:Pirate radio in Ireland

Old 2004 & 2005 posts
This is in serious need of content!

 * I know, I know. If you read my comment when I put in the text thats here I said I was too tired to continue and would finish it later. Kiand 15:10, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Shouldn't this be moved to Irish pirate radio? -- Itai 00:59, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * True. I'm on it. J OHN C OLLISON | Ludraman] 11:49, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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The xfm in dublin is NOT the same as in London and what about Radioactive eh?

Yes but they were around before Xfm in London started. As for "what about Radioactive eh?" What about any of the hundreds of other pirate stations ?. Radioactve may have been original and different but had little influence on the development of Irish radio from a historical standpoint !

 * Like a lot of other irish articles this is the start of a serious, interesting article, now do yourselfs a favour and seek publicity, makesure something that a link is placed to it on other pages for instance Communications in Ireland, History of Ireland, List of Ireland-related topics - too many irish articles have few links to them, if any!

--- I was going to turn XFM into a link, since there is an article for it, but I found that XFM was already surrounded by double-brackets. Is there a bug in the Wiki? Q
 * Never mind. I went back to the page and the link was working. Strange. Q

Were fm104 and 98fm originally pirate stations?--Richy 23:31, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

 * As far as I can remember, no and no. [radiowaves.fm] will tell you when its up, but it seems to be down tonight. Both are, from my memory, among the batch of totally new legit stations that came out for licences although most of their staff have been involved in prate radio in the past

 * Q102 is the only one thats even close to having been pirate at any stage, and thats only because they'd adopted the history of the original Q102. Kiand 23:39, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Er what about Phantom ? Some of the original people behind FM104 had some links to the old Q102 pirate but FM104 couldnt realistically be considered a successor to Q. Outside of Dublin some of the licensed ILR stations had more direct links to pre-1989 predecessors. 86.112.50.97 (talk) 13:53, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Pirate Stations in Limerick
There still seems to be regular pirate stations here, even after 2002. RLO (Radio Limerick One) is still broadcasting at around 105MHz, and I've never seen that go away - I didn't even know it was pirate until looking it up here today! --Zilog Jones 21:17, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

RLO were originally a licenced station but after they lost their licence they coninued broadcasting anyway

Dropped link??
What was the reason for reverting the bot link today? ja: :アイルランドの海賊放送 simply goes to the Japanese version of this page. JXM 05:51, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Sorry - my mistake. I have replaced the link and vowed never to edit Wikipedia without first having my coffee. Markcoffey 11:24, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Restructuring
I've done a bit of a restructuring today, any comments - just go ahead and change it... --Kiand 17:02, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Old tags (2015)
The article has multiple tags dating back to 2009 but little/no discussion regarding them here. The article has had numerous edits since then. So is it time to remove the tags and if not which should be kept and why ? Netgeek-UK (talk) 10:34, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I really think all the tags are still very valid. Do you know this topic and do you have sources? ww2censor (talk) 22:29, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Waterford and Galway sections
The article comes across like it was cribbed from various press releases (particularly in the Galway and Waterford sections) with a lot of trivia and lists of DJ names -of questionable notability. I've done some work on it but it could do with a lot more. 86.146.222.51 (talk) 19:34, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Kiss FM (Dundalk)
This entry contradicts itself stating that the station continued under various guises as such until the present day but was taken off air in 2010 and has not returned It also claims the station launched in November 1998 but its been around since at least the mid 1990's. 86.146.222.51 (talk) 20:10, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

So many Kiss FM's (Cork)
The Cork "since 2000" section mentions a "Kiss FM" but doesn't make it clear if its the same station as broadcast during the late 1990's. The references to the station going on and off and on again (on various frequencies) reads like an "Anorak" news magazine and is of questionable relevance to a Wikipedia article. 86.146.222.51 (talk) 20:10, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Most hardline anti-pirate stance in Europe ?
In the opening paragraphs its suggested that the level of enforcement in Ireland is particularly draconian with dubious statements like A recent government crackdown now means Ireland has one of the most hardline anti-pirate policies in Europe, and few major stations survive Anyone who has been involved in pirate radio in someplace like London (where many stations experience raids on a weekly basis) would find this suggestion laughable. There is one station in County Monaghan which was operated continuously since 1987 and has only experienced one raid. Many other stations have operated without any harassment from COMREG at all. While the "black Tuesday" raids were an enormous shock to the free radio community these took place over a decade ago and their significance should not be exaggerated. 86.146.222.51 (talk) 19:47, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Television
Shouldn't the article give a brief mention to pirate television -Both stations in their own right and relays of UK television signal via UHF "deflectors" and unlicenced cable systems ? 86.146.222.51 (talk) 19:47, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Long overdue clear out
I've removed a large amount of this article. The problems with it have been long indicated by tags;
 * Masses of unsourced content, some of it of questionable accuracy
 * Unattributed opinions
 * What was very likely original research
 * Non neutral content
 * Detail ill-suited to such a broad topic

As such, it read very much like a personal essay by one editor reflecting on their experience and knowledge of the subject. All great stuff, but Wikipedia is not the place to publish it, and all completely unverifiable.

No doubt I've removed some stuff in the process that could have been retained and sourced, but since nothing has been done to fix this article in years and years, it was time for action. Feel free to restore anything that can be properly sourced. Escape Orbit (Talk) 19:23, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

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Annie Nightingale
As Annie Nightingale said on BBC Four that Duran moved in the 80s from a New Romantic sound in a "white soul/funk" direction (i.e. they became a funk-pop or pop/funk band)...would you say that Notorious has to be classed as Sophisti-Pop as well? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.154.173.247 (talk) 14:49, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

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Worth Matravers

Worth Matravers is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. The village is situated on the cliffs west of Swanage. It comprises limestone cottages and farm houses and is built around a pond, which is a regular feature on postcards of the Isle of Purbeck.

The civil parish stretches from the coast northwards to, and just beyond, the A351 road from Corfe Castle to Swanage. The village of Worth Matravers is situated on side roads towards the south of the parish, which also includes the village of Harman's Cross on the main road to the north.

Etymology
The earliest attestation of the name of Worth Matravers occurs in the Domesday Book of 1086, where the settlement was simply called 'Worth' (represented by a range of spellings including Wirde, Orde, and Urda). This name originates in worth, meaning 'an enclosure'. The Matravers element was added to disambiguate the place from others of the same name: it is the family name of John Matravers, who held the estate from 1335.

History
Archaeological investigations at the site known as "Football Field" revealed frequent activity from the early Neolithic to the early medieval period, including a Neolithic enclosure, a Bronze-Age roundhouse, settlement during the Iron Age and Roman period, and an inhumation cemetery from shortly after the Roman period. Archaeogenetic research at the cemetery showed genetic continuity from Britain's Iron-Age population to the population of the cemetery, with little influence from the genetically Continental northern European population that became dominant in Eastern English cemeteries during the Roman and early medieval periods.

The cliffs of Worth Matravers were the site of a Chain Home radar station during World War II, which was instrumental in the development of radar when the Telecommunications Research Establishment outstation shared the site from 1940 until 1942 when it was relocated to Malvern, Worcestershire.

Geography
To the south of Worth Matravers village are the limestone cliffs of the English Channel coast. These are situated on the South West Coast Path and are part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. This coastline is popular with tourists in the summer months, with the rocky beaches of Winspit, Seacombe and Chapman's Pool situated within walking distance of the village.

To the north of the village and parish are the chalk Purbeck Hills. Many tourists pass through this area on the Swanage Railway, a steam locomotive operated heritage railway. Harman's Cross railway station on that railway is within the parish boundaries, but a significant distance from the village centre of Worth Matravers.

The parish includes the settlement of Harman's Cross to the north, and has an area of 10.98 square kilometres. In the 2011 census it had 285 households and a population of 638. The parish formed part of the Purbeck local government district until its replacement by the Dorset unitary authority in April 2019. It is located within the South Dorset constituency of the House of Commons. Prior to Brexit in 2020, it was in the South West England constituency of the European Parliament.

Economy
Traditionally the village's economy was based on farming, quarrying and fishing. As of 2019, two quarries – Swanworth and St Aldhelm's – are still in operation. Both arable and pasture farming are still central to the village's economy.

In March 2022, it was announced that the National Trust had purchased the 350 acre Weston Farm, in the village, adding to its other landholdings in the village and its vicinity such as Spyway.

Places of interest
A monument on St Aldhelm's head, about a mile from the village, commemorates the development of radar by the Telecommunications Research Establishment at RAF Worth Matravers which was also one of the   Chain Home radar  stations during World War II, which proved decisive in the allied victory of that war. A Royal Observer Corps monitoring post is situated in the layby on the road to Worth Matravers.

About a mile from the village is Winspit, an old quarry on the cliffs. This was used as a filming location for an episode of Blake's 7 and also in two Doctor Who stories.

On the bluff of the headland is the Norman Saint Aldhelm's Chapel dedicated to St Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne. The village's parish church of St Nicholas of Myra dates from the 12th century and is Grade I listed.

The village is also well known for the Square and Compass, a Grade II listed public house, which has operated since 1793. It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. It holds an annual week-long stone carving festival and accommodates a small museum exhibiting fossils and other local artefacts.

Miscellaneous

 * In 2004, local fishermen were targeted with a sabotage campaign by the so-called "Lobster Liberation Front", a fringe animal rights group operating in the area.
 * The tombs of Benjamin Jesty, a farmer who is reported to have vaccinated his family against smallpox having made the same observations as Edward Jenner and a while earlier, but kept quiet about it, and his wife are side by side in the churchyard. Jesty's family may be the first recorded deliberate attempt to induce immunity to smallpox using cowpox, or it may have been a more widespread activity prior to its systematisation.
 * Sculptors Sir Anthony Caro (1924-2013) and Mary Spencer Watson (1913-2006) are buried in the village's churchyard.
 * The first President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom Lord Phillips, took Worth Matravers as part of his title.

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Pierneef

Jacobus Hendrik (Henk) Pierneef (usually referred to as Pierneef) (13 August 1886 Pretoria – 4 October 1957 Pretoria), was a South African landscape artist, generally considered to be one of the best of the old South African masters. His distinctive style is widely recognised and his work was greatly influenced by the South African landscape.

Most of his landscapes were of the South African highveld, which provided a lifelong source of inspiration for him. Pierneef's style was to reduce and simplify the landscape to geometric structures, using flat planes, lines and colour to present the harmony and order in nature. This resulted in formalised, ordered and often-monumental views of the South African landscape, uninhabited and with dramatic light and colour.

Pierneef's work can be seen worldwide in many private, corporate and public collections, including the Africana Museum, Durban Art Gallery, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Pierneef Museum and the Pretoria Art Gallery.

Life history
Pierneef was born in Pretoria, from Dutch and Boer parentage. He started his high school career at the Staatsmodelschool (literally "model state school") there, where he took his first art classes, but it was interrupted by the Second Boer War. Due to the war, the Pierneef family decided to move back to the Netherlands in 1901. While there he studied at the Rotterdamse Kunstakademie. During this time, he also came into contact with the works of the old masters, which left a lasting impression on him.

Pierneef returned to Pretoria at the age of 18, where he met with and was encouraged by already established South African artists such as his godfather Anton van Wouw, Hugo Naude and Frans Oerder. His first public exhibition, where his work was generally well received, was with van Wouw and Naude in 1902. He worked at the State Library during the night for almost ten years and painted in his studio during the day. In 1910, Pierneef married Agatha Delen, a woman 12 years his senior.

Pierneef held his first solo exhibition in 1913, to great critical acclaim, some even describing his work as that of a genius, which inspired him greatly. His second solo exhibition was held two years later and was also very well received. During this period, he also did various illustrations for a periodicals and books.

In 1918, Pierneef left the State Library and started a career as an art lecturer at the Heidelberg (South Africa) College of Education. In that year he also painted the bush camp of Anton van Wouw of which two versions remains to today. One with, and one without visitors. During these camping adventures Van Wouw and Pierneef talked, sketched, fished for kurper and drank a great deal of coffee.

During the following year, he also started teaching drawing at the Pretoria College of Education. These positions gave him the opportunity to focus on his art and he participated in many successful solo and group exhibitions during 1920 to 1921. Due to the recognition that he received, Pierneef realised that he was setting the trend for a unique South African style. Personally, it was a difficult time in his life – his wife Agatha suffered from a mental disorder and also started to lose her sight.

Pierneef resigned as lecturer and became a full-time painter in 1923, due to differences of opinion regarding the curriculum with the Department of Education.

Pierneef visited South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1923 to 1924, where he sketched extensively for paintings that would later be completed in his studio. These would later be considered some of his best works.

Despite his successes, he was experiencing some financial difficulties, and had to resort to other jobs to make ends meet. During one of these, an advertising project to sell the land around Hartebeespoort dam, he met his future second wife, a Dutch woman named May Schoep. Pierneef divorced Agatha in 1923 and married May in 1924.

The couple visited Europe from 1925 to 1926, where Pierneef promoted his art and also studied the newest art movements. He also held a solo exhibition in the Netherlands, where his Bushmen drawings drew great attention.

In 1927 Pierneef's daughter was born and he held a very successful exhibition of 86 of his works in Pretoria. However, during his solo exhibition the following year, he had some abstract modern works on display, which were very badly received, compelling him to revert to his old style. His daughter's name was Marita ("Mickie") Pierneef. May Pierneef (née Shoep) was the sister of Albertha Louise du Preez, nickname Be (née Schoep) who was married to Dr Jan Dirk Gysbert du Preez (a doctor, graduated in the Netherlands and Maths genius), who brought May Schoep and their mother, Wietje, to South Africa from the Netherlands, when he married Be.

Pierneef accepted a commission in 1929 to paint 32 panels for the interior of the then-new Johannesburg Railway Station, a task he completed by 1932. Since 2002 the complete set of thirty two panels, twenty eight landscape and four tree scenes, is on long term loan from the Transnet Foundation to the Rupert Art Foundation and have also been exhibited in the Jan Rupert Centre in Graaff-Reinet. The panels are considered to be some of his best work.

In 1933, he was commissioned to do seven murals for South Africa House, the South African embassy on Trafalgar Square, London. Pierneef completed this work in 1934.

Awards
Pierneef received numerous honours and awards during his lifetime, including:
 * 1935 – The Medal for Visual Arts for his Johannesburg Station Panels as well as for his panels in South Africa House in London.
 * 1951 – Honorary Doctorate, University of Natal.
 * 1957 – Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy, University of Pretoria.
 * 1957 – Honorary Membership of the South African Academy for Science and Art ('’Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns'’).

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