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This page was originally marked as a copyvio. The author then ran the original article through the "Jive" filter, rendering into simultaneously a copyvio and utter gibberish. --jpgordon {gab} 01:12, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I thought to rewrite the page. However, I checked allmusic, Amazon and Ultimate Band List. UBL had an entry on them ; Allmusic and Amazon had nothing, however. Moreover, the UBL entry suggests that this article was inaccurate in many details, and provides no evidence that they're notable--a Google search was unable to verify if they actually appeared with Save Ferris or the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. I say delete unless someone more knowledgeable than me can verify this. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 01:26, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep; the SkaDaddyZ was one of the most popular bands on the former mp3.com before the aforementioned site was shut down and redesigned. Since then, the band seems to have fallen into obscurity, as it seems that most of its revenues (from CD sales and paid downloads) and fanbase was centered around the site in its former incarnation. The "Hotel California" cover, despite threats of a lawsuit, enjoyed many hours of radio playtime, both on mp3.com stations and conventional analog stations across the United States. The song received several awards and was featured on mp3.com's Best Of Mp3.com CD from 1999. Additionally, the band appeared with both Save Ferris and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, in 1996 and 1998, respectively.
 * Keep, they were actually quite popular for a time. Article needs some fact-checking and expansion, not deletion. -- Ferkelparade π 10:03, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Googling them gives some notable results. The articles needs some re-editing. utcursch 11:53, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
 * Abstain for now. But I propose the gibberish version as a BJAODN candidate! - Mike Rosoft 12:17, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Clear and definite Keep. GRider 19:59, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * This should have been rewritten on a temp page so the copyvio could be removed completely. -- Cyrius|✎ 14:39, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)


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Concetta Fierravanti-Wells

Concetta Anna Fierravanti-Wells (born 20 May 1960) is an Australian politician who was a Senator for New South Wales from 2005 to 2022, representing the Liberal Party. She served as Minister for International Development and the Pacific in the Turnbull government from 2016 to 2018. She grew up in Port Kembla, New South Wales, and, prior to entering politics, worked as a lawyer and policy adviser.

Early life
Fierravanti-Wells was born on 20 May 1960 in Wollongong, New South Wales. She is the daughter of Giuseppe and Antonia Fierravanti, both of whom were born in Calitri, Italy. Her father arrived in Australia in 1953 to work at the Port Kembla steelworks, and was joined by his future wife six years later. Fierravanti-Wells acquired Italian citizenship by descent in 1985, but renounced it in 1994 prior to standing for parliamentary preselection. She spoke Italian as her first language, learning English at kindergarten.

Fierravanti-Wells grew up in Port Kembla, attending St Patrick's Catholic Primary School and St Mary, Star of the Sea College in Wollongong. She went on to study at the Australian National University, completing a Bachelor of Arts in political science in European languages in 1980 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1982. While at university she was named Miss Rugby 1981 by the ACT Rugby Union, representing the ANU Rugby Club.

Career
Fierravanti-Wells served her articles of clerkship with the Canberra firm of Macphillamy, Cummins and Gibson. She joined the office of the Australian Government Solicitor (AGS) in 1984, working for its ACT branch until 1986 and then joining its New South Wales branch. She was the acting principal legal officer at the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service in 1990. In the same year, Fierravanti-Wells began working as a policy adviser for federal MP and shadow minister Jim Carlton. She was involved in drafting the proposed changes to the Australian Public Service under the federal opposition's Fightback! policy. After the Coalition's defeat at the 1993 federal election she was seconded to New South Wales premier John Fahey as his senior private secretary. Fierravanti-Wells re-joined the AGS in 1994 as a senior lawyer. She was also a consultant to MinterEllison from 2003.

Outside of her professional career, Fierravanti-Wells was the Australian representative on the General Council of Italians Abroad (Consiglio Generale degli Italiani all'Estero) from 1990 to 1998. She was made a knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1998, the youngest Australian to receive the honour. Fierravanti-Wells was one of the Coalition's nominees to the multicultural advisory committee for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She also served on the board of Chris Riley's charity Youth Off The Streets from 1999 to 2004, including as chairman from 2002.

Political career
Fierravanti-Wells was an unsuccessful candidate for Liberal preselection at the 1994 Warringah by-election, which saw future prime minister Tony Abbott elected to parliament. She was president of the party's Italian special branch from 1995 and elected to the state executive in 1996, also serving as a delegate to state council from 1995 and to federal council from 2000.

Fierravanti-Wells defeated incumbent senator John Tierney for Liberal preselection prior to the 2004 federal election, winning by 57 votes to 51 with the support of powerbroker David Clarke. Her victory followed four previous attempts to gain preselection. Normally Fierravanti-Wells would have taken her seat on 1 July 2005, however Tierney resigned in April prior to the expiration of his term. She was appointed to the resulting casual vacancy, and took her seat on 5 May.

Following the 2008 Liberal leadership spill, Fierravanti-Wells was appointed as a shadow parliamentary secretary under Malcolm Turnbull, with responsibility for immigration and citizenship. She was promoted to shadow minister for ageing when Tony Abbott replaced Turnbull as opposition leader in December 2009, adding the mental health portfolio following the 2010 election.

After the 2013 federal election, Fierravanti-Wells was appointed to the Abbott Ministry as the Parliamentary Secretary for Social Services from September 2013. In May 2015 she was also made parliamentary secretary to the Attorney-General, with a focus on anti-radicalisation. She was appointed as Assistant Minister for Multicultural Affairs in September 2015, following Turnbull's victory over Abbott in a leadership spill. Following the 2015 Parramatta shooting, Fierravanti-Wells stated that "we have been dealing with extremism and violent extremism as a national security issue, but what we really need to do is to be looking at it [as] a social issue with a national security angle". She supported ASIO director-general Duncan Lewis's request that Coalition MPs use more moderate language in reference to Islamic extremism, which was seen as controversial. She also stated that it was a duty of government to support "the modern and moderate interpretation" of Islam.

On 13 February 2016, it was announced that Fierravanti-Wells would be appointed Minister for International Development and the Pacific following a rearrangement in the First Turnbull Ministry. In April 2018, speaking at the Overseas Development Institute in London, Fierravanti-Wells said increasing Australia's foreign aid commitment was opposed by most in the country. "In Australia we had some research done where it showed that about 80% of Australians believe that we should not be spending more on foreign aid or that what we spend is about right". In 2018, Australia's foreign aid commitment stood at $3.9bn, its lowest ever level as a proportion of the budget: 0.22% of gross national income.

Fierravanti-Wells resigned from the ministry on 21 August 2018, following the Liberal Party leadership spill that day.

Political positions
During the Morrison government, Fierravanti-Wells was a member of the National Right faction of the Liberal Party. She was a member of Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy and served on the committee of a Liberal Party publication, The Conservative.

Speaking in 2012 about same-sex marriage, Fierravanti-Wells said that many LGBT people do not "even intend on staying in a monogamous relationship". She is one of twelve senators who voted against what became the Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Act 2017.

In November 2021, Fierravanti-Wells was one of five Liberal-aligned senators who voted against the government in support of One Nation’s COVID-19 Vaccination Status (Prevention of Discrimination) Bill 2021.

Departure
Fierravanti-Wells' senate term would expire in June 2022, along with those of two other Liberal senators. She sought Liberal Party preselection for the 2022 Australian federal election to continue to represent New South Wales. She nominated for the winnable positions (the first two) on the party's Senate ticket. She was defeated by both other senators in the ballot held at the state council meeting on 26 March 2022. Fierravanti-Wells later clarified via Twitter and an open letter to party members that she did not nominate for the unwinnable positions, and so she would not appear on the Senate ticket and would not be a candidate at the election.

A few days later, on 29 March 2022, she spoke in parliament, criticising Scott Morrison and the pre-selection process in the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party.

Fierravanti-Wells's term expired on 30th June 2022.

Personal life
Fierravanti-Wells is married to John Wells, a former Royal Australian Navy officer who commanded HMAS Tobruk (L 50) during the 1990s. They married in 1990 at naval base HMAS Watson. In 2013, when she first became a parliamentary secretary, she reported that they own a property in Umbria, Italy.

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Tony Dungy

Anthony Kevin Dungy (born October 6, 1955) is a former American football safety and coach who served as a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Indianapolis Colts. His teams became perennial postseason contenders under his leadership, missing the playoffs only twice with Tampa Bay. He led the Colts to victory in Super Bowl XLI, making him the first African American head coach to win the Super Bowl.

Dungy began his head coaching tenure in 1996 with the Buccaneers, a franchise regarded as one of the league's worst. Through implementation of the Tampa 2 defensive scheme, he brought new success to the Buccaneers, leading them to four playoff appearances in six seasons. He was fired after the 2001 playoffs due to frequent postseason struggles, but is credited with constructing the team that won Super Bowl XXXVII the following year. After his departure from Tampa Bay, he served as the Colts' head coach for seven seasons, qualifying for the playoffs in each. His greatest success occurred with the Colts' Super Bowl-winning season in 2006, the franchise's first in over three decades and the first since relocating to Indianapolis. He retired from coaching following the 2008 season.

Since retiring, Dungy has served as an analyst on NBC's Football Night in America. He is also the national spokesman for the fatherhood program All Pro Dad. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2016.

Early life
Born and raised in Jackson, Michigan, Dungy's parents were Wilbur Dungy (1926–2004), a science professor at Jackson College, and Cleomae Dungy (1920–2002), who taught Shakespeare at Jackson High School. Wilbur served as a pilot in the Army Air Forces during World War II with the famed Tuskegee Airmen. After graduating from Parkside High School in 1973, Dungy played college football at the University of Minnesota, and was the Gophers' most valuable player at quarterback in 1975 and 1976. In 1977, he was awarded the Big Ten Medal of Honor, recognizing one student athlete from the graduating class of each Big Ten member school, for demonstrating joint athletic and academic excellence throughout their college career.

NFL career
After going undrafted, Dungy signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers as a free agent and was converted to defensive back, going on to play three seasons in the NFL. His best season was in 1978, when he intercepted six passes and won a championship ring with the Steelers in Super Bowl XIII.

Dungy is the most recent NFL player to intercept a pass and throw an interception in the same game. Dungy was the emergency quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers in a 1977 game against the Houston Oilers when both Terry Bradshaw and Mike Kruczek went down with injuries on October 9.

Assistant coaching positions
After being cut by the New York Giants in training camp before the 1980 season, Dungy returned to Minnesota as defensive backfield coach. He took the same position with the Steelers in 1982, and was promoted in 1984 to defensive coordinator. Following a 5–11 season in 1988, Steelers owner Dan Rooney forced head coach Chuck Noll to make changes to his coaching staff, which included demoting Dungy back to defensive backs coach.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Dungy became an NFL head coach when he was hired by Rich McKay to reform the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a team then well known for its lack of success, on January 22, 1996. Dungy installed his version of the Cover 2 defense with defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin with a few new wrinkles. The result was the now-famous Tampa 2, though Dungy openly admitted it was based on concepts he had picked up from his days in Pittsburgh.

1996–2001
Following the 2002 season, the Buccaneers won Super Bowl XXXVII, their first appearance in the championship game. Dungy was fired after the prior season and replaced with Jon Gruden, because he could not get the team there, but was now credited with creating the championship-calibre core.

Indianapolis Colts
On January 22, 2002, Dungy was hired as head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, a team that at the time was very potent offensively, but very weak defensively. He installed his "Tampa 2" defense immediately and continued to retool the Colts' defense to his liking during his tenure. After joining the Colts, Dungy left the high-powered offense previously installed there by Jim Mora, in both playing style and in personnel, virtually unchanged. Dungy was reunited with Tom Moore, who was retained as offensive coordinator. Moore and Dungy had previously worked together at Minnesota and Pittsburgh.

During his early tenure in Indianapolis, Dungy struggled to fix the Colts' defense and had mixed results in the postseason. In his first season at Indianapolis, the Colts were shut out 41–0 by the New York Jets in a first-round playoff game, and the team lost postseason games to the New England Patriots in both 2003 (in the AFC championship game) and 2004 (in the second round of the playoffs). Dungy signed a three-year contract extension in October 2005 for US$5 million per year.

The Colts' 2006 playoff run was characterized by a marked improvement in defensive play, as the Colts defeated the Kansas City Chiefs, holding one of the NFL's best running backs to less than 50 yards, and upset the favored Baltimore Ravens in the divisional round. On January 21, 2007, after trailing 21–3, the Colts defeated the New England Patriots to become AFC champions and advanced to Super Bowl XLI. This was the largest comeback in conference title-game history. Dungy coached the Colts to a 29-17 victory over the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI. Dungy became the first African-American head coach to win a Super Bowl. Dungy would coach two more seasons in Indianapolis, retiring after the 2008 season.

Coaching firsts
Dungy's career has included several notable firsts. Among them, Dungy is the first NFL head coach to defeat all 32 NFL teams. He was also the youngest assistant coach at age 25 and the youngest coordinator at age 28 in NFL history.

Coaching strategy
On offense, Tony Dungy's strategy involved a conservative, ball-control offense based primarily around running the ball and short, high-percentage passes when he was at Tampa Bay. At Indianapolis, he inherited and kept the offense designed by offensive coordinator Tom Moore because the offense was in the hands of someone he knew and trusted.

On defense, Dungy used a stifling "Cover 2"-style zone defense, which usually was based around a formation of four linemen, three linebackers, and four defensive backs. The "Cover 2" defense Dungy used involved his linemen rushing the passer, the cornerbacks covering the passing flat area, the linebackers covering the middle of the field, and the safeties providing deep coverage on each half of their respective zones. While the Cover 2 defense was not a new concept, Dungy contributed to its greater use by systemizing it into an every-down defense. The personnel and techniques that Dungy used in this defense were very specific, and as a result, his style of defense earned the moniker of the "Tampa 2" around the NFL.

Dungy is mentioned in the book Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg, in chapter 3: "The Golden Rule of Habit Change."

Coaching philosophy
Dungy stresses that coaches are essentially teachers.

His protege, Lovie Smith, observed, "We talked about how to do it, being a teacher instead of screaming and yelling, all that stuff... I think as you look to young coaches coming up in the ranks, a lot of us have a picture of how a coach is supposed to be, how he is supposed to act. And I think what Tony Dungy showed me is you don't have to act that way.

Dungy said:

 * I really wanted to show people you can win all kinds of ways. I always coached the way I've wanted to be coached. I know Lovie has done the same thing. For guys to have success where it maybe goes against the grain, against the culture. I know I probably didn't get a couple of jobs in my career because people could not see my personality or the way I was going to do it. For your faith to be more important than your job, for your family to be more important than that job. We all know that's the way it should be, but we're afraid to say that sometimes. Lovie's not afraid to say it and I'm not afraid to say it.

Dungy also learned from Noll that it takes all 53 of the players on the team to win so that a coach should train the 53rd player on the roster as he would the third player, which has become the spine of Dungy's own coaching philosophy, the Next Man Up theory of calm coaching. Dungy stressed that a team should have a thought process, a philosophy, and the conviction to stick with it, even if personnel change during the games because of injuries. Dungy said:

 * Chuck's philosophy was to convince every guy on the team that his role was important. If you came in as a free agent and were just a gunner on the punt team or the third safety, you were doing something the team needed to win. It was his way of emphasizing that no one is irreplaceable. You have to coach everybody the same way. If Joe Greene goes out, Steve Furness goes in and we're not going to change anything. Chuck never panicked when someone got hurt or held out. We can still function. That made a big impression on me.

Dungy put his coaching beliefs on his memoir, Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life (ISBN 1-414-31801-4). Cam Cameron, former head coach of the Miami Dolphins, highly recommended the book by buying 1,000 books to give away to football coaches at his preseason coaching clinic in July 2007 in South Florida, and said:

 * It dispelled so many myths about the coaching business – that you had to be a yeller and a screamer to win. You can be your own person, treat people with respect, be very demanding, but demanding in a way that doesn't trample on people. And you don't have to give up your faith to win in the NFL. It confirmed and reaffirmed an awful lot of the beliefs I held about coaching.

Instant replay opposition
Dungy opposes the use of replay review in the NFL. In 1997, after a failed vote by NFL owners to reinstate instant replay, Dungy said that he would have favored replay if it were applicable to all calls and if it were not associated with a team's timeouts. The Tampa Bay Times described Dungy as "vehemently opposed" to replay in 2003, after the league had resumed using it.

In 2002, Dungy acknowledged he made a mistake by not challenging one of Peyton Manning's interceptions, and he also criticized the league's handling of replay challenges. "We have plays where whistles are blown too fast, and I think we're getting to the point where we're letting coaches officiate the game," said Dungy, who said that it had become a trend for officials to expect coaches to challenge controversial calls.

Dungy has continued to criticize the NFL's replay system in his role as a broadcaster on NBC. In 2019, after a failed challenge by Green Bay Packers coach Matt LaFleur, who contended that the Philadelphia Eagles committed pass interference that was not called on the field, Dungy said on television that the replay system was not working as intended. Dungy posted on his Twitter account, "That's terrible. I don't understand this replay review of Pass Interference. That one on Philadelphia couldn't have been more clear cut. If they're not going to reverse that one I don't see how they can reverse any call."

Broadcasting career

NBC Sports hired Dungy in 2009 as a broadcast analyst for programming related to Sunday Night Football. Dungy was hired at the same time as Rodney Harrison, and the two have appeared with other analysts on Football Night in America, NBC's pregame show for SNF. In addition to his studio analyst duties, Dungy has joined Mike Tirico in the broadcast booth for live action of Thanksgiving Day games. He called the Jaguars–Chargers Wild Card playoff game in January 2023 with Al Michaels; the broadcast attracted criticism from fans who felt that Michaels and Dungy were not energetic enough. Michaels defended the broadcast, calling the criticism that he had read "Internet compost".

NBC Sports placed Dungy in the broadcast booth for the 2020 Notre Dame football season, replacing Doug Flutie.

In 2021, on an open media call, Dungy criticized the NFL's partnerships with seven sportsbooks, after a long period where the league opposed sports betting of any sort. "I don’t know why the NFL changed its stance. My objection is just personal. I don’t think we should encourage people who are watching the NFL to gamble. Especially young people," Dungy said.

Civic involvement
In August 2007, President George W. Bush appointed Dungy a member of the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation. The 25-member council represents leaders from government, business, entertainment, athletics and non-profit organizations committed to growing the spirit of service and civic participation. The two-year appointment requires attendance at two in-person meetings per year and quarterly phone conversations with assigned committees. After receiving the call from President Bush, Dungy remarked "It was something that was really hard to believe. Certainly, when you go into football coaching, you’re not expecting to get presidential appointments to anything."

In March 2009, President Barack Obama invited Dungy to join the Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. He declined the invitation to join the council because of scheduling conflicts, as he could make only two of 2009's four council meetings, but agreed to be an informal adviser on fatherhood issues.

He had also turned down offers from National Football League Players' Association to become liaison to the NFL.

Personal life
Dungy is an evangelical Christian, and at one point in his coaching career considered leaving football for the prison ministry. Throughout his career, he has remained involved with community service organizations.

Dungy is married to Lauren Dungy. The couple have 11 children: three biological children and eight adopted children. Their oldest son died by suicide at age 18, outside of Tampa in 2005.

Dungy's tenure in Tampa Bay as the head coach of the Buccaneers brought greater attention to his personal accomplishments outside of sports. He has been active in many community-service organizations in the cities in which he has coached. While in Tampa Bay, Dungy worked as a public speaker for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Athletes in Action.

He began a mentoring program for young people called Mentors for Life, and provided Buccaneers' tickets for the participants. He also supported other charitable programs in the area such as Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Boys and Girls Club, the Prison Crusade Ministry, foster parenting organizations, and Family First. He continues to assist Big Brothers/Big Sisters and the Boys and Girls Club in Indianapolis. He also supports the Black Coaches Association National Convention and Indiana Black Expo.

After Michael Sam, an openly gay player, was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the 2014 NFL draft, Dungy said he would not have drafted Sam, saying, "Not because I don't believe Michael Sam should have a chance to play, but I wouldn't want to deal with all of it." The comment drew criticism from some who viewed it as homophobic. Following a backlash, Dungy clarified his remarks, saying that he gave an "honest answer" to a question and that his concern would be with media coverage over Sam if he had been the player's coach. Dungy has also expressed opposition to same-sex marriage. In 2023, Dungy shared, and later deleted and apologized for sharing, the litter boxes in schools hoax on his Twitter account. The act drew a rebuke from an NBC Sports spokesperson, and drew attention to past anti-LGBTQ statements by Dungy, but the network kept Dungy on his regularly scheduled broadcast assignments.

Dungy is opposed to abortion, and he served as a keynote speaker at the 2023 March for Life.

On September 6, 2007, The Indianapolis Star reported that the Davie-Brown Index (DBI), an independent celebrity-rating service for advertisers, placed Dungy in the top 15 of the 900 actors, musicians, TV personalities, and sports celebrities it ranks for overall appeal, putting him on a level with actors such as Tom Hanks and Morgan Freeman. Among sports figures, he ranks second to Hank Aaron.

On February 27, 2008, Indiana Wesleyan University honored Dungy in a ceremony where he was inducted into IWU's Society of World Changers. Dungy also received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the university.

Since retirement, Dungy has become an informal mentor to the formerly suspended NFL player Michael Vick, counseling him during his incarceration, serving as his advocate in trying to get a team to have him on the roster (the Philadelphia Eagles later signed Vick to the team).

Books
Dungy's memoir, Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life, was released on July 10, 2007 and reached No. 1 on the hardcover nonfiction section of the New York Times Best Seller list on August 5, 2007 and again on September 9, 2007. Tyndale House Publishers said it was the first NFL-related book ever ranked No. 1. When asked why he wrote Quiet Strength, Dungy said,

"It's not something I ever really thought of doing. I've had several people ask me about it for a number of years. Several people asked about it after winning (the Super Bowl). I was hoping, really, not to do it... I think it becomes kind of what happens. You win a Super Bowl, you have a big achievement, and you write a book. And I didn't want to be one of those guys, but a lot of people thought that it was the right time – and it did turn out to be that. I think people were looking for something positive to read, and we had a lot of negative in the sports world. I think it just came out at the right time. Maybe the Lord's timing was good."

Dungy said he had actually gotten "more satisfaction" from the success of Quiet Strength than the Super Bowl win. That is because, he said, "I’ve gotten so many calls and letters from people saying they really got something out of it, something that helped them." On January 10, 2008, Quiet Strength reached 1 million copies in print. Quiet Strength was on the New York Times Best Seller List for 32 weeks, including 27 in the top 10 for hardcover nonfiction.

Dungy also published a 96-page paperback called Quiet Strength: Men's Bible Study on July 18, 2007. Dungy challenged men to answer six questions: What's my game plan? What's my strength? What's success? Where's my security? What's my significance? And, what's my legacy? The book is aimed specifically at men, including those who may not otherwise be interested in spiritual matters.

When asked if Dungy would consider writing a follow-up to Quiet Strength, Dungy said,

"Three months ago, I would've said 'no' for sure. But the impact of this one has been beyond what I could've dreamed and there may be another one in the future. The focus would probably be on how to develop leadership and a coaching strategy for whatever business you're in; coaching for your family, business, or sport based on Christian principles."

Dungy published a 24-page children's picture book called You Can Do It with Little Simon Inspirations, a division of Simon & Schuster on July 8, 2008, reached number one on the children's picture books section of the New York Times best seller list on July 27, 2008 and stayed on the top 10 for 5 weeks. The book tells the story of Dungy's younger brother Linden who struggles, then figures out his life dream and is encouraged by his family to follow that dream as a dentist. Dungy said that his other hopes for You Can Do It were that it would encourage parents to read to their kids and that kids would learn the lesson of pursuing whatever field they were talented in, even if it might not be the popular thing to do.

Dungy has also published Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance, a book revealing lessons on achieving significance that Dungy has learned. The book, released on February 17, 2009, with Tyndale House Publishers, particularly focuses on what it means to be a man of significance in a culture that is offering young men few positive role models. Dungy said,

"Our young men today are falling into a trap... Society is telling them material success is what's important, but if we buy into that idea, we can spend a lifetime chasing that success and never really have the positive impact on people that would make our lives truly significant."

Uncommon reached number two on the hardcover advice section of the New York Times best seller list and stayed on the top 10 for 9 weeks.

On August 3, 2010, Dungy released a new book entitled The Mentor Leader, which debuted at number two and stayed on the top 10 for 5 weeks on the hardcover advice section of the New York Times list.

On January 11, 2011, Dungy and wife Lauren released a new book entitled You Can Be a Friend. Their story teaches children what it means to be a good friend. The book debuted at number seven and stayed on the top 10 for 1 week on the children's picture books section of The New York Times best seller list.

On January 22, 2019, Dungy released a new book entitled The Soul of a Team. The book was co-written with Nathan Whitaker, and their story illustrates what separates the truly great teams from the mediocre ones. "Simply put, a team that has SOUL can and will accomplish far more than one that doesn’t.” Dungy writes.

Endorsements
Dungy was on the cover of NFL Head Coach 09 as its "cover coach".

Awards and honors
NFL
 * Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee (class of 2016) – the first black head coach of the modern era, he is the second of all time to Fritz Pollard, to receive this honor. (Former Oakland Raiders player and head coach Art Shell was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1989, but for his accomplishments as a player.)

NCAA
 * 2007 Amos Alonzo Stagg Coaching Award by the United States Sports Academy.

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why is it
why is it, that those nuclear-holocaust-programs all have such strange acronyms ?? NUTS (=crazy) MAD (=crazy) ??? gallows humour anyone ?--  ExpImp talk con 23:35, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Probably true. I guess the idea for this strategy was born in some politicans head, and when he told the gernerals to work it out they just told each other that this was totally nuts cause it couldnt work. And now they just had to find words for the letters ... and come on ":Nuclear utilization target selection" doesnt make much sense- but NUTS describes it pretty well —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.178.182.94 (talk) 20:51, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

My 2 cents: it could also be a reference to Colonel Joseph H. Harper; when asked to surrender to the Wehrmacht during the battle of Bastogne his response letter to the Germans said simply "Nuts!". Could make sense. 70.81.89.66 (talk) 05:45, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

From the wiki page on Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD): "The strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction and the acronym MAD are due to John von Neumann (1903–1957)[11] and his taste for humorous acronyms, another example being his MANIAC computer."94.175.244.252 (talk) 08:07, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Not a hoax
I've removed the hoax template from this article as I was able to find many google books and google scholar sources for it. I've added one as a reference. ascidian | talk-to-me  10:41, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

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Lake Waihola

Lake Waihola is a 640 ha tidal freshwater lake located 15 km north of Milton in Otago, in New Zealand's South Island. Its area is some 9 square kilometres, with a maximum length of 6 kilometres and a mean depth of 0.75m.

It is the larger of a pair of existing lakes—the other being Lake Waipori—which lie in a small area of low hills between the Taieri and Tokomairaro. Waihola is drained by the Waipori River, a tributary of the Taieri. Both lakes are very shallow and surrounded by wetlands, including the internationally renowned and protected Sinclair Wetlands which are the home to many species of wading birds. This shallowness is reflected in the name Waihola, the southern Māori form of the word waihora, which means "spreading waters".

Lake Waihola is a popular day trip for holidaymakers from Dunedin, 40 km to the north. The small township of Waihola (population 200), nestled against the lake's eastern edge, has facilities for fishing, yachting, and waterskiing, and the lake is an important rowing venue.

History
Lake Waihola was used in the Central Otago goldrush. Ships used to travel up the Taieri River and across to the southern side of the lake where prospectors would traverse the hills and on to Gabriel's Gully. In the early days of settlement a paddle-steamer, the Betsy Douglas, plied the lake's waters from Owhiro, near Henley in the north to Clarendon at the lake's southern end.

Lake Waihola is located at the southern end of the lower Taieri Plains and is the largest of a group of historical lakes that were once distributed between Lake Waihola and Mosgiel. Other neighbouring historical lakes include Lake Tatawai, Loch Ascog, Loch Katrine, Lake Potaka and Silverstream Lagoon

Etymology
Waihola's name creates some interest as the Māori alphabet generally does not contain the letter 'L'. It is, however, found in Southern Māori dialect, and is also found in several other central and southern South Island place names, such as Wangaloa in Otago and Little Akaloa in Canterbury. The word Waihola is generally accepted to be the southern variant of the word wai-hora, meaning "spreading waters".

Ecosystems
Lake Waihola has attracted international interest due to the ecosystems based in a shallow freshwater tidal system. Since 2000, Danish scientists have been conducting annual studies of the lake. Waihola is reputedly the home to a species of otter, the cryptid waitoreke, but no verified sightings have ever confirmed the animal's existence.

Health warnings
Health warnings related to algae have been issued on the lake as of March 2017.

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Article name: Dr, Dr., or Doctor?
This article has moved back and forth between "Flaming Dr Pepper" and "Flaming Dr. Pepper" (note the difference in punctuation). It has finally come to rest at "Flaming Doctor Pepper" after deliberation between disco spinster  and  Will  scrlt , a member of Mixed Drinks WikiProject, in May 2008 and earlier deliberations between several people in January and February 2007. Here is a copy of the recent discussion and also analysis of the Wikipedia guidelines leading to this decision.

Please add to the discussion if you agree or disagree, but please do not move the article again until, and unless, a clear consensus develops involving more people or some other guideline or policy that we missed clearly indicates that we should make (another) change. Thanks!

 Will  scrlt ( Talk ) 04:46, 10 May 2008 (UTC) and  disco spinster   talk  02:15, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Nomination for DYK
This article is too short and incomplete to be featured in DYK. I think you may want to add these things to it:

 * Invention of this drink: who? when?
 * Its evolution: early recipe -> current ones (variations)
 * Why it tastes like Dr. Pepper?
 * Trivia: Its lovers and haters (e.g. James Bond loves it; Fred Flintstone hates it)
 * Why didn't people just add vodka to Dr. Pepper? (How about Flaming Coke? Flaming Fanta? Flaming Pepsi? Flaming root beer? Flaming tom kha gai? Flaming vodka??? (Smirnoff + Absolut; taste + brilliant marketing))
 * Markets (all bars in Ethiopia supply it, no one sells this thing in Los Angeles ...)

WP:NOT
Wikipedia is not just a cookbook. You may want to expend this article in light of this fact. -- Toytoy 01:23, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)

Plastic cup
I found this article hilarious. My only gripe is that when someone says to use a "plastic cup" I think of a really low-grade, single-use kind of cup, which probably wouldn't work if the beverage was on fire. --Mr Bound 13:51, Oct 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * the plastic cup contains the non flaming beer portion of this beverage. the flaming shot is extinguished by the beer and there is little risk of the plastic cup melting. Alkivar 17:13, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Plastic shouldn't and doesn't have to be used, I've never seen it used myself (use a glass with a thick bottom, found in most bars - glass beer mugs work best).
 * plastic is recommended because drunks tend to chip the shots when dropping them into a highball glass. take it from this ex-bartender :) Alkivar 01:54, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I believe the reason that it isn't just vodka and Dr. Pepper is because it is a suprise that it tastes so close to Dr Pepper. I did a little research and found this page which has this story:
 * The original Dr. Pepper was first invented in a local night club called "The Goldmine." And the true recipe calls for 3/4 mug of beer (the better the beer the better the taste) or however much it takes to cover the shot glass. Then take a shot glass and fill it 3/4 the way with amaretto and top it off with Everclear (180 proof). The reason it changed is most of the country can't get Everclear so a sutitable substitute had to be found, so 151 was used, which is a more popular alcohol. Then take the shot glass, light it, drop it, drink it. And that is the whole story.
 * If anyone can validate that, awsome. Also from a Dr Pepper Usenet FAQ (1998)
 * "Just got back today from the Dublin bottling plant and museum. There has been a lot of debate on what flavor Dr Pepper really is, so I asked Mr. Kloster [Bill Kloster], the plant owner, who has worked in that plant for almost 60 years.  According to him, Dr Pepper is a mix of 23 different fruit flavors. The original creator wanted to create a drink that tasted like the smell of a soda shop.  When you walked into a soda shop in that day, you smelled all the fruit flavors of the different sodas all mixed into one. So he basically took a bunch of flavors and mixed them, and came up with Dr Pepper.  He said Dr Pepper does not and has never had prune juice in it."
 * I believe the main flavor is cherry, look at a Mr. Pibb can sometime, which is the reason Amaretto is used. Also, I'm giving you the heads up: I'm going to add a suggestion of using a dark beer instead of "beer". Many people suggest this, and that is how I tried it the first time. JoeHenzi 08:29, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * "I believe the main flavor is cherry, which is the reason Amaretto is used." that makes no sense as Amaretto is an ALMOND flavored alcohol. Alkivar 01:44, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * While that may be true, many people find the tastes and aromas of cherries and almonds to be similar. Recall, if you will, that both are members of the genus prunus.  Along with almonds and cherries, another member is the plum.  A prune is a dried plum, and this is probably the origination of the legend that Dr. Pepper contains prune juice!  (Science trumps voodoo any day.)JD79 15:20, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced article
I think this article is misplaced. It shouldn't be in wikipedia. I suggest to remove this article and: --Alexandre Van de Sande 16:43, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 1) Move all the article with the recipe to the Wikicookbook
 * 2) redirect this article to a subitem in the article Cocktail, with just a reference to Faming dr.Pepper

 * Obviously the article has undergone much improvement since this suggestion was made, and it not longer applies. --  Will  scrlt ( Talk ) 04:46, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Bad cocktails
I randomly visited about a dozen cocktail pages. They are ALL as bad as this article. Blue Hawaiian even redirects to cocktail. A unified cookbook interface will be great. Otherwise, a long page with all recipes will still be useful. -- Toytoy 18:00, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)

Link to WikiBooks: Bartending
The linked article contains a totally different drink, with no fire or everclear/baracardi 151. So I removed it for now.

Simpsons
Made myself a Flaming Dr Pepper last night. Very nice. Anyway I'm pretty sure this wasn't the inspiration for the Simpsons episode as there are a number of flaming cocktails and this one seems one of the least similar.

 * I'm with this guy. The Flaming Moe is made completely differently. It does not have a shot dropped in it, it tastes horrible until set on fire and it has completely different ingredients. What was the basis for stating the Flaming Moe is based on a Flaming Dr Pepper? The only thing they seem to have in common is the fact that you set them on fire, and there's more than one flaming drink in existance. --Teddywithfangs 04:44, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Origins, names, and other changes
I could not find any reliable sources backing up the claim that the Ptarmigan Club was the origin of this drink. I know that Google results indicate that is true, but evaluating the actual content of the various links, it appears that they are only reprinting information found here at Wikipedia. Most of the information concerning the Gold Mine being the source seems to come from an AOL City Guide article making that claim. It is difficult to tell how reliable that article is since it is unsigned and undated. I was not able to determine how their articles are written (by professional journalists or common bar patrons for example). I did find several comments from average patrons that Gold Mine makes the best tasting Flaming Dr Peppers, but not really any indication that they did or did not create it.

I could not find any reference to the name vice Peppar, except Wikipedia itself, so I removed that name. Flaming Dr Pepper, Flaming Dr. Pepper, and Flaming Dr. Peppar are all fairly common search results. To help avoid confusion by readers, I created a section concerning the names. To avoid a self reference, I did not mention why our article is named "Doctor" instead of "Dr." or "Dr" (see the top of this page if you are curious).

I cut the Dr. Pepper shandy section to about half its size. I'm still not convinced that it even belongs in an article about Flaming Doctor Pepper. On the other hand, I don't know where else it would fit any better.

Does anyone know how relevant the Hot Rod film reference is under popular culture? If it's just a passing mention, it's just trivia and should be removed. If it is significant in the movie, then that should be expanded upon.

--  Will  scrlt ( Talk ) 08:54, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

 * The current cite does not support the claim of Ptarmigan Club. There are sources indicating Dave Brinks of The Gold Mine Saloon is the creator.  The article really needs to be updated.-- Surv1v4l1st ╠Talk║Contribs╣ 23:02, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

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Upper Canada Village

Upper Canada Village is a heritage park near Morrisburg, Ontario, which depicts a 19th-century village in Upper Canada.

History
Construction of Upper Canada Village began in 1958 as part of the St. Lawrence Seaway project, which required the permanent flooding of ten communities in the area, known as The Lost Villages. Upper Canada Village was a part of the project's heritage preservation plan. Many of the buildings in Upper Canada Village were transported directly from the villages to be flooded.

The park, owned and operated by the St. Lawrence Parks Commission, was opened to the public in 1961.

Other buildings from the Lost Villages were moved to Ault Park, where they comprise a living museum run by the Lost Villages Historical Society. The park also incorporates a memorial to the Battle of Crysler's Farm, a War of 1812 battle which also took place on land submerged by the Seaway project.

Collection
Upper Canada Village endeavours to depict life in a rural English Canadian setting during the year 1866. Featured at the site are over 40 historical buildings, including several working mills (woollen mill, grist-mill and sawmill) and trades buildings (blacksmith, tinsmith, cabinetmaker, cooper, bakery, cheese-maker). Farming is demonstrated through the growing, harvesting or processing of heritage vegetables and livestock. Aspects of late 19th-century domestic arts, social life, music, religion, and politics are also discussed, interpreted and demonstrated at by staff dressed in clothing of the period. Local gardens in the village feature the flora and fauna commonly grown in the summer

In film
The 1973 version of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, starring Josh Albee, Buddy Ebsen, Jane Wyatt and Vic Morrow was shot entirely on the grounds of Upper Canada Village.

Affiliations
The Museum is affiliated with: CMA, CHIN, and Virtual Museum of Canada.

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Divestment
Have added some additional tags to the divestment section. Am unsure generally if the section deserves to stay and thought I should gauge opinions here about if it is relevant and how to clean up the section. Tbyrn21 (talk) 03:54, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

 * This section describes a fossil fuel divestment campaign at the University of Queensland. Is this not relevant to the article? Jarble (talk) 13:01, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

 * While fossil fuel investment is an ongoing discussion in Australia, the section here isn't adequately summarised. It reads like a political campaign or a list with some details that could be considered insignificant and needs improved referencing. There is no need for removal, just a re-write. 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓔𝓭𝓾𝓬𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓐𝓾𝓭𝓲𝓽𝓸𝓻 20:10, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
 * The section is about a relevant controversy, albeit it is somewhat wordy and in need of readability improvements. 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓔𝓭𝓾𝓬𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓐𝓾𝓭𝓲𝓽𝓸𝓻 20:22, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

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Varvara Stepanova

Varvara Fyodorovna Stepanova (Варва́ра Фёдоровна Степа́нова; 4 November 1894 – May 20, 1958) was a Russian artist. With her husband Alexander Rodchenko, she was associated with the Constructivist branch of the Russian avant-garde, which rejected aesthetic values in favour of revolutionary ones. Her activities extended into propaganda, poetry, stage scenery and textile designs.

Biography
Varvara Stepanova who was born in Kaunas (in modern-day Lithuania) came from peasant origins but was able to get an education at Kazan Art School, Kazan. There she met her later husband and collaborator Alexander Rodchenko. In the years before the Russian Revolution of 1917 they leased an apartment in Moscow, owned by Wassily Kandinsky. These artists became some of the main figures in the Russian avant-garde. The new abstract art in Russia which began around 1915 was a culmination of influences from Cubism, Italian Futurism and traditional peasant art. She designed Cubo-Futurist work for several artists' books, and studied under Jean Metzinger at Académie de La Palette, an art academy where the painters André Dunoyer de Segonzac and Henri Le Fauconnier also taught.

In the years following the revolution, Stepanova involved herself in poetry, philosophy, painting, graphic art, stage scenery construction, and textile and clothing designs. She contributed work to the Fifth State Exhibition and the Tenth State Exhibition, both in 1919.

In 1920 it came to a division between painters like Kasimir Malevich who continued to paint with the idea that art was a spiritual activity, and those who believed that they must work directly for the revolutionary development of the society. In 1921, together with Aleksei Gan, Rodchenko and Stepanova formed the first Working Group of Constructivists, which rejected fine art in favor of graphic design, photography, posters, and political propaganda. Also in 1921, Stepanova declared in her text for the exhibition 5x5=25, held in Moscow:

"Composition is the contemplative approach of the artist. Technique and Industry have confronted art with the problem of construction as an active process and not reflective. The 'sanctity' of a work as a single entity is destroyed. The museum which was the treasury of art is now transformed into an archive." The term 'Constructivist' was by then being used by the artists themselves to describe the direction their work was taking. The theatre was another area where artists were able to communicate new artistic and social ideas. Stepanova designed the sets for The Death of Tarelkin in 1922.

Alexander Rodchenko died on December 3, 1956, and Varvara Stepanova died on May 20, 1958, both in Moscow.

Clothing design and textiles

In 1921, Stepanova moved almost exclusively into the realm of production, in which she felt her designs could achieve their broadest impact in aiding the development of the Soviet society. Russian Constructivist clothing represented the destabilization of the oppressive, elite aesthetics of the past and, instead, reflected utilitarian functionality and production. Gender and class distinctions gave way to functional, geometric clothing. In line with this objective, Stepanova sought to free the body in her designs, emphasizing clothing's functional rather than decorative qualities. Stepanova deeply believed clothing must be looked at in action. Unlike the aristocratic clothing that she felt sacrificed physical freedom for aesthetics, Stepanova dedicated herself to designing clothing for particular fields and occupational settings in such a way that the object's construction evinced its function. In addition, she sought to develop expedient means of clothing production through simple designs and strategic, economic use of fabrics.

Clothing designs
Stepanova, thus, identified clothing as occupying two groups: prodezodezhda and sportodezhda. Within these categories, she attended to logical, efficient production and construction of the garments. However, war-induced poverty placed economic restrictions on the Russian Constructivists’ industrial fervor, and their direct engagement with production was never fully realized. Thus, most of her designs were not mass-produced and circulated.

The first, prodezodezhda, or production/working clothing in basic styles, included theater costumes as well as professional and industrial garments. In the early 1920s, Stepanova entered the clothing industry through her costume designs in theater, in which she translated her artistic affinity for geometric shapes into functional, emblematic clothing. Made of dark blue and grey material, the graphic costumes allowed actors to maximize the appearance of their movements, exaggerating them for the stage and transforming the body into a dynamic composition of geometric shapes and lines.

Within this category, Stepanova began designing spetsodezhda, or clothing specialized for a specific occupation. In doing so, she designed clothing for men and women in both industrial and professional capacities with meticulous consideration of seaming, pockets, and buttons to ensure each aspect of the costume maintained a functional intention. Regardless of the occupational context, her working clothing carried a distinctive geometric and linear edge, rendering the body into a graphic composition and boxy, androgynous form.

The second category, sportodezhda, or sports costumes, also presented bold lines, large forms, and contrasting colors to enable and emphasize the body's movements and allow spectators to easily distinguish one team from the other. Stepanova even rendered the team's emblem into a graphic design. The sports arena offered a context for Stepanova to realize an idealized bodily neutralization, and her uniforms were often unisex with pants and a belted tunic that obscured the human form.

Textile production
Stepanova carried out her ideal of engaging with industrial production in the following year when she, with Lyubov Popova, became designer of textiles at the Tsindel (the First State Textile Factory) near Moscow, and in 1924 became professor of textile design at the Vkhutemas (Higher Technical Artistic Studios). As a constructivist, Stepanova not only transposed bold graphic designs onto her fabrics, but also focused heavily on their production. Stepanova only worked a little over a year at The First Textile Printing Factory, but she designed more than 150 fabric designs in 1924. Although she was inspired to develop new types of fabric, the current technology restricted her to printed patterns on monotone surfaces. By her own artistic choice, she also limited her color palette to one or two dyes. Although she only used triangles, circles, squares, and lines, Stepanova superimposed these geometric forms onto one another to create a dynamic, multi-dimensional design.

Graphic design
Stepanova practiced typography, book design and contributed to the magazine LEF throughout the early 1920s. As part of a government campaign to promote universal literacy, Stepanova organized a "Book Evening" in 1924. This was a performance that featured characters from pre- and post-revolutionary literature battling each other.

Tribute
On October 22, 2018, Stepanova was honoured with a Google Doodle posthumously on her 124th birthday.

References and sources

 * Notes

 * References

 * Sources
 * The Russian Experiment in Art, Camilla Gray, Thames and Hudson,1976
 * Avant-garde Russe, Andrei Nakov, Art Data, 1986
 * Russian Constructivism, Christina Lodder, Yale University Press, 1985
 * Varvara Stepanova, The Complete Works, Alexander Lavrentiev, MIT Press, 1988

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Mountain Creek

Mountain Creek is a ski resort in Vernon Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. It is located on New Jersey Route 94 in the New York Metropolitan Area, 47 mi from the George Washington Bridge.

Mountain Creek contains 167 acres of land for skiing area, night skiing, snowboarding, and snowmaking activities. The resort also includes a snow tubing park, zip-lines, an alpine coaster, a bike park, and a seasonal water park that operates from May to September. Mountain Creek has a total of 7 lifts and 2 magic carpets.

Mountain Creek was owned and operated by Intrawest Resorts Holdings, Inc. until May 2010 when it was sold to neighboring Crystal Springs Resort. Crystal Springs then sold the property to a New Jersey family. On May 5, 2017, Mountain Creek filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The resort emerged from bankruptcy in August 2019.

1965–71: Great Gorge Resort

Great Gorge Resort was founded in McAfee, an unincorporated area of Vernon Township, in 1965 by three families (the Kurlanders, Fitzgeralds, and Bakers) who worked at the now-closed Snow Bowl Ski Resort in Milton, New Jersey. Great Gorge was built on the former Fredericks farm.

Mountain Creek's Bear and South Peaks were the original Great Gorge Resort, with the current South Base Ski Patrol building serving as the Base Lodge. The original lodge was designed by Alexander McIlvaine, who also designed the lodges at Stratton Mountain in Vermont and Squaw Valley in Olympic Valley, California. The World's Fair was held in Flushing, NY in 1964-1965. When the fair closed, the entire contents of the Swiss Pavilion were purchased and were transported to be incorporated into the new lodge at Great Gorge. Great Gorge was the first ski area in the United States to use a jet engine to power their snow-making operations' air compressors. The jet engine was purchased from the Curtiss-Wright Company in Fairfield, New Jersey. The jet engine was located in a building in the parking lot across the street from the new lodge.

Skiers Donna Weinbrecht and Jamie Kurlander, who have been inducted into the Sussex County Sports Hall of Fame, skied at Great Gorge.

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Great Gorge ski area hosted a summer zoo at the base of the mountain. The ski area also had a ski jump that was used all year long. In the off seasons, Sno-Mats were used on the trails as well as on the jump and landing area. Grass skiing demonstrations were also held in the off-season on the slopes and ski races were held on the Sno-Mats. In the winter, the ski jump was covered with snow.

The New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway operates tracks that abut the back of the Great Gorge South parking lot. For a time in the 1970s, there was a seasonal train operated by the railroad which offered skiers a way to the slopes and then returned them home.

In 1971, Great Gorge North was built on what is now Mountain Creek's Granite Peak, and a connecting trail was cut to connect Great Gorge North and the original resort, which was renamed Great Gorge South. A connecting chair lift was also installed - the Sojourn double. Great Gorge North was part of a master plan that included a never-built Olympic ski-jump and training facility.

Also in 1971, Playboy opened their $20 million, 650-room Great Gorge Playboy Club on 1000 acre of land a mile away from Great Gorge. Plans for the Playboy Club included a casino and gondola from the hotel to the base at Great Gorge North, neither of which were ever built. Gambling casinos were never approved outside of Atlantic City. The hotel hosted many celebrity shows and boxing events. The Playboy Club hotel closed in the 1980s.

In late 1971, Great Gorge was foreclosed by their lender after a number of seasons brought little snow to the resort.

1971–97: Vernon Valley/Great Gorge
In 1968, Vernon Valley Ski Resort opened to the north of Great Gorge. After the foreclosure of Great Gorge South and Great Gorge North, they were sold to Vernon Valley, which merged the three ski areas to form the Vernon Valley/Great Gorge Resort (VVGG).

In 1974, VVGG was purchased by Great American Recreation (GAR), which invested in snowmaking equipment that allowed the new resort to survive seasons with little snow. In 1978, VVGG opened Action Park, a seasonal amusement park with over 75 rides and attractions including 40 water slides, bungee jumping, go-karts, bumper boats and mini golf.

During the 1980s Cobblestone Village, a small shopping and dining village was built. The decade also saw the development of Great Gorge Village, a 1300-unit condo development of what were originally luxury housing units, and the Spa, at Great Gorge, a four-star luxury resort and spa complete with an 18-hole golf course and a number of indoor and outdoor swimming pools. VVGG continued to upgrade its skiing operations, installing several new lifts, including a triple chairlift in 1981.

In 1989, GAR negotiated a deal with International Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) to sell the Vernon Valley/Great Gorge ski resort for $50 million. IBC backed out of the deal after inspecting the property.

In 1995, GAR filed for bankruptcy. In 1996, only Vernon Valley opened, with Great Gorge North and South closed due to bankruptcy. Before the 1997 season, GAR shut down Vernon Valley/Great Gorge and Action Park.

In 1998, the remaining assets of Great American Recreation were divided and sold. Eugene Mulvihill Sr. retained control of the Great Gorge golf and hotel area of the resort, which was renamed Crystal Springs Resort. The three ski areas and Action Park were sold to Intrawest, a Canadian-based owner and operator of ski resorts.

The 2000s: Mountain Creek under Intrawest
Intrawest renamed its holdings Mountain Creek and began to refurbish the resort. Intrawest removed 11 of the 13 lifts, replacing them with a gondola, known as the Cabriolet, along with two chairlifts and multiple-fix grip chairs. The Great Gorge Lodge was updated and renamed Mountain Creek South Lodge. Intrawest also installed more than 1,600 new snow guns throughout the mountain. The new resort opened in December 1998. Intrawest also began construction on Action Park, removing all the amusement rides except for the Alpine Slide and Bungee Tower, as well as the Motorworld section of the park, and began work on the Waterworld section of the park. The water park reopened as Mountain Creek Waterpark in the summer of 1998.

Intrawest drafted a master plan for the resort, whose centerpiece was an expansive residential and shopping village, a staple of Intrawest resorts, but which never happened. Included in the village plans were a conference center, hotels, condos, townhouses, shops and restaurants. On the mountaintop was to be a golf course surrounded by a hotel and condos. This mountaintop development was scrapped, however, as the land that it was located on was sold by the State of New Jersey to Mountain Creek's previous owners, Great American Recreation, with a deed restriction that stated the land was to be used only for passive recreation, such as fishing, hiking and camping. Intrawest then sold the land back to the state for $7 million and permission to expand skiing on portions of the mountain where it was previously prohibited.

On October 10, 1999, the 31-year-old Vernon base lodge was destroyed in a fire just weeks before the 1999-2000 ski season. A temporary complex of prefabricated tents was quickly constructed in order to continue operations for the upcoming season. The tent complex included a food court, restaurant and bar, and numerous rental and retail shops. While Intrawest originally planned to replace the complex after one year, plans for a new base lodge were put on hold for an unspecified reason. The decaying tent complex remained operational for approximately 13 years through the 2010–11 ski season before being replaced by a permanent lodge named the Red Tail Lodge.

In 2002, Mountain Creek opened the first phase of its master-planned resort village, Black Creek Sanctuary, a luxury condo community. In winter 2003 construction began on The Appalachian, a luxury condominium and hotel built on the former parking lot of Vernon base. Parking was moved to the other side of Rt. 94 to the former location of Action Park's amusement ride and bumper boat area. The Appalachian condo/hotel opened for the 2006–07 season.

The Chevy U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix was held at Mountain Creek in both 2004 and 2005. The centerpiece of this event was Mountain Creek's Superpipe, one of the only superpipes in the east. The Superpipe went quiet after this and has not been used since. For summer 2006 Intrawest opened the Diablo Mountain Bike Park on Vernon Peak, which featured numerous downhill trails serviced by the Cabriolet gondola.

Mountain Creek opened its 2007–08 winter sports season with a few notable changes to the trail map. The eastern side of Vernon Peak, which used to be home to its freestyle terrain park, was converted into intermediate slopes. The entire Mountain Creek South area (South Peak and Bear Peak) was converted to freestyle terrain park. This angered many long-time season pass holders and many did not renew their passes. A special terrain park pass was now needed to use this area of the mountain. All slopes off those peaks are intermediate trails with additional ratings for the kind of freestyle terrain from small to extra large. Additionally, a long intermediate trail off the Granite Peak, called Granite View, was closed. Minor changes were also made in the dining structure, including replacement of the one-time-use rental lockers with a more compact bag-check station. In addition, a helipad was located in the rear of the Mountain Creek South parking lot (from the inception of the resort when it was Great Gorge) where people with life-threatening injuries are airlifted to the regional emergency medical centers.

In 2008, Intrawest representatives stated that during the previous two years, Intrawest and the resort industry in general experienced a significant softening of the real estate market, which included Mountain Creek, and Intrawest could not commit to completing the village. The Intrawest / Fortress Investments Co. filed for bankruptcy protection and sold off many of the resorts that it owned. The Mountain Creek Resort was sold and became part of the Crystal Springs Resort.

2010: Mountain Creek becomes part of Crystal Springs Resort
Intrawest sold Mountain Creek to the adjacent Crystal Springs Resort in May 2010, returning the entire resort to its previous ownership. The new owners immediately went to work on improving the mountain, replacing the tent complex at Vernon with a new lodge that opened in time for the 2011-12 ski season. A three-story building, it contains new offices, bars, fine dining restaurant, food court, rental and locker facilities and an outdoor patio.

In summer 2012, Mountain Creek continued improvement plans, opening a new zip line course at the mountaintop lake above Vernon Peak and an Alpine coaster on the lower mountainside near the waterpark. For that winter the resort expanded and relocated its tubing park across the street, renaming it the Dropzone. The Diablo Mountain Bike Park was also transferred to company control and renamed Mountain Creek Bike Park.

In 2010 Sojourn Double, the chairlift that transported people from South to Granite Peak, was retired after 40 years of service. A new fixed-grip double chairlift was installed and opened in time for the 2012–13 season. The new lift has replaced plans for a new trail that would have connected the South peak to Granite Peak, since they realized when working to build the new trail that the topography of the mountain does not go in that direction.

2015: Mountain Creek changes hands again
HSK-MC, a partner in a group that purchased Mountain Creek in 2010, bought out the rights, which made it the sole owner of the Mountain Creek properties. Since the Koffman family (which controls HSK-MC) already was a partial owner of the property, it is said that normal operations will continue. However, the fate of the indoor water park is now in question, since that was planned under Mulvihill's control of the property.

Trails

 * 43 trails.
 * 7 beginner trails
 * 24 intermediate trails (14 of which are terrain park trails)
 * 8 advanced trails (4 of which are terrain park trails)

Lifts

 * Mountain Creek has 7 chairlifts, and 2 magic carpets.

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Wilfrid Heighington

Wilfrid Laurier Heighington, (July 30, 1897 – 23 March 1945) was a Canadian soldier, writer, lawyer and politician.

Background
Heighington attended Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, leaving in 1915 to join the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I. He was twice wounded in and twice mentioned in dispatches. After recuperating from serious wounds he returned to France to fight at the Somme and Vimy Ridge. He ended the war with the rank of captain.

He became a lawyer following the war, was called to the bar in 1920, and was appointed King's Counsel eleven years later.

Politics
Heighington was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1929 Ontario general election as the Conservative Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the St. David electoral district in Toronto, Ontario. He was re-elected in 1934 despite the province wide landslide that brought the Ontario Liberal Party to power under Mitchell Hepburn. He represented the Legislature as part of its official delegation on the pilgrimage to the Canadian National Vimy Memorial's official dedication ceremony in France.

He was a candidate in the 1936 Conservative leadership election, placing fifth. The following year he narrowly lost his seat in the legislature in the 1937 Ontario general election. Despite being out of the legislature, Heighington ran again for the party leadership in 1938, and came in third, but with fewer votes (only 41). George Drew won the leadership on the first ballot.

Later life
Heighington was a prolific writer authoring articles and poems for Saturday Night, The Star Weekly and other periodicals, many of which were reissued in a book, Whereas and Whatnot (1934). In 1943, he published the war novel The Cannon's Mouth.

He was still active with the military when he was hospitalized on 17 March 1945. He died due to complications from pneumonia at St. Michael's hospital on the evening of 23 March.

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Vizcarra

Vizcarra (sometimes spelled as "Viscarra") is a Basque surname which originated in the town of Guernica, Spain. This surname is mostly found in the Basque Country, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia and the Philippines. People with this surname include:
 * Joan Vizcarra, Spanish cartoonist
 * José Vizcarra, soccer player for the Canalla team in Argentina
 * José Antonio Vizcarra, Governor of New Mexico from 1822 to 1823
 * Manuel Vizcarra, founder of the city of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico
 * Martín Vizcarra, President of Perú from 2018 to 2020

Other uses

 * Vizcarra, a fictional planet in the Star Wars franchise

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Anna Simó

Anna Simó i Castelló (born 26 July 1968) is a Spanish Catalan politician. A member of the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC), she became the Minister of Social Welfare and Family Affairs of the Generalitat de Catalunya in 2003 as part of the first "Tripartite" coalition government formed by the Socialists' Party of Catalonia, ERC and Initiative for Catalonia Greens, a position she held until ERC's ministers were removed from the government in May 2006.

Education and professional background
Anna Simó earned an undergraduate degree in Catalan philology from the University of Barcelona in 1991 and went on to complete a post-degree program in language planning at the same university in 1992.

From 1990 to 2003, she worked for the Linguistic Normalisation Consortium (Consorci per a la normalització lingüística), including a stint as the head of the Linguistic Normalisation Center in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona.

Civic background
She is a member of several associations, including Ca la Dona (Woman's House), the Centre Catòlic de L'Hospitalet (Catholic Center of L'Hospitalet) and the Centre d’Estudis de L'Hospitalet (L'Hospitalet Studies Center). She has also been affiliated with the CONC, a Catalan union confederated with the CCOO, since 1990, and served on the works council of the Linguistic Normalisation Consortium.

Political career
A member of the Republican Left of Catalonia since 1990, Simó was president of the local branch of ERC in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat from 1996 to 2002. She has been a member of the ERC's national council since 1994 and of its national executive council since 1998, serving as the party's national secretary for social policy from 2001 to 2004.

Simó was elected to the city council of l'Hospitalet in May 2003 and named to the local council of the Barcelonès comarca, resigning both posts when she entered the Catalan government later that year.

She was elected to the Catalan parliament in 2006 and was the spokeswoman for the party's parliamentary group, a position she held since 2008. Simó was named first secretary of the Parliament on 26 October 2015 until the dissolution of the parliament by the application of Article 155 on 27 October 2017.

Catalan independence crisis and judicial case
On 27 October 2017 the Catalan Parliament declared independence in a vote boycotted by opposition MPs. Almost immediately the Senate of Spain invoked article 155 of the constitution, dismissing Puigdemont and the Catalan government and imposing direct rule on Catalonia. The following day Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy dissolved the Catalan Parliament and called for fresh regional elections on 21 December 2017.

On 30 October 2017 Spanish Attorney General José Manuel Maza laid charges of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds at the Supreme Court against Corominas and five other members of the Board of the Parliament of Catalonia (Ramona Barrufet, Carme Forcadell, Lluís Guinó, Joan Josep Nuet and Lluís Corominas). Corominas was charged despite not being a member of the board at the time of the declaration of independence. The charges carried maximum sentences of 30, 15 and 6 years in prison respectively.

Simó and the other members of the board appeared before Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena on 9 November 2017. Nuet was released without any precautionary measures but the other five had to pay bail (€100,000 for Forcadell, €25,000 each for Barrufet, Corominas, Guinó and Simó), surrender their passport and present themselves at a court weekly. The bail bonds were paid by the Catalan National Assembly.

After a four-month judicial investigation into the referendum and declaration of independence Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena issued a 70-page ruling on 23 March 2018 in which he ordered that 25 of the 28 Catalan politicians and activists under investigation be tried for rebellion, embezzlement or disobedience. Corominas was charged with disobeying an order of the Constitutional Court (article 410 of the criminal code).

A pre-trial hearing commenced on 18 December 2018 at the Supreme Court at which defence lawyers argued that the court was not competent to hear charges of rebellion or disobedience and that it should be heard at the High Court of Justice of Catalonia. On 27 December 2018 the Supreme Court ruled that, although they were competent to hear all the charges, the six defendants charged only with disobedience (Barrufet, Mireia Boya, Corominas, Guinó, Nuet and Simó) would be tried at the High Court of Justice of Catalonia.

In 2019, she was one of the defendants in the Trial of Catalonia independence leaders.

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User talk:Asohn

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deakin Law Students' Society

Deakin Law Students' Society
There's no reason to have this article separate from the article about the school itself, so why not put the info there? Delete, along with the redirect at Dlss. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 01:42, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable. Ðåñηÿßôý | Talk 01:45, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete for reasons stated. - Lucky 6.9 01:59, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Postdlf 02:22, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. --Improv 02:42, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete article and redirect. Geogre 13:52, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect or keep. anthony (see warning) 16:30, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)


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Talk:Samuel P. Bush

Hoover
I've removed an apparently spurious claim that Bush was a "close advisor to Herbert Hoover" as I have been unable to substantiate it; none of Hoover's biographies mention him, and it appears other than the Munitions Board, his closest connection to federal service was as a member of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. If a proper source for this claim is found, it can be returned to the article. --Dhartung | Talk 05:12, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Nye Commission
I've been looking for a long time to determine if there is a direct, citeable connection between Bush and the Nye Commission, to justify the paragraph that's been in this article for some time. I have found none. The report itself does not mention Bush; Baruch; the War Industries Board; or even Remington, the company cited as a conflict of interest. The report was about the politics of the run-up to the war, and Bush served on a board created late in the war. I believe the inclusion of the section about the Nye Commission to be original research and unsupported by anything concrete; it's just there to get some political digs in, so I'm removing it. -- Dhartung | Talk 08:45, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

To add a colorized picture to Wikipedia.
I am wondering if it is ok to replace or add to current picture with a colorized picture. My son tried to edit and replaced with a different picture but gave credit to the source. And his account was blocked. Can I request not to block my account. Additionally, if there is information that is incorrect, is it ok to change it? Barkaata (talk) 17:55, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

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Sainte-Marie among the Hurons

Sainte-Marie among the Hurons (Sainte-Marie-au-pays-des-Hurons) was a French Jesuit settlement in Huronia or Wendake, the land of the Wendat, near modern Midland, Ontario, from 1639 to 1649. It was the first European settlement in what is now the province of Ontario. Eight missionaries from Sainte-Marie were martyred, and were canonized by the Catholic Church in 1930. Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1920. A reconstruction of the mission now operates as a living museum.

A nearby historic site, Carhagouha, marks the spot where an earlier Récollet missionary to Wendake, Father Joseph Le Caron, presided in 1615 over the first Catholic mass conducted in present-day Ontario. Another related site of historical interest is Saint-Louis Mission National Historic Site, located in present-day Victoria Harbour, Ontario. It was at Saint-Louis that Jesuit missionaries Jean de Brébeuf and Gabriel Lalement were captured when the Wendat village was attacked by the Iroquois on March 16, 1649.

History
Sainte-Marie among the Hurons was established in 1639 by French Jesuits, Fathers Jérôme Lalemant and Jean de Brébeuf in the land of the Wendat. The fortified missionary settlement acted as a centre and base of operations for Jesuit missionaries on the outskirts of what is now Midland, Ontario as they worked amongst the Huron. It also provided an example of a functioning European community to the Huron. The mission was built near the Huron settlement of Quieunonascaranas, led by chief Auoindaon.

The mission was initially founded by 18 men. Arriving in November 1639, the priests erected a makeshift shelter out of "cypress" (probably eastern white cedar) pillars and a birch bark roof, using clay to build the interior walls. After the arrival of carpenter Charles Boivin, further construction resulted in a chapel, a residence for the Jesuits, a cookhouse, a smithy and other buildings. Sainte-Marie became the Jesuit headquarters in Huronia, from which the Jesuits travelled among the Iroquoian-speaking Huron and Petun, and the Algonquian-speaking Nipissing, Ottawa and Ojibwa peoples, whose languages were distinct but related to each other.

Missionary life
A small group of religiously devoted men, also known as donnés (offered, given or gifts), worked at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, in return for food, clothing, and shelter. The Jesuits hired engagés, labourers, and non-clerical Jesuits known as "lay brothers". The Jesuits preached the Christian Gospel to the Huron, often adapting the story to local customs and symbols. One of the most famous examples of this was the "Huron Carol", a Christmas hymn written by Jean de Brébeuf. A translated version of this song remains popular in Canadian churches to this day.

Soldiers had a small but important presence at the mission. Twenty-three soldiers wintered at Sainte-Marie in 1644, but many of the Jesuits resisted the idea of a military presence. They feared the soldiers would "bring the worst of Europe" with them.

The founding of the mission led to division amongst the Wendat, with conflict between those who converted to Christianity and those who maintained traditional beliefs. Infectious disease, an unintended result of first contact between the Jesuits, their farm animals and the Wendat, served to further the gap between the traditional Wendat and the missionaries. Epidemics of smallpox, which raged from 1634–1640, were brought by the increased number of children emigrating to the colonies with families from cities where the disease was endemic in France, England and the Netherlands. Also during this time, the rivalry between the Wendat and Iroquois began to reignite. The Wendat were weakened by their internal divisions and their losses from conflict.

War and martyrdom
With Iroquois aggression on the rise, an additional six soldiers were dispatched from France in 1649. The weakened Wendat nation was little match for the strengthened Iroquois, who had used their trading alliances with the Dutch to gain firearms.

Eight of the missionaries—St. Jean de Brébeuf (1649), St. Noël Chabanel (1649), St. Antoine Daniel (1648), St. Charles Garnier (1649), St. René Goupil (1642), St. Isaac Jogues (1646), St. Jean de Lalande (1646), and St. Gabriel Lalemant (1649)—were killed in the Huron-Iroquois War. Owing to the proximity of their deaths to Sainte-Marie, the French recovered the bodies of Brébeuf and Lalemant to be buried at the mission.

Burning of Sainte-Marie
On June 16, 1649, the missionaries chose to burn the mission rather than risk it being desecrated or permanently overrun by Iroquois in further attacks. Father Paul Ragueneau wrote,"'We ourselves set fire to it, and beheld burn before our eyes and in less than one hour, our work of nine or ten years.'"

Before the burning, the survivors had decided that Brébeuf and Lalemant would be canonized as martyrs. Shoemaker Christophe Regnault had to extract the bones of the two men to save as relics. Regnault exhumed the bodies, placed them into a lye solution and wrapped the bones in linens. The men's flesh remains were reburied together in the same grave.

The missionaries travelled to Gahoendoe with the Wendat in an effort to construct a second mission designed especially for defence. It was named Ste. Marie II. A severe winter and the constant threat of Iroquois attack eventually forced the French from the area, and they travelled back to New France. They took along the bones of Brébeuf and Lalemant on both trips. The bones have been held as holy relics at Ste. Marie II, which can be visited across from the Anglican church on Christian Island.

Modern reconstruction
The site lay dormant until 1844, when Jesuit Fr. Pierre Chazelle conducted initial site excavations. Father Félix Martin continued this in 1855. In 1940 the Society of Jesus purchased the property where Sainte-Marie had stood. In 1941, Kenneth Kidd of the Royal Ontario Museum undertook the first scientific excavations of the site, aided by W.J. Wintemberg. Wilfrid and Elsie Jury of the University of Western Ontario undertook additional excavations. In 1954 Fr. Dennis Hegarty discovered the graves of Brébeuf and Lalemant.

Starting in 1964, Sainte-Marie was reconstructed as a historical site and living museum. All of the buildings and their contents are reproductions. A popular tourist attraction, it draws thousands of visitors each week during the summer months. The site is managed by Huronia Historical Parks, an agency of the Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Culture.

Canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1930, the eight martyred missionaries are collectively known as the Canadian Martyrs. The site adjacent to the Martyrs' Shrine was visited by Pope John Paul II in 1984 as part of his papal visit to Canada.

On August 22, 2006, three of the reconstructed buildings—the blacksmith forge, carpenter's workshop and the chapel—were severely damaged in a fire. They have since been rebuilt.

Affiliations
The museum is affiliated with the Canadian Museums Association, the Canadian Heritage Information Network and the Virtual Museum of Canada.

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Fossil Mountain

Fossil Mountain refers to several mountains, including:

 * Fossil Mountain (Alberta) in Alberta, Canada
 * Fossil Mountain (Alaska) in Alaska, United States
 * Fossil Mountain (Arizona) in Arizona, United States
 * Fossil Mountain (Colorado) in Colorado, United States
 * Fossil Mountain (Montana) a mountain in Powell County, Montana, United States
 * Fossil Mountain (Utah) in Utah, United States
 * Fossil Mountain (Wyoming) in Wyoming, United States

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