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Freak Kitchen

Freak Kitchen is a Swedish rock band from Gothenburg, formed in 1992.

History and musical style
Freak Kitchen's style of music is influenced by many genres besides traditional heavy metal, ranging from jazz to pop. The band described their third album as "A corny little heavy-pop-rock-Latin-world-jazz-avant-garde-metal-blues-record straight from hell!". The album "Land of the Freaks", which was released in late October 2009, features Indian inspiration and the band is also joined by the two Indian musicians V. Selvaganesh and Neyveli S Radhakrishna on several tracks.

The lyrics of Freak Kitchen often contain humor and criticism of capitalist society, conformity, racism and the attitude of major labels.

Frontman Mattias Eklundh has a reputation as a guitar virtuoso, acknowledged by Guitar Player Magazine for instance, and live shows often contain parts where Eklundh plays the guitar using several foreign objects such as a vibrating dildo. Eklundh has also released four solo albums, Sensually Primitive (1996) (under the pseudonym Mr Libido), Freak Guitar (1999), Freak Guitar - The Road Less Traveled (2004) and Freak Guitar: The Smorgasbord (2013).

They also co-headlined Fuel Great Indian Rock 2008 alongside Sahg and Satyricon.

Their album, Cooking with Pagans, was released in 2014, with the first single, "Professional Help" released in November.

The 2018 album Confusion to the Enemy contains a song with Swedish lyrics, "Så Kan Det Gå När Inte Haspen Är På", that roughly translates to "That's What Happens When You Don't Take Precautions".

Members
Current
 * Mattias "IA" Eklundh – vocals, guitar (1992–present)
 * Christer Örtefors – bass, vocals (2000–present)
 * Björn Fryklund – drums (2000–present)

Previous
 * Christian Grönlund – bass, vocals (1992–2000)
 * Joakim Sjöberg – drums (1992–2000)

Discography
Albums
 * Appetizer (Thunderstruck Productions, 1994)
 * Spanking Hour (Thunderstruck Productions, 1996)
 * Freak Kitchen (Thunderstruck Productions, 1998)
 * Dead Soul Men (Thunderstruck Productions, 2000)
 * Move (Thunderstruck Productions, 2002)
 * Organic (Thunderstruck Productions, 2005)
 * Land of the Freaks (Thunderstruck Productions, 2009)
 * Cooking with Pagans (Thunderstruck Productions, 2014)
 * Confusion to the Enemy (Thunderstruck Productions, 2018)
 * Everyone Gets Bloody (Thunderstruck Productions, 2024)

EPs
 * Junk Tooth (1997)

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¡Hola Juan! Yo también soy de Rosario. Estoy buscando argentinos que tengan buen nivel de inglés para ver si se pueden mejorar un poco los artículos relativos a Argentina. Los principales son los que están en Template:Argentina sidebar. A lo mejor conviene crear un WikiProject o un Regional Notice Board para manejar mejor el tema. Si te interesa, dejáme un mensaje, y si podés reclutar más gente, mejor. --Pablo D. Flores 23:59, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Pauline LaFon Gore

Pauline LaFon Gore ( LaFon; October 6, 1912 – December 15, 2004) was the mother of former United States Vice President Albert Arnold Gore Jr. and the wife of former United States Senator Albert A. Gore. She is credited with playing a significant role in both of their careers with Al Gore saying "there will never be a better campaigner than Pauline LaFon Gore". Her advice was an important factor in his refusal to sign the "Southern Manifesto" opposing desegregation and his opposition to the Vietnam War which were critical issues in his bid for re-election as a Senator in 1970. She came from a poor family in small business to become one of the first female lawyers to graduate from Vanderbilt University and managed a Washington law firm in the 1970s.

Early life
She was born in Palmersville, Tennessee as one of six children. Her parents, Maude (née Gatlin) and Walter L. LaFon, ran a general store. When her father was injured, the family moved to Jackson, Tennessee, where her father worked for the Tennessee highway department.

Despite the fact that her family was struggling and it was the Great Depression, Pauline LaFon was determined to graduate from college and waited on tables in order to pay her way. From 1931 to 1933, she attended Union University, but did not earn a degree from that institution until nearly seven decades later where she was granted an honorary degree. In 1936, she became the 10th woman to graduate from Vanderbilt University Law School.

She met Albert Gore Sr. while waiting tables at the Andrew Jackson Hotel while he was studying for a law degree as well as farming and acting as the Commissioner for Schools. They ended up studying together for the bar exam where Pauline LaFon obtained a higher mark than Gore Sr.

Following graduation from Vanderbilt, she practiced law in Texarkana, Arkansas for a year before returning to Tennessee and married Albert Gore Sr on April 17, 1937. She practiced in oil and gas law and also divorce law, being one of the first women to practice law in those fields.

Political wife 1937–1970
Al Gore Sr. was a rising man in the Tennessee political system when he married Pauline LaFon. He was appointed State Labor Commissioner later the same year and was elected to Congress a year later. The Gores' elder child Nancy LaFon Gore Hunger was born in 1938 as well.

When Al Gore Sr., was elected to Congress in 1938, it was traditional for political wives to stay in the background and not play an active role in their husbands' political lives. However, she took Eleanor Roosevelt as a role model and actively stumped for Gore's first campaign speaking at clubs and extensively canvassing in the rural parts of the electorate.

Pauline Gore would play an active role in all of her husband's campaigns as his closest adviser. In 1952, Albert Gore Sr., ran for the Senate standing in the Democratic primary against Kenneth McKellar, who was the powerful chair of the Senate Appropriarions Committee. Due to his position, McKellar was in a strong position to win funding for Tennessee. In order to remind voters of his access in Washington, McKellar used the slogan "The thinking fellar votes McKellar". In order to counter this slogan, Pauline Gore suggested placing signs with the slogan "Think some more and vote for Gore" close by McKellar's signs. Albert Gore Sr. won the primary in what was an upset and the tactic played an important part in the victory.

The Gores' second child, Al Gore Jr., was born on March 31, 1948. During his childhood, the family would live in Washington for much of the year and return to the family home in Carthage, Tennessee for the summer. Al Gore often referred to her as his "greatest teacher". Pauline Gore was influential in many committees of Senators' wives when she was in Washington.

During Albert Gore Sr's career as a Senator, Pauline Gore was one of his closest advisers. Her views were influential in Al Gore's decision not to sign the "Southern Declaration on Integration" opposing desegregation issued in 1956 by all but three southern Senators. Al Gore Sr. was briefly a candidate for the Democratic nomination as Vice-President but bowed out in favour of fellow Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver who was nominated. Later on, she advised her husband to oppose the Vietnam War, which was highly controversial in the electorate.

Lawyer, mother, and grandmother 1970–2004
After the defeat of her husband, Pauline Gore resumed her law career in Washington. Her husband joined with her in establishing a law firm together. She later became the managing partner of Peabody, Rivlin, Gore, Claudous and Brashares, a large law firm in Washington, and became a mentor to young women starting their legal careers.

Al Gore ran for election to Congress in 1976, and Pauline Gore campaigned for him. She would help in most of his campaigns, although she would not play as active a role in his political career as she did in her husband's career. She also offered counsel to Phil Bredesen, later mayor of Nashville.

She campaigned for Al Gore in 1988 in his unsuccessful bid to become the Democratic nominee for President. In 1992, she joined her husband in campaigning for the Clinton-Gore ticket on a seven-week bus trip across the United States with many visits to senior citizens' clubs.

She had a mild stroke in 1993 and had a heart attack in 1995. Albert Gore Sr. died on December 5, 1998. After receiving a humanitarian award in 1998, she established a scholarship fund for residents of Smith County, Tennessee to enable poor people from that county to attend college. In 1999, the Vanderbilt University law school named her as its Distinguished Alumna for the year, the first woman to be so honored. She died in her sleep at her home in Carthage on December 15, 2004.

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Medina Dam

The Medina Dam is a hollow-masonry type dam built in 1911 and 1912 by the Medina Irrigation Company in what became Mico, Texas, USA. Medina Lake extends north of it in northeastern Medina County and southeastern Bandera County. The dam and irrigation project was designed and financed by Dr. Frederick Stark Pearson, an American engineer, with extensive British financial backing. The construction took over 1500 men two years to build while working 24 hours a day. They were mostly skilled Mexican workers with experience building other dams for Pearson. They received two dollars for a day's work, which were good wages for the time. Pearson's Medina Irrigation Company (MICO) built a camp to house the workers and their families; the company town was first called MICO after its acronym. The community is now known as Mico, Texas.

When the dam was completed in 1913, it was the largest hydraulic engineering project west of the Mississippi River and the fourth-largest dam in the US. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its significance as an infrastructure project and its contributions to economic development of the county. Author of Ripples from Medina Lake, Rev. Cyril M. Kuehne claims a total of 70 lives were taken during the dam's construction, however, he only managed to locate 27 death certificates. Dr. Oscar B. Taylor, dentist of near-by settlement Hondo, Texas, was quoted by Kuehne as saying "sixty-six [unmarked] graves" were counted at a cemetery 3 miles away.

The dam contains over 292,000 cubic yards (223,000 m³) of concrete and measures 164 feet high by 128 feet (39 m) wide at the base by 1,580 feet (482 m) long. It is 25 feet (8 m) wide at the top, which is 1076.2 feet (328 m) above sea level, and the spillway is 1,064.2 feet (324 m) above sea level. The dam provides irrigation to over 34,000 acres (138 km²) to Blackland Prairie farmlands below the Balcones Escarpment around Castroville, Texas, and also supplies water to the Medina River Ultrafiltration Water Treatment Plant owned and operated by the San Antonio Water System.

The reservoir behind the dam is called Medina Lake and is a major recreation area. It discharges into the Medina River, which also contains a diversion dam four miles downstream.

The dam was featured in the 1919 serial The Masked Rider.

Medina Dam was once a publicly accessible, one-lane roadway that connected to County Road 260. In 1980, vehicle traffic was closed and rerouted to a new road known as County Road 264; although temporary use of the dam as a road continued in 1990.

Historical State Markers on the Dam
Located on the dam are three state-placed historical markers. These markers are currently inaccessible to the public after foot traffic was disallowed following the September 11 attacks in response to terrorism concerns.

1936 Mountain Valley marker
The earliest of the three markers is a 1936 state marker that acknowledges the previous Mormon settlement, Mountain Valley that was built in 1854 and was destroyed in 1913 during construction of the dam. The Mormon settlement Mountain Valley is now located underneath Medina Lake. "'Established in 1854 by 16 families of Mormons under the leadership of Lyman Wight (1796-1858). They abandoned their homes and mills in 1858 as the result of Indian depredations. Their lands are now beneath the waters of Medina Lake. Erected by the State of Texas - 1936.'"

1978 Texas Historical Commission Marker
The next is a marker placed in 1978 by the Texas Historical Commission that designated the dam as a state historical landmark. "'Henri Castro, who colonized this area in the 1840s, envisioned irrigated farms along the Medina River. The project was delayed, however, until after the turn of the century, when Dr. Fred Stark Pearson, an internationally known engineer, persuaded British investors to finance construction of a dam at this site. Completed in 1912, Medina Dam was hailed as the largest in Texas and the fourth largest in the United States. Limestone boulders from a nearby quarry added bulk to the massive concrete structure. Four miles downstream, a small diversion dam conducted water into a system of irrigation canals. Gravitational force delivered the water to fields. The outbreak of World War I (1914) disrupted ties with British investors. Seeking new capital, Dr. Pearson and his wife left for England in 1915 on the 'Lusitania' and were killed when a German submarine torpedoed the ship. The irrigation network created by Medina Dam brought new prosperity to this region. Vegetables raised in irrigated fields became a valuable crop. Water and electricity were made available to rural residents. In 1925 voters established the Bexar-Medine-Atascosa Counties Water Improvement District No. 1 to manage the project. 1978.'"

1991 Texas Historic Civil Engineering Marker
Placed in 1991, a marker declared the dam a Texas Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.

Reopening of the Dam
The Medina Lake Preservation Society is undertaking efforts to get the dam reopened to the public, or to at least have the historical markers moved so people can see them.

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Chris Paluska
Chris Paluska was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was redirect.

Same reason as James Niggemeyer. This is just a rehash of information in the Dimebag Darrell article. I don't see much potential for the article to be expanded. — flamuraiº 18:52, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, agree with above. DreamGuy 19:03, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)
 * Agree that this is mostly re-hashed content. Keep and expand or redirect to the related incident.  Do not delete.  [[User:GRider|GRider\talk]] 19:26, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Dimebag Darrell: As an individual, he is notable only for being shot.  His name is already mentioned in the relevant locations, so just make it a redirect.  We redirect victims to their murderers, so the wounded to the dead makes sense.  Geogre 05:05, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, nn Wyss 11:20, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete --fvw *  19:50, 2004 Dec 16 (UTC)
 * Del. Mikkalai 21:28, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect. Agreeing with Geogre. - Andre Engels 12:07, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Does not appear to be notable as a tour manager and should not have an article just because he was wounded in the shooting of a notable person. Indrian 07:02, Dec 18, 2004 (UTC)

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Moldovan Football Federation

The Moldovan Football Federation (Federația Moldovenească de Fotbal; FMF) is the governing body of football in Moldova. It organizes all the football leagues, including the top-tier league Moldovan Super Liga, and the Moldova national football team. It is based in Chișinău. The current president is Leonid Oleinicenco.

Football
Moldova national football team plays its official games at Zimbru Stadium which is privately held structure, but is under administration of FMF until 2026. The senior team, along with youth teams use Stadionul CPSM for training purposes. It is located in Vadul lui Vodă, a village along the Dniester River, approximately 25 kilometres from Chișinău.

Futsal
The Futsal Arena FMF Sports Complex, inaugurated in 2014, is a sports facility located in Ciorescu 12 kilometres from Chișinău. Spanning 4,694.5 square meters, it features a multifunctional field, seating for 1,302 spectators, media facilities, electronic scoreboards, and comprehensive amenities. UEFA contributed 4.2 million euros to its construction.

Beach soccer
FMF Beach Soccer Arena is located in the La Izvor Park in the Sectorul Buiucani of Moldova's capital. The stadium was inaugurated in August 2020 and hosted games from 2022 Euro Beach Soccer League.

Presidents

 * Constantin Tampiza (1991–1995)
 * Petru Comendant (1995–1996)
 * Pavel Cebanu (1997–2019)
 * Leonid Oleinicenco (2019–present)

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Frank Reynolds

Frank James Reynolds (November 29, 1923 – July 20, 1983) was an American television journalist for CBS and ABC News.

Reynolds was a New York–based anchor of the ABC Evening News from 1968 to 1970 and later was the Washington, D.C.–based co-anchor of World News Tonight from 1978 until his death in 1983. During the Iran hostage crisis, he began the 30-minute late-night program America Held Hostage, which later was renamed Nightline, and then taken over by Ted Koppel.

Background
Born in East Chicago, Indiana, Reynolds attended Bishop Noll Institute in Hammond and Wabash College in Crawfordsville. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. Reynolds served in the U.S. Army during World War II; he was a staff sergeant (E-6) in the infantry and was awarded the Purple Heart.

Early career
After the war, Reynolds began his broadcast career in Indiana with WWCA-AM in Gary. (He also had an early career stint with WJOB-AM in nearby Hammond, Indiana). Reynolds was a television anchor in Chicago, first on the original WBKB in 1949, which in 1953 would become WBBM-TV, the CBS owned-and-operated station; he also served as Chicago correspondent for CBS News. In 1963, he moved to the second WBKB, an ABC owned-and-operated station (now known as WLS-TV) and served as their main news anchor. Reynolds joined ABC News in 1965 as a correspondent.

Anchor, ABC News
By 1968, he became co-anchor of the ABC evening newscast with Howard K. Smith, who remained as co-anchor after Harry Reasoner was hired from CBS to replace Reynolds in December 1970. After the demotion, Reynolds returned to the field as a correspondent for the network. After Reasoner and Barbara Walters ceased their anchor duties in 1978, Reynolds returned to the anchor chair as the Washington, D.C., anchor for the now-revamped World News Tonight newscast, with co-anchors Max Robinson and Peter Jennings. Reynolds was also the original anchor of "America Held Hostage", a series of special reports seen weeknights at 11:30 p.m. (10:30 p.m. Central Time) on the Iran hostage crisis in November 1979 that evolved into the newsmagazine Nightline in March 1980. Reynolds, still an evening news anchor, soon tired of the grind of the extended hours and was replaced by one of his revolving substitutes, Ted Koppel, then the network's chief diplomatic correspondent.

Reagan assassination attempt coverage, 1981
One famous moment in Reynolds' career occurred on March 30, 1981, during live news coverage of the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. Early reports received by his newsroom had indicated that press secretary James Brady and others had been shot, but that Reagan was uninjured. He became upset when a report arrived indicating that Reagan had been struck and at one point can be heard shouting at an individual off-screen to "Speak up!" as more information arrived.

Later, Brady, a close friend of Reynolds, was erroneously reported by all three networks as having died from the head wound he suffered in the incident. Upon learning that the information regarding Brady was incorrect, Reynolds suddenly appeared noticeably upset and, looking around at staffers in the background, angrily burst out:

"'Let's get it nailed down ...somebody ...let's....find out! Let's get the word here, let's get it straight so we can....we can report this accurately!'"

Death
Reynolds was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in early 1983 and had been absent from his anchor position since April of that year. He died three months later, on July 20, at the age of 59; his death was attributed to acute viral hepatitis.

Legacy

One of Reynolds' five sons is WGN America NewsNation correspondent Dean Reynolds. Coincidentally, it was a report from the younger Reynolds while he was a correspondent for UPI which first revealed that James Brady was still alive, leading to the aforementioned outburst from the elder Reynolds.

Reynolds is also famous for his optimistic prediction during a live broadcast of the solar eclipse of February 26, 1979, where he stated, "Not until Aug. 21, 2017, will another eclipse be visible from North America, that's 38 years from now. May the shadow of the moon fall on a world at peace."

Reynolds' last broadcast was April 20, 1983, and, despite promises of his return by substitute anchormen, he never did, dying from hepatitis-induced liver failure at Sibley Memorial Hospital on July 20, 1983, at the age of 59. He was diagnosed with multiple myeloma while he was being treated for acute hepatitis. Reynolds had injured his upper left femur in the Florida surf in January while on vacation and fell on it after slipping on ice in a mid-February snowstorm. X-rays showed a hairline fracture and he underwent surgery on March 17 and was diagnosed with hepatitis a month later.

Reynolds, an Army veteran wounded in combat, is interred in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. President Reagan and wife Nancy were among the 1,100 at the funeral at St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington. Pope John Paul II sent condolences to the family by a letter from the Vatican, read by Bishop Edward John Herrmann. In 1985, Reynolds was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Reagan on May 23.

A few years after Reynolds' death, musician Paul Hardcastle recorded a section of an ABC documentary about the Vietnam War, that included narration by Reynolds, and later used it as part of his 1985 U.S. Top 40 and U.K. #1 (five weeks) hit, "19". Hardcastle had a video made of the song that included footage from that documentary that ABC later demanded be removed. The ABC footage was later replaced with stock footage, but Reynolds' voice remained on the recording.

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Malta Football Association

The Malta Football Association (MFA; Assoċjazzjoni tal-Futbol ta' Malta) is the governing body of football in Malta.

The Association organises the Maltese Football League for both men and women and several other competitions, including a knockout competitions for the top teams for both genders. The men's national team, women's national team, as well as several youth representative teams compete regularly in international competitions organised by UEFA and FIFA. These include the European Championships and the World Cup. Malta also compete in the UEFA Futsal Championship, though not the UEFA Women's Futsal Championship to date.

The MFA manages the National stadium and the Centenary Stadium nearby. This complex is based in Ta` Qali and includes training grounds, a gymnasium, a swimming pool and physiotherapy and medical clinics. The complex is also used by foreign clubs during the winter months, due to the mild temperatures of the Maltese Islands.

The association is one of the oldest and one of the best in Europe, being founded in 1900 with the first national league being organised in season 1909–1910. There are several important landmarks in the history of Maltese football, especially since Malta played its first official international friendly match against Austria in February 1957. The result was a narrow 3–2 defeat for Malta.

It took until 1959 for the MFA to join FIFA, also joining UEFA the year after in 1960. From then onwards, Malta become an ever-present in international competitions at national teams as well as at club levels.

During 2019, the MFA has also entered into talks with the Italian Football Federation and the Lega Pro to discuss the possibility for the MFA to field a professional team within the Italian football league system.

The MFA is structured by having 53 member clubs, as well as 10 member associations. The clubs compete in four divisions; the premier, first, second and third. The member associations are specialised football associations who organise competitions for clubs affiliated to them. The member associations include:

 * the Gozo Football Association – organises competitions for teams on the island of Gozo
 * Inter Amateur Soccer Competition
 * Employees Sports Association
 * Malta Hotels and Restaurants Sports Association
 * Industries Soccer Association
 * District Football Association
 * Malta Youth Football Association – for players under 16
 * Malta Amateur Football Association
 * Malta Football Coaches Association
 * Malta Football Referees Association

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I especially like the "Guiseppe" part, but the "Pietro Archangelo" is a chuckle too. Peter the Archangel indeed! --Wetman 19:00, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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Dalton-in-Furness

Dalton-in-Furness is a town in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, 4 mi north east of Barrow-in-Furness. Along with the rest of the Furness peninsula, it was historically part of Lancashire. It is in the parish of Dalton Town with Newton, alongside the nearby hamlet of Newton-in-Furness. In 2011 it had a population of 7,827.

History
Dalton is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, written as "Daltune", as one of the townships forming the Manor of Hougun held by Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria. Historically, it was the capital of Furness. The ancient parish of Dalton covered the area which was occupied by the borough of Barrow-in-Furness from 1974 to 2023. Historically a part of Lancashire, the town is associated with a number of famous artists, including George Romney. Dalton Town Hall was completed in 1884.

In 1961 the parish had a population of 10,316. The parish was abolished on 1 April 1974, when it became part of the Barrow-in-Furness district. On 1 April 1987, the new parish of Dalton Town with Newton was created.

The Drill Hall was officially opened in July 1929 as a Regular Army Centre for military training, and was used as a military headquarters in the years leading up to the war in 1939. During the war years (1939-1945) it was a centre for the Home Guard. It had a rifle range until 2009. After the war it was a Territorial and Army Cadet Headquarters. In addition the Drill hall was used as an annexe to Nelson Street Junior School. Since the early 1990s it has been used as a community and youth centre.

Geography
The town is situated near the centre of Low Furness, on the eastern crest of a glaciated valley which runs obliquely across the peninsula. Just over a mile to the south lie the ruins of Furness Abbey, and four miles to the south west is the nearest major town, Barrow-in-Furness. The area is generally reached by the A590, the link road from the M6 motorway to the Furness region, which now by-passes the town, reducing the traffic flow, and enabling traffic calming measures which have proved to be rather controversial.

Dalton with Newton Town Council was the first corporate member of the Friends of Real Lancashire, an organisation dedicated to recognising the traditional county boundaries of Lancashire.

Transport
Dalton railway station, which serves the town, is located on the Furness Line, giving connections to Barrow, Ulverston, Grange-over-Sands and Lancaster. There are longer distance services to Preston and Manchester.

Local buses are operated by Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire with routes to Barrow, Ulverston, Windermere and Kendal.

Sport
The local football teams Dalton United and Crooklands Casuals (also known as the Orangemen) play in the West Lancashire Football League.

Girls' and women's football in the town is provided by Dalton Girls and Ladies F.C. who have junior and open age teams competing in a various Cumbrian leagues.

There is also a 2 junior football clubs, Crooklands Casuals boast the larger set up with teams from under 8s through to under 16s whilst, Dalton Junior F.C. provide mini league football (under 8s, under 9s and under 10s); Dalton JFC currently plays on Dowdales School fields.

Dalton Rugby League Football Club is located at the entrance to the town on Crooklands Brow. Currently in the first division of the North West Counties League. Their ground was recently renamed Kelland Park, in memory of Dalton rugby league stalwart, Ivor Kelland.

Dalton Cricket Club plays in the North Lancs. & Cumbria Cricket League. Dalton won the first organized cricket match played in Furness, beating Barrow. The Cricket Club also has many junior sides, such as The Under 11's & Under 13's. It also now has a table tennis club, located at the Seventh Day Adventist Church.

Education
Dowdales School is the town's secondary school with approximately 1,050 pupils. The school does not have a sixth form, but pupils transfer either to the Sixth Form College in Barrow, or to Barrow and Kendal Colleges of Further Education.

There are four primary schools in the town, Chapel Street School, George Romney Junior School, Dalton St Mary's Church of England Primary School and Our Lady of The Rosary Catholic School.

Media
Regional TV news comes from Salford-based BBC North West and ITV Granada. Television signals are received from the Winter Hill and the local relay transmitters.

Local radio stations are BBC Radio Cumbria on 96.1 FM, Heart North West on 96.9 FM, and Cando FM, a community-based station that broadcasts to the town on 106.3 FM.

The town's local newspaper is the North West Evening Mail.

Attractions
In addition to being a quarter hour's journey from the boundary of the Lake District National Park, Dalton has a number of tourist attractions within its own borders, including:
 * Dalton Castle (National Trust)
 * South Lakes Safari Zoo

Twin towns
Dalton is twinned with:
 * 🇺🇸 Dalton, Pennsylvania, United States

Notable residents
In 1614 Margaret Fell (also known as Margaret Fox), founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), was born in Dalton with the birth name Askew. Known popularly as the "mother of Quakerism," she is considered one of the Valiant Sixty early Quaker preachers and missionaries. She died on 23 April 1702 at age 87 or 88.

Dalton was the birthplace and early home of George Romney in the 1700s, as well as Miles Romney in the early 1800s, the latter of whom is a direct ancestor of U.S. politician and former presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

William Ashburner (1737–1793), from Dalton-in-Furness, became the ancestor of a noted family of merchants and administrators in British-ruled India during company rule, the Ashburner family.

Steve Dixon, Sky News presenter, was born in Newton-in-Furness, as was Richard T. Slone (b. 23 January 1974), an award-winning artist. Both were in the same year at school and were educated firstly in Newton and then in Dalton-in-Furness. Turner Prize winner Keith Tyson (b. 23 August 1969) grew up and attended school here as well.

E.B. Ford, an eminent scientist and author of the very popular New Naturalist book on butterflies, was born in Dalton in April 1901.

Tommy Johnson, a footballer and the third highest goal scorer for Manchester City, was born in Queen Street, Dalton in Furness, in 1901. He made five appearances for England’s national team scoring in each game.

title: Dalton-in-Furness


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Orchidoideae

The Orchidoideae, or the orchidoid orchids, are a subfamily of the orchid family (Orchidaceae) that contains around 3630 species. Species typically have a single (monandrous), fertile anther which is erect and basitonic.

Description
The subfamily Orchidoideae and the previously recognized subfamily Spiranthoideae are considered the closest allies in the natural group of the monandrous orchids because of several generally shared characters:
 * a shared terrestrial habit
 * sectile (capable of being severed) or granular pollinia
 * erect anthers.

Taxonomy
Phylogeny of the Orchidoideae is volatile and still subject to change. Historically, the Orchidoideae have been partitioned into up to 6 tribes, including Orchideae, Diseae, Cranichideae, Chloraeeae, Diurideae, and Codonorchideae. However, the most recent molecular phylogenetics analysis led by Chase et al. in 2015 and subsequently by Chen et al. in 2017 indicates that the Orchidoideae should be split into 4 tribes: the Orchideae, Cranichideae, Diurideae, and Codonorchideae.

Codonorchideae
This monophyletic tribe consists of only one genus, Codonorchis, found in South America.

Cranichideae
This cosmopolitan tribe comprises 8 currently accepted subtribes. Molecular evidence suggests that the former Chloraeeae are sister to the rest of the Cranichideae. As such, the Chloraeeae are now considered a subtribe of the Cranichideae. Moreover, based on morphological and genetic evidence, the genus Discyphus was elevated out of the Spiranthinae to form its own monophyletic subtribe, the Discyphinae.

Orchideae
Once divided into the Orchidinae and Habenariinae (a nonsystematic paraphyletic splitting), the Orchideae now comprise 6 subtribes. Along with previous molecular studies, Chase et al's 2015 analysis confirmed that Diseae was a polyphyletic grouping. Consequently, the former subtribes of Diseae have been redistributed within the Orchideae (for instance, Satyrium is now classified in the Orchidinae). In his 2015 study Chase recommended further study of historically problematic genera in the former Diseae such as Huttonaea and Pachites. Further molecular analysis by Chen et al. in 2017 led to the following reorganization:

Diurideae
The Diurideae, an predominantly Australasian tribe, retain their previous subtribal organization and comprise 9 taxa:
 * Acianthinae (monophyletic)
 * Caladeniinae (polyphyletic)
 * Cryptostylidinae (monophyletic)
 * Diuridinae (monophyletic)
 * Drakaeinae (monophyletic)
 * Megastylidinae (monophyletic)
 * Prasophyllinae (monophyletic)
 * Rhizanthellinae (monophyletic)
 * Thelymitrinae (monophyletic)

title: Orchidoideae


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Liechtenstein Football Association

The Liechtenstein Football Association (LFV) (Liechtensteiner Fussballverband) is the governing body of football in Liechtenstein. It was established on 28 April 1934, and became affiliated to UEFA on 22 May 1974. The association organizes the Liechtenstein national football team and the Liechtenstein Football Cup. Because Liechtenstein has fewer than 8 (only 7 not counting reserves) active teams, it is the only UEFA member without its own national league. This means the Liechtensteiner teams play in the Swiss Football League system. The LFV is based in Schaan.

title: Liechtenstein Football Association


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Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study

The Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) is a global and multidisciplinary research project dedicated to understanding the key biogeochemical-physical interactions and feedbacks between the ocean and the atmosphere. Further, SOLAS seeks to link ocean-atmosphere interactions with climate and people. Achievements of these goals are essential in order to understand and quantify the role that ocean-atmosphere interactions play in the regulation of climate and global change.

SOLAS was first initiated with an Open Science Conference in 2000 and was formally launched in 2004. Since then, the SOLAS community has grown into a worldwide network with 1075 members and 30 national networks around the world. Development and implementation of the SOLAS science plan is guided by a scientific steering committee (SSC) composed of international experts covering a broad spectrum of disciplines, including atmospheric chemistry, oceanography, marine biology, and legal sciences.

SOLAS science is currently organised around five core research themes, namely: 1) Greenhouse gases and the oceans; 2) Air-sea interface and fluxes of mass and energy; 3) Atmospheric deposition and ocean biogeochemistry; 4) Interconnections between aerosols, clouds, and marine ecosystems; and 5) Ocean biogeochemical control on atmospheric chemistry. The five SOLAS core research themes are complemented by cross-cutting themes on key environments (such as upwelling systems, polar oceans, and the Indian Ocean), as well as on evaluating the environmental efficacy and impacts of climate intervention proposals, policy decisions, and societal developments.

Since 2000, SOLAS has organised seven international Open Science Conferences and seven Summer Schools tailored to students and early career earth scientists. In addition, to these large-scale events, SOLAS also organises meetings, workshops, and conference sessions related to SOLAS science.

The SOLAS project is coordinated by an International Project Office (IPO), which is currently hosted by GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, in association to the research unit chemical oceanography, with a nodal office hosted by the State Key Laboratory of marine Environmental Science at Xiamen University, China. The SOLAS IPO works in close cooperation with the SOLAS SSC chair to provide international science coordination and strengthen capacity building within the SOLAS science community.

SOLAS is sponsored by Future Earth, the International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (iCACGP), Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), and World Climate Research Programme (WCRP).

title: Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study


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Greenport

Greenport may refer any of the following

Netherlands

 * Greenport (Netherlands), a cluster of economic areas focussed around horticulture facilities and production

United States

 * Greenport, Columbia County, New York
 * Greenport, Suffolk County, New York
 * Greenport (LIRR station)
 * Greenport West, New York

title: Greenport


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User talk:Ahoerstemeier/Archive 7

Newspages
So you found the Thailand newspage! There have been a few new pages like this one. Mainly based on the fact that it scores good with the visitors. See: nl:Gebruiker:Waerth/Wikipedia_hitsparade for the number of hits per page on the Dutch wikipedia. Waerth 11:32, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * I sometimes look around the other languages to see what exists there about Thailand - that's how I also noticed that someone just started with translating the province articles to finnish. At least dutch has the advantage that I can grasp the contents roughly due to the similarities of Dutch with German. And if I come across some broken wikicode I can fix without speaking the language I am bold enough to just fix it. The idea of that news article is good, but it's also some work to keep it current - and that's even harder for someone who can only access the english Thai newspapers by web... andy 11:44, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks fore checking my edit on Oliwa. I had posted a message on the talk page suggesting someone check out the diff. I just didn't want the edits to sit around in case it was the same vandal being sneaky. — siro χ  o  21:09, Sep 6, 2004 (UTC)

Arial Unicode MS
Actually the version of the font available at http://orwell.ru/test/download/ is free for use for anyone owning a copy of MS Office: just like the web fonts package can still be freely distributed even though MS has taken the links down. 08:10, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

PNG %28disambiguation%29
I wanted to create a disambiguation page for PNG, so navigated to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNG_(disambiguation), and received the "Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this name" message. Instead of the "edit this page" link properly linking to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=PNG_%28disambiguation%29&action=edit, it linked to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=PNG_%2528disambiguation%2529&action=edit, which seems to be the source of the problem. Instead of "Editing PNG (disambiguation)" displaying as the title of the page while editing it, it read "Editing PNG %28disambiguation%29". It seems that perhaps the "article does not exist" page is improperly parsing the parentheses for the edit link. (This does not happen for the "create an article with this title" link on the search results page.) For whatever reason, I didn't realize the mistake until I had created the page. I hope this helps. - MattTM 08:32, Sep 9, 2004 (UTC)

 * That explains everything - and now I found that apparently a change in MediaWiki:Noarticletext is the reason for these pages to show up. andy 08:52, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

George Woshingtin
Huh? What does "rv" mean? Why did you do this to my well-meaning contribution? Am I not supposed to edit here? Silver Proxy 12:12, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Meeting and history of Thailand
Hello Andy, it would be nice to meet you when I get to the Netherlands. On another note, Adam Carr has started deleting Sukhothai, Ayutthaya and history of Thailand articles in favour of his own. I totally object to this. His article is to small. Why can western countries have 100 history pages and does Thailand need to be handled in one page? Waerth 07:16, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * You can join the discussion at Talk:History of Thailand, both me and User:Markalexander100 also thought that we need both an overview article and detailled ones for the Sukhothai, Ayutthaya and Thonburi/Ratanakosin periods - actually you're about a month late to notice it :-). But Adam is also writing a lot new text, thus Mark and him agreed that Mark will later split and summerize the text to have both several detailled articles as well as an overview version. andy 10:57, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * That is not what has happened look at the history of the articles and you will see he deleted the contents today! I reacted at his talk page! Waerth 11:02, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * I now noticed he did the same he did one month ago, when both me and Mark told him the same already - and came to the agreement that Mark will later organize the new text, while leaving the separate articles alone for the moment. I left another note on Adams talk, explaining again why we need both the overview and several detailled articles. andy 11:16, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * You can see his reactions to my arguments at my talk page. This might become a protracted discussion .... Waerth 11:19, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * So we better put the discussion in one place instead of spreading it on now four user talk pages... Seems like something like Irish wikipedians' notice board would be also useful for us Thai-enthusiasts to have a central point of discussing or organizing. Or even a WikiProject Thailand? andy 11:25, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Another page to watch .... but it is a good idea, we could also get Ramendra, Bact, Phisite and others in on the discussion. Now that I have my own internetconnection I am more involved in discussions than in creating new articles. Waerth 11:54, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Adam also created another page see: History_of_Thailand_%28overview%29 Waerth 20:53, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The noticeboard is an interesting idea... For the moment, History of Thailand's talk page is probably the best place to sort it out (again!) if necessary, but if it looks like dying down there's no need to stir it up again. Markalexander100 02:19, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * I have now started Thai wikipedians' notice board. andy 20:56, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Messier objects pictures
Oh man, oh man! Check out when you have a chance. Awesome pics from the Nordic Optical Telescope. They are Template:CopyrightedFreeUseProvided. Put them on de:! —Joseph | Talk 04:34, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)
 * Yepp, they look very good. But sadly the German wikipedians are paranoid about pictures which even have the slightest smell of being non-free, thus I guess that the requirement of giving the source would be too much for them already. But if you upload them here they may sooner or later find their way to de: anyway, I am already bored to have the recurring discussions on de: about images. At least I made sure that the articles on de: and en: are correctly linked with each other now. andy 07:44, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

symbols of Thai provinces
Hello again. I just want to know one thing about symbols in provinces of Thailand. Now in Ja: some of them are discussing templating of uploaded pictures and will neary agreed as every picture must have templates such as or. Well, what should be the status of the symbols, GFDL or PD? I hope it is not fair use because we are not allowed to upload fair-use pictures.... --Ramendra 15:18, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * To be honest - I am not sure anymore. I believe that as public symbols they should be PD, same as the many flags here, but I got quite confused by a similar discussion on the status of German coat of arms on the German wikipedia. Yet I somehow doubt that there is any law in Thailand which gives them a copyright protection - but so far I hesitated to choose any of the license tags for them. Maybe we have to ask one of our Thai wikipedians if they can find anything on the status of those symbols. andy 19:41, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Argh I am not reading this am I ..... . I personally do not think coat of arms, flags etc are copyright. Most of them are older than 70 years anyway. Waerth 07:29, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Yes, for the really old coat of arms or flags that's obviously true. The German discussion mixed the copyright (or to be more correct the German equivalent), and the Wappenrecht, which protects official symbols. Yet that one just protects the coat of arms for abuse, e.g. it's not allowed to use the coat of arms in your letterhead as it would look like it's an official letter from the "owner" of the coat of arms. But that one should be of no concern for a encyclopedia. Yet the main problem are those coat of arms created more recently, whether these have any copyright protection, or are free as they are public symbols. After more than a year of discussion in de: still no real result has shown up. And I doubt there is any real answer available for the Thai symbols, as Thailand is famous for not caring about copyright (at least until recently). andy 08:18, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Well, then I will just put to them. I can put them out if there are any problems. :-) --Ramendra 15:08, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Marco Hietala
I saw that you deleted the information about Marco Hietala's second project, Tarot. Why? It is tru that he is the lead singer and bassist of that band. Please consult Tarot's homepage for more information.
 * Seems like that page got caught in a little vandalism war. A vandal choosed to revert all edit by User:Texture, and then he (and other) reverted back. The only question is why Texture deleted that fact at first - maybe it was by mistake when being under attack by that vandal. Maybe if you add it again now it may have a better chance to survive... andy 07:57, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Lao font
I have another thing that I want to ask - happily not about copyright -. Because windows does not have Lao font and we are using Lao font in our articles. We maybe need guide to show how do we get font. So what font do you use when you write them? As for me I am using Saysetha Unicode. --Ramendra 15:08, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * I have Arial Unicode MS which contains Lao letters - however it has some display problems as some of the vocals aren't placed correctly on top of the consonant. I don't know if that it because of the font or somewhere deeper in Windows (I use 2000). However for most other languages that font seems to be perfect, only Khmer is missing. I haven't tried other fonts yet, as that one is the most complete, only sadly it is not a standard font in Windows, nor available for free. andy 15:33, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Strangely, I do not have Arial Unicode MS. Thus I use This. This has no problem (about vocal), but this appears very rough especially in case letters are small. --Ramendra 19:26, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

RE: What is the purposed...
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=566 -- Yaohua2000 07:20, 2004 Sep 24 (UTC)

Shortcuts
Hallo Andi, ich hab grad gesehen, dass Ihr in der en:WP shortcuts eingeführ habt. Sehr praktisch. Gibt es dafür einen eigenen Namensraum oder sind das quasi Artikel. Dann hör ich nämlich schon wieder die Puristen rufen. ;-) -- de:Benutzer:Triebtäter
 * Sind AFAIK einfache Artikel. Aber wie ich auf der technical-Mailingliste vor kurzem gelesen habe kann man wohl recht einfach weitere Namensräume hinzufügen, z.B. auch für die Portale auf de:. Ich habe mir aber Shortcuts im Browser selbst eingerichtet, da ist man noch flexibler, alles was sich bookmarken läßt kann zu einem Shortcut werden. andy 13:26, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Maps
Ahoerstemeier - you've made an awful lot of maps. What's the copyright license on them? →Raul654 08:21, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
 * Those of the German districts are based on templates which are GFDL - I am slowly working through them now and add the tags, see e.g. Image:Hesse hp.png. The maps I did more recently I tagged already, those I haven't are also GFDL, as I only uploaded maps I created myself. andy 13:35, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Romita
Hi, Andy, the Romita website is surely copyright, which makes a straight translation from it a copyvio. But I hate taking the big WP:CP stick (slap a template on! delete all the text!) straight to these cases, where it's quite likely that the copyright holder would give permission, if the article was brought to their attention. Have you considered e-mailing the webmaster or whoever? Yesterday I found the text of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, that was listed on Cleanup on the 25, on some Rochester fan's personal website, and didn't much feel like doing the "right thing". So I e-mailed the fan instead, and he confirmed that he was the original author, was surprised but pleased to be on Wikipedia, and immediately started editing the article. :-) A really nice outcome, and all that remained to do was put in acknowledgements and a link to the original in the reference section. It's up to you, of course, and I realize a prompt and enthusiastic reply may be less likely from a town (?) bureaucracy than from a one-man website. But maybe it couldn't hurt to e-mail Romita and give them a few hours, before moving in on the article with the wrecking equipment? --Bishonen 11:38, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Sure, there are sometime pearls which are too good to be simply deleted as copyvios. However in most cases what ends at wp:cp are texts copied-and-pasted from somewhere without investing the slightest work to make them fit into a encyclopedia. And Romita is somewhat similar, that one needs a lot of copyediting and formatting to become a good article. Basically what it need is a complete rewrite using the informations from that article. andy 21:41, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Category "myrmocologists"
Why are you reverting my edits to an earlier version by... er... me? The category is mispelt and was created by mistake due to a typo when adding articles to Category:myrmecologists. It really needs ot be deleted. 213.122.193.196 23:22, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Quite simple - you blanked that category, the same way as vandals sometimes blank articles without reason. If you'd use the "edit summary" field to write "delete, mistyped category" or something similar this misunderstanding wouldn't happen. Also, we have a categories for deletion, in which you can list wrong categories. Or you could have marked it by adding . andy 10:19, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion
See Votes for undeletion. Anthony is challenging your right to make speedy deletions. RickK 00:18, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)
 * No I'm not. I'm only challenging a few speedy deletions which don't appear to fit the criteria for speedy deletions. anthony (see warning) 00:39, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * They may be borderline to be candidates for the proposed "managed deletion" - but I see no point in keeping an article which merely repeats the the article title. If you feel bored you maybe better work through some of the 1000+ article on cleanup instead of argueing about keeping or deleting a presubstub - or write an improved version of that one (which should be possible spending maybe 10 minute with google), and we can undelete that presubstub as it's beginning. There are currently hunderts of speedy deletion candidates coming up every day... andy 07:28, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

stormfront on protest warrior external links
Why are you reverting articles without having any knowledge on the issue e.g. how both groups are affiliated?

 * Because your edits seem to be done in bad faith. At least our NPOV policy is violated if you call something childish, as that is not neutral for sure. And creating a redirect Protestwarrior pointing to Stormfront instead to the correct article doesn't make your edits more believable. But for one thing you are right - I don't know anything about those two groups, thus I am merely guessing that you try to suggest that affiliation to discredit those Protest Warriors. andy 11:42, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * childish wasn't added by me, nonetheless I edited it as you were right about this point.
 * Stormfront and Protest Warrior are not only sharing the same values but also a great number of members, with the Protest Warriors leaning even more to rightwing extremism.

 * Apparently the Wikipedia editors are not careful enough when it comes to extremist wolves in sheep's clothing. But of course, the huge number of entries makes that almost impossible. 66.119.33.167 12:49, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Stormfront is a neo-Nazi organization, while Protest Warrior is a pro-freedom and pro-individualism organization; they are in complete opposition to each other. One of the slogans, found on PW bumper stickers, is "Protest Tyrants, Protest Lies, Protest Evil"; hardly a pro-Nazi slogan. If you think right-wing extremism ("economic-conservativism", "social-liberalism", libertarianism, and anarcho-capitalism) is somehow related to Nazism then you apparently don't understand what right-wing means (pro-freedom, pro-individualism, at least here in the USA) and/or haven't bothered to read anything about Nazism. Nazism is anti-freedom (statist) and it is racialist/nationalist (racial/ethnic collectivism) and socialist (economic collectivism); it could also be argued that it's theocratic (religious collectivism, "positive christianity" and thulist occultism) as well. Similarly, Communists (the Soviet model), Communazis (the Asian model), and theocrats all practice all three types, with just the difference in prioritization being the distinguishing factor. Soviet-style Communists have economic collectivism as their primary, religious collectivism (enforced atheism) as their secondary, and racial/ethnic collectivism as their tertiary (sometimes, particularly during war-time, secondary and tertiary priorities get swapped). Asian model Communazis have economic collectivism as their primary, racial/ethnic collectivism as their secondary, and religious collectivism (Confucionism is especially useful for keeping a dictator in power) as their tertiary. Theocrats (modern-day Islamofascists, dark age Christofascists, etc.) have religious collectivism as their primary, racial/ethnic as their secondary, and economic collectivism as their tertiary (I dare you to find even one theocracy with a free market). Secondary and tertiary forms are generally used to reinforce the primary. Same pattern, different emphasis.

 * Collectivism and statism are, in the United States, the very definition of leftism. Keeping up the pretense of private property, and leaving some of the owners of businesses in charge of day-to-day operations while putting all the real power in the hands of the state, is still socialism; it's just not the brain-dead Bolshevik-style kill-all-the-people-who-actually-know-how-to-run-things socialism. Mussolini's Fascist economic system, from which the Nazi economic model was derived, was based on the ideas of Karl Marx, not those of Adam Smith. Even by the ridiculously broken European standard of the political spectrum (which somehow manages to have statist collectivism on both ends), National Socialism can be seen as leftist because it is a form of socialism. PW is as anti-Nazi as it is anti-Communist and anti-theocrat. It is the view of the Protest Warriors, as individualists, that whenever we are put into these artificial and/or nonsensical groupings of race/ethnicity, class, religion, etc., that we are being dehumanized in the process; that dehumanization has been used to commit all the great atrocities of modern times (and, it could be argued, throughout all of human history as well). It is the view of the Protest Warriors, as students of history, that statism and collectivism are inseparable in practice. It is the view of the Protest Warriors, as liberty-lovers, that the individual's rights must be valued and defended and that those who would take away those rights must be challenged. Protest Warriors believe that we're people, not drones born only to serve leftist elites, nor are we cogs built to slave in the collectivist machine of some totalitarian state. Somehow that puts Protest Warriors on the side of Nazis? PW has protested Nazis, you fool. If you have a paypal account, I'd be glad to donate a few cents towards your buying a clue. -- Rich : 24.29.127.196 05:06, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Hello??? I am not interested in political battles, so you better keep this discussion to Talk:Protest Warriors where it belongs. I hope you aim the "fool" and the "buy a clue" to the anonymous poster above, not me, as the only way I was involved in this was trying to clean up what looked like vandalism to me. andy 07:39, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Sorry, Andy. It was vandalism, so thank you for cleaning it up, and the "fool" and "buy a clue" were not directed at you. -- Rich : 24.29.127.196 01:14, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Abusing Wikipedia for mere propaganda reasons while trying to hide the fact that Protest Warrior is a an extremist rightwing hate group, dedicated to the ideals of Nazism, Fascism and strongly affiliated with stormfront should get this person at 24.29.127.196 banned. 24.103.90.87 15:48, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

O Come All Ye Faithful
Andy, the main lyrics were written by JF Wade in 1751; there is no copyvio there. Possibly the additional lyrics, that I don't know. -- Bill 13:13, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Well, the other song lyrics are a copyvio for sure. And anyway, song lyrics don't belong here normally (the national anthems are a noteable exception), if it's copyright free it maybe fit to Wikisource. andy 19:21, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Request re: Haydes
Hi. Would you please block User:Haydes for some small amount of time? I think he is a young person who is easily agitated. I am trying to point out to him that he can use his user page for the articles about himself and his friends/relatives instead of adding Kelly's and Megan's in articles. Instead he has blanked everyone's comments on his talk page and redirected his user page to my user page. I don't think it is appropriate for me to block him after that last action so I request that you block him for some small amount of time to make things clearer to him. An hour? Let me know if you disagee. - Tεx  τ  urε  21:46, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I already tried that one earlier already, and it did not help anything - he continued anonymously at first, and continues to create his nonsense and spam articles all evening now. And I deleted many his garbage article already several times, so I am not really neutral anymore. That guy seems to be absolutely determined to ignore any advice. andy 21:49, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

In your eagerness to ban Haydes, you have caught me, and probally every other user whose ISP is AOL. Is the damage done by one vandal greater than than the loss of the large number of valid edits from hundreds of good users?Dsmdgold 01:47, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

 * I haven't blocked him! In fact I got fed up with him, and decided to clean up quietly after him next morning instead. The actual block was done by User:Raul654, after Haydes showed even more vandalism like edits than just his non-articles. andy 07:38, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Butterface
I see that you deleted this, yet it seems not to fit any of the speedy deletion categories - it's not nonsense or lacking substantial content. Please let me know why you think it qualified as a speedy delete rather than something which should have gone through VfD. Alternatively, perhaps you'd undelete it and list it on VfD, with your reasons? There I'd vote to delete it if it turns out not to be improved - but many dictionary definitions do get improved, which is why they aren't speedy deletion candidates. Someone has listed this on Votes for undeletion as well. Jamesday 05:18, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Correction: that was a listing on votes for Undeletion, not deletion. Since I see you've been active since my question and haven't said why you thought it was nonsense and in discussions three people, including me, expressed the view that it did not meet any speedy deletion condition, equalling those who thought it did, I'm proceeding to undelete it and per undeletion policy will be listing it on Votes for deletion. Once that's done you may wish to say more about why you think it was nonsense rather than simply a short dictionary definition. Jamesday 12:44, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * I can't remember for sure, but I guess I deleted it because I thought it to be a simple vandalism-like article like "Josh Gayboy" - someone wanting to insult someone who's nickname is butterface. But if it's an actual derogative term in English (as a non-native speaker I don't know them all) - well, undelete it and we have yet another not really encyclopedic article without any hope of improvement, like the thousands in Cleanup. Does every derogative term really valids an article - it just attracts the childish vandals listing the friends in them. It might fit in wiktionary, but I strongly doubt it's worth to include it here. I think that both VfD and Cleanup don't scale anymore with the success of WP, thus I think the speedy deletion rules are a bit too strict to cope with the influx of more-or-less garbage. andy 13:19, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

GWB image
sorry, I had been clearing my cashe and rechecking the image, I guess the vandalized version was stuck in the cashe somewhere between here and florida. Gentgeen 16:11, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Copyright Issues
sorry about that, Sir I have just posted the releveant links. Thanks for reminding me. user: 67.106.157.231 You have reverted my edits. Please revert to the links.

That's not the view of the article. That's the link of the web site.

Unprotection
Andy, I'm unprotecting Michael Perry since it's been over a week. Cross your fingers.

please add why those site are friends and not Wikispam
Hi, I saw that you deleted twice the two links I placed in the Wikipedia,s friends. Is it not written "This page lists external sites that feature links to Wikipedia" ? So, take the time and have a look on the two mentioned sites and you will see three pages with a link to wikipedia. Don't check them with the google command because you will not find them, the reason, simple, the links have been added recently and they are not yet in the google index. So, you will find following two backlinks to wikipedia, it will save you time. I guess I have the right to link my two websites for my contribution to wikipedia no ?

http://www.gainsbourg.org/vrsn3/html/links/index.html

http://www.kookaburraprojekt.com/html/featured.html

So, the two links in question were : http://www.gainsbourg.org

http://www.kookaburraprojekt.com

Regards

David

Orthographically challenged
LOL! I'm glad you caught that. I didn't notice the missing "a" and thought someone had simply typed the page name to create an article. Now I see that someone probably followed a "Greter Manchester" red link from somewhere and was pointing out an orthographical (I love that word) error. Thank you for catching that. SWAdair | Talk 10:23, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Actually there was no such red link, I checked that directly - but I could find and fix one Greter anyway in List of towns in England. And I just love these "challenged" words since I once heard a traffic report in the US warning about a "mechanically challenged" truck on the highway... andy 11:02, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Policy...
Andy, I've seen Jamesday's message above, so maybe you're already aware of this, but just in case you're not: some people are lobbying on Wikipedia talk:Candidates for speedy deletion to make the deletion policies more strict. Something like Vitascope should no longer be a speedy deletion candidate, in their opinion (if I understood them right)... maybe you'd like to make your voice heard over there? Lupo 11:11, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Amphoe
I see you have continued with the amphoe a littlebit? Funny thing is since I have internet I have less time to write .... :( More busy with the policies on nl now. I should actually go back to writing. Waerth 01:09, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Actually I did just one, i.e. Amphoe Si Ratcha - because I prefer to create articles where I don't need to add the, and I had something more than the tambon and the infobox for that one. The only other thing I did on the Amphoe were the categories, and also I prepared some more maps. And of course I continue to upload the best of my photo archive to commons... But what I spent most time recently was use templates for the german districts. andy 12:00, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Image:Mexico template.png
--David Iberri | Talk 18:07, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)

 * Done - it's GFDL, I created it myself with PanMap. andy 18:39, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks so much! --David Iberri | Talk 19:03, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)

User page protection
Hi Andy, would it be all right if we unprotect your user page, or if you do it yourself? I realize there was some vandalism, but presumably that problem has subsided now. There have been only very few cases in which people maintain long-term protection of user pages, and there are some concerns about making that a regular practice. --Michael Snow 21:15, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Oh, really, it's still protected? I protected it quite some time ago when it became target from changing IPs after I protected another user page which was target before - and I thought it'll get unprotected after a week or so together with the other user page. I just didn't follow it anymore. So, go ahead and do it... andy 21:32, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Fast deleter
You are a fast deleter! You deleted January 2005 while I was editing it to make it simply re-direct to 2005. 66.245.1.246 22:58, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * It's incredible how much garbage gets created in so short time, I guess I have deleted more than 100 articles tonight already. But now I'll have go to bed. andy 23:01, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

User page revert
Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page. That anon's becoming quite a pest. --David Iberri | Talk 18:59, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

Candidate for a new NPOV dispute image
I was wondering if you would approve of my changing the NPOV dispute icon to this:
 * I am no big fan of using icons for all the administrative templates, normally we should more try to avoid the need to use such templates at all - except that for NPOV disputes it'll need an ideal world to have no article use it. But maybe my dislike to icons is simply because I was a computer used in DOS days already, so I am used to spartan ungraphical user interfaces... andy 12:43, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Red-link recovery
Howdy and many thanks for your work on that list of mis-punctuated links. The list's pretty much completed now - I'll be generating a new version of it in due course, taking all the lessons learned from the last one into account. In the meantime, if you enjoyed working through the list (or at least found it a worthwhile distraction), you may want to have a look at the similar list of plural discrepancies which highlights red-links that might be red because they (or the article they are aiming for) are improperly pluralised. Again, thanks for your efforts - award yourself a wikimedal for janitorial services if you haven't already got one! - TB 11:28, 2004 Nov 8 (UTC)

 * Thanks. I like to work through your lists when I don't have enough time or patience to write new contents on my own, and instead just to some simple tasks. So I will be proud to add that wikimedal to my userpage - seems that noone noticed my minor contributions before. BTW: You should also create an update of the interwiki link table - recently a robot added a lot of the missing ones between de: and en:, so that list should now be much shorter. andy 12:43, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Moor Macaque
You may be right, but IUCN says otherwise. I'll keep digging to see what's what. - UtherSRG 17:18, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I'm getting conflicts when I search. I'll find (Schinz, 1825), but I'll also find (F. Schinz, 1825) and (F. Cuvier, 1823). Most common is the first. I think f. Schinz came from a mystype of Schinz & F. Cuvier somewhere down the line. I'll check my Groves when I get home very late tonight. - UtherSRG 17:40, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * I searched a lot as well, and most online source simply use "Schinz 1825", and only four use "F. Schinz 1825". The one which finally convinced me that the F. should be wrong was which list the actual citation as well, and "Das Thierreich" was co-edited by H.R. Schinz. Sadly I didn't find any biographical about him except his birth- and death year, not enough for a good stub imho. andy 19:56, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Groves says (F. Cuvier, 1823). - UtherSRG 07:39, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Strange, the year would make it volume III of "Das Thierreich", not volume IV, . Google only find exactly two hits which cite it from Cuvier 1823, while all others seem to agree on Schinz 1825. And according to (google cached site, original site didn't answer) cite it as Schinz 1825, and say "Based on specimen depicted in Cuvier, 1823". So maybe that's the answer - Cuvier gave the depiction, but it was Schinz who made the description and naming two years later? andy 08:42, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I believe you've nailed it. Cuvier might have described it as a specimen of another species, but Schinz quickly (for the day) corrected him. And why "F. Cuvier" instead of "Cuvier"? Mysteries and mysteries. Anyway, I'm inclined to follow Groves, since his work is the most accessible to both the public and the scientist. - UtherSRG 13:27, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Then we should at least move this discussion to the article talk to make it accessible for others who might stumble across it - or maybe also add our interpretation into the text. Even though I am not that happy with it as it's just (educated) speculation. You don't have the "Das Thierreich" at your hand? :-) andy

Copied the above to Talk:Moor Macaque, if anything new comes up we should discuss it there.

Muhammad
Why protect the article because of an anonymous anti-Islamic vandal? He has done this several times to Islamic articles in the past, including my user page. This guy won't discuss this in discussion. So what's the point? Please unprotect the article and ban his IP for a view days if you have to. 09:09, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * If you look at the edit history for that page, you will see that I am not alone in deciding that the statement that was removed, and OneGuy reverts back, is speculation that doesn't belong in a encyclopedia.

 * Please use the talk page to clean up that argument, I don't take any point in the discussion. I just see an edit war (which is bad), and it seems to me not like a normal repeated vandalism which would result in blocking of the vandal, but an dispute about contents. If you think I protected wrongly, you can ask for unprotection at Protected page. andy 09:15, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * However, you should notice that this guy has a history of inserting negative spin to Islamic articles. As you can see, he even did it to my user page. The statement he removed was discussed in Talk:Jesus. It's just a fact that people think Muhammad, Ghengiz Khan, Abraham Lincoln, Hitler, etc had historical influence. There is nothing POV about that statement. And of course, in my first revert, I told this vandal to come to talk Jesus and discuss it. He never did and just reverted it back without giving reason or discussing it OneGuy 09:22, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

And as you can see he went to Jihad page and started this all over again and ignored the discussion by User:Mirv completely. What's the point of discussion then? So please unprotect the page on Muhammad OneGuy 13:11, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Test Boilerplate
Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. What is this "test" you speak of? I do not believe I have made any bad edits lately. Maybe it was someone else on the same IP? 204.60.171.230 19:52, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Quite likely, especially if you are using AOL you don't have a fixed IP address. And I cannot see any test template added by myself on User talk:204.60.171.230, which was the IP you had while you wrote the above note. andy 19:55, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

We got mentioned on the New York Times!
Hello. I'm not sure if you're aware of this yet, but we both got mentioned on the New York Times! I don't think they put in your user name though :(, they referred to you as "a German computer programmer". Oh well...that doesn't prevent you from having serious bragging rights :). -[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 23:16, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Yes, I saw it in the mailing list as well. And the funny thing is - that Weasel speak wasn't intended :-) When I wrote that statement I just was annoyed that some of the Kerry supporters thought they can fight for more votes by vandalizing the GWB article, especially by sneaking in voting recommendations. But as I am no fan of GWB the second meaning noted by the NYT isn't alien to me :-) I guess that one deserves to get listed on my user page... andy 08:47, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

AngryApe
About vfd'ed AngryApe, is it still time to reveret the entry on vfd page in order to avoid vote ? Aside : ": This page is 39 kilobytes long." Time to kill most of it ? :-) Regards. --Gtabary 11:13, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Hum... Looks I got a bit of mess on the vfd page. Which explain why I understood you suggested to CSD AngryApe as opposed to vfd it. Sorry for noise. --Gtabary 11:30, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * AngryApe isn't a speedy deletion candidate, that was an article named Uncle Fucka (or similar). I usually don't check VfD anymore, it's a pain to edit anything there due to the size of that page. Oh yes, and I guess I have to archive my talk again, just two months and already 30k again... andy 11:35, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Keeping "In the news" NPOV and credible
Following various attempts to add partisan and fringe stories to Template:In the news, I've proposed a new criterion to keep such stuff out. Could you please take a look at Wikipedia talk:In the news section on the Main Page and let me know what you think? -- ChrisO 19:13, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hamburg U- & S-Bahn
Thanks for the tip ...I´ll do it that way in future..Gruß aus Berlin IsarSteve 12:13, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Something Awful Forums
Ey there, the vandalising on Something Awful Forums is getting insane the last couple hours, maybe it should be protected for a bit, almost seems as if they announced a massive WP vandalising action on one of their leet forums. -- [[User:Solitude|Solitude\talk]] 15:26, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)

 * Yepp. But better the vandals all go to one rather unimportant article than vandalize articles by random - those are much more likely to slip through... andy 15:28, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Mangez des pommes!
While I agree that the link about eating apples was to be removed from Jacques Chirac, it was not as irrelevant as you thought. There was a joke about Chirac and slogans of "Eat apples!" around the 1995 election, arising from sketches in les Guignols de l'Info. That's probably somewhat difficult to explain to the non-French public. David.Monniaux 17:15, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Categories DO work in redirect pages
Categories work in redirect pages when you put them before redirect command. I don't see anything wrong with using them there. --Pouya 12:24, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Quality management
Your speedy deletion notice on Quality management gave me quite a smile. Thanks for brightening my morning :-) andy 08:44, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Glad you enjoyed it, but you're missing all the good ones if you get up this early. It's usually around 3AM that my sense of whimsey takes over and I start abusing deletebecause with haiku's, non-scanning limericks and puns. --fvw* 08:47, 2004 Nov 24 (UTC)

TIS-620
Yes, I also noticed the existence of ISO 8859-11 a moment too late... but the two are in fact ever so slightly different, so I've linked the two together and noted the sole difference. (Which is largely academic, but hey, if something defines being anal it's documenting charsets.) Jpatokal 12:16, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Fair enough — but I think the redirect should be done the other way around. I've opened discussion on Talk:TIS-620. Jpatokal 12:49, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
I've "started" the Free the Rambot Articles Project which aims to get users to release all of their contributions to the U.S. state, county, and city articles under the CC-by-sa 1.0 and 2.0 license (at minimum) or into the public domain if they prefer. A secondary goal is to get those users to release ALL of their edits for ALL articles. I've personally chosen to multi-license all of the rambot and Ram-Man contributions under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License so that other projects, such as WikiTravel, can use our articles. I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all your contributions (or at minimum those on the geographic articles) so that we can keep most of the articles available under the multi-license. Many users use the   template (or even    for public domain) on their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. If you only prefer using the GFDL, I understand, but I thought I'd at least ask, just in case, since the number of your edits is in the top 20 most. If you do want to do it, simply just copy and paste one of the above two templates into your user page and it will allow us to track those users who have done it. For example:

 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain (which many people do or don't like to do, see Multi-licensing), you could replace   with    -- Ram-Man 14:37, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)

Thai notice board
Certainly put it on the Thailand talk page. I only found the list of Wikipedians by country a few minutes ago (again by accident, randomly following links). I think this is a general issue with the Wikipedia - there's no overview of things so lots of information just gets lost.

Can we not make some template to put on the talk pages of Thai articles? It would advertise the noticeboard and a few things we're working on? --KayEss 02:46, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Talk:Main Page
Sometimes you revert a layer of vandalism only to find a whole new layer of vandalism underneath :-) --fvw * † 12:51, 2004 Nov 29 (UTC)

 * Yes, that's the drawback of the "Rollback" function I have as an admin, then I don't need check the history to find the last good version, normally it's just the one recent edit which needs to be undone. But well, on a talk page the vandalism isn't really serious... andy 12:55, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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Medina Lake

Medina Lake is a reservoir on the Medina River in the Texas Hill Country of the United States. It is operated by the Bexar/Medina/Atascosa County Agricultural District. Medina Dam was completed in 1913 in a privately financed project, creating the lake to supply irrigation water for local agricultural use. Lake Medina is in northeastern Medina County and southeastern Bandera County, about 40 miles (64 km) northwest of San Antonio.

It is a crescent-shaped reservoir running west to east. It is 18 miles (29 km) long and 3 miles (5 km) wide at its broadest point. It is contained by the Medina Dam at the lake's south end. At the time of the dam's construction, it was the largest concrete dam in the country and the fourth largest dam overall. The dam is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The lake is fed by and discharges back into the Medina River, and serves both recreational and irrigation uses. Communities located along the lake are Mico, Lake Medina Shores and Lakehills.

Fish populations
Medina Lake has been stocked with species of fish intended to improve the reservoir for recreational fishing. Fish in Medina Lake include largemouth bass, white bass, hybrid striped bass, catfish, and carp. Due to drought conditions lasting up until July 2015, recreational fish species had disappeared. Plans to restock the lake once levels reach viable levels were put in place. These plans were realized when the lake did reach these levels, which as of October 2, 2016, is 96.6% full.

Future and state of the lake
As part of the 2010–13 Southern United States drought, the lake water levels dropped below 5% capacity. Many cracks, oil drums and a Jeep were visible as a result of low water. Only one public boat ramp remained, located at Red Cove in Mico. A few showers in the Summer of 2013 helped the lake rise to 5.2%, but the dam was reopened in September as many people in the South Side of San Antonio use the lake for a water source. Many businesses have closed in the area, many residents have left and Lakehills has become somewhat of a ghost town.

Heavy rainfall in the region as of May, 2015 brought the levels above 46% capacity. At that time, Medina Lake was about 28 feet low, down from 90 feet low mere months before.

Due to heavy rains on the Medina River basin and the lake itself in May 2016, Medina Lake was 100% full and 1.5 feet above its conservation pool as of June 1, 2016.

As of July 2023, Medina Lake was the lowest it’s been since 2015, only being filled to about 5% capacity, compared to last years 12% capacity, This is due to constant drought and irrigation as many experts claim it may take years of rain to replenish the reservoir.

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Louis Edmonds

Louis Stirling Edmonds (September 24, 1923 – March 3, 2001) was an American actor from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was best known for his roles in Dark Shadows and All My Children.

Edmonds appeared in the musical Ernest in Love in 1960. He acted on the supernatural soap Dark Shadows as Roger Collins from 1966 to 1971. His other roles on Dark Shadows were Joshua Collins (the father of Barnabas Collins), Edward Collins (the older brother of Quentin Collins), Roger Collins PT (Roger Collins' opposite self in 1970 Parallel Time), the adult Daniel Collins (a cousin of Barnabas Collins and Millicent Collins' younger brother), Amadeus Collins (a lawyer who was the main prosecutor in the trial of Judah Zachary in 1692, whose spirit later possesses Gerard Stiles in 1840), and Brutus Collins (a ghost who haunted the secret locked room in 1841 Parallel Time).

On All My Children, he played Langley Wallingford/Lenny Wlasuk from 1979-92 (on contract, returning for special events up until 1995, the show's 25th anniversary special), who was married to Phoebe Tyler, portrayed by Ruth Warrick. He received Daytime Emmy nominations in 1984, 1985, and 1986. He also received Soap Opera Digest Award nominations in 1989 and 1990.

Edmonds retired from the show due to ill health after being off contract for several years. He died of respiratory failure on March 3, 2001, in Port Jefferson, New York.

Early life
Edmonds was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on September 24, 1923, to Walter R. Edmonds and his wife, Katherine L. Stirling. He served in the United States Navy during World War II.

Stage work
Edmonds began his career off-Broadway in the 1950s, appearing in mostly light comedy and classical works. He created the role of Algernon in Ernest in Love, the musical version of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. The cast recording was recently reissued on CD.

He played Max in the original Broadway production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide, but due to a temporary illness, he is not heard on the cast recording. In the 1970s and 1980s, Edmonds toured in several national tours; two of the most successful were Man of La Mancha (as Cervantes/Quixote) and My Fair Lady (as Henry Higgins).

Personal life
Edmonds came out publicly in the biography Big Lou by Craig Hamrick, published while Edmonds was in his 70s. The actor gave details of his life as a gay man.

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South Africans

South Africans are the citizens of South Africa, as well as the global diaspora of South Africa.

People born in South Africa before October 6, 1995, are South African citizens.

History
The first modern inhabitants of South Africa were the San and the Khoi people.

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Auschwitz trial

The Auschwitz trial began on November 24, 1947, in Kraków, when Poland's Supreme National Tribunal tried forty former staff of the Auschwitz concentration camps. The trials ended on December 22, 1947.

The best-known defendants were Arthur Liebehenschel, former commandant; Maria Mandl, head of the Auschwitz women's camps; and SS-doctor Johann Kremer. Thirty-seven other SS officers—thirty-three men and four women—who had served as guards or doctors in the camps were also tried.

Verdict of the Supreme National Tribunal in the first Auschwitz trial
"Torturing of prisoners [of Auschwitz] already tormented to the extreme [by extrajudicial means], is the evidence of inhuman savagery perpetrated by those defendants who as a result of the trial were sentenced to death. The listed violent crimes committed by named defendants, who all took smaller or larger part in the mass murder of prisoners, also reveal that the accused were involved in the acts of killing for pleasure, and not pursuant to orders of their superiors. If it were not for their expressed desire to kill, they would have otherwise displayed elements of sympathy for the victims, or at least show indifference to their plight, but not torture them to death."

Rudolf Höss, sentenced in a previous trial, was executed on April 16, 1947, in front of the crematorium at Auschwitz I. The trial of camp commandant Höss, which took place at the Supreme National Tribunal in Warsaw throughout March 1947, was the first trial held at Auschwitz, followed by the trials in Kraków several months later.

Summary
The Supreme National Tribunal presiding in Kraków issued 23 death sentences, and 17 imprisonments ranging from life sentences to 3 years. All executions were carried out on January 24, 1948, at the Kraków Montelupich Prison, "one of the most terrible Nazi prisons in occupied Poland" used by Gestapo throughout World War II. Maria Mandl and Therese Brandl were the first to be executed. One person was acquitted: Sergeant Major Hans Münch, who refused to participate in the selection process and made futile, although confirmed, requests for more food to the inmates.

Liebehenschel, Mandel and Kremer were condemned to death, as were Hans Aumeier, August Bogusch, Therese Brandl, Arthur Breitwieser, Fritz Buntrock, Wilhelm Gehring, Paul Götze, Maximilian Grabner, Heinrich Josten, Hermann Kirschner, Josef Kollmer, Franz Kraus, Herbert Ludwig, Karl Möckel, Kurt Mueller, Eric Muhsfeldt, Ludwig Plagge, Hans Schumacher and Paul Szczurek (Arthur Breitwieser and Johann Kremer had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment). Luise Danz, Hans Koch, Anton Lechner, Adolf Medefind, Detlef Nebbe, and Karl Seufert received life sentences. Alexander Bülow, Hans Hoffmann, Hildegard Lächert, Eduard Lorenz, Alice Orlowski, Franz Romeikat, and Johannes Weber were sentenced to 15 years. Richard Schroeder received 10 years, Erich Dinges five years, and Karl Jeschke three years. Hans Münch was acquitted.

Notes and references

 * Cyprian T., Sawicki J., Siedem wyroków Najwyższego Trybunału Narodowego, Poznań, 1962
 * G. Álvarez, Mónica. "Guardianas Nazis. El lado femenino del mal". Madrid: Grupo Edaf, 2012. ISBN 978-84-414-3240-6

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Don Briscoe

Cecil Donald Briscoe (March 20, 1940 –October 31, 2004) was an American stage and soap opera actor known for starring in the TV series Dark Shadows.

Early life and education
Briscoe was born on March 20, 1940, in Scobey, Mississippi. He grew up in a middle-class family, where his father took a job as a service manager for Firestone and his mother worked in admissions at the old City of Memphis Hospital. He earned a scholarship to attend Phillips Exeter Academy, graduating in 1958. He received his bachelor's degree from Columbia College in 1962. He received his master's degree in English literature from Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1965. While at Columbia University, he and future Dark Shadows co-star Roger Davis were classmates and acted in the Columbia Players, then headed by their classmate, and future director Brian De Palma.

Career
Briscoe's early acting credits include New York stage appearances in Come Back Little Sheba, The Tavern, and Friends and Romans. He played Tony Merritt #2 on Days of Our Lives in 1966. He also made a guest appearance during the second season of I Dream of Jeannie, which aired on March 20, 1967. He played an officer in the episode entitled "A Secretary is Not a Toy."

In 1968, he joined the cast of the Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows playing Chris Jennings, Tom Jennings, Timothy Shaw, and Chris Collins. His sexy, brooding good looks made him an instant favorite among fans, and he became the subject of countless fan magazine photos and articles. before leaving the show in 1970.

Briscoe appeared in the 1970 film House of Dark Shadows as Todd, the fiancee of Carolyn (Nancy Barrett) and the target of her vampire attacks. After appearing in the MGM film, Briscoe abruptly left Dark Shadows and left acting, suffering from bipolar disorder.

Personal life
Briscoe died on October 31, 2004, at his home in Memphis, Tennessee from heart disease.

title: Don Briscoe