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Benny Parsons

Benjamin Stewart Parsons (July 12, 1941 – January 16, 2007) was an American NASCAR driver, and later an announcer/analyst/pit reporter on SETN, TBS, ABC, ESPN, NBC, and TNT. He became famous as the 1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series champion, and was a 2017 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee. He was the older brother of former NASCAR driver, car owner, and broadcaster Phil Parsons of Phil Parsons Racing.

He was nicknamed "BP" and The Professor, the latter in part because of his popular remarks and relaxed demeanor.

Early life
Parsons was born in Wilkes County, North Carolina. He spent his childhood years in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and played football at Millers Creek High School (now known as West Wilkes High School). Following high school, he moved to Detroit, Michigan where his father operated a taxicab company. Parsons worked at a gas station and drove cabs in Detroit before beginning his racing career. While working at the gas station one day, a couple of customers towing a race car invited him to a local race track. The driver of the car never showed up for that evening's race, and Parsons drove the car in a race for the first time later that night. Benny later moved to Ellerbe, North Carolina and always called it home.

1960s
Parsons began his NASCAR career by running a single race in 1964 for Holman-Moody with a young Cale Yarborough.

Parsons won the 1968 and 1969 ARCA championships, and then moved to Ellerbe, North Carolina.

Parsons had three top-10 finishes in four NASCAR races in 1969.

1970s
Benny joined the NASCAR circuit full-time in 1970 with crew chief John Hill. He had 23 top-10 finishes in 45 races, a pole at Langley Field Speedway, and finished eighth in the final point standings. He raced the No. 72 car for L.G. DeWitt/DeWitt Racing.

Parsons had 18 top-10 finishes in 35 starts in 1971, including his first win at South Boston Speedway. He finished eleventh in the points.

In 1972, he had 19 top-10 finishes in 31 races. He finished fifth in the final points standings.

In 1973, he won the NASCAR Winston Cup Series Championship with only one win, even though David Pearson won eleven races, although Pearson had only entered eighteen events. Parsons' consistency likely won him the championship: he had 21 top-10 and 15 top-5 finishes in the 28 events.

His improbable return to the track after an early crash cemented his 1973 championship at Rockingham, North Carolina. He saw his championship hopes start to fade as he was involved in a lap 13 crash and his car was heavily damaged. He took to the pits to muster whatever he could out of the car and hope for a top five finish in the final standings. The rest of the garage was hoping to see the underdog unseat the mighty Richard Petty and joined in to help Parsons' crew put the car back together. Parsons miraculously got back on the track 136 laps later and completed enough laps to finish 25th and take the 1973 championship. Richard Petty, with the championship in his sights after winning the pole and seeing Parsons' accident, had engine trouble and was relegated to a 35th-place finish. The poor performance dropped Petty all the way to fifth in the final standings, as Cale Yarborough took the runner up spot on the season with his third-place effort. Yarborough finished 67 points behind the champion.

Parsons became the only person to win both ARCA and NASCAR championships.

Parsons finished between third and fifth in the final points standings from 1974 to 1980, and won the 1975 Daytona 500. He switched to the No. 27 entry for M.C. Anderson starting in 1979.

In 1979 at North Wilkesboro Speedway, Bobby Allison led most of the race, but in the final 150 laps, Darrell Waltrip caught Allison. The two hit together hard and Waltrip hit the front stretch wall. Waltrip began crowding Allison under the caution and got black flagged for the crowding. Benny Parsons would win the race, but it would be his only win at the North Wilkesboro Speedway. Parsons' wife Terri, with whom he was married from 1992 until his death in 2007, became an investor in North Wilkesboro Speedway two years after his death.

1980s
He won the 1980 World 600 at Charlotte and the Los Angeles Times 500 (the final major motor race held at Ontario Motor Speedway) and finished 3rd in points.

In 1981, he started racing in the No. 15 Bud Moore Ford Thunderbird. He had wins at Nashville Speedway USA, the final race at Texas World Speedway, and Richmond. In addition, he received his final top-ten points finish, finishing tenth that year.

Parsons qualified for the 1982 Winston 500 at Talladega Superspeedway at 200.175 miles per hour (mph), which was the first NASCAR qualification run over 200 mph.

Parsons raced in about half of the races between 1983 and 1986 for owner Johnny Hayes. Parsons' final career victory came in 1984 at the Coca-Cola 500 at Atlanta.

He appeared in the 1983 Burt Reynolds movie Stroker Ace.

Parsons joined Hendrick Motorsports in 1987 as a substitute driver for Tim Richmond, who was stricken with AIDS. During the first lap of a race at Darlington Raceway, Parsons hit the wall and badly damaged his race car. He was able to continue, but had to make several pit stops for repairs. At one point, his crew chief, Harry Hyde, refused to allow Parsons to pit because he and the crew were on an ice cream break. This incident was alluded to in the film, Days of Thunder. Another scene in the film was inspired by a real-life incident at Martinsville Speedway involving Parsons and the notoriously cantankerous Hyde. Hyde sarcastically told Parsons to hit the pace car on a restart because it was the only thing on the track that Parsons had not hit.

Parsons drove the No. 90 Bulls Eye BBQ Ford for Junie Donlavey in his final NASCAR season in 1988 and then moved to the broadcast booth, a position that he would hold until his death.

Parsons did decide to race a few other times. The first was during the 2003 Old Dominion 500 as part of an advertising segment for "Wally's World." He then drove a ceremonial victory lap at the last fall race at Rockingham in 2003 in a 1973 Chevrolet similar to the one in which he had won a championship.

Parsons is also credited with discovering former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle at a "Gong Show" held in Tucson, Arizona.

Awards and statistics

 * Inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2016 as part of the Class of 2017.
 * Inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1994.
 * Named as one of the NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers in 1998.
 * Inducted into the Court of Legends at Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1994.
 * Inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2005.
 * Had 283 top 10 finishes, led at least one lap in 192 races, and finished no lower than fifth in points between 1972 and 1980.

NASCAR
(key) ( Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. )

International Race of Champions
(key) ( Bold – Pole position. * – Most laps led. )

Broadcasting career
Parsons began announcing as a pit reporter in the 1980s on ESPN and TBS while he was still racing part-time. After permanently retiring from racing in 1988, Parsons became a broadcaster – first on ESPN, and then with NBC and TNT in 2001. He received an ESPN Emmy in 1996, and the ACE Award in 1989. He appears in the videogames NASCAR '99, NASCAR 2000, and NASCAR 2001 as a commentator as well as an unlockable legend (he was only featured in NASCAR 2001 as an announcer). He later appeared in NASCAR Rumble as a legend in the game as well as NASCAR Thunder 2002, NASCAR Thunder 2003, and NASCAR Thunder 2004 as an unlockable driver and featured the game in NBC and TNT telecasts where Parsons did EA Sports Thunder Motion where he took viewers on a virtual ride of each track.

Parsons co-hosted coverage of Winston Cup Qualifying on North Carolina radio station WFMX with Mark Garrow in the early '90s. He continued to co-host a radio program called "Fast Talk" on Performance Racing Network (PRN) with Doug Rice until his death (he was replaced by an alternating host). He also had a podcast available on iTunes, in conjunction with CNN called  The CNN Radio Racing Report with Benny Parsons.

Parsons appeared as himself in the 1995 children's video "NASCAR For Kids - A Day At The Races,” acting as the host.

In 2005, Parsons made a cameo appearance as himself in the movie Herbie: Fully Loaded. In 2006, he again appeared as himself in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

Illness and death
Parsons began having trouble breathing in the summer of 2006. He was diagnosed with lung cancer. He announced later that the treatment had been successful, and that he had a clean bill of health. Parsons had stopped smoking in 1978.

His health prevented him from attending a ceremony in November 2006 where he was to be presented with the Myers Brothers Award, honoring his contributions to racing.

On December 26, 2006, Parsons was readmitted to the hospital and placed in intensive care because of complications relating to lung cancer.

On January 16, 2007, Parsons died of complications from lung cancer treatment in the intensive care unit of the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is buried near his childhood home in Purlear, North Carolina, which is now the site of Benny Parsons' Rendezvous Ridge. Rendezvous Ridge is also his wife Terri's residence as well as being a racing museum and a winery.

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Tlahtopil
From náuatl tlahtoa and -pil, "word or speech" and the diminutive suffix. In a (progressively) less pompous way, could be Kurzwort or Little Talk, Palabreja, Palabrería. This alias has been with Mario Antonio Calderón (Guadalajara, México, 1974) since his 1998 depression, so it is now like an Internet alter ego and he doesn't plan to get rid of it soon.

Before anybody asks: yes, I'm married; yes, I've children; no, I don't want to make new cyber relationships... Of any kind.

For those who pay lots of attention to (s)nobility titles, Mario Antonio Calderón is egressed of Hispanic-American Literature (now calls Hispanic Language and Literature), by University_of_Guadalajara (México), and has diplomas on Center-Western-México Regional Literature and on Journalism, and has some other studies on written word, for literary, didactic and journalistic purposes. Is member of National_Geographic_Society (USA) and also of Pentathlón_Deportivo_Militarizado_Universitario (PDMU, Mx), graded as Second Officer (equiparable to Second Captain); his name was included in the Mexican Directory of Creative Artists since 1996 and has articles and essays in various national and international magazines.

Speaks, reads and understands English quite well, aside Spanish (native language), and has some comprehension of other romance languages, and a minor one of German and Náuatl (or Náhuatl or Nahuatl), as can be seen.

From 2001 to 2008 wored for the Catholic Church, first in Semanario_Arquidiocesano journal, later in Ediciones_Católicas_de_Guadalajara, as editor, proofreder, assessor and designer, and since 2009 in María_†_Visión_México as copy, script writer and web editor.

Comments about Tlahtopil's collaborations in Wikipedia are always welcome; but rather than write them here, send them to ... Anyhow, the author has a life and can't be tied to this proyect, no matter how wonderful it is.

Interests

 * Urban and mountain cycling
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 * Open Source Software (usage, not development)
 * Politics and society
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Collaborations in Wikipedia
(Most of them with Spanish translation or link to the equivalent entry in Spanish Wikipedia)

Off the ground

 * Corrido
 * PDMU
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Cosmetic revisions, disambiguations, useful cross-references, little conceptual cleanups

 * Mexican Posadas (interwiky)
 * Cadet (interwiky)
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 * Music of Mexico's imprecissions regarding the corrido were mended.
 * Sargeant concept now has a call to military rank
 * Soldier (interwiky)
 * Youth organization (PDMU added)

Come to visit me at Spanish Wikibooks

Visit my blog

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Walter Kwok

Walter Kwok Ping-sheung JP (Cantonese pronunciation: ; 1950 – 20 October 2018) was a Hong Kong real estate developer. He was the eldest son of Kwok Tak-seng, founder of Sun Hung Kai Properties, and his wife Kwong Siu-hing. Following their father's death in 1990, he and his brothers Thomas and Raymond inherited Sun Hung Kai Properties.

Kwok, formerly chairman and CEO of Sun Hung Kai Properties, negotiated his departure from the family firm in 2010. His mother remains the controlling shareholder of the company, whilst his brothers manage the firm. The Kwok family was ranked third in 2017 Asia's Richest Families, with an estimated net worth of US$40.4 billion as of November 2017.

Early life and family
Kwok was born in 1950 in British Hong Kong, the eldest son of Kwok Tak-seng, founder of Sun Hung Kai Properties, and his wife Kwong Siu-hing. The Kwok family's ancestral home was located in Zhongshan, Guangdong, formerly known as Xiangshan. Kwok was educated at Imperial College London in England, from which he earned a master's degree in civil engineering.

Kwok and his younger brothers Thomas and Raymond are together referred to by media as the Kwok brothers. Together they controlled the majority of Sun Hung Kai Properties (until ouster in 2008, see below section). As of March 2018, all three brothers were listed in the Forbes 2018 The World's Billionaires, with a net worth of US$16.5 billion (Thomas and Raymond) and US$8 billion (Walter only) respectively. In a separate listing, the Kwok family was listed as the third-richest in Forbes's 2017 Asia's Richest Families, with a net worth of US$40.4 billion as of November 2017. The net worth by Forbes as of his death was US$6.9 billion.

Abduction
Kwok was kidnapped by the notorious gangster "Big Spender" Cheung Tze-keung on 30 September 1997, and was released seven days later without police intervention. Negotiations fronted by wife Wendy resulted in payment of a ransom rumoured to have been nine figures. Following his arrest in Guangzhou in 1998, Cheung confessed that he had put Kwok in a wooden container blindfolded for four days, and fed him regular meals of roast pork with rice, until the ransom of some HK$600 million was paid. The ransom in 1,000-dollar notes was packed inside 20 large carrier bags and driven in two Mercedes saloon cars to a quiet lane in Central district. After the kidnapping, the badly shaken Kwok handed over the executive duties of SHKP to his younger brothers while retaining the title of chairman and chief executive. His abductor, Cheung, was captured in Guangzhou, China, and executed in December 1998.

Later chairmanship
As a result of his kidnapping ordeal, Kwok reportedly developed deep psychological problems, and while he retained the titles of chairman and chief executive, his two brothers Thomas and Raymond controlled day-to-day operations of the group.

Under Kwok's later chairmanship, press reported that a former girlfriend, Ida Tong, had become increasingly influential in decision making. This influence has led to business decisions by Kwok that departed from its previous conservative model, and without the consensus of his brothers.

Ouster
On 18 February 2008, Sun Hung Kai Properties issued a statement saying Kwok would take a temporary leave of absence for personal reasons with immediate effect. Kwok later issued a statement stating he would take a personal holiday to travel to the United States, Beijing and other cities in the coming two to three months, adding he would resume his duties on his return. However, Kwok was formally removed as the chairman on 27 May, with his mother Kwong Siu-hing taking over as chairperson. Kwok remained as one of the non-executive directors until his resignation in 2014.

The Sing Tao Daily and sister publication The Standard reported that the family matriarch Kwong Siu-hing, wielding the holding of the Sun Hung Kai trust, intervened to oust Kwok from his chairman position to protect the family's interests. It was said that Tong's influence as Kwok's mistress of four years had caused friction with his brothers.

Kwok founded Empire Group Holdings in 2010. Empire Group Holdings was incorporated in Hong Kong, and was notable for forming joint ventures with other real estate developers in the bidding of the leasehold of Government Land, such as the Hong Kong Ferry in August 2016 and Sino Land in October 2016. The group also acquired the rights to re-develop and operate the former site of the Mariners' Club in Tsim Sha Tsui, despite not owning the re-developed properties.

In 2012, Kwok's younger brothers Thomas and Raymond, as well as Rafael Hui, previously the second-highest ranking government official in Hong Kong, were arrested by the city's anti-corruption agency on suspicion of bribery. Thomas Kwok and Rafael Hui were sentenced to prison terms while Raymond Kwok was acquitted. It has been suggested that Walter Kwok, who was not arrested, was the one who passed information to the authorities, supposedly in revenge for his ouster from Sun Hung Kai Properties a few years earlier.

Kwok also sued his brothers to revoke the agreement on the distribution of the family fortune. According to his testimony in the court proceedings, he received some real estate in the United States, but of lesser value than what his brothers received.

Personal life
Kwok's parents introduced him to Lydia Ku Chee-yung, the daughter of a wealthy businessman from Shanghai, whom he married on 15 September 1982, but the marriage broke up six months later.

Kwok married Wendy Lee Ting-wing in 1983. They had two sons, Geoffrey and Jonathan, and a daughter.

Kwok died at Hong Kong Adventist Hospital – Stubbs Road on 20 October 2018, two months after suffering a stroke. He was 68.

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Talk:Vitellius

Date Vitellius became imperator
January 2, 69 is not Vitellius' first day as imperator -- that was during Galba's last days, even before Otho. I was amazed to find through Google that this incorrect date is splashed all over the Web as Vitellius' first day; obviously this article, or its source, has been distributed widely with the error intact.

www.roman-britain.org gives Vitellius' first day as April 17, 69, which would conform with the end of Otho's reign (given as April 16 in Wiki), and so I am changing it thus unless someone has better info. --Pontifex 00:37, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

 * My guess is that the the Jan. 2 date reflects when Vitellius was named imperator by his troops, which would be factually correct. "Imperator" was a military title, not synonymous with "Caesar" or later "Augustus."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.146.101.146 (talk) 16:21, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Although **uncontested** emperor only after Otho's suicide following Bedriacum (until the proclaimation of Vespasian anyway), no doubt Vitellius - as in common with all other Roman emperors - would have dated the beginning of his reign (his dies imperii) to the day he was first proclaimed, i.e. 2nd January. For a parallel (as both were usurpers until they finally won) note that the beginning of Vespasian's reign was dated by him from the day he was first proclaimed in the east (1st July), irrespective of the fact that Vitellius was not overthrown until 22nd December. The date in the text should be reverted or at least altered to reflect this.82.44.82.167 (talk) 17:07, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Spanish Wikipedia says 17th, French Wikipedia 19th

--JFCochin (talk) 15:16, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Germanicus
Vitellius was born just plain, simple Aulus Vitellius. He took the titles "Germanicus" and "Augustus" immediately upon his acclaimation as emperor. "Caesar" he refused at first because he wanted to disassociate himself with those emperors who came before him, although he adopted it too eventually. 82.44.82.167 (talk) 21:37, 11 January 2008 (UTC)Catiline63

Vespasian's propaganda campaign
Some sources claim that Vitellius bad picture in history (as reflected by this article, e.g. ' "Yet I was once your emperor," were the last and, as far as we know, the noblest words of Vitellius ') was due to a propaganda campaign vaged by Vespasian in order to justify his taking of power. I would suggest to add a sentence along this line to the article and check for 'Vespasian bias' (see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespasian#cite_note-21). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.253.76.185 (talk) 06:32, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I was just going to say-- I'm not too familiar with Wikipedia neutrality guidelines, but isn't it a bit much to declare someone's words or actions to be "noble"? Jrule (talk) 01:00, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Busts of Vitellius
has persisted in placing an illustration in this article with claims that ought to be discussed here first rather than in the edits. If "pretty much all historians" accept the bust as Vitellius, s/he should provide a source to support that claim. To my eye it resembles the Capitoline bust, much used in Renaissance portraiture, which is now believed to be of someone else. If he'd bother to read the Wikimedia description, the bust is said there to be of the pseudo-Vitellius type. Sweetpool50 (talk) 19:41, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
 * This is a bust of the Renaissance. It can be kept in the article as it is quite famous, but should not be in the lede since we have contemporary portraits (coins). T8612  (talk) 00:08, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

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František Křižík

František Křižík (8 July 1847 – 22 January 1941) was a Czech inventor, electrical engineer, and entrepreneur.

Biography
Křižík was born into a family in Plánice. In spite of his background, Křižík managed in 1866 to study engineering at the Technical University of Prague ČVUT.

Křižík is considered the pioneer of practical electrical engineering and in electrification of Bohemia and Austro-Hungarian empire. At the time he was often compared to Thomas Edison. In 1878 Křižík invented a remotely operated signaling device to protect against collision between trains. Křižík's cores are magnetic solenoids cores shaped so as to ensure an approximately uniform pull in different positions in the solenoid.

His first experiments in Plzeň resulted in the invention in 1880 of the automatic electric arc lamp, the so-called "Plzen Lamp" which was displayed at the International Exposition of Electricity in Paris in 1881. This lamp, with self-adjusting brushes, won the gold medal from among 50 similar devices. Later he successfully defended his patent against Werner Siemens claim to have created it first. His lamps were successfully used in many cities for street lighting. The restored and fully functional patented arc lamp with automated electrode adjustment can be viewed at the Museum of Pilsen. In 1894, he designed an electric musical fountain illuminated by coloured lamps, one of the most popular attractions at the General National Exhibition in Lviv.

In 1884 Křižík set up his own company building city lighting, tramway lines, street cars, power stations, and various electric equipment. In 1895 Křižík built one of first electromobiles in the Austrian Empire.

He was active freemason since 1881 when he joined masonic lodge Harmonie in Plzeň. He was later active as member of lodge Jan Amos Komenský and later lodge Sibi et posteris in Prague. In 1923 František Křižík was one of the founders nad patrons of the National Czechoslovak Grand Lodge.

A Prague street and subsequently near subway station were named after František Křižík – Křižíkova.

Electrified railway Tábor–Bechyně
František Křižík built the first electrified railway in the Austro-Hungarian empire from Tábor to Bechyně in 1903. The track gauge was. The maximum speed was 50 km/h.

Legacy
The main belt asteroid 5719 Křižík was named in his honor.

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Deprenyl

Deprenyl, also known by its developmental code name E-250 and as N-propargylmethamphetamine, is the racemic mixture of D -deprenyl and  L -deprenyl (selegiline). It was discovered in 1961 in Hungary at Chinoin Pharmaceutical Company by Zoltan Ecseri and Joseph Knoll, was patented in 1962, and was first described in the literature in 1964 or 1965.

The drug is a monoamine oxidase inhibitor and norepinephrine–dopamine releasing agent. It is a prodrug of methamphetamine and amphetamine, which mediates the latter action. Deprenyl was studied clinically at high doses of 50 to 100mg/day and was described as a psychostimulant and antidepressant. At lower doses, selective MAO-B inhibition would be expected, but at these higher doses, dual inhibition of MAO-A and MAO-B would occur, on the basis of L -deprenyl.

Subsequent to its synthesis, the stereoisomers of deprenyl were separated. The dextrorotatory isomer, D -deprenyl, was found to be more toxic, producing effects like hyperthermia and more potent psychostimulation in rodents. The levorotatory isomer, selegiline, was much more potent as an MAO-B inhibitor, and was subsequently developed for the treatment of Parkinson's disease and depression.

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User:Aarensberg

The article x y z affair is a clear copyright infringement -- you even quoted the copyright. Maury 00:43, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Encaustic tile

Encaustic or inlaid tiles are ceramic tiles in which the pattern or figure on the surface is not a product of the glaze but of different colors of clay. They are usually of two colours but a tile may be composed of as many as six. The pattern appears inlaid into the body of the tile, so that the design remains as the tile is worn down. Encaustic tiles may be glazed or unglazed and the inlay may be as shallow as 1/8 in, as is often the case with "printed" encaustic tile from the later medieval period, or as deep as 1/4 in.

History

The tiles known as 'encaustic tiles' in the Victorian period were, in the medieval period, known as 'inlaid tiles'. The use of the word encaustic to describe an inlaid tile of two or more colors is linguistically incorrect. The word encaustic, from the ἐγκαυστικός, means 'burning in', from ἐν, and καίειν.

The term encaustic originally described a process of painting with a beeswax-based paint that was then fixed with heat. It was also applied to a process of medieval enameling. The term did not come into use when describing tile until the 19th century; supposedly, Victorians thought that the two colour tiles strongly resembled enamel work and so called them encaustic. Despite the error, the term has now been in common use for so long that it is an accepted name for inlaid tile work.

Encaustic or inlaid tiles enjoyed two periods of great popularity. The first came in the 13th century and lasted until the English Reformation under Henry VIII of England in the 16th century, which eschewed and removed much medieval church decoration along with the policy of the dissolution of the monasteries.

The second period of popularity came when the tiles caught the attention of craftsmen during the Gothic Revival era, who, after much trial and error, mass-produced encaustic tiles, and made them available to the general public. During both periods, tiles were made across Western Europe, though the centre of tile production was in England. Companies in the United States also made encaustic tile during the Gothic Revival architecture style's period. The American Encaustic Tiling Company of Zanesville, Ohio, was active until 1935. However, in the 1930s, encaustic tiling began to lose ground to more affordable glass and vitreous glass tiles.

Manufacture
Modern encaustic tiles use a two-shot moulding process. The 'inlay' colour is moulded first. For multiple colours, a mould with cavities for each colour is used and the individual colours are filled carefully. This coloured clay is then placed face-down in a mould that is backfilled with the body colour. The tiles are then fired.

The manufacture of encaustic clay tiles may be seen today at the Jackfield Tile Museum, one of the Ironbridge Gorge museums.

Use
In both the Middle Ages and in the 19th and 20th century Gothic Revival, tiles were most often made for and laid in churches. Even tiles that were laid in private homes were often copies of those found in religious settings. Encaustic tile floors exist all over Europe and North America, but are most prevalent in England where the greatest numbers of inlaid tiles were made.

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Talk:Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad

Rock Island, Illinois
Since the article didn't explain where Rock Island was, I worked a reference into the lead. That the first Chicago and Rock Island train went from Chicago to Rock Island seemed like a safe assumption, but could someone please check that? Nareek 13:44, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

This is an excerpt from an article on Abbey Station in Rock Island, IL. It disputes the December 31st Date.

"The Rock Island entered its third and final bankruptcy in 1975. On May 31, 1978, the last scheduled passenger train left the Rock Island depot. Freight service continued for a while, but in early 1980, the bankruptcy court determined that the Rock Island could not be successfully reorganized and ordered the liquidation of the railroad, the largest such liquidation in U.S. history."

Liquidation
I just added the wikilink to Liquidation, and the call for a citation. I have read someplace that the Rock's liquidation was the largest in US corporate history, to the present. But I can't seem to find anything reliable. Thoughts? Gws57 21:54, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

 * It was indeed the largest railroad liquidation; my dad was one of two final employees in Dallas. Other US companies like Enron or Worldcom have been bigger busts.

When it occurred, it was the largest liquidation of any company in history. Since then there have been larger liquidated companies, but still none have been a more successful liquidation than the Rock Island, which paid off their entire debt, with interest, and survived to purchase several manufacturing companies like Hoover Appliances. I have a lot of old newspaper articles referencing everything that happened. Perhaps I should photocopy them and place them online, as long as I don't get into trouble for reproducing the articles. But until newspapers transfer their stored articles from microfilm to the web, I would hope they wouldn't complain. 63.3.5.4 (talk) 21:41, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Rock Island logo
The page is incorrect regarding the older RI logo. The version shown as being in use from 1852-1974 was actually in use from about 1906-1974. Prior to that the words "Rock Island Route" or "Rock Island System" was within the herald. How far back the "beaver skin" herald was in use is unknown, but documents and memorabilia from the 1870's and early 1880's show a stylized "RI" as a company trademark. 63.3.5.4 (talk) 21:54, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Rock Island Bankruptcy
This needs a clafification as to when Judge McGarr ordered the Rock Island's liqudation. The article states: "On January 24, 1980, Judge McGarr was selected to hear the Rock Island bankruptcy case and ruled that the Rock Island could not be successfully reorganized and ordered it to be liquidated and sold" McGarr did not rule on the case the day he was selected to hear the case. This needs clarification.

SSLVguy (talk) 21:56, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Loaded with railfan jargon
Entire article needs to be reviewed and edited to eliminate railfan jargon and translate it into plain English — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.228.162.7 (talk) 02:08, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

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Recent move and name change
I think we need to do much better than a random historical society encyclopedia article for moving this article to Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway. A Chicago Tribune article from 1980 uses "Railroad", not Railway. If we can dig up the liquidation proceedings they should contain the final name. There's also the question of what secondary sources use (beyond just "the Rock Island"). Mackensen (talk) 20:45, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Requested move 1 January 2017

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Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway → Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad – Revert a move which was asked for as uncontroversial and then queried. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:34, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

 * Oppose in view of the source added to the article indicating the 1880 name change of Railroad to Railway. Neutral in light of conflicting sources and uses. Dicklyon (talk) 04:26, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
 *  Oppose Support per n-grams below per Dicklyon. Nonetheless, it's a mighty good road. Randy Kryn 15:50, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Support given the contrary usage in a 1980 article on the final liquidation: . See also the text of Railway Labor Executives' Assn. v. Gibbons, which uses "Railroad" and not "Railway", the text of Matter of Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific R. Co., 90 B.R. 329 (same). A Railway World article from 1907 contradicts the historical association article concerning the 1880 rename. Mackensen (talk) 18:58, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I can't get an n-gram of this, my ngram connection went missing. Can anyone get one from, say 1890 until, just to pick a number out of the air, 2008, to see how the two names line up without using the comma. Thanks. Should we notify interested wikiprojects, probably. Randy Kryn 19:02, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
 * n-grams work up to n = 5. this one shows a steady shift from Railway to Railroad over the century or so, which would seem to support the proposal.  Perhaps we should reconsider.  Dicklyon (talk) 19:05, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. Since this is open someone really should put a youtube link to the song in External links, I'll give it a go. Randy Kryn 19:14, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Can't do it as it would bias this RM, because a good one is by Lonnie Donegan, who says either 'Railway' or 'Railroad' in his long intro. Randy Kryn 19:20, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't doubt that because of reorganizations it's been called both over its history, but I think it's clear it finished up as "Railroad" and not "Railway". Mackensen (talk) 19:21, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

 * Support A quick scan of the sources supports the term Railroad.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 17:59, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

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Song
Is the eponymous song really a "spiritual"? Although attributed to working-class black Americans it would seem more to be in the category of a folk song. 72.105.79.232 (talk) 23:16, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

Song 2
"The song "Rock Island Line", a spiritual from the late 1920s first recorded in 1934, was inspired by the railway." - the song "Wabash Cannonball" was also inspired by the (scenery which the) railway (crossed)...probably not the only two songs? Peterachim64 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 22:56, 26 January 2022 (UTC)


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Talk:Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway/to do

 * More history detail
 * Personalities involved - owners, presidents, other well-known people
 * Route map?
 * Pictures of some Rock Island equipment