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Photo from 1911, a year after his death? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.141.208.208 (talk) 19:57, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

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What's the source for this quote, by the way? - Nat Krause 04:15, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I added a link. If the quote is fake, folks will know. There are two at least versions of the Forgotten Man essay. The shorter one is linked. The longer one, which I have permission to post and translate, is in Sumner Today (1946) translator 20:27, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I have been looking at s:Author:William Graham Sumner, where it is claimed The Forgotten Man is a version of What Social Classes Owe to Each Other but does not cite who says so, and the relation is not obvious from a superficial examination of the texts. Is What Social Classes Owe to Each Other what you call an earlier, longer version of The Forgotten Man?  It would be good to see the Wikisource claim better documented somewhere. Bob Burkhardt (talk) 17:10, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Is anyone familiar enough with Sumner's work addressing Marx's critique of Capitalism? Capitalism has the tendency to create disparity of wealth, creating a revolutionary proletariat. Therefore, it is governments job to stay small, but encourage unionization, a minimum wage, a maximum work day, and (this is mostly inferred and probably projected since the modern versions of the corporation didn't exist at his time) limit corporate power and monopolization. Maintaining a somewhat leveled playing field in America's capitalist economy by keeping the land/man ratio high enough for a stable system were important to his ideology. Wordsofglass 00:03, 29 Mar 2007 (EST)

Comprehensive?
This page almost seems a stub except it has a good summary as it doesn't mention a lot of the other work he did (Stuff with Social darwinism for example). I would imagine at least a works addition would be good (a list here, another here) but I'm not especially sure how to do it myself and don't have the time to right now. LwoodY2K 10:10, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

 * I would agree that a works section should be added. Probably one of his most known works was 'What Social Class Owe to Each Other' which is mainly dealing with his views on Social Darwinism.  As soon as I get some time I'll take a look at what I could add to the article.  CRobey 21:32, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Please note that Sumner never used the term "Social Darwinism." His views are better described as Lamarckian. The term, "Social Darwinism," was not even coined until 1944 (by someone who was extremely unsympathetic to Sumner's views).

130.160.214.237 21:04, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * That would have been Richard Hofstadter. A rebuke (or repudiation if you want) can be found in Bannister and James Allen Rogers. Intangible 00:35, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Mencken
Why were the references to H.L. Mencken removed? Mencken's advocacy of Sumner carried his legacy to a new generation.Atthom (talk) 22:09, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

GA status
I've looked this article over, and think that it might meet qualifications to be considered as a Class B, Class A, or even a GA. IIRC, one of the requirements for GA is that the wikiprojects associated have it rated as such. Would one of the associated wikiprojects please review this article and determine if this may be the case. Thank you. Technical 13 (talk) 18:06, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mathieu Letourneau

Mathieu Letourneau 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 delete

Mathieu Letourneau
dubious & unverifiable article about farmer-inventor. "only people in his town know this information." asked anon contributor for a reference, but received no reply. google turns up nothing under this name except a bit on a hockey player. Michael Ward 04:15, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete. Vanity—Trevor Caira 04:26, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete, this is spam. Wyss 15:17, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Probable joke, perhaps well-intentioned, the other contribution from this IP about that time was an obvious newbie effort but became a good stub. Andrewa 15:34, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete or speedy delete as a new user test by way of joke/hoax. There is no Saint Rémi Farm University. Samaritan 19:25, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * del Mikkalai 02:24, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. If he were notable, someone outside the town would know this information. Dave6 18:05, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Look guys, I live in Quebec and there is a Saint-Rémi. Mr. Létourneau is my neighbor so please don`t insult him. There are hundreds of university you don`t know. This isnt a joke. I`m not in farming industrie, but i`m a vet. Ever since i moved next to him, he`s tought me a lot about animals and helping them. Why don`t you guys just go away and leave him alone. I have a friend named Charles Nadeau-Routhier and he`s a violinist. Search for his name. He`s a great friend too. Rick Fowler
 * Ok. Google: Charles Nadeau-Routhier. Nope.
 * Telephone search for Letourneau in Saint Remi Nope. (No Rick Fowler there either). Michael Ward 04:02, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete Spinboy 04:34, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * DELETE This article is more than ridiculous. What's a groundsheet??? I think that some little kids made it to make fun of their friend. The content is nothing. Saint-Remi farm university doesn't exist and nothing in the text can be true...Xfan89
 * delete no case to be made for keeping - Trick 05:06, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete spam page - kaal 05:38, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell

Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell is the sixth studio album by American rock singer Meat Loaf and the second one in the Bat Out of Hell trilogy, which was written and produced by Jim Steinman. It was released on September 14, 1993, sixteen years after Meat Loaf's first solo album Bat Out of Hell. The album reached number 1 in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Five tracks were released as singles, including "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)", which reached number 1 in 28 countries.

The album was released by Virgin Records outside of North America, where it was released by MCA. The third part of the Bat trilogy, Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose, was released in 2006.

Like the first album of the trilogy, Bat Out of Hell II was a commercial success. It sold over 14 million copies worldwide.

History
In the midst of the success of Bat Out of Hell, desperate for a follow-up, management and the record company put pressure on Steinman to stop touring in order to write a follow-up, provisionally titled Renegade Angel. In a 1981 BBC Rock Hour Special interview, Jim Steinman recalls the writing process.

"I started writing what I felt was Bat Out of Hell part 2, definitely like The Godfather part 1 and part 2, that's how I saw it. I wanted to do a continuation and I wanted to do an album that went even further and that was more extreme, if possible, which a lot of people felt wasn't possible but I just wanted to see if I could make a record that was even more heroic because that's what I thought of it ... Bat Out of Hell to me was ultimately very heroic though it was funny ... and I wanted to do one that to me would be even more heroic and more epic and a little more operatic and passionate."

In a 1993 promotional interview for the album, Steinman reasserts the continuation of the Bat world. "I didn't call it Bat Out of Hell II just to identify with the first record. It really does feel like an extension of that... It was a chance to go back to that world and explore it deeper. It always seemed incomplete because I conceived it like a film, and what would you do without Die Hard 2?" Meat Loaf himself was more succinct, telling an interview at the time, "We called it Bat Out of Hell II 'cos that would help it sell shitloads."

Steinman rejoined Meat Loaf and the band for a live performance in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1978 with the intention of going through the songs for Bat II after the show. However, someone broke into their dressing rooms during the show and stole several possessions, including the new lyric book. Then, Meat Loaf lost his voice and was unable to record Renegade Angel. Steinman says "he sounded literally like the little girl in The Exorcist... like a dragon trying to sing—it was a horrifying sound." Steinman "kept writing the music to Bat Out of Hell part 2... my sequel." Not being able to "bear for people not to hear those songs," Steinman recorded the album, retitled Bad for Good, as a solo project, although Rory Dodd contributed lead vocals on some songs. Four songs from Bad for Good were included on Bat Out of Hell II. In 1989, Steinman formed all-female vocal group Pandora's Box. The album, Original Sin, was a commercial flop, but featured two songs which would also appear on Bat II. However, according to Meat Loaf, one of them was written for him, saying that "Jim put 'It Just Won't Quit' on Original Sin without telling me. I could have strangled him."

By the time Meat Loaf set about finally recording Bat II in the early 1990s, the industry's enthusiasm for the project had waned. According to the artist's then manager, Tommy Manzi, in an interview with HitQuarters, "That project was considered a joke as far as the industry was concerned," and Manzi's management company Left Bank were "laughed at" for attempting to revive the fortunes of a well-established act rather than focus on "the next hip band".

Production
After a series of financial and legal disputes during the 1980s, Steinman and Meat Loaf met at the singer's house in Connecticut at Christmas in either 1989 or 1990, and sang Bat Out of Hell on piano. Steinman says that "working together again seemed like the cool thing to do."

Steinman gave Meat Loaf half the songs for the album, but refused to give him any more until he changed managers. The singer was being managed by Walter Winneck and George Gilbert, who Meat Loaf credits as being "honest guys" but, under Steinman's influence, thinks would be "incapable of dealing with the record companies" on Bat II. On Steinman's recommendation, he hired Allen Kovac.

Recording of the album took place at Ocean Way Recording in Los Angeles, California, then at The Power Station in New York City, New York.

Many of the performers from the original album returned for the sequel. Roy Bittan performed keyboard and piano on most tracks, with Todd Rundgren, Ellen Foley, Rory Dodd and Kasim Sulton returning to provide background vocals. Meat Loaf and the musicians are credited as co-arrangers, and Bittan and long-term Steinman collaborator Steven Rinkoff are credited as associate producers. The album was mixed by David Thoener with the exception of the final track, which was mixed by Rinkoff.

According to Meat Loaf, he and Steinman had only one "big fight" throughout the album's production, which occurred during the mixing of "Life Is a Lemon". Production took a long time, mainly because of the length of the songs. The singer says, "Jim's songs may be miniature operas, but they're always too long for radio." Steinman fought with Kovac over the edit of "I'd Do Anything for Love", with the manager advising that radio stations were unlikely to play anything over five minutes long.

Steinman had secured a contract with Meat Loaf's recording label MCA for Lorraine Crosby, a club singer from North East England whom he was managing. While visiting the company's recording studios on Sunset Boulevard, Crosby was asked to provide guide vocals for Meat Loaf, who was recording "I'd Do Anything for Love". Crosby recalls, "I went and sang it twice and I never thought anything more of it until six months later when I got a phone call saying, 'Would you mind if we used your vocals?'" Cher, Melissa Etheridge and Bonnie Tyler had been considered for the role. However, as Crosby had recorded her part as guide vocals, she did not receive any royalties from the song.

Compositions
The album opens with "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)", a marathon twelve-minute opus which was edited for single release in some countries. The track begins with a guitar played to sound like a revving motorcycle, a reference to Todd Rundgren's contribution in the middle of "Bat Out of Hell". Each verse comprises two things that he would do for love, followed by one thing that he would not do. It is that latter parts of each chorus that is the "that" of the title. However, some people misunderstand the lyrics, claiming that the singer never identifies what the "that" is that he is unwilling to do, a confusion that Steinman predicted during production. The song combines stadium rock and power ballad for much of its twelve minutes. However, near the end of the song, a female vocalist is introduced. Credited in the liner notes as Mrs. Loud, this part was sung by Lorraine Crosby. Some countries managed to play the opus from start to finish.

Rundgren points out that "the themes of the songs were darker." The second track, "Life is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back", demonstrates this pessimism. Several things are identified as "defective", including love, sex, gods, childhood and the future. AllMusic labels it "a stomping rocker that wraps serious feelings in a cryptically witty metaphor." Despite the pessimism, both AllMusic and Meat Loaf point out that "it is a funny song."

The third track, "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through", is a prayer to rock music, celebrating how it is always there to help you through troubled times. One of its lyrics is "You're never alone, 'cause you can put on the 'phones and let the drummer tell your heart what to do." The fourth track also has dark overtones. "It Just Won't Quit", Steinman explains, "is about the fact that there are some things you never shake off... That's love, I guess." "Out of the Frying Pan (And into the Fire)" is a more upbeat song.

The album's sixth track, "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are" is a three part narrative that uses pathetic fallacy, where the seasons (summer, winter and spring) reflect the atmosphere of the events being described, drawing "its inspiration from the singer's often-tragic childhood. The lyrics portray a man who has overcome tragedies in his life yet still feels haunted by their memory." Steinman says that it was "the hardest song to write and get across."

"It's a very passionate song. It's really, I think maybe, the most passionate one on the record. I mean, I'm really proud of it because that's really one that goes over-the-top in the sense that it's got images—it has religious imagery of resurrection, it's got images of fertility and rebirth, it has really very good sexual images, images of cars—which I always like."

The track quotes lyrics from Bat Out of Hell's "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" ("It was long ago and it was far away"), as does the next track, "Wasted Youth", a spoken word fantasy monologue (a remixed version of "Love and Death and an American Guitar" from Steinman's Bad for Good album). The 1977 song's opening line "I remember every [...] little thing as if it happened only yesterday. I was barely seventeen" opens this track also, but instead of being "barely dressed" the protagonist "once killed a boy with a Fender guitar." Influenced by The Doors, Steinman wanted to write a piece where "the rhythm wasn't coming from the drums so much as the voice—the rhythm of the spoken voice and the heartbeat behind it."

According to Steinman, "Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)" is a "teenage prayer". "Lost Boys and Golden Girls" is "Steinman's interpretation of the story of Peter Pan." The composer says that Peter Pan has "always been about my favorite story and I've always looked at it from the perspective that it's a great rock and roll myth because it's about—when you get right down to it—it's about a gang of lost boys who never grow up, who are going to be young forever and that's about as perfect an image for rock'n'roll as I can think of."

Cover and booklet
The cover art was illustrated by sci-fi/fantasy artist Michael Whelan, following the style of Richard Corben's cover for Bat Out of Hell. It features the biker from the first cover flying on his motorcycle towards a giant bat perched on top of New York City's Chrysler Building, to which an angel is bound. Echoing the gravestones of the first cover, partially destroyed skyscrapers inhabit the lava landscape. Also like the first album, it features a 'Songs by Jim Steinman' credit, although smaller and located at the bottom of the cover.

As well as providing thematic consistency with the original, the repetition of iconography also acted as a vital marketing tool. The marketing of the album was documented in an episode of the 1995 BBC television programme The Music Biz. Executives at Virgin Records thought that this was important to attract the target audience, who they believed no longer spent much time in record shops. They felt that similarities to the design of the first album, including Meat Loaf's name in Gothic typography, would entice consumers of the 1977 album to purchase this.

The booklet contains all of the lyrics to the songs, each accompanied by a small Whelan illustration, which were used as the respective single covers. There is a suggestion to "support Tibet House, an organization dedicated to the unique culture of the Tibetan people which has the potential to make a valuable contribution to the world at large".

Singles and videos
Three tracks from the album were released as singles. "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" became a worldwide #1 hit from this album. The song reached #1 in the charts in 28 countries. It spent seven weeks atop the UK Singles Chart, making it the most successful single in the UK that year. Simultaneously, Meat Loaf released "Bat Out of Hell" as a single, which also made the top ten in the United Kingdom. Meat Loaf remained the last artist to have two top-ten UK singles at the same time until the Manic Street Preachers in 2001.

"Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100, #14 on the Cash Box Top 100 and  #11 on the UK Singles Chart. The third single from the album, "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are", did less well when it was released in 1994, reaching #38 on the Billboard Hot 100, #21 on the Cash Box Top 100 and #26 in the United Kingdom. "Life Is a Lemon" peaked at #17 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the United States.

Michael Bay directed three music videos from the album. "I'd Do Anything for Love" is based on Beauty and the Beast and The Phantom of the Opera. "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" features a runaway girl, played by Angelina Jolie. "Objects in the Rear View Mirror" illustrates the song's narrative. Featuring Robert Patrick, the video contained flying aircraft imagery that Bay would use in Armageddon and Pearl Harbor.

In 1994, the three films were released as the VHS tape Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell 2 – Picture Show, which also included alternate versions of "Paradise by the Dashboard Light", "Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back" and "I'd Do Anything for Love", all featuring lead vocalist Patti Russo. They were included on a DVD in 2006 with the 'Collectors Edition' release of the album.

Reception
The album was a commercial hit, and has sold more than 14 million copies around the world. It was number one for one week in the US on the Billboard 200, the UK Albums Chart for eleven non-consecutive weeks, number one in Australia for four weeks, and eight weeks at number one in Canada. Meat Loaf won a Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for "I'd Do Anything for Love" and received two Brit Awards nominations (Best International Male and Best Selling Single).

Despite its huge commercial success, critical reception was mixed. The specialist music press were generally positive. Q magazine proclaimed, "truly this... is the genuine follow-up to the most over-the-top rock album of all time." Like most critics, Q referred to the excesses of Steinman's style, citing the length of the songs (Q says that "Objects..." running for 10 minutes and 12 seconds is "not necessary"). Unlike the original, where the epic loud songs were "offset by the softness of stuff like 'Two Out of Three Ain't Bad'...even the ballads are Roman orgies of sound and fury." This, they said, means "the album's probable theme—the crushing effect growing up has on teenage dreams—seems to get lost among the thud and blunder." Overall, though, Q was positive, concluding with the sentiment that "Ultimately, Back Into Hell may not trash its predecessor, but as a mad, crunching, stadium rock album, it's probably the best thing of its kind you'll hear this year."

Looking at how "Steinman's old-fashioned teen-dream rock 'n' roll fantasies" fits in with the music culture of 1993, Kerrang! suggested that it would not appeal to "Nirvana and Metallica fans, but there's an older generation of rockers out there who will, quite properly, worship this album." Their four-star review declared that "it is a work of genius, a ready made rock classic and arguably the last word in rock operas." In The Tip Sheet, Jonathan King labelled it a "glorious, splendid album", celebrating Meat Loaf's "operatically gorgeous" voice and Steinman's "superb" songs, arrangements and production. "You'll be blown away. Better still you'll catch yourself openly laughing out loud at times with delight. You know what to expect yet it's constantly better, fresher and brighter than you hope. If they had a Mercury Music Prize for American albums, this would win it hands down."

In a 1999 documentary celebrating the original album, Meat Loaf said that Bat Out of Hell polarized people: "Some hate it, and some worship it." The bombast did not meet some critics' approval. As with the first album, Rolling Stone gave the album a mixed review. They called it "harmless, low-octane operatic drivel" with "insufferably long Steinman compositions with equally long names". Non-specialist publications gave the most negative reviews. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram also referred to the length of the songs, in which they said Steinman "vomits up 75 minutes of endlessly repeated choruses". The newspaper branded it "the worst pop album of 1993". The Des Moines Register thought that the album was "wallowing in excess so gratuitous as to make Michael Bolton, by comparison, seem a master of understatement... Mountains of banshee-like wailing guitars! Thunderous drums! Herniated vocals! Profoundly stupid lyrics! Gack. This isn't pandering to the lowest common denominator—it's lowering the lowest common denominator."

Like the original, retrospective reviews have been appreciative. AllMusic appreciated the bombast and "the pseudo-operatic splendor of Jim Steinman's grandly cinematic songs." Responding to concerns about length and overstatement, they replied, "that's precisely the point of this album, and is also why it works so well. No other rock 'n' roller besides Meat Loaf could pull off the humor and theatricality of Back Into Hell and make it seem real. In that sense, it's a worthy successor to the original."

1993 special limited edition
Alongside the original version a two disc special edition was released, containing a foldout poster and a bonus disc containing three live tracks, which can also be found as B-sides to the "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" singles.

This was produced by Meat Loaf and recorded and mixed by David Thoener. It was recorded in New York, NY in July 1993.

2002 deluxe edition
A two-disc "deluxe edition" was released by MCA on June 25, 2002. The first disc contains the remastered original album, while the second contains several radio edits and remixes. It was presented as a foldout double-disc set enhoused in a slipcase, with an extensive booklet with liner notes and rare photographs. AllMusic suggest that although the album deserves the attention, "the extra disc of material is [not] worth the time of anyone outside of fanatics... it doesn't really offer any revelations, curiosities, or an interesting listen for anybody else (and it may not be that interesting to those collectors, either)."

2006 2CD/1DVD collector's edition
In 2006, a three disc collector's edition was released by Virgin/EMI. The first disc contains the original album remastered and the second a live version of the original Bat Out of Hell album plus "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)", compiled from the various B-sides from the album's singles.

The tracks were recorded live in New York during July 1993, except "For Crying Out Loud" which was recorded live in the United States in 1994. Live arrangements by Meat Loaf and the Neverland Express featuring Patti Russo as lead female vocalist. Tracks 1-6 and 8 were recorded and mixed by David Thoener, and the audio was remastered by Peter Mew with Nigel Reeve at Abbey Road Studios, London.

The final disc is a DVD containing all three of the Michael Bay videos, and a featurette with an interview with Meat Loaf and Steinman, with behind the scenes footage from the video shoot of "I'd Do Anything for Love".

''All sections were directed by Michael Bay and produced by Propaganda Films. DVD produced by Abbey Road Interactive.''

Arrangements

 * Jim Steinman – arranger
 * "Meat Loaf and the musicians" – co-arranger
 * Todd Rundgren – background vocal arranger

Band on live tracks

 * Mark Alexander – piano, backing vocals
 * Steve Buslowe – bass guitar, backing vocals
 * John Miceli – drums
 * Patti Russo – female lead vocals, backing vocals
 * Kasim Sulton – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
 * Pat Thrall – lead guitar, backing vocals
 * Gary Martin—backing vocals
 * Amy Goff—backing vocals

Band on studio tracks

 * Kenny Aronoff – drums
 * Roy Bittan – piano, keyboards
 * Jeff Bova – organ (8), synthesizer, programming
 * Jimmy Bralower – drums (9)
 * Steve Buslowe – bass guitar
 * Robert Coron – additional backing vocals (2)
 * Lorraine Crosby – female lead vocals (1, as "Mrs. Loud"), backing vocals (2, 6), additional backing vocals (8)
 * Brett Cullen – additional backing vocals (2)
 * Rory Dodd – additional vocals (6), backing vocals (1-5, 9, 11)
 * Stuart Emerson – backing vocals (2, 6)
 * Ellen Foley – additional vocals (6)
 * Cynthia Geary – additional backing vocals (2)
 * Amy Goff – backing vocals (2), additional backing vocals (9)
 * Elaine Goff – backing vocals (2), additional backing vocals (9)
 * Max Haskett – backing vocals (6, 8)
 * Curtis King – backing vocals (9)
 * Michelle Little – additional backing vocals (2)
 * Rick Marotta – drums (6, 8)
 * Eddie Martinez – guitar (1, 2, 6, 8, 9)
 * Brian Meagher – bagpipes (8), drums (8)
 * Brian Meagher, Jr. – bagpipes (8), drums (8)
 * Justin Meagher – bagpipes (8), drums (8)
 * Meat Loaf – lead vocals, backing vocals (2, 4)
 * Gunnar Nelson – backing vocals (2)
 * Matthew Nelson – backing vocals (2)
 * Bill Payne – piano (6, 8, 11)
 * Lenny Pickett – saxophone (3, 9)
 * Tim Pierce – guitar (1–5)
 * Todd Rundgren – backing vocals (1–6, 8, 9)
 * Jim Steinman – spoken word (7), additional backing vocals (2)
 * Kasim Sulton – backing vocals
 * Pat Thrall – guitar (4, 5)
 * Eric Troyer – backing vocals (11)

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Talk:Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell

Recycled songs?

 * Most of this album's songs are recycled from Jim Steinman's earlier projects such as Bad For Good and Pandora's Box - Original Sin.

Would anyone care to expand on this? "Recycled" as in they were already released by Steinman, or "recycled" as in they were songs that he worked on in previous projects but never released? -Durga2112 19:39, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Source for cover infomation
I wasn't sure on how to source the cover information that I added: I originaly found it in the booklet that came with the CD, and the infomation is repeated at http://www.michaelwhelan.com/gallerydetail.asp?vsImageId=26&vnMarker=24&vsGalleryid=9 --Canageek 22:31, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Good Article nomination
This article is very close to meeting the GA criteria, and I particularly liked the neutral presentation which included favourable and unfavourable reviews of the album. There is just one small point. The following paragraph seemed out of place and interrupted the flow of the text:

 * Steinman joined the band for a live performance in Toronto, Canada in 1978 with the intention of going through the songs for the new album after the show. However, someone broke into their dressing rooms during the show and stole several possessions, including the new lyric book.[4] One of the songs was "Out of the Frying Pan." In a DVD audio commentary, Meat Loaf says that he doesn't think that Steinman ever got over that theft.[5]

Is this really necessary? If so please make it clear which band is being talked about. Thanks.

I've decided to put this article on hold as the issue noted above must be dealt with before GA status can be awarded. I hope that this can be addressed within the seven days allowed by on hold, and wish you all the best with your editing... -- Johnfos 23:23, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I've amended the paragraph in line with your suggestion. I'd like to keep it in, as I feel that the first draft of the album's lyric book being stolen warrants a mention. I've cut it down, though, and merged with the next paragraph. The JPS talk to me  09:43, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Looks good! Johnfos 10:21, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Brilliant, ta :) Only the final of the trilogy to go now! Thanks for reviewing again. The JPS talk to me  11:53, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

I was thinking about the trilogy thing :) Have you considered doing an article that covers the three albums, drawing on each of the three individual articles, but standing on its own also, as an umbrella article.  Could be FA material! All the best... Johnfos 12:04, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Ellipsis in title
Both the cover at the CD name the title of the album with an ellipsis at the end: 'Back into Hell…'. The spine of the CD does not include this punctuation. I think the article should include the ellipsis somewhere even if the title is kept as is. What would be the appropriate way to handle this? JamesLucas (" " / +) 18:15, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

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Everything Louder than Everything Else
Has anyone ever found any background information regarding ELTEE? The reason that I ask is that there's a quote on Deep Purple's "Made in Japan" from 1972 where one of the Purplers (Ian Gillan, perhaps?) says "Can we get everything louder than everything else?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_Japan_(Deep_Purple_album) So, I'm wondering if this quote was the inspiration for this song? Cheers! FiggazWithAttitude (talk) 15:00, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Longest Pop/Rock LP ever
There were some LP pressings of this 75-minute album (with no tracks skipped or edited), and though they were of dire sonic quality, they seem to qualify BOOH-II as the longest popular music single-LP album with original material ever (a laurel normally given to Todd Rundgren's Initiation (67½ minutes, 1975).

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/the-longest-major-label-music-lp-ever-barry-manilow-20-greatest-hits-pics-inside.186171/ (comment by user Tim Neely, near the lower end of the page)

https://www.discogs.com/Meat-Loaf-Bat-Out-Of-Hell-II-Back-Into-Hell/release/1364554 (one of at least two sngle-LP pressings) 83.254.143.227 (talk) 23:39, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

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Alexander merrill
Looks like vanity. Cdc 04:18, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vanity—Trevor Caira 04:25, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * comment - noticed nothing related in a google query Michael Ward 04:42, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Rather odd vanity at that. Delete DreamGuy 04:58, Dec 18, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vanity.  --Randy 06:29, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, vanity, possible libel or hoax. Wyss 15:15, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Your perspicacity is exceeded only by your pulchritude! I've reworded it, though I can't claim responsibility for the original gaffe. (I think that entire sentence could stand to be be wholly reworked.) Kbh3rd 18:20, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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 * I'm sure it was right and they're all very odd :) Just in case I misconstrued your comment - I deleted "odd" because it was made redundant by the "approximately", and is too conversational in style for an encyclopaedia IMHO. I'm still inexperienced around Wikipedia - wasn't sure whether to reply on my own discussion page or yours - so I did both! Cheers. Jez 22:49, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Enlightening What is Enlightenment?
I don't properly understand what you've done here. The redirect has been put in incorrectly, and the link from Enlightenment (concept) which refers back to the entry is now a circular reference. The year-old talk comment suggesting this change appears to be from a previous move. Things look to be a bit of a mess at the moment, so I'll most likely simply revert your change. Buffyg 10:57, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

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Against the Wind (album)

Against the Wind is the eleventh studio album by American rock singer Bob Seger and his third which credits the Silver Bullet Band. Like many of his albums, about half of the tracks feature the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section as backing musicians. It was released in February 1980. It is Seger's only number-one album to date, spending six weeks at the top of the Billboard Top LPs chart, knocking Pink Floyd's The Wall from the top spot. Seger said that the album "is about trying to move ahead, keeping your sanity and integrity at the same time."

Release
Against the Wind was an immediate commercial success, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart in its third week and remaining there for five weeks behind Pink Floyd's The Wall before reaching No. 1 and holding the top position for six weeks. By late 1981 the album sold 3.7 million copies in the United States and was certified 5× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2003.

Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band won the 1980 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for the album Against the Wind and Capitol Records art director Roy Kohara won the Grammy Award for Best Recording Package.

Critical reception
Rock critic Dave Marsh, writing for Rolling Stone, strongly criticized the album as a betrayal of Seger's longtime fans: "I'd like to say that this is not only the worst record Bob Seger has ever made, but an absolutely cowardly one as well" saying that Seger had crafted "failureproof songs that are utterly listenable and quite meaningless." Marsh had followed Seger since before Night Moves, when Seger finally gained national fame, and said in his review that Seger's long, tireless struggle to stardom is trivialized by this record. "He had to fight hard to prove there was still a place in rock & roll for a guy like him, and, with Night Moves, he won. This is the LP that makes such a victory meaningless ... It makes me sad, and it makes me angry (another emotion that's disappeared here, though it's often fueled Seger's finest work)."

Marsh did concede that on the album "Seger sings fantastically well" and called it a "carefully constructed album." A review in The Boston Phoenix echoed some of Marsh's criticisms, saying that Seger offered nothing that hadn't been heard before or equaled his best work, "only heavy-handed efforts to simulate it."

In a more positive review in the Los Angeles Times, critic Robert Hilburn said the album was "close to [Seger's] earlier works" but represented a "mastering of the form" and that the reflective ballads stood out. John Rockwell of The New York Times called it an "honest, attractive album" and a "nice return to his Night Moves form."

Track listing
The Silver Bullet Band plays on side one tracks 1–3 and on side two tracks 1 & 3.

The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section plays on side one tracks 4 & 5 and on side two tracks 2, 4, & 5.

Personnel

 * Bob Seger – guitar, vocals, background vocals, guitar solos on "The Horizontal Bop" (intro and outro) and "Her Strut", outro guitar solo on "No Man's Land"

 * The Silver Bullet Band

 * Drew Abbott – guitar, central guitar solo on "The Horizontal Bop"
 * Chris Campbell – bass
 * Alto Reed – saxophone on "The Horizontal Bop", "Betty Lou's Gettin' Out Tonight" and "Shinin' Brightly"
 * David Teegarden – drums, percussion

 * Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section
 * Barry Beckett – piano on "No Man's Land", "Long Twin Silver Line", "Good for Me", "Fire Lake", "Shinin' Brightly"
 * Pete Carr – guitar on "No Man's Land", "Long Twin Silver Line" (including solos), "Good for Me", "Fire Lake", "Shinin' Brightly"
 * Roger Hawkins – drums, percussion on "No Man's Land", "Long Twin Silver Line", "Good for Me", "Fire Lake", "Shinin' Brightly"
 * David Hood – bass on "No Man's Land", "Long Twin Silver Line", "Good for Me", "Fire Lake", "Shinin' Brightly"
 * Jimmy Johnson – guitar on "No Man's Land", "Long Twin Silver Line", "Good for Me", "Fire Lake", "Shinin' Brightly"
 * Randy McCormick – organ on "No Man's Land", "Long Twin Silver Line", "Good for Me", "Fire Lake", "Shinin' Brightly"

 * Additional musicians
 * Ginger Blake – backing vocals on "You'll Accomp'ny Me" "Good For Me" and "Shinin' Brightly"
 * Sam Clayton – percussion on "You'll Accomp'ny Me"
 * Laura Creamer – backing vocals on "You'll Accomp'ny Me" "Good For Me" and "Shinin' Brightly"
 * Linda Dillard – backing vocals on "You'll Accomp'ny Me" "Good For Me" and "Shinin' Brightly"
 * Glenn Frey – harmony vocals on "Fire Lake" and "Against the Wind"
 * Paul Harris – piano on "Against the Wind" and "Betty Lou's Gettin' Out Tonight", organ on "Against the Wind"
 * Don Henley – harmony vocals on "Fire Lake"
 * Dr. John – keyboards on "The Horizontal Bop"
 * Bill Payne – organ, synthesizer, piano on "You'll Accomp'ny Me"
 * Doug Riley – synthesizer on "No Man's Land"
 * Timothy B. Schmit – harmony vocals on "Fire Lake"

Production

 * Punch Andrews – producer, mixer
 * John Arrias – engineer, mixer
 * Tom Bert – photography
 * Roy Kohara – art direction
 * Steve Melton – producer, engineer, mixer
 * Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section – producer, mixer
 * Bob Seger – producer, mixer
 * Bill Szymczyk – producer, engineer, mixer
 * Wally Traugott – mastering
 * Punch Andrews - 1999 remastering
 * Robert Vosgien – 2003 remastering
 * Jim Warren – paintings

Awards
Grammy Awards

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Talk:Against the Wind (album)

Too much angry, overwrought criticism
As I found this article, the only descriptive text was a brief introductory paragraph and a long, bitter rant against it from a single critic. No way should the opinions of one unhinged, hyperventilating critic dominate the page. I cut most of the critical text but preserved the opening remarks of the screed, which express the fury of the critic. The rest was just redundant vitriol.98.69.157.170 (talk) 22:25, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

 * It doesn't sound like the article was in very good shape, but I'm suspicious of your motives and your edit. Now, why would you describe a journalist as "one unhinged, hyperventilating critic" -- and remove most of his work -- unless you were a fan, and editing from that perspective?

 * (Wikipedia is not a collection of "fan pages".)

 * If you're referring to Dave Marsh -- who understandably said the album was "not only the worst record Bob Seger has ever made, but an absolutely cowardly one as well" -- you're referring to probably THE most respected and referenced rock journalist of the era. So to call him "one unhinged, hyperventilating critic" was rather "cowardly" of YOU.

 * The above quote is now all that remains of Marsh's review in this article, and I notice the link is gone. I'm sure the review is online, and I'm sure the link was once in the article. In fact, here it is:

 * '''==Criticism==
 * Rock journalist Dave Marsh criticized the record as a betrayal of Seger's fans: "I'd like to say that this is not only the worst record Bob Seger has ever made, but an absolutely cowardly one as well." Marsh had followed Seger since before Night Moves, when Seger finally gained national fame, and said in this review that Seger's long, tireless struggle to stardom is trivialized by this record.

 * "He had to fight hard to prove there was still a place in rock & roll for a guy like him, and, with Night Moves, he won. This is the LP that makes such a victory meaningless ... It makes me sad, and it makes me angry (another emotion that's disappeared here, though it's often fueled Seger's finest work). Maybe rock & roll never forgets, but the best thing anybody who ever had any hope for Bob Seger can do is try not to remember Against the Wind and pray for something better next time. I wouldn't hold my breath." '''

 * With "bad" reviews like that, who needs GOOD ones?

 * Let's be honest: We're talking about a record made with two bands, plus a bands' worth of additional musicians and singers (including three Eagles), co-produced by the band whose name ISN'T on the album, plus the artist and three more producers, including legend Bill Szymczyk, who surely could have done the job on his own. And Bob and his bogus "Silver Bullet Band" took the Grammy for best vocal by a Duo or Group away from Queen, a real band of four, who'd rightfully earned it. If he'd then given his Grammy to any other nominee, I'd be a Bob Seger Booster! A Cheesehead or Parrothead or whatever you call yourselves! Honest. I'd be impressed by the integrity! But no, Seger stood up there and accepted a Grammy meant for bands, with his bloated three-band, ten-producer, singer/songwriter album.

 * If that isn't COWARDLY . . . what is?

 * --Ben Culture (talk) 00:17, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

 * User:98.69.157.170, I find your comments here, justifying your slash-and-burn of Dave Marsh's review, to be dishonest in the extreme. Either that, or you have poor reading comprehension. It is clear from even a single reading of the review (which hardly "dominated" the article before you reduced it to a single sentence without a citation) that Marsh was a supporter of Seger's work who found Against the Wind to be an unworthy follow-up to Night Moves -- an album he clearly felt was a triumph for Seger. He wasn't one of those If-it-ain't-punk-it's-junk snobs who dismissed singer/songwriter rock like Seger's. It's bloody obvious the man, one of the most respected journalists in rock, RESPECTED SEGER!
 * The fuller quote is now restored, and the article is better for it.
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 * →Ben Culture (talk) 12:39, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Nothing here about Jan Fonda and "Her Strut"?
I'm amazed there's nothing on here about how "Her Strut" is a song specifically written about Jane Fonda. When this album came out he said in a radio interview that he wrote it when thinking about how the people she goes up against are confronted not just by her personality but also by her body (this was when she had introduced her workout tapes). The lyric for the song as printed on the album sleeve had the famous part written as: "But oh they love to watch her strut / Oh they do respect her / But they love to watch her strut. " But Seger sings it as, "Oh they do respect her but [butt] / They love to watch her strut." Seger said that people (meaning men) would find her an interesting person because of her political convictions, but at the same time they didn't want to miss watching her walk away. Can't somebody do a quick internet search to add this to the article? __209.179.29.71 (talk) 04:31, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

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Grammy award
There was some confusion over the Grammy award with both the album and song articles indicating a Grammy award. In researching the subject I mistakenly thought it was the song that was nominated rather than the album. Actually the song was nominated in the Pop category and the album in the Rock category. The source cited reads as follows:

 * Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
 * "Against the Wind," Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band (track from "Against the Wind")

 * Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
 * "Against the Wind," Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band (album)

Hopefully this clears up any confusion. Piriczki (talk) 14:30, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

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Auburndale, Massachusetts

Auburndale is one of the thirteen villages within the city of Newton in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It lies at the western end of Newton near the intersection of interstate highways 90 and 95. It is bisected by the Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate 90). Auburndale is surrounded by three other Newton villages (West Newton, Waban, and Newton Lower Falls) as well as the city of Waltham and the Charles River. Auburndale is the home of Williams and Burr elementary schools, as well as Lasell College. Auburndale Square is the location of the Plummer Memorial Library, which is run by the Auburndale Community Library and no longer affiliated with the Newton Free Library, the Turtle Lane Playhouse, and many small businesses.

History
The first major settler in the area was William Robinson, who built a house in 1678 on what is now Freeman Street. The oldest house in Auburndale stands at 473 Auburn Street and was built in 1730 by William Robinson.

Auburndale, once billed as Auburndale-on-the-Charles, was the home of Norumbega Park, which closed in 1963. The park included rides, a zoo, and boating. The nationally famous big band venue Totem Pole Ballroom was associated with Norumbega Park and closed in 1964. The area now contains over 80 acres of conservation land, as well as access to the Charles River.

Transportation
Auburndale is divided into two parts by the Massachusetts Turnpike, which connects it to neighboring villages of Newton and downtown Boston. The village is located adjacent to the intersection of interstate highways 90 and 95.

A number of public transportation options connect Auburndale to neighboring communities. The MBTA Green Line's D Branch light rail line serves Auburndale at Woodland and Riverside stations, the latter being the line's terminus. Both stations have bus connections; Woodland station is served by MWRTA bus routes 1 and 8, while Riverside connects to MBTA bus route 558.

The MBTA Commuter Rail's Framingham/Worcester Line serves the village at Auburndale station, adjacent to the Massachusetts Turnpike. MBTA bus routes 505 and 558, which offer express service to downtown Boston, both stop at the station.

National Register historic sites
Nineteen places in Auburndale are on the National Register of Historic Places, as follows

Local Historic District
Established in 2005, the Auburndale Historic District includes approximately 275 properties and encompasses two National Register Districts.

Places of worship

 * Corpus Christi and St. Bernard's Parish, 41 Ash Street.
 * Episcopal Parish of the Messiah, 1900 Commonwealth Avenue.
 * Temple Reyim, 1860 Washington Street.
 * United Parish of Auburndale, 64 Hancock Street.

Points of interest

 * Auburndale Cove Park & Playground, West Pine Street.
 * Norumbega Park Conservation Area.
 * Turtle Lane Playhouse, 283 Melrose Street
 * Woodland Golf Club
 * Charles River Canoe and Kayak Company

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Talk:Solresol

Example
Am I the only who thinks that it wouldbe intresting to hear some basic phrases sung? 91.153.52.17 21:15, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

How is Solresol spoken? I are there defacto ways? is pitch absolute or relative?
 * (Reply to above) I think pitch is relative, since it's based on solfege (i.e. key doesn't matter). Kind of like, instead of "a b c# d" you might just have "do re mi fa" instead. Don't think it's actually "spoken" much anymore, though... Weien 08:18, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Solfege doesn't necessarily mean that key doesn't matter. There are two schools of solfege: movable and fixed do.  In the former, key doesn't matter, but in the latter, do is always a C. PatrickNiedzielski (talk) 02:53, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Eco 1993 gives 1827, not 1817, as the date for the beginning of Solresol's creation. The only early book I can find mention of was published in 1866, but Eco says Soudre "worked forty-five years perfecting his language", won a 10K franc prize in 1855, and a gold medal at the London Exposition in 1862 - so obviously he had been publicizing the language for some years before the book was published. Does anyone know where the date 1817 comes from, or if it's just a typo? If the language was "finished" in 1866, that "45 years" implies he started about 1821. --Jim Henry 21:18, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Hi, I am one of the really rare persons to have the book from 1866. I did read that different small editions did maked. But really small. The reason can be, that Sudre did try all the time a/ to perfect his language and b/ to find a real good buyer (the Army!). And he did dead before he did have success! His wife did publish the language after he died. It is possible that she did have problems to find money to edit the complete work (it is an very expensiv matter because of the printing of musical notes!) and that can be the reason of the divers little editions. - oui 18:26, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

1866?
Gajewski's book says that Sudre died in 1862. How could he possibly publish anything in 1866? Alex Kapranoff 15:11, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Hi, his wife did that! The book answer the question! - oui 18:26, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

 * This needs to be clarified, I cannot reach that source right now, but maybe I could take your word for it... :) Furthermore, the article about François Sudre says he invented the sudrophone, and in that article it says it was patented in 1892, and that he lived 1844-1912. Probably a mix-up, but needs to be fixed with sources. --90.129.3.82 (talk) 14:26, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

numbers
Is there a way to say, write, whatever "zero" in solresol?

I can't find "zero" specifically, but perhaps one is meant to use "Lado", which means "Nothing". —Preceding unsigned comment added by GammaAlphaRho (talk • contribs) 23:58, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

 * Just thought I'd note that lado is only "nothing" according to Gajewski's version of Solresol. In Sudre's original documentation, lado is "yesterday". Soldo is the word for "nothing" according to Sudre. On page 288 / 308 of the PDF scan of Sudre's original publication of Solresol, you will see the word "Zéro"; the French word for zero, corresponding to "soldo" with no accentuation. Greatscotteh (talk) 10:22, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Moved from body
''Please look at the text in Interlingue and actualize this text! Thank you! - ''

- User:Oui (moved by Deltabeignet)

Classification of Ideas

 * The whole thing about classification of ideas is wrong. While there is a classification of ideas, it is only limited to four syllable words. -Rex Imperator

 * Actually, according to page 22 and 23 / 308 of the PDF that is the scanned version of the original publication by Sudre, you will see every word length pertains to a specific category or classification. Greatscotteh (talk) 10:28, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Resource for expanding the article
I have found this Grammar. I have no time, but it has a lot of information which could be added to this article. EoinMahon (talk) 11:26, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

That's my translation of Gajewski's original text. I can make the translation and the original available to anyone who's interested; I'm not sure the original is still available online. Ansric (talk) 21:48, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Lexical error
This article perpetuates a "correction" that changes original "si" to "ti." (This is why "yes" was originally "si.") Sudre's and Gajewski's texts have "si" throughout. Ansric (talk) 21:41, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

I noticed this too, and changed the table to read "si" instead of "ti", because in all the sources I could find on Solresol, "si" was always used. If it should be corrected, then the title of the language should be "Soreso" because we don't use "sol" anymore either - we use "so" instead. Unfortunately the picture can't be changed to say "si" unless someone can use an image editing tool and fix it maybe? —Preceding unsigned comment added by GammaAlphaRho (talk • contribs) 23:33, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Sarus link?
The link to Sarus (language) is a redirect to an animator with no context or explanation. Either we need to explain that relationship, or remove this link, it would seem. 128.170.224.10 (talk) 17:20, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Bug: Sol-Si sounds as Do-Mi sounds as Fa-La
See? Sol-Si would be a 3rd Major, as Do-Mi and as Fa-La, so at the start of a conversation it would be quite confusing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eddygp (talk • contribs) 11:44, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Examples, speaking/singing
Looking at this, I think the subject should be resumed. It would be nice to hear an example of someone speaking/singing Solresol. And the article is missing exactly how Solresol would have been employed most commonly, and how employed by differently disabled people. Djathinkimacowboy  vandals' playground 05:43, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Perfect pitch required?
Wouldn't you need perfect pitch to communicate in this language? (Unless a tonic is established before 'speaking' and every speaker has great relative pitch) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.149.8.201 (talk) 22:48, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Answer is no. You would not even need relative pitch.-- Djathink imacowboy  22:53, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I think the way that one editor jumps in to give a really helpful answer to another editor's query is really heartwarming (I don't know the answer myself, unfortunately). EEng (talk) 01:50, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Good! Thank you for that.- Djathink imacowboy  04:20, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Wikip-facepalm.jpg
 * Please tell me you knew I was kidding. EEng (talk) 05:40, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I will. That is, if you will tell me you're not such a gargantuan jerk that this type of shenanigans is all you have to offer Wikipedia. Frankly I can do without you and your shenanigans.- Djathink imacowboy  08:03, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I apologize for the irony -- ok, sarcasm -- of my original post, but really, if you're sure, as you seem to be, that neither perfect nor relative pitch would be needed, can't you say a bit about why? I'm not questioning your original answer, but I'd really like to know why this would be, and I think so would the original poster.  Thanks. EEng (talk) 15:37, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

 * It was kind of me to reply at all. I'm busy and not an admin. Do your own homework, 'dudes'. I edit here on occasion, I'm not Dr. Einstein the Know-It-All. Solresol is simple because you need only establish the working scale you'll be using with the other person. Even going in eyes closed, you can catch on easily because the syntax is well fixed. God's sake, read the damned article!- Djathink imacowboy  21:17, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

 * And how even more kind of you to further deign to enlighten us, futile as it was (for me, anyway, though I have indeed read the article)! In future I recommend you omit the clarification that you're not an admin and not an Einstein, as there's little danger of anyone confusing you with either. EEng (talk) 05:19, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Question about an assertion early in the article
There is a sentence early on:"The teaching of sign languages to the deaf was discouraged between 1880 and 1991 in France, contributing to Solresol's descent into obscurity. " What does this mean, in context? What doees sign language for the deaf have to do with a music-based constructed language? Ritaxis (talk)Ritaxis —Preceding undated comment added 04:16, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

 * Presumably refers to "hand gestures etc." in the next section, though it's not too clear... AnonMoos (talk) 19:07, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * It really comes out of nowhere. It should be rephrased or removed, because as is it just makes me want to quit reading the article and go do something else. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.114.146.117 (talk) 12:57, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

 * I believe they were referring to the fact that signed languages (ASL, LSF, etc.) were not taught to those who were deaf, but instead the language spoken by the hearing in that particular country (English, French, etc.). Here is the relevant block of text from the Wikipedia page "French Sign Language":

"From this time French Sign Language flourished until the late 19th century when a schism developed between the manualist and oralist schools of thought. In 1880 the Milan International Congress of Teachers for the Deaf-Mute convened and decided that the oralist tradition would be preferred. In due time the use of sign language was treated as a barrier to learning to talk and thus forbidden from the classroom.

This situation remained unchanged in France until the late 1970s, when the deaf community began to militate for greater recognition of sign language and for a bilingual education system. In 1991 the National Assembly passed the Fabius law, officially authorising the use of LSF for the education of deaf children. A law was passed in 2005 fully recognising LSF as a language in its own right." (the two last paragraphs of the History section) Greatscotteh (talk) 10:38, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Ses system needs reference
In the article the following is stated: "Another way of using Solresol is called ses, and was developed by George Boeree." But no reference is provided. Did George Boeree really created that further development on Solresol? --87.222.104.154 (talk) 10:41, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

sidosi.org defunct
The sidosi.org link, which presumably used to be a Solresol speaker community organization, is no longer that -- it seems to be an online casino in some Austronesian language? Can someone who knows something about the Solresol community replace that footnote with some other links to a Solresol community or better yet, a secondary source talking about the present-day Solresol community? --Jim Henry (talk) 17:17, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

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SoundFont

[[File:Soundfont Comparison (Updated).wav|thumb|Playing a single MIDI file while switching between several SoundFont files available on the Internet.

SoundFont files used in the chronological order:

• SONiVOX EAS GM Wavetable (Legacy Android Soundset)* [1 MB] • RLNDGM.sf2 (Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth)* [3 MB] • FluidR3 GM.sf2 [141 MB] • SGM-V2.01.sf2 [235 MB] • Orpheus_1.047.sf2* [1.18 GB] • ChoriumRevA.sf2 (Modified) [56 MB] • ColomboGMGS2 SoundFont v14.5 [245 MB]

 * Marked soundfonts fall back to play "Muted Guitar" at Bank 0. whereas the MIDI file addresses "Muted Distortion Guitar" at Bank 1 (SC-88)]]

SoundFont is a brand name that collectively refers to a file format and associated technology that uses sample-based synthesis to play MIDI files. It was first used on the Sound Blaster AWE32 sound card for its General MIDI support.

SoundFont is a registered trademark of Creative Technology, Ltd., and the exclusive license for re-formatting and managing historical SoundFont content has been acquired by Digital Sound Factory.

Starting in the late 2010s, the derived term soundfont has gradually gained online colloquial status to refer to chiptune – specifically the soundscape of a console's sound chip. Any video game console that utilizes sequenced audio is often referred as having "the [console] soundfont", similar to the usage of Coke to refer to any soft drink. Additionally, it can also refer to a video game's audio data that specifically uses reusable digital samples.

Specification
The newest version of the SoundFont file format is 2.04 (or 2.4). It is based on the RIFF format.

History
The original SoundFont file format was developed in the early 1990s by E-mu Systems and Creative Labs. A specification for this version was never released to the public. The first and only major device to utilize this version was Creative's Sound Blaster AWE32 in 1994. Files in this format conventionally have the file extension of .SBK.

SoundFont 2.0 was developed in 1996. This file format generalized the data representation using perceptually additive real world units, redefined some of the instrument layering features within the format, added true stereo sample support and removed some obscure features of the first version whose behavior was difficult to specify. This version was fully disclosed as a public specification, with the goal of making the SoundFont format an industry standard. All SoundFont 1.0 compatible devices were updated to support the SoundFont 2.0 format shortly after it was released to the public, and consequently the 1.0 version became obsolete. Files in this and all other 2.x formats (see below) conventionally have the file extension of .SF2.

Version 2.01 (or 2.1) of the SoundFont file format was introduced in 1998, with an E-mu sound card product called the Audio Production Studio. This version added features allowing sound designers to configure the way MIDI controllers influence synthesizer parameters. It is bidirectionally compatible with 2.0, which means that synthesizers capable of rendering 2.01 format will also by definition render 2.0 format, and synthesizers that are only capable of rendering 2.0 format will also read and render the new format, but just not apply the new features.

SoundFont 2.04 was introduced in 2005 with the Sound Blaster X-Fi. The 2.04 format added support for 24-bit samples. The 2.04 format is bidirectionally compatible with the 2.01 format, so synthesizers that are only capable of rendering 2.0 or 2.01 format would automatically render instruments using 24-bit samples at 16-bit precision.

Functionality
MIDI files do not contain any sounds, only instructions to play them. To play such files, sample-based MIDI synthesizers use recordings of instruments and sounds stored in a file or ROM chip. SoundFont-compatible synthesizers allow users to use SoundFont banks with custom samples to play their music.

A SoundFont bank contains base samples in PCM format (the audio data format most commonly used in WAV containers) mapped to sections on a musical keyboard. A SoundFont bank also contains other music synthesis parameters such as loops, vibrato effect, and velocity-sensitive volume changing.

SoundFont banks can conform to standard sound sets such as General MIDI, or use other wholly custom sound-set definitions like Roland GS and Yamaha XG.

SoundFont creation software (.sf2 format)
Several .sf2 editors are available:

 * Vienna from Creative Labs, requiring a particular sound card (such as Sound Blaster)
 * Viena (with a single "n"), created in 2002
 * Swami is a collection of free software for editing and managing musical instruments for MIDI music composition, used mainly under Linux
 * Polyphone, free editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux created in 2013

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Agricultural Society Fair Grounds

Agricultural Society Fair Grounds was a fairground on the west side of Rockford, Illinois. It served as the grounds for the Winnebago County Agricultural Society. It was used as a baseball grounds by the Rockford Forest Citys baseball club of the National Association during the 1871 season, so it is considered a major league ballpark by those who consider the NA to have been a major league. The Forest Citys had played their home games at the Fair Grounds beginning in 1866, and continued to call it home for the 1871 season.

The Forest Citys had been a strong team during their amateur / semi-professional years, but before the 1871 season began, their star pitcher Al Spalding had signed with the Boston Red Stockings. The Forest Citys played only 6 home games during the 1871 season, and finished in last place in the new league. The rest of their star players, including Cap Anson and Bob Addy, signed with other teams for 1872, and the Rockford Forest Citys disbanded.

Contemporary and historical accounts describe the park during the 1866-1871 period as woefully inadequate for organized baseball, with trees blocking much of foul ground, and third base being uphill from the rest of the diamond.

By the 1890s the property was called Fair Grounds Park and was an occasional home field for Rockford's minor league clubs. The Winnebago County Fair, after some 50 years at this location, temporarily folded in 1903 and the fairgrounds were sold to the city of Rockford. The fair was revived a few years later, moving into rural land. In modern times the old fairgrounds is neither a fairgrounds nor a ballpark, but Fairgrounds Park (as it is now spelled) still exists, as a part of the Rockford Park District.

The original boundaries of the fairgrounds, as shown on contemporary maps, were Oak (now Acorn) Street (north); Pecatonica Street and Cherry Street (northeast); buildings and Horsman Street (east); Mulberry Street (south); and Kent Creek and railroad tracks (west).

The current footprint of the park is somewhat smaller than it originally was, with the boundaries being the Harkins Aquatic Center and Acorn Street (north); Kilburn Avenue, buildings and Horsman Street (east); West Jefferson Street aka Business US-20 (south); and Mulberry Street, Kent Creek and railroad tracks (west). The street address now 900 West Jefferson.

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File:Bob Seger - Nine Tonight.jpg

Cover for album Nine Tonight by Bob Seger.

Fair use rationale for

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 * The image is irreplaceable; a free analogue is impossible to produce as the original will be covered by copyright for the foreseeable future
 * Owing to the limited web-resolution of the image, only a small portion of a copyrighted work is used
 * For the same reasons, the portion of the copyrighted work used is of inherently lower quality than the original, reducing the risk of competitiveness and therefore the effects of this copy on the market for or value of versions held by the owner of the copyright

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Nine Tonight

Nine Tonight is a live album by American rock band Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, released in 1981 (see 1981 in music). The album was recorded at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan, in June 1980 and at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts in October 1980. With the exception of three tracks — "Nine Tonight", "Tryin' To Live My Life Without You" and "Let It Rock" — the album is composed entirely of songs drawn from Seger's three previous studio albums. Only "Let It Rock" was repeated from the previous live album Live Bullet. "Tryin' to Live My Life Without You" was released as a single and peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. The album's title track was originally recorded for the Urban Cowboy soundtrack album.

The 2011 remastered album has a bonus track called "Brave Strangers", which was originally released on Seger's 1978 album Stranger in Town. This live version was originally released as the B-side of the "Tryin' to Live My Life Without You" live single.

Track listing
Track times based upon 2011 remaster.

Tracks recorded in Detroit on 15 June 1980: 8 & 17

Tracks recorded in Detroit on 16 June 1980: 4 & 12

Tracks recorded in Detroit on 19 June 1980: 7 & 10

Tracks recorded in Detroit on 20 June 1980: 11 & 14

Tracks recorded in Detroit on 21 June 1980: 13

Tracks recorded in Boston on 5 October 1980: 5 & 9

Tracks recorded in Boston on 6 October 1980: 1 & 2

Tracks recorded in Boston on 7 October 1980: 3, 6, 15 & 16

Personnel

 * Bob Seger - acoustic guitar, piano, electric guitar, vocals
 * Drew Abbott - electric guitar, acoustic guitar
 * Colleen Beaton - vocals
 * Chris Campbell - bass, background vocals
 * Craig Frost - organ, piano, keyboard, clavinet
 * Kathy Lamb - vocals
 * Pamela Moore - vocals
 * Shaun Murphy - percussion, vocals, background vocals, harmony vocals
 * Alto Reed - organ, flute, horn, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
 * David Teegarden - drums, background vocals
 * June Tilton - vocals

Certifications

 * US: 4× Platinum
 * CAN: Platinum

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List of Sephardic Jews

The following is a list of Sephardic Jews. See also List of Iberian Jews.

This is a list of notable Jews of Sephardic ancestry.

A

 * Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508), Portuguese-born Spanish philosopher, rabbi, economist and Orthodox Jewish theologist.
 * José Aboulker (1920-2009), French resistance fighter and neurosurgeon.
 * Senor Abravanel (1930-), Brazilian businessman, media tycoon and television host. Direct descendant of Isaac Abravanel.
 * Abraham Amigo (1610-1683), Israeli rabbi of Sepharadi descent
 * Benjamin Artom (1835-1879), Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Great Britain
 * Lior Ashkenazi (1969-), Israeli actor
 * Ben Ashkenazy (1968/69-), American billionaire real estate developer
 * Moran Atias (1981-), Israeli-American actress
 * Jacques Attali (1943-), Algerian-born French economist, advisor to President François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1991
 * Hank Azaria (1964-) American actor, known for voicing many characters in the long-running animated series The Simpsons
 * Max Azria (1949-2019) Tunisian-born American fashion designer

B

 * Fabrice Benichou (1965-), French world champion boxer
 * Judah P. Benjamin (1811-1884), American politician and statesman
 * Aldo Bensadoun (1939-), Canadian businessman, founder of the ALDO Group
 * Georges Bensoussan (1952-), French historian
 * Maurice Berger, cultural historian, art critic, curator (Sephardic mother; father Ashkenazi Jew)
 * John Berman (1972-), news anchor for CNN.
 * Miri Bohadana (1977-), Israeli actress, model, and presenter
 * Can Bonomo (1987-), Turkish singer
 * Alain de Botton (1969-), Swiss writer and philosopher (Sephardi father, Ashkenazi mother)
 * Alain Boublil (1941-), Tunisian-born French lyricist of the musical Les Misérables
 * Michel Boujenah (1952-), French comedian and actor
 * Albert Bourla (1961-), Greek-born CEO of Pfizer
 * Caryl Brahms (1901-1982), British writer
 * June Brown (1927-2022), British actress
 * Patrick Bruel (1959-), French singer and actor
 * Tony Bullimore (1939-2018), British yachtsman

C

 * Neve Campbell (1973-), Canadian film and television actress (Scream)
 * David Samuel Carasso, 19th-century traveler and writer
 * Isaac (1874-1939) and Daniel Carasso (1905-2009), founders of Danone
 * Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870-1938), Supreme Court Justice
 * Gabrielle Carteris (1961-), American actress best known for her role in the TV series 90210
 * Omri Casspi (1988-), Israeli NBA player
 * Jacob Castello, 17th-century poet
 * Joseph Cayre (1941-), co-founder of record label Salsoul Records, video tape distributor and producer GoodTimes Entertainment, and video game publisher GT Interactive
 * Stanley Chera (1942-2020), American real estate developer
 * Joseph Chetrit (1957-), American real estate investor and developer and founder of the Chetrit Group
 * Élie Chouraqui (1957-), French Israeli film director
 * Emmanuelle Chriqui (1975-), Canadian actress
 * Hélène Cixous (1937-), Algerian-born French feminist critic
 * Maurice Abraham Cohen (1851-1923), educator
 * Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (1933-), French physicist. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics
 * Jean-François Copé (1964-), French politician; former President of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) Group in the French National Assembly; Sephardic mother
 * Oliver Jackson-Cohen (1986-), English actor, notably played Luke Crain in The Haunting of Hill House
 * Uriel da Costa (1585-1640), Portuguese philosopher and Orthodox-Jew theologist

D

 * Jean Daniel (1920-2020), French journalist and author, founder of Le Nouvel Observateur
 * Pierre Darmon (1934-), French tennis player
 * Aryeh Deri (1959-), Moroccan-born Israeli politician & one of the founders of Shas.
 * Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), Algerian-born French philosopher
 * Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 * Patrick Drahi (1963-), billionaire founder of international news channel i24news
 * Victor Drai (1947-), nightclub owner, entrepreneur and film producer.
 * Julien Dray (1955-), Algerian-born French politician, member of the National Assembly for the Socialist Party (PS)
 * Pierre Dukan (1941-), French physician, inventor of the Dukan Diet
 * Solomon Dwek (1973-) former American real estate investor and convicted felon

F

 * Predrag Finci (1946-), Bosnian-British philosopher, author, and essayist

 * Jacque Fresco (1916-2017), American futurist, industrial engineer, social designer and the founder of The Venus Project

G

 * Meir Shmuel Gabay (1933-2010), first and only Israeli to be elected to the United Nations General Assembly for any office
 * Yakir Gabay (1966-), Israeli-born billionaire who founded Aroundtown SA; son of Meir Shmuel Gabay
 * David Galula (1919-1967), French military officer and counterinsurgency theoretician
 * Sonia Gardner (1962-), co-founder of hedge fund Avenue Capital Management
 * Sonny Gindi (1924-2012), co-founder of the Century 21department store
 * Eyal Golan (1971-), Israeli singer (Sephardic and Yemenite descent)
 * Lewis Goldsmith (1763-1846), Anglo-French journalist and political writer
 * Eydie Gormé (born Edith Gormezano, 1928–2013), American singer
 * Eva Green (1980-), French actress and model
 * Philip Guedalla (1889-1944), biographer
 * Denis Guedj (1940-2010), French mathematician and writer
 * David Guetta (1967-), French DJ (Sephardic father)

H

 * Joseph Hackmey Israeli businessman and art collector
 * Tzachi Halevy (1975-), Israeli actor best known for the TV series Fauda
 * Alphonse Halimi (1932-2006), French world champion boxer
 * Gisèle Halimi (1927-2020), French civil rights advocate and feminist
 * Serge Halimi (1955-), French journalist and newspaper editor
 * Eli Harari, founder of SanDisk
 * Serge Haroche (1944-), French physicist
 * Sir Joshua Hassan (1915-1997), Gibraltarian politician, and first Mayor and Chief Minister of Gibraltar
 * Jacob Hassan (1936-2006), Spanish academic, writer, and university professor
 * Daniel G. Hedaya (1940-), American actor
 * Sir Basil Henriques (1890-1961), philanthropist
 * Jack Hidary, technology entrepreneur and researcher
 * Murray Hidary (1971-), composer, fine art photographer and entrepreneur

J

 * Agnès Jaoui (1964-), French actress
 * Mitchell R. Julis (1955-), co-founding partner of Los Angeles hedge fund Canyon Capital Advisors

K

 * Moshe Kahlon (1960-), Israeli politician, Minister of Finance since 2015
 * Paul Kodish (1965-), British professional drummer

L

 * Albert Laboz, New York City real estate developer
 * Marc Lasry (1959-), American billionaire financier
 * Mélanie Laurent (1983-), French actress, singer, pianist, director, and screenwriter
 * Emma Lazarus (1849-1887), U.S. poet, best remembered for her sonnet engraved on the Statue of Liberty
 * Delia de Leon (1901-1993), British actress and disciple of Meher Baba
 * Jack de Leon (1902-1956), British theatre manager, impresario and playwright
 * Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012), Italian physician and neurobiologist
 * Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948-), French philosopher
 * David Levy (1937-), former Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Immigrant Absorption, Minister of Housing and Construction and as a Minister without Portfolio
 * Eugene Levy (1946-) Canadian actor
 * Jackie Levy (1960-), Israeli politician and former mayor of Beit She'an
 * Orly Levy (1973-), Israeli politician and former member of Yisrael Beiteinu

M

 * Enrico Macias (1938-), Algerian-born French singer (born Gaston Ghrenassia)
 * Mickaël Madar (1968-), French football player
 * Moishe Mana (1956-), Israeli-born American billionaire, real estate developer
 * Shiri Maimon (1981-), Israeli singer, actress, and television personality
 * Maimonides (1138-1204), Mediaeval rabbi and philosopher
 * Paul Marciano (1952-), co-founder of Guess? Inc.
 * Phil Margo (1942-), American musician, member of The Tokens
 * David Mazouz (2001-), American actor best known for Gotham (TV series)
 * Lea Michele (1986-), American actress best known for Glee (TV series)
 * Fred Melamed (1956-), American actor and writer
 * Raphael Meldola (1849-1915), British chemist and first president of the Maccabaeans
 * Raphael Meldola (1754-1828), English rabbi
 * Pierre Mendès France (1907-1982), French politician, Prime Minister 1954-55
 * Daniel Mendoza (1764-1836), 19th-century English pugilist, prizefighter
 * David Mimran, film producer and director; married to former Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model Julie Ordon; son of Jean-Claude Mimran.
 * Jean Claude Mimran (1945-), French businessman & former owner of Lamborghini; father of David Mimran; brother of Patrick Mimran
 * Patrick Mimran (1956-), former owner & CEO of Lamborghini; brother of Jean Claude Mimran & uncle of David Mimran
 * Yosef Mizrachi (1968-), Israeli-born haredi rabbi based in Monsey, New York
 * Ken Moelis (1958-), American businessman and billionaire, founder of Moelis & Company
 * Frederic Mocatta (1828-1905), English philanthropist
 * Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), Italian painter
 * Moses Montefiore (1784-1885), British financier and banker, activist, philanthropist and Sheriff of London
 * Edgar Morin (1921-), French sociologist and philosopher (born Edgar Nahoum)
 * Shelley Morrison (1936-2019), American actress best known for her roles Sr Sixto on The Flying Nun and Rosario Salazar on Will & Grace
 * Georges Moustaki (1934-2013), French singer-songwriter

N

 * David Nahmad (1947-), billionaire fine art dealer
 * Ezra Nahmad (1945-), billionaire art collector and dealer
 * Helly Nahmad (London) (1978-), owner of Helly Nahmad London, and son of Ezra Nahmad
 * Helly Nahmad (New York art collector) (1976-), owner of Helly Nahmad Gallery in New York, and son of Ezra's brother David Nahmad
 * Moses ben Nahman (1194-1270), medieval Jewish scholar and rabbi
 * Géraldine Nakache (1980-), French actress, director, and screenwriter
 * Joseph Nakash (1942-), co-founder of Jordache Enterprises, Inc.

O

 * Jerry Orbach (1935-2004), actor best known for roles in Dirty Dancing, Beauty and the Beast, and Law & Order
 * Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (1989-), United States Representative for New York's 14th congressional district 21

P
. Principe/Prince family
 * Abraham Palacci (1809/10-1898), grand rabbi of Izmir
 * Rahamim Nissim Palacci (1813-1907), grand rabbi of Izmir
 * Joseph Palacci (1815-1896), rabbi of Izmir
 * Charles Palache (1869-1954), American mineralogist
 * Haim Palachi (1788-1868), grand rabbi of Izmir
 * Samuel Pallache (1550-1616), Moroccan-Dutch envoy, corsair
 * Joseph De la Penha (fl.1697), Dutch trader
 * Murray Perahia (1947-), American concert pianist
 * Rafi Peretz (1956-), Israeli Minister of Education
 * Victor Perez (1911-1945), Tunisian boxer
 * Abraham Cohen Pimentel (?-1697), Head Rabbi of the Portuguese / Spanish Synagogue of Amsterdam
 * Azaria Piccio (1579-1647), Venetian
 * Daniel Pinto (financier) (1966-), British-French financier
 * Inês Pires, mistress of King John I of Portugal; ancestor of Dukes and Portuguese Kings of the House of Braganza and many of European royalty and nobility

R

 * Lior Raz (1971-), Israeli screenwriter and actor best known for starring in Fauda
 * Miri Regev (1965-), Israeli MK of Likud
 * David Ricardo (1772-1823), British political economist
 * Daniela Ruah (1983-), Portuguese-American actress
 * Rudy Rochman (1993-), Israeli Zionist activist

S

 * Haim Saban (1944-), Israeli-American billionaire who founded Saban Entertainment
 * Elvio Sadun (1918-1974), Italian-American scientist and WWII Italian partisan
 * Safdie brothers, American independent film directors
 * Fortuna Safdié (1958-), Brazilian singer, composer and Ladino-Revivalist.
 * Haym Salomon (1740-1785), Polish-born American businessman who helped finance the American Revolutionary War
 * Roberto Saviano (1979-), Italian writer
 * Hugh Sebag Montefiore (1955-), British Historian and Lawyer
 * Simon Sebag Montefiore (1965-), British historian
 * Jerry Seinfeld (1954-), American stand-up comedian known for playing titular character in TV series Seinfeld
 * Vic Seixas (1923-2024), American Hall of Fame former top-10 tennis player
 * Peter Sellers (1925-1980), British comedian and actor; Knight of the Realm (Richard Henry Sellers)
 * David Serero (1974-), French architect; sephardi ancestors from Morocco
 * David Serero (1981-), French opera singer and actor; Sephardi ancestors from Morocco
 * Silvan Shalom (1958-), former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in Israel
 * Jamie-Lynn Sigler (1981-), American actress and singer
 * Joseph Sitt (1964-), founder of global real estate company Thor Equities
 * Raphael Soriano (1904-1988), Rhodes-born California mid-century modern architect
 * Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), Dutch philosopher of Sephardic Portuguese origin
 * Henry Stern (California politician) (1982-), California State Senator
 * Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949-), French politician; Finance Minister, 1997–99; President of the International Monetary Fund, 2007–11; Sephardic mother
 * Jeff Sutton (real estate developer) (1960-), American real estate developer and billionaire

T

 * Alona Tal (1983-), Israeili singer and actress
 * Shaun Toub (1963-), Iranian-American actor
 * Isaac Touro (1738-1783), Touro College named in his honor. Touro Syn Father of Judah Touro.
 * Judah Touro (1775-1854), American businessmen & philanthropist. Touro College & Touro Synagogue are named in his honor.
 * Gilbert Trigano (1920-2001), French businessman, developer of Club Med
 * Yitzhak Tshuva (1948-), Israeli businessman and chairman of El-Ad Group

V

 * ״Nani״ Noam Vazana (1982-), Israeli-Portuguese Singer, Trombonist and Composer and CEO of Why DIY Music

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 * Len Wein (1948-2017), American comic book writer & co-creator of DC Comics' Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics' Wolverine

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 * Ahmed Zayat (1962-), owner of Thoroughbred racehorses and Triple Crown winner American Pharaoh
 * Éric Zemmour (1958-), French polemist and politician

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User:Bsadowski1

I am a Wikipedian that lives in the Midwest part of the United States. I mainly revert vandalism on here, but also help with content, such as adding references to articles that need some. I also sometimes patrol new pages. I like to correct spelling mistakes in articles, add internal links to articles that are missing some, and also deal with libel and other BLP violations. I am also a steward assisting with crosswiki tasks combating vandalism/abuse.

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Athletic Park (Washington)

Athletic Park is a former baseball ground located in Washington, D.C. The ground was home to the Washington Nationals aka "Statesmen", of the American Association in 1884.

The ballfield was located at S Street NW (south); 9th Street NW (east); T Street NW (north); and 10th Street NW (west); about a quarter mile southwest of the eventual site of Griffith Stadium. The club folded before the 1884 season ended.

The ballpark was first mentioned by that name in local newspapers in 1883, and continued to appear as a site for a variety of public events as late as 1888. By 1889 the block was being cut into lots for new housing. The site is now occupied by residences and education-related buildings.

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Category:Canada Post

Canada Post is a Crown corporation and is Canada's mail delivery agency.

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Cover for album The Distance by Bob Seger.

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