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Metric
Inconsistant use of abbreviations of distances are noted. Suggest either spell it out in numerals or letters but not both.

As for Horsepower, this appears to be metric conversion for the sake of conversion. North American practice uses "horsepower" and as far as I am aware so does European practice. So, suggest eliminating metric rating.

R.L.Kennedy 29 June 2005 19:27 (UTC)
 * Nah nah, the use of kilowatt (kW) is now European practice, besides the European or metric horsepower differs somewhat from its imperial counterpart. See Horsepower and Horsepower
 * Peter Horn 02:25, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Name
It's the White Pass and Yukon Route, there's no 'Railway' or 'Railroad' in the name. Please don't do moves without research. Furthermore, references to 'White Pass and Yukon Railway' are incorrect and inaccurate, so I am going to remove that from the intro paragraph.

The railway was only one part of a whole integrated transportation network, comprising ocean-going ships, railway, riverboats, trucks, etc. That's why it was 'route' not 'railroad'/'railway'. —Morven 04:01, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)
 * Oops, did I move it to Railroad last? Anyway, http://whitepassrailroad.com/company/index.html "The White Pass & Yukon Route Railway is the "Scenic Railway of the World."" The article is, and should be, primarily about the current company, and then about the history of the line and connections. --SPUI 04:23, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I don't think that that is part of the official name of the railway. Note that their mailing address is 'White Pass & Yukon Route', with no 'Railway' in the name.  Their web site and literature uses the bare name or adds 'Railroad' or 'Railway' indiscriminately, and I don't think either really has official standing.  Their owner, Tri-White Corporation, only mentions 'White Pass & Yukon Route'.  Their emblem mentions no 'Railroad' nor 'Railway'.

 * In sum, I think you're reading a little too much into the first line on that web page. —Morven 04:40, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)

Hmmm, I'm going to look for official and semi-official sources.

http://www.rrb.gov/blaw/bcd/bcd02-23.html

"In B.C.D. No. 00-9, issued on March 24, 2000, the Board held that Pacific and Arctic Railway and Navigation Company (PARN) was an employer under the RRA and the RUIA from December 20, 1979 to April 30, 1988. PARN is an Alaskan corporation which merged with a West Virginia corporation of the same name on December 20, 1979."

"PARN is one of three related railroads which conduct service under the trade name of the White Pass and Yukon Route (White Pass). The other two related railroads are the British Columbia-Yukon Railway Company (BCYR) and British-Yukon Railway Company Limited (BYR)."

"White Pass Enterprises, LLC was organized on November 5, 2001, as a limited liability company in the State of Alaska. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of White Pass & Yukon U.S. Inc., which is also the parent company and sole owner of PARN."

http://www.rrb.gov/oig/pdf/SEMIRPTS/Semi399.pdf

"In February 1997, OI received an anonymous complaint on its hotline which alleged that the White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad (WPYR) was not reporting certain employees to the RRB. WPYR is a scenic passenger railroad that operates May through September each year between Skagway, Alaska and Fraser, British Columbia, Canada."

http://www.rrb.gov/oig/pdf/SEMIRPTS/Semi999.pdf

"During this reporting period, the U.S. District Court for the State of Alaska imposed final sentence against the White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad under the terms of a plea agreement which was reported in the Semiannual Report to Congress for the period ending March 31, 1999."

http://www.cta-otc.gc.ca/rulings-decisions/decisions/1997/R/666-R-1997_e.html

"Certificate No. 97023 issued to the Pacific and Arctic Railway and Navigation Company, the British Columbia Yukon Railway Company and the British Yukon Railway Company, all carrying on business as the White Pass & Yukon Route, on June 30, 1997, permits them to operate a railway between White Pass Summit, British Columbia, and Whitehorse, Yukon Territory."

http://www.cta-otc.gc.ca/rulings-decisions/orders/1990/R/1990-R-609_e.html

"AND WHEREAS the Passenger Train Service Order declares the service provided by White Pass & Yukon Corporation a passenger-train service;"

http://www.cta-otc.gc.ca/rulings-decisions/decisions/2000/R/25-R-2000_e.html

"On September 17, 1999, Dave Gyles (hereinafter the complainant) filed a complaint with the Canadian Transportation Agency (hereinafter the Agency) respecting the transfer of a portion of the White Pass & Yukon Route Railway, between mileages 110.5 and 112.0, by the British Yukon Railway Company (hereinafter BYR) to the Government of Yukon and the City of Whitehorse. The complainant alleges that BYR did not follow the abandonment provisions of the National Transportation Act, 1987, R.S.C., 1985, c. 28 (3rd Supp.) (hereinafter the NTA, 1987) and that British Yukon Railway Company Limited (hereinafter BYR Limited) did not follow the transfer and discontinuance provisions of the Canada Transportation Act, S.C., 1996, c.10 (hereinafter the CTA)."

Ugh. These don't even agree. Further complicating it is the fact that it is in two countries. But it looks like you were right - it's run by several companies that do use the term Railway, but they use the fictitious name White Pass and Yukon Route.

--SPUI 05:01, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Quite a mess. It does appear that White Pass & Yukon Route is the most common name under which all of these entities do business as, though. —Morven 05:14, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)

 * I have seen the railway referred to in several places as the White Pass & Yukon Railway. Digging around a bit, I can't find any references to that being the official name, but I'll do some more research.  At any rate, the article's back at the right title now, so I'm happy.  P.S.  There were some double redirects left out there that I'm fixing. JYolkowski 21:56, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Other Miscellany
White Pass has enjoyed a history too free from scrutiny. There are many interesting items which deserve mention here, and so I'll put some points in the talk page as a place-holder for future edits I intend to do;

-2014-
 * Mention White Pass oil spills in Skagway.
 * Mention federal charges against two of White Pass' officials (and resulting jail time for one, which he was promoted by the company for.)
 * Mention death of WP officials.
 * Mention the collapsed Railroad Dock in Skagway, and the resulting death of a worker in the debris.
 * Mention why they had to shut down their oil pipeline (pipeline too close to passenger-carrying rail.)
 * Mention problems Carcross residents had with WP business tactics (Old Train Depot, Riverboat Warehouse.) Include unsuccessful attempts to take over successful business by refusing to renew lease terms.
 * Mention ecological clean-ups in the Carcross area of creosote-polluted land and water.
 * Mention of railway abandonment (or lack thereof) for section between the ghost-town Bennett City and Whitehorse, and why YTG granted White Pass a second lease (for promotion o/ tourism.)
 * Discussion of decline of fuel/freight company into pure tourism (although this is mostly covered already.)
 * Mention White Pass oil barrels washing up on Carcross beaches. Kothog 18:04, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * As for September 2014, The WhitePass route from Fraser to Skagway is operational(I boarded it), anyone can clarify if the issues of the July 23 accident were cleared?. --187.254.16.139 (talk) 21:46, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Map
The route map is not accurate. Whitehorse is in the wrong location! It's up along the Yukon River about a bearing of 300 degrees from the end of Marsh Lake, with a nearly straight rail line north from Carcross on a bearing of about 340 degrees or so. I don't know how to edit that map! It definitely does not curve to the west and end in the mountains! GBC 15:35, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

 * GBC is absolutely right. I wish I could edit that map & I would not hesitate a second to do so.

Peter Horn 01:30, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I put in a revised map. I left the old one there, because I have no idea if the old map is protected by some kind of copyright that renders my revision illegal. If it is an illegal revision, it can be deleted from the article and from the Wikipedia database without have to reinsert the original. The revision also shows the Alaska and Klondike Highways which are adjacent to the railroad. I did the edits using the rudimentary "Paint" program that came with my computer. GBC 23:29, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

The long and the short of it is: either edit this map or, if that is not possible, find a better one.

Peter Horn 01:45, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Nothing has been done by anybody!!!! Peter Horn 01:08, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

White Pass and Yukon Route
450 tons of explosives. Were that long or short tons?

Peter Horn 01:30, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

White Pass and Yukon Route
It could have been Iraq instead of Iran. The former has metre gauge track from Baghdad to Basra.

Peter Horn 02:43, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Steam engines sold to Dollywood?
I am having difficulty believing the recent additions that several of the steam engines were sold to Dollywood based on dates. The engines noted were sold in the 1960s but Dollywood opened in 1986. Soapy (talk) 20:10, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Locomotive # 72 build date and damage by fire
There is a problem with the dates for locomotive #72. The latest edit indicates the locomotive was damaged by fire four years before it was built. Can someone check the build date and/or the date of fire damage? (or maybe the fire damaged a different locomotive?) Thewellman (talk) 00:29, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Frozen Locomotives???
And on the subject of locomotive retirement dates vs disposition dates.....I knew a fellow who worked on the ALCAN highway. He told me a number of the locomotives used to transport highway construction materials were damaged by firemen and engineers inexperienced with cold weather operation. He claimed some locomotive castings were broken by freezing water. Can anyone find a written source to confirm this? The large number of nearly new locomotives scrapped or retired after a single year of operation seems unusual; although it could be an example of typical wastage of military supplies when the job is over. Thewellman (talk) 01:12, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Diesel locomotive 103
It seems strange to me that locomotives 101-110 all have sequential serial numbers, but while # 103 is described as "ALCO Model Series C-14", the remainder of the series is described as "MLW-Worthington Model Series C-14", all are listed as MLW production, but only this one has the ALCO description. Wuhwuzdat (talk) 14:16, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * per this reference[], I am updating the information on this loco to match the others in its batch. Wuhwuzdat (talk) 16:09, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

The article states that the DL535Es were not used by STF while in Colombia. This is false. The units were indeed used frequently by STF, I saw the units in the STF shops at Facatativa when they were being prepared for return to WPY. According to Pedro Puerto, the Facatativa shop manager, the units were a favorite of the train crews because they were good pullers. Here is an excerpt from an article that I wrote for The Short Line several years ago, it describes the situation with the units; they were being sold back to WPY because STF was in financial straits and needed the money.

"...In contrast, business was on the upswing on the White Pass & Yukon. Although the ore mines never reopened, a new and lucrative traffic base appeared in 1988: Cruise ship passengers calling at Skagway to experience the spectacular scenery along the White Pass Route. Increasing passenger volumes during the nineties severely taxed the line’s motive power, a condition worsened by a lack of suitable narrow gauge equipment on the world market.

Ironically, it was STF that eventually came to the rescue. In a reversal of roles, STF recalled its DL-535Es to Facatativá to prepare them for sale back to the WP&Y. The units had last been used in heavy haul service for a major dam construction project at Porce and were in need of maintenance and repair. By May 1998, all units were in the shop for the following work: 1101 (WPY 101) for main generator repairs; 1102 (WPY 103) for a prime mover rebuild; 1103 (WPY 104) for a traction motor rebuild; 1104 (WPY 106) for regular maintenance; and 1105 (WPY 107) for a main generator rebuild. In addition, all units except 1102 were re-winterized and repainted into WP&Y’s green-and-yellow scheme. The prime mover in 1102 was never rebuilt, relegating the unit to parts-supply status.

On May 5, 1999, STF delivered the DL-535Es to the port of Santa Marta for their return to Alaska. It was not all smooth sailing, however. In late July, the barge carrying the locomotives encountered rough seas off California, dislodging and damaging 1101. A maintenance call at Eureka rectified the situation and the locomotives continued on to Skagway, arriving on July 30 without further incident." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.144.154.93 (talk) 23:37, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Northwestel directory cover
Could the contributor who deleted the telephone directory cover please comment on my talk page? It had been suggested that I delete the image from Wikipedia as it was no longer in an article. Perhaps among the three of us, we can resolve whether it can be used.

I had not scanned the phonebook cover using my scanner, merely taken a photograph of it, to limit its resolution quality. It has been 28.7 years (May 1, 1982) since it was published... what is the copyright period on photographs? GBC (talk) 15:15, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Reduce the width
In White Pass and Yukon Route, can some one reduce the width of the Railway line header? Peter Horn User talk 15:03, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Collapsed and hidden. FairFare (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:45, 20 February 2012 (UTC).

Switchback(s) on this route?
If I see the tracking of the route, I do have serious doubts, there has been a switchback/zic zac anywhere on WP & YR in the past. Yes, there is a photo uploaded of a switchback and it is said to be on this route, but I can not see any part, where it had made sense and/or was necessary to climb heigth AND where is the tracking remains of a switchback. Is someone able to verify the source of this photo, which is named as "Hegg Album 3, page 35" and check, what is the original title of this picture? Anna Catarina (talk) 07:44, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

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Omar Bravo

Omar Bravo Tordecillas (born 4 March 1980) is a Mexican professional football manager and former professional footballer who currently manages National Independent Soccer Association club Arizona Monsoon FC. As a footballer he played as a striker. Bravo is Guadalajara's record goalscorer.

C.D. Guadalajara
Bravo was brought to the Guadalajara youth system by José Luis Real. He made his debut with the senior team under manager Jorge Dávalos on 17 February 2001 against Tigres UANL in a 0–0 draw. Bravo became a regular starter for the team during the 2002 Apertura, playing 15 games and scoring 6 goals. He won the tournament's Best Rookie award.

Bravo finished the 2005 Clausura as joint-second top goalscorer of the league with 12 goals. His performances helped him win the tournament's Best Forward award.

In 2006, Bravo participated in a successful season for Guadalajara, helping the team win the Apertura championship title, Bravo scored the leading goal in the first leg match of the Apertura finals, which ended in a 1–1 draw against Toluca, winning 3–2 on aggregate. Bravo finished as the club's top scorer for the tournament with 8 goals, helping him win the tournament's Best Forward award.

Bravo scored in his first appearance in the CONCACAF Champions' Cup against W Connection F.C. as well as in the first match of the semifinals against D.C. United. In the first leg of final, on 8 April 2007, he scored a brace against Pachuca to a 2–2 draw. Guadalajara lost the finals following a penalty shootout. He finished as joint-top scorer with four goals in the tournament. For the 2007 Clausura, he won the Golden Boot for most goals in the league with 11 goals in 17 matches, winning the Best Forward award again.

On 26 April 2008, Bravo scored his 100th goal in a 4–0 victory over Puebla, becoming the 2nd player in the club's history to reach 100 goals, only behind Salvador Reyes, who has 122 goals. On 17 May, he played his last match of his first stint with Guadalajara scoring a goal against Monterrey in the Clausura quarter-finals, which they tied 4–4, losing 8–5 on aggregate.

Deportivo de La Coruña
On 22 May 2008, Deportivo de La Coruña announced an agreement with Bravo for the next three years as he left as a free agent. Bravo became the second Mexican on Deportivo's squad at that time, after Andrés Guardado. Bravo made his league debut on 31 August in a 2–1 victory over Real Madrid. On 8 December he scored his first league goal against Málaga as a penalty kick in a 2–0 victory. With only nine league appearances (only two of them as a starter), it was evident that his stint at the Spanish club was not as successful as expected.

Loan to Tigres UANL
On 5 March 2009, he was loaned out to Mexico side Tigres UANL for the remainder of the 2009 Clausura. He made 6 appearances and scored no goals.

Return to C.D. Guadalajara
Following his loan stint with Tigres UANL, on 6 August, it was announced Bravo would return to Guadalajara, where he signed a 1-year contract with the club. The following month, Bravo was named captain.

On 8 August 2010, Kansas City Wizards announced that Bravo was signed as the squad's first Designated Player since Claudio López. Bravo would join Kansas beginning with the 2011 season. Bravo remained on loan with Chivas for the remainder of the year, disputing the 2010 Copa Libertadores finals against Brazilian club Internacional, where Chivas was runner-up.

Sporting Kansas City
Upon arrival in Kansas City, Bravo mentioned that he was very happy to join the team, and that he believed the level of play in MLS was among the best in the world. In his debut for the club against Chivas USA, he showed off his skilled form and managed to score two goals in a 3–2 victory. He scored nine goals for Kansas and was named MLS Latino Player of the Year.

Cruz Azul
On 12 December 2011, Sporting Kansas City announced that Bravo would not be returning in 2012 and would instead be signing with Cruz Azul in his native Mexico. He scored a brace against San Luis F.C. in a 3–1 home win. After underperforming with Cruz Azul, the club later transferred Bravo to Atlas on a loan. Later, he revealed that he felt he failed with Cruz Azul.

Loan to Atlas
In December 2012, Bravo joined Atlas, rivals of his original club, C.D. Guadalajara, on loan for the entirety of the following year (for the 2013 Clausura and 2013 Apertura).

Return to C.D. Guadalajara
On 4 June 2013, it was announced that Bravo would return to Guadalajara in a trade deal that saw Xavier Báez go the other way to Cruz Azul at the conclusion of his loan stint with Atlas. In December, Bravo was named captain of the team. On 4 January 2014, on his first match on his third stint with the club, he scored on the 3rd minute against Santos Laguna in a 1–1 draw.

On 12 August 2015, Bravo scored a brace at home against Morelia that converted him into Guadalajara's all-time top scorer in league matches, surpassing club legend Salvador Reyes with 123 goals. On 26 September, he scored a brace against rivals América in a 2–1 away victory, surpassing record-holder Salvador Reyes in all goals scored at all competitions.

On 28 October, he scored the only goal in the Apertura Copa MX semi-final against Toluca. The following month, he led the team to win the Copa MX final on 4 November against León in a 1–0 away victory, attaining their first major title in nine years. Bravo finished the 2015–2016 season scoring 11 goals in 34 games. On 10 July 2016, Bravo scored his last goal for Chivas playing against Veracruz in the last minute of the game ending in 2–0 win giving them their first Supercopa MX title their second in nine months and clinched Guadalajara a spot for the 2017 Copa Libertadores.

Loan to Carolina RailHawks
On 13 July 2016, it was announced that Bravo had signed with NASL club Carolina RailHawks during halftime of a match against West Ham United, becoming the first Mexican player to join the club.

Loan to Phoenix Rising FC
On 9 February 2017, it was announced that Bravo had signed with recently re-branded USL club Phoenix Rising FC (formerly Arizona United). In September, Bravo would no longer be an active player for the club.

Leones Negros UdeG
On July 4, 2019, Leones Negros announced that Bravo would be a guest player for the 45th anniversary game against Monterrey on July 13 and a friendly against USL League One side Forward Madison FC on July 16. On July 24 it was announced that Bravo would come out of retirement to play for the following season.

International career
Bravo played for various levels of the Mexico youth national system and in several amateur tournaments, including the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

On 11 June 2006, playing at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, Bravo scored two goals in Mexico's 3–1 victory over Iran and was named the Man of the Match. Two matches later, he missed a penalty against Portugal in a 2–1 loss for Mexico, and did not play in the round-of-16 match against Argentina.

In 2007, Bravo was selected by former coach Hugo Sánchez to represent his country in a series of friendly international matches and to take part in the 2007 Gold Cup and 2007 Copa América, where he scored three goals.

Bravo also played in World Cup Qualifiers and in the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup. He was recalled to the national team in March 2013.

Managerial career
In January 2024, Bravo became manager for National Independent Soccer Association club Arizona Monsoon FC.

Personal life
Bravo appears on the North American cover of FIFA 06 alongside Ronaldinho and Freddy Adu.

Honours
Guadalajara
 * Mexican Primera División: Apertura 2006
 * Copa MX: Apertura 2015
 * Supercopa MX: 2016
 * Copa Libertadores runner-up: 2010

Deportivo La Coruña
 * UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2008

Mexico
 * Gold Cup: 2003, 2009

Individual
 * Mexican Primera División Best Rookie: Apertura 2002
 * Mexican Primera División Best Forward: 2004–05, Apertura 2006, Clausura 2007
 * Mexican Primera División Golden Boot: Clausura 2007
 * CONCACAF Champions Cup Golden Boot: 2007
 * Tecate Premios Deportes Best XI: 2008
 * MLS All-Star: 2011
 * MLS Latino Player Of The Year: 2011
 * Premios Univision Deportes Liga MX Player of the Year: 2015

Records
 * Guadalajara All Time Scorer: 132 goals

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Bert (name)

Bert is a hypocoristic form of a number of various Germanic male given names, such as Robert, Albert, Elbert, Herbert, Hilbert, Hubert, Gilbert, Wilbert, Filbert, Fulbert, Norbert, Osbert, Roberto, Roberta, Bertram, Berthold, Bertrand, Umberto, Humbert, Humberto, Alberto, Alberta, Albertine, Albertina, Cuthbert, Delbert, Dagobert, Rimbert, Egbert, Siegbert, Gualbert, Gerbert, Lambert, Engelbert, Bertie, and Colbert.

There is a large number of Germanic names ending in -bert, second in number only to those ending in -wolf (-olf, -ulf). Most of these names are early medieval and only a comparatively small fraction remains in modern use.

The element -berht has the meaning of  "bright",  Old English beorht/berht, Old High German beraht/bereht, ultimately from a Common Germanic *berhtaz, from a PIE root *bhereg- "white, bright". The female hypocoristic of names containing the same element is Berta.

Modern English bright itself has the same etymology, but it has suffered metathesis at an early date, already in the Old English period, attested as early as AD 700 in the Lindisfarne Gospels. The unmetathesized form disappears after AD 1000 and Middle English from about 1200 has briht universally.

Names containing berht
There is no evidence of the berht element in Germanic personal names prior to the 6th century. It is mostly unknown in names of Goths, Vandals, Frisians or Norse, and only rarely occurs in names of Saxons. By contrast, it is very common among Anglo-Saxons, Lombards, Franks and Bavarians. The popularity of the element in certain areas may be related to religion, similar to the wolf element being due to the worship of Wodanaz, the names with berht can be considered theophoric, in connection with the goddess Perchta. The full form of Old High German beraht is reduced in two ways, by omission of either the second (berht, perht, pert) or the first vowel (braht, praht, brat, prat, brecht). Early attestations of such names include Ethberictus, Garberictus, and Transberictus mentioned in Hontheim's Historia Trevirensis s. a. 699. Pardessus' Diplomata s. a. 745 has Berdbert as a rare example of a reduplicated Germanic name. Förstemann counts 369 names with final -bert(a), of which 61 are feminine.

Given names that remain in modern use include:

 * 1) names with -bert as final element
 * 2) * Albert/Æthelberht, Cuthbert, Dagobert, Elbert, Egbert, Engelbert, Filbert, Gerbert, Gilbert, Harbert, Herbert, Hubert, Humbert, Ingbert, Isambard (Isembert), Norbert, Robert, Tolbert, Wilbert
 * 3) names with Bert- as first element
 * 4) * Bertram, Berthold, Bertrand

Names abbreviated "Bert"
The following names are commonly abbreviated as "Bert":

 * Albert/Adalbert (Æthelbert)
 * Berthold/Bertold
 * Bertrand/Bertram
 * Colbert
 * Gilbert
 * Heribert/Herbert
 * Hubert
 * Lambert
 * Norbert
 * Robert
 * Cumbert

People called Bert

 * Bert Abbey (1869–1962), American baseball player
 * Bert Acosta (1895–1954), American aviator
 * Bert Adams (1891–1940), American baseball player
 * Bert Adams (politician) (1916–2003), American politician
 * Bert Addinall (1921–2005), English professional footballer
 * Bert Anciaux (born 1959), Belgian politician and founder and former member of Spirit (later known as the Social Liberal Party, or SLP)
 * Bert Assirati (1908–1990), English professional wrestler
 * Bert Auburn, American football player
 * Bert Bell (1895–1959), National Football League commissioner
 * Bert Berns (1929–1967), American songwriter and record producer in the 1960s
 * Bert Blyleven (Aalbert) (born 1951), Dutch-born American baseball player
 * Bert Bos (Gijsbert) (born 1963), Dutch computer scientist working for W3C
 * Bert Brown, (1938–2018), Canadian politician
 * Bert Convy (Bernard) (1933–1991), American singer, actor and game show host
 * Bert Cunningham (1865–1952), American baseball player
 * Bert I. Gordon (1922–2023), American film director and screenwriter
 * Bert Haanstra (Albert) (1916–1997), Dutch film director
 * Bert Kaempfert (Bertolt) (1923–1980), German orchestra leader
 * Bert Koenders (Albert) (born 1958), Dutch politician
 * Bert Kreischer, (born 1972), American comedian
 * Bert Laeyendecker (1930–2020), Dutch sociologist
 * Bert Lahr (1895–1967), American actor and comedian
 * Bert McCracken (Robert) (born 1982), American lead singer of alternative band The Used
 * Bert van Marwijk (Lambertus) (born 1952), Dutch football player and coach
 * Bert Newton (Albert) (1938–2021), Australian entertainer and media personality
 * Bert Nievera (1936–2018), Filipino-American singer
 * Bert Parks (1914–1992), American actor, singer, host of Miss America from 1955 to 1979
 * Bert Peletier (1937–2023), Dutch mathematician
 * Bert Peters (composer) (18??–19??), American composer
 * Bert Peters (1908–1944), Australian rules footballer
 * Bert Sakmann (Bertold) (born 1942), German cell biologist, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Medicine
 * Bert Schneider (1897–1986), Canadian Olympic champion welterweight boxer
 * Bert Stenfeldt (born 1933), Swedish Air Force major general
 * Bert Trautmann (Bernhard) (1923–2013), German football player
 * Bert Vaux (born 1968), American linguist
 * Bert Vogelstein (born 1949), American cancer researcher
 * Bert Weckhuysen (born 1968), Belgian chemist
 * Bert Wheeler (1895–1968), American comedian
 * Bert Williams (1874–1922), Bahamian-born American entertainer
 * Bert Williams (footballer, born 1920), England football player
 * Bert Wipiti (1922–1943), New Zealand fighter pilot

As a surname

 * Joris Bert (born 1987), French baseball player
 * Liliane Bert (1922–2015), French actress
 * Mabel Bert (née Mabel Scott, 1862–1???), Australian-American actress
 * Margaret Bert (1896–1971), British-American actress
 * Paul Bert (1833–1886), French physiologist

Fictional characters

 * Albert "Bert" Sanders, a character in the 1997 television movie On the 2nd Day of Christmas played by Mark Ruffalo
 * Bert (Sesame Street), a Muppet character (of Bert and Ernie) on the children's television show Sesame Street
 * Bert Barry, a Co-writer and producer of Pretty Lady on the Broadway musical play 42nd Street
 * Bert Ljung, a fictional character in the Bert diaries
 * Bert (Mary Poppins), a Cockney chimney sweep in the book series and Disney film Mary Poppins. Played in the film by Dick Van Dyke
 * Bert Raccoon, a lead character in TV series The Raccoons

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Jemima von Tautphoeus

Baroness Jemima von Tautphoeus (née Montgomery) (23 October 1807 – 12 November 1893) was an Irish novelist writing in English. She spent much of her life in Germany and wrote several stories that deal with Bavarian life, manners and history.

Life
Born Jemima Montgomery on 23 October 1807 at Seaview, County Donegal, Ireland, she was the daughter of James Montgomery of Seaview and his wife, Jemima (daughter of James Glasgow of Aughadenvarn, County Leitrim). She was also the niece of Sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery, first baronet. The writer Maria Edgeworth was a cousin, whom she described as one of the most interesting people it was possible to know.

Jemima was married on 29 January 1838 to Cajetan Josef Friedrich, Baron von Tautphœus of Marquartstein (1805–1885), Chamberlain to the king of Bavaria. The remainder of her life was spent principally in Bavaria, where she was equally at home in court circles, and as her works show, among the peasantry and the middle classes.

Baron von Tautphœus died on 14 November 1885, a few days after his only son, Rudolf Edgeworth Josef (20 November 1838 – 1 November 1885), who had risen to be Bavarian minister in Rome. The Baroness died on 12 November 1893.

Career
Baroness von Tautphoeus is a member of an interesting group of writers of English fiction, who became residents in foreign countries and devoted their talents to the illustration of foreign manners. Having been extremely popular in the second half of the 19th century, they have since fallen into obscurity.

Her four novels were described by Richard Garnett as "entertaining combinations of romance and travelogue," drawing on a knowledge of English and German manners and scenery. Her heroines (such as Hildegarde in The Initials and Leonora in Quits) are forceful and intellectually curious. Her first, The Initials (London, 1850) became highly popular despite attracting little critical attention. It contrasts a pair of German sisters and is a tale of skilful suspense with a happy dénouement. Quits (London, 1857; in German, Leipzig, 1863) concerns how the life of the mind may protect someone from frivolous society. It devotes 60 pages in three chapters to the Oberammergau Passion Play performance of 1850. Cyrilla (1853 in German, Leipzig, 1854) is founded on the true-life murder trial of Assessor Zahn. The last novel, At Odds (1863), suffered in the author's view from being written in a period of prolonged ill-health.

A more recent account of Baroness von Tautphoeus states that her novels point to a person of conservative tastes, very well read in English, German and French. She was mistrustful of the modernity of the 19th century and tended to see Bavaria as a refuge for traditional values in a fast-changing world. Her silence in the 33 years that followed her last novel probably reflects a lack of sympathy with events in Bavaria in the latter half of that century. As her obituarist in The New York Times put it, "She always lived a retired life, and had published nothing for many years, and her death seems not to have been regarded in Germany as a matter of news."

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Isaac Taylor

Isaac Taylor (17 August 1787 – 28 June 1865) was an English philosophical and historical writer, artist, and inventor.

Life
He was the eldest surviving son of Isaac Taylor of Ongar. He was born at Lavenham, Suffolk, on 17 August 1787, and moved with his family to Colchester and, at the end of 1810, to Ongar. In the family tradition, he was trained as draughtsman and engraver. After a few years' occupation as a designer of book illustrations, he turned to literature as vocation.

From 1812 to 1816 he wintered in the west of England, and he spent most of this time at Ilfracombe and Marazion in the company of his sister, Jane. About 1815 through the works of Sulpicius Severus he started to collect patristic literature. Shortly afterwards Francis Bacon's De Augmentis excited his interest in inductive philosophy. In 1818 a friend of the family, Josiah Conder, then editor of the Eclectic Review, persuaded Taylor to join its regular staff, which already included Robert Hall, John Foster, and Olinthus Gilbert Gregory.

In 1825 he settled at Stanford Rivers, about two miles from Ongar, in a rambling old-fashioned farmhouse. There he married, on 17 August 1825, Elizabeth, second daughter of James Medland of Newington, the friend and correspondent of his sister Jane. In 1836 Taylor contested the chair of logic at Edinburgh University with Sir William Hamilton, and was narrowly beaten. In March 1841, in Hanover Square, he delivered four lectures on 'Spiritual Christianity'. Though he joined the Anglican communion at an early stage in his career, Taylor remained on good terms with friends among the dissenters.

Taylor was granted a civil list pension of £200 in 1862 as acknowledgment of his services to literature, and he died at Stanford Rivers three years later, on 28 June 1865.

Taylor was elected an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1895.

Works
As a young man he executed designs for his father and for the books issued by his sister Jane Taylor. He executed anatomical drawings for a surgeon, and painted miniatures, one a portrait of his sister, another of himself in 1817. Some of his designs for John Boydell's 'Illustrations of Holy Writ' (1820), were admired by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and compared by Alexander Gilchrist with some of the plates of William Blake (Life of Blake, 1863).

In 1822 appeared Taylor's first book, The Elements of Thought (London, 1823; 11th edit. 1867), later recast as The World of Mind (London, 1857). This was followed in 1824 by a new translation of the Characters of Theophrastus (by 'Francis Howell,' London). The translator added pictorial renderings of the characters drawn on wood by himself. In 1825 there followed the Memoirs, Correspondence, and Literary Remains of Jane Taylor (London, 1825, 2 vols.; 2nd edit. 1826; incorporated in The Taylors of Ongar, 1867).

History of the Transmission of Ancient Books to Modern Times (London, 1827) and The Process of Historical Proof (London, 1828) were later remodelled as a single work (1859), in which he attempted to show grounds for accepting literary documents like the Bible as a basis for history. Next appeared an expurgated translation of Herodotus (London, 1829), work which seems to have suggested an anonymous romance, The Temple of Melekartha (London, 1831), dealing with the prehistoric migration of the Tyrians from the Persian Gulf to the Levant. Taylor is said to have depicted his wife in the heroine. His next and best-known work, The Natural History of Enthusiasm (London; Boston, 1830; 10th edit. London, 1845), appeared anonymously in May 1829. It was a sort of historico-philosophical disquisition on religious imagination, and had an instant vogue. Taylor developed the subject in his Fanaticism (London, 1833; 7th edit. 1866) and Spiritual Despotism (London, 1835, three editions). Three further volumes on scepticism, credulity, and the corruption of morals were included in the author's plan of a 'morbid anatomy of spurious religion,' but these complementary volumes were never completed. Those that appeared were praised by John Wilson in Blackwood's Magazine and the last of the three particularly by Sir James Stephen in the Edinburgh Review (April 1840).

In the meantime Taylor had published a devotional volume, Saturday Evening (London, 1832; many editions in England and America). Subsequently, he developed a part of that book into The Physical Theory of Another Life (London, 1836; 6th edit. 1866), a work of speculation, anticipating a scheme of duties in a future world, adapted to an assumed expansion of human powers after death.

His next book was Home Education (London, 1838; 7th edit. 1867), in which he insisted on the beneficial influence of a country life, the educational value of children's pleasures, and the natural rather than the stimulated growth of a child's mental powers. He then completed and edited a translation of the Jewish Wars of Josephus by Robert Traill (1793–1847); it appeared in two sumptuous illustrated volumes (1847 and 1851), but lost money.

In his publication during 1839–40 of Ancient Christianity and the Doctrines of the Oxford Tracts (in 8 parts, London; 4th edit. 1844, 2 vols.), Taylor argued as controversialist against the Tracts for the Times, his contention being that the Christian Church of the fourth century had already matured into superstition and error. This view was contested. Loyola and Jesuitism in its Rudiments (London, 1849; several editions) and Wesley and Methodism (London, 1851; 1863, 1865, and New York, 1852) were followed by a popular work on the Christian argument, The Restoration of Belief (London, 1855,; several American editions), an anonymous publication. Logic in Theology and Ultimate Civilisation were volumes of essays reprinted in part from the Eclectic Review during 1859 and 1860, and were followed in turn by The Spirit of Hebrew Poetry (London, 1861; numerous editions), a volume of lectures, originally delivered at Edinburgh. After Considerations on the Pentateuch (London, 1863; two editions), in which he opposed the conclusions of John William Colenso, and a number of short memoirs for the Imperial Dictionary of Biography, his last work was Personal Recollections (London, 1864), a series of papers, in part autobiographical, which had appeared in Good Words.

Inventor
Taylor was interested in mechanical devices and inventions, and he had a workshop that he fitted up at Stanford Rivers. Early in life he invented a beer-tap (patented 20 November 1824) which came into wide use, and he designed a machine for engraving on copper (pat. 12248, 21 August 1848). Though it did not profit him, the idea was eventually applied on a large scale by a syndicate to engraving patterns on copper cylinders for calico printing in Manchester.

Family
Two of his sisters had a reputation as poets. Ann Taylor, later Mrs. Gilbert (1782–1866), and Jane (1783–1824), responsible for the well-known rhyme Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Josiah Gilbert, son of Ann Taylor, was an artist and author.

Taylor's children were:

 * Jane, who married, first, Dr. Harrison, and secondly, the Rev. S. D. Stubbs;
 * Isaac Taylor (1829–1901), churchman and author;
 * Phœbe;
 * James Medland Taylor, architect, born 1834;
 * Rosa;
 * Henry Taylor, architect and author, born in 1837;
 * Catherine;
 * Jessie, who married Thomas Wilson; and
 * Euphemia.

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Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet

Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (25 April 1628 – 27 January 1699) was an English diplomat, politician and writer. An important diplomat, he was recalled in 1679, and for a brief period was a leading advisor to Charles II of England, with whom he then fell out. Temple subsequently retired to the countryside, and thereafter occupied himself with gardening and writing. He is best remembered today for two aspects of his life after retirement: a passage on the designs of Chinese gardens, written without ever having seen one, and for employing a young Jonathan Swift as his secretary. The first is sometimes given as an early indication of the English landscape garden style, praising irregularity in design.

Biography
William Temple was the son of Sir John Temple of Dublin, an Irish judge and Master of the Rolls. Born in London, and educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Temple travelled across Europe, and was for some time a member of the Irish Parliament, employed on various diplomatic missions. During his time as a diplomat, Temple successfully negotiated the Triple Alliance of 1668 and the marriage of the Prince of Orange and Princess Mary of England in 1677. On his return in 1679 he was much consulted by Charles II, but disapproving of the anti-Dutch courses adopted, retired to his house at Sheen.

He was called out of retirement to implement a plan of his design to reform government rule. He was the architect of the Privy Council Ministry of 1679, which, though it failed, was an early effort to establish an executive along the lines of what later came to be understood as Cabinet government. Charles II disapproved of the scheme, which in his view took away too much of the Royal Prerogative, although in the exceptional circumstances of the Exclusion Crisis he was willing to give it a brief trial.

Temple later left Sheen and purchased Compton Hall, Farnham around 1686. He renamed the house More Park after Moor Park, Hertfordshire, a house he much admired and which influenced the formal gardens he built at Farnham. Here the later-famous Jonathan Swift was his secretary for most of the period from 1689 onward. It was here that Swift met Esther Johnson, who became his lifelong companion and whom he immortalised as Stella. Despite rumours that she was Temple's own daughter, the evidence suggests that her widowed mother lived in the house as companion to Temple's sister Martha. Temple installed his family motto "God has given us these opportunities for tranquility" above the door and took great pleasure from this house in his retirement from public life.

He took no part in the Glorious Revolution, but acquiesced to the new regime, and was offered, but refused, a role as Secretary of State.

Temple died in More Park, Surrey, England in 1699. His memorial in Westminster Abbey names also his wife Dorothy, and their daughter Diana; in 1722 his sister Martha was also buried in the abbey and her name was added as she had left money for a monument. He was much loved by his friends; Swift wrote that all that was good and amiable in mankind departed with him. The normally cynical Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, was deeply grieved by his death, writing to Temple's sister Martha that "the chief pleasure I proposed to myself was to see him sometimes".

Marriage and children

Temple married Dorothy Osborne (d. 1695), a daughter of Sir Peter Osborne and Dorothy Danvers, in 1654. It was a love marriage and the couple were noted for constancy during their long engagement: Dorothy resisted pressure from her family to accept any of several other more eligible suitors, including Henry Cromwell and her cousin Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds. She and William outlived all of their nine children, most of whom died in infancy; the suicide of their adult son John in 1689 was the greatest tragedy of their lives. Dorothy died in 1695 and after her death William's strong-minded sister Martha, Lady Giffard kept house for him. She had married Sir Thomas Giffard in 1662 and been widowed young; she spent many years with William and Dorothy, for both of whom she had a deep affection. In her last years she wrote a short Life of her brother which was published in 1728 after her death in 1722. However Martha believed that Jonathon Swift had lifted parts of her biography to include in his Memoirs of Sir William Temple, Part 3, although Swift denied her accusation.

Sir William and Dorothy Osborne's children included:
 * John Temple (d. 1689), who "as a compliment to his father" was made Paymaster General and, on 12 April 1689, Secretary at War in succession to William Blathwayt. A few days later, having filled his pockets with stones, he threw himself from a boat into the strong current beneath London Bridge, and was drowned. The suicide, which created the greatest sensation at the time, was probably due to official anxiety, aggravated by the treachery of a confidential agent whom he had recommended to the king. He married Marie du Plessis-Rambouillet, daughter of Paul du Plessis-Rambouillet of France, of a Huguenot family, by whom he left two daughters:
 * Elizabeth Temple of Moor Park, who married her cousin, John Temple (d. 1753), second son of Sir John Temple, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, but left no issue;
 * Dorothy Temple, who married Nicholas Bacon (1686–1767) of Shrubland Hall, Coddenham, Suffolk, and left issue. His funeral hatchment showing the arms of Temple survives in Coddenham Church.

Letters written by Dorothy to Temple before their marriage have been published in a number of editions.

Retirement and gardening
Temple saw his retirement from political life to his country estate at Moor Park as following the example of the Greek philosopher Epicurus. In his essay of 1685 (first published in 1690), "Upon the Gardens of Epicurus" Temple wrote of "the sweetness and satisfaction of this retreat, where since my resolution taken of never entering again into any public employments, I have passed five years without once going to town". As a result of his introducing the term sharawadgi in this essay, Temple has been sometimes considered the originator of the English landscape garden style.

As a garden writer, Temple was rather typical of his period in England, but perhaps to an extreme degree, in being highly interested in growing fruit trees of all sorts and very little interested in flowers:"I will not enter upon any Account of Flowers, having only pleased my self with seeing and smelling them, and not troubled my self with the Care, which is more the Ladies Part than the Mens; but the Success is wholly in the Gardener."

The passage in which Temple outlines the concept of Sharawadgi or Sharawaggi is the following:"Amongst us, the Beauty of Building and Planting is placed chiefly in some Proportions, Symmetries and Uniformities; our Walks and our Trees ranged so, as to answer one another, and at exact Distances. The Chineses scorn this way of Planting, and say a Boy that can tell an Hundred, may plant Walks of Trees in strait Lines, and over-against one another, and to what Length and Extent he pleases. But their greatest reach of Imagination, is employed in contriving Figures, where the Beauty shall be great, and strike the Eye, but without any Order or Disposition of Parts, that shall be commonly or easily observ'd. And though we have hardly any Notion of this sort of Beauty, yet they have a particular word to express it; and where they find it hit their Eye at first Sight, they say the Sharawadgi is fine or is admirable, or any such Expression of Esteem. And whoever observes the Work upon the best Indian gowns, or the Painting on their best Skreens and Purcellans, will find their Beauty is all of this Kind, (that is) without Order. But I should hardly advise any of these Attempts in the Figure of Gardens among us; they are Adventures of too hard Atchievement for any common hands; and tho' there may be more Honour if they succeed well, yet there is more Dishonour if they fail, and 'tis Twenty to One they will; whereas in regular Figures, 'tis hard to make any great and remarkable Faults."

Temple's prose style was praised by later critics. Hume called it negligent and infected by foreign idioms, but agreeable and interesting; not like the perusal of a book, but conversation with a companion. Samuel Johnson called him the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. His style was also highly praised by Swift. Macaulay called his prose singularly lucid and melodious.

Death
Temple died on 27 January 1699. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, but his heart, by his special wish, was placed in a silver casket under the sun-dial at Moor Park, near his favourite window seat. Swift recorded, "He died at one o clock in the morning and with him all that was great and good among men".

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Frederick Tennyson

Frederick Tennyson (5 June 1807 in Louth, Lincolnshire – 26 February 1898 in Kensington) was an English poet.

Life
Frederick Tennyson was the eldest son of George Clayton Tennyson, Rector of Somersby, Lincolnshire, and brother of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. He was educated at Eton College (where, as a skilled cricketer, he was Captain of the Oppidans) and, from 1827, St John's College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge he contributed four poems to Poems, by Two Brothers, which Frederick, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and their brother Charles Tennyson Turner published in 1827. He also won the Browne medal for Greek verse composition (a Sapphic ode on the pyramids) in 1828, but was rusticated for three terms for refusal to accept punishment for not attending chapel. Re-admitted to Cambridge in 1830, he graduated BA in 1832.

Tennyson passed most of his subsequent life in Italy and Jersey. On his inheritance of an estate near Grimsby in 1833, he went firstly to Corfu, then settled for twenty years in Florence, where he was a friend of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In 1839 he married Maria Carolina Giuliotti, the daughter of the Chief magistrate of Tuscany.

He became an Anglo-Israelite and later joined the Church of the New Jerusalem.

He died on the 26th February 1898 and is buried on the west side of Highgate Cemetery.

Works

 * Days and Hours, 1854
 * The Isles of Greece: Sappho and Alcæus, 1890
 * Daphne and other poems, 1891
 * Poems of the Day and Year, 1895

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Magnet (disambiguation)

A magnet is an object that has a magnetic field.

Magnet or magnets may also refer to:

Places

 * Magnet, Allier, a town in France
 * Magnet, California, an unincorporated community in Madera County
 * Magnet, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Coles County
 * Magnet, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Perry County
 * Magnet, Nebraska, a village in the United States
 * Magnet, Texas, an unincorporated community in the United States

In music

 * Magnet (musician) (born 1970), Norwegian singer-songwriter
 * Magnet (band), a folk band
 * The Magnets, a UK a cappella vocal group
 * Magnet (album), a 2003 album by Robin Gibb
 * Magnets (album), by The Vapors, or the title song
 * "Magnets" (song), a 2015 song by Disclosure
 * "Magnet", a song by Bikini Kill from Pussy Whipped
 * "Magnet", a song by Bombay Bicycle Club from I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose
 * Magnet (magazine), a music magazine
 * Magnet Records, a record label
 * "Magnet" (BGYO song), 2022

Other entertainment

 * The Magnet, an early 20th-century British story paper
 * The Magnet Theater, an improv theater
 * Magnet Releasing, an independent theatrical films distributor
 * Magnet (children's television block)

Other uses

 * Magnet school, specialized public school in the United States
 * Magnet Kitchens, a kitchen retailer based in the UK and Ireland
 * Magnet Trade, a brand belonging to Magnet Kitchens
 * Maritime Awareness Global Network, a US Coast Guard intelligence tool
 * HMS Magnet, more than one ship of the British Royal Navy
 * USS Magnet, more than one ship of the United States Navy
 * Magnet Networks, an internet, video and voice services provider in Ireland and the UK
 * Magnet Recognition Program, a nursing recognition program
 * Magnet URI scheme, a scheme for Uniform Resource Identifiers, often used with peer-to-peer networks

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Legends (comics)

"Legends" is a comic book crossover story line that ran through a six-issue, self-titled limited series and various other titles published by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987. Each of the individual crossover/tie-in issues had a Legends Chapter # header added to their trade dress.

The series was plotted by John Ostrander, scripted by Len Wein, pencilled by John Byrne, and inked by Karl Kesel.

Publication history
The six issues of the Legends series could be read as an abbreviated story by themselves, or all 22 chapters could be read as a longer story that included the Legends issues as well as issues from other titles including Batman, Superman, and Secret Origins. It was also the first major DC Universe crossover after the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Legends served mainly as a launching pad for several new comic series, including the latter-day Flash title, Keith Giffen and J. M. DeMatteis' comedy/action take on the Justice League, and the villain-based black ops Suicide Squad. The series also saw the post-Crisis introduction into the DC Universe of Captain Marvel (who was spun off in the miniseries Shazam!: The New Beginning) as well as Wonder Woman, who had been rebooted by DC Comics at the same time Legends was being published.

Plot
Darkseid makes a wager with the mysterious Phantom Stranger that he can turn humanity against its heroes. To win the bet, Darkseid sends his minion Glorious Godfrey to Earth, where Godfrey uses the sound of his voice to control people's minds and turn them against Earth's heroes. To further his scheme, Darkseid sends a fire elemental called Brimstone to Earth to defeat the Detroit-based Justice League along with Firestorm and a time-traveling Cosmic Boy. Darkseid also arranges for the cyborg villain Macro-Man to be killed by the mystic lightning that Captain Marvel uses to change into Billy Batson, and Captain Marvel is blamed by the media for Macro-Man's death. Batman suffers his own loss when Robin (Jason Todd) is trampled by a crazed mob. Fearing widespread panic, President Ronald Reagan (the U.S. Commander-in-Chief at the time of publication) declares martial law and bans all superheroic activities in America. This angers several members of Reagan's department of defense, who - at the behest of Amanda Waller - activate "Project: Task Force X", a.k.a. the Suicide Squad. Recruiting a team of expendable imprisoned supervillains, Amanda Waller has the Suicide Squad destroy Brimstone.

Doctor Fate is forced to intervene when Godfrey uses his army of followers to invade Washington, DC. Dr. Fate organizes Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel, Guy Gardner, Black Canary, Changeling, The Flash, and the Blue Beetle to oppose Godfrey. They are joined by the Martian Manhunter, who responds to a JLA distress call from the President. They manage to defeat Godfrey's forces, including Darkseid's cyborg Hounds of War. The masses are subsequently freed from Godfrey's power when Robin gathers an army of children untouched by his powers to serve as a human shield between the heroes and Godfrey. Godfrey strikes one of the children, and the shock frees the mob from his power. Godfrey is defeated when he steals Dr. Fate's helmet and puts it on, rendering him mindless. In the aftermath, the Martian Manhunter, Batman, Blue Beetle, Guy Gardner, Black Canary, Captain Marvel and Dr. Fate form a new Justice League. Superman and the Flash decline membership, stating that they will assist if needed, Wonder Woman quietly exits and Changeling opts to remain with the Teen Titans.

Story chronology
The official reading order was announced as follows by DC Comics:
 * Chapter 1 Cross-over: Batman #401 (November 1986): "A Bird in the Hand..."
 * Chapter 2 Cross-over: Detective Comics #568 (November 1986): "Eyrie"
 * Legends #1 (November 1986): "Once Upon A Time...!"
 * Chapter 3 Cross-over: Green Lantern Corps vol. 1 #207 (December 1986): "Simple Minds"
 * Legends #2 (December 1986): "Breach of Faith!"
 * Chapter 4 Spin-off: Cosmic Boy #1 (December 1986): "Those Who Will Not Learn the Lessons of History..."
 * Chapter 5 Cross-over: Justice League of America #258 (January 1987): "The End of the Justice League of America: Saving Face"
 * Chapter 6 Spin-off: Secret Origins vol. 2 #10 (January 1987): "The Phantom Stranger"
 * Chapter 7 Cross-over: The Fury of Firestorm #55 (January 1987): "The Stench of Brimstone"
 * Legends #3 (January 1987): "Send For... the Suicide Squad!"
 * Chapter 8 Spin-off: Cosmic Boy #2 (January 1987): "Is History Destiny?"
 * Chapter 9 Cross-over: Justice League of America #259 (February 1987): "The End of the Justice League of America: Homecoming"
 * Chapter 10 Cross-over: Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #56 (February 1987): "Firestorm No More"
 * Chapter 11 Cross-over: Blue Beetle vol. 6 #9 (February 1987): "Timepiece!"
 * Legends #4 (February 1987): "Cry Havoc...!"
 * Chapter 12 Cross-over: Warlord vol. 1, #114 (February 1987): "When A Legend Dies"
 * Chapter 13 Spin-off: Cosmic Boy #3 (February 1987): "Past, Present...and Future"
 * Chapter 14 Cross-over: Justice League of America #260 (March 1987): "The End of the Justice League of America: Flesh"
 * Chapter 15 Cross-over: Blue Beetle vol. 6 #10 (March 1987): "Time on His Hands"
 * Chapter 16 Cross-over: Warlord vol. 1 #115 (March 1987): "The Citadel of Fear"
 * Chapter 17 Cross-over: Superman vol. 2 #3 (March 1987): "Legends From the Darkside"
 * Chapter 18 Cross-over: Adventures of Superman #426 (March 1987): "From the Dregs"
 * Chapter 19 Cross-over: Action Comics #586 (March 1987): "The Champion!"
 * Legends #5 (March 1987): "Let Slip the Dogs of War"
 * Chapter 20 Spin-off: Cosmic Boy #4 (March 1987): "Time Without End"
 * Chapter 21 Cross-over: Justice League of America #261 (April 1987): "The End of the Justice League of America: Last Stand"
 * Legends #6 (April 1987): "Finale!"
 * Chapter 22 Spin-off: Secret Origins vol. 2 #14 (May 1987): "The Secret Origin of the Suicide Squad"

Collections
A trade paperback Legends: The Collection (ISBN 1-56389-095-X) was published in 1993 collecting the entire 6-issue limited series.

The three Superman issues have been collected in Volume 2 of the Superman: The Man of Steel trade paperback series and Volume 1 of "Superman: The Man of Steel" hardcover collection.

DC Comics published Legends 30th Anniversary Edition (ISBN 978-1401263164) in June 2016. It includes Legends #1-6. The crossover/tie-in issues are not included. This edition was made available for purchase in both print and digital formats.

The Batman issue was collected neither in the Batman: Second Chances trade paperback nor in Volume 1 of the Batman: The Caped Crusader trade paperback series.

The Detective Comics issue has been collected in Volume 2 of the Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told (focusing on Catwoman and the Penguin) and Volume 1 of the Batman: The Dark Knight Detective trade paperback series.

The "Green Lantern Corps" issue has been collected in Volume 1 of "Green Lantern Corps: Beware Their Power" hardcover.

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Mary Tighe

Mary Tighe (9 October 1772 – 24 March 1810) was an Irish poet.

Life and career
Mary Blackford (or Blanchford) was born in Dublin, 9 October 1772. Her parents were Theodosia Tighe, a Methodist leader, and William Blachford (d.1773?), a Church of Ireland clergyman and librarian. She had a strict religious upbringing, and when she was twenty-one she married Henry Tighe (1768–1836), her first cousin and a member of the Parliament of Ireland for Inistioge, County Kilkenny. The marriage is said to have been unhappy, though little is known.

The couple moved to London in the early nineteenth century. She became acquainted with Thomas Moore, an early admirer of her writing, and others interested in literature. Although she had written since girlhood, she published nothing until Psyche (1805), a six-canto allegorical poem in Spenserian stanzas. Psyche was admired by many and praised by Moore in his poem, "To Mrs. Henry Tighe on reading her Psyche".

Having suffered for at least a year, Mary Tighe endured a serious attack of tuberculosis in 1805. In February 1805 Moore states that she had "a very serious struggle for life" and in August of the same year that she was 'ordered to the Madeiras'. Moore also claimed that "another winter will inevitably be her death". Tighe lived for another five years and spent her last few months as an invalid at her brother-in-law's estate in Woodstock, County Kilkenny, Ireland. She was buried in the church at nearby Inistioge. Her diary was destroyed, though a cousin had copied out excerpts.

The year following her death, a new edition of Psyche was released, along with some previously unpublished poems; it was this edition that established her literary reputation. John Keats was one of her admirers and paid tribute to her in his poem, "To Some Ladies". Pam Perkins writes that "[d]espite the bleakness of many of the short poems in the 1811 volume, in much of the nineteenth-century writing on Tighe there is a tendency to make her an exemplar of patiently (and picturesquely) long-suffering femininity, a tendency exemplified most famously in Felicia Hemans's tribute to her, 'The Grave of a Poetess'." A statue of her was sculpted by Lorenzo Bartolini, and was held at Woodstock House until it was burned down in 1922. According to the Uffizi, the statue was commissioned by her son after her death, and was delivered to Ireland around 1820.

Psyche
"Psyche, or the legend of love" is Mary Tighe's rendition of the Greco-Roman folktale of Cupid and Psyche, which is recorded in The Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses) by Lucius Apuleius, the Silver Age Roman author. Psyche, or the Legend of Love was privately printed in a run of only 50 copies in 1805. It was republished posthumously in 1811 with other, previously unpublished works by Longman, London.

The story is about a princess named Psyche who is so beautiful that the people of her kingdom begin to worship her as the goddess Venus. Venus becomes envious of the attention that Psyche receives and sends her son Cupid to Psyche to make her fall in love with a monster. Instead Cupid falls in love with Psyche, and marries her without his mother's knowledge. He whisks her away to a far-away palace, where she is served by invisible servants, and he visits her only at night, so she cannot discover his true identity. One night Psyche's curiosity gets the better of her, and after he falls asleep she lights a lamp to see her husband's face. When she realises her husband is no monster, rather a god, she is so surprised a drop of oil falls from her lamp and burns Cupid, waking him. He flees, and to regain her husband Psyche seeks the help of his mother Venus, who sends her out to complete various tasks in penance. In her final task, she is sent to retrieve a box from the underworld containing some of Proserpina's beauty. Although instructed not to look inside the box, she opens it, and Psyche is overcome by a never-ending sleep. Cupid saves her, and in the end Psyche is transformed into a goddess herself by Jupiter.The bulk of Tighe's version of the story is taken from Apuleius, but her poem, written in Spenserian stanzas, is riddled with small details which point to Cupid's and Psyche's shared characteristics and equal standing, implying that their love is mutual, and this idea is taken further in the heavily adapted second half of the epic, where Cupid joins Psyche on her penitent journey. In the first encounter between the two lovers, Tighe mirrors a passage from Apuleius but reverses the roles, showing the similarities between the two. As Cupid comes to Psyche at his mother's request, ready to use his love-inducing arrows, he leans over her, but is then overcome by her beauty and:
 * The dart which in his hand now trembling stood,
 * As o'er the couch he bent with ravished eye,
 * Drew with its daring point celestial blood
 * From his smooth neck's unblemished ivory: (canto 1, 244–247).

Much of the same imagery is found in the Metamorphoses, but later in Apuleius’ narrative, as Psyche is overcome at the sight of Cupid and the weapons that testify to his divinity. Tighe was familiar with the ancient novel, so this similarity is likely deliberate. In his novel, Apuleius wrote:
 * Now Psyche, with her insatiable mind, examined these with more than a little curiosity, and as she was studying and admiring the weapons of her husband, trembling she drew one arrow from the quiver to test the point on the tip of her thumb, but she pressed too deeply, so that tiny drops of rosy-red blood dotted her skin like dew. Thus did unknowing Psyche suddenly fall in love with Love, burning more and more with desire for Desire. (Apuleius, Metamorphoses, 5.23).

The many similarities between the two passages strengthen the relationship and the comparison between the two figures. Arrows are held with “trembling” hands, blood stains perfect skin, and neither is aware of the fateful prick. In Tighe's version, Cupid is as much a victim of himself as Psyche is, and she makes explicit that her feelings are mutual. In a major departure from Apuleius’ storyline, Cupid accompanies Psyche on her series of trials, disguised as a white knight on his own journey to regain his beloved. This unique element of Tighe's narrative serves to emphasise the equal responsibility of both genders in romantic relationships. When the white knight first introduces himself to Psyche, hiding his true identity as Cupid, he tells her:
 * “I too (he said) divided from my love,
 * “The offended power of Venus deprecate,
 * “Like thee, through paths untrodden, sadly rove
 * “In search of that fair spot prescribed by fate,
 * “The blessed term of my afflicted state,” (canto 3, 127–131).

By describing him thus, Cupid becomes a male version of Psyche, needing to perform his own series of trials to become worthy of his lover. The tasks Venus sends them to do cease to be a form of penance and become a mutual journey, and both lovers grow as individuals, helping each other to defeat various vices and temptations, in a very moralising and Christian version of the Roman tale.

She also makes allusions to Spencer's Fairie Queene during Psyche's final task set by Venus. "A cruel monster now her steps pursued, Well known of yore and named the Blatant Beast.

Other works

 * Selena (unpublished novel). The manuscript is held in the National Library of Ireland. It is available online:    Tighe, Mary, and Harriet K. Linkin. Selena. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2012. print and online access.
 * Mary: a Series of Reflections during 20 Years (Posthumous; edited and privately printed by her brother-in-law, William Tighe, 1811)

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Talk:Dukes of Lorraine family tree

Corrections Needed

 * The note at the bottom of the chart, referring to "Charles VI of Austria" should be changed to "Charles VI as Holy Roman Emperor." Charles VI was not even from the Austrian ruling House; he was the only Emperor since 1438 who was not. He was from the Bavarian ruling House.--StanZegel 04:17, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * No, this is Charles VII you are referring to. john k 15:10, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * You are correct. I know better. I don't know what I was thinking when I posted that. thanks for catching it. --StanZegel 15:37, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

hi, I currently have a family tree given to our family as recorded through the catholic church. Its a Lorraine family tree, any other curious family members can e-mail me at k.elli.g@hotmail.com  its from 1647 to my great grandmother it starts with nicholas Lorraine when he was a French catholic missionary. its very interesting. Do you think its the same lorraine family related to the dukes? My grandma said 'Dukes of Lorraine" quite often not knowing what she was referring to. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.172.198.181 (talk) 18:25, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Numerous errors
There are several errors on this family tree relating to the succession of dukes in the 17th century. Francis II was duke only briefly in 1624. His son Charles III then reigns for ten years, until 1634. At this point, I think Nicholas II is until 1661, but I'm uncertain. In 1661, Charles III returns, reigning until 1669/70 (not sure of exactly when the French came in). Then comes the French occupation, but most European states continue to recognize Charles III, his nephew Charles IV, and Charles IV's son Leopold Joseph, as Dukes respectively from 1669/70-75, 1675-90, and 1690-97. After that, I think it is correct, although, again, Leopold Joseph was recognized as legitimate Duke by most powers between 1702 and 1714, even though the duchy was again occupied by the French. john k 15:10, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I can address your corrections in the original as soon as my laptop is fixed. Meanwhile, you can think of anything else that is not right and compile a full list of corrections to do. muriel@pt 20:21, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * That's really all that I'm certain of. Thanks, Muriel. john k 21:31, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Once again..
Im sorry to say but this tree needs to be completely redone; the names are completely wrong its embarrassing!

 * Elizabeth of Orleans > Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans
 * Charles Henry, Duke of Lorraine-Vaudemont > Charles Henri, Prince of Commercy
 * Anna of Lorraine-Elbeouf > Anne Élisabeth de Lorraine
 * Beatrice of Ouscance > Béatrice de Cusance
 * Claudia of Valois?! > Claude of France, Princess of France
 * Ferdinado I of Medici, grand duke of Tuscany > Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
 * Antoinette of Bourbon-Vendome > Antoinette de Bourbon
 * Renée of Bourbon-Vendome > Renée de Bourbon

Just to name a few! H.I.M Empress Marie Anne Victoire 17:25, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

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John Tobin (dramatist)

John Tobin (28 January 1770 – 7 December 1804) was a British playwright, who was for most of his life unsuccessful, but in the year of his death made a hit with The Honey Moon. Other plays were The Curfew and The School for Authors.

Life
Tobin was born in Salisbury, the son of James Tobin, a merchant, and his wife, born Webbe, the daughter of a rich West India sugar planter. George Tobin was his elder brother. Another brother, James Webbe Tobin (died 1814), an acquaintance of Charles Lamb and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, went to Nevis. About 1775 the father set out with his wife to Nevis in the West Indies. The children were left behind, and John was placed for a while under the care of Dr. Richard Mant, the father of Richard Mant the bishop, at Southampton. After the American War of Independence, James Tobin having returned to England and settled at Redland, near Bristol, John was sent to Bristol Grammar School under Dr. Charles Lee. In 1787 he left Bristol to be articled to a solicitor in Lincoln's Inn, and, some ten years later, on his employer's death without a successor, he took over the practice in partnership with three other clerks in the office. Dissensions arose, and the arrangement broke down. Tobin eventually entered a new firm.

From 1789, Tobin had devoted time to dramatic composition. He imitated Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the Elizabethans, and Gay or Foote. Tobin approached managers thirteen times with different pieces without success. One of them, The Faro Table, was provisionally accepted by Sheridan, but then rejected. The manager of Drury Lane dallied in a similar manner with his picturesque drama "The Curfew". In 1800 his "School for Authors", which afterwards achieved success, was rejected, and it was not until April 1803 that he (due to the good opinion of Joseph Shepherd Munden) saw a piece of his own on the boards, a farce, "All's Fair in Love". In 1804, having submitted his fourteenth production, a romantic play in blank verse called 'The Honey Moon,' to the management at Drury Lane (it had failed to win acceptance at Covent Garden), he left his rooms near the Temple and went for his health to Cornwall. He then heard that "The Honey Moon" had been accepted; but in the meantime symptoms of consumption had manifested themselves. He was told that to save his life he must winter in the West Indies. He set sail accordingly on 7 December 1804, but died the first day out. The ship put back, and he was buried in the little churchyard of Cove, near Cork, where the remains of Charles Wolfe, author of the "Burial of Sir John Moore", were laid nineteen years later. Tobin was unmarried.

Works
The Honey Moon was given at Drury Lane on 31 January 1805, with Elliston and Bannister in the leading rôles, and proved a decided success. It remained a favourite on the English stage for twenty years. Hazlitt thought the plot owed much to the Taming of the Shrew; John Genest detected reminiscences of Massinger and other Elizabethans. Tobin excelled at light comedies and stage lyrics. After his early death, his rejected pieces were sought after by managers.

Tobin's works, all posthumously published, were:
 * 'The Honey Moon: a comedy' (five acts, mainly verse), London, 1805; New York, 1807; frequently reprinted, translated by Charles Nodier as 'La Lune de Miel' in 'Chefs d'œuvre des Théâtres Étrangers,' 1822.
 * 'The Curfew: a play' (in five acts, prose and verse), London, 1807; 7th edit. 1807. It was produced at Drury Lane on 19 February 1807, and would have run longer than twenty nights but for Sheridan's anxiety to avoid the obligation of a benefit for Tobin's relatives.
 * 'The School for Authors: a comedy' (in three acts, prose), London, 1808. Based on 'The Connoisseur,' one of Marmontel's tales; the part of Diaper, the sensitive author, afforded a triumph to Munden when he created the rôle at Covent Garden on 5 Dec. 1808.
 * 'The Faro Table; or the Guardians: a comedy' London, 1816. This was given at Drury Lane on 5 November 1816, or nearly twenty years after it had been written, when the manners it satirises were already passing away; it was not a success.

Several of Tobin's unpublished dramas were published in one volume in 1820; among them 'The Gypsy of Madrid,' after the 'Gitanilla' of De Solis, 'The Indians,' and two light operas, 'Yours or Mine' and 'The Fisherman.' Among other pieces by him, apparently no longer extant, are mentioned 'The Reconciliation,' 'The Undertaker,' and 'Attraction.'

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Mercy (disambiguation)

Mercy is leniency or compassion. In sport, the mercy rule may be applied.

Mercy may also refer to:

Places

 * Mercy Bay, Northwest Territories, Canada
 * Mercy, Allier, Allier department, France, a commune
 * Mercy, Yonne, Yonne department, France, a commune
 * Mercy, Les Cayes, Haiti, a village in the Les Cayes municipality

Fictional characters

 * Mercy (comics), a villain at the Marvel Comics universe
 * Mercy, a character in the 1979 film The Warriors
 * Mercy Bromage, a character from the 2017 movie My Days of Mercy
 * Mercy Chant, a minor character in the Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles
 * Mercy Graves, a character from Superman: The Animated Series
 * Mercy Hartigan, the human accomplice of the Cybermen in The Next Doctor
 * Mercy Olubunmi, in the British soap opera EastEnders and Internet spin-off EastEnders: E20
 * Mercy Thompson, in an urban fantasy series written by Patricia Briggs
 * Mercy (Overwatch), from the 2016 video game Overwatch

Fictional places

 * Mercy, Saskatchewan, the setting for the Canadian sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie

Film

 * Mercy (1953 film), a Mexican drama
 * Mercy (1995 film), a thriller written and directed by Richard Shepard
 * Mercy (2000 film), a thriller directed by Damian Harris
 * Mercy (2009 film), a romantic drama directed by Patrick Hoelck
 * Mercy (2012 film), a German film
 * Mercy (2014 film), an American horror film
 * Mercy (2016 film), a home invasion thriller
 * Mercy (2017 film), a drama romance film
 * The Mercy, a 2017 British film directed by James Marsh
 * Mercy (2023 film), an American action film

Games

 * Mercy (game), a children's game that involves the bending back of an opponent's hands
 * Mercy, a move related to the Fatality in the video game series Mortal Kombat

Literature

 * Mercy (Vertigo), a graphic novel in DC Comics' Vertigo imprint
 * A Mercy, a 2008 novel by Toni Morrison
 * Mercy (novel), a 1996 novel by Jodi Picoult
 * Mercy, a 1991 book by Andrea Dworkin

Music

 * Mercy (band), a 1960s pop group

Albums

 * Mercy (Steve Jones album), 1987
 * Mercy, by Bryan Duncan, 1992
 * Mercy, by Andraé Crouch, 1994
 * Mercy (Meredith Monk album), 2002
 * Mercy (Salmonella Dub remix album), 2004
 * Mercy (Burden Brothers album), 2006
 * Mercy (Planes Mistaken for Stars album), 2006
 * Mercy (Rocco DeLuca and the Burden album), 2009
 * Mercy, by Natalie Bergman, 2021
 * Mercy (Trey Anastasio album), 2022
 * Mercy (John Cale album), 2023
 * Mercy (Remo Drive album), 2024

Songs

 * "Mercy" (Brett Young song)
 * "Mercy" (Dave Matthews Band song)
 * "Mercy" (Duffy song)
 * "Mercy" (Elevation Worship and Maverick City Music song)
 * "Mercy" (Madame Monsieur song)
 * "Mercy" (Muse song)
 * "Mercy", by OneRepublic from Dreaming Out Loud, 2007
 * "Mercy" (Shawn Mendes song)
 * "Mercy" (Kanye West song)

Television

 * Mercy (TV series), an American medical drama
 * "Mercy" (The Walking Dead), an episode

Organizations

 * Mercy (healthcare organization), a Catholic health system in the United States sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy
 * Mercy Malaysia, a Malaysia-based relief group
 * Mercy Ministries, a Charity organization

Schools

 * Mercy College (disambiguation)
 * Mercy High School (disambiguation)
 * Mercy Academy, an all-girls Roman Catholic high school in Louisville, Kentucky

People

 * Mercy (given name), a list of people with the given name or nickname

Other uses

 * Mercy Hospital (disambiguation)
 * USS Mercy, three United States Navy hospital ships
 * Mercy-class hospital ship
 * Mercy (cipher), a disk encryption algorithm
 * Mercy (drink), a hangover preventative beverage
 * Waylon Mercy, later stage name for former professional wrestler Dan Spivey

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User talk:CNRamachandran

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Talk:Cystercosis

What
What particular U.S. law? Rmhermen 04:19, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)
 * An interesting question, especially since wild pigs don't pay the least attention to laws. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:30, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Merge?
Is this the same as Cysticercosis? WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:30, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Merge
Yes, this is the same as Cysticercosis. I think that this should merge into that page because it is much more detailed, and a higher-quality page. I don't know how to merge them, or suggest that they be merged though.

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