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Samut Sakhon

Samut Sakhon (สมุทรสาคร,, Pronunciation) is a City in Thailand, capital of Samut Sakhon province. It is a stop on the Maeklong Railway. Samut Sakhon is 48 km from Bangkok. It is part of the Bangkok Metropolitan Region.

Name
Samut Sakhon was formerly called Tha Chin (Chinese Pier) probably because, in the old days, it had been a trading port for a vast number of Chinese junks. In 1548, a City named Sakhon Buri was established at the mouth of the Tha Chin River. It was a center for recruiting troops from various seaside towns. The name of the city was changed to Mahachai when Khlong (canal) Mahachai was dug in 1704 to connect the Tha Chin River to the city. Later, the city was renamed Samut Sakhon by King Rama IV but it is still popularly called Mahachai by its residents.

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Senboku District

Senboku District may refer to:
 * Semboku District, Akita (仙北郡)
 * Senboku District, Osaka (泉北郡)

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Sing Buri

Sing Buri is a town (thesaban mueang) in Thailand, capital of the Sing Buri Province. It lies 141 km north of Bangkok. The town covers the whole tambon Bang Phutsa and parts of Bang Man, Muang Mu, Ton Pho, and Bang Krabue, all within Mueang Sing Buri District. As of 2006, it had a population of 19,470.

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Ridgewood Park (baseball ground)

Ridgewood Park, also known as Wallace's Ridgewood Park or the Wallace Grounds, and frequently confused with Grauer's Ridgewood Park, was a baseball ground in Ridgewood, Queens, New York. Both Wallace's and Grauer's are shown in Belcher Hyde's Map of Newtown in 1915. The baseball field was part of a larger entertainment area bounded Wyckoff Avenue, Covert Street, Halsey Street, and Irving Avenue. (Halsey Street also bordered the old Capitoline Grounds about 2 mi west.) The baseball field was southwest of the Long Island Rail Road's Montauk Branch tracks. Eldert Street, although depicted on the map as running through the baseball grounds, was not cut through southwest of the railroad tracks and the road remains interrupted there today. Originally the park was in Queens County, before its incorporation into New York City in 1899. This facilitated Sunday baseball playing, including the charging of admission, beyond the reach of Sabbath enforcers from the then-city of Brooklyn.

Grauer's Ridgewood Park or Grauer's Woods was a large parkland several blocks north of Wallace's ballpark, bounded by Myrtle Avenue, Cypress Avenue, Seneca Avenue, and Decatur Street. Although some baseball was played here, this area was more of a picnic park. George Schubel in 1913 lyrically describes the pleasures of Grauer's Ridgewood Park: "Here the German families of another generation assembled and enjoyed themselves in innocent recreation very much in the manner that they were accustomed to do across the seas. Most of these parks have been eliminated, owing to the increase in land values and the decline of this sort of amusement." He also notes that "This once beautiful park is now cut up with such streets as Centre Street, George Street, Norman Street, Summerfield Street, and Willow Street, running through the land."

The land that would become Wallace's Ridgewood Park was purchased by William Wallace in 1884. On April 5, 1885, the first game was played between the Brooklyn Atlantics and the Ridgewoods before a reported 3,000 fans. According to Retrosheet, Ridgewood Park was used by the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers from 1887-1889 after they had played some games in the 1886 season at Grauer's. The Dodgers had used it strictly for Sunday games, to get around Brooklyn's blue laws. The Brooklyn Gladiators played their full 1890 schedule at Wallace's. The field was home to the semipro Ridgewoods; later the Brooklyn Bushwicks and the Negro league Brooklyn Royal Giants also played there.

On September 19, 1917, the grandstand burned, precipitating the Bushwicks' move to Dexter Park in 1918. Wallace apparently intended to subdivide the land put it up for sale in that year, but ultimately he would rebuild, and the property was not sold until 1927. Although it was gradually reduced in size, the park survived and hosted soccer and other sports as Grand Stadium until 1959, when it was replaced by industrial buildings.

Grand Stadium once again played host to the Dodgers as a training site in its waning years. The Eagle reported on February 26, 1947, that Branch Rickey "looked refreshed on his arrival at Grand Stadium to watch the 20 who had been tempted [by Mexican promoter Pasquel's contract offers] and 30 other Dodgers go through their long drill." Although this passing reference does not conclusively establish the connection, it seems that the Dodgers returned briefly to their old stomping grounds some 60 years later.

Yet another Ridgewood ballpark was Meyerrose Park, which existed from 1907 through 1911. It was the home of an "outlaw" Brooklyn club for two seasons, in the Atlantic League (1907) and Union League (1908). It was on part of the former Meyerrose Farm, a large block bounded by Myrtle Avenue, Gates Avenue, Covert (now Seneca) Avenue, and Woodward Avenue. After the 1911 season, it was sold to developers, and Onderdonk Avenue was cut through.

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Albert Rosellini

Albert Dean Rosellini (January 21, 1910 – October 10, 2011) was an American politician who served as the 15th governor of Washington from 1957 to 1965 and was both the first Italian-American and Roman Catholic governor elected west of the Mississippi River.

During a political career that spanned 40 years, Rosellini was an activist leader who worked to reform the state's prisons and mental health facilities, expand the state highway system, create the University of Washington's medical and dental schools, and build the second floating bridge across Lake Washington.

Rosellini holds the record as the longest-lived U.S. state governor in American history, having reached the age of 101 years, 286 days.

Early life and education
Born in Tacoma, Washington, Rosellini was the only son of Italian immigrants, Annunziata (Pagni) and Giovanni Rosellini, a saloon operator. He worked his way through college and law school at the University of Washington, where he was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, graduating in 1933 with his classmate Hugh J. Rosellini (no relation), a childhood friend and later state Supreme Court justice.

Washington Senate
At the age of 29, Rosellini was elected to the state senate as its youngest member, representing the 33rd district in south Seattle, the home of many Italian immigrants. A New Deal Democrat, Rosellini served from 1939 to 1957, and rose to the rank of majority leader. He was elected governor in 1956.

Governorship
As governor, Rosellini coupled personal charm with decades of political know-how, developing a reputation for decisiveness and ability to move ahead on long-stalled projects. Don Hannula, longtime political columnist for The Seattle Times, wrote in 1996, "He was not a man of empty rhetoric. He got things done. His legacy is everywhere." In his 1997 biography, Rosellini, Immigrant's Son and Progressive Governor, author Payton Smith wrote: "He was attracted to issues where progress could be made and measured . . . Budget reform, economic development, transportation, higher education and institutions were the core matters to which he devoted his talent and governmental know-how."

Rosellini was narrowly re-elected in 1960, beating Republican Lloyd J. Andrews by a margin of 1.4 percent.

In order to promote economic development, Rosellini established a state department of commerce and championed the Seattle World's Fair in 1962.

He shepherded construction of the former longest floating bridge in the world, the original Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, which opened in 1963 and carried State Route 520 over Lake Washington from Seattle to Medina. It was renamed for Rosellini in 1988. After 53 years of service, it was replaced by a new floating bridge at the same site in 2016, which also bears his name. In addition, he was a tireless supporter of higher education, strengthening the state university system and developing a system of junior colleges. During his time in office, Rosellini also reformed the state budget process and balanced the budget.

1964 gubernatorial election
Rosellini was defeated in his bid for a third term in 1964 by Republican Daniel J. Evans, a state legislator and civil engineer. Rosellini entered the primary unopposed by his ostensive rivals for the Democratic nomination, Lieutenant Governor John Cherberg or Attorney General John J. O'Connell, but did encounter opposition from several unknown candidates who collectively garnered close to 50,000 votes.

The general election campaign was marked by bruising attacks on the candidate's integrity from both the Republican and Democratic camps. Governor Rosellini attempted to portray Evans as a supporter of Barry Goldwater and his record as antithetical to the interests of labor, welfare, and education. Evans in turn charged Rosellini with financial impropriety and cronyism, alleging that the Governor solicited campaign funds from businesses under contract with the state government. Only one televised debate was agreed between the two candidates. The coattails of President Johnson did not extend to this race, as the 39-year-old Evans won by double digits.

1972 attempted comeback
Rosellini made a comeback bid eight years later in 1972; he captured the Democratic nomination, but was again defeated by Evans. Starting with a lead in the polls, Rosellini saw his support fall when he disparagingly referred to Governor Evans as "Danny Boy" and being accused of intervening on behalf of his friend Frank Colacurcio to obtain a club license in Hawaii while in office. A minority of Evans' supporters also began to sport bumper stickers on the back of their cars stating "We Don't Need A Godfather," described by his daughter Lynn Rosellini as extremely hurtful to her father given his pride over his Italian ancestry. (The popular Oscar-winning film The Godfather was released earlier that year.)

Consultant and elder statesman
After leaving office in 1965, Rosellini returned to the practice of law, and also became a political consultant, specializing in matters of the liquor and entertainment industries. Over the years, Rossellini served as an elder statesman of the state Democratic Party, mentoring political figures including Washington governors Christine Gregoire and Gary Locke.

In 2003, Rosellini was back in the news briefly when he was reported to have delivered campaign contributions to Seattle City Council members on behalf of strip-club owners, one of whom was a convicted racketeer. Rosellini was never charged in the scandal that became known as "Strippergate."

Until his death, Rosellini attended fundraisers for candidates and helped raise money for charities, particularly the Washington State Olympics Committee, which he chaired for many years.

Danny Westneat, columnist for The Seattle Times, wrote in 2005, "His record makes most governors after him look like slackers."

Personal life
Rosellini and his wife Ethel (1912–2002), whom he married in 1937, had five children. Ethel died in 2002, after 64 years of marriage. Albert and Ethel had a close, affectionate, and happy marriage, and the two were known for their devotion to each other. Rosellini was a practicing Catholic.

Later life and death
Rosellini celebrated his 100th birthday in January 2010, becoming one of the few U.S. state governors ever to reach the age of 100. He died of complications related to pneumonia in Seattle on October 10, 2011, at the age of 101. Rosellini's funeral was at St. James Cathedral in Seattle, and he was buried at Calvary Cemetery, alongside his wife.

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Altenkirchen

Altenkirchen is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, capital of the district of Altenkirchen. It is located approximately 40 km east of Bonn and 50 km north of Koblenz. Altenkirchen is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld.

Geography

 * Lahrer Herrlichkeit, a landscape region in the collective municipality of Flammersfeld

Notable people

 * Dirk Adorf (born 1969), race car driver
 * Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler (born 1975), politician (SPD)
 * Dittmar Hahn (born 1943), former judge of the Federal Administrative Court
 * Claus Koch (born 1953), jazz musician
 * Ernst Lindemann (1894–1941), an officer of the Imperial Navy and later the Navy commander of the battleship  Bismarck
 * Hermann Heinrich Traut (born 1866), librarian
 * Marie Gülich (born 1994), WNBA player.

Other personalities
The following figures are not native Altenkirchen people, but have worked or lived in the city:
 * Wilhelm Boden (1890–1961), former Prime Ministers of Rheinland-Pfalz
 * Ludwig Julius Budge (1811–1888), physician
 * Bernhard Grzimek (1909–1987), zoologist, cooperated in 1938 with the District Veterinary Office in Altenkirchen to combat bovine tuberculosis
 * François Séverin Marceau (1769–1796), French general
 * Krzysztof Meyer (born 1943), composer
 * Hans Nüsslein (1910–1991), German tennis player, professional world champion in 1933, 1936, 1937
 * Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818–1888), social reformer
 * Ewald Schnug sen. (1930–2013), Master Gardener, Bearer of the Federal Cross of Merit, First Alderman of Altenkirchen, Gamekeeper's ring leader, County hunting master
 * Ewald Schnug (* 1954), agricultural researcher, professor, Honorary-President of the International Scientific Center for Fertilizers

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Life with Feathers

Life with Feathers is a 1945 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short film directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on March 24, 1945, and is the first cartoon to feature Sylvester the Cat.

Plot
A lovebird named Sweetypuss experiences a tumultuous turn of events when his spouse evicts him from their shared birdcage, prompting him to contemplate suicide. Convinced that his fate lies in the jaws of a cat, Sweetypuss strategically positions himself near Sylvester the Cat, hoping for a swift demise. However, Sylvester's hesitation, stemming from suspicions of Sweetypuss being poisonous, thwarts the avian's initial plan.

Undeterred, Sweetypuss resorts to inventive schemes, including mailing for a mallet to propel himself into Sylvester's mouth. Yet, the cat's resourcefulness prevails, as he smokes a pipe to dissuade Sweetypuss and ensnares him in a bottle. A comedic interlude ensues as Sylvester unwittingly ingests one of Sweetypuss's feathers, mistaking it for food, and subsequently perceives himself to be poisoned. Through acts of altruism, Sweetypuss administers an antidote, only to be rebuffed by Sylvester's rejection and subsequent banishment.

Further attempts at self-sacrifice, such as masquerading as Santa Claus and leveraging auditory stimuli, fail to elicit the desired response from Sylvester. The lovebird's fortunes gradually oscillate, with the imminent threat of consumption by Sylvester momentarily alleviated by news of his wife's reconciliation. Nevertheless, Sylvester's unyielding pursuit prompts Sweetypuss's hasty retreat to the safety of his birdcage.

Cast

 * Mel Blanc as Cat, Lovebird, Telegram Guy
 * Sara Berner as Sweetypuss, Housewife
 * Dave Barry as Radio Announcer

Production notes
Life with Feathers marks the debut of Sylvester the Cat, who would later star in 102 additional shorts. The cartoon earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. It was re-released as part of the Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodies program on March 3, 1951, retaining its original closing bullet titles.

The title is a play on the longest-running non-musical play on Broadway, Life with Father (the title being the only connection between the two works). Warner Bros. would produce a film version in 1947.

It was notably the final cartoon to feature the 1941–45 opening rendition of "Merrily We Roll Along" and the last non-Bugs Bunny cartoon to include the "Warner Bros. Pictures Inc." and "Present" fade-in after the WB shield zooms in. In 1951, Chuck Jones recycled a similar concept for Hubie & Bertie's last cartoon, Cheese Chasers. The American and European Turner "dubbed versions" depict Sylvester with black fur, though the restored version on Blu-ray Disc/DVD reveals his original lighter bluish-black fur. Scenes from the cartoon were reused in Kit For Cat, Tweety's S.O.S., and Catch as Cats Can.

Home media

 * VHS – Cartoon Moviestars: Tweety and Sylvester
 * LaserDisc – The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 1, Side 2: Firsts.
 * VHS – The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Vol. 2: Firsts
 * Blu-ray Disc, DVD – Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3, Disc 2.

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Birkenfeld

Birkenfeld is a town and the district seat of the Birkenfeld district in southwest Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is also the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde. The town itself has approximately 7,000 inhabitants.

Location
The town lies in the Nahegebiet (Nahe area), to the north of the namesake river, on the edge of the Naturpark Saar-Hunsrück. Birkenfeld lies roughly 13 km southwest of Idar-Oberstein and 12 km northwest of Baumholder.

Neighbouring municipalities
Clockwise from the north, these are Gollenberg, Elchweiler, Schmißberg, Rimsberg, Dienstweiler, Ellweiler, Dambach, Brücken, Buhlenberg and Ellenberg.

History
The name Birkenfeld has its origin in an old German dialect, Old Frankish. It means something rather like "at the field with the birches" (it is directly cognate with the English words "birch field"). From the name's Frankish roots it can be inferred that today's town arose on a spot where there was quite a noticeable stand of birch trees sometime about the year AD 500, and that it was founded by Frankish-German farmers. To this day, there are a great number of birch trees in the bird conservation area at the clay quarries.

The first attestation of the name is spelled Bikenuelt (about 700) or Birkinvelt at the time when it had a documentary mention from Archbishop of Trier Egbert in 981. From this document comes knowledge that Saint Leudwinus (Archbishop of Trier 695-713) had donated to the St. Paulinus' Abbey in Trier the churches at Birkenfeld and Brombach.

Archaeological finds from the Iron Age, however, bear witness to quite heavy settlement even in the 8th century BC. In the 1st century BC, Roman legions overran the area, and for 400 years, it lay under Roman rule. This is known mainly from finds made in the town's immediate vicinity. The town that is now Birkenfeld lies right on a Roman road that served as a crosslink between two important military roads, namely the Metz-Mainz road to the south and the Trier-Bingen-Mainz road to the north, which was mentioned by Roman poet Ausonius in his Mosella in AD 350, and which also corresponds along some stretches with the Hunsrückhöhenstraße ("Hunsrück Heights Road", a scenic road across the Hunsrück built originally as a military road on Hermann Göring's orders). This crosslink, also known as the Bronzestraße ("Bronze Road"), linked the Glan, Nohen and the Moselle with each other. The Bronzestraße crossed the Nahe in Nohen (villa Aldena) and ran farther on, right through the Wasserschieder Wald, a state forest that still stands today on the town's outskirts, by way of Gollenberg, by Börfink and on towards Trier.

The Frankish settlement of Birkinvelt was held in the 13th century by the Counts of Sponheim. In 1223, the county was split into the "Front" and "Rear" Counties of Sponheim, and Birkenfeld passed to the latter, and was then held by the counts whose seat was at the Starkenburg (castle, now a ruin) near Trarbach. In 1293, Castle Birkenfeld had its first documentary mention. In 1332, Birkenfeld was granted town rights by Emperor Louis the Bavarian.

After the last Count of Sponheim died in 1437, the "Rear" County was inherited by the Margraves of Baden and the Counts of Veldenz. In 1584, a House of Wittelsbach sideline, in the person of Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, resided in town. In this same year, expansion work also began on the castle to turn it into a princely residence in the Renaissance style. Exactly 140 years later, the last remnants of the Princely holding of court at Schloss Birkenfeld, as it had come to be known, were swept away. During the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), the town itself became in 1635 a theatre of war. Also that year, the Plague broke out in Birkenfeld and claimed 416 lives.

In 1776, under Margrave Karl Friedrich, Birkenfeld became seat of the Badish Oberamt. In this time, Birkenfeld blossomed. The town experienced an economic and cultural upswing. In 1779, for instance, the first "Higher School" was founded.

One night in February 1797, Johannes Bückler, known as Schinderhannes, burgled a cloth factory owned by the Brothers Stumm, who would later become coal and steel entrepreneurs on the Saar. A large part of the cloth stolen during this break-in Schinderhannes sold to a fence in Hundheim.

In 1798, during the French Revolutionary Wars, the Left Bank of the Rhine was ceded to France, whereafter Birkenfeld belonged to the Department of Sarre.

After the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) which ended the Napoleonic Wars, most of the Left Bank became part of Prussian Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine (Rhine Province after 1822), the Bavarian Circle of the Rhine or the Hessian Rhenish Hesse. However, a small area between the Prussian and Bavarian parts was given as exclaves to three other states: the Principality of Lichtenberg went to Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha after 1826), Meisenheim went to Hesse-Hanau and the Principality of Birkenfeld was awarded to the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg for the contribution of Peter I, then regent of Oldenburg, to the military effort against Napoleon. By 1866 Birknefeld had become entirely enclaved within the Prussian Rhine Province, as Lichtenberg had been sold to Prussia in 1834 and Meisenheim had been annexed following the Austro-Prussian War.

Under Oldenburg rule, the new palatial castle, which is now the district administration's seat, was built in 1821. Not only was this built, but so were further buildings in the Governmental Quarter (Regierungsviertel), such as the infantry barracks (until 1963, a Gymnasium building, now the local office for the regulation of expenditures caused by stationed forces), which to this day characterize the town's appearance with their Classicist style from Oldenburg times.

On 1 April 1937, during the Nazi period, the Birkenfeld region was transferred to the Prussian Rhine Province; it was merged with the Restkreis (roughly "remnant district") of St. Wendel-Baumholder to form the Birkenfeld District. (The Kreis of St. Wendel-Baumholder was what had been the Principality of Lichtenberg until 1834, with the designation as a Restkreis having arisen after part of its territory, including St. Wendel itself, had been detached to form part of the Territory of the Saar Basin established under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles). After the Second World War, Birkenfeld belonged to the French Occupation Zone, and since 1946, it has been a district seat in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Religion
In 2008, 50% of the town's inhabitants were Evangelical and 31% were Catholic. Besides these two biggest groups, there are an Evangelical Free Church congregation (Baptists), the Mennonite Brethren Church, a New Apostolic church and the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Politics
Birkenfeld has been a district seat since 1947 and forms together with 30 other municipalities a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality, called the Verbandsgemeinde of Birkenfeld.

Town council
The council is made up of 22 council members, who were elected by proportional representation at the municipal election held on 25 May 2014, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The municipal election held on 25 May 2014 yielded the following results:

BFL is Birkenfelder Freie Liste (“Birkenfeld Free List”). BfB is Bürger für Birkenfeld (“Citizens for Birkenfeld”).

Mayors
Birkenfeld's mayor is Miroslaw Kowalski (CDU), re-elected in 2019. His predecessor was Peter Nauert (CDU). Peter Nauert was the first mayor ever to be elected by direct vote by the people of Birkenfeld. Both his predecessors, Manfred Dreier and Erich Mörsdorf, headed both the town and the Verbandsgemeinde of Birkenfeld at once.

Werner Käufer was the last professional mayor of the town of Birkenfeld. Indeed, he was acclaimed in the office in 1968 with a great majority for another 12 years, but by 1970, he had to give up his professional office when, under administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate, towns with fewer than 7,500 inhabitants were merged into Verbandsgemeinden.

The following have served as mayor of Birkenfeld:
 * Eugen Ruppenthal from 1923 to 1933 and from 1949 to 1953
 * Oswald Morenz from 1953 to 1961
 * Werner Käufer from 1961 to 1970
 * Erich Mörsdorf from 1971 to 1990
 * Manfred Dreier from 1990 to 2000, (SPD)
 * Peter Nauert from 2000 until 2014 (CDU)
 * Miroslaw Kowalski since 2014, (CDU)

Coat of arms
The town's arms might be described thus: Azure on a mount vert a birch tree with roots proper surmounted by an inescutcheon chequy gules and argent.

The main charge, the birch tree, is canting for the town's name (“birch” is Birke in German). The inescutcheon with the red and silver “chequy” pattern is the coat of arms formerly borne by the “Hinder” County of Sponheim, thus bearing witness to that time in the town's history. This composition is based on an old court seal from 1577.

The arms have been borne since 29 October 1923, when they were approved by the Ministry of the Interior at Oldenburg.

Town partnerships
Birkenfeld fosters partnerships with the following places:
 * 🇳🇱 Roerdalen, Limburg, Netherlands
 * 🇫🇷 Château-Salins, Moselle, France

Lambdacism in the local dialect
In bygone days, the local Birkenfeld dialect was marked by the peculiarity of often replacing the sounds /d/ and /t/ – and sometimes /r/ as well – with /l/, a shift known as lambdacism. For example, a Birkenfelder in those days would have said Fulerlale where Standard High German would have Futterladen (“fodder shop”). A full-sentence example can be seen in a remark made by the Birkenfeld sexton “Fuchs Karl” to the church councillor and parish priest Haag: Jo, jo, Herr Kirjerot, pririje kann e jela, awa noch lang net loule!, or in Standard High German, Ja, ja, Herr Kirchenrat, predigen kann ein jeder, aber noch lange nicht läuten! (“Yes, yes, Mr. Church Councillor, preaching is something anyone can do, but bellringing, not for long”).

Lambdacism, though, long ago vanished from the Birkenfeld dialect, having given way to the other shift that is customary in Hunsrückisch: rhotacism.

Museums
The Landesmuseum des Vereins für Heimatkunde im Landkreis Birkenfeld (“State Museum of the Association for Local History in the Rural District of Birkenfeld”) offers an overview of 2,500 years of cultural history. The centrepiece is the interactively equipped Celtic experience exhibit Kelten, Kunst und Kult erleben (“Experience Celts, Art and Worship”). Here, through reconstructions, archaeological finds and replicas, these people's life is presented. Further exhibits deal with regional and territorial history of the Birkenfelder Land. Historical highlights among these exhibits are the High Middle Ages (13th to 15th centuries) and Oldenburg times in the Principality of Birkenfeld beginning in the early 19th century. Regularly changing exhibits deal with both historical and current themes.

Buildings
The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:
 * Castle Birkenfeld, Burgstraße 17, 19, 28, 30, 32 (monumental zone) – preserved from the actual mediaeval castle a round tower stump; from the Renaissance complex the gatehouse (no. 17); former Gasthaus zum ledigen Waidsack (inn, no. 28); youth hostel, 1926, architect Wilhelm Heilig, Darmstadt (no. 19)
 * Evangelical parish church, Am Kirchplatz 4/6 – Baroque aisleless church, five-sided quire, 1750-1756, architects Jonas Erikson Sundahl and Johann Seiz; Romanesque Revival west tower, 1895/1896, architect Heinrich Jester, Speyer; bells from 1554, 1717, 1961; décor
 * Saint James’s Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Jacobus), Maiwiese 8 – Gothic Revival hall church, yellow sandstone, 1888-1890, architect Reinhold Wirtz, Trier; tomb slab 1752; décor
 * Am Kirchplatz 2 – dwelling and commercial house, partly timber-frame, marked 1808, essentially older
 * Am Kirchplatz 5 – Evangelical and Catholic public school; nine-axis Baroque Revival building with mansard roof, 1911; characterizes square’s appearance
 * Am Kirchplatz 11 – dwelling and (former) commercial house; Renaissance Revival, 1881, characterizes square’s appearance
 * Am Rech 2 – so-called Backhaus (“Bakehouse”); small house, partly timber-frame, partly slated, 18th or early 19th century
 * An der Oelmühle 4 – former mill; quarrystone building, 1580; oilmill beginning in the 1770s, expansion and higher roof 1922; technical equipment
 * Auf dem Römer 5 – building with half-hipped roof, partly timber-frame (with wooden shingles), marked 1723
 * Auf dem Römer 6 – Baroque house, 18th century, essentially possibly older (1665?); characterizes street's and town's appearance
 * Auf dem Römer 9 – so-called Kußlersches Haus; corner house, marked 1590, partly with alterations from the 19th century; characterizes town's appearance
 * Bahnhofstraße 2 – Late Historicist house, hewn-stone plastered surfaces, bare timber framing, late 19th century
 * Bahnhofstraße 4 – corner house, partly timber-frame (slated), wooden gallery, late 18th or early 19th century; characterizes street's appearance
 * Brückener Straße 8 – house with saddle hipped roof, gabled dormer, 1920s/1930s
 * Friedrich-August-Straße 15 – Maler-Hugo-Zang-Haus; Neoclassical house, 1883 (see below)
 * Friedrich-August-Straße 17 – museum; in the forms of a Roman country house, 1910, architect Julius Groeschel, Munich
 * Across from Gollenberger Weg 3 – cast-iron fountain, late 19th century
 * Hauptstraße 9 – so-called Stadthaus (“Town House”); lavish Historicist corner building on a terrace, about 1900
 * Before Hauptstraße 11 – so-called Apothekerbrunnen (“Apothecary’s Fountain”); great cast-iron Gothic Revival complex, last fourth of the 19th century
 * Königsgasse 11 – dwarf house with barn under one roof, stable built on later and roof made higher
 * Pfarrgasse 1 – Evangelical rectory; solid bungalow, biaxial dormer, 1733
 * Between Rennweg 27 and 29 – warriors’ memorial for students from the Gymnasium Betuletia who fell in the First World War; cube upon a pedestal, steel-helmet relief, 1927, design by Wilhelm Heilig, Darmstadt
 * Across from Rennweg 30 – so-called Steinernes Kreuz (“Stone Cross”); Bildstock, tuff, 16th century, possibly Pre-Reformation
 * Saarstraße 19 – stately Quereinhaus (a combination residential and commercial house divided for these two purposes down the middle, perpendicularly to the street), latter half of the 19th century
 * Schadtengasse 2 – house with three-part window ensemble, marked 1838
 * Schlossallee 3 – five-axis wood-shingled house, 19th century; at the south gable parts of a nursery's sunken conservatory
 * Schlossallee 11 and 13 – Neues Schloss; Classicist group around open cour d'honneur, 1819–1821, architect J. W. L. Brofft, Frankfurt; main building with triaxial middle risalto, round behind, a balcony-porch; décor; one-floor side building with gabled entrance facility
 * Schlossallee 2, 3, 5, 9, 7, 11, 15, Schneewiesenstraße 22, 25, Friedrich-August-Straße 17, Regierungsviertel (“Governmental Quarter”; monumental zone) – in Oldenburg times, beginning in the early 19th century successively built buildings in the angle formed by Schneewiesenstraße and Friedrich-August-Straße including palatial castle (Schloss), barracks, prison, Government Building II, forester's office, museum and Gymnasium headmaster's house
 * Schneewiesenstraße 3 – so-called Pirmannsches Haus; elegant Classicist building, three-floor gabled risalto, 1859
 * Schneewiesenstraße 22 – former infantry barracks; so-called Altes Gymnasium, nine-axis Classicist plastered building, 1842/1843
 * Schneewiesenstraße 25 – third Oldenburg public authority building; Baroque Revival building with mansard roof, three-floor gabled risalto, 1912
 * Wasserschiederstraße 1 – corner house, partly slated, round behind, a sided gallery, hipped mansard roof, 1767, shop built in about 1900; characterizes town's appearance
 * Wasserschiederstraße 2/4 – double house on a high base, entrance gateway, marked 1791
 * Wasserschiederstraße 6 – former inn with brewery; sandstone quarrystone building, marked 1897
 * Wasserschiederstraße 7 – house, partly timber-frame (plastered), possibly from the early 19th century
 * Wasserschiederstraße 16 – great house with stable facilities, mid 19th century
 * Behind Wasserschiederstraße 47 – dovecote; small wooden building, cross-shaped roof with lantern, latter half of the 19th century
 * Wasserschiederstraße 49 – building with hipped roof, country house style, about 1910, roofed gallery to side building in the garden
 * Graveyard, Brückener Straße (monumental zone) – laid out in 1810; Gothic Revival chapel, about 1850; grave cross 1769, on pedestal about 1900; memorial to the fallen 1870/1871; two elegant family graves (Eduard and Richard Böcking's families); family Scherer's tomb, 1920s
 * Jewish graveyard, southeast of the town, on the road to Dambach (monumental zone) – 34 grave steles in situ, from 1898 and later

Maler-Zang-Haus
Right next to the Birkenfeld State Museum is the Maler-Zang-Haus (“Painter Zang House”). The house, built in 1883 in the bourgeois Classicist style, is where the painter Hugo Zang (1858–1946) once lived. In 2006, restoration work began in an effort to bring the house up to a standard worthy of monumental protection. Since 2008, the building has housed not only the Birkenfeld district folk high school but also seven gallery rooms for changing exhibitions of works by local and national artists.

Economy
The town's economy is characterized mainly by small and midsize businesses. Owing to Birkenfeld's history as a noble residence town and an administrative seat, no great industrial development ever took place here. The biggest employers, besides the administrative bodies, are thus a foundation and the Bundeswehr.

The German Red Cross’s (DRK) Elisabeth-Stiftung, a medical rehabilitation foundation, with its hospital, Berufsförderungswerk Birkenfeld (an institute for retraining workers whose condition precludes their return to former occupations), private vocational schools, measures for youth and senior citizens’ home is with more than 600 employees the town's biggest employer. Following the Elisabeth-Stiftung is the Bundeswehr (among other units, the 2nd Luftwaffe Division) with more than 500 military and civilian personnel. The Stefan-Morsch-Stiftung, a foundation for keeping data on potential bone marrow and stem cell donors, has its seat in Birkenfeld.

On the lands of the former railway station, a centre for starting up businesses (“BIG-Center”) was built in the 1990s.

Road
Birkenfeld has good road links to Bundesstraßen 41 (east-west, between Mainz and Saarbrücken) and 269 (between Bernkastel-Kues and Saarlouis), as well as to Autobahn A 62, which is the most important north–south link, running between Trier and Kaiserslautern. Furthermore, Bundesstraße 269 links to the Hunsrückhöhenstraße, and thereby to Frankfurt-Hahn Airport, which lies 50 km away by road. This journey is covered five times each day by a bus service.

Rail
Birkenfeld's rail link is 5 km away in nearby Neubrücke, which has a station on the Nahe Valley Railway (Bingen–Saarbrücken). Saarbrücken can be reached by train in 45 minutes, and Frankfurt in less than two hours. The former spur line leading to Birkenfeld has been abandoned, and is now a cycle path.

Hiking trails
Running outwards from Birkenfeld are five local loop trails for hiking with a total length through the region of more than 60 km. These are the Glockenweg (roughly 16 km), the Eulenweg (roughly 9 km), the Mausweg (roughly 12.5 km), the Mühlenweg (roughly 12.5 km) and the Rehweg (roughly 12.5 km). The long-distance Nahe-Höhenweg and the Sironaweg, which leads by many Celtic-Roman archaeological finds, likewise run by Birkenfeld.

Cycle paths
The roughly 120 km-long Nahe-Radweg and the Rheinland-Pfalz-Route run right through the middle of town. They are supplemented by three local cycling circuits, R1, R2 and R3, with a total length of just under 80 km.

Education
Since 1996, a vocational school has been established on the grounds of a former US military hospital in the neighbouring municipality of Hoppstädten-Weiersbach. The Environmental Campus Birkenfeld (Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld) has, as a branch of the Trier University of Applied Sciences, made a significant contribution to the Birkenfeld region's economic development.

For school-age children there is a broad array of offerings.
 * Primary school
 * Realschule plus
 * Gymnasium Birkenfeld
 * Förderschule Schwerpunkt Lernen (special school with focus on learning)

Enjoying more than local importance is the Elisabeth-Stiftung medical rehabilitation foundation, with its specific offers of qualifications to people with either physical or mental handicaps. Alumni come from all over Germany and even from neighbouring countries.

Among other academic offerings is the Volkshochschule Birkenfeld, a folk high school.

Authorities
Birkenfeld is the location of a number of authorities:
 * District administration
 * Verbandsgemeinde administration
 * Bundesagentur für Arbeit (Federal employment agency)
 * Land surveying office
 * Police department
 * Forester's office

Sport and leisure
Birkenfeld has, among other sport and leisure facilities, a heated outdoor swimming pool, the Stadion am Berg (“Stadium at the Mountain”), several sport halls, a zoo, two libraries, a vocational library and the youth centre. In 2000, a skatepark was built at the youth centre, which in 2005 was expanded with a funbox, a quarter pipe, a ramp and an obstacle.

Sons and daughters of the town

 * Juana Bormann (1893–1945), German SS Nazi concentration camp prison guard executed for war crimes
 * Heiner Flassbeck (1950–), German economist, State Secretary (ret.), UNCTAD senior economist
 * Matthias Henn (1985–), German footballer
 * Lorielle London (1983–), entertainer, became well known from participation in the television programmes Deutschland sucht den Superstar and Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!, the latter a German version of the British programme I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
 * Otto Pick (1882–1945), German Democratic Party Member of the Reichstag (Nazi Germany)
 * August Rippel-Baldes (1888–1970), founder of microbiology
 * Eugenia von Skene (1906–?), Kapo at Ravensbrück concentration camp
 * Christian Warth (1836–1890), modeller and draughtsman, known for the figure “Trauernde” (“Mourning Woman”) made by Villeroy & Boch on a make-to-stock basis, which can be found in many graveyards

Notable people associated with the town
Many well known people went to school in Birkenfeld:
 * Ludwig Friedrich Schmidt (1764–1857), clergyman in Birkenfeld, later cabinet preacher to Queen Caroline of Bavaria and the first Evangelical clergyman in Munich, said to be the father of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria.
 * Friedrich Cassebohm (1872–1951), jurist and politician, among other things Minister-President of the Free State of Oldenburg
 * Reinhard Goering (1887–1936), writer, Kleist Prize (1930)
 * John Henry Mackay (1864–1933), Scottish-German writer
 * Gerhard Storm (1888–1942) died at Dachau, martyr in the Catholic Church
 * Klaus Rüter (b. 1940 in Berlin), German jurist, administrative official and politician (SPD).
 * Nicole (1964–), singer and winner at the Eurovision Song Contest with “Ein bißchen Frieden”

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St. George Cricket Grounds

St. George Cricket Grounds or more properly just St. George Grounds is a former baseball venue located on Staten Island, New York. St. George was the home park for the New York Metropolitans of the American Association for the 1886 and 1887 seasons. The grounds were also a part-time home to the New York Giants of the National League in 1889. The grounds were also known as Mutrie's Dump or Mutrie's Dumping Grounds, referring to Jim Mutrie, manager of the Metropolitans and the Giants.

The stadium, which was built in the style of a typical horse race track grandstand, was first used as a baseball field in 1853, with the first game between the New York Knickerbockers and the Washington Club. The site later became part of the development of the then-new community of St. George, Staten Island in 1886, by Erastus Wiman. He established the Staten Island Amusement Company, which owned both the Metropolitans and the grounds. Fans were able to watch games while also watching the construction of the Statue of Liberty a few miles to the north.

Although the community and the ferry were successful, baseball was not. The Giants were a strong team through the latter part of the 1880s, while the Metropolitans floundered. Over time, there was less and less fan incentive to make the trip across the water from other parts of the city. The Mets folded after the 1887 season.

The Amusement Company presented various elaborate stage plays on the site, with detrimental physical impact on the grounds, leaving the field in nearly unplayable condition. In 1889, the Giants had to find a temporary home after the city closed the original Polo Grounds. The Giants played some games at St. George from April 29 – June 14, 1889, while awaiting construction of the new Polo Grounds; their move back to Manhattan ended professional baseball at St. George for over a century.

As noted in the SABR research, the Staten Island Amusement Company grounds were on a block bounded by Wall Street (north-northwest, grandstand and hence home plate); railroad tracks and New York Bay (east-northeast, left field); Hyatt Street (south-southeast, center field); and Jay Street (Richmond Terrace) (west-southwest, right field). This block is now occupied by a shopping center called Empire Outlets. The modern ballpark SIUH Community Park is across Wall Street from it to the north.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Afking

Afking 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

Afking
A neologism whose "first recorded instance ... was on 18th December 2004" -- i.e., the same day it was created. -- Antaeus Feldspar 22:22, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, hovering near prankiness, too. Wyss 23:18, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete --fvw *  23:28, 2004 Dec 18 (UTC)
 * Delete, and I'm pretty sure that "afking" has been used longer than that. From a quick search on google I found that this neologism/compuer game slang has been used many times before this first recoreded instance. Jeltz 00:45, 2004 Dec 19 (UTC)
 * Delete, it's nonsense. "afk" is at least 15 years old. - Vague | Rant 05:46, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)
 * Redirect to AFK which already exists. This is a real term, I've seen it in use for several years since the late 1990s and it may have been in use prior to that.  Doesn't need its own article though.  [[User:GRider|GRider\talk]] 17:24, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion or on the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.

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Type 21

Type 21 can refer to:

 * Type 21 frigate, or Amazon-class frigate, a late-20th-century escort vessel of the Royal Navy.
 * Type 021-class missile boat, a Chinese missile-firing naval vessel first produced in about 1975, and still in production.
 * Type XXI submarine, a German technologically advanced submarine produced in 1945.
 * Type 21 Radar, a radar of the Imperial Japanese Navy

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William Ormsby-Gore (1779–1860)

William Ormsby-Gore (14 March 1779 – 4 May 1860), known as William Gore until 1815, was a British Member of Parliament.

Life
Born into an Anglo-Irish family as William Gore, the eldest son of William Gore, M.P., of Woodford, County Leitrim, he was the great-great-grandson of William Gore, third and youngest son of Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet, of Newtown, second son of Sir Paul Gore, 1st Baronet, of Magharabag, whose eldest son Paul was the grandfather of Arthur Gore, 1st Earl of Arran. He was educated at Eton College (1796), the Middle Temple (1796) and Merton College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1797. In 1815, he married Mary Jane Ormsby, daughter and heiress of Owen Ormsby. He assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Ormsby the same year.

He joined the British Army and served as a lieutenant in the 1st Dragoon Guards in 1800, was promoted to captain in 1802, to major in 1802 and to brevet major in 1813. He went onto half-pay with the 86th Foot in 1815 and as a captain in the 88th Foot. He left the Army in 1829. He was appointed High Sheriff of Shropshire for 1817–18 and High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire for 1820–21.

Ormsby-Gore was elected to the House of Commons for County Leitrim in 1806, a seat he held until 1807, and then represented Caernarvon from 1830 to 1831 and North Shropshire from 1835 to 1857.

He died at Porkington and was buried at Selattyn. He had 3 sons (one of whom predeceased him) and 2 daughters. His eldest son John Ormsby Gore was M.P. for Caernarvonshire and created Baron Harlech in 1876. His second son William became 2nd Baron Harlech after the death of his brother.

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Riker

Riker or Ryker is a given name and surname of Dutch origin and is a cognate of Richard.

Persons with the surname

 * Robin Riker (born 1952), American actress and book author
 * Tim Riker (born 1963), software programmer and maintainer of BZFlag
 * William H. Riker (1920–1993), American political scientist
 * William E. Riker (1873–1969), cult leader
 * Andrew L. Riker (1868–1930), American automobile designer and engineer
 * John Lafayette Riker (1822–1862), American Civil War Officer
 * Richard Riker (1773–1842), New York politician
 * Tom Riker (born 1950), American former professional basketball player
 * James Riker (1822-1889), New York historian and genealogist
 * Philip Riker (born 1946), American former competition swimmer
 * Samuel Riker (1743-1823), New York politician
 * Albert Joyce Riker (1894-1982), American plant pathologist
 * David Riker, American screenwriter and film director
 * John Riker (died 2019), American truck driver and manager for WCW under the name Ralphus

In fiction

 * William T. Riker, a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise
 * Kyle Riker, father to the fictional William Riker
 * Thomas Riker, a fictional twin of William Riker in Star Trek franchise
 * Vortex Rikers, a fictional prison spacecraft in the Unreal franchise
 * John Ryker, fictional enemy of the Hulk in Marvel comics

Persons with the given name

 * Riker Hylton (born 1988), Jamaican sprinter
 * Riker Lynch (born 1991), American singer

Other

 * Riker (TV series), an American television series
 * Rikers Island, in New York
 * Can-Am Ryker, a three-wheeled motorcycle

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Talk:Mooney Falls

A past revision of this page was a copyvio, but (according to User:Niteowlneils) it has been rewritten from scratch. I replaced the page with a copyvio notice, being under the impression that policy is to delete copyrighted content once and for all. Please disregard that edit, as it was made in error. --Smack 22:23, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Tweetie Pie

Tweetie Pie is a 1947 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on May 3, 1947, and stars Tweety with Sylvester, who is called "Thomas" in this cartoon.

Tweetie Pie marks the first pairing of the characters Sylvester and Tweety, and it won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1947, breaking Tom and Jerry's streak of four consecutive wins in the category and winning Warner Bros. their first Academy Award.

Plot
Thomas the Cat persistently endeavors to capture Tweety, a canary he discovers outside seeking warmth from a smoldering cigar stub amidst wintry conditions. Thomas's unseen owner intervenes just in time to prevent Tweety from becoming his prey, reprimanding Thomas for his predatory instinct. Despite explicit instructions to leave Tweety undisturbed, Thomas repeatedly attempts to seize him from his cage, each endeavor culminating in calamitous failures that attract his owner's admonishment and physical chastisement.

Employing cunning stratagems, Tweety manipulates Thomas, feigning distress to provoke a response and later resorting to self-defense by pricking Thomas's palm with a pin, inducing him to relinquish his hold. Subsequent efforts by Thomas to reenter the domicile through the chimney and a basement window are thwarted by Tweety's resourcefulness, resulting in comedic misadventures and Thomas's successive humiliations.

Undeterred by setbacks, Thomas devises an elaborate contraption to ensnare Tweety, yet his scheme precipitates his own injury instead. In a final, ill-fated endeavor to capture Tweety, Thomas inadvertently triggers a catastrophic collapse of the attic ceiling, prompting a frenzied response in which he destroys his owner's broom in a futile attempt to evade retribution. Ultimately, Thomas finds himself on the receiving end of punishment, administered not by his owner, but by the diminutive Tweety, who disparagingly dubs him a "bad ol' putty tat."

Production
In 1946, Bob Clampett, the original creator of Tweety, conceived the idea for a fourth cartoon featuring the bird, intending to pair Tweety with Friz Freleng's Sylvester the Cat. This proposed cartoon, tentatively titled Fat Rat and the Stupid Cat, aimed to mark the first collaboration between Sylvester and Tweety, transitioning Tweety from a wild baby bird to a domestic canary. However, Clampett's departure from Warner Bros. in May led to the cancellation of the project during pre-production. His final Tweety cartoon, A Gruesome Twosome, was released.

Meanwhile, Freleng was developing a sequel to his earlier Sylvester cartoon, Peck Up Your Troubles, featuring Sylvester in pursuit of a clever woodpecker, with production of that short started in June 1945. Freleng, however, took a liking to Clampett's character and eventually decided to replace the woodpecker with Tweety, despite initial objections from producer Edward Selzer, who deemed the pairing impractical. Freleng's insistence on using Tweety led to a confrontation, in which he threatened to quit his job. Selzer eventually relented, allowing the collaboration. The resulting film, which starred Sylvester and Tweety, earned Warner Bros. its first Oscar, an accolade initially accepted by Selzer and later inherited by Freleng after Selzer's passing in 1970.

This successful pairing cemented Tweety and Sylvester as a popular duo, ensuring their continued partnership in subsequent appearances due to their substantial star power. However, Sylvester also featured in numerous shorts without Tweety, notably in the Hippety Hopper series alongside Sylvester Jr., directed by Robert McKimson. Additionally, Sylvester appeared alongside Speedy Gonzales in cartoons supervised by both Freleng and McKimson, earning another Oscar in 1955 for their collaboration.

Home media
Although the cartoon was re-released into the Blue Ribbon program in 1955, the cartoon's original titles are known to exist. When re-released, like most Merrie Melodies at the time, the original ending bullet titles were kept. On the following sets, the Blue Ribbon re-release print is available. The original titles were found in 2011 and it is unknown if Warner Bros. is aware of their existence, since the Platinum Collection set released in 2012 still had the Blue Ribbon titles.

 * VHS – The Best Of Bugs Bunny and Friends
 * VHS – Little Tweety and Little Inki Cartoon Festival featuring "I Taw a Putty Tat"
 * VHS – Tweety and Sylvester
 * VHS – The Golden Age Of Looney Tunes Volume 6: Friz Freleng
 * VHS – Looney Tunes Collectors Edition Volume 15: A Battle Of Wits
 * Laserdisc – The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Volume 1, Side 6
 * DVD – Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2, Disc 3
 * DVD – Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection: 15 Winners, Disc 1
 * Blu-ray – Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1, Disc 1

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Speranza Park

Speranza Park is a former baseball ground located in Toledo, Ohio, United States. The ground was home to the Toledo Maumees of the American Association during the 1890 season.

The ballpark was located on a block bounded by Cherry Street, Frederick Street, and Franklin Avenue.

The word "speranza" means "hope" in Italian. The park was reportedly named for the club owner's yacht. The team's first home game was played on May 1, 1890. The team finished a few games above .500, and 20 games back of first place, ending whatever major league hopes the club aspired to. The final home game was held on October 2, 1890.

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5150

5150 may refer to:
 * , section 5150 of California's Welfare and Institutions Code
 * By extension, a person who is gravely disabled through mental illness
 * 5150 Studios, Eddie Van Halen's home recording studio, named after the psychiatric hold code section
 * Peavey 5150 Amplifier, signature model for Eddie Van Halen
 * 5150 (album), a 1986 album by Van Halen
 * 5150: Home 4 tha Sick, a 1992 EP by Eazy-E
 * IBM 5150, model designation for the IBM Personal Computer
 * Dell Inspiron
 * 5150 series, a triathlon series organized by the World Triathlon Corporation
 * 5150 (professional wrestling), an incarnation of the Latin American Exchange in MLW
 * A nickname for subsidized biodiesel in Indonesia, since subsidized biodiesel in Indonesia was priced IDR 5150 (approximately USD 0.4)

Songs

 * "5150", a song by Van Halen
 * "5150", a song by The Oral Cigarettes
 * "5150", a song by Love Fame Tragedy
 * "5150", a song by Tsunami Bomb from the album The Definitive Act
 * ”5150”, a 1995 song by Luniz from the album Operation Stackola
 * "5150", a song by Machine Gun Kelly from the album Mainstream Sellout
 * "E5150", a song by Black Sabbath from the 1981 album Mob Rules
 * "5-1-5-0", a song by Dierks Bentley from the album Home

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Ehrenberg

Ehrenberg may refer to:

Germany

 * Ehrenberg, Hesse, a municipality in the Fulda district
 * Ehrenberg, Thuringia, a municipality in the Hildburghausen district
 * Ehrenberg (Ilmenau), a hill in Thuringia
 * Burg Ehrenberg, a castle on the River Neckar, Baden-Württemberg

Elsewhere

 * Ehrenberg Castle, near Reutte in Tyrol, Austria
 * Ehrenberg, Arizona, United States
 * Ehrenberg Island, Svalbard, Norway

People

 * Ehrenberg (surname)

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Talk:Cassette Scandal

 * Good job on this, Alex. I think some of the "cassette scandal" material from Mykola Mel'nychenko could be moved here.  What do you think?  —Michael Z.

 * I've added an item to suggestions for "Did you know...", which would appear with other new articles on the main page if accepted. Also added Gongadze's disappearance and death to 2000-09-16 and the Cassette Scandal to 2000-11-28. —Michael Z. 23:30, 2004 Dec 18 (UTC)

 * Cool, Michael. I've tried to do those links by myself, but was disoriented by the hierarchy of date pages. It's dangerous regarding my limited browsing possibilities :). I'm doing an update to this page, so part of Mel'nychenko and SBU will be moved here as you suggest. I think our editing is going great. Pryvit, AlexPU

 * I attempted a small cleanup of this article with some recent developments, including revising out of date information indicating Kuchma is president. Yakym

Scope and structure of the article
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm afraid the bottom section is overloaded with redundant details which belong rather to Georgiy Gongadze and Mykola Melnychenko. Don't we mean politics, not criminal aspects, here? On the other hand, the section is outdated. I heard Oleksander Moroz is practically leaving politics, why don't reflect this with regard to Cassette Scandal?

Less important issue is the structure. Can anybody see the main section here, describing the scandal itself? That's probably because it is in the intro now. Thanks, Ukrained (talk) 22:27, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

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Turkey after Ukraine?
The article states that in order to avoid Tony Blair and George Bush next to Kuchma, the list of participants was read in French, listing Turkey next Ukraine. With all due respect, even in French Turkey preceeds Ukraine. The effect was achieved because, in French, United States and United Kingdom do not start with U, they start with E and R. Afil (talk) 02:18, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

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Coesfeld

Coesfeld (Westphalian: Koosfeld) is the capital of the district of Coesfeld in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

History
Coesfeld received its city rights in 1197, but was first recorded earlier than that in the biography of St. Ludger, patron and first bishop of the diocese of Munster who was born north of Coesfeld in Billerbeck. The day before he died, Ludger spent the night in Coesfeld and heard mass in the morning in the church he founded. He was on his way from his abbey in Essen to Münster. The road he followed passed Coesfeld and Billerbeck, and after preaching in the St. Lambert's church, 26 March 809, he travelled on to Billerbeck, where he died in the evening.

The Coesfeld St. Jacobikirche dates from the same period as the city charter. For centuries, Coesfeld was an important stopping place for pilgrims traveling one of the more popular Germanic Jakobi routes (Way of St. James) leading from Warendorf over Münster (via Billerbeck) to Coesfeld, and then on via Borken to Wesel on the Rhine.

Bernhard von Galen
During the Thirty Years' War, troops were stationed in Coesfeld. The Prince-bishop of Münster was often at odds with these troops. Bernhard von Galen managed to drive the foreign troops away and even started to build a palace in Coesfeld, but it was never finished and after he died it was torn down. He became known for his sieges of Dutch cities in his efforts for the counter reformation and started a Way of the Cross procession that still exists up to the present day, with 18 stations of the cross. One procession round the historic centre of Coesfeld is still held on Whitmonday but the "Great Procession along the stations of the cross" held for centuries on Whit Tuesday is now held on 9/14 (Exaltation of the Cross) if it is a Sunday otherwise on the Sunday thereafter.

Geography
Coesfeld is situated in the Baumberge in Münsterland.

Neighbouring municipalities

 * Dülmen
 * Havixbeck
 * Billerbeck
 * Nottuln
 * Senden

Divisions
Coesfeld consists of 2 subdivisions:
 * Coesfeld
 * Lette

Education
Major secondary schools are:
 * the Nepomucenum,
 * the Heriburg-Gymnasium
 * and the St.-Pius-Gymnasium.

Twin towns – sister cities
Coesfeld is twinned with:
 * De Bilt, Netherlands
 * 🇫🇷 Plerguer, France

Notable people

 * Leunclavius (1541–1594), humanist, legal scholar, Greek scholar and historian
 * Christoph Bernhard von Galen (1606–1678), Bishop of Münster, Coesfeld built from a bishopric
 * Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774–1824), Roman Catholic nun, visionary and stigmatic
 * Otto Bräutigam (1895–1992), lawyer and diplomat, took part in the Holocaust
 * Rudolf Wolters (1903–1983), architect and urban planner, close associate of Albert Speer
 * Hermann Wedekind (1910–1998), artistic director
 * Michael Oenning (born 1965), football player and coach

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Corangamite

Corangamite may refer to:
 * Division of Corangamite
 * Lake Corangamite
 * Corangamite Shire
 * Corangamite Catchment Management Authority

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Düren

Düren (Ripuarian: Düre) is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, between Aachen and Cologne, on the river Rur.

Roman era
The area of Düren was part of Gallia Belgica, more specifically the territory of the Eburones, a people who were described as both Belgae and Germani. It was conquered by the Roman Republic under Julius Caesar and became part of Germania inferior.

Düren became a supply area for the rapidly growing Roman city of Cologne (Roman name Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium). Furthermore, a few important Roman roads skirt Düren (including the road from Cologne to Jülich and Tongeren and the road from Cologne to Zülpich and Trier). By the 4th century, the area was settled by the Ripuarian Franks. The name villa duria occurred the first time in the Frankish Annals in the year 747.

Frankish king Pippin the Short often visited Düren in the 8th century and held a few important conventions there. The Franks made of Düren a royal palace, from which the name Palatine (Pfalz in German) is derived. Charlemagne sojourned a few times there. Due to the frequent visits of Charlemagne, a few markets sprang up, such as the corn, cattle, wood, chicken, and butter markets, all of which contributed to Düren's development. The castle was built at the place where, since 1991, the Saint Anne Church is located.

Middle Ages
Düren obtained city rights in the early 13th century. Around 1200, the construction of the city wall was started, which includes 12 towers and 5 gates. The gates faced all directions: in the north, the Philippstor and the Wirteltor, in the east the Kölntor (Cologne gate), in the south the Obertor and in the west the Holztor (wooden gate). There are still ruins of the gates today.

The chiseler Leonhard stole a small box with the relic of Saint Anne out of the Mainzer Stiftskirche St. Stephan in 1501 and brought it to Düren. Pope Julius II decided on March 18, 1506, that Düren could keep the remains. They were kept in the Martinskirche (church of Saint Martin) which was renamed the Annakirche (church of Saint Anne) in 1505. (Probably the church was renamed much later, because in the 19th century it was still called sometimes parish church of the holy Martinus). Saint Anne became the patron saint of Düren. Every year, the saint's day of Saint Anne (July 26) is celebrated for one week with the Anna octavos and the Anna parish fair, one of the biggest folk festivals of Germany.

17th to 19th century
In 1642, Düren was embroiled in the Thirty Years' War. Opposing troops destroyed the city. After the war has finally ended in 1648, plague broke out and caused many lives to be lost. A second plague epidemic broke out in 1665. Due to the various attacks on the debilitated city, Düren was destroyed again in 1679. In this time, the settlement Miesheim was destroyed, never to be rebuilt.

Towards the end of the year 1755 in the area around Düren and Aachen began a series of earthquakes, which reached its peak on February 18, 1756 with an earthquake with the strength 8 on the Mercalli scale. The series of earthquakes affected all of Europe, most famously the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.

The businesses in the area of Düren was affected since the 15th century by the drapery and metal industry. Since the beginning of the 17th century, paper industry had settled here, advantaged by the exceptionally soft water of the Rur. Rütger von Scheven built the first paper mill in Düren. In 1812, there were already 17 paper factories, 11 cloth- and blanket factories, an iron rolling mill or slitting mill and two iron foundries.

In the year 1794, Düren was occupied by French revolutionary troops. From 1798 until 1814, Düren was the main city of the same named canton in the arrondissement Aachen of the French Roerdepartements (from the name of the River Rur (Roer) and département). After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Düren was ceded to the Kingdom of Prussia and was subsequently administered within the Rhine Province.

20th century
By 1900, Düren was among Germany's richest cities (with 42 millionaires and 93 factories) and had a population of 27,168. By comparison, fewer than 5,000 people had lived in Düren a century earlier.

The city of Düren was located on the main fighting front during the Allied invasion of Germany in World War II. During 1944 and 1945, the protracted and bloody Battle for Hürtgenwald was fought on Düren's district area, and on November 16, 1944, Düren was completely destroyed by Allied air bombings. Approximately 22,000 people lived in Düren at that time, and 3,000 of them died during the bombing. Those who survived were evacuated to central Germany. Destroyed buildings included the Stadttheater Düren (1907), designed in Jugendstil by Carl Moritz.

By 1939, the population had risen to over 45,000, but then fell to just 3,806 by June 1945 due to the effects of World War II. After the bombing of November 16, 1944, on March 1, 1945, only four German residents lived in the city, including forced laborers etc. there were 21 people. On April 1, the number of inhabitants had risen to 180 and on May 1, 1945, there were already 1218 people. In December 1945 the number increased to 25,000 inhabitants and in 1958 it was 45,000, the same number as before the war. Due to the incorporation of several places in the area, the city's population grew on January 1, 1972, by 35,522 to 89,087.

On February 25, 1945, U.S. troops crossed the Rur at Düren. After the war was over in the summer that year, many evacuated people came back to the destroyed city and started to rebuild their homes against the advice of the American troops. By June 1945, the population had risen to 3,806. Most of the architecture in Düren therefore dates from the 1950s.

Culture and points of interest
The most famous museum of Düren is the Leopold Hoesch Museum. The in 1905 in Baroque Revival architecture erected building presents changing exhibitions of contemporary art. Since 1986, can also be seen artworks of the international Biennale PaperArt. Since 2006, is in the former nurses' home of the St. Augustinus Hospital Lendersdorf the Düren Carnival Museum. The most recent museum is the in 2009 founded Stadtmuseum Düren. This museum shows an exhibition of the local history.

Theatre and music
The former Stadttheater Düren was opened in January 1907. In the bombing of November 16, 1944, the theatre was almost completely destroyed. Today cultural performances take place mainly at the Haus der Stadt. Since 2004 the multi-functional Arena Kreis Düren, which has around 2000 seats, serves as a venue for major concerts.

The jazz festival Dürener Jazztage is hosted in Düren annually.

Buildings
At the edge of the forest in the Niederau district lies Burgau Castle. The water castle ways inhabited by the Counts of Heinsberg at the beginning of the 14th Century. After it was destroyed in 1944, the restoration process lasted from 1979 to 1998. In Theodor Heuss Park is the Bismarck Memorial, erected in 1892 to commemorate the most famous honorary citizen from Düren. The town hall was inaugurated in 1959. It now ranks as an example of 1950s architecture under Cultural heritage management.

Politics
The current mayor of Düren is Frank Peter Ullrich of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) since 2020. The most recent mayoral election was held on 13 September 2020, with a runoff held on 27 September, and the results were as follows:

! rowspan=2 colspan=2| Candidate ! rowspan=2| Party ! colspan=2| First round ! colspan=2| Second round ! Votes ! % ! Votes ! % ! colspan=3| Valid votes ! 29,521 ! 97.2 ! 21,288 ! 98.3 ! colspan=3| Invalid votes ! 837 ! 2.8 ! 364 ! 1.7 ! colspan=3| Total ! 30,358 ! 100.0 ! 21,652 ! 100.0 ! colspan=3| Electorate/voter turnout ! 69,324 ! 43.8 ! 69,257 ! 31.3
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 * align=left| Frank Peter Ullrich
 * align=left| Social Democratic Party
 * 10,641
 * 36.1
 * 14,853
 * 69.8
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 * align=left| Thomas Floßdorf
 * align=left| Christian Democratic Union
 * 7,877
 * 26.7
 * 6,435
 * 30.2
 * bgcolor=|
 * align=left| Maria Belka
 * align=left| Alliance 90/The Greens
 * 6,724
 * 22.8
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 * align=left| Siegfried Fahl
 * align=left| Independent
 * 2,166
 * 7.3
 * bgcolor=|
 * align=left| Karl Cremer
 * align=left| Free Democratic Party
 * 2,113
 * 7.2
 * bgcolor=|
 * align=left| Karl Cremer
 * align=left| Free Democratic Party
 * 2,113
 * 7.2
 * colspan=7| Source: City of Düren (1st round, 2nd round)
 * }
 * }

City council
The Düren city council governs the city alongside the Mayor. The most recent city council election was held on 13 September 2020, and the results were as follows:

! colspan=2| Party ! Votes ! % ! +/- ! Seats ! +/- ! colspan=2| Valid votes ! 29,729 ! 98.1 ! ! ! ! colspan=2| Invalid votes ! 581 ! 1.9 ! ! ! ! colspan=2| Total ! 30,310 ! 100.0 ! ! 52 ! 2 ! colspan=2| Electorate/voter turnout ! 69,324 ! 43.7 ! 1.7 ! !
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 * align=left| Christian Democratic Union (CDU)
 * 9,896
 * 33.3
 * 7.7
 * 17
 * 3
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 * align=left| Social Democratic Party (SPD)
 * 8,555
 * 28.8
 * 3.7
 * 15
 * 1
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 * align=left| Alliance 90/The Greens (Grüne)
 * 5,317
 * 17.9
 * 8.1
 * 9
 * 4
 * bgcolor=|
 * align=left| Alternative for Germany (AfD)
 * 2,111
 * 7.1
 * 1.6
 * 4
 * 1
 * bgcolor=|
 * align=left| Free Democratic Party (FDP)
 * 1,338
 * 4.5
 * 1.2
 * 2
 * ±0
 * align=left| Citizens for Düren (BfD)
 * 943
 * 3.2
 * 1.1
 * 2
 * 1
 * bgcolor=|
 * align=left| The Left (Die Linke)
 * 844
 * 2.8
 * 2.5
 * 1
 * 2
 * bgcolor=|
 * align=left| Pirate Party Germany (Piraten)
 * 396
 * 1.3
 * New
 * 1
 * New
 * bgcolor=|
 * align=left| Independent Harf
 * 329
 * 1.1
 * New
 * 1
 * New
 * 1
 * New
 * bgcolor=|
 * align=left| Independent Harf
 * 329
 * 1.1
 * New
 * 1
 * New
 * New
 * colspan=7| Source: City of Düren
 * }
 * }

Religion

 * The most important church in the city is the Annakirche. The church was completely destroyed by bombing in 1944 and rebuilt in the 1950s under the guidance of the architect Rudolf Schwarz. Throughout the city there are 15 other Catholic parish and church communities, including in Arnoldsweiler.
 * The most important Protestant church in Düren is the Christuskirche. At its inauguration in 1954, it possessed the highest freestanding bell tower in Germany.
 * Up to the destruction of Kristallnacht, the synagogue was located in  Schützenstraße. In its place is now a stele from Düren artist Rückriem.

Main sights

 * Burgau Castle (German: Schloss Burgau)
 * Dicker Turm ("Fat Tower"), a remain of the old city's fortifications
 * Annakirche (St. Anne Church)
 * Marienkirche (St. Mary Magdalene Church)
 * Monument to Bismarck
 * Leopold Hoesch Museum

Emblem
The emblem of the city of Düren is divided. It shows on the top a red castle, below that, a black eagle and in the lower half a black lion with a red tongue. The black eagle refers to the old history of Düren as a royal city and Reichsstadt. In 1242–46 Düren was bonded to the dukes of Jülich (later, Napoleon was also Duke of Jülich). Their emblem was a lion passant, with open mouth and a red tongue.

Twin towns – sister cities
Düren is twinned with:

 * 🇦🇹 Altmünster, Austria
 * 🇫🇷 Cormeilles, France
 * 🇧🇦 Gradačac, Bosnia and Herzegovina
 * 🇨🇳 Jinhua, China
 * 🇹🇷 Karadeniz Ereğli, Turkey
 * 🇺🇦 Stryi, Ukraine
 * 🇫🇷 Valenciennes, France

Media
Düren has its own radio station (Radio Rur). The station broadcasts on 92.7 and 107.5 MHz, and on cable at 87.5 MHz. There are two daily newspapers (Dürener Zeitung, Dürener Nachrichten) and several weekly papers.

Notable people

 * Rabbi Isaac ben Meir of Duren (13th century rabbi), author of Shaarei Dura
 * Karl Benrath (1845–1924), Church historian
 * Johann Bollig (born 1821), Pontifical Theologian and advisor to Pope Pius IX
 * Marita Breuer (born 1953), actress
 * Manfred Donike (1933–1995), cyclist
 * Gert Engels (born 1957), football coach
 * John Engels (born 1959), historian
 * Simon Ernst (born 1994), handball player
 * Margot Eskens (born 1939), Schlager singer
 * Jerome Felton (born 1987), American football player
 * Gossen, Hermann Heinrich (1810–1858), Prussian economist
 * Georg Hamel (1877–1954), mathematician
 * Wilfried Hannes (born 1957), football player
 * Ute Hasse (born 1963), swimmer, Olympic silver medal
 * Rudolf Henke (born 1954), MP''
 * Leopold Hoesch (1820–1899), founder of Hoesch AG in Dortmund, and founder of the Leopold Hoesch Museum in Düren
 * Friedrich Honigmann (1841–1913), mining entrepreneur
 * Gerd Hoppe (born 1968), Evangelist
 * Karin Jacobsen (1924–1989), actress and screenwriter
 * Harald Konopka (born 1952), football player
 * Karl Lauterbach (born 1963), economist and politician
 * Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805–1859), mathematician
 * Michael Lentz (born 1964), writer and musician
 * Christoph Moritz (born 1990), football player
 * Kalle Pohl (born 1951), comedian
 * Eugen Prym (1843–1913), orientalist and linguist
 * Friedrich Prym (1841–1915), mathematician and musician
 * Sven Schaffrath (born 1984), football player
 * Karl-Heinz Schnellinger (1939–2024), football player
 * Max von Schillings (1868–1933), conductor and composer
 * Sybille Schmitz (1909–1955), German film star
 * Rudolf Schock (1915–1986), opera singer
 * Rudolf Schoeller (1902–1978), Swiss racing driver
 * Harald Schumacher (born 1954), football player with 1. FC Köln and Germany national
 * Hermann Schwarz (1864–1951), philosopher
 * Georg Stollenwerk (born 1927), football player
 * Klaus H. Carl (born 1935), photographer
 * Lars Vogt (1970–2022), pianist
 * Paul J. J. Welfens (1957–2022), economist

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Edmonds

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Baked lamb and yogurt
A recipe only, already transwikied. I'm working to move recipes to Wikibooks. WhisperToMe 22:29, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, dang, I shoulda gotten mutton today. Wyss 23:17, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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1970 World Cup

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 * 1970 Alpine Skiing World Cup
 * 1970 FIFA World Cup
 * 1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally
 * 1970 Rugby League World Cup
 * 1970 World Cup (men's golf)

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Battle of Antioch

Battles of Antioch may refer to:
 * Battle of Antioch (145 BC) or the Battle of the Oenoparus, a battle between Ptolemaic Egypt and the Seleucid Empire
 * Battle of Antioch (218), a battle between Macrinus and Elagabalus
 * Battle of Antioch (613), a battle between the Byzantine and Sassanid Empires
 * Battle of Antioch (1097), a siege by the Crusaders against the Muslim-held city, part of the First Crusade
 * Battle of Antioch (1098), a battle between the Crusaders of Antioch and a Turkish coalition, part of the First Crusade
 * Battle of Antioch (1268), a siege in which the Mamelukes under Baibars captured the city of Antioch

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Serendipity (disambiguation)

Serendipity is an accidental lucky discovery.

Serendipity may also refer to:

Entertainment

 * Serendipity (film), 2001 film starring Kate Beckinsale and John Cusack
 * Serendipity (book series), written by Stephen Cosgrove
 * Serendipity the Pink Dragon, an anime television series based on the book series
 * Serendipity (U.K. TV series), British arts and crafts television series in 1973
 * Serendipity (U.S. TV series), local KNBC children's series broadcast in the 1970s
 * "Serendipity", an episode of the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
 * Serendipity, a character played by Salma Hayek in the film Dogma

Music

 * Serendipity singers, a 1960s American folk group
 * Serendipity (Mike Garson album), 1986
 * Serendipity (Walt Dickerson album), 1977
 * Serendipity, an album by Premiata Forneria Marconi
 * "Serendipity", a song on the album Barenaked Ladies Are Men by Barenaked Ladies
 * "Serendipity", a song on the album Amaranthe by Amaranthe
 * "Serendipity", a song by Angelina Pivarnick featuring Adam Barta
 * "Serendipity", a song on the album Once Only Imagined by The Agonist
 * "Serendipity" (BTS song)
 * "Serendipity" (Mai Kuraki song)

Other uses

 * Serendipity 3, a restaurant and boutique started in New York City
 * Serendipity Beach, a famous beach in Sihanoukville, South Cambodia
 * Serendipity (software), a PHP based blog and web-based content management system.
 * Serendipity Spire, a mountain in Canada

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The Darkness Beckons

The Darkness Beckons (ISBN 0-939748-32-0) is a book about the history of UK cave diving by Martyn Farr. It is considered the definitive work on the subject. Farr was a major figure in UK diving at a time when many of the original participants were still alive and available for interview. The first edition of the book was published in 1980. A second edition was published in 1991, followed by a substantially rewritten third edition on 3 July 2017.

Awards
In May 2018, the third edition of The Darkness Beckons was shortlisted for the 2018 Sports Book Awards in the Illustrated Book of the Year category.

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Untitled
Undid the edit by 194.125.49.209 for none NPOV content and removal of accurate and relevant information from article. If anybody disagrees, maybe we should discuss the issues here first? NickW 22:31, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

What about public ownership of water supplies? Should this extension of public space (water) be included here? 204.227.243.16 16:20, 18 May 2007 (UTC)pkmilitia

Change the tense?
RTS seems to have closed. Should we reflect that? By the way, how did RTS link to Reclaim to Future? --88.106.140.234 13:52, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
 * It was never "open". It's like the meaningless question that people used to ask once RTS got onto the front pages: 'Are you in Reclaim the Streets'?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ogy403 (talk • contribs) 20:15, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

RTS is something of a dis-organization, that is an organization that has no permanent bodies, but rather a conceptual frame, politics and mode of action. That said, if it falls into the past it gets past tense. A quick check of Google News (not the ideal site for this, but therefore more convincing when it shows RTS is current) shows an RTS in Copenhagen and in Santa Cruz, California in September 2006. --Carwil 17:18, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Not entirely true. In the Nineties, we had an office set up in a London flat; there was an e-mail address and a phone number that you could use to get into contact.  There were several core founding members whose names I shan't be revealing.  We had regular meetings in the squat in St Johns St.  That's all over now, I believe.  It's now just an idea that spread around the world.  — Chameleon 12:02, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Two minor points
"Participants characterize themselves as a resistance movement to the new corporate colonial forces of globalisation, and, more significantly, as a form of opposition to the car as the dominant mode of transport."

I have changed the latter part of this to "...to the dominance of corporate forces in globalisation". Globalisation as a phenomenon is about far, far more than multinationals. Also, "colonial" is a pejorative term without much objective content.

Also, I was at the Seven Sisters event and remember the riot police clearing the streets by a baton charge. Should be added. Does anyone know of a verifiable source? The Angel of Islington 23:04, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

German Event Called "Reclaim The Sparkasse"
Maybe this should be mentioned?

Try google and http://www.myspace.com/reclaimthesparkasse to find out more. I think it's very relevant for this page.

~wonderduck

notability
there are numerous citations missing from this article, i.e. the group claims themselves to be a "collective" yet there is no source stating this. it seems to me that the entire concept of street reclaimation is the fantasy of a bunch of liberal, drug-abusing college kids - if it were something more there would be actual, credible sources. Jackass110 (talk) 03:43, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

earliest written source for the phenomenon "reclaim the streets"
The below statement is not accurate.

The earliest written source for the phenomenon "reclaim the streets" can be found in Marshall Berman's (1981) All That is Solid Melts Into Air. In a chapter entitled "Modernity in the Streets" Berman writes:

In his 1968 essay 'Post-Scarcity Anarchism', Murray Bookchin wrote: Ultimately it is in the streets that power must be dissolved: for the streets where daily life is endured, suffered and eroded, and where power is confronted and fought, must be turned into the domain where daily life is enjoyed, created and nourished.

This may be found in the book of the same name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.173.233.233 (talk) 00:47, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

RS-media coverage
Ladies and gentlemen, why there's no refs to the influential media publications on the subject? Are you editors here actually boycotting them by any chance? Stopped short of tagging for that. Ukrained2012 (talk) 09:51, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

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Reclaim The Streets vs Reclaim “These” Streets
The new final paragraph in “History” should be removed as incorrect.

The author has conflated the organisation which is the subject of this article with a seemingly separate group, Reclaim “These” Streets.

The latter describes itself thus: “ Reclaim These Streets is organised by a group of women who wanted to channel the collective grief, outrage and sadness in our community. Our plan is to hold a short gathering on Clapham Common, centred around a minute of silence to remember Sarah Everard and all women lost to violence.”

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/reclaimthesestreets/

There seems no link between the two groups other than a similarity in the name thus the reference should be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.0.198.109 (talk) 12:14, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

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Success
"Most conglomerates have generally proven unsuccessful". For example? - Jerryseinfeld 22:31, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Vivendi-Universal
Surely this is another Media Conglomerate?

BSkyB/News International
Removed
 * "News International, owned by Rupert Murdoch, which owns the BSkyB satellite network in the UK, as well as the daily newspapers The Sun and The Times. Articles in Private Eye have highlighted articles in these newspapers that are ostensibly objective news coverage, but which contain subtle advertisements for Sky. In this way, leveraging assets across the conglomerate results in cheaper and less obvious advertising."

I think such a statement needs to cite specific articles. I regularly read The Times as well as other papers and all BSkyB related articles do seem to be "objective news coverage". Please remember BSkyB is a consituent of the FTSE 100 index and regularly features on the business pages of most British newspapers, many of which would rather go bust than give Rupert Murdoch free advertising. Mark83 21:52, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Internet conglomerates
This section seems to have been altered by the same person as the syndicate article (See below), same language inserted about the "L.A.R.V.A" syndicate, supposedly on of a list of 11 other secret syndicates. No citations or supporting evidence. Been floating around since December as well.

"L.A.R.V.A. Conglomerate Syndicate involved one major corporation acquiring several smaller online businesses with the goal of forming five stable corporations." Other articles include a list of names Like Angel, Congratia etc. Pulling the edit in the hopes of keeping this article from sliding even LOWER than a C grade. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.78.110.100 (talk) 19:56, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Don't understand
Hi I am not sure if I understand the following mentioned in the article about 'Conglomerate'.....can u please clarify....thanks

Potential advantages

To modern business analysts, the best argument for conglomerate organizational form is that it may allow capital to be allocated in a more efficient way. For example, a hypothetical conglomerate consists of a candy store and an internet website. Suppose the candy store has high cash flow, but very few profitable investment opportunities. The website has low cash flow, but lots of good investment projects. By combining the businesses together, the cash from the candy store can be used to make profitable investments that would otherwise not be made in the web site. '''The main question associated with this strategy is why this improves upon a market-based allocation of capital. That is, if the entities were standalone, then presumably the investors in the candy store could receive dividends, and then reinvest those dividends in the startup. If this market-based mechanism works well, then all profitable internet startup investments can be made without having the two entities be under common ownership. Research suggests that financial markets may not always operate efficiently due to the presence of transaction costs and asymmetric information. If this problem is severe, then the common ownership of the assets might yield a more efficient allocation of capital.'''66.254.231.48 00:21, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Transaction cost = taxes and commissions. Asymmetric_information: "An employer is interested in hiring a new employee who is skilled in learning. Of course, all prospective employees will claim to be skilled at learning, but only they know if they really are. This is an information asymmetry"
 * management has more choices in the conglomerate to 'allocate capital' in better projects. this is known as reinvestment risk.  suppose you have a 12% - 30 year bond, and interest rates are 6%.  when your 30 year bond principal is paid to you, your interest income is halved.
 * and the Teledyne example, when you can borrow at 6%, and invest in companies with projects that product 12% you have growing earnings pohick (talk) 02:16, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Mitsubishi
Good day. Mitsubishi is mentioned as a Japanese conglomerate, and while conglomerates in Japan still exist in the form of the trading companies ("Sogo-shosha"), Mitsubishi in its current form consists of several completely different publicy traded entities. Pre-WWII, Mitsubishi, along with Mitsui, Sumitomo, and others was a true conglomerate. Please see the entry for "Zaibatsu". I will leave this comment for 3 days and if there are no objections, will edit the article to provide greater specificity on conglomerates in Japan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.102.77.208 (talk) 13:35, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

History first sentence
"The Dutch East India Company is considered to be one of the earliest conglomerate groups after the British East India Company (the first)..."

This seem's a strange way of wording things... Why not start with the British East India Company as the first? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.137.147.158 (talk) 15:29, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Disadvantages
"Synergies are illusory." - not only does this not have any references, but the internal link it provides does not prove that they are illusory. I'm no business genius - was just reading up on this topic - but this entire article needs a redo. It sounds so bias. Probably written by a high-up employee of a conglomerate. Don't know how to sign off either, so - Anonymous, 16:33, 09/02/2011 (GMT+10) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.170.90.3 (talk) 05:34, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

In order to improve this article, I would expand on the food conglomerate section of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ryan.willis (talk • contribs) 15:18, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Help needed - -how do you pronounce this word
How do you pronounce this word? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FCC8:7388:9400:E5F3:54C0:2291:C2D8 (talk) 14:02, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

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Better title
The current title is misleading. The (company) at the title makes it sound like Conglomerate is a physical company. There needs to be a better disambiguator. Roostery123 (talk) 08:31, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

brazzers.com 192.15.41.127 (talk) 13:28, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

title: Talk:Conglomerate (company)