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Tom Fitzgerald (soccer)

Tom Fitzgerald (March 14, 1951 – December 4, 2004) was an American soccer coach.

Career
Fitzgerald played soccer at Hudson Valley Community College before transferring to the University of South Florida his junior season. He played soccer at USF and he graduated in 1974. In 1978, Jesuit High School in Tampa, Florida hired Fitzgerald as the school's head coach. From 1978 to 1981, he led the team to two district championships and a 35–11–6 record.

He was hired by the University of Tampa as an assistant coach in 1981 and became the team's head coach in 1987. He led the team to five Sunshine State Conference championships and the 1994 NCAA Men's Division II Soccer Championship over Oakland University. During Fitzgerald's nine years as head coach, he compiled a 132–32–11 (75% winning percentage) record.

In 1996, the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer hired Fitzgerald as an assistant coach. When the Crew head coach Timo Liekoski resigned after a 6–16 start to the season, the team promoted Fitzgerald to head coach. He led the team to a 9–1 record over the last ten games of the season. In 1998, he took the Crew to the U.S. Open Cup where they lost to the Chicago Fire. When he was fired six games into the 2001 season, Fitzgerald had posted a 70–67–7 record.

In March 2002, Fitzgerald returned to the college ranks, this time with the Division I UCLA Bruins. In his first season at UCLA, Fitzgerald led the team to an NCAA Men's Division I Soccer Championship. He became the first NCAA Division I coach to win a title in his first year with a program. He was also just the third coach to win both Division I and II NCAA titles. He was named the 2002 NSCAA/adidas National Coach of the Year.

In 2004, Fitzgerald left UCLA to rejoin the University of Tampa where he began the season 6–9–1. Tom's main motivation for moving back to Tampa was to be closer to his family. On December 4, 2004, Fitzgerald was driving his motorcycle to scout players at a youth soccer festival in Bradenton, Florida when he was struck by an SUV. Fitzgerald initially seemed to be alright, calling his wife after the accident. He was taken to Tampa General Hospital, but hemorrhaging occurred and Fitzgerald died during surgery to repair his torn aorta. A memorial stone for Fitzgerald was unveiled at Columbus Crew Stadium on April 2, 2005.

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Kathleen Lonsdale

Dame Kathleen Lonsdale ( Yardley; 28 January 1903 – 1 April 1971) was a British crystallographer, pacifist, and prison reform activist. She proved, in 1929, that the benzene ring is flat by using X-ray diffraction methods to elucidate the structure of hexamethylbenzene. She was the first to use Fourier spectral methods while solving the structure of hexachlorobenzene in 1931. During her career she attained several firsts for female scientists, including being one of the first two women elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1945 (along with Marjory Stephenson), first female professor at University College London, first woman president of the International Union of Crystallography, and first woman president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

Early life and education
She was born Kathleen Yardley in Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland. She was born to English born Harry Yardley, the town postmaster, and Jessie Cameron a Baptist of Scottish descent.

She was the youngest of ten children, four of whom died in infancy. During her time living in Newbridge she attended St. Patrick's National School, and her earliest memories were of the local Church of Ireland service and the Methodist Sunday school.

Kathleen's father had issues with alcohol, which meant her family was often short on money. As the unrest in Ireland became more severe Kathleen's mother separated from her father and took the rest of the family to England.

Her family moved to Seven Kings, Essex, England, when she was five years old. The family's financial troubles meant the four older children left school early to support the family. For the same reason, her brother Fred was unable to take up an educational scholarship, though he later become one of the first wireless operators.

Kathleen attended Downshall Elementary school from 1908 to 1914. She studied at Ilford County High School for Girls, then transferred to Ilford County High School for Boys to study mathematics and science, because the girls' school did not offer these subjects. Kathleen had the highest score in physics that any student at London University ever had. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree from Bedford College for Women in 1922, and Master of Science (MSc) degree in physics from University College London in 1924.

Career and research
In 1924 she joined the crystallography research team headed by William Henry Bragg at the Royal Institution. Following her marriage in 1927, she moved to the University of Leeds, but continued to correspond with Bragg. From 1929 to 1934, she started a family and largely stayed at home while continuing her work calculating structure factors. Her husband Thomas Lonsdale was a textile chemist who supported his wife's research. He encouraged his wife to work from home and to go back to work when offered. He worked at Silk Research Association in Leeds after they were married.

In 1934, Lonsdale returned to work with Bragg at the Royal Institution as a researcher. She was awarded a DSc from University of London in 1936 while at the Royal Institution. In addition to discovering the structure of benzene and hexachlorobenzene, Lonsdale worked on the synthesis of diamonds. She was a pioneer in the use of X-rays to study crystals. Lonsdale was one of the first two women elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1945 (the other was the biochemist Marjory Stephenson).

Lonsdale returned to University College London (UCL) in 1946 with the rank of reader. In 1949, she was appointed Professor of Chemistry and head of the Department of Crystallography at UCL. She was the first woman to be made a professor at UCL, an appointment she held until 1968 when she was named professor emeritus.

As a keen table tennis player, Lonsdale made use of ping pong balls to demonstrate the molecular structure to her students. One such model—of the silicate group Si2O5—is in the Science Museum collection

During her later career, she became interested in stones and minerals produced in the human body e.g. kidney stones or gall stones. Some of her crystallographic models are in the collection of the Science Museum in London.

Selected publications

 * Simplified Structure Factor and Electron Density Formulae for the 230 Space Groups of Mathematical Crystallography, G. Bell & Sons, London, 1936.
 * "Divergent Beam X-ray Photography of Crystals," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 240A: 219 (1947).
 * Crystals and X-Rays, G. Bell & Sons, London, 1948.
 * “Human Stones”, Science Vol. 159, Issue 3820, pp. 1199-1207,  15 Mar 1968
 * Quakers visit Russia, Edited by Kathleen Lonsdale : an account of a visit to the Soviet Union in July 1951 by seven British Quakers, 145 pages. Published by the East-West Relations Group of the Friends Peace Committee. Other authors: Margaret Ann Backhouse, B Leslie Metcalfe, Gerald Bailey, Paul S Cadbury, Mildred Creak, Frank Edmead.
 * Removing the Causes of War, 1953.
 * Is peace possible? (1957)
 * Forth in Thy Name: The Life and Work of Godfrey Mowatt (1959)

Personal life
After beginning her research career, in 1927 Yardley married Thomas Jackson Lonsdale. They had three children – Jane, Nancy, and Stephen. Stephen became a medical doctor and worked for several years in Nyasaland (now Malawi).

Lonsdale was a vegetarian and teetotaller.

Pacifism
Though she had been brought up in the Baptist denomination as a child, Kathleen Lonsdale became a Quaker in 1935, simultaneously with her husband. Already committed pacifists, both were attracted to Quakerism for this reason. She was a Sponsor of the Peace Pledge Union.

She served a month in Holloway prison during the Second World War because she refused to register for civil defence duties, or to pay a fine for refusing to register. During this time she experienced a range of issues which would eventually result in Lonsdale becoming a prison reform activist and she joined the Howard League for Penal Reform. "'What I was not prepared for was the general insanity of an administrative system in which lip service is paid to the idea of segregation and the ideal of reform, when in practice the opportunities for contamination and infection are innumerable, and those responsible for re-education practically nil'"In 1953, at the Yearly Meeting of the British Quakers, she delivered the keynote Swarthmore Lecture, under the title Removing the Causes of War. A self-identified Christian pacifist, she wrote about peaceful dialogue and was appointed the first secretary of Churches' Council of Healing by the Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple.

Death
Lonsdale died on 1 April 1971, aged 68, from cancer.

Legacy and honours

 * In 1946 Kathleen Lonsdale was elected an Honorary Member of the Women's Engineering Society in recognition of her "brilliant and important work".
 * 1956, she was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
 * 1966, she was elected as the first woman president of the International Union of Crystallography.
 * 1967, active in encouraging young people to study science, she was elected as the first woman president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
 * 1969, she was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) by the University of Bath.
 * Lonsdaleite, an allotrope of carbon, was named in her honour; it is a rare harder form of diamond found in meteorites.
 * Several universities have names buildings in her honour including at University College London, at the University of Limerick, and at Dublin City University, and Maynooth University.
 * The Royal Irish Academy Chemistry Prize for the best chemistry PhD thesis in Ireland has been named in her honour since 2000.
 * A plaque was erected on Lonsdale's family home in Newbridge by the National Committee for Commemorative Plaques in Science and Technology in 2003, 100 years after her birth. The home, Charlotte House, was the post office at the time of her birth and is now the Newbridge Business Centre.
 * On 1 April 2021, English Heritage unveiled a blue plaque at her childhood home in 19 Colenso Road, Seven Kings, London where she lived from 1911 to 1927, aged 8–24.
 * The Kathleen Lonsdale room at Friends House, London, UK is named after her.

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Castle Park, Caerphilly

Castle Park is a residential area of the town of Caerphilly, south Wales. As the name suggests, it is located near Caerphilly Castle.

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Gardner Ackley

Hugh Gardner Ackley (June 30, 1915 – February 12, 1998) was an American economist and diplomat.

Ackley served as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers under President John F. Kennedy, and as the chairman under President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1964 to 1968. He also served as ambassador to Italy from 1968 to 1969. Ackley was a member of the University of Michigan faculty for 43 years and served as chair of its economics department. Upon returning to the university following his ambassadorship, he was named the Henry Carter Adams Professor of Political Economy. In 1982 he served as president of the American Economic Association.

Ackley was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1915, and was raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he attended public schools and graduated from Western Michigan University in 1936. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1940, and joined the faculty that year. He served in the U.S. Office of Price Administration and the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, D.C., from 1941 to 1946 and as assistant director of the U.S. Office of Price Stabilization from 1951 to 1952.

Ackley believed that government had a definite role in fine tuning the economy, using both fiscal and monetary intervention. He warned President Johnson in 1966 that a tax increase was needed to finance the escalation of the war in Vietnam and the increased social welfare spending that Johnson was undertaking. Johnson did not ask for a tax increase, and economists, including Paul Samuelson, believed this was the cause of the inflation of the 1970s.

Ackley was the author of the popular graduate-level textbook Macroeconomic Theory, which was translated into several languages and remained the standard advanced text during the 1960s and early 1970s. He was awarded a fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1968 and another fellowship from the Ford Foundation. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1972.

Selected publications

 * "Relative Prices and Aggregate Consumer Demand", with D.B. Suits, 1950, American Economic Review.
 * "The Wealth-Saving Relationship", Journal of Political Economy, 1951.
 * "Administered Prices and the Inflationary Process", American Economic Review, 1959.
 * Macroeconomic Theory, Macmillan Company, 1961; republished as Macroeconomics: Theory and Policy, 1978.
 * Stemming World Inflation, The Atlantic Institute, 1971.
 * "An Incomes Policy for the 1970s", Review of Economics and Statistics, 1972.
 * Macroeconomics: Theory and Policy, Macmillan Library Reference 1978.
 * "The Costs of Inflation", American Economic Review, 1978.

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Lansbury Park

Lansbury Park is a residential suburb area of the town of Caerphilly in Wales.

Location
The estate was built as council housing (by housebuilders and civil contractors John Laing) in the 1960s on former farmland. It is located in the eastern part of the town and is overshadowed, though at some distance by the concentric castle of Caerphilly Castle, the 2nd biggest of its type in Europe.

A Morrisons supermarket and petrol station with a convenience store are located nearby.

The estate was named after George Lansbury the politician. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1932 to 1935. He was the grandfather of Angela Lansbury, the star of Murder She Wrote and other TV dramas. There is a Lansbury Estate in Tower Hamlets in London named after George Lansbury as well.

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Osamu Tezuka's Star System

Osamu Tezuka's Star System (手塚漫画のキャラクター一覧) is the name given to the recurring characters in manga created by manga artist Osamu Tezuka. Throughout his career, Tezuka frequently re-used the same character designs or names in different roles across his series; for example, the character Shunsaku Ban appears as a detective in Metropolis and as Astro Boy's teacher in Astro Boy. The name alludes to the Hollywood practice of the star system, and can be seen as analogous to film directors who work with the same actors across multiple movies; Tezuka joked about how much his characters were paid, and occasionally based them on famous western actors.

Akira Asagumo
Akira Asagumo is the grandson of the scientist Dr. Asagumo. He gets his super human powers from the chemical called "Big X", which gives him the ability that makes him grow and expand without limits. He appeared in Shōnen Bool from 1963 to 1966.

Astro Boy
Atom (アトム) is a principal "actor". He is shown in the famous manga and assorted versions of the anime as a child robot, usually wearing shorts (which are actually part of his body), identified by his trademark, two pointy "cowlicks" on the front and back of his head. In the manga, his good nature and incorruptible heart, combined with an array of powers, put him on a quest to protect robots and humans from villainous conquerors and alien invaders. He made other appearances in other manga including Black Jack's, in which he plays a major role in at least one story (volume 22 of the English manga release by Dark Horse of Astro Boy) and in the anime Undersea Super Train: Marine Express, in which he is called "Adam". Astro resembles the wooden boy Pinocchio.

Black Jack
Black Jack (ブラック・ジャック) is a cold-natured, eerie, yet kindhearted and ingenious surgeon is one of Tezuka's dearest creations, despite the fact that in the present day he receives very little credit compared to his rival Astro Boy. Black Jack is, according to Tezuka, his alter ego. Black Jack refuses to get a medical license, due to the corruption within medicine practices, and may run into the legal forces while doing operations (in the 2006 TV anime Black Jack finally gets his license). Despite his outlaw status, he is considered a miracle worker with his incomparable surgical technique and power of diagnostic analysis. His operations are generally over 10 million yen, but he more frequently helps the unfortunate for free or a token payment. He is sometimes accompanied by his short-tempered adopted daughter/assistant, Pinoko and can be recognized by a large cape, loose trench coat, and blue, black or red string tie (depending on the media) with black and white hair, dark eyes, and a graft of dark skin across the upper left of his face. Having learned wit playing with darts as a boy, is a skilled marksman as well as well-trained in martial arts. A statue of Black Jack stands in the Osamu Tezuka Museum beneath a skylight.

Bokko, Pukko and Nokko
Bokko, Pukko and Nokko are a trio of three intergalactic patrollers known as the Amazing 3. They came to Earth to research and destroy it if necessary. They appeared in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from May 1965 to May 1966.

Don Dracula
Don Dracula (ドン・ドラキュラ) is a comical vampire who moved from Transylvania to Japan and has a very hard time adjusting to the new place. In the animated film Marine Express and the video game Astro Boy: Omega Factor, Don Dracula is a villain who works for Sharaku.

Garon
Garon (ガロン) is a giant robot sent by aliens as a test for Earth's inhabitants. His original comic, Majin Garon, ran in Boukenoh (冒険王) from July 1959 until July 1962. He is the final boss of the video game Astro Boy: Omega Factor and the secret treasure of Mu.

Ham Egg
Ham Egg (ハム・エッグ), also known as Cachatore, Hammond Eggs, Hamegg, or Simon Sakely (in Jungle Emperor Leo) is a villain with a round head, a thin moustache, a wide grin, curly hair and sometimes a top hat. His name is an obvious play on the words "ham and eggs".

He is primarily known for being a cruel circus manager in Astro Boy. He was also a hotel manager and an organ smuggler in Phoenix. He made other appearances in Astro Boy (such as a gangster or a murderous surgeon). In Kimba the White Lion, he portrays the hunter who kills Kimba's father, Panja, and holds him captive during his infancy.

Higeoyaji
Shunsaku Ban (伴俊作), or Shunsuke Ban, is a bald, portly, middle-aged man with a large chalk-white moustache. He is an often comical and grumpy yet good-natured. He is 42 years old, as mentioned in one of the manga. His facial hair earns him the nickname "Higeoyaji" (ヒゲオヤジ). In the 1960s English version of the animated Astro Boy, his name was private detective Edgar Pompous, then Percival Pompous. Perhaps because his character was appearing in another animated series based on Tezuka's manga at the time, in the 1980s English animated Astro Boy changed his name to Albert Duncan, and he was given the nickname "Daddy Walrus". His typical role is that of a detective in other Tezuka materials, with sometimes a nephew/assistant named Ken'ichi ("Ken" or "Kennedy" in English versions of the Astro Boy TV series). The 1980s color remake (as well as the original manga) had him appear as Astro Boy's teacher, then as a detective. In the 2003 Astro Boy series, he is called Wally Kisaragi, and in the English-language manga, his "Higeoyaji" nickname is translated as "Mustachio". He is featured as either a regular character or a guest star in any of a number of Tezuka works. Shunsaku Ban is often cast as some sort of adventurer, usually an amateur or professional private investigator. His trademark characteristic is to confront danger with a comical wild-eyed panic, then after a moment recapture his composure and vigorously attack the threat.

Hosuke Sharaku
Hosuke Sharaku (写楽保介) is a baby-faced young boy with a large head, often sporting a bandage. His main role was in The Three-Eyed One where he is a three-eyed child with evil powers. He has featured in Astro Boy-related media, appearing as the main antagonist in the game Astro Boy: Omega Factor and as a supporting character in the PlayStation 2 game Astro Boy. He was Assaji the apprentice monk in Buddha, still with his bandage. He appeared in the Black Jack anime, also with his bandage. Sharaku's third eye is hidden by the bandage, which suppresses both his power and evil nature.

Kenichi
Kenichi (ケン一) is one of Tezuka's oldest and most often cast "actors". Kenichi's character design is borrowed from Dick Huemer's Scrappy, initially confused as "Happie". He is also known as Kenichi Shikishima, which is a name derived from his role in Lost World. Fans gave him this name to help distinguish him, although it is not officially recognized by Tezuka Productions. The Japanese writing of his name, "ケン一" is unique as it is a pun on the number one in Japanese (ichi) written as "一" in kanji, so it is like saying "Kenichi number one". Alternate spellings include "Ken1", "ケン1", and in English he is known as Kennedy or simply Ken. He is often paired with Higeoyaji, who usually takes the role of his uncle.

Kenichi can be recognized by his soft round face with one or several curls poking out of his hair, also known as a cowlick or ahoge. He sometimes has simple dotted cartoon eyes reminiscent of Tintin, but later on he is drawn with more detailed irises. He is also often seen wearing shoes that are half white in the back and dark in the front, however this could be a way of stylizing spats.

Kenichi would often take the role of the main hero in Tezuka's early works, but Tezuka would later revoke his role as the protagonist because he "lacked individuality". The manga world was becoming more focused on more complex characters, and Kenichi embodied the one-dimensional, wholesome, "good boy" status of early childhood, but not much else. Eventually, readers lost interest in him. After he was retired as a main protagonist, he would usually take a supporting role in other stories, such as Astro Boy's classmate and Leo's friend in Jungle Emperor.

However, in 1954 Tezuka created a manga that was focused on Kenichi as the hero, because he still liked the character very much. In Chief Detective Kenichi (ケン1探偵長), the plot follows Kenichi, who is a young detective solving various crimes with his pet bird Donguri. This would be one of his last roles as the main hero.

Osamu Tezuka
Osamu Tezuka (手塚 治虫) himself makes frequent appearances, usually just as an in-joke, in nearly all of his works. He can be recognized by his round spotted nose and round glasses and sometimes wears a beret. In the collected Astro Boy volumes, he often introduces stories, and dispenses trivia.

He is a major character in the manga The Vampires. Tezuka went so far as to play the role himself in the 1968 TV adaptation of the series. He also makes frequent appearances in the Black Jack anime, in which, as a doctor, he is a former classmate of Black Jack's.

Rock
Rock (ロック) is a young "bad boy" with shiny dark hair, sometimes wearing sunglasses. He mostly plays villains, after having played juvenile heroes. He made his first appearance in Rock Holmes, as a child detective. He appeared with Astro Boy several times. He was in Phoenix. He also starred in animated Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis as Duke Red's brutal son. In the Astro Boy: Omega Factor video game he is initially the real identity of the villain, Deadcross, but falls in love with - and is reformed by - Princess Sapphire, and remains with her in the distant past to help her try to avert the demise of the continent of Mu, similar to what happened in the Marine Express movie.

Leo
Leo (レオ) is a courageous, vegetarian white lion with black tips on his ears. Often known as "Kimba" in English-language translations, after he was given that name in Kimba the White Lion, the English dub of his 1960s anime series. In both his manga and anime series, he is known as Jungle Emperor Leo and acts as an ambassador toward the human world for animals. In Astro Boy: Omega Factor an android boy known as Pook disguises himself as Leo to steal jewels.

Magma
Magma is a gigantic humanoid who can shapeshift into a rocket ship. With this series, Tezuka pioneered the transforming robots concept.

Melmo
Melmo is a young girl who usually happens to have a bottle of candy with the power to change her physical appearance. Though most frequently seen as various characters in the Black Jack manga of the 1970s, Melmo appears either as a 9-year-old or a 19-year-old. Although in her own series both versions of Melmo are the same person, she has sometimes appeared as a mother and a daughter.

Phoenix
The Phoenix (火の鳥) is an immortal alien entity that takes the physical form of a legendary magical mythological bird.

Prime Rose
Prime Rose (プライム・ローズ) is a girl with bushy reddish-blonde hair. She originally appeared as a black-clad warrior in Prime Rose, a comic series in Weekly Shōnen Champion, which was made into an animated movie in 1983. In Astro Boy: Omega Factor, she is Lamp Acetylene's daughter.

Sapphire
Sapphire (サファイア) is a young woman with slightly curly dark hair, who first starred in Princess Knight. She is the queen of the Mu civilization in the animated film Marine Express and in the Astro Boy: Omega Factor game.

Skunk Kusai
Skunk Kusai (スカンク 草井) is a pale, blonde smirking man with a short brown nose, sleepy eyes, and sometimes a gray complexion (which is made clear in the 1980 Astro Boy anime). He usually plays a villain. His full name is often displayed as Skunk Kusai (Kusai means "stinky", "fishy" in Japanese). He is primarily known for being a gangster enemy to Astro Boy. He first appeared in Metropolis as an overly ambitious military officer.

Unico
Unico (ユニコ) is a baby unicorn born with a special gift of making anyone happy.

Lamp Acetylene
Lamp Acetylene (アセチレン・ランプ), also known as Drake (or Torch in the second series), is a tall, middle-aged man with a thin nose, large forehead, wide frowny eyes and often a small mustache with big glasses. He has a "notch" on the back of his head. A running gag throughout Tezuka's work show that a lit candle will stand upright if placed in the notch. Tezuka based the character on a classmate. He appeared regularly in Astro Boy and in Tezuka's Adolf, Black Jack and in Phoenix. He was the president's secretary in Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis in which the candle appears on his head when he is shot. The candle is a plot point in the game Astro Boy: Omega Factor where his daughter proves it is her by remembering that. He also appeared in Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature, and cameos in Jungle Emperor Leo.

Atlas
Atlas is a robot created by Dr. Ram, an Incan scientist who hates civilization, to get revenge on a Mexican village. However, Atlas turns against his creator and leaves him to be burned by the flowing lava caused by an artificial volcanic eruption, but Astro manages to defeat Atlas.

He has been reimagined in many adaptations which turned him into Astro's half-brother, Skunk's creation, or even Prime Rose's boyfriend.

Biwamaru
Biwamaru is a tall, thin bald man; he is completely blind and his eyes are white. His left eye is larger than his right. In Dororo, he is a traveling monk who crosses paths with Hyakkimaru from time to time. In Black Jack, he is a wandering acupuncturist and a rival to Black Jack. He also appears as the Buddhist Priest Tenran in Duke Goblin.

Boon Marukubi
Boon Marukubi is a bulky man who usually plays the role of a villain and/or politician. He was modeled on the veteran French actor Lino Ventura.

Chiyoko Wato
Chiyoko Wato (和登千代子) is a teenage girl usually occupying as a high school student. She is Sharaku's classmate who plays as his best friend, mother figure, and even love interest.

Duke Red
Duke Red is a tall man with a large, hooked nose and spiky hair on the back of his head. He first appeared in Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis, a name he took back in the game Astro Boy: Omega Factor. He also played the title role in Osamu Tezuka's rendition of Cyrano de Bergerac and Prince Siddartha's doctor in Buddha. He made a few appearances in the Astro Boy manga (such as a mad scientist or a murdered priest) and other Tezuka productions, sometimes under the name Akai ("Red" in Japanese). He appeared in the 2003 Astro Boy TV series, in which he started a war against robots after thinking his robot servant hurt his daughter.

Frankenstein
Frankenstein (フランケンシュタイン) is a mature man with a large hulking build and one eye on the right. He is called "Frankenstein" because he has a grotesque giant face whose uncanny resemblance to the monster created by the eponymous scientist.

Dr. Tenma
Dr. Tenma is a man whose face and hair resemble that of a rooster. He played the role of Astro's father and creator. He later appeared in a number of other manga including Black Jack.

Hecate
Hecate is the daughter of Satan and rival then ally of Princess Sapphire.

Hyoutan-tsugi
Hyoutan-tsugi, also known as Gourdski, is a gag character, a small pig-faced patchworked gourd creature that puffs out smoke. Tezuka sometimes even making a character's face looking like it. It appears in almost all of his works, even in the 2009 CGI animated film where he appears on a billboard. Some fans call it the real star of Tezuka's series.

Lord Deadcross
Lord Deadcross is the inventor of the first robot president, Rag. He turned into a villain after Rag decided to run against him in the election in Guravia and won. In Astro Boy: Omega Factor, Deadcross is combined with Rock and the leader of the Black Looks while Rag is combined with the Blue Knight.

Mitchy
Mitchy, also known as Michi, is a young girl character whose most relevant role is as herself in Metropolis where she is an android who changes from male to female as a method of disguise, similar to Princess Sapphire. In the anime adaptation, she is replaced by Tima, an original character that is explicitly stated to be a gynoid, unlike Mitchy who changes gender. She was also recognized by fans as Astro's android mother in the original 1950s-1960s run of the Astro Boy manga.

Notaarin
Notaarin, also known as Notarlin, is an older, portly character with a round head, sometimes depicted with a moustache and a single hair on the back of his head. He appears as the Superintendent of Police in Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis, also as the Atomic Energy Chairman in the manga version of Nextworld.

Professor Ochanomizu
Professor Ochanomizu is a mentor of Astro Boy; often seen in Black Jack in positions of authority (councilman, company president, etcetera).

Omotanium
Omotanium is not a character per se, but a fictional "substance" à la kryptonite. It has different properties and performs different functions from story to story, such as destroying the brain system of a robot.

Pick
Pick is a young boy who fell to Earth in a meteorite. Garon fell to Earth as well, Pick is actually his heart/conscience, without him he is a soulless monster. Pick is commonly depicted with a "W" on his forehead and wearing overalls. He has appeared in both the Astro Boy and Black Jack manga, sometimes even without Garon. In Astro Boy: Omega Factor, Pick is given the alias and characteristics of Pook a recurring character from Astro Boy.

Pinoko
Pinoko is the loyal assistant and adopted daughter of Dr. Black Jack.

Inspector Tawashi
Inspector Tawashi is a police detective with a distrust of robots and therefore has a feud with both Professor Ochanomizu and Shunsuke Ban. While arrogant and even rude, he eventually comes to respect Astro's courage and abilities, even calling for his assistance in particularly difficult cases. He is often partnered with Chief Nakamura.

Rainbow Parakeet
Rainbow Parakeet is a tall young man with bobbed blue hair, red-tinted sunglasses, a white coat and ascot, and dark pants and gloves. He stars as the title character in his own manga as a thief (à la Lupin III), and as the English cyborg private detective Sherlock Homespun (sometimes written Sherlock Holmespan) in the 1980 Astro Boy anime and Game Boy Advance game Astro Boy: Omega Factor. In the 2003 Astro Boy series he appears as a terrorist named Kato, who has no concrete goal, but regards his terrorism as art.

Robita
Robita is a robot who appears in Phoenix manga arcs "Future" and "Resurrection". She also has a minor role in the 1980 Astro Boy animated series and more substantial role in the 2003 Astro Boy animated series (named Nora in the English version and voiced by Jennifer Darling ). She also appears in Naoki Urasawa's Pluto manga series.

Rococo
Rococo is an alien mutant created to help evacuate animals from Earth to get away from a toxic cloud.

Saboten, Sam
Sam Saboten is a young man who replaced Rock in a series known as Saboten-Kun, mimicking the Hollywood practice of replacing actors during a series of films.

Saruta
Saruta is a stocky man with a huge roundish nose. He appeared as all the Saruta descendants (including Gao) in the Phoenix saga and made some appearances in Buddha. In Black Jack anime series, he appears like Jontaro Honma, the man who reconstructed the body of Black Jack after his accident when he was a kid. He looks somewhat similar to Professor Ochanomizu because he typically has a large, bulbous nose, but he is not the same character.

Sasaki, Kojiro
Kojiro Sasaki is based on and named after the Japanese swordsman. He is known for his energy, quick temper, and sword skills. Although his first appearance was in Benkei, his break-out role was in Ah, We Three. He also appeared in Black Jack, he has appeared in The Crater, Rainbow Parakeet, Lion Books, and the animated film, Marine Express''.

Saturn
Saturn is a massive, brutal man with a big chin and a pointy moustache. He appeared as the King of Evil in Magic House and he fought Astro Boy as the robot called Satan.

Spider
Spider is a gag character, a very cartoonish and very short man in a black robe, long nose, one hair, stretching an arm and often bouncing. His catchphrase is "Here ta meet ya!" and he ends almost every sentence by "Ayup!" He vaguely resembles Kilroy.

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Santos Acosta

Manuel María de los Santos Acosta Castillo (November 1, 1828 – January 9, 1901) was a Colombian General and political figure. He served as the president of Colombia from 1867 until 1868.

Biographic data
Acosta was born in Miraflores, Boyacá, on November 1, 1828. He died in Bogotá on January 9, 1901.

Political career
Although Acosta studied and graduated in medicine, he did not practice this profession. Rather, he pursued military and political careers. He was elected several times as MP, both to the House of Representatives and the Senate. Santos Acosta was one of the main players during the constitutional reform of 1853.

In 1867, Congress elected Acosta as second Vice-President. Congress had also elected Santos Gutiérrez as first Vice-President and Joaquín Riascos as third Vice-President.

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Mornington Meadows

Mornington Meadows (Dolydd Trefore) is a residential area in the town of Caerphilly, south Wales. The name comes from the pastoral land and hay meadows which once covered this area. It borders Porset Park to the south, with pastoral land to the north-east. It is within the community council of Van, Caerphilly and the electoral ward of St. James. The estate was constructed in the 1970s. All residential roads within the estate are linked into a circular internal ring road - Pen Y Cae. The estate only has one exit road for vehicles, but has a considerable number of pedestrian paths in to and out of the estate. Despite Mornington Meadows having an English name all of the roads in the estate have Welsh names.

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Joseph Franklin Ada

Joseph Franklin Ada (born December 3, 1943), better known as Joseph F. Ada, is an American (U.S. citizen) politician who served as the 5th Governor of Guam from 1987 to 1995. Before his accession to the governorship, Ada previously served as the 3rd Lieutenant Governor of Guam from 1979 to 1983. He is a member of the Republican Party of Guam. He is the member of the Guam Legislature as the lead speaker from 1975 to 1979 and member as the senator from 1975 to 1979 and again from 1983 to 1987.

Early life
Ada was born in Tamuning, Guam, to José "Ping" Torres Ada (1915–1984) and Regina San Nicolas Herrero (1921–2009). He attended the College of Guam for two years before entering the University of Portland, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in corporate finance in 1968. Ada's late grandfather Josef Martinez Ada who owned Ada's Soap Factory in Anigua from the early 1930s until his grandfather's death in 1955.

Ada is married to Rosanne Jacqueline Santos and has three children, Eric Ada, Tricia Yoo, and Ester Dela Paz, and has five grandchildren. His wife died on March 18, 2021.

Guam Legislature
Ada's public career began under Governor Carlos G. Camacho, who appointed him deputy director of the Department of Public Works in 1970. Ada, who had just turned 27 at the time, remained as Public Works deputy director until 1972, when he resigned to make his first bid for elected office. He won a seat in the 12th Guam Legislature as a member of the Republican minority at the age of 28. In the election for the 13th Guam Legislature, the Republicans were swept into the majority and Ada was the overall top vote getter. His colleagues chose him to be Speaker of the 13th Guam Legislature at the age of 31. Ada was a top vote getter again in the 14th Guam Legislature and was again chosen as Speaker.

Ada never forgot what Camacho did for him by offering Ada that first leadership position. He followed Camacho's example after he became governor, offering cabinet positions to bright young people, many who became leaders in their own right.

During his term as speaker, Ada, a strong advocate of education, established priorities that would remain important to him in the years to come. He cosponsored a bill that created the Guam Community College and made a substantial investment in vocational education. As Speaker, he also pushed for additional funding for recreation and sports programs especially for Guam's youth.

Ada led the fight to prevent massive personnel lay offs at Guam's Ship Repair Facility (SRF) in the mid-1970s. He traveled to Washington, D.C., and presented Guam's case to forestall the closure of SRF, saving hundreds of local jobs. Twenty years later the shipyard was privatized but the jobs were still there.

Lieutenant governor
In the election of 1978 Ada was asked by Sen. Paul Calvo to join him as his running mate for the Republican nomination as Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Guam. The two won the election and Ada, now 35, became the Lt. Governor of Guam. Believing strongly that the future of the region depended on unspoiled ocean resources and fisheries, Ada led the fight to stop both the United States and Japan from dumping nuclear and chemical wastes into the Pacific Ocean. He presented the Pacific case in Washington and in Tokyo and helped stop the plan for ocean dumping of nuclear waste.

Ada declined to run for a second term with Calvo in 1982 and chose instead to return to the legislature. Topping the polls again, he was elected to the 17th and 18th Guam Legislatures in 1982 and 1984. The Republicans, however, were in the minority during these terms and it was difficult to make progress. Ada then decided to run for governor.

Ada-Blas Campaign (1986)
His running mate and lieutenant governor was former senator Frank Blas. Ada served numerous terms in the Guam Legislature, becoming the first Republican speaker of the legislature when the Republicans captured control of the body from the Democratic Party. Ada was elected Lt. Governor of Guam with running mate Paul McDonald Calvo in 1978, but declined the opportunity to serve as Calvo's running mate for re-election in 1982 and instead returned to the legislature. Calvo lost the subsequent election to Ricky Bordallo. Ada is the only Guam political leader to serve as Speaker, lieutenant governor and governor. He stewarded Guam's economic expansion and pushed, successfully, for return of land held by the US military.

First term
When Ada began his first term Guam was in the throes of an economic recession with the government suffering under a crushing deficit. Ada put all his administration's efforts toward Guam's economic recovery, and eventually he presided over one of the fastest growing and strongest economies in the island's history due in part to a growth in tourism from a booming Japanese economy. He launched an austerity program at the start of his term and followed it with a program to encourage investment and trade from Asia. He eliminated the government deficit in three years. Despite a decrease in federal spending, Guam's economy doubled and some 25,000 new jobs were created. A majority of these jobs were in Guam's growing private sector. During Ada's first term, private sector employment outstripped public sector employment in Guam's economy for the first time in the modern era.

As chairperson of the Commission on Self-Determination, established in 1980 to lead the way toward determining a new political status for Guam, Ada presided over the completion of the Guam Commonwealth Act and presented to the people of Guam for approval in a plebiscite. Upon the Act's approval, Ada took it to US Congress. A strong advocate for self-government and self-determination for Guam, he called for an end to Guam's colonial status and pushed for the liberation of Guam's economy from federal regulations. Congress, however, did not act on the Guam Commonwealth Act and Guam's political status remains unresolved. Ada believed that Guam needed to be financially healthy and not dependent on the US government in order to move forward politically. He said the federal government has tied Guam's hands more than once pointing to postwar security clearance, federal land takings for US bases and the Jones Act which puts Guam at a financial disadvantage for shipping.

To address those concerns Ada said he supported the newly developed qualifying certificate program at the Guam Economic Development Authority to bring in foreign investment, pushed for good fuel rates and port lease fees to bring tuna transshipment to Guam, and worked on getting a visa waiver for visitors to Guam from Korea and Taiwan, all of which helped move Guam away from being dependent on US federal dollars. He also directed floating the first bond for infrastructure rather than ask for more federal funds.

Ada-Blas Campaign (1990)
He was the first governor of Guam to be reelected to a consecutive term in office, after winning reelection in 1990, but the Democrats were defeated in the general election by the Bordallo-Duenas team on November 6, 1990, with their Senators Madeleine Bordallo and Ping Duenas upon the current governor Ada.

Second term
In his second term Ada capitalized on the fruits of his economic recovery program and made the largest investment in education in Guam up to that time. He directed the floating of a bond which made some $170 million available for the construction of a new high school in southern Guam (now Guam Southern High School), new elementary schools in Tamuning, Inarajan and Dededo, and reconstruction of schools in Upi and Ordot-Chalan Pago. Additionally many new classrooms were built to relieve overcrowding in schools around the island. Operating budgets for the public schools were increased annually. Under Ada computers and computer classes were introduced in all Guam schools. At the end of his term every grade level in every school had access to computer classes.

Guam suffered from a string of natural disasters during the second Ada administration. Four sequential typhoons affected the area in 1991, with Typhoon Omar causing the most damage. The 7.8 Mw Guam earthquake occurred on August 8, 1993, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Damage ran into millions of dollars though only two buildings were destroyed. These disasters, combined with a recession in Japan, caused the tourism industry to suffer for a time.

Ada-Camacho Campaign (1998)
When his second term was over, he once again ran for governor in 1998, with then Sen. Felix Camacho as his running mate then-Senator Felix Perez Camacho, but was defeated by incumbent Democratic governor Carl T.C. Gutierrez and his running mate Madeleine Bordallo for a contentious race ultimately decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2000, Ada ran for senator once more and was elected, joining the Republican majority in the legislature. In 2002, he ran for Congressional delegate against Democrat Madeleine Bordallo, but lost.

UOG Vice-Chairman
He recently serves as the vice-chairman of the board of the University of Guam Endowment Foundation. Founded by Jesus S. Leon Guerrero, the foundation is dedicated to promoting the university through academic enhancements, scholarship opportunities, and development of creative fundraising opportunities for overall improvements to the campus.

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Adam von Bodenstein

Adam von Bodenstein (1528–1577) was a Swiss Paracelsian alchemist and physician. He was born in Kemberg near Wittenberg in Germany and died of the plague in Basel. His father, Andreas Rudolph Bodenstein von Karlstadt, was a prominent theologian and early Protestant opponent of Martin Luther.

As the guiding force of early German Paracelsianism, Bodenstein published over forty Paracelsian titles from 1560, which had a tremendous influence on the later development of Paracelsianism. Since he published these texts without the knowledge of the Basel medical faculty, he was expelled from "Facultet und Consilio“ of the Basel University. Bodenstein also became, with Gerhard Dorn, Johannes Oporinus, and Michael Toxites, the most influential translator of the works of Paracelsus.

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James Adam (architect)

James Adam (21 July 1732 – 20 October 1794) was a Scottish architect and furniture designer, but was often overshadowed by his older brother and business partner, Robert Adam. They were sons of architect William Adam.

Life and career
Adam was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife in 1732 as the third son of the architect William Adam.

In 1755 Adam worked on Gunsgreen House in the Berwickshire town of Eyemouth.

In 1758, Adam, along with his brother Robert, started his business in London (living in Lower Grosvenor Street), focusing on designing complete schemes for the decoration and furnishing of houses. Palladian design was popular, but Robert had evolved a new, more flexible signature style incorporating elements of classic Roman design alongside influences from Greek, Byzantine and Baroque styles, often termed as Adam Style in conventional architecture texts. The Adam brothers' success can also be attributed to a desire to design everything down to the smallest detail, ensuring a sense of unity in their designs.

He then followed in Robert's footsteps by undertaking the Grand Tour, leaving in May 1760 and arriving back in London in October 1763.

Adam succeeded Robert as Architect of the King's Works in 1768 just before work on the brothers' Adelphi project (1768–1772) almost bankrupted the firm (the business employed other notable architects including Joseph Bonomi (1739–1808) who, from 1768, remained with the Adams until 1781).

From 1771 to 1775, he was engaged with his brother in the design and building of Wedderburn Castle near Duns, Berwickshire.

Adam emerged from his brother's shadow after Robert's death in 1792, designing several notable buildings in Glasgow, including the old Infirmary (1792; demolished 1907), Assembly Rooms (1794; demolished in 1890) and the Tron Kirk (1794). He also designed Portland Place in central London. In 1793, he was part of a group of architects that John Soane was asked to supply plans to for the House of Lords. However, he died at his home in London's Albemarle Street in 1794.

Adam had a book collection of some significance which he marked with his personal engraved bookplate.

During their lifetime Robert and James Adam published two volumes of their designs, Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam (in 1773–1778 and 1779; a third volume was published posthumously, in 1822).

Public buildings

 * Courts of Justice and Corn Market, Hertfordshire, now Shire Hall, Hertford (1768). Altered, but partially restored to original design. A joint project with Robert Adam.

Urban domestic work

 * Drumsheugh House in Edinburgh for the Erskine family (c. 1756)
 * The Adelphi development, London (1768–1775) mostly demolished 1930s, a ceiling & fireplace are in the Victoria and Albert Museum
 * 7 Adam Street

Country houses with major work

 * Gunsgreen House, Berwickshire (1755)

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John Adam

John Adam may refer to:

 * John Adam (architect) (1721–1792), Scottish architect
 * John Adam (silversmith) (1774–1848), silversmith and painter in Virginia
 * John Adam (administrator) (1779–1825), British administrator in India
 * John Adam (legislator) (fl. 1860–1887), Wisconsin populist legislator from Milwaukee
 * John Adam (sailor) (1875–1946), British sailor, won silver medal at 1908 Summer Olympics
 * John A. Adam (journalist) (born 1949), American reporter
 * John A. Adam (mathematician), British-American applied mathematician
 * John Adam (rugby league) (born 1955), Australian rugby league player
 * John Adam (actor) (born 1960s), Australian television and theatre actor
 * John Adam (MP) (died 1440), for New Romney
 * John Adam (hoax), the name given by Islamic militants to a U.S. soldier they claimed to have captured
 * John J. Adam (1807–1888), Scottish-American teacher, businessman, and politician

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Cynthia Longfield

Cynthia Evelyn Longfield (16 August 1896 – 27 June 1991) was an Anglo-Irish entomologist and explorer and the first woman member of the Entomological Society. She was an expert on the dragonfly and was nicknamed "Madame Dragonfly". She travelled extensively and published The Dragonflies of the British Isles in 1937. She worked as a research associate at the Natural History Museum, London, and was the expert on the dragonflies there, particularly on African species.

Early life
Cynthia Evelyn Longfield was born on 16 August 1896, on Pont Street, Belgravia, London. She was the youngest daughter of Alice Elizabeth (née Mason) and Montifort Longfield, of Castle Mary, Cloyne, County Cork. She had two sisters. Her mother Alice Longfield grew up near Oxford, and was the daughter of a scientist. Alice died in 1945. The family home at Castle Mary was burned down in 1920 by rebels, and Park House was rebuilt on the grounds.

Career
Longfield joined the Army Service Corps during the First World War, later moving to an aircraft factory on Fullham Road. She visited South America between December 1921 and March 1922. She travelled to the Andes and Lake Titicaca. In 1923 she travelled to Egypt, where she caught a scorpion at the tomb of Ramases IX.

In the same year Longfield answered an advertisement to join Evelyn Cheesman of London Zoo on a research trip to the Pacific, specifically the Galapagos Islands. They sailed aboard the St George, which left Dartmouth on 9 April 1924. She collected coleoptera (beetles) and lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) as an assistant to an entomologist, Cyril Collenette. The pair used machetes to hack through the undergrowth of the Amazon jungle to collect specimens for the Natural History Museum in London.

She joined the Entomological Society of London in 1925, and later the same year joined the Royal Geographical Society. She was the first woman member of the Entomological Society. In 1926 she joined the London Natural History Society. She was elected president of the society for 1932 and 1933.

Longfield was a voluntary cataloguer at the Natural History Museum and was put in charge of work on dragonflies. She joined a six-month expedition to Matto Grosso, Brazil in 1927, and returned with samples of 38 of species of dragonfly. Three of these species were previously unidentified. The species Corphaeschna longfieldae is named in her honour. By 1937, Longfield had become an international authority on the subject of dragonflies and published a book entitled The Dragonflies of the British Isles. The book quickly sold out, and earned her the name "Madame Dragonfly".

On 28 March 1938 she joined the Auxiliary Fire Service, and during the Second World War ensured that a turntable ladder was used in response to the bombing of the biology department of the Natural History Museum in April 1941. Cyril Collenette stated that her actions in relation to this likely saved the Museum from destruction. She was appointed an honorary associate of the Natural History Museum in 1948.

In 1979 she donated dragonfly and damselfly specimens to the Royal Irish Academy, as well as her written records and more than 500 natural history books. In 1983 she was elected the first Honorary Member of the British Dragonfly Society.

Later life and death
Before her retirement from the Natural History Museum, Longfield purchased an apartment in Kensington, London, where she resided until her eventual retirement at age 60. In 1957, she returned to Castle Mary, the family estate, in Cloyne, County Cork where she lived until her death. She died aged 96 on 27 June 1991 and was buried in St. Coleman's Church of Ireland Cathedral, close to her home in Cloyne.

Legacy and commemoration
The Longfield Roberts Collection, a photograph album belonging to Longfield and taken and developed during the St George Expedition to the South Sea Islands in 1924 to 1925, is held by the Royal Irish Academy. The c.800 photographs mainly depict the people and life on the ship and the flora and fauna of the Pacific Islands.

An exhibition entitled The Longfield exhibition was opened in the Royal Irish Academy on Dawson Street in 2006.

Longfield's life and career was celebrated by an event held on the centenary of the St George expedition.

Works

 * 1914. Royal Army Service Corps, driver (1914–1916)
 * 1916. Aeroplane factory worker (1916–1918)
 * 1924. St. George Expedition, Assistant Entomologist (unpaid)(1924–1925)
 * 1936. Studies on African Odonata, with synonymy, and descriptions of new species and subspecies. Trans. R. ent. Soc. London 85(20): 467–498.
 * (1936) Contribution à l'étude de la faune du Mozambique. Voyage de M.P. Lesne (1928–1929). 23e note – Odonata. Memórias e Estudos do Museu Zoológico da Universidade de Coimbra, 89: 1–2 . Insecta. C. Longfield.
 * (1945) – The Odonata of South Angola. Arquivos do Museu Bocage, 16, Lisboa.
 * (1955) – The Odonata of N. Angola. Publicações Culturais, Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang), Lisboa, 27: 11–63. Biologia. Entomologia. Angola.
 * (1959) – The Odonata of N. Angola. Publicações Culturais, Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang), Lisboa, 45: 11–42. Entomologia. Angola.
 * (1960) Dragonflies Corbet, P.S., Longfield, C.N. and Moore, N.W. New Naturalist No 41, Collins, London.

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Jan Peerce

Jan Peerce (born Yehoshua Pinkhes Perelmuth; June 3, 1904 – December 15, 1984) was an American operatic tenor. Peerce was an accomplished performer on the operatic and Broadway concert stages, in solo recitals, and as a recording artist. He is the father of film director Larry Peerce.

Family life
Jan Peerce was born Jacob Pincus Perelmuth (though his Hebrew gravestone gives his first name as יהושע, or Joshua, not Jacob), to a Jewish family. His parents, Levi (anglicized to Louis) and Henya Perelmuth, came from the village of Horodetz, formerly in Poland, now Belarus. Their first child, a daughter, died in an epidemic. In 1903 they emigrated to America along with their second child, a boy named Mottel. A year later, on June 3, 1904, their third child, Jacob Pincus, was born in a cold water flat in the Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York. He was nicknamed "Pinky" by his neighborhood friends. When he was three years old, his older brother Mottel was killed in an accident as the boy hitched a ride on an ice wagon. Jacob attended DeWitt Clinton High School and Columbia University. At his mother's urging he took violin lessons, and gave public performances, including dance band work as Jack "Pinky" Pearl. Sometimes he also sang and it was soon discovered he was an exceptional lyric tenor.

Peerce became the brother-in-law of fellow American tenor Richard Tucker when Sara Perelmuth, Peerce’s only sister, married Tucker, who was then a part-time cantor, in 1936. Jan remained on the Lower East Side until his 1930 marriage to Alice Kalmanovitz (1907–1994), a childhood friend to whom he was married for 54 years, until his death. He died at his home in New Rochelle, New York on December 15, 1984 at the age of 80. Peerce is interred at Mount Eden Cemetery in Valhalla, Westchester County.

Career
Peerce studied singing in New York City with Giuseppe Boghetti. In 1932 he was hired as a tenor soloist with the Radio City Music Hall company by the impresario Roxy, who renamed him John Pierce. They soon compromised on the spelling Jan Peerce, which the singer felt better reflected his ethnicity. Thanks to radio broadcasts and stage programs, Peerce soon had a nationwide following. The legendary maestro Arturo Toscanini heard him singing Wagner on the radio and was able to contact Peerce through a mutual friend to see if he would like to audition for him. Toscanini found him to be the tenor he had sought to sing operatic and choral works with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. The recordings made during, or following, the NBC broadcasts are among the outstanding musical legacies of the mid-20th century. Toscanini was reportedly pleased with Peerce's professionalism, as well as his musical talents and his unusually native-sounding pronunciation of Italian; many have said that Peerce was Toscanini's "favorite tenor" during the Maestro's 17 years at NBC. Peerce recalled that Toscanini never lost his temper with him the way he famously did with other musicians, even though Peerce believed he had the right to, on a few occasions. Peerce first sang publicly with Toscanini on February 6, 1938, in Carnegie Hall in an NBC broadcast performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; the soloists also included soprano Vina Bovy, mezzo-soprano Kerstin Thorborg, and bass Ezio Pinza.

Peerce joined the roster of principal tenors at the Philadelphia La Scala Opera Company (PLSOC) in 1938. He made his professional opera debut with the company on December 10 of that year as the Duke of Mantua in Verdi's Rigoletto with Robert Weede in the title role and Fritz Mahler conducting. He also sang Alfredo in La traviata with Annunciata Garrotto as Violetta and Weede as Germont during the company's 1938-1939 season. Peerce sang in several more performance with the PLSOC through 1941, singing Pinkerton in Puccini's Madama Butterfly with Elda Ercole as Cio-Cio-San, and reprising the roles of the Duke and Alfredo a number of times.

In November 1939, Peerce performed his first solo recital in New York City. He made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera on November 29, 1941, singing Alfredo in Verdi's La traviata. He sang also the parts of Cavaradossi in Puccini's Tosca, Rodolfo in La bohème, and in Gounod's Faust. He was hailed by critics as the "All-American successor to the 'greats' of opera's almost extinct 'Golden Age'."

In December 1943, Peerce appeared in the OWI film Hymn of the Nations with Toscanini, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, and the Westminster Choir in a performance of Verdi's then seldom-heard cantata. Filmed in NBC Studio 8-H, the soundtrack of the performance of Hymn of the Nations has been issued on LP and CD by RCA Victor, and the entire film has been released on video-cassette and DVD.

During the 1950s Peerce performed regularly as a featured soloist before audiences of over 14,000 guests under the conductor Alfredo Antonini at the Lewisohn Stadium in New York City. These Italian Night open-air concerts featured the New York Philharmonic and the Lewisohn Stadium Orchestra along with such operatic luminaries as Richard Tucker, Robert Merrill, and Eileen Farrell.

In 1956 Peerce made a sensation in Moscow as a musical "cultural exchange" ambassador, being the first American to sing with the famed Bolshoi Opera. He remained on the roster of the Metropolitan until 1966, appearing again in 1966-1967. He also taught a master class. In 1971 he made his Broadway debut as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof.

He continued to make occasional appearances until his retirement in 1982, remaining in fine voice. His last concert was on May 2, 1982, as the guest artist with the Beth Abraham Youth Chorale in Dayton, Ohio.

Recordings
Peerce's first recordings were made in 1931-1932, as a vocalist with New York area dance bands, using the names "Jack Pearl" and "Pinky Pearl." Several of these were with the Jack Berger Orchestra, with whom he was appearing at the Hotel Astor. They include popular hits of the day such as "Snuggled on Your Shoulder" and "Dancing on the Ceiling," and were issued on numerous smaller labels including Crown, Perfect, Banner and Melotone.

Peerce recorded almost exclusively for RCA Victor as a "Red Seal" artist from the late 1930s to the early 1960s. Among his first RCA Victor recordings were as a featured soloist in Nathaniel Shilkret's 1939 tribute album to Victor Herbert. Peerce had been the tenor soloist in Toscanini's 1938 broadcast concert of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which was rejected for commercial release by Toscanini and RCA Victor; it wasn't until 1952 that Toscanini approved a studio recording of that symphony (with Peerce as tenor soloist) for release.

Peerce also sang in Toscanini's 1944 performance/broadcast of Beethoven's Fidelio with Rose Bampton, followed by the complete performances of Verdi's La traviata, Puccini's La bohème (both with Licia Albanese), and Verdi's Un ballo in maschera (with Herva Nelli), all eventually released by RCA Victor on LP and CD. Peerce did not sing in Toscanini's broadcasts of Verdi's Otello, Aida, or Falstaff; he was offered the tenor parts in the latter two but declined, believing his voice was not right for those roles. He also sang in the Madison Square Garden concert in 1944, which featured the final act of Rigoletto with Leonard Warren, Zinka Milanov, and Toscanini conducting the combined New York Philharmonic and NBC Symphony Orchestra; this performance was recorded and also released by RCA Victor on LP and CD. In 1952, he participated in Toscanini's only studio recording of the Beethoven Ninth Symphony, which the Maestro finally approved for release by RCA Victor.

Among the operas Peerce recorded commercially for RCA Victor were Verdi's Rigoletto in 1950 with Leonard Warren singing the title role, Erna Berger, and Nan Merriman, Bizet's Carmen in 1951 with Risë Stevens in the title role, Licia Albanese, and Robert Merrill, and also Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in 1957 with Roberta Peters, Philip Maero, and Giorgio Tozzi and Ariadne auf Naxos, with Leonie Rysanek, Sena Jurinac, Roberta Peters, and Walter Berry, conducted also by Erich Leinsdorf. Several opera excerpt albums with Peerce were released by RCA Victor as well including Samson et Dalila with Risë Stevens and Madama Butterfly with Licia Albanese. Many broadcasts of performances from the Metropolitan opera and other houses with Peerce have been released on LP and CD as well. Peerce later recorded several operas and oratorios for Vanguard Records, a good majority of them Handelian.

For Westminster Records in 1961, Peerce again recorded Fidelio opposite Sena Jurinac and Beethoven's oratorio Christ on the Mount of Olives with Maria Stader; for Columbia Records he sang the title role in a 1963 recording of selections from Sigmund Romberg's The Student Prince, opposite Roberta Peters, and also featuring Giorgio Tozzi. Peerce's final religious, pop, and recital albums from the late 1960s through 1980 were released by Vanguard.

Peerce's best-selling record was his 1945 RCA Victor recording of "Bluebird of Happiness" (music by Sandor Harmati, lyrics by Edward Heyman and Harry Parr-Davies). It became his "signature tune" and he recorded it at least three times for RCA Victor. As of the late 1970s, it remained among the all-time best selling recordings by opera and concert singers. According to Peerce and his collaborator in his memoirs, Bluebird was second in sales only to Enrico Caruso's 1918 recording of George M. Cohan's "Over There". Estimated sales of the Caruso recording by discographer John R. Bolig indicate, however, that the 1918 disc was not among the top-selling operatic recordings of the Victor Talking Machine Company. Peerce titled his 1976 autobiography The Bluebird of Happiness: The Memoirs of Jan Peerce.

Recordings of complete operas

 * Beethoven, Fidelio, Toscanini/Steber/Bampton/Peerce/Janssen/Belarsky, 1944, NBC Studio 8H, New York, Dec 10 and 17, RCA
 * Beethoven, Fidelio, Knappertsbusch/Stader/Jurinac/Peerce/Neidlinger/Ernster, 1961, Westminster
 * Bizet, Carmen, Reiner/Albanese-L/Stevens/Peerce/Merrill, 1951, RCA
 * Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor, Leinsdorf/Peters-R/Peerce/Maero/Tozzi, 1957, RCA
 * Gounod, Faust, Monteux/los Ángeles/Miller-Mi/Peerce/Merrill/Siepi, 1955, live in New York, Melodram
 * Mozart, Don Giovanni, Böhm/Steber/della Casa/Peters-R/Peerce/Corena/Siepi, 1957, live in New York, Andromeda
 * Puccini, La Bohème, Toscanini/Albanese-L/McKnight/Peerce/Valentino, 1946, NBC Studio 8H, New York, Feb 3 and 10, RCA
 * Puccini, Madama Butterfly, Ormandy/Steber/Carré/Peerce/Bonelli, 1948, live in Los Angeles, VAI
 * Romberg, The Student Prince, Allers/Peters-R/Peerce, 1963, Columbia Masterworks
 * Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos, Leinsdorf/Rysanek/Peters-R/Jurinac/Peerce, 1958, Decca
 * Verdi, Un ballo in maschera, Walter/Milanov/Greer/Thorborg/Peerce/Warren, 1944, live in New York, Jan 15, Myto
 * Verdi, Un ballo in maschera, Toscanini/Nelli/Haskins/Turner/Peerce/Merrill, 1954, Carnegie Hall, Jan 17 and 24 and June 3, RCA
 * Verdi, Un ballo in maschera, Mitropoulos/Milanov/Peters-R/Anderson-M/Peerce/Merrill, 1955, live in New York, Sony
 * Verdi, Rigoletto, Cellini/Berger/Peerce/Warren, 1950, RCA
 * Verdi, La traviata, Toscanini/Albanese-L/Peerce/Merrill, 1946, NBC Studio 8H, New York, Dec 1 and 8, RCA

Film appearances
Peerce was cast in a number of films including Something in the Wind, in which he played Tony the jailer. In this 1947 role, Peerce sang the Miserere from Il trovatore in a duet with his jailed charge, the film's star, Deanna Durbin. This performance is available on DVD. In 1953 he was heard (but not seen) as the voice of the tenor-character Gregory Lawrence in “Tonight We Sing,” a film based upon the life of Sol Hurok. In 1969, his son Larry Peerce cast his father and his uncles Max and Sender Peerce for a scene in “Goodbye Columbus,” which the younger Peerce directed for Paramount Pictures.

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/surfacemount closeup

Surface-mount closeup
Self nomination. A closeup photograph of a printed circuit, showing various kinds of surface-mount technology. Used on the article surface-mount technology. The angled view allows us to better see the heights of the various components, but unfortunately introduces a (hopefully acceptable) limited depth of field - John Fader 22:26, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Weak support. While not technically perfect, I like this photo, especially the reddish tint. J OHN C OLLISON [ Ludraman] 22:34, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. Shows the surface mounted components very nicely -- Chris 73 Talk 00:10, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment. Maybe it would be interesting to have a version where the components are described with text on the image itself, would be quite illustrative. -- [[User:Solitude|Solitude\talk]] 08:15, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)
 * Good idea. I added a glowy annotated version to the image page.  I'd welcome comments as to how this might be improved. - John Fader
 * Neutral I like the idea, color and composition but I don'lt like that the top of the picture gets blurry. I can imagine that it's difficult to take this sort of picture perfectly. Maybe it just looks blury when I look at the big version... [[User:BrokenSegue|BrokenSegue]] 02:04, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose. I don't like the blurry bit either, although I agree that the rest of the photo is quite nice. Enochlau 01:56, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. It'd be nice if the out-of-focus area had a bottom counterpart, but this is a good picture anyway. Rhobite 05:38, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. Nice and something different - and a very detailed description too. -- Solipsist 07:48, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Weak support... The depth of field issue might be solved a little bit by getting a little further away and using a zoom. Sometimes a little fuzziness can be good though (see Image:Soda bubbles macro.jpg). A very illustrative and interesting photograph nonetheless. Matthewcieplak 02:21, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The light and the field of depth are not in the featured area. Still great for an article though. Janderk 23:57, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose. --ScottyBoy900Q ∞ 22:18, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. --Fir0002 04:33, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. Fredrik | talk 16:59, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Not sharp enough as a still photo for FP inclusion. - Bevo 16:43, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I've seen sharper macro photography. ed g2s  •  talk  17:54, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Not promoted. +8/-5 assumed support vote from nominator. (+7.5/-4.5 counting "weak" votes as halves). ed g2s  •  talk  17:54, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)


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Brooks Adams

Peter Chardon Brooks Adams (June 24, 1848 – February 13, 1927) was an American attorney, historian, political scientist and a critic of capitalism.

Early life and education
Adams was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, on June 24, 1848, son of Charles Francis Adams and Abigail Brown Brooks. He attended schools in the United States and in Europe.

Adams was a great-grandson of Founding Father and President John Adams, a grandson of President John Quincy Adams, the youngest son of U.S. diplomat Charles Francis Adams, and brother to Charles Francis Adams Jr. and Henry Adams. He was a philosopher, historian, and novelist, whose theories of history were influenced by his work. His maternal grandfather was Peter Chardon Brooks, the wealthiest man in Boston at the time of his death.

He graduated from Harvard University in 1870 and studied at Harvard Law School in 1870 and 1871. Adams was secretary to his father in Geneva, in 1872, where the latter was an arbitrator upon the Alabama claims, under the "Treaty of Washington." He was admitted to the bar in 1873, practiced law in Boston until 1881, and then devoted himself to literary work.

Social theories
Adams believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in predictable cycles. First, masses of people draw together in large population centers and engage in commercial activities. As their desire for wealth grows, they discard spiritual and creative values. Their greed leads to distrust and dishonesty, and eventually the society crumbles when a new, more economically energetic society takes its place.

In The Law of Civilization and Decay (1896), Adams noted that as new population centers emerged in the west, centers of world trade shifted from Constantinople to Venice to Amsterdam to London. This work has been compared to the later, longer works Decline of the West (1918) by Oswald Spengler and A Study of History (1934–1961) by Arnold Toynbee.

"In proportion as movement accelerates societies consolidate, and as societies consolidate they pass through a profound intellectual change. Energy ceases to find vent through the imagination and takes the form of capital; hence as civilizations advance, the imaginative temperament tends to disappear, while the economic instinct is fostered and thus substantially new varieties of men come to possess the world.

Nothing so portentous overhangs humanity as this mysterious and relentless acceleration of movement, which changes methods of competition and alters paths of trade; for by it countless millions of men and women are foredoomed to happiness or misery as certainly as the beasts and trees, which have flourished in the wilderness, are destined to vanish when the soil is subdued by man.

The Romans amassed the treasure by which they administered their Empire, through the plunder and enslavement of the world. The Empire cemented by that treasure crumbled when adverse exchanges carried the bullion of Italy to the shore of the Bosphorus. An accelerated movement among the semi-barbarians of the West caused the agony of the Crusades, amidst which Constantinople fell as the Italian cities rose; while Venice and Genoa, and with them the whole Arabic civilization, shriveled when Portugal established direct communication with Hindoostan.

The opening of the ocean as a highroad precipitated the Reformation and built up Antwerp, while in the end it ruined Spain; and finally the last great quickening of the age of steam, which centralized the world at London, bathed the earth in blood from the Mississippi to the Ganges. Thus religions are preached and are forgotten, empires rise and fall, philosophies are born and die, art and poetry bloom and fade, as societies pass from the disintegration wherein imagination kindles to the consolidation whose pressure ends in death." —The Law of Civilization and Decay (1896)

Adams predicted in America's Economic Supremacy (1900) that an "Anglo-Saxon alliance" would arise in opposition to China and that New York City would become the center of world trade.

Personal life
In 1889, Adams married Evelyn Davis, the daughter of Admiral Charles Henry Davis. They did not have children. Evelyn Davis's sister Anna was the wife of Henry Cabot Lodge. Her sister Louisa was the wife of John Dandridge Henley Luce, the son of Stephen Luce.

Brooks Adams hired Wilhelmina Harris as social secretary for himself and his wife in 1920. Harris lived with and worked for them until both Brooks and Evelyn died.

Recognition
He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1918.

Legacy
Brooks Adams was the last Adams to live at the family home, Peacefield, in Quincy, Massachusetts. After Adams's death, in accordance with his wishes, the house became a museum. It was first run through the family and then, later, by the National Park Service. Peacefield is now part of the Adams National Historical Park.

Works

 * The Emancipation of Massachusetts: The Dream and the Reality, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919 [1st Pub. 1887].
 * The Gold Standard: An Historical Study, Alfred Mudge & Son, 1894.
 * The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History, The Macmillan Company, 1895.
 * America's Economic Supremacy, The Macmillan Co., 1900.
 * The New Empire, The Macmillan Company, 1902.
 * Railways as Public Agents: A Study in Sovereignty, Boston, 1910.
 * Theory of Social Revolutions, The Macmillan Company, 1913.

Essays

 * "The Spanish War and the Equilibrium of the World," The Forum 25 (6), August 1898.
 * "The New Struggle for Life Among Nations," McClure's Magazine 12 (6), April 1899.
 * "England's Decadence in the West Indies," The Forum, June 1899.
 * "War and Economic Competition," Scribner's 31 (3), March 1902.
 * "John Hay," McClure's Magazine 19 (2), June 1902.
 * "Legal Supervision of the Transportation Tax," The North American Review, September 1904.
 * "Nature of Law: Methods and Aim of Legal Education." In: Centralization and the Law: Scientific Legal Education. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1906.
 * "Law Under Inequality: Monopoly." In: Centralization and the Law: Scientific Legal Education. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1906.
 * "A Problem in Civilization," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. CVI, 1910.
 * "The Collapse of Capitalistic Government," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. CXI, 1913.

Other

 * Henry Adams, The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma, with an introduction by Brooks Adams. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1919.

Books and book chapters

 * Anderson, Thornton. Brooks Adams, Constructive Conservative, Cornell University Press, 1951.
 * Beringause, Arthur F. Brooks Adams: A Biography, Knopf, 1955.
 * Brands, H. W. "Brooks Adams: Marx for Imperialists," in The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
 * Donovan, Timothy Paul. Henry Adams and Brooks Adams; the Education of Two American Historians, University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.

Academic journals

 * Aaron, Daniel. The Unusable Man: An Essay on the Mind of Brooks Adams, The New England Quarterly 21 (1), March 1948.
 * Barnes, Harry Elmer. Brooks Adams on World Utopia, Current History, University of California Press, 1944.
 * Beisner, Robert L. "Brooks Adams and Charles Francis Adams, Jr.: Historians of Massachusetts," The New England Quarterly 35 (1), March 1962.
 * Carson, Mina J. The Evolution of Brooks Adams, Biography, University of Hawaii Press, 1983.
 * Harris, Wilhelmina S. The Brooks Adams I Knew, Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. 80, 1968.
 * Hirschfield, Charles. Brooks Adams and American Nationalism, American Historical Review, Oxford University Press, 1964.
 * Madison, Charles A. "Brooks Adams: Jeremian Critic of Capitalism," The Antioch Review 4 (3), Autumn, 1944.
 * Mallan, John P. "Roosevelt, Brooks Adams, and Lea: The Warrior Critique of the Business Civilization," American Quarterly 8 (3), Autumn 1956.
 * Marotta, Gary. "The Economics of American Empire: The View of Brooks Adams and Charles Arthur Conant," The American Economist 19 (2), Fall 1975.
 * Nagel, Paul C. "Brooks Adams after Half a Century," Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. 90, 1978.
 * Tonsor, Stephen. "Adams, Brooks," First Principles, June 2012.
 * Williams, William A., Brooks Adams and American Expansion, The New England Quarterly, 25 (2), 1952.

Academic theses

 * Whiting, John. The Economics of Human Energy in Brooks Adams, Ezra Pound, and Robert Theobald, 1971.

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Thomas Fitzgerald

Tom Fitzgerald or Thomas Fitzgerald, Thomas FitzGerald may refer to:

 * Tom Fitzgerald (economist) (1918–1993), Australian, delivered 1990 Boyer Lectures
 * Tom Fitzgerald (handballer) (born 1966), American handball player
 * Tom Fitzgerald (soccer) (1951–2004), American soccer coach from Florida
 * Tom Fitzgerald (ice hockey) (born 1968), retired ice hockey player for the Boston Bruins and other teams
 * Tom Fitzgerald (journalist) (1912–1983), American newspaper journalist for The Boston Globe'
 * Tom Fitzgerald (reporter), American television newscaster
 * Tom Fitzgerald (Irish politician) (1939–2013), Irish Fianna Fáil politician, senator 1981–1982, 1987–2002
 * Tom Fitzgerald, in The Great Brain children's fictional series
 * Thom Fitzgerald (born 1968), American-Canadian film director
 * Thomas Fitzgerald (American politician) (1796–1855), judge and state legislator in both Indiana and Michigan, and U.S. Senator from Michigan
 * Thomas FitzMaurice FitzGerald (1175–1213)
 * Thomas FitzGerald, 2nd Earl of Kildare (died 1328), Lord Justice of Ireland
 * Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Kildare (c. 1421–1477), Lord Chancellor of Ireland
 * Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (1513–1537), also known as Silken Thomas
 * Thomas FitzGerald, 2nd Baron Desmond (c. 1260–1298), Lord Justice of Ireland
 * Thomas FitzGerald, 3rd Baron Desmond (1290–1307)
 * Thomas FitzGerald, 5th Earl of Desmond (c. 1386–1420), subject of a poem by Thomas Moore
 * Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond (died 1467/68), Lord Deputy of Ireland
 * Thomas FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Desmond (1454–1534)
 * Thomas FitzGerald (County Louth politician) (died 1834), Irish politician and slave trader
 * Thomas FitzGerald, Earl of Offaly (1974–1997), only son of Maurice FitzGerald, 9th Duke of Leinster
 * Thomas Henry Fitzgerald (1824–1888), pioneer in sugar cane farming and politics in the early days of the colony of Queensland, Australia
 * Thomas Naghten Fitzgerald (1838–1908), Irish-born surgeon, active in Australia
 * Thomas R. Fitzgerald (judge) (1941–2015), Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court
 * Thomas R. Fitzgerald (Jesuit) (1922–2004), President of Fairfield University
 * Thomas W. Fitzgerald, American lawyer and judge from New York
 * Thomas Fitzgerald (composer), Australian composer, musical director, conductor and musician
 * Tommy Fitzgerald (born 1970), Irish soccer player

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Molopo River

The Molopo River (Moloporivier) is one of the main rivers in Southern Africa. It has a length of approximately 960 kilometres and a catchment area of 367,201 km2 with Botswana, Namibia and South Africa sharing roughly about a third of the basin each.

Course
Its source is in the Molopo Oog (Eye of Molopo in Afrikaans), and the river generally flows first to the west, and then to the southwest from its source. In its middle course the Molopo River forms a significant section of the border between Botswana and South Africa.

River flow is intermittent and when it flows, its water flows very slowly owing to a gradient of only 0.76 m/km. Floods are rare because the vast sandveld areas of the Kalahari Desert on the Namibian side of its basin absorb all water from the seasonal rains. In case of exceptionally heavy and continuous precipitation the flow discharges into the Orange River, which it meets downstream of Augrabies Falls National Park at -28.51722°N, 20.21278°W. It is believed that this last occurred more than 100 years ago.

Tributary
The main tributary of the Molopo is the Nossob, whose confluence is some 50 km south of Twee Rivieren, at 890 m above sea level. Other tributaries are:
 * Kuruman River
 * Phepane River
 * Ramatlabama River
 * Madebe River
 * Modimola River
 * Setlagoli River

Dams
The upper Molopo is part of the Crocodile (West) and Marico Water Management Area and the lower is included in the Lower Vaal Water Management Area. Major dams in the river are the Setumo Dam and the Disaneng Dam, both located near the city of Mafikeng, South Africa, which lies on the banks of the river.

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Talk:Friday Harbor, Washington

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I visited Friday Harbour 3 years ago. The official story for the name of the town is something along the lines that it was discovered by Christian missionaries on Good Friday (ala Easter Island). But the more apochraphal story and the one told to me by more than one native went like this:

Christian missionaries row up near shore and call out to the inhabitants that are there, "What BAY is this?" And the person calls back, "Friday."

I'm from Friday Harbor, and sorry to disappoint you...but there is no cool story regarding it's name, the man who first settled on the Island had the last name of Friday, hence Friday Harbor.

that map
That's a strange looking drawing of San Juan Island in the infobox! The one at San Juan Island looks true. --Hordaland (talk) 06:27, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Yes, I just noted that on the map's own talk page, and offered this screenshot from Google Maps as illustration of the reality. This map makes most of San Juan County appear to be a single land mass, and even at that seems to misrepresent the location of Friday Harbor vis-à-vis the water. --Haruo (talk) 18:12, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

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CSS Gaines

CSS Gaines was a wooden side wheel gunboat, weighing 863 tons, constructed by the Confederates at Mobile, Alabama, during 1861–62. The ship was hastily built with unseasoned wood, which was partially covered with 2-inch iron plating. Gaines resembled CSS Morgan except that she had high pressure boilers. Operating in the waters of Mobile Bay, under the command of Lieutenant John W. Bennett, CSN, she was heavily damaged during the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864. She was sinking as she left the battle and became grounded while still in 24 ft of water, within 500 yd of Fort Morgan. Two crewman died in the engagement, 3-4 were wounded, and 129 escaped to Mobile. Her hull may have been located in Mobile Bay in 1989, but the find has not been confirmed.

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User:Chris Brown/To do

 * Contact User:Eloquence about Infosecpedia because he is the appointed content partnership coordinator
 * Continue work on User:Chris_Brown/Interwiki_practice
 * Consider downloading database to do full analysis on Wikipedia for User:Chris_Brown/Interwiki_practice article
 * Fix up EBIOS
 * Add articles to category [Category:Risk_analysis_methodologies]
 * Review Risk Analysis (Category)

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Talk:University of Dundee

Dundee College of Education
There are a few articles that redlink Dundee College of Education. Was it merged into the University of Dundee (it's mentioned here), or into another institution? -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 18:13, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

 * Hi Finlay
 * Indirectly, sort of.
 * In 1987, Dundee College of Education "merged with the Northern College of Education based in Aberdeen. In 2001 the two campuses of the Northern College, in Aberdeen and Dundee, were merged into the University of Aberdeen and the University of Dundee respectively." So, yes it did merge with the University of Dundee, but indirectly ,via the Northern College of Education.  Quote from: https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/ad65d79b-7a63-3d8a-8325-d2728872069b
 * Cheers, Roberto RobertoFanfuli (talk) 16:28, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

My edits deleted on this page
Hello. I know that I am new here on Wikipedia, but I made a series of good faith edits of this page, including notable people who are alumni of the University of Dundee and who have their own Wikipedia pages already, plus one other alumna who I provided a citation for as requested via the chat.

All of these edits are now deleted. Why?

Thank you, Roberto RobertoFanfuli (talk) 16:30, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Apologies, that was my error - have already responded to you when I saw the message on your Talk page, and reverted it. Thanks for raising this, I'm very glad you did so that I had the opportunity to put it right. Tacyarg (talk) 16:53, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes indeed and thank you, Roberto RobertoFanfuli (talk) 17:02, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi everyone.
 * This is all cleared up now. Please ignore the above.
 * All the best RobertoFanfuli (talk) 17:00, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I see another editor has now removed Mariam Nanyunja Kiggundu on the grounds of non-notability. I'm sorry about that; on a quick look I thought she might be and was hoping that the Women in Red project might look her up. The other editor is following the write the article first guidance, however. just so that you are aware that RobertoFanfuli's edit was partly on the grounds of my support; not expecting reversion though as I know this is in line with WTAF. Tacyarg (talk) 17:33, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks @Tacyarg
 * The deletion is fine, I am here to learn and I have only just started here. Not least regarding Red Links and WTAF, both new to me and brought to my attention by including Mariam Kiggundu on this webpage of Wikipedia.  Thank you for following up.
 * All the best, Roberto. RobertoFanfuli (talk) 08:52, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

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Categories
Why is this template a member of both Category:Templates for unprintworthy redirects and Category:Templates for printworthy redirects? – Uanfala (talk) 14:52, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Because the template inherits those by virtue of transcluding its documentation, which has examples of both. I don't really see the point of "printworthiness" so I don't pay much attention to that. wbm1058 (talk) 18:00, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see. Those are both categorized at the bottom of the template documentation. Anyhow, the documentation explains how a misspelling in one context may be considered a correct spelling in another context, and thus be "printworthy". I think it's all too convoluted and confusing. – wbm1058 (talk) 18:07, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Template:R from tpyo listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:R from tpyo. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Nardog (talk) 22:47, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

Change display of correct form
If editor uses, then correct form should have link. Monniasza talk edits 08:31, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

 * I've definitely seen numerous cases where some knucklehead has "fixed" a link by changing it from Original misspelling to Original misspelling, if that's what you're talking about. A database report of this antipattern would be good. ―cobaltcigs 22:49, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

Does anything happen when a page with this template is linked from mainspace?
I'd think we'd want a bot to alert the linker that they may have made a typo, or at least add it to a database of links that could be fixed. {{u| Sdkb  }}  talk 03:36, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I tried to construct this query with Petscan, but I failed. You might ask at Request a query or a related forum to see if someone can write a quarry query for "mainspace pages that link to pages that transclude R from misspelling". – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:15, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Requested the other day here. {{u| Sdkb  }}  talk 20:17, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Related discussions: WP:Database reports/Linked misspellings (current) and especially its talk, WP:Bots/Requests for approval/Archive 2 (2006), Bots/Requests for approval/AntiRedirBot (2007), WP:Bot requests/Archive 50 (2012), WP:Typo Team/moss (2018). I also vaguely recall a tool for fixing such links semi-automatically, possibly part of WP:WikiProject Red Link Recovery despite the links being blue. Certes (talk) 11:00, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

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