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Elwy Yost

Elwy McMurran Yost, (July 10, 1925 – July 21, 2011) was a Canadian television host, best known for hosting CBC Television's weekday Passport to Adventure series from 1965 to 1967, TVOntario's weekday Magic Shadows, from 1974 until the mid-1980s, and Saturday Night at the Movies from 1974 to 1999.

Early life
Born in Weston, Ontario, he was the son of pickle manufacturer Elwy Honderich Yost and Annie Josephine McMurran. In his youth, the senior Yost would give his son a dime a week to go see a movie on condition that he'd then recount the plot. Yost graduated from the Weston Collegiate and Vocational School in 1943.

He began studies at the University of Toronto in 1943, and studied engineering but left in 1944, after failing his exams, and joined the Canadian Infantry in 1944. He was honorably discharged in September 1945. After graduating from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology in 1948, he worked variously in construction, at the Canadian National Exhibition, made an independent film with a classmate and acted in summerstock theatre. In 1951, he was working in the circulation department of the Toronto Star where he met his future wife, Lila Melby. In 1952 he acted in a small part in the movie Moulin Rouge, see IMDb. He also worked in the Avro Canada personnel department from 1953 until 1959 when he and most of the staff were laid off due to the cancellation of the Avro Arrow project. He then worked as an English and History teacher at Burnhamthorpe Collegiate Institute in Etobicoke, Ontario.

Career in television
Through his acting connections, Yost learned that CBC was looking for quiz show panelists. Yost auditioned and, through the 1960s, appeared intermittently on the CBC as a panelist on shows such as Live a Borrowed Life, The Superior Sex and Flashback. In the mid 1960s, he created and hosted CBC's Passport to Adventure (TV series), featuring classic movie serials, and also assisted in the founding of the Metropolitan Educational Television Authority (META).

In the late 1960s, he hosted CBC Radio show It's Debatable.

He joined the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (later TVOntario) in the early 1970s as a manager and, in 1974, was assisting with the establishment of its regional councils, when he was told OECA had acquired the broadcast rights to three Ingmar Bergman films and was asked if he had any ideas on how the station could air them in an educational context. Yost packaged the shows as Three Films in Search of God adding educational content in the form of interviews, introductions, and discussions, thus creating the model for what became Saturday Night at the Movies, which became the channel's longest-running, and one of its most popular, shows. Yost also developed Magic Shadows, which showed classic films in a serial format in half-hour early evening installments with introductions providing background and interesting details by Yost; the movie review show Rough Cuts; Talking Film and The Moviemakers. In 1979 he appeared in Ida Makes a Movie, the first of four television shorts that spawned The Kids of Degrassi Street in 1982 and by extension, the Degrassi media franchise.

The format of Saturday Night at the Movies was that of two movies, separated by in-depth interviews conducted by Yost. In the early years the interviews were with local film experts, but the show's producers took the opportunity to interview visiting actors when they had engagements in Toronto. As the show grew in popularity, funds were found to send Yost and a crew to Hollywood to arrange interviews with film personalities. The library includes interviews with the stars of classic films, character actors, directors, screenwriters, composers, film-editors, special-effects people, and sometimes even their children.

Some regular viewers started to plan their Saturday nights so that they could catch just the interview section if they had already seen that night's films. When Yost retired from TVOntario in 1999, a copy of the library of interviews was donated to the Motion Picture Academy.

His son, Graham Yost, is a screenwriter whose most famous credit was the hit 1994 film Speed. Speed was the final movie Yost hosted before retiring from Saturday Night at the Movies in 1999.

Yost wrote four books: Magic Moments from the Movies, Secret of the Lost Empire, Billy and the Bubbleship (also known as Mad Queen of Mordra) and White Shadows the latter being a mystery novel, published in 2003.

Death
Yost recovered from "a serious operation" he had in 2005, according to his wife, Lila. He died in West Vancouver, British Columbia on July 21, 2011, aged 86.

Honours
In 1999, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In the same year, he was awarded the Clyde Gilmour Award by the Toronto Film Critics Association.

In 2021, TVOntario aired Magic Shadows, Elwy Yost: A Life in Movies, a documentary by Karen Shopsowitz about Yost's life and influence.

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Talk:Alexander Pope

Untitled
I changed this: "He was the last major poet to write in traditional rhyming couplets; he developed the heroic couplet beyond that of any previous poet, and essentially exhausted its usefulness for later poets." There's room for disagreement about who's major, but I'd count Keats (Lamia) and Frost ("The Bear", "A Considerable Speck", "The Egg and the Machine", "The Onset", "The Tuft of Flowers"). I don't know whether the current version is true. Does anyone have any information on use of the heroic couplet before and after Pope? —JerryFriedman 20:08, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

140.180.165.138, thanks for your valuable additions today and a happy new year! Could you please try to formulate the opening sentence more neutrally and encyclopedically, though? Or attribute it, or something. I've provisionally tamed the POV (what about Blake?), but I'm sure you can do it better.--Bishonen | Talk 05:16, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Just a small change to point up the fact that Cibber replaced Theobald as the 'hero' of the Dunciad rather than simply being "added to the list of dunces". aldiboronti 17:48, 3 Jan 2005
 * Yep. Anybody wants to see fuller accounts of this, please compare newly refurbished articles The Dunciad and Colley Cibber. Thanks, aldiboronti!--Bishonen | Talk 19:14, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The notion that Pope was "educated mostly outside "normal" schools and colleges as a result of the penal laws that were in force at the time to uphold the status of the established Church of England." seems anachronistic - it would not have been unusual in that period to have not gone to school. Certainly a catholic family would have made education outside the school system more likely, but I am not sure this comment adds much. --AYArktos 10:57, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

It's not "anachronistic", it's completely accurate.--Folantin 07:05, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Date of birth
Hello, your article is very good and it helped me to write an essay for university about Pope. But in a German introduction to English Literature I found that his birthday was on the 22th May. So I need to change this. I would also like to add something about his interest into landscape gardening. (unsigned comment by user Daniela Wecker on 9 May)

That's not so sure. Other sites tell he was born on the 21st. Should see... (unsigned comment by IP 212.194.59.142 20 May)

when was his birthday?
anonymous edited this and other articles saying Pope was born on the 21st instead of the 22nd. I changed it back based on this source, among others. -Lethe | Talk 03:24, May 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * It is given as the 21st in the online version of Encyclopædia Britannica: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9060837, as well as the printed edition. I would think that in this case the modern Britannica is probably more reliable than the 1905 edition of The Life of Pope by Samuel Johnson, but I may be wrong. ~ Kalki 00:06, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

According to the definitive biography by Maynard Mack, Pope was born at 6.45 pm on May 21, 1688.--Folantin 11:46, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

I have the original copy of POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE, ESQ - THE LIFE OF THE AURTOR, BY DR. JOHNSON from 1830 and the first paragraph states:

 * "ALEXANDER POPE was born in London, May 22, 1688, of parents whose rank or station was never ascertained; we are informed that they were of "gentle blood;" that his father was of a family of which the Earl of Downe was the head; and that his mother was the daughter of William Turner, Esq. of York, who had likewise three sons, one of whom had the honour of being killed, and the other of dying, in the service of Charles the First: the third was made a general officer in Spain, from whom the sister inherited what sequestrations and forfeitures had left in the family.

How has this information been accurately discredited by later authors?I already forgot 18:54, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

The New Student's Reference Work was published annually in the 1910s by F. E. Compton and Company in Chicago, Illinois. wikisource The text below is an OCR text that has yet to be proofread.I already forgot 20:30, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

 * "Pope, Alexander, English poet, was born at London, May 21, 1688, his father being a Roman Catholic and a man of means. Although Pope's early education was irregular and unsystematic, his father retiring from business soon after the son's birth, his application to study must have been close, for even in his juvenile poems are traces of profound thought. In 1711 Pope published his Essay on Criticism, which placed him at once in the front rank of the literary men of his day; and in 1712 appeared the Rape of the Lock, the most imaginative of his poems. Soon after appeared his translation of Homer's Iliad, which brought a fortune of $30,000. (See HOMER). A translation of the Odyssey followed a few years later, and in 1728 he issued the third volume of The Dunciad. The Essay on Man, published in 1734, is a didactic poem, and, although almost wholly deficient in the imaginative quality, is a masterpiece of wit and versification. Pope's command of terse and smooth expression is at its highest here; and it has been well said that this poem contains more familiar quotations than any other poem of equal length in the English language. Pope died at Twickenham, near London, May 30, 1744, leaving behind him a literary fame that has suffered no eclipse in over a century and a half."

Connecticut, automobile pioneer
Looks like there was another notable person who went with this name. Quote "They have a lovely example: in 1915 the people of Hertford, Connecticut, erected a memorial to a local automobile pioneer called Alexander Pope (not the poet)."

Dissent
I'm sorry to be cranky, but this article is pretty insufficient for a poet as significant as Shakespeare or Wordsworth. As a poet, it's possible that no one in English matched him for technical skill. As a person, he has an extremely interesting life. As an historical person only is he less interesting than someone like Wordsworth. To have his Pastorals skipped over (see Augustan poetry), to miss out on what each of the Moral Epistles were, to not mention the imitations of Horace and Virgil, to make Rape of the Lock a quick mention, it all goes against my own interests. Unfortunately, it has been an age since I've read Maynard Mack's biography, but I surely hope that someone passing by this article with Mack fresh in his or her head, or someone with an interest in this article's state and has access to a U. library and can go read Mack (and Aubrey Williams's critical work on Pope), can incrementally build this up. I'd love to see Pope's article be a Featured Article, or at least FA quality. Geogre 4 July 2005 14:18 (UTC) (No, this is not on my list.)
 * Aye. It would make a nice excuse to visit the local library on a sunny Saturday afternoon!  --Ardonik.talk* 05:07, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

 * Yeah, I know it annoys me when I see an article on something I sort of know about, but not quite enough, that could really be improved. But you should do what you can to better it - a little goes a long way on these kinds of things, I find. john k 06:40, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Hello, agreeing with Geogre, I think this article should mention something of the Pope v. Curll lawsuit, which apparently is "a foundational case in English and American copyright law" (so says Mark Rose, in _Authors and Owners_, Harvard University Press, 1993, p.60)? There are 3 scholarly works on this by James McLaverty, and they sound very interesting, colorful, important, etc. See: James McLaverty, "The First Printing and Publication of Pope's Letters", Library 6th ser. 2 1980.

I've added a great deal of information to this article from Mack (though there's still much that could be in there: Lady Mary and Curll, for instance). Apologies to whoever wrote the "Politics" section; I've tried to incorporate it into the biography itself. Pope's politics aren't always clear-cut (he was a Catholic and he often had to keep his cards close to his chest, according to Mack). Hope these revisions help improve this article a bit. Pope deserves decent treatment. --Folantin 15:01, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

This article doesn't really give any idea of what Pope's poetry was like. It had, after all, a very marked character. Compare the excellent description of Donne's poetry in the Donne article. Beyond me to attempt anything, though. Seadowns (talk) 14:41, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Diana
Who is Diana? Her name is mentioned in the image but is linked to disambiguation page.

Clarified as of February 28. I redirected the link to Diana (mythology), the page on the Roman goddess. ~e.o.t.d~ 06:31, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Freemasons
Hi. I'd just like to query the link to Famous Freemasons at the foot of Pope's page. As far as I'm aware Pope was never a Freemason, and in fact they join the parade of dunces in The Dunciad. I've seen this assertion before and the Freemasons are notorious for gathering as many historical figures into their rolls as they can, with little or no evidence. I'd like to remove the link but I just thought I'd sound out opinion first.

I googled, but on at least the first few pages all the assertions that Pope was a freemason appear to be on masonic websites. I'd like better evidence than that.--Guinevere50 19:37, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

There is no verifiable evidence that Pope was a freemason. It is documented that he (or at least someone by his name) attended a meeting. That does not in fact mean he was a member of the freemasons. I am again removing the sentence in this article which proclaims Pope to be a Freemason until definitive evidence presents itself that he was.-Schlier22 (talk) 00:55, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

 * There is ample evidence that he was a freemason. In fact, there is an essay that is largely devoted to the subject.  Please read Alexander Pope and Freemasonry: A discursive essay.  I will revert this removal of information only once more before taking it to RfC.  Celarnor Talk to me  02:19, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Also, it should be noted that he is the author of The Universal Prayer, which is used by the freemasons. Celarnor Talk to me 02:25, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

 * If he was a freemason... How could he also be a practising Catholic? just curious. Alveolate (talk) 16:39, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

I believe the prerequisite for Freemasonry is that you believe in a divine architect of the universe, which one is up to the individual.--Septemberfourth476 (talk) 11:02, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

I am puzzled by the phrase, "Alexander Pope became a Freemason (a mortal sin in the Catholic Church)." Does this mean it was a mortal sin then, or it still is a mortal sin? Should there not be a citation for this, eg a Papal bull number? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alanobrien (talk • contribs) 10:48, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Final word on the matter
According to the definitive biography by Maynard Mack (Alexander Pope: A Life, Yale University Press, 1985 pages 437-440), Pope became a Freemason in 1730, eight years before membership was prohibited by the Catholic Church. The illustration on page 439 shows Pope's name on the membership list of the Goat Tavern Lodge. How important Pope's Freemasonry was to his work and how much room it should be given in a brief article like this is another matter. My guess is, not much. This article seems to have gone backwards over the last two years. I suggest anyone trying to revise it should use Mack rather than outdated 19th-century biographies that happen to be online. --Folantin (talk) 10:55, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

The papal bull prohibiting membership wasn't issued until 1738, Pope's name appears on 1723 list and a 1730 list. A photograph of the latter is included in Maynard Mack's definitive biography. SEMTEX85 (talk) 18:24, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

External link
Hi, I would like to add an external link to the World of Biography entry  to this article. Does anybody have any objections? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jameswatt (talk • contribs) 14 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Note: This user has added similar requests to link to biographies hosted on the same site to about 50 different articles. Although I believe that these requests were made in good faith, adding the links to all of the articles would be spamming. In addition, the biographies tend to be not very insightful and/or minimally informative, and the webpages contain Google AdSense links.
 * A fuller explanation of my own opinion on these links can be found here, if anyone wishes to read it.
 * Hbackman 23:19, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Characters and Observations Mystery?
I am hoping that someone will be able to flesh out my Pope-related article, Characters and Observations. It's about an anonymous handwritten manuscript of aphorisms discovered in the late 1920s. Pope probably owned it, since his name is on the cover, but I wonder if anyone since has determined if he actually wrote it? Thanks in advance. The Sanity Inspector 22:37, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

'most quoted'
I've spotted rather a serious contradiction: in the first paragraph of Samuel Johnson's Wikipedia entry, you'll find this claim: 'Dr Johnson is the most quoted English writer after Shakespeare'. It doesn't at all square with the assertion of this article that Pope 'is the third most frequently quoted writer in the English language, after Shakespeare and Tennyson.' Now it seems to me that 'Johnson' has a better source for this, because it is checkable (though I haven't bothered), whereas here we just have a book title and no page number. The mistake could merely be down to sloppy use of the word 'writer': perhaps 'poet' was meant in the Dictionary which this article cites. Can anyone look it up?

 * The 'most quoted' in this article refers to the most quoted in the Oxford dictionary of quotations. The article should probably change to say 'most quoted in the oxford dictionary of quotations', like the article for Tennyson does.-AlexCatlin (talk) 00:26, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

'' == Literary Legacy == I'm pretty sure that this section is plagiarized from the introduction to the Oxford edition of Pope's Major Works. I don't have it in front of me, and I don't mean that it is verbatim plagiarized. I simply mean that the content of this section seem strangely close to the language. If this is the case, please change the section or add references. strau345 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Strau345 (talk • contribs) 06:09, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

The Wikipedia page on Tennyson says Tennyson is the ninth-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, contradicting the Pope article. 99.157.72.34 (talk) 20:07, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

"citation needed"
The article begins with this clause in alleged need of a citation, "Alexander Pope is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the eighteenth century ..." I think this fact is abundantly clear to anyone with knowledge of the traditional English literary canon, so much so that a citation would be mere pedantry. As such I have removed the citation needed markup. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.193.20.152 (talk) 21:37, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

 * I believe any encyclopedic statement of fact requires a citation, regardless of how common knowledge of the fact is among certain groups.--68.222.26.206 (talk) 20:44, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Have a look at The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope. The inner cover reads "Alexander Pope was the greatest poet of his age and the dominant influence on eighteenth-century British poetry." Celarnor Talk to me  20:49, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

"Pastorals"
I just removed both links to the pastorals, because neither went to the right article, and the right article doesn't exist, as far as I could tell. The first went to a page on biblical pastorals, and the second to the literary genre of the pastoral, but neither to Pope's pastorals. If somebody can find the right article, or wants to write it, be my guest. AdjectiveAnimal (talk) 23:51, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Great article
This is really a high quality article from what I can tell. The only problem I think is that it is a bit on the short side, especially compared to a lot of the articles on Romantic/Transcendentalist poets. I'm hardly qualified to do it, but I do think this article could only get better if it were lengthened. I liked the way it was structured and worded, but it does read a LOT like a research paper, and I'm not sure if that's good or not. 68.2.55.131 (talk) 19:20, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

A. Pope in Pop Culture
I'd like to propose that we add a section to this article for references to Alexander Pope in popular culture. This is a common section on many Wikipedia entries and I think that it's valid here. The only reference I'm aware of comes from the film "The Da Vinci Code" which refers to him. Are there any reasons why it is not reasonable to add this section? (Fooglmog (talk) 00:46, 25 March 2009 (UTC))
 * The article already has a section on Pope's literary legacy. A list of cultural references would reveal nothing more about the article's subject. The article already makes it clear that Pope is a popular and influential poet, so the fact that his work has influenced popular culture is neither remarkable nor interesting. See Trivia sections and "In popular culture" articles for guidance. Ycdkwm (talk) 08:24, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

New files
Recently several new images of Alexander Pope (below) were uploaded. One was a higher res version of the lead image, which I've replaced. If you're interested in any of the others and think they would be a useful addition, please feel free to any of them. Dcoetzee 21:52, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Pope and Homer
This section is pretty much all garbled nonsense. It is, I believe, better to have none of it than all this ambiguous and misleading gobbledygook. If nobody raises any objections here, in a couple of days I'm going to remove it but for a couple of sentences.--Septemberfourth476 (talk) 02:11, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

I did it anyway.--Septemberfourth476 (talk) 02:48, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Good work. I've continued to try to improve the article by doing the following things:
 * Rearranged and renamed the sections so that they follow the rough chronology of his literary career
 * Deleted the long list of his works stuck in the middle of the article, as there is already a list of his major works, and the long list was unsourced and contained some entries which looked of questionable significance
 * Deleted many of the attempts at critical commentary in the sections on Pope's poems. It would be a good idea to give synopses of Pope's works, but simplistic statements about 'Pope's intentions' or the 'meaning' of the poems are worse than worthless.

(I will continue to work on this article in a few days, but will not have time before then.) Ycdkwm (talk) 08:16, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Great stuff! I'll give you a hand but also can't start properly til after the weekend.--Septemberfourth476 (talk) 10:12, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Heroic couplets
The article currently says: "At the time the poem was published, the heroic couplet style (in which it was written) was a moderately new genre of poetry". This seems an overstatement - the link tells us that it dates back to Chaucer, though certainly Dryden had made major use of it not that long before Pope. Anybody think this ought to be edited? Guinevere50 (talk) 00:24, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Copy and paste job
In an effort to clean up the article, I find that most of it is lifted whole in 2006 from The Works of Alexander Pope. The last two sections of the article are from elsewhere. Seems we must strip it and start again. Thoughts? Span (talk) 16:30, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

 * Re the above, I have taken out the sections of the article copied verbatim from The Iliad (Mobi Classics) MobileReference Ltd ISBN	1607784203 and  The Works of Alexander Pope MobileReference Ltd ISBN 1607785269. Span (talk) 23:43, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

 * You have this backwards. MobileReference is in the business of aggregating content from public domain and freely licensed sources, including large swathes of Wikipedia.  Unless you can establish conclusively that text in Wikipedia was first added after the first publication of any corresponding text in a MobileReference publication, you should assume it's the latter that was lifted from the former.
 * David Wilson (talk · cont) 03:24, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

 * Do you suggest reinstating all the text, then? Span (talk) 20:24, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

 * Certainly. The amount of text removed was massive and there haven't been a lot of subsequent edits, so it shouldn't take too much effort to restore the removed text, as long as it's done fairly soon.
 * David Wilson (talk · cont) 22:21, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Sure. I put up the question here nearly a month ago with no replies. I removed text that appeared verbatim in two books. I didn't know books were published solely using copied Wikipedia text. I have replaced the article copy. Span (talk) 22:30, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Congratulations...
...on totally butchering this article. This is the first time I've looked at it for three years and what a mess it is now. It wasn't a perfect article but it was a good basis for expansion. Whoever decided it would be a great idea to completely destroy the chronological order wants shooting. You've made me split my infinitives, it's that bad. --Folantin (talk) 19:50, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, and the criticism section is just great now. It was always a bit underdeveloped, but the way to improve it was not to remove Dr. Johnson (I can't believe I'm writing this), William Empson and even the negative - but exceptionally famous - comments of Matthew Arnold. Still, I understand that stuff is merely "historic" (i.e. before the "modern era" began in the 1980s) and at least we have some sterling criticism from contemporary geniuses to compensate. I reckon the current version of this article must have been written by the ghost of Colley Cibber dictating via the medium of Derek Acorah. Revenge at last!--Folantin (talk) 20:22, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Perhaps you could restore the content which has been deleted from the criticism section? I suppose it was probably removed because it was unsourced, but it shouldn't be too hard to find good references for the critical reception of Pope's work. Matthew Arnold's 'classic of our prose' comment is mentioned in the Literature Online source, so you wouldn't even need to find an additional reference for that. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 20:41, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Why does the English WP have so little to say about one of the greatest English poets? I never cease to be amazed at the disappearance or even non-appearance of editors capable of doing something useful with articles like this. Where is everyone? McCnut (talk) 02:51, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Quite frankly, I don't even know where to start when the paltry lead is preoccupied with the frequency with which he is quoted and fails to mention Pope was a--if not the--central literary figure of the Age of Reason. VєсrumЬа ►TALK 03:57, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I imagine the editors are too busy complaining to have time to make any descent contributions. Span (talk) 12:08, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

 * I think the where is everyone question is valid. There are very few editors working on lit related pages these days, and writing about lit is labor intensive. If and when I get a chance, I'll have a look here. If an earlier version is better than this, why not revert to the better version? It's easier to cite a well-written section than to undertake a full rewrite. Truthkeeper (talk) 13:36, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * @Spangle, unfortunately, yes. Arguing over the Soviet legacy takes up most of my Wikitime. In fairness, some of the most contentious topics are the best opportunities for research (race and intelligence being another such area of interest), so not a personal loss, but certainly a loss where the creation of content is concerned. Off topic, maybe I can start us off on an improved lead. VєсrumЬа ►TALK 15:17, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Request for account of dealings with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu from an IP editor
The following was added to the article:

"I don't know how to edit wikipedia or provide a well written article but I think there should be some mention of Pope's relationship with, and sussequent attacks of, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu somewhere in this article." --- 143.117.227.236 (Request transcribed without comment by Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:06, 7 May 2012 (UTC))

Correspondence
Nothing is said about the vast body of his correspondence, which he himself thought a most important part of his legacy, and indulged in a subterfuge to bring to attention in his lifetime. Can anyone fill it in? Seadowns (talk) 23:20, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Usage in popular culture
a short note, but perhaps there should be a "popular culture" section of the article.

For example, he is mentioned frequently in Bradburry's Fahrenheit 451, with significant meaning- if more examples could be found, it may be useful to add. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.249.227.170 (talk) 14:24, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Remove Irrelevant Data
I vote we remove anything that has nothing to do with Alexander Pope. The modern section about Marxism and Feminism is a raw attempt to name drop people from an ideology people may have no interest in. This isn't a blog to spew opinions.

Here is my objection. Let's take this piece that is written about Alexander Pope. Replace "Alexander Pope" or "Pope" with any historical figure. Obviously ANYONE in history can be criticized from a "theoretical perspectives such — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.250.101.49 (talk) 04:00, 13 September 2016 (UTC) It is you who need to make a convincing case for including rubbish into a public source than me for removing such non-sense. You are projecting--no one will read your blog so you resort to vandalizing history. People are interested in Alexander Pope, not your cult.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.250.101.49 (talk) 17:08, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't think you understand what literary criticism means. I suggest you leave this alone and continue this on your blog, since you're going to get blocked if you continue to remove content with such flimsy arguments. Drmies (talk) 04:45, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
 * What a pompous response by Drmies. I don't think you understand the difference between a blog and an Encyclopedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.88.26.66 (talk) 22:41, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

How shall we critique Genghis Khan from a "Marxist, Feminist, Post-Structuralist" perspective for all his raping? Allegedly he stated that "the greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters." Has Jane Doe written a paper about this and self published it to Amazon?

STOP VANDALIZING HISTORY.
 * Genghis Khan. clpo13(talk) 19:35, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

I agree the feminism etc section could be dispensed with. This sort of thing is not really literary criticism. There is so much else that needs to be said about Pope. Seadowns (talk) 23:28, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

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Removed spurious "Feminist Reception"
Section was mis-titled, only one short paragraph having to do with "feminist reception". A generic, unattributed painting of Pope was arbitrarily captioned with a thematically unconnected and unsourced feminist polemic. The rest of the section consisted of various criticisms dated from two years in the 1980s. That's not encyclopedic. The references, such as they were, came down to a couple of bare titles, without page references, and an online source without a link. If you want to write a serious section, then please consult Citing sources first. The content itself is not the issue, but when it's opinion, then it must be completely cited. Otherwise it gets deleted under NPOV policy.

The current "Reception" section is fine, so if you have more recent sources, then why not just add them to the section? You can even use the deleted citations but with proper sourcing. Also, if you want to include post-this-or-that criticism, then restore the deleted introductory paragraph, changed slightly to this: "More recent criticism of Pope focuses on the man, his circumstances and motivations, retroactively evoking hypothetical perspectives through the lenses of Marxism, feminism and other forms of post-structuralist thought." (Link your terms!) No separate section is necessary. — J M Rice (talk) 11:27, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Remove quote
I can't find any such statement anywhere in the cited book, so I suggest removing: "Pope is the second-most quoted writer in the English language, as per The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations," — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.163.100.67 (talk) 20:28, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

 * The internal link to the ODQ is immediately followed by a link that leads only to the home page of the OUP rather than to an old (5th) edition of the ODQ, as labeled. The ODQ page links only to an advertisement for the current edition (8th). But clearly the 8th supersedes the 5th, and an internal link supersedes an external link. Unable to confirm that the ODQ does say that "Pope is the second-most quoted", I concur with 71.163.100.67's suggestion. Instead: "Pope is frequently quoted in", which seems fairly plausible. Belastro (talk) 06:25, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Vast sum
This doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense. Is £31,500 considered "a vast sum" in 2020? I guess it would depend on the circumstances, and whom one asked, but generally speaking it would fall somewhat short of that description. So why would its 18th century equivalent be any different? --  Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  19:55, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Pope secured a revolutionary deal with the publisher Bernard Lintot, which earned him two hundred guineas (£210) a volume, equivalent to about £31,500 in 2020,[25] a vast sum at the time.

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right wing radicals like the Nazis
Yep, just recycling the convenient and mendacious myth that the Nazis were 'right wing'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by User: (talk • contribs)

The NSDAP, or Nazis if you prefer, were Socialists, thus creatures of the left. They were not 'right wing.' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.30.9.252 (talk) 00:24, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

discussed ad nauseaum in the talk page of nazism...

Georgefotiou (talk) 11:25, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Translation of name: ethnic/folkish
I think the description "ethnic observer" would be more accurate, instead of making up a new word like "folkish" whose origin has few to do with the Nazi use of the word "völkisch". That meaning was one of racial and ethnic definition and had nothing to do with "Volk" which translates into "people".

Perhaps there should be no direct translation of Völkischer Beobachter, since the root word Völkisch has no single equivalent in English. The translation currently used, Nationalist Observer, is inaccurate and misleading IMAO. It is telling that the Thule Society chose the name years before the Nazi acquired the paper. Völkisch is a word which became popular in the late 19th century, and it expressed an idea that combines the notions of race, ethnicity, tribe, nation and blood into a kind of mystical identity. Translating it as "Nationalist" or even "Racialist" falls short of the true meaning.ENScroggs (talk) 18:37, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

I agree that 'ethnic' is far more accurate than 'nationalist', which frankly is nonsensical, and that "folkish" is equally absurd (I have seen it but very rarely). Völkisch has no single equivalent in English, indeed, so best to just leave it in situ.

Translation from German
Advice for German-speakers: Be careful with "since", because it is not used exactly like seit. 213.78.96.182 12:22, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

NSDAP vs. Nazi
I find the use of the term "NSDAP" as opposed to Nazi Party misleading. It appears in this and other articles, and would seem to be more of a term used by those particularly knowledgeable in the field of the Third Reich than the general population. It has no resonance or meaning, certainly not as the word Nazi does. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.161.105.140 (talk) 04:11, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Uhm, NSDAP is the abbreviation for the official name of the Nazi party. WhisperToMe (talk) 00:17, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Alfred Rosenberg was its edictor until 1945?
Was Alfred Rosenberg the edictor of this newspaper between 1920 decade until 1945?Agre22 (talk) 19:02, 30 January 2010 (UTC)agre22

Should this page be protected?
I'm currently referring to this publication in a rather-bitter comment that compares Fox News, saying that F.N. is our 21st century counterpart to the V.B. I know that's a stretch, but I'd hate to see this page hacked. (I do not refer to Wikipedia, on purpose, preferring to keep some obscurity.)

I also risked translating the headline via Google Translate; the word "massnahmen", alone, translates to "measures". "Hitler" was the last word in the raw translation, and I deduced the full meaning from that. (I'm not yet ambitious enough to transcribe article text! I'm glad to be able to read probably most Fraktur, although Kurrentschrift is another matter.)

Best regards to all, Nikevich (talk) 13:34, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Fwiw, I just turned 75, so I experienced the horror of a terribly-deformed society of a basically quite-civilized people. I dearly hope the USA doesn't have to go through that.

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Comparison of Fox News Channel to the Völkischer Beobachter, Pravda, or any other totalitarian outlet of course violates NPOV. Some Americans consider FoX News Channel and the TEA Party groups the definitive expressions of democracy. The solution to propagandistic media in a free society is even more media.

I am fully aware of the old say that the Germans had Goethe and Johann Sebastian Bach but still ended up with Hitler. Well, the Japanese had Hokusai and Hiroshige yet still 'gave' the world the thug empire of the Tojo clique. The Russians had Dostoevsky and Tchaikovsky and still 'gave' the world Stalin. The Italians had Dante and Verdi, yet still came up with Mussolini. If you wish to fault the French for the vicious Vichy regime, then you can name Voltaire and Cezanne. Mark Twain and George Gershwin cannot inoculate America should it ever go sour. Perhaps there is a pseudo-populist terror fitting the culture of any country but as a rule it is distinct to that country. Pbrower2a (talk) 21:37, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

"I'm currently referring to this publication in a rather-bitter comment that compares Fox News, saying that F.N. is our 21st century counterpart to the V.B." - that is idiotic beyond words, ignorant and stupid. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.68.94.86 (talk) 15:43, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Falsely attributed, possibly fake quote
"There were large red posters in Prague announcing that today seven Czechs had been shot. I said to myself: if I had wanted to hang a poster for every seven Poles that were shot, then all the forests in Poland would not suffice in order to produce the paper necessary for such posters."

This quote attributed to Hans Frank about hanging Poles never actually appeared in the Voelkischer Beobachter as claimed in the article. So says John Connelly, "Nazis and Slavs: From Racial Theory to Racist Practice", Central European History (Cambridge University Press), Vol. 32, No. 1 (1999), pp. 1-33. Your Buddy Fred Lewis (talk) 02:54, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

September 2014
I will begin an expansion before the end of the year. Jonas Vinther (speak to me!) 14:59, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

"Constitutionally able"
"His accomplishments are everlasting!" Hitler said, he just was not constitutionally able to run a big business like a daily newspaper." I assume that "constitutionally able" refers to Eckart's physical constitution (i.e. his health), but the current wording makes it sound like his running a daily newspaper would have violated the German Constitution. A mistranslation? Jah77 (talk) 14:04, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

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Beans (Looney Tunes)

Beans the Cat is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Cartoons series of cartoons from 1935–1936. Beans was the third Warner Bros cartoon character star after Bosko and Buddy. He was voiced by Billy Bletcher (and occasionally by Tommy Bond). He was created by director Friz Freleng. The character was featured in nine cartoons made in 1935 and 1936.

History
When the cartoon animators/directors Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising left producer Leon Schlesinger in 1933, they took their main creation, Bosko, with them to Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. Desperate to maintain his contract with Warner Bros., Schlesinger founded an animation studio of his own, Leon Schlesinger Productions, to produce new Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons in-house and collected employees from Disney, Ub Iwerks, and other animation studios. Schlesinger set up his new studio on the Warner Bros. lot, on Sunset Boulevard. Among the staff Schlesinger had accrued was Tom Palmer, a former Disney animator who was appointed director of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. Schlesinger intended to effectively compete with Disney and Fleischer Studios, and he needed a continuing, star character to compete with Mickey Mouse and Betty Boop. Palmer introduced Buddy to be that character. Like Bosko and Mickey, Buddy had a girlfriend and a pet dog as supporting characters. The Buddy character, however, was not a success and Palmer was fired after completing two short films for Schlesinger. Following the departure of Palmer's replacement, Earl Duvall, Schlesinger ran short of directors (composer Bernard B. Brown even receiving credits for directing two Merrie Melodies shorts) and began to search for new directors to effectively keep the Schlesinger studio afloat. According to animation historian Michael Barrier, all the animated short films produced by the Schlesinger studio under its early directors lacked in cuteness and charm of any kind and were frequently incoherent. The shorts of this period had much smaller production budgets than their main competitor, Disney.

By 1934, Schlesinger had assigned directorial duties on the Merrie Melodies series to former Harman-Ising animator Friz Freleng, and the Looney Tunes series to Jack King. Schlesinger tasked the two with creating new characters to replace the sterile Buddy, and the two created a group of anthropomorphic animals to show to Schlesinger, which included Beans, a mischievous cat, Little Kitty, a female cat and Beans' love interest, twin puppies named Ham and Ex, Oliver Owl, a stubborn, spectacled owl, and Porky, a stuttering pig. Beans and his friends made their first appearances on I Haven't Got a Hat, a Merrie Melodies animated short directed by Freleng. The Merrie Melodies series lacked continuing characters by this point. But the film served as a showcase for the new characters, that were being groomed to replace Buddy as the stars of the Looney Tunes series. Schlesinger hoped that some of them would catch on with audiences and become bankable stars, and when the characters became popular with audiences, Buddy was discontinued and Beans became the star of Looney Tunes.

Beans' first "crack at stardom" was his first solo Looney Tunes film, A Cartoonist's Nightmare. The film was directed by Jack King, who would go on to direct a total of eight animated shorts featuring Beans before returning to Disney in 1936. Michael Barrier describes Beans under King's direction as resembling the Mickey Mouse version of the early 1930s. Their designs were certainly similar, with both characters having a white face and black body. But in characterization Beans was a pint-sized hero, resembling the plucky, boyish, and heroic Mickey featured in The Klondike Kid (1932) and The Mail Pilot (1933). Beans was voiced by Billy Bletcher and Tommy Bond.

Also in 1935, the studio gained a third full-time director, working in addition to Freleng and King. He was Tex Avery, a former inker for the short-lived Winkler Studio and the Universal Studio Cartoons. Avery had started working as an inker in 1928 and was promoted to an animator by 1930. While at Universal, he used to work under director Bill Nolan. Nolan used to delegate work to Avery, and Avery reportedly was the uncredited de facto director for a couple of films credited to Nolan. Avery had lost his job in Universal in April 1935, and was hired by Schlesinger a few months later. According to a later interview with Avery, Avery had falsely claimed that he was an experienced director when applying for the job: "'Hey, I'm a director.' Hell! I was no more a director than nothing, but with my loud mouth, I talked him [Schlesinger] into it." Avery's production unit received its own building within the studio lot. Avery got exclusive use of four animators for his unit: Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones, Sid Sutherland, and Virgil Ross. The first animated short film produced by this unit was Gold Diggers of '49 (1935), the third Looney Tunes film starring Beans. Beans was also featured in the film's title card, signifying that he was the intended protagonist. The film had a Western setting and cast Beans as a gold miner. Also featured in the film was a redesigned Porky Pig, making his second appearance.

Beans began appearing with characters from the cast of I Haven't Got a Hat, most frequently Porky Pig. However, after a number of Porky and Beans outings, it became clear that the character audiences were talking about was Beans' stuttering sidekick, Porky Pig, and after Westward Whoa, Beans was phased out and Porky replaced him as the star of Looney Tunes.

According to Barrier, Beans made one last appearance in Shanghaied Shipmates (1936), a short film directed by Jack King. It was to be the last animated short featuring either Beans or the rest of the cast of I Haven't Got a Hat, with the exception of Porky Pig. Barrier suggests that Leon Schlesinger may have been giving Avery a vote of confidence, when deciding to keep only Porky as a continuing character and to drop Beans. Porky had already been the main star in Avery's films, while Beans had continued to serve as the main star of King's films. After losing use of Beans, Jack King directed only three films starring Porky Pig. By April 1936, King was hired again by the Disney studio. He would go on to serve as a director in films starring Donald Duck.

In 1937 and 1938, Schlesinger's studio began creating various potential replacements for Beans, producing characters such as Gabby Goat, Petunia Pig, Daffy Duck and a little white hare. Daffy would become Porky's most enduring comic partner, while Gabby and Petunia both disappeared after a few shorts; the white hare would rarely ever appear with Porky again but would, over the course of a few years, evolve into Warner Bros.'s biggest star, Bugs Bunny.

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Neal Purvis and Robert Wade

Neal Purvis (born 9 September 1961) and Robert Wade (born 1962) are British screenwriters who co-wrote seven James Bond films, from 1999's The World Is Not Enough to 2021's No Time to Die, as well as other works.

Early lives
Purvis's father was a photographer, and as a teenager, Purvis was in a film club that focused on 1940s cinema.

Wade was born in Penarth and lived there until he was 11. His mother was an artist, and from an early age he wanted to be a writer and began making home-made films as a teenager.

They met each other while attending the University of Kent, when they were assigned as roommates. They began playing in a band together, which they continued to do for at least 20 years. Purvis left Kent and completed a BA in Film and Photo Arts. Wade graduated from Kent and moved to London where he was later joined by Purvis. They spent six years writing scripts together as well as ghost writing for music videos.

Films
Wade and Purvis' screenplay for Let Him Have It (1991) (based on the true story of Derek Bentley, a young man who gets caught up in street gangs in post war London and is later controversially hanged), displayed the writers' "outrage toward a system hell-bent on vengeance" and was called "first rate, no non-sense".

Barbara Broccoli, producer of the James Bond films, hired Wade and Purvis to write their first Bond script because she had seen their film Plunkett & Macleane (1999) and liked that it was "dark, witty, sexy and inventive". Purvis described their approach when they joined the Bond franchise as to "come in with ideas, things we've found in science magazines, on the internet, interesting weapons and what's happening in technology. Then we find a journey for Bond to go through." In their Bond collaborations, Wade generally does "all the verbiage at the beginning of the script." They created a novelisation of their Bond script for The World Is Not Enough in collaboration with Raymond Benson. Wade and Purvis also wrote a script for a Bond spin-off featuring the Die Another Day character Jinx (Halle Berry), which was attached to director Stephen Frears, but cancelled by MGM because of budget concerns and "creative differences".

Their 2003 Bond parody, Johnny English, received generally unfavorable reviews from critics, receiving a 33% "rotten" rating at the review site Rotten Tomatoes. However, the film earned $160.5 million in its global box office receipts. A sequel, Johnny English Reborn, based upon their characters but written by Hamish McColl, was released in 2011.

Purvis and Wade wrote and produced Return to Sender (also known as Convicted), which was described as a "gripping tale" of a man "fighting to prevent a miscarriage of justice". They had originally written the script while doing research for their first film 14 years earlier.

In 2005, they co-authored the bio-pic Stoned (also known as The Wild and Wycked World of Brian Jones) about the last days of the life of The Rolling Stones co-founder, Brian Jones, which they based on an account from a builder on the farm where Jones died, claiming that Jones's death was not accidental as recorded by the coroner. The film was criticised for "fail[ing] to convey what mattered about Jones artistically, what he contributed to music, why we should feel more than pity."

When Daniel Craig was signed on as the new Bond, Wade described their approach to screenwriting thus: "When you have an actor you play to his strengths ... He's got this great toughness to him but not an unthinking toughness. I think that's where the films will need to go." Their first work for Craig as Bond, Casino Royale, was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and received a 4/4 review from Roger Ebert, who stated that the film "has the answers to all my complaints about the forty-five-year-old James Bond series, and some I hadn't even thought of." However, their followup Quantum of Solace, which was not based on any Ian Fleming work, was criticized because while having "the right ingredients: plenty of car, plane or boat chases ... spooks, vendettas, and turncoats", it lacked the "magic, and a decent plot."

Their screenplay for Skyfall, which they co-wrote with John Logan, was described by Frank DiGiacomo of Movieline as being "very wily" for having Bond experience a mid-life crisis. In 2012, it was announced that "after a tremendous run" with the Bond franchise, Wade and Purvis would not be involved in the 24th Bond film, which would be solo written by Logan. However, on 27 June 2014, it was announced that they were being brought on to polish the screenplay for the next film.

On 10 March 2017 it was reported that they were approached to write the script for No Time to Die. In July 2017, it was initially reported they would write the script, but in May 2018, EON announced that director Danny Boyle was instead working with his regular collaborator John Hodge on a new script. In September 2018, following Boyle's departure from the project, Purvis and Wade were re-hired to write a new script.

Family life
Wade and his wife live in West Sussex and have four children.

Filmography

 * Let Him Have It (1991)
 * An American Werewolf in Paris (1997) (Uncredited)
 * Plunkett & Macleane (1999)
 * The World Is Not Enough (1999)
 * Die Another Day (2002)
 * Johnny English (2003)
 * Return to Sender (2004)
 * Stoned (2005) (Also co-producers)
 * Casino Royale (2006) (Also co-producers)
 * Quantum of Solace (2008)
 * Skyfall (2012)
 * Spectre (2015)
 * SS-GB (2017) (Also executive producers)
 * No Time to Die (2021)

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Former towns in the U.S. state of Massachusetts that no longer function as town governments.

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Sheffield Arena

Sheffield Arena, known for sponsorship purposes as Utilita Arena Sheffield, is a multi-purpose arena located in Sheffield, England. It is situated near Meadowhall and lies between Sheffield city centre and Rotherham town centre.

Opened in 1991, it is used for concerts and sporting events, and is also home to the Sheffield Steelers ice hockey club. Attendance for all events at the venue has totalled around 14 million since its opening. It has a maximum capacity of 13,600.

History
Constructed at a cost of £34 million, it was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 30 May 1991 as Sheffield Arena. The first concert took place that evening, Paul Simon playing as part of his "Born at the Right Time" tour. The arena then took on the role of Gymnastics Hall for the 1991 World Student Games which were held in the city and which prompted the investment in, and development of, both the arena and nearby Don Valley Stadium.

Since the venue opened in 1991 the arena has averaged 122 shows a year with over 650,000 customers passing through the doors each year.

The Arena was the location of the infamous Labour Party Sheffield Rally during the 1992 United Kingdom general election which was widely criticised for being prematurely triumphalist.

The arena was renamed Hallam FM Arena in 2002, but returned to its original name from 1 November 2007. On 9 August 2010, Sheffield Arena was officially renamed Motorpoint Arena Sheffield, after the Derby based car sales company invested £1 million to rename the venue. In August 2015 the arena was once again rebranded as Sheffield Arena, however in September 2017 nearby Doncaster Sheffield Airport began sponsoring the arena giving it a rebrand, FlyDSA Arena. In 2021, Utilita Energy took over sponsorship of the arena.

The arena underwent a major renovation installing a new roof, doors, seats, lighting, catering and toilet facilities in July 2013.

In 2013 the arena was ranked as the 18th most popular arena in the world and this was in the year that the building was closed for over 2 months to enable the multi-million pound refurbishment of the venue. More recently, in 2019, Pollstar ranked the arena at 65th worldwide and 7th in the UK as part of their 'Top 200 Arena Venues' with 311,125 tickets sold, up 5 places from 70th in 2018.

COVID-19 pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, the car park of the arena was used as a drive-through phlebotomy service operated by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the first of its kind in the country. This allowed patients to attend for routine blood tests from within the isolation of their cars, reducing the requirement for patients to attend GPs or hospital clinics. The drive-through phlebotomy service opened on 8 April 2020 for patients with underlying health conditions, and was expanded to become available to all patients in the Sheffield area on 27 April. The drive-through was deemed such a success that it was turned into a permanent service, relocating first to a warehouse next to the Sheffield Parkway before settling into a permanent site next to the Northern General Hospital after the end of the pandemic.

To support the rollout of the local COVID-19 vaccination campaign, the Sheffield NHS Vaccination Centre opened at the arena on 25 January 2021, taking up the space previously occupied by the drive-through phlebotomy clinic before its relocation. The vaccination centre remained open until 26 July, when it was relocated to the former NHS Blood and Transplant building next to the Northern General Hospital to allow the arena to reopen for its usual events.

In April 2020, the interior space of the arena was used as a storage location for 1,800 additional hospital beds which were being delivered to hospitals in Sheffield to support pandemic operations. Photographs of the hospital beds inside the arena later leaked onto social media, and the local NHS trust issued a statement denying rumours that the arena was going to be repurposed as a Nightingale temporary hospital. In August 2020, an ophthalmology clinic was opened inside the arena featuring eye imaging suites, remaining in operation until the arena reopened for normal usage after the pandemic.

Music

Sheffield's own Arctic Monkey's broke the Arena ticket sales records when they instantly sold out over 13,600 tickets for their date are the arena in November 2013. The previous record of 13,300 was held by fellow Sheffield band Pulp in December 2012.

The venue's record attendance for a seated music concert is currently held by Little Mix when 12,485 customers attended their Get Weird Tour Saturday 23 April 2016. The record for most shows in Sheffield Arena is held by Irish boyband Westlife with 32 shows played to date.

British-Irish boy-band, One Direction played their last concert, before going on an indefinite hiatus, on 31 October 2015 at the Arena. The arena held from somewhere between 35,000-37,000 people raising over 3 million dollars.

Comedy
The arena is a regular venue for some of the world's best known Comedians such as Russell Brand, Lee Evans, Jack Whitehall, Eddie Izzard and Peter Kay who in 2011 played the arena for 5 nights running with all shows selling out within hours of going on sale. In June 2018 Michael McInytyre broke the venue's record attendance for a seated comedy show when his Big World Tour played the FlyDSA Arena on Saturday 23 June 2018 in front of 12,347 fans

Sheffield Steelers
The arena is the home to the city's Elite Ice Hockey League team, the Sheffield Steelers, who began to play at the arena in 1991. Whilst the standard capacity for ice hockey at the arena is around 9,300, the Steelers have recorded crowds of over 10,000 in the building with extra seating being installed at the venue. In 2019 the Steelers were the highest ranked team in the UK in terms of attendance and 35th in Europe drawing an average crowd of 6,045 to the arena.

The first ever competitive Sheffield Steelers game at Sheffield Arena took place on Sunday 6 October 1991, when the Steelers were held to a 3–3 draw against Chelmsford Chieftains in front of 300 spectators. However, the first Ice Hockey game played at the Sheffield Arena took place on Thursday 26 September 1991 when Durham Wasps beat a Sheffield Steelers select 7–1 to win the World Leisure Cup. Durham's Rick Brebant scored the first goal at 2:18 in front of an estimated crowd of 2,000.

In February 2020 it was announced that the arena had secured planning permission to install a new 22-ton machine to make production of the ice surface more cost-effective and environmentally friendly.

Disney On Ice
Disney On Ice holds the record for the most performances & customers of any touring show to perform at the Arena. Feld Entertainment has promoted the show every year since the building opened over November/December, as of 2013 there has been 260 performances seen by 1.3 million customers.

Other events
The arena was the location for the Labour Party's 1992 Sheffield Rally. Attended by over 10,000 party members and the entire shadow cabinet. Held just before that year's general election, which Labour was widely expected to win, the event is often seen as a factor in the party's defeat. While the event was seen as a success to those within the hall, many commentators, and Labour politicians, viewed it as triumphalist in nature. However, it has also been asserted that the event had negligible impact on the outcome, with a fall in the party's support having already occurred.

TV shows such as The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent, Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing on Ice visit the arena every year as part of their tours. It hosted the BBC revival of Gladiators in 2023 and will host it again on select dates during August 2024; the arena previously hosted the live show during Easter 1995.

The arena has hosted major special high-profile events, including The International Indian Film Academy Awards, which took place on Saturday, 9 June 2007 and was broadcast live around the world. This included a season hosted by the city of Sheffield and nearby Leeds. Also, in 2009, the arena hosted the annual BBC Radio 1Xtra concert and the 2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

The arena has hosted major boxing events such as when Joe Calzaghe first won his WBO world title here on 11 October 1997 against former world champion Chris Eubank. On the same bill Sheffield born Naseem Hamed defended his WBO title against Jose Badillo. On 26 November 2005 Ricky Hatton extended his unbeaten record to 40–0, defending his IBF and Ring Magazine Junior Welterweight world titles and winning the WBA belt by 9th-round knockout against Carlos Maussa. Sheffield fighter Clinton Woods also defended his IBF light-heavyweight title against Mexican Julio César González on two occasions, winning on points both times. Kell Brook has had many fights here, his most notable being a fourth-round knockout victory of Vyacheslav Senchenko.

The Great Britain men's national basketball team played a test match against Portugal in that arena in preparation for the 2012 Olympics.

As well as being home to the Sheffield Steelers the venue has also hosted other ice hockey events such as the 2019 Super Series between USA and Canada featuring many ex-NHL stars and has acted as a neutral site for the EIHL Challenge Cup final

The arena has hosted many professional wrestling events held by companies including WWE, NXT and 5 Star Wrestling over the years dating as far back as the WWE UK Rampage events in 1992 and 1993

Since 2007, it has played host to the Premier League Darts.

Every year students from both Sheffield Hallam and The University of Sheffield assemble to watch the final game of their varsity play out as both universities ice hockey teams play and the stadium fills to capacity.

Management
The arena is owned by Sheffield City Trust, an independent charity, and managed under contract by the US media company Live Nation UK.

Road
The arena is easily accessible by road with the nearest motorway junctions being Junction 34 of the M1 if approaching from the North and Junction 33 of the M1 if approaching from the South. The arena has parking for around 1,200 cars which is often available to pre-book in advance at a discounted rate

Tram
The arena is accessible via the Sheffield Supertram with the primary stop, Arena / Olympic Legacy Park, being served by both the Yellow Route and Tram Train. The Valley Centertainment entertainment complex nearby provides a secondary stop for the arena, Valley Centertainment, which is also served by the Yellow Route and Tram Train. This stop has Park & Ride facilities

Train
There are 3 train stations that are connected to the arena by Supertram – Sheffield, Meadowhall Interchange and Rotherham Central – as well as nearby Darnall which is a 5-minute drive from the arena

Bus
The arena is serviced by many bus routes (including X1 Steel Link) stopping at the Sheffield Arena and/or Arena Square stops nearby

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Liberty Fleet 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

Liberty Fleet
Vanity, non-notable Star Trek RPG. No encyclopedic potential. -- Michael Warren | Talk 20:03, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Keep TheOneAnon - 18:33, 9 Dec 2004 Note: Anon 160.5.19.24 removed comments by me and GRider: I restore them here:
 * This page has every potential. It's a notable part of the Star Trek genre, created by fans to enhance and build upon the original concepts. If Star Trek itself should get a mention, then why should this not? Lieutenant Blue 20:18, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: Game vanity. There is a huge difference between a TV show and fanfic, and a huge difference between a movie and the game based on it, and a huge difference between a book and slashfiction written about it.  Not a notable game, nor encyclopedic content.  Wikipedia does not allow advertising. Geogre 20:27, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment to anyone Google testing: "Liberty of the fleet" is a common historical phrase, and there could be several liberty fleets outside of this. It may be that this particular, exact thing gets a lot of hits, but we should be aware of the potential homophones. Geogre 03:37, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I am not advertising this game! If I was, it would say "PLAY THIS GAME!" all over it! The reason I have put this article up is because it IS worth noting. Lieutenant Blue 20:18, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Nothing worth noting here - this isn't a major new idea, and Wikipedia isn't for establishing notability, it is for reflecting it. What is left is something more suited to someone's personal webpage, not an encyclopedia. Average Earthman 20:58, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. The site seems somewhat notable in its field (Googling for "'liberty fleet' trek" yields 5.500 hits) but present content isn't very suitable for Wikipedia. People who know Liberty Fleet will not come to Wikipedia to get (for example) the crew lists, and people who don't know LF can't use the (fictional) crew lists in the first place. Suggest weeding to limit it to information useful to interested non-players. JRM 21:08, 2004 Dec 6 (UTC)
 * Delete. A fan created product that is not encyclopedic.  Wikipedia is not a place for noting every fanfic endeavor out there. Indrian 21:12, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: DCEdwards1966 21:26, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * The page has been blanked and the Wikipedia database is not allowing me to revert to the previous page, for the moment. [[User:GRider|GRider\talk]] 22:14, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Database troubles are over. I've reverted the article and informed Lieutenant Blue (who blanked it him/herself) that that's not how we do things around here. JRM 00:10, 2004 Dec 7 (UTC)
 * Delete pseudo-fanfic. -Sean Curtin 00:38, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete - Cdc 03:24, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not encyclopedic. -R. fiend 07:55, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. fancruft. --Improv 18:49, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. [[User:GRider|GRider\talk]] 17:36, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete - Skysmith 09:12, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Vom Donaustrande

Vom Donaustrande (By the Shores of the Danube, op. 356) is a polka by Johann Strauss II written in 1873. Its themes are drawn from his successful operetta, Der Karneval in Rom which premiered in Vienna's Theater an der Wien on 1 March 1873.

The themes from the operetta where the polka presents itself is under Acts 2 and 3. The quick tempo of the polka is the marking of the popular "schnell-polka", which was another form of polka in quick steps as different from the polka-mazurka and the French polka.

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Arcadia Lake

Arcadia Lake may refer to:

 * Arcadia Lake (Oklahoma), a lake in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA
 * Arcadia Lake (Michigan), a lake in Manistee County, Michigan, USA

title: Arcadia Lake


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Equality in internet age

Equality in internet age
It's an essay, kind of, but not an encyclopedia article. While info on (the lack of) equality in Internet access among different populations might be useful, this would be a bad title. Tuf-Kat 20:04, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. I listed it as a possible copyvio earlier, but its best to delete it. - Estel  (talk) 20:09, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: Original research on something better covered at digital divide. Geogre 20:28, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete my biggest prob is the title, even so it's better covered under an existing article Wyss 22:29, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)


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List of lakes of Oklahoma

The following is a list of lakes in Oklahoma located entirely (or partially, as in the case of Lake Texoma) in the state. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.

Oklahoma has more than 200 lakes created by dams. All lakes listed are man-made. Oklahoma's only natural lakes are oxbow and playa lakes. Oklahoma has sixty-two oxbow lakes at least 10 acres in size. The largest, near the Red River in McCurtain County, is 272 acres.

Playa lakes are found in saucer-shaped depressions in the high plains region. They are usually intermittent, holding water only after rains. Oklahoma has about 600 playa lakes.

Lakes and reservoirs by size

Ranked by surface acres, Lake Eufaula is the 34th largest lake in the United States and Lake Texoma is the 38th largest.

Source: Oklahoma Water Atlas. and, accessed Mar 1, 2011. Some inconsistencies exist between the two sources.

Lakes and reservoirs (alphabetically)

 * Altus City Reservoir
 * Lake Altus-Lugert
 * American Horse Lake
 * Lake of the Arbuckles
 * Arcadia Lake
 * Ardmore City Lake
 * Atoka Lake
 * Bellcow Lake
 * Birch Lake
 * Lake Bixhoma
 * Bluestem Lake
 * Boomer Lake
 * Broken Bow Lake
 * Brushy Lake (Sallisaw, Oklahoma)

 * Lake Burtschi
 * Canton Lake
 * Carl Albert Lake
 * Lake Carl Blackwell
 * Lake Carl Etling
 * Lake Carlton
 * Carter Lake
 * Cedar Lake
 * Chandler Lake
 * Lake Checotah
 * Chickasha Lake
 * Chouteau Lock & Dam (MKARNS L&D #15)
 * Claremore Lake
 * Clayton Lake
 * Clear Creek Lake
 * Cleveland City Lake
 * Clinton Lake
 * Coalgate City Lake
 * Comanche Lake
 * Copan Lake
 * Cordell Reservoir
 * Crowder Lake
 * Cushing Municipal Lake
 * Lake Dahlgren
 * Dead Warrior Lake
 * Dripping Springs Lake
 * Lake Durant
 * Lake Ellsworth
 * Lake Elmer
 * Lake El Reno
 * Lake Eucha
 * Evans Chambers Lake
 * Foss Reservoir
 * Fort Cobb Reservoir
 * Fort Supply Lake
 * Lake Frederick
 * Fuqua Lake
 * Newt Graham Reservoir (MKARNS L&D 18)
 * Greenleaf Lake
 * Grand Lake O' the Cherokees
 * Great Salt Plains Lake

 * Guthrie Lake
 * John Paul Hammerschmidt Lake
 * Heyburn Lake
 * Hobart Lake (a.k.a. Rocky Lake)
 * Holdenville Lake
 * Lake Hudson (formerly named Markham Ferry Reservoir)
 * Hulah Lake
 * Lake Humphreys
 * Hugo Lake
 * Lake Jean Neustadt
 * Lake Jed Johnson
 * Keystone Lake
 * Konawa Reservoir
 * Lake Lawtonka
 * Liberty Lake
 * Lloyd Church Lake
 * Lake Lloyd Vincent
 * Lone Chimney Lake
 * W. D. Mayo Reservoir (MKARNS L&D #14)
 * Lake McAlester|McAlester Lake
 * Lake McMurtry
 * Mountain Lake
 * Lake Murray
 * Oklahoma Lake
 * Okmulgee Lake
 * Okemah Lake

 * Oologah Lake
 * Lake Overholser
 * Ozzie Cobb Lake
 * Pine Creek Lake
 * Pauls Valley Lake
 * Ponca Lake, Ponca City lake
 * Pretty Water Lake
 * Lake R.C. Longmire
 * Raymond Gary Lake
 * Rock Creek Reservoir
 * Sahoma Lake
 * Sardis Lake
 * Shawnee Twin Lakes
 * Skiatook Lake
 * Skipout Lake
 * Sooner Lake
 * Lake Spavinaw
 * Sportsman Lake
 * Spring Creek Lake
 * Stroud Lake
 * Lake Stanley Draper
 * Tom Steed Reservoir
 * Lake Talequah
 * Elmer Thomas Lake
 * Lake Thunderbird
 * Watonga Lake
 * Waurika Lake
 * Wes Watkins
 * Lake Wayne Wallace
 * Webbers Falls Reservoir (MKARNS L&D #16)
 * Wes Watkins Reservoir
 * Wewoka Lake
 * Lake Wister
 * Lake W. R. Holway
 * Lake Yahola

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Lake of the Arbuckles

The Lake of the Arbuckles is a reservoir located in southern Oklahoma, 8 mi southwest of Sulphur in Murray County. The lake covers 2350 acre and is a principal water supply reservoir for the city of Ardmore, some 30 mi to the southwest. It also supplies water to the cities of Sulphur, Davis, Wynnewood and a large oil refinery near Wynnewood. The lake also provides flood control, fish and wildlife habitat and recreation opportunities.

Project timeline
During the early 1950s, a drought seriously depleted then-existing water supplies for the cities and towns in the Arbuckle area. Bureau of Reclamation representatives began meeting in 1956 with local officials about the feasibility of an Arbuckle water project. The proposed project was supported by the Oklahoma Congressional delegation. The Bureau prepared a preliminary development plan in 1961. Public Law 87-594, approved August 24, 1962 (76 Stat. 395) authorized the Arbuckle Project. The final development plan was completed in 1964. A contract to construct Arbuckle Dam was awarded June 9, 1964, and completed June 30, 1966. The project also incorporated certain other infrastructure. These included an aqueduct and pumping system to supply water to area customers, The contract for this construction was awarded August 27, 1965, and the work was completed in 1968. The Bureau turned over the operation and maintenance responsibilities to the Arbuckle Master Conservancy District on January 1, 1968.

Description of dam and lake
Arbuckle Dam, creating Lake of the Arbuckles, was built by the United States Bureau of Reclamation on Rock Creek. at the confluence of Buckhorn, Guy Sandy, and Rock Creeks. The lake is very scenic, nestled within the Chickasaw National Recreation Area. The dam is constructed of earth fill, with a volume of 2977800 cuyd.Its height is 150 ft and crest length is 2700 ft.

The total capacity of the lake at elevation 885.3 ft is 108,839 acre ft.The conservation capacity is 62,571 acre ft at elevation 872.0 ft. The surface area at the maximum elevation is 3127 acre.

Water delivery systems
The Arbuckle project included a pumping station downstream from the dam and a 17.9 mi pipeline to deliver water to Davis and Wynnewood. The pipeline diameter ranges from 10 in to 27 in.

Recreation
The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation has rated the lake as the best for bass fishing in the state. The lake features 36 miles of shoreline. Fishing is permitted year-round for crappie, catfish, largemouth bass, white bass and bluegill. Facilities include three campgrounds for tents and RVs, picnic areas, public restrooms and boat docks and ramps.

There are 3400 acre of land available for recreational use adjacent to the reservoir. Included within the Chickasaw National Recreation Area managed by the National Park Service, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation provides wildlife management.

title: Lake of the Arbuckles


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Geostationary ring

In orbital mechanics, the geostationary ring is the region of space around the Earth that includes geostationary orbits and the volume of space which can be reached by uncontrolled objects which begin in geostationary orbits and are subsequently perturbed. Objects in geostationary orbit can be perturbed by anomalies in the gravitational field of the Earth, by the gravitational effects of Sun and Moon, and by solar radiation pressure.

A precessional motion of the orbital plane is caused by the oblatedness of the Earth ($$J_2$$), and the gravitational effects of Sun and Moon. This motion has a period of about 53 years. The two parameters describing the direction of the orbit plane in space, the right ascension of the ascending node, and the inclination are affected by this precession. The maximum inclination reached during the 53-year cycle is about 15 degrees. Therefore, the definition of the geostationary ring foresees a declination range from -15 degrees to +15 degrees. In addition, solar radiation pressure induces an eccentricity that leads to a variation of the orbit radius by ± 75 kilometers in some cases. This leads to the definition of the geostationary ring as being a segment of space around the geostationary orbit that ranges from 75 km below GEO to 75 km above GEO and from -15 degrees to 15 degrees declination.

The number of objects in the ring is increasing, and is a source of concern that the risk of collision with space debris in this region is particularly high.

title: Geostationary ring


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Evrostina

Evrostina (Ευρωστίνα) is a village and a former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Xylokastro-Evrostina, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 101.415 km2. The seat of administration of the former municipality was the town Derveni.

Geography
Evrostina is a mountain village, situated at about 650 m elevation between the mountain Mavro oros (elevation 1757 m) to the south and the mountain Evrostina (elevation 1208 m) to the northwest. The most populous village of the municipal unit, Derveni, is 7 km to the north on the coast of the Gulf of Corinth. Evrostina is 20 km west of Xylokastro and 50 km west of Corinth.

Subdivisions
The municipal unit Evrostina is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets):
 * Derveni (Derveni, Mavra Litharia, Petalou)
 * Elliniko
 * Evrostina (Evrostina, Ano Aigialos, Koumarias, Rozena)
 * Kallithea (Kallithea, Skoupaiika)
 * Lygia
 * Lykoporia
 * Pyrgos
 * Sarantapicho (Sarantapicho, Sarantapichiotika)
 * Stomio
 * Chelydoreo (Chelydoreo, Mentourgianika)

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John Whittier Treat

John Whittier Treat is Professor Emeritus of East Asian Languages and Literature at Yale University, Connecticut, United States, where he teaches Japanese literature and culture. He was co-editor of the Journal of Japanese Studies. He has published numerous essays and several books on Japan-related topics. In 2008 he discussed his work with Peter Shea at the University of Minnesota.

He received his BA in Asian Studies 1975 from Amherst College, Massachusetts, and his MA and PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures from Yale University in 1979 and 1982, respectively. In 2011 he translated Yi Kwang-su's short story, "Maybe Love" (사랑인가, 1909), which was then published in the journal Azalea by the University of Hawaiʻi Press.

Nonfiction

 * Pools of Water, Pillars of Fire: The Literature of Ibuse Masuji (1988) ISBN 978-0-295-96625-0
 * Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture (1995) ISBN 978-0-824-81854-8
 * Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb (1995) ISBN 978-0-226-81178-9
 * Great Mirrors Shattered: Homosexuality, Orientalism, and Japan (1999) ISBN 978-0-195-10923-8
 * The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature (2018) ISBN 978-0-226-81170-3

Fiction

 * The Rise and Fall of the Yellow House (2015) ISBN 978-0-99654-0
 * Maid Service (2020) ISBN 978-1-646-56403-3
 * First Consonants (2022) ISBN 978-1-938-84186-6

Peer-reviewed articles

 * “Early Hiroshima Poetry.” Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, vol. 20, no. 2 (November 1986), pp. 209-31.
 * “Atomic Bomb Literature and the Documentary Fallacy.” Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 14, no. 1 (Winter 1988), pp. 27-57.
 * “Hiroshima and the Place of the Narrator.” The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 48, no. 1 (February 1989), pp. 29-49.
 * “Yoshimoto Banana Writes Home: Shōjo Culture and the Nostalgic Subject.” Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 19, no. 2 (Summer 1993), pp. 353-387.
 * “Symposium on Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture: Introduction.” Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 19, no. 2 (Summer 1993), pp. 289-93.
 * “The Beheaded Emperor and the Absent Figure in Contemporary Japanese Literature.” PMLA, vol. 109, no. 1 (January 1994), pp. 100-15.
 * “Hiroshima, Ground Zero.” PMLA, vol. 124, no. 5 (October 2009), pp. 1883-85.
 * “Introduction to Yi Kwang-su’s ‘Maybe Love’ (Ai ka, 1909).” Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature and Culture, vol. 4 (2011), pp. 315-27.
 * “Choosing to Collaborate: Yi Kwang-su and the Moral Subject in Colonial Korea.” The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 71, no. 1 (February 2012), pp. 81-102.

Other published writing

 * Studies in Modern Japanese Literature: Essays and Translations in Honor of Edwin McClellan with Alan Tansman and Dennis Washburn, eds. Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan (1997). ISBN 0-939512-84-X

Honors

 * 1998: Social Science Research Council Grant
 * 1997: Association for Asian Studies, John Whitney Hall Book Prize, 1997.
 * 1996-97: Mary Weeks Senior Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, Stanford University
 * 1994: NEH Summer Stipend

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Liu Jingsheng

Liu Jingsheng (born c.1950) is a Chinese political opposition activist and a former co-editor of Tansuo (Explorations), a journal he founded in the late 1970s with Wei Jingsheng.

Biography
Liu played a leading role in the Democracy Wall and was arrested (when?). Upon his release, Liu resumed his job as a bus driver. In 1992, he was arrested again for his associations with "counter-revolutionary organizations." Liu was released in November 2004.

Liu was awarded the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award in 1998.

title: Liu Jingsheng