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Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation

Bethlehem Steel Corporation Shipbuilding Division was created in 1905 when the Bethlehem Steel Corporation of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, acquired the San Francisco-based shipyard Union Iron Works. In 1917 it was incorporated as Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Limited.

The division's headquarters were moved to Quincy, Massachusetts, after acquiring the Fore River Shipyard in 1913.

In 1940, Bethlehem Shipbuilding was the largest of the "Big Three" U.S. shipbuilders that could build any ship, followed by Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock and New York Shipbuilding Corporation (New York Ship). Bethlehem expanded shortly before and during World War II as a result of the Long Range Shipbuilding Program and later the Emergency Shipbuilding program orchestrated by the United States Maritime Commission and the Two Ocean Navy program and its war-time successors by the military establishment.

In 1964, the now-corporate headquarters moved to Sparrows Point, Maryland, southeast of Baltimore, whose shipyard had been acquired in 1916.

The Quincy / Fore River yard was sold to General Dynamics Corporation in the mid-1960s, and closed in 1986. The Alameda Works Shipyard in California was closed by Bethlehem Steel in the early 1970s, while the San Francisco facility (former Union Iron Works) was sold to British Aerospace in the mid-1990s and survives today as BAE Systems San Francisco Ship Repair.

Bethlehem Steel ceased shipbuilding activities in 1997 in an attempt to preserve its core steelmaking operations.

Shipyards
Shipyards owned or operated by Bethlehem:

New York

 * Became part of Bethlehem with the purchase of United Shipyards on June 2, 1938 for $9,320,000

 * Bethlehem Mariners Harbor, Staten Island, New York (1938–1963 ).

 * Bethlehem Brooklyn 56th Street, Brooklyn, New York (1938-1963 ).

 * Bethlehem Brooklyn 27th Street (1938-1963 ).

 * Hoboken Shipyard, Hoboken, New Jersey (1938–1984).

 * they were called the Staten Island Works, the Brooklyn 56th Street Works, the Brooklyn 27th Street Works and the Hoboken Works of the New York Plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation.

 * Bethlehem Elizabethport, Elizabethport, New Jersey (1916–1921).

 * Bayonne Naval Drydock, Bayonne, New Jersey. Bethlehem used this drydock for ship repairs. Most workers were from Hoboken Shipyard.

Boston

 * Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts (1913–1963 ). Sold to General Dynamics Corporation.
 * Victory Plant Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts (1917–1919). The "Victory Yard" was constructed to build destroyers and free up the Fore River Yard for other vessels including the battlecruiser-turned-aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2).
 * Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts (1940–1945).
 * Bethlehem Atlantic Works, East Boston, Massachusetts (1853–1984).

Baltimore

 * Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard, Sparrows Point, Maryland (1914–1997).
 * Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, (1940–1945).
 * Bethlehem Key Highway Shipyard, Baltimore. The upper yard was sold to AME/Swirnow in 1983. The site now holds Ritz Carlton and Harborview communities next to Baltimore Museum of Industry.
 * Bethlehem Fort McHenry Shipyard, Baltimore. The lower yard on Locust Point peninsula, it was sold to General Ship Repair in 1983. Now some Port of Baltimore terminals.

San Francisco

 * Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California (1917–1981).
 * also called the Potrero Works and the Risdon Works of the Union plant of Bethlehem Steel
 * Alameda Works Shipyard, Alameda, California (1916–1956).
 * also called the Alameda Works of the Union plant of Bethlehem Steel
 * Hunters Point Drydocks, Hunters Point, San Francisco, California (1908–1920). Acquired by the U.S. Navy

Others

 * Bethlehem Shipbuilding San Pedro on Terminal Island, formerly Southwestern Shipbuilding.
 * Bethlehem Steel Wilmington (aka Harlan and Hollingsworth), Wilmington, Delaware (1904–1925, 1941–1945).
 * Bethlehem Beaumont Shipyard, Beaumont, Texas (1948–1989). A major U.S. manufacturer of offshore drilling rigs, it produced 72.
 * Bethlehem Sabine, Port Arthur, Texas, (1985–1995). Sold to Texas Drydock Inc. in 1995.

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Mount Nailog

Mount Nailog is one of the two prominent peaks of Sibuyan Island, Philippines with a height of 789 m. The highest peak on the island is Mount Guiting-Guiting, with an elevation of 2,058 metres (6,752 ft).

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Beautiful Losers

Beautiful Losers is the second and final novel by Canadian writer and musician Leonard Cohen. It was published in 1966, before he began his career as a singer-songwriter.

Set in the Canadian province of Quebec, the story of 17th-century Mohawk saint Catherine Tekakwitha is interwoven with a love triangle between an unnamed anglophone Canadian folklorist; his Native wife, Edith, who has committed suicide; and his best friend, the mystical F, a Member of Parliament and a leader in the Quebec separatist movement. The complex novel makes use of a vast range of literary techniques, and a wealth of allusion, imagery, and symbolism. It is filled with the mysticism, radicalism, sexuality, and drug-taking emblematic of the 1960s era, and is noted for its linguistic, technical, and sexual excesses.

Cohen wrote the novel over two eight-month sessions while living on the Greek island of Hydra in 1964 and 1965. He fasted and consumed amphetamines to focus his creativity on the novel. Despite a lavish rollout, sales were disappointing, and critics were initially unsympathetic or hostile. The book gained critical and commercial attention only after Cohen had given up novel-writing and turned to the songwriting and performing upon which his fame rests. Beautiful Losers has come to be seen as having introduced postmodernism into Canadian literature. It has become a steady seller, and is considered a part of the Canadian literary canon.

Overview
The novel reflects the zeitgeist of the 1960s. While its prose is simple, the book itself is difficult, and dense in imagery and symbolism. It is broken into three "books", each with a different narrator: the historian (called "I." by critics) is the narrator of book one, "The History of Them All", which is the longest book; "A Long Letter from F." makes up the second book, a letter from F. to the narrator of the first book; and the third book is narrated by an unnamed third person, and is called "Beautiful Losers: An Epilogue in the Third Person".

Synopsis
At the centre of the novel are the members of a love triangle, united by their obsessions and fascination with a 17th-century Mohawk, Saint Catherine Tekakwitha. The triangle is made up of the unnamed narrator, an authority on the vanishing A———— tribe; his wife Edith, one of the last surviving members of the tribe; and their maniacal and domineering friend, "F.", who may or may not exist.

Book one opens with an unnamed anglophone Canadian narrator asking "Who are you, Catherine Tekakwitha?" The narrator's wife hides in an elevator shaft, intending to have her husband kill her when he comes home. Her plan misfires somewhat, however—it is a delivery boy, instead, who takes the elevator that kills her. The narrator and F. console each other in bed over Edith's death.

The narrator and F. attend a demonstration in Montreal's "Parc Lafontaine", where I. gets so caught up in the nationalistic Québécois that he joins in himself, shouting, "Fuck the English!"

The narrator flees to the treehouse F. has left him in his will.

Book two consists of a letter composed by F., intended to be read five years after his death by the narrator of book one. As such, chronologically it takes place before book one.

F. escapes the asylum he is in and makes for the treehouse he will leave for the narrator of the first book. F. is cared for in an insane asylum by nurse Mary Voolnd, of the A———— as was Edith. The letter is written in the occupational therapy room of the hospital.

Book three opens with a figure in a treehouse, with burnt fingers like the first book's narrator, but also missing a thumb, as F. did after blowing up the statue of Queen Victoria. He is being hunted down as an escaped inmate and terrorist. He is given a ride by a blond woman wearing moccasins, who calls herself Isis, in Greek.

Primary characters

"I.": The unnamed narrator of the first book is an anthropological scholar specializing in the "A———s", a First Nations tribe whose "brief history is characterized by incessant defeat."

Though unnamed, several critics have taken to calling this narrator "I." "F.": The bewildering mystical "best friend" of "I." "I." describes their relationship as one of pupil and teacher, with F. presenting himself as having such intellectual and spiritual capacities as have enabled him to develop an all-encompassing "system," though one that escapes "I." and the reader. His declarations appear profound and truth-like, with the weight of axioms.

F. is fond of quoting Nietzsche, and like Nietzsche was driven insane by syphilis. He consciously plays the role of teacher to "I." Edith: Married to "I.", Edith is a member of the dying "A————" tribe that her husband studies.

Catherine Tekakwitha: The Mohawk Kateri Tekakwitha was a 17th-century Christian convert. She is raised by a "kind uncle" and "cruel aunts" after the death of her parents when she was four. The aunts try to get her a husband, but first he turns her down; later she runs away from him. When she returns she is beaten by her aunts.

She takes to pious self-mortification with great zeal–to such a degree that the Jesuit priests find they must restrain her. Following her death at the age of 24, her skin becomes white.

She is associated with Edith, the Virgin Mary and Isis throughout the work. At the time the book was written, she had been beatified by the Church and was known as Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha. In 2012 she was canonised as a saint.

Themes
Sex plays a major role in the novel, though the sex scenes tend to be oral or masturbatory. Homosexuality and bisexuality are prominent.

Natives are seen as being displaced by the French, while the English displace the French, and are themselves oppressed by the Americans. The English and French in Canada are seen as both oppressors and oppressed, which ties F. and I. together. According to F., the Québécois are able to come together under their feeling of oppression by the anglophones, but anglophone Canada is unable to bring together a national identity to distinguish themselves from the Americans.

I. and F. were both raised in a Jesuit orphanage in Montreal. Melancholic I. identifies with victims and losers, such as the "A————" tribe, whose very name is said to mean "corpse in the language of all the neighboring tribes". while F. tries to ignore or overcome his "loser"-ness. He asserts himself by throwing himself into the Charles Axis bodybuilding course advertised in a comic book (a parody of the Charles Atlas advertisements well known to contemporary comic-book readers). He asserts his culture by becoming a leader in the Quebec separatist movement.

Background
Cohen had published a number of books of poetry since the 1956 appearance of Let Us Compare Mythologies, and one novel, The Favourite Game (1963). He had been living on the Greek island of Hydra in the early to mid-1960s, and had composed The Favourite Game and a book of poetry, Flowers for Hitler, there. On Hydra, English was spoken, and there was an artists' colony there.

Cohen wanted to write a "liturgy, a big confessional oration, very crazy, but using all the techniques of the modern novel ... pornographic suspense, humor and conventional plotting".

Cohen wrote most of the novel during two concentrated eight-month periods in 1964 and 1965. He wrote using a typewriter in a house in Hydra while listening to a portable record player, on which he listened to his favourite Ray Charles record, The Genius Sings the Blues. At first he managed only three pages a day, and sometimes wrote only one hour a day. When the novel began to take shape, he worked up to fifteen hours a day, with the help of amphetamines. He later claimed that amphetamine use was a mistake "for depressed people", as coming down was particularly hard. He said it took "ten years to fully recover".

The first period of writing was interrupted when Cohen returned to Canada in October 1964 to receive the Prix littéraire du Québec for The Favourite Game, followed by a reading tour. One result of the tour was the film Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen, released in 1965 from the National Film Board of Canada. The tour embittered Cohen, though, as he complained about money and the lack of exposure for his first novel. He found himself torn on the issue of Quebec separation that had arisen as the Quiet Revolution heated up. Montreal's francophone community was asserting itself against the anglophone elite. The Front de Libération du Québec had begun targeting anglophones with bombs in 1963, and a statue of Queen Victoria on Sherbrooke Street was destroyed with a bomb on 12 July. This political turmoil found its way into Cohen's work when he returned to Hydra.

Cohen practised fasting during the composition of the novel, believing that it helped focus his creativity and spirituality. Following its completion, Cohen broke down, collapsing from sunstroke and amphetamine consumption. He had hallucinations, and had withered to 116 pounds after going without food for ten days.

Cohen published another book of poetry, Parasites of Heaven, in 1966, but by then it became clear to Cohen that he would be unable to make a living as a writer. He shifted focus to music, particularly after becoming interested in Bob Dylan in 1966. That year, he decided to devote himself seriously to a singing career. It was his music for which he later became well known.

Publication history
In March 1965, Cohen told Jack McClelland, president of Canadian publishing house McClelland and Stewart, that he would finish the novel in a month. He stated that it would be a success if it escaped the censors, and asked for a cash advance, as he was in need of money. When he completed it three weeks later, he declared that he had "written the Bhagavad Gita of 1965". He claimed he had figured out how to "write a novel in three weeks", and that he would manage four more in 1965.

Cohen pondered a number of titles for the book. On two different drafts were the titles Beautiful Losers / A Pop Novel and Plastic Birchbark / A Treatment of the World, and notes and letters show him listing many other possible titles. Viking put the difficult book through eight readings before deciding to publish it. Cohen responded to the book's acceptance with a parodic six-page letter anticipating the response of offended Canadian critics. As a condition of the book's publication, Cohen insisted on having control over the cover and jacket copy, so as to avoid the disappointment he had had with the publication of Flowers for Hitler. Further, he insisted on no quotations from critics on the jacket.

Publication was somewhat complicated when Cohen lost a carbon copy of the original manuscript to the wind. He was able to continue with revisions after having his New York agent send him another carbon copy. The pre-publication orders of 3,100 copies were more than expected. Before publication, a number of film producers were eyeing the book, such as Otto Preminger, Ulu Grosbard, Alexander Cohen and the MCA Group.

McClelland realized that censorship would be a problem in Canada, and tried to soften the blow with advance publicity via advance copies. The responses from the readers of the advance copies were too negative for him to use, however. A gala lunch was thrown a month in advance of the book's release, and about four hundred of the top names in the Canadian arts world appeared there. Posters had Cohen in a turtleneck and jacket in the hopes that such a sober pose would offset the anticipated scandal. The University of Toronto, which had started collecting Cohen's papers starting in 1964, paid Cohen $6,000 for the original manuscript.

The first printing was printed by Viking and bound by McClelland & Stewart. It included typographical extras not included in future editions, such as comic book captions, a Charles Axis advertisement, a radio transcript of Gavin and the Goddesses, and a Greek-English phrase book. The book was officially published on 28 April 1966.

Distribution was restricted, with Simpson's and W. H. Smith refusing to carry the book, despite McClelland's reassurances to W. H. Smith that "most of the people interested in pornography would not begin to understand either Cohen's purpose or his accomplishment". The $6.50 cover price dampened sales as well. Cohen thought it too high, but McClelland explained it was necessary to offset the publication costs and extensive promotion. He accused Cohen of being "unwilling to put [him]self out" in the way of promotion, and urged him to do more television and radio interviews.

Sources and influences
Cohen made use of a number of texts when researching and writing Beautiful Losers:
 * Une vierge iroquoise: Catherine Tekakwitha, le lis de bors de la Mohawk et du St. Laurent (1656–1680) by P. Edouard Lecompte
 * Kateri of the Mohawks by Marie Cecilia Buehrle
 * Jesuits in North America
 * a 1943 issue of the American comic book Blue Beetle
 * a farmer's almanac
 * Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche
 * The Song of Hiawatha, 1855 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He also read Emanuel Swedenborg extensively: the first two volumes of Arcana Cœlestia, Divine Providence and Divine Love and Wisdom. He would meet with other writers at the Hydra colony to discuss works such as the Book of Revelation, the I Ching, The Secret of the Golden Flower and The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Cohen brought works by Martin Buber and Gershom Sholem to these meetings.

Style
Beautiful Losers is not written in a linear, coherent fashion. Key scenes repeat themselves, and there is no timeline the reader can follow.

Reception
Initial sales were poor. It sold better in the US than in Canada, but did not see significant sales until after Cohen achieved success as a singer-songwriter. The novel attracted the attention of critics, and was met with much controversy. Critic Robert Fulford called Beautiful Losers "the most revolting book ever written in Canada", while also stating it was "an important failure. At the same time it is probably the most interesting Canadian book of the year". He reported a few days later that a Toronto bookstore had not managed to sell any of the twenty-five copies it stocked eight days after publication.

Critics were less shocked by the breaking of taboos than the general public was. Instead, they objected to the novel's complexity of allusion and representation, and the demands it put on the reader due to its incoherence and indeterminacy. It would take another generation of postmodern Canadian literature before Beautiful Losers would breach the canon.

In 1966, the CBC called Beautiful Losers "one of the most radical and extraordinary works of fiction ever published in Canada", and quoted a critic from the Boston Globe who positively compared the work with the fiction of James Joyce. However, they also quoted from the previously mentioned negative review from the critic Robert Fulford.

In 1967, Desmond Pacey called Beautiful Losers "the most intricate, erudite and fascinating Canadian novel ever written". In his 1970 monograph on Cohen, Michael Ondaatje called it "the most vivid, fascinating and brave modern novel" he had read.

Beautiful Losers had been translated into eleven languages by 1990, and the sales of both of Cohen's novels have surpassed a million copies; Beautiful Losers had topped three million in sales by 2007.

Legacy
Beautiful Losers has entered the canon of Canadian literature, and has been given much credit for having introduced postmodern literature to Canadian fiction.

The poem beginning "God is alive. Magic is afoot" was arranged as a song by Buffy Sainte-Marie and first recorded on her 1969 album Illuminations; the song was covered by Chris Thile on his 2021 album Laysongs.

Beautiful Losers was the inspiration for the song "Let's Be Other People" by the English band The Wonderstuff on their album Hup.

An excerpt from Beautiful Losers appears in The Young Ones (TV series) associated book "Neil's Book Of The Dead", making up almost all of chapter 6.

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undertakings and promises
The term "undertakings" is used here in the sense of "promises." The addition of "and promises" is therefore redundant. Logologist 13:30, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

primary topic
I checked http://www.google.com/search?q=%22pacta+conventa%22&pws=0&tbm=bks&tbs=lr:lang_1en&lr=lang_en and it looks like only 3 out of top 18 results discuss the Croatian document, the rest is almost all about the Polish one, and there's something about the Roman times. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 07:40, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

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Xin Beitou Branch
This was created three months ago, it's been scheduled for cleanup but it's an orphan. Moreover it only has two entries in the list and of those one is a redlink. Should it be deleted? I would like to get some feedback on that question. --[[User:Tony Sidaway|Tony Sidaway|Talk]] 13:31, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Almost no content: "Stations: Beitou Xinbeitou". Speedy deletion #4. Mikkalai 18:11, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as an article with no content. Seriously.  You have the name, no sentences, just links.  What purpose does it serve?  Geogre 22:02, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)


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RAPTOR

RAPTOR (Reconnaissance Airborne Pod Tornado) was a reconnaissance pod used by the Royal Air Force on its fleet of Tornado GR.4A and GR.4 aircraft. RAPTOR was manufactured by the Goodrich Corporation, initially part of UTC Aerospace Systems, but now part of Collins Aerospace.

The RAPTOR contained a DB-110 reconnaissance sensor, an imagery data recording system and an air-to-ground data link system. The sensor is electro-optical and infrared, allowing day or night missions. The data link allows imagery to be exploited almost instantly.

DB-110
DB-110 ('dual-band 110-inch focal length') was developed as an exportable derivative of the U-2's Senior Year Electro-Optical Reconnaissance System (SYERS-2). It represents a shift for airborne tactical reconnaissance systems from visible light, daylight-only film-based systems to dual-band day and night digital imaging with real-time downlinking. The DB-110 remains the only comparable LOROP (Long-Range Oblique Photography) pod to have been demonstrated in use on tactical aircraft.

DB-110 installations, such as RAPTOR, also include a reconnaissance mission planning system (RMPS). Planned missions produce route cards for a pilot's kneeboard, are downloaded to route planning systems on either the recon aircraft or AWACS aircraft and are placed on a PCMCIA card that is used to load the pod itself with sensor tasking information.

RAF use
No. II (AC) Sqn and 13 Sqn were the RAF's two specialist Tornado reconnaissance units, but with the RAPTOR pod any GR4 squadron could undertake reconnaissance missions. The RAF procured eight RAPTOR units and two ground stations. RAPTOR achieved its operational debut during Operation Telic, the UK contribution to the 2003 Iraq War.

Other users
RAPTOR was also used on Japanese OP-3C maritime reconnaissance aircraft. DB-110 pods have also been supplied for Polish F-16s in 2006 and Turkish F-16s in 2013. Saudi Arabia in 2012 became the tenth country to use the DB-110 and the first for F-15 carriage.

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Hi Dan, I was just curious as to why you removed a sentence here. I know it was unsourced, and I would add a reference if I am able to find one. However, it's also a somewhat minor point and not really needed. I addition, it's anachronistic, as LM didn't exist in 1982, and I would have found the correct company before restoring it. Thanks. BilCat (talk) 02:00, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * Hi @Dan100, I notice that almost all of your edits still either lack an edit summary, or they are completely unhelpful (“m”, “Edits” etc.) Edit summaries exist to allow other Wikipedians to quickly and easily identify what was changed on an article - please try to use meaningful edit summaries wherever possible. Danners430 (talk) 09:27, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Ditto. Eric talk 13:18, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Dan does use edit summaries when necessary, such as here (Deconfuse), which is obvious when you look at the diff. "Edit" obviously means "copyedit", and "m" minor. Editing on a mobile device may account for the terseness. Do y'all have any examples of major unexplained edits that aren't obvious? BilCat (talk) 15:31, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
 * One of the reasons for using a summary is to help other editors decide whether to take the time to look at a diff. Not everyone can take the time to look at every single diff of every edit that pops up on his or her watchlist. It's one thing if the watcher knows the editor's history, reputation, inclinations, etc, but that is of course not always the case. 17:22, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
 * A major edit would likely be one that involves a change in the hundreds or thousands of bytes. If it is just zero, or several bytes, it's likely minor. Taken with "Edit" or "m", one can assume it's a minor edit. I'm not trying to defend Dan, as he is capable of doing that well enough himself. I'm simply pointing out it's not all that difficult to realize what's a genuinely minor edit from one's watchlist or a recent changes list. If Dan is making major edits without any edit summary, that would be another matter. Is he? BilCat (talk) 19:04, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Apologies, I got distracted from the thread I started! I agree that this is not an issue with missing edit summaries - but instead summaries which simply consist of "Edit" or "m"... the entire point of an edit summary is to summarise the edits that you've made to assist other editors. There is no way at all to discern what has been changed if the edit summary is nothing more than "Edit". Danners430 (talk) 23:04, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * @BilCat@Danners430@Eric no change yet. Doug Weller  talk 19:42, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Again, as long as the edits in question are genuinely minor copyedits, I don't see a problem. Take it to one of the noticeboards if you're really concerned about it, but I think you'd be wasting your time. BilCat (talk) 21:21, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Here's an example: Removal of a "More citations needed" maintenance template with no edit summary. It's a short article with only two sections, one of which has no sources and the other is well sourced. So I'm left guessing, but I imagine he thinks we don't need to tag the article when only one section is a problem. But then why didn't he just tag the section? I have no idea. GA-RT-22 (talk) 00:06, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I’m beginning to wonder if @Dan100 even looks at their talk page… because there have been no responses whatsoever from them. Certainly that falls under poor communication. Danners430 (talk) 12:07, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

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hello Dan, The material you removed was not from a textbook and contributes to the article. Other revisions have distorted the flow of explanation. It is a remnant from linking pictures to paragraphs. I would like to reinstall this material with the few corrections needed. Is this okay with you. Mkoronowski (talk) 16:46, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

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List of Chinese volleyball players

This is a list of Chinese volleyball players

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S85 (Berlin)

S85 is a line on the Berlin S-Bahn. It operates from Grünau to Berlin-Pankow over:
 * the Berlin–Görlitz railway, opened on 13 September 1866 and electrified on 4 January 1929,
 * the Ringbahn, opened on 17 July 1871 and electrified in 1926 and
 * the Prussian Northern Railway, opened on 10 July 1877 and electrified in 1925.

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The S85 was created on 2 June 1991, replacing the Brown route of the East Berlin S-Bahn between Buch and Spindlersfeld (via the eastern part of the Ringbahn).

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Rockbound

Rockbound is a novel published in 1928 by Canadian writer Frank Parker Day.

Overview
The "Rockbound" mentioned in the title is name of small fictitious island inspired by East Ironbound, a remote island near Big Tancook Island off the coast of Nova Scotia. Surrounded by rich but dangerous fishing grounds, Rockbound is isolated by storms, fog and winter weather. Two feuding families, the Jungs and the Krauses are dominated by the "king of Rockbound", the sternly righteous and rapacious Uriah Jung. When the young David Jung arrives on Rockbound to claim his inheritance, a small share of the island, he is forced to confront an unforgiving, and controlled world. His conflicts—both internal and external—lock him in a struggle for survival.

His enemies are many: sometimes the ocean, sometimes his own rude behaviour, sometimes his own best friend, sometimes his secret love for the island teacher, but always his relatives and their ambitions for money and power.

Rockbound paints a portrait of hard toil, cunning bitterness and family strife in the years leading to World War I. The novel evokes the infinite power, the terror and the cruel beauty of the Atlantic Ocean including the terrifying sinking of a fishing schooner based on the loss of the schooner Sylvia Mosher on August 9, 1926, during the 1926 August Gales at Sable Island.

Inspiration
Rockbound was based on the island of East Ironbound, Nova Scotia. Day spent the summer of 1926 on East Ironbound telling the families who welcomed him and shared their stories that he was working on a book about William Shakespeare. East Ironbound became a thinly disguised Rockbound while Tancook became the novel's Outpost Island; Lunenburg became Liscomb; and Pearl Island became Barren Island. East Ironbound's two main families the Fincks and the Youngs inspired Rockbound's rival families the Krauses and the Jungs. Day's interpretation, distortion and exaggeration of community and personal lives on East Ironbound offended the residents of the island who felt betrayed. They published a letter in the Lunenburg and Halifax papers accusing Day of exploiting them for money.

Cultural impact
Rockbound was one of the selected novels in the 2005 edition of Canada Reads, where it was championed by Donna Morrissey. Rockbound eventually won the competition.

Rockbound was adapted as a musical by Allen Cole, commissioned by Two Planks and a Passion Theatre Company in Nova Scotia and presented at the Ross Creek Centre in July 2009.

'Rockbound' was first adapted as a full-length musical in 1998 by Whistling Fish Productions based in Mahone Bay, NS. The musical, which was publicly workshopped in Halifax, at Dalhousie University, was arranged by musician, Skip Beckwith, and featured songs and lyrics by Geoff Noble, with book by Susan Shillingford. The local cast of performers including noted actors Zach Fraser, Marguerite McNeil, and Elizabeth Richardson. Two stage productions ensued - -at the historical Capitol Theatre in Nelson, BC (2001), and the Mary Winspear Centre in Sidney, BC (2003). Ref: www.whistlingfishproductions.com

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No Crystal Stair

No Crystal Stair is a 1997 novel by Canadian author Mairuth Sarsfield.

The title is a reference to the line "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair" in Langston Hughes's poem "Mother to Son".

Plot summary
No Crystal Stair is a coming-of-age story set in the Little Burgundy district of Montreal during the 1940s.

Widow Marion Willow works at two jobs to raise her three daughters properly. Fighting racism and sexism, Marion schools her girls in manners, English poetry and the need for an education; her elegant neighbour and rival (both women are in love with railway porter Edmund Thompson) teaches the children the ways of the street and their black cultural heritage.

Major themes
Two themes in the novel run through No Crystal Stair: passing as white and surviving as black. Sarsfield recounts a story about the desire to survive, all the while depicting the cosmopolitan Montreal of the 1940s, a city inhabited by jazz musicians, socialites, artists and gangsters.

Reception
No Crystal Stair was one of the selected novels in the 2005 edition of Canada Reads, where it was defended by Olympic fencer Sherraine MacKay.

The book received reviews from publications including Herizons, School Library Journal, Quill & Quire, and New York Amsterdam News.

The book was the subject of articles in the journals Canadian Review of American Studies and Essays on Canadian Writing.

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Talk:Bioterrorism

Baylisascaris
What category would Baylisascaris fall under? Nathanlarson32767 06:37, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Allegation needs to be substantiated
The allegation that the US Army deliberately distributed smallpox-infected blankets among Native Americans is not upheld by a consensus of historians. What sources can you cite to support such an assertion? Ward Churchill made such accusations in Indians Are Us? and A Little Matter of Genocide, but he has been sharply contested by other historians, including those he quoted for "evidence": http://hal.lamar.edu/~BROWNTF/Churchill1.htm

If there are other, more reliable inquiries to substantiate the allegations of deliberate contamination via the US Army, please include them; otherwise, this possible misinformation should be edited out. (Note that I am in no way contesting the well-documented suggestion, if not implementation, of the British general Lord Amherst's plan to distribute smallpox-infected blankets among Native Americans in 1763.)

 * I've deleted the sentence in question. It is not approprirate ... though it happens ALL the time ... to toss around speculation as fact, particularly without any reference material to back it up.  The reason why I passed through here is that I'm generally tightening up information surrounding the smallpox article, and this article is appropriately in the "what links here" cloud. Courtland 03:33, 2005 Mar 1 (UTC)

There is no evidence the US Army did any such thing. However, the Army did conduct an experiment in New York City, where an Army investigator dropped light bulbs filled with an inert powder from the rear of a subway train in order to evaluate how quickly an aerosolized bio agent would infect people and how many would be infected. I have a textbook somewhere which details this event, but until I can retrieve it so I can provide a specific citation, I'm not going to include that in the article. 17:16, 8 June 2007 (UTC)Raryel

Ditto applies to the mythical Iraqi bioweapons. Evidence? Sources? If none, and just PSYOPS, then that part of the text ought to be deleted... —Preceding unsigned comment added by UsulHiir (talk • contribs) 00:47, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Confusion
As I do my "Skip the "Plague (disambiguation)" (You can help)" work, I came to this page. The use of Plague here seems to point close to Bubonic plague, which is what I changed the link to, but that article mentions only one bacteria and here it implies there are several. I suspect both might be correct in the context, but I don't know how to make it clear here. John (Jwy) 23:02, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Merge with biological warfare?

 * The merge template has been here for almost a year. I don't see any reason to merge this with biological warfare.  Terrorism, by definition, is something specifically aimed at civilians, while warfare isn't always (usually not?) aimed at civilians but rather involves military forces.  These are definitely distinct topics, in my opinion.  Anyone agree or disagree?  If there's agreement, then let's remove the merge template.  -Aude (talk | contribs) 19:22, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Yeah, I think terrorism is performed by groups not recognised as governments whilst war is waged between groups recognised as governments. Although the techniques used may be similar in some cases. --Username132 21:41, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Agreed too; I'll remove the merge template, a unanimous vote gathered over a year is valid even if it's just two votes - MPF 22:41, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Agreed. You shouldn't merge with biological warfare, as there is a delination between terrorism vs. warfare (involving the rules of engagement and whether attacking citizens is "open" or not)... ergo, there is a delination between bioterrorism vs. biowarfare. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.152.35.41 (talk • contribs)

 * Agreed. Per above, I agree as well, these two articles should not be merged. I especially agree with 's rationale here.  Curt Wilhelm VonSavage (talk) 09:18, 26 November 2007 (UTC).

64.135.203.59 (talk) 00:04, 9 January 2008 (UTC) the world —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.137.103.31 (talk) 00:40, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * dissagered the paper already contains bio warfare why not make it more complete —Preceding [[ comment added by zvan
 * Please note the date stamp on these sections, these proposals were made two years ago. I've set up an achiever. ChyranandChloe (talk) 04:08, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

 * Either Or - EITHER merge with biological warfare OR remove anything that is not terror but warfare. Personally, I feel that Bioterrorism should be a subsection on the Bio Warfare page (as it is so insignificant, one successful and a handfull unsuccessful attemps) - Aves Paladin (talk) 09:18, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

External links cleaup

 * Emerging Health Threats Forum
 * EU Health Portal Information on EU activities related to bioterrorism
 * Green Goo - Life In The Era Of Humane Genocide by Nick Szabo
 * Bioterrorism: Plague as a biological weapon
 * The CDC's Emergency Preparedness & Response (Bioterrorism) Website
 * Fighting Fear of a Bioterrorism Event With Information Technology: Real-World Examples and Opportunities
 * USAMRIID’s Medical Management of Biological Casualties Handbook
 * The Sunshine Project: Protection or Proliferation? Map and Publications on the US Biodefense Program
 * Bioterrorism News from Genome News Network (GNN)
 * NOVA: Bioterror
 * Pandemics and Bioterrorism: From Realistic Threats to Effective Policies Short program at MIT

Above is the old External links, some links have been removed, some can be used as references. ChyranandChloe (talk) 05:33, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Remove Ricin
I suggest to remove the Ricin paragraph as it is an act of poisoning and not Bioterrorism. - Aves Paladin (talk) 09:19, 23 June 2009 (UTC) Understood, copied and pasted the text into the discussion so that it can be moved into relevant articles. Thanks. ChyranandChloe (talk) 04:24, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Ricin incidents : In September 1978, the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was assassinated in London by means of a ricin-filled poison dart fired from an umbrella . This was the first of a long series of ricin events which would slowly unroll over the next thirty years. Bioterrorism remained quiescent for twenty-two years until March 2000, when following his suicide, police discovered ricin, a blowgun, and darts in the Irvine, California home of Dr. Larry C. Ford. A total of 266 bottles and vials of pathogens were found in refrigerators at his home and office. A cluster of ricin-related events occurred in 2003. In January that year, Scotland Yard arrested seven Algerian terror suspects after traces of ricin were discovered in their homes. Then in March, French police found small bottles containing traces of ricin in a Paris train station. During October, ricin was discovered in an envelope at a post office in Greenville, South Carolina. A month later in November, the Secret Service intercepted a letter addressed to the White House which contained a vial of ricin and a letter. The letter was a complaint about trucking regulations, and was very similar to the ricin letter discovered a month earlier in South Carolina. Ricin was found again in Washington, DC, this time in the Dirksen Senate Office building mailroom in February 2004. Ricin activity remained quiet until January 2005, when an Ocala, Florida man was arrested after FBI agents found ricin in his home. Most recently in February 2008, a man living in a Las Vegas motel was taken to a hospital in critical condition. A number of firearms and an anarchist manual were found in his motel room along with several vials of ricin.

Remove Sarin Attack
Sarin is a Chemical Agent and therefore belongs to Chemical Terror and not Bioterror. - Aves Paladin (talk) 09:22, 23 June 2009 (UTC) Understood, copied and pasted the text into the discussion so that it can be moved into relevant articles. Thanks. ChyranandChloe (talk) 04:24, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Aum Shinrikyo : In 1995 a small terrorist group, then called Aum Shinrikyo but today called Aleph, launched a Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system. The attack killed twelve and affected more than 5000. The response of Japanese emergency services successfully prevented an outcome with much higher mortality rates. This was not the group's first such attack; on March 27, 1994, Aum Shinrikyo targeted a neighborhood in Matsumoto, Japan to try to kill the judges presiding over a lawsuit involving a real-estate dispute.  There were seven fatalities.

Mustard Gas
"Instead, the use of poisonous mustard gas became the biological weapon of choice.[6][dubious – discuss] "

This is a chemical weapon, and not a biological one. Right? 213.47.144.254 (talk) 13:26, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Biological agents easy to obtain?
From the defenition section:"Bioterrorism is an attractive weapon because biological agents are relatively easy and inexpensive to obtain"

I'm no expert on these things but is it really easy to obtain biological agents compared to other weapons?, chicken pox and the flu are probably easy to obtain but to my understanding few people have access to agents such as small pox and anthrax that would be useful as weapons. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.95.137.199 (talk) 22:20, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

 * Harmful biological organisms are very easy to obtain, you can even order some of them on the Internet without identification or any certifications, nothing, not even paperwork to be filed anywhere. You can get Class 1 organisms pretty much anywhere you can think of however if you want Class 2 through 4 (the retrovirus genre) you must have stocks of strains on hand or purchase them from corporate labs or governmental labs which are either usually highly restricted or criminal.
 * If people want Bubonic or other common factors or vectors, they collect dead rodents and fowl, extract the fleas from animal carcasses which have tested positive for various anti-bodies. National Forests in the United States have Bubonic in the rodent populace and carcasses found at campgrounds test positive every year and amusingly make the news.
 * But to weaponize such materials requires expensive technology to freeze dry, crystallize, turn in to a powder of a particular granularity. Dispersal may require a binary agent, a liquid that gets mixed with the died organism. Point being, the ease of which to obtain common organisms which can kill someone is pretty much very ease. But to kill lots of people, to start an epidemic is difficult. BiologistBabe (talk) 14:43, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

The sentence also continues "can be easily disseminated" but my point is that to say it is an "attractive weapon" is kind of misleading considering how expensive it would be to manufacture compared to other weapons like regular bombs. Also considering how few cases of bioterrorism there has been it doesn't seem to be a popular weapon among terrorists. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.95.137.199 (talk) 17:21, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Rajneeshee bioterror attack
Why was the section on Rajneeshee bioterror attack removed? I see that someone put it back, I'm curious why the person who removed it did so. BiologistBabe (talk) 17:09, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Resources
The following articles may be useful:
 * Henderson, Donald A. "The looming threat of bioterrorism." Science 283.5406 (1999): 1279-1282.
 * Glass, Thomas A., and Monica Schoch-Spana. "Bioterrorism and the people: how to vaccinate a city against panic." Clinical Infectious Diseases 34.2 (2002): 217-223.

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COVID-19
As a reference in biohazzards, the COVID-19 outbreak should be included for general pandemic response and government mobilization data. Although no particular organization has claimed the global situation, it obviously should be considered. Habatchii (talk) 12:11, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

toxins?
The inclusion of toxins in this article seems dubious. The CDC definition of "bioterrorism" given in citation 4 says it "A biological attack, or bioterrorism, is the intentional release of viruses, bacteria, or other germs that can sicken or kill people, livestock, or crops." (https://www.cdc.gov/anthrax/bioterrorism/index.html) The sentence that this is supporting says "Bioterrorism is the deliberate release of viruses, bacteria, toxins or other harmful agents to cause illness or death in people, animals, or plants," but "toxins" is not in the CDC definition.

In addition, the Hummel et al. article in citation 1 does not give a definition of "bioterrorism" that includes toxins. The only references to "toxins" contrast them with biological agents (see p. 5, especially figure 2).Mwphil (talk) 18:52, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

 * Well, there is indeed uncertainty about including toxins. Geysirhead (talk) 20:20, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

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Chu Jinling

Chu Jinling (楚金玲; born 29 July 1984 in Dalian) is a retired Chinese volleyball player. Chu currently plays club ball for Liaoning, and has played for the national team during many of its recent successes.

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Volkswagen Blues

Volkswagen Blues is a French-language road novel by French-Canadian writer Jacques Poulin, his sixth, originally published by Québec-Amérique in 1984.

Inspired by the writings of Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation poets, some of whom appear in the book's later chapters, the novel explores the American landscape and cultural history from the vantage point of the open road, using writers, historical figures, popular music and art as tropes to orient the reader and tell the story of America.

Plot
Volkswagen Blues begins with its protagonist, a middle-aged, formerly successful writer from Quebec, who has adopted the ironic pen-name Jack Waterman (a metonymy playing on Waterman pens), experiencing a bout of writer's block. Having discovered an old postcard, Jack embarks on a quest to reconnect with its sender, his long-lost, rambling brother, Théo. Early into the narrative, Jack picks up a hitchhiker, a young Métisse woman, nicknamed "La Grande Sauterelle" due her long, grasshopper-like legs, as a travel companion, as well as a cat named Chop Suey.

Together in Jack's Volkswagen Minibus, which through personification becomes a character in the story, they travel from Gaspé to San Francisco, passing through Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and the American West along their way, exploring the history of European contact with the native people of the Americas. While on the road, they discuss language, literature, music, expansionism, the Oregon Trail, etc., and their trip becomes an allegory for the history of the French exploration of North America. At the same time, La Grande Sauterelle, who is struggling with her own identity, presents another version of American history, as recounted by indigenous peoples, where "discovery" is viewed as "invasion." Throughout the episodic novel a number of interesting and entertaining characters appear, including journalists, museum directors, railroad hoboes and writers such as Saul Bellow and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, as well as the spirit of Jimmie Rodgers, Ernest Hemingway, John Muir and the Beat Generation.

Jack's journey through an America that scholar Paul Socken describes as a "lost paradise" is one of disillusionment and self-discovery that allows him to break through the impasse he had met in his writing.

Reception
Volkswagen Blues was nominated for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 1984 Governor General's Awards and was one of the selected novels in the 2005 edition of Canada Reads, where it was championed by author and former National Librarian of Canada, Roch Carrier.

Volkswagen Blues was individually cited when Jacques Poulin was awarded the Prix Gilles-Corbeil (informally known as the "Nobel québécois").

Translations
Volkswagen Blues was translated into English by Sheila Fischman and published by McClelland & Stewart in 1988 and subsequently re-issued by Cormorant Books in 2002.

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bioterrorism/archive1

Bioterrorism
Good article, only needs a little more work (which tends to happen during a nomination process) to be featured, I think. I've just done a load of wikignomery, so it's arguably a self-nom. — OwenBlacker 13:49, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * Object for now. while i agree this article looks good, I think it is lacking that oomph that a FAC should have. It seems well written but it just doesnt have a lot of impact. Perhaps this is due to the constant media coverage of this subject, but I do not feel this is the right time for this to be nominated. Now for specific complaints:
 * lack of images.
 * subsection labelled stub, needs content added there
 * 0 reference to "first responders" and those responsible for cleanup.
 * Category A entries all have a 1-3 line description, are Category B and Catagory C entries not worthy of this same treatment?
 * Categories A and B have lists, Category C cops out with 1 sentance.
 * Biological warfare programs seems to be a brief afterthought.
 * I have more but this is a good start Alkivar 19:10, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Object. I mostly agree with Alkivar. Most importantly, the article fails to draw a line between bioterrorism and biological warfare. These may be very closely connected, but then so should the articles. In addition, the history seems incomplete (where's the sarin attack in the Japanese metro), and most of the topics are "discussed" by adding a link only. Far from featured status IMO. Jeronimo 07:47, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Object:
 * Category A has entries for all the mentioned biological agents, except for "viral hemorrhagic fevers". What are these?
 * Category B has entries but not in summary form.
 * Category C should be expanded.
 * Biological warfare programmes and convention on biological weapons needs expansion. I'm sure there is much more material than that!
 * Modern Bioterrorist incidents needs to be expanded in summary form.
 * There is a sentence "Arguments given to justify this option is that people are used to plants much more than to chemical sensors and the use in public places would not worry the population. Another argument is that these GMO sentinels could be deployed on vast geographical areas and their system of detection could be introduced into the evergreen trees and the algae of the watery zones, making it possible for satellites to supervise and perceive any change of color due to an hostile agent." in Plants as sensors that is totally unqualified. Who give these arguments? How do we know this information is not just made up?
 * Why is DARPA references in "See also"?
 * Ta bu shi da yu 05:50, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)


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James Hickman

James Hickman (born 2 February 1976) is a male English former competitive swimmer.

Swimming career
Hickman represented Great Britain in the Olympics, FINA world championships and European championships, and England in the Commonwealth Games. He became a world champion five times on the 200 m butterfly in short course (25 m), twice world record holder, Commonwealth Champion and four times European Champion. He announced his retirement from the sport in 2004. During that year he reached the semi-final of the 100 m butterfly in the 2004 Athens Olympics, finishing with a time of 53.10 seconds. He also reached the semi-final in the 2000 Sydney Olympics finishing 6th (likewise in the 200 m butterfly). His best appearance in an Olympic final came in the 1996 Atlanta Games, where he placed 7th in the 200 m butterfly.

At the ASA National British Championships he won the 100 metres butterfly title five times in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002  and the 200 metres butterfly title three times in 1994, 1998 and 1999.

Personal life
Hickman also owns a television and radio production company called Made in Manchester Productions. He set it up with Ashley Byrne (BBC broadcaster and former commercial radio boss) in May 2005. The company made From Bomb to Boom (about the Manchester bomb) for ITV1, Cartoon Kings presented by Sir David Jason (about animators Cosgrove and Hall) for ITV1 and Another Fine Mess for BBC Radio 2, presented by Sir Norman Wisdom (celebrating 80 years of Laurel and Hardy). Made in Manchester has also been commissioned to make a religious documentary for BBC Radio 4 which was broadcast in early 2007. They have also produced radio shows for BBC Radio Manchester in the Citizen Manchester Series, plus various other documentaries for the station. They have also produced "Jah Wobble's Mystical Musical Tour" for the BBC World Service, "Salt 'n' Pepa – Push it" for BBC Radio 1Xtra and also "Brass Britain" and a documentary about the Beach Boys for BBC Radio 2.

In 2008 Made in Manchester won the contract to deliver the PR and Communications for the FINA World Swimming Championships 2008 in the MEN Arena for which James was the Head of PR and Communications. The event was the first of its kind in a concert venue and won "Best Event Look" at the SportBusiness Awards 2008.

He currently works for Speedo International as the Global Sports Marketing Manager and manages the international sponsorships for the brand. He worked on London 2012 Olympics, 2013 FINA World Championships and 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

Hickman attended William Hulme's Grammar School and the Victoria University of Manchester.

Achievements

 * Short Course World 200 m butterfly champion in 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2004
 * Commonwealth 200 m butterfly champion – 1998
 * Short Course World record holder, 100 and 200 butterfly (short course) from 1998 to 2001
 * European 200 m butterfly champion in 1999 and 2001
 * Great Britain Olympic team member in 1996, 2000 and 2004

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Liu Yanan

Liu Yanan (born 29 September 1980 in Dalian, Liaoning) is a retired Chinese volleyball player. She currently plays club ball for Liaoning, and has played for the national team during many of its recent successes.

National team

 * 2001 World Grand Champion Cup - [[Image:Med 1.png]] Gold Medal
 * 2003 World Grand Prix - [[Image:Med 1.png]] Gold Medal
 * 2003 World Cup - [[Image:Med 1.png]] Gold Medal
 * 2004 Athens Olympic Games - Gold medal.svg Gold Medal
 * 2008 Beijing Olympic Games - Bronze medal.svg Bronze Medal

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User talk:Cheesedreams

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Yang Hao (volleyball)

Yang Hao (born 21 March 1980 in Dalian, Liaoning) is a retired Chinese female volleyball player. She was a member of the Chinese team that won the gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games and a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Clubs

 * 🇨🇳 Liaoning (1994–2000)
 * 🇨🇳 Shanghai (2000–2001)
 * 🇨🇳 Liaoning (2001–2008)
 * 🇮🇹 Pallavolo Sirio Perugia (2008–2009)
 * 🇨🇳 Guangdong Evergrande (2009–2010)

Individuals

 * 2001 FIVB World Grand Champions Cup "Most Valuable Player"
 * 2001 FIVB World Grand Champions Cup "Best Spiker"
 * 2001 FIVB World Grand Champions Cup "Best Server"
 * 2002 FIVB World Grand Prix "Best Scorer"
 * 2002 FIVB World Grand Prix "Best Spiker"
 * 2002 FIVB World Grand Prix "Best Server"
 * 2003 Asian Championship "Most Valuable Player"
 * 2003 Asian Championship "Best Scorer"
 * 2003 Asian Championship "Best Server"
 * 2003 FIVB World Grand Prix "Best Spiker"
 * 2003 FIVB World Grand Prix "Best Server"
 * 2003-2004 Chinese Volleyball League "Most Valuable Player"
 * 2005 FIVB World Grand Prix "Best Spiker"
 * 2005 FIVB World Grand Prix "Best Server"
 * 2005 Montreux Volley Masters "Best Scorer"
 * 2005 Montreux Volley Masters "Best Server"
 * 2005-2006 Chinese Volleyball League "Most Valuable Player"
 * 2007 FIVB World Grand Prix "Best Server"

Clubs

 * 2000–01 Chinese League - Simple cup icon.svg Champion, with Shanghai
 * 2005–06 Chinese League - Simple cup icon.svg Champion, with Liaoning

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Talk:Rockabilly

Important contributors missing
There is no mention of Ricky Nelson and his famed guitarist James Burton. They both contributed immensely to rockabilly with tracks like Stood Up/Waitin' In School, and its popluarization. This is important missing information in this article! 2001:4653:313E:0:84AB:7B46:406:5397 (talk) 08:18, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Not necessarily against this, but it would be helpful to have a citation for their contributions to rockabilly. Ghmyrtle (talk) 11:45, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

Also misses many pioneer african american musicians such as Rosetta Tharpe, Arthur Crudup, Fats Domino and many others 161.116.133.169 (talk) 13:26, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
 * They are very much covered in other articles, like Rock and roll, and Origins of rock and roll - but not this one which deals with a very specific (and overwhelmingly white) genre. Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:35, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

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Qi Jianhua

Qi Jianhua (齐建华; born November 5, 1980) is a Chinese volleyball player. She currently plays club ball for Liaoning.

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John Rodker

John Rodker (18 December 1894 – 6 October 1955) was an English writer, modernist poet, and publisher of modernist writers.

Biography

John Rodker was born on 18 December 1894 in Manchester, into a Jewish immigrant family. The family moved to London while he was still young.

As a young man, he was one of the so-called "Whitechapel Boys", a group including Isaac Rosenberg, Mark Gertler, David Bomberg, Samuel Weinstein and Joseph Lefkowitz (who coined the name in hindsight). From about 1911, when Rosenberg arrived, they began to aspire to literary careers; and in the years before 1914 Rodker was a published essayist and poet, in The New Age of A. R. Orage and elsewhere. Other "Whitechapel Boys" were the painters David Bomberg and Mark Gertler; they all met together at or near the Whitechapel Art Gallery.

During World War I, Rodker was a conscientious objector. He went on the run, sheltering with the poet R. C. Trevelyan, before being arrested in April 1917, imprisoned, and then transferred to the Home Office Work Centre, Princetown, in the former Dartmoor Prison. He describes this in his book Memoirs of Other Fronts.

In 1919 Rodker started the Ovid Press, a small press which lasted about a year. It published T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound (the first edition of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley) and portfolios of drawings by Wyndham Lewis, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Edward Wadsworth. In the opinion of one modern scholar, "the Ovid Press remains his most significant contribution for the originality of the titles he chose and for the place the imprint maintains alongside other private presses of the period."

That same year, Rodker took over from Pound as foreign editor of the New York magazine, The Little Review.

In the 1920s he spent time in Paris on the second edition of James Joyce's Ulysses, at that time subject to censorship, and on French translations of Joyce. He then set up the Casanova Society, for limited editions. He continued in publishing, on occult subjects under the imprint "J. Rodker" also, until a bankruptcy in 1932, when (along with other such ventures such as the Fanfrolico Press) his business folded in the Depression. He was included in the 1930 Faber and Faber collection Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress of Joyceans.

For a period he dropped publishing, concentrating on translation from French literature, and agency work for Preslit, the Soviet overseas literature organ. At this time too he apparently abandoned literary ambitions for himself. In 1937, the centennial of the death of Aleksandr Pushkin, he set up the Pushkin Press, another small press, publishing Oliver Elton's English version of Eugene Onegin and a trickle of other books.

The Imago Publishing Company was a separate, more substantial venture, set up after Sigmund Freud arrived in London in 1938. The stocks of Freud's works left when he fled Vienna and the Nazis had been destroyed; Rodker with Anna Freud worked to publish a complete edition. This was done over a dozen years, being finished in 1952. Imago was wound up in 1961.

Rodker was fluent in French, writing regularly for a French literary magazine, and was posthumously awarded the Légion d'Honneur by the government of France.

Personal life
John Rodker's father, David, joined the mass exodus of Jews from what is now Poland to escape the pogroms of the 1880s, moving to England, where, like a number of his family members, he worked as a corset-maker. As far as we know, all the Rodkers in the world are related – the name seems to have been invented for (or by) just this one family. This surname appears to be a toponymic surname based on the town of Rodka, now in Romania and renamed to Rădăuți. David married Leah Jacobson; their children were John and Peter.

John's younger brother Peter, who used the surname Roker (without the "d"), served for five years during World War I and married Helen Scott. He was institutionalized for mental illness from 1934 until his death in 1973.

John Rodker married three times. He and his first wife, the writer Mary Butts (1890–1937), married in May 1918. He already had a daughter, Joan (1915–2010), from an earlier relationship with the dancer, Sonia Cohen (1885–1979). His daughter by Mary Butts was Camilla (1920–2007), who married Henry Israel.

The second marriage was to Barbara McKenzie-Smith (1902–1996), a painter, resulting in a son, John Paul (born in 1937), whose surname was changed to Morrison when his mother, after their divorce, married E.A. Morrison III. Moura Budberg was John Paul's godmother.

The third marriage was to Marianne Rais (died 1984), a Paris bookseller and daughter of his translator Ludmila Savitzky.

Joan Rodker's son, Ernest Rodker (born 1937), by the actor Gerard Heinz, was a post-World War II conscientious objector, a founder member of the Committee of 100 and serves as the British spokesperson for Mordechai Vanunu and became a founding member of the Battersea Power Station Community Group.

Published by Rodker's Ovid Press

 * John Rodker, Poems (1914)
 * Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Twenty Drawings from the Note-Books of H. Gaudier-Brzeska (1919)
 * Ezra Pound, The Fourth Canto (1919)
 * Wyndham Lewis, Fifteen Drawings (1920)
 * T.S. Eliot, Ara Vus Prec (1920)
 * Roger Fry, Catalogue: Paintings Drawings and Etchings by Auguste Renoir (1920)
 * Clive Bell, Catalogue: Woodcuts and Drawings by Nicola Galante (1920)
 * John Rodker, Hymns (1920)
 * Ezra Pound, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920)
 * Roald Kristian, A Bestiary (1920)
 * Oscar Wilde, To M. B. J. (1920)
 * Edward Wadsworth, The Black Country (1920)
 * Ezra Pound, Bel Esprit (1922)
 * André Germain, Chants dans la Brume (1922)
 * James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)

Written by John Rodker

 * Poems (1914) first collection
 * Hymns (1920) Ovid Press
 * Montagnes Russes (1923) in French translation by Ludmila Savitzky
 * Dartmoor (1926) in French translation by Ludmila Savitzky
 * The Future of Futurism (1926)
 * Adolphe 1920 (1929)
 * Collected Poems, 1912–1925 (Hours Press, 1930)
 * Memoirs of Other Fronts (1932)
 * Poems & Adolphe 1920 (1996) Carcanet Press reissue

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Pushkin Press

Pushkin Press is a British-based publishing house dedicated to publishing novels, essays, memoirs and children's books. The London-based company was founded in 1997 and is notable for publishing authors such as Stefan Zweig, Marcel Aymé, Antal Szerb, Paul Morand and Yasushi Inoue, as well as award-winning contemporary writers, including Andrés Neuman, Edith Pearlman, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Eka Kurniawan and Ryu Murakami.

History
Pushkin Press was founded in 1997 by Melissa Ulfane whose ambition was to bring literature in translation to the UK. It is notable for rediscovering less known European classics of the twentieth century and is largely responsible for reigniting worldwide interest into authors such as Stefan Zweig and Antal Szerb.

In 2012, Pushkin Press was bought by Adam Freudenheim, then Penguin Classics publisher, and Stephanie Seegmuller, a former Penguin senior business development manager. Seegmuller left Pushkin in March 2015.

In 2013, Pushkin Press created Pushkin Children's Books, an imprint dedicated to publishing tales for younger readers. In its first year, Pushkin Children's Books published English translations of the French children's series Oksa Pollock by Anne Plichota and Cendrine Wolf, the first of which, The Last Hope, was the company's bestselling title in 2014. Dutch Classic The Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt, translated into English by Laura Watkinson, has been the company's most successful children's book.

Also in Autumn 2013, Pushkin Press created ONE, an imprint focused on literary debuts that publishes one exceptional fiction or non-fiction title a season. All titles published under the ONE imprint were initially commissioned and edited by Elena Lappin. Lappin left Pushkin in 2017, but the ONE imprint continues with the focus on contemporary English-language originals.

In 2014, Pushkin Press published Anthea Bell's faithful English translation of Erich Kästner's 1949 German children's novel The Parent Trap, the basis for Disney's 1961 film adaptation of the same name starring Hayley Mills and its 1998 remake starring Lindsay Lohan. Then in 2020, Australian actress Ruby Rees recorded an unabridged narration of Bell's translation for Bolinda. </r

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Titles published by ONE so far include the Man Booker Prize shortlisted
 * Chigozie Obioma – The Fishermen (26 February 2015)

Key people

 * Publisher & Managing Director: Adam Freudenheim
 * Deputy Publisher: Laura Macaulay
 * Editor: Daniel Seton
 * Publicist: Tabitha Pelly
 * Editor: Harriet Wade
 * Head of Marketing: Natalie Ramm
 * Digital Marketing Executive: Elise Jackson
 * Editorial Assistant: Rory Williamson
 * Managing Editor: India Darsley
 * Children's Editor-at-Large: Sarah Odedina
 * Children's Editor: Simon Mason

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The Swedish Linnaeus Society (Swedish Svenska Linnésällskapet) is a Swedish learned society devoted to the study of the 18th century naturalist Carl Linnaeus. It was founded at a meeting taking place at Hammarby, the country house of Linnaeus outside Uppsala, on May 23, 1917, the 210th birthday of Carl Linnaeus. In 1918 it took over the old botanical garden in Uppsala, Linnaean Garden, and from 1918 until 1923 restored it according to Linnaeus' own plans and specifications in his published work Hortus Upsaliensis from 1745. The care for the garden was taken over by Uppsala University in 1977. The society still runs the Linnaeus Museum in the 17th-century house adjacent to the garden, where Linnaeus once lived.

The yearbook of the society, Svenska Linnésällskapets Årsskrift, has been published since 1918. In addition, it has republished some of Linnaeus's own publications. In cooperation with, among others, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Uppsala University and the Linnean Society of London, the society is involved in the digital publication of the correspondence of Linnaeus.

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