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Billycan

A billycan is an Australian term for a lightweight cooking pot in the form of a metal bucket commonly used for boiling water, making tea/coffee or cooking over a campfire or to carry water. It is commonly known simply as a billy, or occasionally as a billy can (billy tin or billy pot in Canada).

Usage

The term billy or billycan is particularly associated with Australian usage, but is also used in New Zealand, and to a lesser extent Britain and Ireland.

In Australia, the billy has come to symbolise the spirit of exploration of the outback and is a widespread symbol of bush life, although now regarded mostly as a symbol of an age that has long passed.

To boil the billy most often means to make tea. This expression dates from the Australian gold rushes and probably earlier. "Billy Tea" was the name of a popular brand of tea long sold by Australian grocers and supermarkets. Billies feature in many of Henry Lawson's stories and poems. Banjo Paterson's most famous of many references to the billy is surely in the first verse and chorus of Waltzing Matilda: "Waltzing Matilda and leading a waterbag", which was later changed by the Billy Tea Company to "And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled ...".

Etymology
Although there is a suggestion that the word may be associated with the Aboriginal billa (meaning water; cf. Billabong), it is widely accepted that the term billycan is derived from bouilli can, the name given to the empty canisters used for preserving soup and bouilli and other foods. With the addition of a handle, the tins were re-purposed for boiling water. Letters to newspapers in the early 20th century support this view and David George Stead quoting his father, who emigrated in 1862 aged 16, wrote "the term "billy can" was commonly used in south coastal England, to describe a "bouilli" can or tin.

The preservation of foods in tin canisters began in 1812 at the firm of Donkin, Hall and Gamble in Bermondsey, England.

The reuse of the empty cans probably began at the same time but it is not until 1835 that there is a record of "an empty preserved-meat-canister serving the double purpose of tea-kettle and tea-pot".

By the 1840s, soup and bouilli tin or bouilli tin was increasingly being used as a generic term for any empty preserved food can.

The earliest known use of billy for kettle is in an 1848 Tasmanian newspaper report of a criminal trial. A defendant is reported as saying "he put some bread on the table and the "billy" on the fire." Reminiscences by Heberley and Davenport place billy or billies at earlier events but these accounts were written much later.

Another early example from 1849 shows that use of the term was possibly widespread in Australia. It occurs in idyllic description of a shepherd's life in South Australia: "near the wooden fire, is what is called the billy or tea-kettle".

From 1851 the gold rushes spur British emigration to Australia with many gold diggers writing letters home describing the journey to Australia and life on the goldfields and many writers mentioning their use of a "billy". From these it is known:
 * In 1853 soup and bouilli cans were converted to useful items on an emigrant ship.
 * "Billy - (this is what you call a tin-can, which is used very often at home for milking cows in, but which the diggers have christened Billy) - and a useful Billy he is: in it we make our tea and coffee".

By 1855 "tin billys" are no longer just repurposed bouilli tins but are being sold by a Melbourne importer and by 1859 are being manufactured in Australia with "Billys, all sizes" being sold at the Kyneton Tin and Zinc Works.

Whitely Kings
Named for the secretary of the Pastoralists' Union of New South Wales, this was the swagman's contemptuous term for billycans improvised from a tin can and a length of wire as carried by inexperienced travellers. John Whiteley King (1857–1905) enticed hundreds of unemployed city men to the shearing sheds as a strike-busting strategy.

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M51 (missile)

The M51 SLBM is a French submarine-launched ballistic missile, built by ArianeGroup, and deployed with the French Navy. Designed to replace the M45 SLBM (In French terminology the MSBS – Mer-Sol-Balistique-Stratégique "Sea-ground-Strategic ballistic"), it was first deployed in 2010.

Each missile carries six to ten independently targetable TN 75 thermonuclear warheads.

The three-stage engine of the M51 is directly derived from the solid propellant boosters of Ariane 5. Like other blunt-nosed SLBM examples, such as the Trident D5, the M51 uses an extensible aerospike in the nose.

The missiles are a compromise over the M5 SLBM design, which was to have a range of 11000 km and carry ten new-generation tête nucléaire océanique' ("oceanic nuclear warhead") MIRVs. Design work on the M5 started in the late 1980s by Aérospatiale, before the programme was renamed the M51 in 1996, when development costs decreased by 20 percent. The M51 entered service in 2010.

Development

After having spent €5 billion ($6.7 billion) developing the missile, the French government placed a €3 billion ($3.9 billion) order with EADS SPACE Transportation for the M51 in December 2004. The contract covered serial production of the M51 for 10 years, with the company to be responsible for sustained readiness support throughout the missile's life.

The M51 performed its first flight test (unarmed) on 9 November 2006 from the French missile flight test centre in Biscarrosse (Landes). The target was reached twenty minutes later, in the north-west of the Atlantic Ocean.

A second and third successful test were carried out on 21 June 2007 and 13 November 2008.

On 27 January 2010, at 9h25, a missile was launched underwater by FRENCH SUBMARINE Le Terrible, from Audierne Bay off the coast of Brittany in north-western France. The missile reached its target 2000 km off South Carolina; the 4500 km flight took less than 20 minutes.

A 10 July 2010 test validated the Triomphant-class submarine's capacity to launch the M51 in operational conditions.

On 5 May 2013, an M51 flight test missile failed after being fired by a submerged ballistic missile submarine off the coast of Brittany. This was the first failed launch of the M51 after five successful launches since 2006.

In 2014 Airbus signed a deal with the French government for development work on an upgrade designated M51.3 to equip the SNLE 3G.

On 30 September 2015, an M51 was successfully test-flown from a land-based missile site near Biscarrosse to a desolate target in the North Atlantic.

On 10 May 2016 Airbus and Safran signed a joint 50-50 partnership to develop the M51.3 upgrade intended to enter service around 2025.

On 12 June 2020, a successful test launch of an M51.3 missile (supposedly) was conducted from the Le Téméraire Triomphant-class submarine off the south-west tip of Finistère (Brittany).

On April 28, 2021 French Ministry of Armed Forces announced that it had tested an M51 submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM). The test was not launched from a French Navy Triomphant-class submarine but from a land based facility located in South Western France.

On April 19, 2023 the French Ministry of Armed Forces announced another M51 test, launched from the French Navy Le Terrible SSBN.

M51.3 was test fired successfully in November 2023.

Operators

 * French Navy – Primary armament for the Triomphant-class SSBN and the future SNLE 3G SSBNs.
 * French Navy – Primary armament for the Triomphant-class SSBN and the future SNLE 3G SSBNs.

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Talk:Image Comics

Adjustment to claim of first titles to hit the shelves
Edited the section that mentions the first titles to hit the shelves to include Larsen's Savage Dragon. This title was shipped the same week as Spawn's first issue, and both were three weeks before Lee's WildCATs title. -sapbuckets

Image characters are rip off of Marvel characters
ShadowHawk is Wolverine and Darkhawk Spawn is Spiderman and Venom WildCats/Cyberforce/Youngblood is a rip off of X-force

I think the only thing original image produced was the Maxx and Wetworks.

The "history" section especially is full of pro-Image/anti-Marvel rhetoric. I will work on this when I get some time. -leigh (φθόγγος) 02:42, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

 * It's basically just a summary of the last external link. The first paragraph might not be too friendly towards Marvel, but the rest of the section isn't exactly friendly towards Image. - Lifefeed 17:00, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

I and new to the site but you also have Marvel bias from the editors on this wiki. - nerosmoke 13:00, july 5, 2016 (UTC)

"Cotton" quote
RE: "Supposedly, the meeting became intense and, when the artists threatened to leave Marvel, Stewart said the company could "always find someone else to pick the cotton," an analogy that compared the artists to slaves."

This is a highly incendiary quotation, and possibly libelous. What is the citation for this, and is it proper to quote someone without citation? As a journalist, I know the word "supposedly" is not considered a defense against libel.

 * It appears to be true, though. The Image Comics Tenth Anniversary hardcover contains a timeline of Image Comics events, and the above incident is included. The direct quote is this: "Liefeld, McFarlane and Lee meet with Marvel CEO, Terry Stewart, who offers them the Epic imprint. McFarlane rejects offer...colorfully (tells Stewart where to shove his offer). Liefeld leaves the meeting early. Stewart tells them he will not '...kiss (their) asses. You boys don't get that anyone can pick the cotton.' (McFarlane will, hereafter, refer to Marvel as 'The Plantation.' )" --Michael24 01:50, 19 January 2006

Age of Bronze
Not all of Image's titles involve poorly-rendered numbskulls in spandex walloping each other with power blasts. For years, Eric Shanower's "Age of Bronze" series has painstakingly chronicled the historical Trojan War...which is, of course, the original tale of numbskulls walloping each other. But it is quite well-rendered.

Cleanup wrong/bad links
The "Notable series published" section has a lot of misdirected links. In some cases, ambiguous title names are pointing to the wrong article, so I'm either pointing it to its comic-related article, or if there currently is no such article, I'm de-linking it. I've finished the first column, will work on correcting the rest a bit later. ---Jackel 00:46, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you. --Chris Griswold 06:16, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Better-Known Series
Hi there, I just wanted to mention that I added ShadowHawk to that list. That series is sometimes described as one of Image's "flagship" series on the Image Comics website. Plus it is still around and selling relatively well compared to other Image Comics series. Feel free to accept this revision or not. Thanks. --ShadowAvatar 18:36, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Problems with the presumption that Image is seperate from Marvel...
Check any Image comic, the last time I did was Spawn #18. Image is a subsidiary of Malibu comics, which is a subsidiary of Marvel Comics. The whole thing was a publicity stunt to give popular artists a chance to make even more money for Marvel. Maize5 01:10, 27 April 2007 (UTC)Brett Harris/Maize5

 * No, It was not. Malibu DID have an association with Image at the begining, but only as "official keeper of records". And in any case, Malibu wasn't bought by Marvel until years AFTER Image became it's own company.

 * I am confirming the poster above me as image is owned by dc comics right now. -nerosmoke

 * That's absolute nonsense. The ownership of Image by its (currently five) partners is well documented. -Jason A. Quest (talk) 23:29, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
 * DC Comics bought Wildstorm, which was Jim Lee's Image Comics imprint, in 1999. But DC doesn't and never has owned Image. Klintron23 (talk) 18:11, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

Shattered Image ?
What was "Shattered Image" minisers--Brown Shoes22 01:34, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

All tease, no please
"Image's success has significantly changed the position of creators in the comic book industry,"

Shouldn't that be expanded upon and supported, or removed?

How many studios remains
Which studios remains at Image today? Is it correct that these are Todd McFarlane Productions, Desperado Publishing, 12 Gauge Productions, Beckett Comics and Top Cow Productions? If so, this should clearly be mentioned. 193.217.192.160 13:35, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

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citation v. external link for TCJ article
The Comics Journal article, "The Image Story," which is already listed in the external links, corroborates the "two provisions" in the Founding section, currently marked as needing a citation. (It also corroborates the previously discussed "cotton" quote, BTW.) If it is added as a reference, is it redundant to leave it in the external links? --Sloop Jon (talk) 01:22, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Should be fine - unless those parts are the be-all and end-all of the article. ntnon (talk) 03:22, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Split
The article has reached the point where the titles need their own article in line with the other big publishers. List of current Image Comics publications (and any such "current" list) is unwise as it relies on being constantly updated and it dates rapidly so I'd suggest merging that into the new publication article list.

This would then give the article room to expand into a better, more rounded piece that we can push on to higher quality (as befits its status as one of the biggest comic publishers). It will also mean that the titles can be properly formatted and other useful information added (as you can see at List of DC Comics publications, List of Marvel Comics publications, List of Wildstorm titles, etc.) so both parts will benefit from the split. (Emperor (talk) 23:31, 22 September 2008 (UTC))

 * I'll just assume the lack of replies is the same as "go for it" and will do the split later. (Emperor (talk) 13:39, 4 October 2008 (UTC))

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Megalodon character?
Article has "Superheroes and teams from the Image Universe" which includes "Megalodon". (Link went to article about shark that lived in prehistoric times so changing link to "Megalodon (comics)". I've never heard of this Megalodon character before, although the closest i can find at comicbookdb.com is a character named Megaldon-7 who apparently is in DC Comics' Strange Adventures (2009) #6 and #7. --EarthFurst (talk) 18:52, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Claremont
This article said "This development was nicknamed the "X-odus", because several of the creators involved (Claremont, Liefeld, Lee, Silvestri, and Portacio) were famous for their work on the X-Men franchise." But Claremont didn't abandon Marvel in order to create Image. He abandon one year before and didn't create his own studio nor company. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.122.13.174 (talk) 07:07, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
 * That doesn't change the fact that this was called "X-odus", or the reason why. Claremont was "involved" in it, even if he (like Portacio) didn't join them to become a partner in the company. -Jason A. Quest (talk) 16:10, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Merger proposal
Merge the non-notable, poorly referenced Cyberforce (and any others) to here. GenQuest "Talk to Me" 19:13, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

 * Cyberforce has had improved sourcing so I think it should be kept as a solo article. Dwanyewest (talk) 21:47, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I think Cyberforce does a passable job of establishing notability. But more importantly, I don't see how the content of the article could be properly integrated into Image Comics, especially not without creating undue weight problems.--NukeofEarl (talk) 16:16, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Dinner with Dave Olbrich?
The opening paragraph of the "Founding" section talks of a dinner with Dave Olbrich, but the story is never finished. What does this have to do with the founding of Image? We can only guess. If someone has more information, please include it (with citations, of course). Otherwise, it should probably removed. Matt Thorn (talk) 20:56, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
 * His company Malibu was the de facto publisher for the initial batch of Image comics (mentioned later in the article). -Jason A. Quest (talk) 01:11, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

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Current ongoing series / Former notable series
I'm unconvinced of the value of the "current ongoing series" section. In theory it should change literally every month, and it isn't always clear (without reading them all or knowing the creators) when a series is no longer "current" or "ongoing": cancellations and planned endings aren't necessarily announced. I haven't seen a new issue of A Distant Soil or Age of Bronze in a long time... so how exactly do we know they're still ongoing? A new title might be listed as "#1" with no plans to ever publish a #2, or maybe there are but sales are poor so it never happens. They don't clearly distinguish between limited and ongoing series, either. We don't try to maintain such a list for any other comics publisher, for all these reasons.

The "former notable series" section is less problematic and more encyclopedic in nature, because it doesn't try to be complete. But it still suffers from a total lack of sources. I don't necessarily doubt that Protectors Inc. was published from 2013–2014, for example... but how notable was it? Even the titles that have WP articles aren't necessarily significant to Image Comics as a publisher: they might have been just one more book Image put out for a year or a few, and never collected or reprinted it. -Jason A. Quest (talk) 01:37, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Seeing no objections, I've remove the "current ongoing" section. I added some of them to a more general "notable series" section, but that needs clean-up. I started that clean-up by removing any series that doesn't have an article, since that implies a lack of notability. The section needs some kind of sourcing. -Jason A. Quest (talk) 12:36, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Market share
I recently added a caveat to the claim that Image is the third-largest comic book publisher, since the numbers come from direct market sales, not the overall market for comics and graphic novels, which would also include digital sales and the book trade, where Marvel, DC, and Image compete with the likes of First Second and Scholastic.

Another issue is that the most recent direct market market share numbers I can find are from the first quarter of 2020, when Diamond Distributors was still the primary source for all direct market comics. https://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2020.html https://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2021.html

During the pandemic, however, DC dropped Diamond and instead went with two new distributors, Lunar Distribution and UCS Comic Distributors. Then in 2021 Marvel moved to exclusively distribute to the direct market through Penguin Random House. Other publishers have started distributing through Lunar as well. Image just went exclusive with them today.https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/54187/image-goes-exclusive-lunar-direct-market-distribution Fragmented distribution makes calculating market share harder, which I assume is why Comichron hasn't compiled any sort of market share numbers since 2020.

Someone with paid access to ICv2 or Book Scan might be able to provide more up-to-date market share numbers. I suggest we wait until the end of this year and remove the claim about market share from the entry if more current (at least through the end of 2021) data is not available by then. Klintron23 (talk) 18:28, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

 * Or caveat the statement in some way such that it says it was the third-largest comic book publisher or obtained the third-largest market share in 19XX/20XX, etc. (I always found those statements a bit tenuous, and they've just been left there for years now... Similar statements are also at IDW Publishing and Dark Horse Comics.)-2pou (talk) 18:52, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I found a free ICv2 article from January, 2023 with market share data from the ComicHub point-of-sale system. This appears to be what ICv2 is using for market share data now. On one hand, it draws from a smaller sample than using the pre-order numbers from the distributors. On the other hand, it provides actual sell-through data, which is more indicative of what consumers are actually buying. At any rate, this is the most up-to-date market share information I can find anywhere and certainly better than relying on data from Q1 2020. Klintron23 (talk) 01:18, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Todo
I've seen "todo lists" on a few other articles, so I thought one would be helpful here. I plan to do as much of this as I can but would welcome help and feedback.

• Add necessary citations where still needed and/or remove unsupported statements.

• Founding: Clean-up, plus add a few more details: the Executioners ad, Huntsman announcement, and Fabian Nicieza's criticism of the founders' exit from Marvel.

• Development (Maybe this should be renamed "Early Years"?): Clean-up, plus a few more details: 1993 "Image Implosion," Deathmate, 1963, Image X-Day, Images of Tomorrow.

• Diversification: Expand. More on Valentino's Shadowline non-line (what were those early books that were unsuccessful?). More on the early 00s. More Walking Dead/Kirkman, more Saga. As it expands, maybe split into more segments (ex: Valentino-era, Larsen-era, and Stephenson-era).

• A section with more recent developments: Image United, Savage Dragon # 225, AMC Secret History of Comics episode, Spawn # 300, more on unionization.

• Maybe more on awards won by Image creators.

• Eventually perhaps a Controversies section for the early criticism of the company, late books/Deathmate issues, and unionization. Klintron23 (talk) 00:31, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

 * I've done most of what was on this list now. Most of what I didn't end up adding I felt weren't notable enough to include (Image X-Day, Images of Tomorrow, Fabian Nicieza's criticism, etc.).
 * I'd love to see someone take a pass at updating the Accolades section, though. Klintron23 (talk) 15:47, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

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Return on assets

The return on assets (ROA) shows the percentage of how profitable a company's assets are in generating revenue.

ROA can be computed as below:

 * $$\mathrm{ROA} = \frac{\mbox{Net Income}}{\mbox{Average Total Assets}}$$

The phrase return on average assets (ROAA) is also used, to emphasize that average assets are used in the above formula.

This number tells you what the company can do with what it has, i.e. how many dollars of earnings they derive from each dollar of assets they control. It's a useful number for comparing competing companies in the same industry. The number will vary widely across different industries. Return on assets gives an indication of the capital intensity of the company, which will depend on the industry; companies that require large initial investments will generally have lower return on assets. ROAs over 5% are generally considered good.

Usage
Return on assets is one of the elements used in financial analysis using the Du Pont Identity.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Case law in the United States

Case law in the United States
First half: watered-down version of case law; second half: watered-down version of Law of the United States. Delete. --zenohockey 02:46, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. I agree, it seems superfluous. Wyss 20:16, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * No information that isn't discussed in more useful forms elsewhere. Delete. Inky 00:01, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Extremely strong Keep. This is a VERY GOOD and unusually accurate discussion of the US legal system. Noah Peters


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Cover for album Vinyl Confessions by Kansas.

Fair use rationale for

 * It is believed that the use of this image on the English-language Wikipedia to illustrate an article on the audio recording in question falls under the "Non-profit educational" clause of the Fair Use doctrine currently upheld by United States law. (17 U.S.C. § 107)
 * The image is irreplaceable; a free analogue is impossible to produce as the original will be covered by copyright for the foreseeable future
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 * For the same reasons, the portion of the copyrighted work used is of inherently lower quality than the original, reducing the risk of competitiveness and therefore the effects of this copy on the market for or value of versions held by the owner of the copyright

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sidharth Sethi

Sidharth Sethi 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 to delete

Sidharth Sethi
Based on information in article, not notable. -[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 02:47, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. If this guy is notable, I should definitely have my own article.  Postdlf 02:58, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: Some dude. He's a grad student.  There are far too many grad students. Geogre 05:16, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. Spangineer 23:38, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, meanwhile, just gasping to know where he'll move next. Wyss 01:02, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vanity page. --MPerel 16:16, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. --Improv 19:36, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Lost Hills

The Lost Hills are a low mountain range in the Transverse Ranges, near Lost Hills, California and Interstate 5 in western Kern County, California.

They contain the Lost Hills Oil Field, the largest oil field in Kern County, and are located in the southwestern San Joaquin Valley.

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Vinyl Confessions

Vinyl Confessions is the eighth studio album by American rock band Kansas, released in 1982. It includes "Play the Game Tonight", which broke the Top 20 and is Kansas's third highest-charting single, surpassed only by "Carry on Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind". The album was reissued in remastered format on CD in 1996 on Legacy/Epic and again in 2011.

Background
Vinyl Confessions was a major turning point for the band. After the conversion of both guitarist/keyboard player Kerry Livgren and bass player Dave Hope to Christianity, and the focus that Livgren placed on his religion in the band's lyrics, lead singer Steve Walsh did not agree with the new direction of the band and left to form his own band, Streets. Walsh had also contributed much as a songwriter, so the band was forced to find a new lead singer who not only had a vocal style that fit the band's music, but also could contribute material for the upcoming album. After a long audition process, the choice came down to three strong candidates: Warren Ham, Michael Gleason and John Elefante. The band eventually settled on Elefante.

"Fair Exchange" described the world under the rule of the Anti-Christ, while "Chasing Shadows" pointed out the frustration in seeking anything outside Biblical truth. "Diamonds and Pearls" emphasized the value of spiritual wealth over financial wealth, while "Face It", "Windows" and "Borderline" all had strong evangelistic appeals to the listener. The album's closer, "Crossfire", made the album's position abundantly clear in its indirect reference to Jesus Christ ("the one who rose").

Vinyl Confessions did not go unnoticed by the nascent Contemporary Christian music (CCM) industry, which was just coming into its own at that time. Numerous Christian magazines trumpeted Kansas' new musical direction, and CCM Magazine even chose Vinyl Confessions as the No. 1 CCM album of 1982. All this attention created an entirely new audience of listeners for Kansas, but it also created further tensions within the band. Those tensions came to a head during the recording of their next album, Drastic Measures.

Queen drummer Roger Taylor was recording a solo album in the studio next door, and contributed background vocals on a handful of songs on the album.

Vinyl Confessions was also the last album with violinist/vocalist Robby Steinhardt, who left the band after the supporting tour and did not return until 1997.

Reception
While acknowledging the comeback success of the single "Play the Game Tonight", AllMusic's retrospective review was largely negative. They criticized the Christian lyrics as being "often of a judgmental, us-versus-you nature", and insinuated that the album fell more into a generic pop rock vein than Kansas's earlier albums ("it was getting hard to distinguish Kansas from Foreigner and Journey").

Personnel

 * Kansas
 * John Elefante — keyboards, lead vocals
 * Kerry Livgren — guitar, keyboards, Synclavier programming
 * Robby Steinhardt — violin, vocals, lead vocals on "Crossfire"
 * Rich Williams — guitar
 * Dave Hope — bass
 * Phil Ehart — drums

 * Additional musicians
 * Warren Ham — harmonica
 * Bill Bergman — alto saxophone, tenor saxophone on tracks 2, 5 and 6
 * Lee Thornburg, John Berry Jr. — trumpets on tracks 2 and 5
 * Greg Smith — baritone saxophone on tracks 2 and 5
 * Jim Coile — tenor saxophone on tracks 2 and 5
 * Ben Dahlke — bassoon on track 5
 * David Pack, Donna Williams — background vocals
 * Roger Taylor — background vocals on "Right Away", "Diamonds and Pearls", "Play the Game Tonight"

 * Production
 * Kansas – producer
 * Ken Scott – producer, engineer
 * Brian Leshon, David Spritz, Phil Jost, Ralph Sutton – assistant engineers
 * Stan Ricker – mastering at Original Masteringworks/Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, California
 * Tom Drennon - art direction and design
 * Andrew Barnum - additional art
 * Glen Wexler - photography

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USS Perry (DD-11)

The second USS Perry was a Bainbridge-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry.

Construction
Perry was laid down on 19 April 1899, by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California; launched on 27 October 1900; sponsored by Miss Maude O'Connor; and commissioned on 4 September 1902.

Pre-World War I
Perry was assigned to the Pacific Torpedo Flotilla and based at Mare Island until the United States entered World War I. Her operations took her as far north as Alaska and south along the coast of Mexico; and in the fall of 1908, combined fleet maneuvers took her to Hawaii.

Perhaps the highlight of the torpedo boat destroyer's career came during the earthquake which struck San Francisco on 18 April 1906, and the resulting fire which devastated the city. For four days after, they were awakened by severe rolling and pitching of their ship before dawn on 18 April, the crew labored to save the western metropolis by fighting fires; patrolling districts where stores, warehouses, and homes were threatened by looters; and providing medical aid to countless injured men, women, and children.

In 1914, Perry observed the Topolobampo naval campaign in the Gulf of California during the Mexican Revolution, she was present at the Fourth Battle of Topolobampo, the final naval action of the campaign.

World War I
When the United States entered World War I, Perry patrolled off the California Coast until steaming to Panama where, beginning on 28 July 1917, she guarded the entrance to the vital canal. On 30 May 1918, she sailed for Key West for patrol duty in the Florida Keys. After the Armistice, she got under way for the Delaware Bay on 29 January 1919, and remained at the Philadelphia Navy Yard until decommissioning on 2 July. Perry's name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 15 September, and she was sold to Henry A. Hitner's Sons Company for scrapping on 5 January 1920.

Noteworthy commanding officers

 * Lieutenant commander Frank Herman Schofield (25 June 1904 – 1 November 1905) (Later Rear Admiral)
 * Lieutenant Edgar Brown Larimer (11 July 1907 – 13 October 1909) (Later Rear admiral and Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance (1931-1934))
 * Lieutenant JG Harry Adrian McClure (11 September 1915 – 3 April 1916) (Later Commodore)

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Lost Springs

Lost Springs may refer to:

Places

 * United States:
 * Lost Springs, Kansas
 * Lost Springs, Wyoming

In entertainment

 * Stolen Spring (film), 1993 Danish film sometimes referred to as The Lost Spring
 * Lost Spring, a 1967 Japanese drama film

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Roger Taylor
I was under the impression that Roger Taylor of Queen did some guest vocals or drums on Play the Game Tonight? Anyone know? --Drowse 06:29, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

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Loudonville

Loudonville may refer to:

 * Loudonville, New York
 * Loudonville, Ohio

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US Government Financial Statements
"This page is intended as a data dump for US Government Financial Statements." I think that opening statement says it all. I recommended on the creator's talk page that he try wikisource instead for this. Postdlf 02:51, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete. This isn't the place for data dumps. Gamaliel 03:00, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: We don't need to transwiki it. The creator has been asked and ought to do the right thing.  Just delete from article space. Geogre 05:17, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete Wiki is not a mirror, nor a web archive. Wyss 00:59, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete or Redirect to Wikisource when there's an article there. --Improv 19:36, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. not a data dump. --MPerel 19:37, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)


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Nankin

Nankin may refer to:

 * Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China, formerly romanised as Nankin
 * Nankeen, a kind of pale yellowish cloth, originally made at Nanjing, China
 * Nankin bantam or Nankin is a British bantam breed of chicken
 * Nankin, Georgia, a community in the United States
 * Nankin, Queensland, a locality in the Shire of Livingstone, Queensland, Australia
 * Nankin Township, Michigan, parts of which became incorporated into Garden City, Inkster, and Wayne, Michigan, with the remainder of the township incorporated as the city of Westland, Michigan in 1966.
 * Nankin (stallion) (1957), is a half-bred stallion from France

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Ponderosa (TV series)

The Ponderosa is a television series developed by Bonanza creator David Dortort for PAX TV that ran for the 2001–2002 television season.

Envisioned as a prequel to the NBC series Bonanza, covering the time when the Cartwrights first arrived at the Ponderosa, when Adam and Hoss were teenagers and Joe a little boy, it had less gunfire, brawling and other traditional western elements than the original.

Bonanza creator David Dortort approved PAX TV's decision to hire Beth Sullivan, creator and executive producer of Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman, to oversee scripts and executive produce, which some believe gave the series a softer edge.

The Ponderosa was canceled after one season, in part because of disappointing ratings and high production costs. Although Sullivan had hoped to film the series in and around Los Angeles, PAX decided to film in Australia to reduce costs. The series should not be confused with Ponderosa, the title used for Bonanza reruns aired on NBC in mid-1972.

Premise
Territory of Nevada, year 1849: ten years before the original Bonanza starts, the Cartwright family moves onto some scrub land. In this new land Ben Cartwright, a new widower, tries to raise his three young sons – at their late teens Adam and Hoss, and a pre-teen Joseph, commonly known as Little Joe.

Main

 * Matt Carmody as Adam Cartwright
 * Daniel Hugh Kelly as Ben Cartwright
 * Drew Powell as Hoss Cartwright
 * Jared Daperis as Little Joe Cartwright

Recurring

 * Brad Dourif as Frenchy
 * Josephine Byrnes as Margaret Green
 * Fernando Carrillo as Carlos Rivera de Vega
 * Sara Gleeson as Tess Greene
 * Nicky Wendt as Shelby Sterritt
 * Gareth Yuen as Hop Sing
 * Marcella Toro (episodes 6–7) and Jaqueline Aries (episodes 10–16) as Isabella Maria Rivera de Vega
 * Peter Stefanou as Jorge

Guests

 * Christopher Kirby as Samuel Newborn

Home release
Shortly after the series first aired, four episodes were released on two DVDs. The first DVD featured both parts of the pilot episode, while the second featured "Brother vs. Brother" and "Treasure".

On May 25, 2004, The Ponderosa: Season 1: Volume 1 was released. This set collects the first ten episodes of the series. No plans have been announced yet to release the last ten episodes of the series on DVD.

Continuity
A number of minor (or perceived) inconsistencies exist between Ponderosa and Bonanza, and a few glaring retcons are present.
 * Most notable among these is the fate of Little Joe's mother. In the original series, her death was depicted in the episode "Marie, My Love" (4x20) as a result of falling off a horse in front of the Ponderosa ranch house. In the new series, she is killed in Virginia City by a miner who is trying to murder Eli Orowitz. Making the situation even more confusing, the pilot for the original series identifies Little Joe's mother as Felicia and not Marie as in the original.
 * The Hop Sing character is depicted not only as a cook, but also a family counselor and herbal healer.

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A Giant Alien Force More Violent & Sick Than Anything You Can Imagine

A Giant Alien Force More Violent & Sick Than Anything You Can Imagine is a 2002 Venetian Snares single released on the Hymen label, consisting of one fifteen-and-a-half minute long experimental breakcore track (the track happens to have a 15/4 time signature). The packaging consists of a jewellery box-style case containing a 3" CD and a working television-shaped View-Master with a slide show of artwork from Hymen label owner Stefan Alt, AKA Salt. The single was limited to small number of copies and sold out within a week after its release.

Track listing

 * 1) "A Giant Alien Force More Violent & Sick Than Anything You Can Imagine" – 15:34


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FC Rapid București

Fotbal Club Rapid 1923, commonly known as Rapid București (also known as Rapid București or simply as Rapid, is a Romanian professional football club based in Bucharest, that competes in the Liga I. It was founded in 1923 by employees of the Grivița workshops as the Asociația Culturală și Sportivă CFR ("CFR Cultural and Sports Association").

Domestically, Rapid București is one of the most successful clubs in the country, having won three national titles, 13 Cupa României, and four Supercupa României. Internationally, its highest achievements are reaching the quarter-finals of the 1972–73 Cup Winners' Cup and the 2005–06 UEFA Cup, and the final of the 1940 Mitropa Cup—the latter not being played because of World War II. Recently, the club was declared bankrupt in 2016, but was refounded and managed to return to the top flight in 2021.

From 1939, Rapid played its home matches in burgundy and white kits at the Valentin Stănescu Stadium, which was replaced by the new Rapid-Giulești in 2022. The team has fierce local rivalries with Steaua București and Dinamo București, as well as with Petrolul Ploiești.

1923–32: Beginnings
On 25 June 1923, in a classroom of the primary school from the Grivița neighborhood, Bucharest, the employees of the Grivița workshops created Asociația Culturală și Sportivă CFR ("CFR Cultural and Sports Association"). Teofil Copaci was chosen as the president of the association, while Grigore Grigoriu became the first captain of the team. The squad was formed in September, following the merger of the Ateliere and Excelsior teams. The first equipment was made out of burgundy fabric in the house of Grigoriu.

On 28 October 1923, the team played its first game against Unirea Timișoara, which it lost 4–8. The second match, played over ten days, was against Gloria Arad, and was lost 1–2. Until 1932 CFR played in the Bucharest Championship, not qualifying in the final tournament of the national league. During this period, the leaders of the team were: Teofil Copaci, Grigore Grigoriu, and Bozie Codreanu; other players included Stănică, Tudor, Molnar, Ștefănescu, Foran, Leoveanu, Constantinescu, Fetzko, Georgescu, Albert, Block, Filip, Itu I, Itu II, Pîrvulescu, Cichi, Schileriu, Svetcovschi, Oros, Ujlaki, Pop, Dobrescu I, Kelemen, Vlaiculescu, Ispas, Vintilescu, and Petrovici.

1932–45: Golden Years
The club entered the Divizia A at the start of the 1932–33 season, after several years of competing for the regional championship of Bucharest. During the pre-war years, Rapid was one of Romania's top teams, regularly winning the cup, but never the championship, although they came close. Once Rapid lost the title because of a player's candor. One of Rapid's players touched the ball with his hand in the penalty area during a decisive match against Venus București, when Rapid needed a win to finish first in the league. At first, the referee didn't see it, but when he heard the audience protesting asked the player if he had touched the ball with his hand. The player admitted that he had.

Venus converted the penalty kick and managed a 1–1 draw to finish first in the league, instead of "the Railwaymen". The team's final season's standings in the Divizia A were: 1932–33 – 2nd (Seria I), 1933–34 – 4th (Seria I), 1934–35 – 10th, 1935–36 – 7th, 1936–37 – 2nd, 1937–38 – 1st (Seria I) (with the team losing the national championship final against Ripensia Timișoara 0–2), 1938–39 – 6th, 1939–40 – 2nd, and 1940–41 – 2nd.

In this period, the club's most successful time in this competition, Rapid won seven Romanian Cups: 1934–35, 1936–37, 1937–38, 1938–39, 1939–40, 1940–41, 1941–42, six of them won in consecutive years. The players in this winning effort included Roșculeț, Ujlaki, Vintilă, Wetzer II, Rășinaru, Cuedan, Barbu II, Rădulescu, Bogdan, Auer, Moldoveanu, Baratky, Raffinsky, Lengheriu, I.Costea, Sipos, Gavrilescu, Sadowski, Silvăț, Ghiurițan, Wetzer III, and Florian.

In the summer of 1937, the club changed its name from CFR București to Rapid București, modeling their new name on that of the Austrian club Rapid Wien.

The "railway workers" were no longer topping the league standings, but they still had supportive fans, and some players were selected for the national team. During those years, the competition format changed after various reorganizations, and Rapid won the Bessarabia Cup in 1942. They qualified for the final of the Mitropa Cup (precursor of the UEFA Champions League). In 1940, Rapid played to two ties in the Mitropa Cup semi-finals and was drawn for the final, which was never played, due to the outbreak of World War II.

1945–1970: The Railwaymen, a solid team
After the war, Rapid returned to the Bucharest Championship in the 1945–46 season, finally finishing 4th. After this season the club returned to its old name, CFR (Căile Ferate Române – Romanian Railways), and entered the 1946–47 Divizia A season, the first official national season after the end of the war, and ended in 5th place, two points away from 2nd place (Carmen București) and 13 from 1st place (ITA Arad). In the following season, 1947–48, the team finished 3rd, behind CFR Timişoara and ITA Arad. In the 1948–49 season, "the White and Burgundies" finished 2nd, only five points behind IC Oradea. Also, on 20 March 1949, CFR București obtained the most lopsided victory in its entire history, 12–2 against CFR Cluj.

Under the influence of the communist regime installed in the country after 1945, the 1950s started with a change from an autumn-spring season to a spring-autumn one. In the 1950 season Rapid became Locomotiva, a name much closer to the Soviet version, Lokomotiv, a change imposed on all the teams that belonged to the Romanian Railways, but the Giuleștenii finished again in 2nd place. The first relegation to Liga II came in 1951 when the club was ranked 11th, losing a three-way contest by a goal against Locomotiva Târgu Mureș and Știința Timișoara. Promoted one year later, from 1st place in Liga II, with 10 points over the second-ranked (Locomotiva Iași), Rapid would finish the 1953 season in 5th place. In 1954 season Locomotiva, in 12th place, was relegated for the second time. However, "The White and Burgundies" returned after only one year to Divizia A, following a good showing for the team, including a 4th-place ranking at the end of 1956, only 5 points behind 1st place (CCA București).

In the 1957–58 season, Romanian football returned to the autumn-spring system and "the Railwaymen" finished at the middle of the table, 8th out of 12. The end of the Soviet system also meant the end of Soviet team names, and in 1958 the team returned to the Austrian-inspired name of Rapid. In the following years, the team finished 4th and 10th at the end of the 1958–59 and 1959–60 seasons, respectively.

In the 1950s, the squad included the following players: Valentin Stănescu, Gh. Dungu, Gh. Demeter, Dumitru Macri, Ion Mihăilescu, C. Simionescu, N. Cristescu, I. Ruzici, C. Socec, Ion Lungu, Bazil Marian, Andrei Rădulescu, Anton Fernbach-Ferenczi, Ștefan Filotti, Nicolae Roman, E. Avasilchioaie, D. Călin, L. Coman, A. Todor, N. Dodeanu, I. Langa, I. Olaru, Stere Zeană, and Gh. Milea, among others.

The 1960s was one of the best periods for Giulești football. In 1961, Rapid reached the final of the Romanian Cup, where they lost to Arieșul Turda, 1–2, with Nicolae Georgescu scoring in the 24th minute for the "White and Burgundy". The result was more surprising, as the winning team was, at that time, only a Divizia C member. The following season, Rapid—with a squad coached by Ion Mihăilescu and composed of valuable players such as Ilie Greavu, Ion Motroc, Dumitru Macri, Titus Ozon, Ion Ionescu or Teofil Codreanu, among others—eliminated CSM Mediaș, Laminorul Roman, Metalul Târgoviște, and Progresul București. However, they suffered a dramatic defeat in the final, 1–5, against a Steaua București squad that would come to be recognized as the golden generation of that club.

For most of these seasons, the team could be found in the top half of the league: 1960–61 – 3rd, 1961–62 – 5th, and 1962–63 – 8th. Then followed three great seasons for the squad, under the Grant Bridge, which finished 2nd three years in a row: 1963–64 (7 points behind Dinamo București), 1964–65 (1 point behind Dinamo București), and 1965–66 (6 points behind Petrolul Ploiești). Nevertheless, they finished behind their rivals Dinamo and Petrolul. This motivated "the Railwaymen", who, at the end of the 1966–67 season, had their best performance up until that time, their first Divizia A title, with the following players: Răducanu Necula, Marin Andrei – Dan Coe, Nicolae Lupescu, Ion Motroc, Ilie Greavu, Constantin Jamaischi – Constantin Dinu-Buric, Nicolae Georgescu, Constantin Năsturescu, Teofil Codreanu, Viorel Kraus – Ion Ionescu, Emil Dumitriu, and Alexandru Neagu. Valentin Stănescu and Victor Stănculescu were their coaches. In that season the title was won by two points over Dinamo București and the season's top scorer was Ion Ionescu, with 15 goals. In the 1967–68 European Cup, Rapid eliminated the Bulgarian champion, Botev Plovdiv, in the first round, but lost to Juventus, 0–1. In the 1967–68 Division A season the team reached the final game of the Romanian Cup, which it lost to Dinamo, 1–3 in overtime; placed 3rd in 1968–69; and 2nd in 1969–70.

1970–1990: Troubled times

Rapid's last strong season was in 1970–71, when it finished in 2nd place, after which it started to slide towards the bottom half of the league table: 1971–72 – 10th and 1972–73 – 14th. Despite these lesser performances, in 1972 Rapid reached the Romanian Cup final under coach Bazil Marian, a team player in the 1950s, and won 2–0 against Jiul Petroșani, with goals scored by Stelian Marin (3rd minute) and Alexandru Neagu (27th minute). In the 1971–72 UEFA Cup season Rapid had impressive results, eliminating Napoli and Legia Warsaw before being stopped by Tottenham Hotspur, 0–5. The 1972–73 European Cup Winners' Cup was another good European campaign, and, after a 3–1 against Landskrona BoIS of Sweden and a 4–2 against Rapid Wien, the team that had inspired the Romanian side so much in the past, Rapid was eliminated again by an English side, this time Leeds United, 1–8.

At the end of the 1973–74 season, the "White and Burgundies" finished 16th, with the same number of points as Jiul Petroșani, but this time the club from the Jiu Valley would win because of higher scores. Rapid was relegated for the third time in its history, only 7 years since its first national title. The squad had a strong following season and was promoted after only one year spent in the second league, finishing 1st in the 2nd series, 6 points ahead of 2nd place Progresul București. "The Railwaymen" seemed to want to convince everyone that relegation was nothing but a regrettable error; so, they also won the Romanian Cup in the same season, surprisingly, being a second echelon team. In the 1974–75 Cupa României campaign, Rapid advanced by eliminating strong teams such as Dinamo București (2–1), Jiul Petroșani (1–0), Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț (1–0), and Steaua București (1–1, 6–5 on penalties). In the final they encountered Universitatea Craiova, the Divizia A defending champions, a club that was fielding its first golden generation (known as "The Champion of a Great Love"), led from the pitch by its legend, Ion Oblemenco. Rapid won 2–1, in extra time, with goals scored by Nicolae Manea, and Ion Oblemenco scoring for Craiova.

Back in Divizia A, Rapid had two mediocre seasons: 1975–76 – 14th and 1976–77 – 16th, being relegated again, 10 years since being champions of Romania. After this relegation began one of the darkest periods in the history of the club at their stadium near Grant Bridge, with 6 consecutive Divizia B seasons: 1977–78 – 4th, 1978–79 – 6th, 1979–80 – 2nd, 1980–81 – 3rd, 1981–82 – 2nd and 1982–83 – 1st. This period led to a fierce rivalry with Petrolul Ploiești and Progresul București. A 1980 match, against Progresul, saw a record attendance, for a Divizia B match, of over 50,000 spectators. The subsequent return to the first division was due to coaches Valentin Stănescu (who also brought the first title in 1967) and Viorel Kraus. The players were Ion Gabriel, Manu, Popescu, Paraschiv, Pirvu, Șișcă, Tiță, Iancu, Cojocaru, Ion Ion, Nicolae Manea, Ad. Dumitru, Petruț, Ispas, C. Dumitriu, Avram, Marian Damaschin, Marta, Lazăr, Koti, Săftoiu, A. Mincu, and Petre Petre.

Rapid then had a disappointing record in Divizia A: 1984–85 – 11th, 1985–86 – 8th, 1986–87 – 14th, 1987–88 – 13th, and 1988–89 – 17th. In these five seasons "the Railwaymen" recorded the biggest loss in the history of the club, 0–9 against Corvinul Hunedoara (14 August 1985), as well as the biggest loss in Giulești Stadium, 2–8 against Steaua București (3 May 1989). After these poor performances, the 1988–89 Cupa României season saw the "White and Burgundies" gaining the semi-finals of the competition, when they were eliminated by Steaua București, 2–3, with a decisive goal scored in the last minute. The team was relegated to Divizia B for the fifth time. The Giuleștenii then had a good season in the 2nd series of the second league—finishing 1st with 22 victories, 5 draws, 7 defeats, 61 goals scored and 32 conceded, 49 points, 4 more than the second place (Drobeta-Turnu Severin) and 11 more than the third place (Unirea Alba Iulia)—and were again promoted.

1990–2008: A glorious period
Promoted back to the top league, in the next season Rapid finished 11th, 4 points away from the relegation zone. What followed was two seasons of progress in which "the Railwaymen" finished 7th, then 4th. In 1993, the club was bought by George Copos and began probably one of the most fruitful periods in the history of "the White and Burgundies".

After the 4th-place finish at the end of the 1993 season, Rapid returned to the European Cups after 18 years of absence, but was eliminated in the first round by the Italian side Inter Milan, 1–5 on aggregate. In 1994, the club finished 4th again in Divizia A, but no one risked a prognosis for a team whose fortunes so oscillated. The 1994–95 UEFA Cup season again brought two tough opponents for the Giulești side: Charleroi of Belgium, which they eliminated 3–2 on aggregate, and Eintracht Frankfurt, which eliminated Rapid 2–6 on aggregate, especially due to the 0–5 defeat by Waldstadion. In the Divizia A, they again finished in 4th place, but this time with no qualification for the European Competitions.

In the 1995–96 season the team finished 3rd, qualifying again for the UEFA Cup. After a 2–0 victory on aggregate against Lokomotiv Sofia, "the Railwaymen" were eliminated by Karlsruher SC, 2–4 on aggregate, the second time a German side eliminated them. The squad finished 8th at the end of the 1996–97 season.

With Mircea Lucescu as the new coach, Rapid had a very good 1997–98 season, the best one in the last 22 seasons. In the championship, the team finished 2nd, only two points behind Steaua București, missing the chance of a title, the first one since 1967. In the last match of the season, with over 20,000 fans travelling from Bucharest, Rapid only managed a 2–2 draw against Universitatea Craiova, a result which was heavily contested after Rapid had a clear goal denied by the referee. Without title, Rapid focused on the Romanian Cup, where they won their 10th title, but the first one since 1975. In the final, they again met Craiova, with Lucian Marinescu's 67th-minute goal securing the trophy. This triumph returned the team back to the UEFA Competitions, this time the 1998–99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. The 1998–99 season started off badly. After an 8–2 on aggregate win against Grevenmacher in the qualifying round, Rapid was again eliminated quickly, this time in the first round by Vålerenga, with a 2–2 on aggregate and 2 goals scored in the Giulești Stadium by the Norwegian club. In the championship, Rapid had one of the best seasons in the history of Divizia A, finishing 1st with 89 points and winning the much-desired title of champion of Romania, the 2nd one in the history of the club. This performance was obtained under coaches Mircea Lucescu (24 rounds), Nicolae Manea (5 rounds), Dumitru Dumitriu (4 rounds), and Mircea Rednic (1 round), with the following players: Marius Bratu, Bogdan Lobonț – Daniel Chiriță, Adrian Iencsi, Dorel Mutică, Ștefan Nanu, Vasile Popa, Răzvan Raț, Mircea Rednic, Nicolae Stanciu (C), Ion Voicu – Bogdan Andone, Constantin Barbu, Mugur Bolohan, Zeno Bundea, Dănuț Lupu, Ovidiu Maier, Marius Măldărășanu, Ioan Sabău, Cezar Zamfir – Ionel Ganea, Radu Niculescu, Daniel Pancu, Sergiu Radu, and Marius Șumudică. The team also included Cristian Dulca, Lucian Marinescu, and Stefan Nanu, who left during the winter break.

The 1999–2000 season was again a good one for Rapid. However, despite the fact that they were in 2nd place, with 15-point over 3rd place (Steaua București), they could not equal the nearly perfect season of Dinamo București, who ended in 1st place, by 12 points. Rapid also could not retain the Romanian championship, being eliminated in the semi-finals by FC U Craiova, 2–3 on aggregate. The UEFA Champions League was a great disappointment, the team being eliminated by the Latvian side Skonto, 4–5 on aggregate.

The 2000–01 season started with Anghel Iordănescu as the new coach and finished with Mircea Rednic at the helm. Post-season competition consisted of a 3–1 victory over Mika of Armenia, in the qualifying round, and a 0–1 loss to Liverpool, in the first round, which resulted in a 4th place in the European championship and a quarter-finals elimination in the Romanian Cup, after a 1–2 loss to Dinamo. The next season, with Viorel Hizo as the new coach, Rapid made another good run and finished 3rd in the league, and lasted two-rounds in the 2001–02 UEFA Cup: a lopsided 12–0 on aggregate victory over Atlantas, followed by an unexpected 0–0 tie, at Parc des Princes, against PSG, losing in the second round 0–1, by a goal by Aloísio in the 93rd minute. Finally, the match was called 0–3 after the floodlight system shut down. On the other hand, "the Railwaymen" won their 11th Romanian Cup, after a final in which they registered a 2–1 victory against Dinamo București, with goals scored by Marius Măldărășanu and Daniel Pancu, and with Mircea Rednic as the new coach.

The 2002–03 season saw the club win its third league title, finishing 1st with by 7 points over Steaua București The team lasted the usual two rounds in the UEFA Cup: 5–1 against Gorica and 1–2 against Vitesse, being eliminated, by penalties, by FC Argeș, in the second round of the Romanian Cup. The squad was coached by Mircea Rednic and was composed of the following players: Ionuț Curcă, Emilian Dolha, Răzvan Lucescu, Boban Savič – Nicolae Constantin, Adrian Iencsi, Vasile Maftei, Dănuț Perjă, Răzvan Raţ, Florin Șoavă, Ion Voicu – Valentin Bădoi, Roberto Bisconti, Emmanuel Godfroid, Nicolae Grigore, Róbert Ilyés, Ioan Sabău – Florin Bratu, Daniel Niculae and Robert Niță.

The 2003–04 season was below expectations. Starting under coach Mircea Rednic, continued with Dan Petrescu, and ending under Viorel Hizo, Rapid finished 3rd, 15 points out of 1st place, which was held by Dinamo București. In the UEFA Champions League, the Rapidiștii met Anderlecht in a 0–0 tie, in the Valentin Stănescu Stadium, followed by a 2–3 defeat, in Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, after Rapid had led 2–0; and the team was again eliminated in the first rounds of the competition. The 2004–05 season started with a new coach, Răzvan Lucescu, and "the White and Burgundies" finished again in 3rd place, six points out of 1st place. In the Romanian Cup they were eliminated in the first round by the Divizia B side Dacia Unirea Brăila, 0–1.

The 3rd place in the league qualified the club for the 2005–06 UEFA Cup season. Rapid had the best European season in the history of the club, starting from the first round of the competition, qualifying for the first time for the group stage, and only being eliminated in the quarter-finals. The team's run was the following: 10–0 on aggregate against Sant Julià from Andorra, 4–1 against Vardar, and an unexpected 2–1 on aggregate against Feyenoord, and qualifying for the group stage. They were assigned to Group G, where they gained 3 victories: Rennes (2–0), Shakhtar Donetsk (1–0), PAOK (1–0), while losing only one match, against Stuttgart (1–2). If in the past Rapid was eliminated by German clubs such as Karlsruher SC or Eintracht Frankfurt, now the team was transformed in a real "killer" against the German sides, after a 3–0 victory against Hertha in the Round of 32 and a 3–3 tie, with an away goal scored against Hamburg. "The Burgundy Eagles" were stopped only in the quarter-finals by another Romanian side, FCSB, 1–1 on aggregate, with a goal scored by FCSB in Giulești. This was one of the most memorable seasons in the history of Rapid, FCSB, and Romanian football. Rapid also lost the Romanian title to FCSB, but won the Romanian Cup, after a 1–0 victory over Dinamo București. The squad in the 2005–06 European campaign was coached by Răzvan Lucescu and included the following players: Dănuț Coman, Ionuț Curcă, Apoula Edel, Mihai Mincă – Marius Constantin, Nicolae Constantin, Vasile Maftei, Dănuț Perjă, Marius Postolache, Ionuț Rada, Adrian Rusu, Ionuț Stancu – Valentin Bădoi, Emil Dică, Gigel Ene, Nicolae Grigore, Artavazd Karamyan, Marius Măldărăşanu, Valentin Negru, Romeo Stancu – Mugurel Buga, Lucian Burdujan, Viorel Moldovan, Daniel Niculae, Daniel Pancu, and Ciprian Vasilache.

In the following two seasons, Rapid ended in 4th (2006–07) and 3rd (2007–08) places, with another Romanian Cup title in 2007, in a final won 2–0 against Politehnica Timișoara in Dan Păltinișanu Stadium. In the UEFA Cup, they were constant participations, with another group-stage presence in the 2006–07 season, but finishing 4th, in a group with PSG, Mladá Boleslav, Hapoel Tel Aviv, and Panathinaikos, missing qualifying for the semi-finals. The next season saw a first-round elimination, to FC Nürnberg.

2008–2016: Rapid "in derailment"

After the 2007–08 season, the financial situation of Rapid was complicated, partly by the criminal conviction of the owner, George Copos, on charges of tax evasion, illegal transfers, and misuse of the lottery. The team performances also declined. After finishing 3rd in 2007–08, Rapid occupied mid-level places three times over the next five years: 2008–09 – 8th, 2009–10 – 7th and 2012–13 – 9th. Still, the team had a last burst of success in the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons, when, under coaches Marius Șumudică, Marian Rada, and Răzvan Lucescu, they achieved two consecutive 4th-place rankings, with a new presence in the UEFA Europa League. They finished the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League season in the group stage, after they eliminated Polish side Śląsk Wrocław in the play-off round, making only 3 points in a group with Hapoel Tel Aviv, PSV Eindhoven, and Legia Warsaw occupying last place. Next season was slightly weaker, with Rapid eliminated in the third qualifying round, after a two-legged match against Heerenveen, previously having eliminated the Finnish club MYPA, 5–1 on aggregate.

On 10 May 2013, the Disciplinary Commission of the Romanian Football Federation decided not to grant the Liga I license to the club for the 2013–14 season. At the end of the season the club was sold by George Copos to Nicolae Cristescu and Adrian Zamfir.

On 6 July the FRF Executive Committee decided that 18 teams would participate in the first league. Mircea Sandu announced that a play-off between Concordia Chiajna (which relegated on the pitch) and Rapid (which was relegated on legal terms) would be held to decide the 18th team. This match took place on 13 July 2013 in Dinamo Stadium and was won by "the Railwaymen" 2–1. Concordia challenged the legality of this play-off match, as Rapid had no license for Liga I. After two rounds had already been played, on 2 August 2013 the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decided that the organization of the play-off match was irregular and Concordia must remain in the top league, Rapid being relegated.

Relegated for the sixth time to the second league, and after a period of 23 years spent in the top league with excellent performances, Rapid gathered all its forces, despite a poor financial situation and an under-funding from the new owners. Under coach Viorel Moldovan, former player on the team, "the Burgundy Eagles" had a good season, finishing 2nd in the regular season, as well as in the play-off round of the 2013–14 season, right behind Politehnica Iași and two points above Unirea Slobozia, ensuring their promotion to the first league. On 17 May 2014, the Licensing Commission of the Romanian Football Federation again decided not to grant the necessary license, this time for the 2014–15 season of Liga I. Rapid decided to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, but could not initially afford the €30,000, trial fee. The money for the fee was eventually donated by club supporters, and CAS admitted the appeal, forcing the Romanian Football Federation to grant Rapid a license for the Liga I season.

In the meantime, the club was bought by Valerii Moraru, a Moldovan businessman; but under coaches Ionel Ganea, Marian Rada, Cristian Pustai, and Cristiano Bergodi, the team had a very weak season, finishing only 16th, out of 18, and being relegated back to Liga II, for the seventh time.

Back in Liga II, with Dan Alexa as a coach, Rapid had a solid season, despite the fact that debts suffocated the club; and the under-funding by the new owner did not help. At the end of the 2015–16 season, Rapid was promoted, being in 1st place, three points ahead of Dunărea Călărași. However, the club did not recover financially; the team kept only a few players and no coaches. After filing for bankruptcy, FC Rapid could not sign any new contracts, so it could not build a team for the 2016–17 season. Finally, on 14 December 2016, Rapid was officially declared bankrupt, after a half-season of inactivity.

2016–present: Rebirth
In summer 2016, after it became clear that the team could no longer be enrolled in the championship, the idea of setting up somewhere in the lower leagues appeared, more exactly, in the Bucharest Championship, Liga V. A split between the supporters and the people directly involved in the club appeared, resulting in two new clubs, AFC Rapid București and Mişcarea Feroviară CFR, after initially not less than four teams had been announced; but most of the projects did not survive. If AFC Rapid, owned by ex-Rapid marketing director, Horia Manoliu, who was in fact an old executive of the parent club, between 2001 and 2006. Mişcarea Feroviară was founded by the members of the Rapid Aristocratic Club. Both teams had an excellent run and were promoted to Liga IV.

The two clubs did not seem to have the force to succeed in the with the new promotion. So, in summer 2017, at the initiative of Sector 1 Municipality, the sports association, Academia Rapid București, was set up and enrolled in the Liga IV – Bucharest series. This club is run by former Rapid players such as Daniel Niculae (president), Daniel Pancu (technical director), Nicolae Stanciu (manager), and Constantin Schumacher (coach). By the time the auction for the bankrupt company's brand was finalized, Academia Rapid concluded a lease agreement for a period of one year. This team has proven to be popular among supporters, who consider it the moral successor of the parent club. In the same summer, Mișcarea Feroviară disappeared.

Academia Rapid had a great season and won 2017–18 Liga IV Bucharest after a tough duel with Steaua București. Also, the Romanian Cup trophy for Bucharest preliminary rounds entered the club's treasury and the phoenix club of Rapid qualified for the next season's Liga III after a two-legged promotion play-off match against FC Singureni, the Giurgiu County champions, which they won 17–1 on aggregate.

On 12 June 2018, after 18 auctions which saw the price of the Rapid brand fall by about €3 million, Academia Rapid bought the FC Rapid București brand, officially becoming the successor to the original club. The transaction was made for the amount of €406,800, thus giving legitimacy to the new entity, even though it had already been accepted by most supporters and legends of the club as the successor of the original club, a fact confirmed in the championship match against Steaua București on 14 April, when 37,000 fans attended the match in the Arena Națională.

The start of the 2018–19 season came with a number of difficulties for Rapid. Despite being 1st in the league, the football produced by the team suffered, and, as a result, coach Constantin Schumacher was replaced with former-player Daniel Pancu, which also led to the departures of Daniel Niculae and Vasile Maftei. On 24 November, Rapid played its last game in Giulesti, which was going to be demolished later that year to make space for a new Category 4 Stadium. They would play future matches at Regie until the completion of their new stadium. On 12 May, Rapid mathematically obtained the promotion to Liga II with a 3–0 win against the main contender, Unirea Slobozia. They finished the season in first with 75 points, 11 ahead of second place.

The new 2019–20 season saw Rapid in the Romanian second Division, with Daniel Pancu as the head coach of the team. Victories against 1st and 2nd-ranked teams, UTA Arad (2–0) and CS Mioveni (5–1), gave the team hope for promotion, and Rapid found themselves in 3rd place after the first half of the season. The winter break came, and after a poor start to the second half of the season, Daniel Pancu was sacked from the club. Dan Alexa was appointed as the new head coach of the team. Exactly as with Daniel Pancu, Dan Alexa didn't succeed in giving the club a boost; so, he was sacked from the club in a few months' time. After Dan Alexa, Adrian Iencsi was hired as head coach; he also didn't perform. As the club had no more ideas of whom to bring on the team, they let Mihai Iosif, the assistant coach of the club, become the new head coach. Iosif did what none of his predecessors could do, and brought Rapid to the first Romanian League (Liga I). Rapid began the 2021–22 season in the Liga I very well, with five consecutive wins and no goals conceded in seven matches, which is a record in Romania.

Colors
The official colors of the club are white and burgundy, from those of the capital of Romania. These can be found on the coat of arms and equipment used throughout its long history. These were chosen by Teofil Copaci, Grigore Grigoriu, Dumitru Constantinescu, Géza Ginzer, Tudor Petre, and Franz Hladt, who founded the club. The first equipment was made from burgundy cloth in Grigore Grigoriu's house, and the boots with crampons were reconditioned from used boots from Ateliere.

Crest
The crest of the Rapid Bucharest was usually composed of the CFR-ist symbol. In a short period after the beginning of the communist system in Romania, Rapidul was forced by the communist authorities to return to the name CFR Bucharest. In 1950, it would become Locomotiva Bucharest, with a red steam locomotive as its symbol. From 1958, the club renamed itself Rapid Bucharest, adopting the logo that changed relatively little until the purchase of the club by George Copos, who changed the coat of arms upon his arrival. In 2001, Rapid's current crest was chosen. It turned out that the source of inspiration is, it seems, an emblematic club of Europe, namely Benfica Lisbon, the most successful club in Portugal, on whose emblem appears a legendary eagle.

Anthem
The Rapid anthem, also known as "We are everywhere at home", was composed by Victor Socaciu, with lyrics by Adrian Păunescu. This anthem was born in June 1980, at the Flacăra editorial office, Adrian Păunescu meeting with Victor Socaciu, Ovidiu Ioanițoaia, a sports journalist at Flacăra magazine, and with Victor Niță, also from Flacăra. The motifs for the hymn came quickly to Păunescu, and he started composing on the spot. At the same time, Ovidiu Ioanițoaia was writing the dictated verses on a napkin. At the centenary of the club, the football club and the sports club created a music album, on which the president of the club Daniel Niculae also sang.

Stadium
The history of Giulești-Valentin Stănescu Stadium begins in 1934; on 31 March, CFR began the construction of a field on the Giulești Road. The field would have a width of 65 m and a length of 105 m.

At first, the mayor of Bucharest did not want to authorize the construction of the first stadium, because it did not fit in the systematization of the capital. Eventually, authorization was given; and in April 1936 it was estimated that the stadium would be ready in September. The construction did begin in that year but it lasted more than two. The chief architect was Gheorghe Dumitrescu.

The stadium was inaugurated on 10 June 1939. At the time, it was the most modern stadium in Romania, a smaller replica of Arsenal's Highbury Stadium, with a capacity of 12,160 seats. Among the guests at the opening ceremony was King Carol II and his son, future King Michael of Romania.

The construction of the north stands was finished in the mid-1990s, with the capacity increased to 19,100 seats. In 2003, the pitch was changed and was considered to be the best in Romania at the time. Floodlights were installed in the summer of 2000. The stadium got the name of "Valentin Stănescu" in 2001, in respect of the manager who won the first championship for Rapid, but it is still commonly known as "Giulești Stadium", from the name of the neighborhood it is located in. Landmarks near the stadium are the Grant Bridge, Giulești Theatre, Gara de Nord (North Station), and the Grivița Railway Yards.

The stadium was closed on 24 November 2018, and the demolition process took place from 10 January to 7 May 2019, making room for the modern 14,000-seat Rapid Arena. The new stadium's construction will be funded by the Romanian government and UEFA, after Bucharest was announced as one of the host cities for UEFA Euro 2020.

After the closing of Giulești Stadium, Rapid moved temporarily on the Regie Stadium in Bucharest, the former home ground of Sportul Studențesc. Regie Stadium was closed in 2014 after a conflict between Sportul and the stadium's owner, a fact that led to its degradation. Before moving, the white and burgundies needed to invest in the reconstruction of their new stadium, which began in January 2019.

After its promotion in Liga I in the summer of 2021, the team played its home fixtures at the Arena Națională. The new Stadium Rapid-Giulești, known as Superbet Arena for sponsorship reasons, was inaugurated on 26 March 2022. It cost €67 million and can hold up to 14,050 spectators.

Training Facilities
Located in the north-western side of Bucharest, in the Bucharest Noi district, the ProRapid sports center was purchased by the then owner George Copos at the request of Mircea Lucescu, the coach who won the second championship, and was inaugurated in 1998. Initially, the complex had four football fields and a modern training facility. But, over the years, the structure has deteriorated due to the carelessness of the owners. Still, at the end of the 90s, "Pro Rapid" was considered the most modern training base in the country.

The facility spans five hectares and includes several playgrounds, three tennis courts, and an indoor swimming pool. There is a building where the players used to train. The facility is surrounded by Lake Străulesti, around which several buildings are distributed: the second building in order of size houses the living accommodations for the players on the first floor, medical rooms on the ground floor (including physiotherapy and rehabilitation), changing rooms (for players and coach), and a gym. The accommodation for the players of the youth teams is located in a building that includes a bar and a restaurant. In June 2016, the company SC FC Rapid SA was declared bankrupt by the Bucharest Court and the ProRapid base entered a period of continuous deterioration. At the moment, the football team is training at the Coresi training base.

Support

Rapid București is, according to a 2013 survey, the third-most supported club in Romania and the second in the Bucharest metropolitan area, around 20% of football lovers in the city being supporters of Rapid. A unique organization in the country is the "Aristocratic Club of Rapid", which was founded in 2000. Its members include well-known artists, who aim to defend the history of Rapid and maintain its traditions.

However, at the beginning, being the railway club, drew its supporters mostly from people linked with the workers. The first waves of new fans came at the beginning of the 1930s, when Rapid's legendary golden team won the hearts of many people delighted by their spectacular play and the consecutive wins of the Romanian Cup between 1935 and 1942.

In 1967, actor Mihai Ioan organised and taught the supporters how to sing chants, thus becoming the first leader of the gallery in the club's history. Currently, Rapid ultras are represented by Peluza Nord and also formerly by Tribuna II (t2 Rapid). Until 2002, Rapid Bucharest had a head of the gallery who stood at the head of the fans for 32 years, Constantin Mincea, Geamgiul. He is known for chanting against the communist party during Romania's communist regime, Rapid's fans had some chants that targeted the Ceaușescu family, the Romanian Communist Party (PCR), and clubs they considered as being protected by the regime, such as Steaua București, Dinamo București, Victoria București, Olt Scornicești, and Flacăra Moreni. Rapid fans were the first in Romania to support the ultras movement in the 1980s, but the first ultras groups were founded in 1998, named as Official Hooligans, Bombardierii, and Ultras Unione. Later, others appeared such as: Maniacs, Brigada 921, Grant Ultras 06,  Radicals, Torcida Visinie, Chicos del Infierno (CDI) 2005, Ultra' Stil, Legiunea Chitila, Devil's Gate, Granata Girls, SVRB, Colletivo, RHV, Original, Capitali, Legione Titan, and there were also groups in the provinces, in cities such as: Iași, Pașcani, Piatra Neamț, Zalău, and Târgu Mureș. In 2007, the ultras group, Pirații, moved to the second stands of the stadium, following divergences with the leader of the Peluza Nord. They were followed by other brigades from the Peluza Nord.

t2 Rapid (Piratii, CDI, Ultra' Stil) does not have a leader, distinguishing it from the other group. Over time there have been many conflicts between the two factions, and as a result, the members of Tribuna II groups left definitely, founding a new team, ACS Rapid-Frumosii Nebuni ai Giulestiului. One of the most publicized incidents in Romanian football was the "Bricheta" case, when the Bucharest derby was stopped and Rapid lost 0–3.

The supporters from Politehnica Timișoara and Rapid are bound by a friendship of 30 years. The beginnings of this friendship was at the final of the Romanian Cup in the 1980-81 season, when the Rapid-Pandurii and Politehnica Timișoara-U Craiova matches were played together. The Olten people present at the match showed solidarity, which is why the Timişoara and Giulești supporters had to support each other. After the Revolution, the supporters from the rapid gallery came to Timisoara with wreaths that they laid at the heroes' cemetery, to commemorate those who died in December 1989.

Bucharest Derby
The club's most important rivalries are against neighbouring FC Steaua București. The two clubs have played each other over 130 times, beginning with Rapid's 1–0 victory on November 4, 1947. Several matches throughout the years between Steaua and Rapid have ended in serious clashes between fans. The two teams are notable for their dominance of Romanian football, alongside Dinamo. The conflict has become even fiercer after Steaua passed Rapid in an all-Romanian quarter-final of the 2005–06 UEFA Cup. The rivalry also extends to other sports. The local sports newspapers said that the two teams were linked in this quarter-final by the Number 41 tram which links the Ghencea Stadium with the Valentin Stănescu Stadium. The rivalry also extends to other sports.

Primvs Derby
Another bitter rival of Rapid is Petrolul Ploiești, which was previously based in the capital and with which it contests the Primus Derby, the oldest football derby in Romania. This is a fierce one where the galleries fight in increasingly beautiful choreographies and push their favorites. The first episode of the Petrolul-Rapid rivalry was in the 1965-66 season, Petrolul and Rapid fought for the title of Romanian champion, and Prahoven won. The team trained at that time by Constantin Cernăianu prevailed over the rival and won the last championship title in the history of the club. A year later, Rapid got revenge and won the first title, after a draw in Ploiesti. In the battle with Dinamo for the first place, the Giuleșteni needed a point in the match with Petrolul in the last stage. Rică Răducanu and his colleagues got the equaliser, score 0-0, and the Rapid supporters returned on foot from Ploiesti, as they had promised before the match.

Among the thousands of fans was Ioana Radu, the well-known popular music singer and a big fan of the rapidists. At the end of the 1973-1974 season, both teams were relegated together to Division B. In the period 1978–1982, both teams were in Division B. The culminating match between the two took place in the spring of 1982, at Stadionul Steaua, in front of 35,000 spectators, in the 30th stage of Division B. The Rapidists prevailed with a clear 5–1 win. Another landmark match between the two teams was the final of the Romanian Cup in 1995, at the end of which Petrolul won the second cup in their history, after defeating Rapid on penalty kicks. During the 1983-2004 period, both teams were in Division A, with Petrolul subsequently relegating at the end of the 2003–04 season. The rivalry also extends to other sports.

Rapid had other Bucharest rivals, such as Dinamo Bucuresti, Progresul București, and Venus București, as well as derbies against teams of the Romanian Railways such as CFR Cluj and CFR Timișoara. Other, less important rivalries are with Universitatea Cluj, Farul Constanța, Universitatea Craiova, and UTA Arad.

Ownership and finances
Rapid is a joint-stock company since 1992. The property is divided as follows: 50% is attributed to Victor Angelescu and Dan Sucu, and the remaining 3% belongs to Academia Rapid Bucharest 1923. After a first bankruptcy, FC Rapid could no longer register new contracts, so they could not build a team to enter the 2016–17 season. Finally, on 14 December 2016, Rapid was officially declared bankrupt after half a season of inactivity. Since 1992, the giulestea club was led by the businessman George Copos, who then led the club to two championships in 2013. After his conviction in the Transfer File, he sold the club to Nicolae Cristescu, who led the club only 3 years, it then being bought by Valerii Moraru.

On 12 June 2018, after 18 auctions during which the price of the Rapid brand dropped by approximately 3 million euros, Academia Rapid bought the Rapid Bucharest brand, officially becoming the successor of the original club. The transaction was for the sum of €406,800, thus giving legitimacy to the new entity, although it had already been accepted by most of the club's supporters and legends as the club's successor. On 26 July 2018 Victor Angelescu bought approximately 40% of the club's shares and later in 2022, he acquired the majority of the shares, becoming the majority shareholder of the Giulestean club. On 24 May 2022 businessman Dan Sucu purchased 50% of the club's shares.

Statistics and records
In its history, the club has participated 69 seasons in Liga I and 15 seasons in Liga II: these statistics place it in third place for number of participations in Liga I, after Dinamo Bucuresti and FCSB.

Rapid has played in 88 editions of the Romanian Cup, the first time in 1933–34, winning 13 editions, while in the Romanian Supercup they have had twelve appearances, the first in 1998, the last in 2007. European competitions involve participation in 95 European cup matches, in 4 competitions over 22 seasons. The club has won the Romanian Cup 13 times and have played in 6 finals of this event; they also triumphed in four of the six Romanian Supercup matches in which they participated. In terms of European cups, Giulestenii triumphed in the Balkan Cup in 1964 and in the European Railway Championship in 1968 and played in the final of the European Railway Championship in 1961 and 1971.

Since the establishment of the championship, the team finished first three times, second 14 times, obtaining the worst ranking in the 1973-74 championship with a final 16th place, from which it obtained relegation to the second division of Romania. The Cherry Eagles finished Division A with the best offense in the tournament on many occasions and with the best defense six times.

Between 1990 and 2012 Rapid achieved the most important results in the club's recent history, winning two league titles and advancing in European cups. The most capped player for the team is Nae Stanciu who played for 12 years. Furthermore, Ion Ionescu is the team's top scorer with 107 goals. The most seasons as team captain was Dumitru Macri, who was captain for 14 years, when he played 221 matches. Ilie Greavu is the second-most selected player, with 294 games for Rapid, followed by Constantin Năsturescu, who played 288 games for Giulesti. Daniel Pancu is the club's second top scorer with 94 goals in 265 games, followed by Sandu Neagu who scored 92 goals. n total, 88 coaches have led Rapid.

The first coach was Marin Himer, who coached the team from 1923 to 1925, while the longest serving Rapid coach was Valentin Stanescu, who remained in charge of the team for five seasons. With Valentin Stănescu he won the first championship in 1967, and was followed by Mircea Lucescu who won the championship in 1999 and with Mircea Rednic the championship in 2003.

Rapid's most successful coach is Valentin Stănescu with whom Giulesteni managed historical performances, led the team when they won the Balkan Cup twice and the national championship in 1966. One of Giulesti's most famous coaches was Ion Motroc who spent 9 years as a player; as a coach he caused one of the biggest surprises of Romanian football, by winning the Romanian Cup from the of Second Division. Razvan Lucescu led from 2004 to 2007, when he managed the club's greatest European performance, finishing fourth in Romania's UEFA Cup. Ștefan Auer won back-to-back Romanian Cups in the interwar period; Iuliu Baratky also won back-to-back Romanian Cups. Bazil Marian was the manager who returned the cup to Giulesti after a 30-year spell. In the history of Rapid there have been many presidents, the first was Teofil Copaci, who founded the club and led Rapid in the interwar period. The club was led by the Ministry of Transport in the period before the leadership of George Copos, under whom Dinu Gheorghe was club president. Afterwards, this position varied from person to person; among the most important leaders of Rapid were Grigore Sichitiu, Nicolae Manea. In 2003, the president Ioan Becali and Dan Petrescu were prompted by their status as 'Dinamo' and 'Steaua' fan to kiss the Rapid flag, this was a remarkable moment of the 2000s.

Popular culture
As Rapid is currently one of the most popular football team in Romania, a good number of musicians, TV, and film directors have been inspired from ideas linked to the Giulesti-based club. Popular references, however, appeared only after the Romanian Revolution, as, before, mass-media programmes were mostly being controlled by the communist regime. The Prima TV comedy show Trăsniții in one episode, showed the Pupaza character in the role of a Rapid supporter. Also, in 2022 the series on Pro TV Las Fierbinti had some characters as rapid supporters

Several other examples from music can be attributed as Rapid-related. Apart from club anthems played throughout time by Adrian Păunescu. Rapid has a lot of supporters, many of whom are celebrities in Romania: for example Fărâmită Lambru, Maria Tanase, Mihai Bendeac, Dan Grigore, Horia Brenciu, Mircea Geoană, Ion Iliescu, and Nicolae Vacaroiu.

The book Glasul roților de tren by Ioan Chirilă is one of the most famous books about sports in Romania. This book has become a bible for rapidist supporters

Leagues

 * Liga I
 * Winners (3): 1966–67, 1998–99, 2002–03
 * Runners-up (14): 1936–37, 1937–38, 1939–40, 1940–41, 1948–49, 1950, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1997–98, 1999–2000, 2005–06
 * Liga II
 * Winners (6): 1952, 1955, 1974–75, 1982–83, 1989–90, 2015–16
 * Runners-up (4): 1979–80, 1981–82, 2013–14, 2020–21
 * Liga III
 * Winners (1): 2018–19
 * Liga IV – Bucharest
 * Winners (1): 2017–18
 * Liga V – Bucharest (as Mișcarea Feroviară CFR)
 * Winners (1): 2016–17

Cups

 * Cupa României
 * Winners (13): 1934–35, 1936–37, 1937–38, 1938–39, 1939–40, 1940–41, 1941–42, 1971–72, 1974–75, 1997–98, 2001–02, 2005–06, 2006–07
 * Runners-up (6): 1960–61, 1961–62, 1967–68, 1994–95, 1998–99, 2011–12
 * Supercupa României
 * Winners (4): 1999, 2002, 2003, 2007
 * Runners-up (2): 1998, 2006
 * Cupa României – Bucharest
 * Winners (1): 2017–18
 * Cupa Ligii
 * Winners (1): 1994 (Friendly)
 * Cupa Basarabiei
 * Winners (1): 1942
 * Cupa Primăverii
 * Winners (1): 1957

Continental

 * Mitropa Cup
 * Finalists (1): 1940
 * Balkans Cup
 * Winners (2): 1963–64, 1964–66
 * European Railways Cup
 * Winners (1): 1968
 * Runners-up (2): 1961, 1971

Board of directors

 * Last updated: 12 July 2024
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Current technical staff

 * Last updated: 12 July 2024
 * Source:

League history

 * As CS Mișcarea CFR București.

Notable former players
The footballers enlisted below have had international cap(s) for their respective countries at junior and/or senior level and/or more than 100 appearances for FC Rapid București.

 * Romania
 * 🇷🇴 Alexandru Albu
 * 🇷🇴 Iordan Angelescu
 * 🇷🇴 Valentin Bădoi
 * 🇷🇴 Ștefan Barbu
 * 🇷🇴 Alexandru Boc
 * 🇷🇴 Ion Bogdan
 * 🇷🇴 Mugur Bolohan
 * 🇷🇴 Florin Bratu
 * 🇷🇴 Mugurel Buga
 * 🇷🇴 Zeno Bundea
 * 🇷🇴 Iulian Chiriță
 * 🇷🇴 Vasile Chiroiu
 * 🇷🇴 Teofil Codreanu
 * 🇷🇴 Dan Coe
 * 🇷🇴 Dănuț Coman
 * 🇷🇴 Marius Constantin
 * 🇷🇴 Florin Constantinovici
 * 🇷🇴 Vintilă Cossini
 * 🇷🇴 Ion Costea
 * 🇷🇴 Iosif Damaschin
 * 🇷🇴 Marian Damaschin
 * 🇷🇴 Emil Dică
 * 🇷🇴 Emilian Dolha
 * 🇷🇴 Virgil Drăghia
 * 🇷🇴 Cristian Dulca
 * 🇷🇴 Gheorghe Dumitrașcu
 * 🇷🇴 Ion Dumitru
 * 🇷🇴 Emil Dumitriu
 * 🇷🇴 Gheorghe Ene II
 * 🇷🇴 Ștefan Filotti
 * 🇷🇴 Ionel Ganea
 * 🇷🇴 Gheorghe Georgescu
 * 🇷🇴 Nicolae Georgescu
 * 🇷🇴 Tiberiu Ghioane
 * 🇷🇴 Ion Goanță

 * Romania
 * 🇷🇴 Ilie Greavu
 * 🇷🇴 Nicolae Grigore
 * 🇷🇴 Ștefan Grigorie
 * 🇷🇴 Ovidiu Herea
 * 🇷🇴 Adrian Iencsi
 * 🇷🇴 Róbert Ilyés
 * 🇷🇴 Ion Ionescu
 * 🇷🇴 Alexandru Ioniță II
 * 🇷🇴 Viorel Kraus
 * 🇷🇴 Costin Lazăr
 * 🇷🇴 Iosif Lengheriu
 * 🇷🇴 Bogdan Lobonț
 * 🇷🇴 Ion Lungu
 * 🇷🇴 Nicolae Lupescu
 * 🇷🇴 Dănuț Lupu
 * 🇷🇴 Dumitru Macri
 * 🇷🇴 Vasile Maftei
 * 🇷🇴 Marius Măldărășanu
 * 🇷🇴 Nicolae Manea
 * 🇷🇴 Bazil Marian
 * 🇷🇴 Stelian Marin
 * 🇷🇴 Florin Marin
 * 🇷🇴 Ionuț Mazilu
 * 🇷🇴 Ion Mihăilescu
 * 🇷🇴 Horațiu Moldovan
 * 🇷🇴 Viorel Moldovan
 * 🇷🇴 Ioachim Moldoveanu
 * 🇷🇴 Ion Motroc
 * 🇷🇴 Dorel Mutică
 * 🇷🇴 Ștefan Nanu
 * 🇷🇴 Constantin Năsturescu
 * 🇷🇴 Alexandru Neagu
 * 🇷🇴 Daniel Niculae
 * 🇷🇴 Titus Ozon
 * 🇷🇴 Daniel Pancu

 * Romania
 * 🇷🇴 Dănuț Perjă
 * 🇷🇴 Marian Petreanu
 * 🇷🇴 Ion Pop
 * 🇷🇴 Ionuț Rada
 * 🇷🇴 Marian Rada
 * 🇷🇴 Sergiu Radu
 * 🇷🇴 Andrei Rădulescu
 * 🇷🇴 Petre Rădulescu
 * 🇷🇴 Răducanu Necula
 * 🇷🇴 László Raffinsky
 * 🇷🇴 Gheorghe Rășinaru
 * 🇷🇴 Răzvan Raț
 * 🇷🇴 Mircea Rednic
 * 🇷🇴 Iosif Ritter
 * 🇷🇴 Mihai Roman
 * 🇷🇴 Ioan Sabău
 * 🇷🇴 Robert Sadowski
 * 🇷🇴 Cristian Săpunaru
 * 🇷🇴 Constantin Schumacher
 * 🇷🇴 Antonio Sefer
 * 🇷🇴 Vasile Seredai
 * 🇷🇴 Florin Șoavă
 * 🇷🇴 Nicolae Stanciu
 * 🇷🇴 Valentin Stănescu
 * 🇷🇴 Vasile Ștefan
 * 🇷🇴 Marius Șumudică
 * 🇷🇴 Dumitru Târțău
 * 🇷🇴 Florin Tene
 * 🇷🇴 Fănel Țîră
 * 🇷🇴 Leontin Toader
 * 🇷🇴 Georgică Vameșu
 * 🇷🇴 Ion Voicu
 * 🇷🇴 Ion Vlădoiu
 * 🇷🇴 Ianis Zicu

 * Armenia
 * 🇦🇲 Apoula Edel
 * 🇦🇲 Arman Karamyan
 * 🇦🇲 Artavazd Karamyan

 * Australia
 * 🇦🇺 Ryan Griffiths

 * Belgium
 * 🇧🇪 Roberto Bisconti
 * 🇧🇪 Philippe Léonard
 * 🇧🇪 Emmanuel Godfroid

 * Brazil
 * 🇧🇷 Elinton Andrade
 * 🇧🇷 Césinha
 * 🇧🇷 Gláuber
 * 🇧🇷 Juliano Spadacio
 * 🇧🇷 Júnior Morais
 * 🇧🇷 Marcos Antonio Elias Santos

 * Cameroon
 * 🇨🇲 Pierre Boya

 * Croatia
 * Marko Dugandžić

 * Cyprus
 * 🇨🇾 Urko Pardo

 * Czech Republic
 * 🇨🇿 Pavel Čmovš
 * 🇨🇿 Marcel Gecov
 * 🇨🇿 Tomáš Josl
 * 🇨🇿 Ondřej Kušnír

 * Kosovo
 * Ermal Krasniqi

 * Latvia
 * Edgars Gauračs

 * Lithuania
 * Deivydas Matulevičius

 * Macedonia
 * 🇲🇰 Blazhe Ilijoski

 * Moldova
 * 🇲🇩 Alexandru Guzun
 * 🇲🇩 Gheorghe Harea

 * Montenegro
 * 🇲🇪 Vladimir Božović
 * 🇲🇪 Radomir Đalović

 * Nigeria
 * 🇳🇬 Olubayo Adefemi
 * 🇳🇬 Funsho Bamgboye

 * Portugal
 * João Coimbra
 * Ricardo Fernandes
 * Filipe Teixeira
 * João Paulo Andrade

 * Slovenia
 * 🇸🇮 Darijan Matić

 * Uruguay
 * Facundo Mallo

 * Romania-Hungary
 * 🇷🇴 🇭🇺 Stefan Auer
 * 🇷🇴 🇭🇺 Iuliu Baratky

 * Hungary-Yugoslavia
 * 🇭🇺 Vilmos Sipos

Notable former managers

 * 🇷🇴 🇭🇺 Stefan Auer
 * 🇷🇴 🇭🇺 Iuliu Baratky
 * 🇮🇹 Cristiano Bergodi
 * 🇷🇴 Viorel Hizo
 * 🇷🇴 Viorel Kraus
 * 🇷🇴 Mircea Lucescu
 * 🇷🇴 Răzvan Lucescu
 * 🇷🇴 Nicolae Lupescu
 * 🇷🇴 Bazil Marian
 * 🇷🇴 Nicolae Manea
 * 🇷🇴 Ion Motroc
 * 🇷🇴 Daniel Pancu
 * 🇷🇴 Mircea Rădulescu
 * 🇷🇴 Mircea Rednic
 * 🇷🇴 Ferenc Rónay
 * 🇭🇺 Alfréd Schaffer
 * 🇷🇴 Valentin Stănescu
 * 🇷🇴 Petre Steinbach
 * 🇷🇴 Marius Șumudică

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