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Dun & Bradstreet

The Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc. is an American company that provides commercial data, analytics, and insights for businesses. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, the company offers a wide range of products and services for risk and financial analysis, operations and supply, and sales and marketing professionals, as well as research and insights on global business issues. It serves customers in government and industries such as communications, technology, strategic financial services, and retail, telecommunications, and manufacturing markets. Often referred to as D&B, the company's database contains over 500 million business records worldwide.

1800s
Dun & Bradstreet traces its history to July 20, 1841, with formation of The Mercantile Agency in New York City by Lewis Tappan. Recognizing the need for a centralized credit reporting system, Tappan formed the company to create a network of correspondents who would provide reliable, objective credit information to subscribers. As an advocate for civil rights, Tappan used his abolitionist connections to expand and update the company's credit information.

Despite accusations of personal privacy invasion, by 1844 the Mercantile Agency had over 280 clients. The agency continued to expand, opening offices in Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. By 1849, Tappan retired, allowing Benjamin Douglass to take over the booming business.

In 1859, Douglass transferred the company to Robert Graham Dun, who immediately changed the firm's name to R. G. Dun & Company. Over the next 40 years, Graham Dun continued to expand the business across international boundaries.

1900s
In March 1933, Dun merged with competitor John M. Bradstreet to form today's Dun & Bradstreet. The merger was engineered by Dun's CEO, Arthur Whiteside. Whiteside's successor, J. Wilson Newman, worked to extend the company's range of products and services, expanding the company dramatically during the 1960s by engineering ways to apply new technologies to evolving operations.

Moody's, a credit reporting agency, was acquired by Dun & Bradstreet in 1962. The Dun & Bradstreet Data Universal Numbering System (D&B D-U-N-S Number) was invented in 1963. Other companies acquired during this time included R.H. Donnelley, Official Airline Guides, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., Funk & Wagnalls, Technical Publishing, and McCormack & Dodge, all since divested.

In 1986, Dun & Bradstreet acquired the education data company Market Data Retrieval (MDR). That year, Dun & Bradstreet sold Technical Publishing to Cahners Publishing.

In 1996, the company restructured, creating three entities: Dun & Bradstreet, Nielsen, and the Cognizant Corporation. Cognizant Corporation included Nielsen TV Ratings, Gartner Group, Clarke-O'Neill, Erisco, and several other lesser known entities. In 1999, Cognizant Corporation spun off Nielsen TV Ratings and shortly thereafter divested all its holdings, emerging as IMS Health. IMS Health continued to hold its prize incubator company that is today known as Cognizant Corporation.

On July 1, 1998, Dun & Bradstreet split into two companies, one assuming the Dun & Bradstreet name, while the other adopting the R.H. Donnelley name.

2000s
In 2000, Dun & Bradstreet spun off Moody's Corporation.

In 2001, Dun & Bradstreet acquired Harris InfoSource International, Inc., a data company. In February 2003, the company acquired Hoover's, a business reporting service.

On February 5, 2003, Dun & Bradstreet restated prior period results to correct timing errors in recognizing some of the revenue associated with 14 of the company's 200+ products, after reviewing its revenue recognition from 1997 through 2002. In August 2010, Dun & Bradstreet spun off and sold its credit monitoring and management business to a newly formed company, Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. In 2007, Dun & Bradstreet acquired AllBusiness.com and sold the company in 2012.

In October 2013, Bob Carrigan became the CEO of Dun & Bradstreet.

On January 5, 2015, Dun & Bradstreet acquired the data management firm NetProspex. In April 2015, Dun & Bradstreet acquired Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. and announced the formation of a new division, Dun & Bradstreet Emerging Business. In January 2017, Dun & Bradstreet acquired Avention, the maker of OneSource solutions.

On August 8, 2018, Dun & Bradstreet announced the appointment of Thomas J. Manning, who had served as the company's interim CEO, as its new Chief Executive Officer, and that the company had entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an investor group led by CC Capital, Cannae Holdings, and Thomas H. Lee Partners.

On February 8, 2019, the investor group completed the acquisition of Dun & Bradstreet and it became a privately held company. Its former ticker symbol, DNB, was retired.

On July 1, 2020, Dun & Bradstreet re-listed shares on the New York Stock Exchange, once again trading under the ticker symbol DNB.

In January 2021 Dun & Bradstreet acquired Bisnode Business Information Group AB (“Bisnode”), a European data and analytics firm and long-standing member of the Dun & Bradstreet Worldwide Network, for an enterprise value of SEK7.2 billion (US$818 million).

On May 20, 2021, Dun & Bradstreet announced its intention to move its global headquarters to Jacksonville, Florida.

Operations
The company generates revenue through subscription-based products, business information reports, data licensing agreements, strategic partnerships, and concierge services.

The company derives revenues through two segments: Americas, and non-Americas.

Americas consists of:
 * The United States and Canada
 * (The company divested its Latin America operations in September 2016)

Non-Americas consists of:
 * Europe
 * The United Kingdom
 * Ireland
 * Greater China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan)
 * India
 * (Netherlands and Belgium operations were divested in November 2016)
 * (Australian and New Zealand operations were divested in June 2015 to Archer Capital for $169.8 million and were rebranded as illion in 2018, with debt collection operations being formally rebranded as Milton Graham on 14 June 2018)

Products and services
Dun & Bradstreet offers various products and services solving for credit, risk, marketing, sales, analytics, and more, including D&B Hoovers, Master Data, and D&B Data Exchange.

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China CITIC Bank International

China CITIC Bank International (CNCBI in short) is a Hong Kong full-service commercial bank.

China CITIC Bank Corporation Limited, via its wholly-owned subsidiary CITIC International Financial Holdings Limited, is CNCBI's controlling shareholder with a 75% stake. The CITIC Group Corporation of Beijing is CNCBI's ultimate parent company.

, CNCBI had 24 branches and two business banking centres in Hong Kong, as well as presence in various international locations. CNCBI's total assets stood at HK$470.39 billion.

History
In 1926 Ka Wah Savings Bank Limited (Traditional Chinese: 嘉華儲蓄銀行有限公司) was founded in Hong Kong. Ka Wah Ngan Ho in Guangzhou then became Ka Wah Savings Bank's Guangzhou Branch. That same year the bank was renamed as Ka Wah Bank Public Limited Company (Traditional Chinese: 嘉華銀行公眾有限公司).

In 1986 the bank suffered financial difficulties, and CITIC Group injected HK$350 million capital into the bank. In 1998 the bank was renamed as CITIC Ka Wah Bank Limited.

In 2002 CITIC Ka Wah Bank was privatized by CITIC International Financial Holdings and it became a whole-owned subsidiary of CITIC International Financial Holdings.

In May 2010, the bank was renamed again as China CITIC Bank International.

In 2018, CNCBI launched its mobile banking platform inMotion.

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Saïd Taghmaoui

Saïd Taghmaoui (سعيد التغماوي; born 19 July 1973) is a French actor. One of his major screen roles was that of Saïd in the 1995 French film La Haine, directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Taghmaoui has also appeared in a number of English-language films, with roles such as Captain Said in Three Kings (1999), Breaker in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), Sameer in Wonder Woman (2017), and The Elder in John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019).

Early life
Saïd Taghmaoui was born in Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, into a large family comprising eight children; he had four brothers and three sisters. His parents were Moroccan immigrants of Berber ancestry from Essaouira. Taghmaoui grew up in the Rose des Vents quartier of the Aulnay-sous-Bois commune. He dropped out of school to become a boxer, rising as high as No. 2 in his weight class in France.

Career
He later met actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz; together, they appeared in Kassovitz's film La Haine (1995), whose plot concerns race and violence in the ghettoized banlieues of Paris. The following year, Taghmaoui was nominated for a César Award (in the Most Promising Actor category) for his performance.

He has since pursued an international career, appearing in films in Germany, Italy, Morocco and the United States (Three Kings, 1999). Taghmaoui starred in Vantage Point (2008) as the leader of a terrorist group plotting to kidnap the U.S. president. In Morocco, he appeared in Djinns (2010), a film about the Algerian War, alongside Thierry Fremont. Taghmaoui's television work includes Lost, House of Saddam and Touch. He appeared in the British film My Brother the Devil, which was released globally in 2013.

Personal life
Taghmaoui is a practising Muslim. He moved to the United States in 1999, and in 2008, obtained American citizenship.

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Club International

Club International is a British softcore pornographic magazine published by Paul Raymond Publications that features pictures of nude women. It is a sister magazine of American magazine Club.

History and profile
Club International was founded in 1972 and is published every four weeks, making thirteen issues per year. Each edition consists of one hundred printed pages and is staple-bound, with the exception of the slightly larger "special edition", published at the start of each new volume, which has some 120 pages and flat glued binding.

Club International is published by Paul Raymond Publications, which publishes eight of the UK's ten top adult magazines. Along with Mayfair magazine, Club International is considered one of Raymond's most upmarket top shelf productions, with the photo spreads generally featuring more glamorous photosets shot by experienced photographers.

Content
Each edition of Club International features ten photosets, with the exception of the slightly larger "special edition" which features between twelve and thirteen sets. The photosets are usually single-model shoots but there are also lesbian scenes. The shoots are generally softcore, and as such do not feature any sort of penetration or oral-genital contact. However some photoshoots feature the occasional "pink" shot, where a model exposes her vaginal lips. During the early to mid-1980s, a regular feature was "Club Event", a picture sequence involving a group of models (usually about half a dozen) performing a form of striptease around a central theme such as a Christmas party, or whilst wearing (and removing) various types of uniforms.

Models
The magazine once offered the British TV newsreader Anna Ford a fee of £75,000 to appear naked in its pages, but she declined. It has, however, featured a number of well-known models and pornstars, such as Lexi Lowe, Tanya Tate, Monica Sweet, Zsanett Égerházi, Sandra Shine, Peaches, Silvia Saint, Stephanie Swift, and popular Hungarian model Sophie Moone (often credited as 'Stella'). Also among the women featured is the "Reader's Girlfriend", presented as an amateur model who is the girlfriend of a Club International reader.

Features
Long-running features in Club International include its regular readers' letters page, "Talkin' Blue", where 'readers' share tales of their sexual experiences, and "Peaches", a feature that covers anal sex (although the writing is far more explicit than the images that accompany the feature). As with a number of similar men's magazines, there are the regular automotive features, editorials, video and book reviews, as well as a jokes page. Starting in 2008, a free DVD has been included with every issue.

Online edition
Club International is also sold in digital format. Initially this was via the Paul Raymond digital newsstand from 2013 until that website closed. Subsequently it has been available digitally from the publisher's main website.

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Chinese immigration to Hawaii

The Chinese in Hawaii constitute about 4.7% of the state's population, most of whom (75%) are Cantonese people with ancestors from Zhongshan in Guangdong. This number does not include people of mixed Chinese and Hawaiian descent. If all people with Chinese ancestry in Hawaii (including the Chinese-Hawaiians) are included, they form about 1/3 of Hawaii's entire population. As United States citizens, they are a group of Chinese Americans. A minority of this group have Hakka ancestry.

History
Historical records indicated that the earliest presence of Chinese in Hawaii dates back to the late 18th century: a few sailors in 1778 with Captain James Cook's journey, more in 1788 with John Meares, and some in 1789 with American trader Simon Metcalfe, who reached Maui from Macau. Visiting the Sandwich Islands in 1794, Captain George Vancouver reported seeing one Chinese resident.

Encouraged by King Kamehameha I, Hawaii exported sandalwood to China from 1792 to around 1843. As a result, Chinese people dubbed the Hawaiian Islands "Tan Heung Shan", roughly "Fragrant Sandalwood Hills" in Cantonese. Between 1852 and 1899, around 46,000 Chinese immigrated to Hawaii. In 1900, the Chinese population in Hawaii was 25,767. More of these migrants were from Fukien and spoke Fukienese rather than Cantonese. An American missionary observing Maui in 1856 found that the primarily Cantonese shopkeepers and Fukienese laborers communicated in the Hawaiian language.

Although many came as laborers for sugar plantations in Hawaii, they concentrated on getting education for their children. When their contracts expired, many decided to remain in Hawaii and opened businesses in areas such as Chinatown. By 1950 most Chinese American men in Hawaii were educated and held good jobs. Today 95% of Chinese Americans in Hawaii live in Honolulu.

A significant minority of early Chinese immigrants to Hawaii, and even fewer to the Continental US, were Hakka, and much of the animosity between the Hakka and Punti Cantonese people carried over. In the first half of the 1800s, around 30 percent of Chinese in Hawaii were of Hakka, while only about 3 percent in the West Coast were Hakka. The largest surge of immigration in that century occurred after an 1876 treaty between the US and Kingdom of Hawaii led to an increased need for labor.

The majority of marriages between Chinese men and European women in Hawaii were between Cantonese men and Portuguese women. Portuguese and other European women married Chinese men. These unions between Cantonese men and Portuguese women resulted in children of mixed Cantonese-Portuguese parentage, called Cantonese-Portuguese. For two years to June 30, 1933, 38 of these children were born, they were classified as pure Chinese because their fathers were Chinese. A large amount of mingling took place between Chinese and European, Chinese men married Portuguese, Spanish, Hawaiian, Caucasian-Hawaiian, etc. Only one Chinese man was recorded marrying an American woman. Chinese men in Hawaii also married Puerto Rican, Portuguese, Japanese, Greek, and half-white women. There was a communal ban on intermarriages between the two groups for the first generation of migrants. In the middle of the 19th century, Hakka immigrants in America were excluded from membership in the Chinese organizations.

Religion
Prior to the arrival of Christian missionaries in Hawaii, the early Chinese settlers were adherents of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. Some even blended aspects of native Hawaiian beliefs into their own belief systems.

Today, due to the work of Christian missionaries in the late 19th century and the 20th century, many of the Chinese in Hawaii are adherents of Protestant and Roman Catholic Christianity. Still, about 100 Buddhist and ancestral temples remain. The minority who adhere to traditional Chinese religions pay pilgrimage to their ancestors annually. However, no accurate statistics of adherents within the Chinese community in Hawaiʻi are available.

List of notable Chinese people from Hawaiʻi

 * Chun Afong
 * Daniel K. Akaka
 * Joseph Apukai Akina
 * Chang Apana
 * Brian Ching
 * Madison Chock
 * Norm Chow
 * William K.S. Chow
 * Sam Choy
 * Kam-Fong Chun
 * Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon
 * Auliʻi Cravalho
 * Hiram L. Fong
 * Clayton Hee
 * Don Ho
 * Hoku Ho
 * Kelly Hu
 * Jason Scott Lee
 * Richard Loo
 * Tai Sing Loo
 * Agnes Lum
 * Carissa Moore
 * William S. Richardson
 * Logan Tom
 * Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu
 * Khalil Fong

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Permanent residency

Permanent residency is a person's legal resident status in a country or territory of which such person is not a citizen but where they have the right to reside on a permanent basis. This is usually for a permanent period; a person with such legal status is known as a permanent resident. In the United States, such a person is referred to as a green card holder but more formally as a Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR).

Permanent residency itself is distinct from right of abode, which waives immigration control for such persons. Persons having permanent residency still require immigration control if they do not have right of abode. However, a right of abode automatically grants people permanent residency. This status also gives work permit in most cases. In many Western countries, the status of permanent resident confers a right of abode upon the holder despite not being a citizen of the particular country.

Nations with permanent residency systems
Not every nation allows permanent residency. Rights and application may vary widely.

All European Union countries have a facility for someone to become a permanent resident, as EU legislation allows an EU national who moves to another EU country to attain permanent resident status after residing there for five years. The European Union also sets out permanent residency rights for long-term resident third country nationals under directive (2003/109/EC). A novel approach was the granting of rights across the national borders of states adhering to the directive.

As for Hong Kong and Macau, both special administrative regions of China, they do not have their own citizenship laws, the term "permanent residents" refer to persons with the right of abode in these territories. Most permanent residents of Chinese descent are Chinese citizens according to Chinese nationality law.

Other countries have varying forms of such residency and relationships with other countries with regards to permanent residency.

The countries and territories that have some type of permanent resident status include:

 * 🇦🇷 Argentina
 * 🇦🇺 Australia
 * 🇧🇭 Bahrain
 * 🇧🇿 Belize
 * 🇧🇷 Brazil
 * Brunei (called penduduk tetap)
 * 🇨🇦 Canada (permanent residents were known as landed immigrants before 28 June 2002)
 * 🇨🇱 Chile
 * 🇨🇳 China (called 永久居留权 (yǒngjiǔ-jūliúquán), programme started from 2004)
 * The first time that there were over 10,000 foreign permanent residents in China was in 2016.
 * 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
 * 🇨🇼 Curaçao (called sedula)
 * 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
 * 🇪🇨 Ecuador
 * 🇪🇺 European Union:
 * 🇦🇹 Austria (called Niederlassungsbewilligung) –
 * 🇧🇪 Belgium (B or C permit for non-EEA citizens) –
 * 🇧🇬 Bulgaria (called karta za postojanno prebivavašt v Republika Bălgarija čuždenec)
 * 🇭🇷 Croatia (called stalni boravak)
 * 🇨🇾 Cyprus –
 * 🇨🇿 Czech Republic (called trvalý pobyt) –
 * 🇩🇰 Denmark (called permanent opholdstilladelse) –
 * 🇪🇪 Estonia –
 * 🇫🇮 Finland (permit P) –
 * 🇫🇷 France (some types of titre de séjour, such as the carte de résident) –
 * 🇩🇪 Germany (called Niederlassungserlaubnis) –
 * 🇬🇷 Greece (called Πράσινη Κάρτα) –
 * 🇭🇺 Hungary –
 * 🇮🇪 Ireland (called Permanent residency card) –
 * 🇮🇹 Italy –
 * 🇱🇻 Latvia (called pastāvīgās uzturēšanās atļaujas) –
 * 🇱🇹 Lithuania (called Leidimas nuolat gyventi) –
 * 🇱🇺 Luxembourg (called résident longue durée/long-term resident)
 * 🇲🇹 Malta
 * 🇳🇱 Netherlands (called Verblijfsvergunning voor onbepaalde tijd; class II, IV, or V permit) –
 * 🇵🇱 Poland (called pobyt stały) –
 * 🇵🇹 Portugal (called residência permanente) –
 * 🇷🇴 Romania (called Permis de şedere permanentă) –
 * 🇸🇰 Slovakia (called trvalý pobyt)
 * 🇸🇮 Slovenia (called Dovoljenje za stalno prebivanje) –
 * 🇪🇸 Spain –
 * 🇸🇪 Sweden (called Permanent Uppehållstillstånd) –
 * 🇬🇭 Ghana
 * 🇬🇹 Guatemala
 * 🇭🇰 Hong Kong (permanent residence through the Right of Abode, regardless of citizenship)
 * 🇮🇸 Iceland (called ótímabundið dvalarleyfi) -
 * 🇮🇳 India (called Permanent Resident Status Scheme) –
 * 🇮🇩 Indonesia (called Kartu Izin Tinggal Tetap)
 * 🇮🇷 Iran
 * 🇮🇱 Israel (the term toshav-keva refers to a permanent resident without Israeli citizenship)
 * 🇯🇵 Japan (called 永住許可 eijūkyoka)
 * Macau (called Residente Permanente, regardless of citizenship)
 * 🇲🇾 Malaysia (called pemastautin tetap)
 * 🇲🇽 Mexico (called residente permanente)
 * 🇳🇿 New Zealand
 * 🇳🇮 Nicaragua (called Résidents Permanents Nicaragua) –
 * North Macedonia
 * 🇳🇴 Norway (called permanent oppholdstillatelse) -
 * 🇵🇦 Panama
 * 🇵🇪 Peru (a permanent residency option is available for those from countries which prohibit dual citizenship. Permanent residency only requires an annual fee, and no other supporting documents )
 * 🇵🇭 Philippines
 * 🇶🇦 Qatar –
 * 🇹🇼 Republic of China (Taiwan)
 * 🇷🇺 Russia (called "вид на жительство" vid na žítel'stvo, or ПМЖ pe-em-žé)
 * 🇰🇳 Saint Kitts and Nevis
 * 🇸🇬 Singapore
 * 🇿🇦 South Africa
 * 🇰🇷 South Korea (called 영주권 yeongjugwon)
 * 🇨🇭 Switzerland (called Settlement Permit (Permis d'établissement, Niederlassungsbewilligung or Permesso di domicilio), commonly referred to as a C Permit (Permis C, C-Ausweis or Permesso C) )
 * 🇹🇭 Thailand
 * 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago
 * 🇺🇦 Ukraine (called "посвідка на постійне проживання" posvidka na postijne prozhyvannya, or ППП "pe-pe-pe")
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom (either through Indefinite leave to remain or Right of Abode or Permanent Residence for EEA nationals) –
 * 🇺🇸 United States (lawfully admitted for permanent residence )
 * Vietnam

Former citizens or persons of origin
Some countries grant residency and other specific rights to former citizens or persons of origin in the country:

India does not permit dual citizenship, but former Indian citizens, and persons of Indian origin, are eligible to apply for an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card that allows them to live and work freely in India, apart from running for certain political office posts and occupying constitutional posts. They also cannot vote or buy agricultural land. Spouses who have no other connection to India other than being married to someone with or eligible for OCI can also apply for OCI if they have been married for at least two years. Once the marriage is dissolved, OCI status is automatically lost for spouse with no connection to India. In 2016, India allowed Permanent Resident Status to foreigners with some conditions.

Turkey allows dual citizenship, and former Turkish citizens by birth who have given up their Turkish citizenship with permission (for example, because they have naturalized in a country that usually does not permit dual citizenship, such as Austria, Germany, Japan or South Korea) and their descendants subject to certain conditions, can apply for the Blue Card (Mavi Kart), which gives most of the citizens' rights back, e.g. the right to live and work in Turkey, the right to possess land or the right to inherit, but not the right to vote or the right to be employed as a public servant.

Treaties
Some countries have made treaties regulating travel and access to the job markets (non-government/non-military-related work)

 * A citizen of an EU country can live and work indefinitely in other EU countries and in Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland (and citizens of these countries can live and work in EU countries). Permanent residence is acquired automatically after five years of residence.
 * The Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement between Australia and New Zealand allows citizens of the two countries to live and work indefinitely in the other country, but the status is distinct from permanent residence in the country and expires each time a holder leaves the country. Despite this, the time a New Zealander spends in Australia on a Special Category Visa may count as permanent residence the purpose of acquiring citizenship.
 * A citizen of a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member state (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) can live and work in other member states.

However, for voting, being voted and working for the public sector or the national security in a country, citizenship of the country concerned is almost always required.

Investments
A "golden visa" is a permanent residency visa issued to individuals who invest, often through the purchase of property, a certain sum of money into the issuing country. Dating back to the 1980s, golden visas became much more popular and available in the 21st century. Golden visas require investments of anywhere from $100,000 in Dominica up to £2,000,000 in the UK. The most common method for obtaining a golden visa is through the purchase of real estate with a minimum value. Some countries such as Cyprus and Malta also offer "golden passports" (citizenship) to individuals if they invest a certain sum. The issuing of so-called "golden visas" has sparked controversy in several countries.

Since the 1990s, some countries have begun to offer golden passports - which give citizenship as well as residency rights - to foreign nationals who invest (often through the purchase of real estate properties) a certain sum into the issuing country's economy. The issuing of EU passports by Cyprus and Malta has sparked controversy but is expected to produce billions of euros in revenue for the issuing countries.

Limitations of permanent residents
Depending on the country, permanent residents usually have the same rights as citizens except for the following:

 * They may not vote (though in some cases such as the UK's Commonwealth citizens, and in New Zealand voting is allowed. Hong Kong and Macau allow permanent residents to vote regardless of nationality).
 * They may not stand for public office (except European Union citizens permanently residing in other EU member states who may stand in local and European elections).
 * In most cases, they may not hold public sector employment. Canada and New Zealand allow this; some countries, such as Brazil and Portugal, allow it only for permanent residents holding citizenship of another country of shared heritage. )
 * They may not usually apply for employment involving national security. In Singapore, male PRs who have been granted PR before the age of 18 have to serve national service. Most first-generation males are exempted.
 * They may not own certain types of real estate.
 * They are not issued the passport of that country (unless otherwise stateless or unable to obtain a passport from their country of nationality, in which case they may be entitled to a certificate of identity instead).
 * They do not have access to the country's consular protection (some countries such as Australia allow this).
 * They may qualify to apply for citizenship after meeting a specified period of residence.

Obligations of permanent residents
Permanent residents may be required to fulfill specific residence obligations to maintain their status. In some cases, permanent residency may be conditional on a certain type of employment or maintenance of a business.

Many countries have compulsory military service for citizens. Some countries, such as Singapore, extend this to permanent residents. However, in Singapore, most first generation permanent residents are exempted, and only their sons are held liable for national service.

In a similar approach, the United States has Selective Service, a compulsory registration for military service, which is required of all male citizens and permanent residents ages 18 to 26; this requirement theoretically applies even to those residing in the country illegally. Applications for citizenship may be denied or otherwise impeded if the applicant cannot prove having complied with this requirement.

Permanent residents may be required to reside in the country offering them residence for a given minimum length of time (as in Australia and Canada). Permanent residents may lose their status if they stay outside their host country for more than a specified period of time (as in the United States).

Permanent residents have the same obligations as citizens regarding taxes.

Loss of status
Permanent residents may lose their status if they fail to comply with residency or other obligations imposed on them. For example:

 * They leave the country beyond a maximum number of days (varies among countries but usually more than 2 years).
 * They become a threat to national security, or they commit serious crimes and become subject to deportation or removal from the country.

Access to citizenship
Usually, permanent residents may apply for citizenship by naturalization after a period of permanent residency (typically five years) in the country concerned. Dual/multiple citizenship may or may not be permitted.

In many nations, an application for naturalization can be denied on character grounds, sometimes allowing people to reside in the country (as non-domiciled) but not become citizens. In the United States, the residency requirements for citizenship are normally five years, even though permanent residents who have been married to a U.S. citizen for three years or more may apply in three years. Those who have served in the armed forces may qualify for an expedited process allowing citizenship after only one year, or even without any residence requirement.

Automatic entitlement
Full permanent residence rights are granted automatically between the following:

 * Ireland and the United Kingdom, including general election voting rights.
 * The states of the Nordic Council.
 * The Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation.
 * The Republic of India and the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal.

In some cases (e.g. the member states of the European Union), citizens of participating countries can live and work at will in each other's states, but don't have a status fully equivalent to that of a permanent resident. In particular, under the Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement, Australia and New Zealand grant each other's citizens the right to reside permanently and work in each country; however, the rights and entitlements of New Zealanders living in Australia under this arrangement (the so-called Special Category Visa) are somewhat short of those of Australian permanent residents, in particular with respect to unemployment benefits and similar benefits.

Proof of permanent residency
People who are granted permanent residency in a country are usually issued some sort of documentary evidence as legal proof of this status. In the past, many countries merely stamped the person's passport indicating that the holder was admitted as a permanent resident or that he/she was exempt from immigration control and permitted to work without restriction. Other countries would issue a photo ID card, place a visa sticker or certificate of residence in the person's passport, or issue a letter to confirm their permanent resident status.

 * In Argentina, the non-citizens are issued an Argentine “DNI”, with the same characteristics for Argentinian citizens, showing back additional data saying the origin country and filling date.
 * In Australia and New Zealand, a printout of permanent residence visa or resident visa is stuck to a page of the permanent resident's passport (on 1 September 2015, Australia ceased issuing visa labels to holders of Australian visas).
 * In Canada, permanent residents are issued a photo ID card known as Permanent Resident Card. They are also given an official document called a Confirmation of Permanent Residence or Record of Landing on the day that permanent resident status is conferred.
 * In Costa Rica, permanent residents are issued a photo ID card commonly referred to as a "cedula".
 * In the countries of the European Union, residency permits are a photo ID card following a common EU design.
 * In Germany, resident permits (Aufenthaltstitel) have been issued as photo ID cards following a common EU design since 1 September 2011. Prior to that date, residence permits were stickers (similar to visas) which were affixed to the resident's passport.
 * In Ghana, permanent residents are issued an Indefinite Residence permit which is in the form of a sticker attached into the resident's passport.
 * In Hong Kong, permanent residents are issued a Hong Kong Permanent Identity Card.
 * In Japan and South Korea, all resident foreigners are issued a residence card, and for permanent residents this status is indicated.
 * In Lithuania, permanent residents are issued a photo ID (Leidimas gyventi) following a common EU design.
 * In Macao, permanent residents are issued a Macao Permanent Resident Identity Card (Bilhete de Identidade de Residente Permanente).
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Kris Benson

Kristin James Benson (born November 7, 1974) is an American former Major League Baseball starting pitcher who played for several teams between 1999 and 2010.

A highly touted prospect, Benson was drafted first overall by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1996. He followed a strong rookie season in 1999 with an even stronger season in 2000, but those would prove to be the two best seasons of his career, as he underwent Tommy John surgery after the 2000 season. He posted three more good seasons from 2004 to 2006 with the Pirates, the New York Mets, and the Baltimore Orioles, but then underwent rotator cuff surgery, after which he was never again an effective Major League pitcher.

High school
Benson was born in Superior, Wisconsin. His parents were baseball fans who chose names for each of their children that began with "K," a nod to the letter used as the scorecard designation for a strikeout. Benson attended Sprayberry High School in Marietta, Georgia with future MLB All-Star Marlon Byrd.

College
Benson attended Clemson University from 1993 to 1996. His teammates included fellow future major-leaguers Billy Koch and Matthew LeCroy both of whom played with him in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. (Koch reported teammates referred to Benson as "The Messiah".) In 1994, he played collegiate summer baseball for the Hyannis Mets of the Cape Cod Baseball League. Benson went undefeated during the regular season of his junior year (14–0 with a 1.40 ERA) with 178 strikeouts in 142 innings pitched.

Following this strong regular season, Benson led the Tigers to the NCAA postseason. Though he pitched only one game in the Atlantic regional playoffs, the Tigers' ace earned all-tournament recognition with an outing in which he allowed only one hit, struck out eight, and walked but one batter. The victorious Tigers, starring Benson, Koch, outfielder and Regional MVP Jerome Robinson, and all-tournament outfielder Gary Burnham, entered the 1996 College World Series on a three-year streak of number-one regional seeds. The presence of Benson, the expected number one selection in the 1996 MLB amateur draft (held that year on the same week as the CWS) helped draw additional attention to the spring series, transforming it into what one then-Clemson sports information official remembered as the "Media World Series." (Benson was, in fact, drafted by the Pirates during the team's trip to Omaha. ) Despite his stellar regular season, Benson subsequently dropped two postseason decisions as the Tigers stumbled to a 2-2 CWS record. Nonetheless, the team's two victories ended an eight-game CWS losing streak for Clemson and included a win over top-ranked Alabama.

Subsequently, Benson was named College Baseball's Player of the Year, only the second (after fellow future major leaguer and Olympian Ben McDonald) to be so honored on the strength of his pitching alone. As a Tiger, he won the Baseball America Player of the Year, and ACC Player of the Year. The pitcher also became only the second baseball player and first Clemson athlete in any sport to be named the ACC Male Athlete of the Year. Other awards for his collegiate career include the Rotary Smith Award and ABCA Player of the Year, and recognition as unanimous consensus first-team All-American. He was also the recipient of the Dick Howser Trophy for his "performance, character, leadership, and courage". He has also been inducted into the Clemson Hall of Fame in 2005 and the South Carolina Amateur Hall of Fame. In 2003, he was named to the ACC's 50-Year Anniversary baseball team. A marketing student, Benson left Clemson prior to receiving his degree.

Olympics
In the 1996 Olympics, Benson had 17 strikeouts in as many innings and a 2–1 record, but with a 5.82 ERA. Benson beat Nicaragua to open up the games and then Japan, but it was his single loss (11–2 to eventual silver medalist Japan) which proved costly. Benson lasted only four innings and surrendered five runs, and the bullpen gave up another six, en route to an 11–2 bludgeoning that kept the Americans from advancing to the gold medal game. (Ultimately, the U.S. settled for a bronze medal, though this represented an improvement over the squad's failure to medal in 1992.)

Professional baseball
Benson was the first pick of the 1996 Major League Baseball Draft. After being signed for what was a then-record signing bonus, he spent two years in the minor leagues with the Lynchburg Hillcats and Carolina Mudcats in 1997, and the Nashville Sounds in 1998. Benson made his first major league start on April 9, 1999. He became just the second number one overall pick to win his big league debut. His first strikeout was Sammy Sosa. Benson came in fourth place in the NL Rookie of the Year voting. He came up just shy of breaking the record for most strikeouts in team history by a rookie hurler. His best season came in 2000 with Pittsburgh when he posted career-highs in earned run average, strikeouts, innings pitched, and games pitched as well as his only double-digit strikeout games and his career-best three-hit complete game despite the fact that he is a groundball pitcher. That year, Benson broke the record for most strikeouts in Pirates history for a right-handed pitcher. After 2000, he needed Tommy John surgery and missed the entire 2001 season. He started the last game at Three Rivers Stadium and the first game ever at Great American Ballpark. Against the Mets, he broke the record for most sacrifice bunts in a game by a pitcher in MLB history with four.

On July 30, 2004, The Pirates traded him and Jeff Keppinger to The New York Mets for Jose Bautista, Ty Wigginton and Matt Peterson. During that period, Benson put together a string of 70 consecutive innings without surrendering a home run. He was awarded the Mets Best Pitcher during the month of September that year with a 0.76 ERA. He beat Randy Johnson twice in the inter league Subway Series, throwing 12 innings of shutout baseball against the Yankees.

On January 21, 2006, Benson was traded to the Baltimore Orioles for pitchers Jorge Julio and John Maine. Some speculated that the pitcher had been ushered out of town partly as an excuse for the Mets to part ways with his wife, outspoken model Anna Benson, who had "perturbed team officials with her risqué wardrobe and provocative comments." Kris Benson also felt that the Mets had traded him because of his wife, a position disputed by Mets management. The newly minted Oriole beat the Mets that season in interleague play. During the game, he hit his first professional home run off All-Star and Cy Young Award-winner Pedro Martínez.

Benson missed the entire 2007 season with a torn rotator cuff. Steve Trachsel replaced Benson in their starting rotation before being traded to the Chicago Cubs for minor league players. On November 1, 2007, the Orioles declined to pick up his $7.5 million option and instead paid a $500,000 buyout.

On February 13, 2008, the Philadelphia Phillies signed Benson to a minor league deal. On June 29, 2008, after two years away from competitive baseball, Benson made his Triple-A debut for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, throwing 73 pitches. He played 11 games for the IronPigs, but was 1–4 with a 5.52 ERA. However, after two rough initial outings, he went 1–2 with a 3.80 ERA over his remaining 9 starts. He was released on August 30, 2008.

On February 21, 2009, Benson signed a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training with the Texas Rangers. Benson made the Opening Day 25 man roster as one of the Rangers' starting pitchers, but after a short stint on the disabled list, he was relegated to the bullpen in long relief. Benson had made over 200 consecutive starts before the move to the bullpen. After proving ineffective as a sporadic reliever upon his return, he was outrighted to the Rangers' Triple-A affiliate, the Oklahoma City RedHawks, on June 9, 2009.

On March 15, 2010, Benson signed a minor league contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks. On April 15, it was announced that Benson would be the fifth starter for Arizona. He had two effective starts when he first got called up, but injured his shoulder again during his third start against the Colorado Rockies. He also pitched for the Diamondbacks Triple-A affiliate in Reno, Nevada, the Reno Aces.

Before his injury Kris threw regularly in the 93-96 mph range, and, he said, “I think I maxed out at 98. After surgery, I topped out at 90.”

Benson retired on January 10, 2011. He finished his 10-year career with a 70–75 record in 200 starts (206 appearances) and 61 no-decisions.

Personal life
Benson lived in Superior, WI until age 6, before he moved with his family to Milledgeville, GA. In 1988, Benson then moved to Kennesaw, GA. He has two younger sisters and one younger brother.

In 1998, while playing with the Nashville Sounds in the minor leagues, he met his future wife, Anna Benson while she was working as a dancer in a local strip club. The Bensons were married in October 1999 (her second marriage, his first), the same year he reached the major leagues. The pitcher and model became a well-known baseball couple during Benson's time in the major leagues. After Anna reported the couple had sex in the parking lot of Three Rivers Stadium, an experience they wished to replicate at every major league park, concern developed within the Pirates organization the "wild-eyed brunette was getting in the way of her husband's fastball...." Her husband dismissed the Pirates treatment of his wife as "a lot of jealousy and a lot of pettiness...."' Anna filed for divorce on March 31, 2006, citing an "irretrievably broken" marriage., although later withdrew the petition. They had three children together (daughter Haylee, and sons P.J. and Devin James) and were also parenting Anna Benson's daughter from her first marriage (Alyssa Warren). In July 2012, Kris filed for divorce, which was finalized later that year. On July 7, 2013, Anna was arrested for attacking Kris after breaking into his house. She was convicted on charges of aggravated assault and gun possession for the attack and sentenced to 15 years probation and three months of inpatient psychiatric therapy. In May 2022, Kris married Misty Martinez, former wife of his former teammate Hank Blalock.

Benson, who earned over $38 million during his playing career, has supported several charities since beginning his professional career. (In an interview on The Howard Stern Show Anna Benson explained that at least one of her husband's contracts had been structured with charitable contributions so that this income could not be taxed. ) In 2001, after 9/11, the couple founded the non-profit organization Benson's Battalion, whose work then-Rep. Melissa Hart praised in a citation to the Congressional Record in 2004. The Battalion raised funds for emergency services in the wake of 9/11. They also made considerable contributions to the Red Cross and United Way for 9/11 relief. In 2005, Benson assisted in a new charity, while with the New York Mets, called Tuesday's Children. The charity helped children who lost a parent during the Twin Tower collapses. In recognition of various community service and charity efforts, Benson has been honored with the Pittsburgh Pirates team Roberto Clemente Award, the Thurman Munson Award, the Joan Payson Award, and the New Jersey Sports Writers Humanitarian of the Year Award.

The son of a school teacher and college dean, Benson had been described as studious and methodical in his approach to pitching, personally reserved, and, in comparison to his ex-wife, strait-laced and stoic.

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Barda is a fictional character from the DC Comics universe. She is a part-time member of the Justice League of America, and is married to Mr. Miracle. She was born in Apokolips, and during her time there became the leader of a all-female fighting group called the Female Furies. However, shsoon became sensitive to the evil of Apokolips under Granny Goodness. She was promoted to a Special Powers Force under Darkseid, who is a leader of Apokolips. Here she met Scott Free, The future Mr. Miracle, and when Darkseid declared war on New Genesis, The two of them escaped. Big Barda, as she is called, stands at seven feet tall. Her mega-rod gives her the ability to fly, fire energy blasts at her opponents, and make her opponents more dense as well. As a New God, she also has super strength to aid her in her cause. She has been called the strongest woman in the world, being able to lift 50 tons. She first appeared in the Mister Miracle comic #4, created by Jack Kirby in 1971.

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 * Because the block on the IP address is configured that way, or you're being hit by an autoblock. You will need to use in order to contest the block. If you aren't comfortable with revealing your IP on-wiki you can try again thru UTRS. —Jeremy  v^_^v  Bori! 20:19, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I did indeed provide the addresses in UTRS. But I'll try unblock-auto. —Kenyon (t·c) 20:54, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Excessively broad blocks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalBlockList?ip=2600%3A3c01%3Ae002%3A7900%3A%3A https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User%3A2600%3A3C01%3A0%3A0%3A0%3A0%3A0%3A0%2F32 —Kenyon (t·c) 20:54, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Huon, that's absurd. You're going to end up blocking all IPv6 address space with blocks like this. How is the fact that it's a hosting service relevant? Someone could do the same abuse from their residential ISP, and then you'll block that entire ISP. With IPv6, you need to block less broadly, like at the /56 or /64. Also, if I'm logged in, why should the IP address block take effect? I'm obviously not trying to be anonymous if I'm logged in. —Kenyon (t·c) 21:10, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Firstly, since you edited my talk page, you're clearly able to edit Wikipedia despite the IP block. Secondly, WP:OPENPROXY is policy; if you want to change it, you'll need to establish a consensus for the change. Finally, is any part of that IPv6 range not Linode? Is any part not a webhosting service? Otherwise, it's not overbroad; we should indeed block all of it. Huon (talk) 21:28, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't see what WP:OPENPROXY has to do with this. That's about open proxies, not hosting services. Is there a policy on blocking hosting services? I don't see one on WP:BP. Yes, I can edit just fine from other locations, but sometimes I need to use a VPN through my Linode to work around broken wifi networks. Thanks. —Kenyon (t·c) 21:45, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Hosting services are, in practice, the same as open proxies to us, as they're used for much the same reasons (i.e. to avoid revealing one's real IP). They, like open proxies, are also regularly abused by blocked and banned editors to circumvent their blocks/bans. —Jeremy v^_^v  Bori! 21:49, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

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Octagonal (horse)

Octagonal (8 October 1992 – 15 October 2016) was a champion New Zealand-bred, Australian raced Thoroughbred racehorse, also known as 'The Big O' or 'Occy'. He was by the champion sire Zabeel, out of the champion broodmare Eight Carat, who also produced Group One winners Mouawad, Kaapstad, Diamond Lover and (Our) Marquise.

Biography
Bob Ingham, along with brother Jack Ingham, purchased and raced Octagonal. Trained by John Hawkes, Octagonal made his debut late in 1994, and was crowned the Australian Champion Two Year Old on the strength of his autumn campaign, which comprised wins in the Todman Trial and AJC Sires Produce Stakes and close seconds in the STC Golden Slipper and AJC Champagne Stakes.

As a three-year-old, Octagonal won seven of his eleven starts, and took his record to 10 wins from 16 starts. In addition to beating a high-standard crop in Sydney's three-year-old autumn triple crown - the Canterbury and Rosehill Guineas and the Australian Derby - Octagonal won the two richest weight-for-age races on the Australian calendar, the W. S. Cox Plate and the Mercedes Classic. With earnings of just short of A$4 million, Octagonal was voted the 1996 Australian Champion Three Year Old, Australian Horse of the Year, and remains the last horse to have won the triple crown. The Victoria (spring) and Australian Derby (autumn) double eluded him, however, as he was narrowly defeated by Nothin' Leica Dane in the Victoria Derby.

Octagonal returned to the track as a four-year-old, but his win the Underwood Stakes was the only highlight of a spring campaign that saw him unplaced in six of his seven starts. Meanwhile, the horses who had finished second to him in the triple crown - Saintly and Filante - won three races each, including the Epsom Handicap, the W. S. Cox Plate (where they were first and second), and the Melbourne Cup. Octagonal's final campaign, during the autumn, was more consistent, and featured Group One wins in consecutive starts in the Chipping Norton Stakes, Australian Cup, and the Mercedes Classic. At his final start, he was runner-up in the AJC Queen Elizabeth Stakes; a feat coincidentally emulated in the farewell of his champion son, Lonhro, seven years later.

Octagonal retired to stud after 28 starts with a record of 14 wins (10 Group 1), 7 seconds (6 in GI or GII races) and a third. He ended his racing career with a stakes tally of A$5,892,231, the highest of any galloper in Australasia to that point.

Octagonal Entered stud in 1997–2013 Woodlands Stud at Cootamundra, New South Wales and Shuttled in 1998–2001 to Haras du Quesnay France and was pensioned from stud duties in 2013. He is the sire of Australian Group One winning brothers Lonhro and Niello, the South African Group 1 winner, Suntagonal and Laverock whose wins include two Group 1 races: the Prix d'Ispahan at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris and the Gran Premio del Jockey Club at Milan, Italy's, San Siro Racecourse.

He was euthanized on 15 October 2016 at the age of 24 years at Woodlands Stud at Denman in the NSW Hunter Valley. He was buried next to his fellow stallion mate Canny Lad. Owner Bob Ingham described his career as 'heroic' and 'life-changing'.

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Gulf of Mexico
So much information in one image: individual states, counties, latitude and longitude lines, as well as topographic and bathymetric mapping, all thanks to the NOAA and GIS overlaying. A much better image than the original picture at Gulf of Mexico. Now all we need is someone knowledgeable to write about the picture in the article. It certainly fits the saying "a picture is worth a thousand words" ... even if those words have yet to be written. - [[User:Brian0918|brian0918 talk]] 06:34, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Nominate and support. - [[User:Brian0918|brian0918 talk]] 06:34, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. Fredrik | talk 16:40, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality/talk]] 03:37, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * Weak support. Illustrates it very well, and the 3d concept is very good, I just don't like the look of the ocean all that much. But still a pretty good image. --Fir0002 04:27, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment. What this thing lacks is a scale showing what colours correspond to what altitudes. Enochlau 15:06, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Not a particularly good rendering. ed g2s  •  talk  16:44, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm sure you could do a better job. Did you look at the source image? --[[User:Brian0918|brian0918 talk]] 19:35, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I meant in terms of a 3D rendering from the source data. I don't think their program produces nice projections of the landscape. It looks like the original data was quite low resolution. ed g2s  •  talk  04:32, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Are there better or higher resolution renderings of the same region out there? --[[User:Brian0918|brian0918 talk]] 04:57, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Weak support -- Chris 73 Talk 23:50, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. Mark1 04:31, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Perhaps, if the 'France radar' image, with much more detail, hadn't been posted above. Even so, I find it a little off that the US is overlayed with extra info like state and county boundaries, whist Mexico has nothing. -- Solipsist 00:09, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Janderk 17:04, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Support - Does a very good job showing the undersea features. Rendering is well done, too. I would have used less of a specular surface finish, but that is just a matter of taste. - User:Casito 03:35, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose, too lo-res, and has no legend - Bevo 15:57, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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Komnenos

The House of Komnenos ( pl. Komnenoi; Κομνηνός, pl. Κομνηνοί, ), Latinized as Comnenus ( pl. Comneni), was a Byzantine Greek noble family who ruled the Byzantine Empire in the 11th and 12th centuries. The first reigning member, Isaac I Komnenos, ruled from 1057 to 1059. The family returned to power under Alexios I Komnenos in 1081 who established their rule for the following 104 years until it ended with Andronikos I Komnenos in 1185. In the 13th century, they founded and ruled the Empire of Trebizond, a Byzantine rump state from 1204 to 1461. At that time, they were commonly referred to as Grand Komnenoi (Μεγαλοκομνηνοί, Megalokomnenoi), a style that was officially adopted and used by George Komnenos and his successors. Through intermarriages with other noble families, notably the Doukas, Angelos, and Palaiologos, the Komnenos name appears among most of the major noble houses of the late Byzantine world.

Origins
The 11th-century Byzantine historian Michael Psellos reported that the Komnenos family originated from the village of Komne in Thrace—usually identified with the "Fields of Komnene" (Κομνηνῆς λειμῶνας) mentioned in the 14th century by John Kantakouzenos—a view commonly accepted by modern scholarship. The first known member of the family, Manuel Erotikos Komnenos, acquired extensive estates at Kastamon in Paphlagonia, which became the stronghold of the family in the 11th century. The family thereby quickly became associated with the powerful and prestigious military aristocracy (dynatoi) of Asia Minor, so that despite coming from Thrace it came to be considered "eastern". Aside from deriving legitimacy as rulers from familial links to the prominent Doukai (emperors Constantine X and Michael VII in particular), they also had a tradition linking them to Claudius Gothicus, the supposed grandfather of Constantine the Great. Many classical monuments dedicated to Claudius stood in the vicinity of Kastra Komnenon, which according to historian Maximilian C. G. Lau may have increased his appeal in the eyes of the Komnenoi.

The 17th-century French scholar du Cange suggested that the family descended from a Roman noble family that followed Constantine the Great to Constantinople, from whose cousin but although such mythical genealogies were common—and are attested for the closely related Doukas clan as well—the complete absence of any such assertion in the Byzantine sources argues against Du Cange's view. The Romanian historian George Murnu suggested in 1924 that the Komnenoi were of Aromanian descent, but this view too is now rejected. Modern scholars consider the family to have been entirely of Greek origin.

Manuel Erotikos Komnenos was the father of Isaac I Komnenos ((r. 1057 – 1059)), and grandfather, through Isaac's younger brother John Komnenos, of Alexios I Komnenos ((r. 1081 – 1118)).

Founding the dynasty
Isaac I Komnenos, a stratopedarch of the East under Michael VI, founded the Komnenos dynasty of Byzantine emperors. In 1057 Isaac led a coup against Michael and was proclaimed emperor. Although his reign lasted only until 1059, when his courtiers pressured him to abdicate and become a monk, Isaac initiated many useful reforms. The dynasty returned to the throne with the accession of Alexios I Komnenos, Isaac I's nephew, in 1081. By this time, descendants of all the previous dynasties of Byzantium seem to have disappeared from the realm, such as the important Scleros and Argyros families. Descendants of those emperors lived abroad, having married into the royal families of Georgia, Russia, France, Persia, Italy, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary and Serbia; this made it easier for the Komnenos family to ascend to the throne.

Upon their rise to the throne, the Komnenoi became intermarried with the previous Doukas dynasty: Alexios I married Irene Doukaina, the grandniece of Constantine X Doukas, who had succeeded Isaac I in 1059. Thereafter the combined clan was often referred to as Komnenodoukai (Κομνηνοδούκαι) and several individuals used both surnames together. Several families descended from this wider clan, such as Palaiologos, Angelos, Vatatzes and Laskaris. Alexios and Irene's youngest daughter Theodora ensured the future success of the Angelos family by marrying into it: Theodora's grandsons became the emperors Isaac II Angelos (reigned 1185–1195 and 1203–1204) and Alexios III Angelos (reigned 1195–1203).

Komnenoi as emperors
Under Alexios I and his successors the Empire was fairly prosperous and stable. Alexios moved the imperial palace to the Blachernae section of Constantinople. Much of Anatolia was recovered from the Seljuk Turks, who had captured it just prior to Alexios' reign. Alexios also saw the First Crusade pass through Byzantine territory, leading to the establishment of the Crusader states in the east. The Komnenos dynasty was very much involved in crusader affairs, and also intermarried with the reigning families of the Principality of Antioch and the Kingdom of Jerusalem - Theodora Komnene, niece of Manuel I Komnenos, married Baldwin III of Jerusalem, and Maria, grandniece of Manuel, married Amalric I of Jerusalem.

Remarkably, Alexios ruled for 37 years, and his son John II ruled for 25, after uncovering a conspiracy against him by his sister, the chronicler Anna Komnene. John's son Manuel ruled for another 37 years.

The Komnenos dynasty produced a number of branches. As imperial succession was not in a determined order but rather depended on personal power and the wishes of one's predecessor, within a few generations several relatives were able to present themselves as claimants. After Manuel I's reign the Komnenos dynasty fell into conspiracies and plots like many of its predecessors (and the various contenders within the family sought power and often succeeded in overthrowing the preceding kinsman); Alexios II, the first Komnenos to ascend as a minor, ruled for three years and his conqueror and successor Andronikos I ruled for two, overthrown by the Angelos family under Isaac II who was dethroned and blinded by his own brother Alexios III. The Angeloi were overthrown during the Fourth Crusade in 1204, by Alexios V Doukas, a relative from the Doukas family.

Later family
Several weeks before the occupation of Constantinople by crusaders in 1204, one branch of the Komnenoi fled back to their homelands in Paphlagonia, along the eastern Black Sea and its hinterland in the Pontic Alps, where they established the Empire of Trebizond. Their first 'emperor', named Alexios I, was the grandson of Emperor Andronikos I. These emperors – the Grand Komnenoi ( or in Greek) as they were known – ruled in Trebizond for over 250 years, until 1461, when David Komnenos was defeated and executed by the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II. Mehmed himself claimed descent from the Komnenos family via John Tzelepes Komnenos. The Trapezutine branch of the Komnenos dynasty also held the name of Axouchos as descendants of John Axouch, a Byzantine nobleman and minister to the Byzantine Komnenian Dynasty. A princess of the Trebizond branch is said to have been the mother of prince Yahya (born 1585), who reportedly became a Christian yet spent much of his life attempting to gain the Ottoman throne.

Another branch of the family, descendants of Constantine Angelos, founded the Despotate of Epirus in 1204, under Michael I Komnenos Doukas, great-grandson of Emperor Alexios I. This branch adopted the surnames Komnenos Doukas and are known as such in modern scholarship. Helena Doukaina Komnene, a child of that branch of the family, married Guy I de la Roche thereby uniting the Komnenos and the de la Roche houses, with Komnenos family members eventually becoming Dukes of Athens.

One renegade member of the family, also named Isaac Komnenos, established a separate "empire" on Cyprus in 1184, which lasted until 1191, when the island was taken from him by Richard I of England during the Third Crusade. His daughter, called the Damsel of Cyprus, married Thierry of Flanders during the Fourth Crusade and tried to claim the island.

When the Byzantine Empire was restored in 1261 at Constantinople, it was ruled by a family closely related to the Komnenoi, the Palaiologoi. The Palaiologoi ruled until the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.

The last descendant of the dynasty is often considered to have been John Komnenos Molyvdos, a distinguished Ottoman Greek scholar and physician, who became metropolitan bishop of Side and Dristra, and died in 1719.

In 1782, the Corsican Greek notable Demetrio Stefanopoli obtained letters patent from Louis XVI of France recognizing him as the descendant and heir of the Emperors of Trebizond.

Komnenian ancestry in Western Europe
Irene Angelina, daughter of Isaac II Angelos and thus a descendant of Alexios I Komnenos, married Philip of Swabia (1177–1208), the King of Germany. From this union many of the royal and aristocratic families of Western Europe can trace a line of descent.

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All of Our Names

All of Our Names is an album by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah Harmer, released in 2004. It peaked at number 6 on the Top Canadian Albums chart and number 43 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart. "Almost" b/w "Pendulums" was released as a single with "Almost" reaching the top 20 on Canadian pop charts. A different version of the track "Silver Road", recorded with The Tragically Hip and for the soundtrack for the film Men with Brooms had been previously released as a single in 2003.

The album won the Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2005.

History
The album was recorded using Digital Performer at Harmer's home. Drums and bass and guitars were recorded together using different rooms, and the rest of the album was multi-tracked individually.

Guest musicians on the album include Howie Beck, Gavin Brown, Jim Bryson and Ian Thornley. Harmer plays a number of instruments on the album, including guitar, bass, and drums.

It was released in the U.S. on Zoë Records.

Reception
Music critic Johnny Lofthus, writing for Allmusic, praised the album, calling it "homey and gorgeous" and calling Harmer's voice "starkly beautiful." "There's fully formed adult alternative stuff here, from the robust head-nod lilt of 'Almost' to 'New Enemy's more stately melody... This immediacy helps sell All of Our Names, since music like this can be smothered by over-production." Rolling Stone gave the album 3 of 5 stars, stating it is "suffused with a peaceful fatalism, a mood that's as casually downbeat as Harmer's overcast voice itself."

Entertainment Weekly gave All of Our Names a B+ rating, writing: "While it doesn't top her priceless 2000 debut, You Were Here, the fluid, moody Names comes respectably close. With a voice as silvery and luminous as a full moon, Harmer constructs daring metaphors to convey emotional perplexities... songs like the rueful 'Tether' display Harmer's gift for setting human drama to fresh melodies." Paul Cantin of No Depression praised the album and remarked on its themes of rural life and the outdoors, also writing "... while there's nothing here that quite reaches the dramatic punch of the latter album's standout songs... All Of Our Names confirms that Harmer is, by any other name, a formidable, singular talent who has amply rewarded the patience of her fans."

Track listing
All songs written by Sarah Harmer.
 * 1) "Pendulums" – 3:26
 * 2) "Almost" – 3:57
 * 3) "Greeting Card Aisle" – 4:37
 * 4) "New Enemy" – 3:54
 * 5) "Silver Road" – 3:38
 * 6) "Dandelions in Bullet Holes" – 6:02
 * 7) "Things to Forget" – 3:34
 * 8) "Came on Lion" – 3:10
 * 9) "Took it All" – 4:41
 * 10) "Tether" – 3:21
 * 11) "Go to Sleep" – 3:38

Personnel

 * Sarah Harmer – vocals, guitar, bass, piano, synthesizer, drums, glockenspiel, Wurlitzer, Juno
 * Gavin Brown – guitar, drums, Wurlitzer, baritone guitar
 * Howie Beck – bass, drums
 * Jim Bryson – guitar
 * Kevin Fox – cello
 * Fuzzy – drums
 * Maury LaFoy – bass, upright bass
 * John Obercian – drums
 * Benji Perosin – trumpet on "Came On Lion" and "Tether"
 * Ian Thornley – guitar on "Pendulums"

Production

 * Produced by Sarah Harmer, Martin Kinack and Gavin Brown
 * Engineered by Eric Ratz and Sarah Harmer
 * Mixed by Eric Ratz, Gavin Brown and Sarah Harmer
 * Mastered by Greg Calbi
 * Art direction by Steven Jurgensmeyer and Sarah Harmer
 * Cover photo by Andrew MacNaughten

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DNI

DNI may stand for:

Government and military

 * Digital Network Intelligence, the NSA term for the collection of data from the Internet
 * Director of National Intelligence, a Cabinet-level executive position that oversees the United States Intelligence Community
 * Director of Naval Intelligence (disambiguation)
 * Documento Nacional de Identidad (disambiguation) or "National Identity Document" in Spanish

Science and technology

 * Direct neural interface, a brain-computer interface
 * Direct normal irradiance, a measure of the solar irradiance striking a surface held normal to the line of sight to the sun
 * Direct normal insolation, also known as direct insolation, a measure of the solar irradiance striking a surface held normal to line of sight to the sun
 * Dole Nutrition Institute founded by the Dole Food Company
 * Do not intubate, an alternate term for "do not resuscitate"
 * Do not install, a term sometimes used in Printed circuit board design to denote the omitting of a component

Other uses

 * Do not interact, a term used to deter people or a certain group of people from interacting with someone or something.
 * Lower Grand Valley Dani language (ISO 639 code: dni)
 * Wad Medani Airport (IATA airport code: DNI), an airstrip in Sudan

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Bellechasse

Bellechasse may refer to: In Quebec, Canada:
 * Bellechasse (Lower Canada), an electoral district 1829–1838
 * Bellechasse (Province of Canada), an electoral district 1841–1867
 * Bellechasse (federal electoral district), 1867–1996
 * Bellechasse (provincial electoral district), 1867–present
 * Bellechasse Regional County Municipality, Quebec

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Bittern (disambiguation)

Bittern is a classification of wading birds in the heron family.

Bittern may also refer to:

Places

 * Bittern, Victoria, a town in Australia
 * Bittern railway station, on the Stony Point line
 * Bittern Lake, a village in Alberta, Canada
 * Bittern Line a railway in Norfolk, England

Vehicles

 * LNER Class A4 4464 Bittern, a preserved British steam locomotive
 * Boulton Paul Bittern, a British fighter aircraft design of the 1920s
 * HMS Bittern, the name of seven ships of the Royal Navy
 * USS Bittern, several ships in the United States Navy
 * Bittern-class sloop a three-ship class of long-range escort vessels used in the Second World War by the Royal Navy

Other

 * Bittern (salt), a waste product of solar salt operations rich in magnesium sulfate
 * Operation Bittern, a British military operation in World War II

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Evangelists

Evangelists may refer to:

 * Evangelists (Christianity), Christians who specialize in evangelism
 * Four Evangelists, the authors of the four Gospel accounts in the New Testament
 * The Evangelists, a controversial play

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TeleVideo

TeleVideo Corporation was a U.S. company that achieved its peak of success in the early 1980s producing computer terminals. TeleVideo was founded in 1975 by K. Philip Hwang, a Utah State University, Hanyang University graduate born in North Korea who had run a business producing CRT monitors for arcade games since 1975. The company was headquartered in San Jose, California.

TeleVideo's terminal protocol was popular in the early days of microcomputers and was widely supported by applications as well as terminal emulators (often referred to as "TeleVideo 925 emulation"). TeleVideo also built CP/M-compatible 8-bit desktop and portable personal computers based on the Z80 processor. Up to sixteen of these machines could be connected to proprietary multi-user systems through serial interfaces. In April 1983, TeleVideo introduced an MS-DOS 2.0-compatible personal computer based on the Intel 8088. This was introduced as the Model TS-1603 and included 128 KB RAM (expandable up to 256 KB), integrated monitor, modem and keyboard. The Model TS-1603 ran both TeleVideo PC DOS 2.0 and CP/M-86 1.1.

The company later turned to manufacturing Windows-compatible thin client computers, but eventually sold this business line to Neoware in October 2005. The latter was subsequently taken over by Hewlett-Packard in 2007.

On March 14, 2006, TeleVideo, Inc. filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.

After more than 35 years in business and with millions of terminals sold worldwide, TeleVideo discontinued the manufacturing and sales of all terminal products as of September 30, 2011.

Products

 * Terminals: TeleVideo 905, 910, 912, 914, 920, 921, 922, 924, 925, 9320, 935, 950, 955, 965, 970, 990, 995-65, Personal Terminal
 * Graphic boards for Terminals: 914GR, 924GR, 970GR
 * CP/M systems: TeleVideo TS-800, TS-802, TS-803
 * CP/M Plus and MP/M II: TeleVideo TS-804 (4 users for MP/M II)
 * CP/M-86/MS-DOS systems: TeleVideo TS-1603
 * TeleVideo TPC-1, a portable CP/M system similar to the Osborne-1
 * Early multi-user systems: TeleVideo TS-806 (6 users), TS-816 (16 users)
 * 80286 IBM AT clone TELECAT 286, a small green desktop IBM AT clone with a 6 or 8 MHz 80286 CPU Trademark filing for TELECAT-286 1986

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Jazzy

Jazzy is an adjective that describes a subject with resemblance to jazz, in a literal (in terms of music) or symbolic sense.

Jazzy, Jazze or Jazzie may also refer to:

 * Jazzie B, English DJ
 * Jazzie Collins, activist
 * Jazzie Redd, radio personality
 * Jazzy (singer) (born 1996), Irish dance pop singer
 * Jazzy B (born 1975), Canadian singer
 * Jazzy Collins, American Casting Director
 * Jazzy Danziger, (born 1984), American poet
 * Jazzy Jay (born 1961), American hip hop DJ
 * Jazzy King (born 1990), one half of British pop duo Blonde Electra
 * Jazzy de Lisser (born 1991), English actress
 * Jazzy M (born 1962), English record producer
 * Jazzy's World TV (born 2010), American broadcast journalist
 * Jazze Pha, American record producer
 * Don Jazzy (born 1982), Nigerian record executive
 * Alpha Female (born 1982), German bodybuilder who uses the alias "Jazzy Bi"
 * Jasmine Kerber (born 1996), American rhythmic gymnast

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Talk:Margaret Chase Smith

1964 Republican Convention
While this article needs more information in every area, the most important in which it is lacking virtually any information is her involvement in the 1964 Republican Convention. Although it is mentioned at the beginning of the article, it isn't discussed, or even given a second mention, anywhere else. I would like to see a significant section on her involvement in the convention, particularly because that is the information for which I was looking. Kleio08 (talk) 13:08, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Biography assessment rating comment
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Discussion
This rocks. Margaret is awsome and I loved her speech. Its so true! Every bit. I encourage you all to read it.

In his memoir My Life, Bill Clinton describes MCS as a pipe-smoking senator from Maine. I think he may be confusing her with Millicent Fenwick, senator from NJ. Does anyone know if MCS smoked a pipe?

pet cat
I went to high school in skowhegan, and on the day of her death we had a moment of silence. One kid in shop class bragged he killed her cat, is their any possibility of this claim being true? Neophytesoftware 21:05, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * That's a lovely way for him to earn a mention in Wikipedia. I don't know if it would be worse if he were fibbing or telling the truth. Cranston Lamont 17:19, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

--- The article states: "speech on the floor of the Senate, earning McCarthy's permanent ire ... Her speech, although it did not produce immediate backlash, was the beginning of the end for McCarthy." --First off, this is just not true. McCarthy enjoyed increasing support from the Republican Party for quite some time (after this). His biggest "victories" were still to come at this point, and Ms. Smith ended up casting votes on the senate floor on behalf of McCarthy-- well after her "Declaration of Conscience" speech. --Also: It was believed by many that her speech was "an act of personal revenge" against McCarthy... Apparantly, he "broke her heart..." During her 1st 2 years in the senate, they both served on the Executive Expenditures Committee together... From personal letters discovered in McCarthy's office-- with romantic references in them...  McCarthy always asked his assistant to write "bland, official replies." Smith was a lonely widow, and McCarthy had no intrest in her. --Regardless of the second point, Smith can hardly be credited for playing any major role in McCarthy's downfall... Regalseagull 20:18, 5 November 2006 (UTC)regalseagull 11/05/2006 --- There is some redundancy with regard to her college education and mention of Sigma Kappa. I don't have time to fix it myself at the moment.Cdean 17:21, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

"Chase Smith" or simply "Smith"
Every reliable source I find refers to her as "Senator Smith" or "Smith." Her maiden name was Chase and she married Clyde Smith, but why does this article constantly refer to her as "Chase Smith" or "Senator Chase Smith" in lieu of her real married name? Is there an MOS I'm missing or what? I think the name she's known by should trump some need to have "birth name married name."--Tim Thomason 23:28, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

 * Good question. I'm a native Mainer and she was always referred to as Margaret Chase Smith in our history books in school. I also found a site that has some info about her, and on the front page of the site is her signature. Here is the link: http://www.mcslibrary.org/ –BMRR (talk) 03:02, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

 * There's also this and this. Both would appear to be reliable sources. –BMRR (talk) 03:05, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I think you misunderstand, and I already changed the article from what it said before. Before it listed her in shorthand as "Chase Smith," like "Chase Smith did this and Chase Smith did that." There's no doubt that she used the name "Margaret Chase Smith" in lieu of "Margaret Smith" (which I have never heard), but her 'last name' was always Smith, and she was "Senator Smith" not "Senator Chase Smith" (some books have referred to her as such, but I can't find anything from her or the US Government). The sources you provide show that she was categorized as "Smith, Margaret Chase" with Chase being treated as a middle name (as was/is common for many married women), not a part of her surname. Thus, I think the shorthand for "Margaret Chase Smith" remain simply "Smith" (or "Senator Smith" or what-have-you), and "Chase Smith." Unless of course, I'm still missing something.--Tim Thomason 05:00, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

 * Sorry; I thought you were saying that you couldn't find any reliable sources that referred to her as Margaret Chase Smith. My bad. –BMRR (talk) 18:15, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Personal life section
I have removed the "personal life" section from this article because it didn't contain any of the expected information in such a section. Instead, it discussed a "professional relationship" with an aide, which allegedly continued until his death in 1982. As Smith was not in office after 1973, there was no need for an aide, and the wording of the section left the impression that there was more there than what was explicitly claimed. The section was unreferenced, too. While there is no BLP issue (both individuals have been dead for more than a decade, and Smith never had any children), such claims should be excluded from a biographical article because of their scurrilous nature.  Horologium  (talk) 11:41, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
 * That's true. Thanks for removing it. --Jtalledo (talk) 12:05, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

IN her own right?
While she was elected to the House to replace her late husband, her election to the Senate years later was something else again. Wasn't she the first woman to be elected to the senate in her own right?72.226.125.231 (talk) 15:39, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

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Gavin Brown (musician)

Gavin Brown is a Canadian record producer.

Grammy Awards nominations

 * Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse featuring "Eclipse (All Yours)" by Metric — 52nd Annual Grammy Awards (2010)

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Scoobies

The name Scoobies can refer to:

 * Scoubidous, a toy made of coloured plastic strands
 * The "Mystery, Inc." gang from the animated television series Scooby-Doo
 * The main protagonists of the television series Buffy: The Vampire Slayer

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Kamarajar Adithanar Kazhagam

Kamarajar Adithanar Kazhagam, is a political party for Nadars, in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, formed to represent the interests of the Nadar caste. The party was founded on 3 November 1996, by Selvin. The present party president is SSS Singh Nadar. The party struggles and works for equality among all castes of people, and also fights for protecting the Nadar caste businessmen from other caste rowdies in Tamilnadu. The 26th of March of every year is practised as black day by the Nadar Caste and a big rally is organised in Tirunelveli to remember Selvin.

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Robert Davis

Robert Davis may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * DJ Screw (1971–2000), rap DJ and inventor of "Screwed" music
 * Robert Davis, the real name of comedian Jasper Carrott
 * Robert Hobart Davis (1869–1942), American dramatist, journalist, and photographer
 * Robert P. Davis (1929–2005), American author and screenwriter
 * Robert Tyler Davis (1904–1978), American art historian

Law

 * Robert E. Davis (judge) (1939–2010), Kansas Supreme Court Justice
 * Robert Grimes Davis (1819–1872), Kingdom of Hawaii Supreme Court Justice
 * Robert N. Davis (born 1953), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims

Military

 * Robert Davis (RAF officer) (born 1930), British air marshal
 * Robert Courtney Davis (1876–1944), officer in the United States Army

Politics

 * Robert Atkinson Davis (1841–1903), Premier of Manitoba, 1874–1878
 * Robert Lee Davis (1893–1967), U.S. Representative from the state of Pennsylvania
 * Robert O. Davis (1910–1992), Pennsylvania politician
 * Robert T. Davis (1823–1906), U.S. Representative from the state of Massachusetts
 * Robert William Davis (1932–2009), U.S. Representative from the state of Michigan
 * Robert Wyche Davis (1849–1929), U.S. Representative from the state of Florida
 * Robert Davis (British politician) (born 1957), British Conservative Party politician

Science and technology

 * Robert Davis (inventor) (1870–1965), inventor in 1910 of a new model of oxygen rebreather, used to escape from submarines
 * Robert E. Davis (climatologist), associate professor of climatology at the University of Virginia
 * Robert B. Davis (1926–1997), American mathematician

Others

 * Butch Davis (outfielder, born 1916) (Robert Lomax Davis, 1916–1988), American baseball player
 * Robert Davis (New Orleans) (born 1941), who was beaten by three police officers in New Orleans shortly after Hurricane Katrina
 * Robert R. Davis (born 1949), American economist and Commodity Futures Trading Commission commissioner
 * Robert L. Davis (police chief) (born 1958), Chief in the San Jose Police Department
 * Robert Davis (wide receiver) (born 1995), American football wide receiver
 * Robert Davis (pole vaulter), winner of the 1958 NCAA DI outdoor pole vault championship

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Tuvan

Tuvan or Tuvinian can refer to:

 * Of or pertaining to Tuva, a federal subject of Russia
 * Tuvans or Tuvinians, a Turkic ethnic group living in southern Siberia
 * Tuvan language, also known as Tuvinian, Tyvan or Tuvin, a Turkic language spoken in the Republic of Tuva
 * Tuvan throat singing, a singing technique where one can sing in two tones at the same time
 * Tuvan syndrome, a fictional malady in the Star Trek episode "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

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Category:6-8-6 locomotives

Steam locomotives of the 6-8-6 wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation.

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William Hutt (politician)

Sir William Hutt, KCB, PC (6 October 1801 – 24 November 1882) was a British Liberal politician who was heavily involved in the colonisation of New Zealand and South Australia.

Background and education
Hutt was born in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire. He was the brother of Sir George Hutt and John Hutt, the second governor of Western Australia. He was educated privately at Ryde, Isle of Wight, and Camberwell, and graduated BA (1827) and MA (1831) from Trinity College, Cambridge.

Political career
Hutt entered Parliament as MP for Kingston upon Hull in 1832, holding the seat until 1837, when William Wilberforce defeated him. He regained it in 1838 when Wilberforce was unseated on petition. He had an interest in colonial affairs, and became increasingly involved in them. He served as a member of the select committee on colonial lands in 1836; as a commissioner for the foundation of South Australia; as a member of the New Zealand Association from 1837; and as a member of the select committee on New Zealand in 1840. He also helped form (1839) the re-incarnated New Zealand Company, of which he later became a director and chairman.

After he ceased to be MP for Hull in 1841, he successfully stood for the seat of Gateshead, a seat that he retained for over 30 years. He served as Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Paymaster General under Lord Palmerston between 1860 and 1865 and under Lord Russell in 1865 and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1860. In 1865 he became a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.

Personal life
In 1831 Hutt married Mary (née Millner), Dowager Countess of Strathmore, widow of John Bowes, 10th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, to whose son John Bowes Hutt had been a tutor. She died in 1860, leaving him mining properties worth £18,000 a year.

The following year he married Frances Anna Jane "Fanny" Stanhope, a daughter of the Hon. Sir Francis Charles Stanhope. The couple had a London home in Grosvenor Square.

Hutt died at Appley Towers, Ryde, on 24 November 1882, aged 81, leaving his landed property to his brother, Sir George Hutt. Frances, Lady Hutt, died in September 1886.

Eponymous geography
Hutt is commemorated in the name of the Hutt River in the North Island of New Zealand and the cities of Lower Hutt and Upper Hutt, which stand on its banks. The Hutt River, South Australia and the Hutt River and Hutt Lagoon in Western Australia were also named in his honour. Hutt Street in Adelaide carries his name. The Bowes River in Western Australia was named after his wife Mary.

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