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Talk:Prehistoric art

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remove scope tag
It's difficult to see any particular Western-centric bias in this article? Can anyone simply LIST preshistoric art finds from Asia? (older than say 10,000 years.) Are there many? Have there been any good finds yet? If there are, click EDIT and put them in the article. If there are not, the silly tag should be removed.

Limited geographic scope
If this article doesn't show the Western-centric bias on Wikipedia, I really don't know what does. Ashibaka tlk 02:20, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * The headings are there, which indicates an attempt to avoid bias. It's just that we're waiting for someone who knows about the subject to add more. adamsan 12:15, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * This article is completely lacking in native arts of Asia. It doesn't even have a heading for Asia. Since Asia is the largest continent and it does have a rich history, I'd be surprised if it didn't have any notable pre-historic art.  SCH ZMO  ✍ 19:36, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Ridiculous. If you want to add sections on Asia prehistoric art, click the EDIT button and go for it.

Missing rock art styles
Any reason x-ray style is not mentioned? (Google gives about 500000 hits) One example is from 6000 BCE, and as these occur many places over the world it should satisfy this complaining on limited geographic scope. Also there is another style where deer or similar animal is looking backwards, the English name of which I cannot recall. This too is found in many places in the world. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.164.112.1 (talk • contribs) 2005-06-29t10:25:02z
 * This comment is so vague as to be not very valuable. If you want to add a section on some particular type of prehistoric art, do some reasearch and then click the EDIT button.

Odd article
The following was posted as a new article called Talk talk:Prehistoric-art by. I have tagged the article as speedy and copied the contents here. Reyk 19:51, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

On Paleolithic art; the eminent author, Arnold Hauser had this to say: "The Palaeolithic hunter and painter thought he was in possession of the thing itself in the picture, thought he had acquired power over the object in the portrayal of the object. He believed the real animal actually suffered the killing of the animal portrayed in the picture. The pictorial representation was to his mind nothing but the anticipation of the desired effect; the real event had inevitably to follow the magical sample-action, or rather to be already contained within it, as both were separated from each other merely by the supposedly unreal medium of space and time. It was, therefore, by no means a question of symbolical surrogatory functions but of really purposive action. It was not the thought that killed, not the faith that achieved the miracle, but the actual deed, the pictorial representation, the shooting at the picture, that effected the magic."

More; female animal representations never show spear marks; because the belief in magic resulted in a desire to preserve the species for future hunting.

Hauser was a Marxist; and so it is not surprising that he believed that artists need patrons. Yet there is much truth in that contention; especially in later times, e.g. the Italian Renissance, where Pope Julius and the Medici Family both patronized Michaelangelo.

Hauser is nonetheless quite sexist in his analysis of Palaeolithic art. There is plenty of newer scholarship that even takes hunting "out of the picture" altogether. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.108.82.128 (talk) 20:16, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

 * The comments above seem extremely irrelevant to this article, which is, and should be, an overview of prehistoric art.

Primitive art
I think the term "pre-historic" art is all wrong.

 * You are quite wrong. "primitive" is a stylistic description.  "prehistoric" is a well-accepted term spanning particular eras.

I think the topic name should be changed to "primitive art". There are a number of reasons, but the most obvious is that this article is intended to encompass aboriginal art which clearly co-exist with the western culture's historical period. How can it be pre-history? Trying to lump aborignals into pre-history by calling them preliterate is also problematic. The term preliterate implies a developmental model to all human socities which is inapplicable outside of western culture. If you must talk about the technology of writing simply "nonliterate" will do. I will make these changes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.49.145.27 (talk • contribs) 2006-02-28t00:10:50z

 * I would like some help on making the change to the art history series that this art should be called 'primative'. How can this been done? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.49.145.27 (talk • contribs) 2006-02-28 00:31:17

 * See WP:MOVE. -- Jeandré, 2006-02-28t19:13z

 * Well, one can look at art from the historical or geographic perspectives. Both are valid and useful for the study of art and peoples.  Primitive art is more of a style than a time period.  Thus, pre-historic art serves an anthropological function just like pre-historic food production or pre-historic weapons.  Naïve art already exists as an an article (which primitive redirects to.)  Does that not address your concern? Marc Mywords 20:42, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Actually according to Anthropologists,"Primitive," is an ethnocentric term. It implies that one human society is less advanved than another. The term primative is used for modern Austrlian-native (previously known as Aboriginies)but they are not less advanced than other societies.  For examply whle they have not invvented the cell phone, they do know how to survive in a desert enviornment, find water in ususual places etc.  They are not primitive.   "Pre-historic," though a misnomer, is appropriate because it in this context means before history was recorded in writing.  Truly though art began well before the Paleolihic period! Besides writing history is told through archaeology, myth and lore, chant and song, carbon dating, foot and hand prints, food source remains and more. Redford Robbins (talk) 00:55, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Iron age?
If the intention of this article is prehistoric and nonliterate art, why the hell are the neolithic, bronze, and iron ages included? I feel these ought to be removed and placed in their own home, since the art of these epochs is clearly historical. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.49.145.27 (talk • contribs) 2006-02-28 00:25:28

 * I just checked, they already have their own home! See: ancient art. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.49.145.27 (talk • contribs) 2006-02-28 00:26:38

What about MALTA. Shouldn't it be mentioned, as the site of the world's most ancient structures? Poorly researched page. 87.74.127.29 18:25, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Does anyone really care that much about Malta? :-)  The time scales mentioned on this page (eg, Africa caves 70,000 years old) are far older than some buildings in Malta.  Why not add what you know about Malta to the Malta page?

Gee whizz!
This article has an awful lot of knockers and very few positive contributors! What about it? --Amandajm 04:54, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

 * No kidding.

Uh, this is the pursuit of knowledge AND an encyclopedia, not a feel good party. Art History has been one of the most problematic disciplines for the production of lies and biases. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.108.82.128 (talk) 20:21, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

book?
What are the best coffeetable picture books or reference books about ALL prehistoric art ever made? including all genres, all archetypes, etc.?--Sonjaaa 11:10, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

 * try amazon.com, use the search field

Mesolithic Letters: Just Like "Ours"
So what's up with that line in the Mesolithic section that says: "...it's the first letters ever found and it looks just like our letters. It says: Stine for den hårdt i prutten af en kat..."

That's kind of weird, and doesn't sound likely. And who's letters are they? The Latin alphabet? I think someone should explain this more thoroughly, with some sort of reference, and re-word it because it just doesn't sound encyclopedic. Or I'll just delete it. Cool?--Cosmiclingo 22:45, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Actually according to archaeologists mesolythic periods in Israel, Greek Islands, certain parts of Italy and certain parts of Ireland developed writing with some characters similar to the modern European alphabet. However in Iraq Cunieform which is extremely difficult to dechipher was dominant.  Persian and other languages evolved differently.  In India, Sanskrit which some argue is the oldest written language is very similar in writing character to modern languages of the region.  Chinese characters while looked similar to modern ones developed independantly in different parts of China and were standardized about 700 CE.  They were adopted in Japan about 300 years later. The languages of Phoenicia, The Great Zimbabwe, Mali, Minoa and Mycanae are still indecipherable to modern linguists.  It is interesting that we only have about 30% of the works of Homer surviving and of that thirty percent less than 1/3 has been translated.  The language of the Etruscans is completely baffling but we do have works by Estrucan authors like Ovid available because the early Romans managed to translate them into Latin before the other language was lost.  Likewise there are no surviving examples of Ancient Greek painting but we do have Roman copies of these works.  Redford Robbins (talk) 01:15, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * what absolute twaddle. --dab (𒁳) 11:27, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Earliest controversial finds
Certainly art began way before the Paleolythic era. It is good that Homo erectus is mentioned in this article; he is the decendant of Homo ergaster who migrated out of Africa to Western, Central, East and Southeast Asia. However, one might go as far back as Austrolepithicus Africanus to see rudimentary artistic designs onn stone tools. Certainly this can be seen in some laterr Homo habilus artifacts and Homo ergaster and Homo erectus who are closely related left designs, carvings and possibly jewelry which was found on the Indonesian island of Flores and in Mocambique. H. erectus caves in China also have fantastic finds though many of these pieces were lost in the 1930s - 1950s. Homo neanderthalensis for sure had elaborate burials as well as jewelry and decorated tool. Homo heidelbergensis even had cave painting which today is greatly damaged. The earlist modern humans who left a record in art is debatable but the Cro-magnon is generally well known because of caves in France, Spain and Italy, countries with few political problems and that are easily accessible. Redford Robbins (talk) 01:15, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

splitting article
The scope of the article is far too large. The Paleolithic stuff should be split off to a dedicated Art of the Upper Paleolithic, and the remaining sections should be split in one article per continent (one article per h2 section). WP:SS. There is no point of keeping six distinct articles on a single page. --dab (𒁳) 15:48, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

 * No kidding. Before I added stuff about Africa, South America, and Korea, this article was, well, horribly out of balance (and it still is, due to the nearly complete absence of material on two continents).  While I only fitfully add stuff here, I was going to split things up when it had a bit more balance, with at least summary (or summarizable) materials for the missing continents.  Magic ♪piano 16:47, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * well, pre-Columbian artis of course prehistoric, but it is usually just called pre-Columbian art. It seems a little silly to have the "Americas" section in this article discuss the topic at much greater length than the entire dedicated pre-Columbian art article. --dab (𒁳) 11:30, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Because the main article is actually at Native American art, not pre-Columbian art. 75.41.110.200 (talk) 02:38, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

See Other Issue
Nobody is denying that venus figures represent an important feature of prehistoric art. Goddess figures also appear prominently in early historic art. However, in both the former and the latter, so do animistic and masculine deity images. As such a see also to mother goddess is not as appropriate as one to prehistoric religion. The latter links to goddess in its own "see also" section and so the link is present for somebody who cares to look. As the mother goddess article contains information about a host of deities from the prehistoric all the way to new religious movement uses of goddesses it is a poor link to information on the features of prehistoric religion even as it relates to art.Simonm223 (talk) 20:18, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Years in art
While stub-sorting I've found various articles like 80,000 BC in art which need some attention - not a "year" article, doesn't say what period it purports to cover, etc. It's not clear what hierarchy of articles there ought to be for the early periods of art. These are linked in the page List_of_years_in_art and in the category Category:Years in art, and Table_of_years_in_art is a bit vague about them. Someone more expert in art history, or in the handling of "years" in WP, might like to tidy them up! I'll post this message at a couple of other relevant pages in the hope of finding an appropriate enthusiast to take them on. PamD (talk) 07:38, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * We can't refine prehistoric art down that far. But that can be a redirect to Art of the Middle Paleolithic. Any others need to be redirect to that, Art of the Upper Paleolithic, etc. Dougweller (talk) 11:36, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Why Andean Civilizations Here?
I do not think that it is appropriate that Andean Civilizations be included under and article about "Prehistoric Art."

The first argument for my position is that the term "Prehistoric" refers to cultures without a directly recorded history: The Inka, and also the Chimú, clearly had this, as, not only did the Inka khipukamayuq and amwata obviously transfer their historical knowledge to their Spanish conquerors.

Secondly, the fact that the khipu were arguably writing and pre-dated them by well over four millennia (see Charles C. Mann's article here, the Khipu Database Project by Gary Urton here and, if you can get it, the book "Writing without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica.")

For both these reasons, I propose that we move the section on Andean Civilizations's arts to a new article.

自教育 (talk) 21:17, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Cultures with "Lost Writing" Prehistoric?
The introduction states something to the effect of "cultures that had, but subsequently lost, writing are classified as Prehistoric." It specifically cites the Maya as an example. But I also note that, while the Maya and other Mesoamerican Civilizations are indeed classified as "Prehistoric" by having a section in this article, I see nothing of Bronze Age Greece, which, quite like the Maya, developed writing (such as deciphered Linear B), but then, for at least part of the Greek Dark Ages, lost it. Is it not contradictory that there is no section on Bronze Age Greek Civilizations but on the Mesomamerican Civilizations, even though the Maya Script has been deciphered but Cretean Hieroglyphs have not been? This seems to me to be obviously biased towards a Eurocentric historical perspective.

自教育 (talk) 22:37, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
 * No, it's just because no one has added such a section. Feel free to do so. Johnbod (talk) 00:50, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

urls to journalistic articles vs. encyclopedic content
this is hardly the way to do it. The anon replaced a summary paragraph to the main article with some random journalism reporting on some random claim made in 2014.

Instead of clicking "rollback", people tried some minor fixes and left it. The "reference" was still a naked url to journalism, even though the Nature article was directly linked from there. Not even googling was required, I really don't understand this.

I fixed it, then restored the blanked paragraph.

Please, people watching this page, next time an anon breaks the article, either roll it back or fix it. This is a WP:SS summary of the main article, Art of the Middle Paleolithic, and random additions of "somebody claimed some thing in 2014", even after it has been properly referenced, probably belongs not here but on the main page. --dab (𒁳) 10:33, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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Neanderthal art 64 K years ago
Images in three different caves in various parts of Spain almost certainly have to be labeled art (e.g., images of animals). Since they are more than 60,000 years old, they have been interpreted as having been made by Neanderthals, they being the only Homos for which there is evidence of their presence on the Iberian Peninsula at that time. <“U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neanderthal origin of Iberian cave art”> This should be added to the article, but since the article jumps around a bit, I did not know where best to insert it. Kdammers (talk) 12:31, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

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Large sections are totally unverified, entire paragraphs without any references. 94.252.107.93 (talk) 11:13, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

 * Not uncommon for an article as old as this (19 years and 10 months). Many articles were started back then with no sources cited. You can try to find and add reliable sources yourself, you can mark content that you think is in particular need of sourcing with Citation needed, or, if you think some content is very likely to be wrong, or not suitable for this article, you can remove it. Just be sure to provide a reason in the edit summary. As for eventually providing citations for everything in the article, we are all volunteers, and somebody will have to want to, and have the time to, find sources and add citations. Donald Albury 15:12, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * This is a very broad tour de horizon of a huge subject. Generally references will be found at the many more detailed articles linked to from here, which isn't to say there should not be refs here. Johnbod (talk) 16:44, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

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Laval Titan

The Laval Titan was one of the names used by a junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) franchise that played in Laval, Quebec, Canada, between 1971 and 1998.

History
The Rosemont National began in the 1969–70 QMJHL season as one of the founding franchises of the QMJHL, playing in the Montreal borough of Rosemont, Quebec at the Paul Sauvé Arena. After only two seasons in Rosemont the team moved to Laval, Quebec, where they would play the next 27 years under several names. Laval National was the team's original name, but they were renamed the Laval Voisins (meaning neighbours) in 1979, and then the Titan ("Titans") in 1985.

During the 1983-1984 season, Laval won their first QMJHL championship. The team was coached by Jean Bégin, and featured Mario Lemieux who had scored 133 goals and 282 points in 70 games during the regular season. In game six of the championship, Laval defeated the Longueuil Chevaliers by a score of 17-1 to clinch the league title. Mario Lemieux led his team with a double hat trick and two assists.

For the 1994–95 QMJHL season the team was renamed Laval Titan Collège Français, when the Collège Français came aboard as a sponsor, bring some of its management when the Verdun Collège Français folded in the off-season. In 1998, faced with an aging Colisée de Laval and dwindling attendance, the team moved to Bathurst, New Brunswick.

The Titan won the President's Cup four times, in 1984, 1989, 1990 and 1993. They participated in the Memorial Cup five times and made the final once in 1994, when they hosted the tournament. They lost that year to the Kamloops Blazers.

NHL alumni
Totals include all incarnations of the Laval franchise. • Jean-Sébastien Aubin

• Donald Audette

• François Beauchemin

• Sylvain Blouin

• Patrick Boileau

• Claude Boivin

• Paulin Bordeleau

• Mike Bossy

• Philippe Boucher

• Francis Bouillon

• Patrice Brisebois

• Mario Brunetta

• Fred Burchell

• Sébastien Charpentier

• Ed Courtenay

• Yves Courteau

• Sylvain Couturier

• Glen Currie

• Pierre Dagenais

• J. J. Daigneault

• Pat Daley

• Vincent Damphousse

• Jacques Deslauriers

• Jason Doig

• Bobby Dollas

• Gord Donnelly

• Gordie Dwyer

• Manny Fernandez

• Steven Finn

• Ryan Flinn

• Mike Gaul

• Jonathan Girard

• Daniel Goneau

• Benoît Gratton

• François Guay

• Gilles Hamel

• Pierre Hamel

• Jean-Marc Lanthier

• Daniel Laperrière

• Claude Lapointe

• Martin Lapointe

• Georges Laraque

• Sylvain Lefebvre

• Jocelyn Lemieux

• Mario Lemieux

• Dave Logan

• Don MacLean

• Jimmy Mann

• George McAvoy

• Sandy McCarthy

• Michel Mongeau

• Pete Morin

• Rob Murphy

• Anders Myrvold

• Gino Odjick

• Yves Preston

• Bob Sauvé

• Daniel Shank

• Jon Sim

• Bob Sirois

• Yvon Vautour

• Claude Vilgrain

• Colin White
 * Bold indicates a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Season-by-season record

 * Rosemont National (1969–1971)
 * Laval National (1971–1979)
 * Laval Voisins (1979–1985)
 * Laval Titan (1985–1994)
 * Laval Titan Collège Français (1994–1998)

Regular season

 * OL = Overtime loss, Pct = Winning percentage

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Havana Sugar Kings

The Havana Sugar Kings (Reyes del Azúcar) were a Cuban-based minor league baseball team that played from 1946 to 1960. From 1954 until 1960, they belonged in the Class AAA International League, affiliated with Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds. Their home stadium was Gran Estadio del Cerro (sometimes called Gran Stadium) in Havana.

History
The Sugar Kings began life in 1946 as the Havana Cubans, founded by Washington Senators scout Joe Cambria. That year, they (rather than a Cuban League side) represented Cuba at the inaugural Interamerican Series, the predecessor to the modern Caribbean Series.

Led by manager Oscar Rodriguez, the Cubans experienced tremendous success both on and off the field. Havana finished first in Class C (later Class B) Florida International League in each of their first five seasons of play, winning over 100 games twice and compiling a record of 474-249 in five years under Rodriguez. The overall record would be even better had Havana not been stripped of 17 wins in 1946 for having too many experienced players for their class. Nonetheless, the Cubans still had the league's top record even without the victories.

Havana then won consecutive FIL championships in 1947 and 1948. The 1947 Cubans were recognized as one of the 100 greatest minor league teams of all time. The team was also successful at the box office, leading the league in attendance each year from 1946-50. In their first three seasons, Havana led all Class C teams in attendance, including a mark of 264,813 in 1947 that is still the highest total ever recorded by a Class C franchise.

During the 1953 season, Roberto "Bobby" Maduro bought the team and immediately had aspirations of bringing Major League Baseball to Havana. After the 1953 season, the Springfield Cubs folded, leaving an opening in the Triple-A International League. Maduro moved his franchise to the IL and renamed it the Sugar Kings. After playing the 1954 season as an independent club, the franchise signed an agreement with the Cincinnati Reds for the 1955 season and the Sugar Kings became Cincinnati's top farm club for the remainder of their existence. In addition to Reds prospects, several talented Cuban players and other Latinos who eventually made it to the Major Leagues donned the Sugar Kings uniform, including Luis Arroyo, Pompeyo Davalillo, Tony González, Cookie Rojas, Elio Chacón, Danny Morejón, Preston Gómez, Leo Cárdenas, and Mike Cuellar.

In their inaugural season at the Triple-A level, the Sugar Kings drew 295,453 fans despite a fifth-place finish, second behind only pennant-winning Toronto. The next season, Havana won 87 games, their most in IL play, and drew a franchise-record 313,232 fans, again second to Toronto. However, the Sugar Kings were eliminated by the Maple Leafs in the Governors' Cup playoffs.

The next three seasons were less successful, as Havana finished with identical 72-82 records in 1956-57, finishing in sixth place both years. In 1957, attendance cratered to 84,320, less than half that of any other IL club. However, despite a franchise-worse 65-88 record and last-place finish in 1958, attendance rebounded to 178,000.

1959 championship
In 1959, led by future major league manager Preston Gómez, the Sugar Kings rebounded to finish 80-73, finishing third in the IL standings. Amid revolution in Cuba that saw Fidel Castro rise to power, the Sugar Kings did not escape the turmoil. The most notable incident occurred on the night of July 25 in a home game against the Rochester Red Wings. As the game drug on into extra innings, the clock passed midnight to the 26th, marking the anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban Revolution. Celebratory gunfire outside the ballpark grazed Rochester shortstop Leo Cardenas and third base coach Frank Verdi, who both sustained minor injuries. Rochester pulled their team off the field and left Cuba, cancelling the final game of the series.

However, the Sugar Kings were allowed to finish out their schedule and returned to the postseason. In the playoffs, Havana swept the Columbus Jets 4-0 and defeated the Richmond Virginians 4-2 to win the Governors' Cup. They then took on the Minneapolis Millers of the American Association in the Junior World Series. After two games with small crowds and frigid conditions at Metropolitan Stadium, the decision was made to move the balance of the series to Havana.

On their home turf, the Sugar Kings took the series the distance, rallying to walk off in Game 7 to take the series 4-3. The five games in Havana drew 100,000 people.

Nationalization and departure from Cuba
In 1960, Castro nationalized all U.S.-owned enterprises in Cuba, and on July 8, Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick (under pressure from Secretary of State Christian Herter) announced that the Sugar Kings would move to Jersey City, New Jersey, and became the Jersey City Jerseys. They lasted only through the 1961 season, then folded due to poor attendance. The franchise was then sold to a Florida group from Jacksonville and became the Jacksonville Suns, who began play in the International League in 1962. That franchise moved to Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1969 and became the Tidewater Tides, and remains in that region as the Norfolk Tides.

In February 1987, the Miami City Commission voted unanimously in favor of the renaming Miami Stadium in honor of Bobby Maduro, who had migrated to USA. The ballpark became known officially as Bobby Maduro Miami Stadium one month later.

2021 Miami Marlins alternate uniform
On May 17, 2021, The Miami Marlins unveiled a new alternate uniform which pays homage to the old Sugar Kings uniform.

Notable alumni

 * Luis Arroyo (1959–60) MLB All-Star
 * Sandy Consuegra (1949) MLB All-Star
 * Mike Cuellar (1957–60) MLB All-Star
 * Bobby Estalella (1950)
 * Mike Fornieles (1952) MLB All-Star
 * Preston Gomez (1959, MGR)
 * Tony Gonzalez (baseball) (1958–59)
 * Mike Guerra (1952, MGR)
 * Connie Marrero (1947-1949) MLB All-Star, 2015 Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame inductee
 * Armando Marsans (1953, MGR)
 * Orlando Pena (1957–58, '60) 2000 Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame inductee
 * Nap Reyes (1956–58, '60, MGR) 2015 Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame inductee
 * Cookie Rojas (1959–60) MLB All-Star

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Houghton House

Houghton House is a ruined mansion house in the parish of Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire. It is a Grade I listed building, positioned above the surrounding countryside, and commands excellent views. Built from 1615 to 1621, it is said that the house was the model for House Beautiful in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1678). It was abandoned in 1794 and stripped (by the owner) of its interiors and roof for sale as building supplies. Today the property is owned by English Heritage, and is open to free public access during daylight hours.

Herbert
The estate of Houghton was granted by King James I of England (1603-1625) to Mary Herbert, Dowager Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621), a.k.a. Mary Sidney, a courtier, writer, translator, and literary patron, who commenced the building of the existing house in about 1615. Two architects were very likely responsible for the design, John Thorpe, who worked in the Jacobean tradition, and Inigo Jones, who introduced the Classical style of architecture into England. The Countess of Pembroke was visited there by King James I in 1621, soon after its completion. Shortly afterwards, on 25 September 1621, she died of the smallpox. The surviving Jacobean-style frieze on the western side of the house displays heraldic elements relating to the Sidney family and to the Countess's relations, the Dudley family.

Bruce
Two years after the death of the Countess of Pembroke, the house reverted to King James I by the Countess' brother, the King then granted the estate to Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Elgin (1599–1663) in 1624, which became the main residence of the Bruce family for three generations. King Charles I of England later granted him nearby Houghton Park to preserve game for the royal hunt, but persistent hunting and hawking by the local Conquest family forced the King's subsequent intervention.

In the churchyard of nearby Maulden Church, the advowson of which was owned by the Bruce family, is the Ailesbury Mausoleum, the earliest free-standing mausoleum in England, built in 1656 by Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Elgin in memory of his 2nd wife, Lady Diana Cecil. The Bruce family resided in the house until Thomas Bruce, 3rd Earl of Elgin, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury went into exile on the Continent in 1696 on account of his loyalty to the deposed King James II of England (1685-deposed 1688, died 1701).

Russell
Thomas Bruce, 3rd Earl of Elgin, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury never returned to Houghton and in 1738 sold the house to John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, whose principal seat was Woburn Abbey, about seven miles from Houghton. His son and heir apparent, Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock (d.1767), lived at Houghton from 1764 until he died in a hunting accident in 1767. Thus the 4th Duke's estates, including Houghton, and titles passed to his grandson, Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (d.1802), who having let the deerpark to a neighbour found he was unable to let the house without its grounds. Considering the house as a liability, in 1794 he ordered Houghton to be dismantled, and accordingly the furnishings were stripped out and the roof removed to be sold as building materials. The staircase survives in The Swan Hotel in Bedford, roughly 8 mi north of Houghton House. The 5th Duke never married and thus did not produce a legitimate male heir. He died in 1802 by which time the house, by then long open to the elements, was already in decay.

21st century
The ruins were acquired by English Heritage, and is open to free public access during daylight hours. Conservation work was undertaken in 2006 to help maintain safety and improve the understanding of the site and new visitor information boards were installed. By 2007 several of these had been vandalised leaving empty boards behind, but these have since been restored.

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Talk:Antihydrogen

FAQ - Antihydrogen Fusion Reaction ?
What would the expected consequences of an antihydrogen fusion reaction be ? Is it possible ? Would the effects be similar to hydrogen fusion with the exception of the creation of antihelium instead, or would it be expected to behave differently ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.116.128.56 (talk) 20:02, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

 * It would behave the same way, theoretically. Practically, it would be very difficult to achieve since it would be almost impossible to keep the antimatter from bumping into matter. Stonemason89 (talk) 05:56, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Antihydrogen fusion exists now created by lightning. Relativistic Perturbation Mantle is the name for this. A new discovery in Lightning physics that revealed the very centerpiece in the reproduction cycle for many things in the universe...Dark matter producing Dark energy and earths biosphere... "Relativistic Perturbation "Mantle" www.rpmantle.com

When hydrogen sits at an high altitude weightless environment of lightning, it creates a disc of antihydrogen fusion. In the construction process this fusion creates rings of Carbon, Liquid oxygen cooling the fusion back to carbon sealing and surrounding a 2 dimensional 12 foot disc of fused negative energy (anti-hydrogen fusion). This combination traps the energy allowing for the conversion of the first carbon ring to high energy photons "dark energy" still producing high energy photons in the configuration of the Fibonacci sequence and then disappears "dark matter" only to reappear (as seen on NASA video) when the fusion is cooled back to our dimension as a Sprite. This is known as the Fibonacci sequence for all life. When Mantle consumes the first carbon ring it allows the paramagnetic Liquid Oxygen to rush in producing Sprite's above storms. This witnessed event is documented and by current sciences. Mantle for short produces Gamma rays found by NASA's FERMI satellite during Sprite production. PAMELA satellite found the anti-protons around the Van Allen belt produced by Mantle's energetics discharge. Mantle's reproduction will lend efforts to traveling as dark energy exceeding light speed "Warp" travel, wormhole production and dimension technology. The release of charged liquid Oxygen is converting to Air/water for the atmosphere and electrons for the Ionosphere. I want to reproduce this energy placing the devices at farms to make water firsthand selling energy making food free eliminating welfare. fulely — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fulely (talk • contribs) 12:11, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Old discussions
On the AntiMatter page it says this was made already in 1995 ! Doesn't it say here 2002 ? Which is correct? Sebastian Haase
 * I've just changed the article. You can find a preprint about the experiments in 1995 here. 193.171.121.30 01:45, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

After some searching, i've found out the Particle accelerator are constructed as we speak, and estimated to be finished in 2q of 2007 --80.202.208.62 21:57, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

This source says Fermi also generated antihydrogen, and credits a SLAC researcher, Charles Munger, with coming up with the approach used to find antihydrogen.

Is it just me, or does source 3 only describe a potential method for trapping low temperature anit-protons, and does not actually report it having been achieved? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.106.61.176 (talk) 22:37, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Proposed name...
... as h-bar. Do we have a reference for this? It seems strange that a species of interest only to physicists would be given a name which could easily be confused with the reduced Planck constant. Brammers (talk) 16:57, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I have removed it, but please reinsert with a reliable cite. -84user (talk) 17:40, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Please put it back with a citation needed; it seems to be legit information: Here is an official site that is uses the symbol. I can't immediately find a webpage that specifically mentions that the h-bar symbol is used to represent antihydrogen. here and here are links to two more unrelated pages that use it.
 * I do not know which institution decides these things: Wikipedia doesn't seem to know and Google doesn't return any relevant results to my limit searches. If somebody knows which organisation officially decides on the symbols, I expect you can find a publication that has more details from them.    — SkyLined (talk) 18:38, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I added text that some physicists use the symbol and others use the word "hbar", using three cites as examples. -84user (talk) 19:43, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Perfect, thanks! 86.89.144.60 (talk) 21:43, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

- all journal articles that use a symbol use H-bar - written as H with an overline - so it's really not much of a debate. I've updated this in the entry - there is no ambiguity Planck's constant is allways lower-case h (massen (talk) 08:25, 5 October 2010 (UTC))

uninformative text removed
''A potential solution to this problem would be to produce antihydrogen atoms at such a low temperature (perhaps a fraction of a kelvin) that they can be captured in a magnetic trap or a combined rf trap. ''

I removed the above text, and its hidden html comment, as it simply told the reader nothing. It was the equivalent of: Problem is AH is too hot; solution is make AH not so hot. That is not a solution. -84user (talk) 18:02, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

available for purchase? really?
and is it ever going to be? I feel like that's saying that nuclear bombs are not available for purchase or that the washington monument is not available for purchase. I would think that that section should be removed. Sompm (talk) 07:11, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree. I removed it. -84user (talk) 17:42, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Antimatter atom trapped
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature09610.html ... needs updating. --Kslotte (talk) 22:33, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
 * It's been updated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.121.21.2 (talk) 17:31, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Is this discvery only a one sentence thing? --Kslotte (talk) 17:55, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

 * Be WP:BOLD! Rursus dixit. ( m bork3 !) 07:57, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Antiwater
What is it please tell me. 163.153.221.61 (talk) 15:33, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Duh. A Molekule, consisting out of two Antihydrogen atoms and one Antioxigen atom. Just replace the particles water consists of, with their respective antimater counterparts. --91.7.128.35 (talk) 14:55, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Of course, unlike normal water, drinking antiwater should probably be the last thing that crosses your mind. (As it would be if you tried it.) Double sharp (talk) 04:35, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
 * That reply just made my day better. 2001:56A:F8E1:E00:51FA:1690:29B9:9A88 (talk) 02:59, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

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Cost estimate
It strikes me that a direct scaling up may give readers a slightly wrong impression: no doubt antihydrogen would cost less per gram if we could actually make a whole gram. Double sharp (talk) 10:36, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

 * I think a greater concern is that it misleads the reader to think that this is somehow doable at the moment. But even if Antihydrogen could be made stable (which right now isn't a thing), seeing as it is produced at a rate of 100 atoms per second, does it really matter how many particle accelerators are churning it out? Possibly, it could take millions of years to accomplish a gram-worth at that rate. This is a NASA PR stunt, which, honestly, isn't to their credit to publish, nor ours to re-publish. El_C 14:33, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

Display issues redux
(A redux from here and here, I suppose.) I should have brought this up earlier. I suppose it's really a character encoding issue. It seems that Macs can't see the bar of the h-bar symbol. At the very start it looks just like "(H)". The best I can find using a MacBook is as code ( ) on this Element template, but the normal text doesn't render properly. Can anyone using a Mac confirm this? Is this issue specific to my system? -Thibbs (talk) 14:45, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

 * @Thibbs: That is odd. The overline is done with text-decoration: overline which is supposedly supported by browsers dating back to Internet Explorer 3. It shouldn't be possible for character encoding issues to cause this sort of problem. Can you see an overline on this sentence? Maybe there are layout or rendering issues of some sort and it's being cut off. Or there might be some other CSS rule overriding it - do you have any unusual browser extensions? Trying a different browser might help. User:GKFXtalk 12:57, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Antihydrogen atomic number?
I mean, it's an atom, right? Given that hydrogen's atomic number is 1, shouldn't it follow that antihydrogen's atomic number would be -1? 2001:56A:F8E1:E00:51FA:1690:29B9:9A88 (talk) 02:56, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I haven't found any reliable sources extrapolating the concept of atomic number to antimatter atoms in this manner. In a sense, antihydrogen is an atom, but the idea of atomic number −1 is original research as far as I can tell (also seeing as it would literally imply −1 protons, which does not make sense), so it's not appropriate to include in the article. Complex / Rational  15:39, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I mean, what is an antiproton but a negative proton? 2001:56A:F8E1:E00:51FA:1690:29B9:9A88 (talk) 00:47, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
 * By this logic, what's the atomic number of an antineutron? Double sharp (talk) 10:29, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
 * -0? I mean, signed zero exists in computing, right? 173.183.228.117 (talk) 03:31, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

OK, seriously: if an antiproton were just a negative proton, then if you had both a proton and an antiproton, then you would have nothing. But you don't yet. See protonium: it lasts for some time as a bound state before annihilating. Double sharp (talk) 12:06, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

 * Well, technically, that's before you add them together. You can have 1 and -1 on both sides of an equation, but once they're on the same side, i.e., once you put the proton and the antiproton into one another, they become 0, or, nothing. 2001:56A:F8E1:E00:51FA:1690:29B9:9A88 (talk) 21:52, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
 * If I have one proton and another proton, then clearly I have two protons even before I have stuffed them into the same nucleus. So why do I have to wait for annihilation if I have one proton and one antiproton? Double sharp (talk) 11:28, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
 * You can still have 1 and 1 un-added as well, it would be senseless but possible. 2001:56A:F8E1:E00:517:44ED:7803:78A3 (talk) 11:52, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

But, to be conpletely fair with you, I'd never heard of an antineutron before this discussion, so I'm obviously not an expert, just toying around. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:56A:F8E1:E00:2D98:4E43:D131:9A62 (talk) 01:07, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

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Francis Cabrel

Francis Christian Cabrel (born 23 November 1953) is a French singer-songwriter, composer and guitarist. Considered one of the most influential French musical artists of all time, he has released a number of albums falling mostly within the realm of folk, with occasional forays into blues or country. Several of his songs, such as "L'encre de tes yeux", "Je l'aime à mourir", "Petite Marie", "La Dame de Haute-Savoie", "Encore et encore", "Il faudra leur dire", "Sarbacane", "C'est écrit", "Je t'aimais, je t'aime, je t'aimerai" and "La corrida", have become enduring favourites in French music. Since the start of his career, Cabrel has sold over 25 million albums.

His first hit song was "Petite Marie" in 1974, which was about the woman who soon became his wife, Mariette. His song "Je l'aime à mourir" was covered by Shakira; this version, both sung in French and Spanish, became a major hit single. Although Francis Cabrel is best known as a French-speaking singer, he also sings in Spanish ("La quiero a morir", "Vengo a ofrecer mi corazón"), and even a little in Occitan ("Giors", "Rockstars du Moyen Âge") and Italian.

An unauthorised biography was published in 2015. Cabrel, who is one of the most private French singers, attempted to have the book suppressed.

Biography
Francis Cabrel was born in Agen, Lot-et-Garonne into a modest family of Venetian Veneto descent. His father was a labourer in a biscuit factory and his mother a cashier in a cafeteria. He has a sister, Martine, and a brother, Philippe. He spent his childhood in Astaffort, in Lot-et-Garonne.

Videography

 * Sarbacane tour (1989)

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Samuel Belzberg

Samuel Belzberg, (June 26, 1928 – March 30, 2018) was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist.

Biography
Samuel Belzberg was born to a Jewish family in Calgary, Alberta and educated at the University of Alberta. In 1962, he founded the provincial trust company, City Savings and Trust in Edmonton which was heavily involved in real-estate development financing. In 1968, he moved to Vancouver with his brothers, Hyman Belzberg (1925-2017) and William Belzberg (1932-2014), and formed Western Realty. In 1970, he founded First City Financial Corp as the parent company for City Savings and Trust. In 1973, Belzberg and his brothers sold Western Realty and purchased Far West Financial Corp of California, marking their entrance into the United States. By the late 1980s, First City Financial Corp, now a diversified holding company, had assets of $5.4 billion with operations in Canada and the US. First City was involved in many large investment transactions including Bache Securities before it was sold to Prudential, Gulf Oil, Armstrong World (a large building supply company) and Scovill (a manufacturing company which included Yale Locks, Hamilton Beach, NuTone) which they purchased in 1985 for $523 million.

During the 1990s, Belzberg founded Balfour Holdings Ltd., a real estate company which, at its peak, operated over 26 projects spreading through the United States. Balfour's mandate was to profit from the dislocations in value in the United States due to the Savings and Loan crisis. Balfour subdivided and serviced its purchased lands and sold the lots to National Builders. In 1997, Balfour was sold to The Blackstone Group, a large U.S. private equity group and generated realized returns in excess of 20% per annum. During the 1990s, Mr. Belzberg was an active acquirer of distressed property in Alberta where values had dramatically declined due to the softness in the oil industry. These properties were subsequently divested when the market recovered. In 1992, Belzberg started a private real estate and equity investments company, which is now called Gibralt Capital Corporation.

Philanthropy and awards
Belzberg served on various Board of Directors and is involved with numerous charities. He was awarded the Order of Canada in 1989 from the Governor General, and also in 1989 he received an honorary doctorate from Simon Fraser University.

The "Samuel and Frances Belzberg Library" at Simon Fraser University is named after the couple.

Personal life
Belzberg died on March 30, 2018, in Vancouver, and is survived by his wife of 68 years, Frances, and four children: Marc, Lisa, Wendy, and Sherry. His daughter Wendy married Strauss Zelnick, the founder of ZMC and head of Take Two Interactive in 1990. His daughter Lisa, was married to and has three children (Sasha, Tess and Ezekiel) with American businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist Matthew Bronfman, son of Canadian billionaire Edgar Bronfman Sr.

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Let's Stay Together (Al Green song)

"Let's Stay Together" is a song by American singer Al Green from his 1972 album of the same name. It was produced and recorded by Willie Mitchell, and mixed by Mitchell and Terry Manning. Released as a single in 1971, "Let's Stay Together" reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and remained on the chart for 16 weeks and also topped Billboard ' s R&B chart for nine weeks. Billboard ranked it as the number 11 song of 1972.

It was ranked the 60th greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone magazine on their 2004 list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and has been covered by numerous other performers, most notably Tina Turner.

It was selected by the Library of Congress as a 2010 addition to the National Recording Registry, which selects recordings annually that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The song went on to claim the number 1 position on the Billboard Year-End chart as an R&B song for 1972.

In 1999, the 1971 recording on Hi Records by Al Green was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Year-end charts
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Tina Turner version
"Let's Stay Together" was later covered by Tina Turner, her second collaboration with the British Heaven 17 and British Electric Foundation production team after "Ball of Confusion" in 1982, and served as her comeback single in late 1983. Unlike Al Green's version, Turner sings verse 2 first, then verse 1 when the band starts playing.

Released by Capitol Records in November 1983, the single charted at number 6 in the UK (one place higher than Al Green's original) and became the third time she reached the UK top ten, the first two being with former husband Ike Turner on "River Deep, Mountain High" and "Nutbush City Limits". Following the US release in January 1984, the single reached number 26 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 on the Billboard Dance Chart.

At the time, the song was the most successful solo single Turner had released. It was included on her multi-platinum selling album Private Dancer, released a few months later in the spring of 1984. The music video was directed by David Mallet. The cover photography was by Norman Seeff.

Personnel

 * Tina Turner – lead vocals
 * Gary Barnacle – saxophone
 * Glenn Gregory – background vocals
 * Rupert Hine – percussion
 * Frank Ricotti – percussion
 * Ray Russell – guitar
 * Martyn Ware – programming, electronic drums, arrangements, background vocals
 * Greg Walsh – programming, arrangements
 * Nick Plytas – piano, synthesizer

Production
 * Greg Walsh – producer & engineer
 * Martyn Ware – producer
 * Walter Samuel – engineer
 * Alan Yoshida – mastering
 * Akira Taguchi – compilation producer
 * Sam Gay – creative director
 * Roy Kohara – art direction
 * John O'Brien – design
 * Peter Ashworth – photography
 * Roger Davies – management
 * Chip Lightman – management

Track listing and formats

 * 7" single
 * 1) "Let's Stay Together" – 3:36
 * 2) "I Wrote a Letter" – 3:24
 * 12" single
 * 1) "Let's Stay Together" (Extended Version) – 5:14
 * 2) "I Wrote a Letter" – 3:24

Other cover versions
"Let's Stay Together" has been covered by:
 * Isaac Hayes as B-side of the single "Soulsville" in 1972.
 * Billy Paul on his 1972 album 360 Degrees of Billy Paul.
 * Organist Ronnie Foster recorded an instrumental version for his 1972 studio album Two Headed Freap.
 * Margie Joseph on her 1973 album Margie Joseph. She had also recorded in Memphis contemporaneous to Green, but offered a Philly-inspired version produced by Arif Mardin).
 * Al Jarreau on his 1979 album Call Me.
 * Jimmy Smith instrumental version on his 1972 album Root Down.
 * The Rippingtons on their 1989 album Tourist in Paradise.
 * Former Hong Kong singer Yvonne Lau Man-Kuen (Chinese: 劉文娟) covered it under the title "Don't leave gaps when young" (Chinese: 年輕不要留白) in 1991.
 * An instrumental version very close to the Al Green original was recorded by The Memphis Horns on their 1992 album Flame Out.
 * The Pasadenas covered the song as a 1992 non-album single.
 * Roberta Flack on her 1994 album Roberta.
 * Bobby Ross Avila on his 1995 album Into My Life.
 * Shirley Bassey covered the song on her 1995 album Sings the Movies.
 * Big Mountain on their 1997 album Free Up.
 * Michael Bolton covered the song on his 1999 album Timeless: The Classics Vol. 2.
 * Saxophonist Eric Alexander recorded a jazz instrumental version for his 1999 studio album Alexander the Great.
 * Ms. Marilyn Marshall on her 1999 album Hold On.
 * In 2002 Justin Guarini performed the song on the first season of American Idol.
 * In 2003 Trenyce performed the song on the second season of American Idol and a version appears on the various artists compilation album American Idol Season 2: All-Time Classic American Love Songs.
 * It was covered by English soul singer Lemar on his 2003 debut album Dedicated.
 * In 2004 Leah LaBelle performed the song on the third season of American Idol.
 * Boyz II Men on their 2004 covers album Throwback.
 * In 2004, saxophonist Eric Darius performed a rendition of "Let's Stay Together". Eric's version was from the album Night on the Town.
 * In 2005 Joseph Murena performed the song on the fourth season of American Idol.
 * Michelle Williams on 2005 various artists compilation album GAP – Favorite Songs (Fall 2005).
 * At Last performed it a cappella on the 2006 first season of America's Got Talent.
 * Donny Osmond on his album 2007 Love Songs of the '70s.
 * Australian soul singer Guy Sebastian recorded a cover version on his 2007 covers album The Memphis Album.
 * Brian Kennedy on his 2008 album Interpretations.
 * Robin Thicke has covered the song live many times on his concerts at least since 2008.
 * Ian Moss released a version of "Let's Stay Together" as the lead single from his 2009 sixth studio album, Soul on West 53rd.
 * British singer Craig David covers his very own version of the song on his 2010 album Signed Sealed Delivered.
 * On December 15, 2010, on The Sing-Off, it was performed a cappella by season 2 winners Committed.
 * Seal on his 2011 album Soul 2.
 * Lynda Carter covered this song for her 2011 album Crazy Little Things.
 * In 2012 Elise Testone performed the song on the eleventh season of American Idol.
 * Maroon 5 on their 2012 album Overexposed [Deluxe Limited Edition]
 * American pop singer Katy Perry performed the song at Barack Obama Fundraising Concert in Best Buy Theater, New York City on October 7, 2012.
 * Terry Manning on his 2015 album Heaven Knows.
 * American indie rock band Low covered the song in 2018.
 * Welsh ragga metal group Dub War covered the song in 2022 on their album Westgate Under Fire, as "Stay Together".
 * Scottish singer Joesef covered the song in 2023.

Appearance in other media
The song has been used in the films:
 * Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction (1994).
 * The John Singleton film Higher Learning (1995).
 * The 2000 film Down to You.
 * The 2003 romantic comedy film How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
 * The 2004 film Jersey Girl.
 * The 2004 film Hellboy.
 * The 2005 film Munich.
 * The 2012 romantic comedy Hope Springs.

The song has been featured in various television shows:
 * It was performed in an episode of Ally McBeal (1997–2002).
 * The song has featured twice in the UK version of Stars in Their Eyes. The first, notably by soul and swing singer George Anthony in 1998's episode 4 and also the series 9 Grand Final in the same year.
 * An instrumental version of the song appears in episode 23 of the anime adaptation of Monster (Japanese on September 8, 2004, and English on January 4, 2010).
 * It was parodied by The Fringemunks to recap Fringe episode 2.06, "Earthling" (November 5, 2009).
 * It was played in the Parks and Recreation episode "Road Trip" (May 12, 2011). During Leslie Knope and Ben Wyatt's road trip, as assigned by Chris Traeger, they listen to a series of unusual songs, until Let's Stay Together plays. It is later confirmed that Ann Perkins had burned the song in order to get them together.
 * In 2011 Kermit Ruffins and his band cover the song in season 2, episode 9 "What Is New Orleans?" of the HBO series Treme.
 * United States President Barack Obama performed a brief phrase of the song during an appearance at the Apollo Theater in New York City on January 19, 2012, for a campaign fundraiser that included Al Green as an opening act. In the week following, sales of Green's recording of the song increased by 490%.

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Minor changes
I did some minor changes to this template. Pretty much italics stuff, but I also fixed a problem that happened when using that template on the Ultima article, regarding its header. Seems fine now. – Kaonashi 02:28, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Formatting
As it is, the template kinda gets in the way of some of the page formatting -- check out Ultima Underworld and you'll see what I mean. I suggest the tempate be moved to a bottom-centre format like that most typically used in game sries, as with Template:SimUniverse and Template:Civilization --Alexwcovington (talk) 11:05, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
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Re: Ultima novels
Navboxes really shouldn't contain external links.. -- œ ™ 07:44, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, probably so. Can't make an article for any of the books, since someone would come along and delete it.  That's how it is these days.  I Google for the first two, but don't find any reviews for them anywhere.  Anyone think there is enough coverage of any of the books for there to be an article on the Ultima novels, combined together?  Lynn Abbey wrote two and someone else made three more I think.   D r e a m Focus  01:30, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
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Underworld Ascendant
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Steve Appleton

Steven R. Appleton (March 31, 1960 – February 3, 2012) was an American business executive, the CEO of Micron Technology, based in Boise, Idaho.

Born and raised in Southern California, Appleton attended Boise State University and played tennis for the Broncos. A lifelong aviation enthusiast, he died when his single-engine plane crashed shortly after takeoff from the Boise Airport on February 3, 2012.

Career
Appleton started his career at Micron shortly after graduation from BSU in 1983, working the night shift in production for less than five dollars an hour. He held a variety of positions in the company, including wafer fab manager, production manager, director of manufacturing, and vice president of manufacturing before being appointed president and COO in 1991. Appleton was appointed CEO and chairman of the board in 1994 at age 34. In January 1996, he was fired and then rehired eight days later.

He formerly served on the board of directors for SEMATECH, the Idaho State Supreme Court Advisory Council, and was appointed by the Clinton Administration to serve on the National Semiconductor Technology Council. At the time of his death, he was serving on the board of directors for the Semiconductor Industry Association, and the board of directors for National Semiconductor Corporation, The U.S. Technology CEO Council, and was a member of the World Semiconductor Council and the Idaho Business Council. After his death, Mark Durcan assumed Appleton's position as CEO of Micron.

In 2011 he received the Robert Noyce Award from the Semiconductor Industry Association.

Personal life
Appleton participated in a number of sports, including professional tennis. His hobbies included scuba diving, surfing, wakeboarding, motorcycling, and more recently, off-road car racing. His aviation background included multiple ratings and professional performances at air shows in both propeller and jet-powered aircraft. He also had a black belt in taekwondo.

On the 43rd edition of the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 on 2010, Appleton finished 1st on a SCORE Class 1 buggy and 7th overall with a time of 20:32.18.

He was married to his wife Dalynn, and had 4 children.

Death
On February 3, 2012, Appleton was killed while attempting an emergency landing in a Lancair IV-PT experimental-category, four-seat, turboprop airplane at the Boise Airport, moments after taking off. He had aborted a take off a few minutes earlier for unknown reasons.

Eight years earlier in 2004 with a passenger aboard and several miles south of the same airport, Appleton had a serious plane crash piloting an Extra 300; he sustained a punctured lung, head injuries, ruptured disk, and broken bones. The passenger was a Micron employee and was also injured; he was photographing Appleton for an upcoming corporate presentation.

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Red Barn (restaurant)

The Red Barn restaurant was a fast-food restaurant chain founded in 1961 in Springfield, Ohio, by Don Six, Martin Levine, and Jim Kirst. In 1963, the small chain was purchased by Richard O. Kearns, operated as Red Barn System, with the offices moving briefly to Dayton, Ohio and in August 1964 to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. During the late 1960s United Servomation, also called Servomation, bought the Red Barn chain. In 1978 United Servomation merged with the City Investing Company's GDV division which also owned the Motel 6 motel chain. Only interested in real estate, construction, and financial services the new owners ceased advertising for the chain along with allowing the franchise leases to expire with the last of the leases expiring around 1988. At its peak, Red Barn had 300–400 restaurants in 19 states, as well as outlets in southern Ontario, elsewhere in Canada, and Australia.

Following the shutdown of operations, most of the Red Barn buildings were converted for other uses. A few of the chain restaurants were renamed "The Farm" in various states and continued serving the same menu items available when they were under their Red Barn franchise. There were two locations under "The Farm" name in Racine, Wisconsin and Bradford, Pennsylvania that served the same menu items. The Bradford location closed for a brief period in 2014 from a small fire and permanently closed in December 2015. The Racine, Wisconsin store closed on February 2, 2020. The Australian Red Barn stores were sold and converted into McDonald's locations.

Starting in the early 2000s, there was a wave of Red Barn nostalgia as evidenced by Facebook groups popping up. As of 2022, there are several groups with thousands of members. Some of them have called upon an interested entrepreneur(s) to bring back Red Barn as they thought it would be successful. As Of 2024, there is still a Beef Barn in North Smithfield, Rhode Island, as well as a second Beef Barn location a few miles away in Bellingham, Massachusetts.

Building design

Originally, the Red Barn restaurants were in the shape of barns with a glass front and limited seating. The design of the building was patented in 1962 by Red Barn Systems, Incorporated of Springfield, Ohio, which granted the franchise licenses. Later buildings had the familiar fast-food style mansard roof which allowed them to comply to more local building codes.

Menu items
They were known for "Big Barney" (a hamburger similar to a Big Mac) and the "Barnbuster" (similar to a Quarter Pounder or Whopper.) The chain was quite forward-looking with their food choices: the Big Barney predated the Big Mac by a few years, and it was the first chain to have self-service salad bars.

Advertising and promotions
The restaurant chain had a TV commercial jingle whose lyrics were: "When the hungries hit / When the hungries hit / Hit the Red Barn." Another commercial jingle used in North East Ohio included the line "You'll find more of what you are hankerin' for, at the Red Barn." Three mascots were used in the franchise's commercials: "Hamburger Hungry" (a humanoid figure with a hamburger in bun for a head); "Chicken Hungry" (a chicken leg); and "Big Fish Hungry" (a blue fish).

In Australia, the appearance of Red Barney was common on Cartoon Corner with Daryl Somers. He was an affable clown who gave away prizes and preceded Ronald McDonald.

In the spring of 1970, the chain found itself at the center of controversy when a franchisee wanted to erect a store in Dinkytown, a neighborhood adjacent to the University of Minnesota-East Bank campus in Minneapolis MN. Protestors, who were already riding a wave of anti-corporatism, as well as an anti-Vietnam war sentiment, occupied a vacant building on the property that the Red Barn franchisee owned. The franchisee eventually demolished the building. However, the restaurant was never built, and the property was later sold off. A Red Barn location later opened nearby in Stadium Village.

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Liberty in North Korea

Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) is a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. It has offices in Long Beach, California, United States, and Seoul, South Korea. The organization rescues refugees hiding in China and resettles them in South Korea or the United States, so that they can avoid being forcibly repatriated back to North Korea, where they can face harsh punishments. The refugees first travel from China to Southeast Asia through what the organization calls an "Underground Railroad", and then on to South Korea where they are recognized as refugees.

LiNK also seeks to raise awareness of human rights issues in North Korea through media production, conducting research, and through tours. Having sprung out of Korean-American student activism at universities in the United States, the organization grew rapidly and produced several feature-length documentaries, as well as TED talks by its leaders and rescuees. The organization now has a Research & Strategy department based in Seoul, that conducts research on North Korean issues with an emphasis on human rights issues. The organization positions itself as different from governmental positions and media narratives that focus on the dismantling of North Korea's nuclear weapons program and other national security issues, focusing instead on refugees who were considered economic migrants by the Chinese government and who risked repatriation. LiNK provides support to resettlement programs for North Koreans beyond those provided by the South Korean government.

Early years and leadership
Liberty in North Korea was founded at Yale University on March 27, 2004, the last day of the eighteenth annual Korean American Students Conference (KASCON) which described LiNK as "an explosive organization." The co-founders were Adrian Hong and the comedian Paul Kim. The launch included a talk from a North Korean defector and video clips of escape attempts. In December 2004, LiNK sent two teams to the border of China and North Korea to interview North Korean refugees and to investigate conditions.

Led by Adrian Hong, LiNK's name recognition spread through the efforts of Korean-Americans at universities and colleges who registered 40 chapters in a short period of time. Volunteers worked on staging protests, petition drives, and public awareness campaigns. In January 2007, Adrian Hong wrote that "two LiNK field workers and 6 North Korean refugees were caught and imprisoned by Chinese authorities" en route from Shenyang, and that Hong himself had been detained in Beijing. The Wall Street Journal took interest in the case and one of its reporters, Melanie Kirkpatrick, supported LiNK's activities in China in her book Escaping North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia’s Underground Railroad. The organization continued to grow and LiNK's mission expanded to include more field projects; by March 2007, LiNK had 100 chapters in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and Korea. In March 2007, its director Adrian Hong stated that "LiNK has briefed and advocated to the highest levels of governments and agencies around the world," then called for a day of fasting.

In 2007–08, LiNK made changes to its strategy and leadership. In March 2007, LiNK altered its grassroots strategy and shifted to a membership-based model, which led to the disbanding of all chapters that year and a more unified approach to events. In the summer of 2008, Hannah Song took over as executive director, replacing Adrian Hong. Song began talks with Justin Wheeler of The Option, another organization focused on North Korean refugees, and in the fall of 2008 the two groups merged, retaining the structure and name of LiNK. South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported that "Hong left LiNK when he became convinced that bolder action was required in 2009," and according to a statement made by LiNK, Adrian Hong's involvement with the organization ended around this time. Wheeler was a persuasive advocate for the organization, giving TED talks and other presentations in the early 2010s. Wheeler noted that from 2011, all funding received went to LiNK programs.

Move to Los Angeles
In 2009, LiNK moved from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles. The organization also changed its activism strategy from political lobbying to bringing attention to the people of North Korea instead of the politics already frequently reported on. Beginning in the spring of 2009, they also began to send groups of interns to give presentations to schools, colleges, churches and other venues about the North Korean human rights crisis. LiNK has conducted 13 tours as of fall 2014, which occur twice a year on a semester basis.

Refugee assistance
LiNK has focused its work on North Korean refugees in China, who are vulnerable to exploitation and punishment in China, and can be repatriated if caught. If repatriated, North Koreans face reprisal in the forms of interrogation, prison camps, and execution. As a result, LiNK works to rescue North Korean refugees hiding in China and helps them escape through Southeast Asia. As of March 2019, LiNK had resettled 1,000 refugees throughout the U.S. and South Korea.

According to LiNK, the cost of each rescue is $3,000 USD. LiNK coordinates a "Resettlement Assistance Program" to help newly resettled refugees.

Raising awareness
LiNK works to shift the attention on North Korea away from high politics and towards the North Korean people through a combination of media, tours, and campaigns. They are supported in their efforts by Rescue Teams.

Rescue Teams
Formerly known as chapters, Rescue Teams are groups formed at universities, colleges, high schools, churches, and other venues that raise funds for refugee rescues through bake sales, concerts, and other fundraising activities.

Tours
In the past LiNK conducted biannual informational national tours of the United States and Canada. The tours generally lasted eleven weeks and consisted primarily of LiNK Nomads visiting high schools, colleges, churches, and other community locations to screen LiNK media and answer questions about North Korea and LiNK's work.

Campaigns
LiNK creates and implements campaigns which highlight specific facets of importance regarding North Korea and work to bring under-publicized issues to the attention of the public. The most recent campaign was titled Jangmadang, referring to the Korean word for "market" (Jangmadang) that is used in North Korea to refer to a place where North Koreans gather to buy and sell goods. Past campaigns have included Bridge (2013), SHIFT (2012), The Reliance (2011), and TheHundred (2009).

Jangmadang (2014)
Jangmadang focused on the markets (Jangmadang) that are proliferating in North Korea to circumvent the government's control of trade. These markets began forming in the late 1990s in response to a severe famine in the country and an inability of the government to provide adequate food supplies. The markets also provide a venue for information dissemination through electronic media, such as DVDs and portable DVD players, USB flash drives, SD cards, portable radios, Chinese cell phones with international calling capabilities, and through word-of-mouth.

The event included videos from North Korean defectors Joo Yang, Yeon-mi Park, and Joseph Kim. The campaign ran during the fall of 2014.

Bridge (2013)
Bridge focused on rescuing "game-changers" who can build "bridges" of information and money back to North Korea. This campaign focuses on the power an individual has to bring change to North Korea. By helping these refugees, LiNK hoped to spark increased market and information-sharing activity within the country. The initiative's goal was to raise $200,000.

SHIFT (2012)
SHIFT was focused on changing the public's perception on North Korea from politics to the people. SHIFT encouraged people to tell the stories of the North Korean people themselves and to challenge media moguls to change the way that they are reporting on the North Korean issue. It has since become an integral part of LiNK's focus.

The Reliance (2011)
The Reliance was a drive to create a human network of people committed to seeing every North Korean refugee free. LiNK used social media to mobilize people across the world to start their own fundraising campaigns online with 100% of proceeds going to rescue missions.

TheHundred (2009)
TheHundred was started to kick start LiNK's fundraising efforts to begin rescuing refugees. The initial goal was to fund 100 rescue missions, which has since been accomplished.

Bridge to North Korea (2013)
In the fall of 2013, LiNK released "Bridge to North Korea", which discussed the ongoing changes within the country as well as highlighting how refugees are helping to drive those changes even while residing in other countries by sending back money and information to their families.

Danny from North Korea (2013)
In 2013, LiNK released a documentary titled "Danny From North Korea". It features Danny Lee and focuses on his story of escape from North Korea in March 2005 and resettlement into the United States. It has been used in both their spring and fall tours of 2013, and has been featured in a number of independent film festivals.

SHIFT campaign video (2012)
In the fall of 2012, LiNK released a short film to support its SHIFT campaign, loosely referred to as "The SHIFT Campaign Video". Supported by an anonymous partner, every view of the video on YouTube raises $0.25 on behalf of LiNK's work.

The People's Crisis (2012)
In 2012, LiNK released its first independent feature-length documentary titled "The People's Crisis". Rather than seeking to evoke an emotional reaction, the film was purposed to inform the viewer about North Korea as a whole and LiNK's work.

Summit
Liberty in North Korea held its first Summit at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, in June 2014. North Korean speakers included activists Joseph Kim, Joo Yang, Yeon-mi Park and others. The event concluded with a private show from Run River North, David Choi, and Eatyourkimchi.

Research and strategy
LiNK's Research and Strategy department, led by Director of Research and Strategy Sokeel Park, contributes independent research and analysis to the North Korea issue while collaborating with experts around the globe in seeking an end to the North Korea crisis. Park is an academic with degrees from the London School of Economics and experience working at the United Nations. He regularly is quoted in major newspapers and on major broadcasts. His Research and Strategy team produces a weekly summary of North Korea-related news, which serves as an aggregate regarding North Korea's internal situation, human rights, economy and food security, refugee issues, international politics and security, and expert analysis and opinion.

Theory of change
LiNK advocates for a people-centered theory of change and lobbies on behalf of a citizen empowerment model. Their goals include the sharing of illegal media such as foreign DVDs and conveying subversive information fosters dependence on others outside the government. Marketization is another area of emphasis for change, recognizing that corruption among officials at local levels both eases access to foreign media and drives black market activity that erodes people's dependence on the regime. Cross-border trade and attendant ideological erosion are also areas which the organization sees as essential to change in North Korea.

Partnerships
LiNK partners with several like-minded organizations to increase its reach. One of these partnerships is with the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), which has collaborated with LiNK and the Simon Wiesenthal Center to host an event at the Museum of Tolerance titled "North Korea's Political Prisoner Camp System and the Plight of North Korean Refugees: A Call for Action".

Media attention
In May 2008, Google Tech Talk hosted an event with then-Director of LinK, Adrian Hong, and the North Korean refugee and former ambassador for LiNK, Shin Dong-hyuk.

Shin spoke of his time with the organization in his New York Times-bestselling biography, "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West," written by Blaine Harden. In his book, he criticizes LiNK for excessively controlling his movements and appearances.

Current President/CEO Hannah Song and Director of Research & Strategy Sokeel Park have each been hosted individually by TED. Joseph Kim, one of LiNK's first rescued refugees, also appeared at TED Global in June 2013. In a speech that reached more than one million viewers, he spoke about his life in North Korea during the famine of the 1990s, the family he lost and gained, and the power of hope.

Adding a hard research edge to the more emotional narratives of North Korean escapees, Sokeel Park has been interviewed by major media outlets on topics regarding North Korea, and cited in The Economist. His writings have included "China's better route for North Korean refugees" and "Kim Jong-eun prepares balancing act" for Asia Times Online and "How to Build on Growing NKHR Interest" for Daily NK.

In March 2019, LiNK founder Adrian Hong was identified in Spanish court documents as Adrian Hong Chang, the leader of an assault on the North Korean embassy in Madrid on February 21, 2019. LiNK responded to the controversy around this event with a statement to NK News: "Adrian Hong was a co-founder of Liberty in North Korea as a college student but has had no involvement with the organization for over ten years. We have no knowledge of his recent activities, and we have no information on the Madrid Embassy incident other than what has been published by the media."

LiNK publishes news and analysis via its blog and Facebook page. In addition, financially oriented annual reports are published each year, and this financial data is confirmed by GuideStar, a third-party charity monitoring service.

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J. R. Simplot

John Richard Simplot (January 4, 1909 – May 25, 2008) was an American entrepreneur and businessman best known as the founder of the J. R. Simplot Company, a Boise, Idaho–based agricultural supplier specializing in potato products. In 2007, he was estimated to be the 89th-richest person in the United States, at $3.6 billion. At the time of his death at age 99 in May 2008, he was the oldest billionaire on the Forbes 400.

Early life
Born in Dubuque, Iowa, he was the third of six children of Charles R. and Dorothy (Haxby) Simplot. His maternal grandmother was English, as were both parents of both his maternal grandfather and paternal grandmother. His paternal great-grandparents were both French.

A year later in 1910, the family relocated a thousand miles (1,600 km) west to homestead in the newly irrigated Magic Valley of south central Idaho; the Minidoka Dam on the Snake River was completed a few years earlier. After differences with his father, Simplot left school in the eighth grade at age 14 in 1923. He then worked on a farm near Declo, Cassia County, Idaho. He developed a low-cost method for feeding hogs when the market fell, feeding wild horse meat and potatoes to his hogs. When the market recovered he sold at a profit and got into the potato and vegetable processing business.

J. R. Simplot Company
By World War II, the J. R. Simplot Company had become the largest shipper of fresh potatoes in the nation.

In 1967, Simplot and McDonald's founder Ray Kroc agreed by handshake that the Simplot Company would provide frozen french fries to the restaurant chain. Previously, restaurants had cut potatoes at each location for fresh french fries, but the favored russet potato was not available for three months in the summer, leading to a quality control problem. Simplot was able to supply frozen russet potatoes all year long. By 1972, all fries were frozen. The frozen fry deal led to expansion of Simplot potato processing plants and construction in 1977 of a new plant at Hermiston, Oregon. By 2005, Simplot supplied more than half of all french fries for the fast food chain. Simplot also produces fertilizers for agriculture.

Simplot retired as president of his company in 1973, but remained as chairman until 1994. He held the title of chairman emeritus until his death in 2008. Simplot received an honorary degree from Utah State University in Logan in 2001, honoring him for his many contributions to the agricultural industry of America, particularly the Intermountain West.

Simplot was responsible for the Potato Bust of 1976, after making massive short plays he refused to honor those contracts. This resulted in millions in dollars of losses for the New York Merchant Exchange. A public outcry followed, and the newly created Commodity Futures Trading Commission held hearings.

Further enhancing his enormous wealth, the J.R. Simplot Company provided startup capital in the early 1980s for the fledgling Micron Technology, a Boise-based manufacturer of computer memory chips; in 1994, he owned a 20% stake in the company. Additionally, he invested heavily in Remington Oil.

In 1961, Simplot financed the Brundage Mountain ski area near McCall, two hours north of Boise. The Simplot Company sold its 50% interest in Brundage in April 2006 to the longtime co-owner, the DeBoer family. In the early 1950s, Simplot was the benefactor to the fledgling Bogus Basin ski area near Boise when it had financial difficulties; the base area lodge is named in his honor.

In 1995, the J.R. Simplot Company expanded into Australia, acquiring iconic food brands like Birds Eye, Leggo's, Chiko, and Edgell.

Simplot's first marriage was to Ruby Rosevear (1911–2004) of Glenns Ferry, whom he had met on a blind date; he proposed to her in his Model A Ford in 1931. After 29 years and four children, the marriage ended in divorce in 1960, when she suddenly left Simplot for another man. Years later, Simplot admitted that while he was growing his business empire in the 1950s, he had not spent enough time with his family.

He and his second wife, Esther Becker (born 1934), a former opera singer, met in the mid-1960s in New York. He was on a business trip and she was working as a receptionist for the Henry Phipps Foundation; they were married in 1972.

Before his death, Simplot and his wife Esther resided in the Grove Hotel building in downtown Boise, a few blocks from the company's headquarters. The couple donated their hilltop home, in Boise's north end, to the state of Idaho in late 2004 for use as a governor's mansion. (Known as "The Idaho House," it was returned to the Simplot family in 2013, and demolished in January 2016.)

Accident
On January 1, 2007, while attending the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, with his wife and son, Simplot fell from a motorized scooter and suffered a cranial hematoma. He was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, where he spent his 98th birthday. Simplot returned to Idaho several days later for further rehabilitation.

Death
Simplot died suddenly at his home at age 99 on May 25, 2008, with his wife at his side, following a bout of pneumonia from which he appeared to be recovering. His death occurred moments after he had invited a friend to his home to play cards.

Simplot was survived by his wife, two sons, Don and Scott, and his daughter, Gay, who was the first wife of politician Butch Otter. His eldest son, Richard, died in 1993 at age 59. He was interred at Morris Hill Cemetery in Boise.

In 1996, Simplot was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.

Awards and honors

 * Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement (1967)
 * Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum (1996)
 * Honorary degree from Utah State University in Logan (2001)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rinf

Rinf was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete

Rinf
This is advertising puff for rinf.com, a minor site. (Google says about 56 pages link to it.) It's primarily a portal, but does have its own material -- a lot of the free "ebooks" are of the "make money fast" genre. If it softpedals the make-money-fast and pseudoscience stuff, and expands the archive of genuinely interesting material to the point where it's linked from a number of popular sites, it may become something like Disinfo and thus notable; till that time, it isn't notable. -- Hoary 02:36, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The site contains more Magick Ebooks than any others, which are free to download, some of the computer ebooks are "make money fast" but are free. The site produces original artwork and articles, hosts the Infinity Factory which vanished from the web years ago. - M

 * That comment ("The site contains . . . web years ago") was added at 05:53, 6 Dec 2004 by 62.252.128.17. That's an IP number with an interesting history. -- Hoary 07:05, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

"Rinf.com: Underground Gateway is a non profit alternative media streaming site which features daily updates and is aiming to become one the largest media archives on the internet. The sites original aim was to promote creative subversives while providing underground news items. Rinf.com quickly became an online community and now the site offers video downloads, audio files, live radio stations, blogs, chat rooms, full ebooks, message boards, art work, poetry and articles. Visitors are invited to join in or to browse through the hundreds of media files on offer. Anyone can have full access to the site for free and can sign up for the mindtrash news list if you want to promote a special event or project."
 * Delete.Mikkalai 06:31, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Might be a Keep if this could be rewritten as non-puff, minority interest. Charles Matthews 06:53, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * less puff?
 * How does this sound instead?
 * Delete. Non notable. --Gtabary 13:03, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Can you tell me what notable is? I'm new to this and would like to Keep my site listed here. Or what needs to change in order for that to happen?
 * Delete. To all appearances this is an unnotable website.  If the article is changed in such a way that I am proven wrong, I will change my vote. Indrian 19:02, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * Ok changes have been made, I've listed some of the major sites that link to Rinf and displayed the overall link popularity (although this doesn't include Google links for some reason). I hope this is enough to keep the site. I have also changed Rinf itself, to be more in keeping with sites you index.
 * Delete Wiki doesn't list websites. Not yet notable. Wyss 00:22, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * ok I've taken the page down.

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like other '/delete' pages is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion or on the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.

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User talk:JimParsons

Hi, and welcome. I'm afraid I had to mark your article RSPB Havergate Island as a potential copyright violation. It appears to be identical to http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/h/havergateisland/index.asp. Note that we cannot use copyrighted material in Wikipedia. If 1) you hold the copyright or are the original and are willing to release the information under the GNU Free Document License (GDFL), 2) the original author/copyright holder is willing to do so, or 3) believe that it is not a copyright violation for another reason, please mention it on the article's talk page. Please see Copyrights for more information. In the mean time, you are free to begin rewriting the article at it's temporary page. I hope this all makes sense. And regardless of whether this is judged to be a copyright infringement, we welcome further, original contributions from you. — Knowledge Seeker দ (talk) 02:36, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Do you hold copyright to this text, or do you believe they are noncopyrighted for some other reason? They appear to be from the web site for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, which carries the following statement: "© 2004 The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds." Please respond before adding further articles. — Knowledge Seeker দ (talk) 02:43, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Pocket Empires

The article Pocket Empires has been proposed for deletion  because of the following concern:
 * No indication of notability.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing  will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. PamD (talk) 20:45, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

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Talk:List of characters in The Fairly OddParents/Archive/01

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This information is already listed on The Fairly OddParents article. It's repeat information and there's no need for a completely new article just for characters. --Randy 02:38, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, fancruft Ashibaka tlk 02:49, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Redirect to the main article. - SimonP 03:15, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * Redirect. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 03:17, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-searchable title. So, redirect not necessary. utcursch 10:19, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. USer utcursch is right. --Gtabary 13:00, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: As they've said, unsearchable title and duplicate information. Geogre 14:27, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment: This seems to be part of an extensive and controversial project, with two categories and a couple of edit wars already. No vote as yet. Andrewa 19:12, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, content is already part of main article. (And, yes, I've been part of the edit wars...) —tregoweth 00:40, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect. Remember, deleted info is retained.  There's no reason not to redirect.  Nothing else is going to take this title.  --L33tminion | (talk) 22:31, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. duplicate info. --MPerel 00:03, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)
 * Redirect... there is no information in the characters article that is not in the main article.  Pedant 00:06, 2004 Dec 11 (UTC)

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