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Crispian Mills

Crispian Mills (born 18 January 1973 as Crispian John David Boulting; spiritual name Krishna Kantha Das) is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and film director. Active since 1988, Mills is best known as the frontman of the psychedelic indie rock band Kula Shaker. Following the band's break-up in 1999, he remained with Columbia Records (a subsidiary of Sony BMG), and toured with a set of session musicians (including a support slot for Robbie Williams) under the name Pi, although no official studio recordings were released in full. After the label rejected the Pi album, Mills disappeared for a short time, returning in 2002 as frontman and lead guitarist for back-to-basics rock outfit The Jeevas, who disbanded in 2005 to make way for a reformed Kula Shaker, who released their third album Strangefolk in 2007. In 2010 he released the album Pilgrims Progress with Kula Shaker. In 2017 the band celebrated the 20th anniversary of their album K with the release of the new record K 2.0. Mills joined the band for a sold-out UK tour to celebrate the anniversary.

Mills is the son of actress Hayley Mills and director Roy Boulting, the grandson of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, nephew of Juliet Mills and directors John Boulting and Jonathan Mills, and half-brother to Jason Lawson.

Early life
Mills was born on 18 January 1973 in Hammersmith, London, England. His mother, Hayley Mills, had made her name as a child star in the 1960s, and met Mills' father, Roy Boulting, on the set of light British comedy The Family Way. Boulting was 33 years Hayley Mills' senior, and only five years younger than her father, Sir John Mills. The pair married in 1971. The family lived on Belgrade Road, in the south-west London district of Hampton, and had an additional property at Cobstone Windmill at Ibstone, Buckinghamshire. The marriage did not last, and the pair split in 1975, followed by an official divorce in 1977. At this point, Hayley was pregnant again by actor Leigh Lawson with her second son, Jason.

The new family shared their time between Hampton and Lawson's Coventry residence. Hayley put her career on hold to raise her sons during their early years, a sacrifice which to this day, Mills values very highly. The young Mills believed his grandfather to be a genuine knight in shining armour. Sir John can also be credited with introducing Mills to music, by singing old cowboy songs to send him to sleep as a child. Mills would go on to cover one of those songs, "Rio Grande" with his post-Kula Shaker band The Jeevas. "I count myself to be very fortunate," says Mills, "in having been brought up by people who are very open-minded and who are genuinely in love with the arts. If I've inherited anything from my family, it's that love of the creative process and that awareness of the privilege which being a part of it represents. That comes from my father too... I couldn't escape from it, and never felt I wanted to."

Mills attended various schools, some private, some state run, as his mother was frequently travelling for film work. Speaking in an interview in 2016, Mills says "When I was in private schools, they called me 'common', and when I was in state schools they called me 'posh'. It made me very cynical about all these labels".

His background meant that family friends were people like Richard Attenborough and Sir Laurence Olivier, although Mills has often remarked that he was rarely star-struck as they were "just people" to one accustomed to the company of famous actors. As a result of this, and his mother's experiences as a child actress, the young Mills believed that making films was to be his next step. "I grew up with pictures of my mum looking very very young, standing with John Wayne or Walt Disney. That did something to my head; I thought that was kind of normal. That's what happens: you get to 12, you start making movies. It was only when I got to 12 that I realised, obviously, that wasn't the case."

It was around this time when Mills first started to consider ideas of spirituality and mortality. "If I ever had a Road-to-Damascus, it was when I was 11," he recalls. "I woke up one night, at home in bed, and realised I was going to die. I don't mean 'tomorrow' or 'in a year'. It wasn't a prediction. It was just suddenly understanding fully that death would come. I remember talking about it at the time. Everyone thought there was something wrong with me." To address these new feelings on life and death, Mills borrowed the Mahābhārata, one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, from his mother, and took to reading it. He also became vegetarian, although concedes that this was largely due to meeting "a really attractive girl who was vegetarian".

Throughout his youth, Mills had been exposed to a wide variety of music. One of his earliest musical memories was "Puff, the Magic Dragon" by Peter, Paul and Mary, which he believes "summed up [his] childhood". As a general rule, Mills uninspired by the then-current music scene, found that he was able to identify with older records, which he felt had honesty and genuine youth. However he singled out "Stand and Deliver" by Adam and the Ants – the first single he ever bought – by virtue of its drama and longevity. In terms of albums, his first purchase was "Too Tough to Die" by the Ramones. However, it was hearing "You Really Got Me" by English rock group The Kinks that inspired him to become a guitarist. "It was like walking into a temple, a moment when my life changed," he says. "I'd grown up listening to Boy George and Duran Duran on the radio. But Really Got Me. Chung! This is your destiny! After that, as soon as I picked up a guitar, all I wanted to do was become brilliant. I practised, I studied tapes, I was a guitar worshipper." Through the guitar, Mills also discovered Deep Purple, and has cited their lead guitarist Ritchie Blackmore as a major influence on his style. At Richmond upon Thames College he met future band-mate Alonza Bevan.

Later, Mills started to delve deeper into psychedelic music, and spent most of his A-Level years taking LSD and listening to The Doors. Acid gave the teenaged Mills a change of perspective, but he soon realised that drugs alone would not bring him the enlightenment he sought. Watching close friends go "over the edge" on hallucinogens ultimately convinced Mills that there were other ways of changing one's perspective.

Career
Mills in an interview with a New York journalist stated, "You can sing about things like premature teenage sex, or you can sing about everlasting, universal truth." In the perspective of this Hindu philosophy his band debuted the song "Govinda" at an outdoor festival in England. "We found our way onto the Hare Krishna stage, and we just started jamming on 'Govinda'." Shortly thereafter, Mills toured India for the first time with his mystical friend and tour guide, Mathura, while the other band members stayed behind in England. He was initiated in the Gaudiya Vaishnavism tradition in 1997 and has a spiritual Hare Krishna name Krishna Kantha das. The same year he wrote a foreword to a book by Bhaktivinoda Thakur translated into English from Bengali and titled Siksastaka, an esoteric bhakti publication.

Mills became famous in the UK as the lead singer-songwriter in the Indian-influenced 90s Indie/rock band Kula Shaker in 1996. Kula Shaker's first album K became the best-selling debut album since Oasis' Definitely Maybe in the UK, and the band had a string of UK hit singles, culminating in 1997's 'Hush' which peaked at No. 2 there.

In 1997, Mills contributed vocals to the nine-minute breakbeat song "Narayan" on The Prodigy's third album The Fat of the Land.

Following Kula Shaker's break-up in 1999, he spent two years experimenting with new musical ideas, touring briefly in the UK with as part of a band called Pi. A disagreement over the quality of an album proposed for release saw Mills depart from his UK record company in 2001.

In early 2002 the speedy formation of a new band called The Jeevas with Andy Nixon and Dan McKinna (previously both of the band Straw) led to relative success, with the first album selling over 100,000 copies in Japan. Sales elsewhere were low but the band remained a hot ticket in smaller UK venues. Despite extensive touring and sizeable hardcore fanbase, The Jeevas split in early 2005, with Nixon and McKinna forming a new band named The Magic Bullet Band.

During 2004 The Jeevas and a reformed Kula Shaker (without original keyboardist Jay Darlington) contributed to a charity album with the Californian School of Braja, which Mills masterminded. The sessions with Kula Shaker went so well that the band decided to reform permanently. 2006 saw their return to the live scene in the UK with the addition of new keyboardist Harry Broadbent, and the release of an EP Revenge of the King. Their third album Strangefolk was released in 2007.

In June 2010 Mills released his 4th album with Kula Shaker, Pilgrims Progress.

In early 2016 Kula Shaker returned with their new album K 2.0. The band played a mostly sold-out European tour in February and March 2016. They spent the rest of the year touring across Europe, Asia and North America.

A well-received sold-out 20th anniversary tour of their debut album K followed at the end of 2016.

Mills announced another break for the band due to his commitments to more film projects.

Swastika comments
In a 1997 interview with the NME, Mills commented on the use of the swastika in Hinduism saying that he "loved the (Hindu) swastika" adding "don't let (the Nazis) steal that from you" and that he would "love to have flaming swastikas on stage, just for the f**k of it". The interview resulted in a negative stream of press, with one journalist suggesting that Mills, like the Sex Pistols, and Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones, had "flirted with fascism". Mills later issued a written apology, in which he talked about his interest in how sacred spiritual symbols get hijacked by nefarious ideologies, adding that he "opposed totalitarianism in all its forms" and stood for "love and understanding".

Films
In 2001, shortly after his father Roy Boulting's death, Mills began writing film scripts. His first screenplay The Winged Boy was bought by the Hollywood production company Gold Circle, but has never been made. Mills continued to write and develop material, eventually writing and co-directing A Fantastic Fear of Everything, starring Simon Pegg. The film, which tells the story of a paranoid crime writer with an irrational fear of launderettes and hedgehogs, received mixed to negative reviews. Many indie reviewers praised its visual originality and Simon Pegg's performance, which won him Best Male actor at Toronto after Dark film festival. Empire magazine gave it 3 stars. In 2018 Mills directed and co-wrote another movie project, Slaughterhouse Rulez, this time including both Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. It also met with mixed to negative reviews.

Personal life
Mills has been married to the former model Josephine "Joe" Mills (née Branfoot) since 1995. They lived in Bath, England for twelve years with their two sons Keshava aged 15, and Hari aged 12.

Albums

 * K – Kula Shaker (1996)
 * Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts – Kula Shaker (1999)
 * 1,2,3,4 – The Jeevas (2002)
 * Cowboys and Indians – The Jeevas (2003)
 * School of Braja – School of Braja (2006)
 * Strangefolk – Kula Shaker (2007)
 * Pilgrims Progress – Kula Shaker (2010)
 * K2.0 – Kula Shaker (2016)
 * 1st Congregational Church of Eternal Love and Free Hugs – Kula Shaker (2022)
 * Natural Magick – Kula Shaker (2024)

EPs

 * Summer Sun E.P. – Kula Shaker (1997)
 * Revenge of the King – Kula Shaker (2006)
 * ''Freedom Lovin' People EP – Kula Shaker (2007)

Compilation albums

 * Kollected – The Best Of – Kula Shaker (2002)
 * Tattva – The Very Best Of – Kula Shaker (2007)

Singles

 * "Tattva (Lucky 13 Mix)" – Kula Shaker (1996)
 * "Grateful When You're Dead" – Kula Shaker (1996)
 * "Tattva" – Kula Shaker (1996)
 * "Hey Dude" – Kula Shaker (1996)
 * "Govinda" – Kula Shaker (1996)
 * "Hush" – Kula Shaker (1997)
 * "Sound of Drums" – Kula Shaker (1998)
 * "Mystical Machine Gun" – Kula Shaker (1999)
 * "Shower Your Love" – Kula Shaker (1999)
 * "Scary Parents" – The Jeevas (2002)
 * "One Louder" – The Jeevas (2002)
 * "Virginia" – The Jeevas (2002)
 * "Ghost (Cowboys in the Movies)" – The Jeevas (2002)
 * "Once Upon A Time in America" – The Jeevas (2003)
 * "The Way You Carry On" – The Jeevas (2003)
 * "Have You Ever Seen The Rain?" – The Jeevas (2003)
 * "Second Sight" – Kula Shaker (2007)
 * "Out on the Highway" – Kula Shaker (2007)
 * "Peter Pan R.I.P" – Kula Shaker (2010)
 * "Healing Hands" – Crispian Mills (2010)
 * "Let Love Be (With U)" – Kula Shaker (2016)
 * "Cherry Plum Tree" - Kula Shaker (2022)
 * "Gimme Some Truth" - Kula Shaker (2022)
 * "Christmas Time Is Here Again" - Kula Shaker (2022)
 * "Waves" - Kula Shaker (2023)
 * "Indian Record Player" (2023)
 * "Natural Magick" (2024)
 * "Rational Man" (2024)

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Edith Vonnegut

Edith "Edie" Vonnegut (born 1949 in Schenectady, New York) is an American painter.

Her work—most of which juxtaposes heavenly beings and mundane activities—has been showcased at galleries across the United States, and is featured in the book Domestic Goddesses, along with her humorous commentary.

Personal life
Vonnegut is the daughter of novelist Kurt Vonnegut and his first wife, Jane Marie (Cox), and the sister of Mark Vonnegut and Nanette Vonnegut. She was named for her paternal grandmother, Edith Lieber Vonnegut.

She was once married to television personality Geraldo Rivera and has published under the names Edith Vonnegut, Edith Vonnegut Rivera, and Edith Vonnegut Squibb.

Vonnegut studied transcendental meditation with her mother, Jane, in 1967.

Edith has been married to John Squibb since 1985. She has two sons and three grandchildren.

Partial bibliography

 * Nora's Tale, written and illustrated by Edith Vonnegut Rivera. New York: Richard W. Baron publishers, 1975 (dedication: "for Geraldo")

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This is a seed page. Discussion of the history and significance of law reviews will follow - not a mere definition.
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Leviticus 18

Leviticus 18 (the eighteenth chapter of the Book of Leviticus) deals with a number of sexual activities considered abominable, including incest and bestiality. The chapter also condemns Moloch worship. It is part of the Holiness Code (Leviticus 17–26), and its sexual prohibitions are largely paralleled by Leviticus 20, except that chapter 20 has more emphasis on punishment.

Text
The original text of Leviticus 18, like that of most of the Hebrew Bible, is written in Hebrew. The oldest extant versions of the text in Hebrew are found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Samaritan Pentateuch, and the Masoretic Text. An ancient Greek translation from the third century BCE, the Septuagint, also exists. Since the addition of chapter divisions in the thirteenth century CE, this chapter is divided into 30 verses.

The chapter begins with God speaking to Moses (verse 1) and giving him a message for the Israelites (2), warning them to keep God's laws rather than Canaanite or Egyptian practices (3–5). Then God is quoted as listing people with whom sex is forbidden due to family relationships (6–19). In verse 20, God prohibits sexual relations with a neighbor's wife, and in verse 21 God prohibits passing one's children through fire to Moloch. Verse 22 is the famous verse about "lie with a man," discussed below, while in verse 23 God forbids bestiality, and, according to some translations, pedophilia. In the final verses (24–30), God warns that breaking these laws will produce defilement and that the Canaanites are about to be displaced from the land of Canaan as a result of following these practices, and warn of a similar fate for the Israelites if they fall into these practices.

Incest
The Bible lists several types of relationship which it regards as incestuous unions; one list appears in the Deuteronomic Code, and two lists occur in the Holiness Code of Leviticus. These lists only mention relationships with female relatives; excluding lesbianism, which implies that the list is addressed to men. These lists then compare as follows:

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One feature of all the lists is that sexual activity between a man and his daughter is not explicitly forbidden. The Talmud argues that this is because the prohibition was obvious, especially given the proscription against a relationship with a granddaughter. The shortness of the list in Leviticus 20, and especially of that in Deuteronomy, is explained by classical Jewish scholarship as being due to the obviousness of the missing prohibitions. The explicit prohibition against engaging in sexual activity with "both a woman and her daughter" implicitly forbids sexual activity between a man and his daughter, as does the prohibition against engaging in sexual activity with "any that is near of kin". Some biblical scholars have instead proposed that it was originally in the list but was then accidentally left out from the copy on which modern versions of the text ultimately depend, due to a mistake by the scribe.

However, most tribal nations also disliked exogamous marriage to completely unrelated people. In several prominent cases in the Torah, incestuous relationships are described. In the biblical narrative, each of these occurred chronologically prior to the establishment of Levitical law. Abraham married his half-sister Sarah, Jacob married his first wife's sister (albeit without his knowledge),  and Amram married his paternal aunt Jochebed.

Apart from the questionable case of a man marrying his daughter, the list in Leviticus 18 roughly produces the same rules as were followed in early pre-Islamic Arabic culture.

Homosexuality
Leviticus 18:22 in the Hebrew Bible:

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A word-by-word analysis of the WLC Hebrew text of Leviticus 18:22:

In ancient Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible, generally known as Septuagint, which serve as important references to trace the original form and meaning of the text, Leviticus 18:22 is usually rendered as follows:

Leviticus 18:22 has been translated in common English versions as:

"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination."

"You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination."

"You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; such a thing is an abomination."

"Do not practice homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin."

The Hebrew wording of Leviticus 18:22 has been generally interpreted as prohibiting some or all homosexual acts, although which precise acts, and in which situations, is a matter of ongoing scholarly debate. Some authors state that verse 22 condemns "homosexuality" or "homosexual relations", with other authors maintaining that it condemns only males penetrating males (anal intercourse). Others believe due to study of the language used in the original Hebrew, that the restriction is only relevant in specific situations (in the context idolatry, religious sacrifice or various forms of rape which were common Canaanite or Egyptian practices), and specifically does not apply to modern homosexual relationships. Some researchers speculate that the contents of the text changed over time, where earlier examples would only admonish homosexual incest, and not homosexuality, more broadly in line with surrounding attitudes at the time. Such readings have also been responded to and countered in research.

Lesbianism is not explicitly prohibited in the Torah; however, the rabbi and Jewish scholar Maimonides ruled that lesbianism was prohibited nonetheless as an "Egyptian practice" and deserving of punishment by beating.

Weekly Torah portion
The whole chapter is part of the weekly Torah portion (parashah)  which comprises Leviticus 17:1–18:30.

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Buick Wildcat

The Buick Wildcat is a full-size car that was produced by Buick from the 1963 to 1970 model years. Taking its name from a series of 1950s Buick concept cars, the Wildcat replaced the Invicta within the "junior" B-body Buick sedan range. Serving as the higher-performance full-size Buick, the Wildcat was slotted between the LeSabre and the larger C-body Electra.

Following two generations of the model line, the Wildcat was replaced by the Buick Centurion for 1971.

Background
In 1962 the Wildcat was a Buick Invicta subseries, mating the Invicta's longer full-size two-door hardtop Buick body (known as the "sport coupe", body production code 4647 hardtop only) with a high-performance 325 hp version of the 401 cid Nailhead V8, known as the "Wildcat 445" for producing 445 lb·ft of torque. To further distance itself from the Invicta, the Wildcat had Electra 225-like taillights, a bucket seat interior, and a center console with tachometer and transmission shifter. It had a Dynaflow transmission shared by all full-sized Buicks, plus special exterior side trim, vinyl-covered roof (new for 1962), and its own unique emblem: a stylized head of a wild cat, located on each of the C-pillars. However, the Wildcat did share the LeSabre's and Invicta's trio of VentiPorts on the front fenders, a design cue lasting only through the 1963 model year. The listed retail price was $3,927 ($0 in dollars )

First generation (1963–1964)
From 1963 to 1970 the Wildcat was its own series, no longer an Invicta subseries. The 1963 model had a large aluminum trim panel on the side, while 1964 models had vertically situated chrome hash-marks on the lower front quarter panel directly behind the front wheel housings and did not have the traditional horizontal VentiPorts like other Buicks. After becoming its own full series in 1963, the Wildcat added a convertible and four-door hardtop sedan to the original two-door hardtop coupe introduced in 1962. In the four-door version, a bench seat was standard but the bucket seat and console interior used in the coupe and convertible were optional. In 1964, a pillared four-door sedan was added to the line and two levels of trim were available - standard and custom, with a mid-line deluxe subseries added for 1965 only. From 1966 to 1969, the base (with trim similar to the 1965 Wildcat deluxe) and custom trims were again the sole options. The Wildcat's wheelbase was 123 in in comparison to the top level Electra at 126 in. The listed retail price for the Sport Coupe 2-door hardtop was $3,849 ($0 in dollars ).

The 325 hp 401 cubic-inch Wildcat V8 remained the standard engine through 1966. From 1964 to 1966 a larger, 425 cubic-inch, Wildcat V8 was also available, producing either 340 hp with a factory four-barrel carburetor or 360 hp with two four-barrel carburetors ("dual quads"). This version also featured finned cast aluminum valve covers with the Buick logo embossed on the top. Also beginning in 1964, a three-speed manual transmission with column shift became standard equipment on all Wildcats, with either the four-speed manual (1963-1965 only) or three-speed automatic Super Turbine 400 transmissions as options. Engine names referred to engine torque output rather than displacement. The "Wildcat 445" was a 401 CID V8 that produced a peak torque rating of 445 lb·ft, while the "Wildcat 465" was a 425 CID V8 that produced 465 lb·ft of torque. The "dual quad" version of the Wildcat 465 was dubbed "Super Wildcat".

Second generation (1965–1970)
In 1966 a one-year-only Wildcat "Gran Sport Performance Group" package could be ordered by selecting the "A8/Y48" option. Two engine choices were available. The single carb 425 CID/340 hp V8 was included in the base package price with a 360 hp dual-carb set-up available at extra cost. Initially, this 20 hp upgrade remained a dealer-installed carb-intake modification bolted to stock MT-coded engines but eventually these "Super Wildcats" could also be obtained direct from the factory with MZ-coded engines. Rounding out both the base and Super GS packages were dual exhaust, heavy-duty suspension, posi-traction and updated rear quarter-panel "GS" badging in the new, initials-only format employed on all post-1965 Gran Sports. A total of 1,244 Wildcat GSs were built by Buick during the model year. Of those, 242 were convertibles and the rest were hardtops. A mere 22 (consisting of an unknown mix of both body styles) were Super Wildcats.

A styling appearance cue was adopted from the popular 1963 Buick Riviera, where the beltline arched up over the rear wheels, a modification of an older styling element called the "Sweepspear," with later vehicles installing a rub strip along the entire side of the vehicle tapering down as it reached the rear bumper.

The year 1967 brought a new engine to the Wildcat line (along with the Riviera and Electra 225) – a 430-cubic-inch V8 with four-barrel carburetor and 360 hp rating that featured larger valves for better breathing than the previous 401/425 Nailhead design that dated back to Buick's first V8, in 1953. It had a 10.25:1 compression ratio and a four-barrel carburettor, with maximum power reached at 5,000 rpm and 475 lb.ft of torque at 3,200 rpm - all SAE gross values. The 430 was relatively short-lived as it was only offered through the 1969 model year. For 1970, the 430 was superseded by the largest Buick V8 engine ever – a 455-cubic-inch engine that was basically a bored version of the previous engine with the same large-valve design, a horsepower rating of 370, and torque rating of more than 500 pounds.

1967 and 1968 saw the addition of new federally-mandated safety equipment that provided better occupant protection in collisions, and accident avoidance features as well. Like other full-size U.S. cars of the late 1960s, the Buicks became bigger, plusher, and less economical.

The Wildcat was offered only in Custom trim for its final year of 1970. It was replaced by the Buick Centurion for 1971.

Wildcat concept cars
Buick has used the name "Wildcat" for multiple concept vehicles. During the 1950s, three Wildcats were designed under the guidance of Harley Earl, including the 1953 Wildcat I, 1954 Wildcat II, and 1955 Wildcat III. The Wildcat I and II still exist today.

Buick used the name again in 1985 for a mid-engine sports car with all-wheel drive and a fully-exposed high-performance, double overhead cam V6. The chassis used carbon-fiber and vinyl-ester resin and the body featured a 'lift-up' canopy for entry and exit. The 1985 Wildcat is still owned by Buick today and is still operational.

In 1997, a Buick Riviera Wildcat was created as a concept car. Derived from the standard Buick Riviera, the Riviera Wildcat featured carbon-fiber interior trim (replacing woodgrain trim) and black chrome; the powertrain was upgraded for increased power.

On June 1, 2022 the Buick Wildcat EV concept car was revealed in a press release. The concept was an electric vehicle (EV) and was intended as a design study for Buick rather than a proof of concept for a future production vehicle. The intent of this was to create a new design language for Buick to be used as early as 2023, and to reposition the marque in the market to appeal to a younger audience than it had been reaching. This car complimented General Motors' commitment to produce only electric vehicles by 2030. Buick announced in this release that their first production EV is anticipated in 2024. The Wildcat EV concept incorporates a redesigned corporate Trishield emblem, which eliminates the ring and separates the shields from each other. The insides of the shields feature colored "swooshes", retaining the red, white, and blue color scheme of the old logo. It also appears that the new emblem can light up as well, similar to Lincoln's illuminated star emblem.

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11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland

The 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland (11. SS-Freiwilligen Panzergrenadier-Division "Nordland") was a Waffen-SS division primarily raised with Germans and ethnic Germans from Romania, but also foreign volunteers from Western Europe. It saw action, as part of Army Group North, in the Independent State of Croatia and on the Eastern Front during World War II.

Formation
In February 1943, Hitler ordered the creation of an SS division which would be officered by foreign volunteers. In March 1943, the SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment Nordland was separated from the SS Division Wiking to be used as the nucleus for the new division. The Nordland's two Panzergrenadier regiments were also given titles that were meant to reference the countries of origin of their respective recruits, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 23 Norge (Norway) and SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 24 Danmark (Denmark), however, at the time of the division's arrival on the Eastern Front in the autumn of 1943, almost 80% of its men were either Reichsdeutsche from Germany or Volksdeutsche.

After its formation in Germany, the division was attached to the III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps under the command of Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner and was moved to Croatia. The division began combat operations against Yugoslav partisans in September 1943. In mid-October 1943, the division burned and looted several Serb villages in the Banija region of Croatia, and helped organize a local collaborationist Chetnik militia.

1944–1945
The division, along with the rest of the III SS Panzer Corps arrived at the front near Leningrad and was put into action against the Soviet Red Army attacks aimed at breaking the German encirclement of the city. The Red Army forced Nordland to withdraw to Oranienbaum. On 14 January 1944, the Soviet Krasnoye Selo–Ropsha Offensive succeeded in collapsing the German front. The follow-on Kingisepp–Gdov Offensive pushed the German forces to the city of Narva in northeastern Estonia to a new defensive line.

From 27 July 1944, Nordland fought alongside the 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian) and elements of the Grossdeutschland Division In the Battle of Tannenberg Line. During these battles, the commanders of two regiments were killed. While visiting the front line, the division's commander, Gruppenführer Fritz von Scholz was caught in an artillery barrage and received a head wound. Scholz died on 28 July 1944. Thereafter, Brigadeführer Joachim Ziegler took over command of the division. It retreated into what was known as the Courland Pocket. From late October to December 1944, the Nordland remained in the pocket; by early December the divisional strength was down to 9,000 men. In January 1945, the division was ordered to the Baltic port of Libau, where it was evacuated by sea.

Battle of Berlin
On 16 April, the division was ordered to defend Berlin. Despite recent replenishment, the division was still understrength. From 17 to 20 April, the division was involved in combat all along its front and then retreated into the city. On 24 April, the main Soviet Army assault was towards the Treptow Park area, which the rest of the pioneer battalion and the remaining Tiger tanks of a Panzer battalion were defending. Obersturmbannführer Kausch led the few tanks and armoured vehicles in a counterattack and succeeded in temporarily halting the enemy advance. However, by midday, the 5th Shock Army was able to advance again. A later counter-attack by three assault guns was stopped by a Soviet soldier with three captured German Panzerfausts.

On 25 April, Brigadeführer Gustav Krukenberg was appointed the commander of (Berlin) Defence Sector C, which included Nordland. Ziegler was relieved of his command of the division earlier the same day.

By 26 April, with Neukölln heavily penetrated by Soviet combat groups, Krukenberg prepared fallback positions for Sector C troops around Hermannplatz. He moved his headquarters into the opera house. As Nordland fell back towards Hermannplatz, Nordland and one-hundred Hitler Youth attached to their group destroyed 14 Soviet tanks with Panzerfausts; one machine gun position by the Halensee bridge managed to hold up any Soviet advance in that area for 48 hours. Nordland's remaining armour, eight Tiger tanks and several assault guns, were ordered to take up positions in the Tiergarten, because although the two divisions of Weidling's LVI Panzer Corps could slow the Soviet advance down, they could not stop it.

The Soviet forces advance into Berlin followed a pattern of massive shelling followed by assaults using house-clearing battle groups of about 80 men in each, with tank escorts and close artillery support. On 27 April, the remnants of Nordland were pushed back into the central government district (Zitadelle sector) in Defence sector Z. Krukenberg's headquarters was a carriage in the Stadtmitte U-Bahn station. Thereafter, the troops in the government district were pushed back into the Reichstag and the Reich Chancellery.

On 30 April, after receiving news of Hitler's suicide, orders were issued that those who could do so were to break out. Prior to that Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke briefed all commanders that could be reached within the Zitadelle sector about the events as to Hitler's death and the planned breakout. The break out from the Reich Chancellery and Führerbunker started at 2300 hours on 1 May. There were ten main groups that attempted to head northwest.

Fierce fighting continued all around, especially in the Weidendammer Bridge area. In that area, what was left of the division was destroyed by Soviet artillery and anti-tank guns. Nordland's last Tiger was knocked out attempting to cross the Weidendammer Bridge. Several small groups reached the Americans at the Elbe's west bank, but most (including Mohnke's group and men from Krukenberg's group), were not successful. Most were killed in the fighting or taken prisoner after they surrendered to Soviet troops. Ziegler was gravely wounded after the break out group he was in came under heavy Soviet fire. He died on 2 May. Krukenberg made it to Dahlem, where he hid out in an apartment for a week, before surrendering to Soviet troops. On 2 May hostilities officially ended by order of General Helmuth Weidling, commander of the Defence Area Berlin.

Organization
Structure of the Division

29. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (italienische Nr. 1)

SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 2e"

SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 24

Kradschützen-Regiment SS-Panzergrenadier-Division 11

SS-Panzer-Regiment 11

SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 11

SS-Artillerie-Regiment 11

SS-Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 11

SS-Flak-Abteilung 11

SS-Pionier-Bataillon 11

SS-Nachrichten-Abteilung 11

SS-Feldersatz-Bataillon 11

Kommandeur der SS-Divisions-Nachschubtruppen 11

SS-Instandsetzungs-Abteilung 11

SS-Sanitäts-Abteilung 11

SS-Wirtschafts-Bataillon 11

Commanders

 * SS-Brigadeführer Franz Augsberger (22 March 1943 – 1 May 1943)
 * SS-Gruppenführer Fritz von Scholz (1 May 1943 – 27 July 1944)
 * SS-Brigadeführer Joachim Ziegler (27 July 1944 – 25 April 1945)
 * SS-Brigadeführer Gustav Krukenberg (25 April 1945 – 8 May 1945)


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Sutton (constructor)

Sutton was an American racing car constructor which participated in a single FIA World Championship race - the 1959 Indianapolis 500. They scored no championship points.

Their car, a Dayton Steel Foundry/Walther, was powered by a KK500G Offenhauser I4 engine and was driven by Mike Magill. Qualifying in 31st place, the car completed 45 laps before an accident forced Magill's retirement. Magill was squeezed into the outside wall by the spinning car of Chuck Weyant, and Magill flipped over, sliding upside down off the track and into the infield. Drivers Jud Larson and Red Amick, who spun trying to avoid the accident, both stopped and lifted the damaged Sutton upright to free Magill. Their actions, and the roll bars which were made mandatory for the 1959 season, contributed to saving Magill's life.

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Longy School of Music of Bard College

Longy School of Music of Bard College is a private music school in Cambridge, Massachusetts associated with Bard College. Founded in 1915 as the Longy School of Music, it was one of the four independent degree-granting music schools in the Boston region along with the New England Conservatory, Berklee College of Music, and Boston Conservatory. In 2012, the institution merged with Bard College to become Longy School of Music of Bard College. As of the 2018–19 academic year, the conservatory has 300 students in its degree programs from 35 states and 23 countries.

History
Longy School of Music was founded in Boston in 1915 by Georges Longy, a French-born oboist and graduate of the Paris Conservatory who had joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1898. Upon his retirement in 1925, his daughter, Renée Longy-Miquelle, succeeded him as director. She recruited several of Georges Longy's Boston Symphony colleagues as faculty members, and established Dalcroze Eurhythmics as an important part of Longy's curriculum.

The school moved across the Charles River to Cambridge in 1930, and in 1937 took up residence in the stone mansion at One Follen Street; originally built in 1889 by railroad baron Edwin Hale Abbot. During that time, Longy had a close relationship with Harvard and Radcliffe colleges. Many of Harvard’s most talented music students, including Elliott Carter and Daniel Pinkham, crossed the Cambridge Common to study with Longy’s performance faculty. Between 1938 and 1944, the pedagogue and theoretician Nadia Boulanger taught advanced courses in harmony, composition and counterpoint at Longy and established a tradition of focus on music theory and composition that continues to characterize the school to the present day. The school's Preparatory and Continuing Studies program (part-time private lessons, classes, and ensembles offered to area residents) evolved from its beginnings in the 1920s when it began offering classes for children. In 1978, a Saturday program of theory, private lessons, and other music classes for children was added.

Previous leaders of the school include violinist Roman Totenberg, director from 1978 to 1985, pianist Victor Rosenbaum, director from 1985 to 2001, and Kwang-Wu Kim, president from 2001 to 2006. Rosenbaum's tenure as director saw the establishment of the opera and modern American music departments as well as a growth in student numbers from 600 to 1,200, and in the annual budget from $600,000 to $3.5 million. The current president is Karen Zorn, who took up her post in 2007.

On April 1, 2010, the Boston Globe reported that Longy was in negotiations to become a graduate school of Bard College. President Zorn began preliminary talks with Bard's president, Leon Botstein in July 2009.

The merger with Bard College in June 2011 established a Master of Arts in Teaching in Music degree program, located in Los Angeles, California. The program is based on the tenets of the Venezuelan movement of social empowerment through music education known as El Sistema. The Los Angeles Philharmonic is also a partner in the MAT program, with hands-on teacher training taking place at the LA Phil's premier El Sistema-inspired site, Heart of Los Angeles (YOLA). The Master of Arts in Teaching in Music was created in association with Take a Stand, a partnership between Longy, Bard, and the LA Phil that was formed to promote and support the El Sistema-inspired music education movement throughout the US.

Zabriskie House
Longy's original home in Cambridge is the Edwin Abbot House, a well-appointed landmark building originally designed by Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow. As is the case with the firm's designs for Cambridge City Hall, the house's extensive Richardsonian detailing, and winding open stair, recall two of the partners' previous work in the office of legendary Boston architect, H. H. Richardson. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. The structure now holds rooms for teaching, administration, performance and practice. Following the construction of Pickman Hall in 1970 (see below), Longy began a program in the 1990s to add facilities and renovate existing ones. The program included construction of the Bakalar Music Library, which opened in 1992; acquisition and restoration of the Rey-Waldstein Building; and renovation and expansion of the Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall.

The Rey-Waldstein Building
In 1998, Longy purchased a new building at 33 Garden Street to add further performance and practice space as well as classrooms and offices. Originally built in 1905, and renovated by Longy in 2005, the historic structure is now named in honor of Margaret Rey and H.A. Rey, the creators of Curious George, along with longtime supporters of Longy, and Margaret Rey’s parents, Felix and Gertrude Waldstein. In 2006, the Cambridge Historical Commission recognized Longy with a Preservation Award for the quality of its restoration and renovation, designed by Wolf Architects of Boston. In addition to providing universal access into the building, Longy restored the original polychromatic exterior, improved the public spaces, and, among other renovations, provided attractive new lounge space and practice rooms in the basement.

Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
The Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, built in 1970, is Longy School of Music of Bard College's primary performance space. Named in honor of Edward M. Pickman, president of the board of trustees from 1955 to 1959, the 300-seat birch-lined hall provides a setting for masterclasses, and solo and chamber performances. The addition to the historic Abbot House was designed by Huygens and Tappe. Its juxtaposition of abstract contemporary volumes of brick and stone, with the historic masonry forms of the Abbot House, has been admired over the decades as a model combination of old and new. The completion of a renovation in 1993 was marked with a concert that included the world premiere of Howard Frazin's Amid a Crowd of Stars. In 2010, Longy undertook another round of renovations to fine-tune the Hall's acoustics, expand the lobby, and create a new entrance pavilion. Over 250 concerts now take place in Pickman Hall each year, many of which are free and open to the public.

Academics
Through its conservatory, Longy School of Music of Bard College offers two four-year undergraduate programs: Undergraduate Diploma, and Bachelor of Music Degree (the latter in conjunction with Emerson College). At graduate level, the school offers two two-year programs: Master of Music Degree, and Graduate Performance Diploma.

Longy launched a fully online Master of Music in Music Education degree program (MM/ME) designed especially for educators who seek an advanced degree without taking time off from their careers.

Notable alumni
Notable former students and alumni of Longy School of Music of Bard College include:
 * Elliott Carter (composer)
 * Schuyler Chapin (former General Manager New York Metropolitan Opera, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts)
 * Alexandra du Bois (composer)
 * Ralph Farris (violist, violinist, composer, and conductor)
 * Robert Freeman (pianist, musicologist, and long time director of the Eastman School of Music)
 * Ashley Hall-Tighe (trumpet)
 * Anton Kuerti (pianist, music teacher and composer)
 * Noël Lee (pianist)
 * Janice Lourie (computer scientist and graphic artist)
 * Susana Naidich (singer, musicologist, phonologist, voice teacher, and speech-language pathologist)
 * Dmitri Nabokov (opera singer and translator)
 * Jean Papineau-Couture (composer)
 * Daniel Pinkham (composer, organist, and harpsichordist)
 * Greg Sandow (music critic, composer)
 * Polyna Savridi (soprano)

Notable faculty
Notable faculty at Longy include:
 * Kenneth Amis (tuba player)
 * Anne Azéma (voice, early music)
 * Laura Anne Bossert (violinist and violist)
 * Phoebe Carrai (baroque cellist)
 * Jonathan Cohler (clarinetist)
 * Pamela Dellal (voice and diction)
 * Isaiah Jackson (conductor)
 * John Howell Morrison (composer)
 * Kenneth Radnofsky (classical saxophonist)
 * Jayne West (soprano)

Past faculty have included:
 * Olga Averino (soprano and vocal pedagogue)
 * Charlie Banacos (jazz and improvisation)
 * E. Power Biggs (organist)
 * Nadia Boulanger (composer, conductor, and music theorist)
 * Sarah Caldwell (conductor and opera company director)
 * John Ernest Cook (composer and organist)
 * Edward Downes (musicologist and critic)
 * Thomas Meglioranza (baritone)
 * Walter Piston (composer and music theorist)
 * Eric Rosenblith (violinist)
 * Peter Serkin (pianist)
 * Roman Totenberg (violinist)
 * Pacifica Quartet (Visiting Artists in Chamber Music)
 * Nicholas Van Slyck (composer)

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Who I Am
I'm Nat Guy. I live in Washington, D.C., and am a senior at Georgetown University, where I study Japanese and Computer Science. Next year I'll most likely be doing something fun.

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Ultima: Escape from Mt. Drash

Ultima: Escape from Mt. Drash is a role-playing video game published for the VIC-20 home computer by Sierra On-Line in 1983.

Gameplay and plot
In the game, creatures called "garrintrots" have imprisoned the player in Mt. Drash, and the player's task is to escape the dungeons.

The game itself is a very simple series of three-dimensional randomly generated dungeons, and the idea is to destroy all monsters that stand in way and exit to the next level. There is a time limit as well. The game doesn't employ custom graphics, but rather uses the VIC-20's standard set of graphical characters to draw the game scene.

The game was also notable for its soundtrack; using the 4-voice sound capabilities of the MOS Technology VIC video chip in the VIC-20 to provide background music. Very few games written for the VIC-20 featured such a background soundtrack that would become commonplace in games for the Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, etc.

The source code was written in VIC-BASIC, with assembly language routines for faster animation of graphics and to handle the background music. Unlike most of the more popular VIC-20 games, it wasn't published as a ROM cartridge but rather on cassette tape. Due to the complexity of the source code and the unusual (by VIC-20 standards) length of the game, as well as the fact that unlike a cartridge game all of it had to fit in RAM, an 8 K or 16 K RAM memory expansion cartridge was required to be installed in the VIC-20 before running the game, further limiting the target audience.

Copy protection consisted of the and  keys on the VIC-20 keyboard being disabled (to prevent "breaking in" to the BASIC code), as well as the original cassette being recorded and mastered in a way which made duplicating on a dual-cassette deck troublesome.

The game itself doesn't tie in to the Ultima series in too many ways. Both have a fantasy setting, Mt. Drash is the name of a dungeon in Ultima I, and the name "garrintrots" is an obvious pun on Richard Garriott's surname; but there the similarity ends.

Development
The game was written by Keith Zabalaoui for Sierra On-Line in 1983. Sierra, which had published Ultima II, named the game an Ultima to improve its sales. Richard Garriott gave permission to the company and Zabalaoui—a friend who had worked on previous games for him—to do so. Sierra was skeptical of the game's appeal given the declining VIC-20 market and need for memory expansion, and only manufactured the few thousand copies needed to meet contractual requirements, with one advertisement in the July 1983 Compute! describing it as "A real-time, fantastic adventure" and part of the SierraVenture series. Sierra even denied the game ever existed, until Zabalaoui confirmed it actually was finished and was shipped to retailers. Further proof can be found in the Sierra On-Line Consumer Price List for First Quarter 1984 where the game is listed at $19.95 with a stock number of 40245202. Approximately 3000 units were made, though exact numbers are not available.

A lot of the details surrounding the game were very vague. It was believed the game was a cartridge, when it was released for the Datasette. One of the rumors about the game was that Sierra sold a minimal number of the games, enough to break even, then buried the remaining stock at the foot of a mountain, similar to the Atari video game burial. A retailer near Vancouver, B.C. dumped unsold software over a cliff, and this is where one of the only known complete copies were eventually found. Many falsely believed that Sierra named the game Ultima without Garriott's knowledge or authorization.

Legacy
In recent years, the game has been extremely sought after by collectors. First copies of the game were discovered and announced in 2000. The first online auction of a copy was in September 2003. Since then, there have been some very rare sightings, but due to high demand, there have been quite a few counterfeit games on the market. The first complete, rediscovered copy of the game sold on eBay in March 2004 for US$3,605 to collector Peter Olafson. This copy was later purchased from Olafson by an Australian buyer who held onto it for a while and then sold again in 2015 to Erik Elsom from Spokane, Washington where it currently resides.

On 20 June 2009, another boxed copy (without manual) of the game was listed on eBay. The seller from Tucson, Arizona, had bought the game a decade earlier from a Commodore enthusiast, along with other games, and had it in his closet for ten years. Not knowing the extreme rarity of the game, he listed it on eBay at a starting bid of US$4.99. The extremely rare auction closed on 25 June 2009 with a final bid of US$1,875. There were a total of 31 bids; the winner of this auction was Enrico Ricciardi, an Italian Ultima collector.

On 11 June 2003, the game was ported to PC (under GPLv2 license) by Kasper Fauerby based on the original BASIC source code and some smaller binary reverse engineered parts. The original VIC-20 cassette is also available in a format suitable for VIC-20 emulators, although to detract from the greater likelihood of counterfeiting tapes, the TAP file (a recreation of the entire tape itself) has never been made available.

On 30 November 2017, a still-sealed boxed copy of the game was listed on eBay. The seller from North Canton, Ohio, listed it at a starting bid of US$949.95. The auction closed on 10 December 2017 after 30 bids, with a final bid of US$9,002 from a collector in Kirkland, Washington.

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1 Q?
Ya know how it says Holly only fired six shots? Well, she only fired 1 shot at Root. Therefore, she could have fired the other five into the motors.
 * I revamped the plot, there's nothing about that anymore. IceUnshattered (talk) 22:20, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Éire/Ireland
I have changed the 'country' of this novel from Éire to Ireland. According to the Wikipedia article "Éire": "The name [Éire] was given in Article 4 of the 1937 Irish constitution to the Irish state, created under the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, which was known between 1922 and 1937 as the Irish Free State. Article 4 stated that: "The name of the state is Éire, or, in the English language, Ireland." Article 8 states that Irish is the first official language.[1] Since 1949, the term Republic of Ireland has generally been used in preference to Éire, when speaking English." As this is an English-language encyclopedia, we should use the English-language name. Cdlw93 04:23, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

whole article
As with the plot summaries for books 2 and 3, this one is too long and poorly written. The section on the code also has some badly written bits. -144.132.24.90 10:28, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I know I'm replying after a year, but I just discovered this article and am working, paragraph by paragraph, to shorten the plot summary. IceUnshattered (talk) 20:50, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Continuity Errors
In the 3rd book Butler made the video disk while the group was in Chicago, and Artemis changed Mulch's warrant later. There are no continuity errors, edit needed? 68.200.64.170 (talk) 01:25, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Um...I can't remember. For now I'll comment it out, and hopefully I will look at it over the weekend, given that my teachers don't decide to load me with homework. I c eUnshattered  [ t ] 01:52, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Cave
"After this, she progressed to trick Captain Holly Short and Commander Julius Root into a cave, where she straps a bomb onto Root's chest."

I have changed 'cave' to 'magma chute', but I feel that it needs a better description. If somebody could think of one, it would be much appreciated.
 * I've revamped that whole section. I don't think anything about the magma chute is there anymore. IceUnshattered (talk) 22:11, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Spoilers and Intro
Where's the spoiler warning and why is the first bit, the intro before the plot section, in italics?
 * First of all, sign your posts with four tildes ( ~ ), please! Thank you. About the spoiler warning, Content disclaimer clearly states across the top that "Wikipedia contains spoilers and content you may find objectionable". Also, Spoiler states that "Therefore, Wikipedia carries no spoiler warnings except for the Content disclaimer and section headings (such as "Plot" or "Ending") which clearly indicate the presence of spoilers." Since the spoilers are all in the section labelled "Plot", I deem a spoiler warning unnecessary. What's in italics? I don't see anything; maybe it was reverted. IceUnshattered (talk) 22:09, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Cover Gallery
Is the gallery of different covers really necessary? IceUnshattered (talk) 22:39, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

 * I don't think it's necessary - and, more importantly, I think that cover galleries are generally considered to break the fair use image policy. So we should really remove it. -- KittyRainbow (talk) 17:20, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay. Thanks so much for your input. -goes to remove- IceUnshattered (talk) 19:36, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Code?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there also a version of the code that runs along the bottom of the page that is, and I quote, "A recruitment letter from the centaur Foaly, technical consultant to the Lower Elements," which can be found on the Gnommish page. Should there be something about this on the page? Ladywitchthought (talk) 06:57, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fisher & Hansen

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. 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. -- AllyUnion (talk) 15:58, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Fisher & Hansen
This seems too suspicious to pass up. I believe it may be vanity because the major editor has a similar name to the title of this 'article'. -- Riffsyphon1024 21:26, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. How can it be notable when "Fisher & Hansen was incorporated February 2005" (emphasis added) Zzyzx11 00:31, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, I also noticed that. It's still February right now. -- Riffsyphon1024 02:01, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, notability not established, possible vanity. Megan1967 01:51, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Untitled
The article needs mention of the battalion's critical role in the battle of Vimy Ridge, and sacrifice at Passchendale. Dawson should be in a separate article, not the focus of this one.

Transmutation
I unlinked the word "transmutation" because I don't know what was meant. It might mean "transmission". It might mean "mutation" or "evolution". It can't be transmutation of species, because that's a pre-Darwinian theory. — Randall Bart (talk) 18:28, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

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Devonport High School for Boys

Devonport High School for Boys is an 11–18 boys grammar school and academy in Plymouth, Devon, England. It has around 1,150 boys, and its catchment area includes southwest Devon and southeast Cornwall as well as Plymouth. Pupils are accepted on the basis of academic aptitude.

The school catchment area draws boys from a wide area extending beyond Plymouth, with the numbers of boys being entitled to free school meals being well below average. The proportion of boys attending the school from minority ethnic groups is below the national average, although there are a number who speak English as an additional language.

School history
The school was founded by Alonzo Rider on Albert Road, Stoke, Devonport, on 16 January 1896 to meet the needs of boys in Devonport and the surrounding area who sought a career in the Royal Navy, as engineers and civil servants. In 1906, the Devonport Borough Council took over the school and over the next thirty years it continued to teach boys who came from the city or in by train from the Tamar Valley and Cornwall. Old Boys went on to careers both locally and nationally – and especially in the MoD.

In 1941 the school was evacuated to Penzance because of World War II and in 1945 returned to the present site, the former Stoke Military Hospital on Paradise Road, which had been built in 1797. A book by former student and teacher Henry Whitfeld called A Torch in Flame, chronicles the history of the school from its founding to the death of headmaster Dr Cresswell in 1974. Since 1904, there has also been an annual school magazine made by pupils with the purpose of keeping students, parents and Old Boys informed about developments and information concerning the school, although this has never been well-publicised or documented.

The school has held specialist Engineering status since 2002, and was awarded High Performing Secondary Schools for specialisms for languages in 2007 and Applied Learning in 2009.

Academic attainment
In 2002, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) designated the school as one of the first four specialist engineering colleges in England. In 2006, it was judged to be a High Performing Specialist School (HPSS) and rebid successfully for a second 4-year period of Engineering Specialism. In April 2007, it took up a second specialism in languages. After the OFSTED inspection in October 2007, the school successfully gained redesignation for Engineering and, with its HPSS status re-affirmed, successfully applied a third specialism "Applied Learning" which commenced during 2009. This specialism encouraged subject teaching to make reference to relevance in the world of work.

The school was inspected again in February 2011, and was designated as an "Outstanding" school, paving the way for the school's conversion to "Type Two" Academy Status in early March 2011, under the Coalition Government's Academy scheme. The school's academic performance can be assessed on the UK government's DfES website.

The 2011 OFSTED report for Devonport High School for Boys concluded that attainment of boys across the school was "consistently high", further highlighting that "all groups of students, including those who have special educational needs and/or disabilities enjoy their learning and respond well to the varied learning activities offered to them. Current achievement is excellent throughout the school for all groups of students. Most make much better-than-expected progress towards their personal targets". Pupils in the Sixth Form at the school were said to achieve "outstanding results", with teaching across the school being at least good and often outstanding.

School houses

Until the merger with Tamar High School at the end of the 1980s there were three 'forms' of pupils who were separate during their first three years, then began to mix as they opted into different subjects (North, South and West or N, S and W). Forms after O-Levels or GCSEs were also somewhat disrupted into new tutor groups each year. The merger with Tamar generated a new form of mixed pupils from both schools: East.

Actual 'houses' being more sport-oriented or social, took longer to coalesce. Before the 2009 changes these were Drake, Raleigh, Gilbert and Grenville. Since 2009 there have been six: Campbell, Edison, Newton, Priestley, Smeaton and Winstanley. However, the school is currently going through a process to change the house system in order to allow for a seventh house, which will be represented by a silver colour. The names of the new houses are yet to be revealed.

The houses continue to compete each year for the St Levan's Shield, i.e. relating to west Cornwall, and also St Levan Road, which is the boundary between Stoke and the new working suburb of Devonport, Keyham, Plymouth which had been built of the reclaimed Keyham Creek.

School buildings
Based within what was once the Stoke Military Hospital, the school buildings and blocks are all named after notable people with links to Plymouth. The names of these buildings are shortened to their initial for the designation of classroom numbers. Blocks A–E are all connected via an arched colonnade and balcony, while Blocks A and F are connected via an enclosed bridge.

Uzel House
The school had a residential centre in the French town of Uzel in Brittany. This offered pupils the opportunity for work experience with local companies as well as the chance to improve their French and enjoy activities like horseriding and canoeing. The house was bought for the token amount of 1 Franc in 1991, from the Mayor of Uzel. From opening in 1992, until its closure in 2009 over 250 boys visited the house each year. The Friday Choir also took pupils from two other Plymouth grammar schools, Plymouth High School for Girls and Devonport High School for Girls, to Uzel for an opportunity to sing to the locals. These, and many other Friday Choir tours, were organised by music teacher Trefor K Farrow. Mr Farrow joined DHSB in 1965 and completed his fortieth and final year in 2006. In 2010 there were concerns about the House's long term sustainability as a result of the recession. Ownership of the house was lost during the tenure of Kieran Earley.

Head Teachers

 * 1896–1906: AJ Rider
 * 1906–1932: AF Treseder
 * 1933–1941: HAT Simmonds
 * 1942–1948: WH Buckley
 * 1949–1953: SB Barker
 * 1953–1974: JL Cresswell
 * 1975–1993: JGW Peck
 * 1993–2008: NM Pettit (Nic Pettit)
 * 2008–2015: KJ Earley
 * 2015–present: DJJ Roberts

Notable former pupils
Notable alumni include:
 * Ben Cross, actor, Chariots of Fire
 * Roger Davies, Chairman of Going Places from 1994 to 1997, and Thomson Holidays from 1984 to 1990
 * John Dyson, Ambassador to Montenegro from 2006 to 2007
 * Alfred Eddy, Professor of Biochemistry at UMIST from 1959 to 1994
 * David Felwick CBE, Deputy Chairman of John Lewis Partnership from 2002 to 2004
 * Richard Foster CBE, Chief Executive of the CPS from 2002 to 2007
 * Donald Hamley, diplomat
 * Sir Martin Harris CBE, Vice-Chancellor of University of Essex from 1987 to 1992, Vice-Chancellor of University of Manchester from 1992 to 2004 and President of Clare Hall, Cambridge
 * Stephen Hiscock, High Commissioner to Guyana and Ambassador to Suriname from 2002 to 2006
 * Rear-Adm Terence Loughran CB, Commander of HMS Ark Royal from 1993 to 1994
 * Christopher Murphy, Conservative MP for Welwyn Hatfield from 1979 to 1987
 * Sir Austin Pearce CBE (1921–2004), former chairman of British Aerospace from 1980 to 1987 and chairman of the trustees of the Science Museum, who captained DHSB's athletics and rugby teams during his time there. Also Chairman of Esso UK from 1972 to 1980 and President of the Institute of Petroleum from 1968 to 1970.
 * Tim Thornton, Church of England bishop
 * Ian Trigger, film and stage actor

title: Devonport High School for Boys


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Loch Treig

Loch Treig is a deep freshwater loch situated in a steep-sided glen 20km east of Fort William, in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland. While there are no roads alongside the loch, the West Highland Line follows its eastern bank.

Loch Treig was originally a natural freshwater loch over 400 feet deep. In 1929, Loch Treig was made into a reservoir, retained behind the Treig Dam, forming part of the Lochaber hydro-electric scheme, which required diversion of the West Highland Railway. The increase in water level following the construction of the dam submerged the hamlets of Kinlochtreig and Creaguaineach at the loch's southern end, which were stopping points on a cattle drovers' road along the Road to the Isles, which linked up Lochaber and the Inner Hebrides to markets in Perthshire in the south.

Ken Smith (b. 1947), a self-described hermit, has lived alone in a rough cabin on the shore of Loch Treig for forty years. He was profiled in the documentary The Hermit of Treig (2022), and wrote the memoir The Way of the Hermit (2023). Laura Miller opined in 2024, he "may be the most famous living hermit in Great Britain".

title: Loch Treig