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John Jacob Rhodes

John Jacob Rhodes Jr. (September 18, 1916 – August 24, 2003) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, Rhodes served as a U.S. Representative from Arizona for thirty years from 1953 to 1983. He was the minority leader in the House of Representatives from 1973 to 1981 and pressed a conservative agenda.

Early life
Rhodes was born in Council Grove, Kansas. He met Calvin Coolidge when Rhodes was eleven years old and, after shaking hands with the president, reportedly refused to wash his hand for a week. He attended public schools and in 1938 graduated from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and also earned his U.S. Army Reserve commission via the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC). In 1941, he graduated from Harvard Law School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was called to active duty with the United States Army Air Corps, later redesignated the United States Army Air Forces.

Career
He served at Williams Field, Arizona, from 1941 to 1946. After the war, he chose to settle in Arizona with his wife, Elizabeth. From 1947 to 1952, he was the staff judge advocate of the Arizona Air National Guard, and from 1951 to 1952, he served as vice chairman of the Arizona Board of Public Welfare.

Political career
In 1950, Rhodes ran for Attorney General of Arizona as a Republican. His friend, Barry Goldwater, correctly predicted that Rhodes would lose; at that time, Arizona was over seventy-five percent Democratic. In 1952, Rhodes ran again, this time for Arizona's 1st congressional district, which then had all of Phoenix and surrounding Maricopa County. Despite limited campaign funds and facing the powerful eleven-term Democratic incumbent, John Murdock, Rhodes prevailed by eight percent of the vote and was elected to the Eighty-third United States Congress. He was the first Republican ever elected to represent Arizona in the House. Additionally, he was a member of the Arizona delegation to several Republican National Conventions, Barry Goldwater's personal representative on the Platform Committee in 1964, chairman of the Platform Committee in 1972, and Permanent Chairman of the Convention in 1976 and 1980.

Rhodes remained in office for thirty consecutive years (January 3, 1953–January 3, 1983), serving in the 83rd to 97th Congresses. His committee assignments included the following: Education and Labor (1953 – 1959); Interior and Insular Affairs (1953 – 1959); Appropriations, on which he became ranking minority member of the Public Works and Defense Subcommittees (1959 – 1973); Budget (1974 – 1975); Rules (1981 – 1983); and was chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee (1965 – 1973). Rhodes was elected by acclamation to be House Minority Leader on December 7, 1973, succeeding Gerald Ford when Ford became Vice President. However, House Republicans became unhappy with his strong but low-key leadership, and in 1979, he announced he would not seek re-election as leader. Minority Whip Bob Michel replaced him in 1981, but Rhodes remained in the House for that Congress, which he later termed a mistake.

Over the years, Rhodes became very popular in his district even though many of its residents had never been represented by a Republican before. He fended off a close contest for reelection in 1954 but was not seriously challenged again until 1974, when anger at Watergate held him to only 51 percent of the vote. His district became even safer after a mid-decade redistricting in 1966 cut it back to the fast-growing and strongly-conservative East Valley, including his home in Mesa.

Rhodes' biggest two accomplishments in Congress were being the driving force behind congressional authorization of the Central Arizona Project, which provides water from the Colorado River to Arizona, and his presence at the August 7, 1974 meeting with President Richard Nixon at which he, Goldwater, and Senator Hugh Scott informed Nixon that the President no longer had enough support in Congress to prevent his impeachment and removal from office. (The President announced his resignation the next day.) Rhodes voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960,   as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Rhodes voted against the initial House resolution for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on February 10, 1964, but voted in favor of the Senate amendment to the bill on July 2, 1964. Rhodes voted in favor of the House resolution for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 on August 16, 1967, but voted against the Senate amendment to the bill on April 10, 1968.

Rhodes himself had maintained his support for the president until the release of the "smoking gun" tape. Saying that "coverup of criminal activity and misuse of federal agencies cannot be condoned or tolerated," Rhodes said that he would vote to impeach Nixon when the articles came up for vote in the full House. In short order, all ten Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee announced they would follow suit and vote for impeachment on the full House floor. According to his obituary in The Washington Post, the decision of the House leader of Nixon's own party to break with Nixon and support impeachment was the "coup de grace" for Nixon.

Book
In 1976, Rhodes wrote a book, The Futile System: How to Unchain Congress and Make the System Work Again, which argued that effective Congressional reforms "cannot be accomplished by the majority party.... The ins have little incentive to change. It is the outs -- the powerless minority -- who have the only real motivation to take a critical look at the system and determine a better way to run things."

Retirement
Rhodes retired from Congress at 66. Though still popular in his home district, Rhodes reasoned that "if [he were] ever going to do something else, [he] should get started doing it." His retirement opened the door to a hotly-contested Republican primary, which was won by John McCain in 1982. McCain went on to victory in November and would be elected to the Senate four years later.

Later life
After leaving Congress, Rhodes maintained an apartment in Bethesda, Maryland, to which he commuted from his home in Mesa. He practiced law in the Washington office of the Richmond, Virginia-based firm of Hunton & Williams. He also traveled extensively, worldwide; was a board member of the Taft Institute for Government and the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution, and Peace; and served on the board of and was elected president of the United States Association of Former Members of Congress.

On August 14, 2003, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert awarded Rhodes one of the first Congressional Distinguished Service Medals. Rhodes, one of only a handful to obtain the award, remarked to Hastert that the speaker was the only job that Rhodes had ever really wanted.

Personal life
In 1942, Rhodes was married to Elizabeth ("Betty") Harvey.

He died at his home, surrounded by family, on August 24, 2003, from complications related to cancer. He was survived by his wife of sixty-one years, Betty; the children John Jacob ("Jay") III, Thomas, Elizabeth, and James Scott ("Scott"); twelve grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren. Over 100 newspapers carried his obituary, and President George W. Bush delivered a statement via the White House's website.

Rhodes Junior High School, in Mesa, Arizona, is named in his honor. The CAP Hayden-Rhodes Aqueduct was also named after him due to his part in its creation.

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Jihan El-Tahri

Jihan El-Tahri (ﺟﻬﺎﻥ ﺍلطاهري; born in Beirut, Lebanon) is a writer, director and producer of documentary films. She is a French and Egyptian national.

In 1984, she received her BA in political science, and in 1986 her MA in political science from the American University in Cairo. She worked as a news correspondent with U.S. News & World Report and Reuters, TV researcher, and associate producer in Tunisia, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Algeria, and Egypt between 1984 and 1990. As a correspondent, El-Tahri covered politics in the Middle East.

In 1990, El-Tahri started directing and producing documentaries for French television, and for the BBC since 1995. In 1992 she filmed Osama bin Laden's training camps in Sudan. She also provided professional support on four of the Steps for the Future films in 2001. The documentary, The House of Saud, appeared on the BBC in 2004 and on PBS in 2005. Her most recent documentary, 'Behind the Rainbow', was screened during the 53rd BFI London Film Festival in 2009.

She also worked with Ahron Bregman, an Israeli historian, on The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs in 1998.

Works

 * The Koran and the Kalashnikov
 * L'Afrique en morceaux (2000)
 * The Price of Aid/Les maux de la faim (2003)
 * The House of Saud (2004)
 * Cuba, an African Odyssey (2007)
 * Behind the Rainbow (2009)
 * Egypt's Modern Pharaohs (2015)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Walter Hartwell-James

 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 NO CONSENSUS. dbenbenn | talk 15:38, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Walter Hartwell-James
This page is a dup of article Walter James. The title incorrectly conjoins James' middle name and surname. Article Walter James is a high quality article, and it pretty much covers everything in the dup. Hesperian 01:56, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, someone may have been trying some sort of vanity tie-in or whatever... dupe. Wyss 02:09, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * The contributor is a well-behaved wikicitizen. I think this is an innocent mistake. Hesperian 02:38, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * The contributor is an anon IP with less than 50 edits to his name. I think maybe you thought I contributed the article. I didn't; I only added cleanup and category tags to it after it was created. My apologies anyway, though -- I'd actually have speedied it instead of tagging if I'd known it was a duplicate. Bearcat 03:40, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I was speaking of the anon IP. The contributer seems to be focussed on making Hale School a great article, and making sure every famous person who ever went to Hale School is recognised as such.   Despite the single-minded focus, previous edits have been valid contributions. Hesperian 23:34, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * delete, with the reservation that if information is present in the deleted article but not the "original", that it be preserved. Avriette Thu Feb 10 02:43:30 GMT 2005
 * Merge and redirect to Walter James. Megan1967 06:29, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge. This is not a case for VfD. Be bold! Mikkalai 07:00, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Thankyou Mikkalai - I have been bold. Walter Hartwell-James has been merged into Walter James.  Walter Hartwell-James is now a redirect (which doesn't work because it still has subst:vfd in it).  You may wish to consider the matter closed, and remove this VFD.  Or you might wish to continue this VFD, in which case you will be voting for/against the deletion of a redirect. Hesperian 00:20, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * There's a separate discussion area at Redirects for deletion, if you want to continue the debate on this as it now stands. Bearcat 03:12, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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


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 * The vote was 5-to-2 to delete. I therefore turned the page into a User page and turned this article into a disambig page which was clearly indicated given the other individuals who are more noteworthy (they didn't after all, add themselves a Wikipedia article).  This also follows the precedent of many other vanity pages.  Daniel Quinlan 08:39, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Potassium sodium tartrate

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Toxicity
Since this compound is often used by students in crystal growing experiments, some mention of toxicity would be good. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grumpyoldgeek (talk • contribs) 15:35, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Both + ions together?
Jmol 3D (by SMILES) has both ions on the same side, while the top graph has them on opposite sides in the molecule. I'd say SMILES is wrong. -DePiep (talk) 18:24, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Ferroelectric properties
The fact rochelle salt is ferroelectric over a certain range of temperatures (253 to 298 K). And the related fact that it has two curie points (which is quite unusual), should be mentioned in the article. OrganoMetallurgy (talk) 23:29, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

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The Doris Day Show

The Doris Day Show is an American sitcom which was originally broadcast on CBS from September 1968 until March 1973, remaining on the air for five seasons and 128 episodes.

The series is remembered for its multiple format and cast changes over the course of its five-year run. The show is also notable for Day's statement, in her autobiography Doris Day: Her Own Story (1975), that her husband Martin Melcher had signed her to do the series without her knowledge, a fact she only discovered when Melcher died of heart disease on April 20, 1968. (He also received credit on the series as "executive producer" during its initial season.)

Season 1 (1968–1969)
Day portrays Doris Martin, a widowed mother of young sons Billy and Toby (Philip Brown and Todd Starke). As the series begins, she has brought her boys home to her father's rural ranch in Mill Valley, north of San Francisco, California, after living in New York City for most of her adult life.

Other characters during this initial phase of the program include Doris's father Buck Webb (Denver Pyle) and their naïve hired ranch hand, LeRoy B. Simpson (James Hampton). Their housekeeper initially is Aggie Thompson (Fran Ryan, who left after the first 10 episodes to replace Barbara Pepper as Doris Ziffel in Green Acres). The character left without explanation and was replaced by Juanita (Naomi Stevens). Lord Nelson is also included in the opening credits cast as Lord Nelson, the family's sheepdog.

Season 2 (1969–1970)
Doris begins to commute from the ranch to San Francisco, where she starts working as an executive secretary at Today's World magazine. New workplace characters are added: McLean Stevenson (who would later leave the series to star in M*A*S*H) plays her boss, Today's World editor Michael Nicholson, who is often referred to as 'Nick' by the other magazine executives; Rose Marie plays Doris' friend Myrna Gibbons, a fellow secretary at the magazine; Paul Smith portrays Ron Harvey, the magazine's assistant-editor and Myrna's boss. Pyle, Brown, and Starke remain regular cast members, while Hampton appears in only one episode, his character now married and owning a gas station in Mill Valley. Lord Nelson still appears uncredited as the family sheepdog in most episodes this season. The ranch no longer has a housekeeper, and no ranch hand was hired to replace LeRoy.

Season 3 (1970–1971)
Doris tires of the commute between her work and the ranch and relocates herself, the boys, and the dog to San Francisco, where they rent an apartment above an Italian restaurant owned and operated by married couple Louie and Angie Pallucci (Bernie Kopell and Kaye Ballard). At first Louie is angry with Angie for renting the apartment to a widow with children and a large pet, but he eventually cherishes their new tenants after Billy and Toby praise his pizza. Angie also becomes one of Doris' best friends. Doris begins writing articles for the magazine under the auspices of Mr. Harvey, the assistant editor, but is still mainly a secretary. All of the regular characters from the previous season remain, with the exception of Pyle's Buck, who appears in only two episodes; no episodes from Season 3 onward take place on his ranch. (Pyle, however, remains on the show's staff behind the scenes, serving as a frequent episode director.) Hampton's character LeRoy appears in only one episode; he now lives in Montana and travels the rodeo circuit to raise the money to buy his own ranch. In this season Doris' nemesis, Willard Jarvis (Billy De Wolfe), moves in next door, causing trouble for her and her family in a few episodes. Lord Nelson again is not included in the opening credits cast list, but appears uncredited in a handful of episodes this season.

Seasons 4–5 (1971–1973)
The fourth season sees a radical change in the series. Day's character suddenly becomes a swinging single career woman who goes by Miss instead of Mrs. The entire cast from previous seasons, other than Day herself and occasionally the Palluccis, is gone; even Doris Martin's two sons are no longer in the cast with no explanation given, and are never referred to again. Doris Martin, still working for Today's World, now has a new editor, Cy Bennett, played by John Dehner, and she is now a full-time staff writer, and later an associate editor. Jackie Joseph joins the cast as Doris' friend and Cy's secretary at the magazine, Jackie Parker. Doris lives in the same apartment and the Palluccis, Angie in particular, are still on hand in the fourth season. In season 5, there is no mention of the Palluccis owning the building; the estate of the owner, an elderly man named Mr. Carter, sells the building after Carter's death to Doris' sometimes-nemesis, Mr. Jarvis, which initially alarms Doris, but she and the other tenants eventually accept him. In Season 4, Doris begins a romance with Dr. Peter Lawrence (Peter Lawford), which lasts until late into Season 5. That relationship is followed by one with old boyfriend Jonathan Rusk (Patrick O'Neal). The series continued with this format until Doris Day left the show choosing not to renew her five-year contract in 1973. Day placed a one-paragraph statement in Variety saying more or less, "Television is not the be all end all".

Change in premise
The Doris Day Show was a family-based sitcom for its first three seasons. The drastic premise change for season four in 1971 may be attributed to the overall change in CBS's programming philosophy, with the network canceling many rural-based and family programs, and replacing them with more urban, adult-oriented programs.

Main cast

 * Doris Day as Doris Martin
 * Philip Brown as Billy Martin (Seasons 1–3)
 * Todd Starke as Toby Martin (Seasons 1–3)
 * Denver Pyle as Buck Webb (Seasons 1–2, recurring Season 3)
 * Lord Nelson as Lord Nelson (Seasons 1–2, recurring Season 3)
 * James Hampton as LeRoy B. Simpson (Season 1, recurring Seasons 2–3)
 * Fran Ryan as Aggie Thompson (first ten episodes of Season 1)
 * Naomi Stevens as Juanita (last eighteen episodes of Season 1)
 * McLean Stevenson as Michael 'Nick' Nicholson (Seasons 2–3)
 * Rose Marie as Myrna Gibbons (Seasons 2–3)
 * Paul Smith as Ron Harvey (Seasons 2–3)
 * Bernie Kopell as Louie Pallucci (Season 3, recurring Season 4)
 * Kaye Ballard as Angie Pallucci (Season 3, recurring Season 4)
 * Billy DeWolfe as Willard Jarvis (recurring Seasons 2–5)
 * John Dehner as Cyril Bennett (Seasons 4–5)
 * Jackie Joseph as Jackie Parker (Seasons 4–5)
 * Peter Lawford as Dr. Peter Lawrence (recurring Seasons 4–5)

Other notable cast
A number of other actors appeared in notable storylines covering several episodes sometimes over multiple seasons.
 * Strother Martin as Tyrone Lovey (Season 1), an unscrupulous poacher and junk dealer
 * Edward Andrews as Colonel Fairburn (Seasons 2–5), publisher of Today's World
 * Larry Storch as Duke Farentino (Seasons 2–3), a boxer turned wannabe nightclub headliner
 * Lew Ayres as William Tyler (Seasons 2–3), a reclusive billionaire businessman
 * Johnny Haymer as Montagne (Seasons 2–3), a Parisian couturier
 * Carol Worthington as Ethel Weber (Season 3), Doris's kooky friend who often acted as Billy and Toby's sitter (Worthington portrayed several other minor characters in the series prior to the Ethel Weber character)
 * Van Johnson as Charlie Webb (Seasons 3–4), Doris's free-spirited cousin
 * Jon Cypher as Sir Robert Kingsley (Seasons 4–5), a British knight and author, who was one of Doris's love interests
 * Patrick O'Neal as Jonathan Rusk (Season 5), Doris's old boyfriend, aspiring politician, fellow journalist and another of her current love interests

Opening title and credits
The opening sequence features Day singing a rerecorded version of the Livingston & Evans song, "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)." The song had been introduced by Day in the 1956 Alfred Hitchcock suspense film The Man Who Knew Too Much, in which she co-starred with James Stewart. Despite the opening montage of images changing from season to season, Day singing the song off screen during the opening is the one constant over the entire course of the series, with a more family-oriented version (including a children's chorus) in Season 1 and a more adult contemporary version (with a stronger beat) in Seasons 4 and 5.

In the Season 1 opening title and credits, the cast members are seen in an outdoor, family-styled environment. Beyond the cast credits, which show each cast member individually (including Lord Nelson, the sheepdog), the sequence features primarily Doris' family frolicking together in a sunny lakeside meadow.

In the Season 2 opening title and credits, Doris is seen wearing a bright-yellow overcoat and matching rain hat leaving the ranch in her red convertible - Buck and the boys seeing her off - as she drives into San Francisco to go to work, which includes the show title displayed as she drives along a country highway, followed by her driving over the Golden Gate Bridge. It then moves into a sequence of her first driving down one of the hilly streets of the city, followed by general shots of the city (some including Doris), then the cast credits, where Buck and the boys are shown in an outdoor farm environment (Lord Nelson is no longer included), while the Today's World staff members are seen in the office. The opening sequence ends with Doris as a pedestrian on the city streets supposedly rushing off to work. This is interspersed with a sequence of Doris getting off a San Francisco cable car followed by her hopping across an intersection crosswalk (the cable car and hopping sequence is not part of this specific commute as she is wearing a red raincoat during it).

In the Season 3 opening title and credits, Doris is first seen running down the spiral staircase in her apartment, followed by a long shot of San Francisco itself over the show title. Much of the rest of the opening sequence is in the same style as Season 2, with the Today's World staff members now credited before Doris' sons, who are seen playing in an urban playground instead of on the ranch. Smith is now included in the opening credits; despite being frequent cast members, Kopell, Ballard, and De Wolfe are not.

In the Season 4 and Season 5 opening title and credits, the first half up to the cast credits is in much the same style as Season 3, except there are no longer children in the cast (only Day, Dehner, and Joseph are credited in the opening) and the cable car and hopping montage moved to before the cast credits. The end of the opening, following the cast credits, features Doris in a fashion show, modeling clothes. In the final episodes of Season 5, however, the credit montage changes. Instead of Day wearing the yellow pantsuit shown in the Season 3 and Season 4 openers, she wears a black frilled gown as she descends the staircase. This cuts to a shot of her from the Season 5 fashion show in which she wears a tan coat and holds a bouquet of purple flowers.

Home media
MPI Home Video has released all five seasons of The Doris Day Show on DVD in Region 1. Each DVD release contains extensive special features. In Region 2, Turbine Medien has released all eighteen available German episodes of the first and second season on DVD in Germany contains extensive special features. In Region 4, Umbrella Entertainment has released all five seasons on DVD in Australia. In 2009, all five seasons were re-released with slimmer packaging.

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The Catch (American football)

The Catch was the game-winning touchdown reception in the 1981 NFC Championship Game played between the Dallas Cowboys and the eventual Super Bowl XVI champion San Francisco 49ers at Candlestick Park on January 10, 1982, as part of the 1981-82 NFL playoffs. With 58 seconds left in the game, the 49ers faced 3rd down and 3 yards to gain on the Cowboys' 6-yard line. San Francisco wide receiver Dwight Clark made a leaping grab in the back of the end zone to complete a 6-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Joe Montana, enabling the 49ers to defeat the Cowboys, 28–27. The Catch is widely regarded as one of the greatest plays in National Football League (NFL) history. It came at the end of a 14-play, 83-yard game-winning drive engineered by Montana. The Catch symbolized the end of the Cowboys' domination in the NFC since the conference's inception in 1970, and the beginning of the 49ers' rise as an NFL dynasty in the 1980s.

First half
After San Francisco forced Dallas to punt on the opening drive, quarterback Joe Montana completed a 17-yard pass to Charle Young and a 24-yarder to Lenvil Elliott before throwing an 8-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Freddie Solomon. Dallas responded with Danny White's 20-yard pass to Butch Johnson setting up a 44-yard field goal by Rafael Septién. Then 49ers running back Bill Ring lost a fumble on his own 29, leading to White's 26-yard touchdown pass to Tony Hill that put the Cowboys up 10–7.

In the second quarter, San Francisco reached the Cowboys' 27-yard line, only to lose the ball when Everson Walls intercepted a pass from Montana in the end zone. After forcing a Dallas punt, Montana threw a 20-yard touchdown pass to Clark to retake the lead, 14–10. Dallas responded with an 80-yard drive, including a controversial pass interference penalty on 49ers defensive back Ronnie Lott which nullified his interception and gave the Cowboys a 35-yard gain to the San Francisco 12-yard line. Three plays later, running back Tony Dorsett scored a 5-yard rushing touchdown to give Dallas a 17–14 lead. The 49ers had another chance to score before halftime when they recovered a fumbled punt on the Dallas 42. After a 15-yard illegal block penalty on Clark, Montana lost a fumble while being sacked by Harvey Martin. The Cowboys fared no better as White was sacked twice on their next drive, once by Jim Stuckey and once by Lawrence Pillers, and the half ended soon after.

Second half
In the third quarter, San Francisco had another scoring opportunity when Dwight Hicks returned a punt 12 yards to midfield. The 49ers then drove to the Dallas 16-yard line, but once again they failed to score when Montana threw a pass that bounced out of Elliot's hands and was intercepted by Randy White. However, the Cowboys soon returned the favor with Danny White's interception to linebacker Bobby Leopold, and this time the 49ers converted, regaining the lead at 21–17 with a 2-yard touchdown run by running back Johnny Davis.

One minute into the fourth quarter, Septién kicked a 22-yard field goal that cut the scoring difference down to 1 point at 21–20. Then Walls recovered a fumble from running back Walt Easley at midfield to set up White's 21-yard touchdown pass to tight end Doug Cosbie, giving Dallas a 27–21 advantage. Things got even better for Dallas when Walls recorded his second interception from Montana on the next drive at the Cowboys 27. Dallas managed to pick up a few first downs, but were forced to punt, and White's kick gave San Francisco the ball at their own 11 with 4:54 left in the game and three timeouts.

49ers' final drive
Montana started the drive with 89 yards to reach the end zone. The drive began with an incomplete pass to Lenvil Elliot. Elliot then set up a third-and-four with a six-yard run. Montana completed a 6-yard pass to Freddie Solomon to get the first down, then handed off twice to Elliot who gained eleven and seven yards respectively, but dropped a second incomplete pass on second-and-three from their own 41-yard line. An offside penalty against the Cowboys on the next play gave Montana a fresh set of downs to work with, and Montana completed a 5-yard pass to Earl Cooper just before the 2-minute warning. Returning from the stoppage, Solomon gained 14 yards on a wide receiver reverse play to bring the ball over midfield into Cowboys territory at the 35-yard line. Montana completed two quick passes to Clark and Solomon respectively and the 49ers called a timeout with the ball on the Dallas 12. Montana launched his next pass into the end zone, but missed Solomon. On second-and-ten, Elliot ran the ball for six yards, to the Dallas six yard line, setting up a third and four for the 49ers, with a possible first down to be made at the 2-yard line and the ball spotted between the hashmarks as the team called their second timeout.

The play

The San Francisco 49ers lined up in a split backs formation, with Joe Montana under center. Wide receiver Freddie Solomon was lined up in the right slot, while Dwight Clark was outside of Solomon, wide to the right.

When Montana took the snap, the play, officially named in the 49ers playbook "Change Left Slot – Sprint Right Option", was intended to set up a quick pass to Solomon; earlier in the game, Solomon had scored a touchdown on the same play. Montana was supposed to roll to his right and find Solomon, who would run a short "square out" pattern that he would catch just past the first down marker, and either step out of bounds, giving the 49ers a fresh set of downs, or would turn upfield and score himself. Since Clark was lined up near Solomon, he was supposed to position himself to get in the way of Solomon's defender (known as a "pick" or "rub" play), and then release and head for the end zone on his own pattern, providing Montana with a second option. However, Solomon slipped while running his route, thus ruining the timing of the play, as Clark was no longer in position to impede Solomon's defender. As such, the Cowboys were able to cover Solomon perfectly. Making matters worse, the pass rush of the Cowboys collapsed the 49ers' offensive line. Three of the Cowboys' defenders, defensive ends Ed "Too Tall" Jones and Larry Bethea and linebacker D. D. Lewis, chased a backpedalling Montana toward the sideline, and seemed certain to either send him out of bounds or sack him. After his initial move, Clark's pattern called for him to cut diagonally left across the end zone, stop, and immediately reverse his path, running right along the back boundary of the end zone. Just before being chased out of bounds, and after a pump-fake caused the 6-foot 9-inch (206 cm) "Too Tall" Jones to leave his feet, Montana threw a high pass to the back of the end zone that seemed to be heading out of bounds until Clark, closely covered by Cowboys defender Everson Walls, made a leaping catch with his fingertips, and landed just in-bounds at the back right corner of the end zone to score the touchdown and tie the game with 51 seconds left. Despite the hurried and improvised look of the play on the field, it had mostly run according to plan. Because Solomon, the first option, was covered, Montana was supposed to look to Clark as his second option. Montana threw the ball to a location where only Clark could reach it; if he missed the catch it would have sailed harmlessly out of bounds. Being fairly tall himself, the 6-foot 4-inches (193 cm) Clark was able to use all of his length to jump and grab the ball with the tips of his fingers completing one of the most memorable plays in NFL history.

Closing out the game
The ensuing extra point by kicker Ray Wersching gave the 49ers a 28–27 lead. The game was not over, however, and the Cowboys quarterback Danny White had 51 seconds following a Wersching squib kick to move the ball 75 yards. On the first play from scrimmage, White hit Drew Pearson for a 31-yard reception, bringing the Cowboys over the midfield line and leaving them only 10 to 15 yards to reach field goal range. Pearson would have scored had defensive back Eric Wright not made a one-handed horse-collar tackle. After calling a timeout, White took the first down snap and was sacked by Lawrence Pillers, fumbling in the process. Jim Stuckey recovered the dropped ball, giving the 49ers offense possession near midfield, and allowing Montana to kneel down twice and run out the clock.

Clark finished the game with 8 catches for 120 yards and 2 touchdowns.

Reactions
A photograph of the catch by Walter Iooss, Jr., with Clark at the height of his leap and Everson Walls reaching out to try to block the ball, was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated the following week.

Some people claimed that Montana was trying to throw the ball away, leaving time for a fourth down. Clark disputes that assertion, claiming that it was a backup plan that they practiced many times. Montana confirmed that he could not see the end zone through the defenders, but claims that he knew exactly where Clark would be. The 49ers coach, Bill Walsh, assumed that it was a throw-away play and immediately began planning for the fourth down until he heard the cheers from the crowd.

As for the height of the catch, Montana has said that he didn't feel that he threw the ball very high. However, Clark leaped as high as he could only to get his fingertips on the ball. In the Sports Illustrated article, Montana explained that he never saw The Catch, since he had just been knocked to the ground by Jones, but "I saw Dwight's feet touch the ground. I heard the crowd scream." Later, in the locker room, he expressed his amazement at how high Clark had jumped.

According to Clark, Jones reacted to the play by stating "You just beat America's Team" to Montana after the pass was caught, to which Montana replied, "Well, you can sit at home with the rest of America and watch the Super Bowl."

Clark, while discussing The Catch in America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions documentary about the 1981 49ers, said:

It's humbling, really. I feel honored people are still talking about it, 25 years later. I am honored to be able to be a part of a play that was kind of the culmination of just this incredible surprise season. It's great to give 49er fans that moment that they can relive over and over and over, and I know they do because when I am in San Francisco and a lot of places, people want to talk about that play and how it crushed the Cowboys and sent them into submission for a decade. I never get tired of talking about it; I never get tired of seeing it, because I sign pictures and send them to people. I see that catch every day. I may sit and think about that moment couple of times a year, and how awesome it was to be a part of that play and to be a part of the 49ers in the '80s.

Broadcasting
The game was broadcast nationally in the United States by CBS. On television, Vin Scully called the play-by-play and Hank Stram did the color commentary. On radio, it was Jack Buck and Pat Summerall doing the play-by-play and color respectively. Local San Francisco radio station KCBS also provided their own broadcast, as they did for all 49ers games, with Don Klein and Wayne Walker providing the play-by-play and color respectively. Local Dallas radio station KRLD also provided their own broadcast, as they did for all Cowboys games, with Verne Lundquist and Brad Sham providing the play-by-play and color respectively. All four broadcasts featured memorable calls by the announcers. Vin Scully described the play on CBS Television: Meanwhile, Jack Buck had the call over on CBS Radio: Meanwhile, Don Klein called the play locally for the 49ers on KCBS: Finally, Verne Lundquist called the play locally for the Cowboys on KRLD:

Aftermath
This game was a watershed in the historic fortunes of both the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys. While the 49ers had begun the 1970s winning three consecutive NFC West titles (1970–1972) and losing two NFC Championship Games (1970-1971 seasons) to the Cowboys, they had spent the remainder of the decade as a losing team. After "The Catch", the 49ers went on to win Super Bowl XVI 26–21 over the Cincinnati Bengals. The 49ers made the playoffs eight out of the next ten seasons and won three more Super Bowls in the 1980s, becoming the NFLs best dynasty of the decade. 49ers quarterback Joe Montana went on to gain a reputation for his last-minute heroics, and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000, his first year of eligibility.

Meanwhile, the Cowboys, one of the most successful NFC teams in the 1970s with five Super Bowl appearances and two wins, never made it back to the Super Bowl in the 1980s. In the following season, the Cowboys reached their third straight NFC Championship Game, where they were defeated 31–17 by their archrival Washington Redskins. This ended a remarkable period that saw the Cowboys play in 10 of 13 conference championship games, while Danny White, who had become Dallas' starting quarterback in 1980, drew criticism for "not being able to win the big game," despite leading the team to successful winning seasons. The Cowboys managed to make the playoffs in the 1983 and 1985 seasons, only to be knocked out in their first game (Wild Card round in 1983; Divisional round in 1985), then failed to reach the postseason for the rest of the decade. In fact, beginning in 1986, the Cowboys went on to suffer losing seasons for the remainder of the eighties, leading to head coach Tom Landry being fired by new owner Jerry Jones after the 1988 season.

The 1990s, however, saw a renewal of the Cowboys-49ers rivalry fueled by "The Catch" game. The 1992–1994 seasons would see the Cowboys and 49ers face off in three straight NFC Championship games, with the Cowboys winning the first two and the 49ers winning the last one; each victorious team following it up with a Super Bowl title.

Legacy
New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady, a Bay Area native who ultimately grew up idolizing Montana on his way to his own successful NFL career including seven Super Bowl wins, attended the game as a four-year-old and aspired to become a 49er.

In 2002, the NFL ran a series of advertisements promoting the playoffs, using famous plays as a uniting theme. Actor Don Cheadle demonstrated the height of Clark's catch by standing on a stepladder in the end zone.

Clark and Montana re-enacted The Catch in observance of the 25th anniversary of the play as part of San Francisco alumni day activities at halftime of the Minnesota game November 5, 2006, at Candlestick Park.

On October 21, 2018, the 49ers unveiled a statue outside Levi's Stadium depicting The Catch. The statue features two life-size figures, Montana with his arms in the air celebrating the touchdown and, 23 yards away, Clark leaping to make The Catch. Clark's catch was a popular photo location among Clemson Tigers fans during their 44–16 win over Alabama in the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship held at Levi's Stadium.

In 2019, in celebration of the NFL's 100th season, NFL Films ranked The Catch second on its list of the 100 Greatest Plays.

This would be the final professional football game that Vin Scully would call the play by play as well as the final game that Pat Summerall did color commentary before moving to play-by-play announcer for the rest of his broadcast career (Summerall had moved from color commentator to play-by-play midway through the 1974 season, working color commentary here as a substitute for Jack Buck's regular radio partner Hank Stram, who was also Scully's main television broadcast partner during the 1981 season).

Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, the play was immortalized in advertisements for Kodak film: a television commercial using a snippet of Barbra Streisand's "The Way We Were" as its jingle and featuring The Catch as shown by NFL Films, and a magazine ad featuring a photo still of The Catch, accompanied by the caption, "The 49ers grab a TD and a title."

In the October 16, 2001 episode "My Old Lady" of the American television sitcom/medical drama Scrubs, when a dying patient David asks if anyone has ever heard of The Catch, Turk comes in and says, "Niners-Cowboys, Joe Montana to Dwight Clark deep in the end-zone, zero time left. Kid, please, don't insult me." Turk later joins David in watching the game.

In 2005, a commercial for the Gatorade sports drink, known as "The Winning Formula", portrayed an alternate version of The Catch, in which the ball bounced out of Clark's fingertips. Following the Gatorade logo, the real version was shown with Dwight Clark's completion. This is also done with Derek Jeter's "flip play" going wide of home plate and Michael Jordan's famous buzzer-beater against Cleveland going off the rim.

On August 5, 2007, The Best Damn Sports Show Period did a special show commemorating the top 50 amazing sports catches of all time. The Catch is listed as #17.

Subsequent editions
Two subsequent touchdown passes by the 49ers to win home playoff games with the team trailing and facing 3rd and 3 with less than a minute to go have also been named after The Catch:

 * The Catch II – Steve Young to Terrell Owens in the 1998 Wild Card Round from 25 yards against the Green Bay Packers with 3 seconds left. The 49ers won 30–27.

 * The Catch III – Alex Smith to Vernon Davis in the 2011 Divisional Round from 14 yards against the New Orleans Saints with 9 seconds left. The 49ers won 36–32.

Officials

 * Referee: Jim Tunney (#3)
 * Umpire: Bob Boylston (#5)
 * Head Linesman: Ed Marion (#6)
 * Line Judge: Bob Beeks (#16)
 * Back Judge: Ray Douglas (#5)
 * Side Judge: Dean Look (#9)
 * Field Judge: Ed Merrifield (#20)
 * Alternate Referee: Gordon McCarter
 * Alternate Umpire: Dave Moss

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Dunlop

Dunlop may refer to:

Companies

 * Name derived from John Boyd Dunlop (1840–1921)
 * Dunlop Rubber, manufacturer of tyre and rubber products from 1889 to 1985
 * Dunlop Tyres, manufacturer of tyres since 1985
 * Dunlop Sport, a brand of sporting goods
 * Dunlop Sport (Australia)
 * For other companies with the Dunlop name, see Dunlop (brands)
 * Dunlop Manufacturing, also known as "Jim Dunlop", a music supplies company
 * Dunlop Standard Aerospace Group (currently, "Standard Aero")

Places

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 * Dunlop, East Ayrshire, a Scottish village
 * Fort Dunlop, in Birmingham, England, once the main factory and head office of Dunlop Rubber
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 * Sahaganj, base of Dunlop India

People

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 * Dunlop cheese, made in Scotland
 * Dunlop v. Bachowski, a United States Supreme Court case in administrative law

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul Grobman

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Paul Grobman
Hoax/vanity. No Google results, no TVTome, no IMDB for "Story Of MY Life" or "Paul Grobman". See Votes for deletion/The Story Of MY Life. Rhobite 02:00, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete, see prior entry. Wyss 02:07, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, concur with above. --bainer 04:24, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, delete. Samaritan 04:58, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable - fails Google test, possible vanity. Megan1967 06:32, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, If no Google results, no TVTome, no IMDB, then no Wikipedia. Zzyzx11 08:31, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete hoax. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 12:05, Feb 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. As above. Carrp | Talk 04:07, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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The Story Of MY Life
Hoax. No Google results, no TVTome, no IMDB for "Story Of MY Life" or "Paul Grobman". See Votes for deletion/Paul Grobman. Rhobite 02:00, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete, someone's either trying to sell a pilot, or larking about. Wyss 02:07, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep This is a real show in Lithuania.
 * Comment It would have been nice to have this vote signed. I wonder if this is the same show they are refering to. There is no reference to Lithuania in the article. The Jacobin 02:56, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * The keep vote was by the author of the article. Rhobite 03:12, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete is the story of my life too it seems, lately. —RaD Man (talk) 04:28, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, concur with above. --bainer 04:29, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * A Lituanian TV series starring the voices of Paul Grobman, Hal Stevenson, Adam Letcher, Alice Joyce... An animated series with a schoolkid protagonist named Bart? I'm going to have think long and ha Delete. Samaritan 04:37, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * And I'm sure the Hannukah episode plays real well in Lithuania. Rhobite 04:42, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable - fails Google test, possible hoax. Megan1967 06:31, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, If no Google results, no TVTome, no IMDB, then no Wikipedia. Zzyzx11 08:32, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as unverifiable. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 12:51, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable. Carrp | Talk 04:07, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * The Story of MY Life: How my article was deleted on VFD. -- AllyUnion (talk) 07:06, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Exsurge Domine

VFD Result
The result of the VFD can be found here: Votes for deletion/Exsurge Domine -- AllyUnion (talk) 02:02, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

== We need a decent overview of the background to this bull, to its reception and a summary of its contents. It was the first Papal condemnation of Luther and Lutherans. --CTS Wyneken (talk) 00:21, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Who actually wrote it?
Was Leo X enough of a theologian to compose this text by himself? If not, who else actually wrote it? -- 85.177.186.9 (talk) 23:35, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

contents?
does anyone know what the 41 things were? Gailim (talk) 04:48, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

errors ?
" ...it did specifically demand that Luther retract 41 errors " ooh, so these were errors by whose standards? 77.2.76.128 (talk) 20:50, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

"Other condemnations represent new papal interventions on matters that had been freely disputed among Catholic scholars and theologians before that time. For example, Luther's denial of free will after the Fall is censured even though the church father Augustine had taught the same view.[22]"

The Wiki article on Augustine even affirms that his view was in fact endorsed by the catholic church. From his work, City of God, Book 5, "we assert both that God knows all things before they come to pass, and that we do by our free will whatsoever we know and feel to be done by us only because we will it." (The City of God, St. Augustine of Hippo, Translated by Marcus Dods, Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody MA, page 138.)

Therefore, I should delete these sentences entirely for lack of substantial documentation. The citation provided does not a primary source and offers no source of information itself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joecym08 (talk • contribs) 01:06, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

The conception that the Bull "Exurge Domine" was the Bull of Excommunication of Luther is wrong. It merely gave Luther 60 days to recant. The Bull "Decet Romanum pontificem" of 1521 was the Bull of Excommunication. Dgljr5121973 (talk) 04:28, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

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Thunder Road (song)

"Thunder Road" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen. It is the opening track on his breakthrough album Born to Run. While never released as a single, "Thunder Road" is nevertheless considered one of Springsteen's greatest songs and one of the top rock songs in history. It is ranked number 111 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list.

Composition and recording
"Thunder Road" was written by Springsteen while at his living room piano in Long Branch, New Jersey. In October 1974, it existed as a solo recording, "Chrissie's Song", that included the line, "leave what you've lost, leave what's grown cold, Thunder Road". By early 1975, Springsteen had combined lyrics from another composition, "Walking in the Street", forming a new song, "Wings for Wheels", which he debuted on February 5, 1975, at a benefit for a local club, The Main Point, radio broadcast in the Philadelphia area, and featuring four yet-to-be-released Born to Run songs. Still unsatisfied, he finished dismantling "Walking in the Street", by importing its main coda into "Wings for Wheels" as the instrumental ending, now calling it "Thunder Road". Springsteen stated at a 1978 concert that the name of his song had been inspired by seeing a poster of the 1958 Robert Mitchum film Thunder Road, though he did not see it.

On April 13, 1975, music critic and record producer Jon Landau officially joined the album's production team, marking the start of a life-long professional relationship. At Landau's suggestion, production was moved from 914 Sound Studios to Record Plant studios in Manhattan. When sessions began on April 18, Jimmy Iovine, fresh from recording John Lennon's "Walls and Bridges", replaced Louis Lahav (who returned to Israel in March) as engineer. Springsteen later describes Iovine as a "brilliant imposter" and a "young studio dog with fastest learning curve I've ever seen". After three intensive days (April 18, 19 and 23) working on "Thunder Road", nothing further was noted in studio logs until July 15–16, when final overdubs and mixing were done.

In his autobiography, Springsteen says he loosely envisioned Born to Run as a series of vignettes, following its character throughout the day, with "Thunder Road" serving as an "invitation" to the album and opening with a harmonica that suggests the beginning of a new day. Springsteen also describes Landau as an "astute arranger and editor" who "guarded against overplaying and guided our record toward a more streamlined sound". Speaking to author Brian Hiatt about "Thunder Road" in 2005, Landau states it "was fantastic, but it was a little unwieldy, a little unfocused, a little more like a jam piece. … I remember talking with Bruce about a few ideas about how to just reshuffle the deck a little bit, and keep the song building from the very beginning right through the end."

Lyrics and music
The lyrics to "Thunder Road" describe a young woman named Mary, her boyfriend, and their "one last chance to make it real". Musically, the song opens with a quiet piano (Roy Bittan) and harmonica (Springsteen) introduction, meant, as Springsteen said years later in the Wings for Wheels documentary, as a signifier that something was about to happen. The title phrase is not used until the middle section of the song. After the closing line, a tenor saxophone and Fender Rhodes duet is played by Clarence Clemons and Bittan in the instrumental coda.

In this song, Springsteen mentions Roy Orbison "singing for the lonely" on the radio. Orbison, one of whose best-known songs is "Only the Lonely" (1960), was a huge influence on Springsteen.

On July 17, 2021, after 46 years, Jon Landau, Springsteen's longtime manager and co-producer of Born to Run, said the line "Mary's dress waves" was corrected to read "Mary's dress sways" on brucespringsteen.net. It was referred to as a "typo".

During Springsteen's writing of the lyrics to "Thunder Road", instead of "skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets", he had written, "skeletons found by exhumed shallow graves". E Street drummer Max Weinberg convinced Springsteen to move away from the darker lyrics and stay consistent with the blue-collar spirit of the album.

Reception
In 2004, it was ranked number one on the list of the "885 All-Time Greatest Songs" compiled by WXPN (the University of Pennsylvania's public radio station). The song came in at number 226 in Q magazine's list of the "1001 Greatest Songs Ever" in 2003, in which they described the song as "best for pleading on the porch". Julia Roberts, when asked which song lyric described her most accurately, chose "Thunder Road" "You ain't a beauty, but hey, you're alright." The song is featured in the book 31 Songs by British author Nick Hornby.

It is ranked number 111 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. It is also ranked number 3 on the magazine's list of his best songs.

It reached number five as its highest position on radio airplay in France.

Live performance history
On June 14, 2008, on stage at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Springsteen dedicated a performance of the song to political broadcast analyst Tim Russert, a longtime Springsteen fan who had died the previous day. On June 18, 2008, Springsteen performed the song, with acoustic guitar, for a Russert memorial event in Washington DC via tape-delayed satellite.

On November 7, 2016, Springsteen performed the song at a Hillary Clinton presidential election rally in Philadelphia.

In 2016, a fan made a video compilation of Springsteen performing "Thunder Road" over 41 years. The video illustrates how Springsteen's performance of the song has changed over the years.

Personnel
According to authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon:

 * Bruce Springsteen – vocals, guitar, harmonica
 * Garry Tallent – bass
 * Max Weinberg – drums
 * Roy Bittan – piano, glockenspiel, backing vocals
 * Mike Appel – backing vocals
 * Steve Van Zandt – backing vocals
 * Clarence Clemons – saxophone

Legacy
"Thunder Road" is a classic rock staple and has been covered by artists such as Eric Church, Melissa Etheridge, Cowboy Junkies, Badly Drawn Boy, Brazilian singer Renato Russo, Frank Turner, Tori Amos, Brian Vander Ark (Live at Eddie's Attic), Kevin Rowland, Nate Ruess during his Grand Romantic world tour, Matt Nathanson, Mary Lou Lord, and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy with Tortoise. (Tortoise's version is interpreted in minor key.) Adam Duritz of Counting Crows often sings large portions of the lyrics to "Thunder Road" in the middle of their song "Rain King". Phish covered the song in 2011 as a tribute to Clemon's passing.

Michael Chabon referenced "Thunder Road" in his 1988 novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. "We were discussing Born to Run, by Bruce Springsteen. I said that it was the most Roman Catholic record album ever made. 'Look what you've got,' I said. 'You've got Mary dancing like a vision across the porch while the radio plays...."

In a 2010 interview, Stephen Merchant stated that the script for the film Cemetery Junction was loosely based upon the lyrics of "Thunder Road".

In 2011, a limited, signed, letterpressed, handbound chapbook with the lyrics of "Thunder Road" along with Nick Hornby's essay on the song was released. (26 copies were signed by both, Bruce Springsteen and Nick Hornby, 200 copies were signed by Hornby only.)

In 2016, actor, writer and director Jim Cummings released a comedy/drama film called Thunder Road, which includes an extensive scene depicting Cummings dressed as a policeman at his mother's funeral singing along to "Thunder Road", playing on his daughter's pink boombox. It won the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.

Sequel
Sometime after the release of Born to Run, Springsteen wrote a follow-up to "Thunder Road" called "The Promise", which explicitly mentions the first song by name, but reveals a far more pessimistic outlook on the narrator's life and future. Unreleased for years, "The Promise" gained considerable legend for its 1978 Tour performances; it finally materialized in a re-recorded version on 1999's 18 Tracks, before appearing on its namesake album The Promise, released in 2010.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/TAMER M RASHDAN

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TAMER M RASHDAN
Vanity. Delete.-gadfium 02:04, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. ✏ Oven Fresh  ²  02:08, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm sure he's a swell chap, but nothing remotely close to meriting an entry in Wikipedia. Delete. older ≠ wiser 02:10, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete the CV. Wyss 02:52, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Rhobite 03:15, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nice guy...but he didn't read Da Roolz. - Lucky 6.9 03:33, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, vanity. --Idont Havaname 04:20, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, article does not establish notability, possible vanity. Megan1967 06:33, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, this guy is not-notable. The first thing that comes to my mind when reading it is "So what?" Zzyzx11 08:26, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not important, needs to turn the caps lock off. Average Earthman 10:42, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete pretty much a textbook example of a vanity page. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 13:06, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable. Carrp | Talk 04:08, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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