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Nude on the Moon

Nude on the Moon is a 1961 science-fantasy nudist film co-written and co-directed by Doris Wishman and Raymond Phelan under the shared pseudonyms "O. O. Miller" and "Anthony Brooks".

Nude on the Moon is the second of eight nudist films produced and directed by Wishman. While most nudist films of the time were set within a conventional nudist camp, apparently as a way to "get past" censorship, Wishman decided to set the story in a nudist civilization on the Moon.

Plot
Scientist Dr. Jeff Huntley inherits a fortune of US$3 million (equivalent to $ million in ) from his uncle and invests it in the development of a rocket ship, built with the assistance of his mentor, Dr. Nichols.

After landing on the Moon, the pair discover a civilization of topless extraterrestrials led by a Moon Queen with telepathic powers.

Enamored of Dr. Huntley, the Moon Queen allows the men to take photos of the nudists during their everyday activities.

Their oxygen running low, the two are forced to return to Earth, realizing in the process that they've left their camera behind and have no proof of the aliens' existence.

Jeff is dispirited to learn that nobody believes their trip succeeded, but his spirits are lifted when he sees the resemblance between Dr. Nichols's secretary, Cathy, and the Moon Queen.

The movie ends as the two embrace, signaling the beginning of a new romance.

Soundtrack
Nude on the Moon features the original song "I'm Mooning Over You (My Little Moon Doll)" sung by Ralph Young (who also plays a principal role in Wishman's Blaze Starr Goes Nudist under the pseudonym "Russ Martine"). Young would soon meet Belgian singer Tony Sandler and form Sandler and Young, a successful easy-listening duo, with him. The lyrics and melody were written by Wishman's niece, Judith Kushner. According to Wishman, future Tonight Show bandleader Doc Severinsen arranged the orchestration but is not credited.

Production
The Moon sequences in the film were shot at Coral Castle in Homestead, Florida.

Reception
In a review for AllMovie, Fred Beldin wrote: "'Charming and bubble-headed, Nude on the Moon is a good-natured fantasy for bawdy kitsch lovers.'"

Legacy
Nude on the Moon is considered a cult film.

References to the film in pop culture include:

 * Nude on the Moon: The B-52's Anthology, a two-disc CD anthology of music by The B-52's, was released on Rhino Records. Lead singer Fred Schneider admired the director
 * "Nude on the Moon" (1996), a single by electronica duo Tipsy, also appears on the album Trip Tease. One of the remixes is called the "naked volleyball mix".

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E. E. Y. Hales

Edward Elton Young Hales (8 October 1908 – 1 July 1986) was an English Catholic historian. Born in Nottingham, England, he was a son of James Elton Hales (born 23 July 1872) and Ethel Burbidge. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, "Teddy" Hales (as he was called by his friends) worked as an inspector in the British Ministry of Education in London, and was influential in promoting the study of world history in secondary schools in the UK. Hales compared his conversion to the Catholic Church with St. Paul's conversion experience, arguing that although "revelations such as Paul had were not to be expected by ordinary people like myself...moments of special illumination are granted, just very occasionally, to most of us in the course of our lives, and we do well to heed them when they come. I am glad, for instance, I heeded one that came to me the evening I first met the girl who was to be my wife; and I am glad I heeded one that carried me, at the age of forty, into the Catholic Church".

Some of his books include:

 * Pio Nono: A Study in European Politics and Religion in the Nineteenth Century (P.J. Kenedy, 1954) online
 * Mazzini and the Secret Societies: the Making of a Myth (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956)
 * The Catholic Church in the Modern World (Doubleday, 1958)
 * Revolution And Papacy, 1769-1846 (Doubleday, 1960)
 * The Emperor and the Pope: The Story of Napoleon And Pius VII (Doubleday, 1961)
 * Napoleon And the Pope: The Story of Napoleon and Pius VII (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962) [possibly a variant title of The Emperor and the Pope]
 * Pope John and His Revolution (Doubleday, 1965)
 * Chariot of Fire (Fantasy novel) 1977

He died at Bellagio, Italy while on holiday there. An obituary of E. E. Y. Hales was published in The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. LXXII (72) (1986), No. 4, pp. 711–712.

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Marek Sobieski (1628–1652)

Marek Sobieski (24 May 1628 – 3 June 1652) was a Polish nobleman, starosta (tenant of the Crown lands) of Krasnystaw and Jaworów, and the older brother of King John III Sobieski of Poland. He graduated from Nowodworek College in Kraków and Kraków Academy, then traveled and studied in Western Europe. After returning to Poland in 1648 he fought against the Cossacks and Tatars at the Siege of Zbaraż and at the Battle of Beresteczko. He was taken captive by Tatars in 1652 and then killed by Cossacks.

Childhood and studies
Sobieski was the oldest child of Jakub Sobieski and his second wife Teofila Zofia Daniłłowicz. He was born on 24 May 1628 in Zolochiv and spent his childhood in Zhovkva. He grew up in a patriotic family, and his mother often took him and his brother to the grave of her grandfather Stanisław Żółkiewski, Grand Hetman of the Crown, who was killed in the battle of Cecora in 1620. Zofia Teofila Daniłłowicz taught her sons the inscription upon their great-grandfather's grave: "O quam dulce et decorum est pro patria mori!" (How sweet and glorious it is to die for one's homeland!). On 29 October 1639 Sobieski became Starosta of Yavoriv.

Along with his brother John, beginning in 1640, Sobieski studied at the Nowodworski College in Kraków. On 29 April 1642 Sobieski made a speech on funeral of Jakub Zadzik, bishop of Kraków. The next year, on 2 June 1643, Sobieski made a speech where he thanked absent Władysław IV for everything he had done for Nodworski College. Two months earlier, in April 1643, Marek and John Sobieski began studies at Kraków Academy. In 1644 Sobieski became Starosta of Krasnystaw.

In 1645 Jakub Sobieski, father of Marek and John, prepared special instructions and a guidebook for his sons, who were about to go abroad. Jakub Sobieski, who was inspired by Roman authors, emphasized learning foreign languages and physical exercises. He wanted to prepare his sons to be politics and diplomats.

After completing their studies in 1646, the brothers started to travel around Europe under the tutelage of Sebastian Gawrecki. They departed Żółkiew on 21 February or 25 March 1646. They visited Berlin, Wittenberg, Leipzig, Halle, Amsterdam and Paris, where they arrived on 9 June 1646. They spent the next 16 months in France. In October 1647 Marek and John Sobieski went to England and subsequently studied mathematics in the Netherlands. The brothers had planned to go to Turkey, but after hearing of the Khmelnytsky uprising they decided to return to Poland. Marek and John Sobieski left Brussels on 24 July 1648.

Adulthood
After returning to Poland, Sobieski and his brother came to Zamość, which at the time was being besieged by Cossacks. In 1648, 1649 and 1650 Sobieski was elected a member of the parliament (sejm walny) of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1649 he was among the electors who voted for John II Casimir as King of Poland. Then, as a head of a chorągiew husarska (military unit formed by Hussars) of 100 horse, the young starosta joined the army of Jeremi Wiśniowiecki.

Sobieski was a member of the Polish defense crew besieged by Cossacks at Zbarazh from 10 July to 22 August 1649. In 1650 he fought against the Cossacks at Kamieniec Podilskiy. Marek Sobieski also took part in the Battle of Beresteczko on 28–30 June 1651. After the Polish victory, due his bravery, he received a saber of Tugay Bey, who had been killed during the battle. In September 1651 he fought at the Battle of Biała Cerkiew. When the Poles, Cossacks and Tatars began negotiations, Marek Sobieski was sent to the Cossack camp as a guarantor of safety for the Cossack leader, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, who was in the Polish camp.

In 1652 Sobieski fought against the Cossacks near Bracław and during Bila Tserkva campaign. Marching with Jan Odrzywolski, but without his own hussar banner, Sobieski and his retinue came to the field hetman Kalinowski's camp at Batoh on 31 May. Marek Sobieski and Odrzywolski were assigned to command cavalry banners during the subsequent battle, and in that capacity they fought on 1 and 2 June. On 2 June, during the second day of the Battle of Batoh after the defeat of Polish cavalry in the field before the Polish camp, Sobieski commanded a cavalry group, perhaps containing wounded field hetman Kalinowski, that withdrew to the eastern redoubt in Polish camp, where Cossacks destroyed them after bringing artillery. Following Polish soldier Wespazjan Kochowski's writings Sobieski might have been the last Polish commander defending the Polish camp against the Cossack-Tatar army. Young commander was taken prisoner or surrendered, to be ransomed in a future as it was practice of the day, by the Tatars or Cossacks. After the battle, the Cossacks paid the Tatars for possession of the prisoners, and killed the Polish captives in retaliation for Chmielnicki's defeat at Berestechko. Among the 8,000 massacred Polish soldiers was Marek Sobieski. or the number could have been much higher, up to 15,000 killed in action and massacred.

Sobieski's mother returned his body home, and to commemorate her fallen son she founded the Church of the Assumption of Mary in Żółkiew, which was built between 1653 and 1655. Sobieski was buried there in 1655 on the day the church was consecrated. His brother, King John III Sobieski, commissioned a gravestone by Andreas Schlüter, which is now in Zhovka. In 1946 Sobieski's body was taken to the Dominican Holy Trinity Church in Kraków.

Legacy
Sobieski was portrayed by Henryk Sienkiewicz in With Fire and Sword (1884), Antoni Euzebiusz Balicki in Z żaka król (1936) and Jacek Komuda in novel Bohun (2006).

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Talk:Obolon (company)

leading on domestic market
What is the exact meaning of the phrase:
 * leading on domestic market

Does it mean that the company holds the majority of sales in Ukraine, or it is just a typical marketing cliche? Are there any numbers available? Mikkalai 18:51, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Hey, Mikkalai, nice to see you questioning my edits. Thank you for not using insulting characteristics like "babble" this time ;). Yes, the company is leading in domestic sales (beer market at least). And no, I'm not promoting its corporate image. You look for numbers and correct me в случае чего. Pryvit, AlexPU

Kvass
I guess they also make kvass, don't they? – Kpalion (talk) 21:46, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * They have been definitely making the unpreserved street-vending kvas (if you know what I mean) in Soviet times. Not sure for now. Actually, Rosynka (also old-time company) is the city's (and the nation-wide) leader in kvas market (I guess). BTW, why don't you write the corporate article on this? Best wishes, AlexPU

Formal name
I'm still not sure whether it is ПАТ or ПрАт. As soon as we find out, the article is to be renamed I guess. Ukrained (talk) 00:27, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

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Sodium phosphate

A sodium phosphate is a generic variety of salts of sodium (Na+) and phosphate (PO4(3−)). Phosphate also forms families or condensed anions including di-, tri-, tetra-, and polyphosphates. Most of these salts are known in both anhydrous (water-free) and hydrated forms. The hydrates are more common than the anhydrous forms.

Uses
Sodium phosphates have many applications in food and for water treatment. For example, sodium phosphates are often used as emulsifiers (as in processed cheese), thickening agents, and leavening agents for baked goods. They are also used to control pH of processed foods. They are also used in medicine for constipation and to prepare the bowel for medical procedures. They are also used in detergents for softening water and as an efficient anti-rust solution.

Adverse effects
Sodium phosphates are popular in commerce in part because they are inexpensive and because they are nontoxic at normal levels of consumption. However, oral sodium phosphates when taken at high doses for bowel preparation for colonoscopy may in some individuals carry a risk of kidney injury under the form of phosphate nephropathy. There are several oral phosphate formulations which are prepared extemporaneously. Oral phosphate prep drugs have been withdrawn in the United States, although evidence of causality is equivocal. Since safe and effective replacements for phosphate purgatives are available, several medical authorities have recommended general disuse of oral phosphates.

Monophosphates
Three families of sodium monophosphates are common, those derived from orthophosphate (PO4(3−)), hydrogen phosphate (HPO4(2−)), and dihydrogenphosphate (H2PO4−). Some of the best known salts are shown in the following table.

Di- and polyphosphates
In addition to these phosphates, sodium forms a number of useful salts with pyrophosphates (also called diphosphates), triphosphates and high polymers. Of these salts, those of the diphosphates are particularly common commercially.

Beyond the diphosphates, sodium salts are known triphosphates, e.g. sodium triphosphate and tetraphosphates. The cyclic polyphosphates, called metaphosphates, include the trimer sodium trimetaphosphate and the tetramer, Na3P3O9 and Na4P4O12, respectively.

Polymeric sodium phosphates are formed upon heating mixtures of NaH2PO4 and Na2HPO4, which induces a condensation reaction. The specific polyphosphate generated depends on the details of the heating and annealing. One derivative is the glassy (i.e., amorphous) Graham's salt (sodium hexametaphosphate). It is a cyclic polyphosphate with the formula Na6[(PO3)6]. Crystalline high molecular weight polyphosphates include Kurrol's salt and Maddrell's salt (CAS#10361-03-2). These species have the formula [NaPO3]_{n}[NaPO3(OH)]2 where n can be as great as 2000, and it is a white powder practically insoluble in water. In terms of their structures, these polymers consist of PO3− units, with the chains are terminated by protonated phosphates.

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LRS

LRS may refer to:

Science and technology

 * Lactated Ringer's solution, used for intravenous administration
 * Learning Record Store, a data store system
 * Linear recursive sequence, a recurrence relation used in mathematics
 * Linear reference system, a method of spatial referencing along a line
 * Limited Rate Support, a Wi-Fi mode; see IEEE 802.11g-2003

Organisations

 * Levi, Ray & Shoup, a business consulting firm
 * Lietuvos rusų sąjunga (Lithuanian Russian Union), a political party in Lithuania
 * Liverpool Reform Synagogue, a Reform Jewish synagogue in Liverpool, England
 * London River Services, a division of Transport for London
 * Long-range surveillance, a unit of the United States Army

Other uses

 * Ley de Responsabilidad Social en Radio y Televisión, a Venezuelan broadcasting law
 * Leros Municipal Airport (IATA code), on an island of Greece
 * Location Referencing System, used for state-owned roads in Pennsylvania, US
 * LRS (TV station)

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User talk:Alasseo

I read your StarCraft story page. Interesting. I've preserved the storyline at StarCraft storyline. I don't know if we could combine them - eg you do the in-level summaries, and I'll do the stuff around them.
 * Well, I'm moving the level-by-level to wikibooks once I get further into it, as its too detailed for wikipedia. I'd certianly be willing to collaborate on redoing the overall episode/campaign summaries. --Alasseo 03:52, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)

Hey, I just removed the categories from your userpage. I didn't do anything else; I just wanted to prevent your userpage from showing up in main article categories. Nothing else should be changed - sorry for the inconvenience! matt91486 (talk) 22:47, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

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Talk:Olmecs

Requested move 14 May 2018

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Page moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) --  Dane talk  05:45, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

Olmec → Olmecs – Per WP:PLURAL articles of this sort should use the plural form and for consistency with other articles such as Saxons or Vikings or Aztecs (which was recently moved under this same rationale. Also, since the article itself uses the plural form with an "s", so too should the article title. Rreagan007 (talk) 06:10, 14 May 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Dekimasu よ! 17:48, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

 * Support per nom. Invariably seen in the plural when used to refer to the civilisation as a whole. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:49, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

 * Drip...drip...drip. First Aztec, now Olmec, next Toltec?  —  AjaxSmack  12:38, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I expect so. Rreagan007 doesn't actually, you know, edit articles, but likes to put the world to righrts in this way. Johnbod (talk) 13:38, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
 * If you would like to make a substantive argument as to why this article shouldn't follow Wikipedia's general naming conventions, go right ahead. But it's completely irrelevant to this discussion how I choose to spend my time contributing to Wikipedia. Personal attacks or this sort just make you look petty. Rreagan007 (talk) 19:17, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I didn't mean it that way. But there are several articles of this ilk and I was just wondering if they might be dealt with together.  I agree that policy and practice favor the plural here but was waiting for others' input. —  AjaxSmack  22:47, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I was responding to Johnbod with that comment. As far as what articles should be moved, when I come across an article I think should be moved based on the article naming conventions, I propose it. Rreagan007 (talk) 00:20, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

 * Comment. As with Aztec/Aztecs, "Olmec" is in wide use as a group noun, and so either version is perfectly acceptable per WP:ETHNICGROUPS. The key is to be consistent. The article currently uses both, with "Olmecs" in the first sentence; whatever happens, it needs to be cleaned up.--Cúchullain t/ c 15:07, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm guessing that "Olmecs" is used as the plural because that's what the average reader would expect to be the plural form. I doubt the average reader would know that "Olmec" can also be used as plural. Rreagan007 (talk) 15:28, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't think that's the case. It seems unlikely that a reader familiar with the Olmec would be surprised to see "Olmec" used as a plural any more than, say, the Navajo, Cherokee, or Aztec.--Cúchullain t/ c 16:03, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I think most people would be surprised to see Aztec (or Olmec, Toltec, etc) used as a plural since it almost never is outside scholarly works. Not the other two so much. -- Necrothesp (talk) 09:31, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

 * Support per WP:CONSISTENCY with other culture articles, and per WP:PLURAL, of which this is an obvious qualifying case, and per WP:NOUN. "Olmec" by itself is an adjective meaning "of or relating to the Olmecs", and we don't use adjectival titles. [I can also be a noun in odd cases, e.g., "The excavated skeleton was of an Olmec."; but no such case is anything we'd have an article about titled "Olmec".]  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  00:10, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

While the page may have started as BC, over the the years the style used had evolved from BC to BCE with new additions, a quick view at versions from December show a preponderance of the BCE style, you had to go literally to the halfway point on the page to find the first instance of BC. In January an editor harmonized all instances to the BCE style, which no one who watches or edits the article seems to have disputed. Another editor has now taken it upon themselves to revert all instances to the BC style, which was originally used for the page.

Per WP:ERA: "An article's established era style should not be changed without reasons specific to its content; seek consensus on the talk page first (applying Wikipedia:Manual of Style § Retaining existing styles) by opening a discussion under a heading using the word era, and briefly stating why the style should be changed."

By accretion of edits over the years the BCE style seems to have slowly crept in and become the preferred style by most editors. Many other New World archaeology and anthropology pages use this style. Consensus on a date style can and does change on articles. And the provision in WP:ERA saying they must stay with the original style was removed years ago.

Is there a preference for a date style among the regular editors and watchers of this page? Should it stay at the current BC version, or should it be changed by consensus to the BCE which seems to be preferred by most editors and was used since January before today edit? I'll probably be off wiki for the rest of the day, so any interested parties should feel free to chime in with their arguments, but RL will probably keep me from responding for the rest of the day at least. One addendum, the user User:NDV135, seems to concentrate on this subject, a virtual SPA for finding articles where the article has changed over time from BC to BCE and changing them back.  He  iro  23:48, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Retain/return to the original BC, per WP:ERA. Creeping changes like this should be firmly resisted. Johnbod (talk) 03:45, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Why should it be "firmly resisted"? There is nothing in ERA policy that mandates a date style can/must not be changed. A majority of editors over the years seem to prefer the BCE version for the page. That would appear to be a consensus for that style over BC. No one even noticed/objected that it had been de facto harmonized to BCE until an SPA changed it back yesterday, after 4 months.  He  iro  17:21, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

 * you know that WP:ERA doesn't use the word "original". Why do you claim this after HR said it was removed? I agree that BCE is more appropriate for this article. That's my opinion for all archaeological articles and for this specific one about a civilization that developed far removed from Abrahamic religions. Doug Weller  talk 13:10, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Hell, I warned NDV135 about this last year, it might be time for ANI. Doug Weller  talk 13:11, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
 * ??HR said that "the provision in WP:ERA saying they must stay with the original style was removed..." Your comment is odd.  As you know, I stand with the British Museum and a long list of others in believing BC is better in most cases for general audiences, not least because everyone understands it, which is absolutely not the case for BCE.  There are no devotees of the Olmec religion around to be bothered by it.  I don't think you've stated your prejudice here so clearly or frankly before, so thanks for that. Johnbod (talk) 13:51, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Johnbod, your argument seems to say "We should use BC and not BCE because everyone understands it." That's one of the worst arguments there is, and I'd guess a reason why we have a guideline, ie to use that as an argument. And it's not the Olmec who might be bothered, if you care about who might be bothered I guess it could be the billions of non-Christians, and if you want to use that argument we'd end up with only BCE and I'm not supporting that. Doug Weller  talk 14:24, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

 * I knew this sounded familiar, see Talk:Olmecs/Archive 3. Consensus to leave this article at the BCE/CE style was discussed in 2010, when it had been stable at that style for 4 years, having switched over soon after the article was created in 2007. User:NDV135 should have checked the talkpage and archives before switching it back, or at the very least started this conversation himself before making his change.  He  iro  17:57, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Legends of the Hidden Temple
The stone head featured in the game show, "Legends of the Hidden Temple", has the name "Olmec". I'm trying to figure out where that would belong on this page. Booger-mike (talk) 15:30, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adryenn Ashley

 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. Mackensen (talk) 05:38, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Adryenn Ashley
"Adryenn Ashley is an actress turned movie producer with a new movie coming out in 2005." With a search on google, she garners 197 hits. What is the stance for inclusion of up-and-coming movie producers? GRider\talk 18:54, 16 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.
 * As long as they haven't done squat, they don't deserve a mention. Neither do bands with zero albums on their track record, or writers who haven't had a book published yet. Radiant! 20:28, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete! for non-notability. --Neigel von Teighen 20:29, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Less notable than the actors involved with Democrazy, and that's saying something. Xezbeth  20:31, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Her credits listed on Internet Movie Database are not notable enough to be in Wikipedia now. Maybe later. Zzyzx11 23:46, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, I'm going to have to vote keep on this entry because of my previous votes on Diane Mela and Lorna Nogueira, otherwise I'm going to look like a hypocrite :) Megan1967 02:29, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * What was that Emerson said about a hobgoblin? -- Jmabel | Talk 07:59, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * "To be great is to be misunderstood". Megan1967 08:14, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment cleaned up and expanded since nomination. Megan1967 04:28, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable enough. IMDb simply recognizes her movie exist, but has very few information on them. Since IMDb garners information from volunteer users, it means very few people saw the movies. And she gets few Google hits as well. JoaoRicardo 07:06, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: promo, nonnotable. Wile E. Heresiarch 07:38, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Obvious keep, does not meet deletion criteria - David Gerard 23:06, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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User:Remuel

My name is Remuel.

I tend to jump around Wikipedia doing bursts of something specific until I lose interest and find something new.

I am also interested in riddles. Feel free to leave any here that you know. Please hide answers in a white box like the following. (Highlight for answer).

1) In order to fill these you need empty hands.
 * Gloves

2) Doesn't need drink, doesn't need food, has sharp teeth, but cannot eat.
 * A saw

3) Has followed children and led armies, spilled rivers of blood but caused no wound.
 * A placenta (The user who added this riddle indicated that, in Ancient Egypt, the placenta of the current Pharaoh was preserved and used as a battle standard during his life.)

4) Today he is there to trip you up, and he will torture you tomorrow. Yet he is also there to ease the pain, when you are lost in grief and sorrow.
 * Alcohol

5) The one who made it, didn't want it. The one who bought it, didn't need it. The one who used it, never saw it.
 * A coffin

6) It flies without wings, drops without fear, but held in warm hands, it will soon disappear.
 * A snowflake

7) I follow you wherever you go. The more of me you take, the more you leave behind. Who am I?
 * Footprints. This riddle was a part of a minigame on Spyro: Year of the Dragon.

I never forget someone who helps a new person out. My article I started entitled "Ahab the Arab" was my first ever contribution, and it was picked up by none other than you. So have this long-overdue WikiCookie. :) Draconiator 03:24, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Camilo Nogueira Román

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i have made minor edits to this page just to tidy things up a bit and make it more accurate, especially 'His party, the Bloque Nacionalista Galego' changed to 'The poltical organisation that he represents, the [Bloque Nacionalista Galego]' and 'currently the leader of Unidade Galega'

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Techno-progressivism

Techno-progressivism, or tech-progressivism, is a stance of active support for the convergence of technological change and social change. Techno-progressives argue that technological developments can be profoundly empowering and emancipatory when they are regulated by legitimate democratic and accountable authorities to ensure that their costs, risks and benefits are all fairly shared by the actual stakeholders to those developments. One of the first mentions of techno-progressivism appeared within extropian jargon in 1999 as the removal of "all political, cultural, biological, and psychological limits to self-actualization and self-realization".

Stance
Techno-progressivism maintains that accounts of progress should focus on scientific and technical dimensions, as well as ethical and social ones. For most techno-progressive perspectives, then, the growth of scientific knowledge or the accumulation of technological powers will not represent the achievement of proper progress unless and until it is accompanied by a just distribution of the costs, risks, and benefits of these new knowledges and capacities. At the same time, for most techno-progressive critics and advocates, the achievement of better democracy, greater fairness, less violence, and a wider rights culture are all desirable, but inadequate in themselves to confront the quandaries of contemporary technological societies unless and until they are accompanied by progress in science and technology to support and implement these values.

Strong techno-progressive positions include support for the civil right of a person to either maintain or modify his or her own mind and body, on his or her own terms, through informed, consensual recourse to, or refusal of, available therapeutic or enabling biomedical technology.

During the November 2014 Transvision Conference, many of the leading transhumanist organizations signed the Technoprogressive Declaration. The Declaration stated the values of technoprogressivism.

Contrasting stance
Bioconservatism (a portmanteau word combining "biology" and "conservatism") is a stance of hesitancy about technological development especially if it is perceived to threaten a given social order. Strong bioconservative positions include opposition to genetic modification of food crops, the cloning and genetic engineering of livestock and pets, and, most prominently, rejection of the genetic, prosthetic, and cognitive modification of human beings to overcome what are broadly perceived as current human biological and cultural limitations.

Bioconservatives range in political perspective from right-leaning religious and cultural conservatives to left-leaning environmentalists and technology critics. What unifies bioconservatives is skepticism about medical and other biotechnological transformations of the living world. Typically less sweeping as a critique of technological society than bioluddism, the bioconservative perspective is characterized by its defense of the natural, deployed as a moral category.

Although techno-progressivism is the stance which contrasts with bioconservatism in the biopolitical spectrum, both techno-progressivism and bioconservatism, in their more moderate expressions, share an opposition to unsafe, unfair, undemocratic forms of technological development, and both recognize that such developmental modes can facilitate unacceptable recklessness and exploitation, exacerbate injustice and incubate dangerous social discontent.

List of notable techno-progressive social critics

 * Technocritic Dale Carrico with his accounts of techno-progressivism
 * Philosopher Donna Haraway with her accounts of cyborg theory.
 * Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff with his accounts of open source.
 * Cultural critic Mark Dery and his accounts of cyberculture.
 * Science journalist Chris Mooney with his account of the U.S. Republican Party's "war on science".
 * Futurist Bruce Sterling with his Viridian design movement.
 * Futurist Alex Steffen and his accounts of bright green environmentalism through the Worldchanging blog.
 * Science journalist Annalee Newitz with her accounts of the Biopunk.
 * Bioethicist James Hughes of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies with his accounts of democratic transhumanism.

Controversy
Technocritic Dale Carrico, who has used "techno-progressive" as a shorthand to describe progressive politics that emphasize technoscientific issues, has expressed concern that some "transhumanists" are using the term to describe themselves, with the consequence of possibly misleading the public regarding their actual cultural, social and political views, which may or may not be compatible with critical techno-progressivism.

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Linear referencing

Linear referencing, also called linear reference system or linear referencing system (LRS), is a method of spatial referencing in engineering and construction, in which the locations of physical features along a linear element are described in terms of measurements from a fixed point, such as a milestone along a road. Each feature is located by either a point (e.g. a signpost) or a line (e.g. a no-passing zone). If a segment of the linear element or route is changed, only those locations on the changed segment need to be updated. Linear referencing is suitable for management of data related to linear features like roads, railways, oil and gas transmission pipelines, power and data transmission lines, and rivers.

Motivation
A system for identifying the location of pipeline features and characteristics is by measuring distance from the start of the pipeline. An example linear reference address is: Engineering Station 1145 + 86 on pipeline Alpha = 114,586 feet from the start of the pipeline. With a reroute, cumulative stationing might not be the same as engineering stationing, because of the addition of the extra pipeline. Linear referencing systems compute the differences to resolve this dilemma.

Linear referencing is one of a family of methods of expressing location. Coordinates such as latitude and longitude are another member of the family, as are landmark references such as "5 km south of Ayers Rock." Linear referencing has traditionally been the expression of choice in engineering applications such as road and pipeline maintenance. One can more realistically dispatch a worker to a bridge 12.7 km along a road from a reference point, rather than to a pair of coordinates or a landmark. The road serves as the reference frame, just as the earth serves as the reference frame for latitude and longitude.

Benefits
Linear referencing can be used to define points along a linear feature with just a small amount of information such as the name of a road and the distance and bearing from a landmark along the road. This information can be communicated concisely via plaintext. For example: "State route 4, 20 feet east of mile marker 187." Giving a latitude and longitude coordinate to a work crew is not meaningful unless the coordinate is plotted on a map. Often work crews work in remote areas without wireless connectivity which makes on-line digital maps not practical, and the relatively higher effort of providing offline maps or printed maps is not as economical as simply stating locations as offsets, or ranges of offsets, along a linear feature.

Linear referencing systems can also be made to be both very precise and very accurate at a much lower cost than is needed to collect latitude and longitude coordinates with high accuracy, especially when the goal is sub-meter accuracy. This is highly dependent upon the width of the linear feature, its centerline, and the visibility of the landmarks and markers that are used to define linear reference offsets.

Often, roads are created by engineers using CAD tools that have no geospatial reference at all, and LRS is the preferred method of defining data for linear features.

Limitations
Consequently, a major limitation of linear referencing is that specifying points that are not on a linear feature is troublesome and error-prone, though not entirely impossible. Consider for example a ski lodge located 100 meters to the right of the road, traveling north. The linear referencing system can be extended by specifying a lateral offset, but the absolute location (i.e. coordinates) of the lodge cannot be determined unless coordinates are specified for the road; that process is prone to error particularly on curved roads.

Another major drawback of linear referencing is that a modification in the alignment of a road (e.g. constructing a bypass around a town) changes the measurements that reference all downstream points. The system requires an extensive network of reference stations, and constant maintenance. In an era of mobile maps and GPS, this maintenance overhead for linear referencing systems challenges its long-term viability. (But see below for US Federal Highway Administration requirement that all State DOTs use LRS.)

Nonetheless, travel along a road is a linear experience, and at the very least, linear referencing will continue to have a conversational role. Linear referencing systems are recognized by the US Federal government as a valuable tool for specifying right of way data, and are now actually required for the States. Therefore, it is not likely to see LRS usage decline any time soon.

ARNOLD: US Federal Requirements for Highways
The US Federal Highway Administration is pushing states to move closer to standardization of LRS data with the ARNOLD requirement. To wit: "On August 7, 2012, FHWA announced that the HPMS is expanding the requirement for State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) to submit their LRS to include all public roads. This requirement will be referred to as the All Road Network of Linear Referenced Data (ARNOLD)". The ARNOLD requirement sets the stage for systems that utilize both LRS and coordinates. Both systems are useful in different contexts, and while using latitude and longitude is becoming very popular due to the availability of practical and affordable devices for capturing and displaying global coordinate data, the use of LRS has widely been adopted for planning, engineering, and maintenance.

Supported platforms
Linear referencing is supported for example by several Geographic Information System software, including:
 * Intergraph
 * GE Global Transmission Office
 * ArcGIS
 * GEOMAP GIS
 * GRASS GIS
 * PostGIS
 * QGIS

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Edward Johnson (general)

Edward "Allegheny" Johnson (April 16, 1816 – March 2, 1873) was a United States Army officer and Confederate general in the American Civil War. Highly rated by Robert E. Lee, he was made a divisional commander under Richard S. Ewell. On the first evening of the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1, 1863), Ewell missed his opportunity to attack Cemetery Hill, and Johnson opted against attacking Culp's Hill, for which he had a discretionary order, though he attempted this on the second and third days. Ewell and Johnson are blamed by many for the loss of this decisive battle.

Early life
Johnson was born on Salisbury Plantation near current-day Midlothian in Chesterfield County, Virginia, but his family soon moved to Kentucky. He attended the United States Military Academy and graduated (after five years of study) in 1838. He was commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in the 6th U.S. Infantry and was promoted to first lieutenant in less than a year. He served in the Seminole Wars in Florida and then in the West. In the Mexican–American War, Johnson distinguished himself for action at Veracruz, Cerro Gordo, Churubusco, Molino del Rey, and Chapultepec. He received two brevet promotions, to captain and major, during the war and was awarded a ceremonial sword by the state of Virginia for his bravery. Johnson returned to duty on the Western frontier, serving in the Dakota Territory, California, Kansas, and on the Utah Expedition.

Civil War
After the outbreak of the Civil War, Johnson resigned his United States Army commission and received the rank of colonel in the 12th Georgia Infantry on July 2, 1861. The 12th Georgia fought in Gen. Robert E. Lee's first campaign in western Virginia, at the Battle of Greenbrier River. He was promoted to brigadier general on December 13, 1861. He was ordered to defend Allegheny mountain, where a route from Cheat Mountain passed southwards then east over the mountain and to Shenandoah valley. His position was strong but still overextended. He was eventually ordered to retreat to a better position on Valley Mountain, but before making the move his forces (six regiments) were struck on their position by a surprise attack of Union forces who were based on Cheat Mountain, some distance northwards. This force was commanded by union general Robert Milroy, who would become Johnson's nemesis. (This brigade-sized force was given the grandiose name "Army of the Northwest".)

Valley Campaign
In the winter of 1861–62, Johnson's army cooperated with Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson in the early stages of Jackson's Valley Campaign. While Jackson marched his army into the mountains of the present-day Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia to conduct raids on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Johnson was tasked with protecting against a Union invasion of the "upper," more elevated areas of the Shenandoah Valley near Staunton, Virginia. His Army of the Northwest constructed a series of breastworks and trenches atop Shenandoah Mountain which they named simply Fort Edward Johnson. At the Battle of McDowell, Johnson was severely wounded with a bullet to the ankle, which took a long time to heal. He returned to Richmond for his convalescence and remained there for nearly a year, active in the social scene. Although Johnson was a heavy-set, rough-looking, rude character who was still a bachelor at age 47, he had the reputation of a ladies' man. Due to a wound he received in Mexico, he was afflicted with an eye that winked uncontrollably, causing many women to believe he was flirting with them. He caused enough attention that he rated mentions in the famous diary of Mary Chesnut.

Stonewall division
In 1863, following the reorganization of the Army of Northern Virginia to compensate for the death of Stonewall Jackson after the Battle of Chancellorsville, Johnson was promoted to major general and given command of the "Stonewall Division" in Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell's Second Corps. Robert E. Lee had become dissatisfied with the previous commander at the battle and summoned Johnson back from medical leave to take the command.

Gettysburg
By May 1863, Johnson had recovered enough to lead his division in the Gettysburg Campaign. He still needed a heavy hickory stick to move around on foot (and was known to use it against men he believed were shirking battle) and his men nicknamed him "Old Clubby". On the way north into Pennsylvania as part of the left wing (under command of Ewell) that passed across the Shenandoah valley, Johnson's command participated in defeating Union troops fortified at the city of Winchester, commanded by Johnson's old nemesis Maj. Gen. Robert H. Milroy at the Second Battle of Winchester. Johnson arrived at the Battle of Gettysburg on the evening of the first day, July 1, 1863. In a move that is still controversial, Ewell did not take advantage of Johnson's division and attack Cemetery Hill immediately that evening, when it might have been decisive. Johnson controversially declined to attack Culp's Hill that evening, for which he had a discretionary order. Instead, Johnson's division was the primary force that attacked Culp's Hill on the second and third days, suffering considerable casualties assaulting this impregnable position multiple times with no lasting success. In the fall of 1863, Johnson played a prominent role in the Mine Run Campaign.

Capture at Spotsylvania
In the Overland Campaign of 1864, Johnson fought well at the Battle of the Wilderness and when Lt. Gen. James Longstreet was seriously wounded there, Robert E. Lee considered Johnson as a replacement corps commander. During the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, on May 12, 1864, at the "Bloody Angle" section of the Confederate "Mule Shoe" defensive line, Johnson was captured along with Brig. Gen. George H. Steuart, and most of Johnson's division. He was imprisoned for months at Morris Island, off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina, and was exchanged on August 3, 1864. He was sent west to join Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee, where he commanded a division in the corps of Lt. Gen. Stephen D. Lee. During the Franklin-Nashville Campaign, Johnson was captured again at the Battle of Nashville on December 16, 1864. He again spent months in a Union prisoner of war camp at Johnson's Island, in Lake Erie. At the end of the war, Johnson was moved to the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C., where he was accused of being somehow complicit in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Nothing came of the accusation and he was paroled on July 22, 1865.

Postbellum life
After the war, Johnson was a farmer in Virginia. He was active in Confederate veterans affairs, including early efforts to construct a monument to Robert E. Lee in Richmond. He died in Richmond and his body lay in state in the state capital until he was buried at Hollywood Cemetery.

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Robert Liddell

(John) Robert Liddell (13 October 1908 – 23 July 1992) was an English literary critic, biographer, novelist, travel writer and poet.

Life
Liddell was born at Tunbridge Wells, England, the elder son of Major John Stewart Liddell, CMG, DSO, who served with the Royal Engineers and later worked for the Egyptian Government at Cairo, and his first wife, Anna Gertrude, daughter of E. Morgan, of Hongershall Park, Tunbridge Wells. He was a great-grandson of Sir John Liddell, KCB, Director-General of the Medical Department of the Royal Navy, and his paternal grandmother was of the gentry family of Gibson of Shalford and Sullington. Liddell's mother died in 1914; his father remarried in 1916, to Theresa, daughter of Paul Rottenburg, LL.D, of Glasgow. Poor relations developed between the two boys and their stepmother, who was the basis for the central character in Liddell's novel Stepsons.

Liddell was educated at Ashdown House, East Sussex, at Haileybury School and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. During the years 1933 to 1938 he was employed at the Bodleian Library as an assistant in the Department of Western Manuscripts. Liddell then lived briefly in Athens, Greece, working as a lecturer for the British Council. During the years 1941 to 1951 he was a lecturer at the Universities of Cairo and Alexandria. From 1953 to 1972 he was employed by the University of Athens, serving for part of the time as head of the English Department. He never returned to England, and died in Athens in 1992.

While at Oxford he met the novelist Barbara Pym. The character of Dr. Nicholas Parnell in Pym's novel Some Tame Gazelle was inspired by Liddell. During World War II he was one of the Cairo poets.

Works
• The Almond Tree (1938)

• Kind Relations (1939)

• The Gantillons (1940)

• Watering-place (1945)

• A Treatise on the Novel (1947)

• The Last Enchantments (1948)

• Unreal City (1952)

• Some Principles of Fiction (1953)

• Aegean Greece (1954)

• The Novels of I. Compton-Burnett (1955)

• Byzantium and Istanbul (1956)

• The Morea (1958)

• The Rivers of Babylon (1959)

• Old and New Athens by Demetrios Sicilianos (1960, as translator)

• The Novels of Jane Austen (1963)

• Mainland Greece (1965)

• An Object for a Walk (1966)

• The Deep End (1968)

• Stepsons (1969, novel)

• Cavafy (1974, biography)

• The Novels of George Eliot (1977)

• Elizabeth and Ivy (1986)

• The Aunts (1987)

• The Abbe Tigrane by Ferdinand Fabre (1988, as translator)

• A Mind at Ease: Barbara Pym and her novels (1989)

• Twin Spirits: The novels of Emily and Anne Brontë (1990)

• Kind Relations (1994)

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Larkin Goldsmith Mead

Larkin Goldsmith Mead, Jr. (January 3, 1835 – October 15, 1910) was an American sculptor who worked in a neoclassical style.

Career
He was born at Chesterfield, New Hampshire, the son of a prominent lawyer. A colossal snowman constructed by the young Mead was reported by the local press. He became a pupil of sculptor Henry Kirke Brown, (1853–1855). He worked as an illustrator for Harper's Weekly during the early part of the American Civil War, and was at the front for six months with the Army of the Potomac. In 1862–1865, he traveled to Italy, working for a time in Florence, and also spending part of the time attached to the United States consulate at Venice, where William Dean Howells, his brother-in-law, was diplomatic consul. He married in Venice. He returned to America in 1865, but subsequently returned to Italy, where he lived in Florence until his death.

His first important work was a statue of Agriculture, designed to top the dome of the Vermont Statehouse at Montpelier, Vermont. This work proved so successful that he was soon commissioned to sculpt a statue of Ethan Allen for the Statehouse portico.

Other principal works include: the granite and bronze Lincoln Tomb, a sculptured mausoleum to President Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois; Ethan Allen (1876), National Statuary Hall, United States Capitol, Washington, DC; a heroic marble, Mississippi – The Father of Waters, Minneapolis City Hall; Triumph of Ceres, made for the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1893; and a large bust of Lincoln in the Hall of Inscriptions at the Vermont Statehouse.

His brother William Rutherford Mead (1846–1928) was a well-known architect, the Mead of McKim, Mead, and White.

He is buried in the Cimitero Evangelico degli Allori in the southern suburb of Florence, Galluzzo (Italy).

Selected works

 * Recording Angel, marble, 1855. A replica of this adorns Mead's grave in Florence, Italy.
 * Agriculture (or Ceres), gilded wood, atop Vermont Statehouse dome, Montpelier, Vermont, 1858, replaced with a copy 1938.
 * Ethan Allen, marble, by main entrance to Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, Vermont, 1858–61, replaced with a copy 1941.
 * Bust of General George McClellan, unlocated, 1862.
 * Echo, marble, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, ca. 1862–63. Replicas of this are at the Boston Public Library, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences.
 * Bust of Venezia, marble, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 1865–66. This is believed to be a portrait of Mead's wife.
 * Returned Soldier, Italian marble, Connecticut Veterans Home, Rocky Hill, Connecticut, 1865-67. A replica of this is at the Chrysler Museum of Art.
 * America, marble, atop Soldiers' Monument, Courthouse Park, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, 1866–68.
 * Thought, marble, Bangor Public Library, Bangor, Maine, 1868.
 * Columbus's Last Appeal to Queen Isabella, California State Capitol, Sacramento, California, 1868–71. Removed in 2020 as a result of the George Floyd and BLM protests. List of monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd protests.
 * Bust of Abraham Lincoln, Hall of Inscriptions, Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, Vermont, ca. 1871. A study for Mead's statue at the Lincoln Tomb.
 * Ethan Allen, marble, National Statuary Hall Collection, United States Capitol, Washington, DC, 1876. A replica of this is at Fort Ticonderoga in Ticonderoga, New York.
 * Bas-relief Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1883.
 * Bas-relief of The Inauguration of George Washington as First President, bronze, ca. 1889.
 * The Triumph of Ceres (pedimental sculpture), north portico of the Agricultural Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1893 (destroyed). His brother, William Rutherford Mead, was the building's architect.
 *  The Return of Proserpine From the Realms of Pluto, unlocated, ca. 1893. Exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition.
 * Ione, marble, Bangor Public Library, Bangor, Maine, ca. 1897.
 * Leland Stanford and Family, bronze, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 1899.
 * Mississippi – The Father of Waters, marble, Minneapolis City Hall, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1903–06.
 * La Contadinella (The Country Girl), unlocated.
 * Sappho, unlocated.
 * [Bas-relief?] Portrait of John Hay, bronze, unlocated.
 * [Bas-relief?] Portrait of William Dean Howells, bronze, unlocated.
 * [Bas-relief?] Portrait of Henry James, bronze, unlocated.

Lincoln Tomb, Springfield, Illinois

 * United States Coat of Arms, bronze, ca. 1870.
 * Statue of Abraham Lincoln, bronze, 1871–72.
 * The Infantry Group, bronze, 1874–76.
 * The Naval Group, bronze, 1874–77.
 * The Artillery Group, bronze, 1882.
 * The Cavalry Group, bronze, 1883.

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Stephen Decatur Bross

Stephen A. Decatur (born 1813, died 1888 or 1889 ), born Stephen Decatur Bross and often referred to as Commodore Decatur, was one of the earliest settlers in Nebraska. He was born and educated in the East, where he became a school teacher and started a family.

After having abandoned his wife and two children in New York in the 1840s, Bross moved west to Nebraska Territory. For the rest of his life, he used the name "Stephen Decatur." He was the namesake and one of the incorporators of Decatur, Nebraska, the second-oldest European-American settlement in Nebraska. He gained his nickname of "Commodore Decatur" by claiming to be a nephew of the Naval hero of the War of 1812.

Decatur married again in Nebraska. In 1859 he abandoned his second wife and their child when he moved to Colorado Territory, where he lived in various towns for the remainder of his life. He served a term in the territorial legislature from 1866 to 1868, after the American Civil War.

Biography
Decatur was born in Sussex County, New Jersey, to Moses Bross and Jane (Winfield) Bross. He was counted as the second of eleven children, because his twin brother William was born a few minutes earlier. They both attended Williams College during the 1830s, and roomed together. William also later went West, settling in Chicago, Illinois. He was later active in the Republican Party and elected as lieutenant governor.

Stephen became a schoolteacher under the name Stephen Decatur Bross in New Jersey and New York. In the early 1840s he suddenly disappeared, abandoning his wife and two children.

He next surfaced in Nebraska Territory, where he used the name Stephen Decatur. While on the Nebraska frontier, he served in the Mexican–American War. He arrived in what is now the Decatur area, on the upper Missouri River, from Bellevue in 1841. He first made his home with the Omaha tribe, which had long occupied this territory. He lived on a farm called "Decatur Springs," named for a spring of pure water found there that supplied water to the town for the next century.

Later Decatur worked as a clerk at the trading post of Colonel Peter Sarpy, who had numerous posts in Nebraska affiliated with the American Fur Company. The one in Decatur opened in 1854. Sarpy was also important to early Nebraska development, attracting residents and settlement near such posts. In 1854 Decatur was a candidate to serve in Nebraska's First Territorial Assembly, but he was not seated. He has been described as a "highly educated man who claimed he was a nephew of Commodore Stephen Decatur, Naval hero of the War of 1812."

The town of Decatur, Nebraska, was incorporated in 1856 under the name "The Decatur Townsite & Ferry Company." The other incorporators included Thomas Whiteacre, T. H. Hineman, George Mason, and Herman Glass. The patents for the town were granted by the legislatureon May 1, 1862.

In Nebraska Decatur married again. In 1859 he moved to the Colorado Territory to work in the gold fields, leaving behind his second wife and their child. During the American Civil War, he enlisted in the 3rd Colorado Regiment. After the war he remained in Colorado, including a stint in Georgetown, where he published the Georgetown Miner.

Soon he moved to Summit County, Colorado, which he represented in the territorial legislature from 1866 to 1868. He died June 5, 1888, in Rosita, Colorado, a small camp in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. His age at death was estimated to be 80. He is buried in Rosita Cemetery in Custer County, Colorado.

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Deerfield River

Deerfield River is a river that runs for 76 mi from southern Vermont through northwestern Massachusetts to the Connecticut River. The Deerfield River was historically influential in the settlement of western Franklin County, Massachusetts, and its namesake town. It is the Connecticut River's second-longest tributary in Massachusetts, 2.1 mi shorter than Metropolitan Springfield's Westfield River.

The river's confluence with the Connecticut is in Greenfield, Massachusetts, downstream of Turners Falls. The Deerfield is one of the most heavily dammed rivers in the country with, on average, a dam almost every 7 mi for its entire length. In Shelburne Falls, the glacial potholes and the Bridge of Flowers are popular tourist attractions around the river.

Geography
The great descent of the river of nearly 1,100 feet over 50 miles furnished water power at many places. Several streams nearly as large as the main river enter the Deerfield River from the north. Among its tributaries is the Green River.

Dams
There are 10 dams on the Deerfield, owned by three different electric utilities:
 * Great River Hydro LLC purchased from the TransCanada Corporation in 2017 the Somerset, Searsburg, Harriman, Sherman, Deerfield #2, #3, #4 and #5 hydroelectric generating stations and dams;
 * Brookfield Power owns the Bear Swamp Pump Storage project and Fife Brook dam;
 * Nautilus Power LLC of Charlotte, North Carolina, owns the relatively small Gardner Falls Dam, which dates from 1904.

The various hydroelectric facilities were purchased from National Energy & Gas Transmission, Inc. (NEGT) subsidiary USGen New England, Inc. at the conclusion of NEGT's Chapter 11 bankruptcy and liquidation of the assets of the USGen subsidiary in 2005.

In 1994, an agreement on relicensing the various dams with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Massachusetts and Vermont state authorities that regulate water quality led to comprehensive coordinated water release and power generation schedules to enable more recreational use of the river, with minimum water flow measures to mitigate the dam impact on riverine habitat.

A 260 ft dam was proposed for the Stillwater section of the river in Deerfield in the mid to late twentieth century. Local opposition helped to defeat the proposal.

History
The hydroelectric development of the Deerfield River began in 1910 when the New England Power Company was formed to acquire water rights on the Deerfield and construct dams. The largest dam, Harriman, was built in the early 1920s and has an unusual overflow structure known as the "Glory Hole." This structure is a funnel-like concrete tube that leads to a tunnel under the earthen dam and prevents high flows from overtopping the dam.

The last dam built on the Deerfield was Fife Brook Dam, which was built in the early 1970s in conjunction with the development of the Bear Swamp Pumped Storage facility. This facility acts as a battery for power generated during times of low demand. By using excess electricity to pump water to the top of the mountain, where a reservoir was created by building levees around an existing high swamp, energy is stored. When electrical demand is higher (usually midday or afternoon/evening) the water from the upper reservoir can be released through the turbines (which act as pumps in reverse) to meet demand.

The third commercial nuclear reactor in the United States was built in the town of Rowe, Massachusetts, on the banks of the Deerfield River by Sherman Reservoir. Known as "Yankee Rowe", it generated electricity for New England from 1960 to 1992.

The eastern entrance of the Hoosac Tunnel is located on the river in the town of Florida, Massachusetts. It is a railroad tunnel, still in use, started in 1851 and completed in 1875. The Burleigh Rock Drill, one of the first pneumatic drills, was used in its construction. Construction also featured the first large-scale commercial use of nitroglycerine and electric blasting caps. The American Society of Civil Engineers made the tunnel a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1975.

The Bardwell's Ferry Bridge is a 198 ft pin-connected through truss, built in 1882 and spanning the Deerfield River between the towns of Shelburne and Conway in Franklin County. It is the longest single-span lenticular bridge in Massachusetts. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Recreation
Activities on and around the Deerfield include whitewater kayaking, canoeing, tubing, fishing, swimming, and camping. A popular swimming area by the Stillwater Bridge in Deerfield has waterside cliffs up to forty feet high that swimmers jump from; this activity is tolerated but not condoned. There are two sections of the river for whitewater paddling: the Fife Brook section for class II and III paddlers, and the "Dryway" for class IV paddlers.

There are several tributaries of the Deerfield River that provide excellent whitewater creek runs, including the class IV-V West Branch of the Deerfield in Readsboro, Vermont, the class V Dunbar Brook in Monroe, Massachusetts, the class V Pelham Brook in Rowe, Massachusetts, the class IV Cold River in Florida and Charlemont, Massachusetts, and the class III Chickley River in Hawley, Massachusetts.

This is also an excellent trout fishery, great for fly fishing. Two sections between the Fife Brook dam and the Route 2 bridge are catch and release. There are 5 dams which control the majority of the river flow and allow selectable trout fishing through the year.

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William Rutherford Mead

William Rutherford Mead (August 20, 1846 – June 19, 1928) was an American architect who was the "Center of the Office" of McKim, Mead, and White, a noted Gilded Age architectural firm. The firm's other founding partners were Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909) and Stanford White (1853–1906).

Early life
Mead was born in Brattleboro, Vermont. He was a first cousin, once removed of President Rutherford B. Hayes, hence his middle name. His sister, Elinor, later married novelist William Dean Howells, and his younger brother Larkin Goldsmith Mead became a sculptor. Mead was handsome, authoritative and quiet. His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother was the sister of John Humphrey Noyes, the Oneida Utopian. Mead attended Norwich University for two years, where he joined the Alpha Chapter of Theta Chi Fraternity. After transferring from Norwich, he graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts in the class of 1867. He later learned architecture under George Fletcher Babb in Russell Sturgis's office in New York City.

Career
In 1872, Mead partnered with Charles Follen McKim, a fellow New York architect, but Mead's talent was more for running an office rather than designing. This collaboration with McKim produced one of Mead's only known commissions, a house for an Amherst classmate, Dwight Herrick, from Mead's hometown of Chesterfield, New Hampshire.

Around December 1877, the firm took on William Bigelow, the elder brother of McKim's new wife, Annie Bigelow, as a partner, becoming McKim, Mead and Bigelow, with offices at 57 Broadway. In 1879, Bigelow withdrew from the firm, but they were joined by Stanford White to form McKim, Mead, and White. Mead was the partner who "hired and fired", "steered the ship", and spent his time "trying to keep the partners from making damn fools of themselves."

After his 1883 marriage, he moved to Rome, Italy, where he was heavily involved in the American Academy in Rome – McKim's favorite project and legacy – until his death. He was an AAR charter member, as was McKim, a Trustee from 1905 to 1928, and its president from 1910 to 1928. In 1902, King Victor Emmanuel conferred on Mead the decoration of Knight Commander of the Crown of Italy for his pioneer work in introducing the Roman and Italian Renaissance architectural style in America. In 1902, Amherst College conferred upon Mead the honorary degree of LL.D. In 1909, he received a degree of M.S. from Norwich University in Vermont. In 1912 he received the gold medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was an early member of the academy. In 1922 he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy.

Personal life
In 1883, Mead married Olga Kilyeni (c. 1850–1936) in Budapest, Hungary.

Mead retired in 1920 and died on June 30, 1928, in a Paris hotel room from a heart attack, after an illness of several weeks, with his wife at his side. Mead was the last of the firm's founding partners to die, as McKim died in 1909, after White in 1906. At his death, his estate of $250,000 went to his wife, Olga. Olga moved in with her sister in New York City, and died on April 10, 1936, in New York City in her apartment in the Sherry-Netherland Hotel. She left her entire estate to the trustees of Amherst College. The money was used to build the Mead Art Building, which was designed by James Kellum Smith of McKim, Mead and White. The building was completed in 1949 and houses the Mead Art Museum.

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Fifteen Years War

Fifteen Years War may refer to:

 * Long Turkish War, 1591–1606 war between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire
 * Pacific War, conflicts involving Japan from the Mukden Incident in Manchuria in 1931 through the end of World War II in 1945

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HMS Thunderer (1783)

HMS Thunderer was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built in 1783. She carried 74-guns, being classified as a third rate. During her service she took part in several prominent naval battles of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars; including the Glorious First of June, the Battle of Cape Finisterre and the Battle of Trafalgar.

History
Thunderer was built by the Wells brother's shipyard in Rotherhithe and launched on 13 November 1783. After completion, she was laid up until 1792, when she underwent a 'Middling Repair' to bring her into service in 1793.

In 1794 she fought at the Glorious First of June under Captain Albemarle Bertie, and from 1796 to 1801 served in the West Indies, under a succession of captains. During this period, under Captain Pierre Flasse, Thunderer fought at the Battle of Jean-Rabel in which she and HMS Valiant (1759) forced the crew of the French frigate Harmonie to scuttle their vessel to prevent her capture.

On 15 October, HMS Melampus (1785) and HMS Latona (1781), and later HMS Orion (1781) and HMS Thalia (1782), and later still HMS Pomone (1794) and Concorde, chased two French frigates, Tartu and Néréide, 50-gun frigate Forte, and the brig-aviso (or corvette) Éveillé. The British ships had to give up on the frigates due to the closeness of the shore. However, Pomone and Thunderer, which had joined the chase, were able to take Eveillé, of 18 guns, and 100 men. The French force had been out for 60 days and had captured 12 West Indiamen, two of which, Kent and Albion, the British had already recaptured. Pomone and her squadron had recaptured Kent on 9 October. Orion recaptured Albion. Warren's squadron returned to England in December with the remnants of the expedition to Quiberon Bay.

In mid-1799 Thunderer was part of a British squadron that detained the schooner Pegasus. Pegasus had been flying an American flag and was carrying 68 slaves from Jamaica to Havana. Her captors sent Pegasus into the Bahamas where they were sold in late June and early July. The advertisements for the sales gave the origins of the slaves as Martinique, suggesting that Pegasus had been carrying false papers.

On 10 October 1800, Thunderer rescued the crew of HMS Diligence (1795) which had struck a reef off the north coast of Cuba. The British set fire to Diligence as they left. It turned out that she had hit an uncharted shoal near Rio Puercos.

Thunderer was recommissioned in 1803 under the command of Captain William Bedford.

On 14 June 1803 Rosamond arrived at Torbay. She had been sailing to France from San Domingue when Thunderer captured her. Rosamond was carrying a cargo of coffee, cotton, and sugar with an estimated value of £30,000.

On 26 July 1803 Thunderer captured the French privateer brig Venus. Venus, of 358 tons (bm), was pierced for 28 cannons but carried 18, sixteen 6-pounder guns and two 8-pounder carronades. She had a crew of 150 men, under the command of M. Lemperierre. She had sailed from Bordeaux five days earlier, in company with four other privateers. In his letter describing the capture, Captain Bedford described her as quite new, coppered, and well suited for the Royal Navy.

In 1805 Thunderer fought in Admiral Calder's fleet at the Battle of Cape Finisterre. Her captain, William Lechmere, returned to England to attend a court-martial as a witness to the events of Admiral Calder's action off Cape Finisterre at the time of the battle. Later that year she fought at the Battle of Trafalgar under the command of her First Lieutenant, John Stockham. The surgeon on board was Scotsman James Marr Brydone, who was the first of the main British battle fleet to sight the Franco-Spanish fleet. Thunderer signalled the Victory and three minutes later battle orders were signalled to the British fleet beginning the Battle of Trafalgar. On 25 November, Thunderer detained the Ragusan ship Nemesis, of 350 tons (bm), four guns and 18 men, Poulovich, master. Nemesis was sailing from Isle de France to Leghorn, Italy, with a cargo of spice, indigo dye, and other goods. Thunderer shared the prize money with ten other British warships.

In 1807, Thunderer served in the Dardanelles Operation as part of a squadron under Admiral Sir John Duckworth and was badly damaged when the squadron withdrew from the area. However, she accompanied Duckworth on the Alexandria expedition of 1807, and in May left Alexandria for Malta, where she was provisioned and repaired over a period of 30 days.

She was decommissioned in November 1808 and broken up in March 1814.

It is reputed that some of her timbers were re-used to build Christ Church, Totland on the Isle of Wight, whilst others were used in the construction of the lych gate at St. Nicolas' Church at North Stoneham near Eastleigh.

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William Mead

William Mead may refer to

 * William Mead (merchant) (1628–1713), prominent London Quaker
 * William H. Mead (1921–1974), bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Delaware
 * William Perrett Mead (1889–1980), New Zealand and writer
 * William Richard Mead (1915–2014), British geographer
 * William Rutherford Mead (1846–1928), American architect

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Bulgarian torpedo boat Drazki

Drazki (Bulgarian language: Дръзки; also transliterated as Druzki, "Intrepid") was a Bulgarian Navy torpedo boat built at the start of the 20th century. A ship of the same class is now a museum ship under her name in Varna.

Construction and specifications
Drazki was part of a class of six torpedo boats. Her five sisters were named: Smeli (Смели, "Brave"), Hrabri (Храбри, "Valiant"), Shumni (Шумни, "Noisy"), Letyashti (Летящи, "Flying") and Strogi (Строги, "Stern"). The six boats were built at Varna in Bulgaria, using French-supplied materials and assistance. Drazki and her sisters were built between 1907 and 1908, with Drazki herself being launched in August 1907 and commissioned later that year.

During World War II, Drazki and her three remaining sisters had a normal displacement of 97 tons, measuring 37.80 meters in length, with a beam of 4.27 meters and a draught of 1.37 meters. They were powered by a one-shaft triple-expansion reciprocating engine generating 1,900 hp which gave them a top speed of 26 knots. The four boats were each armed at various times with two 47 mm guns or two 37 mm anti-aircraft guns and three 460 mm torpedo tubes.

Balkan Wars
The Bulgarian Navy's torpedo boats took part in the First Balkan War between 1912 and 1913, serving in the waters of the Black Sea. On 20 November 1912 Letyashti, Smeli, Strogi and Drazki were sent from Varna to intercept a group of Turkish transports. The overall commanding officer was commander Dimitar Dobrev, who was embarked on the Letyashti. The Drazki was commanded by Lt jg Georgi Kupov. Shortly after midnight on 21 November they encountered the Ottoman protected cruiser Hamidiye accompanied by two destroyers approximately 32 miles from Varna. Dobrev ordered the ships to close and attack, and at 0043 the Bulgarian ships fired their torpedoes. The first three ships missed, but Drazki was more fortunate. Since she was the last ship in the line, she fired her torpedo at a close range (about 100 m) and scored a hit in the front part of the Hamidiye, causing serious damage, although the ship was able to return to Istanbul for repairs.) Their torpedoes expended, the Bulgarian boats returned to Varna. This engagement was the greatest achievement up to that point in the history of the small Bulgarian Navy. Before the torpedo attack, the Ottoman naval commander had declared an ultimatum to the garrison of Varna to surrender as condition for the town to avoid shelling by the Ottoman Navy.

World War I
They did not take an active part in the Second Balkan War, however they did see active service in World War I, during which Shumni was sunk by a mine on 11/12-9-1916. After World War I the remaining five were judged to be obsolescent and were subsequently reclassified as patrol boats. In 1934 the 3-pounder guns were removed and replaced with two SK C/30 AA guns.

World War II
When Bulgaria entered World War II on the Axis side, Drazki and her four remaining sisters were antiquated but still capable of carrying out patrols. In 1942 the two SK C/30 AA guns were removed and the 3-pounders were reinstalled. On 15 October 1942, Drazki sank in Varna harbour after a magazine explosion, but she was soon repaired. In 1944 however, she became a gunnery target ship and remained in service in that capacity until the 1950s.

Museum ship
In 1957 it was decided to commemorate the 50-year-old Drazki, as she was by far the most famous ship in the Bulgarian Navy. However, by that time she had been at least partially broken up for scrap. Her gun, funnel and some of the deck and hull fittings were installed on board her sister ship Strogi, which, after 21 November 1957, became the museum ship Drazki. She is currently preserved as a static land display at the Naval Museum in Varna. Her other sister Hrabri was scrapped in 1962. In 1958 a Riga class frigate was named "Drazki". She served until 1992, when decommissioned.

In 2006 a Wielingen class frigate Wandelaar bought in Belgium for the Bulgarian Navy was named Drazki, and given the identification code F41.

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Robert E. Rodes

Robert Emmett (or Emmet) Rodes (March 29, 1829 – September 19, 1864) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War, and the first of Robert E. Lee's divisional commanders not trained at West Point. His division led Stonewall Jackson's devastating surprise attack at the Battle of Chancellorsville; Jackson, on his deathbed, recommended that Rodes be promoted to major general. Rodes then served in the corps of Richard S. Ewell at the Battle of Gettysburg and in the Overland Campaign, before that corps was sent to the Shenandoah Valley under Jubal Early, where Rodes was killed at the Third Battle of Winchester.

Education, antebellum career
Rodes was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, and graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1848. He taught at VMI as an assistant professor until 1851; he left when a promotion he wanted to full professor was given instead to Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, who was years later to become one of his commanders during the Civil War.

Rodes used his civil engineering skills to become chief engineer for the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He was chief engineer of the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad until the start of the war. Although born a Virginian, he chose to serve his adopted state of Alabama in the armed forces of the Confederate States of America (CSA).

Civil War
Rodes started his Confederate service as a colonel in command of the 5th Alabama Infantry regiment. Rodes went to First Bull Run as part of Brigader General Richard Ewell's brigade, but did not see any action. In October 1861, he was promoted to brigadier general and assigned as part of Major General D.H. Hill's division.

Rodes's first combat experience happened at the Battle of Seven Pines, where he was badly wounded. A few weeks later, he returned to brigade command just prior to the start of the Seven Days Battles. He led his brigade at Gaines Mill, but two days later had to step down due to fever and the lingering effects of his wound and was subsequently assigned to light duty in the defenses of Richmond, Virginia while he recuperated. He recovered in time for General Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the Union, in September 1862, fighting at South Mountain and Antietam. At Antietam, he commanded one of two brigades that held out so long against the Union assault on the sunken road, or "Bloody Lane", at the center of the Confederate line, suffering heavy casualties. Rodes was lightly wounded by shell fragments.

In the Battle of Chancellorsville, Rodes was a division commander in Stonewall Jackson's corps. He was the first division-level commander in Lee's army who had not graduated from West Point. Rodes led Jackson's devastating flank attack against the Union XI Corps on May 2, 1863. He was temporarily placed in command of the corps that night when Jackson was mortally wounded and Maj. Gen. A.P. Hill was also wounded. Hill immediately summoned the more senior officer Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, and minutes later Rodes graciously ceded his battlefield command to him. Jackson on his deathbed recommended that Rodes be promoted to major general and this promotion be back-dated to be effective May 2.

When Lee reorganized the Army of Northern Virginia to compensate for the loss of Jackson, Rodes joined the Second Corps under Richard Ewell. In the Battle of Gettysburg, on July 1, 1863, Rodes led the assault from Oak Hill against the right flank of the Union I Corps. Although his initial attacks were poorly coordinated and casualties high, he eventually routed the division of Maj. Gen. John C. Robinson and drove it back through the town. His division sat idle for the remaining two days of the battle.

Rodes continued to fight with Ewell's corps through the 1864 Overland Campaign of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Ewell was replaced by Lt. Gen. Jubal Early, and the corps was sent by Lee to the Shenandoah Valley to draw Union forces away from Petersburg, in the Valley Campaigns of 1864. Early conducted a long and successful raid down the Valley, into Maryland, and reached the outskirts of Washington, D.C., before turning back. Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan was sent by Grant to drive Early from the Valley once and for all.

On September 19, 1864, Sheridan attacked the Confederates at the Battle of Opequon, also known as the Third Battle of Winchester. Several wives of Confederate officers were chased from town during the attack and Rodes managed to save Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon's wife from capture. Rodes and Gordon prepared to attack Sheridan's forces when Rodes was struck in the back of his head by a Union shell fragment. He died on the field outside Winchester.

Rodes was mourned by the Confederacy as a promising, brave, and aggressive officer killed before he could achieve greatness. Robert E. Lee and other high-ranking officers wrote sympathetic statements. Rodes is buried beside his brother, Virginius Hudson Rodes, who had been his adjutant throughout the War, in Presbyterian Cemetery, Lynchburg, Virginia. He and his wife, Virginia Hortense Woodruff (1833–1907), had two children, Robert Emmet Rodes, Jr. (1863–1925) and Bell Yancey Rodes (1865–1931).

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Finntorp

Finntorp is a housing area in the municipality of Nacka, east of Stockholm, Sweden. Modern Finntorp was built from the 1940s.

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Talk:Gunstar Heroes

Character qualms
Something's been bothering me. Ever since Gunstar Super Heroes came out, it seems like people have been merging the characters of that game with the characters of this game... and this doesn't settle with me (let alone the fact that the Stages section of that page is a direct copyvio of this page's Stages section). Can anyone supply the manual for THIS game so I can do a little fact-checking? Because Gunstar Heroes is NOT the same thing as Super Heroes... --Shadow Hog 04:55, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

It's suggested in the storyline of Gunstar Super Heroes that the lead characters are actually the descendants of the stars of Gunstar Heroes. It's not stated explicitly, but very strongly implied. --M.Neko 08:25, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Gun Heroes Vs. Super Heroes
Gunstat Heroes or Super Heroes may follow each other for story line, but they both sound like fine games to me. I've played Gunstar Heroes when I was young and the levels still have that same intense play it had on me.

Anyways, whether or not the story follows each other from Super Heroes, I'm pretty sure it is only a suggestion to the story line. Gunstar Heroes Rule!!! --Zhang Liao 08:34, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

The game takes place 15 years later. Red and Blue are both teens in this game. If they were the same people, that would make their age in GH 0 to 3 yrs. Sabre Knight 19:03, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Ports
As far as I know, the Wii version is no Port but an emulated Version of the game. Therefore I think we could remove that Wii reference.

Plot
The story is all wrong. Red and Blue defeated Golden Silver in the past and then entered some sort of sleep status. The professor had nothing to do with it. This is straight out of the Japanese manual. I'll need to edit this later. Bombman 20:06, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Re-releases
Do we really need to have info about some of the releases in the intro, whenever all the info about that is already in the " Versions and rereleases" section? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.206.255.219 (talk) 18:08, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Development info
Anyone have development info for this section? All I can find is this:

http://blogs.sega.com/2013/11/25/sega-3d-classics-space-harrier-3d-interview-with-developer-m2/

"NH [Naoki Horii, M2 president]: Back in the time of Gunstar Heroes on the Game Gear, there was a SEGA employee named Hiroshi Aso. He approached us and said “Wow, you made Gauntlet, huh? Well how would you like to work on Game Gear? Go ahead and pitch a couple games you’d like to do.” So we suggested a game called Edward Randy. If you think about it, Gunstar Heroes is just an improved version of Edward Randy. So porting that to the Game Gear was our first job with SEGA." Parrothead1983 (talk) 13:34, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Working title
Okay. According to the Sega Ages page on the game, the working title for the game was Lunatic Gunstar. 108.57.88.172 (talk) 10:42, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

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I'm going to simply list the changes that was made to the Game Gear version: 1. The 4 main stages in the Genesis version were reduced to 3 in the Game Gear version, cutting Black. Enemies from this stage were not present in the Game Gear version whatsoever. 2. Enemy sprites for the helmet Empire enemies were not added - instead they recycled their lower rank counterpart and added a sparkling aura about them to separate them. It's also safe to assume they use the same spritesheet containing the special animations only given to the helmet enemies. 3. Green's Stage makes use of the Jetpacks that the Empire soldiers used in Orange's Stage, which you must use. 3B. Green's Stage is also extremely reduced in size, again most likely due to Game Gear limitations. 3C. Smash Daisaku does not appear in Green's Stage, instead he's shown in Orange's Stage playing a similar role of throwing Empire soldiers at you, before escaping by using his jetpack. 4. Several Cutscenes from the Genesis version were altered to work on the Game Gear. Some do a whiteout/blackout technique to change the background, while others just simply do some cleanup and background. 5. Stage 5, or in the Game Gear version, Stage 4, was slightly shortened. It only included 1 of the Mechs and Hovering Platforms where the Genesis included a lot more. 6. Stage 6, or in the Game Gear version, Stage 5, was totally reworked - instead of flying through space, the player is somehow placed in the ship already, in the Mech included from the 16-bit version. Additionally, all but the Unit of the Runner were removed from the Game Gear version and replaced with a unit infused with Unit of the Hammer and Unit of the Dragon, called Unit of the Atom. 7. Stage 7, or in the Game Gear version, Stage 6, is changed to accommodate the exclusion of Black. So straight from Orange's battle, you go into Green's, and no elevator is provided. 8. Multiple bosses that exist lost some of their moves from the Genesis version, with the exception of Orange who gained a new move to counter the Genesis exploitation of his AI, called "Jake Shaker". 9. Some glitches that are present in the Game Gear version are not present in the Genesis version. 10. The intro was slightly altered, again to accommodate Black's exclusion from the Game Gear version. 11. The stage selection screen is made of one screen, in which the movement buttons will change stages. Not sure if this would make any impact to the article itself, but I'll leave it here. Tanner Ghosen (talk) 17:53, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Plot
The Ristar page states that this game has a different plot in English compared to Japanese, but the page doesn't talk about it at all. Can we add something to explain this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 8.24.109.231 (talk) 01:32, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure why the game is even mentioned at Ristar, I'll fix that. As for this page, sure I could see a short plot explanation being helpful. You can try adding one if you'd like. TarkusAB talk / contrib 03:44, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

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Brunner, New Zealand

Brunner, originally called Brunnerton, is a town in the northwest of New Zealand's South Island. It is 12 km east of Greymouth, on the south bank of the Grey River. It is on the Midland Line railway near its junction with the Stillwater–Westport Line (SWL) in neighbouring Stillwater. Passenger trains ceased running along the SWL to Reefton and Westport in 1967, but the TranzAlpine runs the length of the Midland Line from Christchurch to Greymouth and it continues to stop in Brunner.

Historically connected with coal mining, the town was the site of a major disaster in 1896, when an explosion killed 65 miners in the Brunner Mine. Other important industries in the town have included forestry.

The population was 1,144 in the 1956 census but is very small now.

The town, formerly called Brunnerton, was named after the explorer Thomas Brunner, who discovered coal there.

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Category:Care Bears

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Care Bears are a brand of teddy bears.

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Tex Corp

Tex Corp is an Indian multinational manufacturer of zippers, sliders and other fastening products. Headquartered in Gurgaon, it supplies global fashion retailers primarily in Europe and the United States.

Background
Formed in New Delhi in 1987 by a group of Indian Institutes of Management alumni, Tex is one of the largest manufacturers and exporters of zipper and fastening products for the apparel industry. It has two manufacturing facilities in India and one each in Bangladesh and Vietnam, becoming the first Indian owned multinational zipper manufacturing organization. Tex's business group also has interests in apparel manufacturing and renewable energy.

Among Tex's clients are the Gap, Macy's, Kohl's, Express, Target, Talbots, Belk, HBC, H&M, Debenhams, Next, Tesco and Matalan. Tex's products are delivered directly to its customers' manufacturing facilities located primarily in the Indian Subcontinent, South-East Asia, Africa and Europe.

Tex adheres to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)9001:2008 standard. Tex is also an Oeko-Tex Product Class 1 and Eco-tex certified organization. Its products are Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act and Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) compliant.

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Talk:Aretha Franklin

Non-rs
The two Showbiz411 refs should be deleted, as Showbiz411 is not an RS, per USERGENERATED and WP:SELFPUB. --2603:7000:2143:8500:9908:4467:7D2D:5F71 (talk) 05:17, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

Non-RS
I would suggest that the Showbiz411 ref be deleted, as Showbiz411 is not an RS, per USERGENERATED and WP:SELFPUB. --2603:7000:2143:8500:DDB2:A4E1:CCC1:91F3 (talk) 05:16, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

Health section?
I notice that much of this "health" section focuses on Aretha Franklin's weight. It is very rare for male celebrities to have "health" sections, especially those that focus on weight, regardless of body size. I think this section should be reconsidered for Ms. Franklin and in general across gender representation. For example, see Luciano Pavarotti's Wikipedia page for this discrepancy. It is well documented that women face far greater scrutiny for body shape and size than men in comparable roles in society, and that they face discrimination for not fitting a preconceived "feminine" appearance. Heinzam (talk) 07:22, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
 * I agree. I think generally health sections don't belong, as kind of a tabloidization, and here her health as happens with many older people became an issue toward her death, so no life long issue.  Any truly relevant information can be redistributed and interwoven to other sections. -- Alanscottwalker (talk) 12:15, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

Aretha Franklin is dead
“Aretha Louise Franklin (/əˈriːθə/ ə-REE-thə; March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist.[2] Referred to as the "Queen of Soul", she has twice been placed ninth in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". With global sales of over 75 million records, Franklin is one of the best-selling music artists from the second half of the 20th century to the present.[3]”

Shouldn’t “she has” be “she was” or “she” and “is” was? 73.95.158.180 (talk) 06:27, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

 * Her placement in music polls and the sales of her music did not stop when she died, but are ongoing. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:30, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 18 April 2024
change first female artist to women artist inducted int hall of fame. R0bwill12 (talk) 17:06, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: Unnecessary – the current wording is accurate and 'women artist' or 'woman artist' would not be grammatically correct. 'Female' is an adjective whereas 'woman' is not. Irltoad (talk) 17:27, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

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Blason

Blason is a form of poetry. The term originally comes from the heraldic term "blazon" in French heraldry, which means either the codified description of a coat of arms or the coat of arms itself. The Dutch term is Blazoen, and in either Dutch or French, the term is often used to refer to the coat of arms of a chamber of rhetoric.

History
The term forms the root of the modern words "emblazon", which means to celebrate or adorn with heraldic markings, and "blazoner", one who emblazons. This form of poetry was used extensively by Elizabethan-era poets. The terms "blason", "blasonner", "blasonneur" were used in 16th-century French literature by poets who, following Clément Marot in 1536, practised a genre of poems that praised a woman by singling out different parts of her body and finding appropriate metaphors to compare them with. It is still being used with that meaning in literature and especially in poetry. One famous example of such a celebratory poem, ironically rejecting each proposed stock metaphor, is William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130:

 * My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks, And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

 * I love to hear her speak, yet well I know, That music hath a far more pleasing sound. I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress when she walks treads on the ground. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.

Related phrases
Blason draws on Petrarchan conventions of representing the female beloved in Petrarch's Canzoniere of the 14th century. Petrarch never offers a complete picture of his beloved Laura, but depicts her only as parts of a woman. The French Blason tradition can also be considered anti-Petrarchan, as it moves away from the adulatory tone of the Petrarchan sonnet (Petrarchism was so pervasive in the Renaissance, it also included subversion of Petrarchan conventions). The term Blason populaire is a phrase in which one culture or ethnic group increases its own self-esteem by belittling others e.g. Samuel Johnson's description that "The noblest prospect which a Scotsman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!". This term originated from Alfred Canel's travelogue Blason Populaire de la Normandie (1859), in which people from Normandy boasted about themselves while sneering at other regions.

The genre also spawned contreblasons, in which the poet mocked unattractive parts of a woman's body.

Related genres
Other cultures have types of blason poetry. For instance, Ethiopia has a genre of poetry called Mälkəˀ, meaning "image" or "portrait,” generally written in the language of Gəˁəz in honor of sacred individuals. Such poems list and eulogize the spiritual powers of the saint, using the metaphor of various body parts, starting with the hair, eyelashes, tongue, and lips, moving down to the throat, breasts, and belly, and from there down to legs and toes, among other parts. For an example, see the poem Mälkəˀa Wälättä Ṗeṭros: "Hail to your back, which cast off luxurious cloaks, and to your chest, a banquet-table for the wretched. Walatta Petros, our mother, lover of fasting and prayer, request forgiveness for our sins before the Lord: Thus we implore you, we who are yours."

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