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Wladyslaw Carem

 * Dolaczysz do Michael I of Russia i Vasili IV of Russia? Ja dzis juz nie moge rv-towac--Emax 08:58, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * W artykule jest juz wyjasnione ze nie posiadal praktycznie wladzy, ale wybranym carem byl (sami go wybrali, nie zostal narzucony). Co do Szwecji jest pewna roznica "...also hereditary king of the Swedes, Goths.." :) Ten caly Gje-cos tam cos tam, juz pokazal swoja klase w artykule o bitwie nad Orsza, u mnie jest juz na liscie ludzi ktorzy nadaja sie tylko na reverty ;)--Emax 11:14, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * Co sadzisz o tym by stworzyc mailing list, dla polskich uzytkownikow z ang wiki - w celu obgadywania roznych spraw?--Emax 22:30, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * Moze i byc na yahoo, postaram sie dzis zalozyc.--Emax 22:53, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Aha, cos to za konspirowanie i frakcje-szmakcje tutaj? A jak zapukam do UB ? Rozmowa kontrolowana... Rozmowa kontrolowana... :) Mikkalai

 * No i właśnie dla takich kwiatków wolę, byśmy pozostali z listą na wiki, a nie poza nią :) Halibutt

 * To było urocze. Space Cadet 11:16, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * O tak. Glosuje za uczynieniem Mikkalai'ego modem tej grupy. Co wy na to? :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 12:20, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * :) Wlasnie poto ja stworzylem, bo tutaj sciany maja uszy ;)--Emax 16:28, Jan 13, 2005 (UTC)

Polish-Soviet War
When seeing the initial draft of the article, I noticed it was a bit over the board, portraying Pilsudski as the savior of the civilization. History is full of "if"s. Here is another "dreamable future". Suppose Bolsheviks took over the Europe. As a result, inevitably the Bolshevik party would be flooded with Europeans. Unlike Russians, there would be plenty of skilled politicians, who would manage to keep Stalin at bay. Also, there would be no Hitler, and hence no WWII, no holocaust, &c, &c, &c. (I know I am saying nonsense, relax.) Therefore I understand the worries of 172. This initial clash always happens when a controversial article is started at one side of the fense (i.e., almost always). So I see no reason for panic. I will join the discussion, of course. Mikkalai 02:58, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Naming Wars II?
Hi there, Piotrus! Thanks for your work on Marina Mnishek (pardon my Polish here and below :))! There's a slight problem, however. I noticed that you put Polish names for different Russian cities and places (like Nowgorod, Pskow etc.), when they have well-established names in English (Novgorod, Pskov etc.). The way I understand it, it is perfectly fine to do this in Polish Wikipedia, but not in the English one. I'm sure you are not doing this on purpose, but could you please pay more attention to English spelling of Russian or other names? If you are not sure how to spell certain names in English, try doing research in the English Wikipedia. I also noticed that one of the users - Ghirlandajo - is kind of upset with it. I suggest we avoid it in the future, because we all hate naming wars. And once again, thank you for the work you do on Russo-Polish history! KNewman 19:26, Jan 13, 2005 (UTC)

Cape Colony
Hey ... I added referenecs to the Cape Colony series. What do you think? Páll 22:18, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Rusznica
Tak z ciekawości: skąd Ci się wzięło określenie 7.92 mm Rifle Anti-Tank Mascerzek? I kim był ów Mascerzek (bo przypuszczam że to osoba...). Tak czy siak - jest już artykuł na Karabin przeciwpancerny wz.35. Halibutt 03:15, Jan 17, 2005 (UTC)

Przypuszczam że musiało to być przekręcone nazwisko konstruktora (patrz: artykuł). Tak czy inaczej poprawiłem. Co do naszych numerycznych bezstronnych przyjaciół - myślę że da się jakoś z nimi dogadać, choć będzie to mozolne. Jak dotąd Twoja rozmowa ze stosiedemdziesiątym drugim przypomina walenie grochem o ścianę. Wskoczył facet od razu na wyżyny swej wiedzy i wygląda na to, że to my mamy jego przekonywać do swojej wersji, a nie odwrotnie. Ale, choć mozolnie, coś się z tego wykluwa. Dobry znak.

A tak z ciekawości: czy to ja jestem jakimś nacjonalistą i oszołomem, czy też dobrze mi się wydaje, że misja francuska to raczej detal a nie jedna z najważniejszych cech tego konfliktu? Bo sam już nie wiem...

Co do Wojny Obronnej - obserwuję dyskusję i czekam aż się kolejny ponumerowany wypowie na temat Twoich argumenów. Naprawdę jestem ciekaw, bo w jego wypadku trochę mi to wygląda na czepianie się dla samego czepiania. A zawsze myślałem że to nasz narodowy sport... --Halibutt 15:49, Jan 17, 2005 (UTC)

Dymitriady
Sposób numerowania przyjąłem taki, jakiego mnie uczono w ogólniaku (takiego samego używa PWN). Czyli: Pierwsza Dymitriada to kampania wsparcia pierwszego z Dymitrów - głównie przez magnaterię, a więc 1604-1606. Druga zaś to wsparcie w latach 1607–09 drugiego z samozwańców (a trzeciego z Dymitrów w ogóle :) ). Halibutt 07:53, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)

Please see the changes that I have made to my proposal in order to bring it closer to your version. 172 11:14, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Jan Nowak-Jezioranski
Jego śmierć jest wpomniana nawet na pierwszej stronie internetowej BBC a tu na Wikipedii o nim ani słowa. Czy są jacyś chętni do ekspresowej współpracy by stworzyć o nim artykuł? Balcer 17:03, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Cancel that, widzę że Halibutt już tym się zajął pod Jan Nowak-Jezioranski. Balcer 18:10, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Nareszcie mogłem być w czymś pierwszy... Napiszesz do RWE o zdjęcie? Halibutt 16:47, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)

Opis rv
Gdy ktos sie wyzywa, lub jak ten azjata poprostu kasuje pewne czesci artykulu, i krzyczy o polskim wandalizmie (ogladalem jego strone "contributions", czesto to robi) opis jest moim zdaniem zbedny. :)--Emax 14:14, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)

Krzysztof Zbaraski, a merchant?
''Could you point to any source for that member of the mercantile class...) (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Krzysztof_Zbaraski&diff=0&oldid=9605561|(...)? There was a vast gulf between merchants and nobility in PLC. While it is possible he was nobilitated, I'd like to see some source on that?''
 * That was my (no doubt facile) interpretation of the Szlachta entry, which was only how Zbaraski was identified in the original version of the article I attempted to clean up. And "merchantile" isn't exactly the same as "merchant", but in any case, on second thought I probably would have chosen "gentry" instead. This being Wikipedia, just clean up any misinterpretations I left behind. --Calton 12:31, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Davies quotes
Just letting you know that some of the passages you pasted into the Polish-Soviet war from the Talk page are direct, verbatim quotes from the book by Davies. The article may now be violating copyright. We should reword the offending sections. Balcer 16:54, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Commons BattleTech image
Heya, I noticed you uploaded a nice BattleTech image. While the source says "If you have a website, feel free to grab the logo which will fit your site and slap it on your main page.", this sadly does not mean that the image is in the public domain. With this being the only information for the picture, it is not even suitable for commons. For example, we also need information whether one is allowed to modificate the picture or to publish it on other places than on websites. If you don't have that information explicitly, the image has to be deleted from commons. You could still upload the image to the english Wikipedia tho, as the uploading guidelines are not that restrictive here. Best wishes. --Conti|✉ 14:18, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations, Piotrus!
Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 00:42, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Krag-Jørgensen
WegianWarrior has fixed the notes... does this look good now? - Ta bu shi da yu 21:36, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Collaboration of the week
Military history of the Soviet Union is this week's Collaboration of the Week. Please contribute to it to help make it a feature article

Great A'Tuin
Hey there. I note that you've recreated the Great A'Tuin article. Do you plan on expanding it at all? I placed it in Discworld (world) because I didn't see how it still warranted an article of its own. violet/riga (t) 23:32, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Nominations objections (Russia)
I've gone through all of your objections on History of Russia. Let's work through whatever objections remain, and I can look into resolving some of my objections to Battle of Warsaw so that we can get both important articles featured. 172 00:18, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * All of your specific objections to History of post-Soviet Russia have been addressed as well. 172 01:27, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Sure. Replied on your talk page. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 11:16, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Moskwa
Czy przypadkiem adjective od Muscovy nie brzmi Muscovite? Pytam, bo na List of Polish wars zobaczyłem masę dość dziwnych linków. Halibutt 22:29, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, the adjectival form of the noun "Muscovy" is "Muscovite." Logologist 07:57, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * P.S. "Muscovite" can also serve as a noun (English is a strange language):  as a native or inhabitant of Muscovy.  Logologist 08:02, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Michal Glinski
Czy moglbys zwrocic uwage na ten artykul? Dwoch starych znajomych ze wschodu, chca zrusifikowac marszalka PLC, coraz zabawniej sie robi.--Emax 13:43, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)

Moglbys looknac na http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#3RR_by_Emax - Gene sklamal ze revertowalem 4 razy, przyszedl Chris potwierdzil klamstwo i mam bana.

Pierwszy raz poprostu zmienililem pewne czesci artykulu co nie jest revertem, a zostalo mi policzone jako revert. Zreszta sam sprawdz na Michal Glinski - Emax

 * Dzieki--Emax 12:34, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)

battle of warsaw
Nice job. I left comments in talk:Battle of Warsaw (1920) section of article. Almost perfect. alteripse 02:36, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Anti-Polonism
Could you take a look at Anti-Polonism and Talk:Anti-Polonism? I am conducting a long discussion with Emax and it is not going anywhere. The basic problem I have with the article is that the word anti-Polonism, controversial even in Poland, practically does not exist in English usage. Emax is determined to push it through, and is becoming rather emotional about the issue. Balcer 04:32, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for taking a look. Indeed the revert issue was about mentioning the occurence of the word in Polish sources, but as the discussion makes clear, I have more general problems with the article.  Still, it is curious that even Polish Wikipedia (already 50,000 articles) does not say a word about anti-polonism.

 * The basic issue is still the fact that the word anti-polonism does not exist in English. Why should some people insist on this term, which is completely foreign to all readers of Wikipedia except Poles?  The only explanation I can think of is that some users (eg. Emax) have an agenda and want to push the word anti-polonism and force it into general acceptance.  One might agree or disagree with this approach, after all new words are introduced into general English use all the time.  Still, is Wikipedia the place to do it?  I think Wikipedia is here to describe things as they are, not as some people would like them to be.  The fact is that anti-polonism is not in general use, in fact it is used quite rarely in Polish and almost not at all in English.  The article should reflect that.

 * So I would prefer to use titles that most general readers can understand and which are less controversial. I would also think of the example Organised persecution of ethnic Germans, a title which avoided the controversial word Anti-Germanism, which some people might find offensive, and which might be misused by nationalists.

 * I would follow your suggestion, and just have articles (example titles):

 * Organised persecution of ethnic Poles (up to 1918)
 * Organised persecution of ethnic Poles (1918-1939)
 * Genocide against Poles (1939-1945)
 * Persistent prejudices against Poles (1945 to present) Balcer 19:48, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Also, I know one should write in English, but Emax is not a master of the language, so I wanted to make communication easier. As for PSW, it is on the back burner for now.  My university does not have too many materials, but the next closest one has a vast collection on Central European history.  I might take a trip and see what I can find. Balcer 19:48, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I am glad you agree with me that anti-polonism is not an appropriate title. If we are to have just one article, how does Persecution of ethnic Poles (or even shorter Persecution of Poles) sound as a title for it? Feel free to suggest a better title, if you happen to think of one.Balcer 21:54, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Actually, I just thought of another possibility: Hostility against Poles, which is the precise meaning of anti-polonism (or Hostility against ethnic Poles).Balcer 22:06, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Emax and reverts
Today I moved the article Anti-Polonism to Hostility towards Poles, with a careful explanation of the reasons on the talk page. I was not very surprised to see that within minutes Emax moved it back and reverted all of my changes, without any explanation (so far). Of course I have no intention to engage in a revert war with Emax, since I have better things to do in life. Unfortunately, having tried to reason with him I am slowly forming an impression that this is pointless. Emax appears not to believe in any compromise, instead he considers it a virtue to stick to his guns and make it a point of honour not to allow any changes to his POV.

You are now an admin, and you did agree with my reasoning for not using the anti-Polonism title, so you might consider protecting the page. Alternatively you might try to convince Emax to change his ways.

 * Drogi Balcerze, dyskutowalismy bardzo dlugo, wszystkie Twoje argumenty (co chwile wymyslales nowe) padly. Wiec prosze nie rob zemnie kogos kto przepycha swoja racje, bo Ty to dzis zrobiles na sile.--Emax 20:35, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)

 * Do Emaxa: Cóż, dodawałem nowe argumenty bo wszelkie poprzednie bezpardonowo odrzucałeś. Chciałem do ciebie jakoś dotrzeć, że tak się wyrażę.  Wydaje mi się też chyba oczywiste że w miarę zgłebiania się w temat człowiek może znajdować nowe argumenty.  W dyskusji szukałem kompromisu, więc częściowo przyznawałem ci rację, ale ty to widocznie za każdym razem uznawałeś za przyznanie się do porażki z mojej strony.

 * W moich oczach szukales dziury w calym.--Emax 21:48, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)

 * Skupmy się na rzeczy podstawowej: słowo antipolonism praktycznie nie jest używane w języku angielskim na tyle by być tytułem artykułu. Twoje przytoczenie jednego przykładu użycia tego słowa przez Davida Lucasa jest niewystarczające. Balcer 21:34, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Znalazlo by sie wiecej, ale naprawde nie chce mi sie juz szukac. Ta dyskusja jest 10 razy dluzsza od samego artykulu i robi sie dosc makabryczna. Artykul tlumaczy okreslenie "antypolonizm" a nie zdanie "Nienawisc do Polakow podczas IIWS" - to pierwsze tlumaczy okreslenie, to drugie opowiada tylko historie. Wikipedia jest jedyna encyklopedia ktora uzywa rowniez tytuly, prawdziwa encyklopedia tlumaczy okreslenia--Emax 21:48, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)

 * Drodzy moi. Jak juz zaczeliscie dyskutowac na moim talku, to pozwolcie mi sie wypowiedziec. Nazwa artykulu jest malo istotna, i w obydwu przypadkach nie najlepsza, bo a) Anti-polonism jest faktycznie bardzo malo uzywanym neologizmen b) nazwa opisowa raczej nie bylalby trafiana z wpisu tylko z tekstu artykulow albo 'see also'. Poniewaz a-polonism i tak bylby redirectem, a Emaxowi tak na nim zalezy, to proponuje bysmy sie zgodzili na zostawienie tego pod ta nazwa - na razie. Zobaczymy, czy ktos zaaponuje czy moze ta nazwa sie przyjmie - fakt, ze przynajmniej raz ja uzyto w jakims artykule naukowym nieco ja nobiltuje (tj. Emax ani nikt z nas Wikipedystow jej nie wymyslil). O wiele wazniejsza jest tresc artykulu. Przejrzalem revertowane zmiany Baclera i Emax, obawiam sie ze jestem tutaj za Baclerem. Moze kilka slow nalezy zmienic - ale 90% dodanego tekstu jest wedlug mnie ok. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 21:58, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Reverts
Yes, I guess I got a bit over-eager. Sorry for the inconvenience. Also, congratulations on your adminship! Your recent edits related to the edit wars confirm my good impression of you when I voted for your adminship :) Happy editing -- Chris 73 Talk 14:28, Feb 2, 2005 (UTC)

POV check template
Hi there,

I'd like to invite your comments on Template talk:POV check. I think this template is a bad idea, but since it's already in wide use, my only hope is a policy on its usage, and I'd like to know what you think about my proposal.--Eloquence* 00:50, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)

Gangtok
Hi, Please could you review Gangtok once again? I've made a lot of changes to the text. Nichalp 18:49, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)

blitzkrieg
Chetnie bym Ci pomogl, ale mam bardzo skromne pojecie, jesli chodzi o historie blitzkriegu. Mysle jednak ze bez powodu wykasowal the czesci artykulu (bylo cos w nich kotrowersyjnego?). Czasem mozesz pokazac zeby, jestes teraz generalem - szczegolnie gdy ktos bez powodu kasuje przydatne informacje :)--Emax 01:54, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)

 * Niema sprawy. Co do antypolonizmu owszem, podobne rozwiazanie juz proponowalem na samym poczatku :) Mysle ze sprawa antypolonizmu jest bardzo wazna, opisane sa bitwy, historyczne fakty itd. a ten aspekt gral bardzo wazna role w calej historii Polski (i gra do dzis)--Emax 13:17, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)

Na pewno wycinanie takiej ilości tekstu bez żadnego wyjaśnienia jest nie do przyjęcia, więc duża część racji jest po twojej stronie. Z kolei nie wiem czy potrzebny jest tutaj aż tak długi artykuł. Ja bym ograniczył pojęcie Blitzkrieg do kampanii niemieckich w latach 1939-1942. Oczywiście powinna też być dyskusja o latach międzywojennych kiedy ten koncept stworzono, i kolejna dyskusja o tym jak po 1942 roku koncepcja niemieckiego Blitzkriegu załamała się kiedy przeciwnicy Niemiec wprowadzili odpowiednie przeciwśrodki. Obszerne omawianie wojny francusko-niemieckiej w 1870 czy operacji w Europie Zachodniej w 1944-1945 jest raczej niepotrzebne, bo w końcu można o nich znaleźć informacje w innych artykułach. Natomiast dyskusja aż o wczesnym średniowieczu to już chyba lekka przesada. To raczej powinno pójść do artykułów takich jak Maneuver warfare, History of warfare itd.

Ponadto przyznam że niektóre sformułowania są nieco karkołomne. Na przykład:

This begun to change with the domestication of the horse, invention of chariots and the increasing military use of the cavalry from approximately 2nd century AD. The next major step would be Napoleon's introduction of logistics, which changed the nature of warfare considerably. Now the invading army was not under the same sort of timing pressure to bring the opposition to battle as soon as possible. This allowed his forces to attack where and when they wanted, often giving him the advantage of terrain. It also allowed him to form much larger armies because they were no longer straining the local economies directly.

Wynika z tego że nic się nie zmieniło więdzy II stuleciem naszej ery i epoką Napoleona :). Napoleon nie wynalazł logistyki, która istnieje od początku wojen. Ponadto było raczej odwrotnie: zaopatrzenie armii bez gnębienia ludności wprowadzono w wieku XVIII, a Napoleon raczej wrócił do starych procedur.  Ponadto Napoleon na pewno prowadził błyskawiczne kampanie i z reguły pragnął bitwy najwcześniej jak tylko było to możliwe.  Głównym pomysłem Napoleona był podział swoich armii na samodzielne korpusy.  Dzięki temu armia mogła poruszać się kilkoma równoległymi szlakami na raz i uzyskiwać zaopatrzenie z większego obszaru.

Poczytam więcej i może bardziej się zaangażuję do tego artykułu. Na razie widzę że masz pomoc Emaxa i SpaceCadeta, więc moje reverty nie są chyba potrzebne. Balcer 05:09, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Policy proposal and Blitzkrieg
I'd be happy to help you, here is a policy proposal I recently made, Graphic_and_potentially_disturbing_images, this is pretty much how they ought to look like, although this was a particularly extensive one, the one you were talking about would probably encompass just one proposition with yes and no votes sections. I'm already taking a close look at Blitzkrieg and I think I’ll give some comments pretty soon.GeneralPatton 02:57, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Emax
Miałem ostatnio różne dyskusje z User:Emax'em, z reguły coraz mniej przyjazne, ale dzisiaj sprawy przekroczyły pewne granice,. Piszę tu bo, po pierwsze, masz pewien mały udział w tej sprawie, a po drugie czuję potrzebę by ktoś w miarę neutralny spojrzał na sytuację. Przyznam że niektórym może się wydawać że ja sam być może nie zachowywałem się w 100% poprawnie podczas sporu o anti-Polonism, chociać wydaje mi się że zwrócenie innemu użytkownikowi uwagi na dany artykuł nie jest żadnym przestępstwem. Ale ta lawina wyzwisk i pomówień od Emax'a to chyba za dużo.

Emax'owi wydaje się chyba że jest bezkarny gdyż wszystkie jego obelgi są napisane po polsku, więc nikt na angielskiej Wikipedii nie pociągnie go za nie do odpowiedzialności. W końcu ilu użytkowników tutaj wie co to była Targowica. Tak więc jedyna nadzieja to inni użytkownicy mówiący po polsku, a szczególnie ty który jesteś jedynym polskim adminem (o ile wiem).

Jeżeli działania Emax'a przeciwko mnie nikomu nie będą przeszkadzać, ja sam nie mam zamiaru walczyć z nim sam. W takim wypadku wycofam się z pracy nad wszelkimi artykułami przy których mogę go napotkać. Balcer 20:06, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Po pierwsze, nie padla zadna obelga ani wyzywisko. Pokazalem Ci bardzo delikatnie jak falszywie sie zachowales. Dzialasz na rzecz tych ktorzy falszuja Polska historie, oslabiajac wiarygodnosc uzytkownikow, ktorzy pracowali nad Polish-Soviet War i Anti-Polonism. Zamiast prosic Piotrusia o pomoc, moge Ci podac liste nickow ktorzy Cie popral w walce zemna, sami Niemcy i Rosjanie, ale Ty nie masz przeciez problemow z szukaniem pomocy u "obcych"--Emax 20:21, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)

 * Emax oskarżył mnie że nie jestem Polakiem i kazał mi przestać mówić po polsku. Jeżeli Emax uważa że to dla Polaka nie jest obelga, wydaje mi się to co najmniej dziwne.
 * Widzę że zachowanie Emax'a wobec mnie nie wywołało żadnego echa. Jak już pisałem, ja sam zmagać się z nim nie mam zamiaru.  Sytuację ilustruje powiedzenie George Bernard Shaw'a: "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig.  You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it".  Tak więc do odwołania, lub do wyrzucenia Emax'a z Wikipedii które prędzej czy później nastąpi, wycofuję sie z pracy nad artykułami o polskiej tematyce. Balcer 16:46, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Dzięki za kilka słów poparcia. Myślałem o stosowaniu oficjalnych procedur Wikipedii, ale fakt że Emax zwymyślał mnie po polsku raczej to utrudnia. Nie mam tu do ciebie pretensji, wiem że jeden Admin nie może zbyt wiele zdziałać. Jeżeli byś zbanował Emax'a, i tak wróciłby za pięć minut pod innym nickiem, jeszcze bardzie uciążliwy. Niestety, w obecnej formie Wikipedia ma bardzo słabe procedury działania przeciwko trollom takim jak Emax, więc jedynym wyjściem dla normalnego użytkownika jest usunięcie się z drogi trolla. Kiedyś takie skuteczne procedury zapewne powstaną, bo inaczej Wikipedia nie ma przyszłości jako poważny projekt (patrz ). Tak więc, zgodnie z twoją poradą, na jakiś czas biorę wakacje od polskich tematów.

Blitzkrieg
Took a shot at some restructuring on British and American pieces and some general copy editing. Could use more but I am hesitant without some of my references at hand. Take a look and give me some feedback. Thanks.

Battlebox
I have no particular interest in creating a warbox. I would not object to it, of course, but I don't really care one way or the other. However, using the battlebox as though it is a warbox is unacceptable. I strongly object to you referring to my edit to Polish-Soviet War as "vandalism". Whatever it is (and I'm willing to entertain the possibility that removing the box was the wrong thing to do, although I do not think it was), it was not vandalism. My reason for doing so are perfectly justified, and you have yet to explain why we should use the battleboxes for wars. john k 15:36, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Wladek
Dlaczego wywaliles informacje o elekcjach z tabelki?--Emax 15:52, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)

Fauntleroy
You may find it of interest: if you follow 2 links from his colleague Merian C. Cooper's name, you'll discover that Cooper went on to become the producer of the famous 1930s movie, King Kong. Amazing what one can find in the Wikipedia! Logologist 16:21, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Gdańsk
Hello Piotrus. Do you realy support <> after '45 as I see at Talk:Gdansk/Vote? Shall this page be <>: List of cities in Poland? --:Mr. Wszedroik 17:33, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

translation
Hi. Could you help me and let me know what the following comment means: ''Przydala by sie pomoc na ang. wersji artykulu o Szczecinie - dwie osoby zaczely germanizowac artykul. Chodzi o wycofanie wersji tego lub tego  uzytkownika.'' I just removed this from pl:Dyskusja:Gda& and pl:Dyskusja:Szczecin. It links to User:John Kenney and my user page, and is most likely related to the vote on Gdansk. Votes on the english wiki should be done mainly by english wiki users, I think. Thanks -- Chris 73 Talk 03:26, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much. What do you need translated from german? -- Chris 73 Talk 23:02, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Translation into English is a good place to start. It would be my pleasure to translate/update the articles based on the german version for you - tomorrow, because now is not a good time. Best regards, -- Chris 73 Talk 12:18, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)

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Villa Paletti

Villa Paletti is a board game of physical skill designed by Bill Payne and published in 2001 by Zoch Verlag. Players compete to build the villa highest using columns from lower floors without collapsing the structure.

A double-size version of the game, Palazzo Paletti, is also available.

Gameplay
Each player chooses a colour (in the case of two-player games, each player chooses two colours). They then take their wooden column pieces - three thin, one medium, and one wide - and arrange them on the base mat. The players must then agree on a fair placement of the first "floor", which must lie completely above the base mat and which cannot partially cover any column.

Each player in turn must take one of their columns from any level except the highest, and place it on the highest floor. If they cannot remove one of their columns, they may ask to place the next floor. Each opponent may challenge this decision; if they choose to do so and are successful, they may remove that piece from play, and the player misses their go. If no opponent challenges the player, they may place the next floor on top of the pillars of the current highest floor - again, it must lie completely above the base mat and cannot partially cover any column.

Once a column is placed on the second floor, the player with the most column points (one for thin, two for medium, three for large) on the highest level is the leader. If the tower is collapsed by any other player, the leader has won; if they collapse the tower, the previous leader wins. If the tower collapses before a column is placed on the second floor, or if the first leader collapses the tower, no-one has won.

Awards
Villa Paletti won the Spiel des Jahres 2002, the Games 100 Top dexterity award, the Tric Trac gold medal 2001, Belgian game of the year 2003, finalist in Switzerland, Japan, Finland and more. The San Francisco Chronicle picked it as their top game for 2004.

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ismet horo

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Ismet horo
Non-English stub, looks Slavic to me. Can someone who understands it please explain what it means, and if it's encyclopedic? Radiant! 13:57, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)

 * I added the 'not english' tag. I wouldn't recommend deleting anything that we don't even know what it is. --InShaneee 21:08, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. It appears to be a non notable political satire film from a Bosnian comedian called Bosanski. Megan1967 00:26, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: No, Ismet Horo is the name of a Bosnian comedian or writer. Googling, I found a reference to him in German somewhere, but not enough to use for anything. He may well be notable in Bosnia, but I abstain. / u p p l a n d 09:11, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, appears well notable (within the right circles), has about 1800 Google hits, has produced several CDs and appears to be a singer and comedian. Page needs moving, stubifying and expanding, but not deletion Refdoc 23:01, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Seems to be a notable enough person, getting a variety of google hits (considering how un-internetted Bosnia is, that's pretty good).  Someone has kindly translated the text into english. -- John Fader 01:18, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, but should give references. Expand, in any case. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:14, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, expand. Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy)  05:55, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Intruder in the Dust

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Intruder in the Dust
Book review. Very POV. If the book is considered notable, I still think the current article should be deleted to make place for a better one. Radiant! 13:59, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep and rewrite from scratch. Amazon says William Faulkner wrote it, which I'd say makes notability. --InShaneee 21:13, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is not the appropriate outlet for articles that need cleanup.  Please see Cleanup, Pages needing attention. ElBenevolente 01:54, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I do not dispute the worthiness of the subject, but I believe the current article should be deleted because in this case it would be better to start a new article from scratch than to modify the existing article. Radiant! 09:03, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree with Radiant!. And I disagree with those who say VfD should not be cleanup. In extreme examples, like this one, where the submission is simply garbage, it is perfectly reasonable to nominate it for VfD and hope that someone will bother to turn it into a decent stub. Cleanup should be for articles that need improvement, not for garbage that is not an article at all. I think "delete and list as a requested article" is a disposition that we ought to use more often. The advantage is that a requested article does not exist until someone is actually ready to write it, whereas articles marked for cleanup remain visible. This is good for articles that are better than nothing or that contain salvageable material, but is bad for articles that are worse than nothing and contain nothing salvageable. I'm glad that the issue is moot for this particular article. Dpbsmith (talk) 15:13, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I have changed this article into a literary stub referencing the Faulkner book and the MGM film based on it. It is clearly a notable book which should be expanded in due course. I would have done more but will have other commitments over the next few days. Capitalistroadster 10:27, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as it has now been rewritten. Average Earthman 10:28, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep in present form. This book is definitely notable. Dpbsmith (talk) 15:13, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Turkistan (city)

Turkistan is a city and the administrative center of Turkistan Region of Kazakhstan, near the Syr Darya river. It is situated 160 km north-west of Shymkent on the Trans-Aral Railway between Kyzylorda to the north and Tashkent to the south. Its population has increased in ten years from to  Turkistan's most prominent historical and cultural asset is the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The city is served by Hazrat Sultan International Airport.

In 2021, Turkistan was proclaimed by the Organization of Turkic States as "Spiritual Capital of the Turkic World". In the same year, Turkistan was named as one of the top ten tourist destinations in Kazakhstan.

History
Turkistan, one of Kazakhstan's historic cities, has an archaeological record dating back to the 4th century.

The city emerged as a commercial hub following the decline of Otrar, an ancient city with remnants located southeast near the Syr Darya. For a significant portion of the medieval to early-modern era, it was referred to as Iasy or Shavgar. By the 16th-17th centuries, it was named Turkistan or Hazrat. Both names originate from 'Hazrat-i Turkistan', translating to "the Saint of Turkistan". This title honors Khoja Akhmet Yassawi, an 11th-century Sufi Sheikh from Turkistan, who lived and rests in the town.

Owing to his impact and in honor of his legacy, the city evolved into a significant hub for spiritual growth and Islamic education for the inhabitants of the Kazakh steppes. In the 1390s, Timur, the Turco-Mongol leader and the originator of the Timurid dynasty, constructed an impressive domed mazar or mausoleum over Yassawi's resting place. This structure stands as one of the most notable architectural landmarks in Kazakhstan. Until 2006, its image was featured on the reverse side of the country's banknotes.

The city also boasts other significant historical landmarks such as a medieval bath-house and four mausoleums. One of these is dedicated to Rabiya Sultan Begim, Timur's great-granddaughter, while the other three pay tribute to Kazakh khans (rulers).

Prior to the 19th-century Russian arrival, Turkistan was positioned at the boundary between the established Perso-Islamic oasis civilization of Transoxiana to its south and the vast expanse of the Kazakh steppes to its north.

Between the 16th and 18th centuries, Turkistan rose to prominence as the capital of the Kazakh Khanate, becoming the political epicenter of the Kazakh steppe. However, as the Russian Empire expanded its conquests and weakened the Kazakh Khanate, smaller southern states were overtaken. By 1864, Russian General Veryovkin had captured Turkistan for the Kokand Khanate. Subsequently, under Russian rule, it became a part of the Syr-Darya Oblast in the Governor-Generalship of Russian Turkistan. Following the collapse of the Tsarist regime between 1917-18, it briefly joined the Turkistan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. By 1924, it became a part of the Kazakh ASSR within Soviet Russia.

On June 19, 2018, Shymkent was removed from the South Kazakhstan Region and placed directly under the governance of Kazakhstan. Concurrently, Turkistan became the regional administrative hub, and the region was renamed the Turkistan Region.

In 2021, it was announced that the first 5G city will be set up in Turkistan. This project will be sponsored by Kcell and Ericsson.

Pilgrimage
The city draws thousands of pilgrims. As per local tradition, visiting Turkistan three times is akin to a single hajj to Mecca, a sentiment echoed in other revered sites across the Muslim world. Such high regard for the Saint led to Turkistan being dubbed the Second Mecca of the East, profoundly influencing the spiritual essence of Kazakhstan's Muslim community.

Demographics
Turkistan had a population of 165,000 in the 2019 census. The population rose by 10% from 1989 to 1999, making it the second fastest-growing town in Kazakhstan, after the new capital Astana.

The ethnic composition of the city:
 * Kazakhs – 52.5%
 * Uzbeks – 45.2%
 * Other ethnic groups – 2.3%

The ethnic composition of the city according to the 1897 census:
 * total – 11,253
 * Uzbeks – 8,940 (79.4%)
 * Kazakhs – 1,415 (12.5%)
 * Tatars – 506 (4.4%)
 * Russians – 312 (2.7%)

At the same time the ethnic composition of the Chimkent uyezd (Chimkent district) which included the city of Turkistan according to the 1897 census:

 * total – 285,059
 * Kazakhs – 224,704 (78.8%)
 * Sart (non-nomadic Iranic, Turkic, or Mongolic people)– 32 043 (11.2%)
 * Uzbeks – 20,709 (7.2%)
 * Russians – 6 443 (2.2%)
 * Tatars – 646 (0.2%)

Tourism
In 2021, Keruen-Saray, Central Asia’s largest tourism complex, was opened in Turkistan. This unique attraction features merchants, artisans, a flying theater, an amphitheater for equestrian shows, a bazaar, hotels, restaurants, a spa and fitness center, a cinema, and a family entertainment center.

Transport
The city transport in Turkistan consists of buses and taxis.

Turkistan is served by Hazrat Sultan International Airport. It is located 15 km NE from the centre of city.

Geography and climate
Turkistan may be reached by train from Almaty, in a journey of nearly 20 hours. The road trip from the nearest airport at Shymkent takes about two hours.

Turkistan experiences a cool semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk) with short, cold winters and long, dry, very hot summers. The vast majority of the annual precipitation falls between late autumn and late spring.

Twin towns – sister cities

 * 🇹🇷 Afyonkarahisar, Turkey
 * 🇹🇷 Keçiören, Turkey
 * 🇦🇿 Shusha, Azerbaijan

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ipaska

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Ipaska
Company vanity with extensive external links. Less than a thousand google hits is very poor for an 'international web services company'. Not notable. Radiant! 14:02, Feb 21, 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.
 * Probably vanity. Delete unless author finds a third-party reference for verifiability - David Gerard 15:06, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Advertising, not noteworthy by any means --161.184.205.70 20:53, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC) updated for standard formatting and logged in --Fittysix 22:22, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Don't delete. The page should be replaced with a warning, since this man is a known scammer, and is fraudulently operating within the US.
 * unsigned comment by anon user:66.119.33.184
 * If you can demonstrate that, from citable sources, that would probably make this notable enough to keep. Otherwise, delete. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:18, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * My first thought was to move this to user:Paska's page but I notice that this article is his/her only contribution. Delete as vanity.   Rossami (talk) 06:27, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Category:Abenaki mythology

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Los Angeles Opera

The Los Angeles Opera is an American opera company in Los Angeles, California. It is the fourth-largest opera company in the United States. The company's home base is the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, part of the Los Angeles Music Center.

Leadership
Spanish tenor and conductor Plácido Domingo was general director of Los Angeles Opera from 2003 to 2019. Domingo sang 27 different roles with the company. He has also conducted 16 different operas and numerous concerts with the company. Domingo resigned in October 2019 following numerous accusations of sexual misconduct. Los Angeles Opera subsequently hired the law firm of Gibson Dunn, under the leadership of former United States Attorney and Superior Court Judge Debra Wong Yang, to conduct an independent investigation of the accusations. After interviewing 44 individuals, Gibson Dunn found that Domingo neither engaged in sexual quid pro quo nor any professional retaliation against women who rebuffed his advances. They also concluded that Los Angeles Opera policies and procedures against sexual harassment were "sufficient on their face," but suggested a number of improvements. Los Angeles Opera accepted the findings and committed to implementing Gibson Dunn’s recommendations.

American conductor James Conlon has been music director since 2006, succeeding Kent Nagano, who held the official title of "principal conductor" from 2001 until 2003 and then became music director.

Christopher Koelsch has been the president and chief executive officer of Los Angeles Opera since 2012. He previously held the position of senior vice president and chief operating officer since 2010, after serving as vice president for artistic planning. He is the first year-round resident of Los Angeles to lead Los Angeles Opera since 2007.

Grant Gershon became resident conductor as of the 2012–13 season, after previously serving as associate conductor/chorus master since 2007. Previous conductors-in-residence included William Vendice, head of music staff/chorus master, from 1995 to 2007; and Randall Behr, resident conductor, chorus master, and head of music staff from 1988 to 1995.

History
Los Angeles Opera, which was inaugurated in 1986 with a production of Verdi's Otello starring Plácido Domingo, traces its roots back to the Los Angeles Civic Grand Opera which was formed in 1948. It presented staged productions in a church located in Beverly Hills through the 1950s, funded by furniture maker Francesco Pace. Carol F. Henry, who later served as the Los Angeles Opera president of the board, started volunteering for the Los Angeles Opera League in 1981. Shortly after its third production at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the company abandoned its own production projects and recreated itself as the Music Center Opera Association by bringing opera from other cities to the Music Center, notably San Francisco Opera and the New York City Opera. San Francisco Opera began presenting productions in Los Angeles in 1937 and continued to do so every fall until 1969. The NYCO brought productions to Los Angeles every fall from 1966 to 1982.

In 1984, the Music Center Opera Association hired Peter Hemmings and gave him the task of creating a local opera company which would once again present its own productions. This led to the forming of Los Angeles Opera. Hemmings stepped down as General Director in 2000, with Plácido Domingo, who had been artistic advisor since 1984, assuming leadership of the company the following season. In November 2001, Edgar Baitzel was appointed director of artistic operations. Baitzel was appointed the company's Artistic Director in May 2003 and then its chief operating officer in February 2006. Baitzel died in March 2007. In September 2012, Christopher Koelsch was appointed president and chief executive officer. He previously held the position of senior vice president and chief operating officer since 2010, after serving as vice president for artistic planning.

Productions of non-standard repertory
The company offers productions in the standard operatic repertory as well as new and rarely staged operas. In 2015, Los Angeles Opera presented a new production of The Ghosts of Versailles by John Corigliano, the first major U.S. staging of that opera in 20 years. In 2014, Renée Fleming starred in a production of André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire.

In 2003, it presented the world premiere of the opera Nicholas and Alexandra, with music composed by Deborah Drattell and text by Nicholas von Hoffman. The 2010–2011 season opened with the world première of Daniel Catán's opera Il Postino, based on the 1994 drama film Il Postino: The Postman, with Domingo as the poet Pablo Neruda, Charles Castronovo in the title role and Grant Gershon conducting. In 2020 it presented the world premiere of Eurydice, composed by Matthew Aucoin with a libretto by Sarah Ruhl.

The company has also frequently turned to the cinema world for directors of its productions. During the 2001–2002 season, it mounted a production of Wagner's Lohengrin, directed by Austrian actor Maximilian Schell and a double bill of Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, directed by filmmaker William Friedkin. Garry Marshall directed his own adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein in 2005. Friedkin returned to direct Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos in 2004 and, in 2008, the first two parts of Puccini's Il trittico, Il tabarro and Suor Angelica, a production that also featured Woody Allen making his operatic debut staging Gianni Schicchi.

Highlights of the last decade have included Kurt Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny starring Anthony Dean Griffey, Audra McDonald and Patti LuPone, Rossini's Il turco in Italia starring Nino Machaidze, Simone Alberghini, Paolo Gavanelli and Thomas Allen, and three major works by Benjamin Britten: The Turn of the Screw starring Patricia Racette, Albert Herring starring Alek Shrader in the title role, with Janis Kelly and Christine Brewer sharing the role of Lady Billows, and Billy Budd starring Liam Bonner, Richard Croft and Greer Grimsley.

Notable guest performers
Other frequent and notable guests with the company have included Samuel Ramey, Violeta Urmana, Hildegard Behrens, Denyce Graves, Frederica von Stade, Sumi Jo, Deborah Voigt, James Morris, Rod Gilfry, Jennifer Larmore, Vyacheslav Polozov, Maria Ewing, Susan Graham and Ferruccio Furlanetto.

Recovered Voices project
The company's multi-year project Recovered Voices, begun during the 2006-2007 season, is dedicated to presenting little known operas by the lost generation of composers whose lives and careers were cut short by the Third Reich. To date, the company has presented Alexander von Zemlinsky's Eine florentinische Tragödie (An Italian Tragedy) and Der Zwerg (The Dwarf), the U.S. premiere of Viktor Ullmann's Der zerbrochene Krug (The Broken Jug), Walter Braunfels' Die Vögel (The Birds) and the U.S. premiere of Franz Schreker's Die Gezeichneten (The Stigmatized) as part of this mission, as well as children's performances of Hans Krása's Brundibár.

Der Ring des Nibelungen
The company presented its first presentation of Richard Wagner's complete Der Ring des Nibelungen in the summer of 2010. New productions of Das Rheingold and Die Walküre were performed in early 2009, followed by Siegfried (September–October 2009) and Götterdämmerung (April 2010). Three full cycles were produced from May 29 through June 26, 2010, accompanied by the citywide Ring Festival LA. The innovative production was directed and designed by German theater artist Achim Freyer and conducted by James Conlon. The principal artists included Linda Watson, Vitalij Kowaljow, Michelle DeYoung, Plácido Domingo, John Treleaven, Graham Clark, Richard Paul Fink, Eric Halfvarson, Alan Held and Jennifer Wilson, among others.

The festival drew criticism from Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, who argued that Wagner's work was the "soundtrack to the Holocaust", a reference to Wagner's anti-Semitic views. Wagner's music was played by guards at concentration camps and through loudspeakers. Antonovich requested that the company broaden the scope of the festival to include other classical and operatic performers, while the company argued that proper attention was made to educate festival-goers on Wagner's racist views, and that broadening the scope would be inappropriate. On a 3–1 vote, the other supervisors rejected Antonovich's motion to have the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors send a letter to the company to shift the focus away from Wagner.

Subsequently, partly as a result of the cost of producing the Ring, the company requested an emergency $14 million loan from the board of supervisors due to reduced sponsorships and escalating costs. The board approved the loan 4–1, with Antonovich dissenting. In January 2012, LA Opera repaid half of the loan, with the balance repaid in December 2012.

Education and Community Engagement
For over 20 years, the company has produced a wide variety of education and outreach programs designed to bring opera to people of all backgrounds, from young children experiencing opera for the first time to experienced opera lovers of all ages. These include "In-School Operas" performed for and by elementary school students; full-scale student matinées and a summer "Opera Camp" for secondary school students; accredited teacher training programs; large-scale, free community performances for families; a popular lecture series for ticket holders before every mainstage performance; and open dress rehearsals for senior centers. In 2008, these programs were enjoyed by an all-time high of more than 159,000 students, teachers and community members.

Selected recordings

 * John Corigliano – The Ghosts of Versailles. James Conlon, Patricia Racette, Christopher Maltman, Kristinn Sigmundsson, Joshua Guerrero, Los Angeles Opera. Pentatone PTC 5186538 (2016).

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Supplee's paradox

In relativistic physics, Supplee's paradox (also called the submarine paradox) is a physical paradox that arises when considering the buoyant force exerted on a relativistic bullet (or in a submarine) immersed in a fluid subject to an ambient gravitational field. If a bullet has neutral buoyancy when it is at rest in a perfect fluid and then it is launched with a relativistic speed, observers at rest within the fluid would conclude that the bullet should sink, since its density will increase due to the length contraction effect. On the other hand, in the bullet's proper frame it is the moving fluid that becomes denser and hence the bullet would float. But the bullet cannot sink in one frame and float in another, so there is a paradox situation.

The paradox was first formulated by James M. Supplee (1989), where a non-rigorous explanation was presented. George Matsas has analysed this paradox in the scope of general relativity and also pointed out that these relativistic buoyancy effects could be important in some questions regarding the thermodynamics of black holes. A comprehensive explanation of Supplee's paradox through both the special and the general theory of relativity was presented by Ricardo Soares Vieira. Hrvoje Nikolic noticed that rigidity of the submarine is not essential and presented a general relativistic analysis revealing that paradox resolves by the fact that the relevant velocity of the submarine is relative to Earth (which is the source of the gravitational field), not relative to the observer.

Buoyancy
To simplify the analysis, it is customary to neglect drag and viscosity, and even to assume that the fluid has constant density.

A small object immersed in a container of fluid subjected to a uniform gravitational field will be subject to a net downward gravitational force, compared with the net downward gravitational force on an equal volume of the fluid. If the object is less dense than the fluid, the difference between these two vectors is an upward pointing vector, the buoyant force, and the object will rise. If things are the other way around, it will sink. If the object and the fluid have equal density, the object is said to have neutral buoyancy and it will neither rise nor sink.

Resolution
The resolution comes down to observing that the usual Archimedes principle cannot be applied in the relativistic case. If the theory of relativity is correctly employed to analyse the forces involved, there will be no true paradox.

Supplee himself concluded that the paradox can be resolved with a more careful analysis of the gravitational buoyancy forces acting on the bullet. Considering the reasonable (but not justified) assumption that the gravitational force depends on the kinetic energy content of the bodies, Supplee showed that the bullet sinks in the frame at rest with the fluid with the acceleration $$g (\gamma^2-1)$$, where $$g$$ is the gravitational acceleration and $$\gamma$$ is the Lorentz factor. In the proper reference frame of the bullet, the same result is obtained by noting that this frame is not inertial, which implies that the shape of the container will no more be flat, on the contrary, the sea floor becomes curved upwards, which results in the bullet getting far away from the sea surface, i.e., in the bullet relatively sinking.

The non-justified assumption considered by Supplee that the gravitational force on the bullet should depend on its energy content was eliminated by George Matsas, who used the full mathematical methods of general relativity in order to explain the Supplee paradox and agreed with Supplee's results. In particular, he modelled the situation using a Rindler chart, where a submarine is accelerated from the rest to a given velocity v. Matsas concluded that the paradox can be resolved by noting that in the frame of the fluid, the shape of the bullet is altered, and derived the same result which had been obtained by Supplee. Matsas has applied a similar analysis to shed light on certain questions involving the thermodynamics of black holes.

Finally, Vieira has recently analysed the submarine paradox through both special and general relativity. In the first case, he showed that gravitomagnetic effects should be taken into account in order to describe the forces acting in a moving submarine underwater. When these effects are considered, a relativistic Archimedes principle can be formulated, from which he showed that the submarine must sink in both frames. Vieira also considered the case of a curved space-time in the proximity of the Earth. In this case he assumed that the space-time can be approximately regarded as consisting of a flat space but a curved time. He showed that in this case the gravitational force between the Earth at rest and a moving body increases with the speed of the body in the same way as considered by Supplee ($$F =\gamma m g$$), providing in this way a justification for his assumption. Analysing the paradox again with this speed-dependent gravitational force, the Supplee paradox is explained and the results agree with those obtained by Supplee and Matsas.

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Wasfi Tal

Wasfi Tal (وصفي التل; also known as Wasfi Tell; 1920 – 28 November 1971) was a Jordanian politician, statesman and general. He served as the 15th Prime Minister of Jordan for three separate terms, 1962–63, 1965–67 and 1970 until his assassination in 1971.

Tal was born in Arapgir, Turkey to prominent Jordanian poet Mustafa Wahbi Tal and a Kurdish mother. He received his elementary education in Jordan, later continuing his education at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. He then joined the British Army in Mandatory Palestine after being trained in a British-run military academy, and joined the irregular Arab Liberation Army to fight against Israel during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. As an Arab nationalist, Tal was known for his belief in collective Arab action and supported the Palestinian struggle.

Following the war, he served various positions in the Jordanian government, rising to higher positions after his abilities captured King Hussein's attention. His first tenure as prime minister in 1962 was short-lived, he resigned in 1963 over widespread criticism of his perceived pro-Western views. He was appointed prime minister again in 1965, which saw an improved climate of economic activity, but resigned just before the onset of the Six Day War in 1967. He was appointed again as prime minister in 1970 during Black September, the conflict which saw Palestine Liberation Organization fighters (fedayeen) expelled from Jordan. Earning the ire of PLO leaders for his role in the conflict, he was assassinated by the Black September Organization outside a Cairo hotel hosting an Arab League conference.

Tal was reportedly loyal to King Hussein and popular with Jordanians for his success in expelling the fedayeen. Meanwhile, he was widely denounced by Arabs who had supported the fedayeen. His assassins were found innocent and released on bail by an Egyptian court.

Early life

Tal was born in Arapgir, Turkey to prominent Jordanian poet Mustafa Wahbi Tal and Kurdish mother Munifa Baban. Sources differ with reference to the place and date of birth of Wasfi Tal. Some sources mention that he was born in 1919 in Arapqir. Other sources mention that Tal was born in 1920 He moved to Irbid, Transjordan with his mother at the age of five.

Tal obtained his elementary education in Jordan. He moved to Al-Salt in 1936 when he was 16 to go to the only public high school in Jordan at the time. As a student he founded a secret student organization called the "Black Hand" whose goal was to promote a more aggressive stance against Zionism. During his time as a student he and several students in the "black hand" were arrested after bombing Al-Salt mayor's mansion. Due to his family influence and the fact no one was hurt in the bombing he was released a few days later and allowed to finish his education. He later continued his education at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon.

Career
He joined the British Army in Mandatory Palestine after being trained in a British-run military academy, and joined the irregular Arab Liberation Army to fight against Israel during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Due to his experience in the British army, he started off with the rank of captain. After the Arab Liberation Army was dissolved in 1948, his unit was reassigned to the Syrian army for the remainder of the war under the new name Yarmuk Forces. By May 1949, he had risen to the rank of major.

Following the war, he served various positions in the Jordanian government, rising to higher positions after his abilities captured King Hussein's attention. His first tenure as prime minister in 1962 was short-lived, he resigned in 1963 over widespread criticism of his perceived pro-Western views. He was appointed prime minister again in 1965, which saw an improved climate of economic activity, but resigned just before the onset of the Six Day War in 1967. He was appointed again as prime minister in 1970 during Black September, the conflict which saw Palestine Liberation Organization fighters (fedayeen) expelled from Jordan. Earning the ire of PLO leaders for his role in the conflict, he was assassinated by the Black September group outside a Cairo hotel hosting an Arab League conference. Tal was succeeded by Ahmad Lozi as prime minister immediately after the incident.

Tal was known for his belief in collective Arab action and supported the Palestinian’s struggle for freedom of their homeland. The New York Times reported that “he was hated and feared most of all by the extremists because he was a rational man who sought a practical accommodation with Israel.”

Assassination
On 28 November 1971, four Black September gunmen assassinated Tal in the lobby of the Sheraton Cairo Hotel in Egypt while he was attending an Arab League summit in the city. The shooting happened at 3:45 p.m. Cairo time. Gen. Muhammad Maher Hassan, the Egyptian prosecutor, said the assassins belonged to a group called "the Black Hand of September." Tal was 51 years old. Historian Patrick Seale writes that one of the assassins, Munshir al-Khalifa, was one of Abu Ali Iyad's soldiers who sought to avenge his commander's death. As Tal lay dying, "one of the assassins knelt and lapped with his tongue the blood flowing across the marble floor."

Tal was the first victim of the newly formed Black September Organization, a more militant offshoot of the Palestinian militant organization Fatah. His assassins were released on low bail and allowed to leave Egypt. Yasser Arafat, Fatah's leader, claimed responsibility for the killing.

Tal was popular with Jordanians for his success in expelling the fedayeen. Meanwhile, he was widely denounced by Arabs who had supported the fedayeen. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had also despised Tal. Tal was the third senior Jordanian political figure assassinated between 1951 and 1971; the first two being King Abdullah I and Prime Minister Hazza Majali. Tal's assassins were found innocent and released on bail by an Egyptian court.

Tal's body was flown back to Amman on 28 November 1971. He was buried in the royal cemetery after the prayers in the Royal Mosque in Amman on 29 November.

There were reports of celebration among Palestinians on the Israeli-occupied West Bank of Jordan in response to news of Tal's assassination.

Personal life
Tal was married to Sadia Jabri, who had been former wife of the Palestinian leader of the 1940s, Musa Alami. They had no children.

Foreign honour

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 * MY Darjah Yang Mulia Pangkuan Negara (Defender of the Realm) - SMN.svg Honorary Grand Commander of the Order of the Defender of the Realm (SMN (K)) – Tun (1965)

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Rutgers Preparatory School

Rutgers Preparatory School (also known as Rutgers Prep or RPS) is a private, coeducational, college preparatory day school established in 1766. The school educates students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade, located on a 41 acre campus along the banks of the Delaware and Raritan Canal in the Somerset section of Franklin Township, in Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Established in 1766, Rutgers Preparatory School is the oldest independent school in the state of New Jersey and the 16th-oldest in the country.

The school has a frequently cited student honor code, and requires its high school students to complete ten hours of community service each school year in order to advance to the next grade level. The vast majority of students take Advanced Placement (AP) courses, and the academic environment at the school is highly competitive. Rutgers Preparatory School is a member of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools.

As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 647 students (plus 28 in PreK) and 84.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 7.7:1. The school's student body was 40.6% (263) Asian, 31.8% (206) White, 19.6% (127) Black, 4.0% (26) two or more races, 3.4% (263) Hispanic and 0.5% (3) Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander. Tuition for the 2024–25 school year for grades 9-12 was set at $48,815. The school does not publicly release endowment figures, however IRS filings indicate close to $60 million in investable assets alone.

History
Rutgers Preparatory School is the oldest independent preparatory school in the state of New Jersey. Founded as the Queen's College Grammar School, it was established on November 10, 1766 under the same charter that founded Queen's College (now Rutgers University). It was originally located in New Brunswick.

Instruction began on August 15, 1768, under the school's first master Caleb Cooper, a graduate of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). In those early years, instruction of students was carried on in various taverns and boarding houses in New Brunswick. From 1809 to 1830, the grammar school shared the Old Queens building with Queens College (after 1825, Rutgers College) and the New Brunswick Theological Seminary.

In 1825, the trustees renamed the college and grammar school after Colonel Henry Rutgers, whose donation allowed the college to reopen after years of financial difficulties. In 1830, the Rutgers College Grammar School moved to a building designed and constructed by local architect and builder Nicholas Wyckoff, at the corner of College Avenue and Somerset Street. From 1829 until 1963, the school operated at this location. The building is now known as Alexander Johnston Hall and is the second-oldest surviving building on the Rutgers University campus. The Grammar School also included an Elementary School division (now called the Lower School) that was located in its own building nearby on College Avenue.

Though officially nondenominational, the school's original mission was to train young men for the ministry, and its curriculum focused on theology and classical studies. Over the course of the 19th century, however, more modern options were added. During the Progressive Era, Rutgers Preparatory School was among the first schools in the nation to institute a curriculum involving the laboratory sciences, student publications, and community service. Progressive-minded headmasters like Eliot R. Payson (served 1891-1908), Myron T. Scudder (1908-1911) and William P. Kelly (1911-1934) consistently supported the implementation of new educational ideas and methods.

Rutgers Preparatory School opened its doors to international students in the 19th century. In the 1860s, as the Japanese Empire embarked on the reforms of the Meiji Era, several young men from prominent Japanese families enrolled at the school. Notable among them was Matsukata Kōjirō, class of 1884, who later became president of the Kawasaki Dockyard Company and whose art collection served as the nucleus of Japan's National Museum of Western Art. Japanese students continued to attend Rutgers Prep through the early 20th century. Several students from various other regions, particularly Latin America, were also drawn to the school in those years.

Rutgers Prep's lower grades (i.e., 8th grade and below) became coeducational in the 1890s, and have remained so ever since. Coeducation was allowed in the Upper School from 1892 to 1912, during which time some 93 girls were graduated. Coeducation lapsed after 1912, but in 1923 Headmaster William Kelly announced plans to open a girls' school that would operate "as an allied department of the Preparatory School." Seven girls were enrolled, but a lack of support from the community forced Kelly to abandon his plans after only one year. Rutgers Preparatory School became fully and permanently coeducational in 1951. That same year, it disbanded its football team and ended its boarding program to become a day school. A shakeup of its faculty resulted in the hiring of several young, highly talented teachers and coaches, most of whom would remain at the school for decades. Notable among them were French teachers Al Gaggini and Helene Spratford, science teacher Gus Daviet, history teacher Frank Sperduto, and athletic director Dick O'Connell. In 1953, Dr. David M. Heinlein became Headmaster. One of his priorities was to increase the economic, ethnic, and gender diversity of the school's students and faculty.

In 1956, as Rutgers University became the State University of New Jersey, the university's board of trustees decided to divest itself of the preparatory school. The school created its own Board of Trustees and Parents Association, and began looking for a new campus outside of New Brunswick. In early 1958, Rutgers Prep purchased the Wells Estate (also known as Elm Farm) in nearby Somerset. The Wells family was eager to sell the property to the school partly because Elm Farm had originally been the home of Abraham Beach, one of Queens College Grammar School's co-founders in the 1760s. By the end of 1958, Rutgers University and Rutgers Preparatory School had officially separated from one another. Rutgers Prep's Lower School began operating at Elm Farm that fall. The Upper School remained in its old quarters in New Brunswick until 1963, when a new upper school building, constructed with the assistance of the Colgate-Palmolive Company, opened at Elm Farm. Since 1963, all divisions of the school have been located on the same campus.

The school expanded rapidly in its new setting. A field house was built in 1968, and, shortly afterward, a center for early childhood education. During the 1960s, the school's curriculum, athletic program, and extracurricular offerings all expanded dramatically.

Despite the economic downturn of the mid-1970s, Rutgers Prep continued to grow. It added a Middle School and a larger library in 1974. Athletic Director O'Connell introduced and vigorously promoted an athletic program for the school's female population. By the end of the 1970s, the school was much larger and more diverse than it had been a generation earlier.

In November 1983, an electrical fire destroyed a large part of the Upper School building. Classes were held in trailers while a new, larger, and more modern Upper School was built. The new building, which is still in use, opened in 1985. During the 1980s, Rutgers Preparatory School also aggressively supported the application of technology to education, creating a computer science department and encouraging computer literacy in all grades.

In 1992, Dr. Steven Loy became headmaster and embarked on a series of campus expansions funded by a capital campaign. The new construction included a second gymnasium, an art studio, a music building, and a new library shared by all three school divisions. The campus was also fully wired for Internet access.

Academics
Rutgers Preparatory School offers three levels of education: a Lower School serving pre-kindergarten to fifth grade, a Middle School offering grades six to eight and an Upper School offering traditional secondary level education from grades nine to twelve. Students are required to complete twenty course credits in order to graduate, accumulating a minimum of five credits per year, and are to take courses based in a traditional liberal arts curriculum that spans across several academic departments (English, History, Mathematics, Science, World Languages, Art, Computers, Music, and Drama).

The school offers a wide variety of AP (Advanced Placement) courses, which are the high school equivalent of a college-level course. Additionally, the School offers five language courses: Spanish, French, Latin, Japanese, and Arabic. Rutgers Preparatory School has also partnered with the Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, and by participating in its Waksman Student Scholars Program (WSSP), Upper School students are able to participate in, and contribute to, an authentic research project in molecular biology and bioinformatics.

Each student in the Upper School is required to perform a minimum of ten hours of community service during each academic year as a condition for advancing to the next grade level and for graduation. This community-service obligation may be fulfilled either through volunteer work with a non-profit organization, through a charity, or through a service that in some way benefits the school community (tutoring, etc.). In addition, at least five of these hours must be completed outside the school campus.

Matriculation
The school has a 100% college admissions rate. A majority of the students are given offers of admission to selective public and private universities in the Northeast and throughout the country.

Institutional awards and recognition
Rutgers Preparatory School is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and was recognized in 1992 as a National Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education.

The school received its most recent accreditation from the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools (NJAIS) in 2012.

The school's delegation was awarded first place in the 2010 Euro Challenge, an international high school economics competition.

In 2014, Rutgers Preparatory School received the Franklin Township Organization Environmental Stewardship Award, in recognition of contributions to the environment of Franklin Township, including participation in the "Rutgers Green Purchasing" and "River-Friendly School Certification" programs, recent construction of a new LEED certified building, new energy management installations, and development of an effective composting and recycling program.

Rutgers Preparatory School is the only school in New Jersey to be a member of the Council of International Schools. It is also the only high school in the world to be granted Non-governmental Organization (NGO) status by the United Nations.

Campus
The 41 acre campus is located in Somerset, New Jersey directly on the Delaware and Raritan Canal and the Raritan River. The historic Elm Farm house, built in the mid-18th century, was the home of local minister Abraham Beach, one of the co-founders of the school. Elm Farm was the country estate of the Wells family during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The school purchased it in 1958. Elm Farm now houses administrative offices and several classrooms. The campus includes three full-size athletic fields, a FieldTurf synthetic turf field, a softball field, and a full size baseball field. The "Field House" currently features two full size gyms, male and female locker rooms with showers, a wrestling room, a fitness center, and the offices of the athletic administration and trainer. In addition to the Early Childhood Education Center, and Lower, Middle, and Upper School buildings, an art studio was constructed in 1992 and a new music building was constructed in 2001.

In 2009, the school broke ground on a multimillion-dollar, multi-phased endeavor that includes an expansion of the system of roads and parking on the campus, a widening of Easton Avenue, the addition of new athletic fields and tennis courts, and the construction of an entirely new complex. The first phase of the new complex, which was completed for the 2011-2012 school year, houses the dining commons and several new classrooms on the first floor. The second floor of this new building was completed in Fall 2012, and includes several more upper school classrooms as well as a state-of-the-art all-division room and other multi-use spaces. This new facility is LEED certified.

Lower School
Students in Lower School grade Pre-k to 3rd grade partake in music class twice a week for 30 minutes. 4th and 5th graders participate "Musical Performance" class daily. Music Performance classes include Band, Choir, and Orchestra and the student chooses which class they would prefer to take. At the end of the year, 5th and 6th graders also participate in a concert at the end of the year were they show off some of the music they were working on.

Middle school
Once in Middle School, all students still must take Band, Choir, or Orchestra, but the class only occurs 3 days a week. Middle school students also participate in 2 concerts throughout the year, once in the Winter, and again in the Spring. The Upper School also participates in the concerts with them. Band Choir, and Orchestra all participate in separate concerts. In addition, Middle school band students may also participate in middle school Jazz Band, which takes place once a week during the study hall period and is invite only.

=== Upper School === Once in the Upper School, students are no longer required to take music classes, but they are encouraged to do so. Upper schoolers also have many different options available to them in Upper school music as well. Music classes that upper school students may take include:

==== Orchestra ====

 * Upper School Orchestra
 * No requirements
 * Every day for 30 minutes (9th period)
 * Chamber Orchestra
 * Approve by instructor and a minimum for 4 years of experience are required
 * 3 days a week, 2 ether 60–70 minutes, 1 40 minutes

Band

 * Concert Band
 * No requirements
 * Every day for 30 minutes (9th period)
 * Brass Ensemble
 * Approval of the instructor, and student must demonstrate a high interest and good skills
 * 3 days a week, 2 ether 60–70 minutes, 1 40 minutes
 * Saxophone Ensemble
 * Approval of the instructor, and student must demonstrate a high interest and good skills
 * 3 days a week, 2 ether 60–70 minutes, 1 40 minutes
 * Woodwind Ensemble
 * Approval of the instructor, and student must demonstrate a high interest and good skills
 * 3 days a week, 2 ether 60–70 minutes, 1 40 minutes

Choir

 * Concert Choir
 * No requirements
 * Every day for 30 minutes (9th period)
 * Madrigals Ensemble (auditioned)
 * Approval from instructor from auditions and enrollment in an additional musical ensemble
 * 3 days a week, 2 ether 60–70 minutes, 1 40 minutes
 * Women’s Vocal Chamber Ensemble (auditioned)
 * Approval by instructor by auditions or invite
 * 3 days a week, 2 ether 60–70 minutes, 1 40 minutes

Music Theory

 * Music Theory
 * Approval by instructor
 * 3 days a week, 2 ether 60–70 minutes, 1 40 minutes

Other Info
Since the late 1990s, the Rutgers Preparatory School Madrigal Singers have been attending the New Jersey American Choral Directors Association High School Choral Festival and have regularly received ratings of "Superior." In 2000, 2008 and 2019, the Madrigal Singers performed at Carnegie Hall. In 2013 and 2014 flute players from the school's Music Department performed at Carnegie Hall with Sir James Galway.

Athletics
The Rutgers Prep Argonauts compete as a member school in the Skyland Conference, which is comprised of public and private high schools covering Hunterdon County, Somerset County and Warren County and operates under the auspices of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). The athletic program fields 44 high school and middle school teams, including 15 varsity athletic teams. Boys' teams include soccer, basketball, baseball, tennis, lacrosse, wrestling, and cross country. Girls' teams consist of soccer, basketball, softball, volleyball, cross country, tennis and lacrosse. Additionally, the school has two co-ed teams: golf and swimming. Rutgers Prep is a member of the NJSIAA Non-Public B, NJISAA Prep B, and Skyland Conferences.

Rutgers Prep also had a no-cut policy, Meaning that students who want to participate are guaranteed to make a team, but still have no guarantee on receiving playing time.

NJSIAA state champions

 * Baseball - 2013 (won Non-Public B title vs. Morris Catholic High School )
 * Boys lacrosse - won Non-Public B title in 2013 (defeating Immaculata High School in the title game) and 2022 (vs. Montclair Kimberley Academy)
 * Girls basketball - won the Non-Public Group B state title in 2016 (defeating Saddle River Day School in the tournament final) and 2017 (vs. Queen of Peace High School)
 * Girls soccer - 2019 (won the Non-Public Group B state championship against runner-up Saddle River Day School).
 * Boys Cross Country – 1990, 1996
 * Girls Cross Country – 1997, 2002
 * Boys Basketball – 1956, 1972, 1979, 1981, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2012
 * Girls Basketball – 1992, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012
 * Volleyball – 1992, 2002, 2005, 2011
 * Wrestling – 1993, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009
 * Swimming – 1991, 2001
 * Boys Lacrosse – 1988, 1989, 1990, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2019
 * Girls Lacrosse – 1986, 1999, 2002
 * Golf – 1987
 * Baseball – 1988, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2019
 * Softball – 1988, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
 * Boys Tennis – 2001, 2002, 2004
 * Girls Tennis – 2000
 * Girls Soccer – 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

NJSIAA sectional championships

 * Baseball – 2013
 * Girls Basketball - 2016, 2017, 2018
 * Boys Tennis - 2018
 * Boys Soccer - 2018
 * Girls Soccer - 2019

Somerset County Championships

 * Boys Tennis – 2001
 * Boys Basketball - 1979, 1981, 1983
 * Girls Basketball – 2004, 2008, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2017
 * Baseball - 2017

Patriot Conference Championships (1985 and later)

 * Boys Cross Country – 1986, 1990, 1995, 1996
 * Girls Cross Country – 1996, 1997, 1998
 * Boys Lacrosse – 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
 * Girls Soccer - 2004, 2006
 * Boys Basketball – 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995, 2004, 2005, 2009
 * Girls Basketball – 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
 * Volleyball – 1992, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
 * Wrestling – 1994, 1995, 1996,1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007
 * Golf – 1996, 1998, 2010
 * Boys Tennis – 2001, 2003, 2004
 * Baseball – 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008
 * Softball – 2000, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

Skyland Conference Championships

 * Boys Basketball - Delaware Division - 2015
 * Boys Tennis - Valley Division - 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019
 * Girls Soccer - 2019
 * Girls Tennis - Mountain Division - 2018
 * Volleyball - Raritan Division -2015
 * Girls Basketball -Raritan Division - 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
 * Boys Cross Country - Mountain Division - 2017, 2018
 * Girls Cross Country - Mountain Division - 2017, 2018
 * Girls Soccer - Mountain Division - 2017
 * Baseball - Mountain Division - 2019

In recent years, student-athletes have been awarded individual honors including:
 * All-American
 * All-State
 * All-Metro Region
 * All- Prep B
 * All- Prep
 * All-Somerset County
 * All-Area
 * All-Non-Public
 * Player of the Year
 * All-Skyland Conference

Student publications

 * The Argo — Award-winning monthly newspaper
 * Excelsior — biannual literary magazine
 * Ye Dial — school yearbook

Notable alumni

 * Marvadene Anderson (born 1993), basketball player
 * Jesús Arango Cano (1915–2015), Colombian economist, diplomat, anthropologist, archaeologist and writer
 * James Bishop (1816–1895), politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1855–1857
 * James Dickson Carr (1868–1920), Assistant District Attorney, New York County (1899–1901)
 * Leilani Correa (born 2001), basketball player
 * William Henry Steele Demarest (1863–1956), Minister, President of Rutgers College (1906–1924) and President of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary (1924–1934)
 * Fred A. Hartley Jr. (1902–1969), member of the United States House of Representatives who sponsored the Taft–Hartley Act
 * Robert Wood Johnson II (1893–1968), chairman of Johnson & Johnson
 * Stanley Kamel (1943–2008), actor who appeared on the television series Monk
 * Aline Murray Kilmer (1888–1941), poet and author
 * Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918), poet and World War I soldier
 * Keshia Knight Pulliam (born 1979), actress who appeared on the television series The Cosby Show
 * Leroy Lins (1913–1986), professional basketball player who played for the Akron Goodyear Wingfoots in the National Basketball League
 * Kōjirō Matsukata (1865–1950), son of Japanese Prime Minister Matsukata Masayoshi and future director of Kawasaki Dockyard Company
 * Judy Melick (born 1954, class of 1972), former competition swimmer who participated as part of the U.S. team at the 1972 Summer Olympics
 * Zach Perez (born 1996), professional soccer player who plays as a defender for USL League One club Richmond Kickers
 * Max Raab (1926–2008), film producer who made his initial fortune in the garment industry
 * Marc Turtletaub (born 1946, class of 1963), film producer
 * Breein Tyree (born 1998), point guard / shooting guard for the Ole Miss Rebels men's basketball team
 * Constance H. Williams (born 1944), politician who served from 2001 to 2009 in the Pennsylvania State Senate

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I found this on the web. I thought it should be confirmed before being included:

"While Tal lay dying, one of the assassins knelt and lapped with his tongue the blood flowing across the marble floor. That grisly scene, reported in The Times of London and other major newspapers..."

"Four of its members assassinated Wasfi al-Tal, Jordan's prime minister and the enemy of the Palestinians, on the steps of the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo. Tal's last words were: "They've killed me. Murderers, they believe only in fire and destruction."

"On 28 November 1971, an organization which was to leave an indelible mark on the history of political terror and the modern Middle East committed its first murder. Four armed Palestinians, operating in broad daylight and without the benefit of masks, shot dead the Jordanian Prime Minister, Wash Tel, as he returned to Cairo’s Sheraton Hotel from an Arab League meeting. The assassination itself was followed by a gruesome ritual as one of the killers knelt down, lapped up and drank some of Tel’s flowing blood and shouted several times that he and his accomplices belonged to Black September. "  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.251.34.73 (talk • contribs)

your sources are not reliable (3rd) quote or biased (1st and second), I will scan and post some articles on egyptian newspapers about the incident, just ask. The 'blood licking' line should be removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.224.229.9 (talk) 23:12, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Born in 1919, so where?
It looks like Mandatory Palestine wasn't established until 1920. So where was he born? Best I can figure, it would be part of the Ottoman Empire still, since the dissolution hadn't completely happened. Would that or Ottoman Syria be a better country identifier for the place of birth? —C.Fred (talk) 21:26, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Technically it was Occupied Enemy Territory Administration. Just “Transjordan” as a geographical region would suffice. Makeandtoss (talk) 22:38, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Does anyone know the accuracy of his birth date in the Wiki article? The New York Times and The Jordan Times say he was born in 1920 . Wafflefrites (talk) 18:51, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
 * This source also says 1920 so I will make the sourced changes to the birth year on this article. Also both this source and NYT say that he was born in Irbid, which is in Jordan, but the Wiki lead say he was born in Turkey. I think this should be changed to Irbid. Wafflefrites (talk) 20:26, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

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Anna Ryder Richardson

 Anna Caroline Ryder Richardson (born 29 January 1964) is a British interior designer and television presenter. She is known for being a designer on the BBC shows Changing Rooms and the subject of Chaos at the Zoo, which documents her ownership of Manor House Wildlife Park in Pembrokeshire. She also appeared on CBBC show Hider in the House alongside Cameron Biswas.

Personal life
Anna Ryder Richardson was born in Swansea in 1964. Her father was a Malaysian student, and her mother English. At six weeks of age, she was adopted by Colin and Jill Ryder Richardson, and raised in Surrey with her adopted sister Sarah. Her adoptive father was a World War II evacuee who survived the sinking of the SS City of Benares by a German U-boat; he spent his career as a Lloyd's underwriter. She was introduced to her partner, restaurateur Colin MacDougall, by Gregg Wallace at his restaurant on New Year's Eve 2000, and they married at a private ceremony in the Canadian Rockies. Their first child, Bean, was born prematurely and died less than 60 minutes after birth.

Interior design
After an early career in modelling, Ryder Richardson became a fitness instructor. She managed children's interior shop Squidgy Things, where she started designing and decorating children's bedrooms; this work launched her career as an interior designer. She describes her own style as evolving, but "[preferring] the bolder colours". She cites Kelly Hoppen among her influences.

Her breakthrough moment was on a design segment on GMTV in 1996, after which Ainsley Harriott introduced her to the producers of short-lived documentary show Change That. She was cast as one of the interior designers on Changing Rooms where she sprang to fame for her bold interior design choices. She worked on a number of smaller shows, including House Invaders, Staying Put and Trading Spaces. None of these had the same mainstream success as Changing Rooms, and in 2006, reconsidered the direction of her career.

In 2017, it was announced that she would return to interior design, appearing as a designer on Peter Andre's 60 Minute Makeover.

Wildlife park
Ryder Richardson appeared in a string of reality TV shows to fund a lifetime ambition of owning a zoo. She appeared on the BBC Sport Relief event Only Fools on Horses, and the 2007 series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! (where she was the sixth person to leave). She said she was "unprepared" for these experiences and described her experiences as "unpleasant", but that she developed a good relationship with co-star Christopher Biggins. She would later team up with Biggins on a Celebrity Version of the ITV show Who wants to be a Millionaire?, where they shared a £50,000 prize for their chosen charities.

In 2008, she purchased Manor House Wildlife Park in Pembrokeshire for £1 million. Her experiences at the zoo have been the subject of a number of television series, including Chaos at the Zoo, Anna's Welsh Zoo and Wild Welsh Zoo. She was charged for health and safety violations in 2012, after a mother and son were injured by a falling tree, but acquitted after her husband admitted that work fell under his remit.

In 2015, she set up a charity called 'The Nature Foundation' to transport neglected lionesses from an abandoned zoo in Gyumri to Peak Wildlife Park. She successfully raised £25,000 to transport the animals, but the high-profile nature of the campaign ensured that locals provided adequate facilities for the lionesses in their native Armenia. The funds instead went to breeding facilities for the endangered Sumatran Tiger. As of 2020, she still owns the park.

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 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 SPEEDY DELETE. —Korath (Talk) 18:33, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)

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Vanity, deleted 3 times but recreated again. Hopefully putting it on vfd will give him the idea. Thue | talk 14:23, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Creator blanked the page. I think he got the idea. Delete - teenage vanity mixed with a liberal dose of nonsense. -- Cyrius|✎ 14:40, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, obviously. Pure drivel. Block the idiot if he continues to vandalize. jni 14:45, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Speedy? Drivel, nonsense, crap, not here please -- Longhair 15:03, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedied - the creator blanked it. Thue | talk 16:49, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Masahisa Fujita

Masahisa Fujita (藤田 昌久) is a Japanese economist who has studied regional science, urban economics, international trade, and spatial economy (new economic geography). He is a professor at Konan University and an adjunct professor at Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University.

Fujita majored in urban planning as an undergraduate at Kyoto University. He studied regional science in University of Pennsylvania under Walter Isard and obtained a Ph.D.(in Regional Science) from University of Pennsylvania in 1972. He taught at University of Pennsylvania for about 20 years, and has been the faculty of Institute of Economic Research (KIER) Kyoto University since 1995, where he served as Director in 1999. He was the President of Institute of Developing Economies during 2003 to 2007, and proposed a basic concept of Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia to JETRO and METI. In 2007, he became President and Chief Research Officer of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry.

Fujita is known as one of the pioneers of New Economic Geography, as well as Paul Krugman. Fujita is the recipient of the 1983 Tord Palander Prize, the 1998 Walter Isard Award in regional science, and was also awarded the first Alonso Prize, alongside Paul Krugman.

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Mont Park Asylum

Mont Park Asylum was a psychiatric hospital located in Macleod, an outer eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The hospital opened in 1912 and closed in the 1990s. Some of the former hospital buildings have since been used by the La Trobe University for administrative purposes.

Use as a hospital
Mont Park Hospital for the Insane was opened in April 1912. Its proclamation as a Hospital for the Insane was published in the Government Gazette on the 23 October 1912.

First patients admitted to Mont Park were all farm workers and artisans who laid out the farm, roads and gardens. In 1912 at Mont Park there were blacksmiths, workshop employees and 110 carpenters. 212 patients were employed in farming duties and 106 worked in the gardens. Excess produce not required by other asylums was sold. The farm buildings were extensive with hay sheds, store rooms for vegetables, glass houses and pig and calf pens. Only remnants of these buildings remain and are used by La Trobe University as store rooms. These buildings were constructed around a large cobbled basalt courtyard. The largest building was the milking shed, which had a well-laid brick floor, cambered and angled for drainage.

When it opened, Mont Park Hospital was fitted with many facilities far ahead of its time, such as a gymnasium, electrical apparatus for physiotherapy and a Red Cross rest room. Patients not working were confined to their wards or in airing cages, which were small and overcrowded. Patients were restrained using straight jackets, skull caps, locked boots or padded cells.

Farming continued for many years until residential development encroached along Plenty Road and people began to complain in newspapers about the smells coming from the hospital grounds from the vicinity of the milking sheds and piggeries.

In 1915 a ward at Mont Park was taken over as a Convalescent Military Hospital. An agreement was made with the Defence Department for the latter to erect the Mont Park central block for use as a Military Hospital. This hospital was generally referred to as the Military Mental Hospital. It was also variously known as the Military Mental Block. Apparently, ex-military personnel with chronic psychiatric illness were housed there. The military block at Mont Park was closed in 1924 and handed back to the State for civilian mental cases.

Mont Park also had its own separate hospital for any of the patients' medical and/or surgical needs, called MSU (Medical Surgical Unit). The MSU were staffed by general nurse's who had little to no mental health training, leading to abuse of the patients receiving medical care.

The hospital was closed in the late-1990s. Mont Park was closely linked with Plenty Valley Repatriation Psychiatric Hospital and Larundel Psychiatric Hospital, which both closed in the late 1990s. These sites were also redeveloped.

The hospital is mentioned by the author Gerald Murnane in his story Stream System.

Subsequent use
The complex was served by the freight only Mont Park railway branch line.

The vacant land was used for the establishment of La Trobe University in 1967. It is now the site of Springthorpe Housing Development. Part of the old patient hospital is occupied by La Trobe University for administrative offices.

The buildings of Mont Park were used for the 2004 documentary Troubled Minds - The Lithium Revolution which portrayed Dr John Cade's discovery of the use of lithium in mental illness. Several buildings at the former site were also used as filming locations for the Garingal Juvenile Justice Centre in Chris Lilley's mockumentaries Angry Boys and Jonah from Tonga.

title: Mont Park Asylum