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Baha'i stuff
Hi Occamy, and welcome. You appear to have come to this community about the same time as me.

I read a comment you made on Refdoc's talk page, and wanted to say something about it here, but now I've forgotten. bear with me a while, whilst I go take a look again.

oh yeah, that's right - Coffee vendors. I just wanted to say that one day, near the start of my Wikiholism I once spent the whole night editing and saw the sun come up the next day. I just kept thinking "just half an hour more, and I'll go to bed". That's one way (not recommended) to find time to do things here!

PaulHammond 18:28, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)

 * True. Really bad is though when you see the sun going down again and still think - "ah, just see whether that troll has been active again"... Refdoc 00:13, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I just made some changes to Kitab-i Aqdas and would like that someonewho is actually a Bahai has a look whther I got things right. Refdoc 00:22, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Making external links
Hi Occamy.

I've fixed quite a few of your net links, and another one just now, so I thought I'd drop you a note about them. They're slightly different from Wikipedia links, and there are three ways to do them:

 * Bare link - you just put in the address as http://www.awebsite.com and the magic wiki fairies make it into a link http://www.awebsite.com. Don't forget the http:// part!

 * Unlabelled reference - put the address in single square brackets - gives a footnote style numbered link so becomes.

 * Labelled reference - as above, but leave a space and a name after the address, and that name is what appears as the link, so My wonderful website becomes My wonderful website.

Keep up the good work!

PaulHammond 18:56, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)

CB pages
No. I wasn't advocating them,  I was commenting about how they will, like the Orthodox Baha'i Pages, be very very very very very difficult when the time comes. I ---do not--- suggest that you begin research on this.

But I'll give you a very short example. The publicly stated reasons for SHoghi Effendi expelling Ruhi Afnan were that his sister married a covenant breaker, and that he made two international trips without consulting Shoghi Effendi. Uh. You and I both know there's more to the story than that, but you and I both ALSO know that the House is not going to release the details of the Guardian's coorespondence with Ruhi Afnan any time soon. Ahmad Sohrab wrote a 200 page biography of Ruhi ("A Grandson of Baha'u'llah"  I do not reccomend that you read it, it's an anti-Shoghi Effendi polemic, but he was a HELL of a writer.   THe point is, there will be no shortage of arguments where we're going to be playing ball with one hand tied to our ankles due to lack of documents.  Let's save our credit for the arguments where we need it. Rick Boatright 23:37, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The photo
The more information we can get on the image the better since it makes a strong case for giving the image a seprate section which can be at the bottem of the page.Geni 16:28, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Personally, I don't reckon you should start offering excuses for why Baha'u'llah looks the way he does in that passport photo (no-one looks good in passport photos, even when they haven't just been imprisoned) - it adds weight to the argument that we object to that photo because of how Baha'u'llah looks in it, which isn't the case at all. It's not that if we had a perfect photo of Baha'u'llah, Baha'is would be happy to let everyone see it, it is a combination of an attitude of reverence, and Baha'u'llah warnings about the potential for his image to become a focus for idol worship rather than God-worship - an Islamic type of attitude to representation of the Manifestation. PaulHammond 11:18, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)

Baha'i Faith talk page
Hi Occamy,

I just spent an hour archiving the BF talk page - I hope you like what I've done. I didn't think there was much point reorganising previously archived comments, but there was a major need to cut down the size of the current page.

Actually, apart from letting you know that I've changed what you did out of courtesy, I'm really here to point you to Refactoring, and Talk page, which of course I just discovered after I'd done the work! PaulHammond 13:22, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)

 * You know, after I just annoyed Refdoc, one of the more reasonable editors, and after experiencing the "hit and run" effect of ideologues using the issue of Baha'u'llah's photo as one more stick to beat their issues with, I am entirely tempted to go back to writing articles about Doctor Who and leave the controversies to those with a dog in this fight. PaulHammond 14:19, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)

I note that Amir has gone back to putting in Baha'u'llah's photo in the Baha'i Faith article (talk page consensus was that it didn't belong there, but did belong at Baha'u'llah), and to putting back controversial and slanted statements in the history section, when the length of the article, and talk-page discussion came up with consensus for putting the controversial details in the articles on the people, and using short summaries in the main article. All without comment on the talk page, and often as an anon user. I also note that Martin2000 hasn't made any contributions since I accused him of being Amir's sockpuppet! PaulHammond 14:44, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)

Maybe we shouldn't spend so much time on the pages and take a long term view of it all. --Occamy 14:27, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * That sounds like a very sensible suggestion to me. --PaulHammond 17:45, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)

 * My adivice would be to spend as much time on talk pages as posible. Disscuss every remoty contirversal edit. Belive me in the long term this by far the best option.Geni 17:59, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Reverts
Please be careful before you edit after a revert. At the moment theres a revert war going on so that a whole day's work is being removed and added. You're small edits halfway through may risk losing the whole day's worth of small edits (such as bolivia has 3% baha'i - didn't know that!). Recommend you use the revert tool. -- Tomhab 10:46, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Paul's wikibreak
Hi Occamy,

I'm going to do what I was joking about above - I've left a note of explanation on my user page. I'm in the midst of changes in my real life anyway, and yesterday I found myself getting angry with Refdoc, which isn't healthy. Drop me a note if there's any Requests for Comment on users or issues that you need my support or comments on, but other than that I expect to keep away from the Baha'i articles until after I've settled into my new job and home in mid-March. Cheers. PaulHammond 14:35, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

Please take a look at...
Bahá'u'lláh three wives - something I've compiled from other sections of stuff. Take a look at Bahá'u'lláh to see what changes I've made to the main article.

Comments? --Tomhab 01:24, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

3RR
Might want to watch yourself with the reverts. There is a 3 revert rule (3RR) - you get banned for a bit if you revert more than 3 times in 24 hours. You can also report people who break the 3RR on some admin page. -- Tomhab 01:05, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I echo this. 3RR applies to everyone. Revert warring can lead to blocking the "warriors" and to page protection (invariably on the wrong version...) Refdoc 01:25, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Baha'i Calendar question
Just wanting to refer the question to someone else:

Talk:Bahá'í calendar

As said there I'm not 100% sure -- Tomhab 09:56, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

User talk:W778
I dropped a couple of notes there you might want to look at. Rick Boatright 16:33, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Cypriot National Guard an unconstitutional institution
can you please give your sources(links to newspaper articles?) on the case of that young man who avoided conscription on solely legal grounds? Mavros 17:01, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Baha'i elections
I look forward to debating these issues with you and striving to create an NPOV article. I'm afraid I don't share your uncritical view of the Baha'i electoral system; the prohibution on campaigning is part of the reason why elections are demonstrably information-poor and inefficient, which is also related to the issue of incumbency. AndrewRT 12:20, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I realise I didn't respond to your previous comment on Baha'i elections. To be honest my efforts have been devoted to other less controversial topics - I find I get more satisfaction out of this than arguing about Baha'i stuff.

 * I will eventually come round to putting in my tu'p'orth on the Baha'i admin article. In essence my point is not about faults and problems with Baha'i systems but instead about acknowledging that different systems have different advantages and disadvantages. Not having nominations has many advantages, and you are right to point them out. But it also has disadvantages, and my hope is that Baha'is will become more ready to accept arguments about these without taking it as an attack.

 * I was very interested in your comment on Ali Nakhjavani's views, saying turnover will increase when information improves. Are you aware of any sources where I could use that quote (or one similar?) AndrewRT 17:40, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Current edit war on Mirza Yahya
It is because certain persons do not want to face the fact that the Bab nominated Mirza as his successor and told him to complete the Bayan. As you can see, they want to get more and more and more picky about the sources. Did not Abdu'l himself state that Browne was an excellent scholar? I post a link, or source or statement and someone deletes it because they don't want to learn anything about the actual history, they just want to parrot whatever the HoJ says or something. Ok that's my rant for today :) Wjhonson 17:27, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Request for comment
I need a second opinion on Talk:Siyyid Kázim Rashtí before I revert. Could you help? Cuñado  -  Talk  17:30, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Bahai Faith
Do you think that the Bahai Faith is very similar to Islam, to be honest with before I started on Wikipedia, I never heard of Bahai Faith, and for a while I thought it was another sector of Islam as it has similar believes. The Bahai Faith is very close to Islam if you look at the two religions, The Bab was a Muslim so was Bahaullah.  Abdullah Geelah 16:28, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Pictures
Hi Occamy, would you have any pictures of the World Centre that you have taken yourself that you could upload at commons.wikimedia.org on a free license? Regards, -- Jeff3000 04:33, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

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Susan Swan

Susan Swan (born 9 June 1945) is a Canadian author, journalist, and professor. Susan Swan writes classic Canadian novels. Her fiction has been published in 20 countries and translated into 10 languages. She is the co-founder of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction which is open to Canadian and American women fiction writers and received an Order of Canada in 2023 for her mentoring of younger women writers.

Born in Midland, Ontario, she studied at McGill University. Her novels include The Biggest Modern Woman in the World (1983), The Last of The Golden Girls (1989), The Wives of Bath (1993), What Casanova Told Me (2004), and The Western Light (2012). Swan's latest novel is The Dead Celebrities Club (2019). The Globe and Mail called it a "timely tale of greed and corruption, worthy of the age". The Wives of Bath was made into the film Lost and Delirious in 2001, starring Piper Perabo, Jessica Paré, and Mischa Barton. The film was listed in the official selection in the Sundance Film Festival. Her first novel, The Biggest Modern Woman of the World, about a Canadian giantess related to Swan who exhibited with PT Barnum, is being made into a television series.

Swan currently mentors graduate students in creative writing MA's at the University of Toronto and Guelph University. She was the Robarts Scholar for Canadian Studies at York University from 1999 to 2000 and taught in the Faculty of Humanities at York University from 1991 to 2007 before retiring as a professor to concentrate on her writing. She has participated in the Humber College Humber Writer's Circle at Lakeshore Campus and was Chair of The Writers' Union of Canada for 2007–2008.

Life
Swan grew up in Midland, Ontario, and has a younger brother John. Swan was a bookworm as a child and wrote stories to entertain herself and her friends. An early short story by Swan was deemed plagiarism by her Grade Seven teacher who said the writing was too good to have been written by a young girl. Swan's parents were Jane Cowan of Sarnia, Ontario, and Dr. Churchill Swan, a Midland G.P.

Swan attended Midland Public School and as a teenager, she worked as a reporter on the Midland Free Press. From 1959 to 1963, she was a boarder at Toronto's Havergal College, which inspired one of her novels. Swan has a general B.A. from McGill University (1964–67) where she worked on The McGill Daily. Swan was also editor of The McGill Scene, a newspaper for Montreal high school students that was banned under Swan's editorship. Swan later worked as a reporter for several Toronto daily newspapers before turning to magazine freelance and novel writing.

On 27 March 1969, she married Barry Haywood in the boardroom of The Telegram, where Swan was the education reporter. They had one daughter, Samantha Haywood (1973–) and the two were later divorced. Swan's longtime partner is Canadian publisher Patrick Crean.

Career
Swan is a writer and journalist who was also a performance artist from 1975 to 1979, performing odes on subjects like self-pity and figure skater Barbara Ann Scott called Queen of the Silver Blades. But she is best known for her critically praised fiction, which has been published in twenty countries. Gender is often a theme in her earlier books, which examined the dilemma of inhabiting a female body in a male-dominated Western culture. One critic called her "a contemporary Charles Dickens” while another critic, The New Yorker writer James Wood, said her novels belong to the category of "the avant-garde of content", a term Wood uses to describe his belief that the progressive development of fiction writing now centres on the subject matter a writer chooses to explore. Swan's latest novels have expressed a young woman's longing for fatherly love.

Susan's latest novel is The Dead Celebrities Club, published in 2019 by Cormorant books. The Globe and Mail called it "a timely tale of greed and corruption, worthy of the age". The story follows hedge fund whale, Dale Paul, a witty, self-absorbed rogue and raconteur who is sent to an upstate New York white collar jail on multiple counts of fraud for gambling away US military pensions. Promising himself to earn back his son's previously gambled inheritance, Dale Paul dreams up an illegal lottery for his fellow inmates based on the death of old and frail celebrities. The novel was born out of Swan's obsession at the time with con men and whether they can change.

Swan's novel, The Western Light, is a prequel to The Wives of Bath. The story revolves around the life of young Mouse Bradford who is torn between love for her father and the charismatic asylum inmate John Pilkie, an ex-Red Wings hockey player, serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife and baby girl. Set in Madoc's Landing, a fictional Ontario town on Georgian Bay, The Western Light weaves in details of the history of the Ontario oil boomtown Petrolia, hockey mania, bootlegging taxi drivers, and debates over psychiatry and universal health care. The novel was published by Cormorant Books in Canada (September 2012) and was also picked as one of the top ten fiction and non-fiction 2012 books by the Ontario Library Association.

Swan's previous work, What Casanova Told Me, links two women from different centuries through a long-lost journal about travels with Casanova in the Mediterranean. It celebrates travel as a form of love. What Casanova Told Me was published by Knopf in Canada (hardcover September 2004 and paperback 2005) and in the US by Bloomsbury (hardcover 2005 and paperback 2006). It was also published in Spain, Russia, Serbia and Portugal. What Casanova Told Me was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canada and Caribbean Region). It was a Globe and Mail Best Book; a Calgary Herald Top 10; a Now (Toronto) Top 10; and a Sun Times (Owen Sound) Top 10; and Asked For Adams was named one of Maclean's Top 5 literary characters for 2004. Swan shares a Puritan background with her heroine Asked For Adams. A branch of Swan's family immigrated to America in 1635 and settled near Boston before moving to Canada two centuries later. What Casanova Told Me was made into Canada's first five-minute book short by film producer Judith Keenan. It also inspired the song "What Casanova Told Me" by Albertan folk singer Cori Brewster who recorded it on her 2007 album Large Bird Leaving.

Swan's 1993 novel The Wives of Bath, a darkly humorous tale about a murder in a girls' boarding school, was a finalist for the UK's Guardian Fiction Prize and Ontario's Trillium Book Award. It was picked by a U.S. Readers' Guide as one of the best novels of the 1990s. A feature film based on The Wives of Bath was released in the summer of 2001 in the U.S. and Canada under the title Lost and Delirious. The film starring Piper Perabo, Jessica Paré, and Mischa Barton was shown in 32 countries, and was picked for premiere selection at Sundance and Berlin Film Festival in 2001.

Swan's other novels include The Biggest Modern Woman of the World (1983), based on a true-life ancestor, a giantess who exhibited with P.T. Barnum, which was a finalist for Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Governor General's Award for Fiction. It is currently being made into a television series by Temple Street Productions with Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch adapting the book for screen. The Last of the Golden Girls (1989), about the sexual awakening of young women in Ontario cottage country, was originally published in 1989, and recently reissued in hardcover. Her collection of short stories, Stupid Boys are Good to Relax With was published in 1996. Two of its stories were published in Granta and in Ms. Magazine.

In collaboration with editor Janice Zawerbny, Swan was one of the founders of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.

Swan's literary influence
Swan's impact on the Canadian literary and political scene has been far-reaching. Swan coined the term "sexual gothic" to describe contemporary gothic novels that use the body as the site of the narrative the way 19th-century gothic novels used a ruined building as their literary setting. "Gender gothic" is another name for sexual gothic since many novels in the 1990s dealt with aspects of gender or gender changes. In the fall of 1993, a theatrical dramatization of The Wives of Bath was performed in Toronto, Chicago and New York with the Canadian authors Barbara Gowdy and Eric McCormack. The theatrical evening was billed, "An Evening of Sexual Gothic".

Swan also coined the term "the burden of adjustment" to describe the adjustment demanded of readers by sexist or racist prose. For instance, many nineteenth novels have racist and sexist stereotypes embedded in the story. Swan compared the burden to the less difficult adjustment one makes reading Shakespeare or say, any novel where the gender and race of the protagonist are different from the gender and race of the reader.

Swan said: "The burden of adjustment becomes a problem when a great work of art or literature either appears to portray or portrays one of the groups you or I belong to as stereotyped or inferior". Swan advocated putting up with the burden of adjustment when the text gave the reader a major reward. Swan's theory was outlined in a talk at the York University premier lecture series on 26 February 1998.

Literary influences
Early on, Swan was encouraged by the success of prominent Canadian women writers like Marian Engel who wrote the novel Bear and Margaret Atwood, who like Swan, works in many disciplines. Swan's first novel, The Biggest Modern Woman of the World, purportedly a lecture by a show business giantess, grew out of Swan's work in performance art during the 1970s.

Controversy
Swan's novels are no strangers to controversy. A Canadian customs' official once confiscated The Wives of Bath at the Canadian border because he said it was obscene and shouldn't be read in Canada. By then the novel had already been nominated for Ontario's Trillium and the Guardian Fiction prize.

Swan herself has been involved in literary disputes. She once asked The Globe and Mail fiction critic William French to resign on television because he criticized the apocalyptic ending of The Last of the Golden Girls as "unrealistic". Swan argued that literary realism is itself an artificial construct and not realistic in the sense French meant.

Swan was one of the signatories in the controversial University of British Columbia letter asking for due process for Steven Galloway, a UBC creative writing professor accused of sexual assault. In 2016, the allegations of sexual assault against Galloway couldn't be substantiated by Justice Mary Boyd. In 2021, Justice Elaine Adair ruled against anti-SLAPP motions brought by 11 defendants in Galloway's defamation trial, allowing the defamation trial to continue.

Teaching
Swan has taught creative writing workshops all over Europe and recently retired from teaching creative writing as an associate professor of humanities at York University to focus on her books. She currently mentors creative writing students for the University of Toronto and the University of Guelph and teaches in the Correspondence Program at Humber College.

In 1999–2000, she was awarded the Millennial Robarts Chair in Canadian Studies. As chair, she hosted the successful Millennial Wisdom Symposium in Toronto featuring artists and social scientists debating the ways the past is recreated in popular culture and what wisdom the past has to offer as we move into the new century. The symposium was inspired by her research into her book about Casanova.

Swan was appointed to the Order of Canada in June 2023.

Politics
She was chair of the Writers' Union of Canada (2007–2008) and brought in a new benefits deal for Canadian writers. She is also a member of Community Air, a group of Toronto citizens opposed to the expansion of the Island Airport.

Books

 * Unfit For Paradise (1981)
 * The Biggest Modern Woman of the World (1983)
 * The Last of the Golden Girls (1989)
 * The Wives of Bath (1993)
 * Stupid Boys Are Good To Relax With (1996)
 * What Casanova Told Me (2004)
 * The Western Light (2012)
 * The Dead Celebrities Club (2019)

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AACR

AACR may refer to:

 * Across a Crowded Room, an album by Richard Thompson released in 1985
 * American Association for Cancer Research, an organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * American Cable and Radio Corporation, a former communications holding company in the middle 20th century previously known as All America Cables and Radio
 * Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, a publication for library professionals
 * Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights, a political party in Gibraltar
 * Autoritatea Aeronautică Civilă Română ("Romanian Civil Aeronautical Authority")

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Roland Bond

Roland Curling Bond (5 May 1903 – 20 December 1980) was a British locomotive engineer.

Biography
Bond was born in Ipswich in 1903, and became interested in railways when staying in Yarmouth during the Great War. He was educated at Tonbridge School.

Bond joined the Midland Railway in 1920, from 1923 part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) until 1925. He was an apprentice under Henry Fowler. He then became assistant works manager at the Vulcan Foundry.

In 1931 Bond returned to the LMS, becoming an "assistant works superintendent" at Horwich. In 1933, moved to assistant works superintendent at Crewe. On the outbreak of the World War II in 1939, Bond was sent to Scotland as acting mechanical and electrical engineer, acting for R.A. Riddles. In 1941, he moved back to Crewe to become "works superintendent" and helped drive efficient locomotive and munitions work there.

In 1948, on the formation of the Railway Executive, Bond was appointed chief officer (Locomotive Construction and Maintenance), reporting to Riddles, who was now "Member of the Railway Executive for Mechanical and Electrical Engineering". On the abolition of the Railway Executive in 1953, Bond became chief mechanical engineer, BR Central Staff and later in 1965 general manager, BR Workshops. He was succeeded as Chief Mechanical Engineer in October 1958 by John Frederick (Freddie) Harrison. Bond retired in 1970 and died in 1980, aged 77.

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Charles Memminger
Why have you blanked all articles you created about Charles Memminger? Charles Memminger is the correct place for the info, and the redirects you made were correct. If you want to retract them, please add a speedy deletion tag to the page and explain that you want to have it deleted (as the sole editor). Thank you! Mgm|(talk) 11:06, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)

Damn. I was hoping nobody would notice.

I deleted the articles because I screwed up. After writing a nice article on Christopher Memminger, I listed it under the name Charles Memminger. I realized my mistake after only a few minutes and moved the article (and redirects) to the correct spot. MK2 11:10, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Anti Sikh riots
You italicized the entire 'incident' part of the Anti-Sikh Riots. Actually the 'incident' which I have written is not exactly the same as the Kristalnacht 1984 report. My writings are based on a newspaper report which in turn based on the Kristalnacht 1984 report. If u can somehow get the exact copy of this report please put it on the page. bye gaurav Gaurav1146 10:10, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Sorry. My mistake. I thought the paragraph I italicized was an excerpt from the source you mentioned. MK2 18:18, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Survivor: Palau
Sorry about editing over your work! My local CBS affiliate showed the show an hour late due to the presidential press conference, and it took me a while to get the table done. :( Mo0 [ talk ] 02:49, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * No problem. I was surprised to see I was the first to make the other edits. I did put back in part of what I had previously written - I think Stephenie's threat as a competitor was as important a factor as her former tribal membership in the decision to vote her out. MK2 02:51, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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 * Thank you for the interest, but I don't see it as something I'd want to do. I don't have the expertise to handle technical issues and I don't have the patience to handle personal disputes. MK2 15:00, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your edits...
Thanks for your edits on the Steven Barnes bit I did... I see I need to do a little more proofreading of my contributions in the future. Thanks again.

Edit summary
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Sources for Gretchen Phillips
Hello, good work on Gretchen Phillips, and thanks for the contribution. However, you did not provide any references or sources in the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and as you might be aware there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. Can you list in the article any websites, books, or other sources that will allow people to verify the content in Gretchen Phillips? You can simply add links, preferably as the inline citations, or see citation templates for different citation methods. Thanks! Lupin|talk|popups 18:23, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Personally, I usually only provide cites when I'm posting something that's likely to be disputed. I suppose I could find a cite for the fact that Gretchen Phillips was born in Galveston, Texas, but I haven't seen anyone question this fact. So I would just be looking around to any reference that lists her birthplace, find that all of them give the same information, and then arbitrarily picking one as a "cite". That seems a little pointless. MK2 03:54, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Lincoln cent
You're probably right. The cent article needs to be a broader overview. JonMoore 19:12, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikicity
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Steven Barnes
In case you were still wondering, Steven Barnes has worked extensively with both Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Basique 02:21, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Bobbits
Uh, everything else aside, go consult a dictionary. --Jerzy•t 06:27, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay, technically, Bobbitt was a victim of a penectomy not castration. But realistically, who says the word penectomy in normal usage? Other than that, what were your problems? MK2 06:37, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

CFD again for "Entertainers by age upon death"
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Merger proposed: Liberty Law → Young Plan
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The Boy Scouts of Bahrain (جمعية كشافة البحرين) is the national Scouting organization of Bahrain. It was founded in 1953, and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1970. The Boy Scouts of Bahrain has 3,270 members as of 2021.

The small Bahraini Scout organization often participates in cooperative events with neighboring Kuwait and Qatar. Scouts are involved in community service such as cleaning polluted areas and spraying insecticides, giving blood and helping to organize blood donor services, assistance at sports events and taking charge of first aid at schools.

Program and sections
There is also a section for handicapped Scouts.
 * Al-Ashbal (Cub Scouts)-8 to 12
 * Al-fetian (Boy Scouts)-12 to 14
 * Al-Matakadem (Rovers)-14 to 18

The Scout Motto is Kun Musta'idan or كن مستعداً, translated as Be Prepared in Arabic. The noun for a single Scout is Kashaf or كشاف in Arabic.

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Areley Kings

Areley Kings is a village on the River Severn, in the civil parish of Stourport-on-Severn, in the Wyre Forest of Worcestershire, England. It is 10 miles north of Worcester and south of Stourport on Severn. It is in the Wyre Forest. The village is featured in the Domesday Book and is home to many historical places of interest such as Areley Hall and St Bartholomew's Church.

History
The manor of Areley Kings was from early times part of the manor of Martley and the rector of Martley still has the right to appoint the rector at Areley Kings. The manor of Areley originated in a fishery at "Ernel" which, with the land belonging to it, was granted by the Empress Matilda to Bordesley Abbey upon its foundation in 1136, and retained until the Dissolution.

Prince Rupert of the Rhine is rumoured to have slept a night at Areley House during the English Civil War.

Areley Kings was in the upper division of Doddingtree Hundred.

In 1931 the parish had a population of 940. On 1 April 1933 the parish was abolished and merged with Stourport on Severn and Astley.

Church
St Bartholomew's Parish Church at Areley Kings was founded as a Norman Church, with a continuous history and a partial re-building by the Victorians. The church is probably first mentioned in the preface of the Brut of Laȝamon, who wrote sometime between 1189 and 1207. He describes himself as a priest at Erneleye, at a noble church upon Severn's bank. He wrote a history of England, partly legendary, partly factual, translating earlier writings from Latin and French. The discovery, during rebuilding, of the base of a Norman font under the nave floor with an inscription containing the name of Layamon, establishes the connection with the writer and shows that a church existed here c. 1200.

The church complex includes a Queen Anne Rectory and medieval timber-framed church house.

Notable people

 * Charles Harrison, MP for Bewdley from 1874 to 1890 lived at Areley Court, Areley Kings.
 * Frances Ridley Havergal wrote the hymn Take my life and let it be at Areley House in 1874.
 * Layamon 12/13th century poet lived in Areley Kings and a local road is named after him.

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Talk:Khabarovsk

comments from 2005
Is this article NPOV? Parts of it don't sound it. --KG

Well then, edit it to make it NPOV. Or at least specify what you don't like about it. Balcer 19:32, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

17th century events
"Manchu-Korean forces met the Russians at Sharhody (Chinese: 沙尔虎达 Russian: Шарходы/Шарходе Hangul:의례목성 (어라이무청)), on the mouth of the Sungari River, killing 270 Russians and driving them out of Manchu territory." That's not POV?! --SergeiXXX 00:04, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Hmm, the passage in question refers to the description of Russians taking over of the Manchu territory. What exactly do you see as a POV problem in this sentence?  It was a Manchu territory after all.  Or do you mean something else?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 00:21, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

 * There is no political correctness in words killing 270 Russians and driving them out of Manchu territory. I certain that in some russian notes of that times Manchu were just retrogrades and they were only able to kill themselves in front of danger. I hope there is no place for insults in the free Encyclopedia.

But it is evident the article has been written by a Korean, hehe. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.24.241.27 (talk) 14:51, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

 * There is a great series of postings, in Russian, on the events of the period here: http://www.gerodot.ru/viewtopic.php?t=13026 Although this is in a forum format, and not in a journal article (so we can't use it is a reference - but we can look up some of the same info in other sources), I believe that the poster is a professional historian who's published some journals articles and at least one book on the Manchu-Korean and Manchu-Russian conflicts of the 17th century. One of his sources is apparently Polyakov's mutineers' denunciation letter against Khabarov, published by B.P. Polevoy in the 1990s (which is online, and is now among the references to this article). Vmenkov (talk) 12:32, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Labor camp
I don't see any reference on this page to the labor camp in Khabarovsk... a Japanese solider I was researching was taken there after the war and died there in 1950. Was this a different Khabarovsk? Is the camp of too low importance/significance in the big picture to be mentioned? Or is it simply not mentioned just because it's been overlooked? I apologize if I sound accusatory - I do not intend to be. I am simply ignorant as to the history of Soviet labor camps, and Japanese POWs, and in particular the history or significance of the one at Khabarovsk. LordAmeth 01:11, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Pictures
I saw some good pictures on the Russian wiki article, so I assume they are fair use, though I don't speak Russian, so I don't know if the pictures have any warnings. Perhaps to spruce up the article a bid, someone better at this can transfer some of those pictures? Leoberacai 12 February 2008. —Preceding comment was added at 22:49, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Disambiguation
I have created a disambiguation page for Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk Krai, Khabarovsk Bridge, Khabarovsk Novy Airport. Looking at the primary/secondary situation with Khabarovsk and Khabarovsk Krai, I think Khabarovsk should be renamed Khabarovsk (city). Feedback? speednat (talk) 23:16, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * "Khabarovsk" (without any modifiers) refers first and foremost to the city, hence the article about the city is located there. Any other use is derived from the city name and is thus secondary to it (the krai is named after the city, not the other way around).—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:30, January 26, 2009 (UTC)

Requested move
Support speednat (talk) 19:57, 27 January 2009 (UTC) I propose a move of this page to Khabarovsk (city), and wish to hear from all opposed or in support of this proposed move. My reasoning has these points:
 * Khabarovsk Krai is listed without the krai on numerous maps
 * the city is not the clear primary usage
 * it is more in line with other similar ambiguations
 * it will make it easier to find what the user wants
 * it will create negligible, if any, negative effect speednat (talk) 17:38, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * To find out what the primary usage of "Khabarovsk" is, it is sufficient to ask any person who is knowledgeable about the topic. If you don't trust my expertise, feel free to ask any other Russian editor.  Just because the primary meaning is not clear to you does not automatically mean no primary meaning exists.  On the maps, names (and especially qualifiers such as "oblast", "district", "krai", etc.) are often omitted due to space constraints.  This is strictly a question of utility; since we don't have the same space constraints, we use full names.
 * I'm all for being "more in line" with similar disambiguations, but only when it makes sense. Here, we have the city of Khabarovsk (which is the second largest city in the Russian Far East, fairly well-known throughout the world, and the administrative center of a federal subject), and a bunch of other entities, all of which have "Khabarovsk" in their names only because they are related to the city in one way or another.  Clearly, the city is one and only most important entity in this list.
 * The vast majority of users, when typing in "Khabarovsk" in the search box, would be looking for the city. A good chunk of those who think they are looking for the krai (perhaps by looking at one of the maps you mentioned) will eventually find that they really need the article about the city (I'm talking from experience here, by the way). Those who really need the article about the krai may easily jump to it from the very first paragraph of the Khabarovsk article ("Khabarovsk is the administrative center of Khabarovsk Krai").  So, how exactly does it make it easier for the vast majority of readers to land on a disambiguation page instead of the article they are most likely seeking?
 * The effect may be negligible, but it is not towards an improvement; it simply makes things slightly worse (per reasons outlined above).—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 17:59, January 26, 2009 (UTC)

 * Oppose
 * The city is clearly the most common Khabarovsk, as a simple google search denotes; those referring to the Krai will clearly state Khabarovsk Krai.
 * You have shown no evidence of any maps which show it without Krai, but again, we should not allow ourselves to be guided by the laziness or ineptness of some, as yet unidentified, map makers.
 * It is not inline with similar ambiguations. Not within usage on Russian articles that is.
 * The disambiguation link at the top of the page is enough to help users find what they want if by some chance they meant the Krai, or the airport, or whatever.
 * The effect would be huge and entirely negative because of the usage of Khabarovsk by itself is in favour of the city, the work fixing links would be cumbersome. Additionally, it would also have a knock-on effect to other entities such as Moscow, which would have to be moved to Moscow (city) due to the existence of Moscow Oblast, etc. Note how it works on Los Angeles, which can very easily mean Los Angeles County.
 * Unfortunately, I can't see any reason to do the move, and the little positives are far outweighed by the negatives. That my 50кп. --Russavia Dialogue 18:16, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Oppose; No need to move; agree with the above poster. Vmenkov (talk) 00:02, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Population
Actually, Khabarovsk has about 500'000 registered inhabitants. But then, it has about 400'000 UNregistered inhabitants as well, which makes the population about 900'000 in total.
 * See, this is exactly the kind of information that needs a good, solid, reliable source.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 20, 2013; 11:54 (UTC)

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Chinese early dynasties
I doubt that "Before 1860, this was a typical Chinese city, with more than 50% Han residents." can be true. There's no evidences and proofs that shortly before 1860 inside of current borders of the city there was something which can be called a city. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andruhon (talk • contribs) 11:16, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

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Easternmost city?
In my recent edit, I deleted an uncited claim in the lead section that called Khabarovsk Russia's easternmost city. I found this claim strange and dubious at best, since there are places such as Komsomolsk-on-Amur east of Khabarovsk which meet both the common English definition of a "city" and the Russian definition of "город".

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 * Makes sense. Maybe if it meant above a certain population (500,000?) but it still seems strange to include. Mellk (talk) 16:17, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

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The Scout Association of Guyana

The Scout Association of Guyana, is a Scouting organization in Guyana formed in 1967 as a successor to the British Guiana branch of The Scout Association of the United Kingdom. The association became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1967. In 2008, the association had 424 members.

History
There is a record of Scout Troops in British Guiana in 1909. Later, some Scout Troops registered with the Boy Scouts Association of the United Kingdom which established a branch in British Guiana. The Boy Scouts Association appointed a District Commissioner, District Committee, and its executive committee. In 1920 these became the Colony Commissioner, Colony Boy Scout Council and its executive committee. The Boy Scouts Association's British Guiana branch changed its name to The Scout Association of Guyana, which joined the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1967.

Early troops
Scouting was introduced to British Guiana in 1909, making Guyana the first Caribbean country to start scouting and fifth in the world. The first Scout Troop was formed at Queen's College under the leadership of George Manly, a Sergeant Major in the British Regiment stationed there. New troops formed and were attached mainly to church schools including St. Mary’s, St. Theresa’s, St. Stanislaus, St. Francis, St. Thomas More, HQ Troop 39, St. Pius, and Central High in Georgetown.

Troop 39 was notable as the first Troop to make the overland journey to Kaieteur Falls. This Troop produced some of Guyana's scout leaders - including two Chief Commissioners, D.B. St. Aubyn and Lawrence Thompson, and four Assistant Chief Commissioners for Cubs.

Scouting spread from the county of Demerara to the county of Berbice, where a renowned Troop, Lady Dawson's Own, was formed.

Scouting emerged in the county of Essequibo in the 1940s with Troops mostly attached to Church Schools. A troop was started at Onderneeming Boys' Reformatory in Suddie. Sam Cummings, an instructor at the school, was the first Scout Leader, followed by the Headmaster, a Mr Kissoon. There were a few Troops and Packs in the Pomeroon and Rupununi districts. For many of these Troops the departure of the resident Priest meant the closure of the Troop. A Troop at Kamarang, Upper Mazaruni, catering mainly for Amerindian boys, was run by Canon John Dorman, who had been trained as a scout leader at Gilwell, England.

Another prominent Troop was St. Stanislaus College Troop, catering for Roman Catholic boys before the school became co-educational. Among its leaders was Father Bernard Darke, S.J., who had been trained as a Scout Leader at Gilwell, England and made a great contribution to Scouting in Guyana before his death. As well as running the Troop he served on Guyana's Scout Executive Committee and was a member of the Leader Training Team.

Further history
The first Jamboree Camp in British Guiana was held in 1912.

In the 1960s, scouts included Land, Sea, and Air Scouts and Rovers. Sea and Air Scouts no longer exist. Scouts were probably at its peak around 1969 when their Diamond Jubilee was celebrated and the 3rd Caribbean Jamboree was held there in August. In 1974 the government formed the Guyana National Service, a compulsory youth organization. This affected the organization's numbers. Some leaders joined the National Service where they were paid. While there was no ban on Scouting during this period, the organization was obliged to keep a low profile. With changes in the political situation came renewed support for Scouting in the 1980s.

The 2019 National Camp of the Scouts Association of Guyana marked the 110th anniversary of scouting in Guyana. The headquarters is located at Woolford Avenue.

Training
To obtain the highest rank, a Scout must pass the normal proficiency tests, and, in addition, must be able to obtain badges in agriculture, which prepares each Scout to feed himself from his own produce.

Leader training

Many of the Anglican and Roman Catholic priests who came from England to serve in Guyana had received Scout Leader Wood Badge training at The Boy Scouts Association's Gilwell Park in England. These included the late Archbishop of the West Indies, Dr Alan John Knight, who served on the Colony Scout Council for many years and welcomed the Cub Pack from St Gabriel's School, Convent of the Good Shepherd, who held their meetings on the lawn of his residence, Austin House, for many years. A lack of official trainers in Guyana had Scouters train at Paxdale, Trinidad for many years. Brian Fox, seconded from England in the 1950s spent about three years training leaders and expanding Scouting. It was in this time that British Guiana's Scout Training Team was formed.

Presidents

 * Justice E. Hewick (1910)
 * Hon Geo. Garnett, CMG (1911)
 * Sir Alfred P Sherlock (1913)
 * Colonel WE Clarke (1918)
 * Colonel Cecil May (1919)
 * Colonel FH Blackwood, DSO (1925)
 * Hon Hector Josephs, KC (1926)
 * Admiral FC Fisher (1929)
 * Rev Canon JT Robert, REA (1930)
 * Prof J Sydney Dash (1937)
 * LG Crease (1942)
 * Capt H Nobbs, OBE (1950)

Commissioners
Early Commissioners were referred to as District Commissioners. In 1920 their title was changed to Colony Commissioner. Commissioners have included:

 * Capt LD Cleare (1913)
 * HW Sconce (1919)
 * Major William Bain-Gray (Director of Education) (1925)
 * Rev C Norman (1926)
 * Hon C Douglas-Jones, CMG (Colonial Secretary) (1929)
 * Capt R Patrick (Director of Education Acting) (1929)
 * Capt F Burnett (1930)
 * JD Gillespie (1931)
 * Fred T Weston (1941)
 * John R Durey, MBE (Awarded Silver Acorn) (1942)
 * DB St Aubyn, MBE (1952)

Wolf Cubs and Cubs
Cubbing in Guyana started in 1926 with the first Wolf Cub pack being St Barnabas Anglican Church, under the leadership of Mr Braithwaite. The first ACC Cubs was Mrs Isadora Walton, Cubmaster of Pack 39, who did a great deal to spread this section of the organization.

The first Guyanese Cubmaster to be trained at Gilwell was Evelyn St Aubyn who succeeded Isadora Walton as ACC Cubs around 1938. George Manly's granddaughter, Daphne Manly, ran Pack 39 for many years.

40th Anniversary of Cubbing
A special program of activities was planned for the 40th Anniversary of Cubbing in Guyana. On 17 April 1966 over 200 Cubs spent the day at Camp Jubilee observing Cub Day. Clement Gomes and the Camp Jubilee staff assisted Pack Scouters. Communion services were held on arrival in both Anglican and Roman Catholic chapels, and were well attended.

On 20 August Packs held a campfire at Scout Headquarters to raise funds for the Blind Association. Michael Pereira arranged the program. The campfire was well attended and raised $108.50.

On 2 October a party of Old Wolves spent the day at Camp Jubilee. Three yellow cassia trees were planted by CC Lewis, E. Reece and Elsie Taylor in commemoration of the 40th Anniversary. On 30 October Thanksgiving services were held at Main Street Catholic Church and Christ Church (Anglican).

On 26 November the Annual Play Acting Competition was held at Scout Headquarters. The Cup, presented by its donor, Mr. LB Thompson, was won by St Francis Pack. On 9 December Old Wolves entertained Mr. George Mitchell in the Cub Den. Mr. Mitchell expressed his pleasure at seeing the Den, whose sod he had turned on his previous visit in 1963.

Census

 * 1987: 341 Scouts, 125 Cubs and 49 Leaders
 * 2001: 399 members
 * 2008: 424 members

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Harold Shea

Harold Shea is the protagonist of five science fantasy stories by the collaborative team of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, as well as later stories by de Camp alone, Christopher Stasheff, Holly Lisle, John Maddox Roberts, Roland J. Green, Frieda A. Murray, Tom Wham, and Lawrence Watt-Evans. De Camp and Stasheff collectively oversaw the continuations. The series is also known as the "Enchanter" series, the "Incomplete Enchanter" series (after the first collection of stories) or the "Compleat Enchanter" series.

In the original five stories, psychologist Harold Shea and his colleagues Reed Chalmers, Walter Bayard, and Vaclav Polacek (Votsy) travel to various parallel worlds where ancient myths or old literature are reality. In the course of their travels, other characters are added to the main cast, notably Belphebe and Florimel, who become the wives of Shea and Chalmers, respectively, and Pete Brodsky, a policeman who is accidentally swept up into the chaos. In the later continuations, the most notable additions to the cast are the recurring villain Malambroso and Voglinda, the young daughter of Shea and Belphebe.

Original series
The protagonists utilize a system of symbolic logic to project themselves into the worlds they visit, but it is an inexact science, and they miss their target realities as often as they hit them. For example, in the first story, "The Roaring Trumpet", Shea intends to visit the world of Irish mythology, and instead ends up in Norse mythology. Most of the worlds visited have systems of physics different from ours, usually magical, which the heroes devote a considerable amount of effort to learning and applying. Much humor is drawn both from the culture shock of their encounters and from the reality that they usually do not understand the local systems well enough to be able to predict the actual effects of the spells they attempt.

Much of the series' attraction stems from the interaction of the psychologists' logical, rationalistic viewpoints with the wildly counterintuitive physics of the worlds they visit. Their attitudes provide something of a deconstructionist look at the basic rationales of these worlds, hitherto unexamined either by their inhabitants or even their original creators. They allow the reader to view these worlds from a fresh viewpoint. The "worlds" so examined include not only the Norse world of "The Roaring Trumpet", but also the worlds of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene in "The Mathematics of Magic", Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (with a brief stop in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Xanadu from "Kubla Khan") in "The Castle of Iron", the Kalevala in "The Wall of Serpents", and, at last, Irish mythology in "The Green Magician".

With "The Green Magician" the original collaboration ended, Pratt's early death precluding any additional entries. A final planned story set in the world of Persian mythology was never written, nor was a projected response to L. Ron Hubbard's misuse of their hero in his novella The Case of the Friendly Corpse (1941). (De Camp would finally address the latter issue in "Sir Harold and the Gnome King".)

Reviewing the 1950 edition of The Castle of Iron, Boucher and McComas described the series as "a high point in the application of sternest intellectual logic to screwball fantasy". Damon Knight characterized the series as "relaced, ribald adventure ... priceless," saying that "no fantasy reader should be without them." In 1977 Richard A. Lupoff described the series as "whole planes above the hackneyed gut-spillers and skull-smashers that pass for heroic fantasy."

Second series
After Pratt died in 1956, De Camp was reluctant to continue the series on his own, feeling that the collaboration with Pratt had a flavor impossible for either of them to duplicate alone. When he finally did revive the series in company with younger authors nearly forty years later, this impression was seemingly borne out; while not without interest, his own solo contributions to the second series exhibit a wryer, more cynical view of the worlds toured, and the protagonists' problematic use of magic is abandoned. His interest appears to have shifted to debunking the less credible aspects of the universes visited, rather than taking these as a given and extrapolating the fantasy worlds' physical or magical laws from them, as in the previous sequence. On the other hand, some of the new authors made efforts to duplicate de Camp and Pratt's original achievement, exploring fresh venues where their heroes once again have to learn the world's fundamental magical rules from the ground up. Holly Lisle ("Knight and the Enemy"), John Maddox Roberts ("Arms and the Enchanter") and Tom Wham ("Harold Sheakespeare") were among the authors who recreated the original formula.

The initial impulse for the continuation may have been the successful adaptation of the characters into Tom Wham's authorized gamebook adventure Prospero's Isle, published by Tor Books in October 1987 (the basis of "Harold Sheakespeare"), to which de Camp had contributed an admiring introduction. This may have encouraged him to wrap up long-unresolved loose ends from the original series, such as the stranding of Walter Bayard in the world of Irish mythology, and to resolve the unaddressed complication introduced by L. Ron Hubbard's "borrowing" of Harold Shea for use in his novel The Case of the Friendly Corpse. Both of these goals he accomplished in Sir Harold and the Gnome King (1990 chapbook). When the decision was made to continue the series further, this story was revised slightly to reconcile it with the other new stories, though the fit is somewhat awkward.

Once the loose ends are resolved, most of the action in the second sequence involves Shea and Chalmers' quest across several universes to rescue Florimel, who has been kidnapped by the malevolent enchanter Malambroso. After Florimel is finally recovered, a similar effort must be made to recover Shea and Belphebe's daughter Voglinda, likewise seized by the unrepentant Malambroso. A final tale sends Shea and Belephebe on an unrelated adventure precipitated by the foolishness of Shea's colleague Polacek.

Milieus encountered in the second series include the worlds of Irish myth and the Orlando Furioso (again) in "Professor Harold and the Trustees", L. Ron Hubbard's setting from The Case of the Friendly Corpse and L. Frank Baum's land of Oz in "Sir Harold and the Gnome King", the classical Chinese epic novel Journey to the West in "Sir Harold and the Monkey King," the romantic fantasies of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote (with the unique twist of its being Quixote's version of reality rather than Cervantes') in "Knight and the Enemy", Virgil's Graeco-Roman epic the Aeneid in "Arms and the Enchanter", the old Russian Tale of Igor's Campaign in "Enchanter Kiev," Bhavabhuti's Baital Pachisi (or "Vikram and the Vampire"), a proto-Arabian Nights collection of Indian tales, in "Sir Harold and the Hindu King", Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom in "Sir Harold of Zodanga", and William Shakespeare's The Tempest in "Harold Sheakespeare".

There exists one additional contribution to the series; "Return to Xanadu" by Lawrence Watt-Evans, which revisits the world of Kubla Khan and transfers a minor character appearing therein to that of The Arabian Nights by the agency of an unnamed magician who appears to be intended to represent L. Sprague de Camp himself. "Return to Xanadu" was first published in The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute Anthology for L. Sprague de Camp edited by Harry Turtledove and published by Baen Books in 2005.

Publication
The original publication of the first three Pratt and De Camp collaborations ("Roaring Trumpet", "Mathematics of Magic", and The Castle of Iron) was in Unknown Magazine during its brief run. The remaining two appeared in Beyond Fantasy Magazine and Fantasy Magazine a few years later. Sir Harold and the Gnome King first appeared in the World Fantasy Convention program book in 1990 and as a chapbook the following year. It was later revised and appeared with the remainder of the later continuations in regular trade books.

Yngvi
In the original story a character in a jail comes to the bars every hour on the hour to announce that "Yngvi is a louse!". This phrase has moved into the lexicon and has taken on a life of its own in certain SF-related circles. Who, or what, Yngvi may be is not mentioned in the book, though in Old Norse, Yngvi is another name for the god Freyr.

Original stories

 * "The Roaring Trumpet" (May 1940, by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
 * "The Mathematics of Magic" (August 1940, by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
 * "The Castle of Iron" (April 1941, expanded to novel-length as The Castle of Iron, 1950; by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
 * "The Wall of Serpents" (1953, by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
 * "The Green Magician" (1954, by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)

Later stories

 * "Sir Harold and the Gnome King" (1990, by L. Sprague de Camp)
 * "Professor Harold and the Trustees" (1992, by Christopher Stasheff)
 * "Sir Harold and the Monkey King" (1992, by Christopher Stasheff)
 * "Knight and the Enemy" (1992, by Holly Lisle, from an outline by L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff)
 * "Arms and the Enchanter" (1992, by John Maddox Roberts, from an outline by L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff)
 * "Enchanter Kiev" (1995, by Roland J. Green & Frieda A. Murray)
 * "Sir Harold and the Hindu King" (1995, by Christopher Stasheff)
 * "Sir Harold of Zodanga" (1995, by L. Sprague de Camp)
 * "Harold Sheakespeare" (1995, by Tom Wham)
 * "Return to Xanadu" (2005, by Lawrence Watt-Evans)

Collected editions

 * The Incomplete Enchanter (1941) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt), includes: "The Roaring Trumpet" and "The Mathematics of Magic"
 * The Castle of Iron (1950) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt), a novel-length expansion of the original story
 * Wall of Serpents (1960) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt), includes: "The Wall of Serpents" and "The Green Magician"
 * The Enchanter Reborn (1992) (L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff), includes: "Professor Harold and the Trustees," "Sir Harold and the Gnome King," "Sir Harold and the Monkey King," "Knight and the Enemy," and "Arms and the Enchanter"
 * The Exotic Enchanter (1995) (L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff), includes: "Enchanter Kiev," "Sir Harold and the Hindu King," "Sir Harold of Zodanga," and "Harold Sheakespeare"

The Incomplete Enchanter and The Castle of Iron have also been issued together as The Compleat Enchanter (1975); Wall of Serpents has also been issued under the title The Enchanter Compleated (1980); all three volumes of the original series have also been issued together as The Complete Compleat Enchanter (1989). The original tales and de Camp's additions from the 1990s were issued together as The Mathematics of Magic: The Enchanter Stories of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt (2007).

Gamebooks

 * Prospero's Isle (1987, by Tom Wham)

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Kiribati Scout Association

The Kiribati Scout Association (i-Kiribati:Tikauti ni Kiribati) is the national Scouting organization of Kiribati. It was founded in 1993, and the island nation joined the World Organization of the Scout Movement in the same year. With its close link with Scouts Australia since 1986, Kiribati Scouts have been represented in international Scout events and leader training courses. Membership in 2002 stood at 1,333.

History
Scouting in Kiribati was first introduced in 1914, when the country was known as the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. Scouting operated as branch of the Scout Association (UK) in the early years. The Gilbert and Ellice Scout Association was founded in 1927, and joined the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1933.

After the Japanese occupation during World War II, a British Scoutmaster working with local Scouts was imprisoned and killed.

The Gilbert and Ellice Islands were separated administratively in the 1970s to become the independent Commonwealth nations of Kiribati and Tuvalu, and their Scouting movements took different paths.

Program
The highest rank is the President's Award, a title common to ranks in other nations.

The membership badge of the Kiribati Scout Association features a green coconut.

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Latvijas Skautu un Gaidu Centrālā Organizācija

Latvijas Skautu un Gaidu Centrālā Organizācija (Latvian Scout and Guide Central Organization, LSGCO) is the primary national Scouting and Guiding organisation of Latvia and a member of both the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts and the World Organization of the Scout Movement. The organization had 759 members as of 2011 (466 Scouts and 293 Guides). Scouting activities began in Latvia in 1917 when the area was still part of the Russian Empire. After independence in 1918, the national organization was established and Scouting thrived in Latvia in the 1920s-1930s. Upon the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940, Scouting was suppressed and not re-established until 1990, when Latvia regained its independence.

History
The Latvian Scouting program is based on the principles and methods created by Robert Baden-Powell. The first Scout troop in Latvia was established on April 17, 1917, under Tsarist Russia by Arvīds Bredermanis and other Scouts from Tartu, Estonia, followed by several other Scout troops in the Riga area. The national scouting organization was founded in 1918 upon Latvia's independence from Tsarist Russia and its centennial was officially celebrated in 2018.

The Latvian Scout Organization (Latvijas Skautu Organizācija) was established in 1921, and Latvia was a founding member of the World Organization, from 1922 to 1940. Guiding began in Latvia in 1921 under Latvian Youth Organizations. In early 1922 The Latvian Guide Central Organization (Latvijas Gaidu Centrālā Organizācija) was set up, and Girl Guiding was permitted to operate independently. By the 1930s, the Latvian Scouting and Guiding movements had grown to more than eight thousand members. In early August, 1933, Latvian Scouts attended the 4th World Scout Jamboree in Hungary, along with boys from the other Baltic states. Following the Jamboree, Latvia enjoyed a visit from Robert Baden-Powell, World Chief Scout and Olave Baden-Powell, World Chief Guide on August 18, 1933, during their Baltic goodwill cruise on the SS Calgaric. In 1937, Scouts from Latvia attended the 5th World Scout Jamboree in the Netherlands, which would be the last such pre-war gathering and the final one attended by Baden-Powell.

In 1940, after the Soviet occupation of Latvia, Scouting and Guiding were banned and a special officer was appointed by the communists to abolish Scouting. Scouting continued unofficially, underground, operating without uniforms and in the forests to avoid detection. In 1941, the Communists killed the Latvian Scout founder and President, General Kārlis Goppers (1876–1941). The former Scout Commissioner for Latvia, Valdemārs Klētnieks, was in a German displaced persons camp during World War II. Following the end of the war, he came to the United States as a refugee, initially given shelter by a Boy Scouts of America official, E. Urner Goodman, at his Vermont home. In December, 1950, the Klētnieks family appeared at a Brattleboro, Vermont, church, where they spoke of their wartime experiences as exiles and recalled Christmas in Latvia, singing the songs of their homeland.

With the fall of communism, Scouting reemerged, and in 1989, a camp was organized. In 1990, Latvian Scouts held their fifth National Jamboree, "Renewal" and invited several other countries to participate. The Latvian Scout and Guide Central Organization rejoined the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) in 1993, as well as the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. Since then, the Latvian organization has participated in several international projects all around the world.


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1802 in rail transport

March events

 * March 24 – Andrew Vivian and Richard Trevithick of Cornwall, England, are granted the first British patent for a steam engine for propelling carriages and other purposes.

June events

 * June 3 – Carmarthenshire Railway or Tramroad authorised under Act of Parliament, the first granted for a public railway in Wales. Its acquisition of the Carmarthenshire Dock at Llanelly also makes it the world’s first dock-owning public railway company.

September events

 * September 21 – First traffic passes over the Surrey Iron Railway in England.

January births

 * January 10 – Carl Ritter von Ghega, Austrian civil engineer, builder of the Semmering railway (d. 1860).

February births

 * February 2 – Moncure Robinson, builder of the Chesterfield Railroad (d. 1891).

July births

 * July 2 – William Norris, American steam locomotive builder and founder of Norris Locomotive Works (d. 1867).

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Dalton (crater)

Dalton is a lunar impact crater that is located near the western limb of the Moon's near side. It is attached to the eastern rim of the walled plain Einstein, with Balboa lying just to the north and Vasco da Gama due south. The rim of this crater is not heavily eroded, and the interior walls are terraced. The interior floor has a system of rilles that are generally concentric with the inner wall. There is a small crater near the southern inner wall, and another at the north face of the small central peak.

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Lawrence A. Cremin

Lawrence Arthur Cremin (October 31, 1925 – September 4, 1990) was an American educational historian and administrator.

Biography
Cremin attended Townsend Harris High School in Queens, and then received his B.A. and M.A. from City College of New York. His Ph.D. is from Columbia University in 1949. He began teaching at the Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City. He married Charlotte Raup, the daughter of two other Columbia professors: educational psychologist Robert Bruce Raup of Teachers College, and economist Clara Eliot of Barnard College.

In 1961 he became the Frederick A. P. Barnard Professor of Education and a member of Columbia's history department, directing the Teachers College's Institute of Philosophy and Politics of Education in 1965-1974 before becoming the college's 7th president in 1974–1984, after which he returned to teaching and research.

At the Teachers College, Cremin broadened the study of American educational history beyond the school-centered analysis dominant in the 1940s with a more comprehensive approach that examined other agencies and institutions that educated children, integrating the study of education with other historical subfields, and comparing education across international boundaries.

Cremin was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

In 1985 while remaining on the Columbia faculties, he assumed the presidency of the Spencer Foundation, a Chicago-based educational research organization.

Cremin won the 1962 Bancroft Prize in American History for his book The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education, 1876–1957 (1961), which described the anti-intellectual emphasis on non-academic subjects and non-authoritarian teaching methods that occurred as a result of mushrooming enrollment. He was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for History for American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 (1980).

In 1990 Cremin published Popular Education and Its Discontents before dying of a sudden heart attack.

Debates
The historiography of education turned bitter in the 1960s, as New Left radical historians denounced the history of American education as a failure when it came to promoting democracy and equality. Cremin avoided the debates, although in 1977 he did make clear his support for the traditional liberal interpretation. While admitting that occasionally educational institutions, being human, “have been guilty of their full share of evil, venality, and failure" he argued:
 * Contrary to the drift of a good deal of scholarly opinion during the past ten years, I happen to believe that on balance the American education system has contributed significantly to the advancement of liberty, equality, and fraternity, in that complementarity and tension that mark the relations among them in a free society....The aspirations of American education have been more noble than base, and that its performance over the past two centuries has been more liberating of a greater diversity of human energies and potentialities than has been the case in most other eras and in most other places.

Interviews
''Does Going to School ‘Interrupt’ a Child’s Education? -'' The Open Mind - April 4, 1976

Teacher in America, Part I - The Open Mind - May 21, 1988

Teacher in America, Part II - The Open Mind - May 21, 1988

High Tech and Our 'Education President' - The Open Mind - January 22, 1989

Popular Education and Its Discontents - The Open Mind - March 17, 1990

Publications

 * The American Common School: An Historic Conception. New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1951, OCLC 01330861
 * The Wonderful World of Ellwood Patterson Cubberley: An Essay On The Historiography of American Education. New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1965.
 * The Genius of American Education. University of Pittsburg Press, 1965. LCCN 65-28146
 * Public Education
 * Traditions of American Education
 * American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607-1783
 * American Education: The Metropolitan Experience, 1876-1980
 * American Education: The Metropolitan Experience, 1876-1980
 * American Education: The Metropolitan Experience, 1876-1980

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Haxxxor movies

 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 MERGE or DELETE.

The votes were 7 merge, 7 delete, 1 keep. dbenbenn | talk 18:56, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Haxxxor movies
also including Haxxxor, No Longer Floppy and Haxxxor 2, Fear of an 8-bit Planet (also redirects). Non-notable? Porn advertising? DJ Clayworth 16:18, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Before anybody starts voting, I'm adding the two articles on specific movies, as I expect the nominator would intend, to this vfd, modifying Template:Vfd so their notices point here. Samaritan 17:34, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The reason I added these in first place is the fact that volume I is one of the movies promoting nmap. And someone had already writed about Matrix in nmap article. So I added the missing two (Haxxxor 1 and Battle Royal). I'd also see that Haxxxor movies are quite special underground productions. No basic hollywood stuf, but a erotic art. I Wonder, if a full spoiler of every movie is needed for an article to be exiting enought. Easyas12c 17:49, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmm nominator doesn't seem very sure if/why these should be deleted. I'm not too sure on notability either, but it doesn't look like advertising, so I vote merge the movies into Haxxxor movies Haxxxor and keep that. Kappa 19:57, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge articles on individual movies into Haxxxor movies Haxxxor. --Carnildo 20:21, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Surely Wikipedia isn't comprehensive enough to have a page on that I thought. Apparently not.  Keep for the amusement of those reading the nmap article Ojw 22:58, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * If merged, I'd think the target title should be Haxxxor? Samaritan 23:36, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge, for sure. --L33tminion | (talk) 00:46, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge anything useable to Haxxxor, and add redirect. Megan1967 01:53, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Note that Haxxxor redirects to Haxxxor movies, which itself is tagged for VfD. Niteowlneils 19:19, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not encyclopedic. Wyss 22:47, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not the Encyclopedia of Pornography. With almost no exceptions, particular pornographic movies are not notable, and this is not one of the exceptions.  --BM 00:14, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * delete. Yuckfoo 01:17, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge somewhere. Grue 10:28, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unencyclopedic. Xezbeth  12:15, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. —Ben Brockert (42) 20:52, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete all: pr0ncruft. Wile E. Heresiarch 06:08, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Move/merge to Haxxxor. (I'll mention parenthetically that this isn't the strongest vote, but if I say it's "weak" a tallying admin might count it as half a vote, which is not my intent.) Samaritan 15:52, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Move and merge --Easyas12c 18:35, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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