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Profile

Profile or profiles may refer to:

Music

 * Profile (Jan Akkerman album), 1973
 * Profile (Githead album), 2005
 * Profile (Pat Donohue album), 2005
 * Profile (Duke Pearson album), 1959
 * Profiles (Nick Mason and Rick Fenn album), a 1985 album by Nick Mason and Rick Fenn
 * Profiles (Gary McFarland album), a 1966 live album by Gary McFarland
 * Profile (Misako Odani album), 1997
 * Profile (Wolfe Tones album)

Film and television

 * Profile (2018 film), a film directed by Timur Bekmambetov
 * Profile (1954 film), British thriller film
 * Profile (1955 TV series) (1955–1957), a Canadian biographical television series
 * Profiles (TV series) (1979–1980), a Canadian biographical television series
 * Profile (2018 TV series), an American streaming television talk show

Other art, entertainment and media

 * Profile (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character
 * Profile (novel), a 2009 novel by Chris Westwood
 * "The Profile" (short story), a 1907 short story by Willa Cather

Classification of individuals and groups of people

 * Demographic profile, information about a person or market segment, commonly used in marketing. May also include photographic information (e.g., "profile picture")
 * Investor profile, a classification of investor behavior
 * Profile, a dossier of offender profiling data

Computing and technology

 * Profile (engineering), with several meanings in the context of engineering
 * Profile (UML), a concept in Unified Modeling Language
 * Apple ProFile, a hard drive
 * FIS Profile, a banking transaction processing database engine
 * ICC profile, used for colour management of computer displays and digital images
 * User profile, refers to the computer representation of user information
 * Profiling (computer programming), a form of performance analysis to investigate the behavior of a software program

Other meanings

 * Profile Books, a British independent publisher
 * Profile portrait
 * Profile Spotlight, a stage lighting fixture
 * Strategy profile, a concept in game theory
 * Old Man of the Mountain, a former rock formation in New Hampshire also known as the Profile
 * a curved (molding) or plain fascia connecting surfaces, mostly decoratively, in architecture
 * a genre of portrait art depicted from the perspective of the side

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Talk:Jacob Pavlovich Adler

Sequence of events
I'm trying (with some difficulty) to sort out the chronology from 1886 to 1892. Adler's own memoir is (probably deliberately) very confused on this period, because he is trying to play down the fact that he took up with Jennya Kaiser while still married to Sonya, and kept seeing her after marrying Dinah. As a result, he has made a deliberate hash of the sequence of events. Lulla Rosenfeld's commentaries are only slightly more helpful, because chronology is never her strong suit. I don't think I have it sorted out correctly yet, but I'm working on it. -- Jmabel | Talk 22:25, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * I think it's now correct, but if someone else with expertise wants to look at it, that would be much appreciated. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:37, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)

Jewish actor?
What is a Jewish actor? There is an interesting discussion going on at the talk page of WP:MOSBIO about this subject. It seems that this can be better phrased.--Tom 15:40, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, in this case, it is an actor whose material, audience, and (as an intellectual) interests were quite uniformly Jewish, in the way that someone else's might be French. He had significant phases of his career in Imperial Russia, London, and New York, so he's not tied to any particular country, but he's at least as profoundly a Jewish actor as (for example) Voltaire is a French writer, despite the latter having lived significant periods in London, Berlin, and Geneva. - Jmabel | Talk 19:00, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

GA Re-Review and In-line citations
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Ukraine / Russia
I realize that Odessa is now in Ukraine, but I'm pretty certain that it was never considered part of Ukraine during the years of Imperial Russia, so I think this edit is probably not the way to go. I have no problem with the article stating that Odessa is now in Ukraine, but to state that he was born in Ukraine is like stating that Immanuel Kant was born in Russia. - Jmabel | Talk 03:01, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm not fussed - I'll revert.--Newport 22:06, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Adler's Shylock
For some time, the following phrase has been in the article with relation to Adler's Shylock: "this performance has come to be understood as a breakthrough of naturalism in American theater." I wrote it; I think it's true; I'm sure there must be something out there somewhere to cite for it; but I can't find it, so I'm removing the statement until such citation can be found. - Jmabel | Talk 01:16, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

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Childhood and Youth
"He played hooky; as a 12-year-old he started going to witness public floggings, brandings, and executions of criminals; later he would develop more of an interest in attending courtroom trials."

Quite an achievement since there were very few executions under Tsarist law, and branding [ which meant then tattooing, kleimenie, as in Ancient China and India ] was abolished in 1863, when he was 8. Claverhouse (talk) 12:56, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

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Craig Harris

Craig S. Harris (born September 10, 1953) is an American jazz trombonist, who started working with Sun Ra in 1976. He also has worked with Abdullah Ibrahim, David Murray, Lester Bowie, Cecil Taylor, Sam Rivers, Muhal Richard Abrams, and Charlie Haden. He has recorded since 1983 as leader for India Navigation, Soul Note and JMT. For the latter he recorded with two groups. The Tailgater's Tales was a quintet with clarinetist Don Byron, trumpeter Eddie Allen, Anthony Cox on double bass, and Pheeroan akLaff on drums. His large ensemble Cold Sweat was a tribute to the music of James Brown.

He is a graduate of the music program of State University of New York at Old Westbury, and was influenced by its founder and director Makanda Ken McIntyre. Harris's move to New York City in 1978 established him with trombonists Ray Anderson, Joseph Bowie, and George E. Lewis.

He first played alongside another of his teachers at SUNY, baritone saxophonist Pat Patrick, in Sun Ra's Arkestra for two years. Harris than embarked on a world tour with South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) in 1979. While on tour in Australia, Harris discovered the indigenous Australian wind instrument the didgeridoo, which he added to the collection of instruments he plays.

As leader

 * Aboriginal Affairs (India Navigation, 1983)
 * Black Bone (Soul Note, 1984)
 * Tributes (OTC, 1985)
 * Shelter (JMT, 1987)
 * Blackout in the Square Root of Soul (JMT, 1988)
 * Cold Sweat Plays J. B. (JMT, 1989)
 * 4 Play (JMT, 1990)
 * F-Stops (Soul Note, 1994)
 * Istanbul (Doublemoon, 1998)
 * Souls Within the Veil (Aquastra Music, 2005)

As sideman
With Muhal Richard Abrams
 * Blues Forever (Black Saint, 1982)
 * Rejoicing with the Light (Black Saint, 1983)
 * Song for All (Black Saint, 1997)

With David Murray
 * Murray's Steps (Black Saint, 1983)
 * Live at Sweet Basil Volume 1 (Black Saint, 1985)
 * Live at Sweet Basil Volume 2 (Black Saint, 1985)
 * New Life (Black Saint, 1987)
 * David Murray Big Band (DIW, 1991)
 * Hope Scope (Black Saint, 1991)
 * Picasso (DIW, 1993)
 * South of the Border (DIW, 1995)
 * Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead (Astor Place, 1996)
 * Fo Deuk Revue (Enja, 1997)
 * Octet Plays Trane (Justin Time, 2000)
 * Yonn-Dé (Justin Time, 2002)
 * Now Is Another Time (Justin Time, 2003)
 * Perfection with Geri Allen and Terri Lyne Carrington (Motema, 2016)
 * Blues for Memo (Motema, 2018)

With Sun Ra
 * Live at Montreux (Saturn Research, 1976)
 * Cosmos (Cobra, 1976)
 * Unity (Horo, 1978)
 * Sleeping Beauty (El Saturn, 1979)
 * Strange Celestial Road (Rounder, 1980)
 * A Quiet Place in the Universe (Leo, 1994)

With others
 * Ahmed Abdullah, Traveling the Spaceways (Planet Arts, 2004)
 * Ayibobo, Freestyle (DIW, 1993)
 * Billy Bang, Hip Hop Be Bop (ITM, 1993)
 * Lester Bowie, I Only Have Eyes for You (ECM, 1985)
 * Dollar Brand, African Marketplace (Elektra, 1980)
 * Dollar Brand, At Montreux (Enja, 1980)
 * Don Byron, Bug Music (Nonesuch, 1996)
 * Carla Cook, Dem Bones (Maxjazz, 2001)
 * Paulinho da Costa, Sunrise (Victor, 1984)
 * Joseph Daley, The Seven Deadly Sins (Jaro, 2010)
 * Lena Horne, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music (Qwest, 1981)
 * Joseph Jarman, Earth Passage - Density (Black Saint, 1981)
 * The Roots, The Roots Come Alive (MCA, 1999)
 * Sekou Sundiata, LongStoryShort (Righteous Babe, 2000)
 * Warren Smith, Dragon Dave Meets Prince Black Knight from the Darkside of the Moon (Porter, 2011)
 * Henry Threadgill, When Was That? (About Time, 1982)
 * Henry Threadgill, Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket (About Time, 1983)
 * World Saxophone Quartet, Experience (Justin Time, 2004)
 * World Saxophone Quartet, Political Blues (Justin Time, 2006)

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Sleeps with Angels

Sleeps with Angels is the 22nd studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released on August 16, 1994, on Reprise as a double LP and as a single CD. The album is Young's seventh with Crazy Horse. Co-produced by David Briggs, the album is Young's last with his long-time producer, who died the following year. The title track was written and recorded as a tribute to Kurt Cobain in wake of his suicide. Although the rest of the album was recorded before that event, the album takes on a somber, subdued tone throughout. Musician and author Ken Viola described the album as one of Young's "top five records. It examines the nature of dreams — both the light and dark side — and how they fuel reality in the nineties. Dreams are the only thing that we've got left to hang on to."

Background
The early 1990s were something of a comeback and second career pinnacle for Young with the release of 1989's Freedom, 1990's Ragged Glory and 1992's Harvest Moon. Young would be dubbed the "Godfather of Grunge" by one music critic and would perform "Rockin' in the Free World" with Pearl Jam at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards. Young would also perform with Booker T. & the M.G.'s at Bob Dylan's The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration and then embark on a North American tour with the group. During the winter of 1993-1994, Young would reunite with Crazy Horse to record a new album at The Complex in Los Angeles.

Writing and recording
In contrast to his other albums, Young has been loath to discuss the album's content and the inspiration for the album's songs in interviews. In a 1995 interview for Mojo Magazine's Nick Kent, he says: "Sleeps With Angels has a lot of overtones to it, from different situations that were described in it – a lot of sad scenes. I've never really spoken about why I made that album. I don't want to start now. I just don't want to talk about that. That's my decision. I've made a choice not to talk about it and I'm sticking to it." He repeats his stance in a 1995 interview for Spin Magazine: "I'm not doing anything with that album. It stands on its own. That's why I made the record. Too sensitive of a subject to isolate comments on. When you speak to someone who can write things down, you have to remember that they only write what they select. And it appears next to something that they can't control, like an ad. And then that article can be quoted, and over time...I've seen the way things happen."

The lengthy "Change Your Mind" was debuted during the 1993 tour with Booker T. & the M.G.'s. The other songs on the album were written during the recording sessions. The album features a variety of unique instruments, including bass marimbas, vibes, synthesizers and a tack piano on "My Heart" and "A Dream That Can Last". "Prime of Life" and "Safeway Cart" feature Young playing flute; Sleeps with Angels is the only Neil Young album on which he plays that instrument. The songs "Western Hero" and "Train of Love" feature the same music with different lyrics, "like identical twins. The same song with two completely different stories. But it brings you back to this theme. It's almost like a Broadway play." "Safeway Cart" is featured on the soundtrack during a marching sequence in Claire Denis's 1999 film Beau Travail.

The title track was inspired by the death of Kurt Cobain, who quoted Young in his suicide note. "When he died and left that note, it struck a deep chord inside of me. It fucked with me. I wrote some music for that feeling: "Sleeps with Angels"," Young remembers in his memoir, Waging Heavy Peace. He continues in Shakey: "What that suicide has done is return me to my roots. Makes me go back and investigate where I started. Where I came from. Why am I here and why is he not here? Does my music suffer because I survived?" Young wrote the first lyrics to the song on a matchbook during a charity golf tournament hosted by Eddie Van Halen. The song was the last to be recorded for the album.

Promotion
A thirty-minute documentary was filmed by L.A. Johnson during the album's sessions. Promotional videos were later shot for the songs "My Heart," "Prime Of Life," "Change Your Mind," and "Piece Of Crap" by director Jonathan Demme. The videos feature the group returning to The Complex on October 3-4, 1994 to perform the songs live.

The group performed three concerts in October 1994 featuring songs from the album, all charity events. On October 1-2, the group played acoustic sets at the annual Bridge School Benefit concerts featuring seven of the album's songs. On October 22, the group played a similar setlist in Sedona, Arizona at the Verde Valley scholarship benefit festival.

Track listing
All tracks were written by Neil Young, except "Blue Eden", written by Young, Ralph Molina, Frank Sampedro and Billy Talbot.

Personnel

 * Neil Young – guitar on all tracks except 1 and 12, tack piano on tracks 1 and 12, accordion on track 5, flute on tracks 2 and 8, harmonica on track 8 and 12, vocals
 * Crazy Horse
 * Frank "Poncho" Sampedro – guitar on tracks 2, 4, 6, 7, 10, and 11, grand piano on tracks 5 and 9, piano on tracks 3 and 12, bass marimba on track 1, oberheim on tracks 3 and 8, Wurlitzer piano on track 8, vocals
 * Billy Talbot – bass on all tracks except 1 and 12, vibes on track 1, bass marimba on track 12, vocals
 * Ralph Molina – drums, vocals
 * Recording personnel
 * David Briggs – producer, mixing
 * Neil Young – producer, mixing
 * John Hanlon – engineer, mixing
 * Chad Blinman – assistant engineer
 * Roland Alvarez – assistant engineer
 * Joe Gastwirt – digital editing, mastering
 * Tim Mulligan – additional digital editing
 * Tim Foster – production manager
 * Bettina Briggs – production coordinator
 * Sal Trentino – amplifier tech
 * Jim Homan – guitar tech
 * Jerry Conforti – drum tech
 * Mark Humphreys – live monitors

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Gehlen

Gehlen may refer to:

People with the surname

 * Adolph Ferdinand Gehlen (1775–1815), German chemist
 * Arnold Gehlen (1904–1976), German philosopher
 * Bruno Gehlen (1871–1951), entomologist who described several species including Rhagastis meridionalis
 * Kurt von Gehlen (1927–1995), German professor
 * Reinhard Gehlen (1902–1979), German Nazi general, intelligence officer
 * Gehlen Organization, founded by him
 * Dennis Gehlen, aka "TaKe", German gamer
 * Karl Gehlen, German engineer
 * Walter Gehlen, German athlete
 * Duda (footballer, born 1994), Brazilian footballer born Eduardo Haas Gehlen

Locations

 * Gehlen House and Barn, historic buildings in St. Donatus, Iowa, United States
 * Gehlen Catholic School, in LeMars, Iowa, United States

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Talk:Breed registry

questionable wild animal registry
In the section on questionable registries referencing "at least one" which claims to recognize wild animal breed/species clubs and register wild animal individual specimens, I didn't give the example -- which is the IPBA, through their IPEBA subsidiary. Three reasons: one, the IPBA wants to do this, but apparently has had no luck actually doing so; two, didn't want to target the IPBA because there's surely some other group(s) out with the same idea; three, to avoid attracting the IPBA's attention and possible revisionism. -- Lisasmall 18:07, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

registry not associated with a breed or kennel club
For an example of a registry not associated with a breed or kennel club, the "Field Dog Stud Book" is a registry of field and hunting dogs that is maintained by a magazine publisher. (AKC recognizes FDSB registration for all sporting dogs except the Irish Setter.) --jdege 22:31, 2005 Feb 23 (UTC)

Working dog registers use KP?
.(!<--!I'm not sure whether or not this is completely true; do working dog registers use a KP? -->) I won't pretend to speak for all working dog registries. But among JRTC owners registry names and nicknames are often both used. My Bear's name is "Moose Cavern Kennel's Grizzly Bear", but we call him "Bear". That said, the registry names can't get as complicated are common in the AKC. The JRTC registry name is the kennel prefix plus the dog's name, and the name can be at most fifteen characters, including no more than one space. --jdege 22:19, 2005 Apr 7 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I should have been more specific--I was actually thinking more of sheepdogs and the like; where the dogs have to be called a simple, working name--and wondering if their registration papers contained KPs? Quill 23:04, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Wait a sec--15 characters inc. one space? Then how do you end up with "Moose Cavern Kennel's Grizzly Bear"?? Quill 23:06, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * With the JRTC, the name is 15 characters, and his name is Grizzly Bear. The Kennel prefix is separate and isn't included.
 * I don't think one can draw too many hard-and-fast rules, here. Bear's pedigree is full of names both simple and fancy: Lady Mabiline of Moose Cavern, Briarpatch Rio of Hines Hill, Paxton Tequilla, Bess, Gin, and Scrap.  Different people do different things.
 * --jdege 16:56, 2005 Apr 8 (UTC)
 * As I said, I was thinking of herding dog registries, where it is stated in the rules that the names have to be no-nonsense. JRTs are an interesting case. Maybe update to include the fact that independent registries have their own rules? Quill 23:48, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * More--gave it a tweak and think it's more comprehensive now.Quill 05:39, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

ROM don't look like anything?!
Wait a second! So I can take a koolie into the sheep trials of a Border Collie working dog registry and if it does well, register it as a Border Collie?

I seem to remember reading at one of those sites that you had to have some proof of ancestry for registering a working Border Collie, (both parents working BCs--might even have required two generations) and also health tests, and also that some clubs will not allow a registered show dog to compete.

The way the section is written now, one would believe that one could bring any well-trained dog in and register it as a sheep dog; I don't believe that is the case.

Rewrite needed!

Quill 23:25, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

 * It is indeed the case that if your dog wins three National sheepdog trials (and passes some health checks) they will register it as a Border Collie. Doesn't matter if it is a poodle or a pug. However, to win the Nationals requires the right genetics, almost exclusively found in border collies. Training is important, but the dog has to have the genetics first. Only dogs bred from border collies are likely to have the right genetics, so only dogs bred from border collies have a chance of winning. The chance of even qualifying a poodle or pug for the a Nationals is zero. The extreme nature of the performance test takes care of eliminating dogs that don't look something like a border collie; you can't get the performance genes without getting the conformation genes as well.

 * It is the case for the ABCA that the Board of Directors must vote to register a dog on merit. There's no assurance that they would vote to register a pug, but there is no formal rule preventing it. In practice it is a hypothetical question, because form follows function. Dsurber 15:05, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I just looked at the koolie page. Doesn't look that different from a BC. Given the herding background, if you found one that had a strong eye, the dog might do well in a Nationals. The sheepdog men I know would be happy to register such a dog.

 * A lot of people don't get ROM. These guys really don't care what the dog looks like. The only thing they care about is the dog's ability to work. For the most part they are always happy to breed to a strong working dog that is healthy. That really is all they care about. Pretty is as pretty does. Dsurber 15:50, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Define "Breed registry"
I don't think a registry is identical to a stud book, as this article implies... looking up breed registry on the web, it refers to organizations that either oversee one breed or oversee many breeds; they may sponsor shows and whatnot. A stud book is a stud book; "Stud book" should be a separate article, I think.--Hafwyn (talk) 16:35, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Agreed. A stud book is a tool for registry kept by a breed registry (organization). They are not one and the same. Van Tucky 18:05, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I also agree, and have been meaning for a while to do something about this redirect, but ... not a lot of time! Ealdgyth - Talk 18:23, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
 * We could throw some verbiage in here to that effect as at least a temporary fix. I'd be curious to see if the original stud book article had much in it.  If it sat around as a stub for ages, then it might have been appropriate to merge here.  Another thought is to expand the section specifically describing stud books as a subsection of a breed organization until or unless it gets ong enough to break back out again.  (though I could also argue that a horse is "registered" in a "stud book," and so there are some semantics that could be fussed over)  I guess I'm in no hurry to take this one on, but have no objection to some language in the article clarifying matters a bit.   Montanabw (talk) 02:43, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * One of the major problems with this article as is, is that it is too dog and horse specific. For horses the registry and stud book may be synonymous, but there are some animals that have registries and standards, but no stud book for individual animals. So separating the two is a factor in keeping the article from focusing too much on horses. Van Tucky 04:23, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

 * Nothing stopping anyone from expanding the article. If the cat fanciers and whomever want to add to it, I see no problem with expanding the article to encompass various registries (there are cattle and sheep registries too), I just don't have the time or interest at the moment to do anything about it, personally.  I noticed that the purebred dog article uses the term "stud book", but I don't know the dog world, so no clue if that's correct for them or not.  "Stud book" is sort of colloquial within the horse world, pretty much all stud books are contained within a breed organization, so I am personally OK with keeping the term redirected here, but I also don't care all that deeply.  I guess my feeling is that if other animals feel dissed, it's their responsibility to nag their owners to edit wiki and fix it!  (LOL!)   Montanabw (talk) 05:13, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Section merge from Purebred
Purebred should merge in its entirety to Breed registry. While purebred animals are pedigreed, not all pedigreed animals are purebred (many are the opposite - crossbreeds or even domestic–wild hybrids). But pedigrees are, by definition, tracked in a registry, so it's a subtopic of breed registry. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  10:19, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

 * Hm. while that paragraph there could maybe be incorporated here, I don't see the need to delete it there. You are correct that a pedigree chart can exist for crossbreds, but I dispute that all "purebreds" are tracked by a registry; in the modern world that is usually true, but, for example, many ancient breeds had pedigrees tracked but not an official registry (The Carthusian monks in Andalusia, for example) - registries such as the Jockey Club didn't really exist until the 18th century.  Also, many of the oriental horse breeds were sworn pure and had pedigrees tracked via an oral tradition.  So my take is that I don't really see why we have to make the concepts mutually exclusive.   Montanabw (talk)  05:57, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

 * Definitely should be incorporated here at least. However, I didn't assert that all purebreds are tracked by a registry.  A written pedigree produced by an organization (including of monks)  tracking by a registry.  A registry is that which maintains a register, i.e. (in this context) of pedigrees (not of purebreds, which are animals to which some but not all pedigrees pertain).  We shouldn't confuse the function, the role, of producing and maintaining pedigrees, on the one hand, with the modern notion of an incorporated organization under the law, on the other.  Analogy: Acting, including formal training in it, existed before the founding what we today call theatre companies.  :-)  The very fact that modern pedigree databases have their origins in the maintenance of paper pedigree charts centuries ago is central to what this article is about, though such pedigree-writing for animals wasn't historically common, decreasingly so the farther back we go.  Pure-breeding and pedigrees/registries really are separate topics; pure-breeding doesn't actually require pedigrees, at a small scale, just a good memory, and today not all pedigrees are for purebreds, so there's a lack of equation between the topics at both ends.  If some material on pedigrees is kept at Purebred it should be summary material, pointing here, where the content on pedigrees is more topically germane.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  1:24 am, Today (UTC−7)

 * I don't see a need for a merge tag or discussion. I think that just working on both articles to improve them is the way to go and if a section merge occurs, so long as now article is not subsumed into the other, I don't see a need for a lot of debate here.  Let's just write the articles.  We also have pedigree, pedigree chart to consider in this too.    Montanabw (talk)  09:54, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

 * Fair enough, and works for me.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  22:17, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

 * On further thinking, some merging still needs to happen, as things like Pedigree (animal) redirect here, which makes sense, this being the main article on the topic generally (since many animals are pedigree registered without being purebred, e.g. "natural breed" foundation stock that are going to be used for purebreeding. But the Purebred article has material on pedigrees that's missing from here. So, if it's consolidated here, the material at the purebred article can be compressed to just that which is essential for the context over there.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  09:31, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

 * I would not do a complete merge from purebred, as the biological concept of a purebred is distinct from the legal/political aspects of an organization. While I do agree that "pedigreed" animals today are generally those in a registry, the concept probably needs at least some historic research into when the concept arose (in horse breeding, the first written pedigrees other than farm records trace only to about the 13th century).  Also keep in mind that pedigree chart has stuff in it about human family trees.   Montanabw (talk)  06:24, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

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Kali (disambiguation)

Kali is a Hindu goddess.

Kali may also refer to:

Film and television

 * Kali (film), a 2016 Indian film in Malayalam
 * "Kali", a two-part episode of Sanctuary (season 2)
 * Kali Gaikwad, a fictional arms dealer in the 2023 Indian film Jawan, played by Vijay Sethupathi

Radio stations

 * KALI (AM), a radio station in California, U.S.
 * KALI-FM, a Vietnamese language radio station in California, U.S.
 * KMRB, KALI until June 1999, a radio station in California, U.S.

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

 * Kali (character), in the 1911 novel In Desert and Wilderness
 * Kali (chhand), a genre of Punjabi poetry and singing
 * Kali (poem), a 1990 poem by Rukmini Bhaya Nair
 * Kali (restaurant), a Michelin-starred restaurant in Hollywood, California
 * Kali Theatre, a British theatre company
 * Kali (Tyeb Mehta), a 1997 painting
 * Kali, an asteroid in Arthur C. Clarke's novel The Hammer of God
 * My.Kali, an online pan-Arab LGBT magazine

People

 * Kali (name), including a list of people with the given name, surname or nickname
 * Kali (Bulgarian singer) (Galina Dimitrova Ivanova; born 1975)
 * Kali (French singer) (Jean-Marc Monnerville; born 1959)
 * Kali (footballer) (Carlos Manuel Gonçalves Alonso; born 1978), Angolan footballer
 * Kali (painter) (Hanna Weynerowska; 1918–1998), Polish painter

Places

 * Kali, Benin
 * Kali, Croatia
 * Kali, India
 * Kali (Daulat Khan), Yavatmal district, Maharashtra, India
 * Kali, Iran (disambiguation), or Koli
 * Kali, Togo
 * Kali River (disambiguation)

Religion

 * Kali (demon), a Hindu evil entity
 * Kali Yuga, the age of Kali in Hinduism
 * Kali, a birth name of Satyavati, a character in the Mahabharata
 * Kali, mother of the Kalakeyas, danavas (demons) in Hinduism
 * Kali, one of the seven tongues or flames of Agni, the Hindu god fire
 * Saint Sarah, or Kali Sara, patron saint of the Romani people
 * Kaliya, a naga (serpent) of the Yamuna River in the ancient Hindu text Bhagavata Purana, killed by Krishna

Science and technology

 * Kali (software), an IPX emulator
 * KALI (electron accelerator), developed in India
 * Kali Linux, a Linux distribution for digital forensics

Other uses

 * Kali (fish), a genus of snaketooth fish
 * Kali (plant), a genus of plants including tumbleweed
 * Kali language, Niger-Congo language of Cameroon
 * Alice International Airport, Texas, U.S., ICAO airport code KALI
 * Arnis, or Kali, the national martial art of the Philippines
 * Kayah Li alphabet, ISO 15924 code kali
 * Kvass, or kali, a traditional fermented Slavic and Baltic beverage
 * Sherbet (powder), or kali a fizzy powder sweet
 * Kali (restaurant), a Michelin-starred restaurant in Hollywood, California

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Red Square (band)

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS. dbenbenn | talk 22:50, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Red Square (band)
Non-notable group. Only hit for "Red Square" "ian staples" is a Wikipedia mirror. allmusic.com hasn't heard of them either. Niteowlneils 22:33, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete bandity. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 23:52, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, possible band vanity. Megan1967 00:05, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, non-notable. DaveTheRed 04:05, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. They existed, not vanity, I wasn't a member. they were part of the Music for Socialism movement and were notable within the late 1970s free improvisation scene. Two of the group went onto form B So gloBal quercus robur 19:06, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Can you provide any evidence that B So Global was notable? Kappa 22:32, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * The term 'notable' is very subjective for a start, but anyway, proves there is such a group and that they have 2 CD's out. I'm not really sure why this page is a VfD issue, the 'allmusic' arguement is a red herring, they are always inaccurate on anything I've ever looked up, they had a load of total crap about Crass, which led to the old Micheal wars about Pete Wright!. Is wikipedia only about 'well known' (is that what is meant by 'notable'?) bands, or is it more about a documentation of the significant (in some peoples terms at least) yet otherwise forgotten? I guess it's all about who writes history... quercus robur 22:41, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete for not meeting the Notability and Music Guidelines. If what quercusrobur claims below is added to the article (and verifiable), specifically regarding being a major part of the Southend-on-Sea scene, then they would meet the guidelines and I would change my vote. Tuf-Kat 05:04, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC)

What is wikipedia about?
To expand my arguement, and maybe become a little over-impassioned about what my vision of wikipedia is all about (but I do believe this is that important), I'm a long term wiki contributor, at one time up there in the 'most contributions' list, now a bit of a recovering wikiholic, and generally a level headed contributor with a strong belief in what wikipedia stands for, and it seems maybe ironic that I'm prepared to make a strong stand over what is 'just' a 'relatively unimportant' stub, but I don't create pages like this (Red Square) and those who celebrate lightly, certainly not for reasons of 'vanity', but because I believe that in certain contexts these groups had/have significance, both within the context of the history of free improvisation and in the former case, a documentation of the music scene of Southend on Sea, UK, where I have always lived.

The 'allmusic' arguement I have already addressed, the 'not many hits on Google' is PRECISELY why it is important that the history of groups like Red Square isn't lost forever. I have a wealth of detail, information and history of 'obscure' groups inside my head, based on experience, gigs attended, gig recordings, people I know/knew, etc etc, much that may well be of use/interest to future academics, historians, archivists, genreally interested people and the like, so do so many of us in all sorts of areas. If/when I die, that will be gone forever. So do we want a 'wikipedia' that just regurgitates what 'allmusic' posits as 'the truth' and 'notable' or do we want a richer tapestry with the gaps filled in?

To use an analogy, one of my principle fields of interest is permaculture and urban land rights issues. Whilst reading Peter Harper's classic book Radical Technology, published in 1972 and totally reflective of it's time, I came accross a mention of a South London based radical urban land rights group called The Urban Farmers, who pulled off various stunts in the late sixties such as planting vegetables in the middle of roads, etc, and also published a 'beautiful and graphically inovative' silk screened magazine. I wanted to know more. Google searches however produced nothing, nor did various email requests on likely groups, although I did get a couple of responses from old hippies who 'vaguely remembered' the urban farmers and their magazine, but couldn't be any more specific. Seems the urban farmers are lost forever. They certanly will be in a further 30 years. However, we now have the tool (Wikipedia) to ensure that such ephemeral but relevant history is documented rather than lost to future generations and researchers, which is why I am so passionate that the memory of groups like Red Square shouldn't be lost just because somebody in Australia (for example), presumably with little interest in the history of free improvisation or music in Southend on Sea, on a whim thinks they 'arn't notable'. Whose to say what is and isn't notable and in what context? So delete away if that is to be the majority decision, but the quality of a so-called 'free encyclopedia' will be greatly diminished as a result as far as I'm concerned, cheers quercus robur 01:12, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep. I think I'm convinced by Quercus's argument. Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy)  07:39, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Google isn't the only source we need to think about. I'm sure some of the other fans of Red Square would also have something to say about them. This is a well constructed article about something in the real world and the article above about its importance speaks for itself. Strong Keep.LukeSurl 20:18, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep. QUercus Robur's argument is quite convincing.
 * Previous vote presumably by User:Zantastik. --Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy)  05:52, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Ondine (actor)

Robert Olivo (June 16, 1937 – August 28, 1989), better known by his stage name Ondine, was an American actor. He is best known for appearing in a series of films in the mid-1960s by Andy Warhol, whom he claimed to have met in 1961 at an orgy: "I was at an orgy, and he [Warhol] was, ah, this great presence in the back of the room. And this orgy was run by a friend of mine, and, so, I said to this person, 'Would you please mind throwing that thing [Warhol] out of here?' And that thing was thrown out of there, and when he came up to me the next time, he said to me, 'Nobody has ever thrown me out of a party.' He said, 'You know? Don't you know who I am?' And I said, 'Well, I don't give a good flying fuck who you are. You just weren't there. You weren't involved...'"

Ondine was the focus of Warhol's book, a, A Novel, based on transcripts of Ondine and others. He appeared in films made by his lover, Roger Jacoby, Dream Sphinx Opera, L'Amico Fried's Glamorous Friends, and Kunst Life.

In later years, he supported himself by showing Warhol films and delivering a lecture on his days as a Warhol superstar on the college circuit. He died of AIDS-related liver disease in Queens, New York in 1989, aged 52. He was portrayed in the film I Shot Andy Warhol by Michael Imperioli.

Filmography

 * Batman Dracula (1964)
 * Couch (1964)
 * Raw Weekend (1964)
 * Afternoon (1965)
 * Restaurant (1965)
 * Vinyl (1965)
 * Horse (1965)
 * Chelsea Girls (1966)
 * Since (1966)
 * Four Stars aka **** (1967)
 * The Loves of Ondine (1967)
 * Dream Sphinx Opera (1972)
 * Sugar Cookies (1973)
 * Silent Night, Bloody Night (1974)
 * Kunst Life (1975)
 * L'Amico Fried's Glamorous Friends (1976)

Quotes about Ondine

 * "You can't enjoy what he's doing to your psychology if you're so weak that you become paranoid, and there are people who tend to do that. Otherwise, if you had any intellectual integrity at all, you would just feel his love, and you would enjoy it like it was better than a theater performance because it was really live." — Billy Name

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Torf-Einarr

Einarr Rognvaldarson ( early 890s–c. 910), often referred to by his byname Torf-Einarr (sometimes anglicised as Turf-Einar), was one of the Norse earls of Orkney. The son of the Norse jarl Rognvald Eysteinsson and a concubine, his rise to power is related in sagas which apparently draw on verses of Einarr's own composition for inspiration. After battling for control of the Northern Isles of Scotland and a struggle with Norwegian royalty, Einarr founded a dynasty which retained control of the islands for centuries after his death.

He is portrayed as a successful warrior and has various characteristics in common with the Norse God Odin but his historicity is not in doubt. The reasons for his nickname of "Turf" are not certain.

Family background
Einarr was the youngest son of Rognvald Eysteinsson, Jarl of Møre, by a concubine. According to the sagas and the Historia Norvegiae Rognvald's family conquered the Orkney and Shetland islands in the late ninth century. Rognvald's brother, Sigurd Eysteinsson, was made Jarl of Orkney and after his death on campaign he was succeeded by his son, Guthorm, who died shortly afterward. Rognvald then sent one of his own sons, Hallad, to govern the islands.

The Orkneyinga saga states that Einarr was one of six brothers, the others being: Hallad, Hrollaug, Ivar, Hrólfr, and Thorir the Silent. The three eldest, Hallad, Einarr and Hrollaug, were natural sons of Rognvald, and were "grown men when their brothers born in marriage were still children". Ivar was killed on an campaign with King Harald Finehair, which resulted in the Norðreyar being gifted to his family as compensation. Hrólfr "was so big that no horse could carry him", hence his byname of "Göngu-Hrólf" ("Hrólf the Walker"), and he is identified by the saga writers with Rollo, ancestor of the Dukes of Normandy. Thorir the Silent was Rognvald's third son by his marriage to Ragnhild.

Ari Þorgilsson quotes a short section from the lost Torf-Einarr’s Saga in the Landnámabók. It begins: "Earl Turf-Einarr (of Orkney) had a daughter in his youth, she was called Thordis. Earl Rognvald brought her up and gave her in marriage to Thorgeir Klaufi, their son was Einar, he went to Orkney to see his kinsmen; they would not own him for a kinsman; then Einar bought a ship in partnership with two brothers, Vestman and Vemund, and they went to Iceland." The Landnámabók goes on to make brief reference to Einar's travels there. It also lists his two sons, Eyjolf and Ljot, and some details about them and their descendants. The sagas describe Einarr as tall, ugly and blind in one eye, but sharp-sighted nonetheless.

Rise to power
Einarr's brother Hallad was unable to maintain control in Orkney due to the predations of Danish pirates. He resigned his earldom and returned to Norway as a common landholder, which "everyone thought was a huge joke." Hallad's failure led to Rognvald flying into a rage and summoning his sons Thorir and Hrolluag. He asked which of them wanted the islands but Thorir said the decision was up to the earl himself. Rognvald predicted that Thorir's path would keep him in Norway and that Hrolluag was destined seek his fortune in Iceland. Einarr, the youngest of the natural sons, then came forward and offered to go to the islands. Rognvald said: "Considering the kind of mother you have, slave-born on each side of her family, you are not likely to make much of a ruler. But I agree, the sooner you leave and the later you return the happier I'll be."

Rognvald agreed to provide Einarr with a ship and crew in the hope that he would sail away and never return. Despite his father's misgivings, on arrival in the Scottish islands, Einarr fought and defeated two Danish warlords, Þórir Tréskegg (Thorir Treebeard) and Kálf Skurfa (Kalf the Scurvy), who had taken residence there. Einarr then established himself as earl of a territory that comprised the two archipelagoes of Orkney and Shetland.

Relations with Norway
After Einarr had settled in Orkney two of Harald Finehair's unruly sons, Halvdan Hålegg (English: Hálfdan Longlegs) and Gudrød Ljome (English: Gudrod the Gleaming), killed Einarr's father Rognvald by trapping him in his house and setting it alight. Gudrød took possession of Rognvald's lands while Hálfdan sailed westwards to Orkney and then displaced Einarr. The sagas say that King Harald, apparently appalled by his sons' actions, overthrew Gudrød and restored Rognvald's lands to his son, Thorir. From a base in Caithness on the Scottish mainland Einarr resisted Hálfdan's occupation of the islands. After winning a battle at sea, and a ruthless campaign on land, Einarr spied Hálfdan hiding on North Ronaldsay. The sagas claim that Hálfdan was captured, and sacrificed to Odin as a blood eagle.

While the killing of Hálfdan by the Orkney islanders is recorded independently in the Historia Norvegiæ, the manner of his death is unspecified. The blood eagle sacrifice may be a misunderstanding or an invention of the sagawriters as it does not feature directly in the earlier skaldic verses, which instead indicate that Hálfdan was killed by a volley of spears. The verses do mention the eagle as a carrion bird, and this may have influenced the saga writers to introduce the blood eagle element. The sagas then relate that Harald sought vengeance for his son's ignoble death, and set out on campaign against Einarr, but was unable to dislodge him. Eventually, Harald agreed to end the fight in exchange for a fine of 60 gold marks levied on Einarr and the allodial owners of the islands. Einarr offered to pay the whole fine if the allodial landowners passed their lands to him, to which they agreed. Einarr's assumption of control over the islands appears well-attested and was considered by later commentators to be the moment at which the Earls of Orkney came to own the entire island group in fee to the King of Norway. Others have interpreted the payment of 60 gold marks as wergild or blood money.

The sagas incorrectly claim that the Earl of Orkney was called "Turf-Einarr" because he introduced the practice of burning turf or peat to the islands since wood was so scarce. This practice long pre-dates the Norse and the real reason for the nickname is unknown. The Orkneyinga saga has him organising peat cutting at Tarbat Ness far to the south of the Orkney heartland. While depletion of woodland could have caused a cultural shift from burning timber to peat, potentially the name arose because the sequestration of the common or allodial rights of the islanders by Einarr forced them away from coppicing towards cutting turves.

Legacy
The remainder of Einarr's long reign was apparently unchallenged, and he died in his bed of a sickness, leaving three sons, Arnkel, Erlend and Thorfinn who became jarls of Orkney after him. Despite his apparent physical shortcomings, as well as his low-born mother, Einarr established a dynasty which ruled the Orkney islands until 1470.

At this early period, many of the dates relating to the Orkney earldom are uncertain. Einarr's death is stated as being circa 910 in several sources. Crawford (2004) suggests he lived until the 930s and Ashley (1998) states that "allowing for the ages of his sons to succeed him he must have ruled to at least the year 920 or later."

There are five verses recorded in the Landnámabók attributed to Einarr that describe a feud between the families of Rognvald Eysteinsson and that of Harald Finehair. Apart from these verses, no other examples of Torf-Einarr's poetry are known to survive, though they appear to be part of a larger body of work. A couplet that commemorates Einarr's defeat of the two pirate Vikings, Thorir Treebeard and Kalf the Scurvy, has a matching metre and alliterative similarities to the attributed verses.

Einarr must have had some fame as a poet, as his name is used in the Háttatal, an examination of Old Norse poetry written in the thirteenth-century, to refer to a specific type of metre, Torf-Einarsháttr.

Interpretations
Much of Einarr's story in the sagas appears to be derived from the five skaldic verses attributed to Einarr himself and it is not certain that this account Einarr's conquest is historically accurate. Though the Historia Norvegiæ, written at the same time as the sagas but from a different source, confirms that Rognvald's family conquered the islands, it gives few details. The scene in the sagas where Einarr's father scorns him is a literary device which often figures in Old Norse literature. After Hallad's failure in Orkney the dialogue between the father and his sons has been interpreted as being about Rognvald's desire to cement his own position as Earl of Møre and an allusion to the early history of Iceland, where the sagas were written. Thorir is a compliant son who Rognvald is happy to keep at home. Hrolluag is portrayed as a man of peace who will go to Iceland. Einarr is aggressive and a threat to his father's position so can be spared for the dangers of Orkney. In the Landnámabók version the equally aggressive Hrolfr is also present, and his destiny is anticipated to be in conveniently far-away Normandy. The writer of the Orkneyinga saga established Einarr's status in two contradictory ways. Although in the Historia Rognvald's family are described as "pirates" the saga provides them with a legally established earldom instated by the king. Einarr's success is however largely down to his own efforts and he negotiates with King Harald rather than offers blind obedience. The author is thus able to emphasise both the legitimacy and independence of his house.

Einarr is also provided with various characteristics associated with Odin. Both have but one eye and Halfdan's hideous death at Einarr's hands is offered to the god—an act that contains a hint of Odin's own sacrifice to himself in the Hávamál. Einarr is a man of action who is self-made, and he is a successful warrior who (unlike his brothers) avenges his father's death. He leads a dramatic and memorable life and emerges as "ancient, powerful and mysterious—but as a literary figure rather than a real person". He is also a whose appearance at the commencement of the saga contrasts with the later martyrdom of his descendant St Magnus which marks a "moral high-point" of the story.

General references

 * Ashley, Michael (1998) The British Monarchs. Robinson Publishing. ISBN 1854875043
 * Crawford, Barbara E. (1987) Scandinavian Scotland. Leicester University Press. ISBN 0718511972
 * Crawford, Barbara E. (2004). "Einarr, earl of Orkney (fl. early 890s–930s)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, retrieved 20 July 2009 (Subscription required)
 * Muir, Tom (2005) Orkney in the Sagas: The Story of the Earldom of Orkney as told in the Icelandic Sagas. The Orcadian. Kirkwall. ISBN 0954886232.
 * Phelpstead, Karl (ed) (2001) A History of Norway and The Passion and Miracles of the Blessed Óláfr. (pdf) Translated by Devar Kunin. Viking Society for Northern Research Text Series. XIII. University of London.
 * Poole, Russell Gilbert (1991). Viking Poems on War and Peace: A Study in Skaldic Narrative. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-6789-1
 * Smyth, Alfred P. (1984) Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland AD 80–1000. Edinburgh University Press. Edinburgh. ISBN 0748601007
 * Thomson, William P. L. (2008) The New History of Orkney. Edinburgh. Birlinn. ISBN 9781841586960
 * Woolf, Alex (2007) From Pictland to Alba, 789–1070. Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748612345

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Talk:Tiberius Julius Alexander

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Can anyone explain why we need an article on this person? Based on what is written here, his chief claim to fame is that he was a nephew of Philo, & some kind of relative to Herod Agrippa. Only one article links here, "List of Famous Romans". Frankly, as this article stands his father (who is described as a government official & "rich") is more worthy of an entry than he is.

Either we need more information in this stub, or it needs to be removed. -- llywrch 22:39, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Did this guy live in the 20th century, or around 1500 BC, or what?? Michael Hardy 22:23, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Tiberius Julius Alexander (TJA) and Flavius Josephus were one and the same person. TJA was the wealthiest man in the Roman empire with the possible exception of the emperor. He (and his father) amassed their fortune as prefect and tax collector in Egypt. The OT Joseph, likewise, was a Jew who had gone to Egypt and became fabulously wealthy. Thus, TJA was the "Roman Joseph" and hence took the nickname as a pseudonym. Josephus' supposed Hebrew patronymic was "Bar Mathias", i.e. son of Matthew which he dropped in favor of the new Flavian dynasty with whom he lived in the imperial palace after the Jewish/Roman war. Josephus presumably had a front-row seat with Titus from which he could view the war and subsequently write his history. TJA was the experienced military commander on whom Titus relied to conduct the war. TJA also retired to the imperial palace after the war and disappears from history. Josephus must have known TJA and received much information from him about the war, yet he (TJA) is not mentioned much. Further, the name Bar Mathias (drop the initial B and final s) is very close to (Joseph of) Arimathea, another Jew who was supposed to be very wealthy. It is possible that TJA/Josephus is the writer of the original gospel stories and thus a founder of the Christian religion. He deserves an article in Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.205.65.198 (talk) 23:41, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
 * If that's true (hint: it isn't) then Josephus must have been one terribly conflicted dude, what with massacring his own people and then writing about it for posterity's sake.--172.190.37.56 (talk) 08:23, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

GA passed
Congrats! Excellent article, well worthy. Moreschi Deletion! 12:43, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

GA Sweeps (Pass)
This article has been reviewed as part of WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. The article history has been updated to reflect this review.

I made one minor change: I removed the following sentence from the end of the article: "If so, it provides a paradoxical tribute to the unprecedented nature of his achievement." because it constitutes commentary in its current form. Please feel free to add this back if suitably rewritten and sourced. All the best, EyeSerene TALK 18:09, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:George Brown, Baron George-Brown

older comments
Hey...wow...look at this...kooll..hmm

 * Yes, it's a featured article. I wrote most of it. If you can improve it, please feel free to make constructive edits. David | Talk 23:49, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Peerage
One has to be very careful when dealing with this particular subject and the peerage, since he did not accept all the traditions of the peerage. When the article says he wanted to be known as "Lord George Brown", this is correct as written. He did not want to be "Baron George Brown", because it isn't usual to refer to life peers as Baron outside of formal naming and George Brown was a very informal man.

Likewise, strict application of category ordering would place Lord George-Brown under the 'G's, but that would be inappropriate in this particular case. He still regarded Brown as his last name. David | Talk 12:02, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Aye and thanks for the explanation. Greetings Phoe 12:09, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Leader of the Opposition
George Brown was Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party between 18 January 1963 and 14 February 1963, between the death of Hugh Gaitskell and the succession of Harold Wilson. I have made some amendments to the Gaitskell and Wilson articles to reflect this fact. --Dovea (talk) 20:21, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Gbrownloses1970.jpg
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Name and Peerage title
We need to be careful with the subject's name and Peerage title on this article. See above for an earlier discussion. Essentially the subject particularly valued the simplicity of the name 'George Brown', and would have preferred to be 'Lord George Brown' if the Garter King of Arms had permitted it. The compromise which was worked out involved him changing his legal surname to 'George-Brown' practically simultaneously with receiving a Peerage under the same title. The article lede has to reflect this accurately while also referring to the name(s) by which he was usually known by the public. Sam Blacketer (talk) 01:13, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Brown and drinking
I'm sure I heard an interview with one of Brown's contemporaries at the DEA who claimed that Brown was not a heavy drinker. He said that Brown was a fairly moderate drinker but was completely unable to hold his drink, so appeared intoxicated after quite small amounts, which resulted in a widely held belief that he was a chronic drinker or alcoholic. If anyone can find a reference to substantiate or refute this, it would make a useful addition to the article. --80.176.142.11 (talk) 22:41, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * As he died of cirrhosis of the liver, this would suggest heavy drinking. Valetude (talk) 16:25, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

At the Kennedy tribute
'When Brown went on air, millions of viewers saw him interpret a fair question as an accusation of his having overstated his closeness...' Does this mean he was claiming to be a close friend of Kennedy? Clarify, please. Valetude (talk) 16:20, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Loss of City job
He started work as a junior clerk in the ledger department of a City firm, but was made redundant after pressing his fellow clerks to join a trade union.

I question the use of "made redundant" to describe the termination of his employment. Legally, redundancy means that a person's position no longer exists and nobody will be hired to replace him in that position. Surely the correct term is "dismissed" if he was fired as a result of his union related activities (then more commonplace earlier in the twentieth century), unless it can be proved his post was coincidentally abolished. How did he describe it in his autobiography (if any)?Cloptonson (talk) 20:36, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

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History
" trade union right wing,"? That's an interesting thought. HOw long has anything to do with unions been considered right wing? 2.24.68.178 (talk) 08:19, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

 * You've removed it from the context - this is a wing within the Labour Party. The party as a whole was and is on the left of politics, but has an internal spectrum of views. The trade union right wing are marked by opposition to any moves by government to restrict trade union activities, but are also relatively economically liberal on issues other than employment rights (they think workers earn more if they work for profitable companies). They are also inclined to social conservatism, and to support Atlanticist foreign and defence policy - reflective of instinctive anti-communism within their unions. Sam Blacketer (talk) 19:10, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Archbishop of Lima
Ok, the Archbishop of Lima incident is gossip in a way, but sometimes a story becomes so widely repeated that it becomes notable gossip. I think we should mention that the story probably isn't true. PatGallacher (talk) 23:29, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Well, (1) the text itself describes it as an "anecdote" and "unsubstantiated" with a heading that includes the word "rumoured". It pretty much advertises itself as "unencyclopedic"! (2) do we really want the purple prose "was said to have lumbered over to a tall, elegant vision in red" ?? (3) and a whole section to itself with a heading "Rumoured Archbishop of Lima incident"? (4) The final cited sentence that he never visited South America during his term surely kills it off as factual material. Maybe it deserves one sentence but surely not this whole section which must contravene WP:BALASP and possibly WP:DUE? Actually, a more thoughtful coverage would be why this clearly false story got any sort of prominence. I don't know enough about Brown to investigate that but that might in fact be encyclopedic.  are you really happy to fully restore this in all its glory?! DeCausa (talk) 23:59, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Basically, yes, I am in favour of including it. It is only 4 lines in a fairly lengthy article.  There could be a question about how this story came to be widely repeated.  However the answer could be that it's not disputed that Brown was a heavy drinker in his time in office, so it's one of these stories that ought to be true even though it probably isn't. PatGallacher (talk) 00:10, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
 * It's not that long. It's way over the top for such a silly urban legend to have its own section and retold in a gossipy anecdotal detail. It's utterly unencyclopedic. I've shortened and reworded it and incorporated it into the preceding paragraph about his drunkenness. DeCausa (talk) 13:18, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

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Musique pour Supermarché

Musique pour Supermarché (English title: Music for Supermarkets) is the sixth studio album by electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre. Only a single vinyl copy was ever pressed and distributed, and its master plates were deliberately destroyed following. However, later Jarre albums such as Zoolook (1984) or Rendez-Vous (1986) sample/reuse several parts of the album. A demo version of "Musique pour Supermarché (Part 1)" was included on the 2018 compilation Planet Jarre: 50 Years of Music.

Composition and recording
In 1983, Jarre was approached to create background music for a supermarket-themed art show called Orrimbe, to be held in Paris during June 1983. Jarre recorded the album between February and May of that year based on the analogy of a painting, of which there is always only one copy. So he decided to print a single LP copy of the album entitled Musique pour Supermarché (English: Music for Supermarkets) which would be auctioned just like the exhibits at the Orrimbe show, with the master tapes and plates destroyed. The auction was held on July 6, 1983, at the Hôtel Drouot auction house in Paris, and raised about 69,000 francs (equivalent to 22,000 euros or 8,300 dollars in that year) for charity. Jarre explained this was his protest at the "silly industrialisation of music".

In the inside cover, 11 polaroid photos show the step-by-step creation of the disc, leaving one slot so that the final owner could add their photo with the album. The album owner was at first kept anonymous, but later revealed to be a M. Gerard, who after a car accident, had woken up to the radio playing the track "Souvenir de Chine" from Les Concerts en Chine. Shortly after the auction, Jarre allowed Radio Luxembourg to broadcast the album once, in its entirety, and encouraged listeners to record the broadcast with the words "Piratez-moi!" (Pirate me!) Various parts used on this album would be reworked for later Jarre albums such as Zoolook (1984) or ''Rendez-Vous (1986). ''

Track listing
The duration of the tracks is calculated from bootleg recordings, as the album has never officially been released internationally.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christopher w collins

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. jni 14:26, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Christopher w collins
Somewhere between vanity and nonsense Blufive 22:42, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * arg, too slow, it's up for speedy. I'll just get out of the way... Blufive 22:45, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * It's been on speedy for a day and a half and no one apparently found a case for it, so I'm listing it here. Oh, BTW, Delete. Niteowlneils 04:49, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * This really is a CSD but if that doesn't happen delete
 * Delete, not notable, vanity. Megan1967 06:33, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I've removed the Speedy notice.  One of those cases where it is an obvious delete, but not a CSD.  It is vanity (not a CSD) and nonsense, but not patent nonsense as defined by the CSD criteria.  I would have speedied it as vandalism ("indisputable bad faith addition") except that the article indicates the author may not understand the criteria for article submission.  We're left with only the VfD option.  SWAdair | Talk  07:02, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Apparently I did not read the criteria for SD carefully when I listed this page as CSD. Aleph4 09:39, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. He's still at school and already has a micronation with a website, but he's not encyclopedic, not yet anyway. Andrewa 11:29, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Self-proclaimed king of a imaginary micronation. Vanity. jni 11:39, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Jonathunder 21:58, 2005 Feb 27 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable kid with a non-notable micronation.   — Gwalla | Talk 03:45, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. A really stupid vanity page. —Brim 16:44, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)


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Padma River

The Padma (পদ্মা Pôdma) is a major river in Bangladesh. It is the main distributary of the Ganges, flowing generally southeast for 356 km to its confluence with the Meghna River near the Bay of Bengal. The city of Rajshahi is situated on the banks of the river. Since 1966, over 66,000 hectares of land has been lost to erosion of the Padma.

Etymology
The Padma, Sanskrit for lotus flower, is a mentioned in ancient Hindu scripts as a byname for the Goddess Lakshmi.

The name Padma is given to the lower part of the course of the Ganges below the point of the off-take of the Bhagirathi River, another Ganges River distributary, also known as the Hooghly River. Padma had, most probably, flowed through a number of channels at different times. Some authors contend that each distributary of the Ganges in its deltaic part is a remnant of an old principal channel, and that starting from the westernmost one, the Bhagirathi (Uttarakhand, India) each distributary to the east marks a position of a newer channel than the one to the west of it.

Geographic effects
Eighteenth-century geographer James Rennell referred to a former course of the Ganges north of its present channel, as follows:

"Appearances favour very strongly the opinion, that the Ganges had its former bed in the tract now occupied by the lakes and morasses between Nattore and Jaffiergunge, striking out of the present course at Bauleah ... to a junction with the Burrampooter or Megna near Fringybazar; where the accumulation of two such mighty streams probably scooped out the present amazing bed of the Megna." The places mentioned by Rennell proceeding from west to east are Rampur Boali, the headquarters of Rajshahi district, Puthia and Natore in the same district and Jaffarganj in the district of Dhaka. The place last named were shown in a map of the Mymensingh district dated 1861, as a subdistrict (thana) headquarters, about 6 mi south-east of Bera Upazila police station. It is now known as Payla Jaffarganj and is close to Elachipur opposite Goalunda.

Authorities agree that the Ganges has changed its course and that at different times each of the distributaries might have been the carrier of its main stream.

The bed of the Padma is wide, and the river is split up into several channels flowing between constantly shifting sand banks and islands. It is navigable at most seasons of the year by steamers and country boats of all sizes and until recently ranked as one of the most frequented waterways in the world. But during the rain season, the current is very strong and even steamers may find difficulty in making headway against it. It is spanned near Paksey by the great Hardinge Bridge over which runs one of the main lines of the Bangladesh Railway.

Geography
The Padma enters Bangladesh from India near Nawabganj and meets the Jamuna (যমুনা Jamuna) near Aricha and retains its name, but finally meets with the Meghna (মেঘনা) near Chandpur and adopts the name "Meghna" before flowing into the Bay of Bengal.

Rajshahi, a major city in western Bangladesh, is situated on the north bank of the Padma.

The Ganges originates in the Gangotri Glacier of the Himalaya, and runs through India and Bangladesh to the Bay of Bengal. The Padma enters Bangladesh at Shibganj in the district of Chapai Nababganj. The Ganges branches into two distributaries, the Hooghly and the Padma at Giria in Murshidabad district of India.

Further downstream, in Goalando, 2200 km from the source, the Padma is joined by the Jamuna (Lower Brahmaputra) and the resulting combination flows with the name Padma further east, to Chandpur. Here, the widest river in Bangladesh, the Meghna joins the Padma, continuing as the Meghna almost in a straight line to the south, ending in the Bay of Bengal.

Pabna District
The Padma forms the whole of the southern boundary of the Pabna District for about 120 km.

Kushtia District
The Jalangi River is thrown off at the point where the mighty Padma touches the district at its most northernly corner, and flows along the northern border in a direction slightly southeast, until it leaves the district several kilometres to the east of Kushtia. It carries immense volumes of water and is very wide in places, constantly shifting its main channel, eroding vast areas on one bank, throwing chars on the other, giving rise to many disputes as to the possession of the chars and islands which are thrown up.

Murshidabad District
Murshidabad District situated on the western bank of The Padma. It flows dividing the Rajshahi and Murshidabad District of West Bengal and created a natural river border between India and Bangladesh. Jalangi area of the district was seriously affected by River bank erosion of Padma.

Rajshahi District
Rajshahi is the largest city among the cities which is situated on the bank of Padma river. It is the third largest city in Bangladesh. It is a major city in the north Bengal. Rajshahi has a decorated embankment of Padma. Rajshahi Collegiate School is one of the oldest schools in Indian Subcontinent, situated on Padma river bank. The school was endangered three times by the disintegration of the Padma river. Padma Food Garden, A.H.M. Kamaruzzaman Central Park and Zoo, Barokuthi Nandan Park, Muktamancha, and T-shaped embankment (Bengali: টি বাঁধ) are best tourist spot in Rajshahi which are situated on the bank of Padma river.

Damming
After the construction of the Farakka Barrage on the Ganges River in West Bengal, the maximum flows in the Padma River were reduced significantly. The flow reduction caused many problems in Bangladesh, including the loss of fish species, the drying of Padma's distributaries, increased saltwater intrusion from the Bay of Bengal, and damage to the mangrove forests of the Sundarbans.

Padma Bridge
The Padma Bridge is the Bangladesh's largest, estimated at US$3 billion to finish. The bridge was inaugurated on 25 June 2022. It was supposed to be open to the public in 2013. However, the future of the project became uncertain when in June 2012 the World Bank cancelled its $1.2 billion loan over corruption allegations. In June 2014, the government of Bangladesh, proceeding without the loan, hired a Chinese firm to construct the 6.15 km main part of the bridge; in October 2014, it hired a South Korean firm to supervise construction, with the aim of finishing the project by 2018. The final (41st) span of the bridge was installed on 10 December 2020. The last road slab was installed on the span that linked the pillars 12 and 13 of the Padma bridge on 24 August 2021. In 2009, government plans also included rail lines on both sides of the Padma with a connection via the new bridge.

The Lalon Shah Bridge and Hardinge Bridge also crosses the Padma further upstream.

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Metropolitan Life North Building

The Metropolitan Life North Building, now known as Eleven Madison, is a 30-story Art Deco skyscraper adjacent to Madison Square Park at 11–25 Madison Avenue in the Flatiron District neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The building is bordered by East 24th Street, Madison Avenue, East 25th Street and Park Avenue South, and was formerly connected by a sky bridge and tunnel to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower just south of it.

The North Building was built in three stages on the site of the second Madison Square Presbyterian Church. Construction started in 1929, just before the onset of the Great Depression. Originally planned to be 100 stories, the North Building was never completed as originally planned due to funding problems following the Depression. The current design was constructed in three stages through 1950. As part of the Metropolitan Life Home Office Complex, the North Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 19, 1996.

Site
The original Madison Square Presbyterian Church, designed by Richard M. Upjohn in the Gothic Revival architectural style, was located on Madison Square Park at the southeast corner of East 24th Street and Madison Avenue, and was completed in 1854. The building was acquired by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and razed to make way for the 50-story Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, which was briefly the world's tallest building. In exchange, the church received a 75 by plot of land on the north side of 24th Street that became the site for Stanford White's 1906 building for the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, sometimes called the "Parkhurst Church" after Reverend Charles Henry Parkhurst.

A plot on the north side of 24th Street, measuring 75 by, was developed in 1903 as the first Metropolitan Annex, a 16-story printing plant building faced in Tuckahoe marble. The annex was designed by LeBrun, and it was connected to the main building by a tunnel. White's building was demolished in 1919 to make way for an expansion of that annex. The structure was to be 18 stories tall with six elevators, and would incorporate the existing annex, which would be 75 by. The ground story of the new annex would contain an auditorium with 1,100-seats, and the 12th story would include a lunchroom and a sky bridge to the 11th story of the home office building across 24th Street. This annex was designed by D. Everett Waid and completed in 1921.

Construction
The North Building was designed in the 1920s by Harvey Wiley Corbett and D. Everett Waid and built in three stages. Metropolitan Life had acquired the lot bounded by Madison Avenue, 24th Street, Fourth Avenue (now Park Avenue South), and 25th Street in September 1929. Preliminary plans, submitted that October, proposed a 35-story building that would serve as a new "home office", supplanting the old "home office" in the Metropolitan Life Tower directly to the south. The final design for the new building, presented in November 1929, called for a 100-story tower with several setbacks, which would have been the tallest building in the world. The structure would accommodate 30,000 daily visitors when completed, and would have escalators connecting the lowest 13 stories.

Following the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the onset of the Great Depression, Corbett and Waid resubmitted plans for the building in November 1930. The new plans called for a 28-story brick, granite, and limestone structure. Starrett Brothers & Eken were selected as contractors the following month. Initially, only the eastern half of the block was developed; that structure was finished in 1932. Upon the first stage's completion, Corbett said, "it is a highly specialized building designed primarily as a machine to do as efficiently as possible the particular headquarters' work of our largest insurance company". The new structure contained 22 acre of new office space. The original 16-story Metropolitan Life annex, at the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and 24th Street, remained in place.

In 1937, four buildings on Madison Avenue between 24th and 25th Street, ranging in height from 12 to 20 stories, were demolished to make way for the second phase of construction: the northwestern portion of the 28-story structure. In 1938, the company filed plans to build the western half of the 28-story building at a cost of $10 million. The western wall of the existing structure would be demolished so the two sections would be integrated into a single building. The second phase was finished in 1940 and contained 32 stories: 28 above-ground and four basement levels, the same as in the first phase.

LeBrun's and Waid's northern annexes were demolished in 1946 to make way for the third and final stage of the North Building. Waid and Corbett prepared the third phase along with Arthur O. Angilly. The design was similar to that of the first and second phases, but in smaller scale. Construction was completed in 1950. There were no plans to build the extra stories, even though the building plan would have allowed for such an expansion, because Metropolitan Life no longer required the extra space.

Later years
In 1985, Metropolitan Life vacated the clock tower and moved all remaining operations to the north building and the east wing of the south building. From 1994 to 1997, the building's interior was demolished and rebuilt by Haines Lundberg Waehler and the exterior was renovated at a cost of $300 million. The renovation entailed reducing the size of the building's core to provide additional office space. The North Building had been considered obsolete for the uses of Metropolitan Life (now MetLife), which had moved most of its employees to the MetLife Building in Midtown Manhattan. Credit Suisse First Boston, a subsidiary of Credit Suisse, then leased 1.5 e6ft2 within the building, an agreement that was later expanded to 1.6 e6ft2. Other space was taken up by Alexander & Alexander Services, Emanuel/Emanuel Ungaro, Wells Rich Greene and the Gould Paper Corporation. '

Digital rendering
In January 2022, ArchDaily published a digital rendering of what the building would have looked like if it had been constructed as planned to 100 stories and not truncated at 25 stories. Cortesía de 90Grados Arquitectura-Renderings assembled all the available data and graphic information about the building's intended design. The original plans were not extant, but sketches and photographs of a model were available. Where there were gaps in the information, they extrapolated from other designs by Corbett, in particular his work on Rockefeller Center. They then used various rendering programs to create the finished images of the building.

Architecture
The building, which has 2.2 e6sqft of interior space, was constructed in three stages. The building's bulk is mitigated by numerous setbacks and its polygonal shape. As a result of these setbacks, mandated under the 1916 Zoning Resolution, the architects maximized the usable interior space The building initially contained 30 elevators, enough to serve the originally-planned 100 floors. In addition, because the existing building was constructed to be strong enough to support extra floors, the roof included 16 electrical generators, enough to power the building for several days.

Facade
The North Building is clad entirely with stone and contains numerous angled sides. The building is finished on the outside with Alabama limestone and marble detailing, covering an interior steel frame. The window frames are mostly made of bronze, except those installed during the final stage of construction, which are made of aluminum. The ground-floor windows are multi-pane windows and all others are three-over-three sash windows. Limestone grilles are located outside the second-story windows. The stonework is laid in a scalloped pattern; this is the only major decorative element on the building's exterior.

The North Building features four vaulted corner entrances, which are each three stories high and composed of loggias on either side of the corner. Each entrance contains a three-story-high pier with ribs, which supports a double-height loggia. The vaulted entrances contain modern-style coffers with a Moderne-style chandelier hanging from the center. Pink Tennessee marble is used as a decorative element on the floors and around the doors of each loggia. The middle of the 24th Street facade contains another entrance. The 25th Street side contains numerous loading docks. In addition, there are paired arched openings on Madison Avenue, which are decorated with floral-patterned stone screens. Until 2020, the North and South buildings were connected by a sky bridge on the eighth floor.

Interior
The three-story lobby contains travertine and marble finishes. The lobby contains a coffered ceiling with aluminum leaf in numerous colors. On the walls above the passages to each elevator lobby. there are bas-reliefs made of aluminum leaf. The other corridors contain terrazzo floors, plaster ceilings with stepped moldings, and marble paneling. On the upper floors, the elevators, restrooms, and stairs are located in a core at the center of each floor.

Corbett and Waid described how the building had "the latest ideas in ventilation, air conditioning, sound deadening, artificial lighting, intercommunicating pneumatic tubes, telephones, call bells, unit operating clock systems [and] special elevator and escalator installations". The offices are located on the outer edges of each floor, near the windows, and are generally open plan spaces with few private rooms in order to accommodate the large numbers of workers at the company. The offices were utilitarian, with indirect artificial lighting allowing for office space that was up to 80 ft deep. The stepped acoustic-tile ceilings increased in 6 in intervals, from their lowest height near the building's core to their highest height near the windows, which maximized natural light while also providing space for ceiling ducts. Another innovation for the building at the time of its construction was the inclusion of a building-wide air conditioning system. The 27th floor contained an auditorium.

There are four basements: the kitchen on the first basement level (just below ground), the employee dining areas on the second and third basement levels, and the mechanical spaces on the fourth basement level. The dining areas could accommodate 8,000 diners per day. Seven-foot-high (7 ft) murals are mounted on the walls of the basements' dining rooms and elevator lobbies. These murals were painted by Edward Trumbull, D. Putnam Brinley, Nicholas L. Pavloff, N. C. Wyeth, and Griffith Bailey Coale, depicting scenes from American folk stories, North American wildlife, and New York state history. They were intended to "bring to the employees a feeling of cessation from their work through the contemplation of artistic and amusing masterpieces." The original plans were to include an entrance to the 23rd Street subway station, but the entrance was ultimately built one block south, on 23rd Street, with an entrance through the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower.

Tenants
SL Green Realty Corp has owned 11 Madison Avenue since 2015. The primary tenant is Credit Suisse. Additionally, Yelp, Inc. and several Sony companies such as Sony Corporation of America, Sony Music Entertainment, and Sony Music Publishing occupy the building.

The restaurant Eleven Madison Park is at street level on the Madison Avenue side of the building. The restaurant, which opened in 1998, offers a vegan multi-course tasting menu.

The building previously served as Met Life's records warehouse.

In popular culture

 * The 1981 thriller Eyewitness used the building's lobby as the place where William Hurt's character was employed as a janitor, and where the brutal murder that begins the film takes place. Other scenes from the film were shot there as well.
 * Director Martin Scorsese used the building as the location for Griffin Dunne's office in the 1985 film After Hours.
 * Woody Allen's 1986 Radio Days utilized the North Building for the building where the offices of a broadcasting network were located.

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/George Brown, Baron George-Brown/archive1

George Brown, Baron George-Brown
A self-nom and something of a pair with Reginald Maudling which was featured late last year. He was a distinctive British politician from the 1960s now best remembered for being drunk, but who made a strong contribution in a relatively short time in office. This is longer and more personal than most political biographies, and I think I was lucky in finding a colour photograph which is usable. Dbiv 22:46, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support: Interesting and well researched. I suppose the story of an inebriated George Brown, as Foreign Secretary,  asking a 'lady' in a purple evening dress to dance at the Austrian Embassy, eliciting the response "I would rather not, (a) because this is the Austrian National Anthem and  (b), I am the Archbishop of Vienna, cannot be sourced and put in? - No, I thought not! Giano 15:47, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * That's an issue I have debated many times. Firstly, Peter Paterson's biography makes it clear that the story is certainly not true. Secondly, it was actually first told about the Defence Minister in the same government, Lord Chalfont (who is still alive), in Private Eye in the mid-1960s and I guess transferred in the telling to George Brown who was more famous for getting drunk. However because it is so often told about Brown and because many people believe it, it might be worth a para to mention and explain its provenance. What do people think? Dbiv 17:02, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * That anecdote is quoted in Matthew Parris's book 'Read My Lips' (although transposed to Peru and noted as 'attributed'). I was going to suggest including it myself, but if it's definitely not true it would seem misplaced.  However, maybe there's a place for my other favourite Brown quote, to Len Williams, on the latter's appointment as governor of Mauritius.  He asked Williams if the position would involve wearing a plumed hat, and on finding that it would, said 'Well I hope your f***ing feathers fall out'.
 * Besides that issue, it is an excellent article that reads very well and gives a good picture of this fascinatingly flawed politician. I support the nomination - but wonder if there are any more pictures suitable for inclusion?  It would be nice to have a couple more to break up the text. Worldtraveller 17:15, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Just as a comment, I think it needs a line at the end, something like "Baron George-Brown died on June 03, 1985, of (cause of death)". I assume 'natural causes', but which organs failed first? Also, List of Life Peerages gives his date of death as June 02. -Ashley Pomeroy 20:28, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestion, have put it in the article. If given two dates of death I tend to prefer the earlier as the latter is normally when the death was reported. Dbiv 21:28, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Excellent. I love to read about how people die. I therefore support this page, and note in passing that it seems to be the best page on the entire internet about Baron George-Brown, with perhaps the exception of the one in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, which I have not read (it's free to use in the local library, but I can't be bothered to shave and dress today, and I'm not going out looking like this). -Ashley Pomeroy 16:50, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support --ZayZayEM 02:24, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)