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Derek and Clive

Derek and Clive was a double act of comedic characters created by Dudley Moore (Derek) and Peter Cook (Clive) in the 1970s. The performances were captured on the records Derek and Clive (Live) (1976), Derek and Clive Come Again (1977), and Derek and Clive Ad Nauseam (1978), as well as in a film documentary, Derek and Clive Get the Horn (1979). Upon release, more than 100,000 copies of Derek and Clive (Live) were sold in the United Kingdom.

A greatest hits album containing some previously unreleased material, called Rude & Rare: The Best of Derek and Clive, was released in 2011. The characters are foul-mouthed extensions of the earlier characters Pete and Dud.

Considered highly offensive by many at the time, the sketches primarily took the form of bizarre, sometime drunken streams of consciousness led by Cook, with interjections from Moore. Memorable moments from the records include Clive claiming that the worst job he ever had was retrieving lobsters from Jayne Mansfield's arsehole, Derek claiming his worst job was cleaning up Winston Churchill's bogeys (leading the pair to conclude that the Titanic was one such bogey), Clive claiming that he was sexually aroused by the sight of a deceased Pope lying in state, Derek's account of a stranger accosting him and the ensuing profanity-laden conversation between them, followed by Clive's reminiscence of viciously assaulting a man who had said "Hello" to him at a football match, and a horse-racing 'commentary' featuring horses given the names of sexual organs, often in their vulgar forms.

Though the recordings were far too crude for a mainstream audience, Derek and Clive bootleg recordings circulated. They were mostly unscripted dialogues incorporating copious swearing – including frequent use of the word "cunt".

Characters
The characters, supposedly two lavatory attendants (although in one sketch, 'Back of the Cab', they play the roles of two London taxi drivers) first surfaced in the mid-1970s.

Development of the show
Cook and Moore were performing on Broadway with their revue show Good Evening, a live version of their television series Not Only... But Also. The relationship between the two men had become strained as a result of Cook's worsening alcoholism. To reassure Moore, Cook hired a recording studio in New York, where the two could simply relax, drink and ad-lib. The resulting recording was padded out with live performances of old favourites, such as "Bo Duddley", and began to circulate as Derek and Clive (Live).

Cook became bemused at the idea that they should not be making money from the increasing popularity of Derek and Clive, and suggested to Moore that the recording should be released officially. By this point, Moore had embarked on a successful Hollywood film career and found the tapes embarrassing, until he too realised his contemporaries were fans.

Two more records were made. They were less like dialogues and more like vindictive attacks on the increasingly successful Moore by Cook, whose career had stalled somewhat in comparison. One such merciless assault was in a cancer-themed diatribe when Cook was fully aware that Moore had recently lost his father to the disease. The same love-hate relationship between them is evident in the Derek and Clive Get the Horn movie.

It is often mistakenly assumed that all of their releases were recorded while under the influence of alcohol. While this can be presumed of "Come Again" – where the sounds of bottles can be heard in the background, featuring some tracks where both Cook and Moore are slurring their words – the home video release of Derek and Clive Get the Horn shows a very sober-looking Cook and Moore drinking coffee and water throughout. During the filming, a prank was played upon Cook and Moore by Richard Branson where 'police' arrive and suspiciously sniff the contents of an ash tray to the dismay of the unnerved and wary pair.

Later CD releases of Come Again and Ad Nauseam featured out-takes. Most were recorded during the Ad Nauseam sessions. Surreal at times, these included "Mother" – featured on Derek and Clive Get the Horn – where Cook pretends to visit his over-possessive and deranged mother, ending with Cook telling his mother to "shut your fucking face and die". "Valerie's Hymen," where Moore discussed cutting out his wife's hymen with a carving knife, and "Lady Vera Fart Teller", wherein Moore elaborates on a visit to a fortune teller who could tell his future by examining his farts.

Transcripts of further, unreleased, out-takes are available in a book titled Come Again, edited by William Cook and feature "General Eisenhower", where Cook reflects on the perils of counting the late General's dandruff flakes; "Vietnam", where Moore received a paper cut inflicted by the Viet Cong (in one insightful remark Cook mentions a "friend" of his who fought in Vietnam but he's not sure "on which side"), and "A Million Pounds", where Cook plays an hysterical woman trying to obtain a million pounds from a sympathetic Moore. The remaining unreleased out-takes are variations on actual releases.

The "Bo Duddley" sketch as it appears on Derek and Clive (Live) was sampled on the song "Voodoo Ray" by A Guy Called Gerald.

Albums

 * Derek and Clive (Live) (1976)
 * Derek and Clive Come Again (1977)
 * Derek and Clive Ad Nauseam (1978)

Compilation

 * Rude & Rare: The Best of Derek and Clive (2011)

Videography

 * Derek and Clive Get the Horn (1979, documentary)

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Wall Street station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)

The Wall Street station is a station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Wall Street and William Street in the Financial District of Manhattan. It is served by the 2 train at all times and the 3 train at all times except late nights.

Construction and opening
After the original IRT opened, the city began planning new lines. In April 1912, the New York Public Service Commission gave the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) the right to operate the proposed Clark Street Tunnel under the East River, between Old Slip in Lower Manhattan and Clark Street in Downtown Brooklyn. The next month, the Old Slip–Clark Street route was assigned to the IRT instead; the plans called for a station at Fulton Street. The BRT was allowed to extend its Centre Street Line south to a new Montague Street Tunnel. Both this extension and the IRT's Clark Street Tunnel were to have stations at Fulton Street in Lower Manhattan. These routes were finalized in the Dual Contracts between the government of New York City, the BRT, and the IRT, which were signed in 1913.

As part of the Dual Contracts, the New York City Public Service Commission planned to split the original IRT system into three segments: two north-south lines, carrying through trains over the Lexington Avenue and Broadway–Seventh Avenue Lines, and a west-east shuttle under 42nd Street. This would form a roughly H-shaped system. The Dual Contracts entailed building the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line south of Times Square–42nd Street. South of the Chambers Street station, the line was to split into two branches, one of which would travel under Park Place and William Street to the Clark Street Tunnel in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn branch was to have a station at William and Fulton Streets. Before the Dual Contracts were signed, many business owners on William Street had opposed the construction of a subway line there, claiming that the subway's construction could damage buildings because the street only measured 40 ft wide. The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, approved the William Street subway in February 1913. The William Street subway was to be a two-track line; the Public Service Commission originally planned to place one track above the other but, by July 1914, had decided to build both tracks on one level. The tunnel was to measure 29 ft wide, except the stations on Fulton Street and Wall Street, which were to measure 40 ft wide.

The Public Service Commission began soliciting bids for the William Street portion of the line in September 1914. Smith, Hauser, & McIsaac submitted a low bid of $2.254 million. The awarding of the contract was delayed by a dispute over whether gas mains should be carried on temporary overpasses above the tunnel's excavation site. Prior to the start of construction, the city government agreed to pay for any damage caused by the project. The contractors underpinned every building along the tunnel because most of the buildings had shallow foundations that extended only to a shallow layer of quicksand, rather than to the bedrock below.

The line was nearly completed by late 1917, but the signals and station finishes were incomplete due to World War I–related material shortages. The Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line's Wall Street station opened on July 1, 1918, and was initially served by a shuttle to and from Chambers Street. On August 1, 1918, the new "H" system was implemented, joining the two halves of the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line and sending all West Side trains south from Times Square; through trains on the Brooklyn branch began operating to Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. The Wall Street station was the line's terminus until April 15, 1919, when the Clark Street Tunnel opened, allowing service to run to Brooklyn. The connection eased congestion in the Joralemon Street Tunnel, which, prior to the Clark Street Tunnel's opening, was the only tunnel carrying IRT trains between Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Later years
The IRT had installed silencing devices on the station's turnstiles by early 1931. The city government took over the IRT's operations on June 12, 1940. During the 1964–1965 fiscal year, the platforms at Wall Street, along with those at four other stations on the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line, were lengthened to 525 feet to accommodate a ten-car train of 51-foot IRT cars.

In the 1980s, as part of the construction of the nearby 60 Wall Street, an entrance to the Wall Street station was constructed in that building's lobby. In 1995, as a result of service reductions, the MTA was considering permanently closing one of the two Wall Street stations, as well as two other stations citywide, due to their proximity to each other. Either the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line station or the IRT Lexington Avenue Line station would have been closed.

Station layout
The Wall Street station is under the intersection of Wall and William Streets.The 2 train serves the station at all times, while the 3 train stops here at all times except late nights. The station is the southernmost in Manhattan on the Brooklyn Branch of the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line. South of here, the line travels under the East River via the Clark Street Tunnel to Brooklyn Heights. The station is between to the north and  in Brooklyn to the south.

The single island platform is between the two tracks, and is very narrow compared to other stations in system. It has blue I-beam columns and dark blue floors tiles. The walls by the tracks have small "W" tablets on a mosaic trim except at the north end, where they have "WALL ST" written in black letters on white tablets over a green trim line. This is where the platform was extended in 1964–1965. The platform also has cooling fans.

There is a narrow full-length mezzanine above the platform that has mosaics pointing to, and connecting, all four station entrances.

Exits

This station has four sets of entrances/exits. The first exit is at the northern end of the station. It has a customer assistance booth with a bank of turnstiles and long passageway to a set of doors leading to the basement of 28 Liberty Street. A wide staircase leads to an entrance/exit at the east side of Nassau Street at Cedar Street. This entrance is only open on weekdays and also provides access to the Broad Street station and the Wall Street/Broadway station.

The second exit, also open weekdays only, contains a bank of turnstiles and passageway to a spiral staircase that leads to Pine Street outside 60 Wall Street. The passageway has an artwork called Subway Wall by Harry Roseman made in 1990 and installed after a 1993 station renovation. This exit also has a set of doors to two escalators and a double-wide staircase that go up to the public atrium lobby of 60 Wall Street. This entrance has two red globes and overhead signs, giving the impression of an outdoor station entrance built in the lobby.

The third exit was the original entrance to the station and is staffed full-time. It has a bank of turnstiles and staircases to both northern corners of William and Wall Streets. The entrance at the northeast corner, outside 48 Wall Street, is made of ornate metal and has a sign reading "Interborough Rapid Transit Co-to All Trains."

The last exit is at the south end of the station, which leads to the same intersection as the third exit but is in a separate fare control area. A single double-wide staircase from the platform leads to two HEET turnstiles and two regular turnstiles. Staircases lead to both southern corners of William and Wall Streets; the southeastern corner exit is outside 55 Wall Street. This exit, though open at all times, is unstaffed as there is no token booth.

A fifth exit, which led to the southwestern corner of Pine Street and William Street, was closed after April 1992. An exit to the northeast corner of the same intersection was removed and slabbed over in 1948. The northeast-corner exit had been closed by 1944. Exits also existed to the northwest and southeast corners of the same intersection until some point after 1944.

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Françoiz Breut

Françoiz Breut (born 10 December 1969, in Cherbourg) is the stage name of Françoise Breut, a French illustrator and chanteuse of moody and melancholic pop. Breut got involved with music when her then-fiancé, French pop star Dominique A, asked her to contribute vocals on three songs of his 1993 album, Si Je Connais Harry. He then wrote and arranged most of the songs for her eponymous debut album. She has also collaborated with Yann Tiersen, Louise Attaque, and Calexico. She lives in Brussels, Belgium.

Discography

 * 1997 Françoiz Breut (Lithium, Bella Union)
 * 2000 Vingt à Trente Mille Jours
 * 2005 Une Saison Volée
 * 2008 À L'Aveuglette
 * 2010 Inédits + Live (Tour-CDR)
 * 2012 La chirurgie des sentiments
 * 2015 Françoiz Breut & Friends
 * 2016 Zoo
 * 2021 Flux flou de la foule
 * 2024 VIF !

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Triumph (comics)

Triumph is a fictional former superhero in the DC Comics universe whose first full appearance was in Justice League America #92 (August 1994). He was created by Brian Augustyn, Mark Waid and Howard Porter, though the character is primarily associated with writer Christopher Priest.

Years after Triumph's initial appearance, Priest revealed that the character was partially based on Neal Pozner, DC's Director of Creative Services: "His shtick was: Triumph was always right... it was what made him so annoying to his fellow heroes... He was. At the end of the day, Neal would be proven right. That fact, more than anything else, annoyed many staffers beyond reason".

Publication history
The character Triumph (real name: William MacIntyre) was portrayed as a hot-headed, arrogant and self-righteous individual who felt he was "denied his destiny" to become one of Earth's greatest heroes. Via a retcon in a three-part story running through Justice League America #92, Justice League Task Force #16 and Justice League International (vol. 2) #68, he was revealed to have been a founding member of the Justice League, serving as their leader. On his first mission with the fledgling Justice League, Triumph seemingly "saved the world", but was teleported into a dimensional limbo that also affected the timestream, resulting in no one having any memory of him and his original peers now being veterans.

DC Comics fans initially disliked the character; Christopher Priest and editor Brian Augustyn decided to play to this by having the characters dislike him as well.

Return from limbo
One of Triumph's motivations for becoming a superhero was that his father was a low-ranking henchman for supervillains, a life that worried his mother. The young Triumph, however, misinterpreted her concern as a sign that his father was abusive and his henchman outfit to mean that his father had been a major supervillain. Another motivation was a visit by the Hourman, whom the child would grow up idolizing (and who had arrested his father).

When he returned from the dimensional limbo to the modern era, Triumph's meeting with Justice League International quickly devolved into a violent confrontation. He ended up starring in a significant portion of the Justice League Task Force comic book (issues #0 and 16–37), alongside regulars the Ray and Gypsy; he developed a strong relationship with the Ray and saved Gypsy's life, though he later claimed he had almost let her die out of fear of dying himself and thought that it would "look bad" if he did not save her. Dissatisfied with the infrequency of JLTF missions, he also founded a second team of his own to target perpetrators of violent crime and completely dismantle their organizations.

His attitude ultimately resulted in his expulsion from the Justice League Task Force. Alternatively, it could be seen that J'onn J'onzz fired Triumph because of Triumph regularly not consulting him.On one occasion, J'onzz literally cracked Triumph's spine as a disciplinary measure. Triumph refused to admit he had "lost the fight"" and used his powers as a "pain killer" with great strain.

In JLTF #30, Triumph receives a carved black candle from the demon Neron, which could give him his lost decade back in exchange for his soul. In JLTF #37, the final issue, Triumph tried to make amends with J'onn and admits to his anger at the League Christmas party – only to blow up and storm out when he was not let back into the group. He considered lighting the candle, despondent and weary with his failed career, but Gypsy came after him and, without knowing, convinced him to leave the candle by pointing out he had saved her life. Triumph decided his life might have meaning and went back to talk to J'onn, but the Ray and Gypsy unwittingly lit his candle for a memorial. Triumph gained back his lost decade after all, but found the League was the same as it had always been and Gypsy was still alive even without his presence.

Writer Christopher Priest has stated that Triumph's lost soul explains his future appearances as an evil character.

Fall from grace and death
Later during DC's 1990s resurrection of the JLA ongoing series, Triumph was destitute and a failure, resorting to selling stolen League items to supervillains just to pay his rent. Because of this, he came under the influence of an evil imp from the Fifth Dimension named Lkz, similar to the one possessed by Golden Age Justice Society member Johnny Thunder. Triumph mind-controlled his former Justice League Task Force teammates Gypsy and the Ray, striking at the newly reformed JLA. He believed he was using Lkz to fake a disaster that would overwhelm the current JLA so much that "his" team could step in, while Lkz simply intended to destroy the world. The combined forces of the JSA and JLA were required to stop the rampaging Thunderbolt and subdue Triumph, culminating in Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt merging with Lkz to become a new purple Thunderbolt (now summoned by the phrase "So Cool").

Throughout his attack, Triumph expressed disgruntlement with the League's alleged elitism, accusing the League of ignoring his team after the "headliners" came back, and claiming (in JLA #30) that Aquaman (who had been teammates with Gypsy in the "Detroit" League) had not cared about Gypsy and happily ignored her and "the old days" "once he made the dream". To Triumph's ultimate shock, Superman told him that he had been "a fine Leaguer" and would have been "welcomed any time" if only he had simply asked.

At the end of this story arc, the then-hostless Spectre-Force transformed Triumph into an ice statue and prepared to smash him with a hammer, but was stopped by a compassionate plea by the angel Zauriel. His frozen form was stored in the Justice League Watchtower, marked "Founding Member of the J.L.A." as a memorial. Grant Morrison, the writer of this story, later had Prometheus destroy the Watchtower, but forgot to remove Triumph; he was confirmed dead a few years later.

Later mentions
Several years after Triumph's death, it was revealed that he had unknowingly sired a son named Jonathan. During a college protest against the construction of a nuclear reactor, the deranged teenager manifested superhuman abilities similar to those of his father. After going on a rampage and killing 19 people (including his girlfriend Christie), Jonathan was confronted by Supergirl and Raven of the Teen Titans. The two used Raven's abilities to enter Jonathan's mind, where they learned that he had been driven insane by fractured visions of Triumph's removal from history and subsequent return, as well as the changes in history caused by Superboy-Prime's actions during Infinite Crisis. Raven was ultimately able to defeat Jonathan by conjuring an image of Triumph, who persuaded his son to stop his murderous actions. Jonathan then disappeared in a blinding flash of light, and exactly what became of him after this is unknown.

Triumph was briefly mentioned by Doctor Light during his battle with Kimiyo Hoshi in Blackest Night. He was mockingly used as an example of once-prominent heroes who were quickly forgotten after their deaths, a fate that Light claimed was in store for Kimiyo.

Trinity
In the 2009 52-issue weekly miniseries Trinity, Triumph was revealed as alive in the warped reality created by the forceful extraction of the Trinity formed by Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman. There, he was a member of Justice Society International and had camaraderie with fellow hero and Trinity stand-in the Tomorrow Woman. Both were informed by Hawkman that according to a scroll detailing the true timeline, they were supposed to be dead, but Triumph still fought to restore the timeline.

In the end, he took an attack meant for the Tomorrow Woman and saved her life at the cost of his own. He died in her arms, wondering if she could see the world that they were fighting for. She, in turn, promised to stay alive long enough to see it.

Powers and abilities
Though not fully elaborated, Triumph's powers were said to be control over the electromagnetic spectrum. This power gives Triumph what he calls "360 degree hyper senses" or what could be described as a form of electromagnetic psychometry, which allowed him to perceive and to interpret the entire electromagnetic spectrum. With this ability Triumph could "hear" TV and radio signals and decode satellite transmissions. Triumph also displayed advanced electromagnetic energy manipulation; Superman even remarked that Triumph could kill Superman himself by cutting off the solar energy from Superman's cells to the rest of his body.

Triumph can bend the electromagnetic energy around him for offensive purposes. For instance, he can store energy in his hands and send it through metallic wiring as a powerful electric current. He can project powerful electric blasts from his eyes capable of melting thick plastic or rubber objects, or even shredding through steel alloys like confetti.

Other uses of Triumph's electromagnetic powers include creating a force field around his body granting him invulnerability as long as he is actively thinking about creating one. He has the ability to change the density of matter using his electromagnetic powers, e.g., changing water into a solid ramp. He can absorb and channel energy directed at him, such as fire. Triumph can also use his electromagnetic powers to triple the g-force inside a magnetic field while pressurizing the field to several atmospheres creating a stasis field, essentially freezing everyone inside the field.

Triumph may also possess high-level physical strength, speed, and invulnerability—on at least one occasion he engaged in hand-to-hand combat with Superman and claimed: "I'm as strong as you, I'm as fast as you, I have powers you don't even have names for..."

Triumph only possesses superhuman powers when he has a connection to the electromagnetic spectrum; without that source he has no powers.

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Claudia Gonson

Claudia Miriam Gonson (born April 5, 1968) is an American musician best known for her work with The Magnetic Fields. She often provides the band lead vocals as well as performing the piano or drums. She is also the band's manager.

Gonson met Stephin Merritt in high school in the early 1980s, and the pair have worked together ever since.

While in high school at Concord Academy, Gonson performed in her first band, the Zinnias along with Merrit The band's material was co-written with John Gage. The band broke up when Gonson left to attend Columbia University. Gonson later returned to the Boston area to attend Harvard University, and joined the group Lazy Susan, which also included Therese Bellino and Shirley Simms.

She has since performed on many of Merritt's albums, including the critically acclaimed 1999 album 69 Love Songs, and frequently appears with him live as part of the usual quartet that constitutes The Magnetic Fields.

Gonson has been Merritt's longtime manager. She appears extensively in Strange Powers, the 2009 documentary by Kerthy Fix and Gail O'Hara about Merritt and The Magnetic Fields.

As well as her work with Merritt, Gonson also plays drums in the band Tender Trap. She has written and performed her own music with Shirley Simms, Michael Hearst, Tanya Donelly and Rick Moody. She has also played drums in Providence, Rhode Island-based band Honeybunch and performs as the lead vocalist in Merritt's Future Bible Heroes project. She sang on Neil Gaiman's song "Bloody Sunrise".

In an interview with The Advocate, Gonson remarked: "When we started Magnetic Fields we purposely had one lesbian, one gay guy, one straight woman, and one straight man. The audience could identify with whomever they wanted."

In that interview, Gonson noted that she feels that Merritt's songs are predominantly about "Loneliness, isolation, and the need to be recognized by another person." She believes that if homophobia were not so prevalent, these experiences "would be less rampant instead of being so associated with the gay personality." Gonson believes that many LGBT youth have listened to The Magnetic Fields for "words of wisdom".

In 2010, Gonson gave birth to her daughter Eve.

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Culmination
It can be seen [at night] in [all but polar] Northern Hemisphere places from December to April. It is given in Norton's Star Atlas (1973 edition) as having culmination at 9pm on February 28. This is close enough to March for the original entry to remain unmodified. --  B.d.mills  (Talk) 11:18, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Astrological significance
(This section is linked from Procyon in Astrology)

''Astrologically, Procyon portends wealth, fame, and good fortune. It is also one of fifteen Behenian stars, associated with agate and water crowfoot. According to Cornelius Agrippa, its kabbalistic symbol is .''

 * The star itself was once on the ecliptic of the zodiac in ancient times, just between of the constellations Gemini and Cancer, but I can't say for sure if the star and companion Beta Canis Minoris were forming a zodiac sign of its own. Sirius and Canopus form a singular up-down (north-south) line, but whenever the sun or moon crosses the northern edge of Canis Minor or close to Procyon, many astrologers consider the near-transit (about 3 to 5 degrees above Procyon) as a time of financial prosperity for the world. 71.102.3.122 (talk) 02:17, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

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 * check this later Casliber (talk · contribs) 21:56, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

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I removed a sentence ("Andromeda was one of the original 48 constellations formulated by Ptolemy in his 2nd-century Almagest, in which it was defined as a specific pattern of stars. However, Ptolemy only identified two stars and hence no depiction was possible. ") from the article as I was not sure if it was a simple mistaken name or if the sentence was truly meant to refer to Andromeda. Can someone check the original source and see if this is meant to be about Canis Minor or Andromeda? --Khajidha (talk) 17:54, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

 * Was a lazy cut and paste - forgot to change names. Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:06, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Text copied across to Canis-Minorids
Leaving notification here that with this edit I copied across the referenced paragraph that is present here on the Canis-Minorids to the main article (which was a one-line stub). Still a stub, but a bit better now. I believe the edit summary I used there is sufficient to ensure backwards attribution of the authorship of that text, but if those here who wrote that text want to go over to that article and edit it and note their contribution there and maybe even help expand that article, that would be great. Many thanks for doing such great work on this constellation article. Carcharoth (talk) 23:41, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

NGC 2359
The article lead cites NGC 2359 as a Canis Minor object, however the page NGC 2359 positions it in Canis Major, and so do this and this source. Can it be clarified? -- Cycl o pia talk  15:50, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Damn - meant to take that out of the lead as we'd figured that out a while ago. Removed now/well spotted. Casliber (talk · contribs) 19:55, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

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A Florida Enchantment

A Florida Enchantment (1914) is a silent film directed by Sidney Drew and released by the Vitagraph studio. The feature-length comedy/fantasy was shot in and around St. Augustine, Florida, where its story is set. It is notable for its cross-dressing lead characters, much later discussed as bisexual, lesbian, gay, and transgender.

Plot
In the film, Lillian Travers, a wealthy Northern woman about to be married, visits her aunt in Florida. While there, she stops in a curiosity shop and buys a small casket which contains a note and a vial of seeds. At her aunt's house she reads the note which explains that the seeds change men into women and vice versa. Angry with her fiancé, Fred, Lillian decides to test the effects of the seeds. The next morning, Lillian discovers that she has transformed into a man. Lillian's transformation into Lawrence Talbot has also sometimes been read as a transformation into a butch lesbian. This reading is bolstered by the later transformation of Lillian's fiancé into what could be an effeminate gay man. However, as Lillian and her fiancé are shown attracted both to each other and to the same sex (albeit at different times), the film has also been considered to have the first documented appearance of bisexual characters in an American motion picture.

Cast

 * Edith Storey - Lillian Travers/Lawrence Talbot
 * Sidney Drew - Dr. Frederick Cassadene
 * Ethel Lloyd - Jane
 * Grace Stevens - Constancia Oglethorpe
 * Charles Kent - Major Horton
 * Jane Morrow (screen name for Lucille McVey, aka Mrs. Sidney Drew) - Bessie Horton
 * Ada Gifford - Stella Lovejoy
 * Lillian Burns - Malvina
 * Allan Campbell - Stockton Remington
 * Cortland van Deusen - Charley Wilkes
 * Frank O'Neil - Gustavus Duncan

Production background
The film is based on the 1891 novel and 1896 play (now lost) of the same name written by Fergus Redmond and Archibald Clavering Gunter. The film, produced by Vitagraph Films, was shot in 1914 on location in three Florida locations: Jacksonville,. St. Augustine, and St. Petersburg.

The film includes white actors in blackface, an aspect carefully dissected in Siobhan B. Somerville's book Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture. Since its inclusion in Vito Russo's 1981 book The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies and its 1995 documentary film adaptation, A Florida Enchantment has been seen as one of the earliest screen representations of homosexuality and cross-dressing in American culture. Alison McMahan, a screenwriter and filmmaker, argued that the film was approached the approach to cross-dressing, "transbodiment, and role reversal" in Solax Studios films.

Reception and analysis
At the time of its release, Variety stated that the film should have "never been put out", and the New York Clipper criticized the film and said the female and male impersonations at the story's center were "a most disagreeable theme". When the stage version of the original novel was on Broadway, in 1896, the New York Times described it as "vile stuff" and "nauseating". Variety was also critical of the stage version for similar reasons.

In a masters thesis for University of Florida, Joel Christian Adams analyzed the film, arguing it is transformed from the original novel, noting the connection to consumer capitalism at the time, argued it has become an "ur-text within the emergent history of lesbian and gay visibility", and said the transformations of the film's characters come within a "seemingly fixed system of gender and racial assignment." Scholar Janet Staiger said the film is an "extensive treatment" of cross-dressing and gender-switching, arguing it is interesting because it does not only make cross-dressing a performance, but it creates a narrative around gender transformation and creates "narrative tension". Film historian David Kalat added that the film might be the first "feature comedy", criticized the film's racial stereotypes, but noted it is about the "slipperiness of identity".

Historian Julio Capó Jr. also argued that the film introduced viewers to "gender and sexual transgression" which were possible in the cities and resort towns of Florida, including dances reminiscent of those in Chicago and New York City, and stated that "cultural understandings of race" influenced the message communicated by the film. He also distinguished between the vaudeville show of the same name, premiering three years earlier, and the film. Susan Potter, a films studies scholar, stated the film has an affinity for a "novel stylistic transformation" in which a character engages in action to "guarantee legibility", along with creation of new personification and sexual legibility. Others were more critical. Maggie Hennneield, a scholar of early cinema, argued that the film was "bread-and-butter" for the film industry, which she said "often exploited nonnormative bodies" to resolve tensions between commercial appeals of film and its "aspirational artistic ambitions". She also stated the film missed the mark of "codified deviance or sexual subversion" present in previous adaptations of the original novel.

In popular culture
The film is a central element of the 2020 novel Antkind by Charlie Kaufman.

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No seeds?
I just bought some clementines, about 20 of them, and about 2 had a seed in them. The seed was about 1cm in length.

I agree - clementines do have seeds. Otherwise I wonder how they reproduce.

 * So they do? I thought the very definition of a fruit is they have seeds. I am going to update the article to say "very few"

 * Plants can be grown asexually from cuttings, graftings, cell cultures, etc. With most modern fruit bearing plants they have been hybridized with other closely related species with a different chromosome number to give the resultant plant an odd pairing of chromosomes, rendering it sterile. There can be some things that can happen to reverse the sterility, but thats outside the scope of this question. As noted in the article sometimes additional crossbreeding can reintroduce traits that were bred out. The typical clementine is seedless, though seeded versions can exist. also the structure is analogous to a fruit, and it just happens to be sterile and without seeds. Would you call a chicken egg something else because there is no embryo inside of it? -ZTS

 * Not only can plants be grown asexually, essentially all fruit trees are essentially always grown asexually by grafting. Different "varieties" of fruit, are really just different members of the same species, which have been cloned. - David Roundy —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.21.152.53 (talk) 14:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC).

I think it qualifies as seedless, in the general usage of the term, much as seedless watermelons do have seeds, but they are small and edible. Since the average clementine doesn't have seeds, I think that the statement that they have very few seeds is a bit misleading.
 * agreed, the fruit is typically seedless. -ZTS

No proof
From my research, there is no proof that the French monk developed the clementine. He may have simply found it and spread it to Europe. There are claims that it originated in China. Perhaps the wording of this article should be changed.

Mothperson 20:31, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * As far as I can tell, a Clementine is the same thing as a Mikan. And Mikans came from japan. Fresheneesz 20:40, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

 * This page says that a mikan is a mandarin (Citrus reticulata). The clementine is listed on that page as a cultivar. Given that "clementines are becoming the most important commercial mandarin variety" (see Mandarin orange, which also says that some mandarin varieties are crosses with other citrus), I suspect that the use of mikan for clementine is essentially a substitution of the general for the more specific. Therefore, it is not this page (clementine) that mikan should be merged with, but rather the mandarin orange page. See also, which is a lot less fuzzy than Wikipedia's mandarin, clementine, and mikan articles. -- Justinbb 03:36, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Popularity
Anyone have a sourse on the popularity of Clementines? I knew that they only renctly became widely available in the U. S., but as near as I can tell they're very popular, in which case mention of that should probably be made. But I don't have any sourse besides my own observations. Snowboardpunk
 * I live in Kentucky, and I can tell you, people are nuts for these things, due to their sweet taste and easy peeling. Something in the article should be written about this fact and properly cited. Veracious Rey    t  •  c  •  r   03:23, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree, However there is nothing examplifying the James Saunt story. Does anyone has a referrence?
 * My bad, did not made till the end of the page on the first read... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.67.65.34 (talk) 22:15, 8 February 2007 (UTC).

Nectar
To me, it seems the word nectar and juice is mixed up here. I think the word juice is more appropriate as nectar is produced by flowers to attract insects. I presume this is not the case here. But English is not my mother tongue, so I don’t feel I’m the one who should correct this. no it doesnt mater they should use correct words t make the whole sentance sound inteligent ±clementyn 19:12,03 oct 2006 . The word nectar, like many words in the English language, has more than one meaning or connotation. In addition to "the sweetish liquid in many flowers", it also means "any very delicious beverage" (Webster's New World College Dictionary). In some instances, a popular use of nectar distinguishes beverages that are made up from a puree, such as apricot nectar or peach nectar (although tomato juice is more of a puree). The english language is not consistent, but hopefully this will help you through some of the variations that make it such a living and rich language.--SourceIt (talk) 22:32, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Ridiculous amount of links
I fixed the page so that it doesn't contains links to .. like.. seeds and stuff. Links are supposed to help someone understand the articles topic better. Please do NOT link to anything and everything that may or may not have an article. Fresheneesz 20:52, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Difference between Satsuma and Clementine
Does anyone know if there's a real difference between a clementine and a satsuma?

 * Mandarin orange specifies a satsuma as the species Citrus reticulata, the same as specified on this page for the clementine. The same article also notes that madarin oranges do not have seeds because they are parthenocopic.

 * I don't have a good source on this, but I think Satsuma's and Clementine's are different cultivars that were produced by the same type of hybridization (Mandarin X Orange). I have lived on the both the east coast and the west coast of the United States. Stores tend to sell Satsuma's on the west coast and Clementines on the east. I have eaten both. I have noticed subtle but distinct differences: Satsuma's have slightly thicker skin and are easier to peel than the already easy Clementines (I can usually take all the skin off in one peel in a few seconds), Satsuma's also seem to be a bit sweeter.--Metatree 20:26, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Here in the UK the Satsumas are displayed next to the Clementines (this article is a bit wrong). They are definitely similar, but quite different.

 * This also says that the Southern US uses the term Satsuma. I've grown up in the South, started eating Clementines around 1990 and have never in my life (until I read this article) heard of a Satsuma.

 * Yes, clementine and satsuma are two rather different types of mandarin. See references such as the Hodgson article I added to the external links of the Clementine article, or the other references I suggested elsewhere on this talk page. -- Justinbb 06:12, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Segments
Similar to another observation, while reading this article and eating a clementine I realized that mine had 13 segments, rather than the 8-12 mentioned in this article. Is this just some crazy mutation, or is this common? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ShortLifeLived (talk • contribs) 05:51, 28 December 2006 (UTC).

 * I have just eaten a clementine with 15 segments. Maybe the sentence should be alterted to reflect the fact that this is an estimated number of segments. Also, this could need a source. HKH28 (talk) 11:59, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Agreed about the source question. IMO it always needed one, but my brief survey found nothing. On the other hand, there is always WP:BLUE. --Lexein (talk) 14:40, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Availability and Growth Origins
I have only recently become acquainted with Clementines. Are the available year round? I've been told that they are only available around the holiday season. I'm also curious about the differences that may be recognized between California grown versus Spain grown product. From my own personal experience, the Spain grown product had a much more pleasing taste than the California grown.

Pomerans vs. Bitter Orange
I could find no references to the term "pomerans" in English, although I found some references to that word in other languages. This page indicates that "pomerans" or similar term in Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, and Russian, would translate into "biter orange" or "Seville orange" in English.

Abuse
Why are people chumming this article? That's twice I've reverted here, and other editors have had to as well. Grr. Lexein 10:48, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Edit info
I deleted the statement "Clementines are awesome" from the article. While I completely agree, such opinion doesn't belong in an encyclopedic article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.108.42.118 (talk) 23:10, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

"Medium" or "small"?
The article says they are "medium-sized" citrus but I would say they are "small." Clementines are often smaller than a lemon. A pomelo is "very large," a grapefruit is "large," a navel orange, tangerine, or tangelo is "medium," a clementine, lemon, or lime is "small," and a Key lime is "very small." Badagnani (talk) 07:43, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

 * I completely agree with you on this, however there must be an official and widely used way to rank the size of citrus fruit. -- carol 16:00, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Leading quotation
As per WP:LEAD and WP:MOS, the lead section, that is, "the section before the first heading", should "be capable of standing alone as a concise overview of the article, establishing context, summarizing the most important points, explaining why the subject is interesting or notable, and briefly describing its notable controversies, if there are any". As it stands, this article's lead isn't capable of doing so, as its lead section has been replaced by a quotation. I attempted to remedy the situation, by transforming the first headed section into a stand-alone lead, but was reverted by Carol Spears, with a recommendation to move the discussion to this forum. In my opinion, this is not something that needs to be discussed; this is the MOS, and just good common sense otherwise. We should attempt to describe our topic, and a context-free advertisement for the wonders of clementines preceding any definition or description of clementines is simply not the best way to do so. The quotation would be much more useful to the reader if it were further down in the article, and integrated into some form of relevant discussion elsewhwere. (This article, ironically, lacks any discussion of the nutritional content of the clementine aside from the topmost quotation. A new section, integrating the quotation, would better serve the reader, I'd imagine.) Also, see WP:MOSQUOTE re:call-outs—simply put, blockquotes are favored above them. Thank you for your time! Happy holidays! Geuiwogbil (Talk) 00:15, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

 * All good points. Here is my take on this issue.  I had an article that I wrote nomintated and accepted as a Did You Know article that has all of the bad and wrong qualities that you outlined here.  There seems to be no end to linkable documentation here about what is acceptable and good and what isn't.  Wikipedia isn't the only example of this, however, and long before this I discovered two things about most people that I encountered.  The best devise for teaching is example and the other thing is that occasionally, something new and interesting happens when a good mind is not cluttered with a lot of dogmatic policy.  It should be interesting to read other views and see even more wikilinks to policy and such about this matter here.  Thanks for looking at this and thinking about it by the way.  And about the holidays, do you know if there is an article about how stupid it is to have the end of the year when it has been scheduled? -- carol 11:07, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

 * No, I am not familiar. It does seem quite cold though, doesn't it? I suppose it had to do with the end of harvesting season and the need to rush indoors to preserve the warmth. It has quite a deathly finality about it; the loss of leaves on surface flora, the freezing-over of still bodies of water, the hibernation periods of certain mammals, etc. I'm not really familiar with what sort of thought or tradition went into it, agricultural, ecological or otherwise. Apparently, it's a Roman thing that came along with more general calendar reforms in the Early Modern era. Before then, dates in early Spring were used.

 * The new year always seemed to me to occur in April where I lived, no matter what everyone else and the calendar said. I can see how it would be one of the first days after the task of dividing the harvest had been accomplished.  In these newer centuries, it just seems like dangerous weather to be out drinking in and for people who live where it snows, not that fun to dress up to go out in. -- carol 01:13, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Very much so; holidays in any other season would be more appropriate. It just gets to be one of those things though: it's been here too long, we can't change it. We just have to stick with it. Unfortunately. Geuiwogbil (Talk) 03:01, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

 * As regards the quotation, I think that, whatever WikiPolicy recommends, a good definition and description of the clementine would be more helpful to the reader than a quotation. The quotation is quite appealing aesthetically, but it's just not as useful as a traditional leading paragraph could be. It sort of assumes that the reader knows something of clementines before they drop in—and I wasn't entirely sure of what distinguished them from mandarins, oranges, and other citrus fruits before I dropped in either. It's a surprise, so whether you think surprise is generally a good thing or a bad thing would have some influence here. I'd be interested to think what the wider community thinks as well. It was nice speaking to you, carol. I'll drop out now. Good luck with the article! Geuiwogbil (Talk) 21:55, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

 * If I removed the quotations, it would be a cited sentence in the text. It is all that a person actually needs to know about the fruit.  Almost everything else on that page is trivia. The quotes there to me mean that I do not have to verify those statements that the quoted person made.  Are you S.N.Smith, btw? Cquote He Doeth Protest To Much /Cquote -- W.Shakespeare

 * My calculus book (I think) had quotes from one of the Alice in Wonderlands as an introduction to every new chapter. I learned a lot from whatever book that was and not about Alice and her looking glass whose books I never read.  If I claimed it added texture to the piece would that be too punny? -- carol 01:08, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Heh. No, I like the quotation, I just don't think it should start the article. Somewhere below the very first sentence. I should like to know what a clementine is before I go out and begin purchasing them. Some articles have some adequate quote-boxes (e.g. Demosthenes) on the side of the main body text which would serve the quotation well, IMO. I am not a S.N. Smith, no. (That would be an awful bit of Googling myself, wouldn't it? In any case, it looks like there are a number of SN Smiths to choose from.) Thank you for the discussion! Geuiwogbil (Talk) 03:01, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

I have moved the quotation down. I like it, but we need to give readers a lead which clearly describes the fruit in question. This is a reference work that quickly tells readers what they're reading about. FCYTravis (talk) 20:59, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

 * I am going to move the quote back. The reason for this is that there was a discussion and an agreement was arrived at and I like that. -- Carol 09:06, 31 December 2007 (UTC)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by CarolSpears (talk • contribs)
 * Carol, I'm sorry, but the Manual of Style is clear on this - we have to give readers a clear, encyclopedic opening. I don't see any "agreement" here. The quotation is great, but it cannot lead off the article. FCYTravis (talk) 19:38, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

 * I just moved the quote back. When you have the time to rewrite the article (it is structured to have the quote where I put it and if you look at where you put it, it was really out of place) I will not interfer with you.  Is there a manual of style for wikipedians in which there is the suggestion that it takes more than an opinion -- that perhaps a little effort needs to be included?  I have a very difficult time making an opinion about the work of others.  After putting some effort into quite a few things, the appreciation of the effort tends to naturally grow.  So, when you rewrite the article to fit whichever of style guides you adhere to here, I will not undo what you have done.  Thank you for the few seconds you took from your life to move one chunk of text in this article. -- Carol 20:27, 31 December 2007 (UTC)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by CarolSpears (talk • contribs)

 * I've created a new "nutrition" section (maybe not the best title, but that can be fixed) to hold the quote. It's a good quote about their nutritional value. FCYTravis (talk) 20:24, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

 * You should wait until you have the time to do this correctly. All of the documentation about how to document seems to allow messing things up and not allow to do a good job of it -- at least from what I can see.  Please consider doing a nice and complete edit. Carol 20:31, 31 December 2007 (UTC)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by CarolSpears (talk • contribs)

 * I am going to check back in a few minutes. If you do not have the time to put more effort into this, I am going to put things back the way I had them.  The changes that you made look really not impressive and I do not think that the style guide intended for the articles to seem not impressive in order to fit into the suggestions made by the style guide. -- Carol 20:59, 31 December 2007 (UTC)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by CarolSpears (talk • contribs)

 * Carol, respectfully, I would urge you not to continue edit warring here or elsewhere over your quotes until you discuss it fully first. Reverting once more on this page today will constitute a violation of the three revert rule and you may be blocked for disruptive edits. You have been given this information before so I expect that you understand the three revert rule. --Rkitko (talk) 21:06, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Copyvios
Example:

I've reverted back to the last (hopefully) copyvio-free version. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 20:58, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Going up in directories on the Citrus Industry page leads to no copyrights on the on-line book/pamphlet. However, it is contained in a directory Copyright 1999 University of California.  --Blechnic (talk) 21:26, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * It's hard to be certain: As I understand it, material created for or by the U.S. government is out of copyright, but this does not mean that all material on a governmental server was created for the government, making it at best uncertain. =/ In any case, exact quoting from that source is very extensive in CarolSpears' version, removing all of it would remove most of the article content. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 11:59, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

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Images
Here are two images I removed from the article that can be added back later when the article is expanded. Rkitko (talk) 11:58, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Hybrid?
i have heard rumors and i believe that a Clementine is a hybrid between Tangarines and Oranges, is this true?
 * The article says it's "a hybrid between a Mediterranean Citrus ×deliciosa and a sweet orange", citing two sources. However Mandarin orange says the clementine is "a hybrid between a mandarin orange and a sweet orange", citing a different source. Citrus ×deliciosa is said in its article to be mandarin × pumelo, once thought to be pure mandarin; that latter fact may account for the discrepancy. In any case the contradictory information needs to be reconciled. As for tangerines, they may or may not be genetically the same as mandarins. 24.59.86.60 (talk) 21:55, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Naming in Germany
I learned of Clementines while stationed in Germany in the late 1980's. The Germans markets, at least, clearly referred to them as Clementine. I even purchased a book there to help me learn the names of the different foods; it has a very good section on citrus fruits where Clementine is clearly explained and distinquished. (Gut eingekauft: Ein Wegweiser durch die Welt der Lebensmittel.) The book has gone through two revisions since I purchased it and is still available.--SourceIt (talk) 22:42, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Navbox
In theory, a navbox for citrus would be nice. Discussion will help. Shall User:Theospence explain the design reasoning, and User:Rkitko explain the revert? --Lexein (talk) 00:46, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

 * No need for a long discussion. Simple case of User:Theospence either copy & pasting the code from Citrus or substituting the template. We don't include the full template code here in the article, so I reverted. Further, this article was not mentioned in the navbox, and navboxes don't belong on articles that are not linked to. Having said that, I think this article could be included in Citrus. I'll go ahead and do that now. However, my general hatred of navboxes (they have the annoying habit of gathering enormous amounts of links, rendering them relatively useless, while cluttering the bottom of the article) prevents me from inserting it into this article. Someone else can do that. Rkitko (talk) 01:09, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the concise summary. I likely would not include that particular one either - it seems out of scale for this article, compared to some relatively tidy navs elsewhere. --Lexein (talk) 02:45, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Second paragraph in the article introduction
"Most sources say that the clementine came to exist because of accidental hybridization, with the first fruits discovered by Father Clément Rodier in the garden of his orphanage in Misserghin, Algeria. However, there are claims it originated in China much earlier; one source describes it as nearly identical to the Canton mandarin widely grown in the Guangxi and Guangdong provinces in China." This seems a bit like editorializing, and is certainly not what I'm used to seeing on Wikipedia. It seems far too biased in my opinion towards the claim in the first sentence, and the wording almost seems to slam the person whose book is cited after the second sentence. It does show the proper uncertainty for the second sentence, but it seems to show skepticism to the point it seems to want to make the reader not want to believe it for an ounce of its worth. This wording seems like something I would expect a group like CNN or BBC to put in terms of trying to give background on a major current conflict, and even then, they (in this case, BBC) have been noticeably less biased than this. impinball (talk) 18:22, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Feel free to propose a better version here. It will be less likely to provoke an edit war here than in the article. --Lexein (talk) 19:57, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

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Production stats
I am not entirely comfortable with this section. Most global mandarin production is not clementine, and so in prominently presenting figures for all mandarins (even with the caveat that it also includes mandarins and others, as if they were a minor component) grossly inflates the importance of clementines, while also skewing the rank order of production. I suspect that were this limited to clementines the production numbers for China would drop precipitously, while those for Spain and Morocco would be less affected. Agricolae (talk) 18:24, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * It all boils down to reliable secondary sources. If there's a better one, let's use it. It's a fine line to segregate clementines from mandarins for production data, which is why the FAO combines them. --Zefr (talk) 18:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah, but if the numbers aren't for clementines, it is inherently misleading, so I am not a fan of leaving it alone unless/until we find better stats. Just as the coverage in US sources might give the false impression that the US is a major producer, the use of broader mandarin figures gives the false impression that China produces more clementines than the rest of the world combined - knowingly highlighting misleading numbers not only with text but a big table, just because we can't find good ones, is not the best solution. At a minimum it should be rephrased, toned down and putting the emphasis firmly on these being mandarin numbers only a small part of which for some countries represent clementines.  Agricolae (talk) 18:49, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Please offer an edit draft here for discussion. --Zefr (talk) 20:21, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * As you probably noticed, I took a first step of making grouping more prominent and explicit, rather than being an aside or footnote. It is still a little misleading though (again, I highly doubt China is the major producer of Clementines, their number likely representing mostly mandarins, satsumas, and hybrids).  That being said, I looked and couldn't find any data that weren't either too old or for just one nation.  Agricolae (talk) 02:22, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Merge Clementine del Golfo di Taranto
I propose that Clementine del Golfo di Taranto be merged into Clementine. The former seems largely to be a duplication of the latter. Gjs238 (talk) 14:26, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Support - I don't see there being enough unique to say about this particular variety to justify an independent article (that wouldn't be largely duplication). Better a section (or less) here. Agricolae (talk) 14:35, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Support - I don't see why not; the latter is more or less identical to the former. If I were able to move pages, I would do so right away myself without question.Bored history geek (talk) 21:44, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * One would simply need to copy the text from the Golfo de Taranto page and replace it with a Redirect, then put some part of it on the Clementine page. None of this requires a page move.  The only trick is there are some specific rules one must follow regarding the process of the copy and paste, specific edit summaries and talk page markers to indicate what has been done - see: Merging.  Go for it. Agricolae (talk) 22:52, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Done. Agricolae (talk) 01:19, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

What is 'Citrus × clementina'?
The links for the below information are absent at this article. What is "Citrus" at "Citrus × clementina"? What is "clementina" at "Citrus × clementina"? Voproshatel (talk) 11:23, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

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Blitzen (computer)

The Blitzen was a miniaturized SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) computer system designed for NASA in the late 1980s by a team of researchers at Duke University, North Carolina State University and the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina. The Blitzen was composed of a control unit and a set of simple processors connected in a grid topology. The machine influenced, to some extent, the design of the MasPar MP-1 computer.

Applications of the Blitzen machine include high-speed image processing, where each processor operates on a pixel of the input image and communicates with its grid neighbours to apply image processing filters on the image.

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Betty Oyella Bigombe

Betty Oyella Bigombe, also known as Betty Atuku Bigombe (born 21 October 1952), is a Ugandan politician who served as the Senior Director for Fragility, Conflict, and Violence at the World Bank from 2014 to 2017. She was appointed in June 2014. From May 2011 until June 2014, she was the State Minister for Water Resources in the Uganda Cabinet. She was appointed on 27 May 2011. She concurrently served as the elected Member of Parliament (MP), representing Amuru District Women's Constituency. She resigned from the two appointments on 1 June 2014.

Background and education
Betty Bigombe was born in Amuru District on 21 October 1952, formally known as Acholi District. She is one of eleven children by her father, who was a nurse. She is an ethnic Acholi. Bigombe attended Gayaza High School for her O-Level studies, graduating in 1968 and Trinity College Nabbingo for her A-Level education, graduating in 1970. She entered Makerere University, Uganda's oldest public university, graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Social Science, in 1974. Later she attended Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States. She graduated with the degree of Master of Public Administration. Her studies at Harvard were sponsored by a Fellowship from the Harvard Institute for International Development.

Career
From 1981 until 1984, she worked as the Company Secretary of the Uganda Mining Corporation, a government parastatal company. From 1986 until 1996, she served in the Ugandan Parliament as a Member of Parliament. In 1988, she was appointed State Minister for Northern Uganda, which required her to take up residence in Gulu, the largest city in the Uganda's Northern Region. She was tasked with convincing the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) guerilla rebels to lay down their arms, following the failure of military efforts to defeat the rebels. Bigombe initiated contact with the LRA leader Joseph Kony in June 1993. In 1993, she was named Uganda's Woman of the Year for her efforts to end the violence. Despite meeting with Kony, the talks collapsed in February 1994. Soon afterward, the insurgency intensified and no significant efforts towards peace would be made for the next decade.

Following a ten-year stint in the Uganda Parliament from 1986 until 1996, she failed to win the parliamentary seat for Gulu Municipality in 1996 and left government service. In 2011, fifteen years later, she bounced back by winning the parliamentary seat of Amuru District Women's Constituency, on the National Resistance Movement party ticket.

In 1997, following her graduation from Harvard, she took up employment with the World Bank in Washington, DC, as a Senior Social Scientist with the Post-Conflict Unit. Later, she served as a Consultant to the Bank's Social Protection and Human Development Unit. In 1999 and 2000, Bigombe provided technical support to the Carter Center in a successful mediation effort between the governments of Uganda and Sudan.

Following the February 2004 Barlonyo massacre, Bigombe took a leave of absence from the World Bank and flew to Uganda to attempt to restart the peace process. From March 2004 to 2005, Bigombe was the chief mediator in a new peace initiative with the Lord's Resistance Army, personally financing much of the logistics of bringing Ugandan government ministers and rebel leaders together. The last meeting on 20 April 2005, fell through. However, the failure of the Bigombe mediation is seen as laying the groundwork for the 2006–2007 Juba talks, which were mediated by the government of South Sudan. Those talks collapsed at the last minute when Joseph Kony refused to sign the peace agreement.

In 2006, she returned to the United States and served as a Senior Fellow at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. Later, she was appointed a Distinguished African Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, also in Washington, D.C. In 2007, she received the Peacemakers in Action Award from the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding.

She was appointed the chairman of the National Information and Technology Authority in Uganda (NITAU) in 2009. In May 2011, she was appointed by President Yoweri Museveni as State Minister for Water Resources, a position that she held until June 2014, when she resigned to take up her assignment at the World Bank. On 29th January 2024, during Makerere University's 74th Graduation Ceremony, she was awarded a Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree, Honoris Causa of Makerere University.

Other considerations
Betty Bigombe was at one time married to then Uganda's ambassador to Japan. She is the mother of two children; Pauline and Emmanuel. In addition to Acholi and English, she speaks Swahili and Japanese.

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Talk:Angry young men

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Shouldn't Joe Orton be included in AYM list? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.15.150.140 (talk) 21:57, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

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The article says some of the AYM were left wing and some were right wing. Which were right wing?

 * Amis, Larkin, Osborne all ended up as conservatives, wherever they started. Charles Matthews 15:05, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Specifically, it says some of the University Wits were right and some left. It's true of each of the three groups, but since the views of many of these guys changed over time, it's difficult to clarify.

Urgent question
Regarding this section,

"Some commentators, following publisher Tom Maschler, who edited a collection of political-literary essays by the "Angries" (Declaration, 1957), divided them into three groups:

1.The New University Wits (a term applied by William Van O'Connor in his 1963 study The New University Wits and the End of Modernism), Oxbridge malcontents who explored the contrast between their upper-class university privilege and their middle-class upbringings. They included Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, and John Wain, all of whom were also part of the poetic circle known as The Movement.

2.Writers mostly of lower-class origin concerned with their political and economic aspirations. Some of these were left-wing and some were right-wing. They included John Osborne (whose play Look Back in Anger is a basic "Angries" text), Harold Pinter, John Braine, and Alan Sillitoe. William Cooper, the early model AYM, though Cambridge-educated was a "provincial" writer in his frankness and material and is included in this group.

3.A small group of young existentialist philosophers led by Colin Wilson and also including Stuart Holroyd and Bill Hopkins."

Which commentators and where was this idea of 3 groups found? I haven't seen another place to find this that doesn't quote wikipedia.rtaycher1987 23:33, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure Wilson himself rejected the term and didn't feel he had much in common with the Angries such as Osborne, Sillitoe etc. Meltingpot (talk) 19:56, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Should be capitalized
Since the label is capitalized, the title to the article should be capitalized as well. ImpIn | (t - c) 03:04, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

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William Bendeck

William Bendeck (January 5, 1934 – November 14, 1971) was a Bolivian rally driver who won six national titles over the course of his career. He died on November 14, 1971, in a crash during a race.

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Liouville's Theorem (Hamiltonian)
Can we have a discussion on your recent mods to this - whilst I'm sure many are useful, they seem to put the cart before the horse (if I were a 3rd year physicist I don't think I'd follow your early description) and in one or two places seem to me to muddle things (eg in _my_ world the convective derivative is NOT a definition it's a deduction ; and again your statement on Hamiltonian and non-Hamiltonian systems is rather unclear).

Phase space is in any case discussed elsewhere. Avogadro's number is an irrelevance - stat mechanics applies to much larger and smaller system's than the 1 gram-mol scale!

The equation you call Liouville's appears to me be 'just' a conservation of D equation found by integrating over a control volume (ie the RHS is div (D 'v') where 'v' is a p,q 'velocity') - it's NOT the one physicists and theoretical chemists look to to eg justify the weighting on the Boltzmann distro. It is indeed used later on as the (nearly self-evident :-)) starting point for the 'fluids' proof.

(Is there a subtle distinction between LE (which already has an article) and LT which we should strive to maintain?)

Can we avoid the use of the term symplectic system until later - it may well be idea du jour to mathematicians and advanced physicists - but Wiki still lacks an adequate succinct expostulation accessible to a graduate-physicist (of my generation.) At present all symplectic space refs spin off into ideas like 1-forms, tangent bundles etc., which may be simple but not if not explained.

The dynamics of non-hamiltonian systems and non-conservation of heat are of course important, but most physicists sidestep them, being interested in micro-systems, or treating the system as embedded in a larger system obeying conservation.

It may be that this dual approach combining the 'physics' and symplectic systems ways is doomed not to work, like the tensors fiasco, but we can at least try.

Can we talk? Your place or mine, or in the appropriate talk page? Linuxlad 15:14, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:NCAA Division I FCS independent schools

Deleting St. Mary's, they dropped football in 2004. 1 Danthemankhan 02:26, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

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Get ready to delete the two schools currently on this article...
The MEAC has dropped their membership moratorium effective immediately as of February 23, 2009... Both the schools on this article have submitted their applications into the conference and the MEAC has even listed that they have on their site... (And they've even said they are reviewing the two universities' applications...)

I posted about this on the independent basketball schools discussion page... Though now that the University of South Alabama is starting a varsity football program, shouldn't they be added onto this article? They're already listed on the list of FCS football programs article and are listed as "Independent"...

Honestly, I didn't know their first two years will be in the FCS subdivision, though on their athletic wikipedia article, it says that they'll be playing a full Sun Belt conference and will actually be part of the conference itself, which is why I find it confusing that they'll be FCS independent for their first two years then jump straight into the SBC in their first year of FBS play...

Esperman (talk) 04:29, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

The Map Is Wrong
The Map showing the highlighted states has Alabama highlighted instead of Georgia. I am unaware of how to fix this.
 * Georgia should also be listed... I updated the map and the page for the 2011 season. Bullshark44 (talk) 23:43, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Discussion about overview maps for US collegiate athletic conferences
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This article is a completely irrelavent stub that has no formatting, editing, or purpose. It needs deletion because this isn't even a real term as far as most people are concerned. Ikefox 02:27, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

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Uncommon Knowledge

Uncommon Knowledge is a current affairs show hosted by Peter Robinson and produced by the Hoover Institution, where Peter Robinson is a fellow. It currently is funded by several foundations and organizations. Uploads of the program regularly appear online on websites such as National Review Online and YouTube.

Uncommon Knowledge was originally a weekly 30-minute TV show co-produced and presented by San Jose, California, PBS member station KTEH from 1996 to 2005. It was distributed first by American Public Television and later by PBS to public television stations throughout the United States and internationally by NPR Worldwide.

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In 2006 and 2007, the Hoover Institution produced a sporadic series of for-web interviews involving Peter Robinson called Directors' Forum Video. In July 2007, these Directors' Forum Video webcasts were rebranded under the old Uncommon Knowledge moniker, starting with the newly produced episode "Land of Lincoln".

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In its rebirth transition from 2007-2008, and then in its reinstatement in 2008, it adopted the style of a more classic interview program, with up to three guests, but not ones designed to disagree or debate. Rather, Robinson finds like-minded or intellectually connected guests to create a more basic interview style, employing the same tactics as before to elicit the whole of a singular perspective, with guests who disagree, but not in the radically opposing sides format the program had previously favored. Primarily, however, departing from the pre-2008 style, Robinson mostly invites single guests to do one-on-one interviews and discuss the opinions and ideas of the individual guest.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PyTalker

 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. Joyous 21:24, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)

PyTalker
Non-notable. 0 Google hits. Eric119 02:32, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, ad, link platform, could be speedied. Wyss 11:30, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - drivel --Brookie 12:28, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Don't Delete - the talker base was created on the 12th February, so it's easy to understand why doesn't Google still lists it. (comment by anon [User:193.136.236.65])
 * Even if it had some Google hits, it wouldn't be notable - having 0 Google hits is an extreme case of that. The point is that this is a piece of software that very few people have heard of, so it is extremely unlikely that someone is going to be looking for an encyclopedia article about it.
 * Basically, Wikipedia is not a place for you to promote your own software. There are other sites for that - a much more appropriate place, for example, is the Python Packages Index.
 * You are, of course, welcome to contribute things to Wikipedia. A good way to contribute is to find a topic that you know about, that other people would want to learn more about, and that isn't covered fully enough, and write or expand an article about it. When I joined Wikipedia, for example, I didn't write an article about the Python parser for parsing expression grammars that I was coding at the time, but I did write an article on parsing expression grammars. RSpeer 17:47, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)

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Nagoya Institute of Technology

The Nagoya Institute of Technology (名古屋工業大学), abbreviated to Nitech (or in Japanese to 名工大, Meikōdai), is a public educational institution of science and technology located in Nagoya, Japan. Nitech was founded in 1905 as Nagoya Higher Technical School, then renamed Nagoya College of Technology in 1944, and then merged under the new educational system with the Aichi Prefectural College of Technology to be refounded as Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1949. In 2004 it was refounded as National University Corporation Nagoya Institute of Technology.

Faculty of Engineering

 * Life Science and Applied Chemistry
 * Physical Science and Engineering
 * Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
 * Computer Science
 * Architecture, Civil Engineering and Industrial Management Engineering
 * Creative Engineering Program

Graduate School of Engineering

 * Life Science and Applied Chemistry
 * Physical Science and Engineering
 * Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
 * Computer Science
 * Architecture, Civil Engineering and Industrial Management Engineering
 * Nanopharmaceutical Sciences
 * Nagoya Institute of Technology and University of Wollongong Joint Degree Doctoral Program in Informatics

Educational Research Centers

 * Center for Research on Assistive Technology for Building New Communities
 * OptoBioTechnology Research Center
 * Advanced Ceramics Research Center
 * Innovation Center for Multi-Business of Nitride Semiconductors
 * Research Center for Nano Devices and Advanced Materials
 * Advanced Manufacturing Research Center
 * Center of Biomedical Physics and Information Technology
 * NITech Artificial Intelligence Research Center
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Notable alumni

 * Takayuki Ito
 * Ken
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Chimney felling

Chimney felling is the practice of demolishing or "felling" a chimney stack. Modern health and safety rules now largely prohibit the practice in industrialized areas; the current technique is to pack explosives around the base of the chimney. It is, however, popular within China's old industrial centers.

The UK's Fred Dibnah, a steeplejack, became a celebrity for his technique of chimney felling. He would remove bricks from the base of the chimney and shore up the structure with wooden supports. When he had judged that enough of the chimney had been removed so as to not be able to support its own weight, he would set fire to the supports. He would then stand clear as the chimney belched its last smoke.

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1887 in Ireland

Events from the year 1887 in Ireland.

Events

 * 29 January – the Dublin newspaper The Union is founded. The Unionist newspaper's goals are stated in its first edition as "A Journal devoted to the maintenance of the Union in the three kingdoms." Richard Moynan begins as a political illustrator with the paper in April.
 * 7 March – 18 April: The Times publishes a series of articles on "Parnellism and Crime" quoting letters implicating Charles Stewart Parnell of involvement in illegal activities, in particular, support for the 1882 Phoenix Park Murders. A special commission, known as the "Parnell Commission", is proposed to investigate the allegations, as well as investigate links between the Home Rule party and the Fenians, eventually (in 1890) proving the letters forgeries written by Richard Pigott.
 * 29 March – the Irish Crimes Act of 1887 is introduced by Arthur Balfour in response to the boycott of certain landlords by their tenants (led by the National Land League), suspending the right to trial of people suspected of involvement in the boycott. The Crimes Act is passed in September, despite protests from Liberal and Home Rule Members of Parliament, and will continue in force until 1890.
 * 19 April – W. E. Gladstone, Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom), delivers his speech on the 'Irish question'.
 * 30 April – Michael Logue translated from Raphoe as coadjutor archbishop of Armagh; on the death of Daniel McGettigan on 3 December he succeeds as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, the office which he will hold until his death in 1924.
 * 2 May – the narrow gauge Clogher Valley Railway officially opens in County Tyrone.
 * 26 June – the highest temperature ever recorded in Ireland, 33.3C (91.9F) at Kilkenny Castle.
 * 16 August – opening of an industrial fishing school for boys at Baltimore, County Cork, founded by the parish priest Father Charles Davis and sponsored by English heiress and philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
 * 9 September – Mitchelstown Massacre: Three men killed by the Royal Irish Constabulary at a Land League demonstration.
 * 13 November – Bloody Sunday: Police in London clash with radical and Irish nationalist protesters.
 * Royal Irish Constabulary attack a Land League march in Kiltimagh, County Mayo.
 * Arthur Balfour becomes Chief Secretary later enacting the policy of "killing Home Rule with kindness".
 * Balfour's Land Law Act, an extension of the Ashbourne Act of 1885, is passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
 * The period of rent set by the Land Court is reduced to three years.
 * The Plan of Campaign starts its first phase as tenant farmers begin withholding rent from landlords.
 * 69,084 emigrate from Ireland to the United States, according to census records.
 * Newtownbrowne School is opened in Kiltimagh, County Mayo.
 * Construction of Ballymena Castle by Robert Alexander Shafto Adair, the Adair family residence in Demesne, is completed.
 * George Roe & Company Distillers becomes the largest distillery in Europe.
 * Edward Carson is appointed as counsel to the Attorney-General for Ireland.
 * John Boyd Dunlop develops the first practical pneumatic tyre in Belfast.

Arts and literature

 * The Romanesque doorway, only surviving portion of the original (late 12th century) Cathedral Church of St. Flannan, Killaloe in County Clare, is restored.
 * William Ewart Gladstone publishes Handbook of Home Rule.
 * Michael Davitt publishes Revival of the Irish Woollen Industry: Brief Historical Record: How England Endeavoured to Destroy Irish Manufacture: How Irish Leaders Propose to Accomplish its Revival
 * William Lecky's A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century is published.
 * Alex G. Richey's A Short History of the Irish People, Down to the Date of the Plantation of Ulster is published.
 * Margaret Stokes publishes Early Christian Art in Ireland.
 * Lady Wilde publishes Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland, with Sketches of the Irish Past (later appended to The Ancient Race of Ireland)
 * Sir Samuel Ferguson's Ogham Inscriptions in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland is published posthumously.
 * Charles Villiers Stanford's Third Symphony, in F minor, the Irish, is first performed.

Athletics

 * January 15 – Trinity College's University Harriers Club holds the first Hares and Hounds race in Dollymount.

Football

 * International
 * 5 February England 7–0 Ireland (in Sheffield)
 * 19 February Scotland 4–1 Ireland (in Glasgow)
 * 13 March Ireland 4–1 Wales (in Belfast). 16th international game and first win.

 * Irish Cup
 * Winners: Ulster 3–0 Cliftonville

 * Athlone Town A.F.C., the oldest surviving club in the League of Ireland, are founded.
 * 6 November – Celtic F.C. is formed in Glasgow, Scotland, by Irish Marist Brother Walfrid to help alleviate poverty in the city's East End by raising money for his charity, the Poor Children's Dinner Table.

Gaelic Games

 * Cavan GAA President Michael Davin resigns.
 * Cavan GAA football teams Annagh Sons of Usnagh, Mountnugent Red Hands, Belturbet Rory O'Moore's, Mullagh Briffnians, Killinkere Defenders, Cross Independents, Moybulgue St. Patricks, and the Virginia Sarsfields are formed.
 * The Kiltimagh Cavan GAA Club is formed.
 * The Limerick Commercials win the first All-Ireland Senior Football Championship defeating the Dundalk Young Irelands.
 * April 1 – The first All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship is held in Birr, County Offaly between Galway and Tipperary.
 * December 27 – The first Cavan GAA County Convention is held at McGoldricks Hotel in Ballyjamesduff.

Births

 * 8 March – Patrick O'Connell, soccer player and manager (died 1959).
 * 27 April – Harry Boland, Irish Volunteer in Easter Rising, Sinn Féin MP (shot by members of the Free State National Army 1922).
 * 1 May – Alan Cunningham, soldier noted for victories in the East African Campaign during World War II (died 1983).
 * 4 May – Ernest Deane, military doctor and Ireland rugby player (killed in action during World War I 1915).
 * 6 May – Michael Browne, Master General of the Dominicans, Cardinal (died 1971).
 * 7 May – Benjamin Glazer, Academy Award-winning screen writer, producer and director (died 1956).
 * 18 May – Richard Wyndham-Quin, 6th Earl of Dunraven, peer (died 1965).
 * 24 May – Edward Mannock, First World War flying ace and posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross (killed in action 1918).
 * 19 August – Francis Ledwidge, poet (killed in action during World War I 1917).
 * 27 August – Carmel Snow, journalist and editor of the American edition of Harper's Bazaar from 1934 to 1958 (died 1961).
 * 8 October – Padraig O'Keeffe, fiddle player (died 1963).
 * 13 October – Tommy Henderson, Ulster independent Unionist politician (died 1970).
 * 6 November – Edward McLysaght, genealogist and writer (died 1986).
 * 11 November – Canon John M. Hayes, priest and Muintir na Tíre founder.
 * 18 November – Joseph Brennan, civil servant and Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland (died 1963).
 * 21 November – Joseph Mary Plunkett, nationalist, poet, journalist and a leader of the Easter Rising (executed 1916).
 * 21 December – J. J. "Ginger" O'Connell, officer in the Irish Volunteers and Irish Defence Forces (died 1944).

Deaths

 * 18 January – Martin Haverty, journalist and historian (born 1809).
 * 17 February – William Dowling, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (born 1825).
 * 16 April – John McCaul, educator, theologian, and second president of the University of Toronto (born 1807).
 * 30 April – Edward Hardman, geologist (born 1845).
 * 25 August
 * William Barber, businessman and politician in Ontario (born 1808).
 * Matthew Cooke, economic entomologist in California (born 1829).
 * 15 September – Richard Quain, anatomist and surgeon (born 1800).
 * 22 November – Ulick Bourke, scholar and writer, founder of the Gaelic Union (born 1829).
 * 4 December – Mary Frances Clarke, founder of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (born 1803).
 * Full date unknown – Rev. William Anderson O'Connor, theologian.

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