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The Kinkaid School

The Kinkaid School is a private PK-12 non-sectarian college preparatory school in Piney Point Village, Texas, United States in Greater Houston.

The Kinkaid School is the oldest independent coeducational school in Greater Houston. The student body is divided into the Lower School (PreK - 4th Grade), the Middle School (5th grade - 8th grade) and the Upper School (9th grade - 12th grade). The school motto is: "Lux per Scientiam" meaning, "Light through Knowledge". The School colors are purple and gold, and the school mascot is the falcon. The school is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest.

The current head of school is Jonathan Eades. The current chairman of the Board of Trustees is Kenneth D. Cowan.

A feature of Kinkaid's Upper School is its Interim Term, which provides three weeks in January for teacher-designed and student-selected curricula. Teachers at the School provide classes that they would otherwise not be able to teach as part of the normal semester, including military histories of the Civil War and World War II, introductory courses in digital programming and engineering, courses in photography and art history, and a course in Disney films. Students may also go on international trips sponsored by the school, such as tours of China, Italy and Greece; homestays in Mexico and France are also possibilities. Finally, the School provides connections with companies throughout the greater Houston area and, if the students prefer, throughout the world, in which its senior students may find internships.

Athletics
Kinkaid sports teams compete in the Southwest Preparatory Conference of the Independent Schools Association in the Southwest. An alumni event is the Kinkaid vs. St. John's School football game played each year at Rice Stadium, with the winning record belonging to Kinkaid.

Kinkaid offers multiple sports per each sports season (fall, winter and spring). In the fall, it offers football (boys only), cross country, volleyball, cheerleading and field hockey (girls only). In the winter, it offers soccer, basketball, wrestling (boys only) and swimming. In the spring, it offers lacrosse, baseball (boys only), softball (girls only), track & field, tennis and golf.

For students who don’t choose to play competitive team sports, Kinkaid offers yoga, badminton, cardio fitness, beginner golf, physical conditioning, and recreational tennis as alternatives.

Arts
Kinkaid offers a variety of courses in the performing and visual arts to its Upper and Middle School students. The performing arts include dance, acting, choir, band, and orchestra. The latter three each put on multiple performances throughout the year, as well as performing together in the annual holiday concert. In addition to these courses, there are extracurricular groups that Upper School students may audition for: Encore, Acting Company, and Dance Company.

The visual arts courses include drawing and illustration, painting, printmaking, photography, film, and ceramics.

Every spring, the Upper School puts on a musical for which all students, freshmen through seniors, may audition. The Middle School also puts on an annual musical production with the seventh and eighth graders.

Arts students can participate in the annual ISAS Arts Festival, a program that gathers schools from across the southwest to enable students to showcase their talents and artwork.

History
The School was founded in 1906 by Margaret Hunter Kinkaid. When the School was first established, it was located in the dining room of Margaret Hunter Kinkaid's house, which was at the intersection of Elgin and San Jacinto in what is now Midtown Houston. Tuition at the School ranged from $90 per year for first and second grades to $130 per year for sixth graders. Tuition for the 2016–2017 school year was $20,500 for Pre-K through Grade 4, $23,720 for Grades 5 through 8, and $25,000 for Grades 9 through 12. Books, lunch, and a one-time $1000 new student fee are not included.

The Richmond Campus
The School's second location was at the intersection of Richmond and Graustark in the Neartown neighborhood. The School moved to this location in the fall of 1924. The School had its first Open House that year to celebrate the new facility. Kinkaid also added its upper school program beginning in the late 1920s. After more than thirty years, the school eventually outgrew its campus and was forced to look for a new location. The administration bought land in Piney Point Village.

Piney Point Village campus
Since 1957 and through the present day, the School has been situated on a 40 acre site in the city of Piney Point Village, an enclave of Houston, at the junction of 201 Kinkaid School Drive and San Felipe. Kinkaid introduced uniforms for its lower and middle school students beginning in the early 1960s. Upper school students have never been required to wear uniforms. Beginning in 1970, Kinkaid adopted what was known as an "open enrollment" policy.

Beginning in the early 1990s, the campus began a large construction program in an effort to modernize its facilities. A new lower school building was constructed, and the old building was torn down, along with the "little" gym and lower school art and science buildings. A new middle school building was also constructed, and the existing upper school was expanded into the old middle school building. A new auditorium and cafeteria were built, and the remaining campus buildings were renovated.

In addition to the physical changes on campus, the fifth grade was moved from lower school to middle school.

Since 2022, improvements to the school have been made through Kinkaid’s “All In” plan, which featured large-scale campus renovations and restructuring. The plan, set to finish in August of 2026, will completely rebuild campus buildings, upgrade and modernize facilities, restructure curriculum, and a move towards an expanded class size. As of May 2024, the total amount raised for the campaign was over $141 million.

Current and prior heads of school
Jonthan Eades is now serving as the School's sixth head of school.

Margaret Hunter Kinkaid, the School's founder, served as the first headmistress. She was a public school teacher before founding The Kinkaid School. Kinkaid left the public school system when she discovered that married women were not as welcome as public school teachers in her school district. Kinkaid was the headmistress of the School from its founding until 1951. Her son William W. Kinkaid was the principal of the upper school. In 1951 both she and her son retired from their duties at Kinkaid.

Mrs. Kinkaid was succeeded as head by John H. Cooper, who stayed with the School for over two decades. He initiated annual productions of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, starting with H. M. S. Pinafore. Cooper helped move the campus from its Richmond location to the current Memorial site. Cooper left to co-found The John Cooper School in Woodlands in 1972.

Glenn Ballard was recruited to replace Cooper in 1972. Ballard had previously been headmaster at Dallas' Hockaday School. Ballard retired after 24 years.

Donald C. North was recruited to replace Ballard. North had previously been headmaster at North Carolina's Durham Academy, with earlier teaching and administrative stints at Kinkaid, Fort Worth Country Day School, and Dallas' St. Mark's School of Texas. North led Kinkaid from 1996 to 2013.

Andrew D. Martire was appointed Kinkaid's fifth headmaster in 2013 after having been recruited from being headmaster at Baltimore's Calvert School. The School's Board of Trustees announced Dr. Martire's departure in an email in June 2018.

Edward M. Trusty Jr. was appointed by the School's Board of Trustees as the interim head of school in June 2018, after serving as assistant head of school since June 2014. Dr. Trusty left Kinkaid in the summer of 2020 after Jonathan Eades was appointed the new head of school.

The Kinkaid School Archives
The Kinkaid School Archives contain the historical materials of The Kinkaid School including some of the earliest records of founder Margaret H. Kinkaid, as well as yearbooks, scrapbooks, newspapers, and photographic materials.

The Archives became the repository of the School in 2005 when a committee of school faculty, staff, and volunteers began collecting and organizing the materials. Located in the Upper School Moran Library, the Archives has since grown to a collection of faculty manuscripts, school administrative records, athletics records, architectural plans, early student records, present-day digital records, and some of the earliest class photos. The Archives are accessible to the general public.

Academics
In a 2015 national survey, Kinkaid was one of the 50 "Smartest Private Schools in the United States."

Kinkaid is also known for its quiz bowl team. Their team was ranked first place nationally in the 2021-2022 season.

"The Tipping Point" controversy
On November 11, 2009, a Kinkaid parent, Hugh "Skip" McGee III, sent an irate letter (entitled "The Tipping Point") to the School's board of trustees. An investment banker, McGee was angry that a teacher's comment about bankers had upset his son. The letter led to tension among the student body in response to the letter's reference to the student body president dressing in drag for a skit used during his campaign.

In popular culture
Philip Roth's novel, Exit Ghost, features a character who is described as having been a valedictorian at Kinkaid, prior to attending Harvard.

In 1998, the movie Rushmore filmed scenes at Kinkaid. St. John's alumnus Wes Anderson used the now demolished Lower School Building for scenes set in an elementary school.

Notable alumni

 * James A. Baker III - 61st US Secretary of State, 67th US Secretary of the Treasury
 * Robert L. Bradley, Jr. (Class of 1973) - Founder of the Institute for Energy Research (IER)
 * George W. Bush - 43rd president of the United States
 * Jeb Bush - 43rd governor of Florida and member of the Bush political family
 * Lauren Bush (Class of 2002) - Member of the Bush political family
 * John Cassidy - Klutz Press Founder / Children’s book author
 * Adam Ereli (Class of 1978) - Former United States Ambassador to Bahrain
 * Clark Ervin (Class of 1977) - First Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security
 * William P. Hobby, Jr. - 37th Lieutenant Governor of Texas
 * David Hornsby (Class of 1994) - Actor
 * Katherine Howe (Class of 1995) - American Novelist
 * Eric Ladin (Class of 1996) - Actor
 * Jeff Martin - American television producer and writer, winner of four Emmys
 * Carolyn McCormick (Class of 1977) - Actress
 * G. Philip Stephenson (Class of 1983) - American businessman
 * Patrick F. Taylor (Class of 1955) - American businessman, the founder and former CEO of Taylor Energy Company
 * Stephen Wrabel (Class of 2007) - American singer, songwriter and musician
 * Raevyn Rogers (Class of 2014) - Olympic medalist
 * Jaedon LeDee (Class of 2018) - College basketball player, winner of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s 2024 Karl Malone Award
 * Audrey Jones Beck - American art collector and philanthropist

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Krishna Prasad Bhattarai

Krishna Prasad Bhattarai (Nepali: कृष्णप्रसाद भट्टराई; 13 December 1924 – 4 March 2011) also known as Kishunji was a Nepalese political leader. He was one of the main leaders involved in transitioning Nepal from an absolute monarchy to a democratic multi-party system.

Bhattarai became Prime Minister of Nepal in April 1990 after a popular democratic movement referred to as Jana-Andolan.

Bhattarai was twice the Prime Minister of Nepal, once heading the Interim Government from 19 April 1990 to 26 May 1991, and then as elected Prime Minister from 31 May 1999 to 22 March 2000.

Bhattarai was the officiating President of the Nepali Congress for nearly 26 years, from 12 February 1976, and was elected to the post of president of the party in 1988 till 1992. He participated in the democratic movement of Nepal from its inception. The Constitution of Nepal (1990) was promulgated while he was interim Prime Minister and he was credited for successfully holding the parliamentary election in 1990, a milestone in Nepalese political history.

Youth
In his youth, Bhattarai was a journalist. He was also one of the foreign journalists to interview the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev.

First democratic movement of Nepal
Bhattarai had participated in a long struggle to modernize the Nepalese political system, aiming to transform a society that was isolated for centuries from the outside world.

He started politics to end the 104-year-rule of the Rana Dynasty. During the political movement of 1950 to overthrow the Rana autocracy, initiated by the Bairgania Conference of the Nepali Congress on 26–27 September 1950 (Ashvin 10–11, 2007 BS), he was in charge of armed group Congress Mukti Sena fighting in Gorkha district. This armed struggle was initiated by the Nepali Congress, of which he was founding member. The armed revolution by the Nepali Congress was supported by King Tribhuvan, who was in exile, and by Indian and Burmese socialists. The armed revolution ultimately brought an end to the 104-year-rule of the Rana Dynasty on 18 February 1951 (Falgun 7, 2007 BS). This day is celebrated as Democracy Day and is a public holiday in Nepal.

After the first parliamentary election of 1959, at the age of 36, he became Speaker of lower house of parliament, though he was not an elected member. After the coup of 1960, Bhattarai was held without trial for eight years at the Sundarijal Military Detention Camp.

Bhattarai was nominated as the officiating President of the Nepali Congress on 12 February 1976 (Falgun 1, 2025 BS) by then party supremo Jananayak BP Koirala. He held this post for more than 25 years, during which time he was a key figure in Nepal's democratic movement. He was elected President of the Nepali Congress by the Eighth National Conference of the Nepali Congress, held in January 1992 (Falgun 2049 B S).

Interim government after democratic movement of 1990s
Bhattarai was the Prime Minister of the Interim Government after the 1990 People's Movement/Jana Andolan which brought democracy to the country, bringing an end to the 30-year-old Panchayati government, and to absolute monarchy in Nepal.

Bhattarai transformed the country from an absolute monarchy to a multi-party democracy without any major problems. He was prime minister when the constitution (1990) of Nepal was promulgated and successfully held the first multi-party election in 30 years. He was a popular leader but lost the election by a very narrow margin.

He again served as Prime Minister from May 1999 to March 2000. He also held the portfolio of foreign ministry from 1990 to 1991 and briefly during 1999 while he was prime minister. He was a founding member and president of the Nepali Congress Party.

Family and personal life
His ancestor family is from politically influential Gorkha district. It is the same district that later brought Ex-PM Baburam Bhattarai to the politics. Kishunji remained a bachelor for his entire life.

Kishunji was a Hindu Brahmin and was very fond of reciting Bhagvad Gita. He was religious, saintly and adhered firm beliefs, for which he was called Sant (virtuous) by the public.

Party politics
Until recently, both factions of the Nepali Congress, the Nepali Congress led by Girija Prasad Koirala and the Nepali Congress (Democratic) led by Sher Bahadur Deuba claimed Bhattarai on their side though his sympathy was more with Deuba from the beginning. Both congress parties elected him as Maha Samiti Member (General Convention Member) from Lalitpur District. On 26 September 2007 Bhattarai declared that he broke relations with the Nepali Congress; the day after the two factions had reunited. Bhattarai's decision was motivated by the move towards republicanism by the unified Nepali Congress.

Death
Bhattarai died at Norvic International Hospital, Kathmandu on 4 March 2011. He was the last surviving founding leader of Nepali Congress. The hospital reported that he died at 11:26 pm. Bhattarai had been in critical care unit at the hospital for three weeks. He was suffering from chronic bronchitis, chronic renal failure and congestive heart failure and died after having recently said that he would live to be one hundred years old.

Awards

 * Nepal Ratna Awards from the President of Nepal on 2021 (posthumously)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Suprnova.org

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Suprnova.org
We're discussing other BitTorrent-related sites (Torrentmind and Filesoup, see above), and whatever decision applies to them should also apply here. I'm in favor of Merging the lot of them into the main BitTorrent article. Radiant! 08:45, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC) Okay, I shouldn't listen to sock puppets stating "It makes no sense that X has an entry, and Y can't.". Request withdrawn. Radiant! 11:28, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Half a million google hits says keep it right where it is buddy. —RaD Man (talk) 08:55, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah. Keep. —Korath (Talk) 09:43, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * The most obvious Keep I have done so far. Xezbeth  09:45, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * This was attempted with Goatse.cx - merging it into Shock site, but there was too much information on goatse so the article got spun out again. Keep, as I only see the goatse scenario repeating itself. --Dave2 10:49, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * One of the most notable BitTorrent sites, if not the most notable. Strong Keep. cesarb 23:03, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep a very notable web site -- Longhair 03:10, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Probably the most notable BT site. -- pne 15:38, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Fujiwara no Tadamichi

Fujiwara no Tadamichi (藤原 忠通) was the eldest son of the Japanese regent (Kampaku) Fujiwara no Tadazane and a member of the politically powerful Fujiwara clan. He was the father of Fujiwara no Kanefusa and Jien.

In the Hōgen Rebellion of 1156, Tadamichi sided with the Emperor Go-Shirakawa, while his brother Fujiwara no Yorinaga sided with Emperor Sutoku.

In 1162, he ordained as a Buddhist monk and took the Dharma name Enkan (円観).

Marriage and Children
Parents Consort and issue:
 * Father: Fujiwara no Tadazane (藤原 忠実, 1078 – 1162)
 * Mother: Minamoto no Moroko (源師子), daughter of Minamoto no Akifusa (源顕房)
 * Wife: Fujiwara no Soshi (藤原宗子, 1190 – 1155), daughter of Fujiwara no Munemichi (藤原宗通)
 * Fujiwara no Kiyoko (藤原 聖子 ; 1122–1182), Wife of Emperor Sutoku, first daughter
 * Third son (d.1127)
 * Wife: Minamoto no Nobuko (源信子), daughter of Minamoto no Norinobu (源国信)
 * Konoe Motozane (近衛 基実, 1143 – August 23, 1166), fourth son
 * Wife: Minamoto no Toshiko (源俊子), daughter of Minamoto no Norinobu (源国信), younger sister of Nobuko
 * Fujiwara no Motofusa (藤原 基房, 1144 – February 1, 1230), fifth son
 * Shinen (1153 – 1224), ninth son
 * Saichu, thirteenth son
 * Wife: Minamoto no Toshiko (源俊子), daughter of Minamoto no Akitoshi (源顕俊)
 * Fujiwara no Ikushi (藤原 育子; 1146 – September 23, 1173), Wife of Emperor Nijō, second daughter
 * Wife: Kaga no Tsubone (加賀局), daughter of Fujiwara no Nakamitsu (藤原仲光)
 * Fujiwara no Kanezane (藤原 兼実, 1149 – May 3, 1207), sixth son
 * Doen (1151–1170), eight son
 * Fujiwara no Kanefusa (藤原 兼房, 1153 – March 30, 1217), tenth son
 * Jien (慈円, 17 May 1155 in Kyoto – 28 October 1225), eleventh son
 * Wife: Daughter of Fujiwara no Motonobu (藤原基信)
 * Eshin (恵信, 1114 – 1171), first son
 * Wife: Lady Gōjō (五条), daughter of Minamoto no Moritsune (源盛経)
 * Takadata (尊忠; b.1150), seventh son
 * Wife Unknown
 * Kakuchu (覚忠; 1118 – 1177), Priest, second son

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of schools in the United Kingdom

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List of schools in the United Kingdom

 * Another meaningless list of schools. Delete. Radiant! 08:53, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - Too many dead links, quite all the information is now covered by Category:Schools in the United Kingdom as part of my schools mini-project: User:GregRobson/Schools Greg Robson 10:09, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Useful. Not as many red links as some "List of" articles. A category does not replace an article. -- RHaworth 11:11, 2005 Feb 20 (UTC)
 * Keep. I think it's a useful list too- at least until Greg's list is comprehensive- which I thought was the idea of wikipedia.. Vanky 11:32, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Fair point, change to keep. Greg Robson 15:29, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep Dead links are one of the main points of having lists. Wincoote 14:51, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Should be a category. Don't use red links to request an article. Carrp | Talk 16:28, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * That's what red links are actually for: Most wanted articles is generated from them. --Phil | Talk 14:27, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I'm worried that some of you seem to think that having red links is a necessarily bad thing. It is, in fact, very much the way that articles are meant to be requested. Expediting features list a requests line at the top of RC for 5 pages are swamped by the millions of pages we yet have not. 16:56, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Isn't that what Requested articles is for? Radiant! 21:38, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Not the same thing at all. --Phil | Talk 14:27, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep -- If I ever needed such a list I know where to look Longhair 01:36, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Useful list. --Andylkl 14:04, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. --Phil | Talk 14:27, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Deletioncruft VFD nomination.--Centauri 20:56, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. It admits it's a partial list, but what is the category for inclusion? "Noted" schools? Schools Wikipedians went to? Best A-levels? (Dulwich College should be on the list for all three reasons). Or is it, as implied, just a useful repository of red links? How can it be comprehensive in any case: how many schools are there? Without a criterion, it is of no use. David Brooks 21:33, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm leaning towards Delete. I dislike list articles, and think most of them would function better as categories. DaveTheRed 23:32, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * You can't add red links to categories. Neither can you annotate entries. --Phil | Talk 12:17, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of schools in New Zealand

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List of schools in New Zealand
Another meaningless list of schools. Delete. Radiant! 08:53, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep An insult to New Zealand, education, and sincere Wikipedians efforts Wincoote 15:02, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. It would be less insulting to have a massive, almost certainly inaccurate and out-of-date list filled with red links? All notable schools in New Zealand should be in a category. Carrp | Talk 16:26, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, delete nominator - David Gerard 23:59, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * That comment is completely out of line for an arbitrator. Carrp | Talk 05:01, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Putting censorship on people who disagree with you goes against the very idea of Wikipedia. Radiant! 10:27, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Radiant! Is a practioner of Extreme article deletion the objective of which is to get legitimate articles deleted as a "sport". Wincoote 15:09, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * In case you hadn't read the notice on the Extreme article deletion page, it is satire. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean he's eeeevil. Radiant! 16:04, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete.  --BM 00:47, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. *yawn*. James F. (talk) 11:11, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Useful list. --Andylkl 14:04, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Otherwise we would lose knowledge that may be difficult to replace. Vanky 00:20, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Schools are not intrinsically notable.  Lists of non-notable schools are even less notable.  RickK 00:34, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Deletioncruft VFD nomination.--Centauri 20:48, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Primary and secondary schools are not notable, let alone lists of them. DaveTheRed 23:46, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete all these lists full of unnotable schools. Preisler 04:31, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of schools in Japan

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List of schools in Japan
Another meaningless list of schools. Delete. Radiant! 08:53, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep This and all lists of schools. Are you trying to get your way by giving us more votes to do than we have time for? Wincoote 14:55, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Of course not. Now can we keep this discussion civil, please? Radiant! 16:01, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Then may I civilly suggest that you read Deletion policy and, as per the instructions on the top and bottom of VFD, only make nominations strictly according to those criteria? As ooposed to the ridiculously bogus nominations you appear to be flooding VFD with that aren't made according to those criteria. HTH! Thanks! - David Gerard 23:56, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Nomination was made because article is deemed unsuitable for WP (deletion criteria #1), on the grounds that 'Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links' (unsuitability criteria #3) and that 'Wikipedia articles are not: Mere collections of internal links' (sub-criteria #2). Radiant! 10:27, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Radiant! Is a practitioner of Extreme article deletion the objective of which is to get legitimate articles deleted as a "sport". Wincoote 15:13, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * For the humor impaired, the Extreme Deletion page is a work of satire. It says so on the top, too. Please avoid ad hominems in VfD discussions. Radiant! 16:07, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. All notable schools in Japan (or any other country) can be included in a category. There's no need to have a massive, unmaintainable article. How would that possibly be useful to a reader? Carrp | Talk 16:06, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, censure nominator - David Gerard 23:56, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't think that's a helpful comment, especially from an arbitrator. Carrp | Talk 04:58, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Putting censorship on people who disagree with you goes against the very idea of Wikipedia. Radiant! 10:27, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not only pointless, but without a prayer of being even significantly complete. And how would such a list, even if by some miracle complete, be of the slightest use (actionable) to a reader of an encyclopedia? --Calton 10:34, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. *yawn*. James F. (talk) 11:12, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Useful list. --Andylkl 14:04, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * To whom could it possibly be useful? And for what purpose? --Calton 04:13, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * To myself and any other persons interested in the reading up of schools of course. --Andylkl 08:33, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Say what? You are -- seriously -- interested in reading up a list of thousands of school names? No, I wanted an actual way this list would be useful. --Calton 01:30, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, pointless, unmaintainable list. Megan1967 02:59, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unmaintainable, useless, inevitably incomplete and inaccurate list. --BM 14:18, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Deletioncruft VFD nomination.--Centauri 20:51, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Take a look at the article. What is useful about it? Why shouldn't a category be used? How do we make sure false or inaccurate information isn't added when the article becomes huge.Carrp | Talk 20:52, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Categories are better. Incidentally, the fact that there are so many Delete votes for this article says to me that this is most certainly not Deletioncruft. DaveTheRed 23:39, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete all these school lists. Preisler 04:31, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Day Million

Day Million is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Frederik Pohl, published in June 1970.

Contents

 * "Day Million" (1966)
 * "The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass" (1962)
 * "The Day the Martians Came" (1967)
 * "Schematic Man" (1968)
 * "Small Lords" (1956)
 * "Making Love" (1966)
 * "Way Up Yonder" (1959)
 * "Speed Trap" (1967)
 * "It's a Young World" (1941)
 * "Under Two Moons" (1965)

Plot summaries
The title story, "Day Million", details the romance between two people, referred to as Don and Dora (shortened versions of their full names), who bump into each other for the first time on the millionth day CE, which the author describes as being about a thousand years in the future. The text addresses the reader directly, subverting expectations by revealing that Dora is genetically male but was made female shortly after conception because genetic analysis showed that she would prefer that outcome. Don is described as handsome and bronze, but is revealed to be a partial cyborg who has a metal radiation shield over his entire body to protect him while helping to pilot a starship. Dora for her part likes being semi-aquatic, so she had gills installed. The two get married, exchange personality information, and part forever. They can thus experience virtual sex with each other and with any number of other lovers.

In the "Schematic Man" a man's life is transcribed into a computer to the point where he begins to believe that he is living within the machine, and "Making Love", in which population control is effected by providing everybody with simulated lovers indistinguishable from the real thing.

In contrast, "Under Two Moons" combines a parody of the John Carter stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs, with the hero cast as a space-traveling secret agent in the style of James Bond.

"The Day the Martians Came" is a short piece about men in a bar making up jokes about the newly discovered Martians, who are pathetic primitive beings. All are re-workings of old racial jokes. Somebody suggests that discovering the Martians would not matter to anybody, but the black bartender responds that it might matter a lot to people like him.

"The Deadly Mission of P. Snodgrass" is a time-travel story in which the protagonist gives modern medicine and technology to the Romans. The resultant population explosion, extrapolated to the 20th century, results in the entire mass of the planet Earth consisting of human bodies. It was originally published as humorous essay on the "Editor's Page" of Galaxy Science Fiction (June 1962).

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of schools by country

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List of schools by country
This is even weirder, it's a list of lists of schools. Delete. Radiant! 08:54, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * KeepI'd say it's weird to call this weird. It may not be what you want to read on Wikipedia, but it seems like a good idea to me. Wincoote 14:57, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Now I know why he does it. Radiant! Is a practitioner of Extreme article deletion one objective of which is to get legitimate articles deleted as a "sport". Wincoote 15:14, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Yet another article that should be a category. Carrp | Talk 16:25, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. And some of them aren't even lists! Just got done renaming the Taiwan article because it was a description, not a list. --Woohookitty 18:27, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. --BM 00:44, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. *yawn*. James F. (talk) 11:11, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Useful list. --Andylkl 14:05, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Vanky 00:23, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Deletioncruft VFD nomination.--Centauri 20:47, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete. Even if I was to concede that list articles were ok (which I won't), we certainly don't need a list of lists. We have categories for a reason. DaveTheRed 23:53, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete all these lists of unnotable schools. And lists of lists on them too. Preisler 04:33, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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List of UK Independent Schools
Another meaningless list of schools. Delete. Radiant! 08:54, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. RHaworth 11:13, 2005 Feb 20 (UTC)
 * Keep Do you know what the word "meaningless" means? Wincoote 14:53, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. *yawn*. James F. (talk) 15:54, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - censure nominator - David Gerard 23:56, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Putting censorship on people who disagree with you goes against the very idea of Wikipedia. Radiant! 10:27, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * No, "censure", not "censor". You have made a number of VfD nominations that appear greatly inappropriate. James F. (talk) 10:55, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I have made a far greater number that are very appropriate. If you read VfD history, you'll notice that I get a number of concurring votes on nearly all of my nominations, and that the majority of them gets deleted almost unanimously. You'll also notice that I listen to reasonable arguments and can be convinced to change my opinion. Radiant! 16:15, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * There is no excuse for "collateral damage", to use that vile euphamism for carelessness. James F. (talk) 13:17, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Useful list. --Andylkl 14:04, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and strongly support comments by David Gerard and James F.. Yet another deletioncruft VFD nomination.--Centauri 20:53, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete would be better as a category. DaveTheRed 23:35, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Should be reformed to include the reason why the founder setup the school. User:Sibaz 03:22, 03 March 2005 (GMT)
 * Keep Useful Vanky 18:26, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm going to say delete actually, not because the information is totally useless, but because Wikipedia is plagued by half-baked lists their authors have no intention of completing. An article that consists solely of a permanently incomplete list is not really encyclopedic in my book. These pages are a relic of the pre-category era. All these schools could be put in a category that would do the same job as this page without having to be a totally exhaustive list - something this page will never be. — Trilobite (Talk) 12:57, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Giganta

Giganta is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications and related media, commonly as a recurring adversary of the superhero Wonder Woman, and an occasional foil of the superhero the Atom. She debuted as a brutish strongwoman in 1944's  Wonder Woman  #9, written by Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston and illustrated by Harry G. Peter, and went on to become one of Wonder Woman's most recognizable and persistent foes, appearing during every major era of the hero's comic book adventures, and adapted frequently for television and animation.

The modern incarnation of Giganta possesses the superhuman ability to increase her physical size and mass, effectively transforming into a giantess. This power-set was not a feature of her Golden or Silver Age comic book appearances, but was rather introduced first on television as part of the character's adaptation for Hanna-Barbera's 1978 Saturday morning cartoon series Challenge of the Superfriends. Giganta's size-changing abilities would not be incorporated into her portrayal in DC Comics publications until 2002.

Giganta has been adapted into several Wonder Woman-related television and animated film projects. She was played by trans actress Aleshia Brevard in the 1979 NBC live-action Legends of the Superheroes TV specials, in which the character was paired with the Atom (actor Alfie Wise) for a comedic tell-all interview about their supposed "odd couple" romance. Several years prior, actor Mickey Morton donned a gorilla-suit to play a version of the character (called "Gargantua") in a 1976 episode of the ABC TV series Wonder Woman. In animation, Giganta has been played by voice actors Kimberly Brooks, Grey DeLisle, Joan Gerber, Jennifer Hale and Vanessa Marshall.

Creation and Golden Age
In her first appearance, written by Wonder Woman's creator William Moulton Marston, Giganta is presented as a preternaturally strong gorilla who, through advanced technology, is mutated into a hulking, red-haired human woman, by Professor Zool, a teacher at Holliday College. In an ensuing struggle with Wonder Woman and her allies, Giganta foments a savage revolution, leading a group of prehistoric “cavemen” in an attempt to conquer civilized society.

Marston was a psychologist who conceived many of Wonder Woman's early foes as allegories for psychological and moral motifs. His characterization of Giganta blends a common early-20th century misconception about Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution (the fallacy that early human beings descended from modern apes) with another Western commonplace: the colonialist conflation of pre-civilization with amorality. As such, Giganta's nature as a supposedly primitive human being was understood as granting her both animalistic and potentially malicious characteristics.

After several clashes with Wonder Woman, Giganta became a member of Villainy Inc., a team of supervillains consisting of several other foes of the hero, including the Cheetah, Doctor Poison and Queen Clea.

Silver and Bronze Age
By the 1960s, Wonder Woman's comic book adventures had made the leap from the Golden Age world of Earth-2 to the Silver/Bronze Age world of Earth-1. Giganta was reintroduced in a series of stories also featuring another of Wonder Woman's arch-foes, Doctor Psycho. In a slight reworking of her Golden Age origin, the now-blonde Silver Age Giganta was still a mutated ape, albeit better at speaking English, and less focused on a caveman revolution than on a resentment of Wonder Woman.

Giganta would return in 1980 as an ally and romantic interest for the Flash's foe Gorilla Grodd, in a plot against Gorilla City. Once again red-haired, the character's visual design reflected her TV appearances two years earlier on Challenge of the Superfriends.

Post-Crisis
After DC Comics rebooted its continuity in 1985 during the Crisis on Infinite Earths event, Wonder Woman, her supporting characters and many of her foes were re-imagined and reintroduced. Though Giganta was initially absent from this revised set of storylines, she eventually returned to the continuity in 1998 in a story by Wonder Woman writer/artist John Byrne. This version is Doris Zeul, a human who transferred her consciousness into the body of a gorilla named Giganta and later into circus strongwoman Olga. Now possessing a magically-endowed ability to increase her size and mass, Zeul embarked on a campaign to bring down Wonder Woman, a project which would lead her to join Villainy Inc.

The characterization of the post-Crisis Giganta de-emphasized savagery in favor of a more sympathetic interpretation. Storylines in The All-New Atom  and Secret Six focus with some humor on Zeul's attempt to juggle a legitimate career in academia with a side-hustle as a villain-for-hire, as well as more seriously on the history of the chronic degenerative illness that led her to seek to transfer her consciousness.

Earth-Two
Giganta was introduced as a foe of DC Comics character Wonder Woman during the Golden Age of Comic Books. In the story, a scientist named Professor Zool artificially mutates a gorilla named Giganta into a malicious red-haired strongwoman. The mutation machine goes haywire and somehow reverts the world to an earlier stage. Giganta joins a primitive tribe to attack Wonder Woman, but is defeated. When the world gets to the Golden Age of humanity, Giganta causes trouble by encouraging a rebellion, which Wonder Woman stops. When the world returns to normal, Giganta is still in her "strongwoman" form. Giganta is ultimately subdued and captured by Wonder Woman and taken to Themiscyra for rehabilitation.

Giganta joins a rebellion of prisoners held on the island started by the Saturnian slaver Eviless, thereby becoming a member of the criminal team Villainy Inc. Eviless steals Wonder Woman's lasso and kidnaps Hippolyta. Giganta joins with the Atlantean Queen Clea to cause trouble.

Earth-One
In 1966, Giganta's origin is revamped to include Doctor Psycho. In this story, Doctor Psycho hypnotized a zoo gorilla named Giganta to fall in love with Steve Trevor. After Wonder Woman defeats Giganta, Professor Zool appeared asking to have the gorilla turned over to her for experimentation. Taking advantage of this, Doctor Psycho took Giganta out of the zoo and brought her to Professor Zool so that he can use an evolution ray on her. This turned Giganta into a huge blonde woman who still loves Steve Trevor. Wonder Woman defeated Giganta and took her to Paradise Island for rehabilitation.

Doris Zeul
The contemporary version of the character is the alter-ego of Doris Zeul, who suffers from a fatal blood disease. She captures Wonder Woman and plans to put her "life-essence" into Wonder Woman's body using an experimental machine. Interrupted by Wonder Girl halfway through the experiment she ends up with her consciousness in a test animal gorilla named Giganta.

Desperate to return her mind to a human body, Zeul the gorilla abducts a comatose circus strongwoman named Olga with size-changing abilities through unknown means (though Olga was comatose due to a mysterious shaman) and uses the machine to successfully transfer her mind into that body, keeping the villain name "Giganta".

Following her transformation, Giganta allies herself with Queen Clea and Villainy Inc. in an attempt to conquer the lost world of Skartaris. Villainy Inc. is defeated by Wonder Woman, but Giganta is subsequently seen as a member of several criminal groups, including the Secret Society of Super Villains.

As part of the Society, she takes part in the "Battle of Metropolis", a confrontation with multiple heroes, including Elasti-Girl, the size-changing member of the Doom Patrol. The Society ultimately loses this battle.

When Diana Prince noted that Giganta's intellect reduces as she grows in size, compelling the villain to become less rational and more prone to violence, she was corrected by her colleagues in the Department of Metahuman Affairs. They implied that Giganta has overcome that limitation and retains her full intelligence at any size.

"One Year Later," Giganta, along with The Cheetah and Doctor Psycho, engage in a battle with Donna Troy (who has assumed the identity of Wonder Woman one year after the events of Infinite Crisis), as part of a search for, as they term it, the "real" Wonder Woman (Diana of Themyscira). The villains continue their quest, holding Troy hostage to draw Diana out for a rescue attempt and contend with the current Wonder Girl, Robin, and Diana herself in the guise of government agent Diana Prince. Giganta and her allies also battle Hercules, with the giantess being felled by the legendary champion.

Giganta is a teacher at Ryan Choi's Ivy Town University. Infected and controlled by M'Nagalah, the monstrous Cancer god, she was sent to seduce and capture Ryan Choi, the new Atom, in the process even going so far as to swallow the miniature hero alive (he escapes, and also discovers that she has a tongue piercing ). Now free of M'Nagalah's control, a seemingly repentant Dr. Zeul retains her position at Ivy University and has approached Ryan for a second chance, despite the bizarre circumstances of their first meeting.

Before their second date, the Atom is approached by Wonder Woman on behalf of the Department of Metahuman Affairs and asked to wear a wire on his date with Dr. Zeul. After professing her desire to reform, she is informed that Ryan is wearing a wire and tears off the roof of the restaurant to see Wonder Woman and Ryan talking - unaware that Ryan had removed the wire. A fight between Wonder Woman and Giganta ensues. Wonder Woman quickly knocks Giganta out but Ryan intervenes to stop Wonder Woman from beating her further, after admitting she had lost her temper - they realize that Dr. Zeul has disappeared. Whether she heard or saw Ryan's actions to stop her from getting further injuries is yet to be seen.

Giganta is a member of the new Injustice League and she is one of the villains featured in the Salvation Run.

Giganta is also a member of Libra's Secret Society of Super Villains, during the Final Crisis and is shown as a thrall of Darkseid alongside several other super-powered women. She is now called Gigantrix. Over the course of the series she fights as one of the new incarnations of the Female Furies with Wonder Woman, Batwoman and Catwoman. She is possessed by the spirit of the fury Stompa, and only freed when Supergirl smashes the skull-and-crossbones mask from her face.

Giganta is attacked by Diana while on her way to a date with Ryan Choi, implying that their relationship has survived despite earlier difficulties. Mellower than in her appearances in the All-New Atom series, she seems to accept and respect the shortcomings brought by their different lifestyles, going so far as to help Wonder Woman in a mission, reasoning that, with Ryan being a superhero, they should both be used to putting their heroics in front of their private lives.

Most recently, Bane hires her on as one of the new members of Secret Six. The team also includes the shrinking killer, Dwarfstar, who had hired Deathstroke and his Titans to kill Ryan Choi. Giganta initially seems unaware of this fact, admitting to Dwarfstar that she is dating the Atom (much to Dwarfstar's amusement). Following a disastrous mission to Skartaris, Amanda Waller reveals the details of Ryan's murder to Giganta. After luring Dwarfstar to her bedroom with the promise of sex, Giganta strips him of his belt (the source of his powers) and beats him into submission. She is last heard covering Dwarfstar's mouth with duct tape to stifle his screams, telling him that she plans on keeping him alive so that she can prolong his suffering.

In September 2011, DC Comics revised the fictional history of its comic book line under the title "The New 52". In the revised comic book line, Doris Zeul was bullied as a child due to a rare blood disease. When she got older, Doris tried to cure herself using radiation which resulted in her gaining sizeshifting abilities. Giganta appears as a member of the Secret Society during the "Trinity War" storyline. She assists Vandal Savage and Signalman into tracking Pandora. When the three villains attack Pandora, Pandora successfully subdues Giganta. Her costume combines elements from her original and One Year Later costumes.

After her first encounter with Pandora, Giganta returns for revenge following the conclusion of the Forever Evil storyline. During their fight, Pandora looks into Giganta's soul, and reveals her origin story. Doris Zeul was a bullied child with a blood disease, but cured herself with a radical procedure that gave her her growth powers. A side-effect of the untested operation was that it reduced her intellect.

Giganta is later recruited by agents of S.H.A.D.E. to serve as a supernormal asset, fighting vampires and other monsters. She is tempted by the offer of a pardon for her crimes almost as much for the chance to kill things, which she admits to enjoying.

After the events of "DC Rebirth," Giganta appeared alongside several other villains as they battled the Justice League.

Later, Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor tracked Giganta down to a Los Angeles museum. Giganta had been stealing mystical artifacts for unknown reasons. Wonder Woman managed to defeat the giantess. She was then taken into custody. When Steve Trevor interrogated Giganta in Belle Reve alongside Amanda Waller, he discovered that Giganta had been recruited by Darkseid to steal the artifacts. She told Steve Trevor where to find the remaining artifacts. She stated that she, Steve, and Wonder Woman have had a long history together.

Giganta was then recruited by Amanda Waller into Task Force XL to capture the powerful creature known as Damage. During the battle, Giganta revealed that she would love to study Damage's physiology. However, Damage burst through Giganta's hand, leaving her to bandage herself while the rest of the team battled the creature.

In the "Watchmen" sequel "Doomsday Clock," Giganta is among the villains that attend the underground meeting held by Riddler that talks about the Superman Theory. When Comedian crashes the meeting, Giganta attacks him as the villains start to scatter. Later on, she takes part in the attack led by Black Adam against the United Nations, where she is beaten back by Wonder Woman. Giganta was with Black Adam's group when the People's Heroes, the Outsiders, and the Doomed tried to get to Superman and gets into an all-out battle with them until it is broken up when Doctor Manhattan undoes the experiment that erased the Justice Society of America and the Legion of Super-Heroes.

When the Sovereign conspired to turn the world against Wonder Woman and the Amazons, Sarge Steel recruited Giganta and several other villains to kill Wonder Woman.

Powers, abilities, and equipment
Doris Zeul has the ability to increase her size (from roughly 6'6" to several hundred feet in seconds). Those abilities seems to be magical in nature since Black Alice can copy them.

Although, her own physical powers are not on an inhuman level until she grows. Even in full maximum height, Giganta is still a formidable foe. As a giant, she is also one of the strongest women in the DC Universe. She easily overpowers Wonder Woman, Wonder Girl, and Power Girl at the same time with one hand without her giant form. In fact, she could crush their bones by her virtually unescapable grip. When fighting vampires alongside Pandora, she grew to eight-feet tall with her strength and durability enhanced to the point where its fangs cannot pierce through Zeul's skin.

Giganta's suit is specialized to withstand bullets, resist extreme temperatures, and grow along with her. As Zeul, she possesses scientific knowledge.

Odyssey
In the 'Odyssey' storyline that ran through issues 601-614 of Wonder Woman, Giganta was one of many characters re-imagined in the alternate reality created by the goddess Nemesis. She was part of a trio - along with Artemis of Bana-Mighdall and Barbara Minerva - of dead Amazons resurrected by the Morrigan to hunt Wonder Woman.

Giganta possessed no size-altering power, instead relying upon enormous natural strength (enough to shatter a stone statue and throw a school bus ) and a double-headed axe to fight. She dressed in Amazonian battle-garb decorated with leopard print, in a callback to her original costume, and stood over six feet tall.

Giganta is eventually won around to Diana's side after being shown the truth of the Morrigan's lies. She joins her in attacking their stronghold, killing Bellona with her axe even as her flesh is melted from her bones by the goddess' magic.

Justice
Giganta was featured as a member of the Legion of Doom in Alex Ross' maxi-series Justice. Here she is in her traditional costume, though she briefly disguises herself as a nurse and wears hunting gear in her first appearance. She attempts to assassinate the Atom in his office using a sniper rifle, but Palmer is distracted by a phone call and is instead hit in the shoulder. Later in the hospital, Giganta tries to smother the Atom to death with a pillow, though he escapes using his belt and knocks Giganta out a window by getting in her eye. Later, when the Legion toast their apparent victory, she is seen talking with Gorilla Grodd about his suspicions towards Lex Luthor and Brainiac's goals. When the Justice League storm the Hall of Doom itself, Giganta fights the League as a whole rather than any particular target. In the end she is defeated by Rita Farr of the Doom Patrol. Her origin is more in-line with that of her Golden Age and DC animated universe counterparts, having originally been a gorilla altered into a human, though she has no known connections with Gorilla Grodd or Gorilla City itself.

Flashpoint
In the Flashpoint universe, two conflicting versions of Giganta existed. In Lois Lane's tie-in miniseries, she joined with the Amazons' Furies, as they had taken over the United Kingdom, and ambushed the resistance. Here her appearance resembled that of her 'Odyssey' counterpart, and she seemingly possessed no super-powers. She was last seen fighting against Grifter on London Bridge, parrying his gunshots with twin swords.

Conversely, in Hal Jordan's miniseries, Giganta appears in her traditional, original costume, and is capable of growing large enough to grasp and crush fighter jets in her hands. When she is about to kill Hal while he struggles to control his damaged plane, Giganta is shot in the eyes by Carol Ferris, collapsing and playing no further role in the fight.

The Legend of Wonder Woman
Giganta was set to appear in the second volume to The Legend of Wonder Woman, a retelling of Wonder Woman's origins by Renae de Liz and Ray Dillon. However, DC cancelled the project under unknown circumstances. De Liz later posted preliminary artwork featuring Giganta on Twitter.

Sensational Wonder Woman
In the digital-first anthology series Sensational Wonder Woman, Giganta appears in the story "The Queen's Hive", where she, Blue Snowman, Doctor Poison, and Silver Swan serve as Queen Bee's generals.

Wonder Woman: Black and Gold
Giganta appears in the anthology series Wonder Woman: Black & Gold. In the story "Amazing" by Paul Azaceta, Giganta battles Wonder Woman in an unspecified city. Wonder Woman defeats Giganta, rescuing a child from perishing during her apartment building's destruction.

Television

 * A variation of Giganta's gorilla form called Gargantua appears in the Wonder Woman episode "Wonder Woman vs. Gargantua", performed by Mickey Morton. This version is a male gorilla with enhanced strength that Nazi animal behaviorist Erica Belgard (portrayed by Gretchen Corbett) took from Africa and trained to attack Wonder Woman as well as bring back Nazi defector Conrad Steigler. After succeeding in the latter task, Belgard sets up a trap for Wonder Woman and sets Gargantua on her so Belgard can join her Nazi High Command. While the gorilla nearly defeats Wonder Woman, he is shot by an MP and brought to a doctor, who is able to undo Belgard's programming. The Nazis take Gargantua back and subject him to electroconvulsive therapy in an attempt to restore it, but it fails when the gorilla fights and is subdued by Wonder Woman. After Belgard and her compatriots are apprehended, Wonder Woman returns Gargantua to Africa.
 * Giganta appears in Challenge of the Superfriends, voiced by Ruth Forman. This version is a member of the Legion of Doom who gained her abilities from Apache Chief's growth powder.
 * Giganta appears in Legends of the Superheroes, portrayed by Aleshia Brevard. This version is a member of the Legion of Doom who does not demonstrate the ability to grow in size, but retains her super-strength, and later becomes engaged to the Atom.
 * Giganta appears in the Super Friends episode "Two Gleeks are Deadlier Than One", voiced again by Ruth Forman.
 * Giganta appears in series set in the DC Animated Universe (DCAU), voiced by Jennifer Hale. Similarly to her original comics depiction, this version was originally an ape who was turned into a metahuman woman, though Grodd was the one who carried out the procedure. As such, Giganta became a devoted follower of his and a member of his Secret Society. Additionally, unlike her more brutish characterization in the comics, this Giganta acts in a more feminine manner, though she is still eager for battle according to an interview with Hale.
 * First appearing in the Justice League two-part episode "Secret Society", she recruits Shade into the eponymous group before they fight the Justice League, who eventually defeat the Society.
 * Giganta appears in Justice League Unlimited. In the episode "To Another Shore", Giganta serves as backup while the Society retrieve the Viking Prince's corpse, but she ends up comatose after the Martian Manhunter tries to read her mind and triggers a psychic trap that Grodd implanted in the Society members to prevent vital information from reaching the League. As of the episode "The Great Brain Robbery", Giganta has fully recovered. Prior to and during the episodes "Alive!" and "Destroyer", Lex Luthor takes control of the Society, but Grodd mounts a mutiny. Giganta sides with the former to seek revenge on the latter for manipulating her brain until Darkseid attacks and kills most of the Society, though Luthor, Giganta, and the survivors join forces with the League to thwart Darkseid's invasion of Earth. In return, the Leaguers give the Society a "five-minute head start", though Giganta sacrifices a few seconds to give the Flash a kiss before running.
 * Giganta made a non-speaking cameo appearance in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Powerless!".
 * Giganta appears in the "Wonder Woman" segment of DC Nation Shorts.
 * Giganta appears in the Robot Chicken DC Comics Special, voiced by Alex Borstein. This version is a member of the Legion of Doom.
 * Giganta appears in the DC Super Hero Girls franchise, voiced by Grey DeLisle.
 * She first appears in the TV special DC Super Hero Girls: Super Hero High and its short sequel "New Beginnings".
 * Giganta appears in DC Super Hero Girls (2019). This version is biracial, with a Caucasian father and an African-American mother, a member of the Super Villain Girls, and an uncouth, vindictive, and cynical school bully with a severe hatred for superheroes who loves to target the weak. Additionally, her powers are derived from a serum she stole from her parents and primarily manifest when she becomes angry. In an interview, DeLisle called the character "the best villain [of the show]", and "that fish-eyed neighbor who you say 'good morning' just on one of her really down days, and then makes sure you don't commit the same mistake ever again".
 * Giganta appears in Harley Quinn, voiced by Vanessa Marshall. This version is the ex-wife of Doctor Psycho, with whom she has a son named Herman.

Film

 * Giganta makes a cameo appearance in Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, voiced by Andrea Romano.
 * Giganta appears in Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League, voiced by April Winchell.
 * Giganta appears in Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League: Attack of the Legion of Doom.
 * Giganta makes a minor appearance in Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League: Gotham City Breakout.
 * Giganta appears in DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the Year, voiced again by Grey DeLisle.
 * Giganta appears in Wonder Woman: Bloodlines, voiced by Kimberly Brooks. This version is a member of Villainy Inc.
 * Giganta makes a non-speaking appearance in Justice League Dark: Apokolips War.
 * Giganta appears in Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse, voiced again by Grey DeLisle. This version is a member of the Legion of Doom.
 * Giganta appears in the crossover film Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too!.

Video games

 * Giganta appears in DC Universe Online, voiced by Lana Lesley. This version's appearance is based on her incarnation in One Year Later. In the hero campaign, Giganta works with Circe in a plot to transfer the former's mind into the body of Wonder Girl. After the plan succeeds, Giganta fights the players until they destroy the Convergence Crystals, which puts Giganta back in her own body and allows the restored Wonder Girl to join the players in defeating Giganta.
 * Giganta appears as a character summon in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.
 * Giganta makes a background cameo appearance in Injustice: Gods Among Us as a part of the Hall of Justice stage.
 * Giganta appears as a mini-boss and unlockable playable character in Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, voiced by Erica Luttrell.
 * Giganta appears as a playable character in DC Legends.
 * Giganta appears in DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power, voiced again by Grey DeLisle.

Miscellaneous

 * Giganta and her pet giraffe, Patches, appear in The Biggest Little Hero, by John Sazaklis and published by Capstone as part of their DC Super-Pets line of illustrated children's books.
 * The DCAU incarnation of Giganta appears in Justice League Unlimited #38. While on a date with the Flash, she attempts to reform.
 * Giganta appears in a flashback in Teen Titans Go! #54.
 * An illusion of Giganta created by Doctor Psycho appears in Wonder Woman '77 #6.
 * An alternate universe incarnation of Giganta makes a non-speaking appearance in the Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles episode "Big". This version is a giant robot developed by Kobra with the intention of destroying the world. However, it is destroyed by Bekka / Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor.
 * Giganta appears in DC Super Hero Girls (2015), voiced by Grey DeLisle.
 * Giganta appears in the Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay tie-in sequel comic.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of high schools in Japan

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List of high schools in Japan
Another meaningless list of schools. Delete. Radiant! 08:56, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Should be a category. Carrp | Talk 16:28, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, pointless list. Megan1967 00:25, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. *yawn*. James F. (talk) 11:11, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Useful list. --Andylkl 14:05, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Yep. It's useful. Vanky 00:15, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. --BM 14:18, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Deletioncruft VFD nomination.--Centauri 20:50, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. There's a general consensus that high schools in and of themselves are not notable. Why then is a list of high schools useful? DaveTheRed 23:42, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * The idea of 'notability' is a subjective one. I thought Wikipedia was about the pooling of knowledge.. Vanky 23:55, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment - Wikipedia is not a general knowledge base. If we discount  notability as a criteria, then I could write an article about my cat Fluffy, and it would have to be included. DaveTheRed 00:29, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * That article doesn't discount a list of schools. If your cat educated kids in Japan, it would be fine too! These are permanent public buildings that are the integral to their communities. Vanky 11:40, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Just because they are integral to their communities does not make it notable on a world-wide level. Libraries are used in education, and are integral to their communities. Do we need an entry for every single library in every small little communitiy? I say no, only the large, significant ones. Same with high schools. DaveTheRed 22:42, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * What's the cut-off point? Where I come from, 1000 pupils is big. Does that make it significant? Vanky 00:22, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't use size as a criteria for grade schools. Rather it should have something that distinguishes it from the pack. Like offering a program that few other schools do. Or being the first school to reach some acheivement. Or being the top rated school on some prestigious list. Or it should be famous via the media (i.e. Columbine HS).DaveTheRed 02:45, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. We really need some kind of big vote on the whole school subject. This ongoing discussion creates a lot of animosity and should be resolved.

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Centre of Indian Trade Unions

Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) is a national level trade union in India. The Centre of Indian Trade Unions is today one of biggest assemblies of workers and classes of India. It has strong presence in the Indian state of Tripura besides a good presence in West Bengal, Kerala and Kanpur. They have an average presence in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.

CITU has a membership of approximately 6,200,000 in 2023.

Tapan Kumar Sen is the General Secretary and K. Hemalata is the president of CITU. Hemalata was the first woman president of CITU, who was elected after A. K. Padmanabhan. It runs a monthly organ named WORKING CLASS.

CITU is affiliated to the World Federation of Trade Unions.

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Talk:Vision span

Could someone site sources for this five letter reading span that "reading research shows"? I happen to be one of those people who teaches others to read at rates of around 1000 words a minute. In order to do that, the human eye has to be able to see several words together, usually up to five. cf Speed reading. My own experience at speed reading 10,000+WPM tells me that the human eye can take in enormous volumes of words at a glance. The amount of information the human eye can take in is dependant upon: Before I boldly go in and rewrite this whole article, I would like to know why I shouldn't...? -- Jim Whitaker Metaphorman 08:57, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) the eyeglass prescription
 * 2) the distance the text is held from the face
 * 3) the size of the typefont
 * 4) the experience of the reader
 * 5) how tired your eyes are
 * 6) what you had for breakfast and how long since you have eaten anything
 * 7) etc etc ad nauseum...

I have added some relevant references as requested. The research stands firm to date. I believe the explanation for your experience of 10,000+wpm is due to innacurate assessment of comprehension. Any study conducted on reading rate must have a measure for non-comprehension. Reading and comprehension are inextricably linked. Otherwize I would be able to claim to read at 1 trillion+wpm just by sprinting through a library in a minute. "I comprehend that it was a library with lots of words in it and it only took one minute!" Regards. Doug
 * Some people can speed read for real. Most cannot. The inner mental processes of those who can read and retain at high speeds are different than those people who learn to gloss their eyes over text at outrageously high speeds.  Most such "natural" speed readers don't subject themselves to reading comprehension tests.  -- Jim Whitaker Metaphorman 00:09, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Ur, Jim! I believe if you have spent your time telling people you can read a normal text at 10000wpm plus with high comprehension, then you either have the wrong measure for comprehension, or you are trying to make money by deception. I would like to believe you are a typical speed reader (that you have trained yourself to ignore comprehension) and that you have deceived yourself. I believe people want to behave ethically. Of course it is possible to comprehend pulp at that rate. But any joker can do that. Its called scanning. Regs 144.214.54.211 09:11, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC) JosephJ!
 * I used to use "speed reading" techniques to ace midterms and final exams. We are talking classes like Organic Chemistry and Physics.  They sent me to college full time when I was 13 years old in part because of that.  Most people apparently cannot do that....  Just because YOU can't do that and people who can do it for real are rare doesn't mean that there is something wrong with me (or you).  It took years of training myself to find ways to put information I was reading into active use in order to get information to "stick".  Those techniques are not taught in most speed reading courses which basically tell you to "read faster" and "keep reading faster".  The kind of schooling that teaches "reading for ever greater speed" is ridiculous.  It is really too bad that you haven't stumbled on a system that actually works.  They don't sell well because they are hard to teach.  Courses in speed reading cannot teach inner mental processes, they can only teach the surface appearance of speed reading.  Any idiot can learn to gloss their eyes over text.  Throughout history there have been people who read extremely rapidly (sometimes called natural speed readers such as John Stuart Mill).  Trying to teach others to do it without the problems latent in speed reading courses is somewhat problematical.  If you take a look at the wikibook article Speed Reading you can get some semblance of an appreciation for inner mental processes that work and are moderately teachable.  If a reader focuses on putting information to use rather than trying to keep his eyes moving at a constant high steady speed over the text, speed eventually comes naturally.  -- Jim Whitaker Metaphorman 00:09, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

I removed the excess line about speed readers because it seems a little irrelevant to speed reading. Not sure why people want to talk about speed reading all the time on a page about vision span. JuneD 22:33, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Vision span is a term used in speed reading courses. I haven't seen it used outside of that context.  Hence this article was created to explain it in more detail without burdening the text of the article with details about vision span.  -- Jim Whitaker Metaphorman 00:09, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

In my opinion this is a candidate for speedy deletion. There is no such thing as "Vision Span" in serious research. The average number of eye-stops needed to identify a word decreases with practice and increasing visual vocabulary, see reading. --Hans-Werner34 (talk) 20:52, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Blind spot
I have removed the following sentence: "There is also the problem of the blind spot, an area near the center of vision in which the human eye has no cone cells or rod cells at all, and sees nothing." Firstly, even in context of the entire paragraph, it is not clear to what "problem" this statement refers. The peripheral vision may not be used in speed-reading, but the existence of a physiological blind spot is generally not a problem because one eye covers for the other. Secondly, it's not clear as to whether this usage of "blind spot" is referring to the physiological blind spot or anatomical blind spot. It certain confuses the meaning of the sentence in that there are areas of the eye that have or do not have photoreceptors, but there are no areas of vision that have or do not have photoreceptors. -AED 04:16, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

This is another article showing how dangerous confidence in wikipedia will be in most of all cases. There human brain can only process fixed symbols, moving symbols are impossible to be processed. Though, a speed reader fixes great parts of text with the soft focus of his eye. He looks at a page like one would look at a car or a table, concentrating not only at one centimetre of the object but at the whole ! Doing this, by practice the speed reader is used to process the information without fixing one word with his eyes as do children in the first or second grade. This method works. I wonder how some people still keep doubting about that. There a far too much people reading at +1000 wpm with excellent comprehension and ... without signs of autism. It took me two years to read at rates +1000 wpm, thousands of pages of practice and now I'm reading cases, judgements and statutes in one third the time I did before. Speed reading methods are the most useful and gratifying skill a lawyer ore other people dealing with great amounts of textual information could learn. The so called scientifical founding of arguments denying that one could read faster than usual are mostly based upon experiences with normal readers who where never taught to read at + 800 wpm with a method that they really understand and that fits for them.~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.58.29.176 (talk) 15:44, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

'Rauding'
There is a mysterious reference, on this page, to 'rauding'. The link merely redirects to 'Reading (Process)'. Could somebody, perhaps, explain this term?

Dreadnought1906 (talk) 01:22, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

What is this author actually saying?
The whole section on applications to speed reading seems like a barely veiled attempt at discrediting speed reading entirely, yet without ever going so far as to directly state that it doesn't exist (although it does leave open the door for the possibility that some mentally imbalanced people can move their eyes rapidly enough to read thousands of words per minute, seemingly to wave a hand to the acknowledgement that speed reading has been demonstrated to exist).

The section may be a collection of facts of some sort, though I really feel at a loss as to the overall coherence of it, and I feel that it's because the author is just trying to prove some ideology without saying it and it's not clear exactly what that is, but maybe it's just me.

Also, he mentions in two places that claims have been "found to be false" without citation. Even if he mentions a lack of cone cells in the first place, I would think a citation for that fact is in order. (Exactly how many cone cells *are* missing? How do we deduce ability to tell words from that?  How do we know no other type of cell is involved?  How many people agree with this data?  Etc.)  I won't put citation needed tags because I don't feel an expert enough on Wikipedia practices, so I'll leave that to someone else. Inhahe (talk) 12:38, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Conditions causing reduced vision span when reading
Can a section or list of links please be added regarding causes of reduced vision span. I have only 2 characters in focus with corrective lenses despite having normal results for peripheral light tests. What that is called is a mystery to me and many others. There must be several conditions affecting others where a reduction in vision span is significant. Not just dyslexia and tunnel vision. --tygrus (talk) 15:50, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

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Talk:Giganta

hmm... not sure how i got credited for creating this page. if that stands i say delete. Nateji77 08:57, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

additions & corrections
I noticed that the origin given for the golden age Giganta was basically part of the modern day version. I combined the information into the correct part of the article and added a correct explanation of the golden age character.

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Smallville's depiction of Giganta
What is the justification/evidence that tells you Tess Mercer is a pre-powered Giganta?

Tess Mercer appears more like Mercy Graves/Miss Tessmacher, based on the similarity of their names. Secondly, she is closer to Mercy Graves than in that she is successor to Lex Luthor, just as she was in the Superman animated series and Justice League cartoons. Thirdly, Tess Mercer's character displays cunning and cold calculation, which Giganta does not. Fourthly, the Smallville version of Oliver Queen occasionally calls Tess by the pet name of Mercy because they have a prior romantic relationship.

Furthermore, in the context of the Smallville story, she is recruiting superpowered people (meteor freaks) because she is following the work of the Smallville version of Lex Luthor (Level 33.1).

Another conflict is that the Wiki entry for Mercy Graves contains this: Mercy_Graves. Which page should a reader believe?

I suggest the paragraph about Tess Mercer as a "depiction of Giganta in other media" be deleted, or placed under some kind of "citation needed" banner, until we have more information.

omegadirective (talk) 09:58, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Deleted unless the contributor can provide more evidence. Currently, there's far more evidence pointing to her being Mercy (her name, her nickname, her role as Lex Luthor's successor, the NOMERCY license plate, etc.). If she suddenly gains growth powers, I will stand corrected. But to me, a pretty lady recruiting super-villains is not enough evidence to point to Giganta. That could make her any number of characters. Rajah1 (talk) 06:52, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

surname
We have "Zeul", dc.wikia.org has "Zuel". Could someone please double-check that the source issue quoted/referred-to is being quoted here accurately? (If so, the pages at wikia will have to be moved...) Schissel | Sound the Note! 02:31, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

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Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America is a 1996 American adult animated comedy road film based on the MTV animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head. The film was co-written and directed by series creator Mike Judge, who also reprises his roles from the series; Demi Moore, Bruce Willis, Robert Stack and Cloris Leachman star in supporting roles. The film follows Beavis and Butt-Head, two teen slackers who travel the US and unknowingly become fugitives.

Previous offers by MTV to adapt Beavis and Butt-Head to film were rejected by Judge, before he eventually agreed to the film in 1994. As production began, the series' staff halted production while Judge wrote the screenplay with Joe Stillman. John Frizzell composed the film's score.

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America premiered at Mann's Chinese Theater on December 15, 1996, and was released in the United States on December 20, 1996, by Paramount Pictures. The film later aired on MTV in 1999. It also aired on VH1 in 2003. The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing $63.1 million in the United States and becoming the largest December box office opening of all time until it was surpassed the following year by Scream 2, and was the second highest-grossing animated film of 1996, behind Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. A sequel, Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe, was released in 2022.

Plot
One day, Beavis and Butt-Head discover that someone broke into their house and stole their TV Set, and set out to find it. After several failed attempts to obtain one, they come across a motel which offers one in every room. They meet Muddy Grimes, who mistakes them for hired hitmen and offers them $10,000 to "do" his wife Dallas in Las Vegas. Thinking he wants them to have sex with her, Butt-Head convinces Beavis that they can "score" and buy a new television set.

Muddy drives the boys to the airport. In Las Vegas, Beavis and Butt-Head arrive at their hotel room, but Dallas catches them eavesdropping and holds them at gunpoint. The boys refuse Dallas' offer of $20,000 to "do" Muddy and argue over who will "do" Dallas first. Realizing that Beavis and Butt-Head have misunderstood their instructions, she plants the X-5 unit, a stolen biological weapon, in Beavis' shorts. She tells them to meet her for sex at the U.S. Capitol, but actually plans to kill them and recover the unit.

Beavis and Butt-Head board a tour bus. After they accidentally sabotage Hoover Dam, Agent Flemming of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) becomes convinced that the duo are criminal masterminds and places them on the FBI's most-wanted list. At Yellowstone National Park, Beavis and Butt-Head accidentally board the wrong bus, joining a busload of nuns who are repulsed by the boys and abandon them in Petrified Forest National Park. After walking through the desert, the boys meet two former Mötley Crüe roadies, oblivious that they are their biological fathers.

Muddy returns to the motel and meets the real hitmen. He angrily swears to track down and kill Beavis and Butt-Head. The hitmen, who stole Beavis and Butt-Head's TV Set but instead of continuing to transport it decide to leave it and continue to steal other things from people, abandon it in front of the motel. Beavis and Butt-Head awaken to find the drifters gone and continue walking until they become dehydrated and weak, they start to see their lives flash before their eyes, with Butthead reminiscing on him and Beavis growing up together while Beavis sees himself as a sperm cell going inside an ovum. While suffering dehydration, Beavis takes a bite out of a peyote cactus, causing him to have hallucinations of himself and Butt-Head being in a heavy-metal type music video.

Muddy finds Beavis and Butt-Head. After learning that Dallas intends to meet them, he puts them in his trunk and drives on. In Virginia, they jump out onto the interstate and cause a 400-car pileup. They walk past the scene and board their original tour bus, stopping at the Capitol before reaching the White House. Muddy confronts Dallas in a parking garage before she can meet Beavis and Butt-Head. She seduces him and they have sex in his car but are found and arrested by the ATF.

The ATF is dispatched to the White House because Beavis and Butt-Head are there on the same day as a peace conference. Beavis consumes caffeine and sugar and transforms into Cornholio, his hyperactive alter ego. Wandering into the Oval Office, he picks up the red phone, causing a military alert. Butt-Head attempts to seduce Chelsea Clinton but is thrown out of her bedroom window. He is detained and cavity-searched by ATF officers.

Beavis goes to their neighbor Tom Anderson's travel trailer, where Anderson catches him masturbating and throws him out. The ATF, thinking Beavis has the bioweapon, are about to open fire when Anderson throws out Beavis' pants. The bioweapon flies into Butt-Head's hand and he casually gives it to Flemming. Anderson is falsely accused of trying to frame Beavis and Butt-Head, and is arrested along with Dallas and Muddy while his wife is taken for a cavity search. Flemming proclaims Beavis and Butt-Head heroes, and they meet President Bill Clinton, who makes them honorary ATF agents. Beavis and Butt-Head return to Highland, upset that they did not have sex or receive money, but they find their television at the motel, and walk into the sunset carrying it and insulting each other until Beavis suggests going into Anderson's tool shed to masturbate.

Voice cast

 * Mike Judge as Beavis, Butt-Head, Tom Anderson, Mr. Van Driessen, and Principal McVicker
 * Bruce Willis as Muddy Grimes
 * Demi Moore as Dallas Grimes
 * Cloris Leachman as Martha the Old Woman
 * Robert Stack as Agent Flemming

Greg Kinnear has an uncredited role as ATF Agent Bork; David Letterman (credited as Earl Hofert) had a role as a Mötley Crüe roadie.

Production
Development began in 1993 as part of a production deal with MTV, David Geffen, and Warner Bros. Geffen so believed in the potential of the Beavis and Butt-head TV series that he suggested creating a film and record album based on the program. They originally conceived it in live action, with Saturday Night Live regulars David Spade and Adam Sandler in mind to play the title characters. After MTV's parent company Viacom acquired Paramount Pictures's parent company Paramount Communications on July 7, 1994, the studio became a partner in the film, replacing Warner's interest in the project and dropping the live action concept under pressure from series creator Mike Judge. Judge has stated production of the animated film was very ad hoc and had some difficulties with progressing due to most of the staff's television background. The animation of the film was provided by Rough Draft Korea. The hallucination sequence's design and animation was based on the works of Rob Zombie. The sequence's director was Chris Prynoski.

Deleted scene
When the film premiered on MTV on August 7, 1999, an additional deleted scene followed the airing: while visiting the National Archives, Beavis attempts to use the restroom, but cannot because of the lack of toilet paper in the stall. Coincidentally, Butt-head is angry because the urinals lack the automatic flushing mechanisms that had amazed him at Yellowstone National Park. After the rest of their tour group finishes looking at the encased Declaration of Independence, Beavis sneaks out, breaks the glass with the U.S. flag pole, and steals it to use as "T.P. for his bunghole." While Archive guards rush to see what happened, Beavis cleans up, and exits the stall with a piece of the Declaration, containing John Hancock's signature, stuck to his shoe. The scene does not appear on the DVD, although it is mentioned on the commentary track. In the track, Judge noted that the scene did not test well.

A deleted scene showing Chelsea Clinton packing up to leave the White House was also shot as an alternative to the scene in the film depicting Butt-Head meeting Chelsea in her bedroom, in the event that Bill Clinton should lose his 1996 reelection bid to Bob Dole; however, by the spring of 1996, Judge chose to keep the original scene, feeling confident that Clinton would win his reelection bid—which he ultimately did that November.

Soundtrack
Noticeably missing are "Mucha Muchacha", the version of "Lesbian Seagull" with Mr. Van Driessen singing, and the score tracks performed by The London Metropolitan Orchestra, which were released on a separate album.

"Two Cool Guys", written and performed by soul/funk musician Isaac Hayes, is a semi-parody of Hayes' Academy Award-winning "Theme from Shaft". It incorporates the theme from the Beavis and Butt-head television series as a rhythm guitar line, and series creator Mike Judge, who wrote the theme, is given a co-writing credit with Hayes in the soundtrack liner notes. The opening credit sequence which the song features is a take-off on popular 1970s cop movies and TV shows with Beavis and Butt-Head as hip ace sleuth Lothario detectives.

The version of Ozzy Osbourne's "Walk on Water" is not the same version included in the film. The film used an earlier demo version, while the soundtrack itself contains a later, revised version. The original demo, which appears in the film, can be found on Osbourne's Prince of Darkness box set. Osbourne and co-writer Jim Vallance both prefer the demo version heard in the film. "Walk on Water" was released as a single and peaked at number 28 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

The use of AC/DC's "Gone Shootin'" is particularly fitting for the series, as Judge himself would eventually admit the guitar solo that serves as the show's theme was in fact the solo from the AC/DC song played backwards.

The soundtrack was re-released in 2016 on a special edition LP picture disc.

Box office
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America opened at number 1 in North America on December 20, 1996, collecting $20.1 million in its opening weekend. Upon its release, it generated the highest December opening weekend, breaking the former record held by Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. The film overall earned $63.1 million at the US box office. It had a $12 million production budget.

Critical reception
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has approval rating of  based on  reviews and an average of. The site's consensus reads: "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America is unabashedly offensive, unapologetically stupid, and unexpectedly funny." On Metacritic, the film has a 64 out of 100 rating based on 16 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.

Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times praised the film as a "vulgar" satire on American youth, and compared it favorably to Wayne's World. On the film review show Siskel and Ebert, Ebert's reviewing partner Gene Siskel gave the film a "modest recommendation", having been taken with the two lead characters. Ebert and Siskel ultimately awarded it a "two thumbs up" rating. Ty Burr writing for Entertainment Weekly gave it a C+ saying it "turns from spoofing teenage dimness to merely embodying it." In a retrospective review in Jacobin for the film's 25th anniversary, writer Leonard Pierce praised Beavis and Butt-Head Do America for its continued relevancy into the 21st century. Pierce described the film as "the greatest satire of the twenty-first-century American security state," adding that "we wouldn't be talking about the film at all today if it wasn't still painfully funny, with a distinctly 2020s nervous energy and a rowdy, bubbling pace that never slows down." Pierce concluded that Beavis and Butt-Head Do America "seems far fresher today than anything Matt Stone and Trey Parker have done this century."

Home media
The film was released on VHS on June 10, 1997, and on DVD on November 23, 1999, by Paramount Home Entertainment. It was re-released on a Special Edition DVD in 2006 as "The Edition That Doesn't Suck".

The video went straight to number one in the official UK video charts on release of which it stayed at the number one spot for two weeks before moving to number two during its third week. The movie spent a total of 17 weeks on the official video charts in the UK.

The film was released on Blu-ray for the first time on December 7, 2021, by Paramount Home Entertainment, in commemoration of the film's 25th anniversary.

Sequel
In the years following, many fans rumored the possibility of a sequel or follow-up to the film, tentatively titled Beavis and Butt-Head: The Sequel or Beavis and Butt-Head 2. On August 31, 2009, during the promotion of Extract, Judge said he would like to see Beavis and Butt-Head on the big screen again. In 2019, Judge revealed that he has "some ideas" for a new film, saying there might be potential for a live-action version of the show. In February 2021, it was announced that a new Beavis and Butt-Head movie was in production for Paramount+, with Mike Judge on board. Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe was released on June 23, 2022.

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