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James Fleming (York West MP)

James Sydney Clark Fleming (October 30, 1939 – February 15, 2023) was a Canadian broadcaster and politician.

Fleming was a news reporter for several Toronto radio stations, eventually becoming co-anchor of CHFI morning news, which was simulcast on both CHFI-FM and what was then CHFI-AM. He was the newscaster on Bright and Early on CTV, Canada's first TV network morning news and public affairs show. The show aired in the 1966-67 television season and was not renewed. He also hosted a number of CTV public affairs specials including an interview with John Lennon during his and Yoko Ono's Give Peace A Chance tour of Canada.

Fleming entered politics and was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1972 election as the Liberal Member of Parliament for York West riding in the Toronto area. He was elected chair of the Ontario Liberal caucus by his peers. He served as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Communications from 1975 to 1976, and then as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of the Environment.

Following the 1980 election, Fleming was named to the cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau as Minister of State for Multiculturalism. As minister, he was responsible for ensuring multiculturalism was included in the drafting of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He also won cabinet approval for the creation of a special parliamentary Committee on Race Relations, had his department sponsor a national Conference on Race Relations and the Law, and provided government support for a national conference on the challenges faced by immigrant women.

Fleming was dropped from cabinet in August 1983. He was offered and appointment to the Canadian Senate but declined and did not run in the 1984 election.

Fleming returned to work in radio and wrote a column for the Toronto Sun.

Fleming died on February 15, 2023, at the age of 83.

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The Sixth Day

The Sixth Day may refer to:

 * The Sixth Day (film), a 1986 film directed by Youssef Chahine
 * The Sixth Day and Other Tales, a 1990 collection of stories by Primo Levi, with a story titled "The Sixth Day"
 * The 6th Day, a 2000 film featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger
 * The Sixth Day: Single Collection, 2004 compilation album by Gackt

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Bob Devaney

Robert Simon Devaney (April 13, 1915 – May 9, 1997) was a college football coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Wyoming from 1957 to 1961 and at the University of Nebraska from 1962 to 1972, compiling a career record of .800. Devaney's Nebraska Cornhuskers won consecutive national championships in 1970 and 1971 and three consecutive Orange Bowls.

Devaney also served as the athletic director at Nebraska from 1967 to 1993, and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1981. He died of a heart attack at age 82 in 1997, and is buried at Lincoln Memorial Park in Lincoln.

Playing and early coaching career
Devaney graduated from Alma College in 1939, where he played end on the football team. Devaney coached high school football in Michigan at Big Beaver, Keego Harbor, Saginaw, and Alpena, before joining the Michigan State Spartans staff as an assistant coach under Biggie Munn and continuing under Duffy Daugherty.

Wyoming
Devaney's first college head coaching job was at the University of Wyoming, where he went .750 in five seasons (1957–1961). The Cowboys won the Sun Bowl in his second season and won or shared the Skyline Conference title in his final four seasons in Laramie. Devaney was released from his contract by the university's board of trustees in February 1962, and was hired at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln at an annual salary of $17,000.

Nebraska
Devaney was the fourth choice of Nebraska's athletic director, Tippy Dye. Utah's Ray Nagel and Utah State's John Ralston had turned down the job. Michigan State coach Duffy Daugherty also turned down Dye, but recommended Devaney, his former assistant, for the Cornhuskers. When Devaney balked at leaving Wyoming for Nebraska, it was Daugherty who convinced him to accept the position because he could potentially win a national title at Nebraska, a goal that Wyoming was unlikely to attain. Devaney joined Nebraska in 1962 and immediately reestablished the program as a force in the Big Eight Conference. Prior to Devaney's arrival, Nebraska football had fallen on hard times with seven consecutive losing seasons. The 1961 team under Bill Jennings went 3–6–1 overall and 2–5 in conference. After a winning tradition up until the early 1940s, Nebraska had only three winning seasons in the two decades preceding Devaney's arrival.

Devaney engineered an immediate turnaround with a 9–2 record in 1962 that included a victory in the Gotham Bowl at Yankee Stadium over the Miami Hurricanes. It was the first of forty consecutive winning seasons for Nebraska. Devaney followed this up with an even better 10–1 season the next year, including a perfect 7–0 record in the Big Eight to claim the conference title and an Orange Bowl victory over Auburn. His success continued through 1966, with records of 9–2, 10–1, and 9–2, bringing his record at Nebraska to .850 in his first five seasons. This had so revived Nebraska football that Memorial Stadium was enlarged significantly by enclosing both ends. For the first time, Nebraska was on television once or twice a year and fans all over the state sat down to watch the Bob Devaney TV show each week, in which he used his folksy manner to review the tape of the game for all of the fans who hadn't seen it in person.

Consecutive 6–4 seasons followed in 1967 and 1968; allegedly known as a drinker, Devaney became subject to a whispering campaign about whether he had peaked. However, he had brought in an innovative offensive thinker as an assistant coach, Tom Osborne. Devaney and Osborne revamped the offensive scheme, an I formation with an unbalanced line, and upgraded the recruiting effort. Nebraska began the 1969 season at 2–2 start and in its fifth game needed a last-minute comeback at home to beat a Kansas team that finished the season with only one win. But the Huskers kept winning and concluded the regular season at 8–2, then routed Georgia 45–6 in the Sun Bowl. This set the stage for the highlight of Devaney's coaching career.

National championships
The 1970 Nebraska team returned most of the key offensive starters from the previous year, and added sophomore Johnny Rodgers, an explosive punt returner and wide receiver, who won the Heisman Trophy in 1972 as a senior. Nebraska tied USC in Los Angeles early in the season and was ranked #3 going into the Orange Bowl against LSU.

A late touchdown by quarterback Jerry Tagge gave the Huskers a 17–12 victory to finish the season at 11–0–1. This secured a share of the national championship, after the other two undefeated teams in the nation, Texas and Ohio State, lost their bowl games earlier in the day. The final AP Poll, conducted after the bowl games were played, picked Nebraska as champion, while the final UPI Poll, released in early December before the bowl games, had Texas first with Nebraska third.

With most of its key players back and its defense vastly improved in 1971, Nebraska rolled through the first ten games. The top-ranked Huskers met unbeaten #2 Oklahoma in Norman on Thanksgiving Day in the Game of the Century, one of the most celebrated games in college football history. A late touchdown by tailback Jeff Kinney gave the Huskers a hard-fought 35–31 victory. When Nebraska crushed unbeaten Alabama 38–6 in the Orange Bowl to finish 13–0, the Cornhuskers were said by many to be the greatest team in college football history. In fact, the Huskers defeated the teams ranked second, third, and fourth in the final AP Poll: Oklahoma, Colorado, and Alabama.

Final season
Devaney coached one more year in 1972 and expectations were high for a third straight national title. Although a disappointing loss to UCLA at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum opened the season, the Huskers finished with a 9–2–1 record. The loss to UCLA ended Nebraska's 32-game unbeaten streak, which dated back nearly three years to October 11, 1969, when they lost at Missouri. Although the Cornhuskers tied Iowa State and lost by three points to Oklahoma in Lincoln in November, the season ended with a 40–6 victory over Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl, the Huskers' third consecutive victory in that bowl game. Nebraska finished the 1972 season ranked #4 in the AP Poll. In addition, Johnny Rodgers was selected as the winner of the Heisman Trophy. The UPI Coaches' Poll, released before the bowls, had Nebraska at #9.

Following the 1972 season, Devaney stepped down as head coach at age 57 and hired his protégé to succeed him, offensive coordinator Tom Osborne. Devaney's overall record at Nebraska was 101–20–2 (.820) in 11 seasons, with nine bowl appearances and two national championships. His teams won or shared eight Big Eight Conference titles. His record in his final three seasons was 32–2–2 (.910), and his career college head coaching record at Wyoming and Nebraska was 136–30–7 (.800) in 16 seasons.

Nebraska athletic director
Devaney served as athletic director at Nebraska from 1967 to 1992 and as athletic director emeritus until 1996. The university's volleyball/wrestling/gymnastics arena, the Bob Devaney Sports Center, is named for him.

Coaching tree
Assistant coaches under Devaney who have become college or professional head coaches:
 * Lloyd Eaton: Wyoming (1962–1970)
 * Tom Osborne: Nebraska (1973–1997)
 * Carl Selmer: Miami (FL) (1975–1976)
 * Warren Powers: Washington State (1977), Missouri (1978–1984)
 * Jim Walden: Washington State (1978–1986), Iowa State (1987–1994)
 * Monte Kiffin: NC State (1980–1982)

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George Arnold Escher

George Arnold Escher (10 May 1843 – 14 June 1939) was a Dutch civil engineer and a foreign advisor to the Japanese government during the Meiji period.

He was the father of the graphic artist M. C. Escher and the geologist Berend George Escher.

Career
Escher was hired by the Japanese government as a foreign advisor from September 1873 to July 1878, along with fellow Dutch civil engineers Johannis de Rijke and Cornelis Johannes van Doorn. During his stay in Japan, he designed and supervised the restoration of the Yodo river (Osaka), and built a harbour in Mikuni in Fukui prefecture.

Escher also collaborated on works in China with Johannis de Rijke, including works related to the sandbank at the mouth of the Huangpu Jiang. This tributary of the Yangtze River plays a crucial role in Shanghai's international trade. Escher accompanied de Rijke on an exploratory visit to Shanghai and compiled a report that garnered considerable attention, though it did not culminate in immediate implementation.

After returning to the Netherlands, he worked in Maastricht. During this time, he recorded in his diary his difficulty as a Protestant in finding a suitable marriage partner in Roman Catholic Maastricht who would also be able to satisfy his equation v = 1/2m + 10, where v was the age of the woman, and m the age of the husband. In 1882, Escher married Charlotte Marie Hartitzsch, with whom he had two sons. He became a widower in 1885, and in 1892 married Sara Gleichman, with whom he had three more sons. Escher worked as a hydraulic engineer in Leeuwarden. In 1903 the family moved to Arnhem.

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Frances de la Tour

Frances J. de Lautour (born 30 July 1944), better known as Frances de la Tour, is an English actress. She is known for her role as Miss Ruth Jones in the television sitcom Rising Damp from 1974 until 1978. She is a Tony Award winner and three-time Olivier Award winner.

She performed as Mrs. Lintott in the play The History Boys in London and on Broadway, winning the 2006 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She reprised the role in the 2006 film. Her other film roles include Madame Olympe Maxime in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). Television roles include Emma Porlock in the Dennis Potter serial Cold Lazarus (1996), headmistress Margaret Baron in BBC sitcom Big School and Violet Crosby in the sitcom Vicious.

Early life and family
de la Tour was born on 30 July 1944 in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, to Moyra (née Fessas) and Charles de la Tour (1909–1982). The name was also spelled de Lautour, and it was in this form that her birth was registered in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, in the third quarter of 1944. She has English, French, Greek, and Irish ancestry. She was educated at London's Lycée Français and the Drama Centre London.

Theatre
After leaving drama school, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1965. Over the next six years, she played many small roles with the RSC in a variety of plays, gradually building up to larger parts such as Hoyden in The Relapse and culminating in Peter Brook's acclaimed production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, in which she played Helena as a comic "tour de force".

In the 1970s, she worked steadily both on the stage and on television. Some of her notable appearances were Rosalind in As You Like It at the Playhouse, Oxford in 1975 and Isabella in The White Devil at the Old Vic in 1976. She enjoyed a collaboration with Stepney's Half Moon Theatre, appearing in the London première of Dario Fo's ''We Can't Pay? We Won't Pay (1978), Eleanor Marx's Landscape of Exile (1979), and in the title role of Hamlet'' (1980).

In 1980, she played Stephanie, the violinist with MS in Duet for One, a play written for her by Kempinski, for which she won the Olivier for Best Actress. She played Sonya in Uncle Vanya opposite Donald Sinden at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in 1982. Her performance as Josie in Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten won her another Olivier for Best Actress in 1983. She joined the Royal National Theatre for the title role in Saint Joan in 1984 and appeared there in Brighton Beach Memoirs in 1986. She again won the Olivier, this time for Best Supporting Actress for Martin Sherman's play about Isadora Duncan, When She Danced, with Vanessa Redgrave at the Globe Theatre in 1991 and played Leo in Les Parents terribles at the Royal National Theatre in 1994, earning another Olivier nomination.

In 1994, de la Tour co-starred with Maggie Smith in Edward Albee's Three Tall Women at the Wyndham's and with Alan Howard in Albee's The Play About the Baby at the Almeida in 1998. In 1999, she returned to the RSC to play Cleopatra opposite Alan Bates in Antony and Cleopatra, in which she did a nude walk across the stage. In 2004, she played Mrs. Lintott in Alan Bennett's The History Boys at the National and later on Broadway, winning both a Drama Desk Award and a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She would also later appear in the film version. In December 2005, she appeared in the London production of the highly acclaimed anti-Iraq War one-woman play Peace Mom by Dario Fo, based on the writings of Cindy Sheehan. In 2007, she appeared in a West End revival of the farce Boeing-Boeing. In 2009, she appeared in Alan Bennett's new play The Habit of Art at the National. In 2012, she returned to the National in her third Bennett premiere, People.

Film and television
Her many television appearances during the 1980s and 1990s include the 1980 miniseries Flickers opposite Bob Hoskins, the TV version of Duet for One, for which she received a BAFTA nomination, the series A Kind of Living (1988–89), Dennis Potter's Cold Lazarus (1996), and Tom Jones (1997). Of all her TV roles, however, she is best known for playing spinster Ruth Jones in the successful Yorkshire Television comedy Rising Damp, from 1974 to 1978. De la Tour told Richard Webber, who wrote a 2001 book about the series, that Ruth Jones "was an interesting character to play. We laughed a lot on set, but comedy is a serious business, and Leonard took it particularly seriously, and rightly so. Comedy, which is so much down to timing, is exhausting work. But it was a happy time." Upon reprising her Rising Damp role in the 1980 film version, she won Best Actress at the Evening Standard British Film Awards.

In the mid-1980s, de la Tour was considered, along with Joanna Lumley and Dawn French, as a replacement for Colin Baker on Doctor Who. The idea was scrapped and the job was given to Sylvester McCoy.

In 2003, de la Tour played a terminally ill gay woman in the film Love Actually with the actress Anne Reid, although her scenes were cut from the film's theatrical release and appear only on the DVD.

In 2005, she portrayed Olympe Maxime, headmistress of Beauxbatons Academy, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. In 2010, she reprised Maxime as a cameo in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. Notable television roles during this time include Agatha Christie's Poirot: Death on the Nile (2004), Waking the Dead (2004), the black comedy Sensitive Skin (2005), with Joanna Lumley and Denis Lawson, Agatha Christie's Marple: The Moving Finger (2006) and New Tricks as a rather morbid Egyptologist, also in 2006.

She was nominated for the 2006 BAFTA Award for Actress in a Supporting Role for her work on the film version of The History Boys.

She later appeared in several well-received films, including Tim Burton's 2010 Alice in Wonderland as Aunt Imogene, a delusional aunt of Alice's, opposite Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, and Mia Wasikowska and a supporting role in the film The Book of Eli, directed by the Hughes brothers. In 2012, she appeared in the film Hugo.

Until 2012, she was also a patron for the performing arts group Theatretrain.

From 2013 to 2016, de la Tour played the role of Violet Crosby in ITV sitcom Vicious with Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi.

From 2013 to 2014, she portrayed headmistress Ms Baron in the BBC One sitcom Big School.

In April 2016, she joined the second series of Outlander as Mother Hildegarde.

In 2021, de la Tour appeared in an ITV production, initially released on BritBox - Professor T. - in which she played the mother of the titular character.

Personal life
She is the sister of actor and screenwriter Andy de la Tour.

An episode of the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are?, first broadcast on 22 October 2015, revealed de la Tour to be a descendant of the aristocratic Delaval family.

Politically, de la Tour is a socialist and was a member of the Workers' Revolutionary Party in the 1970s.

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Water opossum

The water opossum (Chironectes minimus), also locally known as the yapok, is a marsupial of the family Didelphidae. It is the only living member of its genus, Chironectes. This semiaquatic creature is found in and near freshwater streams and lakes from Mexico through Central and South America to Argentina and is the most aquatic living marsupial (the lutrine opossum also has semiaquatic habits). It is also the only living marsupial in which both sexes have a pouch. The thylacine, commonly referred to as the Tasmanian tiger, also exhibited this trait, but it is now extinct.

The water opossum lives in bankside burrows, emerging after dusk to swim and search for fish, crustaceans and other aquatic animals, which it eats on the bank.

Origin of the name
The local name for the water opossum, "yapok", probably comes from the name of the Oyapok River in French Guiana.

Physical appearance
The water opossum is a small opossum, 27-32.5 cm long, with a 36-40 cm long tail. The fur is in a marbled grey and black pattern, while the muzzle, eyestripe, and crown are all black. A light band runs across the forehead anterior to the ears, which are rounded and naked. There are sensory facial bristles in tufts above each eye, as well as whiskers. The water opossum's tail, furred and black at the base, is yellow or white at its end. The hindfeet of the water opossum are webbed, while the forefeet ("hands") are not. The forefeet can be used to feel for and grab prey as the animal swims, propelled by its tail and webbed back feet. Unlike other didelphids, the water opossum does not have a cloaca.

Aquatic adaptations
The water opossum has several adaptations for its watery lifestyle. It has short, dense fur, which is water-repellent. The broad hindfeet are webbed and are used for propulsion through water, moving with alternate strokes. They are symmetrical as well, which distributes force equally along both borders of the webbing; this increases the efficiency of the water opossum's movement through the water. The water opossum's long tail also aids in swimming.

Being a marsupial and at the same time an aquatic animal, the water opossum has evolved a way to protect its young while swimming. A strong ring of muscle makes the pouch (which opens to the rear) watertight, so the young remain dry, even when the mother is totally immersed in water. The male also has a pouch (although not as watertight as the female's), where he places his genitalia before swimming. This is thought to prevent them from becoming entangled in aquatic vegetation and is probably helpful in streamlining the animal as well.

Reproduction
Water opossums mate in December and a litter of 1–5 young is born 12 to 14 days later in the nest. By 22 days the offspring are beginning to show some fur, and by 40 days or so their eyes are open, their bodies protruding from the mother's pouch. At 48 days of age, the young opossums detach from the nipples, but they still nurse and sleep with the mother.

Fossil record
The water opossum seems to have a history dating as far back as to the Pliocene Epoch. The first Pliocene occurrences were recorded in 1902, 1906, and 1917 when two fragments of left mandibular ramus with alveoli (characterized as MACN 2464 and MACN 3515), as well as the fragment of the distal end of a humerus (MACN 3675) were collected near the city of Parani, Entre Rios Province, Argentina. The mandibular fossils, MACN 2464 and 3515 were known to be from the water opossum because their teeth were nearly indistinguishable from living populations of the organism in present day. Additionally, water opossum teeth are characteristically different from other didelphids, likely because they are the only semi-aquatic marsupials, making these teeth easy to identify.

Holocene subfossil fragments of Chironectes have been discovered in São Paulo, Brazil. Also, there are fossil specimens from the late Pleistocene-Recent cave deposits in Minas Gerais, Brazil, as well as from the late Pliocene in Entre Ríos Province, Argentina.

Subspecies

 * Chironectes minimus argyrodytes
 * Chironectes minimus langsdorffi
 * Chironectes minimus minimus
 * Chironectes minimus panamensis

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Henry Casimir II, Prince of Nassau-Dietz

Henry Casimir II of Nassau-Dietz (18 January 1657 – 25 March 1696) was Stadtholder of Friesland and Groningen from 1664 till 1696.

Life
Henry Casimir II of Nassau-Dietz was born in The Hague, the eldest son of Willem Frederik of Nassau-Dietz and Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau, daughter of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel. When his father, a member of the branch of Nassau-Dietz, died in 1664, he was made stadtholder of Friesland and Groningen (under guardianship of his mother as he was then seven years old). In 1675, Friesland voted to make its stadtholdership hereditary in the house of Nassau-Dietz. Hendrik Casimir II was therefore the first Friesian stadtholder. In 1683, he married his cousin Henriëtte Amalia of Anhalt-Dessau, daughter of John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau. Hendrik Casimir died in Leeuwarden, and was succeeded as stadtholder by his son Johan Willem Friso of Orange-Nassau.

Issue
From his marriage, Henry Casimir II had the following children:
 * Willem George Friso (1685–1686), Hereditary Prince of Nassau-Dietz
 * Henriette Albertine (1686–1754), Princess of Nassau-Dietz
 * Johan Willem Friso (1687–1711), Stadholder in Friesland and Groningen
 * Maria Amalia (1689–1771) Princess of Nassau-Dietz
 * Sofia Hedwig (1690–1734), married in 1708 Duke Charles Leopold of Mecklenburg (1678–1747), son of Frederick, Duke of Mecklenburg-Grabow
 * Isabelle Charlotte (1692–1757), married in 1725 Prince Christian, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg (1688–1739), son of Henry, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg
 * Johanna Agnes (1693–1765), Princess of Nassau-Dietz
 * Louise Leopoldina (1695–1758), Princess of Nassau-Dietz
 * Henriette Casimira (1696–1738), Princess of Nassau-Dietz


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Dansk Melodi Grand Prix

Dansk Melodi Grand Prix, also known as Melodi Grand Prix or simply DMGP, is an annual music competition organised by the Danish public broadcaster DR since 1957, which determines the for the Eurovision Song Contest. The festival has produced three Eurovision winners and fourteen top-five placings.

History
With the introduction of a semi-final at the 2004 contest, and due to Denmark's absence from the 2003 contest, Denmark's 2004 representative, Tomas Thordarson, had to take part in the semi-final. His song, "Shame on You" did not reach the final, finishing 13th in a field of 22 contestants.

In 2005, DR made a bold step for Dansk Melodi Grand Prix. Artists were allowed, for the first time ever, to sing in a language other than Danish. Many of the entries that year were sung in English; however, against the odds, the winning song was sung in Danish. Jakob Sveistrup won Dansk Melodi Grand Prix with his song "Tænder på dig". It was later re-written for the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 to English as "Talking to You". Unlike the year before, Denmark secured a place in the final, finishing third in the semifinal. In the final he came 9th, guaranteeing Denmark a place in the final of the 2006 contest. A year later, Sidsel Ben Semmane sang "Twist of Love" in the final, but managed to finish 18th of 24 songs.

In 2007, after many poor results, Dansk Melodi Grand Prix adopted a semi-final format that had served well for the Swedish preselection, Melodifestivalen. Two semi-finals with 8 songs each were introduced, with the top 4 songs qualifying for the final. The 4 losing songs of each semi-final then took part in one of two wildcard rounds where the listeners of Danish radio stations P3 and P4 chose another two finalists. The winner under this new format, DQ with the song "Drama Queen" (a wildcard entrant), finished 18th in the semifinal, failing to qualify Denmark for the final again.

DR continued to use this format in the 2008 edition which was won by Simon Mathew and the song "All Night Long". At the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade, Serbia, Denmark as in 2005, finished 3rd in the semifinals, qualifying for the grand final. In the final, Mathew got 60 points, finishing 15th in a field of 25 songs.

For the 2009 of Dansk Melodi Grand Prix, DR reverted to their one-night final, that was held on 31 January 2009. The final of 10 songs consisted of 6 songs from an open call of songs from the public, with 4 songs being invited by DR to compete.

Winners
Almost all winners of Dansk Melodi Grand Prix have gone on to represent Denmark at Eurovision. Only two winning entries did not represent Denmark at Eurovision: the 1996 winner, "Kun med dig" by Dorte Andersen and Martin Loft, which failed to qualify for the final from the pre-selection, and the 2020 winner, "Yes" by Ben and Tan, which was slated to be the country's entry before the contest was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Denmark has won Eurovision three times: in 1963, 2000 and 2013.

Children's MGP album series
De vindere series

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Impromptu (disambiguation)

Impromptu is a musical form or genre.

Impromptu may also refer to:

Films

 * Impromptu (1932 film), a comedy short starring Richard Bird and Florence Desmond
 * Impromptu (1991 film), a movie starring Hugh Grant as Chopin
 * Impromptu (2013 film), a Canadian animated short film by Bruce Alcock

Music

 * Impromptu (June Christy album), a 1977 album by June Christy
 * Impromptu (Billy Taylor album), a 1962 album by jazz pianist Billy Taylor
 * Impromptus (Schubert)
 * "Impromptu", a song by Beggars Opera from the album Waters of Change, 1971

Other uses

 * Impromptu (programming environment), a Scheme-based live programming environment
 * Impromptu speaking
 * Impromptu, a 1923 novel by Elliot Paul

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Talk:Frederick Chiluba

Advance-fee fraud
Got a 419 scam mail today from "Mr Donatus Kenke Chiluba" who wants me to help transfering his fathers money. The email contains a link to http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=chiluba&fr=logout where the top result is Wikipedia Frederick_Chiluba. The link is obviously included to pretend legitimacy so maybe this should be mentioned here.

Ethnic group
Which ethnic group is he from? Badagnani 10:08, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

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General upgrading of this article needed. More details at all stages, especially his political career can help this article move up the class rating scale. ludahai 魯大海 10:38, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

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Roger Simmons

Roger Cyril Simmons, (born June 3, 1939) is a Canadian public policy consultant and former politician and diplomat.

Simmons is originally from Newfoundland and Labrador, where he was a politician for many years. He was later based at the Vancouver, British Columbia office of the Gowlings law firm.

The son of Willis Simmons and Ida Williams, he was born in Lewisporte, Newfoundland. After studying at the Salvation Army College for Officers, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and Boston University, Simmons became a teacher in Newfoundland's Salvation Army school system. (At the time, the Salvation Army, along with other denominations, ran its own publicly funded schools.) He subsequently moved to Springdale to become principal of Grant Collegiate and superintendent of the Green Bay Integrated School Board.

Simmons married Miriam Jean Torgerson.

He became president of the Newfoundland Teachers' Association in 1968 but resigned to run unsuccessfully for the leadership of the Newfoundland Liberal party.

In 1973, he was elected Liberal member of the House of Assembly (MHA) for Hermitage. He was re-elected in 1975 as MHA for Burgeo-Bay D'Espoir.

In 1979, he resigned his provincial seat and was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the that year's federal election as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Burin—St. George's.

Following the 1980 election, Simmons became parliamentary secretary to the minister of the environment, and then parliamentary secretary to the minister of state for science and technology. On August 12, 1983, he was named to the Cabinet of Pierre Trudeau as minister of state for mines. He resigned eleven days later after learning that he was being investigated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on an allegation that he failed to pay income tax on some of his earnings. Simmons thereby set the record for the shortest federal Cabinet career in Canadian history. Simmons lost his seat in the 1984 election.

In 1985, Simmons returned to the Newfoundland House of Assembly as the Liberal MHA for Fortune-Hermitage and briefly served as interim Leader of the Opposition.

Simmons returned to the federal House of Commons in the 1988 federal election. He represented Canada at the Rio Summit in 1992. Simmons was re-elected in the 1993 election, and defeated in the 1997 election by Progressive Conservative candidate Bill Matthews.

Simmons was appointed Consul General for Canada in Seattle in 1998 and served in that position for five years before moving to Vancouver and joining Gowlings.

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Betty Kennedy

Betty Margaret Hannah Kennedy ( Styran; January 4, 1926 – March 20, 2017) was a Canadian broadcaster, journalist, author, and Senator. She is best known for her work on radio and television.

Biography
Born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, the daughter of Walter Herbert Styran and Janet Kincaid (McPhee) Styran, Kennedy graduated from Lisgar Collegiate Institute, and began her career with the Ottawa Citizen. She became a broadcaster, as a host of a local radio show, during a newspaper strike. She was soon hired away by CFRB in Toronto where she became host of The Betty Kennedy Show in 1959; the daily interview and public affairs show remained on the air for 27 years with Kennedy interviewing 25,000 guests ranging from Pierre Trudeau to Debbie Reynolds. In 1962, she joined the panel of the current affairs quiz show Front Page Challenge on CBC Television, remaining with the show until it went off the air in 1995.

She wrote two books: Gerhard: A love story (1975), about her late first husband, and Hurricane Hazel (1979). Kennedy also had a vital career as an Executive Producer for television. Her series, Insight with Betty Kennedy, aired on TV Ontario (OECA) during the early 1970s. Robert Gardner, who worked with Kennedy as a studio director on the series, said of her: "She was remarkable. We would tape five half hour interviews live-to-tape in a single day.  She would prep each of the sessions with very prominent guests and would flawlessly interview them.  Often there was only a space of fifteen minutes between each program.  There were no re-takes and not a single chance for error." She also executive-produced Leave this Not to Cain (narrated by Pierre Berton), This Vibrant Land, and she hosted An Eye for Eternity (the international fine arts exhibition at Montreal).

Kennedy's first husband, businessman Gerhard Kennedy, died of cancer in 1975. Her second husband was G. Allan Burton (1915–2002), CEO and Chairman of now defunct Simpsons department stores.

She was appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien on June 20, 2000. She retired less than six months later on her 75th birthday.

Kennedy resided in Campbellville, Ontario, near Milton, Ontario with Burton.

Kennedy died on March 20, 2017, aged 91.

Kennedy was named to both the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame and the Canadian News Hall of Fame and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1982.

Re: "Kennedy graduated from Lisgar Collegiate Institute, and began her career with the Ottawa Citizen. She became a broadcaster, as a host of a local radio show, during a newspaper strike.[2] She was soon hired away by CFRB in Toronto where she became host of The Betty Kennedy Show..."

This portion of the Biography is pure fiction. Betty never graduated from high school: she dropped out at age sixteen to become, first, a copyboy at the Ottawa Citizen, and eventually a bylined journalist for the paper. It's true she briefly did some radio work during a linotype operators' strike; but she returned to the paper as soon as the strike was over. This was in the 1940s, and she wouldn't have been considered a broadcaster at that time, either by herself or anybody else.

Her next employment was as a Fashion Coordinator at Bruck Mills in Montreal; following this, she became the first woman Public Relations Officer for CIL in Toronto (c. 1948). It wasn't until the early 1950s in Calgary that she began seriously doing radio work, in the form of a "weekly panel discussion program on current events, along with two other panelists, Fred Colborn, a member of the provincial Parliament, and Dr. Morris Carnat, a prominent psychiatrist." [Betty Kennedy, Vignettes From a Life, p. 60]

Back in Ottawa, circa 1958, Betty briefly worked at the "CBOT Studio doing the This and That TV show" [ibid., p. 72], which she wrote and presented; but Toronto radio station CFRB didn't 'hire her away' from this or any other job. Betty approached CFRB in 1959 with an idea for a show that "did not fit in with their programming" [ibid., p. 74]. However, while CFRB was lukewarm about her project they were impressed by her, and they were looking for a woman broadcaster. When they offered her this job she accepted, and that was the beginning of The Betty Kennedy Show.

Honours

 * In 1982 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
 * In 1983, she was elected to the Canadian News Hall of Fame.
 * In 1992, she was elected to the Canadian Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
 * In 1998, she was made a Serving Sister in the Venerable Order of Saint John.
 * In 2007, she was inducted into the Milton, Ontario Walk of Fame

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John Deacon (disambiguation)

John Deacon (born 1951) is the former bassist of the rock band Queen.

John Deacon may also refer to:

 * John Deacon (motorcyclist) (1962–2001)
 * John Deacon, wrongly convicted of arson, whose story was shown in Flashover (film)
 * John Deacon, former owner of English football club Portsmouth F.C.

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Churubusco (disambiguation)

Churubusco could be referring to:

 * Churubusco, a neighbourhood in the Federal District, Mexico
 * Battle of Churubusco, fought there on 20 August 1847
 * Estudios Churubusco, motion picture studios located in the Churubusco district
 * Río Churubusco, a river that formerly ran through the area
 * Churubusco, Indiana, United States, a town named after the above battle
 * Churubusco, New York, United States, an unincorporated town named in honor of the U.S. troops from New York who fought in the above battle
 * Huitzilopochco, a pre-Columbian polity also called Churubusco

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User:MacGyverMagic/Signpost

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Leopard (rocket)

Leopard is the name of a British double stage experimental supersonic test rocket, which was launched between 1959 and 1962 eleven times from Aberporth. The Leopard has a flight altitude of 20 kilometres, a launch mass of 1.5 tons and a length of 6 metres. The 2 stage aerodynamic test vehicle consisted of one Rook solid rocket motor as the first stage, with an added Gosling solid rocket engine second stage as an evolution of the Rook vehicle capable of reaching higher velocities. The Gosling engine would go on to be used on missiles like the Thunderbird and the Bloodhound, while the Rook flew with until 1972 when it was decommissioned.

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Talk:Ceres, Fife

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Anyone who believes that the Ceres Games have been held every year since 1314 will believe anything!

Ceres was once described (before World War II) as "the prettiest village in Scotland." Many would suggest that this description ceased to apply when the higgelty piggelty houses on the lower side of Main Street were replaced by Council Housing in the 1960s. Ragbin (talk) 01:36, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

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User talk:Bkonrad/3RR

I was aware of the mailing list post. I found it a good deal too critical of my actions in light of the fact that both of us were editing for the exact same very good reason - to correct a major visual problem as we saw it. I hold no ill will toward you about your reasons for making your edits. The problem I had was with your action of blindy reverting me without helping to get to the root of the issue. In this dispute, you clearly broke 3RR, and were justifiably blocked. I don't really care whether the dispute was "over" or not, because it is your tactics, not the dispute that was the violation. I posted numerous times on the talk page, and also proposed a couple variations to the table to try to resolve the issue, and you blindly reverted (leaving snide edit summaries directed at me, also a "no-no"). You broke the rule, don't go try saying I was in the wrong for reporting it. I'd expect that you'd do the exact same thing if things were reversed. I've been blocked for a 3RR violation once myself (though it wasn't as clear-cut), and it's not the end of the world. It is there to send an important message.

All that said, for me, it's over. If you want to feel negative towards me for making the report, you're free to. I would like to encourage you instead to look at this situation and decide that I am not so bad after all. In hindsight, I hope you can see why I have nothing to be ashamed of in the way I handled the situation. Give me the benefit of the doubt in the future, and you'll have it from me. No hard feelings from this end. -- Netoholic @ 05:17, 2005 Feb 13 (UTC)

My response
My point in the posting to the mailing list is that the 3RR is intended to put an end (or at least a temporary stop) to sterile edit wars. It should not be the first resort to end a disagreement. The fact is that discussion was progressing on the talk page indicated it was not a "sterile" edit war. You're immediate resort to legalistic retribution is un-wikilike in the extreme and far more disrespectful than simply reverting and continuing discussion. I emphatically would NOT have pursued the 3RR remedies against you in this situation while discussions were progressing. Further, I would never seek legalistic remedies against a logged in user of good standing without giving warning. It is an insult and undermines the process of seeking consensus.

You claim that I was blindly reverting [you] without helping to get to the root of the issue. That is simply untrue. Your first edit to the template was at 20:34, Feb 9, 2005, done without any indication on the talk page as to what you were doing or why, other than a cryptic edit summary of "restyle". I reverted this at 20:40, Feb 9, 2005. Granted, I also did not take this to the talk page at this point as in retrospect I probably should have. At 20:43, Feb 9, 2005, you reverted, with a summary "explain on the talk page why this template shouldn't be more compact" although at this point you still had not made any justification for your change on the talk page either. I reverted again at 20:46, Feb 9, 2005.

Your first comments to the talk page were at 20:49, Feb 9, 2005 in which you claim to have made technical and visual improvements in the template (without being specific about what these were) and made a subjective judgement that your version was less "ugly". You also invited anyone who preferred your version to to revert it -- which did not happen.

I replied on the talk page at 21:09, Feb 9, 2005, asking for an explanation as to how a TOC that took up more vertical space and less horizontal space was better than one with less vertical space but was wider. I also clumsily indicated I didn't understand whatever techincal improvements you might have made and that I had no objection to incorporated such changes.

At 21:25, Feb 9, 2005, on the talk page you suggested "Let's stop using this for a while, saying it would be better as a MediaWiki feature. CatherineMunro and SamuelWantman both expressed disagreement with this.

At 04:18, Feb 10, 2005, you created another version of the template, still with double-lines rather than a single line, rationalizing it only with an edit comment of "slimmer, format closer to other TOCs".

At 06:32, Feb 10, 2005, SamuelWantman reverted your edits and at 06:42, Feb 10, 2005, posted to the talk page indicating support for the single-line version over the double-line version. At 20:34, Feb 10, 2005, CatherineMunro incorporated some of your improvements into the single line version. At 21:03, Feb 10, 2005, you made another attempt at a multi-line TOC, which was essentially a revert to your previous version with the addition of "valign=top". This was not accompanied by any discussion on the talk page and the only justification was an edit summary of "slimmer, format closer to other TOCs".I reverted this at 21:11, Feb 10, 2005, saying in the edit summary "Net, so far nobody except you wants the multi-line version", which I felt was a pretty accurate summary of the situation at that point.

You reverted at 23:15, Feb 10, 2005, with the same edit summary of "slimmer, format closer to other TOCs". I reverted at 23:18, Feb 10, 2005, At 23:19, Feb 10, 2005, added a comment on the talk page in which you assert "I've made a further set of changes to make this look much more like a normal TOC and further reduce the wasted space." I might point out that at this point, I was looking at this with Firefox and there was no obvious wasted space in the single line version, and a clear disadvantage to the multiline version, so your comments simply seemed unintelligible to me. In retrospect, I should have inquired more into precisely what you meant by wasted space. But, I was working under the mistaken assumption that we were both looking at essentially the same thing, but in fact the differences between the browsers were quite dramatic.

At 23:28, Feb 10, 2005, you posted again to the talk page, repsonding to SamuelWantman's earlier comments. At this point you speculated that "I must have a large monitor", which was beginning to hit on the possiblity that there may be some difference in the interface through which we were seeing the template. But you also claimed to want to make the template look like the regular TOCs -- which was another mystifying comment for me as your multi-line revisions looked to me decidedly less like the regular TOCs than the single-line version. I replied at 01:48, Feb 11, 2005, and said as much. You replied at 01:55, Feb 11, 2005, interpreting my comments as sarcasm. My tone may have been less cordial than it could have been, but I was not being sarcastic. However, here you finally begin to explain your rationale in more detail, talking about taking up less than 50% of screen width and the extra spacing caused by the plainlinks. However, you also suggested a red herring in justifying the desirability by saying "a great deal of people view at 800x600." I say red herring, because the problem was browser-related and not due to the display. I replied at 02:06, Feb 11, 2005, saying as much. CatherineMunro agreed on this point at 02:27, Feb 11, 2005, voicing much of the same concerns that I had with the multi-line version.

At 03:34, Feb 11, 2005, you attempted to create a "smaller single line version". At 04:37, Feb 11, 2005, SamuelWantman raised an objection to this revision on the talk page regarding lack of line wrapping. You replied at 04:43, Feb 11, 2005, that this was intentional. At 04:52, Feb 11, 2005, CatherineMunro raised some questions and asked you to explain your reasoning. At 05:07, Feb 11, 2005, SamuelWantman again objected to the new revision.

I reverted the template at 13:20, Feb 11, 2005, because it was completely unsuable in Firefox (although at this point we still did not realize that browsers were the variable and not skins or resolutions). I explained my revision on the talk page. At 15:11, Feb 11, 2005, you expressed incredulity (about as much as I felt when you said you were making it look "more compact" and more "like the regular TOCs") and dismissed my concerns, implying that "it must be [my] settings". You reverted the template at 15:13, Feb 11, 2005, with an edit summary "rvt. looks fine under standard skins and browsers", which was a patently untrue statement, as it was unusuable in Firefox.

I reverted the unusable version of the template at 15:45, Feb 11, 2005, and added a comment on the talk page. It was only after this point that the differences in browsers became apparent.

And in the meantime, you reported me on Administrators' noticeboard/3RR at 16:17, 2005 Feb 11, without so much as a mention to me concerning this. That is what I consider to be bad faith on your part--whatever our disagreement over the template, we were dicussing it in what I thought were fairly civil terms and your resort to legalism was disrespectful in the extreme.

The point
You voted in favor of Three revert rule enforcement, right?

You broke that rule right? Reverted four times in under 24 hours?

Plenty of people have been blocked as a punitive measure for breaking the rule, just like you were. -- Netoholic @ 17:39, 2005 Feb 14 (UTC)

 * You seem to think that I am arguing for some sort of special dispensation because I am admin or something like that. That is not my point at all. I absolutely agree that admins and non-admins and even anons should all be treated equally. Admins should not have special privileges to revert more than others. My point is that the 3RR is not intended to be the first step in resolving disuputes. You breed ill-will by immediately seeking such legalistic retribution rather than first working to resolve a disagreement through discussion. The 3RR was intended to address the abuses of sterile edit wars, such as was seen with Wik/Gzornenplatz, where reverts would continue for days or weeks on end with little or no discussion. It is a very blunt instrument, and really should only be invoked when other avenues have already been exhausted. That is the 3RR that I voted to support and if that is not how the 3RR is being interpreted now, then I withdraw my support for it. older ≠ wiser 18:38, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:60th Division

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This page was listed on votes for deletion. Please see Votes for deletion/60th Division for the results of the debate. -- AllyUnion (talk) 14:37, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Chalus

Chalus can refer to:

Places

 * Châlus, a commune in the Haute-Vienne département of France
 * Chalus, Puy-de-Dôme, a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme département of France
 * Chalus, Iran, a city in Mazandaran province of Iran
 * Chalus County, an administrative subdivision of Mazandaran Province of Iran
 * Chalus Road, in Iran
 * Chalus River, in Iran

People

 * Matěj Chaluš, Czech footballer

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Mulgara

Mulgaras are the six small rat-sized species in the genus Dasycercus. They are marsupial carnivores, closely related to the Tasmanian devil and the quolls, that live in deserts and spinifex grasslands of arid Australia. They are nocturnal, but occasionally "sunbathe" in the entrance of the burrow in which they dwell. Their kidneys are highly developed to excrete extremely concentrated urine to preserve water, as the animals rarely drink. They feed mostly on insects, but also eat reptiles and small mammals. They are seasonal breeders and breed from June to September. The pouch comprises two lateral folds of skin.

Traditionally, two distinct but very similar species were recognized. The brush-tailed mulgara (D. blythi, previously classified as D. cristicauda), has an uncrested tail, two upper premolars, and six nipples. The crest-tailed mulgara (previously D. hillieri, but now reclassified as D. cristicauda) has a crested tail, three upper premolars, and eight nipples. More recently, the Ampurta (D. hillieri) was once again recognized and three additional species were described: the southern mulgara (D. archeri), the little mulgara (D. marlowi), and the northern mulgara (D. woolleyae).

The generic name Dasycercus means "hairy tail".

Species identification

A long history of confusion exists when classifying mulgaras, and only recently has confidence in the taxonomy of the species been gained. Identification of the species has been greatly assisted by detailed genetic and morphological studies of museum specimens. The most distinguishing feature in identifying the species is the crest of hair on the tail. The crest-tailed mulgara has a crest of long black hairs on the upper side of the distal end of the tail, although this feature is present in D. cristicauda, D. archeri, D. hillieri and D. woolleyae. The brush-tailed mulgara has a brush of black hairs along the final two-thirds of the tail, though this is now no longer considered a unique feature. The species also have a slightly different dental formation, which is difficult to observe in live animals, and the brush-tailed mulgara has six nipples while the crest-tailed mulgara has eight.

Distribution
Mulgaras are distributed through the arid regions of Australia where they live in short burrows.

Conservation status
The crest-tailed mulgara, previously referred to as the Ampurta, is listed as vulnerable.

Torpor
All species of mulgaras use torpor daily. Studies have shown they use torpor in the wild and in the lab setting. In contrast to most other mammals, mulgaras increase their use of torpor during pregnancy. By conserving energy with torpor, pregnant females can increase their body mass, but it seems they use it to increase fat storage, for lactation later. Pregnant females and breeding males both use torpor during the winter. Free-ranging males, however, only display torpor briefly during the reproductive season, and instead increase their use of torpor after the breeding season is over.

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Talk:Symphony No. 1 (Mahler)

Relationship to Beethoven's Symphony no. 4
Today while rehearsing with one of the orchestras I play in, the conductor mentioned that Mahler was inspired by the opening to Beethoven 4 and that it was his starting point for his first symphony. Now that it has been pointed out to me, it seems terribly obvious and certainly appears to have some truth to it, but "my professor said..." is not exactly a verifiable source. I think it would be great for this article if someone could help me dig up a real source for this and include it in the article somehow. Sara needs a nap (talk) 01:58, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

 * I seem to remember reading an article in some sort of 'Mahler Studies' volume in which someone (de la Grange?) includes the Beethoven opening among a whole collection of resemblances and relations: if my memory is correct, and someone can remember what the book is, you would have your source. Even so, however, it would still be inadmissible to say that the relationship made the Beethoven work 'Mahler's starting point for his symphony': such a way of speaking goes beyond the facts. Pfistermeister (talk) 04:01, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Somehow, because of the pitch level perhaps, and the prominent descending fourths, my thoughts were rather with Beethoven's Ninth; but that needs a source just as badly. Double sharp (talk) 10:49, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

"Mahler gave the piece the title Titan after the novel by Jean Paul"
this seems to be the consensus, but Floros ("Gustav Mahler: The Symphonies", as translated) maintains that while the symphony does have strong programmatic elements- he maintains it is likely about Faust- he takes Mahler's statements, especially his later statements, on the subject of this symphony and Jean-Paul to strongly suggest that the word was chosen with its usual meaning of titanic, huge, colossal, not because it was the title of Jean-Paul's novel. Schissel | Sound the Note! 23:44, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

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new audio sample
We now have a new audio sample available – should we use it instead of the virtual ones? --Gnom (talk) 20:25, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

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MHA

MHA may refer to:

 * Malaysian Highway Authority, a government agency under the Malaysian Ministry of Works
 * Malta Handball Association, the governing body of handball in Malta
 * Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, a Northern Plains Native American tribe
 * Manitoba Hockey Association, an early Canadian ice hockey league
 * Mast Head Amplifier, an amplifier (LNA) mounted as close as practical to the antenna
 * Master of Health Administration, a degree awarded by many American, European and Australian universities
 * May–Hegglin anomaly, a genetic disorder affecting the blood platelets
 * Member of the House of Assembly, a legislative assembly member in parts of Australia and Canada
 * Mental Health Act, stock short title used for legislation relating to mental health law
 * Methodist Homes for the Aged, cares for older people and is part of MHA Care Group
 * Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, a type of anemia, more commonly abbreviated MAHA
 * Minimum holding altitude, an aviation term, see holding
 * Minister of Home Affairs (India), a position in the Indian Cabinet, at both State and Union levels
 * Ministry of home affairs, a government department in some countries
 * Mormon History Association, a nonprofit organization promoting research and publication
 * Mueller–Hinton agar, an agar of beef infusion, peptone, and starch used primarily for antibiotic susceptibility testing
 * My Hero Academia, a Japanese manga and anime series

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Silvia Treves

 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. 6 Delete / 3 Keep -- AllyUnion (talk) 14:39, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Silvia Treves
The reason was given in the edit summary when the vfd tag was added. From the page history:
 * '' 00:15, 2004 Dec 20 User:RC T. (This is obviously someone's inside joke -- REMOVE)

This was improperly and not completely posted to VfD. I'm finishing the process. No vote. —Mar·ka·ci: 2005-02-13 16:06 Z
 * Delete -- appears to be a vanity page, the few Google results are mostly identical vanity listings in other open access encyclopediae and dictionaries. HyperZonk 16:38, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - Vain nonsense - do we really need to know about her cooking? Brookie 17:43, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep — the two publications she's said to edit/manage seem genuine (one has a Wikipedia article created by the same person who created this one, but mention of the other was added to the Fata Morgana page by Wetman). It needs thorough rewriting, though, both in terms of its English and its style.  (Incidentally, I got 506 hits on Google, including a publisher's page for a book to which she wrote the introduction, fiction magazines in which her stories have appeared, an academic journal of Chemistry of which she's an editor, etc.) The fact that the article contains irrelevancies is a reason for editing it, not for deleting it. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 17:44, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, cleanup and expand. Megan1967 00:31, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, this is self-promotion. Wyss 01:34, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. If notable, this article fails to demonstrate it. -- Jmabel | Talk 07:05, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, looks non-notable and almost vanity. -- Riffsyphon1024 07:07, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, with rewrite. JamesBurns 07:59, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.


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Anju Bobby George

Anju Bobby George (born 19 April 1977) is a retired Indian athlete. Anju Bobby George made history when she won the bronze medal in long jump at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics in Paris. With this achievement, she became the first Indian athlete ever to win a medal in a World Championships in Athletics jumping 6.70 m. She went on to win the gold medal at the IAAF World Athletics Final (a competition between best eight athletes in the world based on the world ranking) in 2005, a performance she considers her best. Anju was upgraded to the gold status from silver in the 2005 World Athletics Final in Monte Carlo following the disqualification of Tatyana Kotova of Russia by the International Association of Athletics Federations, following the recent re-testing of the latter's sample collected at the 2005 World Championship in Helsinki. She was awarded the Arjuna Award in 2002, Khel Ratna in 2003 and Padma Shri in 2004. She had got 5th position with personal best of 6.83 m at the 2004 Athens Olympics. In March 2021, Anju won the BBC lifetime achievement award for best athlete in India. She is also the current vice-president of the Athletics Federation of India.

Early life
Anju was born in Kochuparambil family in Cheeranchira village of Changanassery taluk, Kottayam, Kerala, in a Syria Orthodox Christian family, to K. T. Markose.

Professional career
Anju made history when she won the bronze medal clearing 6.70 m in Long Jump at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics in Paris, becoming the first Indian athlete ever to win a medal in a World Championships in Athletics. She also won a gold medal at the 2003 Afro-Asian Games. She achieved her personal best of 6.83 m at the 2004 Olympic Games at Athens which brought her the fifth position. This is the current Indian national record.

She received the Arjuna award in 2002–2003 for eminent sportspersons from the government of India and the country's highest sporting honour, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2003–2004 after her success in the World Athletic meet. She was conferred Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award in 2004.

Anju Bobby George pulled out of the 52nd national inter-state athletics in Hyderabad, due to an upper respiratory tract infection.

Personal life
Anju is married to Robert Bobby George, who is a former national champion in triple jump and her coach too. She is employed with the Customs department in Bangalore. The couple have a son Aaron and a daughter Andrea.

Involvement with sports association
Anju was appointed as president of the Kerala State Sports Council (KSSC). She resigned from the post on 22 June 2016.

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User:Greg973

email: greg@alovestory.net http://www.lovestory74.com or http://www.alovestory.us

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Rook (rocket)

Rook is the name of a British rocket. Twenty five Rook rockets were launched between 1959 and 1972. The launches took place from Aberporth in Wales and from Woomera in South Australia. The Rook has a maximum flight altitude of 20 kilometres, a launch mass of 1.2 tons and a length of 5 metres.

title: Rook (rocket)