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T. S. Eliot Prize

The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is a prize for poetry awarded by the T. S. Eliot Foundation. For many years it was awarded by the Eliots' Poetry Book Society (UK) to "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland" in any particular year. The Prize was inaugurated in 1993 in celebration of the Poetry Book Society's 40th birthday and in honour of its founding poet, T. S. Eliot. Since its inception, the prize money was donated by Eliot's widow, Valerie Eliot and more recently it has been given by the T. S. Eliot Estate.

The T. S. Eliot Foundation took over the running of the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2016, appointing as its new director Chris Holifield (formerly director of the Poetry Book Society), when the former Poetry Book Society charity had to be wound up, with its book club and company name taken over by book sales agency Inpress Ltd in Newcastle. Holifield retired at the end of June 2022 after 20 years in the post, being replaced by Mike Sims. The winner now receives £25,000 and the ten shortlisted poets each receive £1,500, making it the United Kingdom's most valuable annual poetry competition. The Prize has been called "the most coveted award in poetry".

The shortlist for the Prize is announced in October of each year, and the 10 shortlisted poets take part in the Readings at the Royal Festival Hall in London's Southbank Centre on the evening before the announcement of the Prize. Two thousand people attended the 2011 reading.

List of winners

 * 1993 – Ciarán Carson, First Language: Poems
 * 1994 – Paul Muldoon, The Annals of Chile
 * 1995 – Mark Doty, My Alexandria
 * 1996 – Les Murray, Subhuman Redneck Poems
 * 1997 – Don Paterson, God's Gift to Women
 * 1998 – Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
 * 1999 – Hugo Williams, Billy's Rain
 * 2000 – Michael Longley, The Weather in Japan
 * 2001 – Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband
 * 2002 – Alice Oswald, Dart
 * 2003 – Don Paterson, Landing Light
 * 2004 – George Szirtes, Reel
 * 2005 – Carol Ann Duffy, Rapture
 * 2006 – Seamus Heaney, District and Circle
 * 2007 – Sean O'Brien, The Drowned Book
 * 2008 – Jen Hadfield, Nigh-No-Place
 * 2009 – Philip Gross, The Water Table
 * 2010 – Derek Walcott, White Egrets
 * 2011 – John Burnside, Black Cat Bone
 * 2012 – Sharon Olds, Stag's Leap
 * 2013 – Sinéad Morrissey, Parallax
 * 2014 – David Harsent, Fire Songs
 * 2015 – Sarah Howe, Loop of Jade
 * 2016 – Jacob Polley, Jackself
 * 2017 – Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
 * 2018 – Hannah Sullivan, Three Poems
 * 2019 – Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise
 * 2020 – Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart
 * 2021 – Joelle Taylor, C+nto & Othered Poems
 * 2022 – Anthony Joseph, Sonnets for Albert
 * 2023 – Jason Allen-Paisant, Self-Portrait as Othello

List of judges

 * 2023 – Paul Muldoon, Sasha Dugdale and Denise Saul
 * 2022 – Jean Sprackland, Hannah Lowe and Roger Robinson
 * 2021 – Glyn Maxwell, Caroline Bird and Zaffar Kunial
 * 2020 – Lavinia Greenlaw, Mona Arshi and Andrew McMillan
 * 2019 — John Burnside, Sarah Howe and Nick Makoha
 * 2018 — Clare Pollard, Sinéad Morrissey and Daljit Nagra
 * 2017 — W. N. Herbert, James Lasdun and Helen Mort
 * 2016 — Julia Copus, Ruth Padel and Alan Gillis
 * 2015 – Kei Miller, Pascale Petit and Ahren Warner
 * 2014 – Sean Borodale, Helen Dunmore and Fiona Sampson
 * 2013 – Imtiaz Dharker, Ian Duhig and Vicki Feaver
 * 2012 – Carol Ann Duffy, Michael Longley and David Morley
 * 2011 – Gillian Clarke, Stephen Knight and Dennis O'Driscoll
 * 2010 – Bernardine Evaristo, Anne Stevenson and Michael Symmons Roberts
 * 2009 – Simon Armitage, Colette Bryce and Penelope Shuttle
 * 2008 – Lavinia Greenlaw, Tobias Hill and Andrew Motion
 * 2007 – Sujata Bhatt, W. N. Herbert and Peter Porter
 * 2006 – Sophie Hannah, Gwyneth Lewis and Sean O'Brien
 * 2005 – David Constantine, Kate Clanchy and Jane Draycott
 * 2004 – Douglas Dunn, Paul Farley and Carol Rumens
 * 2003 – David Harsent, Mimi Khalvati and George Szirtes
 * 2002 – Michael Longley, Fred D’Aguiar and Deryn Rees-Jones
 * 2001 – John Burnside, Helen Dunmore and Maurice Riordan
 * 2000 – Paul Muldoon, Glyn Maxwell and Kathleen Jamie
 * 1999 – Blake Morrison, Selima Hill and Jamie McKendrick
 * 1998 – Bernard O’Donoghue, Simon Armitage and Maura Dooley
 * 1997 – Gillian Clarke, Sean O’Brien and Hugo Williams
 * 1996 – Andrew Motion, Helen Dunmore and Ruth Padel
 * 1995 – James Fenton, Maura Dooley and Liz Lochhead
 * 1994 – Elaine Feinstein, Ciaran Carson, Robert Crawford, John Fuller and Candia McWilliam
 * 1993 – Peter Porter, Fleur Adcock, Edna Longley, Robert Crawford and John Lucas

2020s
2023

 * Self-Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant (Carcanet Press)
 * More Sky by Joe Carrick-Varty (Carcanet Press)
 * A Change in the Air by Jane Clarke (Bloodaxe Books)
 * The Ink Cloud Reader by Kit Fan (Carcanet Press)
 * Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris (Pavilion Poetry / Liverpool University Press)
 * School of Instructions by Ishion Hutchinson (Faber & Faber)
 * Hyena! by Fran Lock (Poetry Bus Press)
 * The Map of the World by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (Gallery Press)
 * Balladz by Sharon Olds (Cape Poetry)
 * I Think We’re Alone Now by Abigail Parry (Bloodaxe Books)

2022

 * Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley (Faber & Faber)
 * Ephemeron by Fiona Benson (Cape Poetry)
 * Wilder by Jemma Borg (Pavilion Poetry / Liverpool University Press)
 * The Thirteenth Angel by Philip Gross (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph (Bloomsbury Poetry)
 * England's Green by Zaffar Kunial (Faber & Faber)
 * Slide by Mark Pajak (Cape Poetry)
 * bandit country by James Conor Patterson (Picador Poetry)
 * The Room Between Us by Denise Saul (Pavilion Poetry/Liverpool University Press)
 * Manorism by Yomi Sode (Penguin Poetry)

2021

 * Eat or We Both Starve by Victoria Kennefick (Carcanet)
 * Ransom by Michael Symmons Roberts (Cape Poetry)
 * Stones by Kevin Young (Cape Poetry)
 * Men Who Feed Pigeons by Selima Hill (Bloodaxe)
 * The Kids by Hannah Lowe (Bloodaxe)
 * All the Names Given by Raymond Antrobus (Picador)
 * A Blood Condition by Kayo Chingonyi (Chatto & Windus)
 * single window by Daniel Sluman (Nine Arches Press)
 * C+nto & Othered Poems by Joelle Taylor (Westbourne Press)
 * A Year in the New Life by Jack Underwood (Faber & Faber)

2020
 * Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (Faber & Faber)
 * Deformations by Sasha Dugdale (Carcanet Press)
 * Shine, Darling by Ella Frears (Offord Road Books)
 * RENDANG by Will Harris (Granta Poetry)
 * Love Minus Love by Wayne Holloway-Smith (Bloodaxe Books)
 * How to Wash a Heart by Bhanu Kapil (Liverpool University Press / Pavilion Poetry)
 * Life Without Air by Daisy Lafarge (Granta Poetry)
 * How the Hell Are Youl by Glyn Maxwell (Picador Poetry)
 * Sometimes I Never Suffered by Shane McCrae (Corsair Poetry)
 * The Martian’s Regress by J. O. Morgan (Cape Poetry)

2010s
2019
 * After the Formalities by Anthony Anaxagorou (Penned in the Margins)
 * Vertigo and Ghost by Fiona Benson (Cape Poetry)
 * Surge by Jay Bernard (Chatto & Windus)
 * The Mizzy by Paul Farley (Picador Poetry)
 * Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky (Faber & Faber)
 * Arias by Sharon Olds (Cape Poetry)
 * The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here by Vidyan Ravinthiran (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Erato by Deryn Rees-Jones (Seren Books)
 * A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson (Peepal Tree Press)
 * The Caiplie Caves by Karen Solie (Picador Poetry)

2018
 * Insistence by Ailbhe Darcy (Bloodaxe Books)
 * American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins by Terrance Hayes (Penguin)
 * Us by Zaffar Kunial (Faber & Faber)
 * Feel Free by Nick Laird (Faber & Faber)
 * The Distal Point by Fiona Moore (HappenStance)
 * Europa by Sean O’Brien (Picador Poetry)
 * Shrines of Upper Austria by Phoebe Power (Carcanet)
 * Soho by Richard Scott (Faber & Faber)
 * Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith (Penguin)
 * Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan (Faber & Faber)

2017
 * The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx by Tara Bergin (Carcanet)
 * In these Days of Prohibition by Caroline Bird (Carcanet)
 * The Noise of a Fly by Douglas Dunn (Faber & Faber)
 * The Radio by Leontia Flynn (Cape Poetry)
 * So Glad I'm Me by Roddy Lumsden (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Mancunia by Michael Symmons Roberts (Cape Poetry)
 * Diary of the Last Man by Robert Minhinnick (Carcanet)
 * The Abandoned Settlements by James Sheard (Cape Poetry)
 * All My Mad Mothers by Jacqueline Saphra (Nine Arches Press)
 * Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong (Cape Poetry)

2016
 * Void Studies by Rachael Boast (Picador Poetry)
 * Measures of Expatriation by Vahni Capildeo (Carcanet)
 * The Blind Road-Maker by Ian Duhig (Picador Poetry)
 * Interference Pattern by J. O. Morgan (Cape Poetry)
 * The Seasons of Cullen Church by Bernard O'Donoghue (Faber & Faber)
 * Falling Awake by Alice Oswald (Cape Poetry)
 * Jackself by Jacob Polley (Picador Poetry)
 * Say Something Back by Denise Riley (Picador Poetry)
 * Every Little Sound by Ruby Robinson (Pavilion / Liverpool University Press)
 * The Remedies by Katharine Towers (Picador Poetry)

2015
 * Deep Lane by Mark Doty (Cape Poetry)
 * Not in This World by Tracey Herd (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Jutland by Selima Hill (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe (Chatto & Windus)
 * The World Before Snowby Tim Liardet (Carcanet)
 * Waiting for the Past by Les Murray (Carcanet)
 * The Beautiful Librarians by Sean O'Brien (Picador Poetry)
 * 40 Sonnets by Don Paterson (Faber & Faber)
 * Beauty/Beauty by Rebecca Perry (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine (Penguin Poetry)

2014
 * Bright Travellers by Fiona Benson (Cape Poetry)
 * All One Breath by John Burnside (Cape Poetry)
 * Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Glück (Carcanet)
 * Fire Songs by David Harsent (Faber & Faber)
 * The Stairwell by Michael Longley (Cape Poetry)
 * Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth by Ruth Padel (Chatto & Windus)
 * Fauverie by Pascale Petit (Poetry Wales)
 * Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting by Kevin Powers (Little Brown)
 * When God is a Traveller by Arundhathi Subramaniam (Bloodaxe Books)
 * I Knew the Bride by Hugo Williams (Faber & Faber)

2013

The shortlist was announced 23 October 2013.
 * Speak, Old Parrot by Dannie Abse (Hutchinson)
 * At the Time of Partition by Moniza Alvi (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Red Doc> by Anne Carson (Cape Poetry)
 * Parallax by Sinéad Morrissey (Carcanet)
 * Division Street by Helen Mort (Chatto & Windus)
 * Ramayana: A Retelling by Daljit Nagra (Faber & Faber)
 * The Water Stealer by Maurice Riordan (Faber & Faber)
 * Hill of Doors by Robin Robertson (Picador Poetry)
 * Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts (Cape Poetry)
 * Bad Machine by George Szirtes (Bloodaxe Books)

2012

The shortlist was announced 23 October 2012.
 * The Death of King Arthur by Simon Armitage (Faber & Faber)
 * Bee Journal by Sean Borodale (Cape Poetry)
 * Ice by Gillian Clarke (Carcanet)
 * The World's Two Smallest Humans by Julia Copus (Faber & Faber)
 * The Dark Film by Paul Farley (Picador Poetry)
 * P L A C E by Jorie Graham (Carcanet)
 * The Overhaul by Kathleen Jamie (Picador Poetry)
 * Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds (Cape Poetry)
 * The Havocs by Jacob Polley (Picador Poetry)
 * Burying the Wren by Deryn Rees-Jones (Seren Books)

2011
 * Memorial by Alice Oswald (Faber & Faber) (withdrawn by the author in protest)
 * Black Cat Bone by John Burnside (Cape Poetry)
 * The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy (Picador Poetry)
 * Profit and Loss by Leontia Flynn (Cape Poetry)
 * Night by David Harsent (Faber & Faber)
 * Armour by John Kinsella (withdrawn by the author in protest) (Picador Poetry)
 * Grace by Esther Morgan (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!! by Daljit Nagra (Faber & Faber)
 * November by Sean O'Brien (Picador Poetry)
 * Farmer's Cross by Bernard O'Donoghue (Faber & Faber)

2010
 * Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage (Faber & Faber)
 * The Mirabelles by Annie Freud (Picador Poetry)
 * You by John Haynes (Seren Books)
 * Human Chain by Seamus Heaney (Faber & Faber)
 * What the Water Gave Me by Pascale Petit (Seren Books)
 * The Wrecking Light by Robin Robertson (Picador Poetry)
 * Rough Music by Fiona Sampson (Carcanet)
 * Phantom Noise by Brian Turner (Bloodaxe Books)
 * White Egrets by Derek Walcott (Faber & Faber)
 * New Light for the Old Dark by Sam Willetts (Cape Poetry)

2000s
2009
 * The Sun-fish by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (Gallery Press)
 * Continental Shelf by Fred D'Aguiar (Carcanet)
 * Over by Jane Draycott (Carcanet)
 * The Water Table by Philip Gross (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Through the Square Window by Sinéad Morrissey (Carcanet)
 * One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds (Cape Poetry)
 * Weeds & Wild Flowers by Alice Oswald (Faber & Faber)
 * A Scattering by Christopher Reid (Areté)
 * The Burning of the Books and Other Poems by George Szirtes (Bloodaxe Books)
 * West End Final by Hugo Williams (Faber & Faber)

2008
 * Europa by Moniza Alvi (Bloodaxe Books)
 * The Glass Swarm by Peter Bennet (Flambard Press)
 * For All We Know by Ciarán Carson (Gallery Press)
 * Full Volume by Robert Crawford (Cape Poetry)
 * Life Under Water by Maura Dooley (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Theories and Apparitions by Mark Doty (Cape Poetry)
 * Nigh-No-Place by Jen Hadfield (Bloodaxe Books)
 * The Lost Leader by Mick Imlah (Faber & Faber)
 * Hide Now by Glyn Maxwell (Picador Poetry)
 * Yellow Studio by Stephen Romer (Carcanet)

2007
 * The Speed of Dark by Ian Duhig (Picador Poetry)
 * Hawks and Doves by Alan Gillis (Gallery Press)
 * Pessimism for Beginners by Sophie Hannah (Carcanet)
 * The Meanest Flower by Mimi Khalvati (Carcanet)
 * Public Dream by Frances Leviston (Picador Poetry)
 * The Pomegranates of Kandahar by Sarah Maguire (Chatto & Windus)
 * A Book of Lives by Edwin Morgan (Carcanet)
 * The Drowned Book by Sean O'Brien (Picador Poetry)
 * Common Prayer by Fiona Sampson (Carcanet)
 * Black Moon by Matthew Sweeney (Cape Poetry)

2006
 * Tyrannosaurus Rex versus The Corduroy Kid by Simon Armitage (Faber & Faber)
 * Tramp in Flames by Paul Farley (Picador Poetry)
 * District and Circle by Seamus Heaney (Faber & Faber)
 * Bad Shaman Blues by W. N. Herbert (Bloodaxe Books)
 * After by Jane Hirshfield (Bloodaxe Books)
 * The Blood Choir by Tim Liardet (Seven Books)
 * Horse Latitudes by Paul Muldoon (Faber & Faber)
 * Swithering by Robin Robertson (Picador Poetry)
 * Redgrove's Wife by Penelope Shuttle (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Dear Room by Hugo Williams (Faber & Faber)

2005
 * Take Me with You by Polly Clark (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy (Picador Poetry)
 * Intimates by Helen Farish (Cape Poetry)
 * Legion by David Harsent (Faber & Faber)
 * The State of the Prisons by Sinéad Morrissey (Carcanet)
 * Woods etc by Alice Oswald (Faber & Faber)
 * The Huntress by Pascale Petit (Seren Books)
 * The Movement of Bodies by Sheenagh Pugh (Seren Books)
 * Stolen Love Behaviour by John Stammers (Picador Poetry)
 * We Were Pedestrians by Gerard Woodward (Chatto & Windus)

2004
 * The Full Indian Rope Trick by Colette Bryce (Picador Poetry)
 * The Never-Never by Kathryn Gray (Seven Books)
 * he Tree House by Kathleen Jamie (Picador Poetry)
 * Snow Water by Michael Longley (Cape Poetry)
 * The Soho Leopard by Ruth Padel (Chatto & Windus)
 * The Road to Inver by Tom Paulin (Faber & Faber)
 * Afterburner by Peter Porter (Picador Poetry)
 * Corpus by Michael Symmons Roberts (Cape Poetry)
 * Reel by George Szirtes (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Blues by John Hartley Williams (Cape Poetry)

2003
 * Nine Horses by Billy Collins (Picador Poetry)
 * Manhandling the Deity by John F. Deane (Carcanet)
 * The Lammas Hireling by Ian Duhig (Picador Poetry)
 * Minsk by Lavinia Greenlaw (Faber & Faber)
 * Ink Stone by Jamie McKendrick (Faber & Faber)
 * Outiving by Bernard O'Donoghue (Chatto & Windus)
 * Landing Light by Don Paterson (Faber & Faber)
 * The Brink by Jacob Polley (Picador Poetry)
 * For and After by Christopher Reid (Faber & Faber)
 * Hard Water by Jean Sprackland (Cape Poetry)

2002
 * The Universal Home Doctor by Simon Armitage (Faber & Faber)
 * The Light Trap by John Burnside (Cape Poetry)
 * The Ice Age by Paul Farley, (Picador Poetry)
 * Marriage by David Harsent (Faber & Faber)
 * The Orchards of Syon by Geoffrey Hill, (Penguin)
 * A Rough Climate by E. A. Markham (Anvil Press)
 * Between Here and There by Sinéad Morrissey (Carcanet)
 * Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon (Faber & Faber)
 * Dart by Alice Oswald (Faber & Faber)
 * Voodoo Shop by Ruth Padel (Chatto & Windus)

2001
 * Lintel by Gillian Allnutt (Bloodaxe Books)
 * The Age of Cardboard and String by Charles Boyle (Faber & Faber)
 * The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson (Cape Poetry)
 * Electric Light by Seamus Heaney (Faber & Faber)
 * Speech! Speech! by Geoffrey Hill (Penguin)
 * Bunny by Selima Hill (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Landscape with Chainsaw by James Lasdun (Cape Poetry)
 * Downriver by Sean O'Brien (Picador Poetry)
 * The Zoo Father by Pascale Petit (Seren Books)
 * Burning Babylon by Michael Symmons Roberts (Cape Poetry)

2000
 * The Asylum Dance by John Burnside (Cape Poetry)
 * Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson (Cape Poetry)
 * Conjure by Michael Donaghy (Picador Poetry)
 * The Year’s Afternoon by Douglas Dunn (Faber & Faber)
 * Boss Cupid by Thom Gunn (Faber & Faber)
 * The Drift by Alan Jenkins (Chatto & Windus)
 * The Weather in Japan by Michael Longley (Cape Poetry)
 * The Book of Love by Roddy Lumsden (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Granny Scarecrow by Anne Stevenson (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Tiepolo’s Hound by Derek Walcott (Faber & Faber)

1990s

1999
 * Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson (Cape Poetry)
 * The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy (Picador Poetry)
 * Greetings to our Friends in Brazil by Paul Durcan (Harvill Press)
 * Approximately Nowhere by Michael Hofmann (Faber & Faber)
 * Jizzen by Kathleen Jamie (Picador Poetry)
 * The Tightrope Wedding by Michael Laskey (Smith/Doorstop)
 * Here Nor There by Bernard O'Donoghue (Chatto & Windus)
 * The Wind Dog by Tom Paulin (Faber & Faber)
 * Repair by C. K. Williams (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Billy's Rain by Hugo Williams (Faber & Faber)

1998
 * The Red Wardrobe by Sarah Corbett (Seren Books)
 * Bill of Rights by Fred D'Aguiar (Chatto & Windus)
 * A Bird's Idea of Flight by David Harsent (Faber & Faber)
 * Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes (Faber & Faber)
 * Off Colour by Jackie Kay (Bloodaxe Books)
 * The Breakage by Glyn Maxwell (Faber & Faber)
 * Hay by Paul Muldoon (Faber & Faber)
 * Rembrandt Would Have Loved You by Ruth Padel (Chatto & Windus)
 * My Life Asleep by Jo Shapcott (OUP / Oxford Poetry)
 * Wild Root by Ken Smith (Bloodaxe Books)

1997
 * Looking Back by Fleur Adcock (OUP / Oxford Poetry)
 * Nantucket and the Angel by Gillian Allnutt (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Bestiary by Helen Dunmore (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Violet by Selima Hill (Bloodaxe Books)
 * The Marble Fly by Jamie McKendrick (OUP / Oxford Poetry)
 * God's Gift to Women by Don Paterson (Faber & Faber)
 * Work in Regress by Peter Reading (Bloodaxe Books)
 * The Bridal Suite by Matthew Sweeney (Cape Poetry)
 * The Bounty by Derek Walcott (Faber & Faber)
 * Canada by John Hartley Williams (Bloodaxe Books)

1996
 * Opera Et Cetera by Ciaran Carson (Bloodaxe Books / Gallery Press)
 * Kissing A Bone by Maura Dooley (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Stones and Fires by John Fuller (Chatto & Windus)
 * The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney (Faber & Faber)
 * Dream City Cinema by Stephen Knight (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Blue Coffee by Adrian Mitchell (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Subhuman Redneck Poems by Les Murray (Carcanet)
 * The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile by Alice Oswald (OUP / Oxford Poetry)
 * Expanded Universes by Christopher Reid (Faber & Faber)
 * The Clever Daughter by Susan Wicks (Faber & Faber)

1995
 * The Dead Sea Poems by Simon Armitage (Faber & Faber)
 * My Alexandria by Mark Doty (Cape Poetry)
 * The Mersey Goldfish by Ian Duhig (Bloodaxe Books)
 * The Ghost Orchid by Michael Longley (Cape Poetry)
 * Rest for the Wicked by Glyn Maxwell (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Gunpowder by Bernard O’Donoghue (Chatto & Windus)
 * Truffle Beds by Katherine Pierpoint (Faber & Faber)
 * A Word from the Loki by Maurice Riordan (Faber & Faber)
 * Powder Tower by Jackie Wills (Arc Poetry)
 * Could Have Been Funny by Glyn Wright (Spike)

1994
 * The Myth of the Twin by John Burnside (Cape Poetry)
 * In a Time of Violence by Eavan Boland (Carcanet)
 * Forked Tongue by W. N. Herbert (Bloodaxe Books)
 * The Queen of Sheba by Kathleen Jamie (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Spring Forest by Geoffrey Lehmann (Angus & Robertson)
 * The Annals of Chile by Paul Muldoon (Faber & Faber)
 * Walking a Line by Tom Paulin (Faber & Faber)
 * Millenial Fables by Peter Porter (OUP / Oxford Poetry)
 * Dock Leaves by Hugo Williams (OUP / Oxford Poetry)
 * After the Deafening by Gerard Woodward (Chatto & Windus)

1993
 * The Country at My Shoulder by Moniza Alvi (OUP / Oxford Poetry)
 * Friend of Heraclitus by Patricia Beer (Carcanet)
 * First Language by Ciaran Carson (Gallery Press)
 * Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy (Anvil Press)
 * Dante’s Drum Kit by Douglas Dunn (Faber & Faber)
 * Out of Danger by James Fenton (Penguin)
 * Flowering Limbs by Stephen Knight (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Translations from the Natural World by Les Murray (Carcanet)
 * The Father by Sharon Olds (Secker & Warburg)
 * Nil Nil by Don Paterson (Faber & Faber)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Guo Bingwen

 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 keep. Joyous 16:14, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC)

Guo Bingwen
19 hits on google for Guo Bingwen. Does being the founder of an educational institution make one worthy of inclusion on Wikipedia? GRider\talk 19:24, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I would be tempted to vote"merge and redirect" if there were only one relevant destination for the merge.  -Sean Curtin 02:44, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable - under 20 Google hits, article as it stands is un-encyclopaedic. Megan1967 06:20, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, seems notable from the article. Also note 1510 hits in Chinese, which I don't speak, so no idea how many are relevant. —Korath (Talk) 06:50, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Judging from what the article actually says ("He is accepted as the Father of the Chinese Modern University") he is not the founder merely of "an educational institution" (which in itself would be enough, if the institution is important) but of an educational system. To be the founder of the modern system of education in the world's most populated country seems somewhat notable... The Chinese Wikipedia has a long article on him. / u p p l a n d 08:08, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * No vote yet, but leaning toward keep. That Chinese article is only 3 weeks old, so I'm not sure they've solidly accepted it yet. Can someone who reads Chinese please have a look at that, see if it more clearly establishes notability, maybe add a request to WP:TIE if it's worth translating? -- Jmabel | Talk 20:42, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Had a look at Chinese version, he is at least as important as the many cartoon characters on Wikipedia. Have a look at Fukuzawa Yukichi for a similar personality in Japanese history(in English). Certainly it could do with translation or expansion. Munster 01:51, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. He got over a thousand Google hits!!! in Chinese. Most of the articles are related to the educator. -wshun 08:17, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep is surely my view. I'd like to give the information I know. Guo Bingwen (or Ping-Wen Kuo) was the founder of Nanjing Highier Normal Institute and National Southeast University which was the Chinese cradle of modern science. The Chinese modern higher education start by foreign church, e.g., The Peking University (北京彙文書院, not today's Beijing University (北京大學) but the Yenching University (燕京大學) and merged with BJU or PKU in 1952) and The Nanking University (南京彙文書院, not today's Nanjing University (南京大學) but the University of Nanking (金陵大學) and merged with NJU in 1952) established by American Christian church in 1887 and 1888. But they were not actually universities as their core objective was for religion at the time. Later in 1897 there was the first Chinese school with the Chinese name university(大學) --Peiyang University(北洋大學堂, renamed Tianjin University(天津大學) in 1951). It’s generally accepted as the first Chinese semi-modern? University(中國第一所近代大學). It was actually an engineering/technology institute. The first comprehensive Chinese university was National Peking University(also known as Metropolitan University(京師大學堂) in its earlier days and renamed Peking University in 1912) and the second national comprehensive Chinese university was National Southeast University(國立東南大學, renamed National Central University in 1928 and Nanjing University in 1949, also known as Nanjing Higher Normal Institute in its earlier days(南京高等師範學校)). Given the name university(大學), such Chinese universities as Peiyang University, Peking University, Shanxi University were not real modern university in their earlier days. [The modern Chinese university came into been around 1920s. In many features, National Southeastern University is the first modern Chinese university(the article Nanjing University may provide a little reference). For instance, John Leighton Stuart(司徒雷登), the first president of Yenching University, later also American Ambassador to China, in his book Fifty years in China(在華五十年), describes National Southeast University as "the first modern national university in China"(中國第一所現代國立高等大學). -note: by dictioner] Ping-Wen Kuo was the man of the time. When He was the president of Nanjing Higher Normal Institute, He established the Southeast University based on the Nanjing Higher Normal Institute. Many of the notable Chinese university presidents were faculties or graduates of the university around the year 1920. He even enjoyed international fame. He was elected for three times as the vice Chairman of the World Education Congress/International Education Board?(世界教育會) and the Chairman of Asian division since 1923. Wang Jingwei, a Chinese political leader, wanted to replace Ping-Wen Kuo to become the president of National Southeast University in 1924 and there were conflict between them, and with other reasons together, R.O.C. government at Nanjing devalued him. The CCP government also dislikes him for many reasons. As one reason raise here, Ping-Wen Kuo advocated the scholars/professors should be independent and should not involved in politic actives or politic parties. But CCP insists the party and government controlling education/universes till now. Wikinu 10:34, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, doesn't belong in the English section of Wikipedia. JamesBurns 05:47, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Lisnagarvey

Lisnagarvey or Lisnagarvy is a townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

The townland was named after an earthen ringfort (lios), which was in the area of present-day "Fort Hill" in Lisburn. Today, most of the north-eastern part of Lisburn is within Lisnagarvey townland. Its eastern boundary is the River Lagan, its southern boundary is Governor's Road and its western boundary is Antrim Street/Antrim Road. It includes Wallace Park, Christ Church Cathedral and Thompson House Hospital.

The name has been used for Lisnagarvey High School, Lisnagarvey Hockey Club and Lisnagarvey transmitting station, although none of these are within the townland itself. When David Trimble, the former First Minister, was created a peer, he took the title Baron Trimble, of Lisnagarvey in the County of Antrim.

Lisnagarvey was the site of a defeat of the mostly Scottish Royalists at the hands of the Parliamentarians in 1649.

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Laurel Gand

Laurel Gand is a superheroine appearing in DC Comics, primarily as a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th and 31st centuries under the name Andromeda. She was created as a replacement for Supergirl in post-Crisis on Infinite Earths Legion continuity. She was also inspired by elements of Superman's supposed descendant Laurel Kent (who, in post-Crisis, pre-Zero Hour continuity, was revealed to be a Manhunter android).

Pre-Zero Hour
Following her death in the Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series, Supergirl was removed from mainstream DC continuity, endangering the status of every Legion story featuring the Girl of Steel. After the events of Legion of Super-Heroes (vol. 4) #4-5 (February–March 1990), the sorceress Glorith supplants the Time Trapper as reality's master of time manipulation, resulting in several alterations in Legion continuity. In the new timeline, the 30th century native Laurel Gand replaces 20th century native Supergirl in Legion history; all of Kara Zor-El's appearances are said to have been appearances by Laurel.

The pre-Zero Hour Laurel was similar to the pre-Crisis Supergirl in that she was a distant relative of the Glorithverse's Superboy analogue, Valor, and was born on an asteroid called Ricklef II (as opposed to the Krypton remnant Argo City). Also, upon arriving on Earth she had posed as a shy, bookish young woman with glasses. As a child, Laurel fought off a Khundian attack force threatening to invade Daxam (the planet of her ancestry), but not before the Khunds slaughtered her parents and other inhabitants of the Ricklef II research station. Living in exile on Earth and fearing further vengeance from the Khunds, Laurel jumped at the chance to join the Legion of Super-Heroes.

Where the pre-Crisis Supergirl had been romantically linked to Brainiac 5, so too was Laurel Gand. Laurel and Brainy eventually parted ways, and after the "Five Year Gap", it was revealed (much to Brainiac's dismay) that Laurel had married Rond Vidar and borne a daughter, Lauren. Laurel spent her years away from the Legion, singlehandedly beating Khundian forces back from the United Planets systems, and rejoined the reunited Legionnaires when her husband Rond disappeared while on a mission to rescue the White Witch from Mordru. Laurel proved a tremendous asset to the new Legion during the war against Earthgov and the Dominators. When the mysterious "Batch SW6" doppelgänger Legion appeared, the younger SW6 Laurel soon distinguished herself from her adult counterpart by taking on the codename "Andromeda" and wearing a colorful gold-and-black costume. It is unknown whether the adult Laurel ever used "Andromeda" (or any other codename) during her own youth in the Legion.

The adult Laurel stayed with her Legion when it was forced to go underground to fight corruption in the Science Police. Tragically, Laurel was killed by a terrorist bomb during one of the renegade Legion's early missions. Shortly thereafter, Laurel, her younger self, and the rest of the Legions were erased from history, following the Zero Hour reboot.

Post-Zero Hour
Laurel Gand spent most of her early life in a xenophobic Daxamite White Triangle community, being indoctrinated in the "horrors" of interspecies co-operation before the Triangle's political clout led her to become the Daxamite representative in the Legion. Away from Daxam's red sun, she gained powers similar to Superman's, but the race-wide hypersensitivity of Daxamites to lead meant that even minuscule amounts could prove fatal, even to a powered-up Daxamite, forcing her to wear a transuit at all times. This did not trouble her, since it meant she never had to actually touch any non-Daxamites.

Her Triangle-derived beliefs hampered her effectiveness as a Legionnaire, thanks to her reluctance to physically engage with any enemies, but the real problems started after she let several Triangle members go free after a mugging, shortly after which they beat and almost killed Triad. Angered more for their defiance of her than for the beating, when she was ordered away to prevent the Composite Man gaining her powers, she flew after them. Immediately, they tore her transuit and directly exposed her to lead, and she barely managed to turn them over to the Science Police before crashing through the walls of Legion HQ.

While Brainiac 5 worked on devising an anti-lead serum, he confronted her about her beliefs. After discovering the serum which Vril Dox II, his direct ancestor, had created for Valor and tailoring it to her genetic structure to allow it to work properly on her (much to her surprise, as she had been taught that all members of the same race were identical), Brainiac 5 forced her to confront the fact that he wasn't her inferior before giving her the serum. While this was happening, however, Shrinking Violet discovered a White Triangle necklace in her room and connected it to the group which had assaulted Triad and destroyed Trom, telling the rest of the team.

Confined to quarters after an unsuccessful attempt by Cosmic Boy to have her removed from the team, she used her super-senses to see Ambassador Roxxas gloating, but he managed to bully her into giving him the anti-lead serum. Taking it himself and giving it to four other Daxamites, they proceeded to cause mass destruction on Earth. When Andromeda herself confronted Roxxas over what he was doing and had made her do, she was almost defeated when Violet began thrashing around in his head, before coming out and telling Andromeda to take him down. As she pummelled him repeatedly, he destroyed the covering of an "atomic furnace", and both were thought to have died in the resulting inferno (causing Brainiac 5 severe depression). Only Cosmic Boy was told that she had survived and voluntarily exiled herself to Planet Hell.

Later, she was brought out of this exile by Live Wire, after Cosmic Boy had told him where she was as part of a way to build up a "Legion Rescue Squad", and she was awed by Valor (who later called himself M'onel), himself being another member. She he declined to rejoin the Legion after the Squad had served its purpose, preferring to head off into deep space. She eventually joined a religious convent.

After the events of Infinite Crisis, Earth-247, the home of the Post-Zero Hour Legion, was destroyed. Andromeda appears in Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds, battling Superboy-Prime along with M'onel (Valor) and Superman. Later, in the fifth issue, her pre-Zero Hour younger and older counterparts are called to battle the Time Trapper, alongside dozens of other Legionnaires from alternate realities. She survives the battle and leaves with the 247 Legion to try to rescue more survivors from destroyed universes.

Powers and abilities
Generally, the abilities of Laurel Gand (and other Daxamites) are identical to those of Superman and other natives of the planet Krypton (super-strength; speed; flight; X-ray, heat, microscopic or telescopic vision powers; invulnerability and super hearing), with two major exceptions:

 * 1) She is vulnerable to the inert element lead instead of the radioactive element Kryptonite. Lead poisoning is fatal to Daxamites, and Laurel is kept alive only through ingestion of anti-lead serum, such as the one modified by Brainiac 5.
 * 2) In her two pre-"Zero Hour" incarnations, red star radiation would not rob Laurel of her powers, as it would with most Daxamites and Kryptonians.

In other media

 * Laurel Gand as Andromeda makes a cameo appearance in the Superman: The Animated Series episode "New Kids In Town".
 * Laurel Gand as Andromeda appears in Justice League Adventures #28.

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Parcent

Parcent is a municipality in the Pop Valley of La Marina Alta in the Alicante Province, which is located in the Valencian region of Spain. Parcent has a population of about 1100 and is about one hour's drive north of the city of Alicante, and about an hour's drive south of the city of Valencia.

It features the small Holy Virgin church, and is surrounded by hills and mountains. Writer Gabriel Miró (1879–1930) was a resident of Parcent and called it a "paradise between the mountains".

It is also close to Jalón (written as Xaló in Catalan), which is known for its wine production and markets. The traditional economy of Parcent relies on almond and orange farming in the surrounding area.

History
The name "Parcent" is of Latin origin. Later, it was a Moorish town until the forces of James I of Aragon conquered it in 1256 CE.

There was a major outbreak of leprosy in Parcent in 1850 and by 1887 20% of the residents of Parcent were afflicted. This apparently motivated the inclusion of passages about the disease in Miró's two so-called "Oleza" novels.

Demographics
The 2006 census established that Parcent's population was 1,019 inhabitants. It was also revealed that about 35.10% of the population of Parcent were not Spanish citizens but were in fact incomers from other countries within the European Union.

Controversy
Many Europeans from other areas have built retirement or second homes in Parcent, mainly due to the sunshine and proximity to the beaches. However, Parcent and the surrounding valley are suffering growing pains as development quickens.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Don Nelson

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Don Nelson
Not notable - vanity? --Brookie 19:25, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC) Keep and expand not vanityXpendersx 20:52, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand, or at the very least, mark it as a sports-related stub so that the Wikipedians familar with the National Basketball Association can improve it. My friend just reminded me that Don Nelson won the NBA Coach of the Year Award at least 3 times. Zzyzx11 23:34, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand, same reasons as Zzyzx11. Should be able to find detailed coaching history on Mavericks website. – Beginning 02:11, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, article as it stands is un-encyclopaedic. Megan1967 04:54, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and Expand. This NBA article suggests he has more than 40 years experience as a NBA coach and player. NBA Coach of the year three times and voted one of the top ten NBA coaches of all time. Doubt it is vanity.Capitalistroadster 10:37, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - that's not what "vanity" means - David Gerard 22:58, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, spurious notability. JamesBurns 06:59, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, clearly not vanity. While I think professional sports are disgustingly overrated by society as a whole, that's no reason to delete, and there's plenty of precedent for articles about coaches. —Korath (Talk) 02:03, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

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USS Carter Hall (LSD-50)

USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) is a Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She is the second US Navy ship to be named for Carter Hall, an estate near Winchester, Virginia, built in the 1790s.

Carter Hall was laid down on 11 November 1991 by the Avondale Shipyards at New Orleans, Louisiana. The ship was launched on 2 October 1993 and commissioned on 30 September 1995.

As of July 2023, Carter Hall, along with USS Bataan (LHD-5) and elements of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, are being dispatched to U.S. Central Command in the Middle East as part of the U.S. response to Iran’s continued seizure of commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.

Overview
The mission of the Landing Ship Dock (LSD) is to transport and launch amphibious craft, vehicles, crews and embarked personnel in an amphibious assault. An LSD can also render limited docking and repair service to small ships and craft, and act as the Primary Control Ship (PCS) during amphibious assaults.

Carter Hall is a Cargo Variant (CV) of the Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship. A significant difference between the two classes is that Carter Hall's well deck has been shortened from 440 ft to 180 ft. This provides Marines with added vehicle and cargo storage areas. The well deck can hold two Landing Craft Air Cushions (LCAC) and a variety of landing craft and tracked amphibious assault vehicles. Carter Hall's two-spot flight deck can land and service any helicopter in the Navy and Marine Corps inventory.

1990s
Carter Hall and her plankowner crew departed on their first six-month Mediterranean deployment on 29 April 1997. Her crew completed a UNITAS/WATC Deployment from 24 July 1999 until 15 December 1999.

2000s
In 2001, Carter Hall deployed to the Mediterranean Sea from 15 April to 15 October 2001.

In 2003, she deployed as part of the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit. During a ten month deployment, she assisted in combat in OIF/OEF.

On 2 June 2007, Carter Hall engaged pirates after they boarded the Danish ship MV Danica White off the coast of Somalia. The LSD destroyed three small boats being towed behind the captured vessel, but was unable to pursue after the vessel entered Somalian waters.

2010s
On 13 January 2010, Carter Hall was ordered to assist the humanitarian efforts following the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

On 31 October 2012, Carter Hall was sent towards the Hurricane Sandy impact area in case the United States Navy was needed to support the disaster relief efforts.

In April 2016, one of Carter Hall's sailors died after falling overboard from the ship. Navy and Coast Guard units searched for the sailor, but to no avail.

2020s

On 1 June 2020, the Navy reported that two weeks prior, several crew members assigned to Carter Hall had tested positive for COVID-19. The exact number of sailors infected was not disclosed due to Defense Department policy, but those infected were "being checked on each day by their leadership [and] receiving deliveries of food and essential items". At the time, the ship was docked at her home base. Most of the roughly 400 crew members were brought ashore while the ship was being sanitized.

In December 2020 the US Navy's Report to Congress on the Annual Long-Range Plan for Construction of Naval Vessels stated that the ship was planned to be placed Out of Commission in Reserve in 2023.

The ship was one of several US Navy vessels present in the Atlantic near a suspected Chinese espionage balloon that was downed by the United States on 4 February 2023. The crew had stayed out longer, (originally returning to port on February 6), within the vicinity of the sunken parts in response to the spyballoon being sunk.

Due to continued tensions with Iran, the Navy deployed Carter Hall, along with amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD-5), to the Gulf area via the Red Sea, in August 2023.

Ship's coat of arms
The colors of the field red, white, and blue, stand for the United States. The saltire recalls the heritage of the South in the history of Carter Hall in Millwood, Virginia. The anchor represents the Navy. The times are in the form of pheons, symbolizing the mission of support to assault operations. The loose rope intertwined with the anchor signifies freedom. The border denotes unity. Dark blue and gold are the colors traditional associated with the Navy; red for courage, white for integrity. The griffin denotes courage and vigilance. The crown refers to the heritage of Carter Hall, recalling the Great grandfather of its builder, known as "King" Carter. The battle stars of the first USS Carter Hall (LSD-3) are commemorated by the arc of battle stars, five gold for her service in Vietnam. The motto is underscored by the olive branch for peace and the oak for war. Gold is for excellence and red for courage. The arms are emblazoned on a white oval enclosed by a blue collar edge on the outside with a gold rope and bearing the inscription "USS Carter Hall" at the top and "LSD-50" at the bottom in gold.

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Talk:Indigenous peoples in Quebec

What is the purpose?
User JillandJack, whose recent behaviour on Wikipedia reminds me of our beloved hard banned Angelique/DW, keeps changing the first sentence of this article. He/She/They obviously wish[es] to make it really clear to the world that Quebec is a province of Canada. Fine, this is an undeniable fact and, since not everyone can identify all 10 provinces of Canada, it is good to give this precision to our readers.

But why was this first sentence: " The Native peoples of Quebec, a province of Canada, consist of 10 Amerindian nations and the Inuit nations number 71 415 people and account for approximately 1% of Quebec's population. " changed for: " Members of the Native peoples living in the Canadian province of Quebec consist of 10 Amerindian nations and the Inuit nations number 71 415 people and account for approximately 1% of Quebec's population. ".

What's the difference? In accord with Wikipedia's conventions, the title of an article should be bolded in the first sentence/paragraph. Why should it say Native peoples living in the Canadian province of Quebec?

-- Mathieugp 19:27, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I believe JillandJack's edit was done to try to water down how we describe the autonomy of the First Nations. By removing the word "nations" and replacing it with "living in", it implies that the First Nations have no special status.  JillandJack is confusing the words "nation" and "state", "state" would be incorrect as the First Nations are not independent from Canada, but "nation" is correct and is evident in all provinces across the country. Kurieeto 14:56, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)

Rename
I want to propose that this article be renamed to First Peoples of Quebec, for several reasons. First, the new name would align nicely with the established First Nations of Canada article. However more importantly, it would be a precursor to the re-establishment of a Category:First Peoples of Quebec. JillandJack depopulated Category:Native peoples of Quebec because they felt it redundant with the articles already in Category:Canadian First Nations. Category:Canadian First Nations has about 70 articles that are not categorized further, and I think it would help the learning of those not familar with the First Peoples of Canada if the Category:Canadian First Nations branched into Categories for the First Peoples of each province. I welcome all comments, if none are received in a week then I will proceed as discussed above. Kurieeto 14:56, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)

 * I have no objection to the move to First Peoples of Quebec. I personnally don't like the expression, but if that is the accepted term in English Canada, so be it. -- Mathieugp 06:07, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * There is no common, accepted term in English Canada for describing the indigenous peoples of a province. I chose First Peoples of _ as above because the syntax conformed to the naming standard of the main article, First Nations of Canada.  This also allowed for the inclusion of the Métis and Inuit by using 'First Peoples' rather than 'First Nations'.  I'm completely open to other name suggestions, even keeping this one, but as my goal is to have a page like this for each Canadian province and territory, I want to first have consensus on what our naming convention will be. Kurieeto 12:47, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

 * That's very rational thinking. I think we may be able to get along. :-) I suggest we try to find the most universally accepted term in the antropological/ethnological communities of English-Speaking Canada (if there is one) and use it. The dictionary seems to suggest that "aboriginal", "indigenous", "autochtonous", and "native" are all pretty much synonymous in English. I believe that indigenous and autochtonous are pretty rarely used in Canada, but aboriginal and native aren't. (It's pretty much the opposite in French, i.e., "autochtone" is the most common term, "aborigène" and "indigène" are never used for North American natives, and "natif" is not used at all. If it were, it would be an anglicism. ;-)

 * I personnally think that "aboriginal" is better suited than "native" for it is more precise, and by using it, we would be avoiding potential arguments with people who would say stuff like "I was born here! I am native too!". What is your opinion? -- Mathieugp 02:31, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * I found a great site on the federal government's Department of Indian and Northern Affairs website . It defines the terms that we're discussing as established by the government, whose policies on naming I think we should try to emulate.  I agree that "Aboriginal peoples" is the best term, because as per the government's definition it encompases the First Nations (Indians), Métis, and Inuit.  Including the "s" in "peoples" is more important than I had first realized, they discuss the difference of having/not having the "s" on the website above.  I think this consensus is great and we can begin to move forward with the provincial/territorial articles and categories. Kurieeto 22:30, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)

 * I also wanted to say that I agree with your note that by using "aboriginal" we'll avoid arguments about being a "native" Albertan, Ontarian, etc. Also, I just tried moving the Category:Native peoples of Quebec to Category:Aboriginal peoples of Quebec, but I received an error message.  Are we unable to move categories?  Thanks, Kurieeto 23:56, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't know about moving categories. I think (but I am not sure) that you are supposed to create a new category and then have the old one deleted by an admin. If you find out, let me know. -- Mathieugp 02:51, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Mathieu, I just thought of something, should we avoid using the possessive term "of"? Would the phrase "Aboriginal peoples in Quebec" be better than "Aboriginal peoples of Quebec"?  Some may get offended at a wording that implies that a group of people "belong" to a province.  After all, almost all aboriginal groups were located in their homelands long before any province or territory in question was created.  I realized this after I made a requested for the old Category to be moved at Requested moves.  I'm going to remove the request until this is decided.  I personally think that "in" is a preferable term because it is more neutral. Kurieeto 17:49, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree. -- Mathieugp 13:27, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Language
Does anyone know the statistics for the languages spoken by Aboriginal people in Quebec? That is, how does the Aboriginal population split along Anglophone/Francophone lines, and how many primarily speak their traditional languages? Stevecudmore (talk) 18:58, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

 * You'll find a Wikipedia table with this information here, however the latest available data are here -- Mathieugp (talk) 22:05, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

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Claim towards Naskapi-Innu Identity lacking citation
Under the section regarding the Naskapis, there is a claim that is made without a citation: "however, they are often considered to be Innu living in a remote area."

An updated citation should be added for this claim or this segment should be removed entirely. There are statements made by select leaders of Innu Communities in the Cote Nord of Quebec that make this claim, however there still exists recognizable differences between the Naskapi and Innu, namely in language and geographic origin.

If no change is made in the coming weeks, I will proceed with amending it to the following: "Although there are claims that the Naskapi are part of the Innu Nation, the Naskapi are a distinct Nation within Quebec and Canada, and are recognizd as such under the Northeastern Quebec Agreement." Smidkiff1776 (talk) 16:00, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jon Sykes

 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. - Mailer Diablo 16:38, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Jon Sykes
Non-notable. Possible vanity. Gamaliel 19:30, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Del. non-notable. Mikkalai 19:29, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: This was apparently never listed on vfd, so I'm putting it on today's page. —Korath (Talk) 03:43, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, possible vanity. Megan1967 11:16, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Magno (character)

Magno (Dyrk Magz) is a superhero in the post-Zero Hour future of the DC Comics universe, and a former member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.

Fictional character biography
Like Legion founder Cosmic Boy, Dyrk Magz was born on the planet Braal, and possesses power over magnetism that is natural to all Braalians. He was the first candidate to distinguish himself at the tryouts held by the Legion in Legionnaires #43; although acting leader Live Wire was reluctant to recruit a replacement for Cosmic Boy, who was at the time stranded in the 20th century, Dyrk's quick thinking and willingness to take action earned him a place in the Legion and the codename Magno.

Power loss
His service in the Legion was short-lived. After successfully deterring several rejected applicants' attempt at re-opening the newly filled membership slots, Magno and the other two new recruits, Sensor and Umbra, joined the rest of the Legion in battling Mordru. During the Legion's first encounter with the sorcerer, Magno saved Live Wire's life, but the team was unable to prevent the destruction of the planet Sklar. In the following climactic battle, although Live Wire was able to protect Magno from an energy surge that killed Workforce member Blast-Off, his powers were entirely gone. Dyrk chose to return home to Braal, but found that control over magnetism was taken for granted by native Braalians and was a constant reminder of his loss. None of the many specialists he saw there were able to reverse or even explain the loss of his powers. Eventually, Live Wire was able to convince him to return to the Legion by offering the newly finished Outpost Allon as a sort of neutral ground. After the time-lost Legionnaires returned from the 20th century, Dyrk volunteered to stay on as part of the Outpost's support staff, handling monitor duty and the administration of the Outpost. In this capacity, Dyrk remained with the Legion for some time, appearing only periodically to pass along important information or to be asked for advice by Legionnaires like Star Boy and Ferro when they had concerns about their powers. When a lab accident turned the Legionnaires on the Outpost into Bizarros, the reversal temporarily returned his powers of magnetism at full strength and he referred to himself as the "Legion receptionist and most powerful member", but after Invisible Kid restored him and the other affected Legionnaires to normal he was left powerless once more. Dyrk also developed a crush on XS, and the two of them dated briefly before the onset of the Blight. Dyrk was instrumental in Brainiac 5's strategy to defeat Tharok when the Fatal Five attacked Outpost Allon, as Tharok had not taken him into consideration and did not bother tracking his movements. When the Blight attacked, however, he was among the Legionnaires taken by it and presumed dead until its defeat.

Science Police
Upon the disbanding of the Legion after the Blight and the loss of Outpost Allon, Dyrk joined the Science Police, following in the footsteps of his older brother Omar. He appeared once more in Legion Worlds #3 at the beginning of his assignment to his home planet, unwittingly becoming involved in an operation of the re-forming Legion when he chose to arrest Cosmic Boy for vigilantism, which had at the time been outlawed by the United Planets. Upon learning that Cosmic Boy had intentionally gotten himself arrested to steal a new faster-than-light ship, Dyrk agreed to cover for his former teammate, on the condition that he be brought in on everything when circumstances allowed. That apparently never came to pass, as Dyrk did not appear again in the post-Zero Hour run of the Legion of Super-Heroes comics, and has not appeared in any subsequent versions of the Legion.

Powers and abilities
Currently none, formerly the ability to generate and control magnetic fields.

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Tipp-Ex

Tipp-Ex is a brand of correction fluid and other related products that is popular throughout Europe. It was also the name of the German company (Tipp-Ex GmbH & Co. KG) that produced the products in the Tipp-Ex line. While Tipp-Ex is a trademark name for correction products, in some countries it has become a genericised trademark: to tippex or to tippex out means to erase, either generally or with correction fluid.

History

Tipp-Ex correction paper was invented by Wolfgang Dabisch from Eltville, West Germany, who filed a patent in 1958 on Colored film for the correction of typing errors (Tippfehler). He subsequently founded a company of the same name. Shortly after that a Tipp-Ex Sales & Distribution company (Tipp-Ex Vertrieb GmbH & Co. KG) was founded in Frankfurt by Otto Carls. This company still exists under the name of Tipp-Ex GmbH & Co. KG close to Frankfurt. Tipp-Ex became a registered trademark with the German patent office in 1987.

Earlier, in 1951, Bette Nesmith Graham invented the first correction fluid in her kitchen and began marketing the product in 1956 as Mistake Out. Tipp-Ex GmbH only started to produce white correction fluid in 1965 under the brand Tipp-Ex, but also as C-fluid.

As a result of the invention of Tipp-Ex, it became possible to erase a typographical error made on a typewriter. The typewriter would be backspaced to the letter that was to be changed, the correction paper would be placed behind the ribbon, and the mistyped letter would be re-typed. The system only worked if the typewriter repositioned the re-typed letter in exactly the same place as originally typed, which could be problematic if returning to a previous line.

Demand for this correction paper grew very quickly and brought interest from German and international distributors.

In 1992 Tipp-Ex introduced its first correction tape, followed in 1995 by the successful Pocket Mouse which worked as a best seller. In 1998, the correction pen was launched. The range was extended to erasers, and in 2000, the new foam applicator was adapted to all the correction fluid bottles.

In 1997, Société Bic acquired Tipp-Ex.

Usage
Tipp-Ex correction fluid is a white liquid. It is used for painting over mistakes in a piece of writing. A brush (which was later replaced by a foam applicator) is attached to the cap, so when the bottle is closed, the brush is immersed in the fluid. When unscrewed, the brush is covered in liquid Tipp-Ex which is then painted over the mistake. However, it is still possible to see that the product has been used, and also the original content if the paper is held up to a light.

If the contents of a Tipp-Ex bottle have been exposed to too much air (for example, if the cap has been unscrewed too long or if the bottle is half-full and there is air filling the space), the fluid becomes thicker, and sometimes even solidifies. To help prevent this, Tipp-Ex released a product called "Tipp-Ex thinner", a few drops of which are mixed with the contents of a bottle of partially dried Tipp-Ex to thin it. This extends the lifetime of a bottle.

One must write with a ball point pen on top of Tipp-Ex, as a liquid ink pen will smudge. Gel ink will require a few seconds to fully dry, but can be used if no ball point pen is available.

Toxicology
The organic solvent 1,1,1-trichloroethane was originally used as a thinner in the product. This solvent is readily absorbed by the lungs via inhalation. It passes readily through the blood–brain barrier and may be lethal following acute exposure. 1,1,1-trichloroethane is also an 'ozone depleter', being one of the substances responsible for causing damage to the Earth's ozone layer. For both reasons, it has not been added to Tipp-Ex since 2000, and it has been replaced by aliphatic hydrocarbons.

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Talk:Tara (Buddhism)

Tara in China
I know from personal experience that Tara is actually rather well-known at least in western China (Yunnan/Sichuan/Qinghai), it's just, they don't know her name, but refer to her as 绿皮母 (lǜpímǔ), 白皮母 (báipímǔ), which means like "green-skinned mother"/"white-skinned mother". If someone happens to have sources backing this up, I could add it to the article. --Natsymir

Tara is not just Tibetan
I'm not a Tibetan Buddhist, so this may need some clarification and correction (there were certainly signs of incomplete familiarity with the subject in the article I edited). The Taras are very much background figures in all of the Buddhist schools I've practiced with. Feel free to let me know what you changed if you find that it needs correction, as I am always learning. HyperZonk 19:36, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)

The first picture on the main page is not Green Tara (it's mislabeled) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.92.47.120 (talk) 00:20, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

The first image of Samaya Tara Yogini may or may not be a form or Green Tara. Generally "Samaya Tara" refers to one of the five female buddhas, who is not a form of Tara. There are many buddhist deities with identical names, but different identities. For instance "Maitreya" can refer to Buddha Maitreya, or one of the archetypal bodhisattvas. "Samantabhadra" can refer to Buddha Samantabhadra, or one of the archetypal bodhisattvas and so forth. Here Samaya Tara Yogini is depicted as the central figure of a practice, which likely belongs to the anuttarayogatantra category. That is to say, even if the form depicted would turn out to be a form of Tara, which is entirely plausible, it is not a widely practiced form of Tara, and therefore is not very representative of the subject matter of this article.Tritonist Dec 17, 2010 —Preceding undated comment added 14:11, 17 December 2010 (UTC).

 * I agree with you and will swap the first two images for now. Some attention needs to be given to image placement on this article. Yworo (talk) 14:17, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Missing content
I notice all my additions to the article have been deleted. None of it was copied from other web sites. I have a Master Degree in Buddhist Studies from Naropa University 1997, and the article was written after months of research as a paper for that program. I may be a newbie to wickipedia, but i am astonished to see a whole article wiped out by someone else just on the claim that I copied it from other web sites. This is not true.

There are certain facts about Tara, that are common knowledge to anyone who had studied Tibetan Buddhism. You can say Tara is a Bodhisattva of compassion in so may ways but that does not mean you are copying from other web sites. Jlpinkme.
 * I have switched it back. Sorry about that. --Hottentot

I have done some minor editing; spacing, linking, etc., and plan to do more. Kind regards, 'Twisturbed Tachyon 05:54, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Not sure why ramifications should be underlined. I used it simply as meaning the outgrowth or consequence of, or the offshoot of... Linking it to a mathematical definition seems to me just getting carried away with putting in links. Jlpinkme

Wikify please
I'm sure this article is very informative to people with basic knowledge of Budahisum, but can someone please make this article easier to understand for us ignorant? I got lost after the third section. --Banana04131 23:07, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Ekajati
I've redirected Ekajati here as technically she's a form of Tara and she is mentioned in the article, but she probably deserves her own article. If you want to start one, just replace the redirect. Ekajati 04:52, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Never mind, I've started it myself. If you have info, please contribute! :-) Ekajati 08:22, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Fruitional
Changing this word to fruitless, changes the whole meaning of the paragraph rendering it meaningless. It is like saying the non results results. Fruitless means having no fruit; barren.

I found that 'fruitional is a term widely used in Buddhist dictionaries, but it didn't turn up in online English dictionaries. Here is an example of its use:'retrospective knowledge', refers to the recollected mental image obtained in concentration, or to any inner experience just passed, as for instance, any absorption (jhána q.v.), or any supermundane path, or fruition of the path, etc. (s. ariya-puggala). As it is said: "At the end of fruitional consciousness, consciousness sinks into the subconscious stream of existence (bhavanga-sota, q.v.). -A Buddhist Dictionary.

Anyway, in the interest of not getting the language too philosophically aracane, I changed this to : end results.

The further you go in Buddhist philosophy, the more you have to learn almost a different language useful in trying to explain subtle and profound meanings.

In this respect I still think the article is an accessible look at Tara. If it appears difficult, then I suggest one look at the Wiki article on Existentialism.The first paragraphs there, are also challenging. Some subjects, by their very nature are more difficult to write about. The Wiki article on the Spice Girls is going to be easier to read, but it is not a subject that requires profound analysis or thought. Jlpinkme

Mother of compassion

 * I'm a Theravada Buddhist. Is Tara the mother of The Blessed One Lord Buddha? I'm not sure. —Preceding unsigned comment added by User: (talk • contribs)
 * Perhaps to clarify a bit, Tara is often called 'mother of the Buddhas', because in Vajrayana, the female buddhas represent wisdom. As wisdom is the most important cause of buddhahood, many female buddhas are called 'mother of the buddhas' in the tantric texts. By the way, tantric texts should rarely be taken literally, as they usually refer to a deep underlying symbolism which is not easy to understand for the uninitiated. rudy 12:47, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

 * No She is a goddess.Butshe has comein this century to teach.She is by no wayinaccord with the tibetans teachings.lefevremaubert@yahoo.fr —Preceding unsigned comment added by User: (talk • contribs)

Buddhism has no goddesses. Zazaban 18:20, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Sorry? Buddhism has many gods and goddesses - how else would you call the inhabitants of heavens; the conventional English translation for deva is god.. However, Tara is one of better known of the many Buddhas in Vajrayana. rudy 01:02, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Buddhism in nontheistic. Anybody who believes otherwises misunderstood, or is ignorant of, something. Zazaban 01:29, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Maybe you are not familiar with mahayana or vajrayana Buddhism? Buddhism has no creator-God, but there are two types of beings who are often translated as god or goddess: one is the devas (beings in samsara, but in a much more comfortable situation then humans), the other one is high Bodhisattvas or Buddhas are sometimes translated as god/goddess. This are all very different concepts then the creator God (note the capital) of the Judeo/Christian/Islamic tradition. rudy 12:42, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

The Idea that Buddhism is non-theistic is not one that survives an actual reading of the suttas, sutras and tantras. Gods and goddesses play major roles in Pali Canon texts. Indra aka Sakka, Agni aka Jataveda, and Brahma all appear. The Four Great Kings (who rule the 1st Devaloka) play important roles, and Yakkhas, Nagas etc are all pagan, chthonic figures best described as Gods - some of whom are still worshipped in India! It is Prthivi the Earth Goddess who witnesses the Buddha's lifetimes of practice under the Bodhitree. In the Golden Light Sutra Sri aka Lakshmi, and Saraswati both make appearances to protect the one who chants the sutras. In the Tantras many gods appear, sometimes to be converted to Buddhism (Shiva and his Goddess consort Nairatmya for instance), sometimes just hanging around like Sambhara or Bhairava. Gods are never denied by the Buddha - he talks to them all the time. They cannot offer a way out of samsara, but they do exist, and within Samsara they are powerful rulers! And if that is not sufficient then I think you will find that practising Buddhists frequently treat Buddhas and Bodhisattvas like gods - praying for healing, protection, even wealth and success for instance - with no sense of irony. mahaabaala (talk) 15:03, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Mahayana Buddhism has Goddesses - Bodhisattvas and Yidams. I'm not familiar enough with Theravadan Buddhism to say. It could be argued that Devas are Gods too. This belongs on God_in_Buddhism and not here. Secretlondon (talk) 20:14, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Puzzling about Red Tara practice
In the section "Tara as a Tantric deity" it reads that the terma of the Red Tara practice was rediscovered in our century (obviously the 20th century is meant) by the lama Apong Terton. Apong Terton then is supposed to have been reborn as Sakya Trizin. The current Sakya Trizin was born in 1945, which leaves a question about when Apong Terton actually lived? __meco 22:47, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Buddha or Bodhisattva?
Tara is a bodhisattva not a Buddha. This article reads as though they are the same thing. Secretlondon 04:42, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

 * I agree. Do you have time to do the corrections? (If not I will try to find time soon - but I am truly very busy at the moment). They would be much appreciated. Cheers, John Hill 06:03, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

 * It might be caused by the question whether Avalokiteshvara is a Buddha or Bodhisattva ? (see that article - and please bring some citations...). --211.132.52.211 02:38, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

The Tibetans, as I understand it, consider Tara to be a Buddha. Perhaps the distinction is a false one in this case? 81.107.41.173 (talk) 14:51, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
 * We need to discuss this in the article. I've found some sources that say she is both. Secretlondon (talk) 20:15, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

You have to understand there are several reasons for this. Tibetan Buddhism encompasses both the sutrayana and the tantrayana. In the sutras, the open teachings, there is just One Buddha and high bodhisattvas are just one step below that. In the tantras, it is propounded that one must first become enlightened in order to really help sentient beings; therefore one becomes a Buddha first and then one manifests as a Bodhisattva. Tara is considered to have the highest realizations and is therefore seen as a Buddha, but she wears jewelry, long hair etc to appear to sentient beings doing the actions of a bodhisattva. Avalokiteshvara, Manjushri and Vajrapani are in a similar vein, representing Buddha's body, speech and mind. --Clodya (talk) 10:21, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Rename?
So should we move this page to "Tārā (Buddhism)" at this point? - Owlmonkey (talk) 01:38, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Many Female Buddhas have existed
Many women have been enlightened, but their presence/achievement have often been obliterated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.225.70.121 (talk) 00:08, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

question on the Sanskrit -
Is the correct name Tara or Taaraa? The version with short vowels is usually translated as either to carry over or liberator. Here is an easy to use, but perhaps not scholastic on-line dictionary entry: http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php?script=HK&tinput=tara&country_ID=&trans=Translate&direction=SE and http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php?script=HK&tinput=star&country_ID=&trans=Translate&direction=ES

65.78.143.25 (talk) 03:37, 8 July 2010 (UTC) Bill

Existence of gods and goddesses in early Buddhism
"as Buddhism was originally a religion devoid of goddesses, and in fact deities, altogether. Possibly the oldest text to mention a Buddhist goddess is the Prajnaparamita Sutra (translated into Chinese from the original Sanskrit ca. 2nd century CE), around the time that Mahayana was becoming the dominant school of thought in Indian and Chinese Buddhism."

These statements show a clear lack of knowledge about Indian and Chinese Buddhism in their early stages. For one, male and female devas have always been a part of Buddhist cosmology and appear in the earliest stratum of Buddhist texts including the Pali Canon and the Agamas of the early Buddhist schools. This is basic Buddhism that anyone should know, that there are many realms of heavens in Buddhist cosmology, that are inhabited by male and female deities (devas) who appear in the early scriptures.

Second, the 2nd century CE Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra translation mentioned in the passage above has no reference whatsoever to Prajnaparamita as a personified goddess, only to Prajnaparamita as one of the Six Paramitas and the central Paramita for the practice of the Bodhisattva Path.

Third, Mahayana was not becoming the dominant school of thought in Indian Buddhism or in Chinese Buddhism in the 2nd century CE. On the contrary, all scholars in the field acknowledge that Mahayana was a smaller movement in India at this time, and that Chinese Buddhism did not distinguish Hinayana from Mahayana until some time after. The Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra translation that is being touted as corresponding with the emergence of Mahayana Buddhism as the dominant doctrine, was in fact part of the first stratum of Buddhist texts ever translated into Chinese, and Buddhism was not even really established in the country before this.

This material is very strange and out of touch with basic facts of Buddhism. Tengu800 (talk) 21:07, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Czar and Medvedev as White Tara
The Czars of the Romanov Dynasty and Medvedev were recognized as reincarnations of the White Tara by the Buryats.

Czars

http://books.google.com/books?id=MqXnOBX4dREC&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=rdSnsngNLUsC&pg=PA189#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=OTFjMoAUfcgC&pg=PA30#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=zCdoje8i8NMC&pg=PA103#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=p4NJbN1BDzoC&pg=PA115#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=9aNBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA299#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=jqRDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA299#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=8aanmN8DXIcC&pg=PA22#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=gPRnyfM4WMMC&pg=PA418#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=SwX7ifWyI_QC&pg=PA66#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=Ssv-GONnxTsC&pg=PA237#v=onepage&q&f=false

Medvedev

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/6098619/President-Medvedev-is-a-Buddhist-goddess.html

http://www.pewforum.org/Religion-News/White-Tara-Medvedev-Pledges-Cash.aspx

http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/1010/42/381174.htm

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/381174.html

http://shambhalasun.com/sunspace/?p=11823

http://www.zimbio.com/Russia/articles/6PEYU80_tmB/White+Tara+Medvedev+Pledges+Cash

http://trueslant.com/joshuakucera/2009/08/26/medvedev-a-buddhist-deity/

http://chinabuddhismencyclopedia.com/en/index.php?title=Buddhism_in_the_Russian_Republic_of_Buryatia%3A_History_and_Contemporary_Developments_by_Rustam_Sabirov

http://sarr.emory.edu/MAS/MAS_Chap19_Sabirov.pdf

23:41, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Add vajra tara art of pala dynasties of india
Add pala dynasties vajra tara art here Mohit atulkar (talk) 14:06, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

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Talk:John of Ruusbroec

name
This article should be filed in Wikipedia under the main heading of "Jan van Ruysbroeck", NOT "John of Ruysbroeck". There is no entry in Wikipedia for "Lewis from Beethoven", but instead the artist's real name of "Ludwig van Beethoven" is used. So why is "Jan van Ruysbroeck" being anglicised? This is offensive to the history and culture of Flanders. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.69.134.250 (talk) 03:58, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

birth year
The Catholic Encyclopedia article and some other sources give his year of birth as 1293; the New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge gives it as 1294. I changed the opening summary to say born "1293 or 1294".

The section on his works probably needs editing for NPOV. --Jim Henry 19:36, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * The calculation is a back-counting from Pomerius: if he was 11 when he joined St Gudula in 1305, he must have been born in 1293 or 1294. More than that is not known, as the Ruisbroec genealogy stops with the death of his putative grandfather in 1267. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.241.227.84 (talk) 13:58, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

place of death
Place of death is best described by the New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. It says he died at an "Augustinian monastary of Groenendael (2 m. s.e. of Brussels)." If some sources say Groenendael and others say Brussels, they are probably both right by now. Groenendael was the monastary and I assume Brussels has grown up around it (or its former location) by now. In fact, Ruysbroe(c)k (4 m. s.e. of Brussels according to the resource above), where he was born may be part of Brussels now too??? Can anybody familiar with the area give a definitive answer?

 * I live in Watermael, on the line of a legendary tunnel connecting the Priory (not monastery - there's a difference) of Groenendaal (preferred Flemish spelling, the -ael is the normal French transliteration, which falls between the two linguistic stools as the little-used French equivalent is, properly speaking, Val-Vert) and the centre of town - there's certainly something under my garden which fits the legend. Groenendaal is in the Green Belt surrounding Brussels, about 15 kilometers/10 miles to the south-east of the Cathedral of St Gudula, and the site of the Priory straddles the boundary between the Brussels Capital and Flemish regions. Another point is that Groenendael belonged to the Victorine Order, not the Augustinian. On the other hand, Ruisbroek (modern spelling) is, indeed, now just on the south-western edge, some 10 kilometers/6 miles from St Gudula. There is some evidence that the Ruusbroek family were closely related to a leading family of Brussels aldermen (although that's not saying much, given that Brussels was barely 8000 souls in 1300!). Jel 15:47, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

 * == Additional details of his relics ==

 * According to a Brussels historian, Jacques van Wijnendael (Promenades dans les Couvents et Abbayes de Bruxelles, Editions Racine, 2007, ISBN 978-2-87386-495-8), his relics were transferred in 1457 by Isabelle of Portugal, the wife of Phillip the Good, from Groenendaal to the Convent of the White Ladies of the Rose of Jericho in Brussels, as part of a merger between the Order of the White Ladies, a magdalen house of ill repute loosely associated with St Victor, and the female Priory of the Hermit at Ter Kluysen (= the Hermitage) near the Priory of the Seven Springs, closely associated with Jan's original biographer Henricus Pomerius, which had been burned to the ground after having been hit by lightning. The house was placed under the Rule of Windesheim (ie the descent of Jan's Groenendael Priory), but the loose practices seem to have continued. His relics were then transferred to St Gudula in 1783 when the religious orders in Belgium were greatly thinned out, and as stated, probably destroyed in 1792-3. Jel 15:47, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Merge
I tried to merge the two articles: John of Ruysbroeck and Jan van Ruysbroek (scholar). If others find it adequate, please make the "Jan" article a redirect. Liblamb 18:32, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Jan & the Brethren
Its interesting that Jan preached against the Free Spirit Heresy as in essence much of what he is described as saying here is similar to their message. I suppose the key difference was, of course, that Jan believed the intimate relationship with God spoken of by the Free Spirits could be achieved through the established structure of the Church while the Free Spirits did not. ThePeg 15:25, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

 * You should be particularly interested in this article, as it suggests that Pomerius' identification of Jan's target with Bloemardine was mis-targetted, that he was actually getting the first shots in against Margaret Porete herself. The framework was Pope John XXII's 1295 Decretal Periculoso, constraining female religious orders to enclosed houses.Jel 16:34, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Jan's philosophy, according to Prof Thom Mertens of the Ruusbroecgenootschap of Antwerp University, was slightly more complicated than the God-Man-God outline here: in Section 2.4 of his notes to the 2006 Lannoo edition (ISBN 90-209-6786-X) of The Spiritual Tabernacle, he draws out Ruusbroek's explication of why he deviates from the Exodus description as a prefiguration of human spiritual development, in his Vitorine Realist thinking establishing the Christian virtues (the roof of the Tabernacle) as the keystone of their supports (its walls), which only become evident later, based on the general Victorine thinking of exegesis in the metaphore of a building, a literal foundation (in this instance, the reality of Moses' Tabernacle) supporting walls of typological meaning (figurative of the New Testament correspondance with the Old Testament Covenant) capped by an anagogical roof (a predestinative syllogism in the fulfilment of the three Covenants of Noah, Moses and the Pentecost in the Apocalypse), the whole being coloured by the moral interpretation. It is here that Jan establishes his key importance in the doctrines of Christian triumphalism, restoring Jesus' claims to spiritual leadership in a symbolism which will not long thereafter be adopted by Pope Eugene IV in his victory over the Papal Council as giving him ultimate authority. Now, how do we say this which does not tread on somebody's NPOV, given that this is the root of one of the greatest-ever bigotries on record?Jel 16:33, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Do we really know nothing about his ancestry?
His mother installed herself at very short notice in a béguinage near the cathedral. There was only one such, the Hospice Terarken, which depended on the Clutinck family, the leading Brussels Aldermen - the others were quite a distance away. This hospice was established in 1226 by Reynaldus Clutinck, for 12 poor women, and survived until 1792 or thereabouts. It is eminently likely that it inspired his 12 Béguines work, and also the Tabernaculum. We know independantly that the Clutinck family had good relations with the Lords of Ruysbroek, their neighbours, witnessing several deeds for them: Groenedael was also Clutinck land. The van Coudenberg family were almost certainly a cadet branch of the Clutincks, who owned the entire Coudenberg! Furthermore, it would have been extremely unlikely for a serf to have been able to run away like that: this is why the Duke authorised the monastery so easily, they were Nobility, not serfs. But of all dates to set up a cloister, just as the Black Death arrives must have been one of the roughest...

Antwerp University has recently set up an entire School with a Professor and around a dozen specialist Doctors and researchers specialising in his works and times, and it is entirely possible some very controversial - but justified - aspects of his work will start appearing on the Dutch Wiki site: readers should check there frequently. Jelmain 15:55, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Heilwige Bloemardinne
I'm trying to get an article started on Heilwige Bloemardinne and have run into a problem that people who pass this way may be able to solve. In the section of Oliver Davies' book The Rhineland Mystics which deals with Ruysbroeck he says, "She was certainly known to Ruysbroeck for he quotes her in The Twelve Beguines." This seems unlikely and perhaps the author has another of Ruysbroeck's writings in mind? Can any one suggest which one? It seems plausible that Ruysbroeck would use her actual words to epitomise the views he wished to expose as false and it would be nice to think one could get some small window on what Heilwige actually said or wrote.Coxparra (talk) 12:08, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

 * In his early days, they were at daggers drawn, with him publishing some highly castegatory comments about her. His mother probably stayed in the Clutinckx' hospitium not far from the St Gudula cathedral, which actually housed 12 poor women as a semi-informal béguinage, so there could have been contact and animosity at that level. It is thought that Bloemardine was born in Brussels, moving on to other things when Ruusbroec made things too hot for her. Why not contact the Ruusbroec fellowship at Antwerp Uni directly and ask them?

 * Equally, reread that poem with care (I've not studied Bloemardine, so I don't know enough to recognise a sarky quote): the broader theme of it is the development of the experienced believer, starting from what modern evangelists consider toddler steps, then getting a bit too cocky, and eventually settling to a degree of maturity. There are times in life when the well goes a bit dry, and he focuses on a couple of such "Screwtape" moments, so perhaps he was quoting from Bloemardine to show how she was going astray. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.241.227.84 (talk) 13:43, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

 * Thanks for those two ideas. I will try them both and, if I have some success, I'll post the results back here. Coxparra (talk) 19:10, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

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User talk:Alun Sheera

Hmmmm...
Are you CheeseDreams by any chance? - Ta bu shi da yu 21:44, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Blocked indefinitely
For duplicating the ArbCom page (which have been deleted by myself) I am permanently blocking you. - Ta bu shi da yu 21:52, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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User:Alun Sheera

got deleetid

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Newman (actor)

 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 KEEP. —Korath (Talk) 02:19, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

Robert Newman (actor)
Not notable - vanity? Brookie 19:37, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand, or at the very least mark it as a stub. The Wikipedians that are working on the soap opera articles currently have been making separate ones for each and every actor who stared in a soap opera. Zzyzx11 01:04, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Random nomination of one of many in a class of articles whose acceptibility is established by precedent. Wincoote 09:04, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, just under the bar of notability for me. Megan1967 07:04, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Megan once again votes the opposite of the current majority vote. This is a noteable actor in his field.  Keep.  RickK 07:06, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Voting should not be about playing follow the leader. Megan1967 04:09, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Nor should the vote be cast solely to be contrary. RickK 00:09, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm not here to be contrary. I'm here to make Wikipedia better. Megan1967 02:32, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Appearing in three network programs is plenty notable. Gamaliel 07:08, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Well known, part of one of Guiding Light's only supercouples. Just because you don't watch soaps doesn't mean these people aren't famous. Mike H 10:21, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Clearly keep, as a notable actor. - Vague | Rant 10:28, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: I've done a slight rewrite of the article, showing notability (nominated for four Soap Opera Digest Awards and one Daytime Emmy, supercouple history with Kim Zimmer). Mike H 10:48, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. "Vanity" doesn't mean "I'm clueless" - it means he or a close associate put the article there - David Gerard 22:58, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Please be civil, Brookie is only trying to improve Wikipedia. And note that the article was rewritten between the nomination and your comment. Radiant! 12:24, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Personally, the article established sufficient notability even then. Mike H 21:52, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Either way, David's personal attack on Brookie was uncalled for, as per the policy on Civility. Radiant! 10:34, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, spurious notability. JamesBurns 07:01, 27 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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Raquel Rastenni

Raquel Rastenni (21 August 1915 – 17 August 1998), born Anna Rachel Rastén, was a Danish-Russian singer. She was born in Copenhagen, and grew up in an apartment in the poor part of the city. Her Jewish parents immigrated to Denmark from Russia at the start of the 20th century. Her father was a tailor, and her mother was a seamstress.

She started her career as a dancer in the Helsingør Revue in 1936. She debuted as a singer in 1938 by being broadcast on radio. She sang with various orchestras through the early 1940s and in 1940 formed her own swing trio. That same year her first record was released. She also toured during these years in Sweden.

As a Jew, she fled Denmark in October 1943 along with her family, as the country had come under Nazi occupation. She spent the rest of the war years in Sweden where she continued having great success with her career, performing with orchestras and in cabarets and varieties. Her jazz singing style has been compared to that of Ella Fitzgerald.

She returned to Denmark in 1945 and became Denmark's leading female ballad singer. Among her successes were Vovsen i vinduet ("(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?") in 1953 and Heksedansen ("The Witch Dance") in 1960. Her best-selling song was Hele ugen alene ("Seven lonely days") in 1953, which sold over 120,000 copies. She was the first artist in Denmark to earn a gold record.

In addition to her Danish language recordings, she recorded also in Swedish, Yiddish and Hebrew.

After qualifying in the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix to represent Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest, she participated in Eurovision Song Contest 1958, where she sang Jeg rev et blad ud af min Dagbog (I Tore A Page Out Of My Diary). She ranked number 8.

She participated once more in the Danish Melodi Grand Prix, singing a duet with Grethe Sønck entitled Hjemme hos os ("At our home").

In the late 1980s, she retired from public life. She died in Skodsborg in the northern part of Sjælland four days before her 83rd birthday.

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Talk:Alexander Lebed

Old talk
I wouldn't say that "at the time of his death many people thought he would be the next President of Russia". After his resounding victory in the governor election in 1998 with 45% of votes he left by February 2002 with the support only 21% of all voters in Krasnoyarsk Krai and 43.9% of them intending to vote against. VolgaInform refers to All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (in Russian)

Certainly, the Khasavyurt agreements was the highest point of his career, while in office he appeared to be incompetent to govern the region, to negotiate with the local elite, and to appoint officials.

 * "General Alexander Lebed, the strongman who many had regarded as the most likely successor to president Boris Yeltsin. " true? Grey Fox (talk) 14:53, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

 * True. He was a very serious player (there is interesting info in "Death of dissident"). That is why he was probably killed.Biophys (talk) 21:24, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Tin foil hat time. Have you seen the accident report? Anyway WP:FORUM --Russavia Dialogue Stalk me 22:23, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

 * This was just a reply to curious Grey Fox. I do not have time to source every murder at the post-Soviet space, especially when cover-ups were good. Among other prominent politicians who probably fell victims of Russian state security services are Anatoly Sobchak, Saparmurat Niyazov (he refused to sell gas on conditions from Moscow), Zhvania and Gamsakhurdia. Biophys (talk) 23:32, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Lebed was a perfect hero but too prefect to fit not perfect Russia, is it?

I really pity for him. Hans yulun lai (talk) 00:32, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Russian poet?
Is he a Russian poet? Maybe he is Russian writer. Please, change category. --Averaver (talk) 08:43, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Place of death ?
Following ru it was near the village Aradan, Yermakovsky District (Raion). Maybe en mixed this up with Abakan ? --88.217.111.234 (talk) 05:39, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Article issues
The "Political views" section has two inline "citation needed" tags dated March 2018. This is in conflict with the B-class criteria (#1). -- Otr500 (talk) 03:20, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

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Mae Nolan

Mae Ella Nolan (September 20, 1886 – July 9, 1973) was an American politician who became the fourth woman to serve in the United States Congress, the first woman elected to Congress from California, the first woman to chair a Congressional committee, and the first to fill the seat left vacant by her husband's death. She took her seat in the United States House of Representatives in 1923.

Biography
Mae Nolan was born in San Francisco, California, and attended public schools, St. Vincent's Convent, and Ayres Business College of San Francisco.

Congress
Nolan was elected as a Republican to the 67th Congress by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, John Ignatius Nolan, on November 18, 1922. She served in the 67th and 68th Congresses, from January 23, 1923, to March 3, 1925.

Nolan was the fourth woman elected to Congress, after Jeannette Rankin, Alice Mary Robertson, and Winnifred Sprague Mason Huck. All four were elected as Republicans to the House of Representatives. Nolan was a Catholic, hence she was the first woman from such a background who served in the federal legislature.

Nolan was the first woman elected to her husband's seat in Congress, which is sometimes known as the "widow's succession". As of 2004, 36 widows have won their husbands' seats in the House, and 8 in the Senate.

Nolan supported her late husband's agenda on minimum wage, child labor laws, and education. She distanced herself from the women's suffrage movement by dropping her membership in the Woman Suffrage Committee, depending on support from labor, which was unsupportive. Her primary concerns were improving wages and lowering taxes on workers while raising them wealthy Americans, She also supported a bonus for World War I veterans.

During her term, she was the chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department. She was not a candidate for renomination in 1924 to the 69th Congress, saying that "Politics is entirely too masculine to have any attraction for feminine responsibilities".

Death
Nolan moved to Sacramento, California in her later years, where she died on 9 July 1973 at age 86.

title: Mae Nolan