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The Comeback (Seinfeld)

"The Comeback" is the 147th episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the thirteenth episode of the eighth season, originally airing on January 30, 1997.

The episode was written by Gregg Kavet & Andy Robin and was directed by David Owen Trainor.

In the episode, George Costanza goes to great lengths to deliver a retort (the eponymous comeback) to a coworker that he thought of too late to deliver on the spot (a phenomenon described by the French expression l'esprit de l'escalier). Jerry Seinfeld learns the proprietor of a tennis pro shop is a bad tennis player. After seeing a movie, Cosmo Kramer decides he needs a living will. Elaine Benes has a tragic romance with a video store employee who shares her taste in movies.

Plot
George's coworker Reilly notices him stuffing himself with shrimp cocktail at a meeting and remarks: "Hey George, the ocean called; they're running out of shrimp." After the meeting, George thinks up a comeback: "Well, the Jerk Store called, and they're running out of you." He becomes obsessed with recreating the encounter so that he can make use of this comeback, despite Jerry, Elaine and Kramer all telling him that the comeback makes no sense.

Reilly changes jobs to Firestone in Akron, Ohio. George flies there to attend a meeting, and brings a tray of shrimp, prompting Reilly to repeat his "ocean" zinger. When George delivers the comeback, Reilly simply shoots back "What's the difference? You're their all-time bestseller." In desperation, George claims he had sex with Reilly's wife. This reduces the room to an offended silence, since Reilly's wife is in a coma. After arriving back in New York, George thinks of a new comeback, beginning with "the life support machine called...", and makes a U-turn so he can fly back to Akron and deliver it.

While browsing the staff picks at Champagne Video, Elaine becomes a fan of Vincent's picks. While Elaine is watching a Vincent pick, he calls her on the telephone. Elaine becomes romantically interested in him, but he refuses to meet her in person. On a subsequent visit to the video store, Elaine craves something lighter than the tearjerkers which dominate Vincent's picks. Kramer convinces her to try a Gene pick, Weekend at Bernie's II. Vincent feels betrayed by this, terminates their relationship, and stops making picks.

After Elaine rents Vincent's pick that she spurned in favor of Weekend at Bernie's II, Vincent agrees to meet her at his apartment if she brings some vodka, cigarettes, and fireworks. When she arrives, he refuses to open the door all the way. His mother opens the door, revealing that Vincent is 15 years old. Mortified, Elaine takes the vodka from the bag and walks off.

Jerry is pressured into buying a high end racquet by the worker at a pro tennis shop, an Eastern European man named Milos. While playing at a tennis club with Elaine, Jerry discovers that Milos is a horrible tennis player. In Jerry's eyes, this undermines Milos' credibility as a salesman. Milos offers to do anything in exchange for Jerry not revealing his secret. While in the shop, Jerry's eye is caught by an attractive woman. The woman, named Patty, waits for him outside his apartment. She propositions him for sex, but recoils in shame, revealing that she is Milos' wife and was instructed to seduce Jerry by her husband. The incident makes her lose respect for Milos.

Kramer rents a straight-to-video movie about a woman in a coma. Frightened by the movie, he has a living will drawn up. He retains a lawyer named Shellbach, with Elaine as his executor, and opts to have his life support terminated in all but the most extreme cases. Kramer finishes watching the movie, in which the woman comes out of the coma. Not having known that it is possible to awake from a coma, he resolves to get his living will annulled, but misses his appointment. He learns that he can catch up with Shellbach at the tennis club.

Milos asks Jerry to let him win a game of tennis to regain Patty's respect. During the game, Milos derides Jerry's tennis ability. Frustrated at Milos' taunts, Jerry begins to play for real. He hits a ball wide of Milos, who swings wildly at it, releasing his racquet into the air. It comes down on another tennis player, who falls on a ball machine, redirecting its aim to Kramer's head. Kramer ends up in the hospital. When Elaine visits him, looking for an outlet for her VCR, she unplugs a large plug. Kramer wakes up and screams, seeing the plug in Elaine's hand and thinking she just removed his life-support.

Cultural references
The relationship between Elaine and Vincent is a reference to The Phantom of the Opera, which was in its 9th year on Broadway at the time.

Production
Although the episode is credited as written solely by the writing team of Gregg Kavet and Andy Robin, the eponymous story arc was actually contributed by Peter Mehlman. Kavet and Robin had been working on a story involving the Yankee management, and had even cast Ben Stein for it, but felt the story was not working out and decided to instead use Mehlman's "comeback" idea, which Mehlman had been trying to get into a Seinfeld episode for years. Kavet and Robin consciously scripted the scenes where Jerry, Elaine, and Kramer try to talk George out of the "jerk store" comeback as a satire of the writing-by-committee method which was common in television (and which Seinfeld had just switched to after seven years in which individual writers and writing partners wrote their episodes largely in isolation).

Regular Seinfeld director Andy Ackerman was on vacation, so the episode was directed by David Owen Trainor.

The tennis match was set in an indoor court, but the crew were unable to book an indoor court in time to use it as a filming location. Instead, they used a crane to drape a tent over an outdoor tennis court, making it look like an indoor court. El Niño was affecting the weather patterns in the United States, resulting in heavy rain in Los Angeles on the week the crew shot the tennis court scenes. Rain collected on the tent, putting the cast and crew in danger of having hundreds of pounds of water dumped on them if the tent were to collapse, and seeped in underneath, creating electrical hazards. After filming of the master shots wrapped (by which time the crane's back wheels were lifting off the ground from the weight of the water), the cast and crew cleared out, and the remaining footage was filmed back at the studio on a makeshift half-court set.

The role of Vincent was played by Danny Strong and voiced by Robby Benson, since the writers wanted Vincent to sound older than he was. In real life, Strong was knowledgeable about films from an early age. He would rent videos from Video Archives.

Kavet and Robin were both big childhood fans of the TV drama Emergency!, and asked the casting staff to try to get Robert Fuller, who played Dr. Kelly Brackett on the show, to voice the doctor on the movie-within-a-TV-episode The Other Side of Darkness. Fuller agreed, and Robin's wife Anna (also a fan of Emergency!) played opposite him as the voice of the patient.

Kramer's trip to the executor was originally much longer, but some scenes, such as Kramer navigating across a wet floor to get to the elevator, were cut before broadcast.

Critical reception
David Sims of The A.V. Club wrote, "Things are pretty disconnected in this episode, although Kramer, Jerry and Elaine all sorta come together by the end (just for a cheap, quick gag, but it's a decent one)... Elaine's romance with Vincent (played, oh so briefly, by a young Danny Strong) is more fun, although as a Phantom of the Opera spoof it feels very stale... But I like the communication that goes on between them through the video aisles and Vincent's battle for artistic supremacy with the more middle-of-the-road Gene ..."

Nick Suss wrote for the site StoriesHouse, "Like most episodes of Seinfeld, The Comeback wove four plots together seamlessly while connecting each of them with conversation. The episode was witty, silly, poignant and above all else laden with quotes."

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Shammar

The tribe of Shammar (شَمَّر) is a tribal Arab Qahtanite confederation, descended from the Tayy, which migrated into the northern Arabian Peninsula from Yemen in the second century. It is the largest branch of the Tayy, and one of the largest and most influential Arab tribes. The historical and traditional seat of the tribe's leadership is in the city of Ḥaʼil in what was the Emirate of Jabal Shammar in what is now Saudi Arabia. In its "golden age", around 1850, the Shammar ruled much of central and northern Arabia from Riyadh to the frontiers of Syria and the vast area of Upper Mesopotamia (الجزيرة).

One of the early famous figures from the tribe was the legendary Hatim Al-Ta'i (Hatim of Tayy; died 578), a Christian Arab renowned for generosity and hospitality who figured in the One Thousand and One Nights. The early Islamic historical sources report that his son, Adi ibn Hatim, whom they sometimes refer to as the "king" of Tayy, converted to Islam before Muhammad's death. Another figure from Tayy during this period was Zayd al-Khayr, a prominent member of Tayy who is said to have led Tayy's delegation to Muhammad accepting Islam.

Origins
The Shammar are a tribal confederation made up of three main branches: the Abdah, the Aslam, and the Zoba. The earliest non-Arab sources refer to Arabs as Taits, thought of as referring to the Tayy, as Iyas ibn Qabisah al-Ta'i, a governor of al-Hirah in Lower Mesopotamia in the Lakhmid kingdom, had contact with both the Byzantine and Sasanian Empires. Since some sections of Tayy, and most of the Ghassanids and Lakhmids, were present in Mesopotamia and the Levant prior to Muhammad's preaching of Islam in the early 7th century. In the Namara inscription (the second oldest pre-Islamic Arabic inscription, dating from 328 CE), the name "Shammar" is believed to refer to a city in Yemen, though it may refer to the city where the Himyarite King Shammar Yahri'sh lived, Radda District (located about 100 km from Dhamar, an ancient historic site). Since King Shammar Yahri'sh ruled during the last decade of the third century, it could be referring to the city he lived in or one named after him. It could also be referring to the city of Ha'il, although there is no evidence that Imru Al-Qays fought the Tayy.

Led by Usma bin Luai, the Tayy invaded the mountains of Ajā and Salma from Banu Assad and Banu Tamim in northern Arabia in their exodus from Yemen in 115 CE. These mountains are now known as the Shammar. The Tayy became nomadic camel-herders and horse-breeders in northern Najd for centuries. Because of their strength and blood relations with the Yemenite dynasties that came to rule Syria (The Ghassanids) and Iraq (The Lakhmids), the Tayy expanded north into Iraq all the way to the capital at the time, Al-Hirah. The area of the two mountains subsequently came to be known as "Jabal Shammar" ("Shammar's Mountain") from the 14th century, the first time that the Shammar as a tribe were noted in literature.

History
Led by Usma bin Luai, the Tayy invaded the mountains of Ajaa and Salma from Banu Assad and Banu Tamim in northern Arabia in their exodus from Yemen in 115 CE. These mountains were renamed to Jabal Tayy (Tayy's Mountain), and then again in the 14th century, after the tribe changed their name, to Jabal Shammar. There, Tayy, later Shammar, became either city-dwellers in the city of Ha'il, nomadic pastoralists, camel-herders and horse-breeders in northern Najd, or agriculturists in the countryside outside Ha'il or in the surrounding desert oases. These divisions were based on profession, personal interest and skill, and not family or blood-line stratifications within the tribe. It is common for the same nuclear family to have members living each of the three different lifestyles. Because of their strength and blood relations with the Yemenite dynasties that came to rule Syria (Ghassanids) and Iraq (Muntherids), the Tayy expanded north into Iraq all the way to al-Hira, the capital at the time. Oral tradition mentions that the first chiefs of the Shammar tribe, Arar and Omair, were of the 'Abda family of Dhaigham, who ruled Shammar from Jabal Shammar. In the 17th century, a large section of the Shammar left Jabal Shammar under the leadership of the Al Jarba and settled in Iraq, reaching as far as the northern city of Mosul, their current stronghold. The Shammar are currently one of Iraq's largest tribes and are divided into two geographical, as opposed to genealogical, subsections. The northern branch, known as Shammar al-Jarba, is mainly Sunni, while the southern branch, Shammar Toga, converted to Shia Islam around the 19th century  after settling in southern Iraq.

The Shammar that remained in Arabia had tribal territories extending from the city of Ha'il northwards to the frontiers of the Syrian Desert. The Shammar had a long traditional rivalry with the confederation of 'Anizzah, who inhabited the same area. The city of Ha'il became the heart of the Jabal Shammar region and was inhabited largely by settled members of Shammar and their clients. Two clans succeeded each other in ruling the city in the 19th century. The first clan, the Al Ali, were replaced by the Al Rashid.

During the civil war that tore apart the Second Saudi State in the late 19th century, the emirs of Ha'il, from the house of Al Rashid, intervened and gradually took control of much of the Saudi realm, finally taking the Saudi capital Riyadh in 1895 and expelling the Saudi leaders to Kuwait. The Bedouin Shammari tribesmen provided the majority of the Al Rashid's military support. Later, in the first two decades of the 20th century, Al Rashid were defeated by Ibn Saud and his Wahhabi forces when his campaign to restore his family's rule in the Arabian Peninsula culminated in the Conquest of Ha'il in 1921. Following Al Rashid's defeat many Shammar fled to Syria and Iraq. Eventually the clan of their uncles, Al Sabhan pledged allegiance to Ibn Saud in Riyadh. Ibn Saud also married a daughter of one of the Shammari chiefs, who bore him one Saudi King, Abdullah. After the establishment of modern borders, most Bedouins gradually left their nomadic lifestyle. Today, most members of the Shammar live modern, urbanized lifestyles in Saudi Arabia and Iraq, and some sections settled in Syria and Jordan. Despite this, the vast majority of Shammar continue to retain a strong tribal identity and loyalty to their tribe. Many also participate in Cultural Festivals to learn about their ancient lifestyles, and to take part in traditional activities such as folk dancing.

House of Rashid
The House of Rashid (Rasheed) were a historic Shammar dynasty on the Arabian Peninsula. They were the most formidable enemies of the House of Saud in Nejd. They were centered in Ha'il, a city in northern Nejd that derived its wealth from being on the route of the Hajj. The Al Rashid derived their name from the grandfather of Abdullah, the first Rashidi amir of Ha'il, who was named Ibn Rashid. The Rashidi emirs cooperated closely with the Ottoman Empire. However, this cooperation became problematic as the Ottomans lost popularity. As with many Arab dynasties, the lack of a generally accepted rule of succession was a recurrent problem with Rashidi rule. The internal dispute normally centered on whether succession should be horizontal (i.e. to a brother) or vertical (to a son). These divisions within the family led to bloody infighting. In the last years of the nineteenth century six Rashidi leaders died violently. Nevertheless, The Al Rashid family continued to rule and fight together against Ibn Saud.

Saudi Arabia- The first twenty years of the 20th century on the Arabian Peninsula featured a long-running series of wars as the Saudis and their allies sought to unite the peninsula. Some members of the Rasheed family left the country and went into voluntary exile, mostly to Kuwait.

Iraq
The Shammar is Iraq's largest Arab tribe, along with the Jubur, with more than 1.5 million members. Under the leadership of Banu Mohamad, known as Al Jarba, there was a massive exodus into Iraq. Most of the Shammar in Iraq gave up their nomadic lifestyles to settle in major cities, especially the Jazirah plain, the area between the Tigris and Euphrates from Baghdad to Mosul. Droughts triggered several migrations of Shammar into Iraq, which, according to the Ottoman census upon its annexation, had only 1.5 million inhabitants. The Shammar took over the Jazirah after displacing Al-Ubaid tribe. According to Sheikh Abdullah Humaid Alyawar, the son of the sheikh of Shammar, in Iraq the total population of Shammar is estimated to be more than 1.5 million. The Shammar Al-Sayeh, a tribal confederation of tribes from Shammar, is the branch of Shammar who were independent of Aljraba's authority. Shammar is composed of groups such as Al-Zuhairy and Al-Towej in Najaf.

The Shammar became one of the most powerful Iraqi tribes, owning vast tracts of land and provided strong support of the Hashemite monarchy. Shammar power was threatened after the overthrow of the monarchy in 1958 by Abdul-Karim Qassem, and the Shammar welcomed Ba'athist rule. After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, Ghazi al-Yawar, from the Al Jarbah clan, was unanimously chosen as interim president. Ghazi Al-Yawar's uncle is the current Sheikh of Sheikhs of Shammar.

Syria
The Shammar tribe have been present in Syria since at least the 1920s when rivalry between Syrian and Iraqi Shammar culminated in violence reported by the League of Nations in 1926. Syrian Shammar Sheikh Diham al Hadi, the paramount Shammar sheikh in Syria, conducted an attack at the end of March 1926 upon 'Ajil al Yawar, a Sheikh of the Iraqi Shammar. In April 1959 however, the CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service reported that the Iraqi and Syrian branches of the Shammar were able to bury their differences, both joining an alliance with the Syrian Baath Party against a common enemy.

The current leader of the Syrian Shammar is Sheikh Humaydi Daham al-Hadi. His son Bandar al-Humaydi is military leader of al-Sanadid Forces, a Shammar militia formed in 2013 nominally to protect the tribe's interests from ISIL.

Timeline
1852: Shammar defeat Anazah and Alqusaim in the Battle of Baqa.
 * 328 Namar inscription on the tombstone of "Imru Alqais bin Amru King of the Arabs" mentions the "city of Shammar."
 * 1171–1172: Abda of Shammar tribe joins Saladin against the crusaders.
 * 1301: First mention of the tribe Shammar, as a separate tribe in the book Masalik Alabsar by Ibn Fadhl.
 * 1417: The city of Al Majma'ah is built by Abdullah ibn Saif Alwibari Alshammari.
 * 1455: IBN Ali Emirate is formed under Ali Alkabeer bin Attya Bin Jaffar after the defeat and exile of former ruler of Jabal Tayy Bhaij Bin Theeban Alzubaidi
 * 1446: The first known battle between Shammar and Anazah is fought by Bin Baqar of Alaslam and Altayyar of Anazah.
 * 1489 Husain Al ali is dubbed Prince of the desert Shamar's Dominion is established in Najd
 * 1517 The Ottoman Empire is established.
 * c. 1521: the name Shammar becomes prominent.
 * 1522: Shammar backs Bani Khalid against Aluyonien.
 * 1609: Shammar unites with Bani Khalid against the sharif of Makkah.
 * 1690: First Exodus into Iraq.
 * 1696: Shammar raids Baghdad.
 * 1744: The Emirate of Diriyah, the first Saudi Kingdom, established.
 * 1749–1762: Shammar raids reach northern Baghdad despite the strong ruler Sulaiman Abu Layla Pasha.
 * 1750–1760: Wahabi movement emerges.
 * 1764: Migration of individuals of Alzagareet of Abdah to Southern Iraq under the leadership of Yousef bin Nasr.
 * 1765: alaslam and zaghareet between Hīt and Karabla.
 * 1776: Sheikh Mutlag bin Thanian invades Alhafeer area.
 * 1779: Jabal Shammar falls to Saudi domination.
 * 1781 (or 1791): Battle of Aladwa between Aljarba and Ibn Saud.
 * 1780: Shammar joins Bani Khalid and Muntafig and the Sharifate of Mecca to conquer Alsaud.
 * 1790: Wahabis raid southern Iraq early in the year.
 * 1790: Shammar is allied with the Sherif of Mecca against Alasaud.
 * 1791: Al Saud launches a surprise attack on Shammar and wins two battles 70 miles south-east of Hayel.
 * 1791: Late in the year some Shamaris join other Bedouins in an attack against Alsaud; Muslit bin Mutlag is killed.
 * 1791: Mutlag Aljarba takes Shammar to safer places in southern Iraq.
 * 1792: Sheikh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab dies; Wahabi forces raid southern Iraq, defeating Bani Khalid.
 * 1792: Mohamad Bin Abdul mohsin Bin Ali (also believed to be Alsamn Alurabi) becomes Emir of Hail.
 * 1795: Saudi forces attack Shammar near Samawa and Mutlag is killed. (Some say this occurred in 1797 in the Battle of Alabyadh, and that Mutlag died and Shammar entered Aljazeera in the same year.)
 * 1797: Alsaud attacks north of Soug Alshiokh; Faris Bin Mohammad Aljarba takes over; Wahabis are turned back.
 * 1798: A large coalition including Shammar, Alubaid and Ottoman armies – more than 500 strong – goes to Basra; Mutlag dies.
 * 1799: Ali Basha leaves Zuabir with new allies from Almuntafig, Althufair and Bani Khalid; they fight for a year.
 * 1800: Truce is broken and an indecisive battle with the Wahabis takes place near Karbala.
 * 1800: Incident between Faris al Jarba and Shiekh Alamoud Fayez Ibn Huthayl.
 * 1801: Wahabi pressure on southern Iraq subsides; Shammar migrates to reach Jabal Sinjar in northern Iraq. The Shiite holy city of Karbala is raided by 10,000 men on 6,000 camels; the plunder Hussien's tomb.
 * 1802: Late that year, a campaign against the Yezedi is launched by the Ottomans, Shammar, and Alubaid.
 * 1803: Ottoman seeks Shammar's help in a campaign against the Al Ubaid mutiny, but the campaign fails.
 * 1805: Faris Aljarba decisively defeats Alubaid.
 * 1808–1812: Baghdad comes under Saudi threats.
 * 1809: Anti-Thufair rebellion; Ottoman campaign under Faris Aljarba and Sulaimna Basha Alsaghir, Althufair and Rola Triomph.
 * 1814: Shammar Aljarba raids several Iraqi cities.
 * 1815: Khazaal, Zuabair, and Shammar rebel against Said Basha. Uniza, Alubaid, and Thufair tribes put down the rebellion; Shiekh Banaia is killed in battle.
 * 1818: Shiekh Sfoug bin Faris Aljarba takes over. Mohamad Bin Abdul mohsin Bin Ali is beheaded by Ibrahim Pasha and sent to his father Mohamad Ali Pasha in Egypt. The Saudi capital of Dirayiya is besieged by 2,000 cavalry and 56,000 infantry with 12 guns and falls to the Ottomans.
 * 1820s: Mohamad bin Ali is killed and his brother Saleh becomes ruler of Hail.
 * 1820 opposition to Bin Ali formed by Abdulla Bin Rasheed against Ali bin Abdul Mohsen. Attempts to his arrest sends Abdullah Bin Rasheed to Iraq fleeing.
 * 1822 Shk. Sfoug aljarba defeats a 40,000-strong Persian army meant for Baghdad.
 * 1822: Alawajya wars begins.
 * 1823: Village of Anna is bequeathed to Sfoug by the Ottoman Pasha of Baghdad for his role in defeating the Persian invasion.
 * 1824: Uniza raids Shammar and loots their prized Arabian horses.
 * 1830: Adwan bin Twala Shk alaslam and Oqab alawaji Shk of Inn Sulayman of Anazah who lives South of Hail. There had been a long standing conflict between them. They met to stop the Siege of Ras. Ogab challenges the outnumbered Adwan. Adwan captures Ogab during battle and wins. He pardons Ogab and releases him. (كتاب من شيم العرب د فهد المالك)
 * 1831: Shammar aids the Ottoman siege of Baghdad to remove its rebellious Dawood Pasha.
 * 1832: Shammar retaliates against Ali Pasha and declares rebellion.
 * 1832: The Egyptian invasion of Syria forces Uniza to leave the Syrian desert and enter Aljazera with 35,000 men.
 * 1833: Two Pashas join the rebellion and attack the Yazidis in Sinjar to stop their looting.
 * July 1833: Shammar besieges Baghdad and intercepts all Ottoman correspondence 20–30 miles north. Abdullah bin Rashid, the future founder of the emirate of Ha'il is said to have taken part.
 * 1833: Five thousand Ottomans under Mohamed Pasha leave a rebellion near Hilla and attack Shammar; the siege remains active.
 * 1833: Late in the year, Shammar moves north to help Mosul's Pasha; the siege is broken and Ottomans launch a successful surprise attack.
 * 1834: Rogue Sheikh Shlash of Shammar attacks Uniza in support of the Ottomans; Sfoug supports Shlash with 2,000 men; Uniza wins.
 * 1835: Uniza crosses the Euphrates and leaves Aljazeera.
 * 1835: Shammar is at the peak of its power in Aljazeera and Sfoug Aljarba is Soultan Albar.
 * 1835: Rasheed Pasha ambushes Sfoug and his son Farhan and exile both to the Istana.
 * 1835: Shammar retaliates by raiding and destroying the fields of Tikrit.
 * 1836: Battles ensue between Shammar and Uniza; Sfoug's brother Faris bin Mohamad rules over 12,000 families; Mohamad Ali Pasha's forces reach Yanbo for a second invasion of Arabia.
 * 1836: Alrashid establishes the Emirate of Jabal Shammar, centered at Ha'il.
 * 1837: Shammar's unity fragments in Iraq.
 * 1838: Abdullah bin Rasheed goes to Iraq.
 * 1840: Shammar Jarba attacks the Egyptians at Orfa.
 * 1841: Anna is taken away from Sfoug.
 * 1842: Shammar jarba retaliates by raiding near Alkhabor; there is some internal splintering.
 * 1842 Baqaa battle at Baqaa 100 km North of Hail. Shk: N'ais Bin Twala joined the commander Sh. Abdullah Bin Rasheed commanding 2000 men against Quseem Coalition Abdul Aziz albrayyan emir of Braida, Qaid bin Mijlad Shk if Dahamsha clan of Unaiza tribe, under the command of yahay bin Sulaim aka. Su'oot almajaneen, he is killed in battle.
 * 1843: Sfoug is reappointed as Shammar's Shiekh.
 * 1844: Shammar Jarba raids Uniza near Harran; it is a famine year.
 * 1844: In summer Uniza brings 20,000 men and raids the area between Baghdad and Mosul.
 * 1844: Shammar, with only 1000 men, allies with the Kurdish cavalry to expel Uniza; Fighting continues in the fall.
 * 1845: Uniza seeks a truce, giving 15,000 sheep, 3,000 camels and 8 horses.
 * 1845: Shammar Jarba defeats Uniza. War spoils were 7,000 sheep; famine strikes Shammar.
 * 1845: The Emirate of Hail is declared.
 * 1846: Farhan becomes the Sheikh of Sheikhs; of the other six brothers, the runner-up is Abdulkareem.
 * 1846?: Abdulkarim declares a revolution against the Ottomans; Naser Alsadoun delivers him to the Ottomans and he is hanged.
 * 1847: Internal fighting between rebellious Shammaris; Sfoug is assassinated and beheaded by Najeeb Pasha (some say 1857).
 * December 1847: Shammar raids Aljazeera; Najeeb Pasha appoints Oda as Sheikh.
 * 1848: In spring Uniza raids Shammar under Daham Ibn Gaishish and Ibn Hath-thal.
 * 1850–1851: Abdi Pasha stops his Shammar rations: Shammar raids southern Baghdad.
 * 1853-1856: Ottoman control outside of big cities plummets.
 * 1855: Ibn Sulaim raids Hail and kills wild Alaslamya in Ramdhan.
 * 1856: Ibn Rashid kills Ibn Sulaim in Ramdhan as vengeance.
 * 1859: The feast for a wolf by Mukazi Ibn Sayed.
 * 1871: Ubaid Al Rashid dies of old age (according to oral tradition).
 * 1876: Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Rashid capitalizes on internal disputes between Abdullah and Saud bin Faisal and enters Alqaseem.
 * 1882: siege of Aridh ended by Mohamad Ibn adullah bin Rashid. Abdullah ibn Faisal retreats (1299 Hijri)
 * 1887: Mohammed Al Rashid is asked in a poem by Mohammed bin Jasem of Qatar to help against a coalition of other emirates. The coalition is defeated and Barzan Tower is built in Qatar to commemorate the occasion.
 * 1882: Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Rashid and Hassan bin Muhana defend the town of Almujama against Abdulla bin Faisal.
 * 1883: Arwa Battle between Utaiba and Shammar, Utaiba is defeated. Utaiba's leaders were Hendi bin Humaid, Terky bin Rubaian and Ghazi bin Mohaya.
 * 1891: Battle of Mulayda and the end of the second Saudi state
 * 1895: Almulaida battles against Alquseem.
 * 1897: Battle of Binban; all of Najd is under Mohammed bin Rasheed.
 * March 1901: Battle of Alsarif: 1200 Shammaris lost 400 men under Abdul Aziz Almutab Alrashid to defeat an invasion of Hail that is attempted Emir of Kuwait, Muabarak Alkabeer, who lost 9000 men of the 64,000 men he commanded. The coalition included many some which Alsadoun of Al-Muntafiq, Aldeweesh, Bedoor, abalkhail of Qaseem, Bin Mehana Bin hathleen of Ajman, Shafi of Hawajer, Alsubaie tribe, Qahtan under Hashr bin wraik، awazem tribe under Mubarak Bin Durai', alrashaida tribe under Mohammed bin Qurainees.
 * 1887-1888 Mohammed Almehhad Emir of Jabal Shammar Emirate, leads an army to respond to Bin Thani's plea for help to face his enemies reprisal for their defeat in Khanour.
 * 1903–07: Saudi–Rashidi War, also known as the battles over Qasim
 * 1907: Aljanazah is assassinated and Hail is ruled by the sons of Sheikh Humoud bin Ubaid Alrasheed.
 * 1910: Battel of Ajumaima: Saud Abdulaziz bin Rasheed Shammar defeats Alruoula and Anazah. Hail is ruled by Aljanazah under the guardianship of Alsabhan.
 * March 1910: Battle of Hadya: 500 Shammari horsemen join Alsadoun's forces of 4000 in a battle again Sabah backed by Abdulaziz Alsaud and defeat them.
 * 1914: Zamel Alsabhan is killed.
 * 1915: Battle of Jarrab: Ibn Rasheed is victorious against Ibn Saud; death of a British intelligence officer called Shakespeare.
 * 1916: Battle of Abu Ajaj: Shammar defeats Alshfair and Albudoor.
 * 1917 battle of Yateb: Faisal Bin abdulaziz and his brother Saud defeat Shammar.
 * 1919: Alshuaibah battle : Faisal Bin abdulaziz and his brother Saud defeat Shammar.
 * 1920: Zuba participates in Iraq's 1920 revolution against the British.
 * 1921: Conquest of Ha'il by the Saudis and surrender of the Emirate of Jabal Shammar by its Al Rashid ruler Mohammed Bin Tallal.
 * 1921 Barzan Palace is leveled after Faisal bin Abdulaziz and Saud Bin Abdulaziz lay Siege to Hail for three months.
 * 1926: Syrian Shammar Sheikh Diham al Hadi attack upon 'Ajil al Yawar, a Sheikh of the Iraqi Shammar.
 * 1932: population of Hail is estimated at 20,000; Badu Shammar at 150,000–200,000 of which 30% are Alaslam, 37% Abde, 25% Sinjara, 7.5% Tuman.
 * 1948: Shammar is driven out of the Negev south of Palestine by Israeli forces;
 * 16 February 1948: Battle of Zaraa.
 * 10 April 1948: Almanara.
 * 2004: Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawar becomes the first president of Iraq after fall of Baghdad

Al Aslam
Clans:
 * Al Manee' -Twalah, Albu Fradi (Twalah), Fayid, Masud, and Kamel
 * Wahab - Qder, Muhammed, Jathel
 * Al Sultah - Al Jarba the Sheikhs of Shammar come from this clan
 * Aladhadh
 * Al Khashman
 * Al Wajaan

Abdah
Clans:
 * Al Jaafar - rulers of Jabal Shammar come from this clan.
 * Al Awad - clan that is from iraq and has large influence and vast history in the south of iraq
 * Al Rubaeya - sub clan of Rubeya Al Webbar, Al Ata, Zagareet, Al Jadi, Al Mohissen
 * Al Yihya - one of its famous Families are: Al Sleet Albu Salih, Al Nasrallah, Al Mufadal and Al Jundah

Zoba'
Clans:
 * AlWetaid, leaders of Al Faddaghah.
 * Zoba' Al Mathlothah.
 * Al Khrusah, Some Leaders of Shammar Al Jarba family come from this clan.
 * Sinjarah:
 * Al Thabit
 * Al Ghafilah
 * Al Zameel, sometimes referred to as Al Souid or Al Faddaghah.
 * Al Zomail

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Breguet Aviation

The Société anonyme des ateliers d'aviation Louis Breguet, also known as Breguet Aviation, was a French aircraft manufacturer.

The company was set up in 1911 by the aviation pioneer Louis Charles Breguet. Breguet Aviation was extremely active during the First World War, producing numerous military aircraft, such as the pioneering metal Breguet 14 day-bomber, for the Allies. During the interwar period, the firm's aircraft set several records for non-stop crossings of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as with the unconventional Breguet-Dorand Gyroplane Laboratoire. It was active during the Second World War, surviving the conflict and largely focusing on commercial transport aircraft during the postwar years. Its most notable military programmes during the Cold War include the Breguet 1150 Atlantic and the SEPECAT Jaguar. During 1971, Breguet Aviation merged with Dassault to form Avions Marcel Dassault-Breguet Aviation, which was subsequently rebranded as ''Dassault Aviation.

History
The company was founded during 1911 by Louis-Charles Breguet, an early French airplane designer and builder, and his brother, Jacques. The company's name is sometimes spelled Bréguet by mistake.

That same year, Breguet's first airplane established a new speed record during a 10 km flight. In 1912, Breguet constructed his first seaplane.

During the First World War, the company produced a range of military-orientated aircraft to assist the French war effort. In particular, it developed capable reconnaissance aircraft that saw use not only during the conflict but long into the 1920s as well. During this time, Breguet Aviation also played a pioneering role in the development of metal aircraft, such as the Breguet 14 day-bomber (almost entirely made of aluminum), which was one of the most famous French combat aircraft of its era. The Breguet-14's performance was such it was not only procured by the French military, but also exported to fill the ranks of sixteen squadrons of the American Expeditionary Force. Unable to meet wartime demands for its designs itself, production agreements were made with other firms to produce its aircraft as well. Between 1917 and 1919, just under 2,000 Breguet-designed aircraft were license-produced by the aviation interest of French industrial conglomerate Michelin.

During the interwar period, Breguet-built aircraft set several records; one plane performed the first non-stop crossing of the South Atlantic in 1927, while another made a 4,500-mile (7,242-kilometer) flight across the Atlantic Ocean during 1933, which was the longest non-stop Atlantic flight up to that time. During the 1930s, the firm developed the unconventional Breguet-Dorand Gyroplane Laboratoire, which flew by a combination of blade flapping and feathering. On 22 December 1935, this aircraft established a Federation Aeronautique Internationale speed record of 67 mph, while the type also set an altitude record of 517 ft during the following year.

Breguet was engaged in the rearmament efforts during the late 1930s, producing numerous military aircraft in the run-up to and during the Second World War. After resuming normal operations in the immediate postwar climate, the company largely focused on the development of commercial transports and other large aircraft designs. On 4 May 1955, the company's founder, Louis-Charles Breguet, died in Paris, France.

In response to a NATO specification for a long-range maritime patrol aircraft to replace the Lockheed P2V Neptune, Breguet submitted its own design, the Br 1150, which was chosen as the winner in late 1958. Accordingly, a multinational consortium, Société d'Étude et de Construction de Breguet Atlantic (SECBAT) was set up to develop and build this aircraft, which was named the 1150 Atlantic. An initial order for 60 Atlantics – 40 for France and 20 for Germany –  was placed in 1963; deliveries of the Atlantic commenced during 1965. The production line was reactivated following further orders from the Netherlands and Italy; this second production batch made its deliveries between 1972 and 1974. During 1978, the French Government authorised development of an updated version of the Atlantic, the Atlantic Nouvelle Génération or Atlantique 2, which involved little change to either airframe or engines while equipment and avionics were extensively revised. Deliveries started in 1989 with 28 eventually built, from an original requirement for 42.

During the 1960s, Breguet Aviation became involved in the multinational joint venture company SEPECAT (Société Européenne de Production de l'Avion d'École de Combat et d'Appui Tactique – the "European company for the production of a combat trainer and tactical support aircraft" ) together with the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) to produce the Jaguar strike aircraft. Though based in part on the Breguet Br.121, using the same basic configuration and an innovative French-designed landing gear, the Jaguar was built incorporating major elements of design from BAC – notably the wing and high lift devices. Production of components was split between Breguet and BAC, while the aircraft themselves would be assembled on two production lines; one in the UK and one in France. To avoid any duplication of work, each aircraft component had only one source.

Reportedly, collaboration between BAC and Breguet went relatively well. However, following Dassault's takeover of Breguet during 1971, the firm encouraged acceptance of its own designs, such as the Super Étendard naval attack aircraft and the Mirage F1 interceptor, for which the newly combined company would receive more workshare and profit, over the Jaguar.

Aircraft

 * Breguet-Richet Gyroplane (1907) - experimental single-seat helicopter-like craft with four rotors.
 * Breguet-Richet Gyroplane No.2 (1908) Tandem biplane with a pair of large inclined propellers providing both thrust and lift.
 * Breguet Type I (1909) - Single-seat tractor configuration biplane with boxkite-like tail on booms.
 * Breguet Type II (1910) - Development of the Type I, with a tricycle undercarriage and the tail carried at the end of a fuselage-like structure and a pair of booms.
 * Breguet Type III (1910) - Development of Type II, three-seat, rotary engine
 * Breguet Type IV (1911) - Development of Type III: the first aircraft to be produced in quantity by Breguet.
 * Breguet Type R.U1 (1911) - Single-engine biplane
 * Breguet Aerhydroplane (1913) - Single-engine one-seat seaplane. Did not fly
 * Breguet 4 (1914) - Single-engine two-seat biplane bomber. Pusher configuration
 * Breguet 5 (1915) - Single-engine two-seat biplane escort fighter. Variant of Bre.4
 * Breguet 6 (1915) - Version of Breguet 5 with different engine
 * Breguet 12 (1918) - Version of Breguet 5 with 37mm cannon and searchlight (night fighter)
 * Breguet 14 (1916) - Single-engine two-seat biplane bomber aircraft
 * Breguet 16 (1918) - Larger version of Breguet 14. Bomber aircraft
 * Breguet 17 (1918) - Smaller version of Breguet 14. Fighter aircraft.
 * Breguet 19 (1922) - Single-engine two-seat biplane reconnaissance/light bomber/sport aircraft
 * Breguet 20 Leviathan (1922) - Twin/four-engine 20-seat airliner
 * Breguet 22 (1922-3) - Breguet 20 development
 * Breguet 26T (1926) - Single-engine biplane eight-passenger airliner
 * Breguet 280T (1928) - Development of 26T with improved fuselage aerodynamics
 * License built Short S.8 Calcutta (1928) - Three-engine fifteen-seat biplane transport aircraft
 * Breguet 27 (1929) - Single-engine two-seat biplane reconnaissance aircraft
 * Breguet 270 (1929) - Development of 27 using steel chassis
 * Breguet 393T (1931) - Three-engine biplane airliner
 * Breguet 410 - Twin-engine light bomber
 * Breguet-Dorand Gyroplane Laboratoire (1935) - Helicopter prototype
 * Breguet G.111 (1949) - coaxial helicopter prototype
 * Breguet 460 Vultur - Twin-engine light bomber
 * Breguet 470 Fulgur (1936) - Twin-engine airliner, only one example built.
 * Breguet 480 - Long-range bomber project
 * Breguet 482 (1947) - Four-engine bomber, designed prior to war, only a single example built
 * Breguet 500 Colmar - Transport development of the Br.480
 * Breguet 521 Bizerte (1933) - Development of the S.8 Calcutta. Long-range patrol flying boat
 * Breguet 530 Saigon - Civilian version of 521
 * Breguet 693 (1938) - Twin-engine two-seat monoplane ground attack/fighter aircraft
 * Breguet 730 (1938) - Four-engine long-range flying boat. . Also Br.731
 * Breguet 763 Deux-Ponts (1949) - Br.761/763/765 Four-engine double-deck large airliner. Piston engines.
 * Breguet 790 Nautilus - Single-engine flying boat
 * Breguet 890 Mercure - Civil/military transport
 * Breguet Br 900 Louisette - (1948) Single-seat competition sailplane.
 * Breguet Br 901 Mouette - (1954) Single-seat competition sailplane.
 * Breguet Br 904 Nymphale - (1956) Two-seat sailplane.
 * Breguet Br 905 Fauvette - (1958) Single-seat competition sailplane.
 * Breguet 940 - Four-engine STOL transport aircraft. Turboprop engines
 * Breguet 941 (1961) - Four-engine STOL transport aircraft. Turboprop engines
 * Breguet 960 Vultur (1951) - Br.960 Twin-engine two-seat naval anti-submarine aircraft. Jet engine and turboprop engine (mixed power)
 * Breguet 1001 Taon (1957) - Br.1001 Single-engine single-seat jet strike aircraft.
 * Breguet 1050 Alizé (1956) - Br.1050 Single-engine three-seat naval anti-submarine aircraft. Turboprop engine
 * Breguet 1100 (1957) - Br.1100 Twin-engine jet fighter
 * Breguet 1150 Atlantic (1961) - Br.1150 Twin-engine naval reconnaissance aircraft. Turboprop engines

Leduc aircraft

 * Leduc 0.10
 * Leduc 0.21
 * Leduc 0.22

Automobile production
Before 1914, in addition to producing aircraft, the firm produced a few six cylinder-engined cars.

During the Second World War, the company produced an electric car powered by batteries and propelled by an "off-the-shelf" motor from Paris-Rhône. The motor was capable of producing two different levels of output. "First gear" and "Reverse gear" were provided with 36 volts while "Second gear" equated to 72 volts. An advertisement for the car in 1941 claimed a range of 100 km between charges without mentioning that this range was only available when adhering to a steady cruising speed of 20 km/h. Cruising at a steady 40 km/h would, on the same basis, have given a range of 65 km.

The car had a modern looking all-enveloping two-seater body with a relatively long tapered tail which contained the motor and some of the batteries. It had four wheels but the rear axle which delivered power to the road was relatively narrow. The car was actively marketed during 1941 which was a period of price instability. In August 1941 the Breguet electric car was priced at 56,000 francs: during the same month the Citroën Light bodied 11 (still listed despite production by now being down to a trickle or suspended) was priced at 35,630 francs.

The Breguet electric car was produced not at the firm's principal plant at Toulouse but at a smaller plant at Anglet (between Biarritz and Bayonne).

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Shamar

Shamar may refer to:
 * Shammar, an Arab tribe
 * Shamar, Afghanistan
 * Shamar, Iran
 * Shamar (given name), given name to a boys or girls
 * Shamar, a fictional country in Sonic Unleashed

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Bywater, New Orleans

Bywater is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Bywater District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: Florida Avenue to the north, the Industrial Canal to the east, the Mississippi River to the south, and the railroad tracks along Homer Plessy Way (formerly Press Street) to the west. Bywater is part of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. It includes part or all of Bywater Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

During New Orleans Mardi Gras, the Society of Saint Anne marching krewe starts their procession on Mardi Gras morning in Bywater and gathers marchers as it travels through the French Quarter, ending at Canal Street. This walking parade of local residents, artists, and performers is preceded by the Bywater Bone Boys Social Aid and Pleasure Club (founded 2005), an early-rising skeleton krewe made up of writers, tattoo artists, painters, set designers, musicians, and numerous other pre–7 a.m. revelers.

After Hurricane Katrina, many survivors flocked to the area as it was less affected by the storm, due to the slightly higher elevation closer to the Mississippi river. Bywater became part of what was known as the "Sliver by the River," meaning neighborhoods that saw no flooding, including Faubourg Marigny, the French Quarter and Irish Channel neighborhoods, and parts of the lower Garden District including St. Charles Avenue.

Geography
Bywater is located at 29.96278°N, -90.04°W and has an elevation of 3 ft. According to the United States Census Bureau, the district has a total area of 1.33 sqmi, 0.94 sqmi of which is land and 0.39 sqmi (29.32%) of which is water.

Adjacent neighborhoods

 * Desire Area (north)
 * Lower Ninth Ward (east)
 * Holy Cross (east)
 * Mississippi River (south)
 * Marigny (west)
 * St. Claude (west)
 * Florida Area (west)

Boundaries
The traditional boundaries of Bywater are: the Mississippi River to St. Claude Avenue, and the railroad tracks along Homer Plessy Way (formerly Press Street) to the Industrial Canal. Press Street's name came from a cotton press (known elsewhere as a cotton compress) which operated here during the 19th century. The Bywater/Marigny stretch of Press Street was changed to Homer Plessy Way in 2018 to memorialize Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities.

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 5,096 people, 2,263 households, and 1,030 families residing in the neighborhood. The population density was 5,421 pd/sqmi.

As of the census of 2010, there were 3,337 people, 1,763 households, and 573 families residing in the neighborhood. The population density was 5,421 pd/sqmi.

History
The area now known as Bywater was mostly plantation land in the colonial era, with significant residential development beginning the first decade of the 19th century as part of what was known as "Faubourg Washington," part of the predominantly Francophone "downtown" section of New Orleans. Many people from France, Spain, and the French Caribbean settled here. During the century, it grew with both white Creoles of French and Spanish descent, as well as mixed-race Creoles of French, Spanish, African, and Native American descent. They were also joined by immigrants from Germany, Italy, and Ireland.

Bywater is home to the site at which Homer Plessy was removed from an East Louisiana Railroad car for violating the separate car act, an event that resulted in the Plessy v. Ferguson case and the legal doctrine of "separate but equal." Today, a historical marker stands at the intersection of Press Street and Royal Street to commemorate the event.

There was little distinction between this area and what became known as the Lower 9th Ward until the Industrial Canal was dredged in the early 20th century, dividing the two.

A generation knew the area as the "Upper 9th Ward," but as other parts of the 9th Ward above the Canal farther from the River became developed, a more specific name was needed. Inspired by the local telephone exchange designation of Bywater, which fit the neighborhood's proximity to the River and the Canal, the neighborhood was known as "Bywater" by the 1940s.

Real estate development and speculation surrounding the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition prompted many long-term French Quarter residents to move down river, at first into Marigny. By the late 1990s the bohemian, artistic type of communities such as were found in the French Quarter mid-20th century had spread to Bywater, and many long-neglected 19th-century houses began to be refurbished.

Bywater and neighboring Faubourg Marigny are two of the most colorful neighborhoods in the city. The architectural styles borrow heavily from the colonial French and Spanish and have elements of Caribbean vernacular acrhitecture. This blending over the last three centuries has resulted in an architectural style unique to the city of New Orleans.

As the section of Bywater on the River side of St. Claude Avenue was one of the few portions of the 9th Ward to escape major flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it has made steady progress toward recovery, more so than many other parts of the city.

Notable people

 * Sallie Ann Glassman artist, Voodoo priestess
 * Dave Pirner of the 1990s Grunge band Soul Asylum
 * Ani DiFranco singer/song writer

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Infamous

Infamous may refer to:

Film and television

 * Infamous (2006 film), an American drama film
 * Infamous (2020 film), an American crime thriller film
 * "Infamous", an episode of Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu

Gaming

 * Infamous (series), a series of video games
 * Infamous (video game)
 * Infamous 2
 * Infamous: Festival of Blood
 * Infamous Second Son
 * Infamous, a stage show and DVD by Derren Brown
 * Infamous Gaming, a professional esports organization based in Lima, Peru

Literature

 * Infamous (comics), a comic book by DC Comics
 * Infamous (novel), in The It Girl series, 2008

Music

 * Infamous (Abandon All Ships album), 2012
 * Infamous (Motionless in White album), 2012
 * The Infamous, a 1995 album by Mobb Deep
 * The Infamous Mobb Deep, a 2014 studio album by Mobb Deep

People

 * Infamous (producer), Marco Rodriguez-Diaz, an American record producer DJ
 * Lord Infamous, Ricky T Dunigan (1973–2013), an American rapper

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Strange Visitor

Strange Visitor is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. She first appeared in Superman (vol. 2) #149 and was created by Randall Frenz and Ron Frenz.

Fictional character biography
Because of a lightning strike on a plane, the cosmic entity Kismet and Sharon Vance (Clark Kent's childhood friend from Smallville) became one entity known as the Strange Visitor. She had become a being of pure electromagnetic energy, and was drawn to the laboratories of Professor Emil Hamilton, who still had one of Superman's containment suits (from a period when he was temporarily converted to electromagnetic energy). Emil modified the suit to fit her since test results showed that her energy field was dissolving, and the suit would help her maintain solid form. Her memories were weak, and even though she easily used her powers to magnetically levitate trains over destroyed tracks, destroy alien attackers with an electromagnetic pulse, and absorb the powers of a self-proclaimed "god of war", she still wasn't sure who she really was.

Even more disturbing was that her emotional state was affecting her powers, and when she became angry or upset, her power levels surged to the point where her containment suit was almost unable to handle all of the energy. If the suit were to fail, she would lose her physical form. A battle with the Parasite restores her powers and her memories.

She later went on to become a hero in her own city where she fought Gorilla Grodd in New York, but was accused of attacking a "monkey".

In Batman: Our Worlds at War (Aug 2001), it is seen that a facility under control of Lex Luthor is keeping tabs on her.

When the Imperiex fleet attacks Earth, Strange Visitor gives all of her powers to Superman to give him the necessary power boost to defeat Imperiex. He defeats the powerful entity by cracking his armour and draining his energy, an act which ended her life (although she noted that 'Sharon Vance' had died when she was created and what was left to form Strange Visitor was just the essence of Sharon giving her a personality), while opening the way for Superman to vanquish Imperiex and save the universe.

Powers and abilities
Strange Visitor is connected to the Earth's geomagnetic field, and has the power to manipulate electromagnetic energies, which enables her to fire blasts of electrical energy from her hands or eyes, generate magnetic fields to move, lift, and manipulate metal objects, create force fields, steal energy from others, and even "read" an object's magnetic field. She also has the power to fly at near light speeds, lower her density to walk through solid matter, and telepathically sense emotions.

In other media
Sharon Vance appears in the Young Justice episode "True Colors", voiced by Masasa Moyo. This version does not have powers, and appears as a tour guide at a LexCorp farming facility.

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