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Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet

Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet (2 January 1652 – 25 January 1733) was an English merchant and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1701 and 1733. He also served as the governor of the Bank of England and was Lord Mayor of London in 1711.

Early life
Heathcote was the eldest son of Gilbert Heathcote of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, and his wife, Anne Dickons, daughter of George Dickons of Chesterfield. He began his apprenticeship as a merchant overseas, and returned to England in 1680 to set himself up as a City trader. He became a Freeman of the Vintners' Company in 1681. On 30 May 1682, he married Hester Rayner, daughter of Christopher Rayner, merchant, of London. He was living in the parish of St Dunstan's-in-the-East in 1682 and established a business as a merchant in St Swithin's Lane trading in Spanish wines and other produce. He took his first step in Corporation government when elected Common Councilman for Walbrook ward in 1689. In 1690, he succeeded his father.

Heathcote was an agent for Jamaica from 1693 to 1704, furnishing remittances on behalf of the government for the troops there. He also traded extensively with the East Indies.

In 1693, the ship Redbridge, of which he was part owner, was detained by the East India Company, which claimed a monopoly of the trade with India. He asserted at the bar of the House of Commons his right to trade wherever he pleased, unless restrained by Parliament, and the house declared by resolution against the company's monopoly. Heathcote promoted the bill for a new East India Company. In 1694 he was a Commissioner taking subscriptions to the Bank of England and selected by ballot as a director of the bank from then, with statutory intervals for the rest of his life. He was a commissioner for Greenwich Hospital in 1695. In 1697 he was a trustee for Exchequer bills and became treasurer of the Eastland Company until 1699.

At a meeting of this company, held in London about 1698, Peter the Great was present, and was addressed by Heathcote 'in high Dutch' with reference to the importation of tobacco into his dominions. In 1698, he was a Commissioner for taking subscriptions to the New East India Company loan subscribing 10,000l. of its capital himself. He was a member of a committee of seven to arrange matters with the old company and became a Director of the new Company until 1704.

Political career
At the 1698 English general election Heathcote stood for Parliament for the City of London, but was defeated. He became a member of the Russia Company in 1699. In 1700, he was master of the Vintners' Company. He was returned as Member of Parliament for City of London at the first general election of 1701 but was expelled on 20 March 1701 for his share in the circulation of some exchequer bills. He was however returned at the second general election of 1701.

Heathcote became an alderman for Walbrook on 30 June 1702, and was returned again as MP for London at the 1702 English general election. He was knighted by the Queen on 29 October 1702, when she was dining at banquet at the Guildhall. He was also a manager of the united trade of the English company trading with the East Indies from 1702 to 1704.

He was elected as Sheriff of London on midsummer-day 1703, having been fined in 1698 for declining the office, and served for the year 1703 to 1704. In 1705, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was a manager of the united trade again from 1705 to 1709. At the 1705 English general election he was returned again as MP for the City of London. He was a trustee for receiving the loan to the Emperor in 1706. From 1707 to 1710, he was a Colonel of the Blue Regiment of the city Militia, and was treasurer of the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC) from 1708 to 1711. At the 1708 British general election he was returned again as MP for the City of London. He was governor of the Bank of England from 1709 to 1711.

By an act of parliament extending the Bank's charter to 1710, Heathcote's gain was said to be £60,000. At the 1710 general election he lost his parliamentary seat for the City of London.

In 1710, when Heathcote was next in seniority for election as Lord Mayor of London, he was strongly opposed by the court party, who objected to the remonstrance he addressed to the queen, but the court of aldermen finally elected him and he served from 1710 to 1711. He was unpopular and for this reason his Lord Mayor's procession to Westminster on 30 October was cut short, and the livery companies attended him by water in their barges.

He was the last Lord Mayor to ride on horseback in the Mayoral procession.

He was vice-president of the HAC from 1711 to 1720 and resumed his command of the Blue Regiment in 1714 remaining as colonel for the rest of his life.

At the 1715 British general election Heathcote was returned as MP for Helston. He was appointed Commissioner for fifty new churches in 1715, remaining until 1727.

By 1719, he was Governor of the Eastland Company. He was president of the HAC from 1720 for the rest of his life. At the 1722 British general election, he was returned as MP for New Lymington. He became president of St Thomas' Hospital in 1722 for the rest of his life.

In 1725, he changed wards and became Alderman for Bridge Without ward, for the rest of his life. At the 1727 British general election he was returned as MP for St Germans. He purchased Normanton Hall, Rutland, in 1729 from Sir Thomas Mackworth, 4th Baronet. He was appointed a commissioner for the colony of Georgia in October 1732, and obtained much support for the proposal from his fellow-directors of the Bank of England. He was created a baronet in 1733, eight days before his death.

Although extremely rich, Heathcote's meanness is referred to by Pope; and it was this trait that accounts largely for his unpopularity with the populace. He died in London on 25 January 1733 and was buried at St Matthew's Church, Normanton, Rutland. A monument by the Flemish sculptor Rysbrack is now in St Mary's Church, Edith Weston. Caleb Heathcote was his brother.

Links to slavery
Heathcote held shares in the South Sea Company (SSC), a British joint-stock company which was granted the Asiento de Negros by the Spanish Empire, which allowed the SSC to export slaves to Spain's American colonies as part of the Atlantic slave trade. However, according to University College London's Legacies of British Slave-ownership, Heathcote never owned slaves in the British colony of Jamaica. In response to news of Heathcote's links to slavery, the Gilbert Heathcote School in Chesterfield renamed itself in 2021 as the "Whittington Moor Nursery and Infant Academy".

Descendants
A descendant, Sir Gilbert John Heathcote, 5th Baronet (1795–1867), was created Baron Aveland in 1856; and his son Gilbert Henry, who in 1888 inherited from his mother the barony of Willoughby de Eresby, became 1st Earl of Ancaster in 1892.

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Ming Tsai

Ming Hao Tsai (born 1964) is an American chef, restaurateur, and television personality. Tsai's restaurants have focused on east–west fusion cuisine, and have included major stakes in Blue Ginger in Wellesley, Massachusetts (a Zagat- and James Beard-recognized establishment) from 1998 to 2017, and Blue Dragon in the Fort Point Channel area of Boston (a Zagat-recognized tapas-style gastropub named in Esquire Magazine "Best New Restaurants 2013").

Tsai hosts Simply Ming, a cooking show featured on American Public Television, in its seventeenth season. Past shows Tsai hosted include Ming's Quest, a cooking show featured on the Fine Living Network, and East Meets West. Tsai appeared in the Food Network cooking competition The Next Iron Chef (2010).

Early life and education
Tsai was born to Iris (née Lee), who owned a Chinese restaurant, and Stephen W. Tsai, an engineer who co-developed the Tsai-Wu failure criterion, and was raised in Dayton, Ohio, where he attended The Miami Valley School. He assisted with the cooking as he was growing up in the restaurant, Mandarin Kitchen. Tsai's maternal grandparents emigrated to Dayton from Taiwan after escaping China during the Cultural Revolution.

Tsai later attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and then proceeded to study engineering and play varsity squash at Yale University. There, he was a member of the Phi chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1986. He received a master's degree in hotel administration and hospitality marketing from Cornell University in 1989. Either the summer after his sophomore or junior year at Yale, he attended culinary school at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. Tsai speaks four languages: English, Mandarin Chinese, French, and Spanish.

Tsai is a grandson of Chinese composer. He is a 116th great grandson of Huang Di.

Television
Tsai began his television career on chef Sara Moulton's cooking show Cooking Live while she had him fill in for one week for her in 1997. He hosted East Meets West on the Food Network from 1998 to 2003. He hosts Simply Ming, a food show on PBS.

In 2005, he was a judge on the PBS show Cooking Under Fire. Ming Tsai challenged Iron Chef Bobby Flay in the sixth episode of season one of Iron Chef America in 2005; Tsai defeated Flay. Tsai was a contestant in The Next Iron Chef in 2010, where he was eliminated in the seventh week. Tsai appeared on an episode of Top Chef in 2014.

His other television appearances include participation in a Zoom Out on Zoom, a show distributed by PBS, in 2005 and on the PBS children's television show Arthur episode in 2006.

Restaurants
In 1998, Tsai and Polly Talbott opened his first restaurant, Blue Ginger, in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Blue Ginger, an Asian Fusion restaurant, has become a Zagat and James Beard-recognized establishment, winning many other regional awards as well. The year that the restaurant opened, Tsai was named "Chef of the Year" by Esquire Magazine. On March 30, 2010 Tsai opened Blue Ginger Noodle Bar, a mini-restaurant, inside Blue Ginger. In June 2017, Tsai closed Blue Ginger after 19 years of business. The reason was due to the end of a lease and Tsai's focus on a new fast-casual stir-fry concept restaurant, ChowStirs, scheduled to open in Boston during the early part of 2018.

Tsai opened Blue Dragon in 2013 in the Fort Point Channel area of Boston, an east–west tapas-style gastropub that has become a Zagat's recognized restaurant, which was named an Esquire Magazine "Best New Restaurant" in its opening year. Blue Dragon closed in March 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic.

In 2020, Tsai opened BāBā at the Yellowstone Club in Big Sky, Montana as chef and partner.

Cookbook author
Tsai is the author of five cookbooks: Blue Ginger, Simply Ming, Ming's Master Recipes, Simply Ming: One-Pot Meals, and Simply Ming in Your Kitchen.

Awards and recognition
Tsai won the Daytime Emmy award in 1999, in the category Outstanding Service Show Host. Tsai's Blue Ginger Restaurant was inducted into the Culinary Hall of Fame in 2012. In 2000, Ming was on the 50 Most Beautiful People list published by People magazine.

Personal life
Tsai and Polly Talbott have been married since April 1996. They have two sons, David and Henry. David Talbott, Tsai's squash coach at Yale, and Mark Talbott, a former World No. 1 hardball squash player, are Tsai's brothers-in-law. His niece is Lauren Tsai. According to Henry Louis Gates's PBS program Finding Your Roots, Tsai is a 116th-generation descendant of Qin Shi Huang (259 BC – 210 BC), founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor of a unified China.

Sports
Tsai was a squash player at Yale, playing number two for the team, and he was named as an All-Ivy League player in 1986. While attending culinary school in France, Tsai played professionally on the European circuit. In 2004, Tsai played a celebrity squash match against professional golfer Brad Faxon at a Boston squash club. In 2005, he played against Mark Talbott in a charity match at a squash club in San Francisco.

Philanthropy
One of Tsai's sons has food allergies, and Tsai has become a food allergy advocate who promotes awareness of food allergens. Since 2005, he has been a national spokesman for the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) and in December 2012 was awarded a lifetime achievement award for his advocacy work from the organization, including his work on the state of Massachusetts food safety bill. Tsai was heavily featured on Season 1, Episode 5 of Netflix’s “Rotten” discussing his thoughts and observations on the restaurant industry; specifically about food-allergic individuals being able to dine out safely. Tsai is currently the President of the National Advisory Board for Family Reach, an organization that provides a financial lifeline to families fighting cancer.

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Octopus card/archive1

Octopus card
A bit of a self-nomination (I've done some work on it, and my name is actually on that article as I took a picture of my own Octopus card), and my first nomination to boot. A lot of the information is spun off from the MTR article. Overall, it's been on PR for nearly two weeks with very limited comments. --JuntungWu 15:57, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. A fascinating article. Denni ☯ 19:25, 2005 Feb 6 (UTC)
 * Support. Very interesting Brookie 19:48, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Informative Instantnood 20:27, Feb 6 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Object. Almost everything looks in order so I anticipate supporting soon. However the pictures could use some improvement. No offense, and I need to be careful since I certainly could not take better pictures myself, but they look a bit amateurish.  I think they could be fixed perfectly by using an image processor such as the free [www.gimp.org Gimp] or photoshop, but I don't know.  All they need is a bit of cleanup, like smoother blocking out of the name in the upper left corner of the first image, but mostly they just need to be fit to gridlines better, as they are almost all a bit askew. The perspective of some of them is odd enough that they are distracting.  If any of this is unreasonable enough that it can't feasably be fixed, then ignore and consider this a support vote. I hope that wasn't too harsh, because this really is great work overall. - Taxman 21:35, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * I'll get a new card scan later today or tomorrow. JuntungWu 01:12, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment - Are the photos highly compressed? It seems like they appear very grainy to me. Don't worry about the photo size, (Image_use_policy), Wikipedia accepts photo sizes for up to 2MB and can produce optimised thumbnails by itself. Go ahead and upload the high-quality versions. ;) Once this is fixed, or nothing can be done, it's support from me. - Mailer Diablo 01:29, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Done. The pictures are now clear scans of an old card that I had lying around. JuntungWu 03:15, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, the pictures of the cards are much better, but those of the machines are still off center, odd angled, and oddly rotated. The vertical faces of the machines should be straight up and down in the picture, the other straight lines should line up with the sides of the pictures. As I mentioned I think that could be largely fixed by properly rotating in the Gimp or taking new pictures. - Taxman 06:00, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * I took those pictures and I am a really bad photographer, so I don't know if I can take better pictures. I'll see what I can do. JuntungWu 06:25, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, the latest picture that I've uploaded on Photoshop has been sharpened. Can you take a look and see if it looks good? Thanks. JuntungWu 05:42, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Looks much better now! =D You have my support now. - Mailer Diablo 14:59, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I assume you're refering to the McDonald's reader, and yes that one is a good one. What I am hoping is that you can rotate and crop the MTR reader and the value add machine to line them up a bit more squarely. But I'll switch to support as that seems quite minor now. - Taxman 15:11, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support, very good! My old faltmate told me about those cards as his family lives in HK and he went there, so I checked out the article and was suprised to find such detailed information! Very good work, well researched, well-written. I didn't know that so much could be written about a train-card! - Ta bu shi da yu 01:33, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Object. 1) some sections look a bit messy. For example, the history section jumps from fact to fact, and the "Getting and using an Octopus card" has several one and two-sentence subsections. 2) The comparison section is a good idea, but doesn't actually compare with other systems. 3) Are there any references on paper? Jeronimo 22:04, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC).
 * I mostly used publicity brochures from Octopus and from Sony, so the references point to the online version of the same. I actually have printed copies. I'll tighten up the history part a bit - it does look a bit jumpy. JuntungWu 01:41, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, I've rewritten the history section, and the "Getting and using an Octopus card" one and two-sentence subsections have been merged. I've also merged the "operations" and "technology" into a "back-end" section, with two sections, focusing on the card technolgoy itself and on clearing and settlement. This should work. JuntungWu 16:50, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * This is better already; the history section is much better now, although it would be nice if not every paragraph started with a year or date. Issue 2) is still open. 11:19, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, I've completely rewritten that section, and now have three sections, one on adaptation of the Octopus card (inside HK), one on a comparison with Mondex, a third citing similarities with other cards, noting similarities with Taipei and Shenzhen's systems. This should work. As for the references part I cite several newspaper references and the brochures from HKMA and from MTR. There's some academic studies as well as two presentations from the World Bank, which I think is fairly adequate. I know there's no books but this is a fairly recent topic. JuntungWu 16:18, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. A very interesting article. -- Chris j wood 20:02, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, I've done another cleanup and actually translated a couple of lines from the Japanese Wikipedia concerning the FeliCa chip. (Despite the fact that this is a Hong Kong-based system, the English and Japanese wikipedias have very long articles on this card, whereas the Chinese wikipedia actually only has a stub!) JuntungWu 17:08, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. One comment: Is there any fraud or card forgery? I couldn't find anything about that on the web, but I would be curious if there is any, and even more curious if there is none. -- Chris 73 Talk 05:06, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * I shoved that part to the main article on the Sony FeliCa chip. Sony says it's pretty darn secure and public key infrastructure is also fairly secure. JuntungWu 05:46, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support--ZayZayEM 06:37, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Ratlinghope

Ratlinghope is a hamlet and civil parish in Shropshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 138. It is situated four miles (6 km) west of Church Stretton and twelve miles (19 km) south of Shrewsbury.

Historically it was located in the hundred of Purslow. In the Church of England it is in the rural deanery of Bishop's Castle, archdeaconry of Ludlow, and diocese of Hereford.

The village is scattered around a valley in the hills of the Long Mynd and Stiperstones, an AONB (area of outstanding natural beauty).

Nearby is the hamlet of Bridges, which falls within Ratlinghope civil parish, and where there is a youth hostel and a public house.

Castle Ring, the earthwork of Ratlinghope Hill, is the fort described by Mary Webb in her novel Golden Arrow.

History
The area of the parish is 5456 acre, of which, at the start of the 20th century, 3,756 acres were arable and pasture, 200 acres woodland, and about 1,500 acres common. The population in 1901 was 197. The land is hilly, and the soil is sand and clay, on a rocky subsoil. An old Roman road, the Portway, runs between Ratlinghope and Church Stretton, and is continued along the crest of the Long Mynd in a north-easterly direction. In the neighbourhood are some British camps (Iron Age hillforts) and tumuli.

Ratlinghope, in Domesday Rotelingehope, means the hope or valley of the people of Rotel, Rotel being the Saxon name from which the County of Rutland's name was derived. At the time of the Domesday survey, Rotelingehope was a manor of two hides, which were waste, and was held by Robert fitz Corbet of Earl Roger de Montgomery. In Edward the Confessor's reign, Seuuard had held it. Robert fitz Corbet was a younger brother of Roger, the builder of Caus Castle; he left two daughters, his heirs, Sibil (or Adela), and Alice. Sibil, who had been one of Henry I's mistresses, married Herbert fitz Herbert, whilst Alice became the wife of William Botterell. Before 1209 Ratlinghope was acquired by Walter Corbet, an Augustine Canon, and a relative of Prince Llewelyn ap Iorwerth, who gave him a letter of protection. Walter Corbet founded here a small cell or priory of Augustinian Canons of St Victor, in connection with Wigmore. Nothing is known of its history, but at the dissolution there was a Prior and 29 Canons; and the possessions of the Priory, valued at £5 11s 1½d per annum, were sold in May 1546 to Robert Longe, a member of the Mercers Guild of the City of London.

In 1845 the manor and advowson of Ratlinghope were purchased by Robert Scott, of Great Barr, MP for Walsall, and at his death in 1856 they passed to his son John Charles Addyes Scott, who died in 1888. On the death of his widow in 1907, their son, James Robert Scott, became lord of the manor and patron of Ratlinghope.

Stitt and Gatten, two miles (3 km) north-west, were members of the Domesday manor of Ratlinghope. Between 1204 and 1210, William de Botterell confirmed a moiety of Stitt on Haughmond Abbey. Robert Corbet, of Caus, also gave to the Canons of Haughmond his culture of Gateden, and an assart near their culture of Gatteden. There was a church at Stitt in the reign of Henry II, but after the dissolution of Haughmond Abbey nothing more is heard of it, and its district with Gatten was annexed to the parish of Ratlinghope. At the start of the 20th century, W. E. M. Hulton-Harrop was lord of the manor of Gatten, which he inherited in 1866 from his maternal grandfather, Jonah Harrop

On 29 January 1865, the Rector of Woolstaston, the Rev. Edmund Donald Carr, was walking from Ratlinghope to a second Sunday evening service at another church when he was caught in a blizzard, lost for 22 hours, snow-blinded and almost died. He emerged in the Cardingmill Valley and must have crossed Wild Moor and Hiddon Hill, some of the wildest country, in his struggle to survive. His account of the ordeal, A Night in the Snow, has become well known in Shropshire.

In 1906, the last known sin-eater in England was buried in Ratlinghope.

Filming location and music festival
Ratlinghope appears in an episode of Dalziel and Pascoe.

In 2005, the village acquired a further degree of fame when it became the main filming location for the BBC sitcom Green Green Grass.

It also featured on the Paul Heaton Pedals & Pumps Tour of 2010 when he came by bicycle and played the Horseshoe Inn/Bridges.

The village has an annual music festival nearby, usually held in August by a local farmer. Farmer Phil's Festival is run by the family who allow camping before and after the festival ends.

It also has a smaller more eclectic festival that takes place around the Midsummers Soltice (Litha) called the Sin eater although it does not appear to be an annual event – this is a more low key event with Drum workshops and more local bands and is a more laid back affair than Farmer Phil's

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HQ-16

The HQ-16 (NATO reporting name: CH-SA-16) is a medium-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) from the People's Republic of China. It is derived from earlier versions of the Russian Buk missile system.

Development
Development began in 2005, and was reportedly assisted by the Almaz-Antey Corporation. It was initially developed as a naval system. In late-2011, China reported the "co-development between Russia and China" of the missile was complete.

The HQ-16B was developed by late-2011.

A ground battery consists of a command post, two multifunction radars, and four to six launchers. Each launcher has six missiles.

Operational history
The platform for the HHQ-16, the Type 054A frigate, entered service in 2008. The HQ-16A entered service in 2011.

The HQ-16A entered Chinese service in 2011.

Pakistan entered negotiations to purchase the missile in 2015. The LY-80s entered service with the Pakistan Army in March 2017.

Variants
Original land-based variant with a range of 40 km. Naval variant, reportedly a domestic-produced variant of the 9M317ME missile. Improved variant with slant range exceeding 70 km. Improved variant with slant range exceeding 70 km. Export variant. Export naval variant. Improved variant with range up to 160 km.
 * HQ-16A
 * HHQ-16
 * HQ-16B
 * HQ-16C
 * LY-80
 * LY-80N
 * HQ-16FE

Operators

 * People's Liberation Army Ground Force – 250 HQ-16A & HQ-16B
 * People's Liberation Army Navy – HHQ-16
 * Pakistan Army – LY-80
 * Pakistan Navy – LY-80N
 * Pakistan Army – LY-80
 * Pakistan Navy – LY-80N

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All Stretton

All Stretton is a village and a now separate civil parish in Shropshire, England. Much of it is covered by a Conservation Area.

Geography
All Stretton lies about a mile to the north of the market town of Church Stretton, on the old Shrewsbury Road (the B5477) – Shrewsbury is 12 miles to the north. Similarly, the small village of Little Stretton lies to the south of Church Stretton on the same road. The village lies between 580 and 600 feet above sea level at the northern end of the Stretton Gap. The beginning of the Cound Brook, a minor river that runs 25 miles across the southern Shropshire-Severn plains, is found in the village, where the stream from the Batch valley joins the Ashbrook. To the west of All Stretton is the Long Mynd, and to the east is Caer Caradoc.

The village does not lie in the parish of All Stretton, which is to its north, but in the civil parish of Church Stretton, which has a town council, of which All Stretton forms a parish ward. The southern part of the original parish, including the village, was transferred to the Church Stretton parish in 1934. The remaining parish of All Stretton is geographically small and has no well-defined settlements, only dispersed farms and houses, including Womerton and High Park. Its population was recorded as 120 at the 2011 census. Prior to the creation of a unitary Shropshire Council in 2009, the village and the parish lay in different districts (South Shropshire and Shrewsbury and Atcham). Even under the new arrangements the village is in the electoral division of Church Stretton and Craven Arms, whilst the parish is in the division of Burnell. The village lies in the constituency of Ludlow, whilst the parish lies in Shrewsbury and Atcham.

To the east of the village is the Welsh Marches Line railway and the major A49 road. Regional Cycle Route 32/33 passes through the village, on its way from Longnor to Church Stretton.

The historic hamlet of Botvyle lies within the Church Stretton parish and parish ward of All Stretton. It is situated to the northeast of All Stretton, on the other side of the A49, on the lane to Comley. It takes its name from the forest that once covered the area, the "Botwood", as does the nearby village of Leebotwood.

Facilities
All Stretton is the home to the Yew Tree Inn public house. The former Stretton Hall Hotel, located in the centre of the village opposite the Yew Tree Inn, underwent redevelopment into a nursing home in 2008/2009; before that it had held a pub licence since 1976. There was once another pub in the village – the White Horse – but this is now a house, although a small pub sign still hangs outside. The village hall is used for a wide variety of local events including amateur theatre productions by the All Stretton Amateur Dramatics Society and cinema sittings with 'Flicks in the Sticks'. It also hosts the Women's Institutes meetings.

There is a small church in the village, built in 1902 and dedicated to St Michael and All Angels. It is a joint Church of England and United Reformed Church, and serves as one of three churches in the Church of England's ecclesiastical parish of Church Stretton, along with those in All Stretton and Little Stretton. The ecclesiastical parish is part of the Diocese of Hereford. The church stands at the northern end of the village, on a hillside rising steeply from Shrewsbury Road. The church has a Roll of Honour naming the parish dead of both World Wars, and wooden panelling that includes the door to the vestry, in memory of a former curate, John Charles Bartleet, who died on active service as an army chaplain in Palestine in 1942.

The village's outdoor roadside war memorial, in the form of a stone obelisk, was unveiled in 1920 and restored to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II in 1995, when the weathered names from both World Wars were reinstated on slate plaques.

The village has an entrance to the Batch Valley, which leads on to the Long Mynd and adjoins the head of Carding Mill Valley. A YHA bunkhouse, which provides accommodation for up to 12 people, is located in the Batch Valley. From the Batch Valley the Church Stretton Golf Club's golf course, which is situated at around 380 yards, can be accessed by foot.

The village also boasts a traditional red telephone box, which sits at the bottom of Castle Hill and is still functioning. The village for a long time had a post office but this closed in 2008. As of 2010, there are approximately 150 dwellings in the village.

History
There is a conservation-area designation covering much of the village. There are 6 Listed buildings and structures in the village.

A history group in All Stretton published a history of the village in 2006. A prominent children's book writer who regularly visited her sister Anne's house in the village, Caradoc Lodge, was Hesba Stretton (1832–1911).

Railway
The Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway was constructed through the area in 1852. All Stretton once had its own railway halt: All Stretton Halt railway station. The nearest railway station is now at Church Stretton.

Etymology
The name "Stretton" is derived from the Old English words stræt meaning "Roman road" and tun meaning "settlement". The affix "All" derives from an early owner called Alfred, rather than from a supposed comment made by King James I of England. The local tale describes how he passed first through Little Stretton, then Church Stretton and finally as he came through All Stretton the king declared "They're All Strettons around here!"

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One of the standard illustrations in Medieval and later Gospel Books is the Evangelist Portrait. These portraits were almost always full page miniatures and were derived from the Late Antique tradition of author portraits such as those found in the Vergilius Romanus and the Vienna Dioscurides. Evangelist Portraits were often combined with a representation of their symbols. The Evangelists are often shown writing or holding a book or a scroll. All images unless otherwise noted are pigment on parchment.

Evangelist Symbols
Hiberno-Saxon artists did not have a tradition of representation of the human form or of naturaliststic representation of animals prior to the conversion to Christianity. Many Hiberno-Saxon artists, rather than providing an Evangelist portrait would in its place provide a full page miniature of the Evangelist's symbol. A few manuscripts, notably the Book of Kells, were provided with full page miniatures of the Evagelist symbols and full page miniatures of the Evangelist themselves.

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Harry Joseph Flynn

Harry Joseph Flynn (May 2, 1933 – September 22, 2019) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis from 1995 to 2008. He previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Lafayette from 1989 to 1994.

Early life
Harry Flynn was born in Schenectady, New York, on May 3, 1933 to William and Margaret Mahoney Flynn. Orphaned when he was age 12, he was primarily raised primarily by two aunts. Flynn attended from Siena College in Loudonville, New York, earning bachelor and master degrees in English. He then attended Mount Saint Mary's Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland,

Priesthood
Flynn was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop William Scully on May 18, 1960 for the Diocese of Albany. After his ordination, Flynn taught English at Catholic Central High School in Troy, New York and held pastoral positions in several parishes. In 1965, Flynn went to Maryland to become a faculty member and dean at Mount Saint Mary's Seminary. Flynn was promoted to vice-rector in 1968 and rector in 1970. After returned to Albany in 1979, he was appointed director of clergy continuing education and as pastor of St. Ambrose Parish in Latham, New York.

One day in 1986, Flynn's secretary in Albany, New York, received a phone call from the papal nuncio for the United States. When she told Flynn to call him back, he realized that the pope was going to appoint him as a bishop. In an attempt to dodge the conversation with the nuncio, Flynn drove to a family cabin on Shroon Lake in New York. Cardinal John O'Connor sent a New York state trooper to bring Flynn back to Albany to call the papal nuncio. Flynn later remarked "If I had 100 lives, I'd live every one of them as a priest - and none as a bishop!"

Bishop of Lafayette in Louisiana
Pope John Paul II appointed Flynn as coadjutor bishop for the Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana on April 19, 1986. Flynn was consecrated by Bishop Howard Hubbard on June 24, 1986. Flynn succeed Bishop Gerard Frey when he resigned on May 12, 1989.

Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis
On February 22, 1994, Flynn was appointed by John Paul II as the coadjutor archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. He became archbishop on September 8, 1995, with the resignation of Archbishop John Robert Roach.

In 1996, Flynn testified in a sexual abuse lawsuit brought against the archdiocese by Dale Scheffler. The plaintiff claimed that he had been sexually abused by Robert Kapoun, an archdiocese priest, in the 1970's and 1980's, and that the archdiocese had covered up his alleged crimes. On trial, Kapoun admitted to abusing three boys and records showed that the archdiocese had made secret settlements to other victims of Kapoun. When questioned in court, Flynn could not recall any detail on the case. Scheffler won the case, but it was overturned on appeal. Flynn only removed Kapoun from ministry when the court case started. The archdiocese sent Scheffler a bill for its legal costs.

In 2002, Flynn led the committee at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops that wrote the "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People" and the "Essential Norms for Diocesan/Eparchial Policies Dealing with Allegations of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Priests or Deacons". These two documents would set policy in the United States for dealing with sexual abuse allegations against priests, deacons and other clergy, with the notable exception of bishops.

In May 2005, Flynn publicly criticized Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty in the Star Tribune for what he perceived as irresponsible tax policies. Flynn was an outspoken opponent of the war in Iraq.

After serving as archbishop for 12 years, Flynn requested that the pope assign him a coadjutor archbishop. On April 24, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Bishop John Nienstedt as Flynn's coadjutor.

In January 2008, Flynn, citing a Vatican instruction from 2004, ordered an end to the practice of lay preaching at Mass. He said:"'There has to be that kind of training and theological background that even a person with a master's degree in theology would not have. The church does not want people just standing up there and giving opinions or even things they've read in books.'"

Retirement
On May 5, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI accepted Flynn's resignation and Nienstedt succeeded him as archbishop. Flynn continued to assist in the archdiocese after his retirement, administering confirmations, leading retreats, and other liturgies.

In November 2010, the Little Sisters of the Poor honored Flynn with their St. Jeanne Jugan Award on the 50th anniversary of his ordination. He resigned from the board of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul on October 14, 2013. Harry Flynn died on September 22, 2019, from bone cancer in Saint Paul, Minnesota at the age of 86.

Appointments

 * Board member at The Catholic University of America
 * Chair of the board at Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity
 * Chair of the board at the University of St. Thomas
 * Board president of Saint John Vianney Seminary
 * Board member of the College of Saint Catherine
 * Member of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee for Black Catholics
 * Chair of the USCCB Committee on Sexual Abuse
 * Member of the USCCB Committee on the Charismatic Renewal Movement.

Abortion
In a 1996 pastoral letter titled "Abortion and a Failure of Community", Flynn talked about the need to provide support to pregnant women who choose not terminate their pregnancy with an abortion. He said:"I want our local church to say loudly and clearly: 'No woman should feel so alone that abortion seems her only alternative. No man need feel so trapped or fearful that he believes there is no other answer.' I want us to be able to say to any woman: 'Come to any Catholic parish in this archdiocese and you will find help.'"

Racism
On September 12, 2003, Flynn released a pastoral letter titled In God's Image, in which he called for the parishes in the archdiocese to work on ending racism and promote diversity and harmony, and in so doing, to make God's love more present to the rest of the world He said:"Racism is a serious moral evil. It is a sin. This has been the clear message from the moral teaching of the Church. Both the Scriptures and contemporary Church teaching help us to understand why racism is such a serious violation of God's will."

LBGT rights
In 2005, Flynn sent a letter to the Rainbow Sash Alliance telling them that anyone wearing a rainbow sash to church in the archdiocese would be denied communion. He said:"'The criterion for reception of the Eucharist is the same for all – recipients must be in a state of Grace and free from Mortal sin. While the decision for that judgment rests with an individual Catholic 's conscience, it has never been nor is it now acceptable for a communicant to use the reception of Communion as an act of protest.'"

Legacy
In 2009, the University of St. Thomas renamed Selby Hall to Flynn Hall to recognize Flynn.

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User:Staeiou

  Staeiou  ''' talk •  email  •  commons  •  meta  • personal website • Greetings, I'm Stuart Geiger, an assistant professor of Communication and Data Science at the University of California, San Diego. My work focuses on the role of technology in how we produce knowledge, and so I'm obviously very interested in Wikipedia! I've published pretty extensively on various aspects of social dynamics in Wikipedia, as well as work on collaboration in scientific research.

Wikipedia
I have been an editor on the English Wikipedia since 2004, although I don't contribute as much as I should. I was active in Simple English for a while, but now I am back to English. I usually do minor work with fixing errors, adding references, and the like, though I have been doing work with bots and AfDs.

One of the main things I do these days is create articles whenever I hear people -- usually non-Wikipedians -- complain that there isn't a Wikipedia article about something. These articles are often very basic and sometimes get deleted, and if they survive rarely get out of stub/start status. But I like doing it. I also do work with breaking news articles, as I'm good at finding references and know my way around the ref tags and cite templates.

I also send people a lot of Wikilove and give barnstars for good work.

My Studies
My scholarly interests are somewhere around the intersection of Critical theory, Computer-mediated communication (CMC), Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), Cyberinfrastructure, and Science and Technology Studies - which is a blend of Philosophy, Sociology, and Anthropology that studies Science and Technology. Specifically, I've always been focused on the social and technical dynamics in communities of knowledge production, especially those that are Internet-based or Internet-mediated.

Research on Wikipedia
I have been researching Wikipedia for my recently-completed thesis, and I am also a member of a research team studying the Long Term Ecological Research Network. However, this does not mean that I cannot also be an editor to the project. I've actually been a volunteer contributor since 2004 - before I really started thinking of myself as an academic, that is, before I really started researching and writing papers like I meant 'em. I feel that I can separate my roles as an academic researcher and as a Wikipedian editor. If you wish to view my academic research (and/or discuss it with me), drop me an e-mail - I check that far too often for my own good.

Much of my work combines interviews, statistical analysis, and ethnography, which comes out of observations I make in situations where I am participating in a process I am studying. Part of my research for my dissertation was ethnographic, based on my interactions in Wikipedia. I have learned much from my participation in the community, as it helped me do better research across many methods. I created a research protocol (more like a pledge) that I worked out with some people on the Wikiresearch-l mailing list. In my view, this went above and beyond requirements that U.S. scholars have to perform research in an ethical manner. I'm now an ethnographer embedded in a different community of knowledge production, although I continue to participate in and publish about Wikipedia. If you have any questions or do not feel comfortable, please feel free to ask via talk page or e-mail.

Website
I have a website that contains, random musings my academic papers -- both of which are available free of charge.

Accounts
This account, User:Staeiou is an account I use as a volunteer editor, and edit from this account most often. User:StuGeiger, is an account I use for research purposes. User:Staeiou (WMF) is my staff account from when I was an intern for the Wikimedia Foundation in 2011, which I no longer use to edit.

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Zhu Jun (Han dynasty)

Zhu Jun (late 140s - c. April 195 ), courtesy name Gongwei, was a military general and official who lived during the Eastern Han dynasty of China.

Life
Zhu Jun was from Shangyu County (上虞縣), Kuaiji Commandery (會稽郡), which is present-day Shangyu District, Shaoxing, Zhejiang. His father died when he was still young, so he was raised by his mother, who earned a living by selling fabrics. When he reached adulthood, he served as a scribe in the local county office. Zhu Jun gained a reputation for being very filial towards his mother. Despite this, when an acquaintance Zhou Gui (周规) was unable to repay his debts to the local authorities, Zhu Jun stole fabrics from his mother in order to help Zhou settle the debts. As a result, Zhu Jun's mother lost her property. Greatly angered, she then blamed Zhu Jun. Zhu Jun replied, "Small losses will result in great fortunes later. To be poor first before becoming rich is the natural order." Du Shang (度尚), the Chief of Shangyu County, favoured him and recommended him to serve in the commandery office under Wei Yi (韋毅), the Administrator of Kuaiji Commandery. Zhu Jun later became a Registrar (主簿) when Yin Duan (尹端) replaced Wei Yi as the Administrator. In 173, Yin Duan was impeached for his failure in quelling a rebellion. Initially, Yin's punishment was to be executed. However, Zhu Jun made his way to the capital and bribed the relevant officials; as a result, Yin's punishment was reduced. Yin was overjoyed upon knowing of his reduced punishment, but Zhu Jun never revealed his involvement to Yin.

Yin Duan's successor, Xu Gui (徐珪), further nominated Zhu Jun as a xiaolian (civil service candidate), after which the Han central government appointed Zhu Jun as the Prefect (令) of Lanling County (蘭陵縣).

In c. February 178, when a rebellion broke out in Jiaozhi Commandery in the far south, the Han imperial court appointed Zhu Jun as the Inspector (刺史) of Jiao Province and ordered him to suppress the revolt. Zhu Jun managed to rally some soldiers from his home commandery and gather another 5,000 soldiers from other commanderies to join him in fighting the rebels. He successfully quelled the rebellion and killed the rebel leader Liang Long (梁龍) in Nanhai Commandery (南海郡). In 181, he attacked and defeated Wuhuman (烏滸蠻), another rebel leader in Hepu (合浦) and Jiaozhi commanderies. In recognition of his achievements, the Han imperial court enfeoffed him as a Marquis of a Chief Village (都亭侯) and summoned him to the imperial capital Luoyang to serve as a Counsellor Remonstrant (諫議大夫).

In 184, when the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, the Han imperial court appointed Zhu Jun as Right General of the Household (右中郎將) and ordered him, Lu Zhi and Huangfu Song to lead imperial forces to eliminate the rebels. Zhu Jun defeated the rebels at Changshe (長社) with the aid of Huangfu Song and Cao Cao. He was elevated from a village marquis to a district marquis under the title "Marquis of Xi District" (西鄉侯) and was promoted to General of the Household Who Suppresses Rebels (鎮賊中郎將). Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song later joined forces to defeat the rebels at Yangzhai (陽翟) and Xihua (西華) counties and pacified Yu Province. Later, Zhu Jun led his troops south to Nanyang Commandery (南陽郡) and joined the local government forces there in defeating the Yellow Turban rebels led by Zhao Hong (趙弘) and later Han Zhong (韓忠). In early 185, he defeated another group of rebels led by Sun Xia (孫夏) and succeeded in restoring peace in Nanyang Commandery.

In 185, the Han imperial court promoted Zhu Jun to Right General of Chariots and Cavalry (右車騎將軍) and elevated him to a county marquis under the title "Marquis of Qiantang" (錢唐侯). However, after his mother died, he resigned and returned home to perform filial mourning. After the mourning period, he returned to serve as Court Architect (將作大匠) and was subsequently reassigned to be Minister Steward (少府) and Minister Coachman (太僕). In the late 180s, when the Heishan bandits led by Zhang Yan raided Henei Commandery (河內郡) and threatened Luoyang, the Han central government appointed Zhu Jun as the Administrator (太守) of Henei Commandery and ordered him to lead troops to attack the bandits. Zhu Jun subsequently held the following appointments: Household Counsellor (光祿大夫), Colonel of the City Gates (城門校尉) and Intendant of Henan (河南尹).

In 189, the warlord Dong Zhuo took advantage of the political vacuum created in the aftermath of Emperor Ling's death to seize control of, and dominate the Han central government. He felt rather intimidated by Zhu Jun because of the latter's standing in the imperial court as a veteran general and senior official. In 190, when a coalition of warlords launched a campaign against Dong Zhuo in the name of freeing the central government and Emperor Xian from his control, Dong Zhuo became afraid and wanted to relocate the imperial capital from Luoyang to Chang'an in the west. Zhu Jun strongly objected, but Dong Zhuo pushed his plan through. Although he dreaded Zhu Jun and wanted to eliminate him, he still appointed Zhu Jun as Minister Coachman (太僕) in Emperor Xian's name. Zhu Jun rejected the appointment.

After Dong Zhuo left for Chang'an with Emperor Xian, the emperor's subjects and Luoyang's residents, Zhu Jun remained in Luoyang and maintained contact with the anti-Dong Zhuo coalition. However, he feared that Dong Zhuo would turn back and attack him, so he abandoned his post and fled south to Jing Province. Dong Zhuo then appointed Yang Yi (楊懿) as the Intendant of Henan to guard Luoyang. When Zhu Jun heard about it, he led troops from Jing Province to attack Luoyang and drive away Yang Yi. At the time, much of Luoyang had been burnt down when Dong Zhuo gave orders to relocate the imperial capital to Chang'an, so Zhu Jun moved to a garrison at Zhongmu County (中牟縣).

Zhu Jun contacted various regional officials and warlords and asked them to join him in attacking Dong Zhuo. Tao Qian, the Governor of Xu Province, sent troops to help Zhu Jun, and even recommended Zhu Jun to be acting General of Chariots and Cavalry (車騎將軍) to lead the operations. However, Zhu Jun was defeated by Dong Zhuo's subordinates Li Jue and Guo Si in battle, so he could not advance further west and remained in Zhongmu County.

In May 192, Dong Zhuo was assassinated in Chang'an by his subordinate Lü Bu, after which the Han central government came under Wang Yun's control. However, within months, Dong Zhuo's former followers (led by Li Jue and Guo Si) attacked Chang'an and seized control of the central government. At the time, Zhu Jun was still stationed in Zhongmu County. Tao Qian contacted other regional officials and warlords and proposed naming Zhu Jun as Grand Preceptor (太師) to lead them to attack Chang'an and free Emperor Xian from Li Jue and Guo Si's control. At the same time, Li Jue and Guo Si also tried to win Zhu Jun over to their side: they sent him an imperial edict in Emperor Xian's name, ordering him to head to Chang'an and serve as Minister Coachman (太僕) in the central government. Although Zhu Jun knew that it was a ploy by Li Jue and Guo Si, he still obeyed the edict because it was sent in the emperor's name.

In c. July 193, Zhu Jun replaced Zhou Zhong (周忠, an uncle of Zhou Yu) as Grand Commandant (太尉) and held an additional appointment as Manager of the Affairs of the Masters of Writing (錄尚書事). In the following year, he was removed from office and reassigned to be acting General of Agile Cavalry (驃騎將軍) to guard Hangu Pass. In early 195, before Zhu Jun left for Hangu Pass, internal conflict broke out between Li Jue and Guo Si, who started attacking each other in the streets of Chang'an. Zhu Jun remained in Chang'an and was reassigned to be Minister of Finance (大司農). During this time, Li Jue took Emperor Xian hostage to threaten Guo Si, while Guo Si did the same by holding the emperor's subjects hostage to threaten Li Jue. Zhu Jun, Yang Biao and Emperor Xian's other subjects tried to persuade Guo Si to make peace with Li Jue, but Guo Si would not listen. Zhu Jun died of illness a few days later as he could not stand the humiliation of being held hostage.

Family
Zhu Jun had a son, Zhu Hao (朱皓), whose courtesy name was Wenming (文明). Zhu Hao served as the Administrator of Yuzhang Commandery (豫章郡). He met his end at the hands of Ze Rong in the same year his father died.

In Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Zhu Jun is a character in the 14th-century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

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N. S. V. Chitthan

N.S.V.Chitthan is an Indian politician of the Tamil Maanila Congress party.

Early life and background
N.S.V Chitthan was born in Tirumangalam district of Madurai on 12 April 1934. He belongs to the strong Thevar community. His father Shri N. S. Veerapathira Thevar was a member of Congress during the Pre Independence period. He married Shakuntala in 1959. He holds a B.A. in (Economics) and studied in Madura College in Madurai, Tamil Nadu.

Entry into politics
Chithan joined Congress when he was young and contested the elections in 1967 when DMK routed Congress and managed to win even though he was contesting the elections for the first time and given the fact that there was a wave in favour of DMK.

Political base
Chithan contests from the Dindigul Parliamentary constituency. He has not been a Minister in the Union Government but has served on different committees and has been attributed to the Development of Madurai suburban localities and the transition of Road networks and Industries in Dindigul district and Madurai District.

Political timeline

 * Elected to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly (three times)( 1967–71 and 1980–89).
 * Deputy Leader of Opposition and Deputy Leader
 * Congress Legislative PartyChairman, Public Accounts Committee, Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly( 1980–84)
 * Elected to 11th Lok Sabha( 1996)
 * Leader, Tamil Manila Congress (TMC) Party in Lok Sabha( 1996–97)
 * Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha (2nd term)( 2004) and Member, Committee on Transport, Tourism and CultureMember,
 * Re-elected to 15th Lok Sabha (3rd term)( 2009) and Member, Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice( 31 Aug. 2009)

Honours
Recipient of Silver Medal by Bureau of Parliamentary Affairs for raising maximum number (more than 7000) of Questions on the Floor of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly during 1967-71. He also addressed the UN General Assembly in 1997 as member of the Indian Delegation. He also Served as the General Secretary of Tamil Nadu Congress Committee for 2 Years.

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Lola Granola

Lola Granola, also known as Fatima Struggle, is a fictional character in the comic strips Bloom County and Opus by Berkeley Breathed.

Lola, a free spirited hippie and abstract artist, is the unlikely fiancée of Opus the Penguin. Their polar opposite personalities clash almost immediately; Opus dislikes her art, abhors her vegetarianism, and is horrified to learn that she has a tattoo of Dan Fogelberg in a "scandalous" place. (Opus mispronounces the name, calling him 'Dan Fogerburp.') He also once shows up to meet her mother and pastor while dressed in his costume for his heavy metal band Deathtöngue. Lola grudgingly shaves her legs because Opus gets rugburn when they dance, which causes her "Dead Head" membership to be revoked.

After a long-awaited wedding, Opus is knocked out when his nose collides with Lola's when they kiss. While unconscious, Opus dreams about Lola leaving him 20 years later with 23 tube-grown kids. Opus demands annulment on grounds of having incompatible noses and Lola is spoiled from all birds for the rest of her life (Tweety Bird later tries to ask her out, but she refuses).

As Bloom County ' s final strips, Opus meets with her once more, at which point she reveals that she wants to pose in Playboy.

She did not appear in Outland; however, Lola made her first appearance in Opus on August 12, 2007. On August 26, 2007, it is implied that she is Steve Dallas' girlfriend.

The August 26, 2007 and September 2, 2007 Opus comic strips featuring Lola Granola were withheld from newspapers across America after The Washington Post deemed the comic strips as being too controversial. In the August 26 strip, Lola tells Steve Dallas that she has become a "radical Islamist", which is the "hot new fad on the planet," and that she prefers to be called "Fatima Struggle." She then insinuates at the end of the strip that Steve will not get any sex, "God willing." The September 2 strip has Steve telling Lola to wear a yellow polka-dot bikini, but instead she appears at the end of the comic strip wearing a Burqini.

The Christmas 2017 run of the renewed Bloom County, beginning with the December 21st strip, finds Steve receiving a summons to the hospital room of a despondent Lola after an apparent attempted suicide. The janitor Frank brings Lola, Steve and an aged patient, Mrs Dumont, to the Canadian wilderness in a helicopter to see the Northern Lights.

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Elias Venezis

Elias Venezis (Ηλίας Βενέζης) (March 4, 1904 - August 3, 1973) is the pseudonym of Elias Mellos (Ηλίας Μέλλος), a major Greek novelist. He was born in 1904 in Ayvalık (Kydonies) in Asia Minor and died in Athens in 1973. He wrote many books, of which the most famous are Number 31328 and Aeolian Earth. He is considered to be one of the writers of "Generation of the '30s".

Biography
Elias Venezis was born and raised in Aivali (the hellenized pronunciation of Ayvalık), where he completed high school. During the World War I, Venezis’ family fled from Aivali to Lesbos to avoid persecution but returned to Asia Minor after the Greek army took over Smyrna and its hinterland in 1919. When the area was recaptured by the Turkish Army, Venezis was taken prisoner and enslaved in a “labour battalion”. He was 18 years old. The prisoners were marched into the interior, but few arrived at the destination, since most of them were either killed on the way, or died of the hardships they were exposed to. Of the 3000 "conscripted" into his “labour brigade” only 23 survived.

When Venezis was released he was returned to Lesbos. There he met Stratis Myrivilis, who had founded the weekly newspaper Kambana, and was encouraged by him to write an account of "his horrific experiences as a hostage in Turkey" for the newspaper. The novel which resulted was published in serialised form in Kambana in 1924. However it did not become well known in Greece until an expanded version was published in book form in 1931.

His major novels are about his life in Asia Minor: Aeolian Land describes the lost Eden of his childhood summers; Number 31328 the horrific experience of the death marches, and Tranquility his struggle to adjust to living in Greece.

In Greece, Venezis worked for a bank while writing in his spare time. He married Stavritsa Molyviati in 1938. She too was from Aivali.

During the German occupation of Greece, Venezis was taken prisoner again. He was released following the intercession of high-ranking Greek officials including Archbishop Damaskinos.

After the war, Venezis wrote a column in the newspaper Acropolis. He was made a member of the Academy of Athens.

Books by Elias Venezis

 * Number 31328 (Το Νούμερο 31328, 1924; 1931)
 * Manolis Lekas and Other Stories (1928)
 * Tranquility (Γαλήνη, 1939)
 * Aeolian Earth (Αιολική Γη, 1943)
 * Block C (play, 1945)
 * Exodus (Έξοδος, 1950)

Books in English

 * Elias Venezis by Alexander & Helen Karanikas (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1969)
 * Block C by Elias Venezis (Athens: I.D. Kollarou, 1946)
 * Aeolia by Elias Venezis, trans. E. D. Scott-Kilvert (London: William Campion, 1949; New York: Vanguard Press, 1957)
 * Aiolian Land by Elias Venezis (Montréal: McGill University, 1979) in the series The McGill University Companions to Modern Greek Studies
 * Land of Aeolia by Ilias Venezis - Therese Sellers (Translator) - Denise Harvey 2021

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User talk:Lord Emsworth/Archive 6

Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock is not a "British topic", just because he was born and raised in England. He lived half his life in the States, and his impact and influence are global; he is a world figure. In particular, even if this article was a "British topic", it is plainly wrong to correct spellings and punctuations for characters which are not British. This would be the same as using American spelling and punctuation for British names, just because they occured in an "American article". Moreover, I doubt the choice of humor/humour, favorite/favourite is important anyway, it's clear what the word is. The deplorable state of the quality of the writing in the article is far more urgent. Revolver 12:10, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Template:17centmin
Hmm. Succession tables seem to be more of a navigational tool, and do little in showing general trends. For example, my template would illustrate if a certain minister continually returned to office (showing parliamentary instability). However, I won't object if you replace my template with succession boxes, of which I am a proponent in most cases (but not in this case). ugen64 01:36, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)

 * Ah, yes, that makes sense. On a different note, however, I noticed you were removing the "Throughout" term designations, making them "1660–1667" (to take Clarendon Ministry as an example). However, that implies that all of the ministers simply left government in 1667, whereas that's not really true (Lauderdale served until 1680, and so on). Is there, perhaps, a way to designate terms that last longer than the ministry itself that provides clarity? ugen64 18:04, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)

Baron ffrench
Is this a real peerage dignity: Baron ffrench? It's lowercase, and seems odd... ugen64 14:08, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)

 * Yes, it is odd, isn't it? :-) It's real, though. (See here and here.) Proteus (Talk) 14:17, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

1757
Well, Pitt resigned in April, but the ministry continued with Devonshire as First Lord and Holdernesse as Secretary of State. At the end of June, that ministry seems to have resigned, but it seems to have taken several days for the new ministry to be formed. I'm not sure of the details on that. john k 20:00, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I had not noticed this project. Given that I'm the one who initially put in all the cabinet lists to the British PM articles, I'd have thought someone would have thought to have told me about this. While I don't object to the idea, I don't like the current format, which is probably the least clear possible way to show cabinet shuffles. Given that at, for instance Cabinets under Margaret Thatcher (previously part of the Thatcher article), Mackensen had taken the trouble to untangle the cabinet shuffles, the list with which you have replaced it seems distinctly less useful. Personally, I still like the way of doing it with a full list of the initial ministry, with changes noted below, and with major reshuffles occasioning a new list, but I think that at the very least we should have separate lists for major reshuffles - the Thatcher list in its current form is essentially useless, and gives no sense of the composition of the ministry at any one time, which should be the purpose of these pages. john k 20:20, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I don't mind the tabular format. But in what way did the old way of doing things not show everybody who served in the ministry? It perhaps did not show it clearly enough in the "Changes" section, but the new table shows no information that was not in the previous table. Perhaps we could use the basic table format for the initial ministry, and then have a separate table for changes, with dates and then the new ministers listed in it? As such...

Changes

? john k 20:40, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Earl Winterton
I noticed that you wrote the article on the title Earl Winterton and stated that the 1907-1962 Earl (a minor British Cabinet minister) was the 5th Earl, though a number of other online sources say he was the 6th. Can I ask your source?

(I've put the article on said Earl at Edward Turnour, 5th Earl Winterton but can change it if needs be.)

Timrollpickering 12:50, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Robert Walpole
I've edited Robert Walpole a tiny bit after you brilliantly reworked the article. However, I noticed a number of instances of the word "reëlection": is that a real word, or did you mean perhaps "reelection" or "re-election" (without the accent)? Cheers, ugen64 22:48, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Ah, I did not realize that the diaresis was there on purpose. That does make sense, now that I think about it - naïve, Noël, etc... but to be fair, I think the more common usage is "re-election". Cheers, ugen64 01:02, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Duke of Wellington
My lord, Philip Baird Shearer has gone and turned Duke of Wellington into a disambiguation page. I've left a note on his talk page, but I thought you should be aware of the situation. Mackensen (talk) 12:54, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Post-Nominals
About what time were post nominals adopted? I have used them with people who served in the 19th century or later (see David Dundas (soldier)), but it seems kinda odd to see something like George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, KG, KB, PC. My superficial knowledge of British conventions leads me to believe that post-nominals are a recent addition, but... what are your opinions? ugen64 21:40, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hi Emsworth! First, let me tell that i'm always impressed by your writing, in form and wit, but knowing your age i value it even more. Compliments aside, I need your opinion on the organization of British monarchs family tree. Derek Ross suggested that the Scottish monarchs should be with the UK kings and leave the England kings apart, since thats the real lie of descent. I agree this is true, but i think the change would be kind of starnge. Can i ask for your 2 cents in the discussion page? Cheers, [[:pt:Usuário:Muriel Gottrop|muriel@pt]] 08:39, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell has become quite a mess. It would be good to disambiguate. I thought perhaps you could move the current article to it's proper nomenclature? -- Decumanus 22:46, 2004 Nov 5 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Emsworth 23:09, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Navboxes... yet again
I have made a change to my succession box template (see Spencer Compton for results). However, I am hesitant to keep that change, because it is inconsistent with the other navboxes (such as the one at the bottom of Robert Walpole). Do you think it'd be more prudent to move *all* navboxes (meaning practically every British/English statesman that ever lived) to the new template format (which would make overall changes a *lot* easier), or keep the old format? Cheers, ugen64 01:23, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Unfortunately, there is only one way (that I can think of) to do that. I would have to make a separate template for two offices with the same predecessor, and another one for two offices with the same successor (and that wouldn't even work for odd cases like Winston Churchill). Or, we would have to use the normal table syntax for those special cases, which would look something like this:

which looks a bit ugly... -- ugen64 01:57, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * (I deleted the block of code which cluttered up the page.) This is as far as I got: User:Ugen64/Test; as you can see, it's not really that clean. If you are in agreement, I'll start converting navboxes to the new format.   -- ugen64 02:22, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Sounds fair -- there's (in the overall picture) not that many of those special cases, anyway. ugen64 02:58, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Kudos on the succession box template! You and Ugen64 have done yeoman service, and I will use your template from now on. Steve Casburn 09:23, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Images
Dear Emsworth, I have uploaded the following images from an 1881 biography of Beaconsfield. I assume they are out of copyright. You may care to install them in the relevant articles:

Salutations Adam 06:57, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * I'll crop them to a reasonable size and exclude the extra stuff, like this: ugen64 03:13, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * I've cropped them:

Cheers :) ugen64 03:43, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Image problems
Well I used all of the images, but had some problems. Firstly: what should the caption of Lord John Manners's picture be? I used "The Rt Hon. Lord John Manners" (which might be "The Rt Hon. The Lord John Manners"), but should he be "His Grace The Duke of Rutland," or what? (the picture was engraved while his father was still the duke). Also, Lord Salisbury's picture seemed better in the original version, and I was confused whether you put a "the" before peerages (The Rt Hon. The Earl of Carnarvon?). But overall, I think it's pretty well set. ugen64 04:04, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * I think using the name at the time of the picture would be best. That's what we seem to do with PM pictures, anyway, which are generally of them during their time in office and so don't include peerages awarded on retirement. (By the way, "The Rt Hon. The Lord John Manners" and "The Rt Hon. The Earl of Carnarvon" are correct.) Proteus (Talk) 10:18, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Here's another batch

Adam 06:27, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I used new names for all of them (for example, Image:Spencer Horatio Walpole). I had one problem: which Baron Lytton is it - the first or second one? Cheers, ugen64 02:34, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Back to Navboxes
I noticed you changed the Template:Succession box into id=toc. Personally, I like the older format better, because it seems easier to read (especially if you are using a smaller font). But nonetheless, I don't object if you keep your change. ugen64 18:54, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I (and others) have started converting all the old wikitax tables to succession boxes. There's a list of boxes in use at Template_talk:Succession box. We've found Template:PeerNavbox a bit lacking because it can't handle multiple titles, so I've tried something new over at Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby. The dates are when he came into the respective titles. What do you think of all this? Mackensen (talk) 20:11, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I agree the years aren't necessary, but otherwise we have to create a whole separate set of boxes without them. Mackensen (talk) 20:33, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Marvelous, I was not aware of that. Thanks much, my lord. Mackensen (talk) 20:37, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Victoria of the United Kingdom
I don't understand why you reverted my added wikilinks to the page Victoria of the United Kingdom. Could you explain why? Donar Reiskoffer 15:38, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

You are correct to say that some of articles were already linked to frome elsewhere in the article, but this is not the case for Benjamin Disraeli, William Ewart Gladstone, and Liberal Party. I will reinstate these links, ok? Donar Reiskoffer 07:23, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Samuel Silkin, Baron Silkin of Dulwich
Hi, could you possibly do an article on Samuel Silkin, the Attorney General, the son of Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin. GeneralPatton 08:22, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Big thanks! Great work! GeneralPatton 03:18, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Forum for Encyclopedic Standards
I have drafted a proposal for a new voluntary association on Wikipedia (joining groups like the The Business and Economics Forum and the Harmonious editing club) to promote discussion of a sort of system of expert review on Wiki. Please take a look and add your ideas. 172 08:03, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Anne Hyde
Please see my comments on the talk page for Lady Anne Hyde. I was coming here to ask your opinion before I realised that you had moved it. Maybe you could enlighten me. Deb 18:39, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Duchesses
What is the style/address of the following people:
 * Wallis Warfield Simpson, when she was Duchess of Windsor, she was denied the HRH style, does that mean she had the style Her Grace instead, or was she just plain Duchess?
 * Sarah, Duchess of York- now she no longer has the HRH style, does she have the Her Grace style Astrotrain 14:42, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Liscensing
Hi, I've started the Free the Rambot Articles Project which has the goals of getting users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to... using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) version 1.0 and 2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to the GFDL (which every contribution made to Wikipedia is licensed under), but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles (See the Multi-licensing Guide for more information). Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. So far over 90% of people who have responded have done this.
 * 1) ...all U.S. state, county, and city articles...
 * 2) ...all articles...

 * Nutshell: Wikipedia articles can be shared with any other GFDL project but open/free projects using the incompatible Creative Commons Licenses (e.g. WikiTravel) can't use our stuff and we can't use theirs. It is important to us that other free projects can use our stuff.  So we use their licenses too.

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the   template (or    for public domain) into their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace   with   . If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know at my talk page what you think. It's important to know, even if you choose to do anything so I don't keep asking. -- Ram-Man 16:32, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)

Sutton Foster
Hey - just a heads up that we both edited the same article at the same time -- sorry I clobbered your stuff. --Arcadian 21:51, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

First Lord of the Treasury
Well, I figured we treated the First Lord of the Treasury much as we treat subsidiary peerages. It's so rarely separate from the Prime Minister (Salisbury/Balfour is the only case that comes to mind) it seems a needless addition. That does assume, of course, that our readers know that the two are linked and that the office of PM wasn't recognized until CB. Hrmm. I suppose I could go either way. Mackensen (talk) 20:58, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * For pedantry's sake, there's also Salisbury/Iddesleigh, Salisbury/Smith and Chatham/Grafton for starters. Timrollpickering 11:18, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Earl De La Warr Courtesy Title
Your input at Talk:Earl De La Warr is requested. Timrollpickering 11:18, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Earl of Lennox
Emsworth, James and I were wondering what you knew about the Earls of Lennox. Our page currently shows the 1184 creation ending with Isabel in 1459. Leigh Rayment's page suggests that the earldom merely went dormant and lasted until 1571, where our page suggests that there was a new creation. I've compiled some genealogical data which would seem to back Rayment: User:Mackensen/The Curious Case of the Earl of Lennox. What do you make of this? Mackensen (talk) 04:13, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Ah, now that would explain matters. I'll update accordingly. Thanks much, Mackensen (talk) 00:41, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Unspecified image
Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:

 * Image:Duke_of_Clarence_at_George_IV's_coronation.JPG

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status?

You can use  : Template:gfdlif you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License,

 Template:fairuseif you claim fair use, and so on. Click here for a list of the various tags.

If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the image from, and I'll tag it for you. Thanks so much. Denni ☯ 04:23, 2004 Dec 13 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

Hello!
Greetings, Lord Emsworth!

A journalist from a major publication is interested in interviewing you. He tried emailing you through the wikipedia system, but has gotten no response.

Can you email me with some contact information? jwales@wikia.com

--Jimbo Wales 03:22, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Peerage Enquiries
Evening (or morning, perhaps), milord.

A number questions on the peerage for you. Primarily, is it not standard practice to not have a page for a title in the British nobility if there was only one holder of said title before extinction (i.e. with the Earl Alexander of Hillsborough or the Earl of Kilmuir? I've been pawing through articles on lists of titles and a disturbing number have had pages dedicated to the title when there has been only a single holder.  Isn't this contrary to usual practice?

Also, a secondary question. Women who were created peers (before women gained the right to sit in the Lords - I never knew they'd not had it, as baronies regularly passed through women [i.e. the Strange barony, the Lucas barony, etc.]) were not technically life peers, were they? Wasn't it in the same way most women who were granted any title were handled, essentially given a peerage with remainder to heirs-male, which as heirs-male legally must inherit from fathers would cause it to simply pass out of existence anyway? Also, is it not true that there have never been any dedicated life peerages given above the rank of baron (one could make a case for the viscountcies Tonypandy and Whitelaw, but didn't these just pass out of existence due to lack of heirs rather than specific intent to grant them for life?)?

Forgive me, but one further question (and I know this must be inane): what is the policy on titling articles where singularly-held peerages are concerned? In some places (besides royals who hold non-inheritable peerages), persons are noted as "John Doe, Earl Doe" and in some they are noted as "Joseph Doe, 1st Viscount Doe", despite the fact that in both cases the titles became extinct upon the death of the person to whom they were granted. What is the rationale behind this, and is there any sort of reason or rhyme to it?

Your obedient,

Wally 09:14, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Plural of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports?
A day or two ago I went on a spontaneous categorization spree for all the people listed under Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and in hindsight it occurs to me that I should have made sure I knew what the proper plural of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports was before I did that. User:Mackensen suggested you might know. Did I guess right, or do I have some cleanup to do? :) Bryan 06:02, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Well, hopefully it's not "Lord Warden of the Cinque Portses" :) ugen64 07:17, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

PMs and other positions
What're we doing about positions held concurrently with another position (Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal, for example), when we're writing navboxes? Take, for example, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne - he was PM and Leader of the Lords concurrently, but the "preceded by" and "succeeded by" are the same person. A complicated example is that of Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn. This is inconsistent - glancing at the article, noone would realise/realize that Lord Shelburne was a Leader of the House of Lords... ugen64 07:17, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * If I understand you right, we had the same thing over at Benjamin Disraeli, and we used Template:Succession box one to one or some such. Mackensen (talk) 07:20, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Deleted stuffs
I noticed that in June you have deleted some info tables of Japanese Emperors: Emperor Nakamikado of Japan, Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan, Emperor Momozono of Japan, Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan, Emperor Go-Momozono of Japan, Emperor Kokaku of Japan, Emperor Ninko of Japan, and Emperor Komei of Japan. Can you explain why? --Nanshu 01:03, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Call for AMA election
AMA Member Advocate,

There's a poll currently in the AMA Homepage about making a new AMA Coordinator election. Please, cast your vote there (though it's not mandatory). Any comments you have about this, write it on the AMA Homepage talk page. Cheers, --Neigel von Teighen 18:43, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Proposals for AMA Membership Meeting
As AMA Coordinator I am requesting that suggestions be placed on AMA Membership Meeting plans for our first membership meeting, to be held in the near future, (hopefully before any election occurs.) Since we have never had any kind of "official" meeting we need to discuss how this will occur (i.e. Wiki pages or IRC channel), how it will be structured (i.e. meeting agenda) and if there will be any "chair" to supervise the meeting and meeting "secretary" to write up minutes or keep some kind of official record of what transpires. Thanks in advance for your input and your continued work as an advocate. — ©   Alex756   19:50, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

OFFICIAL AMA MEETING NOTICE
The first AMA Membership meeting will be held on Sunday January 23, 2005 at 19:00 UTC on freenode IRC channel #AMA. That is 2 PM Eastern NA (Miami/Montreal) Time, 11 AM Pacific NA (Los Angeles/Vancover)Time, and 8 PM Central European (Amsterdam/Stokholm/Warsaw/Venice) Time. All members are invited to attend. — ©   Alex756   19:46, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Colored peers
Hi, I'm creating a series of articles on colored hereditary peers and baronets. While there seems to be several Indians that were granted baronetcies I can only find one hereditary peer Baron Sinha of Indian extraction. There seem to have been no peers or baronets of African extraction however. Do you happen to know of any other hereditary peers of non-white extraction?

Further, it is not very clear what happened to the title of Baron Sinha after the death of the First Baron. The 2nd Baron Sinha was deemed the product of a polygamous marriage and was also an Indian citizen, both of which would have disqualified him from the peerage. Do you know if the title of Baron Sinha of Raipur is extant? Thanx,

--Notquiteauden 22:51, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Lord Sinha is the only Indian hereditary peer, and his was the only non-white peerage created until 1947 when India became independent.

The title still exists. The first Baron was followed by: Aroon Sinha, 2nd Baron Sinha (1887-1967) Sudhindro Prossanho Sinha, 3rd Baron Sinha (1920-1989) Susanta Prasanna Sinha, 4th Baron Sinha (1953-1992) Anindo Kumar Sinha, 5th Baron Sinha (1930-1999) Arup Kumar Sinha, 6th Baron Sinha (b. 1966)

With the untimely death of the 4th Baron, the Barony passed to his Uncle, and successively to his cousin (the current incumbent), both of whom were/are resident in the United Kingdom.

If you are interested in learning about titles under the Raj, visit my page: http://www.geocities.com/ayanghosh/honours.html

RSATG 16:20, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

We miss you
Emsworth - your presence is missed on the FAC :( -- Come back soon  →Raul654 07:37, Jan 19, 2005 (UTC)

Logs of first AMA Membership meeting
You may view the log of the first meeting on the following two pages: AMA IRC Meeting log (1-23-05) (first hour) and AMA IRC Meeting log (1-23-05) Pt II (remainder of meeting). If you are interested in commenting on the agenda of the meeting please do so here:AMA Meeting (suggested topics).

OFFICIAL SECOND MEETING NOTICE AND REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

 * "The second AMA Membership meeting will be held on Sunday January 30 2005 at 19:00 UTC on freenode IRC channel #AMA. That is 2 PM Eastern NA Time, 11 AM Pacific NA Time, and 8 PM Central European (Amsterdam/Stokholm/Warsaw/Venice) Time. All members are invited to attend."

The coordinator is requesting that members submit the following information for the upcoming coordinator’s report:

 * How many individuals did you help as an advocate
 * What is the maximum amount of time you put into a case
 * Do you feel your work as an advocate was successful?
 * How can the advocacy program of the AMA be improved?

Thank you. Please submit your responses here: AMA Coordinator/January 2005 Survey

 * — ©   Alex756   23:07, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC) (The Coordinator)

OFFICIAL THIRD MEETING NOTICE AND REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
The second AMA IRC Membership meetingwas held on Sunday January 30, 2005 at 19:00 UTC on freenode.net IRC channel #AMA. Attending were Wally, Metasquares, Anthere, Sam Spade, and alex756 (coordinator). The log of the second meeting can be found here: AMA IRC Meeting log (1-30-05).

"The third AMA Membership meeting will be held on Saturday February 12, 2005 at 17:00 UTC on freenode IRC channel #AMA. That is 12:00 Noon Eastern NA Time, 9 AM Pacific NA Time, and 6 PM Central European (Amsterdam/Stokholm/Warsaw/Venice) Time. All members are invited to attend.

Suggested Topics and Specific Proposals

 * MEMBERS PLEASE REVIEW

 * Suggestions for topics/proposals and agenda to be discussed at the next meeting are to be found at: AMA Meeting (suggested topics). All members are requested to make proposals there and respond to proposals on the talk page there before the beginning of the next meeting so discussion can be held forthwith concerning such proposals. Thank you, your Coordinator.

The coordinator is requesting that members who have not done so already submit the following information for the upcoming coordinator’s report:

 * How many individuals did you help as an advocate
 * What is the maximum amount of time you put into a case
 * Do you feel your work as an advocate was successful?
 * How can the advocacy program of the AMA be improved?

Thank you. Please submit your responses here. — ©   Alex756   23:20, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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HN-5

The HN-5 (NATO reporting name: CH-SA-3 ) is a family of first generation Chinese man-portable air-defense systems (MANPAD) based on Soviet technology. The HN abbreviation is used to avoid confusion with the HY (Hai Ying, or Sea Eagle) series anti-ship missiles of the Silkworm missile family. The HN-5 series in Chinese hands has been phased out in front-line and first line reserve units by QW series MANPAD, but still being used by militia units.

Development
The HN-5 is a reverse-engineered version of the Soviet Strela 2 (SA-7). Due to the urgent need for MANPADs, North Vietnam provided China with an original sample during the Vietnam War and asked China to produce and supply NVA with copies. However, due to the political turmoil in China, namely, the Cultural Revolution, the reverse-engineering process was slow and by the time the first small production batch was sent to Vietnam for evaluation, the results were ineffective because American aircraft has already adopted ECM to successfully counter HN-5 and its Soviet counterpart the Strela 2. The dimensions and performance of HN-5 is extremely similar to that of Strela 2.

HN-5A
As the result of unsatisfactory performance of the original HN-5, China immediately begun to improve the missile and North Vietnam once again provided China with the original Soviet sample during the Vietnam War, this time the Strela 2M. However, when the Chinese finally completed its improvement, it was already too late to see action, because the Vietnam War was over and the relationship between the two countries had soured.
 * Length: 1.46 m
 * Weight: 10.2 kg
 * System weight: 16.5 kg
 * Missile diameter: 72 mm
 * Warhead: 0.5 kg
 * Fuse: impact
 * Speed: 500 m/s
 * Range: 800 m – 4.4 km
 * Altitude: 50 m – 2.5 km

HN-5B
Developed by China based on the Soviet 9K34 Strela-3. Although the missile had entered service with the Chinese army in the mid 1980s, it was not until 1990 when it was first publicly revealed in China. According to many domestic Chinese media sources and some sources outside China, Chinese obtained the Soviet samples via Zaire from UNITA captured 9K34 Strela-3 from Angola governmental forces, the exact the same way China obtained the 9K310 Igla-1 a short time later. The missile entered in service with the Pakistani army in January 1990.

Foreign Variant
Pakistan has produced a missile as the Anza Mk I, based on tech from the HN-5B.

HN-5C
A vehicle-mounted version of HN-5B that first entered production in 1986, but was not revealed to the public in China until the early 1990s. A total of eight missiles are configured into two groups of four missiles mounted on a 4x4 vehicle with an electro-optical fire control system. The size of the vehicle determined whether reloads could be used. Although the missiles of the vehicle-mounted version can be used as MANPADs, they can not be used as such in the field, they need to be retrofitted first.

HQ-5C
HQ stands for Hong Qi, or Red Flag, the common Chinese designation for their surface-to-air missiles. The missile was specifically developed in the 1980s for export, and it is an Westernized HN-5B by adopting western standards. The reason was because despite its low price, when the Soviet style HN-5 had been exported to third world countries mainly armed with western weaponry, the compatibility issues and associated logistical problems increased the overall life cycle cost of the missile. To avert this, the missile is modified to be compatible with western standards.

Operators

 * 🇦🇱 Albania: 100 acquired in 1978.
 * 🇧🇩 Bangladesh: 50 HN-5As acquired in 1991–1992, 21 HN-5JA1 acquired in 2001.
 * 🇧🇴 Bolivia: 30 HN-5As acquired in 1994.
 * 🇰🇭 Cambodia: 1,000 acquired in 1992.
 * 🇨🇳 China
 * 🇪🇨 Ecuador: 72 HN-5As acquired in 1995.
 * 🇮🇷 Iran: 500 acquired from 1986-1988.
 * 🇮🇶 Iraq
 * 🇲🇲 Myanmar: 200 HN-5As acquired in 1992.
 * 🇰🇵 North Korea: 600 acquired unknown number from 1983 to 1994.
 * 🇵🇰 Pakistan: 100 acquired by 1987. An additional 1,000 produced as Anza Mk-I from 1989-1998.
 * 🇹🇭 Thailand: 1,150 acquired from 1987-1988.

Non-state actors

 * United Wa State Army
 * Afghan Mujahideen

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User:Msm/extract.pl

info
Extract.pl is tool for extracting namespaces from wikipedia sql dump.

I modified script from wp:Database_download. Now it's generic and more easily usable.

usage
usage ./extract.pl namespace_nr [-p prefix] outfile extracts wikipedia namespace from database dump namespace_nr - namespace number prefix - database tables prefix, for table names with prefix

examples
extracting namespace 4 bzip2 -dc _cur_table.sql.bz2 | ./extract.pl 4 > help_4.sql extracting namespace 12, for use with configuration with prefix mw_ (on 6.2. 2005 for use with Mediawiki betas) bzip2 -dc _cur_table.sql.bz2 | ./extract.pl 12 -p mw_ > help_4.sql

version history

 * v0.1 - initial version
 * v0.2 - corrected typo that caused only namespace 4 was extracted (thanks 216.123.160.18)

extract.pl
# # # #  $table = 'cur'; if ($ARGV[0] eq '-h') { print "usage $0 namespace_nr [-p prefix] outfile\n"; print "extracts wikipedia namespace from database dump\n"; print "\tnamespace_nr - namespace number\n"; print "\tprefix - database tables prefix, for table names with prefix\n"; exit; } if (not $ARGV[0] =~ /\d+/) { print "first parameter must be namespace number, see $0 -h\n"; exit; } $namespace = $ARGV[0]; if ($ARGV[1] eq '-p') { $prefix = $ARGV[2]; if (not $prefix =~ /\w+/) { print "bad prefix, see $0 -h\n"; exit; }	 	$table = $prefix. $table; } while () { s/^INSERT INTO cur VALUES //gi; s/\n// if (($j++ % 2) == 0); s/(\'\d+\',\'\d+\'\)),(\(\d+,\d+,)/$1\;\n$2/gs; foreach (split /\n/) { next unless (/^\(\d+,$namespace,\'/); 		s/^\(\d+,\d+,/INSERT INTO $table \(cur_namespace,cur_title,cur_text,cur_comment,cur_user, 		cur_user_text,cur_timestamp,cur_restrictions,cur_counter,cur_is_redirect,cur_minor_edit, 		cur_is_new,cur_random,cur_touched,inverse_timestamp\) VALUES \($namespace,/; 		s/\n\s+//g; 		s/$/\n/; 		print; 	} }
 * 1) !/usr/bin/perl
 * 2) v0.2
 * 1) modified script from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Importing_sections_of_a_dump
 * 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Msm/extract.pl
 * 1) history:
 * 2) v0.2 - corrected typo that caused only namespace 4 was extracted

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Wormstone

Wormstone (also Warmstone) is a hamlet in the parish of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located just south-south east of the main village.

In the 13th and 14th centuries, the hamlet was one fifth of the fiefdom of Wallingford.

title: Wormstone


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Number 31328

Number 31328 (Το Νούμερο 31328) is an autobiographical novel by Elias Venezis. It tells of his experiences as a captive of the Turkish Army on a death march into the Anatolian interior.

Background
During the Greek genocide, Venezis' family fled from Ayvali to Lesbos to avoid persecution but returned to Asia Minor after the Greek army occupied Smyrna and its hinterland in 1919. When the area was recaptured by the Turkish Army, Venezis was taken prisoner and enslaved in a labour battalion (otherwise known as Amele Taburlari or Amele Taburu). He was 18 years old. The prisoners were forcibly marched into the interior, but few arrived at the destination, since most of them were either killed on the way, or died of the hardships they were exposed to. Of the 3000 "conscripted" into his "labour brigade", only 23 survived.

When Venezis was released he was returned to Lesbos. There he met Stratis Myrivilis, who had founded the weekly newspaper Kambana, and was encouraged by him to write an account of "his horrific experiences as a hostage in Turkey". The novel which resulted was published in serialised form in Kambana in 1924. However it did not become well known in Greece until an expanded version was published in book form in 1931.

The film 1922 (1978) by Nikos Koundouros was based on the book.

Plot summary
The story starts in Aivali (Ayvalık), and takes us through the first days of the Turkish re-capture of the town. The way to amele taburu is slowly but steadily painted in pale and crimson, in the red bloodstained steps of bare wounded feet walking on hot summer sand. The life of the captives, as seen through the eyes of one who lived through these horrific experiences numbs the spirit of the reader too. The few bright sparks of humanity in a wasteland of inhumanity are treasured, as people are treated as if worthless: struck to death with hammers, lethally wounded and left to die alone, raped and then killed. All hope and all light is lost, despite the occasional effort by the prisoners to help each other—sincere at first, then worn down and half-hearted, until at last utter indifference.

title: Number 31328


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Little Stretton, Shropshire

Little Stretton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Church Stretton, in the Shropshire district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. In 1961 the parish had a population of 80. Little Stretton became a civil parish in 1899 being formed from Church Stretton, on 1 April 1966 the parish was abolished and merged with Church Stretton.

It is located in the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty between the Long Mynd and Ragleth Hill. Lying on the B5477 south of the market town of Church Stretton; similarly, the small village of All Stretton lies to the north of Church Stretton on the same road. A milestone in the centre of the village on the B5477, which is called Ludlow Road at this point, indicates that Ludlow is 14 mi away, to the south. The centre of Church Stretton is 1.3 mi away via the B5477.

The River Ashes Hollow runs through the village and it is a popular place to begin walks up the Long Mynd. The village lies between 590 and 616 feet above sea level. Ragleth Hill lies immediately to the east of the village, on the other side of the Welsh Marches Line and A49. Little Stretton once had its own railway halt: Little Stretton Halt railway station.

To the southwest are the hamlets of Minton and Hamperley, which are part of Church Stretton parish and are included within the parish ward of Little Stretton. The modern-day parish of Church Stretton is sometimes referred to as "Church Stretton and Little Stretton".

Amenities and attractions
The village has a large Conservation Area. There are many Listed buildings and structures in the village.

Church
There is a small church in the village, built in 1903 - "All Saints". It is a Church of England church and is one of three in the ecclesiastical parish of Church Stretton, along with the churches in All Stretton and Church Stretton. The parish is part of the Diocese of Hereford. It is a very unusual church (for England in the present era) for its construction is timber with a thatched roof replacing the original corrugated iron roof.

Pubs
As of 2012, there are approximately 110 dwellings in the village. Little Stretton today has two public houses: the Green Dragon and the Ragleth Inn (historically the "Sun Inn"), both of which serve a wide range of local real ales.

Brockhurst Castle
Half a mile to the north are the earthwork remains of the 12th-century Brockhurst Castle. It is situated on private land with no public access.

Notable people
Novelist and short story writer Beatrice Harraden (1864-1936) spent summer holidays lodging at the Green Dragon, inspiring her short story At the Green Dragon (published 1894).

Oliver Sandys (1892-1964), widow of Caradoc Evans and a novelist in her own right, lived at the Ancient House, across the road from the church, from the 1950s. A later novel, Quaint Place (1952) was set in this area.

The poet Peter Reading (1946–2011) lived in the village.

The horologist Charles Jendon was a well-known figure in the village for many years; his knowledge of long-case clocks was well known to many specialists in the field.

The music critic Ephriam Monk, who championed the early work of Lionel Crill, who himself was a pioneer in the use of the theremin in classical music, lived in the village between 1952 and 1959.

title: Little Stretton, Shropshire